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Emmanuel Ogbah – October 21, 2021 Download PDF version

Thursday, October 21, 2021

DE Emmanuel Ogbah

(We saw you had pretty good joint practices when the Falcons were here a few weeks back. How can that kind of benefit you seeing these guys on the game day field?) – “They’re a different team. They improve every week. They do a lot of good things and we’ve just got to do a good job stopping the run, rushing the passer well this week. We’re definitely going to use some film during joint practices, but they’re a different team now so we’ll see.”

(I’m assuming – I guess I’ll bring it up – we saw that there was a Twitter exchange that was sent to you and you posted it and it became public and the student was reprimanded or is in the process of being reprimanded. One, how did that tweet impact you and two, when you shared it with the world, what did you hope would be the end result?) – “When I first saw the DM – it was actually on Instagram – when I saw the DM, it was definitely after a tough loss and seeing that pissed me off. It’s not the first time I’ve gotten messages like that, but I just wanted to show the world that you can’t do that. We’re all human. You can’t come at a person like that, especially I know you can’t come to my face like that, so I just wanted to show the world you can’t do that and then I realized I didn’t want it to be a distraction for this team, so that’s the only reason why I deleted the tweet. I just wanted to show those keyboard warriors, you can’t really do that. We’re still humans at the end of the day.”

(Do you think we’re making progress or regressing in that direction as a society?) – “I don’t know what to say about that. I know I strive to be a better human every day and I just hope the world strives to be better as a society because we’re all the same. We all bleed the same, we’re just different colors. That’s all.”

(Do you think social media platforms should do more because we’ve seen not only in American football but in football – for example, Premier League players have been receiving a lot of abuse online also. Do you think social media platforms need to do more?) – “I think we just need to stand together as one. If you see your friend or somebody you know doing that, say something. Don’t just ignore it just because that’s your buddy or your family member. Just say something about it because it affects everybody.”

(From a defensive standpoint, obviously you’re one of the veteran players on this team and you were one of the top players last year. What do you guys say to kind of stop the bleeding and get this thing headed in the right direction?) – “I mean we’re almost right there. We’re almost right there. We’ve just got to keep pushing and we’re going to turn it around. I know it’s going to take some work, but we’re going to do the best we can to turn this thing around because if you watch the games, we’re always in there. We’re almost winning games, but we just need that something just to get us there.”

(Did you feel that the effort that you guys put making Jacksonville go backwards, was that moment that was going to turn it for you guys?) – “I mean it’s a football game. It’s a matter of inches. We thought we did something and they came out and kicked a 54-yarder, so who would have known. But like I said, we’ve got to keep fighting every week. Can’t give up. I love the fight of this team.”

(There was a lot of talk before the season about how you’ve got to start fast, you’ve got to start fast, and how you’ve kind of learned your lesson from last year and how the slow start costs you in the end. Where do you think you are six games into the season? At what point does it become like almost too late to turn things around? Where’s the sense of urgency?) – “I mean we’ve still got 11 games left so it’s not too late. We can still turn this thing around. Like I said, come to practice every day ready to work. Just got to push each other at practice. You’ve got to be better every day. You’ve got to go watch extra film. Just got to be the best you can be for yourself to just help the team win.”

(Some people maybe in this room even operate better under a deadline or their back against the ball. At 1-5, it seems like y’all’s back is against the wall. Do you think you’re the type of team that can wake up in that circumstance?) – “Yes. All we can do is fight forward now. We’ve already got our backs against the wall so all we can do is move forward.”

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