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Raekwon McMillan – September 2, 2019 Download PDF version

Monday, September 2, 2019

LB Raekwon McMillan

(Do you feel like you’ve lost anything?) – “Have I lost anything?”

(In terms of rust – just from sitting out for the last four months, or were you out there today feeling, ‘I feel as good as I would if I hadn’t been out for a few weeks?) – “Yeah, I went out there today and felt real good. I got back out there with the guys and tried to lock back in and get back to where I was.”

(What’s going through – you’re not able to practice, you’re not able to be out there, so when you see all these moves being made and stuff, what’s going through your mind?) – “I’m not really worried about what’s going on on the outside. I just worry about what I can control and how I can get better.”

(And how do you think you guys are going to start the season? There are a lot of new faces in here.) – “It’ll be interesting. We’ve got a lot of new faces, like you said, but I think we’re bonding together as a team, and we’re going to put a good product out there on Sunday.”

(One thing Head Coach Brian Flores has said often and early is “selfless players.” He wants selfless guys. In this system, you have to kind of be that way, no?) – “Yeah, for sure, because you can be put in at any position, and the coaches expect there to be no drop-off. Wherever you’re being plugged in, you’ve got to go out there and you’ve got to be productive.”

(Does it take a certain mindset to be that type of player?) – “Yeah, for sure.”

(You can have the talent, but if you don’t buy into it…) – “Yeah. I feel like in this defense, you’ve really got to believe in yourself. If you don’t believe in yourself in this defense, then you’re not going to be able to play.”

(Do you have any sense of what your role will be? I assume we’ll see you a lot in three-linebacker sets. Is that your understanding?) – “I don’t know what’s going to happen. It’s just, like I said, I’m just trying to get my body back right and ready to go out there Sunday and play ball.”

(How’d it feel today?) – “It felt good. I’m back to 100 percent out there on the field, running around – just ready to go, like I said.”

(So you could play, physically, Sunday if needed?) – “Yeah, for sure.”

(So much turnover in the locker room. I overheard one guy asking somebody, ‘Hey, where’s the showers?’ You guys have so many new guys around now.) – “Yeah, we’ve got a lot of new guys looking for where to go and don’t know what they’re doing. (laughter) Half of the guys here that have been here for a while still don’t know what’s going on. (laughter) We’ll be all right.”

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