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Adam Gase – November 5, 2017 (Postgame) Download PDF version

Sunday, November 5, 2017
Postgame – Oakland Raiders

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

(You look at this game at a whole, tough to overcome penalties. You had 11 penalties, 107 yards. It seemed like most of them came at big times where it really would have been tough to continue drives.) – “There might have been 21 penalties between both of us. It seemed like theirs almost came on one drive where there was back-to-back penalties. Ours were coming at really poor times where we had some good plays and (they) get called back. Hard to recover from it.”

(Defensively you didn’t seem to have an answer for the tight end. It seemed like TE Jared Cook was available pretty much all day long.) – “He is a tough player. We didn’t really seem to have … We didn’t make that play that we needed to make to tie him up, whether it be through the rush or coverage. I know we tried a whole bunch of different things, but he seemed to find a way to get open.”

(Do you feel like you guys played well enough to win this football game?) – “We’ve got to eliminate the penalties. It’s hard to win. The fumble, that’s at a terrible time. We talked about it all week as far as not turning the ball over against this group, because we couldn’t afford to. We just knew the success rate that (Raiders Head Coach) Jack (Del Rio) has had when his team wins the turnover battle. We did it at a very poor time. We probably could’ve had some points there. We’ve just got to make sure that we don’t do that.”

(How would you assess QB Jay Cutler today?) – “I think he played well. He did a good job of getting the ball out of his hands. He threw it away a couple of times. We’ve just got to find ways to protect him a little better. We’ve got to be a little more consistent. When we did have some good runs, we had some penalties that pushed us right back to first-and-20 or second-and-20.”

(The running backs, how do you think they did?) – “It’s hard to tell without watching tape. We had a couple of runs that popped out of there. I feel like they had a couple of good runs, but we had those penalties on a couple of good ones. We did good in the passing game. With what they were doing outside, they were trying to take away … DeVante (Parker) and Jarvis (Landry) were on the same side. They were playing some coverages where it left the backs one-on-one with the linebackers and that was a good matchup for us.”

(Certainly the [Raiders] secondary going in this game was pretty banged up. You seemed to throw the intermediate pass. Was there any thought to try to get downfield against these guys?) – “We tried a couple of times but every time we tried to call one the corners were bailing and were way off, and a couple of times they caught us in a two-high shell. They were clouding us in man-cover-two…I’d ask them what they were going to play, but I don’t think they were going to tell me.”

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