Josh Rosen – June 5, 2019
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Wednesday, June 5, 2019
QB Josh Rosen
(I noticed when you’re taking snaps you kind of have one foot behind the other. Is that something you’ve always done or is that something that’s working for you now here in this offense?) – “I’ve switched footwork around with the coordinators I’ve had in college and it’s kind of a mesh of what I like to do best. So yeah, it’s just kind of natural.”
(Is that something you did last year? Is that something you picked up back here again?) – “I’ve done everything a bunch of different kind of years. I think I’m pretty similar to last year.”
(Head Coach Brian Flores said today that there is progress but he has set high standards and feels in some ways this team is behind. Is it just catching up now a new system and everything else for everyone not just you in particular?) – “I think it’s about competing, getting better at all of the one tasks at a time. You can’t take everything down at once. I think by period and by rep, you’ve got to get better. For inside run, I’m getting our run game and all the Mike points down and stuff. For 7-on-7, you focus on the passing game where you’re trying to get your completions and whatnot. In team, you put it all together. I think it’s about thinking long-term but also short-term and getting each task done day by day.”
(Can you talk about your level of satisfaction with your own expectations so far that you’ve had here?) – “I really haven’t had many expectations. I just try to go out and play. I think one of my favorite phrases is, ‘If you set no expectations, you’ll never be disappointed.’ I don’t really have any expectations. I think I have a daily standard I want to hold myself to and how good I feel like I am and how I should be. But expectations are kind of arbitrary.”
(Most of these days have you been disappointed or happy with how you’ve done?) – “A little bit of both. I think I have good days and I’ve got bad days. But I think each day I’m taking down this playbook a little bit more day by day and getting better a little more day by day.”
(When you make mistakes, is that something that’s been encouraged of you?) – “To make mistakes? (laughter)”
(Not to make mistakes, but when you see how things go wrong and correct them. Is that something that’s going through everything that’s going on here with practice?) – “Yeah. I mean a lot of mistakes are being made, so I think that’s why we’ve got all the film review. It helps having a really supportive quarterback room and coach me through what to do in certain situations and how to make less of them.”
(This is a bit off topic, but a lot has been written in the past about your tennis background. When’s the last time you picked up a racket?) – “I was at the Australian Open at the beginning of this year supporting some buddies that were playing. So, I think I picked it up for a little bit. But I don’t play too much.”
(Do you still have the game?) – “A little bit.”
(How good do you think you could’ve been if that’s the pattern you followed?) – “I don’t know. That’s another conversation for another time. Pretty good though.”
(Could you have made it as a pro tennis player?) – “I’d rather not (answer that).”
(After tomorrow and before the start of training camp, you guys have about six weeks. Do you focus on this or do you take time away and spend some time with family or get away from it? What do you do?) – “I still live with my parents, so I’m going to go back home to L.A. and continue to work out. UCLA is very generous letting us use the facilities when they’re available and bring some receivers out there and throw. The work never stops, just a little different location. I think I might come out a couple of weeks early to training camp to acclimate to the humidity a little bit. The work never stops, just change of location a little bit.”
(With QB Ryan Fitzpatrick having some big plays today and the long touchdown, how much do you let that come into your repertoire of how you feel about this competition? Do you let that fuel you at all with this competition or are you compartmentalizing everything within yourself?) – “I’m competing, but it’s not really a competition right now in how I’m thinking about it. Whatever he does well, I’m trying to figure out why he did it and emulate it and continue to add my own flavor to it. The real competition starts in training camp. We’re absolutely competing now, but right now it’s sort of more focused on me. I’m trying to get better myself. I’m always rooting for our other guys. The better any of our quarterbacks do, the better the Dolphins are going to be. Jake (Rudock), ‘Fitz,’ making plays. You saw DeVante (Parker) make a couple plays out there. I know it’s going to fire up the DBs and they’re going to work that much harder. I think anyone making those kinds of plays is good for the entire team.”
(Do you plan to work out with some old UCLA teammates?) – “Yeah, whoever’s around.”
(Is L.A. kind of a hub for NFL players in the offseason?) – “Yes. A lot of guys like to work out there, act like it’s their home. (laughter)”
(How much did that city help make you the person you were?) – “How does the city? Like L.A.?”
(Just the environment you grew up in.) – “I don’t know. I’ve got great parents who raised me well. I grew up at the beach. I love the water. (I come from an) academic family. I like school. (I have) athletic parents (that like) sports, so I think a mixture of everything. I don’t know. I wouldn’t know what it would be elsewhere if I was raised elsewhere, because I wasn’t. (laughter)”
(How are you doing with the South Florida humidity?) – “It hasn’t been too bad lately. I think it gets a lot worse as I’ve been told. It’s another element as a team we can use it to our advantage and get used to this. We’ve got some cold weather teams in our division that hopefully (will) add a little bit something more coming down here.”
(Growing up in L.A., going to UCLA and even most recently all the stuff before the draft before ending up here, how have you dealt with being in the limelight, being a big figure where people are talking about you and always wondering where you are in your career and things like that? How do you deal with all that criticism?) – “Hopefully it’s not all criticism. (laughter) I just don’t read into it too much. I’ve got good friends, good family, good teammates. It’s not that hard to avoid if you aren’t looking for it.”
(Are you trying to avoid it?) – “I’m not looking for it, so I am de facto avoiding it. The only times it really hits you in the face is when people on the street will yell at you. (laughter)”
(Has that happened often?) – “Every now and then.”
(What do you say back?) – “Nothing. (laughter) I’ve got nothing to lose.”
(How much of the offense or playbook do you feel like you have a strong grasp of?) – “I wouldn’t know how to quantify that. We have a lot more to install. I don’t know how much playbook we have left to put in but we got to just know it’s more than yesterday and the day before that. Sorry for the vague answer, but I couldn’t tell you.”
(I guess for you, you’re having to come in and play and learn at the same time rather than having a period where you’re just learning. How has that impacted your growth and how quickly you’re able to grasp that?) – “In what sense?”
(The fact that you came here and immediately when you got here you were on the field than having a learning period for the playbook.) – “I don’t know. I think it has got advantages and disadvantages. It was a circumstance and a circumstance that I was thrown into and I’m going to try to do the best with it.”
(Does it help you in that regard that you’ve had as many different coordinators as you’ve had and had to learn all these different offenses?) – “I don’t know. Maybe it could have, it couldn’t have. Regardless, I have the talents that I do, I have my experience and I’m going to move forward with that. I couldn’t tell you if it has or hasn’t helped. I don’t know.”
(We’ll find out in September?) – “Sure.”
