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Making Monsters: Getting to know Noah Sewell · 2nd City Gridiron

• 0:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: All right, welcome back everybody to another episode of Making Monsters on Taylor Doll and we have a very fun episode in store today We are going to get to know Noah so a little bit more.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He's been playing so well the first four weeks of this season filling in for TJ Edward so
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm super excited to get to know his story a little bit.
• 0:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: The journey is really fun when it comes to just life football and obviously his brothers who a lot of people know, a lot of them also pin a suave, very familiar because he's in with the Detroit Lions here in the NFC North, but Nephi and Gabriel both football players also.
• 0:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm joined today by Gabe Suave, the father of all of these athletes and Gabe, I really appreciate your time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: of course.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So let's start a little bit from the beginning of the journey.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You came to the 2012 move to Utah at that time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So just share a little bit about that choice.
• 0:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know it had to be a little bit difficult to move the whole family to another place.
• 0:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think also at times, I know it was you felt like you saw something and your sons in the football world that maybe they weren't getting those opportunities where you guys were.
• 1:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: So share a little bit about that
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I haven't been at high school, head coach, or we were in American Samoa.
• 1:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: I knew how hard it was to find out the opportunities for the players that were coming to our program at the time.
• 1:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: And basically, it had to do much with exposure and the ability to get in front of college coaches, especially after you send a film
• 1:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: things to ask if we can get them up there for an unofficial visit so they can confirm whether or not the measure books that were sent to them on paper, max staff, so I think so.
• 1:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: Considering at the time, there were only two sites a week, two in front of the eyelids, and to leave it to come to the main end, it was very expensive, the worth we need.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: almost impossible, it's not impossible for anybody to get off that quick and come back.
• 2:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's been that kind of money.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Just so a coach could go get them now.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: There were parents of certain players that were willing to do whatever it took to make that possible, but it wasn't without a lot of,
• 2:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: And knowing that there are the hurdles and obstacles that existed from where we were at as they started playing football in 2010 when it first started for using it, but my oldest entered the high school ranks.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They really showed that they had something, couldn't quite describe what it is, but both
• 3:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: And they were just all in from a very good goal.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And you know, I was just, I knew that that was, my goal for them was to get a college education paid for.
• 3:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: But like almost every kid who plays football, the dream is to play at the highest level.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So as parents, my wife and I, why don't we do everything we possibly could to help
• 3:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: James, come to the truth, so we find ourselves, I try my hardest to film my wife, what it all, because it's based off of just the dream of the boys.
• 3:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: Our oldest is a girl, and we're writing every day on this relocation for a science, but what a daughter too, it's a business.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We live in a part of the world
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  [SPEAKER_02]: opportunities of any time, no matter what field you decide to go with are very few and very limited if and all.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So, going to the main land, the school systems are an enormous better end in your introduced to so many different things that you won't be exposed to, even if you're
• 4:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: regardless of whatever it is that you decide to pursue the resources available to you in America or putting much, take it then on it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah, and so, chat a little bit because you ended up moving to Utah that was the choice, what led to the Utah relocation, why that place specifically?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, at the time,
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  [SPEAKER_02]: My sister, my sister lived in Utah and she, at the time, didn't have kids of enrollment yet.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: She was always wanting to try to get other family members to live closer to her, as well as to listen.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I think we were familiar with Utah, somewhat having been a couple years prior passing through.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: it has grown exponentially since, but I thought it would be the best transition into, you know, the big world, the birth or some of these towns and cities, you can get lost in there's somebody and the other things to get involved in, it might sway you off the course in which we started on.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So that's kind of why we chose Utah.
• 5:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: That makes sense.
• 5:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there's definitely some cities in the United States that would be quite the culture shock, uh, moving to including Chicago.
