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Julius Thomas – October 16, 2017 Download PDF version

Monday, October 16, 2017

TE Julius Thomas

(On flying to New York tomorrow to meet with the league.) – “…I think that this is great that the NFL, the owners, are taking the time to speak with us. I think there’s really no wrong that can come from having a conversation. I’m just going to pray on it and really try to communicate my feelings and some of my viewpoints. We’ll see how it goes but it’s definitely encouraging.”

(Yesterday’s big win, I’m sure some guys are excited about the way you guys fought back.) – “It’s an amazing comeback win. To be down 17 at half is tough. That doesn’t happen every day. Our team, before I even joined the team this offseason, this team never gives up, this team never quits. Every day, every game is a fight. It just continues to show the resolve, the resiliency of the guys in this locker room. It proves itself every day. When you go out on the field, you know you’re out there with 52 other guys that are going to do everything it takes to win. That’s a good start to winning any game.”

(We know when we see Head Coach Adam Gase he’s really subdued, but we know he can turn up a little bit. How excited was he that you guys fought the way that you did to pull off that win?) – “He’s a passionate guys for us. We see the fire, we see the intensity, we see the swagger, so he’s fired up. Every win is important. I learned early on in this league to never take for granted any win you get. It was a big emotional win for us. We liked it. Our season is all about winning one game and we’ve got to win the next game. If we do that, hopefully we’ll have an opportunity to be in the tournament.”

(For all the success you guys have had for these past couple of weeks. There’s been a lot of talk this week about getting to the next one. How important is it for you guys to have that mindset to get rid of whatever happened last week and then focus on the next opponent?) – “It’s crucial. If you want to be a team that has success in this league, whatever happened last week, you’ve got to forget about that. You’ve got to head into the next week. We just talk about being in the moment. There’s nothing you can do about what happened last week. The only thing you can do is focus on the next day. For us, it will be practice on Wednesday. We have to continue to really work hard, really make sure that we are pushing each other to be the best Wednesday, and then Thursday, and then we’ll go out and play Sunday.”

(You had a couple of fourth-down conversions in the second half yesterday. How important was that towards the win? And what does it say … Is there a message that the coaches are sending the players when he goes for it on fourth down like that?) – “The message is that ‘I believe in you guys.’ Some of those fourth-down conversions were at crucial points in the game. We had to have them. When you’re down, you need to score points. Converting those allowed us to put ourselves in positions to score points. They were big conversions. When you look at a team, how you convert on third and fourth down is really important. We just hopefully cannot be in so many fourth downs that we need.”

(For the vast majority of your running plays, you guys were in a lot of 12 personnel, sometimes three tight end sets. How big was that for the team there, and how fun was it also to know that no matter what they tried to do, they couldn’t stop you but they probably knew what was coming?) – “Every week is going to be different. We go into the game, and we just try and do exactly what the coaches ask of us. They felt that the best opportunity to run the game was in some 12 personnel. We played some 13 personnel. We were able to have success in it. We are excited about that and we’ll continue to do what we have to do.”

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