Deebo & Joe - Part 2: Dick LeBeau on coaching James Harrison, Rod Woodson & Ike Taylor

6 Apr 2026 · 52 min · 22 chapters

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In short

Steelers defensive coaching and legacy, centered on Dick LeBeau’s coaching of James Harrison and his defensive philosophies (fire zone/zone blitz, red-zone preparation, disguising pressure), plus reflections on Super Bowl moments and adapting concepts to today’s NFL (RPOs, mobile QBs).

Guests

Dick LeBeau, longtime Steelers defensive coordinator/coach known for the “fire zone” and zone-blitz pressure schemes; James Harrison, former Steelers outside linebacker pass rusher; Keith Butler, Steelers coach referenced as involved in bringing Harrison to camp and developing him.

Guest backgrounds

LeBeau coached multiple elite defensive backs/players; he cites Rod Woodson (Purdue standout and elite athlete), Ike Taylor (corner known for weekly matchups and tackling), and Carnell Lake (safety who moved to corner and made Pro Bowl). Harrison is discussed as a rookie/young player who became a dominant outside linebacker.

Key claims

Harrison’s breakout came from letting him get comfortable, then trusting his instincts; LeBeau’s schemes create pressure while avoiding “zero-coverage” max-blitz pitfalls; red-zone success comes from preparation, route discipline, and disrupting quick throws; modern defenses must adapt fire-zone concepts to RPO/mobile QBs.

Notable examples

Harrison’s Cleveland game where he recorded 12 tackles, two sacks, caused/recovered a fumble, and nearly intercepted; LeBeau’s Tampa Super Bowl 43 “Max Blitz” that led to a pick-six by Harrison; Ike Taylor’s Wednesday “who I got this week?” routine; Carnell Lake’s safety-to-corner Pro Bowl transition.

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James Harrison's Impact on Coaching

2:56 to 6:18

Dick LeBeau shares his experiences coaching James Harrison and his early impact.

“And so they're bringing up these names and this and that.”

Super Bowl Reflections

6:18 to 8:36

LeBeau reflects on the significance of winning the Super Bowl in Detroit.

“maybe the second or third game when Joey got thrown out.”

Defensive Strategy Insights

8:36 to 13:12

Discussion on the importance of improving defensive strategies over time.

“And you could see you didn't have to take anybody's word for anything.”

Memorable Game Decisions

13:12 to 14:00

LeBeau discusses a critical decision during Super Bowl 43 involving James Harrison.

“Nobody was within 30 yards of me because you guys were going crazy out there on the field.”

James Harrison's Super Bowl Play

14:00 to 16:47

Learn about the pivotal moment when James Harrison made a game-changing play during the Super Bowl.

“They were way down in there when they got the ball.”

Player Autonomy and Game Awareness

16:47 to 18:06

Explore the importance of players thinking for themselves during games, illustrated by Harrison's decision-making.

“If he wasn't the best conditioned athlete, I say this continually, James, the best conditioned athlete on the squad, there wasn't no linebacker going to come back in the second half and play great.”

Mental Health and Music Creation

18:06 to 23:10

Discuss the relationship between mental health and creativity in music, revealing personal struggles.

“Coach would always say, I'm not out there with you on the field, so I don't see what you see.”

Coaching Legends: Rod Woodson and Ike Taylor

24:30 to 28:00

Hear insights from Dick LeBeau as he reflects on coaching notable players like Rod Woodson and Ike Taylor.

“So I'm just so happy looking at James with you, Coach LeBeau, because he loves you.”

Coaching Techniques with Ike Taylor

28:00 to 29:28

Learn about the coaching techniques and trust between Dick LeBeau and Ike Taylor.

“And he was on the island with their best guy every week.”

Carnell Lake's Versatility

29:28 to 31:14

Discover Carnell Lake's transition from safety to cornerback and his Pro Bowl success.

“But I haven't seen anybody since him or before him go from safety to corner.”
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Discussing Mike McCarthy's Hire

31:14 to 33:14

Hear opinions on Mike McCarthy’s hiring and its implications for the Steelers.

“Hey, Coach, what do you think the recent hire of Mike McCarthy?”

Historical Rivalries and Franchise Challenges

33:14 to 34:47

Explore historical rivalry insights and challenges faced by NFL franchises.

“Sometimes he gets really disrespectful sometimes for no reason.”

The Bond of Football Brotherhood

34:47 to 37:39

Understand the deep bond formed among players throughout their careers.

“Cincinnati and four with Pittsburgh, and I won two, and they were both with Pittsburgh.”

Coaching Aspirations and Knowledge Transfer

37:39 to 39:24

Discuss aspirations for coaching and the importance of knowledge transfer.

“That's the one thing you were just saying, and this is what I feel in this whole conversation and you being on this episode.”

Innovations in Defensive Strategies

39:24 to 42:05

Learn about the evolution and innovation behind the zone blitz defense.

“and him covering, we'll come up with all kind of good defenses, man.”

Coaching Strategies and Defensive Techniques

42:05 to 44:25

Learn about Dick LeBeau's innovative approaches to defensive strategies and blitzing.

“be backpedaling 30 yards down the field.”

Memorable Game Moments and Quarterback Insights

44:26 to 46:05

Hear stories about game day experiences and insights from legendary quarterbacks.

“Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, host of the On Purpose podcast.”

Defensive Strategies in the Red Zone

48:31 to 52:34

Explore the effective defensive tactics used in the red zone by Coach LeBeau.

“And just when I said that, my mom comes out of the kitchen and she says, I have some cookies and milk.”