• 6:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, so that is one that I'm sure, uh, I guess easing into that rather than being thrown into that is probably the best way, but let's start a little bit.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: came about first, you're you getting a coaching job with them, but also just being able to experience that with your kids and go through that football world there.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So we first moved into me saying your due to what's like a small town, but it was only an hour, 45 minutes, right in order to Vegas.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And that time my sister had, where she lived, was running
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We got here in the evening, first thing in the morning took the kids to register for school and my next course and after they were on their way to classes was, can I, someone pointed me into the version of the AD's office or the Headful Block Coach and then I was taken to Headful Block Coach and he was just retiring and he walked me down to the new
• 7:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: I told him to mind just a coach and I'm willing to coach any, any level in any position I've been able to put it for a while and then both sides of the ball and both the positions and then I told him what the sun's I had that I was bringing with me but at the time I also have brought a nephew of mine from the island as well because he had
• 7:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: He had all the ability and size to do something with it as well.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And I think when I said I had sons, he might have been a little bit worried that I was just one of the dads trying to get on staff and hope to increase us playing time or help kind of treat the narrative and it was the way they would play, how they would play, how they would be.
• 8:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he, he, he, let's be hired me as a J. We coach once I, which I responded at at the beginning of that first season.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I was there.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And then kind of, but mid season, I was coaching varsity goal.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So, um, I heard the thing that was based off my own ability to be a pretty good coach.
• 8:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: And, uh, you know, whatever may,
• 8:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: They, playing time, they received a sort of basically based off of their ability is what, you know, what they are and nothing to do with me.
• 8:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: And as a matter of fact, my son was, my oldest son at the time, was a little discouraged that first, because the confidence of the ability knowing what he, he could, he could, he could do.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: For a while, there's a summer when he was being overlooked.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I said, son, you just can't assume they're going to see.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You've got to do this, you're looking at the blocks.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They don't know you are.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They haven't seen you play at any football, at any level.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Both of these kids, they've watched grow up, but you're in a new program, so that they know who these kids are.
• 9:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: You've got to go and cut their burgers and do something that's going to wild them.
• 9:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: And we were kind of, so somewhat going through walks through and he was playing it line back there on a scale team and we were just in source and t-shirt, but the offensive line has bags that they were walking through.
• 10:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: with a shield, or you're gonna lay them up.
• 10:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: And he did that and the rest of the history.
• 10:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that'll get, that'll get some attention for sure.
• 10:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's what I think part of it you were mentioning to me a little bit earlier before we started recording this about just you didn't ever want it to seem like they were getting anything because you were dad.
• 10:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: You wanted them to earn all of that and you felt like they should have earned all of that.
• 10:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: So obviously that got them all to some really good and high places with their football career.
• 10:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's talk a little bit more about Noah because I know
• 10:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Bear's fans are really excited of what they've been able to see this first four weeks with no I ever even week one I was like wow this that looks really good out there in our first podcast we do I do kind of a post game podcast where we recap some of the things that go on and I immediately said I feel like we need to be talking more about no assault right now because
• 10:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: TJ Edwards is not being there and there was some concern but I really feel like he stepped in and played really well.
• 11:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: So let's let's chat a little bit about Noah in particular.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I know he played running back and linebacker in his time in high school and that's normal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We see the guys in high school play both sides of the ball.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But share a little bit about that journey and kind of what he did playing both sides and what ended up leading him to picking that linebacker position at the next level.
• 11:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: We agreed and I said, son, how are you going?
• 11:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's coming out of high school.
• 11:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: They didn't know what he was either because he was about 260.
• 11:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: I told him, son, your body would eventually dictate what position you play.
• 11:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 11:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I can guarantee you, at 260 won't be anywhere on the offensive unless it's offered to one.
• 11:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: So,
• 11:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: But he played at the soft work, he played choral back, he felt it in choral back at 260 feet.
• 12:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: He had just an actual athletic ability, I mean it's bigger than he was, he still was as fast and as fast as the most of the kids that were playing the stupid position.
