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AI: Yeah and, man, if you gave me all the knowledge and experience I have now, if you let me go back to college for one more game, I think I would go crazy.

GH: You have to feel like you’ve just touched the surface and you’re going to get better and better.

AI: I feel like I’m a pure football player on the path to becoming a good one.

GH: What are some of the things you’ve learned?

AI: How to read defenses at a faster rate. Just understanding languages of defenders and knowing what ball is going to come. When a defender is here, or in a certain type of coverage where even a ball could be differently placed on the same route.

GH: Do you have an example?

AI: In Cover Two or something you have an out route. A lot of times in college a QB wouldn’t throw that. Here the QBs are skilled enough to throttle you into a certain hole. Or you have to kind of understand to just throttle your route and not just run out into the flat defender.

GH: Then sometimes it’s just instinct on a third down catch against Minnesota.

AI: Yeah, that was just a checkdown. I just saw the dude and just ran through his face.

GH: How about that leaping catch you almost made in Pittsburgh Saturday on the sidelines?

AI: I thought I did make it. I thought the tie goes to the runner. It was what it was. I kind of twirled. I saw that I had one foot down and I needed to get my other foot down immediately and I just put my hand down, I guess, they thought too early. It was what it was.

GH: So what do you learn? Don’t put your hand down?

AI: That was just a natural reaction. Now I’ll know I’ll be more conscious of my natural reaction for my hand.

GH: That’s the thing. You seem like one of these guys who learns every time you’re out there. Kind of doesn’t make the same mistake twice.

AI: Hopefully if I’m falling down that hard again, I’ll do it with my shoulders.