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Mike Gesicki – October 6, 2021 Download PDF version

Wednesday, October 6, 2021

TE Mike Gesicki

(What’s the mood like getting back on the practice field? Is there a little bit of a sense of urgency just to kind of turn things around?) – “Yeah, absolutely. I think we had a good day at practice. Like you said, a sense of urgency. A lot of leaders on the team stepped up and got the guys together and were ready to flip the page. It’s a new week and we’re ready for another opportunity.”

(You were on this team last year that started 1-3, and you won the San Francisco game that a lot of people didn’t think you were going to win. After that, you ran off some consecutive wins. Do you feel something similar could happen?) – “It’s tough to say, comparing this year to last year. All I know is we have an opportunity to go play Tampa Bay. They are a very good football team. We have to continue to stack good days together. Today we had one. It’s easy to go out there after a loss and have a good Wednesday. You’ve got to stack more. You’ve got to go Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Saturday night leading into Sunday and then go out and execute on Sunday. That’s the most important one. Right now, we have an opportunity and we’ve just got to continue to stack good days on each other.”

(What’s the overlying message that the team leaders wanted to get across?) – “Just a sense of urgency, trust, belief and then just confidence to go out and make plays. We’ve got a lot of talent, and we’ve just got to be able to utilize it.”

(What is your belief right now relative to the offense’s ability to create chunk plays as they say, downfield plays, big plays, on Sunday? I know statistics can lie, but the Bucs are ranked last in passing yards allowed. How much belief do you have that Sunday will create an opportunity for big passing plays?) – “I think like you said, statistics can be a big misleading thing. They’ve got a lot of talented players between (Antoine) Winfield and (Jordan) Whitehead in the back. I know they just got Richard Sherman. They’ve got guys on the front in (Jason) Pierre-Paul and (Ndomukong) Suh and the ‘backers (Lavonte) David and (Devin) White. The list goes on and on. They have plenty of talented players out there. It’s going to be a great challenge for us and one that we’re looking forward to it.”

(What does it mean if there is no struggle there is no progress?) – “I think that you learn through your struggles. If everything is easy and it comes easy and you don’t ever go through tough times, you don’t learn through adversity. Me personally, in my career, both dating back to college, and now as a professional, nothing worthy is ever going to come easy. I think that if you continue to put your head down and keep working, and like I said just stack good days on each other, good things are going to turn out eventually.”

(From your perspective, what are some of the good things this team has been able to do in the last three weeks?) – “I think we’ve done a lot of good things. I think on offense, really it just takes one play. I think you saw that in the fourth quarter. We got one first down, before you know it, we’re on the ball and we got down the field in three or four plays and scored a touchdown. I think you stack good plays on each other like that. I think on defense we’ve done a tremendous job. They’ve done a great job of forcing turnovers and putting us in a good position. We have to be able to capitalize. Then I think we have a great special teams unit. You’ve just got to be able to play complementary football throughout the course of the game just a little more consistently. Like I said, we have 13 more opportunities to do so.”

(What have you or would you say to QB Jacoby Brissett going into his third consecutive start relative to from a receiver’s perspective?) – “Honestly, keep doing what you are doing. I think Jacoby is doing a great job. He’s keeping plays going with his feet, he’s getting guys lined up, he’s being a great leader, he’s talking through routes with guys at practice, how he wants you to do a specific route, how he wants to spot up versus this look. I think he’s done a good job of putting the ball out and letting guys make plays. That’s just hoiw this game works. On Sundays, obviously things happen. The other team, they are getting paid to make plays too. At times, he’s going to be pressured. He’s going to get rushed out of the pocket. And I think he’s done a good job handling it all. Then when he does have time, he’s sticking in there and putting a good ball on guys.”

(You mentioned the offense clicking at the end of the game this past game. We also saw it at the end of the Raiders game. For three-and-a-half quarters, I guess the offense was still struggling. Have you picked up anything on how to avoid these slow starts?) – “I think it’s really just the flow of the game, honestly. Like I said, these guys are getting paid to make plays too and they are making plays. We have to be able to come out and start faster. I’m not focused on the Colts anymore, the Vegas, the Patriots, all of that stuff is in the past. I’m looking forward to Tampa this week.”

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