• 12:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: A little bit better than most kids living in the football house, and also being able to play both sides of the ball, seeing what it looks like and understanding what everybody was doing and by watching it from an opposite side of the ball, and again, he started specifically
• 12:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: would have packages, oh, have certain time in the game.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And I think I was running back close at the time, so I was always hard.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I would hear the murmur rings and whatnot.
• 13:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: I said, listen, I don't think that post tells me to put them in.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I put them in.
• 13:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: There's only one or two other times I'll put them in myself and that's what we need a yard or two, because it usually took at least three to four guys
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  [SPEAKER_02]: so many tackles, but coming into a senior year, we knew he was going to be a different player.
• 13:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: He just had more of a knack on that side of the ball, not to say that he didn't offensively, but just looking at his body type, looking at what he was really, what really stood out with, and he would either
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  [SPEAKER_02]: find himself eating himself at a detail or a dilemma or sitting up and kind of and then playing lineback or so.
• 14:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: When he got to Oregon, he played lineback or he used the things I thought would just I think Ben Johnson said like a throwback lineback or time or down
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  [SPEAKER_02]: is wide open, and you've got to be able to cover so.
• 14:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think he was quite, uh, I guess, body cub-wise paired, uh, let me run out of college to fit that mold, but, uh, this I'll see that we've, I think, uh, everybody who can go, and most know, or even just watch and see the difference, uh,
• 14:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: of the body type he came into on the camp and he played a piece playing with right now.
• 14:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: And it seemed to make a lot of a big difference in our cookies to get you in a lot of breaks and to play side-to-side.
• 15:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's definitely something we've had a lot of conversations about in the last several years, but five years or so, especially when it comes to the different types of linebackers you are seeing because, too, you're point when you are having to drop back and coverage and do some of those things a lot of times you, the body types a little different, that athleticism is a little different, but side note was in the, when you talked about he played quarterback for a little bit was Penae did he block, did Penae block for him while he was
• 15:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, because Nate, and it was, and we were run first team then, and it was ridiculous what we were seeing happening for the whole slick lot of times, and we were like, we would do our best, all you call, Ben Johnson and personism back then to make it where, you know,
• 15:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: We decided to raise the blocking scheme or to make a beautiful point.
• 16:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then you have a guy looking at putting the ball behind them and even worse.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And you have a lot of fullness.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I could imagine.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we're in a QB power.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: A lot of people are around it, but it's a counter.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Or they beat.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And then they thought it was a bunch of points
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They actually, whenever we were able to take advantage of that, a lot as well, but yeah, as a body type, for the most of this career, what's we doing, what's just a deal with taking away the events of me.
• 16:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: As I said, this is high school football, nobody's got paid here.
• 16:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: Like, we just do this business with my home in Scotland.
• 16:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: When it gets to the next level, whether the coach is there, but if they do both school at them, worry about what he plays.
• 16:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, how much of a motivation for all of the sons in general, but Noah watching what his brothers were able to do at each level and how competitive were they in those times, but also at the same time, probably pushing each other to be the best that they could also be.
• 17:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, they, that's a competition when we're all together, no matter where we're at.
• 17:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: And only maybe,
• 17:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: a top golf or whatever that it was always a competition always you need to kids you have to dinner whatever it was always a competition it's always for bragging rights oh yeah
• 17:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, that's a sibling life, but I could imagine a whole other level with that household.
• 17:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: So let's talk a little bit.
• 17:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: You talked, obviously, Panaganda or again, then also, we see Noah also go to Oregon.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And 2020, I know I was reading that he was the Pact 12 freshman defensive player of the year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And you were saying, you know, maybe even at that point, they were just kind of figuring out that, you know, he should be a linebacker.
• 18:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: The body type maybe wasn't what it was, but you're seeing some stuff really early on.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: at Oregon from NOAA of, you know, just that that position and his playmaking ability.
• 18:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, tells early on about that choice of going to Oregon and then also just in general his college and how that went for him.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So, because of the time he spent the Oregon because of Penaise, no more creative relationship.
