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Bradley Chubb – December 22, 2022 Download PDF version

Thursday, December 22, 2022

LB Bradley Chubb

(Have you gone up against Aaron Rodgers before?) – “Yeah, my second year I went up against him. I got a chance to, honestly, see greatness. He’s one of the best and been the best for a while. It’s always fun when you get to play a legend and somebody you looked up to growing up and all that. So it’s a dope experience, for sure.”

(What changes when you have a player of his caliber with what Aaron Rodgers can do in so many different situations?) – “Nothing really changes, you just have to have – I mean, it’s like playoff football now. So everybody’s awareness is ramped up, everybody’s mood and all that is kind of ramped up right now. So when you got somebody like that, you really just can’t change what you’re doing. You just have to go out there and just play fundamental football, don’t let the moment get too big for what it is and just understand that, ‘OK, yeah – he is that dude, but we’ve got some guys on our side of the ball, too.’ So we’ve got to make sure we just understand that and play within the defense.”

(It seems like this is a pretty competent group despite the three-game skid, would you say that?) – “Yeah, for sure. It all starts from the top, man. Coach McDaniel never veered or wavered from anything. He sets the tone each and every day, each and every meeting. So when you’ve got a guy like that setting the tone, you can’t do anything but follow. Everybody has that same mindset, man. We know we dropped three games. We know it wasn’t our best football. We know we did great things in those games, but it just wasn’t enough. We know who we are, we know the team we are. Adversity makes the best out of everybody, so it’s been fun.”

(What do you think it will be like playing on Christmas Day?) – “To be honest, man, holidays don’t really do anything (for me). Ever since college, man, I haven’t been around my family too much and stuff like that. You’ll see them, but it’s not like Christmas as a kid, you know what I mean? But just for people at home to be able to sit down and watch some Dolphins football, I feel like it’s going to be dope man. Especially the great matchup that we’re about to have, it’s going to be fun.”

(How do you feel like the transition to a new defensive scheme, a new team, new coaches, how do you think all that has gone?) – “I think it’s going great, man. It’s been, what? Almost two months? That’s crazy when you think about it. It’s been good, man. I’m just learning each and every day still about my teammates, about my coaches, about the scheme, and just the different little nuances in it where I could get better just not throughout the play but just (say) ‘OK, they’re doing this on that side. OK, I can do this on this side.’ Just learning stuff like that and how I can take my game to the next level. But it’s been great. I’ve been enjoying it and ready to keep it moving.”

(As an edge player, there’s always that give and take between time to attack the quarterback and “Oh no, if I over-pursue, I lost my edge and hurt the team.” In this particular defense, what’s a key for that assignment for an edge?) – “The main key is just setting the edge of the defense. I feel like with the guys we’ve got around, it’s cool for me to make sure I set the edge in the run and then if it be a play-action pass, OK – I can convert late, because all the guys are around. It’s not like it’s, ‘Oh, if I don’t get off and do this, then it’s a 60-yard touchdown.’ So having talent around and understand within the defense, understanding where your help is at and all that, it makes it a lot easier, for sure.”

(How would you rate your first six games with Miami?) – “I was never good in school, man, so I’d give myself an A. (laughter) No, I’m just playing. But probably like a B. I’ve had good plays here and there, but I want to be more dominant. I want to be taking over games more, and that’s kind of the reason they brought me here is to do that – to help this defense take it to the next level. I feel like yeah, we took it up a notch, but there’s a whole ‘nother level we could take it to, and I want to be the catalyst for that.”

(Fun question, what do you want most for Christmas?) – “What do I want most for Christmas? If Christmas was in February, I’d want a Super Bowl ring, but it’s in December, so I just want a win against the Packers. (laughter)”

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