Julian Peterson on his return to Seattle: “I just want to win. I ain’t got to do nothing special. Just get me a W. That is all I want.”
November 6, 2009 – 9:40 am by timgunterThe Detroit Lions are not the worst team in the NFL this season. It is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers that have taken that tag away from them and placed it right on their back. I mean the Lions are not that much better, they only have one win which is one more than the Bucs have. Jim Schwartz is in his first year as head coach after spending the last eight seasons as the Titans defensive coordinator and he is trying to change the culture and the attitude in Detroit. This guy knows how to win. Look at the Titans right now. They have only won one game all year and their defense looks horrible. Granted Albert Haynesworth is no longer there but the Titans sure are missing Coach Schwartz.
With Coach Schwartz along came a wave of new players that were either drafted, signed or traded. Julian Peterson was traded to the Detroit Lions for a defensive lineman, Cory Redding, and a draft pick from this past year’s draft. When then chance to return to Michigan came about he was excited because he played at Michigan State in college and has some ties there. On Sunday, he will get a chance to have revenge against the Seahawks. He has stated that this game is not about getting revenge against Seattle it is about getting a much needed win.
Julian Peterson joined KJR in Seattleto talk about what life is like in Detroit, what it is like on game day at Ford Field, whether he feels like he has something to prove against the Seahawks, and how he feels about the way his time ended in Seattle.
What life is like in Detroit?
“It is good and I get to go back to Michigan and Michigan State and go back and talk to some of the younger guys and do my community work here. The guys here are class acts so I am fine.”
What it is like on game day at Ford Field:
“We still get a lot of fan support. It’s obvious that it is not a Final Four type of game but they still pack them in pretty good. They still get 45,000-50,000 people up in there. It holds 72,000 so they do a good job of coming in there and supporting regardless.”
On what he sees in Detroit to make him believe they can turn things around:
“I mean you have seen some of the games that we have played. We played Pittsburgh. We should have had an opportunity to win that game. Had an opportunity to beat Minnesota. We at least played a good enough first half in Chicago to win that one. We are heading in the right direction at least at this point we are not putting it together for three or four quarters and that is what we have to do now. That is how we have to grow as a team. Our young quarterback is doing a good job. He is light years ahead of his time. First year coach is doing a good job at keeping attention to details and make sure we know all of the situations of the game. We are heading in the right direction. Obviously our record doesn’t show where we wanted to be but we are heading in the right direction though.”
Whether he circled this game on the calendar against the Seahawks:
“I didn’t have to. They circled it for me. I didn’t have to.”
What this weekend’s game means to him:
“I just want to win. I ain’t got to do nothing special. Just get me a W. That is all I want.”
Whether he feels like he has something to prove against the Seahawks:
“I don’t have anything to prove. They know what I do over there. I just go ahead and do what I normally do and have fun and compete every time I get an opportunity to.”
How he feels about the way his time ended in Seattle:
“It is a business man. That is the way it is. It is the NFL. It’s no ties out here. You know that I mean you have seen the NFL. They don’t care about nobody. It doesn’t matter what you do so it doesn’t matter.”
Julian Peterson on KJR in Seattle with Dave “Softy” Mahler on going back to Seattle
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