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Robert Hunt – October 14, 2021 Download PDF version

Thursday, October 14, 2021

G/T Robert Hunt

(So these sleep buds, they don’t have to connect to anything? They just play sleeping music?) – “That’s all they play, man. They play (white noise) all night. They play rain … they play waves. It’s something to get you to sleep, I guess, on this long flight that we’re going to take. Just a way to get extra sleep. I’ve never tried that. Or like little white noise or whatever. I’ve never tried that but I tried it the other day and I kind of like it a lot. So I had to get another pair from Jaylen (Waddle).”

(Are you looking forward to the trip this week?) – “Yeah, I’m looking forward to it.”

(You hesitated there.) – “(laughter) Nah, I’m looking forward to it.”

(Is it tough to make this trip? I believe it’s your first trip overseas as a Dolphins player. When you guys have to rebound from these losses knowing there is so much to focus on, but there are going to be some distractions going overseas.) – “I don’t know. I think right now, the messaging within the team is we kind of know that it’s a business trip. We need a win. They need a win. May the best man win. I think we all know that it’s a business trip and I think we all want to compete. Like the coaches said, we all know we need a win, so we’re all competing to try to get a win.”

(Did the Dolphins get you your passport?) – “Is this illegal information that you’re sharing? (laughter) Shout out (Director of Team Security) Drew Brooks again. He’s like my father away from home pretty much. Yeah, he helped me hook it up. I got it set up. Shout out to Drew again.”

(What else has Drew Brooks gotten you?) – “I told you, man – my license. Drew got me my license. He got me my passport. And sometimes when I’m in my room, he’ll stop by and bring me some candy or something. So shout out Drew. (laughter) That’s my guy. Drew is definitely my guy. (laughter)”

(Is this your first time leaving the country?) – “No. I actually went somewhere in the spring. Jamaica. It was like two hours away from me. Nowhere but somewhere.”

(I feel offended. I’m Jamaican.) – “You’re Jamaican?”

(Yeah!) – “Nah it ain’t nothing bad. It’s just like two hours away. I had never been way over there (to Europe). I’ve been somewhere (out of the country) but I’ve never been way over there (overseas).”

(These sleep buds, did all of the players get them?) – “Yeah, we all had them in our locker. I think Bose hooked us up with them, like I said, for the flight. Pretty good deal, man. If you have a problem sleeping, you should try them out.”

(Now that the right side of the line has changed and I know it’s gone back to what it once was, with QB Tua Tagovailoa coming back, do you feel like there’s more pressure to make sure that blind side is protected?) – “No. I don’t think so. We’re just going to try to continue to do our job. Me and Jesse (Davis), we’ve been playing together for a while since like last year, since I stepped in, since I’ve been in. We’ve been playing together for a while. I think we communicate well. I think we play well besides each other. I don’t feel like there’s any pressure. I feel like we have a job to do. We know that. So we have to go over and try to compete and do our job the best we can.”

(How do you think it worked with T Liam Eichenberg and left tackle and T Austin Jackson playing guard?) – “It looked good. I thought it looked good. I thought just in general, the whole team came out and played with energy the last game. It didn’t go the way we wanted to but I thought we started fast. I thought we came out with some energy. I thought we looked all right. It’s been the same way this week in practice, just trying to bring energy and play with a little excitement. I think everybody has been doing a really good job with that.”

(Going back a question ago to the blind side and all, it doesn’t change anything or it’s not in the back of your mind that the last time QB Tua Tagovailoa was out there, he got hurt and we’ve got to really protect this guy?) – “Our job is to protect him. It’s part of football. Things happen. But I don’t think we have pressure on us. It’s our job to protect whoever is the quarterback – Jacoby (Brissett), Tua, me, you. It doesn’t matter who is back there, we’ve got to do our job to protect. We’re going to do the best that we can do with that and just keep trying to play football. Like I said, we have a job to do and we’re going to try to do that … We might be in some trouble with you back there. (laughter)”

(It would be better with me back there than with me protecting QB Tua Tagovailoa. That would really be ugly.) – “You’ll get in there and see how it is. It’s tough in there, man. It’s tough in the middle. (laughter)”

(Obviously you get a chance to see QB Tua Tagovailoa’s passes after they’ve been gone. How has he looked in practice?) – “I thought he’s looked good. It’s exciting to have him back out there. He’s a leader on our team so it’s good to see him back out there and firing away and being who he is.”

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