M Rock caught up with Von Miller. I'm here
with the man, the myth, the legend Von
Miller Vaughan. First of all, man, how
you doing this training camp? I'm doing pretty good
. This is uh year 14. Um I was
talking to uh uh Dalton Kincaid do Don Kincaid earlier
. And I was like, hey, where was
you at? In 2011? He was like,
bro, I was 12 years old because, you
know, like, as you know, they start
to stack up, you know, the days are
long, but the years go by fast. I'm
still feeling good. I'm still happy to be out
here with the guys. Happy to be here at
Saint John Fisher training camp. You got banged up
2022. You were leading the leading the team in
sacks. Uh When you got hurt, didn't get
any sacks last year. Talk about how difficult it
was last year to kinda get going and get over
the injury. Um You know, II I believe
everything has a purpose and um you know, nothing
in life is by coincidence, you know, that's
how it was supposed to go. I would love
for it to went out there and had 15 sacks
, but that's just how it was supposed to go
. So I just embraced that, um, you
know, try to find the beauty and, and
, and the small things, try to find beauty
and everything and, you know, I'm 35 years
old, still playing a child's game, you know
, so I'm, I'm happy to be here.
I'm happy to, you know, be going into
my 14th year. What is it gonna take for
this team to get over the hump, man?
You lost last year in the divisional round of the
Kansas City Chiefs. What's, how do you take
that next step? Cause you've been to the next
step. You've been to the promised land in the
Super Bowl. How does this team get over the
hump? Oh, you just gotta keep having shots
on goal, man. Um You know, we
still got jobs, still got a great defense.
Um We've gotten better in some areas but it's all
about the team. You know, I I can
reference, you know, my time in Denver early
on, you know, um 2012, we supposed
to win it with Peyton. You know, it
didn't happen to my hot miracle with Jacoby Jones,
you know, rest in peace. Second year,
we had a pretty good team too. Um That's
2013. We went to the, the Super Bowl
and went to the, to the Super Bowl.
We lost, you know, and then the next
year, we had another great team in 2014 and
we lost in coach and, uh, in the
division around, we, uh, changed coaches,
you know, Coach Kier came in and said that
, you know, our team wasn't gonna be as
good. Peyton Manning was on the back end and
we won nine games within three points or less.
Got into the playoffs and played the Car, Carolina
Panthers in the Super Bowl and won it. So
you just got to keep, uh, keep,
uh, you know, having shots on goal.
We still got Josh Allen, we still got a
great defense and just keep going. Um, your
, your, your defense lost a lot of key
pieces, man. A lot of key pieces,
your safeties, you know, Jordan Poirier and Michael
Hyde, those guys, a lot of veteran leadership
, uh type guys on that defense aren't here.
Um How's the young guys looked to, to,
to, to show that this defense has what it
takes to win a championship? Oh, yeah,
you can't, you can't replace a Jordan Poirier or
Mi Ho um, but it's, it's about the
unit, man. You just got to find ways
to kind of fold over that kind of find ways
to fill in the gaps. You know, Greg
Russo, he's taken a huge step, you know
, this uh training camp AJ Vanessa is taking a
huge step. Got Matt Milano back. Terrell Bernard
is getting better and better each and every year.
Raso Douglas is continuing to show he's one of the
top corners in the league and we got CB as
well. So we just gotta, you know,
kind of fill in the gaps right there. You
can replace uh uh uh Jordan Poirier or Mica High
, but we can kind of mold together with the
guys that we got and just, you know,
keep having shots on goal. I understand that man
. Last one before I let you go, man
. Um You talked about Josh Allen your quarterback a
few times in this interview and just how he looked
and what's, what's the ceiling for this dude,
man? Just watching him practice, man, he
just putting the ball anywhere he wants to, man
. What's the ceiling for this guy? And,
and, and, and, and what do you
expect to see from this offense? Um No,
no ceiling on him, man. He can do
it all. Um He can throw, he can
run, you know, he's a smart guy out
there. He has the confidence he can, you
know, take a hit big dude. Um And
you gotta have a quarterback to win in this league
, you know, you can fill in the gaps
and you can do other things and you can win
games without a quarterback, but you gotta have a
league quarterback to go the distance and you know,
we got one and it's gonna, it's gonna all
rise and fall with him and he's, he's on
the way man and I'm gonna support him, man
. I hope I get some sack and set him
, set him up with the short field. There
it is, man. Von Miller, man.