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Elandon Roberts – September 12, 2021 (Postgame) Download PDF version

Sunday, September 12, 2021
Postgame – New England

LB Elandon Roberts

(For starters what more can you do on that roughing the passer call?) – “(Laughter) They called it. We’ll look at it on film. What did y’all think?”

(I thought you fell down.) “I thought the same thing (laughter). Hey, he threw the flag, I ain’t going to say much because I really don’t know the rules and I don’t want to get fined (laughter).”

(Is there some double meaning with the hat?) – “I just like how it looked.”

(This defense last year had 20 turnovers – it was of course one of the big reasons you guys went 10-6. Is that kind of magic back? Timely plays and bend don’t break and all that?) – “I don’t feel like it’s magic. Magic is kind of up in the air. We just practice it day in and day out. We talk about it day in and day out. Man, we can be just joking in the locker room and guys like, ‘I’m going to punch one out today.’ It’s just embedded in our defense and even our team. It’s just a true testament of taking it from the practice field, the lunch room and the meeting room because guys can walk around with a football and a defensive guy will just punch it out just trying to be funny. We can’t help ourselves because when we see ball, we want to punch it out. I think it’s just translating to the football field and we are just going to keep working hard on it. Hopefully we can keep that same trend like we had last year.”

(They had those three 14-play drives. Honestly now, were you guys getting a little gassed at the end at all being on the field so much?) – “That’s how football is. In practice you try to simulate it but when the game time comes, it is what it is. But this early in the season you can’t say our team is in the best condition that we are because every day after practice we are going to condition and stuff like that. You can’t be in a point that you are the best conditioned team. You got to keep working on it. And deep in those drives our conditioning showed up and we were able to string some things together.”

(You played in your first meaningful football game since your injury. Did you take a moment? I’m sure there was a lot of hard work that went into getting back on the field and to come out with the win I’m sure was special.) – “Oh yeah, it was a lot. When I got injured, it was a lot of stuff that flashed in my mind. I tip my hat off to the Dolphins organization and Coach (Brian) Flores because they trusted me and trusted that I would do everything with my trainers and my doctor wanted me to do to make sure that I was ready to go Week 1. And I sacrificed a lot, but it was all worth it. It was worth it because I was able to be here for my team. The win is great, but being out there with the team feeling that joy, being out there on the field and stuff like that; that was the biggest thing to me. And being able to get the win is great but each week we look to be 1-0. So we are going to enjoy this win but tomorrow we are going to turn the page and flip to Buffalo.”

(How does it feel to start off your captaincy with a big divisional road win?) – “It’s alright. ‘Captain’ is just a label. It’s about going out there all 53, well 48 that’s active, including coaches and being able to string one drive at a time together. I feel like we as a team played a 60-minute game and that’s just the NFL. It’s going to be like that week in and week out. We are just going to go to the film, make the corrections from this game and come back as a team and get ready for Buffalo.”

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