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Andrew Van Ginkel – August 2, 2019 Download PDF version

Friday, August 2, 2019

LB Andrew Van Ginkel

(How much are you looking forward to the scrimmage tomorrow?) – “I’m excited to get some live action and go against people that we’ve been going against in pads. The intensity rises definitely when you’re playing live and you’re going at it, so I’m super excited and can’t wait.”

(You have some nice memories of Hard Rock Stadium. Tomorrow you’ll be going in there for your first time as a pro player. Is it a different feeling?) – “Yeah, I’m sure it will be. There’s a lot more at stake. This is my job now, so it’s going to be exciting to go back in there and just feel the atmosphere and feel everything out again. I’m definitely looking forward to that.”

(Do you feel like you’re progressing over the first week of camp from where you were when you started in this defense because looking at you line up in different stops, there’s a lot to learn I would imagine?) – “Yeah, definitely. I just try to take the approach of getting better every day. There’s so much going, just the speed and everything of the game. I‘m just trying to improve and focus on what I need to work on like the outside details are heavily focused on.”

(Anything surprised you so far through the first week of training camp in terms of workload or the speed of the game or technique that you have to play at a high level?) – “I would say just probably the speed of the game. Everybody’s fast here. In college, you have those certain players, but here, it’s everybody. Even the o-linemen, their first steps are just a lot quicker than what you see in college.”

(What have you learned from the first couple weeks of camp on how they’re going to use you and your part on this defense?) – “Just being able to set the edge because I’m mainly an edge guy, so being able to do that and just continue to work on my pass rush and do whatever I can to improve.”

(We asked Head Coach Brian Flores what the scrimmage is going to be like tomorrow, and he said it’s going to be like a game where we want it to be as much as like a game as possible. When you think about a game-like environment, what kind of mentality and what kind of approach do you typically try to bring into that?) – “It’s just getting your mind ready because you’re going live. Everything’s just a lot faster. The toughness picks up. Everybody’s bringing it 100 percent. I’d say that’s the biggest thing. I’m excited for it, and I’m sure everybody will be pumped up. First time going live, so everybody’s going to be bringing it.”

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