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Michael Deiter – August 6, 2019 Download PDF version

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

G Michael Deiter

(On what new Offensive Line Coach Dave DeGuglielmo says he needs to work on?) – “That I need to get better and that I’m nowhere near where I need to be, which is good. I’m not. He’s right. But I’m getting better, for sure, and making strides. The biggest thing is mastering the offense and getting as comfortable as I can mentally, that way I can come out here and just cut it loose without thinking. That’s when I’ll be able to play my best. Really it’s just been I’m doing alright, but there is so much more I need to get better with. I’m still just a rookie. There’s a lot I need to learn and I’m trying to. That’s pretty much it.”

(How significant has it been for you to get all that work with the first team?) – “It’s been huge because it’s either grow and get better or you’re not going to stay there. Getting those valuable reps with those guys and the guys that are around you, that have all of that experience – ‘LT’ (Laremy Tunsil), Dan (Kilgore) – if there is anything I’m confused about, I can go right to them and it’s solved and they get me right. Having those guys next to me helps a ton. They clean everything up for me and if you’re not going to be playing good football, you’re not going to be staying here. It’s been really good to get those reps.”

(How would you describe your level of excitement for Thursday even though it is a preseason game, it is your first NFL game.) – “It’s huge. I’m super excited. Like you said, it is a preseason game but to me, I won’t know the difference. It’s going to feel like a game to me. I’m excited about it, just to be in that atmosphere again, and to play a different opponent – not someone you see every day – and just to kind of put it all together. Like you said, it’s a preseason game. There’s going to be some good, there will probably be some not so good and some stuff we’ll have to clean up going into the next preseason game. I just want to play the best that I have up to this point in camp on Thursday.”

(After the offensive line coaching change was made, did Offensive Line Coach Dave DeGuglielmo or Head Coach Brian Flores sit you down and say ‘Hey, we’re going to give you more work with the starters?’ Was that ever stated or was it seen on the board one day when you walked in and you said, ‘Oh, I’m with the first group today?’) – “It was that. It was just you got reps with the ones. It’s no different than the reps with the twos. It’s just the guys you’re next to (are different) pretty much. When you get that opportunity, you want to take advantage of it. All I can do is try to play my best and try to learn with those guys that are around me and it was good. It was cool.”

(Last year TE Mike Gesicki, and TE Durham Smythe would say that they roomed together, they’d quiz each other on stuff. Are you and G Shaq Calhoun doing anything like that?) – “A ton of quizzing. We’ll just be walking down the hallway and I’ll through a code word at him out of nowhere while we’re eating dinner. I’d be like ‘come on, what is it?’ We’ve got to think fast. That kind of competitive – it’s a joke almost, but you still get a rep. You can think through stuff and I think it’s helped a lot. It’s helped him and it’s definitely helped me. It’s cool to have that kind of competitive joke but learning at the same time.”

(You’re rooming with who?) – “I room with Isaiah (Prince).”

(Outside of the activities that the team has planned for you tomorrow before the game, how are you preparing yourself for the game?) – “It will be – the day before the game is pretty much all mental. We will come out here and get a little bit or work in and we’ll sweat; but you want to get your body back a little bit and then it’s all mental. I want to make sure I’m mentally sharp. I don’t want to be having MAs (missed assignments) because that’s the quickest way to lose a spot. Then, doing the cold tub and all of the recovery stuff, like I said, getting the body right. I guess the biggest thing for me is just getting as mentally sharp as I can possibly get tomorrow, so I can just go out there and play fast.”

(Do you have any ritual of talking to your parents or friends?) – “No. It’s pretty much just another day for me. I guess the emphasis is more get the mind right and get the body right instead of overworking the body.”

(Where do you feel you’ve made the most gains in terms of just working with the starters this week?) – “I think mentally, just kind of the few things that I wasn’t understanding before, that I’ve picked up, just different techniques that I’ve been able to work on. There isn’t nothing that hasn’t gotten better, but there is still so much that needs to get better. So, I’ve gotten better, but there is still so much more to clean up.”  

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