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Zach Wilson – March 24, 2025 Download PDF version

Monday, March 24, 2025

QB Zach Wilson

(For starters, what is it that interested you in this job in Miami? This role, this position with the Dolphins?) – “What’s not to like, right? Extremely explosive offense and I think they do a great job, and it starts from Coach McDaniel and goes all the way down. I’d just say the offensive staff as a whole has done a great job. You’ve seen how Tua (Tagovailoa)’s development has gone, too, since he’s been there, and I think I’m just excited to be with those guys.”

(What is it that you think you’ve learned over the past however many months it’s been since you left the Jets? What did you learn from your time in Denver?) – “Yeah, a ton. Just processing in the NFL, pocket awareness, the ability to kind of progress more smoothly through my progressions and get the ball out of my hands and just maybe my understanding of the game I feel like has just increasingly gotten better since my first year in the league.”

(You mentioned Head Coach Mike McDaniel and the role that he kind of plays here. I just wanted to know, what were your early impressions of Coach McDaniel and how big of a sell was just his personality in getting you here?) – “Yeah, I think just extremely raw. His ability to be completely himself every single day is I think what you want in a coach and somebody that is going to give you exactly the same guy every single day and obviously he’s a phenomenal coach and shows how much he cares and invests in you. Those are some of the qualities I’m just the most excited for.”

(Do you embrace the journeyman label, or do you view your career in a different way or light?) – “Yeah, I mean I would like to view it differently. Obviously, there’s nothing wrong with being a journeyman, but I still believe I can be a starter in this league whenever that opportunity comes. And so I’m just trying to put myself in the best situation with the best team and coaches and do the absolute best that I can and hopefully at some point, you can get that opportunity to show what you could do.”

(What’s been the most challenging part with free agency for you?) – “The most challenging part is just you never know what any situation is going to be like. From an outside perspective you always know what looks good from the outside, but you never know until you really get there and so it’s just trusting in the process and picking a spot that you feel the most comfortable in and just trying to make the most of it.”

(You mentioned QB Tua Tagovailoa’s development here in Miami under Head Coach Mike McDaniel. Is there an aspect of your game that you’re hoping to develop or improve upon from what you’ve seen that McDaniel has done for Tua?) – “Yeah, I mean we all saw how his first couple of years went that I don’t necessarily think were all on Tua (Tagovailoa) of course. You’ve seen what the ability to get people that believe in you and a staff that makes everything else around him better and he’s played at an extremely high level and so I don’t think that’s ever anything bad to be around or to see and learn from.”

(Sometimes when you enter the game as a backup it’s a stressful situation; the quarterback has just been injured. Everybody’s looking around at the huddle for leadership. When you enter that huddle as a backup quarterback, is it any different than entering the huddle as say, a backup left tackle or a backup running back? At the risk of asking a dumb question, is there more pressure on you in that situation than other players?) – “I don’t know if it’s pressure. I mean luckily, I’ve played in a lot of games in the NFL so far and so it’s just the ability to step in and make the offense feel like nothing’s changed. From a leadership standpoint, just command of the huddle, getting guys the information they need on each and every play and kind of just that not skipping a beat kind of mentality going in there that everyone feels comfortable that they’re able to completely do exactly what they’ve been doing.”

(You talked about that you still feel that you’re a starter in this league. Proving that, what do you have to do this year to prove that? And will you feel urgency when you get in the game to prove that you’re still a starter in this league?) – “I think it just starts every single day in practice. Just the ability to show improvement but also go out there and just be consistent in my play, being accurate, getting the ball out of my hands and then just taking it literally one day at a time. And if that opportunity comes in the field, early in preseason, whatever it is, just taking advantage of that opportunity and doing exactly what I hope to be doing through spring training and also training camp.”

(A few minutes ago, you spoke about some of the areas on field in which you have worked: processing, pocket awareness. What have you learned you need to do or can do better or differently off the field?) – “Off the field, I feel like Denver was a good opportunity for me to kind of lay the stresses of being an NFL quarterback and just trying to be perfect every day to spending more time with the guys in the locker room, and growing that bond I think is always important and just enjoying every single day of being there. So I think that’s always an important aspect and then it carries onto the field of you just being more comfortable.”

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