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Terron Armstead – October 18, 2024 Download PDF version

Friday, October 18, 2024

T Terron Armstead

(I know as you’ve said every offseason you’ve been thinking about whether to continue playing. You’re obviously…) – “Where are you going with this? Where are we going with this? (laughter)”

(I was going to ask you this – you’re playing at the same high level that you’ve always played at, the same elite level. Is it important to you late in your career to continue to play at an elite level, to want to continue playing?) – “I just try to put my best foot forward every day, every game do what I can as far as my assignment to help my teammates, so I really don’t look at like where I’m viewed across the league or whatever. I try to execute my assignment, don’t let my guy make the tackle, don’t let my guy touch the quarterback. That’s just, seriously, like I try to take that small viewpoint of an approach.”

(With RB Raheem Mostert obviously having him back, what is it about his running style that makes him fun to block for?) – “He’s physical, he’s violent. The defenders know that they’ve got to bring it when they come in to try to tackle ’31.’ (Raheem Mostert) Like you look at him and you see him and he’s not the biggest guy, but he’s crazy strong and his mentality that he runs with – and he’s always a home run threat, too, so they know they can’t be late and you can’t mess around and play with him with you see ’31’ coming through that hole.”

(You said last week that the run game has to be the staple going forward. Why is that? Why do you believe that?) – “I believe it’s a part of what we do in order for us to be as successful as we want to be. Like it has to exist, it has to be the foundation of our offense because it opens up everything in the passing game and the other plays and gadget plays that Mike (McDaniel) wants to install, but you don’t really get the defense’s eyes or they don’t really respect a lot of their fakes unless you’re running the ball effectively. So in order to bring linebackers up, get the safety eyes and Tyreek (Hill) and (Jaylen) Waddle to get behind them, got to run the ball effectively.”

(Throughout your career have you found that teams coming off of a bye – your team – usually performs well and benefits from the bye?) – “Honestly I’ve never seen a study on the record of teams coming off a bye, but I would assume it’s probably pretty well. You’ve got extra time to scout a team and prepare the game plan, but then you’re also getting that rest to get your body back. It’s a physical sport we play so week to week it’s a grind. Nobody’s going in 100 percent. A team coming off the bye is a little better situation than the other in my opinion.”

(With all the adversity that you guys have faced in the first quarter of the season, how important is it to leave Indianapolis at .500 approaching the return of QB Tua Tagovailoa?) – “Man, let’s go No. 1, 2 and 3. For sure, like it’s serious, man. We want nothing more than this one. It’ll be huge for us moving forward, but not even thinking about moving forward. When we get this win, we’ll be right where we want to be.”

(Where is this offensive line in terms of the chemistry, the comfort? Obviously you got a little bit of teasing what you can do against New England, but how do you get that out of them consistently?) – “We’re progressing, we’re progressing. I think the thing that we need to do more as an offensive line and as far as our consistency is eliminate the negatives, the penalties, the ‘MEs’ (mental errors). As long as we can eliminate those or minimize those, our production has been there on film, but a lot of our best games have come back from penalties and the negatives so if we can eliminate those and continue to progress with our technique, I like where we are.”

(What have you seen from OL Robert Jones, in the guy playing next to you?) – “He’s a dawg. He’s a dawg. Like I said before, I love playing next to him. He’s physical, I know what I’m getting from him – somebody that’s going to fight no matter what the situation is. He’s about it, I’m about it with him so I love going to war with Rob (Jones).”

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