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Kenyan Drake – October 24, 2019 Download PDF version

Thursday, October 24, 2019

RB Kenyan Drake

(On how he’s approaching this week with all of the trade rumors and Monday Night Football.) – “The same way I approach every week: do the things I need to do to prep myself to get ready for the game.”

(What have your conversations been like with Head Coach Brian Flores this week?) – “The same thing, just getting ready for the game. That’s where my focus is. My focus has been on this team. I control what I can control and be where my feet are – whatever cliché you can insert to represent that.”

(Playing on Monday night in a big-time game, this will be the Dolphins’ 85th appearance as a franchise which is the most in the league. What does it mean to play in a game like that and do you have a favorite Monday night memory?) – “Monday night – prime time – you’re the only game on the entire day. So to represent the league and go out there and put on a performance in a nationally-televised game is very important to this team. To go out there and make the most of it, especially against a historic team such as the Pittsburgh Steelers, as we are too. I don’t really necessarily have like a favorite Monday night memory but I guess my favorite memory is trying to stay up as long as I could to watch any Monday Night Football game when you’re a kid. To be able to play – I think this might be my first time playing in a Monday night game. The Patriots was a Monday night game? It was. I was thinking that was Sunday night. Well, I guess that (game) was my favorite memory – my only Monday Night Football game. (laughter)”

(Do you keep in touch with S Minkah Fitzpatrick and what’s it going to be like facing him on Monday night?) – “I hit him up after he had that big game against whoever it was. He had like a forced fumble, a fumble recovery and an interception. I told him I was proud. I guess when I see him on Monday – that was the last time I had talked to him. I just look forward to him going out there to compete like I know he will and continue to represent himself and now, the Pittsburgh Steelers, the way that he does. I look forward to him going out there and doing what he always does.”

(Earlier today we asked Head Coach Brian Flores if he expects you to be with the team for the rest of the season. He said ‘yeah, unless some other situation arises.’ I want to ask you that question. Do you expect to be with the team for the rest of the season?) – “My expectations are as good as anybody else’s. The thing that I can control is being here when I’m asked to be here, which is right now until whenever. That’s what my focus is, is to continue to prep myself for Pittsburgh this week and do the best I can to show up and be the player I know I can be.”

(What’s it like to have your name kind of thrown out there as a possible trade piece?) – “I don’t know. It’s not like anything. I continue to approach every day – as I continue to tell you all – as a professional, as a player for this Miami Dolphins team, and to be able to go out there and make plays to help this team win games no matter what’s possible or no matter what my role is. That’s the thing that I continue to harp on and that’s what I’m going to continue to do.”

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