1 on 1 interview with Montreal Alouettes linebacker, Tyrice Beverette. Conducted Saturday at Tim Hortons Field ahead of Grey Cup Sunday.
I previously spoke to Reggie Stubblefield and Jeshrun Antwi about the commitment to special teams. You were the 3rd highest special teams graded player by Pro Football Focus. Could you elaborate a little bit on the approach to special teams and the commitment?
“I mean, the approach to special teams is just basically where my career has started out for me, you know. Coming into football, talking to other guys, I know that’s something that you have to do to gain your trust in this game. And, just to be able to play the game of football, I just play every play like it’s my last one. That includes special teams, you know what I’m saying. I know that some people look at that like the dirty work position, but I love it actually, You know what I’m saying. So coming here even though I’m a starter, you know, I told him I wanna continue to be out there on special teams and contribute that way.”
Jeshrun mentioned a little bit when you started out with Hamilton. I wanted to, spin-off now to the matchup coming up. Brady Oliveira, the takeaway, everyone’s talking about how he exploded with 96 yards his first eleven carries, but it wasn’t really spoken about how he was pretty stopped the second half. So when you’re watching the film, what were basically your takeaways on that preparing, to stop the run?
“I mean, you know, just like we did last week, you know. Just follow what the game plan is. You know, our coaches do a great job of analyzing what the other team does, their weaknesses, and their strengths. And, you know we trust in them and they, and they put us in the right position. So just like last week, if we come out and play our game. We know what we have in this room. We know the type of plays we have in this room, and we’re very confident.”
Montreal began the season 9th on the cfl.ca power rankings. It seems like Montreal has totally bought the underdog mentality and kind of uses that as a motivation. What are your thoughts on that?
“Yeah. Of course. For sure we can use it as motivation. You know, we felt like it disrespect, but at the end of the day, we don’t focus on too much of that. We know what we have. We know what our goal was set to be.”
“And, honestly, we loved things like that for people to doubt us because at the end of the day, in the beginning of the season, we came together and told each other we don’t see ourselves as the underdog. We the top dog. So if everybody wanna keep sleeping on us, let ‘em sleep, you know, and then we’re gonna see what’s gonna happen tomorrow.”
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Montreal Alouettes: LB Tyrice Beverette, LB Reggie Stubblefield, DT Mustafa Johnson, K David Côté, DE Shawn Lemon, CB Kabion Ento
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