”When I stepped in the huddle Dan Hamhuis Jersey Kids ,” the young quarterback said, ”I kind of looked at the guys and I’m like, `This is pretty cool.”’
Rosen was the center of attention, as usual, on the first day of Cardinals rookie minicamp, starting out slowly but finishing with a crisp performance capped by a long TD pass to fellow rookie and camp roommate Christian Kirk.
Although he may have to wait awhile, Rosen is the Cardinals’ quarterback of the future after the team traded up five spots to take him No. 10 overall in the draft. He’s already signed his contract with Arizona.
After Friday’s workout, he talked about how he’s approaching his new job and even touched on how he deals with being such a lightning rod for criticism – mainly centering on his personality and often from people who don’t really know him.
”You ignore it,” Rosen said. ”It’s only hard if you make it hard. If you’re Googling your name every other day and trying to like reach out to people, yeah, you can make it harder on yourself. But as far as I know if you keep your phone limited to messages and calls and you don’t read too much. The only thing that matters are the guys in the building and that’s what I’m trying to keep it at right now.”
He said he’s had a couple of conversations with Larry Fitzgerald, the 14-year veteran who is among the most-admired players in the game for his behavior on and off the field.
”He’s probably one of the greatest to ever do it,” Rosen said. ”So I’m just trying to emulate every little thing he does John Tavares Jersey , how he approaches the game as such a professional. There’s a lot to take from it.”
He’s also heard from Sam Bradford, the player signed to be Arizona’s opening-day quarterback next season. Bradford offered to help in any way with Rosen’s development.
”I think it speaks to him as a person how he’s willing to sort of embrace the competition but also embrace sort of the team aspect,” Rosen said. ”And I’m the same way. Regardless of starter or backup, I want the Arizona Cardinals to do the best possible, because I want to be in the Super Bowl. If that means for this year the best way to do that is to have Sam start, then so be it. But I’m helping, I’m going to push him every single day and likewise I would hope he would do the same thing with me.”
The most important thing for him to show on his first day, Rosen said, was ”demeanor.”
”Even if I don’t know what’s going on, at least act like I know what’s going on,” he said. ”… Be confident, be firm, snap the ball http://www.greenbaypackersteamonline.com/clay-matthews-jersey , get back and do it again.”
In truth, new Cardinals coach Steve Wilks is impressed with how quickly Rosen is picking up the offense of coordinator Mike McCoy.
”Phenomenal,” Wilks said. ”The guy’s extremely smart. We said that from Day 1. He’s picking up the offense. He’s doing a great job there, taking control of the huddle and getting everybody in line. No questions about that from the standpoint of his leadership.”
Although Rosen said that nine teams – later amended to three to reflect the QBs selected ahead of him – made big mistakes on draft night, Wilks said, ”I don’t think he’s out to try to prove anything to anyone.
”He’s being his own person. We have accepted him for the person that he is and the player that he is. I don’t think we have a problem at all. We’ve had our talks and it’s all about football and staying focused and really concentrating on that.”
Rosen, Wilks like to say, ”is wired different, and I like that.”
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LAS VEGAS — Thanks to Monday night’s 4-1 victory over Colorado, it’s finally okay to use the “P” word around Vegas Golden Knights coach Gerard Gallant.
That’s “P” as in playoffs, a word that Gallant had banned from being used during the season as he stressed that the expansion Golden Knights stick to the old one-game-at-a-time mantra and not get caught looking ahead, even when Vegas had a 12-point lead in the Pacific Division.
With an “x” placed by their names in the standings emblematic of having officially clinched a spot in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Golden Knights (48-21-7) will try to finish their historic regular-season on a strong note starting with Wednesday night’s game against the resurgent Arizona Coyotes (26-39-11) at T-Mobile Arena.
“When you start the season in training camp your goal is to make the playoffs Yanni Gourde Jersey ,” Gallant said. “That was a goal but that really wasn’t something we were looking at from day one to be honest with you. It’s a great feeling. Last night was a great feeling.
“But, you know what? We’ve still got two weeks of the regular-season left. We’ve got to play hard every shift. We’ve got to play hard every game and try and get more points and be on a roll when we go into the playoffs.”
Vegas is only 7-5-3 in its last 15 games and had lost four of its previous six contests (2-2-2) before Monday’s win over the Avalanche.
“We haven’t played a full 60-minute game in a while,” left winger Pierre-Edouard Bellemare said following practice Tuesday afternoon. “We are going to be playing better and better teams, so we are going to have to find a way to do that, because in playoff time, it’s those moments where you are a little bit not as good, those are the moments that cost you the most.”
Vegas holds a five-point lead over the surging San Jose Sharks for first place in the Pacific Division with one meeting still remaining between the teams Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena. The Golden Knights are 27-9-2 on their home ice.
“Having the home advantage (in the playoffs), especially with our fans, is the most important thing that we have,” Bellemare said. “We feel comfortable playing at home and having that extra game is important. So all those games starting (Wednesday) are important for sure.”
This is the final of five contests between Vegas and Arizona, who last played on Dec. 3 at T-Mobile Arena. The Golden Knights won all four of the previous meetings but two of them were decided in overtime.
“We played them a lot in the early parts of the year,” said Coyotes center Derek Stepan, who has eight points in the last five games. “I think we’re a different group in here. I know for our group http://www.chicagobearsteamonline.com/brian-urlacher-jersey , this is an important game for us, we want to make sure that we don’t let them get all five.”
The Coyotes, who began the season 0-10-1 and were 9-27-5 heading into 2018, have played much better of late with a 14-7-2 record in their last 23 games, including an impressive 4-1 victory at Eastern Conference leading Tampa Bay on Monday night.
This is the fifth contest of a season-long six-game, 5,862-mile road trip for Arizona, which concludes Thursday at Los Angeles.
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