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Cameron Wake – November 5, 2017 (Postgame) Download PDF version

Sunday, November 5, 2017
Postgame – Oakland Raiders

Miami Dolphins DE Cameron Wake (transcribed by Jason D. Silver)

(It was tough getting pressure on Raiders QB Derek Carr today. What was going on?) – “A couple of things. They had situations where they had max protection, blocked it up. They were chipping on the edge, a lot of different things to keep themselves clean. At the end of the day, I’m not surprised. I’d probably do that to us as well. You can’t be frustrated by it. You can’t use it as an excuse. You’ve just got to go out there and if you have to fight through two or three (blockers), you’ve got to do it. So that’s the mindset I think everybody has. You’ve still have to get your job done, regardless.”

(The first half must have been frustrating. You guys played very well against the run, putting them into third-and-long situations – situations that really played into your advantage – but they were able to make the plays and continue to drive down the field. That had to be discouraging.) – “(It was) definitely frustrating. Obviously the number one priority usually going into weeks is stopping the run. I think we did a decent job of that, but you stop the run so that you do get in that third-and-long situation, so that the guys up front can get after the pass rush, things like that; but they made a few more plays than we did when it came time to get off the field. By the time we started clicking, it seemed like it was too little too late, and that’s unfortunate because you have to treat every play like ‘this is the play that’s going to change the game,’ and literally one play either way – in our favor or to our detriment. They made one more play than we did.”

(This was one of those games where you have to look back and feel like there were certainly opportunities, both offensively and defensively, to win this football game and they were left out on the field.) – “Without a doubt. This wasn’t one of those games … I mean literally, we felt like every time we were on the field, we had a chance – all the way down to the very end; but that’s this league. Most of the games are going to come down to one score and that means one play, whether it’s in their favor or not. Again, you look back to the few plays they made earlier on in the game, those could have been the plays that change the game. The few plays that we didn’t make on offense obviously played in their favor. So you can’t wait until the end of the game to turn it on – which I think we did – but you have to play from the start as soon as they drop the ball, all the way to the end. Like I said, it was too little too late.”

(Did you have a conversation with anybody – I think it was (Amari) Cooper that caught the ball – it looked like it hit the ground. They ended up going down and scoring on that drive.) – “Yes, I saw it. It was hard to see on the replay. I don’t think I was on the field at the time, but it was quick. They came back with the quick snap of the ball, so whatever decisions you made, you had to make them fast. I don’t know if you’ve seen the play. I don’t know if it was an incomplete pass or not, but at the end of the day it didn’t matter because we didn’t challenge it, so you just have to move on and play the next play.”

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