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Braxton Berrios – November 21, 2023 Download PDF version

Tuesday, November 21, 2023

WR Braxton Berrios

(What’s unique about Jets CB Sauce Gardner other than his nickname?) – “He’s long. He’s very rangy. A lot similar to No. 5 (Jalen Ramsey) we have in here. He’s a smart football player. He makes the plays when he’s there and he doesn’t mess up too often. He’s extremely sound and it should be fun.”

(The other guy Jets CB D.J. Reed isn’t as well-known, but he has really good metrics. What does he do well?) – “Absolutely. I think last year he had one of the best years statistically, or however they measure it, in the league. It’s the same thing. He’s a guy who’s going to go 100 percent 24/7. Again, same thing, physical corner, fast. And again, they’re very, very sound in what they do. You’re not going to catch him off guard too many times.”

(You obviously know Jets QB Zach Wilson pretty well. Your thoughts on what he’s going through at this point?) – “Obviously I know him personally and I’ve been keeping up with him through the year and it’s tough. It’s the game of football, the ebbs and flows of it, and all that is obviously is handled in-house there, but I still talk to him and stuff. We still have a personal relationship.”

(What’s it going to feel like pulling up to the stadium as a visitor?) – “It’s going to be very familiar. Obviously the sideline won’t be, but very familiar just being in MetLife (Stadium) again.”

(Anyone you’re looking forward to seeing on the other side?) – “Honestly, all the guys that are still there. I was there for four years. You keep a relationship with a lot of those guys so I’m still close with a lot of them. Seeing them all pregame is going to be fun.”

(How much texting is there this week or is it radio silence until kickoff?) – “It’s been radio silence so far and I expect it to stay that way. (laughter)”

(As we talked about, the team has been very cautious with the soft tissue injuries. This year Head Coach Mike McDaniel has talked about that. Did you push to play last Sunday? Or do you feel like – and clearly the team wants to protect all those injuries, or did you feel like it’s best to give it more time?) – “Of course I pushed to play. I wanted to play. And again, those decisions are a culmination of everybody involved and so that’s something we decided as a whole. But of course I pushed to play and wanted to.”

(Anything you can say about Friday?) – “I think head coach answered that.”

(Are you looking forward to the Hard Knocks debut?) – “Yeah, when is it? Is it this week?”

(It’s tonight.) – “It’s tonight? Wow. I don’t know if I’m going to watch it live each week. Again, this is our life, our career, and it’s definitely going to be cool to look back on, that the season is documented and everybody in this locker room, and hopefully it ends up being a very special year. So I think the documentary side of it, looking back is going to be cool. I don’t know if I’ll watch it week to week.”

(Have they sat down with you yet?) – “No, we have not. We’ve talked, but we haven’t sat down.”

(How open do you feel you would be to sort of sharing personal stuff with us and HBO?) – “I share – I think a good amount of personal stuff is already out there so there’s no real problem with that at all. And personal stuff, I don’t mind. I think it’s more so the team-related stuff, the game planning stuff. That’s always tricky and you always feel a little weird sharing status and stuff. That’s a little more in-house, but personally, we’ll see when we sit down what they want to talk about. But yeah, I have no reservations about that from a personal side.”

(Have the cameras been around for any moments that made you say, “okay, that’s definitely going to make their cut?”) – “Well, they’re in our meeting rooms, so we see them move and throughout the meeting. They capture everything. Now what makes it (to air), we have no idea, which is kind of the cool part of the documentary. But yeah, it’s going to be interesting. I’m sure it’ll be very entertaining, but I don’t know when I’m personally going to get around to watching it.”

(Of all the players on the entire offense, who is sneaky funny, like we would not know that this dude is actually like secret funny?) – “I mean when you say funny, like Jaylen Waddle comes to mind, but I think everybody knows that.”

(We don’t see it that much.) – “Really? (Jaylen Waddle) is one I would put up there with probably the funniest on the team. So we’ll see if that gets highlighted.”

(Who’s maybe acted up the most for the cameras? Has that happened?) – “No, I don’t think so. I think we hold each other accountable in this locker room to not show out for the cameras.”

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