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

Sunday, December 31, 2017
Postgame – Buffalo Bills

Miami Dolphins Head Coach Adam Gase (transcribed by Michelle Stone)

(I guess after this game you take a look back at this season in its entirety and begin to look forward. Where do you start this process?) – “We’ve still got to get through tomorrow. We’ll have our meetings with the players. I don’t want to get too far ahead. We’re all going to have to take some time, decompress, kind of come back, review the season, really start there. It’s hard to say here’s exactly what we’re going to do, because when you’re in the middle of the season – towards the end of the season –  you’re just focused on that.”

(The consistency of the penalties that killed you all year long, I would assume that’s got to be a pretty big focus for you going into next year. How do you resolve that?) – “It’s something that we’re going to have to figure out. It’s strange because that’s not an issue we had in training camp. It wasn’t something that we saw happening a lot to where we could start working on it. It was something that kind of came up during the season. It’s hard to get some of the calls – whether it’s an offensive holding, defensive holding – a lot of times you don’t see those at practice. In a real game, it happens. We have to do a better job of eliminating those penalties. Our technique is really where it’s going to come down to and discipline of just staying focused on what they’re doing.”

(I know you’ll watch tapes tomorrow, but early thoughts on QB David Fales?) – “I thought he did good. I’m sure early we kind of didn’t really didn’t tell him when he was going in, kind of made it sound like it might’ve been a little bit in the second quarter. I talked to Jay (Cutler) about it. We were going to go a drive, but then when we went three-and-out I was going to leave him in. Jay, he was great as far as saying, ‘Just let him go. Let him play a full game.’”

(How do you – I know it’s before – but how do you evaluate the way this season has gone in a snapshot right now?) – “It’s hard for me to really think about the whole season right now. Once again, just have to go back, look at it. We’re going to have to start somewhere. Really, it’s going to start with watching the tape, watching the whole season.”

(Looking in, is everything up for grabs – personnel, staff? All those things going to be evaluated to a hard degree?) – “You do that every year, whether you make the playoffs or whether you go 6-10. We have to just take a look at everything we’re doing: how we’re coaching it, how we’re executing it, how we’re practicing it. We need to do a lot of things better.”

(This has really been a bizarre year from the beginning, from the hurricane to all of the things that went on through. Do you take any of that into account for production or lack thereof?) – “I think I was looking at a lot of the things that did happen this season as a positive, thinking adversity strikes and there’s ways to overcome it, and when you do, those are your building blocks. Really, that’s what gave me so much excitement here at the end of the season, especially going into the last Buffalo game thinking (about) all the things that we’ve been through and we’re right there in the mix, and we got a chance to really right the ship, and we just couldn’t get it done.”

(What was your understanding of what happened, the episode there at the end of the game when WR Jarvis Landry was ejected and RB Kenyan Drake was ejected?) – “They got ejected.”

(For WR Jarvis Landry, they said [it was] for disrespecting an official. Did he touch the official or say something to the official?) – “I know what he did, but it’s not something that I want to say right now.”

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