08-20 Keon Coleman

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Buffalo Bills rookie wide receiver Keon Coleman addresses the media following Tuesday's practice in Orchard Park. (Courtesy of the Buffalo Bills)

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00:00Starters not playing on Sunday, or Saturday, excuse me.

00:04How prepared do you think you are with the reps you've got in the preseason and

00:08camp to hit the ground running for a week long regular season?

00:11Wait, say your question one more time.

00:13John said the starters aren't playing in the final preseason game.

00:15This week?

00:16Yeah.

00:17So how prepared do you feel you are for week one, taking into account preseason and

00:22your journey and path towards the game?

00:24I think I'm pretty prepared, ready to get out there, get the game plan and

00:28really get to play.

00:29Knowing what I have to do, when I have to do it, and where I need to be.

00:32How would you assess your first two preseason performances?

00:36Just as you reflect on it, what do you have to work on?

00:40What are you looking forward to as you progress in your NFL career?

00:43It was pretty, and so-so, always gonna be better.

00:46But just getting out there, feeling the speed of the game more, and

00:49just playing and doing what I know I can do.

00:51We asked Joe earlier about what he felt like was the biggest challenge for you.

00:55And he said adjusting to different ways that defenders are going to deal with you.

01:02How in your mind do you go about doing that, trying to make those adjustments?

01:06So for one, really you can understand the rhythm that they play at,

01:09the type of things they like to take away.

01:11And then from watching the film, taking account the guys they're probably going

01:14against are not the same size as you, speed, and

01:17could do the different things that you can do.

01:18So just imagining how I would stop myself, pretty much,

01:21is the same way as they're imagining how to stop me when I'm going out there.

01:25So just continue to being creative, asking for different coverages,

01:29leverages in one-on-ones, and in practice, and just perfecting it that way.

01:33Something that you can only do through reps on field?

01:37Yeah, so-so, pretty much just test the guy out when it's not a pass play,

01:43or it's a run play, try something here and there.

01:45And just see if what you've been studying is really what's going on out there.

01:48Yeah, the other thing, you're strong, you're ball is fast.

01:54Definitely, I feel like any ball come my way, I can catch it, honestly.

01:57What happened?

01:59What do you think happened?

02:01Just a drop, focus drop, got to look the ball in and make the play.

02:04When Deion talks, he talks about feeling responsibility to Josh,

02:09because that's his guy, his quarterback.

02:12You're just coming into this league, and do you feel that, I mean,

02:16you have to take care of what you have to do, but

02:18a responsibility to the quarterback to be everything he needs you to be?

02:22For sure, because I'm one of the guys he's throwing the ball to.

02:25So he got the trust he have in me, I got to relay it back, make those catches.

02:30Make both of us look good.

02:32I can't do that, how I'm supposed to get out there and make the plays.

02:35Football signs is you're a starter, do you feel like a starter?

02:41I just feel like I'm going out there playing at elite level, and

02:44got a lot of elite guys on side me that you got to hold your own.

02:48You've got it now, you're a new player, and

02:51you're the best man that you've ever had in the senior class.

02:54How do you feel that you've got a very good separation defense?

02:57You've got some people that you think are going to be good.

03:00Honestly, I don't think that's a struggle.

03:03We're going to find out sooner than later, but I don't think that's a concern.

03:08I think that's something I'll continue to work at, and

03:10show through our practice, through our week to week basis.

03:13With a play like that, you have to go up and talk about it in the field.

03:17It comes up in the field, though.

03:19Take me into that, is it frustrating when something like that happens?

03:22Trying to break it down, and talk about it in the team?

03:26I think it's more frustrating when it happens than after,

03:29because after you're already in process to fill in.

03:31Right after, you're kind of mad, but you got to get to the next play.

03:34Man, when you watch the film, everybody in the room know you got to catch that, so

03:37nobody's going to continue to harp on you.

03:39People make harmless jokes throughout practice and stuff, but

03:42you got to make that catch, simple as that.

03:45Joe said that the wide receivers blocking Saturday was very good.

03:49How much more are you being asked at this level to block, and

03:51what's been that adjustment for

03:53you versus what you might have done in Florida State?

03:57Florida State a lot was RPOs, different things like that, but now it's going,

04:00just giving effort backside, going to get the safeties.

04:03And when the bubble spit out the other side,

04:05making sure the corner can't make that play.

04:06Where do you feel like you've shown the most growth,

04:09maybe from the start of training camp to now?

04:12Speed of the game, playing at the speed of everybody else playing, and

04:15just pretty much making the plays that they knew I could make.

04:17A lot of wide receivers will pick the first round or early second round.

04:23Do you pay any attention to what anybody else is going on?

04:26Do you have a sense of competition with those guys as you all come in?

04:30I wouldn't say so, I don't mean salute to them, getting drafted where they got

04:34drafted, but I'm a guy that comes in ready to work, and

04:37I'll work anybody that's in my field of play.

04:39So the cards are gonna lay where they're gonna lay,

04:42depending on production and all that, and that's for everybody else to do.

04:46I'm here to do my job.

04:47So much has been made of your great,

04:49outgoing personality when you first got here.

04:52Now that you've gotten through training camp and things like that,

04:55have you tried to shift things to more Keon Coleman than the football player?

05:00One of the best things has not been Keon Coleman, the football player.

05:02But you know so much attention was the jacket, the cookies, and all of that.

05:06And now that we've gotten it, we've been on the field.

05:08I mean, have you tried to maybe shift away from that and

05:11just be more of like, let's talk shop?

05:14I mean, I don't really like talking about a jacket neither.

05:17It's football season.

05:18My mindset has been football ever since my first press conference was football.

05:22Yeah, you got to see the personality.

05:23But was I the one focused on the jacket?

05:25Not at all.

05:26I was focused on learning the playbook and

05:28being able to play at the speed of the game.

05:29Yeah.

05:34Y'all have a good day.

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