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Elandon Roberts – October 1, 2020 Download PDF version

Thursday, October 1, 2020

LB Elandon Roberts

(I wanted to get your thoughts on the Titans and Steelers losing a game because of COVID, or postponing it. We’ll see when it’s made up. I wanted to know what your life has been like, trying to stay away from it. Have you been able to go out to eat at all? What has your life been like when you’ve left the building?) – “Us as players and the Miami Dolphins we do a great job of treating it like a bubble. We know the responsibility we have to our families and our Miami Dolphin families with the personnel in the building, with our coaches, with our teammates. With us, we’ve still been on a ‘come to practice and go home’ mentality and stuff like that. As Miami Dolphins, that’s just how we’ve been controlling it.”

(I don’t know if you’ve heard the news that Florida’s relaxed in some of it’s protocols. Restaurants can be full, bars can be full – does that make you nervous? Do you think that you are still in good hands? What is your reaction to what the state has done?) – “You can’t control what goes on outside of what you can control as Miami Dolphins. We just still are following our protocol here in our building. You can look at it as a job; we look at each other as family. We’ve just been doing what we’ve first came in doing and that’s coming in, washing hands, wearing our masks at all time – I just took mine off to get on this call – our contact tracers and stuff, doing everything that’s put in place for us to do. I think we’ve done that well as an organization. We’re just going to have to continue doing it more and more with everything opening back up.”

(I’m writing a story on LB Kamu Grugier-Hill. What have you learned about him? What are you impressed by with what he has done? Did you know him back in the day in New England?) – “Yeah, me and Kamu were drafted in the same class in New England. We’ve always had a relationship on and off the field. Kamu is a great guy. I’m pretty sure that’s what you’re getting from everybody. He comes to work every day, works hard off the field. He’s an exciting guy to be around and stuff like that. That’s my guy.”

(I wanted to ask you about this Sunday’s matchup against the Seahawks. We’ll see who is out there; but I know they’ve got a few guys like G Mike Iupati who can really roll up to that second level and really bring that physical mentality. Is that something you embrace as a player, that really takes pride in your own physicality, going against a team that wants to smash you in the mouth too?) – “That’s what the game is all about. It has it’s physical aspects to it and whatnot. Hey, it’s football. Just come to play.”

(How much are you restricting your contact with the outside world? When was the last time you ate at a restaurant or went to a store and stuff like that?) – “It’s been a minute. We went right from training camp to playing games. There really was no time for none of that. My wife, she loves to cook, so it’s all good.”

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