Establishing Credibility and Player Comparisons

52:35 to 56:00

Listen to Coach LeBeau discuss his experiences with players and establishing credibility.

“I thought it was an advantage for the defense, really, because they weren't going to beat us deep down there.”

Coaching the Current NFL Defense

56:00 to 58:20

Coach LeBeau discusses how defense strategies have evolved and his thoughts on modern adaptations.

“So there wasn't no picking on either one of us.”

Adapting to Run Pass Options

58:20 to 1:02:30

The conversation shifts to how to handle RPOs and the evolution of quarterback play.

“It just, as I look, as I look at the game, I see a lot of, well, one of my famous statements is there is nothing so ugly as a fire zone gone wrong, pal.”

Walkthroughs and Practice Strategies

1:02:30 to 1:05:00

The importance of walkthroughs and strategic practice to confuse opponents is discussed.

“Coach, walkthroughs, eye in the sky don't lie.”
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2:55When we got James, it was my first year back to Pittsburgh, and I didn't really know James. and Clark Higgins broke a little bone in his hand about two weeks before we were going to training camp and we needed a roster Needed a feeling My man Debo has a feeling Well, this is an amazing story If you got a couple seconds I'll tell you the story I got time We came in getting ready to go to camp and everything and they said Hagen just broke his hand and said, we got to get another linebacker. And so they're bringing up these names and this and that. Some I knew, some I didn't. I didn't know James.

3:46And they said, well, what do you think? And I said, well, Coach Butler is Coach James. And I said, you should get his opinion. I said, I don't know James. And Coach Butler said, I think he would be very good to bring to camp because he has some background knowledge of our defense. And so I said to myself, I made a little minute of a listen. I said, I got to look at this guy. It's because I knew something about his college career and the people that had coaching him there. And I had a high opinion of those coaches. Okay. And I said, so I started watching him, and hell, I didn't see anybody blocking him.

4:33Okay, Debo. Yeah, I mean, so I said, well, this guy is not too bad, you know. I'm looking for things. First thing you look for is what a guy is having trouble with, you know. And I think somebody in some of the meetings said something about, oh, he's too short for an outside pass rusher. Let me see. Well, I saw the tackle get lifted up about three yards in the air and dumped in the quarterback's lap. I said, oh, I don't think he's just about the right height, you know, for what we want to do. Power is not a bad quality in anything in a football game. So we went along. Nothing to do in training camp but have meetings, you know, and you assess what happened that day, what you're going to do the next day and everything.

5:25And for a while, I just said, well, I'm watching this Harrison guy. I said, I ain't seen anybody blocking me because you're having a lot of drills and stuff. And I said, I think we need to keep a good eye on him. I said, because I haven't gotten to the part of this game that he can't do. and I think that his overall build is an asset and it's not a deficit at all. And then James helped me out in that he led the team in special teams in that year. If you remember, James, in covering kicks and stuff, you were all over the place in the preseason games. And I gave me a chance. I said, well, look at there.

6:12There's Harrison again. and we kept him. And then it was never, ever another discussion after the second, maybe the second or third game when Joey got thrown out. Joey was a great outside pass rusher. It was before the Browns game? Yeah, we were up in Cleveland, and this is one thing that changed the rules and how the teams warm up now because Cleveland was wrong. Cleveland had a running back, fullback, really. And he come down to our – I think we're stretching. He come down to our end and started chawing at us. And Joe Porter got up and smacked him once. So these guys are duking it out before the game even starts.

7:01Well, the fish will throw them out of the game. and uh well most of uh the guys were spread around and i went and got coach butler and uh i said keith i said go talk to harrison and ask him what he's most comfortable with because he's starting the game they just threw joey out of the game and i said i'm not going to call anything for the first couple series that he doesn't feel real good about i want him to get comfortable because James had never started a game, as far as I know, in the NFL. So Keith laughed. He said, oh, I said, no, it ain't. Oh, ho, ho, I ain't even kidding. James is starting a football game.

7:46And so he went on back to the locker room. In about 10 minutes, he came back. He said, well, he says he feels good with anything. I said, I ain't just calling anything. I said, what's his favorite defenses? So that's how I opened the game. I just tried to let him get his feet wet because he didn't even know he was going to cover. He didn't know he was going to start. I didn't know until we walked back in after warm-ups. So I think James had 12 tackles that day. He had two sacks. He caused a fumble, recovered a fumble. He damn near intercepted a pass. From that day on, I didn't have to say no more good things about Harrison.

8:33He was in. We knew he had a player. But that was great. I tried to teach players from the film. And you could see you didn't have to take anybody's word for anything. Look, this is what's causing you some problems. And Coach Butler did a wonderful job with James and turned him into one of the best outside backers that's ever played. And I was always fine getting out of the way of the position, Coach, because if I didn't think he could coach, he wasn't going to be there, anyhow. Yes, preach. That's what I would do with the corners, Joe. I would say, look here. And I would just get the film. and if it was in the middle of the meeting, everybody saw it.

9:28But usually I'd try to get a guy one-on-one if I was working on something that he was having trouble with. Yes. And I'd say, you're taking this step here. And sometimes you get a guy that, because anatomically, that's just the way he had to step. Well, you're wasting your time trying to get him to do something else. you got to find another way to get him in that position you want him in. But.

