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Davon Godchaux – August 28, 2017 Download PDF version

Monday, August 28, 2017

DT Davon Godchaux

(What’s your take on how you played against Philadelphia?) – “(I’m) just getting better. Each and every rep, I come out and get better, do things that (Defensive Coordinator Matt) Burke wants, (Defensive Line) Coach (Terrell) Williams wants. I just come out each and every game and get better and expand my game.”

(Now that you’re a starter, do you feel like you’re going to play in that fourth exhibition game against Minnesota?) – “I’m just doing whatever the coaches say. If ‘Coach T’ (Defensive Line Coach Terrell Williams) wants me to play, I’m going to play. If he doesn’t want me to play, I’m not going to play. It’s whatever he wants. It’s his call.”

(Do you feel like you need the snaps in the fourth preseason game?) – “Yes, definitely, as a rookie. You always do. As any player, you never can get so relaxed. You always want to get that extra experience, that extra play, especially as a rookie. I need those fourth game snaps.”

(Could you have envisioned being a starter right now? Did that cross your mind when you first came into camp or offseason workouts?) – “I just came in and worked. Whatever they needed, a guy to do the dirty work, get off the ball, be physical, that’s my style of play.”

(Where have you become a better player than the college player at LSU over the last 12 months?) – “I would say mature. (I’ve) just matured just being around with the guys, learning from those guys; but the main thing is being mature on and off the field. There’s a lot of free time we have and I have to be mature in those times instead of going off and doing foolish things.”

(We knew you had the pass rush numbers in college. Had you been, you think, undervalued as far as what you can do against the run?) – “I’m just playing. Like I said, whatever they want. If they want me on the pass rush team, it’s whatever the coaches want. I’m going to do it 100 percent.”

(During the first team snaps, how often has it been where you’ve gotten fewer offensive linemen to deal with because of DT Ndamukong Suh’s presence? Has that been a factor yet in preseason?) – “Suh’s a great help.  A guy like that is going to get a lot of double teams, so sometimes I get one-on-ones; but mostly double teams too. It’s a great help having a guy like Suh, just learning, getting the calls from him, just things like that.”

(What is it going to be like for you to play in your first NFL game?) – “It’s going to be big. I always dreamed of it. As a little kid growing up, I always wanted to play in the NFL, so it’s going to be big. ”

(Have you surprised even yourself at all? To come in as a fifth-round pick and be a likely starter is improbable. Are you surprised?) – “The main thing, like (Defensive Line) Coach Terrell Williams) says, is being consistent and attack the ball. A lot of people make football hard, but it’s really just one-on-one, just beating your man. If you can beat your man, you can play football.”

(You mentioned beating your man, but one thing that you do very well is getting your hands on the offensive linemen first. Can you speak to the importance of that?) – “That’s something that we do in individual every day with (Ndamukong) Suh, Jordan Phillips, Vincent Taylor. We do that every day in individual; get off the ball, shoot your hands, get the first step. Each and every day, that’s something we do every day, detailed 20 minutes of individual.”

(With DT Ndamukong Suh, how much are you guys like students? I see him always talking to Defensive Line Coach Terrell Williams all the time.) – “The guy is amazing. He teaches me a lot. When he talks to Coach Terrell Williams, they talk about things that I’m just sitting over there ear picking and learning each and every day. I try to get in their business, get in their conversations, see what new techniques they’re learning, and things like that.”

(Does it amaze you that a guy like DT Ndamukong Suh that’s so good still focuses on the little fine-tuning things that he does? – “There’s a reason every year he’s coaching at the Nike Open. He’s not coaching just because. He’s got to have some type of coaching abilities so he can go out there and teach those guys and then come back and teach us the things that he has learned each and every year, it’s so amazing.”

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