Adam Gase – November 13, 2016 (Postgame)
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Sunday, November 13, 2016
Postgame – at San Diego
Miami Dolphins Head Coach Adam Gase (transcribed by the San Diego Chargers)
On Ryan Tannehill:
“It’s been a tough week, when two of your guys aren’t 100 percent a couple days of practice. We didn’t get to go through a lot of new things that we wanted to put in. We kind of had to bag a lot of new things before the game. [We] made a couple of things up on the fly and guys did a good job at executing. He did a good job. He hung in there. He took a couple of shots today, but he stood in there and made the throws he needed to make.”
On the team coming back:
“Yeah, I don’t think this group is really worried about what the score is [or] what part of the game it is. They’re putting their head down, their just playing, and we talk about it all of the time as far as we play until they tell us to stop playing. So our guys aren’t worried about what the score is. They’re in the moment, they’re in their process and our job is to try to get the lead by the time the clock hits zero.”
On the interception by Kiko Alonso:
“Yeah, I’m not sure exactly what the concept was. I was kind of going through some timeout scenarios and things like that and looked up and just saw him get his hands on the ball. He’s a very instinctive player. I know there have been a couple of times [when] he gambles and he loses, but there have been a lot of times [when] he gambles and he’s right, and that was a situation where he was right.”
On Ryan Tannehill’s performance and deliverance:
“Yeah, it was good. We had a good week at practice with DeVante (Parker) and we kind of came in this game and thought that he could probably be a big impact for us. And those three guys together, we’ve been talking about it since the beginning. ‘When you three are 100 percent, when you three are healthy, we’re going to be a tough group to stop,’ and today was a good first step for us.”
On being 5-4 this season:
“We will be 0-0 on Wednesday, so we’ll worry about winning one more game.”
On his first road victory of the year:
“I think it’s a different part of the season for us. We’re better as a group. We’re used to how we do our operation. I think coming out here Thursday really helped us and we did it in Seattle. We felt like we played fairly well, we were energetic, we felt fresh on Sunday and once again we felt the same way. It was a great energy level on the sidelines, guys were fired up. This game could’ve gone either way. When you’re playing a quarterback who has been one of the better quarterbacks in the league for a long time, and he’s got the ball in a tight ball game, that can go either way, and our guys made one more play then they did.”
On the secondary being flagged multiple times but responding with turnovers and what that says about them:
“That we’re just moving on to the next play. You have to have a short memory as a defensive back. It’s like playing quarterback. If you worry about what happened the play before, you’re going to be in trouble. So, those guys did a good job. I know Bobby (McCain) was mad in the red zone that he got called for a flag, but we kept talking about, ‘we have to move on to the next play. We have to make sure that when you’re number is called here and they go to third down, we stop them, and you’re going to be an important piece to that.’ So, he had to regroup and he did quickly, and the guys did a good job. If something bad happened they just moved on to the next play.”
On if the Dolphin’s are 0-0 tomorrow, does he not believe in momentum:
“We’re going to worry about winning the next one when Wednesday comes.”
On taking more shots downfield:
“When we do certain things with certain guys, as far as their skill sets, some things are set up different than others. I think any time you get 11 (DeVante Parker) out there, it makes a difference. It starts opening some things up for the other two guys and Kenny (Stills) does a lot of things for us down the field, catching another big one for us. It’s just a different style between him and DeVante, so sometimes when DeVante goes down the field the ball comes up a little quicker. It doesn’t have to be a perfect throw. Kenny a lot of times, he’s going to run by guys and you have to get it out in front. You don’t want it to be short. You want to let him catch it and run it. Our guys have different skills sets and today having 11 basically look like he was healthy to me, and he had a great week in practice, so we felt good about it.”
On the touchdown to Damien Williams:
“Yeah, it was just something that when they played that particular defense we felt like we could get a matchup like that. We’re going to call it to win it. We’re not going to call to just get the first down sometimes. Sometimes we’re going to go for the touchdown.”
On Branden Albert’s injury:
“He came back in [and] he played. I’m sure with what we know right now, it wasn’t easy for him, but he battled through and I’ll know more here in the next 15 minutes. I didn’t go through that whole injury deal. I just know that he wasn’t 100 percent by any means.”
On Jakeem Grant having a tough game and how he assesses where he stands on the team:
“Go back to work Wednesday. I’m sure everybody likes it when he runs them back, so that’s why he had a couple of mishandles. He’ll be back there. When we put the lineup next Sunday, he’ll be back there.”
On how he feels about his defense:
“I think it starts with Vance. He has really been making a big emphasis as far as straining every play [and] selling out every play. We’ve been talking about that in all three phases as far as it might be on the one yard line, what are we going to do to keep them out? There is no give up play. And I think our guys are really trying to do that and we had a couple of situations to where we’re on the one and all of a sudden they’re back on the six, and the same thing on the other end. We turn it over. We’re not going to hang our heads. We have to go back out there, we have to hold them to a field goal and end up getting a turn over. You never know what’s going to happen. You have to play every down.”
On how Ryan Tannehill gets drilled and stays in the game:
“You’ll have to ask him. The guy is a beast. He just stands back there. There was one of them he threw, I thought he was pressured a little bit, and he got rid of the ball and he comes in and he says, ‘I have to stay in there’. He just has some kind of toughness where he just is going to stand in there. He takes a shot. He takes care of his body and he’s able to bounce back up.”
