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Josh Rosen – August 8, 2019 (Postgame) Download PDF version

Thursday, August 8, 2019
Postgame – Atlanta

QB Josh Rosen

(How would you grade it for you?) – “I think there was some good and bad. I don’t know about a specific grade. The pick was pretty bad in the sense of my read told me to go here and I didn’t. It wasn’t like a ball play kind of pick. It was a read kind of pick, so it’s definitely something to build on. I think there was some good, some bad and everything in between. I’m looking forward to breaking down the film and trying to get better from it.”

(Can you take us through that play to WR Preston Williams where you were kind of getting tackled and the defenders were on your legs and you lobbed it up there?) – “Yeah, probably – I don’t know. I felt some guys at my ankles. I knew Preston kind of had a stop coming back to me. I saw he was a bit inside of him, so I knew if I just put it up he would kind of have the break on it. It might have been a little bit too dicey; but I don’t know. A couple fall in your favor, a couple don’t. I probably should be a little smarter with that, even though this one worked out.

(Was it WR Preston Williams specifically? Do you have that level of trust in him already that he might come down with that?) – “Yeah, yeah. I think you’ve got to know what certain guys are good at and Preston can go get the ball. So you’ve got some guys that are smaller, quick and fast, some guys are physical, some guys – and Preston will go get the ball, so you’ve got to give him those opportunities.

(On that play we are talking about, Coach Brian Flores said that was one he probably would have preferred you to take a sack, but you have a ‘gunslinger mentality’ that he would like to see you manage. Is it easier to let it loose when you have a guy like WR Preston Williams out there?) – “Yeah, just you just can’t fall into that trap because bad games will turn really bad really quickly if you don’t learn to kind of mitigate that risk. So I’ve been kind of battling that my whole career. I’ve got to find that balance of knowing when to kind of push the edge and when to just take the sack and live to play another day.”

(How was your sort of overall comfort level right now compared to like two weeks ago?) – “Oh, to the moon and back, but I’ve still got ways to go. I feel substantially better now than I did two weeks ago. But like I said, I’ve got a long ways to go. The way ‘Fitz’ (Ryan Fitzpatrick) in our meeting room can break down a defense and how quickly he can make comments on where everyone is, where the ball should go, is pretty impressive and I think if I can kind of hedge that gunslinger attitude a little bit and put a little bit more thought into it, I think I could develop pretty nicely.”

(How tough was it to pick yourself up off the grass there?) – “Well that’s football. It is what it is. I think we’re all working on things. Yeah, I mean, it’s football. You kind of – it’s a physical game.”

(What’s your approach in general about a lineman who is maybe struggling, who’s having a tough day, had a tough series or two, just in general how do you try to approach that player?) – “I don’t know. Support him? I threw the pick in a completely clean pocket. So football is football. You’re never going to have a completely clean pocket all of the time. When you get it, you’ve got to take advantage of it and when you don’t, you can’t make stupid mistakes by trying to play hero ball. I did kind of a little bit of everything, so I’ve got a lot of film to watch. Just because like good plays gained yards doesn’t mean that the way we got that was like a sustainable way to do that in the future. So I think that like I said at the beginning, there’s good, bad and everything in between.”

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