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Jerome Baker – September 18, 2019 Download PDF version

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

LB Jerome Baker

(On practice this week.) – “Nothing has changed. We still go out there and go to work. Our mentality didn’t change. If we want to go out there and win, ultimately we have to get better during the week. Today was just another day to get better.”

(You guys always say, It’s the next game – one game at a time. You don’t even talk about what happened, and you just worry about Dallas, and just trying to get better?) – “Yeah. That’s the main focus. Just worry about what we can control, and ultimately we’ve got Dallas coming up. That’s a great team. We (need to) go out there and just get better during the week, and Sunday give it everything we got.”

(Is it difficult at times not to listen or watch what others are saying on the outside, with what has happened in the first two games, and the score? How you’ve been outscored.) – “It depends on the person really. For me, I feed off of it. When somebody says I can’t do something and talks about our defense, it really hits me. I go out there and try to push everybody as much as I can, and just give it everything I have so we can get wins on Sundays. That’s my approach. I take ownership of it.”

(When you say you feed off of it, you feed off the fact that people are saying what they are saying? I know you guys are 21 point underdogs going into Dallas on Sunday.) – “I mean, yeah. It depends on the guy. Some guys, they just can’t listen to it. My whole career, somebody always says something about me. I kind of embrace it and really just want to show that we can play great defense, and ultimately get a win.”

(Talk about this Dallas offense. They’ve got a weapon in in the air and they’ve got one on the ground.) – “Yeah. They’ve got some good weapons – (Amari) Cooper and ‘Zeke’ (Ezekiel Elliott). Their o-line is big. They have Dak (Prescott) back there. They definitely have some weapons. I know with the guys we have, we can definitely contain them. We just have to ultimately go out there and do our job, and we’ll be fine.”

(You’ve said that there is some who go off of the stuff that is being said about you and you want to prove yourself. There are others who might have the personality that two straight losses kind of get them down and lose motivation. How do you sort of even that out a little bit? Do players talk to each other and try to pick each other up?) – “That just comes with your leaders. Your leaders always have to stay positive. Your leaders always have to set the tone. That’s really just the leaders. My job is to lead and get this team going. That’s all I can do. I never put my head down because others are watching me. When it comes to days like this, we want to go out there and perform. Ultimately on Sundays, we have to perform our best.”

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