9:55James Harrison:Hey, Joe, you muted. You muted. Hey, hey, Joe. Oh, my bad. My bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My bad. Yeah, you good. You good. Hey, Coach, Super Bowl. Yeah. 2006 in Detroit when we won the Super Bowl there. Yeah. Did that Super Bowl have any greater significance to you if it had been played somewhere else versus being in Detroit where you played your whole career? Well, it did have a greater significance just because of that history. But I'll tell you what, even more importantly, James, we ended up going to six Super Bowls, four in Pittsburgh and two in Cincinnati. And up until that time, I had zero wins.

10:41And I was not young then. And I said, man, I played 14 years, you know, and I'm going to end up coaching 40, ended up being 45. I said, I can't get out of this thing without a one Super Bowl win, you know. I said, we've got to be able to get lucky enough to win one of these things, you know. and when we got the lead on them and they got the ball late in the game there and it looked like if we could get off the field that it'd be very difficult for them to come back and catch us and they moved the ball a little bit and got down there and I think Ike knocked the ball down on fourth down, down in the end zone And so we took over and Ben won a keeper and made a first down.

11:39And by that time, it was for sure that they weren't going to be able to catch us. I think the final score was like 20 to 10, I think, something like that, pretty close to that. And when that game ended, everybody flooded the field, you know, and they dumped the confetti down and everything. And I walked over to the bench. Everybody was golfing the bench. And I sat down on the bench and I stared at that scoreboard. And the scoreboard said Pittsburgh 20, Seattle 10. And I just kept looking at it and I said, it's real. It's real. We won this game. We won this. And so that was my dream to play or coach for a Super Bowl championship team.

12:24and that game ended that hope and desire of mine. And after that, I didn't have any more of those follies, I guess you would call. Oh, I hope I really, what I really hoped every year was that I could improve our defense. I just wanted to, I wanted to say by the end of game five that we were better than we were after game one. And at the end of game seven, and we were better than we were at game five. I wanted us to improve. And I said, that's busy enough to worry about who in the hell is going to win the Super Bowl this year. Let's see how good we can get defensively. And I already knew that what we were doing was good enough to win a Super Bowl.

13:12So that was very, very special to me. And then I was sitting on that bench. I'll never forget it. Nobody was within 30 yards of me because you guys were going crazy out there on the field. It was one of the most wonderful vistas in my memory. The good Lord grants me however many years he does, it'll still be number one for me.

13:36James Harrison:Yes. Hey, Coach, I ain't never asked you this, but go back to the Super Bowl in Tampa, 43. When you called that Max Blitz, and I didn't blitz, what was going through your head? No, I'm going to tell you something. I tell this story a lot of times because people's all talking about what a great call that was. You know, we were leading in the ballgame, as you remember, and they actually got field position on that drive. They were way down in there when they got the ball. And my first looked at the scoreboard and we were three points ahead. And I said, I want to get us off this field with at least a tie.

14:22I said, that would be great. And they were getting down in there close. And it got to a situation when everybody knew they were going to throw the ball. And, of course, like I say, once removed from the simpleton, I figured the guy thought, since I love to blitz, that I would blitz. And then he might be thinking that, no, he's going to fake the blitz and then not blitz. I said, because that would be twice removed from a simpleton. I'm not going to be twice removed from a simpleton. I'm going to blitz. I went all out. And James engaged a guy. And all you're doing was overload. It was the checkers blitz where you got six men and they got five.

15:07You just keep trading men and somebody's going to free on the quarterback. So James got a guy through. And then he dropped. and picked it off. So when I saw he had it, he got it in the end zone. I said, James, James, get down. Get on the ground. Of course, you know, I'm 35-yard lines as far as a coach can get. You know, he can't hear me for nothing, you know. I said, get on the ground. Get on the ground, James. Well, he'd come out, and he picked up a couple blocks. I use that thing for speaking in banquets and clinics is what I'm trying to say a lot, because on that play, the only guy that didn't get a block was the corner clear over here on the left side.

15:56Everybody else on the field got a block on that return, and some guys got three. And almost everybody in the hustle and bustle got two blocks. and I'm saying, get on the ground. I'm screaming, get on the ground. Well, I seen him get a little open space coming, you know, and then he cut out right over towards the bench, and he went right by me, and I said, run, James, run, James. And I tell you what, he got to about the two-yard line, and Riggie caught him, man. Rigor mortis caught him, man. That's exactly who caught him. And he fell in the end zone. And he was just laying there in the end zone.

16:43It's the greatest football player I've ever seen. And it was, I went up to James and I took him. If he wasn't the best conditioned athlete, I say this continually, James, the best conditioned athlete on the squad, there wasn't no linebacker going to come back in the second half and play great. And he came back and played better second half, and he did the first half, which was great, great. But for about the first, I don't know, six, seven minutes of the half, because that Super Bowl halftime lasts about 45 minutes, man. You and that river. And we didn't even mess with the players for about 15 minutes, just let them have it myself.

17:26But I went over to James, and I said, James? I said, you know, that was a max blitz. He said, yeah, coach. and I said, you didn't blitz, and he said, no, coach. He said, everybody knew that they was going to throw the ball, and I figured I'd get my guy and just drop back and see what I could do because I knew they weren't going to run the ball in that situation that you had always told us to think for yourself and know the game situation, and when he gave me that reply, I said, good play, James. Yes.

18:06James Harrison:Good play. Coach would always say, I'm not out there with you on the field, so I don't see what you see. He's not playing the game anymore.

18:35in his career. It's easy to look at somebody and be like, your life must be so sick. Man, you have no f***ing clue. Talking about the mental illness stuff, it used to be this thing that I was ashamed of. I'm just now trying to unwind this idea that I have to be unhealthy physically or in pain in some emotional way in my life to create good music. If someone says that I did a good job, I'm like, yeah, I'm good. If someone says that I suck, I'm like, f***, I suck. Getting to talk about this is not common for me. Right now I need it more than ever.

