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Bradley Chubb – November 29, 2023 Download PDF version

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

LB Bradley Chubb

(LB Jaelan Phillips went down. How much have you been able to talk to him and take him through this?) – “Ever since it happened, it’s kind of been on the back of my mind. It’s one of those things where I try to uplift him every chance I get. We talk all the time. That’s my boy anyway. It’s more of a conversational thing more than a somber thing. Not when it first happened, but a couple days later, he was like, ‘Man, I’m going to be good. I just need y’all to be there for me.’ So it’s not more of a ‘Hey man, you’re going to be ok.’ It’s more of a regular conversation and try to make him feel as regular as possible because at the end of the day, that rehab process is a tough one to go through. And if things feel out of whack, you can kind of get down on yourself and stuff like that. So that’s my job and all of our jobs is to keep him uplifted.”

(Was it weird not having him out there by your side today? We usually see you guys dancing or doing something.) – “Yeah, it was for sure weird. But it’s the new norm now. We’ve got to just continue to move forward because that’s what he would want us to do. Go out there and ball and do everything we talked about in the offseason. I’m going to go out there and continue to do what’s best for this team each and every day, and I know he’s going to everything to get back.”

(On the other side of that, everyone talks about it being a next-man-up league and mentality. You have LB Andrew Van Ginkel and DE Emmanuel Ogbah, guys who can step in. How comforting is it knowing you have experience behind Jaelan?) – “It’s real comforting for sure. Both of those guys, whenever their name was called, they stepped up and did what they had to do each and every play. They’re playing with the same intensity, the same effort and all that, which is what this team needs. There’s no doubt in my mind those guys are going to do exactly what we need them to do. We just have to do it together at this point.”

(You have six games left, two on the road, four at home. Is there a feeling you guys control this right now?) – “Yeah, I mean that’s the feeling you want to have. It doesn’t happen by accident. It happens with the work we put in each and every week. We just have to continue to be diligent on that aspect of it and I feel like the cards will fall where they fall. You can’t worry about, ‘Oh, we got this game and this game and this game.’ It’s just week by week, day by day. Like I said, it’s going to happen for us how we need it can happen.”

(I know it’s a one-game mentality, but having four at home of the six, does that help?) – “Yeah, for sure. Any time you get the chance to play at home in front of your home crowd in this heat, in this sun, it’s an advantage for us. I’m excited about that opportunity and like I said, we just have to go out and prove it.”

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