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Travis Swanson – October 18, 2018 Download PDF version

Thursday, October 18, 2018

Center Travis Swanson

(Are you pleased with these first two weeks, obviously with C Daniel Kilgore gone, and how it’s gone for you personally? From a performance standpoint, are you pleased?) – “I think I can do better, honestly. I think there’s a lot of aspects of me personally and I know we’re all here still trying to get to know each other. I typically don’t talk about myself a lot. I think when you think of an offensive line group in particular, it takes five guys to make a unit good in a sense. So I’m more of I like to talk about the group in a sense. I think what we did this past game was a step in the right direction. I thought we played good. There definitely are a lot of things to clean up though, across the board, technique-wise. This week, Detroit, it’s another challenging front. They give you a lot of different looks. I think we’ve had a pretty good first two days here of preparing for them.”

(Your knowledge of their personnel obviously, how much does that help you this week personally?) – “I played with guys that are still there. They’ve got some new guys there, a different scheme than what I was used to with my time there. It’s a change, but that’s why thankfully you have tape on them and you can study as much as you can.”

(Is it possible to completely remove the aspect of you going against your former team for this game?) – “You try not to think about it because I think guys that do get emotionally more wrapped up in it than they should. I think I’ve done a good job personally up to this point of not trying to add that aspect into it, just because like I said, you can kind of get carried away a little bit. I’m trying to look at it like it’s just another week.”

(You mentioned earlier about the unit as a whole. When you come into replace C Daniel Kilgore, do you see part of your challenge is making sure it remains a whole and there’s no break in the continuity from what’s been established?) – “Yes. Every situation is different, every circumstance is different. I hadn’t been here since OTAs and I did just get here however long ago it was, five weeks. There’s still going to be this building process for all of us because it’s going to take a little bit to understand how Jesse (Davis) works, understand how Ted (Larsen) works, Brock (Osweiler) and Ryan (Tannehill) and that whole thing. It’s a very unique situation, but I think it’s heading in the right direction. I think every week we go by, we’re building the kind of chemistry that you need to, to try to make up for that time that I was not here.”

(When you think about the two offensive tackles, Ja’Wuan James and Laremy Tunsil, what are your impressions of them? What attributes do you think maybe they have in common?) – “(They are) very smart players. (They are) guys that are very athletically gifted. (They) give you a lot of effort. They’re what you want when you think of edge-protecting tackles. They work good within a group. They’re team guys. I haven’t had any complaints about who they are on or off the field.”

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