DT Cullen Jenkins
August 2, 2015
Q: What’s going to be different and what will be the challenge without having Jason Pierre-Paul?
A: Well, he’s one of our guys, and anytime you don’t have one of your guys here, you miss him. We hope we can get him back as soon as possible— you deal with that aspect of it— but at the same time, we’ve got to continue to carry on like we would even if he was here. It’s up to all of us to get better, continue to get better and do what we can do to help the football team.
Q: How do you expect this defense to come together?
A: It has to be effort— passion, intensity, desire— it has to be a lot of stuff, like leadership, and just buying into everything.
Q: There’s so many questions about this defense— does that kind of motivate you? Does it make you work harder or try to prove it to the group?
A: It definitely does. Anytime you’re an underdog or anytime you’re written off, if you have that pride and that competitiveness in you, there’s something deep inside that keeps pushing you to want to prove everybody wrong.
Q: So what drives you this training camp? Do you feel like you’re young again?
A: The same thing that drives me every training camp. I always feel like I’m an underdog, like I’m looked over. I know what my route has been to get to where I’m at and I don’t want to feel like it’s done.
Q: You spent time at both tackle and end last year— where do you expect to spend most of the time this year?
A: Wherever is needed the most. I’ll go out there [at end] if they need me more at end in a particular situation or more at tackle in a particular situation. I just make sure that I’m working them both and that I know everything so that I can go in wherever needed and help.
