Q. How much has the D-Line --
VINCENT TAYLOR: It was great, we was combining together and competing with each other, and I think with us doing that in the off-season, you could see that it's coming from the off-season to in practice, so it was very good.
Q. Because they signed so many linemen, how competitive is it?
VINCENT TAYLOR: This is a competitive league so it's going to help us. It's going to bring out the best in everybody and I think they did a great job in doing that. A lot of guys come out here and compete every day because we know what we're up against so I think it's good for the whole group.
I'm good at stopping the run. I think that's one of the things I've been good at since came in the league and really with field goal blocking that's something I take pride in.
So I think I'll be able to bring that to the team and any other way that I could, whatever they need me to do to help for the team, whatever I can do to help them, that's what I'm looking forward to doing.
Q. Last year, how did you hear about they were interested?
VINCENT TAYLOR: My agent, when I got let go from Buffalo, my agent wound up calling me. He was like, how you feeling about Houston Texans. When he called me, Cleveland was also one of the teams that reached out to me, so wound up going to Cleveland. But Houston was always a team that was interested in me.
Q. How would you evaluate the defensive performance overall?
VINCENT TAYLOR: We're a new group so we are still learning. Coach is keeping it so limited to what we can do and that way guys can play faster, he ain't put too much in. I think him and the coaching staff are doing a great job with what they are doing, but like I said, we are all playing for us and we're all out there competing.
Q. What do you like about it?
VINCENT TAYLOR: The attack. Since I came into the league in 2017, when I was with Miami, that was kind of the same defense, it was an attack defense and that allows us to play fast, and that's what I really like about the defense.
Q. Against Green Bay, what do you feel the expectations are?
VINCENT TAYLOR: Just go out there and do what the coaches ask you to do, and try not to think too much and go out and play fast and execute.
Q. Have you organized a D-Line dinner yet?
VINCENT TAYLOR: Actually we going Thursday. We going to try to leave before we go to Green Bay, so I'm looking forward to that.
Q. Where you going?
VINCENT TAYLOR: Some steakhouse. You got to ask Brandon Dunn. He's in control of all that. He working it all out. He got all that.
Q. What do you think of him as a D.J.?
VINCENT TAYLOR: He's playing some stuff I like, so he's doing a great job as that.
Q. What's it like living in the same town as your brother?
VINCENT TAYLOR: It's good. People always ask me that. People always ask me that, everything we went through with can a trina, that brought us closer. It's not like when I was in Miami and have to get on a plane to come see me. Now he's not too far. I'm very family oriented, so to be in the same city and state with him, it's good.
Q. Some of your family still in San Antonio?
VINCENT TAYLOR: Yeah, I have some family in San Antonio and some in New Orleans.
Q. Have you been able to hang out much with your brother?
VINCENT TAYLOR: Yea, he was out here at practice two days ago. My dad was in town. So I got to see everybody, like I mentioned him being in the same city as me, I hang out with him probably more than I have been doing lately.
Q. Seemed like there was a lot of trash talk going on between the offense and defense.
VINCENT TAYLOR: That's with any team. I think it's just guys out here competing. Coach Culley doing a great job of making sure he getting that out of both sides of the ball, so it's good for the team.
Q. Looked like Davis had a good practice, what are your impressions?
VINCENT TAYLOR: He's doing a job. He just got to come outer and just keep doing what he's doing, doing what the coaches are asking him to do and it's only going to help the team.
Q. What have been your impressions of Coach Culley?
VINCENT TAYLOR: Great guy, like I was telling some of the guys on the sideline, the teams that I've been on in previous years, a fight break out, Coach make us go on the line and get ready to run. So to see Coach doing that and getting guys under control, I think he's doing a great job of that.
Q. How would you compare the environment of this team with so many new players?
VINCENT TAYLOR: Like you mentioned a lot of guys on the one-year contract, so they hungry. Like you mentioned it's a new team so guys coming out here and competing and showing what they got, and I love it.
Q. You talk about guys being hungry. How are you able to use that as motivation with so many people saying, I hate to say it, worst team in the league this year.
VINCENT TAYLOR: We as a team, we just got to stick together. We can't listen to what they saying on the outside. As y'all as reporters, that's y'all's job to come up with a story. We got to stick together as a team and do what we've got to do and do what the coaches ask us to do.
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