Transcripts

Search Transcripts
Jakeem Grant – October 3, 2018 Download PDF version

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Wide Receiver Jakeem Grant

(DT Davon Godchaux said this loss for you guys might have been a good thing for you. Is that kind of your approach?) – “Yes. It was a humbling experience. It also just let people know that we have to correct our mistakes. We went out there and the mistakes weren’t corrected, and the Patriots fed off of that. I feel like, looking back on it, in order to beat a good team like that, we have to be fundamentally sound and we have to cross our T’s and dot our I’s.”

(In the past couple of years, you’ve seen a big roster move with kind of a big-name personality in the locker room that has been waived or cut or traded away. Does that send a message to you guys?) – “I mean we see a locker room change every single day. It constantly changes throughout the league every single day. You have to think of the next-man-up mentality. I feel like that’s what we have, the next-man-up mentality. That’s just life in the NFL. Nobody has any say-so or can do anything about it. You just control what you can control.”

(What is the effect on you guys as a wide receiving corps with the shakeup that’s transpired on the offensive line there?) – “Nothing really. We know that going into the game, we have to get things started early as the group of receivers. We always look at is as we put the team on our back and they feed off us. So we go out there and we tell each other ‘let’s make one big play’ and then the offense will get the momentum and then we’ll have things rolling.”

(What’s the film session like when you watch the Patriots game and you guys are in your group? When you have a game like that and you’re watching on tape, what are the emotions like when you’re re-watching it?) – “Pissed off because we all know we’re better than that. We know that we went out there and we didn’t do exactly what we were doing in practice. I felt like in order to beat them, we have to, like I said, cross our T’s and dot our I’s, because the Patriots are a team that is going to do everything right and feed off of our mistakes. I feel like those penalties, we killed ourselves, and they capitalized on every mistake that we made. Going into the game, when we play them again, we have to cross our T’s and dot our I’s. ”

(Does it show you where the bar is for a first-place team in this division?) – “That shows you that you can’t get too high on a high and you can’t get too low on a low. You just have to stay levelheaded and continue to grind out and play every game like it’s the next important game. You can’t be too big on what team it is. It doesn’t matter who it is. It’s just becoming 1-0 after every week.”

Search Transcripts

Weekly Archives