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Our coverage continues from Super Bowl 56,
Radio Row in Los Angeles Bengals Rams.
It's finally going to go down in
a couple days. Marcus Trufant.
Mr Washington joins us.
He's got a couple podcasts out there.
Of course, truly unruly checked that out.
You've got the barbershop
is at the barbershop shop
the barbershop show,
so the barbershop is a podcast.
Kind of like you're going
in to the barbershop.
You're talking with your friends
and your buddies about the game.
You're talking about relationships.
About everything, yeah,
that's the barbershop.
Absolutely, you're here for a great cause.
Your foundation. What's going on with?
What's the latest? With that
absolutely true Family Foundation man?
There's something I
started early in my career.
2003 is when I was drafted so 2003, 2004.
It's just like you said I was
drafted to the home team,
so to be able to give back to a
community that gave to me as a young kid.
I was all for it.
We do scholarships.
We do everything under the
sun in that community,
but it's really about the education
man giving kids opportunities,
you know? Not a lot of people
can kind of identify with what's
going on with Cincinnati Bengals
quarterback Joe Burrow grew up in Ohio.
He went to the Ohio State University.
Now he's taking his home,
state team, the Bengals,
the Super Bowl, you version.
You were in a Super Bowl with the Seahawks.
You know what's that?
Feel like to be able to kind of.
Give that to your.
Your friends, your family.
Everybody grew up around right
man, it's a great feeling.
Of course, as you got the
energy of all your friends and
family that you grew up with,
they of course they got your back.
They want tickets to come to
the game so you really got to
come out of pocket a little bit.
But it's beautiful man just to be
able to to have the success in front
of people that you grew up with.
People who know you and that
people that really support you.
It's cool to go to other cities and do
like that and have those fans support you,
but they don't really.
No, you know you.
Yeah, I'm saying yeah, absolutely.
Let's let's stick with borough because
you know, throughout your career,
you play with Matt Hasselbeck
is your quarterback,
but at your final season in
Seattle it was Russell Wilson.
Is there a difference between,
you know, looking at a vet quarterback
and then having a young guy kind
of leading the charge? Yeah,
Matt Hasselbeck was a pro's pro, right?
A guy that. I did it for a long time.
I played a lot of good football,
took us to a Super Bowl even
though we didn't get the victory,
but it took us to a Super Bowl.
Yeah, Pro Bowl.
Leader in the locker room and then Russ,
a young player and that's young Russ.
This is pre.
The slick back and the shades
and all kind of stuff right?
Russ Mr Unlimited.
Yeah Russ already kind of had that that.
Leadership kind of older quarterbacks.
Type of quality right was very focused,
was very locked in and was doing
all the right things right.
Almost like he was a program
and so two different types of
quarterback but same output.
Same outcome as far as the success that they
got you mentioned Hasselbeck,
I gotta ask you a coin flip.
We're gonna win and we're gonna take
the baby with the bowl we're gonna scar
what do you thinking when he said that
in the game I don't even know if I heard
it right because it was during the overtime
game against Green Bay Packers but.
It was just one of those things,
and if you think about Matt Hassleback
and I know him right so I know that.
That's kind of what he was feeling inside,
right? And he's so locked in.
I think he kind of just slipped out.
He's not that type of guy in this
crazy how the game ended up with the
interception right in the games over but.
Match, definitely my guy and I
think he he's dealing with it.
I think he makes light of it now.
It's not that big of a deal was in the past,
but I know that was tough on him for a
while in the very beginning and the fans.
They probably didn't like it much,
but hey man, it is what it is.
It
is. It's one of the most like infamous
moments that you know we can remember.
Marcus Trufant joins us here on the lock
Down NFL Podcast locked on podcast network.
You played on the defensive side of
the football looking at all these
talented wide receivers in this game.
A guy that. Fellow Washingtonian
Cooper Cup played at nearby Eastern
Washington near Washington state.
How is the guy who just he won the
Triple Crown in receiving this year?
How does he continue to have
success in the postseason?
How does he find ways to get
open and make big plays?
I think with Cooper Kupp I think
he maybe is a guy. Not now,
but guys may have looked over right or you
take him like it's just like you said.
He comes from Eastern Washington and
that's where my middle brother went.
As a matter of fact. Isaiah Trufant.
But yeah, a guy that.
Maybe didn't get the love that
he deserves from the beginning,
so I think he's using that to to fuel
his fire and he plays at a level and
at a speed at that is all out, right?
There's a lot of guys that run
43 or maybe even four two,
but they don't play at that speed.
They they kind of don't have that
extra drive, but Cooper Cup.
Not the fastest guy in the world,
but he plays at a maximum speed at all
times and he's a very smart player too
I've I've heard him doing interviews.
Saying things like OK.
At the safety was here,
the linebacker was here and this
then the third.
So he's a a football guy that knows
the game inside and out and he
gets in the defenders blind spots
and different stuff like that.
So he's playing the game.
Very smart and very calculated to go.
With that all out 100 miles an hour,
the speed and it's been
working on your side of
the football Jalen Ramsey.
How can he play with that?
All out speed what?
What separates him for from the
rest of the DBS that makes him
currently the best corner in the NFL?
I think first I'll say this.
I always say that the best past
coverage is a sack, right?
Yeah, so if you can get to the
opposing quarterback, you can make
them uncomfortable that always so.
But Jalen Ramsey plays with the
confidence and plays with us a swag.
Kinda apace, I think.
The the pace he plays at like he's not.
Excuse me not playing overly
fast or like out of control.
He's always smooth.
He's always in control with everything
that he's doing and his technique is great.
A lot of players I see nowadays it's
really just about turning your **** to
the sideline and kind of bailing out of
there and just stopping the deep ball.
But Jalen Ramsey,
he backpedal,
he squared and he moves around and he's.
Kind of like a throwback player to me,
'cause he's going back to good technique,
eyes pace and you make plays that way.
Yeah, it's physical, right?
I mean absolutely, you set the
tone to create kind of legion of
boom at the end of your career.
Real physical corner, correct?
Yes, a physical corner that
will tackle that will hit you.
That's gonna get in your face.
That's gonna try to make you
uncomfortable and a lot of
offensive players don't like that.
Yeah it guys play defense for a reason,
right? Most of the time that cornered
their wide receivers that can't.
Kurt, but we got a mentality
that is totally different so.
Jalen Ramsey.
He comes with all that and then
when you bring in the swag and his
confidence man it's off the charts
one more time. For people
interested in being able to help
out with the foundation. Marcus,
yes, you can go to truefamily.org.
You can go to marcustrufant.com
and that has everything that I'm
doing has the foundation there.
The podcast, The Barber Shop
there has truly unruly podcast
there that I do with my wife,
but marcustrufant.com and everything is
there alright. Great,
always great to catch up with Marcus
Trufant Seattle Seahawks player.
Washington legend thanks Marcus.
Thank you, Sir.