Between here and Baltimore, how have you liked the Mid-Atlantic as opposed to Florida?

I love it, I love it. I love the people around this area, I think there's a lot of genuine people around here. I love the weather. You're going to see all four seasons.

Did you have to get used to the cold weather, since you played in Chicago too?

I didn't, cause it was cold in Mississippi. So went I went to Mississippi [State], it was cold as hell. People don't know this, it's cold as hell in Florida. It's just not freezing cold, it's windy cold.

Is that Florida cold, like 40 degrees?

It ain't going to say 40 degrees, but yeah it can hit 40 degrees with the wind. Florida sit, Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic and all that. Coming off the water. Yeah, man.

When you look back at your career, the Super Bowl with the Ravens sticks out I imagine. Is that something you still think about now?

I mean, yeah. But, it's funny to say because I was just talking to J-No. I was like, if I win one this year, I'm out. I'm done, I'm going to retire. Probably even if I get to the Super Bowl.

So you're still chasing that feeling of winning, hungry for it?

I just want to feel how it feesl to win again. Being in Chicago, obviously you get all the money, but you don't win and it's kind of devastating. It feels like I kind of lost the feeling of winning. And I don't think nothing could fulfill a great feeling besides God and winning, when you're into this football stuff. The last three years have been very draining to me and I just want to see how it feels again to win. Right now, we're off to a great start. So you know all the guys are walking around laughing, smiling. Once I can get that feeling again, I can hang it up, man. Money, I don't care about that no more. I just want to win, help these boys get to the best players they could be. Get them some knowledge that was taught to me from Ray [Lewis], Ed [Reed], Haloti [Ngata], [Terrell] Suggs, Cory Redding. I had some people who taught me a lot of knowledge, and it helped me out a lot.

What's your favorite city you've visited?

I've only been out once out of my eight years. And that was my last year in Baltimore, last preseason game of the season.

So you don't go anywhere when you travel?

Every time I travel, it's all business. I got taught that when I first came in with Ray. Ray Lewis and Ed. They always taught us, whenever we get on that plane, it's a business trip. I might go out to eat, but I might eat around the hotel. So, I really never enjoyed no cities.

How about the offseason, do you travel at all?

I'll be in Miami, Pahokee.

Is most of your family still down there?

Yeah, my whole family down there. I just started going out the country a little bit more. I'm like a lonely loner. I like to be by myself. I'm married now so me and my wife be chilling. I don't like to do nothing, man. I got a son, he's two years old, he'll be three. I'm just different, I don't really like to travel or nothing.

Did you get your parents a new place when you made it to the NFL?

"I just got my mom a house last year. I got my grandma a house this year."

But they're still in the same area?

My mom is staying in West Palm Beach. West Palm Beach, you know, that's a rich land though. My grandma is still in Pahokee, she don't want to go nowhere. That's my baby though. But her and my aunties and uncles, all them still down there in the hood, as we call it.

Were you the first to graduate college from your family?

Yeah. But see we don't call that success we just call that a blessing. Cause I got a cousin who actually went to college, graduated. He's probably like 20 years older than me. But he's more successful to me because he's a preacher right now. He's closer to God and stuff like that. Me, I'm just more successful financially. In other people's eyes, I'm a football player.

As someone who has taken more of a backup role this year, has it been a strange transition?

I've been this all my life. I was this in Baltimore, I was this in Chicago where people don't know. I didn't start my last two years in Chicago, I didn't start. I came off the bench. I've been this, I faced adversity. None of it can break me, you just got to get strong and an opportunity like this man I just use it to keep getting stronger. Stay in line. Try to put their mind on a bigger picture than themselves. Cause I think a lot of athletes get caught up on themselves as, 'I got to get this money, it's about me.' Of course it is, but at the same time you ain't going to get nothing if you're out here being selfish, not caring if we're winning or losing. It's just an opportunity to help mentor people like I got a mentor. And at the same time, chase my goal. What I want to do, win another Super Bowl.

Analytics are changing too. How do you measure your own success?

As a football player I measure my success every time I cut on that tape – am I being very dominant and I'm being disruptive. I was never a player that wanted stats, never cared about stats. I would love to have them now, but as long as I got wins, and every time I cut on my tape, it's almost in my mind to perfection, I'm good.

So even without stats, you can know that you made an impact here.

I'll tell somebody right now I'd rather be disruptive than nothing. I'd rather be disruptive than have 100 sacks. Because if you're being disruptive, that means they really got to tune into you. That means that's freeing up somebody else.

You have the fourth most pressures on the team.

For real?

I think it's like 5.5

I'm trying to get five more this week. [Laughs].

Ryan Kerrigan started off slowly but he now has 4.5 sacks in the last four games.

I just believe in just preparing. If you prepare yourself. I literally seen this with my own two eyes from [Elvis] Dumervil, my brother who helped raise me, too. He went into Week 6, Week 7 with zero or one sack. When we hit Week 13, Week 14 he had 11 sacks. He finished the season with 14. It was crazy. He told me he said, 'Phee let me show you something.' I never knew this, I had been around Ray two years, I had been around Haloti three years. He said, 'I'm going to show you something. Week 8 show you who the dogs are in this league, who runs this NFL. Watch how I turn up the second half of the season.' I was like, 'What do you mean turn up? These boys got five, six sacks, you only got one. You ain't catching them.' Week 8 to Week 12, Week 13, he had 10 sacks.