Charles Woodson On Any Hard Feelings After Leaving The Oakland Raiders

Intro I mean you had such an incredible NFL career as well it's kind of like hard to focus on something or start somewhere but I am curious like you're one of the greatest Raiders of all time and then you had that stin in Green Bay where you played a lot of good ball and then you come back to Oakland like when you were in uh hit free agency like you were somebody who were FR you was you were franchise tagged right yep so like was there when you left Oakland the first time was there like bitterness with the organization when going to Green Bay like cuz you obviously came back around to Oakland but being such a great player for them when they kind of like let you go elsewhere was there like any resentment was there any bitterness of the business per Charles Woodson on leaving Oakland Raiders se uh yeah kind of um because I I I never thought that I would leave uh Oakland um and and the bitterness was more so with you know like the GM at the time so not necessarily just Raiders it was just the GM you know and I think at that time you know you know they you know told my agents or some something that there was you know no value to bringing me back to the Raiders and that was coming from from that side and so it was like you know what I'm saying what what are you talking about um so yeah it was it was a little bit bitterness in that regard but I was also like I said I didn't think I would leave there but then it was I got franchise tag so I was free so I could go anywhere so I thought that you know I was going to have my my my picket a litter you know anywhere where I wanted to go you know I was going to be able to go and it man it was it was dry as the sah Sahara out there you know what I mean yeah and it was It was kind of crazy and so you know I went in thinking one thing and then my experience wasn't all that great you know and so um through the process um Green Bay began to call my agents and and you know wanted to bring me in and you know I was reluctant I was like nah you know I'm not going to Green Bay so there's no really no really no reason for me to visit there and so called again and when everything was really like quiet from from everyone else and I had my agent reaching out to other people and nobody was biting so I was like all right well let me go to Green Bay because we got at least try to draw some interest from I'll go there maybe somebody else will be like all right well some other people are checking for him and man it was it was crazy yo but if Green Bay didn't want me I don't I really don't know where where I would have played in 2006 if really yeah really why do you think Charles Woodson on free agency it was so dry like the free agency market D you know just there was a lot of lot of things out there uh one I had I did come off a injury I I broke my leg in 2005 so I missed the final 10 games of the season um and then people talked about my attitude and talked about you know just a lot of different different things and so um and I think some of that came from the Raiders side as well just you know putting some stuff out there for that one conversation you know right right right because because Mike McCarthy asked when I first met with Mike because it was his first uh I think it his first year was my first year he asked me about in our meeting he was like oh what is this about you you know being a bad bad team guy bad locker room guy and I was like what like man you can't talk to any players I play with that say I'm a I'm a bad locker room guy so I don't know where that's coming from so there was some things being you know put out there uh that mudded the water and so yeah it was just it was it was a little tough tough period man to kind of go through as a guy who I had done everything you know to point so I'm like damn that's how they that's how they really feel yeah did you did you have any moments that Charles Woodson on Raiders locker room you felt like they were defining You by that you might have had lower moments while being on the Raiders that allowed them to say what's this about you being a bad team guy oh yeah I mean I I had some in me I ain't going to say that yeah but but in terms of you know player and you know uh guys in the locker room um nah it wouldn't it wouldn't have been from that but yeah I mean I had my I have my my issues with coaches at times um you know I like to hang out do my thing you know what I'm saying outside of playing football so you know maybe that could have had something to do with it who knows um but in terms of being able to play the game and you know just overall you know good dude I'm a good dude you know what I'm saying can you Charles Woodson on Raiders film room speak to uh like your development in the the film room because obviously like you're a guy you you're an All-American coming out Heisman Trophy winner top five pick like you have all the accolades right like it's like oh he's the mo he's just so talented he's super talented but I I was fortunate enough to play with Will Blackman for a couple years and when will and I we would uh we'd have our Sushi nights and stuff but he would talk about you as somebody who was always like last in the building and he would learn a lot of his study habits from you you feel like you had those throughout your entire career you developed him as you got older because he always said the best things about you I feel like something like that like being a student of the game kind of get slept on when you're somebody who has all the accolades in the world yeah I think it count it compounds over time because you you you do start out you know like myself I was I was a a great athlete so a lot of stuff's going to come easy you know so you don't necessarily have to spend as much time looking at certain things uh but the one thing that I I I've always had as a player was I I've had great play recall you know what I mean so when you're out there on the field and you see certain things you start to pick up on Tendencies like I always had that without necessarily having to look at film and so then you know as your career goes on you take different uh different methods from different coaches like Vance Beford like I remember you know just going back to a certain play uh we played Northwestern my junior year and it was a third and long situation and me and him had went over what they like to do in that situation and they they ran out and I picked that out off so different things you pick up from different coaches Chuck Bano was another guy who worked on me on third down as well you know being around him I learned a lot on third down Tendencies you know that being money down um and so over time then you start developing your own style of how you like to see things and so for me like I said I always had you know good play recall what I would start to do in my study is I would start to watch the game from the opposing team's one yard line all the way to the one yard line but in the same Personnel so I want to see you from the one to the one same personel I want to see it in all parts of the field CU you'll run certain things from first to 5 first to 10 10 to 20 20 to 40 40 to 20 20 you know what I'm saying and and a lot of it mirrors what you do from here to here you know what I mean so like you take a wheel for example um you know I would have my film broken up certain ways and then I would tell those guys this is how I like to look at the film and so we would you know when we'd have our times together in our film room we would look at the film and then we start going over these things now and when I would see something that would kind of it they make get to it a different way but it's the same thing I would I would go back to it all right now watch this watch how this team lines up on this play and runs it not watch him motion to it and run it but it's the same thing you know so I was always taught it's not how you line up is is how you wind up so so those are the things that I was able to you know pass along to those guys and for me it just over time it was I got gradually even better at it you know me you found like another way to prepare and be like okay add it to your game and that that fires me up as a defensive guy that's that's that's football porn right there