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Terron Armstead – October 25, 2024 Download PDF version

Friday, October 25, 2024

T Terron Armstead

(Obviously, we’ve been asking everybody the same thing: your excitement level for QB Tua Tagovailoa?) – “Excited for sure. He looks great, man. He’s locked in, helping get everybody where they need to be, locked in on the details, all the small things. We’re focusing on those nuances for sure, that have been helping us lose games, so we’re trying to clean all that up.”

(Not like it was lacking before, but is there any extra boost of energy now that you know QB1 is back on the field?) – “He brings his own energy. He has an energy about him that’s contagious, that you have no choice but to gravitate towards and it’s very much reinvigorating and revitalizing for our offense that’s been struggling.”

(Head Coach Mike McDaniel told us the unfortunate news about DT Zach Sieler today. It’s such a game where you can get hurt in so many ways, how big of a risk is it in practice to have your eye poked with line play?) – “Yeah, it’s a real thing, man. Incidental, for sure. Nobody was trying to go for an eye, but you’re playing fast, playing low, big guys moving around, it’s unfortunate, for sure. Zach is one of the best players on the team – one of the best players in the league, so him dealing with that is definitely unfortunate for us.”

(Where are you on this “is Tua the savior” debate? WR Tyreek Hill said he is, Head Coach Mike McDaniel said “not really.” Where are you on that?) – “It’s unrealistic for one player to be a savior. Probably in basketball when there are only five people on the court, but you got offense, defense, special teams – there’s 33 starters. So he’s a huge part of everything we do, a huge impact; but for him to be the ‘savior,’ ‘the hero’ that tries to save everything, it’s unrealistic, unfair. We’ve got a lot of work to do, everybody else. We’ve got to be able to produce and create lanes for the runners. Runners got to go execute, receivers got to go execute – everybody, you know what I mean? So Tua (Tagovailoa) can’t throw it to himself or he can’t hand it off to himself, can’t block for himself.”

(Earlier this week we saw you working with LB Chop Robinson after the practice and in the locker room. How much does that help him in terms of the technique that he’s going to face against offensive linemen of your caliber?) – “Yeah, we were really just talking ball, talking experience, what challenges I see, what he’s seeing from offensive linemen. It could help a little, it could help a lot, maybe not at all; But it don’t hurt. It don’t hurt at all. I love Chop. I love everything about him – his approach, his professionalism, his hunger. His production will come, for sure. He’s a special talent. It’s hard in the league when we are so fixated on stats and it’s a production-based league, for sure, but this is a marathon, it’s not a sprint. Some people come out the gate and have production and then fall off, but as long as he trusts his process, he’s going about everything the right way. He’s working hard and all that good stuff, the production will come.”

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