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“#Giants’ Alfred Morris is still ‘ready to destroy anybody’<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Veteran running back Alfred Morris, a free agent the Giants acquired this past offseason, runs through some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby.<\/em><\/p>\n

Q: What drives you now?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: I wanted to stop playing a while ago. I was kind of done. The way my journey kind of unfolded is not the way I wanted it to go, or the way I thought it would go. Last year, I unofficially retired for like three days (laugh). I feel like in prayer, the Lord told me that I was not done, He still had something for me to do in the NFL. So I believed Him, I trusted Him, I kept training even when it didn\u2019t look like anybody would call me.<\/p>\n

Q: Why did you decide to retire?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: The game<\/a> of football can be really hard. It\u2019s gonna be great when you\u2019re on the mountaintop, but you can also be in the valley as well \u2014 like ebbs and flows, a roller coaster, it\u2019s up and down, it\u2019s up and down. It was hard on me, but it was also hard on my wife and my family. When a 4-year-old tells you that he doesn\u2019t want to play football because he doesn\u2019t want to get cut, that says something to you. I told my wife one day: \u201cIf I\u2019m not picked up by March or something like that, then I\u2019m done. I\u2019m retiring. I\u2019m gonna be done with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Q: Describe your on-field mentality.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: I flip the switch. I\u2019m like one of the nicest guys you\u2019ll meet off the field, I smile, I laugh, I joke, I\u2019m cordial with everyone. But on the field I really don\u2019t like people (laugh). My mindset is that one person can\u2019t bring me down. The best you can do is hold me and let a teammate come help you, you\u2019re not gonna take me down by yourself. Every single play\u2019s my last play \u2019cause I\u2019m not promised another play, I\u2019m not promised tomorrow, not promised the next day, the next minute. I still laugh and smile and stuff on the sideline, and sometimes between plays, but when the ball\u2019s snapp<\/a>ed, I\u2019m ready to destroy anybody that gets in my way (laugh).<\/p>\n

Q: Why do you think you\u2019re that way?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: I think all that stuff stems from just growing up. Everything I\u2019ve gotten, nothing was ever given to me, everything I\u2019ve gotten has been earned. I didn\u2019t go to a big college, I didn\u2019t get heavily recruited out of high school. Coming from FAU [Florida Atlantic] was not easy. My senior year, we were 1-11, but yet I played in the Senior Bowl, I got drafted, I went to the NFL Combine. \u2026 I always was competing against like ghosts. I couldn\u2019t see the other running backs at the University of Alabama, the Louisiana-Monroes and the LSUs, whatever. There\u2019s only 32 starting spots in the NFL. I didn\u2019t want to be a backup. Somebody\u2019s not gonna get one of those jobs, and I was like, \u201cI want one of these jobs.\u201d I had to find a way to set myself apart from these other guys. \u2026 Just seeing my mom, raising six boys, working a full-time job even in high school, my mom has a Master\u2019s degree, just grinding it out. \u2026 If I forget where I came from, then I\u2019ll forget where I\u2019m going.<\/p>\n

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Alfred Morris runs the ball for the Giants<\/figcaption>
Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Q: That was your frame of mind at FAU?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: I\u2019ve always wanted to compete against people I could not see. Even in high school, I felt like I should have got offers by bigger schools. I grew up in Pensacola, I was a big Florida State fan. But everything happens for a reason, that was the perfect college experience for me. Most of the people who looked at me was for linebacker. It was like two or three schools that looked at me for running back. And actually I went to FAU as a fullback.<\/p>\n

Q: Has your career been what you expected it to be?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: Oh, definitely not (laugh). I went from my first four years starting every single game [for Washington] to backing up to being inactive to getting cut [with the Cowboys, 49ers and Cardinals] to not getting with a team. . \u2026 I thought I was gonna start, start, start, get a big contract, things like that, but it just never played out that way for me.<\/p>\n

Q: So you don\u2019t think you\u2019ve fulfilled your own expectations?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: I thought it was gonna be a 7 out of 10, to me it was like a 4 out of 10, and that wasn\u2019t good enough. So I kind of struggled with it. I made my peace with it, and I was able to see that my career was not a waste. I\u2019ve done a lot of things that a lot of people won\u2019t do or can\u2019t do. My dream was I wanted to play against the best of the best and be successful, and I\u2019ve done that, and I\u2019ve done it time and time again on the highest of levels. I got lost on what the measure of success to me. Once I found it again, I realized my career had been a success. Has it gone the way I wanted it to go? No, not at all. But that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s not a success, because it is.<\/p>\n

Q: Describe your running style.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: Old school. Kind of like the Walter Paytons, or even Eric Dickerson, Earl Campbell, some of the older guys.<\/p>\n

Q: Describe your offensive line.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: Every week they\u2019re getting better and better, they\u2019re learning each other, they\u2019re communicating a lot better. I think they\u2019re still on the up and up.<\/p>\n

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