Steelers' CB Feels Defense Hasn't Played To Their Standard
Pittsburgh Steelers' cornerback Joey Porter feels that the defense hasn't played up to their standard in recent weeks.
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00:00 Definitely everybody between us like a playoff game and I feel like that's what we kind of need at this point in the season
00:03 Just to really just get that morale and that anticity back up, you know and just finish off this season, right?
00:09 What do you know about their offense and garden midship to another guy young guy rookie guy?
00:14 Not a rookie, but a backup that's coming along. Yeah, you know, he's played a lot of football just around the league in general
00:20 So he's he's good at the game. He know what he's doing out there. So we just gotta make it difficult for him
00:25 I feel like they're really good offense. They're rolling
00:28 We just gotta do our best to stop
00:30 It's been pretty good, you know
00:37 Yesterday was the first day really come back in and build on everybody and we had a really good practice to start off the week
00:42 And I feel like we had another one today. So really we just gotta keep stacking the chips and just keep looking forward
00:47 Just play like how we are how we're used to playing these past two weeks
00:56 We I mean these past two games the defense felt like we didn't play to our standards
00:59 And we're really just trying to get back to our standards. So that's the biggest thing for us
01:02 You know just a lot of a lot of factors going into it people's missing everybody's everybody's kind of banged up
01:12 You know communication has always been the biggest thing for us throughout the season
01:15 So really just keeping those the main thing the main thing will get us to that point again
01:19 I assume we'll get some matchups of Joey Porter Jr. Versus like Blue Pitman Jr. What do you know about him?
01:24 And what kind of challenges does he present?
01:26 I watched a little bit of him so far. He's a good wide receiver, you know
01:31 I'm excited for any matchup throughout the week whenever they tell me that I got a guy
01:35 I start I start game planning and looking forward to it. So I'm ready for that matchup
01:39 What are some of the things you should look for when you're doing your scouting or prep?
01:42 I don't want to give up too much but definitely tendencies of what they like to do
01:46 Little things like fixing their glove their stance their splits stuff like that. I look at that heavy to
01:51 Get to the last few games of your first
01:54 I'm feeling great. It's definitely a long season, you know around this time last year
02:07 I'll probably be getting ready for bowl prep or hang out with the family, but we got more games left
02:11 So what that aspect is definitely a mentally and physically draining, but this is what I signed up for
02:16 You know, I'm not complaining. I get to do what I love to do every day
02:19 So I'm ready
02:21 Did you feel like the way the Steelers brought you along slowly at the start of the season maybe helps you weren't playing like every rep every game in September?
02:27 Definitely I think about that often. I'm like if I played week one, I don't know how my body will feel right now
02:31 So I'm glad they kind of slowed it slowed the process down for me and I'm feeling hot right now
02:35 Is there an area you feel like you've grown the most through your rookie year?
02:37 You said say that again?
02:39 Is there an area you've grown the most through your rookie year?
02:41 No, not really
02:43 I feel like there's a lot of areas that I need to work on and I'm still working on and I feel like overall I just
02:49 Grow grow as a player, you know since the beginning to now so I'm I'm happy where I'm at
02:54 But I know there's there's still work to do and there's still work to be put in
02:57 So that's how that's the mindset I'm looking towards
02:59 Joey after last game Kim said he put a lot of the loss on the defense
03:05 Do you feel that way do you feel like you guys need to do better out there?
03:09 definitely as a
03:10 If you want to be a great defense you already got put yourself in those situations to see what you could have done better
03:15 And as a defense you always want the game to be on you you guys
03:18 You always want to be the closer to finish or so the fact that we had chances to finish and we didn't
03:23 That's what we're talking about
03:24 So we just really got to make our make our plays when they give given to us and not just try to make too many
03:29 plays