QUARTERBACK JOE MILTON III
Postgame Press Conference
Sunday, January 5, 2025
Q: Joe, just take us through your day. What was it like for your first NFL start? You had your touchdown pass, you got your ear worked on. What happened in that situation? Also your celebratory handshake with AVP and what that was like. You had a smile on your face. What was it like for you?
JM: Yeah, today was a regular day for me. I woke up around 8-ish, went back home from the hotel, and usually I wake up in the morning and I walk my dog, but today my dad and mom are here, so today my dad walked the dogs, and everybody else was getting dressed. I don’t eat on mornings like this. It’s pretty hard for me to eat, so I didn’t eat anything at all, so I’m ready to eat. But other than that, man, it was a regular day to me. Felt calm, felt cool. Everybody had my back today, just like every other quarterback that comes through here. The team has Drake’s back, and today they had my back. My ear, I do not know what happened. It was kind of shocking to me when everybody said I was bleeding. I was like, bleeding? They were like, are your earrings in? I said, no, my earrings are not in. Then it was just the top of my ear from a scab.
Q: Given the magnitude of this game, what would you say to someone, maybe a Patriots fan, who’s a little bit disenchanted with the idea that you guys didn’t lose today to get the No. 1 pick?
JM: I mean, we’ve got to handle how we handle our program as it is right now. We can’t think too far in the future, can’t think too far in the past. We’re just being exactly where our feet are right now, as a program, as an organization. We’re just being here right now in the moment. Thinking about a pick right now is way out of our hands. If they’re going to give it to us, if they do it, they do it; if they don’t, they don’t. Today the main focus was to win.
Q: You seemed to be so exuberant during the course of the…
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