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John Jenkins – September 30, 2021 Download PDF version

Thursday, September 30, 2021

DT John Jenkins

(How has it been to have increased minutes? What’s that like for you?) – “I don’t know what to say. It’s a good feeling. I’m just working, coming in day and night, late nights and early mornings and just working. Whatever my job entails, I just do it to the best of my ability.”

(This is the question specifically about you guys as a defense but as a defensive player, when a team is running on you and getting a consistent 4.5 yards per carry and you can’t stop them, what does that feel like?) – “It’s not a good feeling. I can just tell by your facial expression that it wasn’t a good question. It was just one of those situations where it was like, ‘Y’all got to do better,’ right? Everyday we are getting better and better and better. To answer your question, it’s not a good feeling, especially for me being a first and second down defensive player. I take that really serious and that’s the reason why I’ve been around for so long because I take that job extremely serious. When you say that, it hits me personally because that lets me know I got to go do something and I got to go get better and put in more film and put in more time to become a better player. You know what I mean? It sucks but at the end of the day, it’s the NFL, everybody gets paid, everybody has a job to do and sometimes it doesn’t go in our favor, but we continue to work and come together tight as a team to prevent that from happening another time.”

(Most defenses, they always say we have to stop the run first. What’s it like when you – I’ve looked at this so many times in so many different years, you guys focus on so much else that it seems as if the run has fallen between the cracks.) – “We focus on everything. We focus on being a better defense. I don’t know what you are focused on or what you see out of your eyes. I just know from being within these walls, we focus on being a great defense. We work on everything. Not everybody is perfect but we work hard. That’s the best I can – I know we all want to be great and you can see that if you are around us more, that we want to be great and we take this serious.”

(What jumps out at you on film when you watch RB Jonathan Taylor?) – “He’s a strong runner. Shifty. I had the opportunity to play with a lot of good running backs. Pierre Thomas, Saquon (Barkley) in his rookie year in New York and this guy is of that caliber. He’s a great, great runner. We just have to be more in-tune with our blocks, with our eyes and stay stout.”

(I asked CB Nik Needham about this but have you picked QB Jacoby Brissett’s brain about the Colts at all?) – “No, actually I haven’t. Every year is different, man. I can sit there and say hey this, that and the third and ask all these questions but every year, the mindset is different. I’m not in those walls. I’m not in that building so I don’t know how they are going to play us. When Jacoby was there, it was a whole different philosophy so therefore, I just take every week no differently.”

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