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Robert Jones – August 13, 2023 Download PDF version

Sunday, August 13, 2023

OL Robert Jones

(In the game Friday night, it looks like you got some pretty good surge playing that right guard spot. How’d you feel you played?) – “I feel like I did OK. Just like the whole o-line, I felt like we all did good to set the tone and dominate the line of scrimmage. But there are some things I just have to clean up and keep working at to make me a better player.”

(Is there much difference in playing left guard and right guard? We talk about the difference between left tackle and right tackle, but inside, is there much difference?) – “No, you just have to get comfortable. Just opening the hips on that side, that’s all. It’s really just the same thing. You just have to be aggressive and just find your techniques.”

(OL Connor Williams came in and spoke earlier about dominating the trenches as an offensive line goal this year. As far as that, how do you all think your progression toward reaching that goal and being ready Week 1?) – “That was the No. 1 thing coming into OTAs – dominate the line of scrimmage and fire off the rock. We’ll work with technique and everything later, but we want to show our dominance in the trenches. We’ve been doing that every single day. Going into Week 1, I feel like we just keep getting better from the joint practices and the first preseason game. We just keep focusing on it. I feel like we did pretty good. We just have to keep doing it so when Week 1 comes, we’ll be alright.”

(How do you think the climate or the temperature will change from down here to going to Houston with the second joint practice session?) – “I heard Houston is hot. I’ve really never been in that heat during summertime or anything. I’ve heard it’s hot, but it’s hot down here. That’s everything we’ve got to go through. That’s adversity. We go through it down here every day, so going out there won’t be much a difference.”

(Obviously it’s your first time in the same system in the NFL back-to-back. How do you feel like this second year within this system can kind of help your game grow a little bit?) – “It just helps me be confident, just really knowing what I’m doing, going out there and not having to guess what we’re doing on certain plays and everything. Really just not having to hear the center speak and just having confidence in myself and what I can do.”

(You talk about having the center speak to you. OL Connor Williams is pretty effective in that way I imagine?) – “Oh yeah, the center is the guy that talks in general. Everything we do comes off the center. With us going into our second year in this offense, all of us who were here last year, we know exactly what we’re doing. It’s just that confidence that all of us are on the same page. Connor is going to speak regardless because he sees it from a different eye, but we’re all on the same page.”

(Do you all have aspirations of being an offensive line that produces the next 1,000-yard rusher here for the Miami Dolphins? It’s been a while.) – “The only thing we focus on is dominating the line of scrimmage, come off the ball and doing our techniques. We’re just playing hard and everything else will come after that. As long as we just focus on what we have to do as an o-line to be that great o-line that people are afraid of, we’ll be good.”

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