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Byron Jones – October 29, 2020 Download PDF version

Thursday, October 29, 2020

CB Byron Jones

(Now that you’ve had several games here with CB Xavien Howard, just what does it feel like to be out there with what we see as one of the better corners in the league? Obviously he’s got four interceptions over his past four games, but to be out there with him on opposite sides for several games now?) – “It’s fun. We’re starting to build the chemistry as a secondary. The young guys are paying attention. They’re learning, they’re getting up to speed; but it’s nice to be out there with the vets. We’ve been out there for a while and we’re kind of building our chemistry and we understand each other. We’re communicating a lot better, so that’s a big plus of having everyone out there at the same time.”

(What’s it been like – we’re pretty much asking everyone – but what’s it like going against QB Tua Tagovailoa in practice now that he’s getting those first-team runs?) – “He looks good. He’s zipping the ball. You can tell he’s confident back there. It’s cool to see young guys do well in this league and I think he’s definitely going to be one of them. So for him, it’s learning as much as possible from ‘Fitz’ (Ryan Fitzpatrick) and putting it to use. I think we’re in a good spot.”

(This is an offense that uses a lot of motions and shifts and throws a lot of bubble screens. What’s the challenge from a communication standpoint to be on top of what the assignments are?) – “One of the biggest components to an offense like this is communicating pre-snap, so understanding where the motions can come from and understanding how that changes our defense. So if you have a receiver in attack position and he’s looking in towards the quarterback, it’s communicating to the DBs to the other side like, ‘hey, this guy may go in motion, make sure you check this or check that.’ It’s just really about as a defense being on the same page and communicating because they have different snap counts, they have different motions and different shifts, so this is a game where we have to communicate and we have to do it pre-snap as opposed to when the ball is being snapped.”

(This is kind of a tough question, but I’m sure as much as you like to avoid any speculation that gets thrown out there, I’m guessing that you probably heard the other day for about two minutes there, there was speculation that CB Xavien Howard might be traded. And even for those two seconds, was there ever that moment when you said, “oh no” before you realized that the club had come out and said that it’s just not going to happen?) – “No. My first five years I played with the Cowboys and you get a lot of outside noise, and one of the things that I’ve learned there is just eliminating outside noise. Yeah, we see it; but we don’t really care for it and we don’t really bring it in the locker room because we’ve got more stuff going on that’s more important that we need to focus on. I think one thing football teams do generally is keep the noise outside and just focus on football on the inside to be honest, because we can’t control that at the end of the day.”

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