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September 30, 2020
QB Dwayne Haskins Jr.
On how he can grow from his performance Sunday:
“Really the biggest thing is just try to learn from your mistakes and capitalize on the things that you did well.
Add it on to the next week and do the best of your ability to let that go. Just move forward and have a positive
mindset and outlook going into the next game.”
On what it means to face the Ravens as a Maryland native:
“Definitely having gone to high school in the area, just understanding the importance of: which team are you
rooting for on the Beltway? It’s a team that you want to beat, a little bit of bragging rights when you go home.
I’ve got family and friends that live in Baltimore and a couple of teammates from Ohio State that are over on
the team, too. So, I’m looking forward to competing against them and having some fun out there and making
these guys better.”
On looking back on his performance in Cleveland:
“I have a 24-hour rule in the sense where I go through the motions of what happened in the game—what can I
fix in the game or what did I do well in the game? Then the next day, you kind of watch the film, see what you
did well, what you didn’t do well. The film’s not going to lie to you. Then, you kind of let that Monday get the
last little bad taste in your mouth after a loss on whatever mistakes you made and on Tuesday you let it go and
move forward and get ready for the next week. That’s kind of what we did. What I did most importantly was
just realizing that I have to be better and just focusing on the details of what we’re doing and capitalizing on the
things that we’re doing well.”
On having the personnel he needs:
“Any personnel decisions are up to [Head] Coach Ron [Rivera] and [VP of Player Personnel] Kyle [Smith].
Really, I have to make sure that I be the best I can be and be the best quarterback to make these guys play
better, to make these guys confident in me and elevate their play with that. I feel like we have a lot of young,
talented players on this team, a lot of veterans that can contribute and make plays. We just have to do better as a
whole and I have to be better. There isn’t like: ‘Oh, I wish we had this. We needed this,’ Or, ‘We needed more
of this.’ We needed to play better and win more games with what we have on the field. We have to make do
with that and do better.”
On his confidence:
“I feel like I’m in a more mature mindset going into this week than I would’ve going into last week. Playing
against the Giants last year, I threw three interceptions and—not that it’s the end of the world—but it felt like it.
This week, just learning from my mistakes, capitalizing and just making it something that never happens again
or never occurs again. You don’t want to throw an interception. You don’t want to put the ball in harm’s way.
You want to protect the football. I understand that. We all understand that and I’ll do a better job of doing so.
So, that’s the focus for me this week just protect the ball, do better with the ball and make more plays when they
present themselves and just help these guys win this game and be a point where I can be consistent and be
someone that can be relied upon on this offense. I feel like I can. I feel like I have shown that in training camp
and spots in games this year. I’ve just got to put it all together. I’m looking forward to doing that for the rest of
the season and game in and game out to continue this growth, show much how I love this game, how much I
care about this game and how much I want to better myself and the guys around me because that’s what I’m
here for. I’m here to help this team win. I’m here to help this team win playoff games or be in the hunt and stuff
like that nature. We have a long way to go, but there’s no more time to just say: ‘Oh, we’re waiting,’ Or,
‘We’ve got to be patient.’ We’ve got to attack every week like it’s our last week. That’s just something we have
to have, more urgency, going into each game.”
On staring down receivers on tape:
“Definitely, there were some plays where I looked in the area, looked at the stare-down or part of the read more
than I should’ve. That’s something I’ll continue to grow in as far as the mannerisms of the offense. Sometimes
in the game where I felt like I was trying to hold a player a certain way and look him off more than I needed to,
which made me late to something else. Trying to be too savvy out there can get you to a place where you don’t
look savvy. So, just understanding that and understanding that these guys are good too and you can’t get caught
up in staring at a receiver or zone coverage. Especially when you’re playing zone, they’re looking at your eyes.
Just looking forward to showing that. The first week before that we had no interceptions, and just [I’m] just
trying to capitalize on that and show that I can do a great job of taking care of the ball week in and week out.”
On what he wants to improve on:
“Definitely there wasn’t anything that I said: ‘Man, I need to do this.’ I just want to be better at everything. I’m
still young. I can’t just sit here and act like I arrived, or I made it. I mean, I made it but there’s a long way to go.
I want to be a Hall of Fame quarterback one day. By God, that’s not going to be easy. I want it to be hard, hard
as hell, just so I can show that I can do it and prove to myself and to my teammates that they believe and trust in
me. A lot of guys came up to me after the game and just expressed how much they believed in me and how
much they’re standing behind me. I want to give them something to stand behind and just try to figure out ways
to keep getting better. It’s only year two for me. I only have so many opportunities out there to showcase what I
have and showcase what this team can do. Each game matters. We’re first in the division this week, but next
week we could be last in the division. Every week, every game matters. We have to be at our best each game.
