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Devin Thomas Continues To Say The Right Things

Posted Mar 27th 2009 1:34PM by Matt Terl (author feed)

The offseason conditioning program didn't start out well for Devin Thomas, as a planned absence from the program's first day somehow took on a life of its own in media reports, leading to a post at Fanhouse with the admonishing headline "Redskins' Devin Thomas Should Show Up for Voluntary Workouts". This wouldn't be particularly significant, except that it was posted on Wednesday of this week, seven or eight days after Thomas had actually shown up. It's safe to say that public opinion has not been with the second-year wideout.

But things started to turn for Thomas yesterday, with a blurb on Redskins 360 acknowledging his existence at Redskins Park followed quickly by a reasonably positive entry on Redskins Insider.

Well, the Devin Thomas Positivity Train 2009 makes another stop today on Comcast SportsNet's Redskins Nation, where Thomas sits down with Larry Michael and is perfectly upfront about what went wrong last year, what he hopes to do about it this year, and what the story is with Malcolm Kelly.

For those of you who don't receive Redskins Nation, the audio of the interview is after the jump, but here -- since it's been a transcribe-y kind of day for me anyhow -- are a couple of the choice quotes.

On reports that he came in last season out of shape:

Thomas: "When it really boils down to it, the NFL is a different shape you've gotta be in. That's point blank, period. I felt like coming in I was in good shape, you know, I was in better shape than I'd normally be in, but for the NFL, I probably wasn't ready. I probably needed to do more.

"And, you know, that showed in not being able to pass the conditioning test. But that's something I had to learn with that, and I definitely learned that, like, 'Man, I've gotta do more, like even extra.'

"And I think that played a role in it. Then the preseason came and I pulled a hammy, but that was just due to working hard in the practices and overexerting myself.

On this year's conditioning test:

Thomas: "Oh, man, I'm down here with John [Hastings], our weight room guy, all the time, just getting ready for it, whatever it is. If it's the same test or not, I'm gonna make sure I'm ready for it."

Plenty more here in the audio.



Thanks to Charlie Broyhill for providing the sound.

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