Transcript: Wide Receiver Wan'Dale Robinson

Wide Receiver Wan'Dale Robinson

Q: I know it's early in camp, but just what feels different about this wide receiver room this year and just the offense in general?

WAN'DALE ROBINSON: Well, for me, this year I'm actually out there with the guys. So, that's definitely a little different than last year. I would say this, we're kind of throwing the ball a little bit more, a little bit more vertically. All the guys know that we can make some plays. We're just kind of going out there each and every day, just trying to be the best version of us.

Q: Two off-seasons ago you were preparing for the draft and last year you were rehabbing. What was this off-season like where you actually got a chance to train and prepare for football?

WAN'DALE ROBINSON: I guess you could say any other regular off season for an NFL guy. Finally being able to work out every day and just work on my craft and lift, run, run routes and do all the things I wanted to do. Last year, it was just a bunch of rehab and working on one leg and making sure, at this point, I was even running routes and just doing everything I could to be ready for the season.

Q: How does adding a guy like (wide receiver) Malik (Nabers) change the way you guys can attack a team schematically this year?

WAN'DALE ROBINSON: Malik can play in all different spots outside, inside. I feel like a lot of us can do all those similar things. That just allows us to all move around in a lot of different places and do a lot of different things to get a lot of different mismatches.

Q: Did today feel a little bit uneven for the offense at times out there? How did you see today's practice?

WAN'DALE ROBINSON: Today, I would say, it was a little bit up and down. We would have some good times and then we would have some lows. Just trying to be consistent each and every day and just continue to get better.

Q: You talked about your own rehab. Do you look at what (quarterback) Daniel (Jones) is doing, he's out here every day eight months after surgery, are you surprised he's out here?

WAN'DALE ROBINSON: I'm definitely not surprised he's out here. If you know Daniel, (you know) he's one of the hardest workers that we have. You knew he was going to do everything he could to be out here and just to be able to go through the team stuff to be ready for Week 1. We have just little differences with what we had to do with our rehabs, just because obviously I have to run a little bit more than he does. But, he attacks it each and every day like he's supposed to.

Q: It looked like the defense was taking liberties, let's say, with no tackling and things like that. Is that something that you get annoyed at or is it…

WAN'DALE ROBINSON: You get used to it, it's camp. Tensions are high and the defense is going to do a little bit more than whatever they might not be supposed to. But, at the end of the day, it's football. You're going to get hit and you're going to take some hits whenever you aren't expecting it.

Q: You ever try to blindside block?

WAN'DALE ROBINSON: No, I don't want to be on their hit list. So, I'm not even about to start all that.

Q: Do you, as players, listen to expectations outside of what the team will do, might do? How do you handle that internally in the locker room?

WAN'DALE ROBINSON: We try not to really worry about it. At the end of the day, they're not in that locker room and they're not with us each and every day working. So, we have to go about it ourselves and do what we're supposed to do. We have our own expectations of what we want to look like. We're not too worried about anybody else that's not inside the building.

Q: Having Daniel healthy and you healthy again and some new people brought in here, what are your expectations from last year to this year?

WAN'DALE ROBINSON: We just expect to win. At the end of the day, just coming in and doing our jobs and doing whatever we're supposed to do each and every Sunday. About as simple as that.

Q: How important is it to have guys who can play a lot of different positions? How many places do you think you would say you could line up?

WAN'DALE ROBINSON: On offense, I'd say I play all five skill positions. For offense, it's really important for guys to be able to be mixed and matched, and obviously you want to get the right matchups and things like that. The more you can handle, the better. (Head) Coach Dabs (Brian Daboll) will call those plays and the more he'll call.

Q: How different is it with (Head Coach Brian) Daboll running the offensive meetings?

WAN'DALE ROBINSON: He's a little intense. I mean, he's going to let us know what his expectations are of us and that he wants us to play at the highest level. Never worried about him coming in and not us working too hard and things like that. He's always going to be on us.

Q: Do you like coming out of the backfield?

WAN'DALE ROBINSON: Yeah, no doubt. I mean, there's definitely some things that we've talked about that I don't like doing. But, obviously there's a lot of things I like doing and being able to run a lot of different routes out of the backfield to have a lot of different mismatches. Yeah, I definitely like what we do with myself out of the backfield.

Q: Fourth-and-one?

WAN'DALE ROBINSON: No, I'm good on fourth-and-one (laughs).

Q: Third-and-one also?

WAN'DALE ROBINSON: If I'm running an option run, we'll take it (laughs).

Q: Has Dabs ever come up to you and asked you, 'What play do you want to run?'

WAN'DALE ROBINSON: Yeah, definitely. Throughout my years here, he's always asked, 'What do you like?' Just going about it, whatever defense we're going against. He's always been like that with his guys and his receivers, just asking them what they want and being good about getting those guys with the plays they want.

Q: Have you ever said to him, 'Put (wide receiver) Leek (Malik Nabers) in the slot and let me go deep'?

WAN'DALE ROBINSON: Not too much. No, I'm going to let Leek stay on the outside. I'll do my stuff on the inside. They let me get deep a little bit on the inside too. So, it's all right. We all do a little bit of the same stuff.