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Adam Gase – December 24, 2017 (Postgame) Download PDF version

Sunday, December 17, 2017
Postgame – Kansas City Chiefs

Dolphins Head Coach Adam Gase (transcribed by the Kansas City Chiefs)

On the amount of penalties, third down conversions and negative plays: “We just never could play together again. That’s the biggest problem. We get a stop, then we turn it over. We had an early turnover that’s just not going to cut it against a playoff team.”

On Jay Cutler moving the ball well: “Yeah, he was good. There’s a couple of things I’m sure he’ll, when he goes back and looks at things, probably want one back, but I thought for the most part he did a really good job. He controlled the game for as much as he could. In the second half, he didn’t really do much.”

On how he feels about being eliminated from the playoffs: “It’s tough. This is what you play for. We’ve had a couple weeks here in a row where we’ve had good opportunities to do something with the opportunity that we had. Instead, we just came out, didn’t perform well, and didn’t get it done.”

On what had been the issue on the defensive side of the ball: “We got beat by a couple of the guys who we talked about stopping. That’s really what hurt us. We thought we had a good plan coming in, got in a couple of situations that we couldn’t use what we had planned and we couldn’t find a way to be consistent and get them off the field.”

On how surprised he was seeing Kenny (Stills) and Jarvis (Landry) stripped balls: “Yeah we’ve been pretty good for the most part with the wide outs. That was the one thing we talked about was Marcus (Peters) does a good job. That’s what he does. He goes after the ball and gets those; probably the fifth or sixth one that he’s gotten out or recovered.”

On what the difference this year was this year with penalties: “Yeah, we had a really bad streak there the first eight games and then it looked like we were going to clean it up there for a while then we kind of got in the pre-snap penalties for a few weeks and then we get called for a holding at the wrong time and then we get some defensive holdings. We just have to play clean.”

On his perspective of Ted Larsen’s unsportsmanlike conduct call: “I didn’t see it. I was trying to figure out what happened the play before, basically on that play. It was a little bit of a surprise the way Jay (Cutler) threw the ball away. I was trying to figure out what happened on that and then somebody said there was a flag.”

On what happened when it appeared he was yelling at Jarvis (Landry): “It’s just part of the game. It just happens. Not the first time. You guys just noticed this one.”

On what Jakeem Grant showed today: “That he’s a guy we think we’ve got something there. Him and (Kenyan) Drake have done a great job of stepping up especially in the last eight games of the season making plays for us. I feel like Jakeem, we wanted to get him the ball. We’ve been trying to find ways to do it, it’s tough sometimes because when he goes into the game, it’s a big red flag. We’ve been trying to keep him in there. It’s tough with those other three guys because you like them being on the field too. So we just try to find ways to get him on the field and we kind of used him as really a relief for Drake a lot of the times. We were able to get him involved today and if he would have had a few more that would have kept the game closer.”

On a possible recurring theme for those nine losses this year: “Yeah that’s probably going to be more of an offseason deal. I wish I had a great answer of ‘this is why’. The best I can give you is we haven’t played one game of complimentary football the whole season. That’s just really not going to cut it and we’re not going to win many games if we do that.”

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