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Adam Gase – January 8, 2017 (Postgame) Download PDF version

Sunday, January 8, 2017
Postgame – at Pittsburgh

Miami Dolphins Head Coach Adam Gase (transcribed by the Pittsburgh Steelers)

Did you feel that your bigger struggle today was on offense or defense?

It was both phases. After we go back and watch it, we can probably pinpoint a couple things in particular. They were able to run the ball. We couldn’t. It was opposite of what we wanted to do. We turned the ball over, and we knew we couldn’t do that. Those were the two really critical factors that we had to make sure that we wanted. We didn’t do it.

Why couldn’t you stop the Steelers offense?

It was a tough offense. We knew what we were getting into. We came in and knew what we had to do, and didn’t do it. Bell is a tough guy to slow down. Once he gets rolling and starts feeling like he knows where he can hit it, he does such a good job of being patient. When we got our hands on him, we couldn’t bring him down. It just wasn’t a good day for us.

What did you see or not see from your offense today?

We might have had a couple opportunities occasionally and we just didn’t take advantage of them. They played very well on their side of the ball. They hit us with a couple pressures that we picked up in practice, but we didn’t fit it up as well as we wanted to. They had too much penetration where we couldn’t get anything going in the running game.

Re: Turnovers contributing heavily to the loss:

It looked like we were at least going to have a shot there near the half. Then we turned it over, which hurt us. But I felt that we could maybe get going there in the third quarter. We just couldn’t put enough together to get points.

What did you say to your team in the locker room after the game?

I told them to remember this feeling because you’re going to want it again. It’s going to start all over again at some point. What you do the year before is not going to matter. You’re going to be 0-0 again. Don’t forget this feeling. You want to get back to this spot and try to make some noise.

What were you not able to do to run the ball today that you were able to do last time you played the Steelers?

It’s probably something we’re going to have to look at when we watch this film and try to figure out where we went sideways. The first thing I can say is that they had a little more penetration. We didn’t execute as well as I’m sure all of us wanted to. We’ll look at it schematically to see if there was anything we weren’t doing quite right compared to what they were doing. That’s going to take a minute to go back and look at everything.

 

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