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Xavien Howard – September 11, 2019 Download PDF version

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

CB Xavien Howard

(How do you prepare for a guy like WR Antonio Brown if you don’t know if he’s going to be out there, when he’s going to be out there?) – “That’s the Patriots problem. I’ve just got to prepare like he’s playing. There are a couple of other guys that we have to prepare for (too). They have a nice receiving corps so we’ve got to be ready.”

(What do you make of all the mess with WR Antonio Brown? Or are you just concentrating on the guy on the field?) – “That isn’t my business. (Laughter) He controls – he’s doing everything and controlling everything – him and his agent. I just have to worry about just playing.”

(Do the Patriots seem to have more weapons this year?) – “Yeah, they have a lot. They’ve got a lot of weapons. We’ve got to prepare and be ready for it.”

(I would think they wouldn’t throw to you – the best guy on the other team. Who do you go after this week?) – “They’ve got a lot of weapons. We’ve got to do our job. We’ve got to scheme up well.

(What’s the biggest problem that they present because there’s a lot of underneath stuff, a lot of pick plays, there’s a lot going on with that team. Do you identify stuff early?) – “I’ve seen the game (last week). Who did they play, the Steelers? Tom Brady still has got that arm. Everybody is saying that he can’t throw but that man still has got an arm on him. There’s a lot of things they are doing with Phillip Dorsett, Josh Gordon, plus ‘A.B.’ – they added him. The running backs, they have a hell of a running back corps. They do a lot of great things over there. We’ve just got to be prepared for it.”

(They set it up with a lot of play action, a lot of running?) – “I didn’t really get into the film like that. I’m starting today, so I’ll see more of that this week.”

(The bottom line, when you guys have had a whole lot of success against them, you have put pressure upfront.) – “Yeah, pressure upfront I’d say. Everybody did their job. That’s what we’re focused on, doing our job this week and hope we get the win.”

(In a week where the defense is trying to rebound and figure themselves out. Is it a good thing to be playing a team as tough as the Patriots?) – “Yeah, we accept the challenge. It’s a big week for us I’d say. Every week should be a big week for us. This is a week coming off an ‘L,’ so we’re trying to do the things that we’ve been doing, focus on ourselves, focus on our technique, discipline and stuff like that, tackling. Little things like that to help us overall get a win.”

(What are the advantages, to Head Coach Brian Flores being their defensive play-caller last year?) – “He knows some of the tendencies and stuff that they do over there; but they know that over there, so they’re going to switch a lot of things up. So it’s going to be different. That team over there, they are disciplined and they don’t beat themselves. We’ve got to come with it.”

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