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22:21James Harrison:And I was, hi, dad. And just when I said that, my mom comes out of the kitchen. And she says, I have some cookies and milk. This is a badass convict. Right. Just finished five years. I'm going to have cookies and milk at mom. Yeah. On the Sino Show podcast, each episode invites you into a raw, unfiltered conversations about recovery, resilience, and redemption. On a recent episode, I sit down with actor, cultural icon Danny Trail to talk about addiction, transformation, and the power of second chances. The entire season two is now available to binge, featuring powerful conversations with guests like Tiffany Addish, Johnny Knoxville, and more.

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24:00And that was the greatest single play. Of course, it was a defensive play, but I've never seen a better one in football and my favorite play in football.

24:12James Harrison:I love it. And Coach always makes a good point of letting his players think for them to have a mind of his own. He came over there and asked you, James, you did your research. You know what I'm saying? You knew it was Max Bliss, right? You addressed your man, and then you got up out of there. It's like, it's not going to be a run. I'm still going to take up the tackle, and I'm going to just fall back. So him with your coach setting you up, knowing you did your job, and then you using your own mental. So I'm just so happy looking at James with you, Coach LeBeau, because he loves you. I'm so happy that you came onto the show now.

24:43James Harrison:It's just looking at Debo, just smiling. I'm smiling, looking at you. Without Dick LeBeau and Keith Butler, there is no James Harrison. And I tell people that. Yeah, well, there is no Dick LeBeau or Keith Butler without James Harrison, neither, man. That's a two-way street, I'll tell you that. No, you still would have been there. That don't matter. I'm a footnote. I'm a footnote. I always like to say this, James. When I got one look at you, there was no more other teams for James Harrison. That was your last team that you played for. Now, I know you went over and played the inside linebacker for the team, which would have been good.

25:30You would have been fine, but I think you did better as an outside rusher. Yes, definitely.

25:38James Harrison:Definitely. Definitely. Coach, question. Coach LeBeau. Yes. So out of your, so you're a cornerback, fellow cornerback like me. Who was your best favorite cornerback that you've coached? Hmm. Because I know that you have one, I think, because is Rod, is Rod, is Rod Woodson? Rod was probably the best, the best one, although I had so many really, really good ones. but Rob Woodson was a one in a million athlete. He went over and ran in the world track. There was a deal that went professional track in Europe, and he was a great high hurdler. And he was actually a wonderful punt and kickoff returner.

26:29He was fantastic. I went to scout him in college. he went to Purdue and they were playing Indiana. That was always their final game of the year. And he didn't play anything but defense up until that game. And it was his senior year. And he played about 50 minutes in that game. And on offense, he was a tailback. And they beat Indiana and Rod ran all over the damn field and then played corner after that. So he was a very, very special athlete. But I always, the guy that doesn't get mentioned very often, I always have to mention him when a question like this comes up, is Ike Taylor. Ike was, he was, he didn't get the James Harrison, the Troy Palomaro and that kind of stuff, Casey Hampton.

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27:31And those are the guys that usually got the big mention, which we were doing enough good things. There was plenty to go around. But Ike, every week, he'd come in because if you're going to pressure, you've got to have decent corners. And corners got to, if they can't cover, they damn sure got to be able to tackle because they can't get you gashed. For sure. They got to let you come to the table for the next meal. Yes. And Ike would come in every Wednesday. Who I got this week, Coach? Who I got this week? And never complained. And he was on the island with their best guy every week. And he'd hit you.

28:22He'd run and tackle, force the run. And he's. I love that. He's one of my favorite guys for my coaching because I never played in college. He was a wide receiver and a kick returner. And I think he might have played corner one year or something. You couldn't tell anything off the film or nothing like that. And we had a lot of sessions on which foot you put first and second. But he was strong and he could run. And I said, look, here's what we're going to do. We're going to get up in their face and make them outrun us and outstrength us. And guess what? There wasn't too many could do that. And he let us do a lot of stuff that you and you could trust yourself that their best receiver wasn't going to tear you up that day.

29:23but probably as far as an athlete and Rod Woodson probably the best one I ever had I'll tell you something else along that question Carnell Lake Coach Lake Carnell Lake he was a great safety and I told him I said Carnell we're going to go to the Pro Bowl and in two years Carnell went to the Pro Bowl well he was at for a couple of years and then Rod got hurt and we were short in the corner position we were getting hurt there and I asked Carnell if he would go play corner till we got our corners healthy and of course he said yes if you think it'll help the team I said I don't know I'm asking you to change of position that you've become very very good at but i said well he came down 7 30 in the morning on tuesday and we went out on the field and started working on the corner and he went to the pro bowl that year as a corner and i don't know i have never seen a guy go from safety to corner and go to pro bowl as a safety and pro bowl as a corner i've seen him go from corner to safety

30:46James Harrison:Yes, that's the middle. But I haven't seen anybody since him or before him go from safety to corner. And he did it. Wow. Shout out to Coach Lake because he was my DB coach when I ended up coming to the Steelers. So I love Coach Lake. Taught me real well. He's as fine a person as you'll ever meet. Oh, beautiful human. Love Coach. Yeah, he's coaching his kid now. Yeah. That's great. Hey, Coach, what do you think the recent hire of Mike McCarthy? You like that? We're all in now. At first, you know, I crashed out a little bit. You did. Yeah. Well, I was surprised that Mike didn't come back because the team rallied there at the end of the year, really, and won some really, really key games.

