Latest / Press Pass / Press Pass | Travis Etienne Jr. On Sticking together and Fighting for a Win
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Javis, Thanks for doing this, man.
- 0:01Speaker 2: Hope you guys are staying safe.
- 0:03Speaker 1: Just you know, knowing that this is the first AC
- 0:06Speaker 1: South game of the year. I mean, I know every
- 0:08Speaker 1: single game in the NFL is important. How much more
- 0:10Speaker 1: up do you guys get for this game? No, and
- 0:12Speaker 1: that's your chance to kind of make a statement in
- 0:13Speaker 1: the division.
- 0:16Speaker 2: I feel like everyone should be dulled, everyone should be
- 0:18Speaker 2: locked in.
- 0:19Speaker 3: I just understand that this is most the point game
- 0:21Speaker 3: of the season because of the Devision game and also
- 0:23Speaker 3: because of what we have put, what we have displayed
- 0:26Speaker 3: throughout the season. Hopefully everyone should attack this with a
- 0:29Speaker 3: little more urgency is understanding. All we have is taking understanding.
- 0:33Speaker 3: That is a chance opportunity to go want and know
- 0:35Speaker 3: in a division.
- 0:40Speaker 4: All right, go ahead, Mia and then Demetrius.
- 0:43Speaker 5: Hey, Travis, I know you told me after the Browns
- 0:47Speaker 5: loss that people had to find that fire inside of them.
- 0:51Speaker 5: Have you felt people step up and find that that
- 0:54Speaker 5: fire or that anger to try to fuel them over
- 0:57Speaker 5: the last week and a.
- 0:57Speaker 3: Half, I feel like I feel like today practice went
- 1:02Speaker 3: really well.
- 1:03Speaker 2: I feel like today we had a lot of energy.
- 1:05Speaker 3: I feel like guys getting back to the reason of
- 1:08Speaker 3: why they started playing a game of football. I don't
- 1:11Speaker 3: think nobody had no fire Monday night. We always fireless,
- 1:15Speaker 3: you know. But I feel like we've been getting back
- 1:18Speaker 3: to the reason why we started playing the game, the
- 1:20Speaker 3: reason why we all got into this, and just understanding
- 1:23Speaker 3: that we all we got and that if we want
- 1:26Speaker 3: to get through this, we have to stick together.
- 1:28Speaker 2: Like no one else has come and save us. We
- 1:30Speaker 2: have to save ourselves.
- 1:31Speaker 3: So I feel like everyone's been kind of tapping too,
- 1:33Speaker 3: just the kid, the person to understanding that this is
- 1:36Speaker 3: a dream, we all long for this. We're in the
- 1:39Speaker 3: NFL like we all wish to be here. So while
- 1:43Speaker 3: we're here, let's not piss away opportunities because we worked
- 1:46Speaker 3: so hard for only seventeen of these.
- 1:49Speaker 5: Of the year and kind of building off of that
- 1:51Speaker 5: by having that mindset, Does that almost make it easier
- 1:56Speaker 5: to play loose when you say I have to play
- 1:59Speaker 5: for the love of the game and maybe not I
- 2:01Speaker 5: need to be operating within this tight box of structure.
- 2:06Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, most definitely.
- 2:07Speaker 3: I feel like whenever you're having fun, that's whenever you're
- 2:10Speaker 3: playing loose, whenever you're out there, and I feel like
- 2:13Speaker 3: having fun and playing loose goes with.
- 2:15Speaker 2: Your preparation throughout the week.
- 2:17Speaker 3: Whenever you can go out there and just react and
- 2:21Speaker 3: not think on the field, that's whenever you have in
- 2:23Speaker 3: your best place, whenever you're playing your best. When you're
- 2:26Speaker 3: going out there and you just in your head too much,
- 2:27Speaker 3: you're thinking, you're not really reacting, you're trying to just
- 2:31Speaker 3: you're kind of playing tie. You're not playing loose, You're
- 2:33Speaker 3: not letting things happen. We kind of start trying to
- 2:36Speaker 3: force things. You start trying to maybe overcompensate, trying to
- 2:39Speaker 3: make something happen. When we gotta let the game come
- 2:41Speaker 3: to us and be ready for the opportunities whenever they come.
- 2:47Speaker 4: All right, go ahead, Demetrius and then d Rock, Hey, Travis,
- 2:50Speaker 4: thanks for doing this. Just you guys have had some
- 2:53Speaker 4: success running the football. How you know, what do you
- 2:58Speaker 4: guys have to do to sort of keep that going
- 3:00Speaker 4: in and be able to be consistent with it. It seems
- 3:02Speaker 4: like there's some walls where you can't run or or
- 3:04Speaker 4: maybe there's some interruptions. What do you have to do
- 3:07Speaker 4: to sort of get that role in.
- 3:09Speaker 2: I mean, it's the NFL. You have to understand. They
- 3:11Speaker 2: have great defensive fronts. We just have to stick with it.
