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Evan Boehm – October 24, 2019

Thursday, October 24, 2019

C/G Evan Boehm

(QB Ryan Fitzpatrick says you talk a lot?) – “I do talk a lot.”

(Maybe a little too much.) – “Is that what he said?”

(Yeah.) – “As a center, I like to have everybody on the same page. I love having fun. Football ultimately, it’s a job, but ultimately it’s a game. You have fun. You grew up having fun playing this game, so I love having fun playing this game and doing the things that we need to do. I think everybody’s seeing we’re getting better. We’re playing and we’ve got a tough, tough task ahead of us on Monday night. We’re just starting to get there and get going. Apparently ‘Fitz’ (Ryan Fitzpatrick), I’ve got to shut my mouth around him. (laughter)”

(QB Ryan Fitzpatrick said at least you aren’t a nervous center. He says he doesn’t like nervous centers?) – “You have fun with it. Have fun, be confident. Just listen to ‘Fitz.’ If you do what ‘Fitz’ tells you to do, you’ll be successful.”

(What is helping this line stabilize?) – “I think we’re getting more familiarized with each other. Myself, you have Julién (Davenport) who’s on IR, you have (Danny) Isidora who’s on IR, you have three rookies, you have Chris (Reed) who’s new, you have J’Marcus (Webb) who’s new – that’s a lot of new guys. Plus Andrew Donnal, you have Keaton (Sutherland), you have all those guys. That’s a lot of new people in an offensive line room. And then you have five guys trying to do one job. That’s tough to do as an offensive lineman. I think we’re getting more comfortable with each other, understanding how each other play and how to feed off of one another. You go in there and if this is Shaq’s (Calhoun) weakness and this is my strength, I can go and help Shaq with that. If this is my weakness and this is Shaq’s strength, he can help me with that. We’re just playing off of each other, feeding of each other and buying into what ‘Guge’ (Offensive Line Coach Dave DeGuglielmo) is teaching us and it’s starting to get successful.”

(This team you’re going up against, they like to be physical.) – “They are physical. Like I said, it’s going to be a tough task this Monday. I’m ready to go to war with these guys. We’ve got to put a good week of practice together like we did last week and we’ve got to take an extra step even to what we did last week to try to go out there and get this win. It’s going to be a fun game. It’s going to be a great atmosphere on Monday Night Football. Like I said, we put a good week together and we’ll see what happens.”

(You’re a young guy. Has Monday Night Football apparently lost a bit of luster?) – “I think this is my first Monday night game I’ve ever played in. It’s going to be fun. I feel like Pittsburgh – Pittsburgh always has a crowd. They’re always rowdy, they’re always ready to go. It’s going to be fun. It’s going to be a fun atmosphere against a really good team. We’re starting to turn around ourselves, so it’s time to go.”

(This franchise has played in the most Monday Night Football games of any franchise.) – “This one?”

(Yeah. This is going to be the 85th, the Dolphins franchise. They’re 42-42. You can put them back in the win column back over .500. What does it feel like to be part of such a storied Monday night tradition with the Dolphins?) – “I didn’t even know that until just now. It’s pretty cool. This being my first Monday night game and possibly getting back into the win column. But you really can’t worry about that. You’ve got to worry about the guy who’s across from you. Their front line and their linebackers and their defense all together, they’re pretty damn good. We’ve got a lot of work ahead of us and we’ve got to get better and better each and every week like we have been and continue to do what we’ve been doing and hopefully we can put some stuff together.”

(You talked about some of the rookies on the line. T Isaiah Prince over here, what does he bring?) – “His technique is unbelievable. He’s got great technique. He’s got great fundamentals. He’s starting to learn the professionalism that it takes to play in this league and what it takes to be a successful football player in this league. He has been doing a great job. You can see his maturity level from Week 1 when I got here to right now and he’s going up that mountain and getting better each and every time.”

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