31:41And I thought, well, we're going to get another year to get this thing going the way we know it can be. And I don't know that this coach, I know he coached Green Bay when they beat us in our last Super Bowl. But I've always had a lot of respect for him. But what I liked about the hire, he's a Pittsburgh guy.

32:09James Harrison:Yes. He was born and raised there. I know in his heart, his lifetime ambition has been to coach or play for a team where you grow up, pretend you grow up in. So I know this. He's going to give everything he's got to help make this football team. I mean, they're close. They've been close.

32:38and we just got to win a couple of the key games. And I like it. But, I mean, you know, the NFL is so evenly competitively balanced that you can be close and never get there. I mean, there's still franchises that have never even got to play in them.

33:03James Harrison:They never played in the Super Bowl. like the Cleveland Browns. We're world championships. We won it with this. We said Super Bowls, like the Cleveland Browns and the Lions, you know? Wow. He used to sometimes, sometimes it's the blood. I just shoot every now, man. Sometimes he gets really disrespectful sometimes for no reason. Well, I'll tell you what. The Cleveland Browns, when I was a player, they played in like eight straight championship games because when the war ended. Thank you. When the war ended, they started the AFC too, and it was a rival league, and they won that every time. Paul Brown was their coach.

33:44And then when they went into the NFL, they put the league, merged the leagues together, and they won the championship in the NFL for about four or five straight years or alternated back and forth.

33:57James Harrison:Look at Debo. He doesn't like it. I was cheating. Nope. They had the taxi squad You're an Akron man James you can't be down on Cleveland He was keeping players that he wasn't supposed to be able to keep He acts like he's not even from there He disrespects Cleveland I'm not from Cleveland I'm from Akron I know Akron but that's a good Buckeye man Coach when they fought To keep those simpleton colors When they left and went To Baltimore I was done I gave up and I went to the next best thing and that was the Pittsburgh Steelers and I've been a Steelers fan ever since you know what I'm saying and that's it I've been a Steelers fan ever since I don't know nothing else to do but black and yellow black and yellow black and yellow that's it coach that's all I know well let's put it this way young man I went to six Super Bowls and uh two of them was with Cincinnati and four with Pittsburgh, and I won two, and they were both with Pittsburgh.

34:58So what kind of fan do you think I am, James? Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

35:03James Harrison:I'm a golden black man. Come on, okay. Hey, Joe, you get out of here with that duking around. With coaches on the show, with Coach Dick LeBeau himself, we're talking all Steelers, straight Steelers. Well, you know, do you know something? And I've always believed this, and I know you guys do. When you get in a huddle with a group of guys for over a series of number of years and go through the ups and downs of a football season, it's more than a job. It's more than an exhibition, a playing, a sports contest. It's a life. and you become part of each other. And whatever colors you got on, they're your colors.

35:59You have paid the price to put them on. You know what the other guys in that huddle have gone through to be in there with you. And there's a bond. I would say this to exemplify what I'm saying. I played 14 years for Detroit. I missed one football game in the 14 years that I played for them. And I retired and I got a job with the Philadelphia Eagles. And the second game of the year, the Philadelphia Eagles were playing the Detroit Lions. And I was coaching the special teams. And I'm on the sideline with a green and white uniform, a coaching uniform of the Philadelphia Eagles. and I'm lining up for a kickoff, you know, the guys, two or three of them are one foot away from you can shake hands.

36:52They're all my people. They're all my guys that I just spent 10 years with, man. I'm looking down at myself and I say, what the hell am I doing in this trash, you know? I've got to be in Honolulu blue and silver. But it's just, it's what it is because people don't understand the physical exertion that goes through a 12-month session of one year of professional football. And what you're talking about here is, and jabbing, and it'll never end, the poke back and forth. But you are what you are, brother, because that's part of your life that you paid dearly for. And you earned the right to jab a little bit, but also the right to defend.

37:39James Harrison:Yes. That's the one thing you were just saying, and this is what I feel in this whole conversation and you being on this episode. It's a brotherhood. It's a bond. It's family. It's when you hang out with somebody, and like you said, you're trying to each year is training camp, start OTAs, all that. That season is a grueling season that you go through with your players, with your guys. And when you have dudes that want to be the best at something that are grinding and fighting and having you meeting them every single day, Like it becomes a love. Like you know them, you feel them. And then when you have a legit, like start doing a dynasty where these guys, we're together the next year and we're together this year.

38:17James Harrison:We've been together for five years together, grinding. And now we know each other. The tendencies when you can start, how Ryan Clark and Troy could just start not saying nothing, but just moving their heads. And like education. That's it. And when you've got a teammate and he goes down and you know he's hurting and he gets up and he finishes that game, you know what he's going through. He knows what you've gone through. It's different than sitting down beside each other in a desk and figuring out a problem. Right. Yeah. It's different. Blood, sweat, and tears. Legit. It's different. Yeah. Yeah.

38:53James Harrison:Hey, Coach, we're going to get to these super chats in a minute. We got some people that done asked you some questions. But me and Joe gots to get together. We got to figure out a time that we can get down there, get to you where we can get a good week, if not two, that you're going to be around that we can get to you because we got to pull all this defense up out of here. We got to get it up out your head, coach. We got to get it to the paper. Listen, we're trying to go ahead and put it down. Joe trying to put it to his kids. He's trying to teach them some real defense. Yes. Yeah, now if you guys can get in a time machine where I can get you rushing and him covering, we'll come up with all kind of good defenses, man.

