Zac Taylor on Ja'Marr Chase and Rookie Class

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00:00 appreciative of that, because it's hard.

00:02 That was a physical game.

00:03 They're going to put their hands on you.

00:05 They're going to have two guys in your vicinity quite a bit.

00:07 And we were going to run the ball.

00:09 And so you have to get in there and block as well

00:11 and be a physical game.

00:12 We really challenged our guys in that regard.

00:15 And it's cold.

00:15 It's not fun to be in pain when you're cold.

00:17 And it was cold.

00:19 And so there's just so many things that went into that,

00:21 that he knows how I feel about it.

00:22 And again, when your best players

00:25 are willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done,

00:28 that's what we're looking for with our players.

00:30 Do you feel like you've seen what you hope to see--

00:33 this might be a hard question to answer--

00:34 but hope to see from this--

00:35 what's the class this year?

00:37 I know there's one more game left.

00:38 And it's more of a general question, not specific--

00:40 Yeah.

00:41 That's a hard one to answer.

00:42 You've got to reflect on the season.

00:44 I'm not in reflective mode yet.

00:46 I think what this group has shown is a lot of potential,

00:49 a lot of eagerness, a lot of potential,

00:52 a lot of the things that we were hoping

00:53 to get when we drafted them, we've seen it.

00:56 And you don't look at a single guy in this class and say,

01:00 man, we might have missed there.

01:02 You don't feel that.

01:03 So again, we've got another game to play.

01:05 And we're expecting those guys to step up big.

01:07 We talked to those guys at the halfway point of the year

01:09 that their roles--

01:10 as injuries come and the season goes,

01:12 your roles are only going to continue to get bigger.

01:15 And we're at a point where some of those guys' roles

01:17 are pretty big right now.

01:18 And we expect their best in Week 18.