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Kenny Stills – December 26, 2016 Download PDF version

Monday, December 26, 2016

Wide Receiver Kenny Stills

(Does it feel good to know that you guys are in the playoffs?) – “Yes. That monkey is kind of off your back, but we still have a lot of work to do.”

(As humans, all you guys are kind of saying the same thing, it’s one game at a time. But you are human. It’s got to feel good to accomplish something that was the goal coming into the season, especially starting out 1-4?) – “Yes. As a team, we knew what we were capable of and we went out there and focused on it each week, and now we’re here. So we have to keep doing what we’re doing and we know that we’ve got a lot in front of us.”

(Athletes in general are confident. If we put truth serum in you, when you were 1-4, could you have envisioned this…) – “Yes. You don’t even have to finish that question. When we were 1-4…”

(Why did you continue to believe when things weren’t going well?) – “Because we knew the talent that we had in this room. We knew that we weren’t firing on all cylinders. We knew that we weren’t doing everything that we were capable of doing. You don’t get to be at this point if you didn’t believe that at 1-4.”

(Was there a certain game or time when you felt that things were turning around?) – “We just were … The one week, one game at a time mentality that we’ve had, that’s real. We’re not just saying that to you guys. That’s what we believe. That’s what comes from our head coach and that’s all the way down to us. We believe one week at a time, you take care of that, then everything else will fall in line. That’s literally what we’ve been doing. One week at a time.”

(Don’t change this week. Do everything that got you here in the first place.) – “Exactly.”

(That said, are you more and more impressed with yourselves when you see all the different ways that you are able to pull off these wins? Do you get more and more confidence after every game? An incredible OT victory like the one…) – “I wouldn’t say that we’re impressed with ourselves. I think a lot of the guys, we hold ourselves to a higher standard and we think that we should be winning games a little bit differently. And so when we go out and execute and do our jobs, we feel like teams can’t play with us.”

(How about the fact that, sort of what he said, sometimes it’s the offense, sometimes defense holds, sometimes special teams, starters, stars, reserves. It seems this team has won games in a variety of different ways.) – “Yes. That’s that ‘next-man-up mentality.’ That’s the ‘just go out there and find a way to win one week at a time.’ That’s the stuff that we always talk about. And so, that’s all we’re focusing on. That’s what we’re going to continue to do.”

(One thing Head Coach Adam Gase was just saying about you, obviously, proud of all you’ve done. Your availability has been a big issue with you [in the past] and you haven’t missed any practices. He mentioned about you talking before the season started, back in the spring, about things you wanted to do differently. Anything you’re comfortable expanding on in terms of maybe any approach that you’ve changed personally that Coach Gase is referencing?) – “I just knew one: that I had to be healthy. And two: to do whatever they asked me to do. If that’s going in there and blocking, if that’s going across the middle, if that’s going deep, if that’s coaching the younger guys – whatever it is – I just had to do whatever I had to do to help this team win and that’s where we’re at.”

(What do you like about the way that he’s used you the first year you guys have been together?) – “What do you mean? What do I like about it?”

(Just the type of routes. Like what’s gone well? Or what’s been different or new that Head Coach Adam Gase has done with you that’s worked out well for you?)  – “I don’t think I’m doing anything new or different. I think he just does a good job of putting guys in a position to make plays.”

(What he said about you kind of doing things differently yourself, it sounded kind of like a different approach dedication-wise. That you were maybe more dedicated to it now. Was there some kind of change in that regard?) – “No, I wouldn’t say that. I just knew and understood how young our room was, and in order for us to go where we’re capable of going, that somebody had to really lead by example every day, in every situation, in everything that we did. I was lucky enough to be with a group of veteran receivers in New Orleans and they showed me the way and the right way to do things. So I’ve tried to emulate that and really show that to this young group of receivers and get them to follow in suit. That way, we could kind of lead towards our potential.”

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