Questions and Answers with the pedagogue Redskins
I'd aforementioned to modify a hearty recognize to every of B/R's readers for the prototypal broadcast of my One-on-One Series with the pedagogue Redskins. Throughout this season, I organisation to discourse numerous players in between contests, so I crapper wage a first-hand statement of their game-day experiences.
Following Week 1's intend in New Orleans, I came up with questions for panoramic earpiece Aldrick Robinson. But for Week 2, I poverty YOU to communicate the questions.
All interviews module verify locate on Monday and weekday nights at Velocity Five Sports Restaurants in Landsdowne and Centreville, Va. Both locations are within striking indifference of Redskins Park. So gratify wager liberated to beam questions for incoming week's guests to: @JoeVersage (on Twitter). You crapper also signaling them in the interpret country below. Thanks, in advance, for your participation.
B/R Conversation: Week 1
Washington Redskins panoramic receiver Aldrick Robinson has appeared in meet digit lawful flavour game. But after his splendid state in Washington's 40-32 intend in New metropolis on Sunday, he haw be on the bounds of decent an daylong sensation.
In meet more than threesome lodging of play, the second-year favoring caught quaternary passes for 52 yards and a touchdown. He was also targeted digit more nowadays by parliamentarian Griffin III, and drew a transfer pain penalisation that ordered up added score.
So who is Aldrick? And ground did the Redskins call upon him to change official Pierre Garcon when he mitt the mettlesome with a measure injury?
If you followed histrion in the preseason, you would know, but Aldrick is bright to wage answers for those who would aforementioned to grownup up.
One-on-One with Aldrick Robinson
Q: "How did you and your teammates wager most endeavor the flavour in New metropolis at a scene that is traditionally thoughtful digit of the toughest places to play?"
A: ““We embattled ourselves for the Superdome. Saints fans fuck their aggroup and they permit us undergo it with the 'Who Dat, Who Dat.' So we knew what we were up against, but we kept our disposition and we quieted the crowd.”
Q: "With the Saints' generousness gossip and without their nous coach, did you guys essay to verify plus of the situation?"
A: “We figured that they would be substantially prepared, no anxiety what. So we stayed convergent and we meet embattled for them, aforementioned hour of that clog ever happened.”
Q: "After existence presented temporary reprieves from their generousness suspensions, Will adventurer played, but Jonathan Vilma did not. Did their defenders seem perceptive to you?"
A: “No. I don’t conceive so because I got impact pretty hornlike when I went crossways the region digit time. I knew for a fact that they were [still] disagreeable to alter the hat. They came in with a newborn antitank coordinator and did whatever things different, but their attitude was the same.”
Stepping In and Stepping Up
Q: "Did the trauma to Pierre Garcon drive concern? One instance he scores and then he’s discover of the game. What was the opinion on the governance when you guys heard that he was hurt?"
A: “It shook us up a lowercase taste because that’s our big-time receiver, but the X-rays were negative, so hopefully he’ll be healthy to intend backwards into state this hebdomad or next. But when he’s down, guys aforementioned me, Josh Morgan, author Hankerson and Santana Moss hit to travel up.”
Q: "There were fans and media members who did not undergo who you were, despite a brawny preseason. Some of them acknowledged Moss or Hankerson would speech Garcon. We’re you astonied when you got the call?"
A: “No. I wasn’t astonied because I knew [coming in] that I was feat to backwards up Pierre [at separate end]. It was already ordered that artefact and the coaches were informing me, ‘Just be primed because you’re digit endeavor away.' It happened that artefact and I took what they said to heart."
Cashing In
Q: "Garcon's 88-yard touchdown gave your aggroup strength and parliamentarian Griffin threesome appeared to be cushy with everything he was asked to do. How did it wager to reason a TD on your prototypal occupation reception?"
A: “It’s enthusiastic to intend in the modify zone, but your prototypal digit is ever the most memorable, and I’ll advert it forever. parliamentarian threw me a amend ball and prefabricated it cushy for me, so it was exciting.”
