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Thursday Media Transcript: WR Odell Beckham Jr.

Eric from BBI : Admin : 11/12/2015 4:46 pm
WR Odell Beckham Jr

November 12, 2015

Q: What do you see when you look at the Patriots secondary?

A: I mean just overall, the whole team, the way that they run the system, the way they do things, they’re obviously good and they’re good for a reason. They’re very aggressive on defense. They make plays all around, they work together. So it’ll definitely be a tough matchup for us as an offense.

Q: What’s so different about what they do?

A: They’re going to play a lot of man and high funnel and things like that. Watching the Jets games and watching how they played Brandon Marshall and Decker, it’s almost like a double team between those two guys or whatever they’ll do. They’ll have the safety funnel and their corners are going to man up. You don’t know who’s going to be on you, but I’m definitely looking forward to playing the Patriots, for sure.

Q: Shane Vereen was telling us that when you look at a Belichick defense it seems like every week it’s something different and you really can’t concentrate on one thing. Do you see that?

A: I definitely think you can say that to an extent. They’re going to stick to what they know and they’re going to do what they usually do, but there may be little nicks and things like that that they put in. You can watch film and you can get an idea, but you never know exactly what you have until Sunday.

Q: Do you have to guard against maybe not trying to get into a shootout with them because they’ve been putting up points every week?

A: I think we (run) our race. We don’t try to go at anybody’s else’s pace but at the end of the day, if they’re putting up points every time they get on the field, the offense is going to have to do the same. Don’t fully expect that to happen, but this is a great team we’re going against. Should be a fun matchup.

Q: It’s commonly thought that Belichick defensively will do everything he can to take the best player out of the game from the other team. Do you sense that from looking at the film and do you expect them to do that to you?

A: I don’t know what they’re going to do, to be honest. All you can do is, like I said, we go off of the film and what they do. You can see kind of what they did to Marshall and the other receivers as far as the doubling goes. You’ve seen them line up two guys over one guy as if you’re about to run down on a punt. So you honestly don’t know until you get out there on Sunday and you could fully see it firsthand.

Q: When you look at your numbers this year, there’s no big one-handed catches or anything this year but you’re sixth in the league in number of receptions and on pace for a 1,200-yard year. Does it surprise you when you see that?

A: As far as the numbers go? It’s kind of one of those things that it’ll just build up and build up. Can’t really look too much into it. I’ll tell you it feels way better to just win. We’re close to winning as many games this year as we did last year. So we’ve made improvement on that end and just keep continuing to improve.

Q: There was a play last week, I think on that interception, where you looked like you were really miffed. Was it the guy beat you to the spot or what was going on?

A: I just don’t like turning the ball over, that’s all it is.

Q: I know you’re friendly with or you were in the same draft class as a guy like Mike Evans. He took it pretty hard after the game. Did you speak to him and did you say anything to him? He basically said, “That game is on me and it’s my fault.”

A: He’s their playmaker over there and he’s one of those guys. He had a phenomenal game. And I think the only thing we talked about after the game was just talking about catching the ball in the rain. He was just like, “I don’t know how you do it with gloves on.” I tried to tell him you kind of have to take them off. I mean the gloves are made of rubber and as soon as that gets wet, even when you’re down in the south, I remember going through camps and being halfway through practices muggy, sweaty, and you’re running through your gloves, you can’t get a grip on them. They’re not going to do you any good as far as trying to catch a football, so just taking them off and using your hands a little bit. But you can never say the game is on one player.

Q: Did you always do that, even in LSU? Whenever any sort of rain, you always went bare hands?

A: There was a game I think I tried to use some all-weather gloves or all-condition gloves or whatever it may be. You don’t have the same feeling as bare hands as far as feeling the ball. The gloves are really there to protect from the ball. They’re throwing it hard, the laces come and they cut your hands up, they hit your hands—that’s really what they are there for. In the rain, you just take them off and you got to go with it.

Q: Are you all football all the time? I would think after the game you’re just going to shoot the breeze and after the game you’re talking football.

A: Always. It’s hard right now for it to leave my mind, something I care so much for. I’ll leave the game and no matter what, there’s always something that I’m like I could have did better, always. Any game, there’s always something I’m looking for to see what I did wrong or what I didn’t do well enough. So it’s kind of hard for my mind to leave anything but football right now.

Re: the Patriots

A: On one end, you respect everything they’ve done and what they do year in and year out as far as being one of the top teams in the league and they get the job done and they win championships, the way they conduct themselves. But on the other end, they’ve beaten all the teams I like. I remember seeing Vinatieri kick a million field goals, I forgot who the kicker was back then, it was Vinatieri, it was all kinds of guys. Brady beating the Rams, everybody, it’s just been one of those teams like you hate them because nobody was really beating them. And you love them because they’re always, no matter what they go through, even after what they’ve gone through this year, to see how they’ve come out and they play football, it’s something about it I admire. But like I said, it’s still one of my least favorite-favorite teams of all time.

Q: So when Belichick talks about your toughness, what does that mean to you?

A: It’s a complement for sure. A guy who, a Hall of Fame coach, he’s a great coach. So that is a big complement from him.

Q: You surprised that that’s sort of what he picked up on? You do a lot of things and that’s part of what impressed him the most.

A: Everybody has their own opinion. I can’t really take anything but what he says as what he says.

Q: That’s something that someone who looks beyond the headlines would notice. He didn’t notice that you’re making catches and running around. It’s a little deeper.

A: With that being said, it kind of makes me wonder how much has he really watched or things like that. For someone to pick me and put that characteristic as the thing they notice most means that they’re probably watching a lot of film.

Q: Which I’m sure he does.

A: Yeah I’m sure he does.

Q: You’re a historian of sorts in this game, you’ve paid attention to a lot of things. You understand the history behind it, what these two teams have represented. Does it mean something to you to know you’re going up against one of the greatest defensive minds in the league and he might be looking to take you out of the game?

A: There’s no better way I could ever really picture this. Going into the league, you get to do all these things and this is one of those ones that’s at the top of the list is playing against the Patriots and Belichick and Brady and everything that they have there. It’s definitely exciting.

Q: You see the pictures everywhere here.

A: For sure, they’re everywhere.

Q: Every hall you pass you see them.

A: They’re everywhere, for sure. So I obviously know the history behind it and I see how it’s treated. So it’s definitely a big game.

Q: Now you have to get your pictures up there.

A: Yeah absolutely. I feel you on that.
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