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Anthony Walker Jr. – May 28, 2024 Download PDF version

Tuesday, May 28, 2024

LB Anthony Walker Jr.

(How does it feel being back in the South Florida heat? I know it’s a little different.) – “You see me over here, I’m a little drenched. (laughter) No, just getting back acclimated, just playing football again. Obviously, the Miami heat provides a different element, but it’s what you embrace opportunity. I’m happy to be back home embracing the opportunity to compete and just having fun doing it.”

(How important do you feel like coming to these voluntary workouts are? Just building team chemistry and just that cohesion?) – “Yeah, you only get better by putting the work in, and then as a defense and as a team, you get better by being all here together and putting the work in. This is a great time. I don’t know any other way to do football besides playing it. For me, just physically getting in shape and being out here with my teammates, communicating, making calls, flying around. It’s fun, you embrace that part of it. It’s a grind, but that’s why we’re here.”

(What do you look forward to as far as these coming months? I know you being down here and being able to be around family, but what are you looking forward to these next couple months?) – “Yeah, like you said just being around family. First time being able to play football and be around family at the same time. Get my work in, but also enjoying the family time and relaxing and all that stuff. There’s no better place to do it than Miami. To be here and be able to have my family here and my teammates here, get better and train and everything down here is a blessing.”

(Thoughts on S Jevon Holland’s playlist?) – “Yeah, started off kind of fast. Kind of died down a bit, then he brought it back up. Got a couple old school classics on there, I was proud of him.”

(Just touching on the defense, with this linebacker corps just being a vocal point and assuming that leadership role, what are some things you’ve noticed from the group as far as the guys just being vocal and having that presence felt?) – “Coach Weaver talked about it the first day, that obnoxious communication – everybody putting the work in and communicating. That’s defense. That’s defensive football. You have to be able to communicate, all 11 have to be on the same page. We’re either all right and we’re right, or we’re all wrong and we’re still right, because we all did the same thing. It’s huge when it comes to that. You’ve got to be able to do that, and we understand that. So as a linebacker, we take that very personally to be able to get everybody set and be the calm presence of the defense, and then just be that vocal voice that gets all the guys ready to go and also calm within the system.”

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