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Austin Jackson – August 11, 2022 Download PDF version

Thursday, August 11, 2022

OL Austin Jackson

(T Terron Armstead stated that he thought you and OL Rob Hunt had two good days of practice. The first part is how do you feel when a veteran comes out and says something like that publicly for you?) – “That’s great. It’s just reflective of who Terron is as a person. I met him the day he got into the facility. I sat down with him and talked about what we want from the upcoming year. I told him mentally what I was looking for and obviously a guy like that with his experience, I took everything he said to heart. It’s good to hear that. We’re working every day.”

(What do you feel good about relative to your practice performance over the last two days?) – “I think I was able to transition the intensity and my execution of the course of two days. I had a good first day, finished off with a great second day. That’s what I want to maintain. That’s what I will maintain. I want to progress every game, every practice and see where that takes me.”

(How much more comfortable are you now as opposed to the beginning of last season?) – “A lot more comfortable. A lot of things happened over the course of last season. That was a great learning experience for me. I definitely feel like my confidence is at an all-time high, especially moving back out to tackle. I love playing the position. I think there’s a lot more confidence.”

(Was there a moment where you had to confidence click for you? Was there a collection of things? Was there one thing that stood out to you about maybe not being as confident to as confident as you are now?) – “Nothing specifically, no. Moving positions during the season is hard. It makes you question things a little bit more. Obviously I had to pick it up because at the end of the day, I had a job to do every Sunday. But I think definitely with my work ethic this offseason and the work ethic that our coaches preached to us during OTAs, I think that’s been able to help increase my confidence more than anything. Just having a more deliberate work ethic.”

(T Terron Armstead said that over the last few years, he hasn’t played much over the preseason and he’s not sure how much he’ll play this preseason. Would you guys like to play together at least a couple of series during the preseason before this season gets going to see where you’re at?) – “I don’t really know because I don’t make the decisions. I know we’ll play together. We’ll have our chance. We’ll have our time. At the end of the day, like he told you, he knows what’s best for his body and the Dolphins do too. I just show up and do my job when they tell me to.”

(You mentioned a minute ago that a lot of things happened that tested your confidence last year. What do you consider the main thing that challenged your confidence?) – “Just moving positions in the middle of the year. That was a big opportunity for me. It wasn’t like, ‘Oh, my confidence is low now because I moved.’ It was more so of an adjustment of how to better prepare for situations. Being able to do that I think helped me execute better and allowed me to do more things, along with an improved work ethic over the offseason.”

(So playing guard probably helps you now back at tackle you think?) – “Looking back on the experience, for sure. For sure.”

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