Monday Media Conference Call: DE Jason Pierre-Paul

DE Jason Pierre-Paul

Conference Call, December 21, 2015

Q: What are your thoughts on what happened and do you anticipate any type of fine or suspension for [Odell] Beckham?

A: I think it was just two guys, two competitors, going against each other. Both of them are good players and they were battling it out. At some point you just have to play football. The ref did a great job of letting them play football and not kicking either one of them out. That’s just how it is in the NFL.

Q: Do you think if some of those flags would have been thrown earlier then it wouldn’t have escalated to that point where it got in the 3rd quarter on that drive?

A: Not at all. Like I say, Odell is a great receiver, Josh Norman he’s a great cornerback, and it’s two guys that’s going at it, two guys who are top at their positions. That’s just like me saying I’m going against an offensive tackle, yeah sometimes those are going to get missed, you’re not going to catch everything but at the end of the game it’s all love. Those guys, they’re cool, the game is over now, so they know how each other play. Those were two guys competing with each other.

Q: Obviously Norman tended to instigate a lot of that early on in the game but what did you make specifically of the hit that Odell, when he launched behind Norman’s head, helmet to helmet?

A: I don’t think it was intentional or Odell made the hit like that intentionally. He [Norman] moved his head or whatever and it was at an angle. He [Beckham] was going to make a block and he just so happened to hit his head but those guys were going at it early on so it looked like he tried to do it on purpose. I don’t think it was done intentionally. Like I said, it was two guys going at it, and I can speak for Odell and I can speak for Josh Norman, but at the end of the day just two guys going at it. You don’t want to get in between that, yeah the ref has say so but I did they did a great job not ejecting neither of them and letting them play it out. At the end of the day it’s going to blow past and those guys will see each other again and they’ll be cool.

Q: You’ve played about five or six now, and you had your first sack yesterday, are you starting to get more and more comfortable with the changes to your technique because of your hand or do you feel like there’s more that needs to be done there?

A: Honestly I think that I’m getting better and better. This didn’t come with instructions as my coach said. As far as me as a player I think I’m getting better and better every week. Training camp is over for me, I had no training camp whatsoever, a couple of my techniques I’m still rusty, but anytime you come back from a long injury or whatever you’ll be rusty. Other than that I think I’m just getting started. I had a sack yesterday, I could have had three, but it’s not a could-have that. I make a big difference on the line and I’m just happy that I’m out here playing with my teammates and I can help. We may win games and we lose together.

Q: Can you talk a little bit about the emotional roller-coaster, obviously being down 35-7, fighting all the way back and tying it, and then what happened on that final drive whether it was a factor of fatigue or just a great quarterback making some great plays?

A: First, I would say at the end of the day it’s crazy because as much you want to win the game, and we were down, but that still didn’t stop us because we know what type of team that we have. Riding the rollercoaster up and down and our offense got it going, and it came down to the defense making a stop and we didn’t make the stop. We all have to work together but at the end of the day we’re doing fine. We win together we lose together as a team but they didn’t justify not playing to our full potential. Yeah we made a couple mistakes and at the end of the day it’s costed us or whatever but those are the key mistakes you shouldn’t make and you have to go back over the film and correct it. That way we can win these games and move on to the next one. We have two games and we have to give it our all. We’re not worried about what a team has or what miracle we need or whatever, we just want to go out there and play these last two games like we know we can play. It gets frustrating saying it every week but like I said I know what type of team we have…We can make it work with the guys that we have and that’s what we’re going to try and make it do.

Q: You mentioned that the mistakes are correctable, are these the same mistakes that are happening, or are these different mistakes being made by different people?

A: It’s different mistakes being made by different people but at the end of the day you just have to practice it. Whatever you practice you’ll carry over for the game. Those little mistakes that we make, correct them, and correct them on the field. When you do it you know you do it and you know you have done it. Just correct it and we’ll be fine. Don’t get me wrong I’m not perfect at all, and yeah I make some mistakes, but I know I won’t make the same mistake twice…At the end of the day we lost the game yesterday, we move on the next one, we saw the film, we corrected a lot of stuff, and Wednesday get back on that field and make it do what it do. I’m excited to play Minnesota, it’s going to be a nice football game, everybody is watching again, and I’m just excited to play football. I’m just blessed to be playing football right now.

Q: When you watched the film why do you think they had so much success passing against you guys?

A: It was things that we saw before but they did it in a different way. It was the same thing but they just did it in a different way but at the end of the day we’re the players and we have to correct that. We have to play fast. We’re not going to always get the call right but we just have to play fast and run to the ball. We can’t play individually is what I’m trying to say, we have to all do it, one accord and we’ll be fine.