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Kenny Stills – October 16, 2017 Download PDF version

Monday, October 16, 2017

WR Kenny Stills

(I know you’ve spoken like coaches do about taking one week at a time. With that being said, the big picture is that you’re one of only six teams in the AFC with a winning record. Do you feel a reason for optimism with how you played offensively in the second half, how good the defense has been, having a winning record despite the adversity?) – “You said it yourself in the beginning of the question. We’re just worried about one week at a time. We’re not worried about the AFC, the NFC, the playoffs, anything that you brought up. I just know the next opponent and we’ll focus on them, starting on Wednesday.”

(Speaking of that, how important is it to quickly shed whatever happened the previous week to get on to the next opponent just so that you have a fresh mind and knowing who you have to focus on?) – “With me … Everyone is different. We kind of have that 24 hour rule but by the time I go to sleep and wake up the next day, it’s all gone. We really have got to be able to shift the focus to the next week and get prepared for the next team.”

(So “Victory Monday” is out of the equation for the most part?) – “Yes. It’s a better feeling in the locker room and with the coaches but for the most part, when I wake up the next day, it’s time to go and focus on the next week.”

(A lot of the players yesterday walked out of the locker room that said “We Are Not Normal.” What do you make of that?) – “It’s exactly what it says. You guys can make whatever you want out of it. We have a message that comes from the head man and if he wants to share that with you then he will.”

(So you’re not going to tell me why you’re not normal?) – “You can ask him. (laughter)”

(You went with a lot of 12 personnel, sometimes some 13 personnel. How good of a feeling is it to know that they probably know what’s coming but they can’t stop it?) – “I mean we do a lot of stuff out of all of our packages. We just do what the coach asks. The game plan was to go in there and do what we did and we executed.”

(You had a couple of fourth-down conversions in the second half. One, how big were those two plays and two, is there sort of a message you take as a player when a coach says “we’re going to go for it on fourth down.”) – “We know. You guys have seen in the two years that we’re comfortable going for it on fourth down. We’ve always got a good plan. It’s obviously really key for us to convert on those and continue to have our drives go so we can put points on the board. It’s comforting knowing that if we just do our job and get close, we’ll probably have an opportunity to go for it on fourth down.”

(Some of the conversions you made both on third and fourth down were not exactly what you guys consider manageable either. There were some distance…) – “On which ones?”

(I think there was a third-and-9 or a fourth-and-9 that you converted, for example.) – “I don’t recall. I know all of the fourth-and-1s, Jarvis (Landry) on the last drive went up and made a huge catch. Damien (Williams) converted on a fourth-and-1. Those are big plays for us and kept our drives going.”

(What do you look forward the most about talking to the league tomorrow?) – “I think Julius (Thomas) answered that. We’ll see how everything goes. I honestly can’t really tell you too much; but you’ll hear from us after the meeting.”

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