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Jaylen Waddle – September 8, 2021 Download PDF version

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

WR Jaylen Waddle

(In talking with DT Raekwon Davis, he said that QB Mac Jones was a jokester off the field. What do you remember from him and his personality?) – “I just remember him just being real competitive. I think when he got his time to really start, he was just really competitive about business really every day. Of course he would joke around and stuff, but he was really about business.”

(You scared the heck out of us on the field and we haven’t spoken to you since then. What did you think had happened when you went down in that ball game and how happy were you to find out whatever you found out?) – “You’re talking about against Atlanta? I just got rolled up. Something simple that comes with the game. Just something simple as far as that. Nothing major.”

(Your first real NFL game is this week. Is it nervousness all week? Is it harder to sleep at night?) – “To be honest, not really. I’m kind of still in the training mode right now. I think I’ll get more nervous the closer the game gets but right now, I’m just trying to get everything down, really.”

(Has it sunk in at all that you’re going to go play your former quarterback and you have a quarterback that you’re playing with that you played with in college? Just all the similarities and rollover between the teams, is that kind of surreal for you?) – “Not really, to be honest. It’s just like going out there, playing another game against people that you know. All of that, that comes with it.”

(We’re going to compare QB Tua Tagovailoa and QB Mac Jones forever. You were asked to compare them before the draft and you answered supporting the guy you obviously just played with. Did Tagovailoa ever say, ‘hey man, I’m better than Mac,’ to you after you gave that answer? Did he ever give you any grief for that?) – “(laughter) Nah, not really.”

(What did you think at the time when you were asked to compare QB Mac Jones and QB Tua Tagovailoa?) – “I mean going with someone you played with, obviously going into a process. So yeah.”

(Did you ever reach out to QB Tua Tagovailoa and say ‘hey, now I’m kind of thinking the other way?’) – “(We’ve) never talked about it. (laughter)”

(We just heard QB Tua Tagovailoa describe your level of communication and confidence on the sideline in telling him ‘this is why I’m running this route; this is where I’m expecting it.’ Where does that confidence come from, even in your first year in the league, to tell your quarterback this is where I want the ball?) – “I think it just comes from him. He tells me if he sees something to just tell him and let him know. So any time that I see something or something doesn’t go as we would like, I always go to him and be like ‘Oh.’ He gives me his thoughts and I give him my thoughts, then we go from there.”

(One thing that Head Coach Brian Flores talked about a lot last year with the team was the camaraderie everybody had and how much they loved playing for each other. I saw a video clip of you and some of the receivers dancing the other day at practice. How easy has it been for you to kind of slide into that type of culture and the atmosphere here of the guys kind of really loving each other and playing for one another?) – “I think it’s real easy, especially in my receiver group. Everyone is like pretty close. We see each other a lot throughout the day, so just being yourself around people, you’ve all got to come and go to be the best and get the best out of each other. I think it makes it real easy.”

(You mentioned you’re kind of still in training mode getting ready for the season. But at 4:25 p.m. on Sunday, what’s going to be going on inside of you and how do you handle butterflies, if you do get them?) – “I mean you handle them just like any other thing. It comes with it. I think if you don’t get nervous any more, you really shouldn’t be playing. Of course I’ll get nervous and all of that good stuff, but it’s time to go.”

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