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Mack Hollins – January 5, 2022 Download PDF version

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

WR Mack Hollins

(On winning the PFWA South Florida chapter’s Good Guy Award) – “Thank you all so much. Seriously, that means a lot. I just got this nice trophy. Thank you all, seriously. I try to be as open as I can with you all. It probably gets me in trouble a lot with coach. (laughter) But I know the job that you all have. It’s not an easy one. I really appreciate you all showing love to me. It ain’t always easy being a good guy but I’ll take it if I can talk about the hair and the gators and give you guys something fun to write about every so often. (laughter) Thank you all so much, seriously.”

(I just wanted to get your take on the role of the media, especially sports media, guys and gals like us who cover the team. How do you sort of perceive the media?) – “I wanted to not get this award on this day. (laughter) I think the media is a tough job because as a player, you always want – unless it’s something good that they’re saying – you want them to never write a piece about you. You want them to never say anything bad about you. And that’s not their job. That’s not y’all’s job. You have a job to do whether it’s to say ‘Hey, so and so is not at a level he’s supposed to be,’ or ‘He is at a level he’s supposed to be.’ I’m sure you all love writing pieces that, ‘This guy is doing great. I told you so. Yada yada yada.’ But it’s not easy to write those pieces that are ‘He’s not doing what he’s supposed to be doing. We should trade,’ or ‘We should cut,’ or ‘We should release him.’ Or whatever it may be. That’s not an easy thing to do. I think as a player, it’s easy to get blinded by your own emotions, where you can just say, ‘Screw the media because they wrote this piece about me, this piece about me and this piece about my teammate.’ But you all have a job to do just like we do. As I’ve gotten older and more years in the league, I’ve started to understand that more. Yeah, your job’s not easy but it’s one that has to be done.”

(What has been the toughest aspect of being a leader of this team this season?) – “I think it can be tough being a leader sometimes when things aren’t going all your way. It’s easy to be a leader when you’re winning. I’ll tell you these last seven or eight games, it’s been a lot easier to be a leader than the first seven or eight. And that’s because you’re winning. It’s easy to be the leader when you’re winning and say, ‘Look what I’m doing. It must be because I’m leading so well. It must be because I’ve been getting the guys right.’ It was much more difficult when we were losing game after game and people are turning to you wanting an answer and the problem is not getting solved. Being a leader is not easy but it’s a job I know I signed up for and I hope that I was able to do at least some part on this team as a leader to better my teammates.”

(I know this is going to be a tough question, but what the heck is going on with special teams this year? We usually come to you to explain things and you do quite a good job of explaining it. What is going on with that unit?) – “I’d say I probably take more responsibility than anybody on that unit. We haven’t played to our potential and that’s unfortunate because we have a lot of really great players. Our job is to have one more chance and I guess that’s the good thing about football. You get one more chance but we won’t after this week. So it’s important that if you’re going to have one last game, whether people want to say it’s worth something or not, you’re going to have to live with this game until the next season. I know personally, from a special teams aspect, this is the biggest game of the year because this is the game I’m going to have to live with for the next six to eight months.”

(I don’t know the next time we’ll talk to you so I would be remiss if I didn’t ask you as a pending free agent, your thoughts on your future be it after this week. This is going to be your first chance to explore the free agent market. Is it your hope to come back to Miami? What are your thoughts on the whole deal?) – “I don’t know. Honestly, I just – thinking too far into the future has always ruined my game as a player. I feel like the reason I’m able to have a lot of fun when I’m playing is because I don’t worry about things too far down the line. Obviously that’s something that’s going to have to be thought about but I think I can give myself seven more days or six more days and then open my mind up to that type of stuff. I’m not really sure, honestly.”

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