Thursday Media Transcript: T Nate Solder

T Nate Solder
October 18, 2018
 
Q: What is it going to take from the line, from the receivers, from your quarterback this week to put together a thorough team effort for 60 minutes?
A: Same thing that we’ve always believed in. It’s one play at a time, competing at a high level, doing everything that you can to do it one play at a time and think about nothing in the past, nothing in the future, just focus on now.
 
Q: What’s the urgency to just get a win and get something going here?
A: The urgency is as it always is. This is a tough league to ever win a game. It takes everybody so we’re working together to the best that we can to prepare this week for another tough game.
 
Q: You’re going to have to score some points against a team that’s going to put up points so is this group capable of just doing that?
A: Well that’s our job as offensive players to score points so managing the clocks, scoring points, those are all the things that we need to do.
 
Q: Is it been a challenge because you got a bunch of new guys on this line to get it all together and kind of find that continuity? Has that been part of the issue?
A: I think there’s a ton of challenges. I think that’s the NFL. I think there’s always challenges so we do the best that we can, we improve the things we screwed up and we keep doing the things that we were doing right and we move forward.
 
Q: Apologize if this has been asked, but are you okay physically?
A: Yeah, thank you for asking.
 
Q: You know locker rooms; well you’ve been in championship locker rooms over the years. Does this team have what it takes to be a championship team or at least be a team that’s competitive right now?
A: I’m really thankful to be in this group. I think it’s a wonderful group of guys. We’re doing the best we can, we’re working hard and you can’t look forward, you got to take it one game at a time so we’re on Atlanta right now and that’s the focus of everything that we’re doing.
 
Q: You have never been obviously 1-5 before. What’s the challenge keeping the heads up in the room and carrying on when the outside world’s, you know, the sky is falling the season’s over, all that kind of thing?
A: I don’t think you can pay attention to any of that. I think that’s just a life lesson. There’s going to be plenty of stuff that goes on and the noise in just general. Everyone else that doesn’t really know or is involved in and they’re always going to be looking to bring you down. If they’re going to condemn Christ, they’re going to condemn us so we just take one step at a time, do the best that we can with our god given abilities and just thank him for what we have.
 
Q: In terms of inside this locker room, what’s the challenge to kind of keep that going?
A: The challenge is we just got to support each other and not take anything for granted. We only have a short time on this earth, we got to enjoy every single minute of it, love on each other and just spend the time with each other and prove, get better and have fun doing it.
 
Q: Do you see that support right now in this locker room? Are you guys together?
A: We got everything we need in this locker room it’s amazing so I’m very thankful to be here.
 
Q: Have you learned anything about yourself? Like Mark says it’s a first time going through being 1-5 I imagine. Have you learned anything about yourself or how to deal with it?
A: I do believe that I’m constantly learning about myself. What have I learned? It comes down to us and how we love on each other and take care of each other and you can’t do it as one player, you have to do it as a team. It takes everybody on the same page and everybody working hard and I think we have those elements and it’s just a continued process. We have to keep working at it, we have to keep pushing, we can’t back down and we have to put our foot on the gas.