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Cameron Wake – November 13, 2017 (Postgame) Download PDF version

Monday, November 13, 2017
Postgame – Carolina Panthers

Dolphins DE Cameron Wake (transcribed by the Carolina Panthers)

RE: The most yardage Carolina has had, your thoughts on what happened out there?
I am lost honestly. To me it’s not even just about the game, it’s losing, doing things that’s obvious and knowing what we know how to do. We stop the run most often, more days than not. We usually get after the quarterback, we do a lot of things well, normally; and those things tonight we didn’t do well. It would be one thing if we were always giving up yards like that or always dropping the ball or miscommunicating or doing whatever but it’s frustrating when you don’t do the things you do well, well.

RE: What’s the difference between this football team this year and the football team from last year?
The thing I am trying to figure out is, you look at certain games that we have had and we have been in tough situations, but we fight our way out from situations that maybe most people wouldn’t have thought we could. We’ve had some come-from-behind fourth quarter rallies and so on and so forth; and then we have had some games when we were just weren’t in the game. That’s the thing that blows my mind, is the same team that does this in my mind shouldn’t be the same team that is does this. Those two teams should be separate but the consistence is kind of baffling honestly. To me the only way I know how to fix it is to dig in and work harder. I feel like hard work always pays off no matter what. We just have to get back to the old school, grind it out and figure out a way to have that team, the Atlanta team, that team back in it. This isn’t acceptable, this is unacceptable to me.

RE: Can you get back to being that team that is there in the fourth quarter, there with a chance to win?
We have to and especially a game like this. I look at it like, offense did their job, they put points on the board, we as a defense have to show up. I’ve always been the type of guy to put it on our backs, let’s come down to the last play, put us on the field and we’ll get a stop and take the win and go home; but you have to be in the position to even have that happen and that comes from stopping the run, getting after the quarterback, getting off the field, getting offense the ball back. First quarter, second quarter, third quarter can’t just be ok fourth quarter and run a rally and hopefully close games out. We have to play consistently; this inconsistency is the thing that is killing us. Like you said we have to get back to being that team that does the things well that we did well in the first half of the season. The last few games it hasn’t been that way.

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