- 3:15Speaker 2: I feel like we have to be okay with taking
- 3:18Speaker 2: four yards in the cloud of dust. You know, not
- 3:20Speaker 2: everyone is going to be explosive run. This is the NFL.
- 3:24Speaker 2: Those guys get played really well to do their jobs
- 3:26Speaker 2: at a high level.
- 3:28Speaker 3: We just have to kind of just stick with it
- 3:29Speaker 3: and and not deter from it and understand that, uh,
- 3:33Speaker 3: the good players want to come with the bad players
- 3:35Speaker 3: the one yards. But as long as we just kind
- 3:37Speaker 3: of be efficient and get four yards more than more
- 3:40Speaker 3: than the tackle for losses, I think would be really great.
- 3:44Speaker 4: And what sort of the challenge this week going up
- 3:46Speaker 4: against Houston? You guys have played them before obviously, but
- 3:49Speaker 4: they have a couple of new players on the defensive line.
- 3:51Speaker 4: Just what's the challenge there?
- 3:54Speaker 5: Oh?
- 3:54Speaker 2: The ends? Fel I feel like I feel like it's
- 3:56Speaker 2: been a real tough year for us.
- 3:58Speaker 3: Just we've been bounding the ends weekend and week out,
- 4:00Speaker 3: and this week is no different. We have to just
- 4:03Speaker 3: kind of contain those guys, not let them be gain wreckers,
- 4:05Speaker 3: and keep our eyes on them the whole time.
- 4:08Speaker 4: Thank you, Travis.
- 4:12Speaker 6: Hey, Travis was Doug's message this week to you guys. Partly, Hey,
- 4:17Speaker 6: you know it's time to stop talking and start playing
- 4:20Speaker 6: good football and start winning.
- 4:23Speaker 2: Yes, sir, you get it right on the head.
- 4:24Speaker 3: I feel like I feel like we we It is
- 4:27Speaker 3: also all the words that we can possibly use, you know,
- 4:30Speaker 3: I feel like at this point it's action over words,
- 4:32Speaker 3: and uh, just just go out there and let our
- 4:34Speaker 3: play talk for us.
- 4:35Speaker 2: You know, I feel like we've kind of been.
- 4:37Speaker 3: Yapping off by the mouth, but we haven't been putting
- 4:39Speaker 3: our actions haven't been shown what we've been saying. So
- 4:42Speaker 3: we have to just go out there show show who
- 4:44Speaker 3: we are and let and let our play speak for us.
- 4:48Speaker 6: Thank you, Travis. You mentioned earlier about the Fireless being
- 4:54Speaker 6: fireless and not having any fire How does that happen?
- 4:57Speaker 6: For this team was always into playing on Monday night football.
- 5:02Speaker 6: Give any can you put your finger on on how
- 5:04Speaker 6: that even happened?
- 5:06Speaker 2: Oh no, not at all. I don't feel like it
- 5:08Speaker 2: was actually fireless.
- 5:10Speaker 3: Uh. We we just got we just got our buzzs whip.
- 5:13Speaker 3: I mean, at the end of the day, we didn't
- 5:15Speaker 3: show up to perform in the score. It was what
- 5:19Speaker 3: it was. It was a tough game of tough loss,
- 5:22Speaker 3: but we have to bounce back from it. And uh
- 5:24Speaker 3: and and and if that didn't do anything for us
- 5:28Speaker 3: that day, I feel like it definitely lit a fire
- 5:31Speaker 3: up in everybody. So I don't see why anyone would
- 5:33Speaker 3: be fireless going into this game, because we shouldn't have
- 5:36Speaker 3: been fireless then, you know, but you know the outcomes,
- 5:39Speaker 3: what the outcome was, and can't.
- 5:41Speaker 2: Go back and change it. All we could do is
- 5:42Speaker 2: live and go poor with it.
- 5:44Speaker 3: And I feel like that definitely should be a motivation
- 5:47Speaker 3: for everybody to go out there and play to the
- 5:49Speaker 3: best ability. Just knowing that it was a Monday night game,
- 5:52Speaker 3: primetime game, everybody watching us, and I know my mom, my,
- 5:56Speaker 3: grandma's they was tuned in, and just everybody just wants
- 6:00Speaker 3: to see us be who we are.
- 6:01Speaker 2: You know. I feel like we won't have to go
- 6:04Speaker 2: out there and do any magic, anything's crazy. Just go
- 6:08Speaker 2: out there and be ourselves.
- 6:09Speaker 3: Just have confidence in ourselves, have confidence in our scheme,
- 6:12Speaker 3: and just love upon each other while we're out there,
- 6:14Speaker 3: and just fight for sixty minutes and see what the
- 6:17Speaker 3: outcome can be.
- 6:20Speaker 2: All Right, Thanks Travis, I thank you. Hope everyone's safe
- 6:24Speaker 2: in the weather,