Patriots DL  Ty Warren made his weekly appearance on the D&H Show to talk about Vince Wilfork’s day at defensive end and Joey Porter’s trash talk in the 27-17 victory over the Dolphins.

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What position are you going to play next week? If they can move Vince, where do you want to go next week?

I’m comfortable right down the line. I’m comfortable right there.

Vince said you got kind of tired with him asking you so many questions yesterday. What kind of questions was he asking you?

We were just really going back and forth knowing how [Chad] Henne likes to call plays. He was trying to be conscious on what’s going on my side knowing what goes on my side will eventually go over to his side and vice-versa. We were talking back and forth about those things.

What did you think of defensive end Vince Wilfork?

Well, I got to see it all week, so I got accustomed to seeing him out there. I think he did well. How did you all think he looked?

He was really focused and concentrating. I thought he looked pretty good out there.

Yeah, Vince is a guy that kind of tackles whatever, that duty is given to him. He really keyed in on what his job was going to be that the week. He was made aware of that earlier in the week. I think he did well. I think our communications went well and what we though would happen, happened. What happened on my side happened on his side and vice versa. Good deal.

As general rule of thumb, I think the Dolphins want to run the football right down the other team’s throat. I think that plays into the type of football game you like to play personally doesn’t it?

Yeah, me, Vince, we are kind of built for that run game and stuff like that. Going back to all the way to when I was in college the Big 12 it was a running conference. Everyone ran the ball; Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, everyone else ran the ball, it was the same deal. We are definitely built for it. Like I said last week, we are definitely looking forward to the challenge each work that we put in enough pre-work to know what could happen in possible situations.

What’s its like preparing for the Colts for you?

It’s basically like another AFC division game. Basically, that’s what it is and you’re right, you really go through the archives and dig up every little piece of film that you can look at. Last year, we were watching films from 2003 during the year and the playoff games. I mean, film and notes and whatever you can think of. We are looking forward to plenty of that this week.

I think of football as either the Patriots and Colts or the Patriots and Steelers. Do you see it that way too?

Yeah, I think it’s been that way that the storyline has been such that it is good for the game. I think people look forward to seeing that match-up with the Patriots and the Colts each year. More times than not, you see the Patriots facing the Pittsburgh Steelers and it still could be a possibility down the road. People just look forward to that. Obviously, there’s a history behind the organizations, the people that play on those teams, the Mannings, Ben Roethlisberger, Tom Brady and everybody’s looking forward to it.

Peyton Manning threw 40 times in the first half yesterday. It’s going to be throw the ball all over the field all day, isn’t it?

I guess so. 40 times? It definitely is. We got to get on our conditioning this week, so 40 times, huh?

How do you figure out what you’re suppose to be listening for and paying attention to and what you’re not [in Manning's play-calling]?

I think my first couple of years, so much was made of it that this game is what was real and what wasn’t. Right now, I don’t even pay any attention to it. I was talking to a couple reporters after the game and we we’re talking about the Dolphins and what was different between this year and last year. Last year, the element of surprise for them prior to that game, you find yourself looking at what was going on in the backfield as opposed to what was going on right in front of you. This is kind of equivalent to that one since that you just kind of have to play what’s going on in front of you, not really getting into what he’s saying unless something just really shows in his face. He’s blurting out so much stuff it probably won’t even happen: cat, dog, lizard, alligator…scarecrow.

You probably just get used to it.

You’re used to it, but when the fans are yelling in different stadiums, I normally never hear. It’s kind of like what it is now when you just really never hear. I don’t really pay much attention personally.

If there is one thing your defense could be better in, what is it?

Yesterday, it was just getting off the field on third down. That was one thing yesterday. We could be consistent in just about everything. Second half, third down, that was just one thing that stood out for me, third-and-long.

With that kind of [Colt] offense, do you just want to keep them off the board for a drive or two?

Oh yeah, I mean, they going to definitely get theirs. They got a guy that’s at the helm, he’s just like a master back there at the quarterback position where he’s calling the shots. He knows that idea that was going to happen before the play and he definitely knows what’s going to happen what’s he’s trying to do on that play. When you got that and then he’s still set and his receivers still set and the play-action pass off the stretch run they have, they’re going to get some yardage, they’re probably going to get a score on you or two. You just got to try and contain them, that’s all you can really do.

[In regards to the Florida football game and the eye gouging] Is it that bad when you’re in that big pile of players down there at that line of scrimmage is stuff going on that we would’nt even believe?

More times than not. Especially like on a fumble where there’s a pile of guys and referees don’t really know who has the ball and they’re trying to get in there to see who has the ball. There’s a lot of stuff going on down there. It was funny to me, I was watching highlights yesterday and [Chicago Bears] Tommie Harris, he’s a good friend of mine, and I’m sitting back looking at the TV and I see him spilling off at somebody on the game. I don’t know what went on there, but I know Tommie and I’ve been knowing him since he was in high school. When we were in high school, I was chuckingthe disc and he’s a little fat kid coming to me at a track meet asking me how to chuck the discus in track and stuff like that. The guy must have really did something to get him to do that. I got to call him on that.

If you’re a player, what can be said that crosses the line between good, old-fashioned trash-talk to disrespect? And has Joey Porter reached that point where he’s not respecting you guys as athletes?

He’s definitely touched on that disrespect. He’s pushed that disrespect button numerous times. I’m not really a guy who does a lot of tongue-wrestling. I actually wonder what his teammates think. You come out and say that stuff like he says and then you come out and lose a game. I know in this locker room, somebody does that and they end up not being productive and their production doesn’t amount to a trash-talking, there’s going to be a lot of bicker about that in the locker room.

If somebody did [in your locker room], would you go up to them and say, “Come on, you’re not making it easy for any of us with that stuff”?

Absolutely, because it didn’t make any sense. It didn’t make any sense [for Porter] on Sunday. In a position that historically is suppose to be a position that produces a lot of numbers. I don’t know, how far do you take it? I don’t think too much of it.

Have you ever been tempted in one of those piles to take a swing at somebody?

I’ve done it.

Been penalized for it or got away with it?

Both. It’s emotion.

Sometimes by the time you go off the handle and snap forward and by the time you snap back, it’s too late.

Then you come to the sidelines and try to explain yourself to the coach?

You really don’t explain yourself. You just say, “I bleeped up.”

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