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Michael Deiter – October 16, 2019 Download PDF version

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

G Michael Deiter

(Is there a change at all now that Head Coach Brian Flores says that QB Ryan Fitzpatrick is back at starter this week?) – “No. Nothing is changing for me or on the o-line or the offense. It’s the same stuff, it’s just a different guy kind of running it, and getting us all squared away. That’s all. There’s not much that changes. It’s the same confidence, same energy, so it’s about the same.”

(Head Coach Brian Flores went back on what he said last week. He said that QB Josh Rosen was starting the rest of the season and now he went back to QB Ryan Fitzpatrick. Is there a responsibility on the offensive line a bit that maybe things didn’t work out for Rosen?) – “Yeah. We definitely – especially me in particular – need to do a better job of protecting him so he can play better and look better and get through all of his reads without someone being in his face. I think definitely we can help. We can definitely make the quarterback look good no matter who it is back there. That’s kind of our job is to give him as much time to make good decisions and be as good of a quarterback as they can be. We can definitely help and we can definitely hurt, it just depends on the day. I would say, especially me, that definitely didn’t help Josh Sunday.”

(Did QB Ryan Fitzpatrick give you guys a spark on Sunday? Obviously you scored a couple of touchdowns, but is it that veteran leadership that gave you guys a spark or was it something else?) – “I just think – I don’t know if it was him necessarily or if we all just cut it loose. We knew we had to make plays. Everyone knew that we had to protect, we had to get rid of the ball, we had to catch the ball and we had to make plays. I think everyone understood it including ‘Fitz.’ He just happened to be the guy in there who was delivering good balls and making good decisions. He definitely helped, no doubt; but it was all of the guys on the offense.”

(Is there something QB Ryan Fitzpatrick said in the fourth quarter when he came into that huddle that helped you guys?) – “No. Nothing in particular. It was just kind of ‘make plays.’ Our only option right now is to try to make plays and try to tie this game up. That was the mindset and he did a good job.”

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