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Jonnu Smith – January 5, 2025 (Postgame) Download PDF version

New York Jets vs. Miami Dolphins | 1-5-25

Miami Dolphins TE Jonnu Smith (transcribed by the New York Jets)

On his end of season reflections…

There are a lot of things that we can be proud of as a team, a lot of things that we’ve overcome. I am very proud of us still coming into Week 18 and giving ourselves a chance to compete in the playoffs. It didn’t go our way but we came out here and we fought and it still didn’t go our way. It’s the NFL, it’s a very competitive league and unfortunately we didn’t meet the expectations and the standard that we set out. It’ll hurt, but this is a great lesson in life that what defines a man is the failures and not the success. Just speaking for myself individually, I look back on what I could have done better and the things that I can improve on to continue to help us get to where we go. The culture that was laid was a great culture and is a great culture. We have a lot of guys that bought into that culture and that’s why we were able to crawl ourselves out of the hole we were in. Nevertheless, obviously we didn’t get to where we wanted to go but life goes on. I’ll continue to be proud of this team, proud of this organization and proud to be a Dolphin and I’m definitely looking forward to next season.

On if the team became aware of the Denver-Kansas City score midgame…
It’s kind of human nature, you just look at the jumbotron regardless so it’s kind of in your face. To kind of know that things were getting out of reach, you just got to put it in the back of your head and go out there and play as hard as that may seem. We represent, like I said, the city of Miami. Obviously we want to go out on a winning record, didn’t get it done but we fought. Like I said, I’m proud of this entire team. We got guys, and he (DE Calais Campbell) just walked in, I’ll continue to say it again Calais Campbell to me is the standard of what you want in a teammate. You got guys like that battling, you don’t really even hurt as much for yourself or feel as much for yourself but it’s those guys that have given so much to this game and have just done it the right way for 15, 16, 17-plus years in this league and you want to see them go out right because in the football sense they deserve it. It also brings a lot of perspective for me to look at myself in the mirror, to appreciate the way things so happen to play out each and every day in my career. Guy (Campbell) plays 17 years, that’s a lot of favor from the Lord, blessed with a lot of healthy years and longevity and it’s something that I aspire to be. Again, you’ve got guys like that, Po (S Jordan Poyer) and T-Stead (LT Terron Armstead) I don’t know the outcome of what is going to be for them but you know guys like that are kind of on their way out so you want to do it for them.

On if he feels the team changed their gameplay once they were aware of the Chiefs-Broncos score…
No. I thought we fought, especially speaking individually for myself. I went out there and put my standard of football out there. It wasn’t perfect by any means, but I fought and I think every guy would get up here and say that they fought. Didn’t go our way, things got out of reach. They’re a good football team, they’ve always been. Their record didn’t show it but they have a Hall of Fame quarterback (Aaron Rodgers), always had a solid defense, they’re a good football team. We just came up short today.

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