Jarvis Landry – October 19, 2017
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Thursday, October 19, 2017
WR Jarvis Landry
(On playing the Jets this week) – “I look forward to everybody; but this is another opportunity for us to come out here, especially after the performance that we had the first time we played these guys, and put something better on tape and come out of here with a W. That’s the only mindset we really have approaching this game.”
(What difference do you see from this offense that faced the Jets the last time? You’re about to play them this Sunday, considering the game you guys came off of against Atlanta.) – “We just continue to make plays and for us, that’s going to allow us to have an opportunity to create some momentum. Hopefully we can get into some of the things that we’re hoping to see and execute. It’s up to us. It’s always been about us.”
(Head Coach Adam Gase made a point this week about how, as a group, you all have dropped the most amount of catchable balls. These are obviously good receivers that take pride in their work. How hard are you on yourselves when that happens? Do you go out and catch even extra balls?) – “I don’t know.”
(Divisional games, how much do you get up for playing the Jets, Bills, or Patriots?) – “Same as everybody. We don’t take anybody lightly and the approach is the same way, no matter who we’re playing against. Divisional games, obviously, we know the crowd’s going to be into it a little bit more; but we’ve got to have the same intensity, the same passion, the motivation that we approach every game with.”
(How much chatter has there been among the players about the last time you guys played the Jets and payback and making up for that performance?) – “The first time we played them they got after us pretty good. For us, it was something that we kind of got hit in the mouth and looked at ourselves after that game and then bounced back and got another one, got a W. (We’re) trying to create some momentum and coming into this game now, it’s trying to continue that – continue making plays on the offense, complement the defense, the special teams playing together as a team. That’s going to allow us to have an opportunity to win this game.”
(You talked about getting hit in the mouth. Is that something you can see when reviewing film? Is that something that you see in the tape room when you’re going over that game?) – “Let me re-phrase that. I guess ‘Hit in the mouth’ was the wrong thing, but I think we did a lot of things in that game that didn’t allow us to be set up for success. We were behind the sticks a lot, we had a lot of penalties and we really couldn’t get a chance to get in the red zone to have an opportunity to score. I think we threw an interception in the red zone on one of those drives, as well. I think we shot ourselves in the foot, so I’ll rephrase that one.”
(On the touchdown last week, it was obviously a really creative play with you going in motion and then reversing. Had that been in the playbook going back to last year? Have you been antsy for that play to come out and be used?) – “Yes, I was excited every time (Head Coach Adam Gase) puts that one in. Sometimes it gets called in the red zone, sometimes it doesn’t; but I was excited when he put it back in. It was in last year. It’s one of those plays that you’ve got to tip your hat to coach for designing and we made it work.”
(Is that something that you can’t use for a while now that it’s on film?) – “You never know. We’re going to just put it in the bag and we might find a way to hide it and bring it back out again.”
(Were you surprised at all about how wide open you were?) – “No. Literally, I’m telling you, every time we ran that play, it’s been wide open just like that. I was excited when he called it. I tried not to drop it. That was the hardest part.”
(What makes it so hard for a defense to stop that play?) – “It’s going to be tough. There’s a lot of options on that play and every week we do something a little bit different with a different guy depending on the defense and how they play in the red zone. You never really know who’s going to pop out from somewhere or how it’ll happen.”
(Is there a little bit of extra pressure catching a ball when no one is around you, when you’re wide open just because it’s just you?) – “Yes, and the touchdown right there too. That is the toughest one. Coach talks about it all of the time, ‘Make sure you look it in. See the ball first, then score the touchdown.’”
(Word association. I say New York Jets, you think what?) – “Who?”
(Word association. I say New York Jets, what do you think? What’s the first thing that comes to your mind?) – “I just said it. (laughter) I mean look, this has been a rivalry game for a long time and I’m excited to be a part of it and be on this side of it. We look forward to it. It’s a division game and, for us, we want to continue to make our way of taking over the division and really setting the tone inside of the division as well. To have played these guys twice, being the first team in our division that we’ve played twice this soon, we look forward to evening it out, 1-1.”
