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Adam Gase – December 17, 2017 (Postgame) Download PDF version

Sunday, December 17, 2017
Postgame – Buffalo Bills

Dolphins Head Coach Adam Gase (transcribed by the Buffalo Bills)

Q: What do you tell the team after a game like this today?
A: Well, I thought we fought to the end, tried to get ourselves back in in. It was too late. Had three and then at least [it] gave ourselves a chance to try to do something with not much time left. Just have to come in tomorrow and fix our mistakes and reset for the next week.

Q: Coach, any reason why you didn’t run Kenyan [Drake] a lot more since he was averaging 4.8 yards per carry coming into today?
A: Well, we started having negative plays [and] we were putting ourselves in third and long. That kind of caused us some problems there in the 2nd quarter. We had some success early; really, it was all on him. As far as the reason why we were getting a lot of those yards, we were kind of losing some blocks and then bouncing them outside. We were trying to avoid standing at third and long, because we knew that was going to be tough for us with the way that they were rushing. We were struggling to pick up a lot of their stuff.

Q: Adam, Jay Cutler seemed to have some problems with accuracy and controlling the ball. Do you have any idea what was going on?
A: Yeah, I have to go back and look at what was going on with that. There was a couple of them where I thought [that] we had some chances there whether he threw a good ball or guys – I felt like we were on the same page, we just didn’t hit ‘em.

Q: How do you assess how difficult this season’s been for you guys? [Ryan] Tannehill’s injury [added] to the hurricane, playing 16 in a row –
A: Yeah, I’ll think about it later. I’m not worried about that right now.

Q: So what’s hard to understand is how a team can play at a certain level against a championship team and then follow that up with [performing] not close [to that caliber]?
A: We didn’t play good. We didn’t do anything really well today. I can’t say we were doing things wrong. They just played better than us.

Q: Coach, you kind of knew going into this game it was going to be LeSean McCoy, trying to keep him from hurdling in, [and] Tyrod Taylor doing what he’s done in the past. They just seem to have – seem to play well against this football team. Tyrod running, throwing the ball. How do you resolve that?
A: We’re going to find out here in a couple of weeks. Both those guys, I mean everybody that pays attention to us probably knew who we were going to try to stop. We just didn’t get it done.

Q: You’ve got to feel pretty good about your offense early on [with] Kenyan running the ball, [and] you were able to move well other than not being able to come up with touchdowns; you had to kick field goals. It seemed like after that, Kenyan became ineffective, starting losing yards and it seemed to make you change your whole idea offensively.
A: We didn’t really change anything; we were just trying to figure out a way to stay third and manageable. Then we did it a few times and we didn’t convert. The whole purpose of getting inside third and six is give yourself a better chance to get a first down, a new set of downs. Just never could really get in the rhythm we wanted to get into.

Q: Two games left, it looks like playoffs are out of the picture. What do you play for next week and what do you want to accomplish over the next two weeks?
A: Anytime you’re in this league, every week’s an evaluation. Doesn’t matter what week of the season it is. Our guys are ready to come back to work and find a way to get better and get to play another week.

Q: Last week, look at Jay Cutler–just had everything going. This week, a little off target early on and then couldn’t seem to get his rhythm. [He seemed to have] had a tough time holding on to the ball; dropped it a couple of times. What did you see from Jay?
A: I’m going to have to go back and look at the tape and really see what was going on. Sometimes, you’re thinking one thing on the sideline, when you go back and you start talking through some things and you kind of have a better idea. It’s kind of hard for me to piece together exactly what wasn’t going right for us.

Q: I know it’s a fine line of trying to reel in Jarvis [Landry] sometimes, but did you have an issue with what he did today?
A: With?

Q: Just with the penalties.
A: I mean, I’ll probably have a little better idea [with] what happened on that whole deal. Unfortunately, we lost all those yards and then found a way to battle back and just couldn’t convert when we had a third and manageable.

Q: Adam, as far as pivotal stretches of the game, late in the second quarter, they scored the two touchdowns in the final six minutes, I guess, to go up 21-6. Was that the biggest stretch of the game? One of the biggest? How would you determine that?
A: I don’t even look at it like that, because you’re playing the game and then, really, once you kind of get in the fourth quarter, that’s when you’ve got to make it go one way or the other.

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