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Jordyn Brooks – October 7, 2024 Download PDF version

Monday, October 7, 2024

LB Jordyn Brooks

(The victory yesterday, what did it do for the team? I would imagine that’s a very timely victory to end that three-game losing streak, but what did it do for the team?) – “I think it was good just going into a bye week just to get a win. That was the message all week, just to go 1-0 this week and get a win. So any time you get a win in this league, it’s always a great thing.”

(Did you come off the field yesterday?) – “No.”

(Have you played every snap this season?) – “I think so.”

(Ready for the bye week?) – “Much needed bye week. Much needed for sure.”

(Tell me about the run defense. You guys have allowed a few big runs, but doesn’t seem like you’ve been that bad overall. Has it been a few leaky runs, have you been pretty consistent otherwise? What’s your opinion on the run defense?) – “Something as a defense, like that’s the No. 1 thing we want to get better at right now is the run defense. We can make all of the excuses in the world, but at the end of the day, I think we’re just not playing consistently enough. We’ll go some drives playing great and then we’ll let one out and that’s kind of been the story through the first quarter of the season for us right now as a defense, just letting leaky runs out, getting tired, long drives, whatever the case may be. That’s something that we’ve got to clean up. We’re aiming to be the best defense that we can be so it starts right there for sure.”

(Got some injuries in the secondary, injuries on the edge. What is allowing you guys to keep going despite the injuries?) – “I think we’ve just got a lot of great players, depth at every position. Something we knew coming in, in training camp, just knowing we’ve got guys that can fill in anywhere at any position. So hate to see guys go down, but it’s never a misstep (when) whoever goes down because everybody can play ball.”

(What did it mean to have LB David Long Jr. back out there yesterday?) – “It was good to see him out there, have him healthy, communicating, leading, playing fast, playing physical. A guy like that, you just want to keep him healthy, make sure we have him out there.”

(As far as the team overall, how is the mentality right now? Obviously it’s not the start that you guys wanted, but you did get that victory. Are you little down? Are you picking up? How would you describe your mentality right now?) – “I think everybody is just kind of even-keeled right now. It’s great to win. I don’t think we won the way that we wanted to win on either side of the ball, so it kind of leaves you bittersweet just knowing that we left some plays out there that we could have took advantage of and really won in a better fashion, won in a way that we think that we can win. And so it’s something to carry on through the bye week, things that we need to get better at, individually and as a team.”

(How has Defensive Coordinator Anthony Weaver called the games the first five weeks?) – “Been great. He’s aggressive. Yesterday, he was aggressive there at the end, calling zero coverage. I like his mentality to go get after the quarterback and make him get it out quick. So I’ve loved the way he’s called the game, and I think we’ll only keep growing and getting better as a defense with him.”

(The overturned touchdown, I know that it was like the guy didn’t drag the foot. What was your read on that on that last overturned touchdown that they had?) – “Yeah, I was looking right at it. I’d seen him get his foot – I knew he didn’t get it in. They still said it was a touchdown initially, but I was pretty confident once they looked at it like we’ll get that back. So God was on our side with that one. That’s something as a defense we’ve got to get cleaned up as well, make sure that he didn’t even have the opportunity to catch the ball.”

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