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Myles Gaskin – December 20, 2021 Download PDF version

Monday, December 20, 2021

RB Myles Gaskin

(Can you take us through the whole process? Obviously you were out for a week with COVID or on the COVID list. Your relief when you found out that you could come back and then getting ready for a game after one practice.) – “Like you said, getting sick and everything, getting COVID and whatnot. On the front end, because it was the bye week, it worked out where I could just focus on getting healthy and then once I was feeling better, it was pretty much time for the game and it just worked out kind of perfectly to make that one Friday practice and be ready for the game. I felt a little bit better beforehand, so I would run at a park by myself. I just did a little few things but yeah, I just made sure I was ready, locked in on the gameplan so when my number was called, I was ready to go out there.”

(I wanted to ask you about the fourth quarter run but you piqued my interest with the running at a park by yourself thing. What was that like? How did you choose a park? Which day did you run?) – “Just Thursday before practice. There is a park by my house in Miami Lakes, just by my house and nobody was over there. I just wanted to see if I could get my wind back, just see where I was feeling because COVID does affect your lungs and everything and all that type of stuff, with this being the second time I had it. I just wanted to test it out myself and got a few striders in. I felt pretty good. For myself, I was really concentrating on trying to be able to make the game and just testing where I was.”

(Did anybody see you? You weren’t wearing Dolphins gear or anything were you?) – “Nah, I wasn’t decked out. I was dolo. It was just an empty park, just grass. Got some 50s in, like 10 50s and kept pushing.”

(You had a 30-yard run on the game-winning drive. Thinking about that play, can you tell me what you think worked well on that play?) – “The o-line did their job. The hole opened up right where it’s supposed to be, right where you practiced it all week and it just worked out. Everybody did their job, I was able to hit the hole in stride and that’s just the type of runs you hope for in the fourth quarter, especially in that Miami heat. Just trying to finish the drive, trying to finish the game.”

(What did you think about RB Duke Johnson, the game that he had and just what he has brought to this running back room since joining on the practice squad?) – “Had a great performance. Very happy for him being able to do that back home. We were talking about that before the game, being able to play back home and what it’s like for him. Just that experience of being the older dude, he brings a lot of energy every day. He still helps me out a lot just being the older guy, being in this league longer than I have been, how to take care of your body, things like that, just trying to pick up everything I can from him and just seeing what he did yesterday is just inspiring and just trying to build off of that.”

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