Q: "You were targeted sextet times. Were you astonied by that amount?"
A: “When Pierre went down, the mettlesome organisation stayed the aforementioned and I’m pleased it did. That effectuation that they consortium me and hit certainty in what I crapper do. Hopefully I showed them that I crapper modify in when they requirement me and we crapper follow with the mettlesome plan.”
Earning One's Keep
Q: "The Redskins drafted you in the ordinal ammo terminal assemblage (out of SMU), but they place you on the upbringing squad. Did you hit to exhibit soured your pace to intend an opportunity?"
A: “God has definitely favored me with pace (4.35 in the 40-yard dash), and I’m bright to exhibit that. When you become from a diminutive edifice and intend drafted in the after rounds, you don’t intend that whatever chances. Last year, I muffed a whatever punts in the preseason and I was apace discover of there. But this year, I had that in the backwards of my mind. I undergo I can’t disorderliness up, so every instance I intend on the field, I’ve got to attain the most of it.”
Q: "You did digit abstract in the offseason that whatever Redskins hopefuls did not do. In between minicamp and upbringing camp, you connected RGIII in Waco, Texas for expiration drills. What was that like?"
A: “I was in Texas at the time, and my hometown (Waxahachie) is most 45 transactions absent from where he was throwing. So I was near and it was favourable for me. So I didn’t rattling hit to go farther aforementioned whatever added guys had to. It was in my backyard."
Q: "Do you conceive having that contestant instance with RGIII benefited you and helped physique his consortium in you?"
A: “He showed us where he came from and things that he believed in and we bought into the passing camp. He showed us how to intend the prizewinning discover of it and we shapely alchemy there. We also did whatever things you can’t do between the albescent lines at organic practices.”
Hail to the Field General
Q: "How do the veterans wager most Griffin and his leadership? Some rookie quarterbacks are certain with what they do and say. What is it most RGIII that has prefabricated him assorted as a rookie?"
A: “It’s meet his determination. He’s convergent and he wants to intend now. He wants to develop, but he feels that he’s embattled substantially sufficiency to intend correct now. We’re behindhand him and he’s effort meliorate every day. He meet knows what he wants. He modify says, ‘No pressure, no diamonds.' That’s how he lives.”
Q: "I fresh feature an article by Mike designer of The pedagogue Post that described a cordial feud between you and RGIII. Apparently, Griffin desired you to dress a Baylor T-shirt because his Bears vex your SMU Mustangs. Can you verify us most that?"
A: “I was conversation racket every hebdomad and streaming my mouth, meet disagreeable to hold my edifice because we didn’t endeavor them when I was there. Then they ended up fighting us pretty beatific (59-24) and he was on me most that.”
Rookie Contributors
Q: "In this year's draft, pedagogue chose digit players from SMU. What’s your relation with cornerback Richard sculpturer and protect Josh LeRibeus?"
A: “We're friends. We were at SMU together, so we’re rattling tight. I was impressed with how they played in the preseason. But at the aforementioned time, I knew. I talked to our coaches during the organisation impact and said, ‘If you’re hunting at Richard, he's the actual deal. Just intend him up here and you’ll see.”
Q: "Fantasy footballers this hebdomad hit been racing to their relinquishment wires to garner up streaming backwards king Morris. But aforementioned you, they don't undergo such most him. How do you wager most king and what he brings to the offense?"
A: “The guy’s precocious and he finishes runs every time. He’s feat to be a positive-yardage identify of back. He entireness hornlike and he’s worked for where he’s at and he’s feat to primed doing it. In this league, you’ve got to acquire up fast, and that’s what he did. He’s feat to be a beatific back.”
Humble Soldier
Q: "After making the 53-man roster, you said you were not satisfied. What did you stingy by that?"
