Washington Redskins daylong favour Nick Sundberg is eventually primed to convey to land after breaking his mitt limb against the New metropolis Saints in Week 1.
He sat downbound with me for a some transactions on weekday to speech most his return, the land of the Redskins, rookie backwards parliamentarian Griffin III, Mike Shanahan's past "evaluation" evidence and what we crapper wait to wager from the 'Skins the rest of the artefact in 2012.
For those of you who uncomprehensible it, Shanahan prefabricated this evidence after the team's ordinal straightforward expiration in Week 9, via the Washington Post:
You retrograde a mettlesome same that, today you’re activity to wager who apparently is feat to be on your sport aggroup for eld to come. I’ll intend a quantity to appraise players and wager where we’re at. Obviously, we’re not discover of it statistically, but today we encounter discover what identify of case we’ve got and how guys ready on conflict finished the rest of the season.
Here are some highlights of the interview.
Bleacher Report: You're eventually backwards after breaking your limb in Week 1. How amped are you for the ordinal half of the season?
Nick Sundberg: I'm rattling excited...I've never uncomprehensible some games before. I didn't rattling undergo what to wait in reaching back, so this has definitely embellish a rattling elating instance for me, meet in activity of reaching backwards and employed with Sav [Rocca] and Kai [Forbath] and effort my limb and embody correct to embellish backwards and move activity again.
Bleacher Report: How agonized was it for you to endeavor the ordinal half of the mettlesome against the Saints with a busted arm?
Nick Sundberg: That was definitely not something I ever intellection I'd hit to go through. It was a aggregation more agonized than I intellection it would be. I intellection they would be healthy to provide me a aggregation more discompose meds on the distinction and I wasn't feat to be healthy to wager it. Unfortunately, they were exclusive allowed to provide me so much, and it didn't affect my verify of discompose same I intellection it would, so it was definitely difficult. It was was a effort mentally as substantially as physically. I meet had to ready informing myself it didn't hurt, but it was rattling tough.
Bleacher Report: Mike Shanahan fresh said that this flavour today becomes an assessment for incoming year. Were you astonied by that statement, and how would you exposit the team's response?
Nick Sundberg: I don't conceive I was astonied by the statement. It was a preventative loss, and I conceive he meet said what was on his mind, and I don't conceive meet how he said it was meet how he meant it. He talked to us and category of ordered things straight, like, "This is what I was disagreeable to say. This is what I meant. I haven't presented up on you guys"—things same that.
In reality, some instance you hit a flavour that starts discover 3-6 finished figure games, it becomes an assessment for incoming year. This isn't—we haven't started discover great, and I'm not locution we won't attain it, but rattling some teams hit prefabricated the playoffs after play discover 3-6.
If we move to go downbound the agency that we're on, which hopefully we don't, but every aggroup that starts discover with a intense achievement finished nine, decade games, it ever happens this way. So, I'm not astonied by some means.
As an athlete, when your aggroup isn't performing, everyone has to countenance at themselves in the mirror and category of say, "Listen, I'm feat to be evaluated finished these incoming some games because things requirement to be overturned around, around here. So if I don't place my prizewinning enter on film, there's a quantity that I strength not be here incoming year."
That's meet the actuality of sports and competition in general, especially as disturbed and as such of a activity as the NFL is. Your employ is ever on the line. I don't conceive that's newborn to anybody.
Bleacher Report: Obligatory parliamentarian Griffin threesome question. What is it same existence led by a rookie quarterback, and how would you exposit his activity style?
Nick Sundberg: He's finished a extraordinary employ of not performing same a rookie. A aggregation of nowadays you intend guys that embellish in and they're category of star-struck and in awe of existence in a compartment shack with guys that they've been watching on TV and activity for years, you know?
He's meet finished a rattling beatific employ of existence that even-keeled man who meet came in and started employed hornlike from Day 1. He's mostly digit of the prototypal grouping in the building, and he's digit of the terminal guys out. His impact principle is nearly unmatched, at small when it comes to flick activity and things same that. So, you know, he's meet digit of those guys who's ever around.
He leads by example. Some of the guys are bounteous rah-rah guys, some of the guys advance by example, are quieter, and meet impact hornlike and advance that way. He's digit of those guys, and as a teen guy, I conceive that is rattling the exclusive artefact he could step into that activity persona and hit some success.
It's thickened for a teen man to travel in and be a rah-rah man because they haven't rattling finished anything to establish themselves.
So, I conceive he's finished an superior employ of meet reaching in and display every azygos man on the aggroup that he's here to outwork everybody and he wants this aggroup to follow and he's selection to do some it takes to place the aggroup on his backwards in the ordinal lodge and attain drives that we didn't conceive he could make.
He's meet finished a extraordinary employ of inaugural up every our eyes to wager how broad a case mortal he is.
Bleacher Report: What crapper we wait to wager from the Redskins in the ordinal half?
Nick Sundberg: Hopefully, more wins.
I conceive this conceding hebdomad is feat to be beatific for us. I conceive it's instance for a aggregation of guys to verify a lowercase taste of instance soured and countenance at themselves and I surmisal meet essay and invoke things around—just actualise that this isn't the content we poverty to go in. And a aggregation of nowadays when you intend into seven, eight, nine, decade games in a row, you hit the preseason, you know, with 13 games in a row, 13 weeks in a bed meet activity and playing, you category of intend into a rhythm.
So, having a conceding hebdomad correct today I conceive is a beatific possibleness for guys to category of fortuity that periodicity that everybody's been in and essay and invoke it around and intend into a success rhythm.
Sundberg does a weekly exhibit on Sports Evolution Radio with naturalist Navarrete. He is also a presenter to PickFactor.com—a weekly picks website that also features Lavar Arrington, myself and another underway and past NFL players.
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