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Sam Eguavoen – September 18, 2019 Download PDF version

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

LB Sam Eguavoen

(Some players might get disheartened by two blowout loses, others get motivated by it, so it’s a mixed bag, I’m sure. How does the unit stay cohesive here and focused towards the positive? How does that happen this week?) – “I think pretty much around the whole NFL, you just have to have a short-term memory. Sunday, Monday, a little bit of Tuesday, you still kind of think about what went wrong in a game. Then you come in Wednesday, there’s practice, you’re hitting, you’ve got a new install, you’ve got a new scheme and it’s like everything is wiped away. You can’t even remember what happened in the past you’re because you’re so focused on what we’re moving forward to. I don’t think it’s really hard to get all of the guys to buy into, ‘We have to move onto the next week.’ I think practice helps a lot to get our minds shifted.”

(Was there one positive? The score was, against the Patriots, 13-0 at the half. The defense did some good things. Do you try to carry that into the next game? Because there were some good things.) – “Yeah, we’re just always building. Our motto here is to get better every day. We’re always trying to build off of what we did the day before. That Patriots game, 13-0 when you look back at it, it was just little things here and there. If we stop that, it could’ve been this, it could’ve been that. At the end of the day, it was an ugly score. We just have to improve from it. I don’t even really like talking about it that much, but there was definitely some positive in that game, especially how hard we were still fighting at the end of the game. That showed a lot with this defense.”

(What are the biggest challenges the defense will face on Sunday against Dallas do you think?) – “’Zeke’ (Ezekiel Elliot). He’s on my fantasy team. (laughter) No, I’m just playing. He’s probably the best back in the league. That’s the anchor for them. I’m pretty sure he’s going to be ready to play so that’s probably going to be the biggest challenge. They have a good defense, good linebackers over there. Us as a defense, we’re going to try and – We have to make it work. We have to do something. We have to make big plays defensively to make it a game.”

(How do you make it work against RB Ezekiel Elliot when he’s such an important thing to stop and then you’ve got everyone else?) – “You’ve got to hit him. I’ve never played running back before, but I’m pretty sure no running back just likes getting hit all day, especially when you’re that good that you rarely get hit in games. We just have to get everybody to the ball, all hats to the ball and lay some licks on him.”

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