Steelers' Broderick Jones Excited To Focus On Left Tackle
Pittsburgh Steelers' OL Broderick Jones is excited to focus on playing left tackle.
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00:00 >> Roger, how ready do you feel to step in now with Dan potentially being out?
00:07 >> I'm excited, I'm ready to go.
00:09 Just ready to get the week started, get the preparation and
00:12 all the phases of the game going.
00:13 Locking in on what I need to, just trying to perform to the best of my ability.
00:19 >> Your progress or your development, do you think it's been helped by getting some
00:22 right tackle stuff over the last few weeks?
00:24 Or do you feel like you've got some catching up to do to go back to playing?
00:27 >> I don't feel like that hindered me at all.
00:30 Just being able to play both sides, that's an asset to me and the team.
00:33 So just being able to lock in on the left now is just something I'm looking for.
00:40 >> Your preparation or your mindset isn't any different at 1045 Wednesday this week
00:44 than it was the past few weeks when you- >> No, it's the same.
00:47 It's the same always.
00:48 Cuz it's always one player left, it's always one player winning.
00:51 We always say that, so we just try to prepare to the best of our ability.
00:55 Even if you're not a starter, because you never know.
00:57 >> Robert, what was the benefit of those reps?
00:59 And what did you learn in that time that you got against Houston?
01:03 >> It was good for me, just to get the feel for it.
01:06 You know, in live action instead of going against the team,
01:10 like what I've been doing for the last couple of weeks.
01:13 So solid for me to be able to go out there and get the feel for it again.
01:18 >> When you look at the tape, just how do you evaluate how you played on Sunday?
01:23 >> I feel like I had a solid game.
01:28 It's a little bit of a cleanup here and there, a little technique things.
01:32 Just small, small little errors.
01:34 But I feel like that was just the jitters I had just going in for the first game.
01:38 Overall, I don't think it was nothing too bad.
01:43 But it always looks worse than until you watch film.
01:49 That's what my coach always used to tell me.
01:51 It always looks bad until you watch it and really break it down.
01:54 >> What did you like most about it?
01:56 >> Specifically, the assault.
01:57 >> I like this.
02:01 >> See?
02:02 >> Probably my run game.
02:03 My run game looked solid.
02:05 I felt like I played very good in that game.
02:07 Just being able to move people, getting them to the second level,
02:10 covering them up.
02:12 >> And the fourth and what, did you do anything different on that or
02:14 did it just work out that way?
02:16 >> It was just a bad way to work out.
02:19 I really can't, well, I'm gonna have to play tomorrow.
02:23 It's always about the next play.
02:25 But unfortunately, that happened to Kenny, but we just gotta keep moving forward.
02:30 >> Mike Tomlin said that he wanted you guys to be more physical.
02:34 How do you go about that?
02:35 How do you get that mindset where it needs to be?
02:38 >> Just running the ball.
02:40 I think just getting that physically up front, getting up and
02:42 running the ball and just keep pounding it.
02:44 I feel like that wears the defense down, so I believe that's what it is.
02:47 >> How much more important?
02:48 How much more?
02:49 >> What's it gonna be like being in pads today?
02:52 >> It ain't nothing too different.
02:55 It's always the same, just being in pads.
02:58 Like at Georgia, we were always in pads every day.
03:00 We never had a day off that we weren't in pads.
03:02 So you can kind of say I'm used to it to a certain extent.
03:07 So- >> Is it especially important to rise to
03:10 that level of what Mike-