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Minkah Fitzpatrick – September 15, 2019 (Postgame) Download PDF version

Sunday, September 15, 2019
Postgame – New England

S Minkah Fitzpatrick (transcribed by Ken Mendonça)

(Some good and some bad for the defense. Tell me first about what thought was better for the defense?) – “I think we did a better overall job of just executing the game plan. I think last week, we didn’t execute the game plan as well. It was the first game – jitters or whatever, maybe – the first time playing together as a defense, so there were probably a lot of jitters. But like I said, we just did a better job of just executing the game plan and just communicating what the coaches called. I think we did better.”

(And what would be one thing that was a little bit disappointing or frustrating?) – “I think we could have won third down a little bit more. They won third down. We’d stop them first and second down and then on third down, they’d win, and they would get the first down. I think if we would have stopped them maybe three or four more times on third down, it would have been a better result.”

(Did you appreciate and enjoy the opportunity today to play some deep safety?) – “Yeah, that was the game plan. Like we always say, week to week, it’s a different scheme. So I knew that’s what it was going to be. Yeah. I’ll say yeah.”

(You’re so used to winning, whether it was high school level or collegiate level, but to come into this kind of situation that you’re enduring right now, how difficult is that to deal with?) – “You could look at it one way. You could look at it as losing, or you could look at it as learning. There’s a saying, ‘I never lose, I just learn.’ I forgot who said it but that’s just what we’ve got to do right now. This whole entire process has just been a learning lesson for me, my teammates, my family, these coaches, everybody. It’s just been a learning process. I’ve lost before. I’ve never had a season that was perfect. I’ve lost games before. Like I said, you’ve just got to learn, and if you don’t learn, then you really lost. Like we did last week, I think something we wanted to focus on was executing the game plan better. We did that today, as a defense. The score doesn’t reflect how we actually played better; but like I said, I think we’ve just got to learn.”

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