• 18:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: This was when the coaching staff there was not in, you know, he wanted, he was
• 18:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: At 10 points, I know they all wanted to play with each other some way ship of form, but at the end of the day, if you've got to make the decision based off what's best for you, but in the day he got Oregon, what's the place for him?
• 18:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: Unfortunately, I believe he went through four D.C.s in four years, so that was
• 19:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: coaching changes.
• 19:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, and he somewhat proved even at that weight that he could play linebacker.
• 19:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: But we knew it would make a big difference if he just looked, maybe she had a couple pounds and and really put a bit of position to actually now even look.
• 19:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: He probably even moved somewhat better to where he looked like the
• 19:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: The political and background that was now the position was the body type was to transition the into.
• 19:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, and that's what, I mean, that many defensive coordinators definitely is not easy.
• 19:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: We see the coordinator change every few years being difficult on player sometimes, so that is a lot.
• 19:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: So if you move on and you go, and obviously he ended up being declared for the NFL draft around the 2023 season, and so he was drafted in the fifth round by the Bears.
• 20:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: That moment, share a little bit about that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You've already seen, you know, these moments for your other sons and how that could look like and feel like.
• 20:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: know so we'll also getting drafted watching another son get drafted and also by a team who's kind of historically known for their line-backing position.
• 20:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like that had to be a pretty cool moment for everyone.
• 20:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you know growing up, you know, at least what I was very young,
• 20:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: a meeting Walter Payton.
• 20:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, wow.
• 20:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was one of the probals in Hawaii and at the time I grabbed my grandmother was in the hospital at Queen's Medical Center.
• 20:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: And one of the security cars and passing to another security guard, I overheard, they just brought Walter Payton in
• 21:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: their daughter's emergency room.
• 21:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I was down to the emergency room and I must have been like nine years old or something like that.
• 21:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: Nine of ten and I was able to stand up there and the guy I watched the ambulance pull in.
• 21:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: They took a minute when he came out.
• 21:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: He still right there with us were the ambulance docked and was able to just hear him talk and say hello and
• 21:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, to be part of a story, it's fragile, it's like Chicago.
• 21:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not quite sure, he fully understands the magnitude of it, but this is what the style of football he played would probably be better fit for that era.
• 21:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm.
• 21:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 21:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: It might seem interior- yes.
• 21:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 21:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 21:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: All those guys were as you were smuggling with some physical games.
• 22:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.
• 22:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah.
• 22:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's not, I don't think, I think the athletes are more frequent, but it was more physical bad then, at least from what I remember.
• 22:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and that's definitely, we've had the conversation about how they've definitely shifted it to they want point scored so you can't touch the quarterback too much and there's all these things that they've started taking away you know certain tackles that these players can't have now that we've seen and so it is it makes it it makes a job for the defensive players really difficult now honestly to be able to still be aggressive and physical but not get penalties because you don't want to set your team back.
• 22:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: in that world.
• 22:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: I want to talk to you a couple more questions before I let you go.
• 22:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: But just about this off season and you mentioned about the in shape side of things for Noah and how that has factored into the start of this season.
• 22:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: But share a little bit to about that.
• 23:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: But then also just didn't a sound in the change of style of defense.
• 23:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: I do feel like it fits.
• 23:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: If it's no a little bit better than what we did see with ebrafluous also.
• 23:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, it probably fits in better now.
• 23:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: I began that, all these, all those opinions to the guys get paid big bucks because this is just the opinion of basically another fan at this point.
• 23:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I'm happy that he, he, he, he, he, he tuned out.
• 23:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: This offseason is something he's even to me, I've had a lot of text messages gone on the answered, which is probably good because the last thing he wanted to hear was what I had to say, but he had a lot of certain things, but you know, when we talk, he said, you know, he mentioned how great TD Edwards and veterans have been in
• 24:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: and helping him become more of a professional and not approach at that time to gain that how to take care of his body and not a prepared body.
