Christian Gonzalez, A.J. Brown, Carlton Davis, and Christian Elliss | Player Media Availability 10/28

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

What's going on? I know you are 100% okay. How's the cold or whatever you're dealing with?

Christian Gonzalez (0:07)

Yeah, I'm good, good.

Yeah, I mean, I got a little allergies, but season's changing. Getting back used to the cold, but I'm good.

SPEAKER_3 (0:23)

How rough was it on Thursday night for you?

Christian Gonzalez (0:26)

I mean, it was tough, but I mean, I was able to play, so.

SPEAKER_4 (0:35)

What do you see from this Dolphins offense that can trick free guys?

Christian Gonzalez (0:39)

Yeah, I mean, they kind of found it the past couple of weeks. I mean, it kind of starts with their run game. Oli's been great. He's been running the ball, taking a lot of carries, and he's been doing a lot with it. So, I think Malik is very talented, can run around really fast, which just makes it harder for us. Kind of like what I talked about last week, another week of a second play type of team. And I mean, I think the receivers, they're young, but they're talented on the outside.

They've shown a lot that they can go up, make plays, go downfield, make plays, catch the ball and make plays. So, they got talent over there. And I mean, it's a division game, so we know what those means. So it will be fun little match up to go over there.

SPEAKER_5 (1:34)

Went back through and made the corrections on the past defense. I'm gonna guess the explosive plays given up, the number of them was probably something you focused on.

What did you see? You know, what can be heightened up? You know what I mean, to get that number down?

Christian Gonzalez (1:51)

I mean, it kind of really starts with communication, making sure we're all on the same page, communicating and then as like, as far as me just playing my detail and doing what I can do to take away what I need to take away. So, I mean, just communicating and then going out there and playing like the back end, you know, and what we know how to do. Like we like to talk about it, like go out there and play with swag. Like when we go play with swag, that's who we are. So, just getting back to that.

SPEAKER_6 (2:24)

What's it been like to have Carlton back out there?

SPEAKER_1 (2:26)

I know he crashed a little bit at the end of the last season.

SPEAKER_7 (2:28)

We saw him on Monday as well.

SPEAKER_1 (2:30)

What's it like to have him back out there?

Christian Gonzalez (2:31)

Yeah, I mean, it's everything.

CD is a great vet. You know, somebody that I lean on a lot, able to talk to, pick his mind about certain things. He's seen a lot of ball, so just having him back out there is amazing, so excited to get all of us back. I think this is the first game since the first week is going to be all of us out there. So, excited for that to get back on the field with all of them.

SPEAKER_1 (3:02)

The injuries you guys have dealt with, does that kind of take you by surprise a little bit this year?

There were some people, both you and Carlton were out. Your corner back room was maybe three people deep. Has that ever happened to you before, or have you dealt with that many injuries?

Christian Gonzalez (3:17)

No, it hasn't, but I mean, it's football, it's going to happen. So, I mean, it's just a credit to the guys that in the room that stepped up, and you know, anybody in that room I feel like can go out there and do what they need to do and make place for the team. So, I mean, we're pretty tight knit room, tight knit group. So we always lean on each other, talk to each other. So, yeah.

SPEAKER_7 (3:48)

Christian, what did you gain from the self-scouting stuff Brayville mentioned earlier this week?

Christian Gonzalez (3:53)

Yeah, I mean, it's good to, when you play on a Thursday, you know, you get a little mini bi-week, you kind of get a couple of days, so you get to, you know, breathe a little bit, but then also, you can have more time to watch yourself and understand things you can improve on, work on.

It gives you a little extra day to be like, okay, now I can kind of watch more of myself other than a normal week where you got to flush it and move on and be ready for the next opponent. So it gives you a couple of days, and I mean, it's real good. I mean, self-evaluation, I feel like, is one of the best ways to get better. You have to do it to move on, to know how teams are going to attack you. You gave up this week that the team you're playing now is going to somehow run the same play in some shape or form. They're going to get to it. So it's real good to get those type of days.