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Jaelan Phillips – September 13, 2023 Download PDF version

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

LB Jaelan Phillips

(The difference between turf and grass, can you feel the difference on your body?) – “Yeah, absolutely. Especially like practicing on turf for a long time, you can just feel it in your joints. Then playing on turf, it’s just not as forgiving as grass. So obviously that results in a lot of people’s cleats getting stuck in turf and, unfortunately, non-contact injuries. So yeah, left up to me in a perfect world, every field would be grass, for sure.”

(It’s a division game in Week 2. What’s at stake this early in the season with the Patriots?) – “It’s a big game obviously. We’re just going to prepare for it like we always do. Obviously they have a talented team and it will be a hard-nosed game. It always is when we play the Patriots.”

(What we saw towards the end of that game, what the defense did, is that the M.O. of this defense?) – “Yeah, obviously you don’t want to be in that situation every time. We want to be able to hold them to a lot less points and a lot less yards given up. But yeah, I guess that is the M.O. because no matter what happens, when push comes to shove, you’re always going to see high effort and high intensity from us.”

(You guys got the sack late but early on, it seemed like you had some trouble getting pressure with four. What was going on there?) – “Well, they weren’t really drop-back passing too often. They were either doing play-action or the few drop-back passes they did have, it’s kind of hard to get into a rhythm when they’re just running the ball on you. Like I said in an interview after the game, we didn’t earn the right to rush the passer. You have to stop the run before you can actually get to those third-and-long situations and second-and-long situations. They were really just having their way in the run game so we really didn’t have the chance to get much going in the pass game.”

(How do you fix that?) – “I think it is just about discipline and technique, and things like that. These are our first live bullets of a full game with this new defense, so there’s going to be growing pains. I think just getting back to the drawing board and being disciplined with our run fits and things like that. It will be, not to say easy adjustments, but I don’t think it’s going to be the end of the world trying to figure it out. I think just getting in that meeting room, getting out on the practice field, we’ll be able to work it out.”

(When you put stuff like that on film, do you think the Patriots will try to prove that you guys can stop the run again?) – “Absolutely. It’s a copycat league so any time you are assessing somebody on film and you see a certain play or a certain formation or something has success, you’re most likely going to try to repeat that success. So we have to go out there and set the tone and prove that we can stop the run.”

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