This season Lorenzo Booker has struggled to find any playing time for the 0 and 6 Miami Dolphins. Despite his lack of playing time, Booker has remained confident about his skills and optomistic about his future.
JR - Coach Cameron said that you might get a shot to play wide receiver, is that something you’ve done before?
Lorenzo Booker – Yeah I like playing receiver, weather I’ll be activated…I don’t know, I have no idea and I don’t really worry about that to be honest with you. Because it’s not my decision, all I can do is go out and work hard and let the chips fall where they may. I would be taking away from my focus on the field if I start working about things I can’t control.
JR – You’re right next to a guy (Ted Ginn) who was only returning kicks a few weeks ago and now he’s a starting receiver does that give you hope?
LB – That’s all I can do is work hard in practice and hope one day they say this guy can help us we’ve got to get him on the field and until they feel like that this is where I’ll be.
JR – You feel you can help the team right?
LB – Of course, if I told you I didn’t they’ve drafted the wrong guy. I hurt so bad (not playing) that I just want to run out there and smash straight into a wedge. It’s the hardest on game day when everyone is suiting up and you want to suit up and help your boys. You want to go to battle with your boys, we’re in the locker room praying…and I’m in sweats, that’s when it’s the hardest. During the week your so busy with practice you don’t even have time to think about that to be honest with you.
JR – Is it even harder sitting out and your team is 0 and 6?
LB – Oh yeah, because as a player you always feel like you could’ve done something. If they were winning it may be a little bit different but then again I doubt it. I would probably want to get out there more, as a competitor I always feel there’s something more I can do. But right now all I can do is practice and get those guys that will play ready.
JR – All those lines, Zach (Thomas) said that he would rather be out there getting beat and playing bad, than on the sidelines. Do you feel like that too?
LB – Yeah, because there’s a feeling of letting the guys down, when your boys are out there hurting and they’ve got their pads on and they look at you all clean. You don’t want them to feel like you don’t want to be out there with them and that’s what it come down to. You want them to know I’m willing to die for you, just like you are for me, when your not playing there is always a little bit of wondering what the guys are thinking. Do they understand that I would much rather be out there than right here, that’s what it come down to. First and foremost we play for each other; these are the guys out there dying with me in that heat so I don’t want them to feel that way.
JR – Any similarities between Cam and Bobby Bowden?
LB – Not really, Cam’s much more aggressive and that’s what I like, he’s a gambler. He’s a cut throat kind of play caller and that’s what I like. On this team there is no difference between offense and defense we want to go out there and hit you in the mouth and that’s what I like about it.
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