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Robert Hunt – September 26, 2022 Download PDF version

Monday, September 26, 2022

OL Robert Hunt

(So how hot is hot enough?) – “It’s hot, so I think that’s enough. It’s always hot here. I do – like I said, I wear this every day. (laughter) I don’t know if I actually wish that.”

(You’ve been here for a couple of years now. Obviously, the record is different, but internally, what can you say is different about this team, the set of players here, the coaching staff, the environment?) – “Man, I just think we got a locker room full of guys that care about each other, that’s willing to go out and battle for each other and put their body on the lines every week, man, just to try to get a win. I think that’s just like – a lot of high character guys in the room, man.”

(QB Tua Tagovailoa specifically, I’m sure you’ve heard the noise. He’s a polarizing guy. Where have you seen him grown the most over the years, and really in the first three weeks of the season?) – “I think Tua (Tagovailoa) has always been a guy with leadership and character. He’s been him since Day One man. I haven’t seen much change. Tua is just being Tua. We love to see the publicity of it and everybody looking at it differently, but we’ve been seeing it for a while.”

(Do you get an extra sense of pride or kind of joy seeing that praise now?) – “Yes, I’m extremely happy for him. We have a long season ahead, and I’m excited to keep doing what we’re doing. Yes, he definitely deserves it.”

(Thankfully, it turned out not to be serious, but how scary was it to get a kind of rolled up on the side of your leg there yesterday?) – “It was alright. I wasn’t really scared. I mean, if I can get up and move, I knew I was going to be okay. So I tried to go and stay in, but they told me I had to get out. But it is what it is. I’m fine.”

(Is it something to monitor on the short week? Or do you feel you’ll be OK?) – “I’ll be fine.”

(Watching QB Tua Tagovailoa, what was your perspective of him going out, coming back in and what he was able to do the second half?) – “Tua (Tagovailoa) is just Tua, man. Tua is a hardnosed guy who’s tough. He’s one of the captains of this team and he did what he did, man. He did what he had to do. We won the football game. That’s all that really matters. We were excited about that.”

(What do you see from T Greg Little lining up next to you?) – “A lot of great things, man. Greg (Little) is doing fantastic. He communicates well and he plays hard. I think we got a bunch of guys in that room that do the same. So it’s exciting to see Greg get his (opportunity) and do what he’s doing.”

(You mentioned the shirt. We’ve seen you wear it before, but yesterday in particular, you got guys cramping up and a lot of Bills guys had to go out. I mean, players were out there struggling. Is it a mindset? Is part of it when you wear a shirt that, it’s kind of mind over matter?) – “No, it really is. That’s the way we look at it, because it is hot here. We know it, and we use that to our advantage. So when we’re practicing and when we’re doing what we’re doing, we do say that, ‘I wish it was hotter,’ because we know our opponent may struggle in the heat because it’s a little different. But we get to work in it every day and try to embrace it.”

(Short week, obviously. Usually it’s a 24-hour rule to celebrate a win and stuff like that. The challenge of turning around quickly with a tough opponent coming up on Thursday night, how do you embrace that? How do you deal with that?) – “Like you just said, we enjoyed the win last night and we’re back in here today getting to work and watching those guys. The game will be here before you know it, so we’re getting ready for them.”

(On that subject of the heat, watching your defense be out there for 90-plus plays, what was your thought on how they persevered through all of that?) – “Unreal, man. Those guys are warriors – they’ve been that way. We go against them – we went against them all camp and we know what they’re about. Those guys are tough guy. Those guys are the real deal.”

(Going against the defense, talking about that, what have you observed about LB Melvin Ingram? He’s made some big plays in these three games so far.) – “Mel (Melvin Ingram) is a dawg, man. He’s really good. He’s been good. We all know he’s been good in his league for a while, and he can play, man. He can just flat out play. Lining up against him in camp, you got to be with it because he can do a lot of different things. He can power, he can rush to like get the edge. He’s a dangerous rusher, man. He’s good. He’s really good.”

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