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Charles Harris – August 4, 2018 Download PDF version

Saturday, August 4, 2018

DE Charles Harris

(A pretty productive scrimmage from your end? A couple of times you got to QB Ryan Tannehill. A pretty productive scrimmage from your vantage point?) – “It’s cool. It’s good to get a … It’s really great to get into the stadium, get a feel for the stadium, get a feel for the grass. It’s way different than last year, a lot better from last year. It’s great to get back under these lights, under this heat and in front of the fans.”

(Did they give you credit for that first one?) – “I really don’t know. We have our meeting on Monday with everything. But I really don’t know.”

(Why do you feel like you’re playing so well right now?) – “I’m peaceful. I’m thanking God for my opportunity to be out here and I’m loving the game. I feel like last year I just tried to work. I tried to work, tried to check off things. Every single day I came in, I did a check list. That’s all it was. But now I really love the game. I’ve got that love back. I feel like that’s the biggest thing. I want to be out here. Versus last year, I’m like, ‘Let’s get this thing over with.’ Now, it’s like I love it now. I got my love back for the game.”

(You talked about working on several moves, so you can have them in your arsenal. What moves have felt good today and felt good recently in practice?) – “That’s really for me to keep to myself. (laughter) It’s a lot of stuff. Of course, the in and out, the swipe, step chop – all that kind of stuff. I’m perfecting it all. I just need two or three moves. I don’t need a whole bunch of them. I feel like that was my problem last year. I do everything in the book, but I don’t need everything in the book. I have to be concise with it.”

(How is the Charles Harris that stands here with us today different than the guy from the scrimmage one year ago?) – “A year ago, Charles Harris was kind of stretched out, kind of in a dark place; but like I said, I just love being out here, love competing, love having the logo on me and everything like that. I love my teammates and everything like that. I love my teammates. That’s really all we’ve got here, too. I love playing for my brothers. I feel like we really are getting closer and closer together and that’s a shout out to the coaches – (Defensive Line) Coach (Kris) Kocurek – and everybody else that forces us to be together. It’s all love now.”

(DE Cameron Wake said you had the best offseason of any player on the team. What did you think when you heard that?) – “He just told me that, but that’s big praise from big bro. It’s kind of one of those things that go in one ear and out the other. You’ve got to show up every day. Every single day you wake up, every time you see that sun, it’s a new opportunity to get better at your craft, to be productive, to really be productive. I’m just called to be productive and that’s what I have to do every single day. All the work I put in, it doesn’t matter. It’s about what I’m doing in the present. The present is the most important. The time is now.”

(Head Coach Adam Gase said he believes that you figured out a way to get more pressures on first and second down. Can you tell me about how that has happened?) – “’Coach K’ (Kris Kocurek) has really simplified the run game for me, simplified play-action and reads and all the kind of stuff, and really just go. In my mind, I tell myself, ‘Go, go, go.’ And no matter what I see, just trust myself whatever I see. If I see a down block, close. I see a run at me, extend my arms. If I feel like he’s letting off a little bit, get to a rip. ‘Coach K’ simplified everything. He told me, ‘Go, go.’ That’s the best thing.”

(Do you feel faster or do you feel stronger? Which one is more the right statement for this year?) – “I feel more at ease. Mentally, I feel like that transitioned over to speed and everything like that. I worked as hard as I can back in Kansas City with Coach Mark Moore. He got my conditioning up higher and he got my strength up a lot higher. I’m just mentally … I’m not thinking about it so much. I’m just going.”

(Is there an exercise that you feel you’ve made a lot of improvement at?) – “Not an exercise specifically. I do pushups. I do a lot of pushups. That’s really the only thing I really do. I don’t do all the dumbbell, barbell stuff anymore. I do dumbbells, but I do a lot of body weight stuff.”

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