We kind of—myself included—weren’t. We know that. We have to find ways to do better at that. I’m going to
make sure that I’m my best and make sure the coaches and my teammates know that whatever previous
mistakes I made in the last couple weeks, those are behind me and those are mistakes I’m going to improve
upon. I’m going to be a better focal-point leader, someone that can be trusted in situations and especially in
times where we could’ve pulled away from people last week. Some things happen. So, just got to move on and
get better from it.”
On remaining patient with his growth:
“In all honesty, I’m my biggest critic. No one else can sit there and tell me I don’t want it more than they do.
Everyone has their own opinions and perspectives about what’s going on here or what’s going on in the
building or myself included. I know that in order for us to win football games, we have to do a better job
attacking the ball. We have to do a better job as an offense of moving the ball. We can’t have penalties or
mishaps where we’re not executing. That’s just fundamental football, and I want to make sure I emphasize that
this week, just the details and how important things are to line up right, to make sure we’re aware of the play
call, the stem of the release or where you line up in the play under the formation or the lineups and moving in
closer in a stack of linemen and understanding blitz protection. We got a lot of different coverages this week,
different looks. And to understand that we have to be detail-oriented in order to win games. We’re a young team
and we can’t overcome bad plays if we don’t have enough football experience.”
On handling criticism:
“I haven’t had cable since high school, so I don’t watch ESPN or major TV networks. Usually, after a good
game or a bad game, I sort of delete my social media before and after the game. I learned that from J.T. Barrett
when I was in college. We played Iowa after we beat Penn State—J.T. had a great game and came back the next
week and didn’t have a great game. He had some interceptions and plays he wanted to get back. He literally told
me: ‘Do not look at your phone after a loss. That’s the worst thing you could do.’ I took that advice and
understood that and took that with me the rest of my career. So, I could really care less about what page tagged
me in or what Twitter has to say. That’s just opinion and just noise. It’s not in the building. It’s not my
teammates. It’s not people that come up to me after a play and talk to me about what I see out there. So, really
it’s just being tough, having a resiliency, having a great mindset of understanding that people are going to have
things to say about you. People hate on the greatest players. That’s just part of the game. But, you’d rather have
people talk about you than not talk about you because it means you’re doing something. I’ve just got to start
figuring out how to do the right something and to win some games and have somebody talk some positive
stuff.”
On Rivera challenging him:
“Coach Rivera and I had a great conversation on Monday. I challenged myself and just the conversation we had
was along the lines of showing progression, keep getting better and showing what we need to see out of me.
That’s what I want to do. Everybody can be caught up in here or there or what somebody says or what
somebody else says. In all honesty, I know I can be better. I have to be better for this offense. In order for that to
happen, I have to put the work in. Everybody can sit there and feel sorry for yourself or have a pity party or
blame other external factors for why it is what it is. But, I really preached this offseason being self-aware and
understanding of your mistakes and understanding how you can progress and get better for yourself. So, for me,
I look at the plays that I didn’t do well against Cleveland—the plays that were of course ones that I want back,
plays that I felt like hurt us in the game and learn from those mistakes and do better at that next week. I
understand that it’s football. You’re going to have some plays that you want back, some mistakes. I wish that no
quarterback threw interceptions, but that’s just the nature of the game. They’re good players too. They play to
make plays. We’ve got to make more plays, and that’s something that I’ve got to keep crafting and
understanding. I talked to [QB] Alex [Smith] and we had some great conversations after the game and
yesterday. I’m just looking forward to applying myself this week and keep getting better. I can’t worry about
last week or the week before. I’ll just worry about this week and do what I can to show that I’m the guy for this
team.”
On using timeouts at the end of the game:
“Coach Rivera’s decision is the timeouts and the clock management. I’m just doing the best I can to manage the
game.”
On translating his mechanics to games:
“[I’m] not pleased. There’s still room for growth and to get better. I think the biggest thing for me is to keep
understanding situational football. Getting caught behind the chains, having some penalties, having some things
of that nature that set us back where I don’t have to get third-and-17 back every time we get third-and-17. We
should never be in third-and-17. Situations like that where I got caught up in last week where it turned into a
fumble or interception, trying to get those plays back where we’re behind the chains, it doesn’t help anything.
Just understanding that and understanding situational football and grasping what they’re trying to do to us to
take what they’re giving to us—that’s something that I’m going to keep working on and getting better at and
really leaning on Alex this week to help me through it.”
QB Dwayne Haskins Jr.
On how he can grow from his performance Sunday:
“Really the biggest thing is just try to learn from your mistakes and capitalize on the things that you did well.
