Jeremiyah Love isn’t pretending Sunday’s matchup is just another game.
The Cardinals running back knows Seahawks back Jadarian Price well, and Arizona’s defense has already come calling for a scouting report. Love said they’ve been asking him about Price’s weak spots, but he didn’t exactly have a long list to hand over.
“They’ve been asking me stuff like, What are some of his weaknesses? Stuff like that,” Love said.
“J doesn’t have many weaknesses. If you can get him you got to get him.
Once he gets the ball, he gets rolling. It’s hard to stop him.
He’s real fast. . . . You’ve got to get him early.
I think very highly of JD, so I don’t really know what to say. Got to get him.
Get him before he gets rolling.”
Love and Price were teammates at Notre Dame for three years before both became first-round draft picks for division rivals this year. That history makes Sunday feel different, but Love was clear that the friendship stops when the ball is snapped.
“It will be a little different,” Love said. “I played with JD for three years at Notre Dame.
He was my teammate. He’s not going to be my teammate this upcoming game.
He’s still my brother at the end of the day, but we’re preparing to go to war, so it’s going to be him against my D and my offense against his D. I’m excited to see him.
I haven’t talked to him in a minute. It will be good to compete against him and then after the game, talk to him and see how he’s doing.”
When asked where his loyalty lies, Love didn’t hesitate.
“My team.”
He expanded on that a moment later, drawing a clean line between personal bond and professional duty.
“This is the place where I’m at, these are the people I’m with right now, that I’ve been building bonds with,” Love said. “Me and JD have a bond off the field.
Not on the field because we’re playing against each other. I would take my team over JD because it’s my team.
I’m with the Cardinals, he’s with the Seahawks.”
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