Giants safety Jevon Holland tackles some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby.
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A Jevon Holland postgame quote to me last week: “I love New York, I want to stay here, finish my career here.”
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I just love the environment, man, the people in the facility, the facility itself, the fans, the players on the team.
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I feel loved and wanted and this is like an organization that really cares about the people that are on the team.
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And I love being a part of that.
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And I really want to bring success and a Super Bowl and wins to this organization.
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That’s a great question.
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I would like to say my critical thinking skills.
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If you could match wits against any quarterback in NFL history, who would it be?
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A: I would love to play Drew Brees, that would be extremely fun.
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I’d love to play Peyton Manning.
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I would love playing a gunslinger like [Dan] Marino.
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He was letting the ball sing.
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That’s my on-field mentality: Run to the ball, run to the ball, run to the ball, run to the ball.
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Good things happen when you run to the ball.
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If you run to the ball, the ball will find you.
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That’s what I think about all the time — run to the ball, run to the ball, run to the ball.
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Whenever I start running to the ball, I start playing better.
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A Jevon Holland postgame quote to me last Sunday: “They tried to tell me that I am not who I think I am, and I am who I think I am, and I’m proud of myself for that.
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I’ve had six defensive coordinators in six years, four head coaches, something crazy like that.
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Every year I feel like I’ve just been asked to do something different.
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There was a time where I felt like I was doing everything right and things just weren’t falling my way, and just like battling some injuries, but no serious crazy injuries, just like a sprain here, a sprain there that was just bugging me, not allowing me to just play my game in a full capacity.
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It wasn’t specific people in general, I know who I am as a player, and what I’ve been working at and trying to accomplish, and I just felt like this year this is who I am as a player.
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And I’m not talking about the turnovers in general, but just like doing the right s–t.
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I’ve been doing the right thing for a long time, and the ball’s coming my way just ’cause the football gods are allowing it.
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But I feel like this year I’ve been on my s–t.
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I feel good, I feel good about it.
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You just had a month that Ed Reed would have been proud of
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Man, if I could have a month that Ed Reed would be proud of … shoutout to Ed Reed, bro, the greatest of all time.
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What drives you?
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What drives my desire to play the game?
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I honestly don’t know.
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I just have this innate feeling that I have to play the game.
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It’s almost unconscious.
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You know when you see people like play a game or whatever and they just kind of blank out?
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There’s this anime character, he’s in Demon Slayer and he goes like unconscious and he’s like super powerful, and so I just feel like that’s me.
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When I get out there, I’m not thinking about much, I’m thinking about run to the ball, but I just have to compete at a high level and I can’t half-ass. …
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The desire to play, the fire to play is just burning inside me.
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How does John Harbaugh motivate?
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I feel like Harbaugh speaks life into people.
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…and 95 more, not listed.