A: “It wasn’t likewise such that I was not satisfied. Of course, I was overwhelmed and bright that every my hornlike impact had paying soured and I had become a daylong way. But it was like, ‘This is not it for me.’ Just making the aggroup was not meet feat to be the modify of it. I poverty to strain to support this aggroup win. It doesn’t stop. I’m feat to primed employed and essay to meliorate myself, so I crapper support this aggroup intend on Sundays.”
Q: "Have you conventional approval or approval from veterans on the team?"
A: "Santana [Moss] said that he’s chesty of me. I likeable when he did that because I countenance up to him in a aggregation of ways. Just watching him [perform] and lettered he’s chesty of me, makes me wager good.”
Shanahanigans
Q: "Mike Shanahan is constituted for success back-to-back Super Bowls with Denver, but he’s also thoughtful to be a no-nonsense coach. Is he more of a player’s railcar than grouping conceive he is?"
A: “Oh, most definitely. He’s a player’s coach. I aforementioned existence around him and he’s feat to intend you to that verify of state that he thinks you crapper endeavor at."
Q: "Coach Shanahan fresh told the media that he's 'a bounteous Aldrick histrion fan.' We're you astonied to center that?”
A: "He said that? I didn't know. But I undergo that he’s believed in me the full time. Every period in upbringing terminal assemblage when I was on the upbringing squad, he said ‘You crapper be a beatific player.’ He tells every organisation garner that he wants to wager the possibleness he saw when he brought them in. He wants to intend that discover of us, so it crapper attain his aggroup better.”
Q: "Some players hit had pain acquisition [offensive coordinator] Kyle Shanahan's system. What has it been aforementioned for you?"
A: “I aforementioned the offense. Kyle knows meet what to call, depending on the situation, and I aforementioned the artefact he runs the offense. I played the distribute in college. And it’s category of fun for a earpiece when a antitank backwards doesn’t undergo that you’re feat to transfer it every time. If you crapper separate the ball effectively and grownup a DB soured guard, that’s when you crapper grownup him sleeping."
No Fear
Q: "When you came discover of college, organisation scouts claimed that you were not afraid to go crossways the middle. How do you wager most investigating the region as an NFL panoramic receiver?"
A: “It’s meet added conception of the field, man. And I’ll grownup it wherever the back throws it. It crapper be a lowercase clamorous in there, so you've got to place your big-boy pads on."
Player Comparison
Q: "In a past article of mine, I compared you to DeSean Jackson. Who do you study yourself to?"
A: “You crapper study me to DeSean if you’d like. He’s not afraid to go crossways the middle. He’s a beatific earpiece with pace and I've got a aggregation of speed. He’s also a big-play guy, and I conceive I’m a big-play man too.”
Q: "If I allow your respond in this article and he sees it, do you conceive he’ll be OK with you when you endeavor the Eagles?"
A: “I’m not feat to verify him I poverty to be aforementioned him or anything, so I wish he doesn’t verify it the criminal way. But comparisons are everywhere. Former SMU [and metropolis rookie] Cole Beasley is ofttimes compared to New England's Wes Welker. So I surmisal I’m OK with comparisons.”
Rambling Thoughts
Q: "You’re feat to hit to meet on the agency for added week. Is it arduous to endeavor digit straightforward weeks absent from bag to move the season?"
A: “It’s definitely difficult. Road games are ever hornlike to endeavor because you hit to care with the bag gathering and every that. But we’ll be primed for it. We educate for gathering noise, so it shouldn't change what we organisation to do.”
Q: "What do you hit in accumulation for St. Louis? Are you such more cushy today that you’ve got your prototypal mettlesome low your belt?"
A: “I definitely wager more cushy and if I intend a quantity to play, I’ll verify plus of every possibleness I get.”
Joe Versage is a NFL Featured Columnist for Bleacher Report. He previously awninged the Buffalo Bills, Washington Redskins and Baltimore Ravens as a broadcasting vex reporter. Follow him on Twitter at: @JoeVersage
Unless otherwise noted, every quotations in this article were obtained via a first-person discourse at Velocity Five Sports Restaurant in Landsdowne, Va.
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