Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver discusses health, winning streak and his back injury following their win over the Buffalo Bills
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00:00 How'd you feel this morning after that one?
00:03 I'm good. I'm alive.
00:04 That's the best thing right now.
00:06 Sir, it looks like you were injured.
00:08 You should be going to work on that.
00:10 You say what?
00:11 Were you injured at any point yesterday?
00:13 Yeah.
00:14 How are you feeling now?
00:16 I fell on my back.
00:17 So, as of right now, that's all I know for real.
00:21 How sore was it this morning?
00:23 Pretty sore, just moving around.
00:25 So, I'm good, though.
00:26 When did it really start to kick in?
00:30 When did you feel it?
00:31 Don't know over the course of a row.
00:34 So, it wasn't like the type of thing
00:35 where it was like immediately,
00:36 like, that worse as the game went on?
00:38 That worse as the game went on.
00:40 Dialed back at practice this week or anything?
00:43 I don't know yet.
00:44 We'll find out tomorrow.
00:47 How do you, like, in the past,
00:49 when you've had things that have bothered you,
00:51 whether it's injuries or whatever,
00:52 how do you approach that, you know,
00:54 mentally throughout the course of a week
00:55 and then get to the next?
00:56 Just be a good teammate, you know,
00:57 support my guys, that's going on.
00:59 T stepped up, so, I mean,
01:02 that's what we wanted right there,
01:03 but, you know, all I can do is protect the team
01:07 and get healthy.
01:09 Back-to-back wins, Niners, Bills,
01:12 where do you feel like this team is right now, Jamar?
01:14 We on the right foot right now.
01:16 That's exactly how we want to start this past couple games,
01:18 start off fast, get the momentum going,
01:21 let us play with a lead, let our defense play up.
01:24 You know, just keep grinding.
01:28 What was it like to see T kind of have that performance
01:29 yesterday, especially with you kind of dealing with that,
01:31 for him to come out and kind of roll out?
01:33 Yeah, I mean, we all been waiting for T
01:36 to have a day like that, you know what I'm saying?
01:38 He was definitely supposed to have probably a touchdown or two,
01:41 but, you know what I'm saying,
01:43 it would have been good to see him have a tally,
01:45 but, you know, that's all we've been expecting him to do,
01:47 nothing new.
01:48 How nice was it to see the tight end group
01:51 as a whole come through last week?
01:53 Yeah, man, that's -- you know what I'm saying?
01:55 They had a lot of tight ends up.
01:56 We bumped up Tanner that week,
01:58 so, you know, everybody probably had a lot on his plate,
02:00 just proving himself and just playing good, you know?
02:03 So it was good to see all those guys step up,
02:05 make plays for the team when the number called.
02:07 Have you looked around the division,
02:08 like, at the standings of the division
02:10 to see that every team is at least two games above 500
02:12 and every team would be in the playoffs
02:16 if they started today?
02:17 No, I don't really pay attention to all that.
02:19 You know what I'm saying?
02:20 I just -- one game at a time, one week at a time,
02:22 focus on our opponent and just play football.
02:24 Did you see Joe's finger last night when it got cut?
02:27 Oh, yeah, I seen a little bleeding,
02:29 so I really don't know what he was doing.
02:31 I just seen him licking his hand off.
02:32 Did you see him turn around like that
02:34 and still have the damage he had despite --
02:36 I mean, probably one of them little fingernail, hangnail.
02:39 Nothing -- you usually pull it off.
02:40 I saw bleeding, so it wasn't nothing crazy, probably.
02:43 You talked about other people being 100%,
02:45 wanting to be 100% before they play.
02:47 How's it going to be for you if you can't be 100%?
02:49 Do you feel like you want to kind of get your body
02:52 in as good a spot as possible?
02:53 Y'all got tricky questions.
02:54 [laughter]
02:57 Like I said, though, I'm going to just support my teammates,
02:59 man, let those guys do what they got to do,
03:01 and all I got to do is just get healthy for the team
03:03 and try my best what I can do.
03:06 Does knowing that you have Baltimore
03:07 with that game of football matchup
03:09 and the players that play with you,
03:10 you got to have a lot of motivation
03:11 for whatever comes out on Tuesday or Sunday?
03:16 You got to take it one day at a time, man.
03:18 You can't jump forward right now.
03:20 You're not worried about Baltimore right now.
03:21 You're worried about Houston. That's in front of us.
03:23 So one week at a time.
03:24 How important is it for you to know your body
03:27 and know how quickly you can get through this last year?
03:31 Uh, you know, all I got to do is pray, pray, pray.
03:34 You know what I'm saying?
03:36 Like I keep saying, be a good teammate
03:37 and be there for those guys and try to get healthy.
03:39 That's the only thing I can do right now.
03:41 You know what I'm saying?
03:42 Everybody counting on me to be healthy.
03:44 Is playing through pain something you've done in the past?
03:48 I played through pain every game.
03:50 Get hit every game.
03:52 How's the back?
03:53 When it's a bad motion, what's the difference between...
03:57 More spine, middle of everything,
04:01 more cautious on it.
04:02 So I'm good.
04:05 13-2 over the last 15 at home.
04:07 How electric was last night between the stands?
04:10 It was fun, man.
04:12 We just watched the film. It was smoky on film.
04:14 I didn't realize it was that bad.
04:16 I thought my eyes was just messed up.
04:17 But atmosphere was crazy.
04:20 I didn't even realize they had it striped out in the stadium,
04:23 too, so that was pretty cool.
04:25 What do you think about the stripes?
04:26 Yeah, that was cool, man.
04:27 Overall, the fans are good, man.
04:29 That was my first time seeing a stripe,
04:30 so that was really awesome.
04:31 When you think back to the first four weeks, Jabbar,
04:33 just how frustrating it was for this team to be 1-3
04:36 and now four-game winning streak
04:37 and being back to playing the football you expected,
04:40 how much different does this room feel
04:42 now that you guys are playing the way you expected?
04:44 I mean, it don't feel no different.
04:45 It's just, you know who we was capable of, man.
04:47 We keep saying this every week.
04:48 It's not no different.
04:49 Our standard is high, you know what I'm saying?
04:51 A lot of guys on this team,
04:53 expectations are high for one another,
04:54 so we expect to play like that every week.