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Mike Pouncey – November 1, 2017 Download PDF version

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

C Mike Pouncey

(On whether the message is clear now.) – “Yes, I think so. The way guys came out and practiced today, the attention to detail was awesome. If we want to win football games, that’s the way we’ve got to practice the rest of the year. We’ll get better each and every week. Obviously, we have a lot to prove on Sunday, so we can’t wait until this game gets here.”

(Head Coach Adam Gase also said that everything’s going to change: the way you guys meet, the way you guys go through walkthroughs, the way you guys go through practice. Is that something that’s needed at this point?) – “Yes, I think so, especially during walkthroughs. It’s time where you can talk through plays because it’s not live. So whenever we’ll go out there and we’ll walk through them and then we’ll go back and talk through each play and figure out why guys did what on each play. From the game last week, we just went out there and walked through all of the bad plays and made corrections on all of them.”

(Were you upset that RB Jay Ajayi got traded?) – “Yes, I mean Jay’s a good football player. He was a good friend of ours and we wish him nothing but the best. We don’t make the personnel decisions. That’s all upstairs and the coaching staff, but we wish him nothing but the best in the future.”

(What did the extended break do for you, physically? I know you had the hip and the knee. How are you feeling today compared to a normal week?) – “I get a lot of rest anyway, so I got to spend a lot of time with family. I just enjoyed those four days off and took advantage of them, stayed off my feet the whole time and just got as healthy as possible to take advantage of those four days.”

(You have two backs, obviously, here who have played some. What does RB Kenyan Drake give you and what does RB Damien Williams give you?) – “Both of them are really good football players. Kenyan’s really, really fast. He runs the ball hard. Damien, you know he’s going to bring it. He’s going to show up every game, he’s not going to go down easily, he’s going to know what he’s doing on each and every play and that’s all you can pretty much ask for from those guys. I think they’re going to do a really good job; but at the end of the day, it’s our job up front, the five guys up front, and our tight ends, to make this run game go. We’ll work on that this Sunday and we’ll get it going.”

(Head Coach Adam Gase on Friday was talking to us about players that needed to prepare more. He wasn’t talking about you, obviously; but as a group, was that something that he discussed with you guys over the last couple of days?) – “Honestly, it’s just something you shouldn’t even have to talk about at this level of football. We’re all professional athletes. We’re here for one reason and that’s to play football. Whenever we show up on Sunday or whatever day the game is on, you need to be fully prepared. It’s your job. It’s not just (going) out there just having fun anymore. You’re getting paid to play this sport and we want guys that know what they’re doing on each and every play so all of us are successful.”

(Have you made that comment to teammates as a leader here?) – “We don’t have to. (Head) Coach (Adam Gase) made it clear enough. He told everybody, ‘This is where we’re at and this is where we’re going to go. If you’re not on board, then you’re going to be the hell out of here.’”

(Have you seen that stuff too? You’ve been around long enough to know what’s going on in here.) – “Honestly, I watch my guys in our room. I don’t really know what’s going on, on the outside or in skill positions; but for the most part, I feel like our guys know what we’re doing. We don’t really make that many mistakes. All we’ve got to do is just finish blocks better and get the run game going and we’ll be okay.”

(We know it’s a business, but when you hear the news of RB Jay Ajayi getting traded like that, what goes through your mind?) – “It sucks. It could be any one of us, at the end of the day. Jay was really good to us. He did a lot of great things for this football team. We hope he does that with the Eagles and we wish him nothing but success from here on out.”

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