dishonor tonight. I feel very blessed. Um, not necessarily for myself to be honest with you. As I was talking with brian Mcfadden and the other day he's asked me if I was nervous and I wasn't, um, I just feel that I'm a representative of the great defenses and teams that have been a part of and you know, that's from the Casey Hamptons, the Aaron smith, James, Farrior James, you know, Harrison and Ike's and Ryan and chris hope. Uh, okay, Kosovo understands like all the integral parts that it takes to run 11 guys on defense and fortunately for me at times people have kind of promoted me to be the lead singer of the group. When I, you know, it really was just one member of the choir. Mhm When you, you know, I asked the other folks, um, you know, you used to sportswriters and commentators analyzing your game, how would you analyze your game and what do you think was so special about your game that brought you to this moment? I don't know about anything significantly special. I watched a lot of other safeties. I mean every year I would break down the top five safeties that make highlight and lowlight tapes and I really try to implement what they did good into my game. Um, more importantly than that though, I also, you know, took criticism from my teammates, from running backs, you know, from bronte's, uh, jerome Bettis to Heinz and um, other, you know, Ryan clark that that helped me become a better, um, to be a better safety. So I guess maybe if anything man, it's just, I'm really a product of just trying to implement everything good anybody has ever said to anybody. I heard your comments earlier, how we're used to seeing you scatter all over the field pre snap. Can you explain to us, the viewers, the fans what was going through your mind? Was this instinctual or was it film study that allowed you to bounce around the field in different ways? Uh seemingly in a crazy, chaotic way. It was all of the above as coach coward kinda mentioned earlier that, you know, my whole first year, I spent a lot of time playing every position. Both cornerbacks, both safety positions were at the time were not interchangeable linebacker positions, even a defensive lineman positions, so just kind of in sub package, but just really trying to learn all of those positions. You know, I would get out in the games, I would have no idea what to do because I'm like okay, you know what position my even playing right now. Uh So my rookie year was really it was really tough. In fact, one funny thing is, one highlight from my rookie year is actually uh got to tackle Isaac Bruce, which to me was like maybe you can play in this league but it wasn't till my next year that I started kind of you know tying all these sort of things together. But it came from confirmation of you know of teammates, Joey porter and James harry saying man that's a really good disguise. Keep doing that. Hines Ward saying keep doing that man. But if you do it this way it will be a lot better, you know, drawing bad as saying, oh you showed really great there. But if you show over here man to be impossible for me to get to you. So being able to do that as far as the skies and also then having teammates that really understood the whole realm of the defense, how what every other position does including what I did that we were able to intermix different defenses and say if I were to blitz in one gap and ike was bliss in a different gap and you know, James Harris was supposed to blitz in the third graf. If we just all three switch positions, it would almost look like a different blitz that would get different matchups against running backs. So being able to do those sort of things were really important for our defense to just creating those sort of matchups, Getting linebackers on, on running backs rather than, you know, me on a running back where you know, James Harrison is always going to win those when those matchups. So being having the freedom to do those sort of things, coach the bow really really let us have um where we are right now. Did you or do you have any concerns for your mental health, after the concussions that you've, you've suffered throughout the, your career? Well thank God for not only my trainer, Mark Marinovich, but my wife um and I also had a huge influence from Alex Guerrero um about really just setting up a really good wellness program that becomes really a lifestyle. Um, so for me, honestly, my life really hasn't changed too much. I still work out every day. I still, for the most part try to eat healthy other than on celebratory days. Like today, I wish I look forward to a lot of high fructose, corn syrup, trans fat diet type stuff. But yeah, so I, I definitely do everything possible to maintain my health and wellness and lastly, the fact that you and coach cower now coming in in the same class. How sentimental is that? I think it's beautiful. I still remember the caller from his cell phone calling. My cell phone was on the highway And just being really disappointed. Just like Man 412. No man, It's not san Diego, that's not L. A. It's not san Francisco or Oakland. Um, but then just like just the way that Pittsburgh became home to me, I'd live in Pittsburgh longer I lived anywhere in my life. It truly is home. We've got to users men that don't wear coats when it's cold and do all these things are type things, man. Yeah, both of my Children. Uh, so it's been a huge blessing to be able to go in with coach cower 31 thing away from the