Matthew Judon 9/21: "Continue to stack days"

Published Sep 21, 2023, 8:46 PM

Patriots linebacker Matthew Judon addresses the media on Thursday, September 21, 2023.

All right, y'all, I'm all right man, how you doing good? Good? No, come on, man, let's get it another good day of focus. I gotta put them back to back. He's stacking. Uh. Eventually they'll turn out the wins. That's good days at practice. You know, we'll be all safe. Practice execution becomes game execution something like that. So we just gotta say it all the time. Man. But uh, you know, we just gotta continue to stack days good plays. Uh just just become a habit, just where it's thoughtless. Man. I'm telling you, if we could play a game a day until we win, I'll do it. So. Uh, but we're just gonna keep getting asked about the previous game until the next one. There. That's the thing about this this league. Man. You got you got three hours once once a week, sometimes twice. You get a you get a short week. That's better if you lost, terrible if you gotta travel. But uh, I mean you only get you only get one time a week. Man. That's what he's not basketball. He was like, really can't be having a short memories and stuff. You kind of gotta get over it. But you continue to get asked about the previous games. Until you play the next one. And uh, we got a good opponent coming up, so we gotta focus in and we can't let that one slip either. Looking at that next year, what do you see exact? I see a quarterback that can make all the throws, uh, when he's comfortable back there, when he uh, when he has the time, when he gets his feet set, or or even on the one on the run. And so uh, I see a quarterback that's just still young in the league. He's still young, he's still new. Uh and uh, as he gets coached more, he's gonna continue to improve. This. I don't think this is how he thought his season was gonna go. So he's thrust into a new but old kind of position. But it's a new offensive coordinator, a new scheme, new everything. He just so happened on the same team with the same teammates, so he has to learn improve and uh, and they hoping he can do it on a fly. Us we are not. So I think that's just one thing about him. And but he like he can make all the throws. If you look all over his game tape and his film, you have seen it. You actually have seen every throw. It's just sometimes you make mistakes.

You have great for you that you had an air tag underwallet.

You know, I've been thinking through thick and thin with that AirTag. Man. Yeah, I probably even even know you need to change the battery in the air tag. What I do? You gotta twist it so uh, but uh, I am very grateful for that air attack. How did it happen? How did markets get your wallet? You know what, Man, We're gonna one Thursday, I'm gonna bring Markets up here and let him explain it. Man, he's gonna have to face everybody and explain how he did that. But uh, I think he was just trying to get out the house fast to get to the dealership before the traffic. And uh, you know, I don't I'm not, you know, punishing him for it or nothing like. You know, I didn't did worse than him. And that's not the That wasn't the worst thing he could do to me. It was just a kind of funny, funny story and we laughed about it when I got home. But I am thankful I got my wallet back in the middle, like on the side of the highway. So if this is this right here, the cars right here, and then this where like the little bump lane is right there. It was sitting right there, and I was like, dang, thank god it was like in the middle of the street or nothing, because I would have had to call the cops so they could help me. So but uh, I found out I got it back. Uh, air tag still working, So I'm thankful. Man. That should should fins be confident? The Patriots have been doing a lot of beating up on the Jets fourteenth straight games. Now does that give you any extra little confidence or you, Hey, maybe it's their time to win now. You know, I don't care what time it did for them, for real, it's our time to win. So uh, I think I think it's good. It's it's hopeful that we've been we have a winning streak against them, but nothing in the past can help us right now. You know, they they switched up some stuff on defense, but they still got that defensive line, they still got the the people in the secondary, they still got cook corners. They still got a solid duo honestly, trio and linebacker. Uh. They rotate like mad men, and they rush like mad being up front, so uh and then on on offense they have they have a good offensive line that's coming back. You know, they have a three really good running backs. They have a really good wide receiver corps, a veteran corps that can find open spots. They got exposed players like Garrett Breeze, and so they got people that when the ball is in their hand that can make plays. And that's whether from this twenty yard line or from the goal line. They got good, good tight ends willing to block, but also very good route runners and have good hands. So it's not gonna come easy, and it's not gonna come off of previous games. It's not gonna be like they're not gonna lay down just because it's fourteen in row. They they probably talking about that. That's a motivating factor for them. It's like, Okay, let's let's get let's turn this thing around. Uh. You know they they owing too. They're looking for when let's not let it happen to us on our home field. You you did have that opening statement.

The other hand, I'm just kind of curious why you felt the need to give us that. Is there any concern on your end that if things don't you know, you guys are doing or going to things don't start well that you might lose somebody in from from players.

In the locker room. No, I think it was more just like the way y'all fraid was phrasing questions and stuff. It was just like so damn and I'm like, that's not me, and y'all know that's not how I am. So I said that to say, Okay, when you when we address in this situation, we're gonna talk realistic. We're not gonna act like you know, it's all good. We're gonna say what we need to improve on. We're gonna say what we need to do to get wins. But we're not just gonna talk negatively. And I think when you let negative talk creep in, or you you let h external factors or opinions creeping into a locker room or to into your head and people kind of hanging their head a little bit more. And U unfortunately, fortunately for y'all, we gotta talk to y'all after the game, right, we already feel bad that we lost. We already but y'all just reporting, y'all just doing your job, but we gotta we gotta talk to y'all. And sometimes the way y'all phrase questions or y'all ask questions. It might not be as friendly as we will want to talk, but I just I just came out and said, like, like, it's not a bad team in the locker room. We lost games. Yes, uh, everybody lose games. Unfortunately, we just haven't won any games. But when we turn it around, it's gonna get turned around. And we got to do that by actually going to play better football for sixty minutes and not just a half. We're not just a quarter or not just glimpses of it. We gotta do it a whole game, and then we do it a whole game. We gotta continue to do it. And so when we get when we had that track record and that then it's everybody coming there and then we be in a team room or wherever we're talking to the media, and just a feel of the media room is different, and when you come in there, it's more laughs and smiles and jokes about the game or like, but when you lose, it's just more you know, kind of it's just down and I just don't like it. So that's what I was more addressing than the state of our team.

Did you guys as players after the game, did you guys have any kind of meeting talk to each other about some of these things that you're talking about about.

Now. Oh no, I think we all know where we at. We don't got to have to come to Jesus meeting after the second week. We got a long season ago. I think, you know, that's kind of when when you get more down the line and you come together without the coaches, without anybody, and you actually talk honest. But I think the good thing about our locker room is that we do that freely. We talk honest, We talk to each other harsh, but sometimes you just need to hear it. Sometimes you need to hear from your brother. And it's better to come from somebody that actually go out there and fight and league with you than somebody that's, you know, just chilling on the sideline drinking. Getoraate, Matt, your team had success against both Zach Wilson and against Dalvin Cook last year when you faced off. But is there anything maybe that you'd like to do better this time around now that you're facing again. Kind Of, just like I said earlier, previous games or previous experiences don't dictate what we got going on this weekend. Dalvin in the whole new system, and so it's Zach. Honestly, they're both Dalvin. As an experienced player, you know how to get a lot of yards and a short amount of carries a short amount of times. And he can do it receiving her. He can do it on the ground, and then we have seen Zach have good, good games like so we know he can do it. We just got to play and hold fast and make you word, don't hapen against us. Appreciate y'all,