Javon Baker Draft Press Conference

PATRIOTS 2024 FOURTH ROUND DRAFT PICK JAVON BAKER

Q: What are you able to inform us and Patriots followers about your recreation?

JB: Simply come to the house stadium and produce your popcorn, as I like to inform y’all. Deliver your popcorn. I make individuals in wheelchairs rise up. Deliver your popcorn.

Q: What are your first impressions of Drake Maye and dealing with him?

JB: Individuals do not know this, however when Drake Maye was dedicated to Alabama at first, we all the time used to follow and throw round. So, me and Drake Maye bought a connection happening. Drake Maye, I believe, in my view, is the perfect quarterback on this draft, so once we join once more, it may be a great connection.

Q: What do you bear in mind about [Drake Maye] from these throwing classes?

JB: Aggressive and making an attempt to get the ball in no matter spots I ask him to place it, he’d put it there. So, he’d be simply aggressive, a aggressive quarterback, and that is what I like in a quarterback. He’s any individual that would push me, and I will push him.

Q: What are your impressions of becoming a member of the New England Patriots group and whenever you consider the Patriots, what do you consider?

JB: Actually, simply being part of that group, I do know it’s a profitable mentality, identical to the way it was at Alabama. Simply profitable, like all people likes profitable. It would not be a greater alternative and a greater place to go to than this place, so I simply can’t wait.

Q: Did you attain out to Drake Maye in any respect after he was drafted? Have you ever heard something from him?

JB: I did not attain out to him when he bought drafted, however as quickly as I bought drafted, he reached out to me. We simply texted “congrats” and “let’s get to work.” JP, Ja’Lynn Polk, we have been understanding this entire offseason and entire course of, so we bought a connection happening too. So, simply us three alone is bringing again the profitable mentality that everyone likes in Boston.

Q: You talked about that connection. Do you are feeling like this can be a superb place so that you can land with the 2 gamers that you simply have been saying that about?

JB: Like I mentioned earlier, this can be a good alternative, and I simply can’t wait to placed on that uniform.

Q: Based mostly off your background, transferring to UCF, how a lot would you say there’s a chip in your shoulder? And the way a lot does the stuff that has occurred to you up to now drive you?

JB: Actually, there’s all the time going to be a chip on my shoulder, it doesn’t matter what. I am so pushed, so I understand how it feels to be behind any individual, and I understand how it feels to be (at) the underside of the depth chart. So, I am all the time going to have a chip on my shoulder regardless.

Q: What are you hoping to show with the Patriots?

JB: Show them every thing. Show to them what I can do. Show to them I can do every thing as a receiver. I might do something to win, like simply show them that. Actually, I’m a workforce participant and I wish to show to the workforce that I’m one in all them.

Q: You talked to Steve Smith earlier than the draft a bit bit about your recreation, and also you mentioned that when the ball is in your hand, you possibly can change the sport. What’s it about what you do that may change the sport?

JB: My mentality. I’m a receiver. I do not do something however obtain the ball. I do not care if that ball is thrown out of bounds on the sideline, I will obtain the ball. So, on the finish of the day, it is that proper there. My mentality is simply totally different from every other receiver. I can get down and soiled, I can do something. So, that proper there, my mentality alone can simply do something as a receiver.

Q: Earlier than the draft, Eliot Wolf talked about that the workforce did not actually have a real X [receiver], the man who can line up on the bottom and win in one-on-one protection. It appeared like that was a spot you had a whole lot of success in faculty, so do you are feeling such as you could be that man for this offense?

JB: Sure, I could possibly be something. Actually, no matter Coach [Jerod] Mayo needs me to be, I could be. I could possibly be X, Y, it actually would not matter to me.

Q: What permits you to thrive in these one-on-one matchups?

JB: Actually, my mentality once I line up towards that nook and I do know that it is recreation over for him.

Q: I noticed that you simply have been on Cam Newton’s 7-on-7 workforce. What was your relationship like with Cam Newton and has he ever spoken to you about his time in New England?

JB: Yeah, my relationship with Cam Newton is sort of a huge brother relationship. Earlier than the draft, we have been simply speaking, and he was simply telling me to simply hold my head down and hold working. And I talked to him about Boston, as a result of once I was doing the go to, I used to be speaking to lots of people about Cam and saying a whole lot of good issues about Cam. I used to be simply telling them, relaying the message and stuff like that. We have been simply laughing about it, however that is actually it.