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Raheem Mostert – November 2, 2023 Download PDF version

Thursday, November 2, 2023

RB Raheem Mostert

(First, wanted to ask how the experience in Germany has been for you? Have you played in any international games? Have you been to Europe?) – “First off, I love it. It’s been welcoming. And yes I have played in London my rookie year when I was in my first stint as a Dolphin. It’s a lot of fun. Truthfully, my family is from here. My mom was born here about an hour and a half away in Bad Hersfeld I believe that’s right. So yeah, it feels good to be here.”

(Missed practice on Wednesday, we’re back on Thursday with the ankle again. Is it similar to last week where just get to ramping up?) – “Yeah, it’s same as last week. We’re going to treat it the same. Feeling a lot better. It was just a little hiccup, but now we’re doing good. Ready to go.”

(You said your mother was born here in Bad Hersfeld. Did you have the chance to go explore Germany some days before or have you been here before with your family?) – “This is my first time. I want to go. I think it’s about an hour and a half away. I had tried to plan that out on my off day which was Tuesday. But I just hung around and when out with some teammates and explored downtown Frankfurt. It was a lot of fun.”

(As somebody with German heritage, how important is it to you being part of the growth of the NFL internationally?) – “Yeah, it’s fairly important. I would love to tap into my roots a little bit more, just being who I am as a person, as an individual. I love learning about my ancestry and history behind the reason why I am who I am and also what my family was like back in the day. It’s fairly important. I love the fact that the NFL is definitely taking that initiative to go abroad and have these opportunities for players to get outside the norm, being outside the U.S. I think that’s very important to see different cultures and pick up a few things. I know when we first arrived here, Jaylen Waddle was talking about all these different things. Talking about currency and he went to exchange right before we departed and he was fully invested in learning the culture and history behind Germany and stuff like that, which I thought was fairly neat.”

(A quick follow up to that. How far do you think the NFL can go internationally from here?) – “The sky’s the limit. I know it initially started out being in London and back in the day, I believe there were some games played in Japan. There’s a lot of different ways. The NFL is doing a great job making sure guys have opportunities to play abroad and to have fun and see the different cultures, like I mentioned.”

(What did you learn from that London trip a couple years ago and have you took anything from that and applied it to this trip?) – “Yeah. What I learned in London is that their portion sizes of food are a little bit smaller than the U.S., which is pretty good honestly. (laughter) But yeah honestly, just seeing around downtown London, seeing all the different historic pieces as well as here. I think that’s something that I’d like to take out of. I’m always trying to learn about things and trying to get every detail and try to figure out what I got going on around. Just picking up these little pieces and nuggets because I’d like to share those pieces of information with my kids. And fortunately, my kids will be able to come to Germany. They’re flying out tonight and will be here tomorrow morning. My family is going to be here and like I said, I just want to take every advantage that I possibly can to broaden myself and my family as well.”

(How has it been preparing for this game? Just trying to stay at your physical peak and can you touch on that just as far as playing in Germany and I guess the new environment and new location?) – “I think the biggest thing for players is time as well as rest. With an eight-hour flight coming in, that’s kind of tricky. Your schedule is a little bit thrown off. Every player has a routine. We’re all routine-based individuals. If a guy feels like he is off his routine, he has to make up for it sometime from when we land to game day. I think that’s been one of the biggest challenges this far because we’re sitting in media rooms and we’re a little lackadaisical, a little dozed off, but you have to fight that urge of resting and trying to close your eyes for a split second because that split second can turn into hours. You just try to get acclimated to the time. I think that’s the biggest challenge. Being here thus far, I know a lot of guys are in that wave of going up, and that’s what you want to see.”

(Do you think the music with the speakers, has that helped a lot trying to make you feel a little closer to home?) – “Oh, yeah. You can never have too much music on the practice field, on the pitch, as they would say, which is something that we try to do normally. Try to make it feel like we’re at home in Miami in practice and stuff like that.”

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