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Jevon Holland – September 20, 2021 Download PDF version

Monday, September 20, 2021

S Jevon Holland

(Going back to your football experience at Oregon, I’m not sure if you had any tough loses like you had yesterday. But I’m just curious, in your experience, what’s the best procedure to put a game like that behind you and move to the next one?) – “I think it’s important to watch the game first and see what went wrong, what went right and then take the corrections and add those to the arsenal of things you can build on. Basically building blocks. It’s important to see tough losses like that as just adversity you can overcome. I had a loss like that in college in 2018 when we played Arizona. We just use that as building blocks to take the next step and try to progress the next week.”

(You had to overcome an injury during training camp and the preseason. What’s the process been like for you as a rookie, figuring out all of these packages and getting adjusted to the NFL game?) – “I think it’s just about simplifying it in my head, for myself at least. Breaking things down into groups, so I’m not just looking at everything at one time, if that makes since. That’s the simplest way I can explain it, honestly. That’s how I try to learn – breaking everything down to the core, the ingredients, then analyzing the ingredients and after that, putting it together and making everything make sense in my head.”

(You mentioned the importance of looking over the film and making corrections. When you looked at the film from yesterday’s game, what stood out to you?) – “I feel like the things we went over with the coaches, and whatever the coach said in the meeting and things like that, we know what we need to correct. It’s just getting back to the TNTs (take no talent). Like I’ve always said, it takes no talent. Just making sure that we are reviewing our play scheme or whatever it is that we have and taking a deep dive into what we need to shuffle around and get back on track with, if that makes sense.”

(When did you know you would see a uptick in snaps on Sunday? And just how you felt you played and what it meant to you to secure a fumble and be part of a takeaway while the game was still competitive?) – “It felt great to be a part of that takeaway. When I saw Brandon (Jones) scoop it, I was juiced. I was just trying to run and go block somebody. Then the tight end stripped him and I was like, ‘Oh, snap. Ahh!’ and slid over there and got up on it. We have this thing in practice called city or country. If there is a lot of space, you pick it up and scoop and score. But if there are people around, get on it. I saw people around and got up on it. Shout out to (Emmanuel) Ogbah because he jumped on top of me. I knew there was a lineman by me and he was going to try to jump on top of me. It might’ve hurt but Ogbah got on top and protected me. In terms of the snap count and stuff like that, that’s just package by package really. It’s not starters or anything like that, it’s package by package and the game plan. I was excited to be out there and having fun, especially in the home opener with my family there and everything. I was enjoying myself.”

(You said DE Emmanuel Ogbah got on you – that’s a pretty big dude. That couldn’t have felt too good right?) – “I recovered and then Ogbah got on me and I looked up and I was like, ‘ah, good looking.’ Because then I saw a lineman jump on top of Ogbah. I felt the lineman jump on Ogbah, but I didn’t necessarily feel Ogbah because he didn’t try to pounce on me. Shout out to him.”

(My follow up is you mentioned your first game here as a rookie here at Hard Rock Stadium. Dolphins fans are pretty juiced up these days. How was it playing in front of those guys for the first time?) – “It was dope. Honestly, it was dope. In warmups, there was this dude who had a crazy hat on. He was screaming at us just to get hyped and whatever but it was early out, so everybody was trying to stay calm. He was literally screaming at the top of his lungs. I was like ‘man, this guy is crazy.’ But I was enjoying myself. It was fun.”

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