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Myles Gaskin – October 28, 2021 Download PDF version

Thursday, October 28, 2021

RB Myles Gaskin

(You and RB Malcolm Brown always shared the backfield. Everybody always shares the backfield. This is a multiple-back team. But now with him gone, do you feel more pressure or more opportunity is here?) – “I feel for Malcolm. That’s a brother. When he goes down, my heart goes out to him in his situation. For myself, how do I feel towards it? Just keep on playing for Salvon (Ahmed) and myself. Just take on that workload, execute and do it for him. We still talk to him about how he sees things when watching film and stuff like that. It is what it is. It’s football but just kind of keep it going, keep it rolling.”

(You and RB Salvon Ahmed have made a career taking advantage of opportunities that have been presented to you. This year, you haven’t really had the opportunity to be a featured weapon. Do you feel like that’s coming for you?) – “Yeah. I mean I’m more focused on the gameplan and whatever the play call is to execute it to my best abilities. I’m not really worried about being called a weapon or whatever it may be. I’m worried about wins, trying to help this team try to get wins. That’s the only thing that’s important to me.”

(I know this is not your favorite topic but I saw on a fantasy football thing that you’re a sleeper pickup this week.) – “I could care less about fantasy. I really could. That’s somebody else’s game.”

(Where did the hatred for fantasy come from?) – “I don’t have hatred for fantasy. It’s just like pickleball or something. I don’t play it so I have very little care for it. (laughter)”

(So you never played fantasy growing up? You grew up in the fantasy football age.) – “Nah. I’m into real sports. I’m into real things. Fantasy football is what it is. It’s called fantasy.”

(What was working for the run game against Atlanta?) – “We had good communication with the O-line. Salvon (Ahmed) and myself were talking about what we were seeing. Just being able to build off of that – it really didn’t start in the first quarter so just keep on pushing, keep on going. We didn’t give up on it and I think that was the best thing that happened with the run game. Just communicating. Looks change. Things that you practice during the week might not come up and it might be a totally different look and I think we were able to capitalize on that and just help each other. The O-line, obviously, the receivers are out there blocking and everybody was doing their jobs.”

(Is that something, who do you communicate to? Your position coach, the offensive linemen themselves?) – “A mixture of both. Definitely go walk up to the O-linemen and ask, ‘Hey what you guys seeing? What you guys feeling? Is it cut back on this? Should I keep it front side? What you thinking? How you feeling?’ Like I said, just communication. Practice is practice but once you get into the game, things change. Bullets are flying and once you come to the sidelines, I think that’s the biggest thing for us, just to communicate, speak up when we don’t think something is going right and things like that and just try to fix it.”

(Even if you’re not having that initial success, do you feel like as you stick to and commit to the run and get those carries, you get in a groove and get a feel for where lanes are opening and whatnot?) – “Yeah, I think it takes that. I think you just – obviously not every run is going to go to the crib. So just find those lanes, find them run lanes, find those cutbacks, which is most important. It might not, like you said, pop the first quarter, it might not pop the second quarter, but you stay on it. Obviously, depending on what the game looks like – if you’re down by a lot you’re going to have to air it out – but if the time comes where you can keep pounding the rock, just keep doing it.”

(With RB Malcolm Brown sidelined, you guys are going to have to pick up a heavy burden of the pass protection jobs. How much pride do you take in trying to change that perception of you?) – “I’ll probably always take pride in that or I will always take pride in that. Like I said multiple times, being a smaller guy, you’ve got to be able to really throw yourself in there and not hold back. Those guys are 220 (pounds) and above. Those linebackers you’ve got to take on head up. A lot of it is heart, a lot of it is belief, a lot of it is aggression. You can coach technique and all that stuff but it all starts with your heart and I feel like just to give Tua (Tagovailoa) or whoever is back there the time they need to make the right throws, make the right decision.”

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