39:36James Harrison:You ain't lying. Well, I need to get some of that knowledge, though, because, Debo, we're talking about getting into coaching a little bit, though, Coach. Yes, definitely. We're saying if we're going to do it, we need to start. I need to be running the true fire zone. Hey, let me tell you both. Coach him the way you played. You were both great players. Coach them the way you played, the confidence that you played with. You knew what you were doing. You knew what you had to get done. And when you messed up, you didn't really need a coach to tell you too much about what you did wrong. You know what you did wrong.

40:09Coach them the way you played because the way you guys played was good. Now, I just want to tell you one thing, Joe, because of poking back and forth and him getting on you with the brands and all that. And everything good every time it can't get to be a little frisky every now and then. Make sure you're outside if it gets to be too frisky so you can use your speed, man, and get the hell out of there.

40:36I used to get in argument with one of them linebackers every now and then. I found the outdoors was the best place to be.

40:42James Harrison:They can't catch you. I'm faster than you, though. That's for sure. That's what it is. You always got plan B in there. A, B, C, D. B is all I ever needed. And that was, what do they say? Fight or flee? Fight or flight. Yeah, fight or flight. Yeah, that's right. Oh. We got Covenant Light. She back. Question. I guess this might have been from, what's her name? Question for Coach on Monday. You made the fire zone. You made the zone blitz famous. how many quarterbacks do you still think wake up at night trying to figure out where the pressure came from well I'll tell you what I can tell you a quick story on that that's always been one of my favorite uh stories uh I I started messing around with it you have to be the coordinator when you're going to change the defense you know because if you're just a position guy all you can do a suggest but once you're a coordinator you can go in and it might cost you your job but at least wise you can do it and if you think it's a pretty good idea you can do it so i uh i thought well it might be pretty good uh to not blitz a big guy who's lining up with his hand his hand on the ground and the blitz one of them little guys out there that's running around that's usually be backpedaling 30 yards down the field.

42:12I said, that might be pretty good to fool with them. And then I started thinking about different ways to cover him behind. The thing that I wanted to get away from was the full pressure blitz where everybody was zero coverage, one-on-one everywhere. And even though some of the biggest plays of the defense come from that max blitz, some of the offense's biggest plays against the defense come from the same thing because if they beat one man there's nobody with eyes that can go over there and save the big play and uh that was i was looking for a safer way to get pressure on the quarterback and that's what i was looking for so uh i would like to say that it would went like this but i went off the diving board into a pool that didn't have any water in it many times you you were trying to patch up uh where a guy left a little bit and uh i eventually worked into some things that worked a little bit but we were playing a pre-season game and it was in cincinnati i was coaching in cincinnati and uh their great uh quarterback one of the best quarterbacks uh ever played uh his name's escaping me right now this happens to be every now and then been hitting the head too many times marino okay so uh quarterbacks you know how they do after the game they always they're they're cut above everybody else so they always got to go over and shake hands and all this stuff after the game boomer assigns our coach or our quarterback and they're over there chatting after the game and everything and so we came in uh they were i think they were the uh defending afc champs at that time and uh they beat us with a last second drive down the field they beat us like 17 to 14 it was tied up and uh boomer said hey he said one thing uh marino said He said, you'd be interested to know.

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49:30He said, I asked him, what was he looking at with some of the blitzes that he was receiving? Because Boomer had got to go against it in practice every day. And Reno said, well, they told me to look at this and look at that in the practice, on practice field. But when we got in the game, he said, I couldn't see nothing. And he said, so I just started focusing on my guy and throwing him the ball. And, of course, he had a great duper. And them guys, they beat us. But it was a close game. We played well on defense. But when I heard that from one of the best quarterbacks, throwing quarterbacks in the league, he said, I quit looking at anything else.

50:16That's what I was trying to do. I want to get that quarterback out of gathering all that information pre-snap where they know what we're doing, make him execute the way we got executed. Everything comes to our key after the ball snapped. I just wanted to make it even for my guys where we make him read something after that ball snapped or where he wants to go with the ball. So when I heard him say he quit reading anything, I said, well, this is going to work eventually. And that's how I stayed with it.

50:54James Harrison:Liam, 9087, he said, Coach LeBeau, what offensive formation or plays were most difficult for you to stop in the red zone? We had one of the best red zone defenses continually. And it was from my experience and your guys' ability. The thing in the red zone, you have to utilize the fact that the field can no longer be stretched. and your players don't have to worry about depth as much as they got to defend the optional stuff happening in front of them. And what I would do was preparation for my athletes. And we continually ran every route, if not in full practice speed, walkthrough. I was a walkthrough nut.

51:48but one guy had to learn if he goes where where's the next place your eyes going where's the next threat and the other thing is uh you give a quarterback time he's looking working on just little area pops pop pop the ball ain't gonna be in the air that long he's going to get it in there on you so you've got to disrupt that quarterback a little bit down in there too and there's where disguise is probably even more pertinent than out on the field where you got to make him read and and hesitate a little bit and then your guys can get to him and you make a play down there you you've saved your team four points it turns seven points into three and you you win a lot of games with two or three points but uh i didn't feel the red zone so much i thought it was hell no he didn't

52:41James Harrison:Liam, wasn't the damn thing difficult? You heard what he said. I thought it was an advantage for the defense, really, because they weren't going to beat us deep down there. There was no deep. Yes, sir. Covenant life back again, Joe,$10. Yes, sir. He said, check out the look on Deebo's face. This man looks like he's ready to drill someone. His coach is here, and James is here for it. I'm scared. She said, you can tell Coach LeBeau means the world to him. Yes, he does. Yes, he does. That is 100 % true. Correct. We got, what is it, DMO zone? DMO zone,$10. Question for Coach LeBeau. Which player that you coach reminded you the most of yourself?

