Transcripts

Search Transcripts
Jerome Baker – November 7, 2023 Download PDF version

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

LB Jerome Baker

(Head Coach Mike McDaniel talked about the season and how it’s going so far for you guys. What is your assessment on how things are going for the Dolphins?) – “We’re moving in the right direction. Every week we’re getting better, and that’s all you can really ask for. We’ve got our bye week coming up now, so we just have to get healthy and get ready for the rest of the year.”

(What will you do in the bye week? What’s your plan heading into it?) – “Relax, get your mind away from football a little bit. Just relax, get your body back right. It’s only a little time, so you’ve got to get back right and be at it full force.”

(What are some of the things that you’ve learned now from this first half of the season knowing that the second half is going to be much tougher?) – “I think the main thing we learned is we’ve got the potential, but we just have to keep putting the work in. We’ve got to keep believing in what we’re doing, believing what the coaches are saying and we’ll be alright. I think throughout the year we just kept getting better and better. I think this is the right time to take a little break and come back full force and go on a little run.”

(How much confidence is this defense playing with right now?) – “I think we’re confident. I think we also know that we can be a lot better. There are some things we need to work on. We need to work on getting some more turnovers and things like that, tackling better. At the end of the day, we know we’re a talented defense, but we still have to put the work in and believe in what we can do.”

(You gave up 14 points to the Chiefs, it doesn’t get much better than that. What did you take from that game?) – “Yeah, we had some mistakes. I think we started pretty slow. Things like that we can still knock out and get better. Like I said, we know we can be a good defense. We just have to get better any way we can. I think the main thing is just communication, the better communication we have, the better off we’ll be.”

(Is the bye week coming at a good time? Or after a game that’s so close like that, do you wish you had another crack at someone the next week?) – “I think it’s perfect. Pretty much halfway through, I think this is the perfect time for us.”

(How have you treated bye weeks in the past? What changes now that you’ve been in the league for a little bit?) – “In the past, I didn’t get away. I kind of stayed in Miami, kind of still stayed around and kind of was still in it. You don’t really realize it later on, you’re like, ‘I wish I had a few days just to relax,’ and now you don’t have it. Now I kind of take that approach of bye week, step away a little bit. It’s good for you, good for your mentals.”

Search Transcripts

Weekly Archives