Chargers safety Derwin James shares his thoughts about the Jaguars and returning to his home state of Florida this week.
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00:00When you face, you're gonna face a young quarterback this weekend.
00:05Do you, as a DB, like that because you figure he's gonna make some mistakes and
00:10you can capitalize, where a veteran may not?
00:13Man, in this game, you gotta come into the game, man,
00:16trying to just come out and win.
00:17Cuz I mean, the young quarterbacks,
00:19look how many young quarterbacks are playing good in the league, around the league.
00:22So in this business, I feel like you just gotta prepare each week as if he's the guy
00:26that can come out and beat you.
00:27Cuz I mean, if we don't do what we're supposed to do, then he can't get it.
00:31What have you seen from him on tape, though?
00:33He's great when the puck is bad, and it's standing in place.
00:37He's really good at finding people, so I feel like we gotta blast him a lot as well.
00:43The theme of this season has been close games, close losses.
00:46You didn't miss most of them, and then you come back and
00:48you're involved in a close game.
00:51From your perspective, what is this season,
00:53how would you characterize what you've seen?
00:55It's just part of it, man, part of the season.
00:58This year, we got the bad end of the stick, but it's just been a lot of,
01:02last year, we won a lot of those close games by three and four.
01:05So this year, we didn't get the job done like last year, but
01:09I mean, it's just small little stuff that's very physical.
01:13What have you learned about yourself over the course of time as far as this season
01:16being out on the field was a factor of not being on the field and not your backer?
01:20What have you learned about yourself as an athlete, as a player, as a person?
01:24That adversity may come during your career when you're playing,
01:28especially for me, I've been through adversity a lot of times.
01:30But never let it bother you, just let it get to you.
01:33Always just continue to work hard and just continue to push.
01:37Jackson won't get in the circle because maybe Jalen Rapp is gonna be there.
01:40I trained him.
01:42At first, were you kind of excited to have that game?
01:44Yeah, I was kind of excited, I was like, man, I get to go to Florida to play
01:48against Jalen, but now he's out here, but I'm still excited cuz my family get to
01:52come watch me play and it's gonna be fun.
01:54Philip was saying on the podium a short while ago, Rivers, two foreign teams,
02:00which is crazy at the beginning of the year to think what's become of this.
02:04To see where you're at facing this team.
02:06Yeah, I mean, cuz if you look at both our rosters,
02:08I mean, the talent is there on both rosters.
02:10I can truly say that.
02:12So, man, it's just, both of us have had a tough season.
02:15And man, at the end of the day, we gotta come out and play football.
02:18Still more games to be played, so we're gonna try to win all of them.