DL Dexter Lawrence II: ‘Our job is to go out here and win the next game’

Defensive lineman Dexter Lawrence II talks about interim head coach Mike Kafka ahead of Sunday's matchup with the Packers.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Talk about your reaction to the news that Brian it
was tough.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Uh, that's that's my guy. But I mean he's gonna
be okay. I know who he is as a as
a man, and he's gonna be all right. And our
job is to go out here and win the next game.
So that's what we're gonna do, and we're gonna keep
fighting and that's that's all you can do.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
That's players. How do you take the news like, yes,
obviously you take any kind of responsibility or do you
feel like any kind of just.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
You know, for sure we win, we win more games,
that doesn't happen. So me personally, I take that as
I could have done more, you know, on which you
always can, and a loss or win. So you just
gotta keep going and you know it happened. They believe that,

(00:51):
you know, it can get us to the next level,
and you know, I'm on I'm on the train and
we're gonna keep riding.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
What's been your first impression that after that guy and
how much interaction did you have with him before.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
I mean, you're on the other side of the ball.
I'm sure you don't interact with the offensive coordinator that much.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
None before, but now he you know, he's roaming over
to the defense, you know, you know, throwing a little
little jabs and you know, little comments at the defensive
line and you know, just challenging the defense daily. And
you know, it's been cool. It's been cool.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
What's he like as a personality, like you know what
I mean, like in regards to.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Like team meeting, I had to ask one of the coaches,
does he have one? But I'm still learning. He seemed cool.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
I'm enjoying him. You know, he's you know, he's It's
it's different because you know, you never hear from. Now
you hear from all the time. So I'm adjusting. And
I'm not.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Question what the coach said to that question. I know
Burns and Slave told us that I guess there's more
urgency now with these last seven games with they won't
being fired. Just do you feel the same way that
this is the type of guys to kind of you know.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
I just me personally, I just want to win for
the organization. I think that's the biggest thing, just to
win for this organization and you know, you know, the
owners and things like that. So that's why I'm gonna
try to do it each and every We're gonna try
to prepare the right way to get my guys prepared
the right way to go.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Ya KAA been like involved with the defense in practice.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Like well, just just throwing jabs here and there, you know,
just like you know, just getting us, you know, giving
us a little extra juice, you know, like you know,
just challenging us in different ways. And this is a
lot of respect.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
You've been with him for four years, but obviously on
the other side of the ball, how much will he
be able to like inspire the defense and committing you
know what I mean, like.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Just being Kafka, just being himself, And you know that's
that's kind of what we told him. Just be yourself.
You don't have to go outside of who you are
to try to do something that that's not you, you know,
so just be yourself.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
You think anything changes on game, ain't how that yet
for the defense of pulling about or anything like, No,
it's still Boeing's defense, So that's that's not as much
of a change.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
I mean, you know, we we the defense change every
week almost you know, so it's uh, it's bowing to
me