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Jerome Baker – September 6, 2021 Download PDF version

Monday, September 6, 2021

LB Jerome Baker

(What’s your reaction when you hear about them going with QB Mac Jones instead of QB Cam Newton and how that impacts you guys defensively?) – “I guess we just got to prepare for him. They are a little different. Cam is a little bit more mobile and Mac is slightly less. At the end of the day, it’s a NFL quarterback, so we got to come out there and prepare and execute at the end of the day. That’s something we go into and that’s what we got to do.”

(What have you seen from QB Mac Jones on film and some of the stuff you were able to see from the preseason?) – “He’s smart. He’s not like your typical rookie quarterback coming in and making mistakes. He’s smart, he’s got a strong arm, accurate. He’s a Patriots guy I guess you can say. We’ve got to come in there and bring our A game. At the end of the day, he’s a pro player just like the rest of us, no matter if it’s his first year or his fifth year. You’ve got to come in there and really execute at the end of the day.”

(How much did that change alter preparation for you guys? A lot, a little, somewhere in between?) – “Slight changes. With Cam you’ve got to worry about the quarterback run a little bit more. With Mac it’s slightly less; but at the end of the day, you just got to come in there and execute. Our coaches do a great job of game planning and everything, so we’ve got to come in there and execute what they have set for us.”

(After the Chargers game last year, many of the offensive players for the Chargers were saying that they were confused. I know it was a different year and a different quarterback but you see where I’m getting at with a rookie quarterback. What are some of the things that will help create confusion for a young quarterback?) – “For any quarterback, it’s like anything you play – basketball, football or whatever it is – you just try to throw as many looks as you can. With football, it’s a little different. It’s a little harder. You just try to confuse guys, execute well, line up different and really just play that cat and mouse game. You really don’t know what we’re doing. At the same point, the offense does the same thing. We don’t really know what they are doing. They try to line up a guy differently, bring him back in, bring him back out, try to go fast, get us out of personnel. It’s the game of football that we all know and love. I’m sure we’re going to do a little bit of that and they’re going to do a little bit of it. At the end of the day, we’ve just got to come in there and execute, follow our rules and play together.”

(The past couple of years the team hasn’t started off well. I’ve heard some of the players talk about the importance of a fast start this year. What has the talk been like and how do you accomplish that? What’s happening behind the scenes to get your season off to the start you want?) – “For us, our coaching staff made it a point as soon as we came in the offseason. We want to start fast no matter what we do. That’s offense, defense, special teams – whatever it is, we want to start fast. Even coming in early with meetings, we’re starting fast. Our meetings are faster. Everything you do, you want to have that mentality of start fast, no matter what it is. Our coaches do a great job of hammering that home. We just follow that up.”

(How did you spend your last free weekend before the grind starts this week?) – “I played a lot of Call of Duty. (laughter) That’s pretty much what I did. A lot of Call of Duty. I studied the playbook a little bit, but I chilled most of the time at home. It was cool.”

(You cold on the stick?) – “I’m actually on keyboard and mouse. It’s a little harder. I am not going to say I’m nice, but I did get a few Ws.”

(What’s the hacker situation like right now?) – “Oh, my goodness. They are so bad, I low key wanted to – nah, I’m playing. They are going to fix it eventually, but I’m still nice. I’m not nice, but you might not want to get with me on the sticks, because I’m nice.”

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