Per the Official Site is the entire Q&A with a lot of great quotes from Blades. Here are the highlights:
Q: It still must be gratifying, though. What are your thoughts about coming to Washington?
A: "I'm very happy and excited just to go to Washington and help out the team. I'll do whatever coaches ask of me--special teams, anything. I just want to do what I can to help the team win games."
A: "I'm very happy and excited just to go to Washington and help out the team. I'll do whatever coaches ask of me--special teams, anything. I just want to do what I can to help the team win games."
Q: What do you feel are your strengths as a middle linebacker?
A: "My instincts, having a nose for the football, making plays and making tackles. I have great desire and I've prided myself on being a good tackler. I don't feel like I have any major weaknesses, but I need to work with my hands a little bit more [to fend off blockers]."
A: "My instincts, having a nose for the football, making plays and making tackles. I have great desire and I've prided myself on being a good tackler. I don't feel like I have any major weaknesses, but I need to work with my hands a little bit more [to fend off blockers]."
Q: You're coming into a situation where the Redskins just signed a veteran middle linebacker in London Fletcher. Do you view this as an opportunity to learn from him, learn the defense and, if everything works out, earn playing time in the future?
A: "Yeah, that's exactly how I'm viewing it. I see myself as a young London Fletcher. He's a very productive linebacker and he's been doing it for years. So I can come in and play behind somebody like him is an honor. I look up to people like London Fletcher and Zach Thomas, those linebackers with smaller stature, just because I know what it's like to be that. They know what it's like--and it was even harder for them in the past, just because smaller linebackers were not common. So to get an opportunity to learn from a veteran like him--you can't put a price on that. I'm going to listen to everything that he tells me and teaches me."
Guy sounds hungry and willing to contribute wherever we want him. I like him, hope he makes the team, and I need reader(s) to get on top of potential bloggable nicknames ASAP.
A: "Yeah, that's exactly how I'm viewing it. I see myself as a young London Fletcher. He's a very productive linebacker and he's been doing it for years. So I can come in and play behind somebody like him is an honor. I look up to people like London Fletcher and Zach Thomas, those linebackers with smaller stature, just because I know what it's like to be that. They know what it's like--and it was even harder for them in the past, just because smaller linebackers were not common. So to get an opportunity to learn from a veteran like him--you can't put a price on that. I'm going to listen to everything that he tells me and teaches me."