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Mario Williams – August 6, 2016 Download PDF version

Saturday, August 6, 2016

Defensive End Mario Williams

(On how he interprets what he saw from the defense) – “It’s just the mentality. Whenever the lights come on, we got to train ourselves to just go out and attack and not worry about anything, not worry about mistakes or messing up (and) just flying around.”

(On what he has seen from the defensive ends throughout training camp) – “(We are) getting better day by day. Our coaches, they really focus on fundamentals. They focus on working and going out every day and trying to execute to get better at what we know is our weakness in the defense. If you know your weakness, you have to play to that, so it won’t be a weakness anymore. I think the biggest thing for us is going out and working on those things and trying to make sure we take care of those little things – (the) fundamentals of it – and get better.”

(On whether the defense made a statement during the scrimmage) – “No. I think the biggest thing is that you make a statement to yourself day by day. We’re out here competing; that’s it. At the end of the day, you’ll win, you’ll lose. That’s part of competing. That’s part of being a competitor. I think the biggest thing for us is (to) keep building on top of that and trying to get better (and) push ourselves to get to where we want to go.”

(On whether the players were disappointed about practicing indoors) – “Yes. Unfortunately, the biggest thing is for the fans. People were trying to come out and see us practice. This is two days straight. I don’t know what’s going on with the weather, but it seems like every night (it rains). (This is) the second practice at night (where) it just wants to storm. That’s the biggest thing, because we know the fans really want to see us out there. We definitely want to be out there on the grass as opposed to being on the turf, because it’s better on your joints and things.”

(On whether he was surprised with the defense’s dominance during the scrimmage) – “It doesn’t surprise me, because I know the guys that we have on our side of the ball just as well as on their side of the ball. Any given night, that’s why you play the game. You don’t go out here and say, ‘It’s going to be a stalemate. This is going to happen. You’re going to get blown out. You’re going to dominate.’ That’s why you compete. That’s why we play. Fortunately for us, on our side of the ball, we came out and we executed what we needed to. It might not have been perfect technique, but the intensity was where it needed to be at.”

(On the defense enjoying themselves after practice) – “That’s what it’s all about. I think the biggest thing for us is at the end of the day, we’re all (Miami) Dolphins in there, so we all won.”

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