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Adam Gase – August 31, 2017 (Postgame) Download PDF version

Thursday, August 31, 2017
Postgame – Minnesota

Dolphins Head Coach Adam Gase (transcribed by the Minnesota Vikings)

Q: Has the way Jakeem Grant played in the preseason changed your confidence in him?
A: We noticed a big difference – he’s hard to cover out there. He’s done a good job usually, when you put a smaller guy outside and usually – he’s just going to wrap out and get to the corners and when he does he’s so shifty, he’s hard to get hands on.

Q: What was the thinking behind playing [Jordan] Phillips and [Davon] Gauchaux tonight and how do you think they did?
A: We will have to look at the tape. You want to play good guys; you want to play guys who are probably going to be first shift so… you know rookies need as much time as they can get. Jordan [Phillips], we wanted him to play a few plays and just kind of get a sense of how he is day in and day out.

Q: Were any jobs won or lost out here?
A: We’ll figure it out. On the flight home we’ll be able to watch the entire tape so we’ll be able to figure everything out and kind of see how it shakes out.  We had some decisions made moving into tonight so we’ll see how they played.

Q: Will [Rey] Maualuga be ready to go in week one?
A: We kind of changed our minds last week on that one. We felt he was very close to be being back and could work outside and push his conditioning and keep pushing him because he was making some strides last week. We wanted to ensure to use the time we have and now we have a few more days until we really start practicing. We want him to be in the best shape possible.

Q: Does it look like Neville Hewitt will not be ready for the start of the season?
A: Yeah. It’s hard for me to answer that right now. When I get back, we’ll kind of have some discussions on where he is at. 

Q: Jarvis [Landry] was back in the news today. Are you frustrated that six months in this hasn’t been resolved?
A: Yeah I think it’s a League matter. There is nothing really that we can do about it. We are just waiting to hear what the League says to us and then we can move on from there.

Q: Are you feeling optimistic about [Jarvis] Landry?
A: I have no idea.

Q: How open is the Dolphins organization to making its 53-man roster and then looking at the over 1,000 available players who are out there to see about adding a few?
A:  Well most of our [scouts] have been going for quite a while now. It’s a long process and it’s a lot of work. We will see how it goes down and maybe see if there’s anybody we are going to switch out, or if we are good with the guys we’ve got. We have a couple days here and our personnel department has a lot of guys to look at, to really comb through – who is out there – and then all of the work they have already done; they have got to kind of put the pieces together.

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