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Preston Williams – November 4, 2020 Download PDF version

Wednesday, November 4, 2020

WR Preston Williams

(Obviously this team hasn’t drafted any receivers pretty early on in the last couple of years and I feel like your presence is probably a good reason for it. Do you feel any kind of added pressure or anything for yourself to perform well and perform at your best to kind of prove to the Dolphins and their front office that investing their time in you was a great decision moving forward?) – “If the Dolphins decide to draft a receiver, I’d be happy just to have other people and other great talents around me, that I could learn from and teach things to. Every day is a competition out there, so whoever they bring in and whoever is out there playing receiver, I’m just going to compete against them and play beside them.”

(I would imagine last week wasn’t up to your standards personally. What was it that when you watched the film bothered you the most?) – “Just a lot of little fundamental things and little details. I’ve just got to catch the ball before I run. I had two drops I could’ve caught. In practice this week, I’m trying to catch everything and just fix those things and remember the little things.”

(I know we talked to you a little bit about this before but you and QB Ryan Fitzpatrick had a really good connection. He liked to throw those 50/50 balls to you. It seems that QB Tua Tagovailoa is more of a timing-based passer. How do you have to adjust to maybe what each quarterback does well and how it evolves and what you’re asked to do?) – “It was Tua’s first game so they were just trying to get him warmed up with a couple of quick passes there. But I watched Tua in college. I think Tua is a 50/50 guy too, also. He’ll throw it up. I think Tua can make any throw he wants to make.”

(Did the ball come at you’re a little different because it was spinning in the opposite direction? Is that something that you think will get easier the more reps you get with QB Tua Tagovailoa?) – “No. Like I said, it was just I took my eyes off of it. I tried to catch it – I didn’t catch it first; I tried to run before I caught it. Then on the other one, the same thing on the crosser. I tried to (run) before (I caught it), it hit my knee and bounced off my hands.”

(We appreciate you being so open with us. When you have good games or you have bad games, you’ve been really open with us with the things you do right, the things you do wrong. I wanted to ask you, what do you think – because the team has high expectations for you and other people do too, how do you react to having those and needing to perform that way?) – “I just try to be there when my number is called. Me dropping a ball is not helping. I’m harder on myself more than anybody can be hard on me. Just being one of the receivers that they count on, I just try to make every play.”

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