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Christian Wilkins – October 20, 2021 Download PDF version

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

DT Christian Wilkins

(A lot of times when a team – most every time when a team has played in London, they’ve had the next week off. What was this process like of just getting the body and mind right after that long trip and ready to go again this week?) – “We’re still definitely in that process. You mentioned it. Most teams get the week off, but it’s just a quick turnaround for us. We’ve got to just make sure we’re being professional, being pros, getting our sleep, getting our recovery, all those things that are necessary to get back on track. And not just this week but the rest of the season.”

(As defensive linemen, what do you all as a group have to keep in mind as you face a guy like Falcons QB Matt Ryan?) – “He has a lot of experience. He’s been playing, what, 15, 16 years? And there isn’t anything that he really hasn’t seen, so we’re going to have to just do our job and stick within the game plan.”

(Head Coach Brian Flores mentioned there is some value in the walkthrough in terms of being able to make sure that you kind of slowly go through where everybody is supposed to be positioned. What do you view as the benefit of the walkthrough?) – “It’s definitely important because just mentally, you’re getting all the reps mentally and then it just kind of slows down for you. You’re able to just lock in mentally and really even just still work your footwork, work your steps, stepping with both of your feet in the right direction and things like that. So that’s definitely important. You lose the physical piece but like I said, the mental is all there and even more so in a lot of ways.”

(When things aren’t going great, when you’re losing games, and then you come back to work. Obviously you’re not happy about it, but what’s that line between carrying that unhappiness vs. nobody wants to come to work when everybody’s just in a bad mood.) – “Each week is a different week and I say this all the time, just that 24-hour rule. You can’t let things carry over into the next week regardless of what happened on Sunday. You’ve got to turn the page fast whether you had the best game of your career and we win or whether we have the worst game of your career and we lost. You’ve got to be able to turn the page really fast and look at it each week as each individual week because you don’t want to have the spiral effect.”

(Looking back a couple years ago when you went through a bad stretch and then you were able to turn it around – I think you won five out of seven at the end there. How do you look back on that and know that you had that strength to overcome all those losses?) – “Really just like I said – kind of just have to take things week by week. I know that was two years ago – different team, different situation, but this is a different team, different season. So we’re just going to have to take it week by week and try to put one foot in front of the other and at the end of the week, see what results happen.”

(In a way, is it easier said than done do you think to remain positive when losses pile up?) – “It really is just up to the leadership of the team. Just guys in the locker room. It’s up to us to continue to stay positive, continue to come to work each and every day and have the right mindset because whatever mindset we create as a team, it’s infectious and we know if we wantto turn things around, then we’re going to turn things around. And if we want to continue to have a positive mindset, then that’s what we’ll do.”

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