Gerris Wilkinson
Gerris Wilkinson
Gerris Vernard Bowers Wilkinsonis a former American football linebacker. He was drafted by the New York Giants in the third round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played college football at Georgia Tech...
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Beating Miami was the biggest win I've been a part of here. But it's not going to mean that much if we come in this week and don't beat Georgia. There's no real good way to put into words how big this game is, especially for the fifth-year seniors like myself who haven't beaten them yet. We don't want to say that we never beat Georgia.
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We have a lot of built-up emotions for this game because we haven't beaten Georgia since we've been here. It has eaten at us a lot. Football is about respect. You can win 10 games a year, but if you don't beat your in-state rival, it doesn't mean much in terms of respect.
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We've had trouble going out and beating a team we should beat. This is where we have to stop the trend that we've had in the past few years.
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You can't think about how you beat somebody in the past. Every year, you've got to prepare just like it's a fresh team. They don't have the same team they had last year. You don't know if they're going to attack you in the same way.
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Everybody will be watching. It's prime time football.
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Every team is going to try to test you on the ground. I'd be really shocked if they didn't come out and try to establish the running game. That's just usually the way things go.
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There's not really too much you can do to prepare for that. There's nothing we can do to simulate a hurricane.
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Not a whole lot of yelling. We knew what position we were in, and we knew what we had to do.
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It's hard to say whether that helped or hurt my draft situation. Some people say I don't have one solid position, but then again, some say I'm more versatile.
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It's just going to be a matter of how focused we are and how ready we are to handle our responsibilities.
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When I left, we got closer. It was kind of... we got much closer after I left. I'm not sure why that was.
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He wants the linebackers to control the defense. He demands that. Any advice he has, I'm going to do my best to put it into use.
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His career was before my time, but my dad always showed me highlights of him as I grew up. It's a privilege to play for him right now. I'm just trying to soak up as much as I can.