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Elandon Roberts – September 11, 2020 Download PDF version

Friday, September 11, 2020

LB Elandon Roberts

(I wanted to ask you to address the thought process that you guys had or the discussions that you guys had as a team about the video that you released yesterday. What was that process all like?) – “We talked about what we wanted to do as a team and we did what we did as a team.”

(Do you personally think the NFL’s response to the racial injustice protest has been insufficient and if you do think so, in what ways?) – “I just think you need to watch the video. The video is trying to tell you all the things you need to know and stuff like that.”

(I’m going to switch topics real quickly. I just wanted to get your thoughts on what it meant to you to be elected team captain?) – “Just to be elected by yours peers – your teammates – and stuff like that, especially coming to a new city, a new coach and stuff like that; it was great, man. Every day I’m going to try to be the best me, like I said earlier in the year for the guys and stuff like that, and the best teammate on and off the field.”

(What does it mean for you guys, as players, to have the support of Head Coach Brian Flores in that video when you guys were putting that video together – for him to him to have his face in there and say “I back these guys 100 percent?”) – ”I think as a team, as a family, that’s what you look forward to and stuff like that. As players and as a coaching staff, just like as our media group, as people just working around the building, it’s one family and we just support each other like that.”

(I wanted to ask you about in your days with the Patriots and you started a bunch of games; but how much do you feel like you were used as a one-dimensional linebacker and do you feel like you can be an every-down linebacker?) – “Every day, just like everybody on the team, we come to work and you just work on everything. You work on your craft. When I go home, I work on being a great husband and a great father. That’s my answer.”

(There’s a magic drink you’ve been trying to drink during practice I saw about a month ago during a video. I forgot the name of it…) – “Oh, I got you. My DarkGrind.”

(What goes into the DarkGrind? What’s that all about? Where do you get that mentality and what does it give you when you drink it?) – “I can’t tell you what I put in it because that’s a secret, but I can tell you the mentality behind it. Every day, I play football; but you guys – you all have a passion of media, public relations and stuff like that. So you guys can be home with your significant others, with girlfriends, your mom, whoever’s close to you and you just point out like, ‘man, I’m grinding to do this. I’m grinding to do that.’ But at the end of the day, when you walk away from that you’re like, ‘they probably don’t understand like how I need them to understand.’ And that’s just day-to-day with anybody because that grind you put in and all that, it’s deep to you because that’s your own grind. So at the end of the day, there’s no light at the end of the tunnel because that’s your grind, so you’re always going to be in the dark because only you’re going to understand it. So that’s how I came up with it. That’s why I call it DarkGrind.”

(Tell me a little bit more about LB Kyle Van Noy the person, less so the football player. You spent a lot of time with him previously and we talked about that, but just more so the person and what he meant to New England. The other day we talked to him and he talked about how he has a lot to give to Miami just because he’s been blessed and he did that in New England, so could you just chop it up a little about him?) – “Kyle (Van Noy) is a great guy. We’ve been together for the last four years and it’s still great to see him every day. He’s a tremendous person off the field at what he does in the community. If you know a little bit about Kyle’s background you know it wasn’t always perfect and stuff, so with him and how he and his wife and their family give back and stuff like that is a great thing. He’s just a great guy to just be around every day.”

(I don’t know if you watched the game last night, but I think the country was just so excited to watch football. Was there anything that you saw from a player standpoint that was a big takeaway about what football might look like in 2020 and how maybe it’s going to take some time to get up to speed? Was there anything that you saw?) – “Man, I was so tired I didn’t even watch the game last night. I was tired.”

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