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Jerome Baker – December 17, 2018 Download PDF version

Monday, December 17, 2018

LB Jerome Baker

(You’re a rookie, so how do you treat these last couple games here coming up?) – “Just finish strong. You never know what can happen. My thing is just focus on the next one, finish strong and at the end of the season, just let it work out itself.”

(You’ve probably been adapting your whole career to game plans and stuff other guys are doing to you. How much more difficult is it in the NFL to do it?) – “It’s definitely a little bit more difficult because personnel – some teams have a fullback, some teams don’t; some teams have three tight ends, some teams only have two. It’s really just adapting to what teams got, what their weapons are. You really just try to focus on our game plan and how they’ll try to game plan us. It’s definitely a work in progress of every week it’s something new, but that’s the challenge and that’s what makes it fun so it’s all good.”

(Each week, the goal of a defensive player is to basically stop the run. You guys are allowing more than 150 rushing yards per game. What has been the issue that’s causing these breakdowns?) – “We just have to do our individual assignment. Sometimes, we don’t execute our individual assignment. If we don’t stop the run, that leads to our DBs cheating up so the ball is getting thrown over their head. We just have to work together as far as executing together. The thing about the league is we still have two more weeks to just finish strong and hopefully we just plan to do that.”

(Can you even think about how much better next season will be for you?) – “I can’t right now, but that’s definitely going to be exciting. Right now, I just (need to) focus on these next two games. Next year will be next year.”

(What was the mood with the players coming in today?) – “That’s a hard pill to swallow. The great thing about us is we still come in and we just go to work. That’s all we pretty much do. Take these next two days off and just relax; but Wednesday you have to come in ready to work and get back at it.”

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