53:31James Harrison:Oh, they were all better than me. Coach LeBeau, you had 62 picks. Hey, man, that's what I was saying, man. I'm like, how were they better than you? Stop. Let me tell you this story. This is a great story. I'm trying to think of who I was even with. It's not important to the story. But I would gladly walk around the guys during stretch, and I'd say, you know, Rod, how many interceptions you got? How many interceptions you got? Troy, how many you got? And then I'd total them up, you know, and they may total up 50 between them. I said, well, that's pretty good. You only got 12 more to go to get me.

54:15Yeah. So you do. Okay. I wasn't bashful about it. I called it establishing credibility for your teaching lessons.

54:28James Harrison:Hey, how many games you played straight? That's another one he'd hit them with. 171 for you, Coach. 171. 171 straight games and then 62 picks. That's what I'm saying. You talk about getting credibility from the defensive players in your room. I was trying to get established that a little bit. But when I'm doing this one day and a first-year player, he's down there stretching a little bit and I'm saying about this. And I said, yeah, 72, buddy. 62. and he said, Coach, Coach. He said, and he can give me a come on over like he wanted to whisper something. He said, what they do, just throw at you all the time, man.

55:17I said, no, they stayed away from me, man. I would have got 172 if they just thrown at me. But he said, what they do, throw at you all the time.

55:28James Harrison:Let's go, man. Ain't no way, Coach. Ain't no way. Well, let me tell you something, though, about that. It's true. You know who the corner's on the other side for me in my career? Night Train Lane first. He's got more interceptions than anybody that ever played. Is Night Train 80? What is he? He's 81, I think. 81. Yeah. No, you know something. Krause might be 81, and Train might be 78 or something. Okay, yes, yes. They're both up there right at the top. But when I was playing with Train, he was number one. And the other year, we drafted this guy named Lim Barney, and he played the other corner for me.

56:05So there wasn't no picking on either one of us.

56:10James Harrison:They had to go pretty honest against it. Wherever they threw the ball, it was going to get picked off. It got their share. Coming to life, back again,$10. She said, do y 'all see the look in James' eyes right now, body ready or not? James looks like he's ready to suit up. No, I'm not. Watch out, Butter. Butter, yeah, I suit up against Butter, though. We have Hawk, and he is 92, and Coach LeBeau stirring the pot. Let's go. Yeah, we got that. We got over here Mr. Stiller fan,$43,$5. Coach LeBeau, can you keep it real? Do you think the current team could run your defense? Do we have the players to run the defense efficiently?

56:59Well, nobody's going to have as good a defense as we had with you guys. It's in my book. No question. Pick up the book and look at the stats collectively and individually. But I think, let's put it this way. If I go to a high school game now, I still do every now and then, they're running zone blitzes. Every college game you put on on TV, they're running zone blitzes. Everybody run a zone blitz. They're not running yours. The difference is they don't know what the hell they're doing in behind. Thank you.

57:40James Harrison:Thank you. You cannot change things behind because you don't like the way one things go. open up too many other openings in other spots like instead of it having one weakness now you got 10 like they don't understand that concept like coach Lebow is not going to call a defense against a certain personnel because he knows this is not going to work against this personnel why the hell would I call it what we have ended up doing is changing what people do against whatever the personnel is and we're getting gassed and gassed and right now I'm hoping that can change But go ahead, coach. Well, I'm not critiquing any individuals when I say that.

58:20It just, as I look, as I look at the game, I see a lot of, well, one of my famous statements is there is nothing so ugly as a fire zone gone wrong, pal. People in some wide open spaces. Yes.

58:38James Harrison:Yes. Yes, definitely. Definitely. We got covenant life back again, Joe. She said, with the modern NFL shifting so heavily towards RPO, run pass options, and mobile quarterbacks, how would you, man, this is nothing. How would you adapt the 3-4 fire zone to remain effective today between Joe? By the way, Joe, we missed you Friday. That's simple. Coach used to do that all the time. We used to go, Vic, who else was it?

59:15James Harrison:I think you muted, Coach. Is he muted? Vic was – No. He was a handful. Run pass options, stuff like that. RG3 was another one that we – Oh, yeah, for sure. We went and junkie-conned him. For sure. Stopped him. Like, go ahead, Coach. Tell him that ain't nothing. That's something we used to do on the regular. Well – That was back when you was allowed to smash him, too. Yes. Coach LeBold was like, hey, outside back. You can still smash him. Quarterback come, that's you. We're not looking for nothing else. Me and Willie ain't looking for nothing else. I don't care what he does. If he does that RPO, that run pass option to you, he said, smack, run through.

59:57If they're running the run fake with it, you can hit him today. You can hit him. That's what I would make the opposite team's owner make his coach quit doing it because he's going to get his quarterback splattered. But that's what the offseason's for. You've got to look at everything that you've done that previous year, and people are going to study you pretty good, and the things that hurt them, they're going to try to get something that will hurt it. I mean, it's a series. The offense actually has the advantage because they're the only one that knows where the ball's going and who's supposed to be getting it and things like that.

