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Jevon Holland – September 4, 2023 Download PDF version

Monday, September 4, 2023

S Jevon Holland

(What does the captain ‘C’ once again mean to you?) – “Same as it did last time. It’s a lot of weight on my shoulders, but it feels good to know that the guys trust me. Go out there and lead.”

(How does having a relationship playing with the Chargers current quarterback back in college, how does that kind of ramp up the matchup for you going up against him?) – “Just like being friends, kind of like playing anybody else. Like if we play the Vikings and I’m playing against Troy (Dye). Whether I’m going against him, actually offense-defense or defense-defense, special teams, doesn’t really matter. Old teammates are old teammates, so I enjoy going against them. Always fun dialogue within the game, too. So it’s always enjoyable.”

(You spend a lot of time talking to Defensive Coordinator Vic Fangio. I see Vic come over to you all the time. How much responsibility do you feel as the safety to lead the defense? And I can imagine some of those conversations are about that.) – “I mean, I feel all the weight on my shoulders. I see everything because I’m back there. So if somebody’s misaligned, if something happens wrong, I want them to look at me so that I can help them correct it. That’s what I signed up for. That’s the kind of person I want to be, kind of teammate I want to be. And being a captain, you can kind of see that guys see me as that – somebody that can kind of get everybody in order.”

(There was an open competition throughout the season to see who would start alongside you. Just curious, with so many different guys back there training camp, what did you do, if anything, just to make sure that you’re on the same page with every single player that is next to you back there?) – “Communicating with all of them in the same room so everybody hears kind of where my mindset is, how I’m communicating, how I play so that we’re all comfortable with each other. I think Vic and ‘Notty’ (Renaldo Hill) and Joe (Kasper) have done a great job just filtering everybody around so that everybody gets comfortable playing with everybody else. And yeah, that started in OTAs. We were all rotating, getting reps and whatnot. So I think you know, when whoever is in there whether it be Brandon (Jones), me, Verone (McKinley III), DeShon (Elliott), Elijah (Campbell) when he gets back, everybody’s going to be ready to go out there and ball.”

(A lot of times the offensive players talk about how much more comfortable they are in Year 2 of this system than they were last year in Year 1. You guys are in Year 1 of a system. Is it tough to kind of stay patient because you know that next year, you’re going to know a lot more about the system and be a lot more comfortable. In light of that, is it tough to be patient with where you are, with where your feet are right now?) – “Tough to be patient? I mean not necessarily. If you will be more patient, the more you’ll know. So like with time, you’ll become more patient, but I’m just trying to learn the plays if that’s your question. It’s not tough to be patient, though. Being patient is the ultimate goal. So when you get to that point you’re just patient. It’s not hard to be that.”

(We’ve heard that Defensive Coordinator Vic Fangio pops into every position group’s meeting rooms and interacts with every position group. I’m curious what that experience is like to have a defensive coordinator who’s that plugged into every position on the field.) – “I would hope he is. He’s the DC. I mean it’s his job. It’s his job to know everybody’s job because if something goes wrong, I’m going to look to him. I’m looking at my position coach, but I’m looking at Vic (Fangio) like, ‘This your defense you curated it out of thin air some time ago. I hope you know what I’m supposed to be doing.’ So I think it’s good. I don’t think it’s like – I’m not like starstruck, ‘oh my God Vic’s in here.’ I’m just like, ‘okay, appreciate it, coming in here making sure everything’s going well.’ That’s kind of how I see it.”

(When did you know that Justin Herbert, or first know that he was a special player and that he had that special ability?) – “It was my freshman year in college. We were running sprints, and he was beating everybody or in the front. Because I was running full speed and I’m looking. He’s with the bigs because he’s a large individual and then he was running with everybody else. I was like, all right, this dude is special and his arm talent is crazy.”

(Speaking of college, what’s more impressive: Oregon putting up 81 or Puddles getting I think it was 550 push-ups on Saturday?) – “Puddles, 100 percent. Portland State is whatever, but Puddles doing that many push-ups. I don’t know who that guy is in there, but he’s off the juice for sure. (laughter)”

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