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Calais Campbell – January 5, 2025 (Postgame) Download PDF version

New York Jets vs. Miami Dolphins | 1-5-25

Miami Dolphins DT Calais Campbell (transcribed by the New York Jets)

On the way this season ended…
Tough ballgame. Obviously, we want to win the ball, but only one team gets to the end of the year happy. Whoever wins the Super Bowl. Everybody else is feeling how we’re feeling right now. The season was a rollercoaster. We had opportunities. We all knew them and wanted a season win. Guys fought hard. I am proud of the guys for that. Nobody quit. We’re all dealing with different types of injuries and just the way the ball bounces and stuff, we just kept fighting. I am proud of my guys for that. I always tell the guys when it’s a draw it matters, but what really matters is how you play in your head. You’re not going to win them all. Not much teams have done that, but today was a tough one. It would have hurt a lot more if the (Kansas City) Chiefs would have won. The end of the season just is what it is.

On if he has thought about if this is his last game…
Well, you can think about it a little bit, but I haven’t made a decision on if this is my last game or not. I tried to play this game as if it was my last. I tried to leave it all out there, which is crazy because obviously we didn’t play (well) and (to) have something going on just was, I surprised myself that I was able to go out there and still be effective. A little bumpy a couple of times but nothing too bad. I don’t know. I don’t know if it’s going to be my last game. I know that it was fun to go out there and compete. Obviously, I wasn’t able to do it in the right fashion, but we competed against one of the best to ever do it, (New York Jets QB) Aaron Rogers. Really, (New York Jets WR) Davante Adams, they’ve got some good players over there, but Aaron is a guy I admire the way he plays the game. The points he’s made all through his career, touchdown match-up against him, and he seemed like he fit this battle. He played a heck of a game, but to answer your question I haven’t put a lot of thought into it, like I don’t process in the season. I feel like I could still play some good football, which is good, but I’ve got to take the time to decide if I want to go through the process to prepare for this again. It takes a lot, but we’ll see. I can’t make a decision today. I’ve got to go through the process and whenever that time comes, we’ll see.

On what his process to decide if he will play next season looks like…
Well, the first step is let the body recover and see how it recovers and see if I can feel good. These last couple years I kind of surprised myself like, ‘oh, I still feel pretty good’. You know, but by Super Bowl and come March I’m like I feel kind of good, it feels kind of weird just sitting around, let me just go to the gym a little bit, but then it’s the family stuff. Kids getting older, and this game there’s just so many sacrifices you have to make to be good at it and so, you kind  of have to make a decision. I’ll talk with the family and see if I want to continue to make those sacrifices, but it’s definitely a process though. First step is health. Second step is communication with the family and just if the desire is still there to go through what we go through. We all go through fire. I don’t want to ever be a guy that just goes out there. I want to be a difference maker. I want to be a difference maker if I’m going to be out there, but I still think I can be a difference maker though. Today I still felt like I was a difference maker. There’s time between now and then though.

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