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Christian Wilkins – January 4, 2023 Download PDF version

Wednesday, January 4, 2023

DT Christian Wilkins

(On what happened on Monday Night Football with Damar Hamlin) – “That was definitely a tough situation. I’m still dealing with it. Guys are still dealing with it in their own ways. It was definitely a tough situation to see, because at the end of the day – no matter how much we might have a rivalry with Buffalo, or you might go at it with other teams, when you’re out there for 60 minutes competing, you’re going as hard as you can. But at the end of the day, we’re all brothers in arms. We’re all from different places in our lives, different backgrounds, but a lot of us come from the same situation. So you definitely feel for a lot of dudes. You’re just out there competing and bringing it every day, trying to be your best, living out your dream and things like that can happen. So that’s definitely tough. At this time, I just hope people are just praying, continuing to pray for him, his family, his teammates and everybody involved, because that’s obviously tragic situation. They’ve all been in my thoughts and my prayers as we go along.”

(It’s obviously a violent game. How do you guys kind of, I don’t want to say move on and you don’t want to not think about it, but how do you go forward?) – “Again, luckily for us, we have a lot of people, resources and things like that who we could talk to and talk about it, because it is a tough situation and it does affect us all. The NFL and NFLPA, everyone is working hard to get the right people in place, the right people to talk to, everything like that and just help everyone heal from the situation. Because although you see a lot of injuries and things like that, we’ve never seen anything really of this magnitude.”

(I know that obviously the main concern is with Damar Hamlin, but there were a lot of questions and still some uncertainty about how the NFL is going to move forward with the rest of the regular season. Is that something that you’ve kind of been on some calls about?) – “Yeah, there’s been some talks about that, but again, the main priority and the main focus right now is just making sure that that is taken care of and things like that. We haven’t talked about as far as figuring out that game. We’re just focusing on and moving forward with Week 18.”

(With the magnitude of this game coming up, how difficult is it for you guys to focus on the task at hand knowing that you need to make the playoffs, need help from other teams? How do you guys make sure you’re focused on that?) – “We’re all professionals. You’ve got to be professional in this situation (and) try as much as you can to just focus on the things we have to and on things we can control, be your best this week and finish this thing out the right way. So regardless of what happens or however it goes, it’s our last regular season opportunity for the 2022-2023 Dolphins, so you want to finish it the right way regardless.”

(No scoreboard watching for you on Sunday looking for the other result?) – “Absolutely not. I’m just – like I said, control what you can control, take care of the things you can take care of and let the chips fall where they may.”

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