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Isaiah Ford – December 11, 2019 Download PDF version

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

WR Isaiah Ford

(Your coaches are highly complimentary of you and what you did in the last game. Was this something you knew you had inside of you?) – “Absolutely, I don’t think you make it to this level if you don’t feel that way, or if you’re not confident. I pride myself in the preparation that I put in whether that’s when I was playing or when I was on the practice squad. I just kept preparing mentally and physically as if my time was coming because I wanted to be able to take full advantage of when it did come.”

(What kept you going from being waived to practice squad, waived to practice squad? What mentally kept you going?) – “I think I leaned on my faith, my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, my family and even my teammates. I kind of leaned on them and having a support system as a whole to keep you on the right path and keep you straight and focused on your goals, because we all have goals and aspirations that we want to hit. We just have to focus on each day, trying to get better that day and so on and so forth.”

(Did QB Ryan Fitzpatrick keep you going too? Because he seems – he said something along the lines that even on the sidelines, he’d talk to you about what you see.) –“‘Fitz’ is my guy. ‘Fitz’ is extremely smart, so we all come to him and he’s very open, so if I do see something or if any of the other receivers see something, he allows us to come to him and say, ‘what do you think about this?’ He doesn’t always shoot it down. He’ll try it out there.”

(But on the sidelines for a guy who really hasn’t played a lot, QB Ryan Fitzpatrick singled you out. He said that he would talk to you. Were you surprised and what were you saying to him?) – “I think we kind of built that relationship throughout OTAs and everything. Just kind of learning the system together and getting on the same page versus different coverages and looks and things like that. It was just a matter of us taking it from the practice field out to the game, seeing a look that we’ve seen before and kind of communicating.”

(QB Ryan Fitzpatrick said that he can depend on you. Are you excited to see what the two of you can do together these final games along the stretch?) – “Yeah. Any time your quarterback says that he can depend on you, that’s a good thing. That’s a good feeling to have. Now it’s just about continuing to get better each day and try to help this team win games.”

(Do you think you’ve did enough to warrant to the coaches that you belong here?) – “Honestly I’m just trying to focus on each day getting a little bit better, honing in on the details and the nuances of my game to try to take my game to the next level.”

(What do you think fans don’t know about the kind of player position you’re in? On the practice squad, on a game day, maybe you don’t play in a game for a month or two. What do fans not know about how challenging that role is?) – “I think the mental aspect of how hard it could be on a person, especially at this level – everyone is an competitive person, everyone wants to play. You’re going out there and practicing and working your tail off ultimately to want to play on Sunday. So if you don’t get that chance or opportunity, it could haunt you and it could hurt you if you let it. But you have to be mentally tough and mentally strong enough to persevere through everything and prepare as if your time is coming.”

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