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Jerome Baker – September 9, 2019 Download PDF version

Monday, September 9, 2019

LB Jerome Baker

(Any day after a loss is always tough. The day after 59-10, is that any more difficult knowing that the game just wasn’t competitive and so many mistakes were made?) – “A loss is a loss so we’ll just go in there and correct the mistakes we can. We just need to go out there and execute and try to get a W.”

(You posted something on Twitter today. What really prompted that post?) – “Social media? It’s just a part of the game. I don’t want anybody to question that we’ll all stick together. It’s just one loss. We’ve got to bounce back and ultimately stick together.”

(Did you see the report from Pro Football Talk last night saying there were guys in the locker room already maybe wanting to get out of this? What do you think about when you hear something like that?) – “Get out of what?”

(Not want to be on the team or comments to their agents, according to this report, that some guys don’t want to be here.) – “I didn’t see or hear all of that. Just being around this team, we all stick together. We all just want to win. We didn’t get the job done yesterday. It’s just one loss. We’re 0-1 just like 15 other teams. We just have to bounce back.”

(You guys went from believe this or not – 500-to-1 to 10,000-to-1 to make the Super Bowl. What are your thoughts when you hear something like that?) – “We’ll see. We’ve got to go out there and just perform. We know what we’re capable of. We know the Super Bowl is in our city. We all have a goal but also we just have to take one game at a time.”

(When you look at the film of that, where does it even start to try to correct the issues?) – “Execution. We just didn’t execute. It wasn’t that they did anything special. We just didn’t execute. We also didn’t start out fast. They started out fast. They’re a great team and we ultimately didn’t get the job done.”

(How much is trusting the system and trusting yourself when you’re on the field – how much does that go into it? Do you think guys are there yet with this defense?) – “It’s a work in progress but as far as trusting the system, it works. You have countless examples of it. We definitely know it works. We just have to ultimately get better and really perfect the system that’s in place.”

(LB Sam Eguavoen said yesterday after the game that you guys were going to take a look at the tape and then burn it. What was the message from Head Coach Brian Flores and the coaching staff today after you guys got a chance to evaluate some of that tape?) – “We wanted to watch that and feel that – feel that loss and feel that pain that we definitely could have gotten the job done if we would have just executed it. It’s as simple as that. It’s not like we don’t have the talent. It’s not like we don’t have any of that. We have everything we need. We just have to execute it. That film was really just the pill of it. You just swallow it and go onto the next week.”

(One of the messages that Head Coach Brian Flores said and I think most coaches do with players is to not worry about outside noise or the distractions or comments. You know that this team, given a loss like that, people are going to start saying things. How do you block that out?) – “To me, I kind of embrace it. I feed off of what everybody else says. ‘You can’t do this.’ That’s kind of been my whole career. ‘You can’t do this. You can’t do that.’ Also, I want to get this team like that. If they want to say whatever, ‘we can’t do this on defense,’ we have to feed off of that and embrace it. If we embrace it, we just take it and run with it.”

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