Add it on to the next week and do the best of your ability to let that go. Just move forward and have a positive
mindset and outlook going into the next game.”
On what it means to face the Ravens as a Maryland native:
“Definitely having gone to high school in the area, just understanding the importance of: which team are you
rooting for on the Beltway? It’s a team that you want to beat, a little bit of bragging rights when you go home.
I’ve got family and friends that live in Baltimore and a couple of teammates from Ohio State that are over on
the team, too. So, I’m looking forward to competing against them and having some fun out there and making
these guys better.”
On looking back on his performance in Cleveland:
“I have a 24-hour rule in the sense where I go through the motions of what happened in the game—what can I
fix in the game or what did I do well in the game? Then the next day, you kind of watch the film, see what you
did well, what you didn’t do well. The film’s not going to lie to you. Then, you kind of let that Monday get the
last little bad taste in your mouth after a loss on whatever mistakes you made and on Tuesday you let it go and
move forward and get ready for the next week. That’s kind of what we did. What I did most importantly was
just realizing that I have to be better and just focusing on the details of what we’re doing and capitalizing on the
things that we’re doing well.”
On having the personnel he needs:
“Any personnel decisions are up to [Head] Coach Ron [Rivera] and [VP of Player Personnel] Kyle [Smith].
Really, I have to make sure that I be the best I can be and be the best quarterback to make these guys play
better, to make these guys confident in me and elevate their play with that. I feel like we have a lot of young,
talented players on this team, a lot of veterans that can contribute and make plays. We just have to do better as a
whole and I have to be better. There isn’t like: ‘Oh, I wish we had this. We needed this,’ Or, ‘We needed more
of this.’ We needed to play better and win more games with what we have on the field. We have to make do
with that and do better.”
On his confidence:
“I feel like I’m in a more mature mindset going into this week than I would’ve going into last week. Playing
against the Giants last year, I threw three interceptions and—not that it’s the end of the world—but it felt like it.
This week, just learning from my mistakes, capitalizing and just making it something that never happens again
or never occurs again. You don’t want to throw an interception. You don’t want to put the ball in harm’s way.
You want to protect the football. I understand that. We all understand that and I’ll do a better job of doing so.
So, that’s the focus for me this week just protect the ball, do better with the ball and make more plays when they
present themselves and just help these guys win this game and be a point where I can be consistent and be
someone that can be relied upon on this offense. I feel like I can. I feel like I have shown that in training camp
and spots in games this year. I’ve just got to put it all together. I’m looking forward to doing that for the rest of
the season and game in and game out to continue this growth, show much how I love this game, how much I
care about this game and how much I want to better myself and the guys around me because that’s what I’m
here for. I’m here to help this team win. I’m here to help this team win playoff games or be in the hunt and stuff
like that nature. We have a long way to go, but there’s no more time to just say: ‘Oh, we’re waiting,’ Or,
‘We’ve got to be patient.’ We’ve got to attack every week like it’s our last week. That’s just something we have
to have, more urgency, going into each game.”
On staring down receivers on tape:
“Definitely, there were some plays where I looked in the area, looked at the stare-down or part of the read more
than I should’ve. That’s something I’ll continue to grow in as far as the mannerisms of the offense. Sometimes
in the game where I felt like I was trying to hold a player a certain way and look him off more than I needed to,
which made me late to something else. Trying to be too savvy out there can get you to a place where you don’t
look savvy. So, just understanding that and understanding that these guys are good too and you can’t get caught
up in staring at a receiver or zone coverage. Especially when you’re playing zone, they’re looking at your eyes.
Just looking forward to showing that. The first week before that we had no interceptions, and just [I’m] just
trying to capitalize on that and show that I can do a great job of taking care of the ball week in and week out.”
On what he wants to improve on:
“Definitely there wasn’t anything that I said: ‘Man, I need to do this.’ I just want to be better at everything. I’m
still young. I can’t just sit here and act like I arrived, or I made it. I mean, I made it but there’s a long way to go.
I want to be a Hall of Fame quarterback one day. By God, that’s not going to be easy. I want it to be hard, hard
as hell, just so I can show that I can do it and prove to myself and to my teammates that they believe and trust in
me. A lot of guys came up to me after the game and just expressed how much they believed in me and how
much they’re standing behind me. I want to give them something to stand behind and just try to figure out ways
to keep getting better. It’s only year two for me. I only have so many opportunities out there to showcase what I
have and showcase what this team can do. Each game matters. We’re first in the division this week, but next
week we could be last in the division. Every week, every game matters. We have to be at our best each game.
