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Mario Williams – October 14, 2016 Download PDF version

Friday, October 14, 2016

Defensive End Mario Williams

(On Defensive Coordinator Vance Joseph saying that he would like to see him play better) – “First and foremost, the coaches … we’re an open book here. We’ve talked and things like that. The biggest thing is (for) myself, I want to be more free to do different things and cut it loose a little bit. That’s just my personal … I’ve been in a situation where the scheme and stuff like that and thinking too much. I’ve got to play faster and play harder and it definitely starts with me. I came here to be a piece of the puzzle to help the defense. Obviously up front, we’ve got great players, I can say, in my room. I don’t want to speak about anybody else, that’s why I say that. At the end of the day, me being a veteran and everything, I’ve got to have more of an impact and create more chaos out there at practice and in the games.”

(On why this year hasn’t gone like he expected it would) – “I think as a whole, we’ve all got to get better. We all have to really focus on the details a lot more. There have been things that I can’t really explain how, on average, as far as the passing game and stuff like that with how fast the ball’s coming out and looking throughout the league (at) how fast the ball’s coming out when you look at the sacks, which is what us as defensive linemen, it’s what we get praised and ridiculed about. We’ve got to find a way to get more pressure, faster, more efficiently, whether if it’s different coverages or different disguises or whatever in the backend to get to the quarterback. That’s something that all of us, we’ve had a really hard time doing at this point. We all recognize it and something’s got to change. Doing more (and) focusing on those little details I was talking about will help benefit us as a whole. I think that’s the biggest thing, with Game 6 now, we’re nowhere near where we should be with the level of players that we have on this team.”

(On if it angers him when a coach says he needs to play harder publically) – “No, it motivates me. Like I said, all of this stuff is being translated in the meeting rooms, on the field, things like that. The way I take it is, I just need to be me; be loose. Don’t be up tight; don’t over-analyze every little thing because that only slows me down. That’s been (the same) situation in my past and I’ve been the first in the meetings to speak up about it or say it. ‘I see this or what if that,’ and then I get into a slump. The coaching that they’re giving me is pretty much allowing me to get back to loosening up and just go, and don’t think about things so much.”

(On if he agrees with Defensive Coordinator Vance Joseph saying that in order to rush the passer, you have to stop the run) – “You know the biggest thing is, stopping the run is actually tackling. We’ve had guys there, in position to make plays – and myself or anybody who is out there on the field – we have to make sure we make that tackle. The first hit needs to make the tackle. It needs to go backwards not forward. The games where we bled in those situations, it was not breaking down our feet, missing, falling off of it, letting the guy go forward. That’s something that we definitely can’t have. We’ve got to be going the opposite way, run and pass.”

(On how he would describe his single greatest motivation right now today) – “My teammates, definitely. Just going out there and us talking about the things that have occurred so far this season and the situations we’re presented with as a football team. We have to do something to change because it hasn’t (gone) the way we expected it at all. I think everybody in here can say that. I’m pretty sure that nobody is satisfied with anything that has happened to this point. The motivation is to go out and prove to them what I can do and the motivation for them is to prove to me what they can do. That’s something that we are really harping on because this is past the fifth game of the season and it’s either put up or shut up.”

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