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Christian Wilkins – November 2, 2023 Download PDF version

Thursday, November 2, 2023

DT Christian Wilkins

(You seem like a guy that could immerse yourself into different cultures. How have you done so so far?) – “Absolutely, it’s been so far, so good. I love being here, it’s been a lot of fun, just time spent with my teammates, enjoying their company, getting closer with those guys, but also it’s special to be in another country. Growing up in Springfield, Massachusetts, one thing I always wanted to do was be able to travel. I didn’t think football would take me out of the country to play a game, so this is a special time for me, just kind of thinking how far I’ve come and just being here, having an opportunity to play a game.”

(What do you think is the potential of the defense once you do have CB Xavien Howard finally opposite CB Jalen Ramsey?) – “It’ll definitely be great when all the pieces to the puzzle are together. We all have a role, we’re all a piece of the puzzle. So when we’re at full strength, I think we have a chance to be pretty good. Looking forward to seeing what we continue to do this year.”

(I know you’ve had some creative sack celebrations. Do you have something special for the German crowd?) – “We’ll see what I come up with. I’m always, like you said, creative. So we’ll see if I come up with something good.”

(On a football note, you just tied a career-high in sacks against the Patriots, and obviously you’re on pace to smash your current career-high. What do you think has kind of clicked for you? Is it something maybe you did in the offseason? Has it been the scheme? I don’t know, sometimes with sacks, it’s kind of fickle, you know?) – “Just I’m always looking to work on improvement. There’s a lot of things to credit to, could be the scheme, good teammates, just finding opportunities and things. So there’s a lot of things that you can credit that to, so I don’t – just taking advantage of my opportunities, really.”

(When you think about the magnitude of this game, are you all treating it as just another game? Or are you looking at it in terms of the records as far as potential first seed and things like that?) – “I really wasn’t – personally, I wasn’t really paying attention to all that or knowing that or anything really. Really I’ve just been kind of focused on us getting better as a team, and I think that’s kind of the focus of the team. It doesn’t matter who we’re playing, as long as we’re getting better each and every week. Every game in this league is important, because you lose too many of those non-important games, then you’ll see how important those games were. It’s tough to win in this league. It’s hard to win in this league, so we just try to focus on ourselves and improvement.”

(Following up, have you tried any German authentic food yet?) – “I have. I tried one of their döner sandwich – that was actually really good. I tore that thing up. The guy was being a little – portions are smaller here, so no offense, and I was a little upset with the dude, because he tried to throw a little bit of meat on there. I was like, ‘I’m American,’ but he did hook me up and threw in a little extra meat in there for me. So I was very happy with that. I did the garlic sauce or whatever that was, and it was really good. That was probably one of my favorite things I’ve eaten here so far on the street, so I’m a big fan of the street food and all that good stuff.”

(Where did you go for that?) – “I was just in the downtown area just walking around, they had a bunch of different places for it. I forget the name. I’ve got a picture of it, but I forget the name. It was good.”

(FB Alec Ingold and WR Tyreek Hill earlier both said that they’re still trying to get their sleep back to normal. They both commented that they’re tired. Just wanted to know how your body is adjusting so far?) – “Definitely an adjustment. I’m glad that we kind of got here early, just to be able to get acclimated to the time and everything. The first two days were kind of like, ‘Oof.’ The first full day here, it was a little rough, but I think now guys are starting to adjust more and with a few more days until game time, I think we’ll be in a good spot.”

(Some of you guys explored the city already, you had said that. How much time is there in your schedule to actually explore the city, explore the country?) – “Not a lot, but we kind of had our off-day here when we first got here, so that was like the day where most guys kind of got around, explored a little bit. For the most part, we all had a good time just immersing ourselves in a different culture and things like that. It’s always fun. A lot of guys haven’t been to Europe or out of the country too. I’ve been fortunate to be well-traveled, so I’m kind of helping those guys navigate or just kind of figure things out a little bit. So yeah, we had pretty much a full day, and whenever we have enough time, I’m sure guys will look to explore more.”

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