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Jerome Baker – December 5, 2021 (Postgame) Download PDF version

Sunday, December 5, 2021
Postgame – N.Y. Giants

LB Jerome Baker

Q: Five in a row. Feel pretty good?
JEROME BAKER: Yeah, five in a row going into the bye week.

Q: To keep a team out of the end zone – you guys have only given up four touchdowns in this five-week winning streak – how have you been able to buckle down and set the record like that?
JEROME BAKER: It’s a credit to the coaches. They put us in position to excel so credit to them. We just go out there and execute and get it done. We have the mentality now that don’t let anybody score and we believe that and it’s showing.

Q. You look forward to a week off. This is kind of a weird thing. Do you guys prefer to keep going here and winning or is a week off welcome here?
JEROME BAKER: It’s a love and hate. We’re winning, but we definitely need that week off, yeah. Me personally, I would rather just keep going because we’re hot right now, so at the end of the day we’re professionals, so you have to take the week off and come back and get ready to work.

Q. How do you keep building on this, Jerome?
JEROME BAKER: This isn’t individual We come in and go to work. We come in every week, and we sit down and go over things and our coach has a great game plan, and we go out there and execute. We just got to continue that. It’s been working for us, and we try to keep it going.

Q. One thing that Jaelan has something like seven sacks since week nine. What have you seen playing alongside him for the past month or so?
JEROME BAKER: I’ve seen it since he walked in the door. He is hungry, and he goes hard every play. Even going all the way back to just the OTAs and all that stuff, he didn’t run with the D-line. He didn’t run with outside linebackers. He run with us. And he really took that to heart. Just to see a young guy do that, it meant a lot. It’s just paying off for him now, and we’re all happy for him.

Q. This was always a situation where you knew that the explosion was coming? That production.
JEROME BAKER: We definitely knew that. Just the work he put in every week. Even if he was banged up, he was still trying to get better, helping us get better. Just a credit to him, just getting it done.

Q. What’s the evolution of this defense from September to now? What are you guys doing differently?
JEROME BAKER: We’re just executing better. It’s not like we’re calling different plays that we never ran before. We’re doing the same thing. We’re just executing a little better. If it’s knowing your leverage, knowing your leverage. If it’s playing with your hands, it’s playing with your hands. We’re just finally believing and executing. Just a credit to our coaches and our players just getting it done.

Q. Jerome, it seems like it was another season almost where you guys were 1-7, and it seemed so long ago. Can you reflect on how far this team has come in this winning streak and how you’re positioned once you get past the bye?
JEROME BAKER: I think the one thing that just ‘Flo’ always echoes is just take it one day at a time and get better every day. We really took that approach, and just to see this team finally turn things around, we just have to keep that going. It’s been working for us, and we just have to continue that.

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