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Jordan Poyer – October 28, 2024 Download PDF version

Monday, October 28, 2024

S Jordan Poyer

(Are you looking forward to your first trip back to Buffalo?) – “Yeah, excited about the opportunity to go back to Buffalo and play these guys. Another opportunity for us to go out there and play football, so for sure excited about it.”

(Why was Trey McBride able to – it looked like he was able to find a lot of soft spots in the zone yesterday. Good scouting or coverage mistake on you guys’ part, what is it?) – “Good player, we made some mistakes, but he’s a good player. It’s a good offense, and when it comes down to it, we’ve got to make some more plays – one more play than they did. But yeah, he’s a good player and we definitely left some plays out there, for sure.”

(How shocked have you been by the turn of the events of how the season has gone for you? Obviously thought you were going to a winning team that has won the last couple of years, sort of fallen apart through seven games, how dispiriting is that for you?) – “It’s football, right? It’s frustrating, for sure. I think everybody here is frustrated, but at the same time, we do have opportunities ahead of us. It’s in times like these where you really got to just put your nose down and work, man. Nobody is coming to save us; nobody is going to feel sorry for us. So just trying to do one percent extra throughout the week and try to motivate the guys around you to do one percent extra and continue to stay the course and have that belief that things will turn, because what a cool opportunity this week to go to Buffalo, extremely well-coached football team and we’re excited, like I said, about the opportunity so why not?”

(What’s sort of the ripple effect for you guys of losing a guy like DT Zach Sieler up front?) – “Zach Sieler, he’s a great player. He’s been somebody who I’ve seen from across the field for a few years. You don’t ever want to have anybody go down and you always have the idea that it is next man up, but losing a guy like Zach does hurt. We’re hoping to get him back when he’s able to come back.”

(What gives you optimism about the last 10 weeks of the season?) – “Opportunity – that’s life, right? You get hit in the mouth, that’s life. What are you going to do next? It’s one of two options – you’re going to fold or you’re going to just keep going and keep moving. Things may not fall the way that you see them, but you keep moving and you keep grinding. That’s a lesson in football and in life. I know I lot of y’all have probably gotten hit in the mouth before in life, what do you do? Do you just fold and just kind of tuck away, or do you keep moving? People say X, Y, Z about X, Y, Z, what are you going to do about it? So that’s my mindset and I know that’s the team’s mindset, let’s just continue to work, continue to grind. Yeah, we’re not in the place where we want to be, but we’ve got opportunities in front of us, and so why not?”

(Regarding CB Kader Kohou, I talked to CB Cam Smith in the locker room last night and he took the blame for something, I think it was the first touchdown, I’m not sure what it was. But I’m not taking anything from Cam, but Kader, did that have an effect, that absence? Did that have an effect? He’s a quality player.) – “Kader (Kohou) is a great player, no doubt it. Regardless of if he was in the game or not, the play that we called, he wouldn’t have been involved in the touchdown. So that was strictly in the backend, I put that on myself, the communication. I’ve got to make sure that the guys around me have an understanding of who we’re covering since we were running a Cover Zero, and I put that on me to get the guys around me right. That had nothing to do with him being on the field or not.”

(What was it like getting reps next to S Marcus Maye when S Jevón Holland comes out?) – “I love playing with (Marcus) Maye, an experienced player who I had a lot of respect for playing against him. Just somebody who sees – we see the game similar, and he’s fun to be on the field with.”

(Your run defense, this was the first opponent you held to fewer than 100 yards rushing. You get Buffalo, they had 108 last time but the James Cook run, the 48-yard run, was pretty much it. How do you view the run defense this season? What’s going to be the key on Sunday against Buffalo and James Cook?) – “It starts with stopping the run, but obviously yesterday we did that but he was still able to throw for 300 yards. Stopping the run is the first priority, any time you come into a game to force a team to have to throw the ball in predictable situation. I believe that’s a huge emphasis going in there each week, stopping the run, and then being able to get takeaways which we haven’t been doing. But like I said, being able to stop the run, force teams to throw the ball and try to make them play left-handed.”

(When you look at it, do you look at it as the defense collapsed late or Arizona just made plays late?) – “I think you can say a little bit of both. There’s definitely some plays that we all want back from yesterdays game, especially late in the game. They did make some plays, I mean they ran a ‘Oh, crap’ play first play of the second half, which is basically a tight end wheel route coming around. I mean a great schemed up play; they made some plays, but we needed to make one more and that’s what it comes down to.”

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