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Michael Deiter – December 11, 2019 Download PDF version

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

G Michael Deiter

(When did you find out that you weren’t going to be starting?) – “Last week. I don’t remember what day. Last week sometime.”

(What was your reaction when you found out?) – “Get better. Keep getting better and find a way to get back on the field and helping Keaton (Sutherland), making sure he was getting ready and making sure he was going to play good because whoever’s going to be in there has got to play good football if we’re going to win. My first thought was, ‘what do I got to do to get back there? and whoever is going to play, what I can I do to help them play well, too?’”

(Can you remember the last time you were a healthy scratch from the starting lineup?) – “My redshirt year? 2014.”

(What do you know you can do better?) – “All of it. Communicate, run game technique, pass game technique, finishing. There’s nothing that is perfect by any means. All of it, I need to get better with. That’s been my focus, and that’s just all I need to keep worrying about.”

(What reason was given to you by the coaching staff as to why they made the move?) – “I just need to play better.”

(When you came into the game in the fourth quarter – that was your first appearance in the last game, right – what was the challenge in that?) – “I think the toughest thing was just kind of, you usually take your first few series, you get a flow for the game, you get a feel for it, you get into that game kind of warmup. I was trying to get that on the sideline. You’re trying to get as warm and loose as possible. You’re trying some fits just to not go out there and kind of be super stiff, anything like that. I think that was the toughest thing, was just getting loose, getting the mind right. I was trying to. It helps when you start, but no matter how you’re going to end up out there, you’ve got to find a way to get loose and get ready to play.”

(Would you describe it as a weird experience considering how long it had been since you hadn’t started a game you played?) – “Yeah, it was really weird. Like you said, it’s been a while, so it was a little goofy just to go out there for field goal and stuff like that; but that’s the way it went. It’s just something you have to deal with.”

(Any sense if you’re going to start this week?) – “No idea.”

(What’s the challenge for – maybe fans don’t know about being a rookie. You’ve played a lot of football, maybe more games in a row than you’ve ever done. How much is a challenge of that and how much do you think that affects where you’re at right now?) – “The challenge is just focus on getting better all of the time instead of just kind of getting into a lull of, ‘this is the way I play, I guess this is just how I am.’ You just need to keep working, making sure that you’re not getting mundane with things, making sure you’re always focusing on getting better. I think it sometimes can get lost, especially I guess as a rookie. It just seems like there’s so much going on, all this stuff, when all there really is to think about is how you’re playing and what you need to get better with and what’s okay and just how you can improve on a day-to-day basis, which is just what I need to get back to.”

(The television broadcasters seemed to indicate that they had been told that you weren’t starting but were expected to play. Was that your understanding going into the game?) – “No, I guess it was just if they needed me. I didn’t really know, but it was just kind of a, ‘if we need you’ type thing. Just always be ready.”

(How would you describe your confidence level right now?) – “It’s good. I know I can play good football. I’m confident that I can go out there and help us win, but I need to do it more consistently and I need to make sure that they’re confident I can do it, and that’s the biggest thing. Like I said, the biggest thing is just get back on track and keep playing the way I know I can play and cut it loose and get better every day.”

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