Bradley Chubb – August 9, 2023
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Wednesday, August 9, 2023
LB Bradley Chubb
(How do you see the group coming together heading into the first preseason game?) – “What I saw today was really encouraging, just seeing everybody fight for each other, fight back. The last period, everyone is cheering and everyone is going crazy as a team. I feel like that’s the first step that we needed. We needed a little bit of adversity. To see how we responded and how we bounced back, it just gives me the world of hope for this team and exactly where we’ll need to be in September, and I’m just excited to get there. Enjoying the process of it.”
(Training camp is obviously baby steps, but what will it mean for the team to be in the stadium on Friday night for a preseason game, everyone will play their different roles, but does that add to the pushing things forward?) – “For sure. It’ll be huge for us just to get the operation of everything going down. Some guys might play a lot, guys might play a little, so just getting the whole process of how you’re going to go about your game days, how are you going to do this and that, it’s going to be good for that. And it’s kind of like a dress rehearsal for the vets who have been here and just kind of get back into the feel of things. For the rookies, this is like the whole world to them. Their jobs are on the line. They understand that. So it’s going to be fun just to see them go out there and fight and see the team go out there and fight, so I’m excited about it.
(What have you thought about the front seven this camp? Because to me, you seem like you’ve been dominating. How have you done this camp? And how did you do these last two days?) – “I’m excited about this front seven. We got a lot of great talent, a lot of good guys that are playing for each other and playing together. I feel like last year kind of with me coming in late, we didn’t gel, and we got a whole offseason to gel and understand each other, how each other rush, how each other plays off each other and stuff like that. So like I said, yesterday was the first day and I felt like we did okay, but we had to respond today. And I felt like we did that. And it’s going to be fun just to see us keep building, keep building, face that adversity and build off that build off that and build off that. So like I said, enjoying the process that comes with it. And just taking it day by day.”
(How are you guys grasping Defensive Coordinator Vic Fangio’s defense?) – “I feel like everybody’s getting a very good hold of it. Just seeing everybody flying off the ball. From the outside linebackers, playing an explosive plan without a care in the world, honestly. It’s very encouraging to see, you see those guys in the middle pushing things back, causing that disruption, and they’re doing everything they need to do so. Like I said, it’s not perfect, nowhere near perfect where it should be now, but I like I said, we are enjoying the process, getting into it and understanding that when September comes around, we want to be the best unit in the league.”
(What’s one thing about Defensive Coordinator Vic Fangio’s teaching style or something he does strategically that you’ve enjoyed and you enjoy being around again. What’s an aspect of Vic?) – “I like the aspect of the way he challenges you. He doesn’t like go forth and say, ‘Oh man, you got to do this.’ He kind of just says it in a subtle way with that old kind of like tone that condescending tone. You’re like, ‘Hold on was he talking to me? How did he mean that?’ You don’t really ‘Aw, man he’s talking crap about me, I got to go do this’. You accept that challenge because I’m about to go out there and show him that I can do this and I will do this. It’s a good way. It’s not bearing down on somebody. It’s just kind of challenging in his way and once you notice it, once you kind of understand that, you’re like ‘okay, yeah, I got to step up and he wants me to do that,’ and a lot of guys have been in that position and been stepping up so it’s been good to see.”
(It seems like you and LB Jaelan Phillips have really put an emphasis on setting the edge in the running game. I’m curious how you describe just the importance of that for you guys as a team?) – “We just want to be disruptive as possible. We call ourselves the big dawgs, so big dawgs got to eat. We got to set the edge. You got to earn your way to the quarterback and I feel like setting the edge and stopping the run is the first way to do that. So we got to make sure that we do that each and every play and when it comes down to rush, we know that’s our strong suit, so we just got to make sure we maximize our ability.”
(Similar mentality when it comes to closing the game out. I saw LB Jaelan Phillips had a sack and then you got tripped by Jake Matthews I think at the end there. Similar mentality?) – “Yeah, similar mentality. We’re just trying to get after it to make sure that the big dawgs, like I said, got to eat and want to close the game out. Everybody on the team is looking to us to do that and they might not say that out loud but that’s how we take it, that’s how we wear it on our shoulders to make sure that we live up to that standard every day.”
(How are you adjusting to the weather?) – “Man, it’s hot! I’m not going to lie to you, it is hot. But finding ways, just whether it be my hydration, whether it be just my warmup, whatever it takes. Every day has been different. The first day was probably the worst because of how hot it was. It was my first time in training camp (here). But after that, I started to get adjusted, see what works for me, see what doesn’t work for me and each day has been getting better for sure.”
(You’ve been a fan favorite, crowd energizer out here. What does it mean to have the fans out here at practice?) – “It’s huge. Just to have them see part of the process that goes into it on Sundays. Throughout the year, you don’t really see that. You kind of just see the product on the field on Sunday. But to see them watch us go through the process, go through the bag drills, go through all that type of stuff to get to where we are on Sundays is dope.”