We kind of—myself included—weren’t. We know that. We have to find ways to do better at that. I’m going to
make sure that I’m my best and make sure the coaches and my teammates know that whatever previous
mistakes I made in the last couple weeks, those are behind me and those are mistakes I’m going to improve
upon. I’m going to be a better focal-point leader, someone that can be trusted in situations and especially in
times where we could’ve pulled away from people last week. Some things happen. So, just got to move on and
get better from it.”
On remaining patient with his growth:
“In all honesty, I’m my biggest critic. No one else can sit there and tell me I don’t want it more than they do.
Everyone has their own opinions and perspectives about what’s going on here or what’s going on in the
building or myself included. I know that in order for us to win football games, we have to do a better job
attacking the ball. We have to do a better job as an offense of moving the ball. We can’t have penalties or
mishaps where we’re not executing. That’s just fundamental football, and I want to make sure I emphasize that
this week, just the details and how important things are to line up right, to make sure we’re aware of the play
call, the stem of the release or where you line up in the play under the formation or the lineups and moving in
closer in a stack of linemen and understanding blitz protection. We got a lot of different coverages this week,
different looks. And to understand that we have to be detail-oriented in order to win games. We’re a young team
and we can’t overcome bad plays if we don’t have enough football experience.”
On handling criticism:
“I haven’t had cable since high school, so I don’t watch ESPN or major TV networks. Usually, after a good
game or a bad game, I sort of delete my social media before and after the game. I learned that from J.T. Barrett
when I was in college. We played Iowa after we beat Penn State—J.T. had a great game and came back the next
week and didn’t have a great game. He had some interceptions and plays he wanted to get back. He literally told
me: ‘Do not look at your phone after a loss. That’s the worst thing you could do.’ I took that advice and
understood that and took that with me the rest of my career. So, I could really care less about what page tagged
me in or what Twitter has to say. That’s just opinion and just noise. It’s not in the building. It’s not my
teammates. It’s not people that come up to me after a play and talk to me about what I see out there. So, really
it’s just being tough, having a resiliency, having a great mindset of understanding that people are going to have
things to say about you. People hate on the greatest players. That’s just part of the game. But, you’d rather have
people talk about you than not talk about you because it means you’re doing something. I’ve just got to start
figuring out how to do the right something and to win some games and have somebody talk some positive
stuff.”
On Rivera challenging him:
“Coach Rivera and I had a great conversation on Monday. I challenged myself and just the conversation we had
was along the lines of showing progression, keep getting better and showing what we need to see out of me.
That’s what I want to do. Everybody can be caught up in here or there or what somebody says or what
somebody else says. In all honesty, I know I can be better. I have to be better for this offense. In order for that to
happen, I have to put the work in. Everybody can sit there and feel sorry for yourself or have a pity party or
blame other external factors for why it is what it is. But, I really preached this offseason being self-aware and
understanding of your mistakes and understanding how you can progress and get better for yourself. So, for me,
I look at the plays that I didn’t do well against Cleveland—the plays that were of course ones that I want back,
plays that I felt like hurt us in the game and learn from those mistakes and do better at that next week. I
understand that it’s football. You’re going to have some plays that you want back, some mistakes. I wish that no
quarterback threw interceptions, but that’s just the nature of the game. They’re good players too. They play to
make plays. We’ve got to make more plays, and that’s something that I’ve got to keep crafting and
understanding. I talked to [QB] Alex [Smith] and we had some great conversations after the game and
yesterday. I’m just looking forward to applying myself this week and keep getting better. I can’t worry about
last week or the week before. I’ll just worry about this week and do what I can to show that I’m the guy for this
team.”
On using timeouts at the end of the game:
“Coach Rivera’s decision is the timeouts and the clock management. I’m just doing the best I can to manage the
game.”
On translating his mechanics to games:
“[I’m] not pleased. There’s still room for growth and to get better. I think the biggest thing for me is to keep
understanding situational football. Getting caught behind the chains, having some penalties, having some things
of that nature that set us back where I don’t have to get third-and-17 back every time we get third-and-17. We
should never be in third-and-17. Situations like that where I got caught up in last week where it turned into a
fumble or interception, trying to get those plays back where we’re behind the chains, it doesn’t help anything.
Just understanding that and understanding situational football and grasping what they’re trying to do to us to
take what they’re giving to us—that’s something that I’m going to keep working on and getting better at and
really leaning on Alex this week to help me through it.”
Just sayin'... I also think you have to recognize he's speaking with reporters (not teammates during practice or live action), and he's being asked repetitive questions with a negative focus and knows every damn syllable he utters is going to be put out there and examined under a microscope. You know - like you guys are doing right now