1:00:44So the defense has always got to be a stimulus response and get their keys and find a ball and get it on the ground. But there are ways, I think, of balancing that playing platform up a little bit. And whatever the rules are of the game, I didn't spend any of my time complaining about what the rule was. about how you do this and who that. I looked for one thing only. What is the best way that our defense can get an edge over that offense within the limit of the rules of how they're going to call it, the officials are going to call it? And I tried to focus on that, and that's what I taught around.

1:01:29This is what we're going to do because this is going to be illegal, and we're not going to sit there and beat ourselves every week by getting a bunch of 15-yard penalties, instead of complaining about it, we're going to take it to our advantage and find a way to percentage-wise. It's like playing poker. If you go into the hand with the best hand in your hand and you're both going to draw cards, you're going to come out with the best hands more times than not. Are you going to win every time? No, because the law of averages is going to balance out one way or the other. But if you can put the law of averages in your defense's favor, you're going to win more than you're going to lose.

1:02:13And that's the way I coached. And that's the way I would coach today with all these crazy rules they got me. I would try to look for what's the best way that we can do it to get an advantage over the guy we're playing against.

1:02:28James Harrison:Yes, yes. I love what you were talking about, too, Debo, with the walkthroughs, though. Coach, walkthroughs, eye in the sky don't lie. You know what I'm saying? Like all of those things, the simple stuff, because you can be you're coaching to do the right thing all the time and all those walkthroughs, all those little things. So when we have these communications, when people are motioning, you can't not know what to do. You know what I'm saying? So when you're giving these dudes all those walkthroughs, all of those time to be able to get your plays in. Let me tell you something else that that's good for, Joe.

1:02:58I would put in a lot of new stuff each week so that the opponent, whatever he saw us run the week before, he probably wasn't going to see any of that. It's going to attack the same area, but it wouldn't be the same way.

1:03:14James Harrison:Coach will put you in the same position, man. Have everybody looking the same, and it'll be five defenses off of that. Yes. And everything will look the same. people doing total opposites in two, three of them. I want them to waste their time and their practice periods when they were working for what they've seen. And I had every defense we'd run for the whole season on the board or up around me, how many times I'd run it and what games I ran it in. And if it was run successfully in the last four or five games, they probably weren't going to see it again, But they see the shape again with it. Yep.

1:03:57James Harrison:Smoking mirrors. Don't move. Nobody move. Everybody stand. Don't show nothing. You got to make the playing field even, man. Yes. Give your athletes a chance. Yes. Coach, man, we up out of time right now, man. We want to thank you for coming on, man. Really appreciate having you. Guys, make sure you guys go and get the book Legendary, okay? it's going to tell you everything you need to know about the architect of the best NFL defense and still in no in history period yes 2008 Pittsburgh still a defense Joe I'm just it was my pleasure coach Lebeau I'm just so happy to be on to be able to talk to you Debo always spoke so highly of you and now just being able to have this conversation with you I could see exactly why I appreciate your time, man.

1:04:46James Harrison:Thank you so much, boss. You're a legend. It's my honor to be in the middle of you two guys, man. It was great. Thank you, Coach. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Guys, please make sure you like, subscribe, and download where you get your show. We will be back here tomorrow. And guess what? We may be having somebody else on Friday. We'll see. Coach, thank you again. Miss you. Love you. I need to come see you. I got to get the rest. I got to get all that defense up out your head, man. And love you, man. Love you too, James. Nice to meet you, Joe. Thank you, Coach. Appreciate you.

1:05:33James Harrison:Peace to the planet. Charlamagne Tha God here. And listen, we are back. The Black Effect Podcast Festival is back in Atlanta on April 25th at Pullman Yard. Yeah. And the full lineup is nuts. We got the Grits and Eggs podcast, Deontay Kyle and Big Ice Cup Cat. We got Club 520 with Jeff Teague and the gang. Don't call me white, girl. Mona will be there. Keep it positive, sweetie, with Crystal Renee. We got Reality with the King with Carlos King. And yes, Drink Champ will be in the building. Plus, you know, we're going to have a lot of guests. So you need to join us. And we got the Black Effect Marketplace, the picture podcast, and everything you expect from the Black Effect Podcast Festival.

1:06:11James Harrison:Tickets are on sale right now. Go get yours at blackeffect.com slash podcast festival. Don't play yourself, okay? Pull up.

1:06:43ever. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ready for a different take on Formula One? Look no further than No Grip, a new podcast tackling the culture of motor racing's most coveted series. Join me, Lily Herman, as we dive into the underexplored pockets of F1, including the astrology of the current grid, the story of the sport's most consequential, Driver's Strike, and plenty of other mishaps, scandals, and sagas that have made Formula One a delightful, decadent gumster fire for more than 75 years. Listen to No Grip on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:07:23I'm Laurie Siegel, and this is Mostly Human, a tech podcast through a human lens. This week, an interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. I think society is going to decide that creators of AI products bear a tremendous amount of responsibility to the products we put out in the world. An in-depth conversation with the man who's shaping our future. My highest order bit is to not destroy the world of AI. Listen to Mostly Human on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

1:07:54James Harrison:10-10 shots fired in City Hall building. How could this have happened in City Hall? Somebody tell me that. A shocking public murder. This is one of the most dramatic events that really ever happened in New York City politics. I screamed, get down, get down. Those are shots. A tragedy that's now forgotten. And a mystery that may or may not have been political. That may have been about sex. Listen to Rorschach, Murder at City Hall, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human.

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Join NFL Legends James "Deebo" Harrison and Joe Haden are joined by NFL and Pittsburgh Steelers legend Dick LeBeau to discuss his historic playing and coaching career, NFL stories, the modern NFL, and much more!

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29:22 - super chats 

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