From the Las Vegas Raiders locker room RB Josh Jacobs spoke ahead of the game versus the Minnesota Vikings
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00:00 >> Josh, for you, everybody at this point of the year is hurting.
00:05 It's just a matter of injury or not.
00:07 How healthy do you feel coming off of buying?
00:08 How rejuvenated?
00:10 >> I feel like first day in, man.
00:13 I feel fresh.
00:14 I mean, I've been lucky to be healthy all season.
00:17 >> Christmas bonus, and Christmas, and Christmas.
00:20 >> I feel good.
00:21 >> You were talking earlier in the year about the numbers just weren't there and
00:25 all that.
00:25 But you're right back in the mix.
00:26 >> Yeah. >> One of the leaders in the league.
00:28 How do you think this got to this point?
00:31 >> It's kinda how football goes.
00:33 I don't need too much word about it.
00:34 I feel like everything will take care of itself.
00:36 But yeah, man, we're right back in the hunt.
00:38 I don't know, put a few together, we'll see how it turns out.
00:44 >> I know, obviously, there's no moral victories, but
00:48 you guys are competitive against both the Dolphins and Chiefs.
00:50 Does that sort of give you guys confidence at all going into this last
00:54 stretch of the season?
00:54 >> I mean, I can't speak for nobody else, but for me, man,
00:59 I don't go into no game feeling like the person across from me is better than me or
01:06 indoor, that I feel like I'm gonna lose that day.
01:10 I go into every game with 100% confidence that I'm gonna get the job done.
01:14 So for me, man, for us to lose games against, what you could say, good teams.
01:20 It could be close or whatever, it kinda just makes me,
01:25 I obviously have some type of hope because you're like, all right, well, we right there.
01:29 But it's kinda frustrating too because you obviously wanna come over that hump.
01:34 So we just trying to find a recipe to go over that hump right now.
01:37 That's what I mean.
01:38 >> I just feel you guys still have the possibility,
01:42 where you are in the standings when you still have a chance to make the playoffs.
01:47 Is that still what you've been talking about, what's driving you with five games left?
01:51 >> We're taking one game at a time.
01:53 We're not really trying to look that far down the road.
01:58 We know that we have a lot of work to do before that is even possible.
02:03 So we're just trying to take it one game at a time.
02:05 >> Zeke talked a lot of smack last year, but after Alabama took care of Georgia,
02:09 did you set him straight?
02:11 >> I ain't gotta say nothing, man.
02:14 I ain't never lost to Georgia, man.
02:15 So I don't know nothing about it, man.
02:18 You know what I'm saying?
02:20 Roll tide.
02:22 >> Josh, what do you wanna see out of Aiden these last five games as the rookie
02:25 quarterback?
02:26 >> Yeah, I just wanna see him go out there and just play.
02:29 Don't think too much, just go out there and swing it.
02:31 I feel like if I was him, in my thought process,
02:36 you don't really got too much to lose, just go out there and have fun.
02:38 So just hope what you can do.
02:40 So hopefully he go out there and show what he can do.
02:42 Let me see what he can do every day in practice, the way he go about working,
02:46 the way he sum up those that he makes in practice and things like that.
02:51 I just want him to be able to go out there and show the world.
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02:56 Appreciate it.
02:57 >> When you watch the film, what stands out to you about Minnesota's defense?
03:01 >> They blitz a lot.
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03:05 For the most part, they always have five men on the line, six men on the line.
03:10 So that's the biggest thing that I'm noticing.
03:12 There has not been a rush over 20 yards, I think, against them this year.
03:17 So I like that type of thing.
03:19 It's giving me a little extra motivation, a little extra boost going into this week.
03:23 So it's gonna be fun.