NFL player analyzes toughest defenders and emerging stars in the league

Everybody always thinks, oh, he's a little guy, he can't play the run. Nah, come get these paws, big dog. So it's little stuff like that where I always try to change people's mindset, and it's like every day you just proving yourself. What's going on, everybody? It's your boy, Sheldon Day. Y'all know what time it is. It's Players Breakdown. I'm an NFL defensive tackle, tapping in with y'all, and I'ma keep it so real, it's gonna be unbelievable. Let's lock in. When you got guys like Aaron Donald, Mr. Hemethy himself, he goaded. You see that guy moving, just bada, bada, bada. No man should be able to move the way he does. You got guys like DeForest Buckner, he's 6'8", looks like a ballerina out there, just dancing and moving. You got Chris Jones, who, man, never on the ground. So you got things like that where it's like, you got a 6'8", 6'5", 6'7", 300 plus pound guy, moving like he's 180, 6'2", things like that. So add the athleticism with the big guys, it's crazy. Like, you see the dominant players in the position today. Ooh, so when I first got into the league, it was always Aaron Donald, just really trying to be disruptive, but also being able to be sturdy in the run, because everybody always thinks, Oh, he's a little guy, he can't play the run. Nah, come get these paws, big dog. So it's little stuff like that where I always try to change people's mindset. And it's like every day you just proving yourself. Welcome back, I'm Blaze. Remember me? I haven't taken any days off. I'm still playing football. Film is everything. On the field, I'm a beast. That little dude, nice, man. Hey, shout out to that boy, Blaze, dropping facts for us. I think it's all about feet and lateral speed. So if you're going one, two, one, and now you doing that and now it translates to the field, now you moving even faster. You moving at a higher clip than somebody else. Now when it's muscle memory, now you start to be able to explode even faster and do things like that. So my man Blaze, man, he on to something. He's young, too, so I can't wait to see him succeed. That's why I like Tyreek Hill. That's why he's so quick, because he do a lot of drills. That boy Tyreek Hill is quick. Being electric, and when you catch the ball, you already know what you got to do. It's a little bit of no-time. Being electric. Talking about the hips and the hips. Be quick, have good hips. That's what it does. That boy Blaze got all the facts. He's talking about explosiveness, talking about the cheetah, and legit. All he is is lower half. Most people think it's, oh, he was just built like that. Nah, he made himself like that. Just talking about his hips, his foot placement, things like that. It's crazy. You got footwork, then you got a good chance to be explosive and quick. But then when you add the hips and be able to sink into it and tap into that hip power, that glute power, now you're talking different. The game of football is all about leverage. And of course, since I am shorter, I automatically win that battle. So you can see some guys who are taller struggle with shorter guys. The most impressive thing that shorter guys do is we really take the fight to people. because we know if people take the fight to us, we have opportunity to kind of get driven off the ball and things like that. So the mentality switch, it's just all about playing chess when you're out there. Try to model my game after Jonathan Ogden, Orlando, Big Makai, Joe Thomas, guys like that. It's just the way they play, just how dominant they are in the run and pass game. If you get the eyes, you get the work ethic and all these things like Big John, here that boy could be a golden jacket just waiting on him. He got it all. And now Big Og, he got it. He's one of the most nasty offensive tackles you'll ever see play the game. And he played more of the mental game, more than anything. Everybody saw him move people and things like that. But on that field, he talking to you like he your friend, trying to get in your head. And now he having a conversation. Dang, I thought we was gonna play football today. I thought they paid you to do this. And then he shut you down. I was always the bigger kid growing up. It was always, he's too big to do that. We got to check his ID. He's not the real age to cheat. Everything was pulled out the book when I came home. Man, that's facts. I definitely feel his pain. When I was six, going to buffets with my family, I think I was 10, 11, 12, they tried to make me pay that full price. So, Makai, I feel your pain, my boy, like. How can you judge somebody by how big they are? Like, genetics is genetics, so you can't really change that, but. That boy make he big. I would've fooled your card too, big dog. I'm not gonna lie, you're big. So there you have it. I know y'all enjoyed the facts that we dropped today, but I'm sorry to say we had some flags on the play. It's a lot of cap, capity cap cap going on, but hope you learned some stuff. Hope you tap in. It's your boy, Sheldon Day. Catch you next time on the Players Breakdown.