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Martrell Spaight – September 27, 2018 Download PDF version

Thursday, September 27, 2018

LB Martrell Spaight

(When is the last time you played in a 4-3 defense?) – “It was about four years ago.”

(At Arkansas?) – “Yes, sir. I actually love the 4-3. Now, I’m just trying to get my mind back out of the 3-4 and back in the 4-3. It’s going to be a little bit of a process but I feel like once it happens, it’s going to be something good.”

(They have you playing where in the 4-3?) – “Right now I’m learning multiple positions – Mike and Sam. Really, I’m just going off what (the coaches) say and pretty much trying to learn them all. That’s how I played in Washington. I played both positions, learned them both, know (both of) them by heart, so I feel like it may be the same situation here. Really, I’m just going to learn it all and just get in where they put me.”

(This defense seems like it wants to play a lot more nickel too. How comfortable are you in coverage?) – “I feel pretty comfortable. The coverages that they run here are pretty similar to back in Washington. It’s pretty much what we ran in Washington. We ran a lot of nickel. The personnel we’d get in the nickel. Some base personnel we would have a guy in nickel. I’m pretty comfortable with it. Really, my main focus is just getting back into game-playing mode and getting my body where I need to to play in a game and things like that, keeping my feet underneath myself and all of the different things like that. I’m just fine-tuning my game back up.”

(When was the last time you played in a game?) – “The fourth preseason game. It’s just been a couple of workouts here and there but other than that, that was the last actual game I’ve been a part of. I’m anxious to get back out there.”

(What have you been doing to stay in shape?) – “I’ve been training constantly. Training, training, training. Even the workouts I’ve been having, they’ve felt like a lot of Combine (work outs), actually, that they’ve been having me do. I’ve really just been hitting the weight room hard, running, keeping my conditioning up, running hills and keeping my footwork right. Little things like that and things I know I need to work on in my game. It kind of worked out in my favor because I played the whole preseason and everything so I knew what I did well and the things I did bad. It kind of gave me time to step back and fine-tune stuff that I needed to work on.”

(How hard was that just being away from it for a few weeks?) – “It was tough. Watching football every Sunday and every Thursday and going like, ‘Man, I can’t wait to get back out there. I wish I was out there.’ It really just fueled the fire on everything. I really had to change my mind’s status from ‘Why did this happen?’ to ‘Okay, I’m going to use this time wisely to get myself together once the time does come.’ It was tough but it ended up coming around.”

(What was your reaction when Miami called?) – “I was happy. I was excited. I was actually talking to a few people about it and they kept bringing up Miami. Some people don’t really know much about football, they just throw things out there, so I really took it with a grain of salt. (laughter) But (the Dolphins) called. I actually had a feeling the night before that somebody was going to call me and I felt like it was going to be the team where I was supposed to go to. Sure enough, it was Miami. You can’t go wrong with going to Miami. I’m definitely happy to be here.”

(Do you have much history with Miami before now?) – “I know a lot of the players, like the old history. Like Junior Seau and things like that. I’ve been keeping up with them from a distance. Being from Arkansas, you really don’t see a lot of the teams outside like that. But I know a lot of the history. Knowing there’s a lot of tradition here, I just want to be a part of it.”

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