Adam Gase – July 29, 2016
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Friday, July 29, 2016
Head Coach Adam Gase
(On the plan and vision for Dion Jordan) – “Well, obviously (we are) still getting all the details of kind of what’s going on. I know at some point this afternoon, I’ll get with (Executive Vice President of Football Operation) Mike (Tannenbaum) and (General Manager) Chris (Grier) and we’ll be able to go through every little thing that the league’s informed us on. So we’re still at the beginning stages of this. I know that’s the boring answer but that’s what it is right now. Obviously (we are) just coming off the field and you get the quick update, ‘Hey, here’s what little we know,’ and then the good thing is, we’ll have a plan. We’ll have an understanding of what we need to do and the steps we need to take moving forward.”
(On what his reaction is to the news that Dion Jordan is coming in) — “I’ve never met him so… I mean it’s hard for me to answer.”
(On the five players placed on PUP, specifically RB Arian Foster, and if the designation is a precaution or medically necessary) – “It’s just part of our process that we’re going through. I know everybody is like ‘Well, is it a surprise to certain people?’ It was kind of our thought process going in that it was a decision we were going to have to make, and we thought this was the smart decision to make.”
(On the overall conditioning level of the players since they got back) – “It was pretty good. I mean we did our conditioning test and there were a few guys that were very impressive. A couple of guys surprised me a little bit. It was good to see that guys came back in shape.”
(On CB Bobby McCain being placed on the PUP list and if that’s disappointing) – “It is what it is and we’ll get him back out there soon.”
(On the guys enjoying practice) – “I think the first day of practice, everybody’s excited to get back out there. The telling part’s going to be when we got about six, seven days into this thing and you know you get a day off and you got to come back and you’re in full pads. Where are we going to be there? It’s easy to be excited on the first day.”
(On if Dion Jordan needs to win back the players’ trust in the locker room) – “Like I said, I don’t know him, and I mean that’s hard for me to answer. I just know when he gets here, like I said, (it’s a) fresh start with me. So I guess that’s really all that matters.”
(On if he expects any of the five players placed on PUP, aside from CB Xavien Howard, to miss any preseason games) – “I don’t think I can answer that right now. All of those guys I would say are day to day right now.”
(On having different goal-line threats to work with) – “I think if you have multiple guys that can do a whole bunch of things, it makes it hard for the defense to say, this guy can only do this. If we can keep moving guys around and giving them options –different types of routes and different types of concepts, different types of runs and different guys running the ball, different guys catching the ball – the harder you can make it for the defense to game plan each week, the better it is for us.”
(On what he wanted to see in his first practice and if that’s what he saw) – “I think I did. I feel like I just wanted to see good energy. The biggest test for us was that we came out and jumped ahead of our install, and we installed something that if you didn’t study this summer, you weren’t going to survive today. It showed me that a lot of guys spent time in their books this summer and came out there and executed plays correctly.”
(On if he is still getting the feel for where he wants to stand and how he wants to run practice) – “I’m trying to do a little bit of how it’s going to be on game day so the quarterback gets a sense of where I’m going to be and how I’m going to operate. That’s why I like standing on the sideline sometimes but what happens is myself and (Defensive Coordinator) Vance (Joseph) start getting into some discussions during the practice. Then I end up walking around and talking to the DBs a little bit. I start to ask them questions about what they saw on certain plays, especially when the ones (first team) comes out. Guys like (Byron) Maxwell, Reshad (Jones) and Mike Thomas and those guys, they’re valuable as far as, I’ll ask them a question and they will be like, ’Well I was thinking this, and this is why I stopped and wasn’t able to defend this play.’ It is good information for me because it just helps our offense develop, because it’s a point that the defense is making that is trying to stop our offense.”
(On DE Cam Wake’s energy at practice) – “When I go back and watch the film, I’ll be able to take a better look at that. Obviously with practice going on, it’s hard to get a look at every guy; but just watching him during individual, it doesn’t surprise me because the guy is a physical freak. To see him work through the spring and come into training camp, we felt really good about where he was at. We just have to be smart with him because we don’t want him to slow down. We want him to be able to get through the duration of the season.”
(On if everyone passed the conditioning test) – “Maybe not.”
