Von Miller: "I Haven't Felt Like This In Two Years" | Buffalo Bills

green of Pastor chicken and all the Central Markets in in in Texas I guess I'll start with that one physically where you at right now I'm feeling good um I haven't uh felt like this in two years um just to be able to come out here and just run around and not have to wear a knee brace and not have to do rehab all day and not have my offseason just committed to getting healthy is is a a joy in itself so um I'm feeling good you know football is still football still got to to work and you know still got to grind and get better on the football field but um if I can just start where I finished last last season I I'll be good what sort of stuff physically can you do now maybe even last time you were on the fields in January you couldn't or you weren't comfortable do I just I just think not being um not being uh hamper with a knee injury you know not thinking about the knee injury every single play not doing rehab all week you know you just go out there and just play football I'm not thinking about my knee I'm not thinking about anything I'm just thinking about being the best pass rusher I could be B I don't want to say you didn't believe that you could make the comeback last year as quickly as you could but how much in retrospect might have you been fooling yourself to think that you could become the old bond that quick like that I think my optimistic mindset has uh has won for for me at times and it's lost for me at times but I I don't know any other way to think I I don't know um any other way to to view things but the best way and the best possible scenario so um going back to last year I I mean I would probably go about it the same way I'm not the type of guy that come out here and say Hey you know my knes it's all right I don't know if I'm going to be able to start the season you know I I don't like to live in those on those terms on or off the football field so um if I had to go at it again I would have you know the same type of verbage and the same type of mindset it's uh it's just the way I view life on and off the football field totally get that how would you take from last year knowing that it was a season that you did some things on the field but there was no sacks yeah I mean you know I'm I'm Von Miller I'm kind of measured by sacks I'm kind of measured by sacks but um I didn't get any last year I made I made three tackles um probably you know probably should not have you know played last year you know at my at 34 years old to sit out you know a season and a half it just wasn't on my mind you know so like I said before I only know one way to view things and that's the most optimistic way and I wanted it to go better than what it was I wanted to go out there and get 15 sacks that'll put me in the top 10 all time you know I wanted you know all of those things to happen but you know um the universe just had other plans for me and you know nothing in life is is by coincidence so I'm here now um year three I'm feeling good and I'm ready to go and I'm fired up that I didn't have the type of production that I had last year and I'm ready to go play football when you say you shouldn't have played last year is there something that you feel like would have gone different like for your body like mentally physically that would have been benefited if you hadn't played last year um no I mean that's probably what should have happened but I I didn't want that to happen I wanted to be out there and play if I was 50% like nobody was going to stop me from going out there being wasn't nobody was going to stop me from going out there but the truth just being honest with you guys you my knee wasn't at a at a place where I could go and I can move and I can do the things that I wanted to do I mean I could play but that that was just about it how are you feeling now I'm feeling I'm feeling normal I'm feeling normal I'm not thinking about my knee um I'm just you know getting back um in the things getting back in the hang of just playing football and it feels good to just be in meetings and not do rehab all day and watch film and get reps with the guys and to be out there and not it's not all about my knee and you know so from a starting point um where I'm at this year is is way better than what I was last year it feels like year one to me when I first got here um and I just I'm just ready to play football and go out there and make plays for my teammates for a guy who's got 123 and a half career sacks how meaningful will the next one be it' be great um I think um every sack that I get from this this standpoint on I'm passing a great I'm passing a Hall of Fame uh type player so each and every sack especially after not having one you know it being away from the game and you know not making plays I feel like each and every sack that I that I make from here on out it be so special you know whether it's one whether it's two whether it's 15 um each and everyone um what mean the world to me a year 14 you know you don't know how many you're going to play after this and um you know I got kids and you know my kids are starting to you know figure out what's going on they see the Buffalo Bill sign and they say daddy daddy that's that's daddy so um each and every sack from this standpoint to be so special all of them are special all 123 and a half of them are special but you know these next couple of ones will be very special for sure when you look at last year kind of not going the way you wanted but still feeling that everything happens for reason what did you learn about yourself last year um I learned a lot um I learned that you can't force things and I think as a football player in my whole entire life you know you just try to make things happen you just try to make things happen and at times that's been great for me um but at times like last year it it just wasn't working for me and um I learned patience I learned that it's uh that life is bigger than football you know I learned that um had I got I was able to spend more time with my kids I was able to to lead from a different perspective not just on the football field making plays so it was it was a lot of things that I was able to learn that helped me this season being back on the field um being back in a position where I can make things happen um and just finding a beauty in the Small Things was there a point this off se you felt like you weren't thinking about your knee as much like when do you think that had a transition I I st I I think at the beginning of the last season I think the Miami game the the Pittsburgh Steelers playoff game and the Chiefs game was especially the Chiefs game that was really where I felt like normal and um even though we lost you know I was uh I felt I felt good about the way I played and I felt good from the starting point that I would have coming into this season so um you know I trained this offseason I was able to just train train work on my body work on My My Craft um and I was able to just to come into this this football season from a normal standpoint it's not all about it wasn't all about rehab so I think just being able to to um separate you know rehab and football and just be able to focus on football or be able to pay off for me this offseason I mean this season I know it's early in training camp and just in these first two days have there been any moments specifically on the field in a drill or 11 11 whatever were you feel kind of a noticeable difference between this year and how you remember feeling last year um I mean I just really I mean this offseason doing dline work and moving and stuff I felt I felt good I think uh OTAs I felt good and I think all of those things I was just able to stack on all of those um those moments and coming out here you know getting my very first rep with training camp I felt I felt good um just being able to do run stunts inside be able to stunt inside and not guard my knee and not thinking about like nobody running to my knee it all felt good um being able to go through practice like a normal pro football player it it it feels good it feels special I think being um SE with those things being taken away from you whenever you get them back they just they just mean more and they're able to highlight um you know what is to come and a type of player that I can still be on another matter is have you been informed of any update on your situation um and what I'm not sure what you're able to share with us um I'm just asking about interest any update on that um yeah no uh no Char no charges were ever filed and the cases closed so I'm able to just move forward and just focus you know solely on football um you know life life sometimes but my life is all about football right now and my kids and being the best teammate and the best football player I could possibly be and you know um I'm happy to be here with the Buffalo Bill I'm happy to just be in this moment and just you know live my life and do the things that we do normally