• 24:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: Like, as I was seeing pictures of being sensible and man, I see it.
• 24:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: I see his body, you know, transmissions.
• 24:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I was able to come the week of training camp when they played the dolphins.
• 24:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then, high-solid man,
• 24:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: You need to trim it up, it looks like a professional athlete.
• 24:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: He don't see it, but yeah, I know the biggest thing I know is that there's any Ibiza.
• 24:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: I've got one, but so the healthy type of stacks that were around even the regular stuff
• 25:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: by very heavy things, it doesn't help.
• 25:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I really held it like, man, this, I'm glad you didn't say it, but I gotta have the door that should be something more, more filling to this.
• 25:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I want to give a lot of credit to Noah because I feel like it seems very self-motivated in a certain sense of that he knew things that he could change that could immediately impact some of the way.
• 25:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: And you never want to see a player get injured.
• 25:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, we're not sharing that TJ Edwards has been injured, but I think it's been a really good opportunity and fun for Noah to come in and have this chance to really show the work that he's put in this offseason.
• 25:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: You had to hear the story that, you know, opportunities for the most part of urns.
• 25:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: But we know this game and what can happen to us and they remember.
• 26:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: And that opportunity presents itself.
• 26:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: You better make sure you're ready, because if you're not, and if it shows in the fields, you may not get another opportunity or the opportunities may be few and far in between.
• 26:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: Just be sure you're prepared and I'm not listening to any came.
• 26:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think he was much better prepared.
• 26:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I totally agree.
• 26:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: I have to ask this one before I leave.
• 26:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: So that the banter, the trash talk, the back and forth between now having a son with the lions and one with the bears, how entertaining has that been?
• 26:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's always entertaining.
• 26:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean,
• 26:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's always entertaining and it's like people ask us one day play and we time they played twice a year.
• 26:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: We were rooting for us and you know I've had a pair of sons playing each other I think four times long college and my view back then stills the same lead today.
• 27:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think you are right about who wins the game.
• 27:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm just so busy going out there and playing a hard thing to come out and
• 27:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think that's the that's the best way to go.
• 27:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think you can also without saying you want somebody to win or lose, you can say you want to see your sons have good games.
• 27:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: And obviously the first four weeks of this season, you've been able to see Noah do that and Penae, one of the best offensive linemen in the NFL.
• 27:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: So that has to be really fun to watch constantly because there's a lot of teams including the bears that are very jealous that he is not on our roster.
• 27:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: So that has to be super exciting to follow.
• 27:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: But
• 27:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: Gabe, I really appreciate your time.
• 27:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know the journey a lot of times we get so wrapped up in the football side of things that you forget that there's a lot more to these guys and the players and how they get to the NFL and their story in general.
• 27:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I appreciate you sharing a little bit of that with us.
• 28:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: who helped us navigate.
• 28:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's a big shit, and especially when it's signed, did you pull this in that version to the best pizza?
• 28:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: Have people given you some advice?
• 28:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah, that's great.
• 28:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: I was able to actually meet TJ Edwards' pairs of the last
• 28:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you, them and their son, for helping my entire house sick to see you out being a professional athlete side of it all because, you know, they're all in competition, you know, that everyone can, you know, be gatekeepers or information that maybe are not as, but, you know,
• 29:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: kind of thinking whether there's a way and kind of help me mitigate all those things as well as and so that's good.
• 29:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: I appreciate everybody.
• 29:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
• 29:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: I love that and I'm glad everybody has been kind to you and hopefully showed you to the good pizza spots in Chicago and I know that by week this week so everybody hopefully is getting healthy because we'd really like to see Jalen Johnson and Kyler Gordon and some of those guys back out there.
• 29:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's helped the back end of that defense a little bit but I really appreciate your time game and tell Noah we were all super excited and we're really proud of him and we're glad he's a bear.
• 29:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
• 29:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Have a good one.