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Kenyan Drake – October 10, 2019 Download PDF version

Thursday, October 10, 2019

RB Kenyan Drake

(Coming in this week – obviously you had the bye week – what have you learned about preparing and what went wrong in the first four or five weeks of the season?) – “We just really have to buckle together, have a game where we play four competitive quarters. I mean it is just what it is. Every day making sure that – I sound like a broken record, but that we continue to get better with the things we are good at and obviously hone in on the – I guess make sure that we shake back on the stuff that we haven’t really been good at. It’s as simple as that.”

(Is the offense starting to come together with all the new pieces?) – “Yeah, I mean we go out there – we field a team every week so it is just about making sure that we have the plays that we need to make when we need to make them, have timely drives, not have self-inflicted wounds in terms of turnovers and penalties that put us behind the eight ball in terms of down-and-distance. We just want to play clean football. That is what we plan on doing this week.”

(Head Coach Brian Flores said yesterday that QB Josh Rosen will be the starter for the remainder of the season. Does that really make a difference with this offense in terms of you guys knew you had him already but does that make a difference at all him saying that?) – “Him having I guess the full confidence of the guys he has on the field, everybody has to go out there and do their job at that point. That is just what we are focusing on. Let them kind of handle the day-to-day operations and everything else that comes with putting people where they need to be; but when you get on the field, level on offense and level on defense and just going out there and handle your business. We look forward to doing that for the rest of the year.”

(QB Josh Rosen says he knows this is basically a tryout for him. When you hear him say things like that, does that motivate you guys to go out there block better, catch better, pass better or play better? There is a lot of outside talk about what they’re drafting next year.) – “I feel like the most important focus is on right now. I am glad he has the wherewithal and is proactive in terms of knowing I guess the bigger picture, but right now it is you know we are playing against a hungry Washington team that is hungry for a win like we are looking for a win. Somebody has to win and somebody has to lose, so in order to be on the right side of those, that’s what we are focused on.”

(You had a couple of nice runs in the last game with a few more lanes. Do you think you are close to popping off that big one?) – “Yeah, I mean I think the older I have gotten and playing this position especially at this level, it is about taking what the defense gives you and putting yourself and the offense in the best position to be successful on a down-to-down basis. When the big runs come, they will come. I am not necessarily pressing for them or looking for them. I mean I kind of put me in the position that I am currently with I guess having two fumbles on a short resume through this season. That is not something that I want to kind of harp on; but at the end of the day, those things happen and they happen because I was trying to do too much in a situation that just required me to get the yards that were there. So trying to focus on that would be counterproductive to what this team needs right now and that is somebody to be reliable to go out there and get the yards that are there and if you need to break plays, plays will be there to break when it happens.”

(How have you managed I guess that balance – obviously the team needs a spurt and you have the ability to do it, but like you said you don’t want to shoot yourself in the foot with turnovers.) – “It is just really about being where you need to be at a given time. When there is a play to be made, if you have the ability to do it, that is what you will do. It will be second nature because you have the instincts and that it what we are all here for: to make plays and help this team win games. Now whether that is – we have to have 11 guys on the field doing their job at any given time for anything to be successful. So with that being said, that includes me, myself or whoever else has the ball in their hands to go out there and know that with having the ball in your hands comes the added responsibility of carrying the organization on your back at that one given time and understanding that the keys to the game is to make sure that you don’t have turnovers and do things that put the team in a bad situation where the defense might have a short field to have to defend, if you go out there and I guess try to make a play that is not there. So it is really just about understanding the situation, going out there, playing ball, making the plays that are there and doing the things you need to do to help this team win games.”

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