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Cameron Wake – October 1, 2017 (Postgame) Download PDF version

Sunday, October 1, 2017
Postgame – New Orleans Saints

Dolphins DE Cameron Wake (transcribed by the NFL)

Q. Cam, trying to evaluate this before looking at tape, how does this team turn things around?
CAMERON WAKE: There’s only one solution that I know of: That’s hard work, perseverance and dedication. You gotta be honest with yourself, be honest with the men around you, take a good, long look at what’s going on. Film doesn’t lie.

So all three phases, you gotta do that. And be a man about what’s going on and address it, fix it.

Q. Is there a situation with your offense struggling out there, I would imagine your mindset going, saying we’ve got to pitch a shutout, we’ve got to pitch a shutout, that’s what’s going to take to win.
CAMERON WAKE: Obviously it’s the Miami Dolphins, not offense/defense. We’ve got to make sure they score less points than we’ve been giving up.

And at the end of the day, whoever has more points wins. So if we’ve got to keep them to zero, we’ve got to keep them to zero. And that’s just the way it is.

If the offense isn’t having a great day, we have to turn it up on defense. If things are switched, they go and score 40, we’ve got to score 40. That’s just the way it is. We have each other’s backs and that’s the way it’s going to be.

Q. How do you keep them uplifted when they’ve been struggling so much in the past?
CAMERON WAKE: I think it’s been times where we’ve had games where they’ve done the same for us and gotta go out and say, listen, get me one play, get the ball rolling, get me a spark somewhere, whoever it may be. If that’s what it takes, that’s what it takes. And so I’m not panicking.

Urgency is there, of course, but we have good players. We have hard, tough, mentally strong individuals on that side of the ball as well. And I think those guys know what’s going on and what’s needed.

And I wouldn’t expect that all of us as a group wouldn’t be able to attack the problem and fix it.

Q. What did Alvin Kamara do to allow him to be so effective?
CAMERON WAKE: I don’t know if it was anything that he was able to do. I think on defense, we’ve got to play more consistent. I think they say more games are lost than won. Some things that we might have done to ourselves that allowed certain players to have certain plays, but I wouldn’t say it was anything spectacular.

Q. Is there any sense that it’s easier now that you have a more conventional schedule going forward?
CAMERON WAKE: Anywhere, anytime, that’s the mentality. Put the ball down. Play. London, the moon, LA, New York, doesn’t matter. That’s the mindset we have. So the situation doesn’t matter. Time doesn’t matter, the time zone, country. Put the ball down.

Q. Is this disruptive to you at all, your routine and preparation, traveling to get here?
CAMERON WAKE: No, just another day. Another day at the office. I put the ball down anywhere. We can do it right now. Doesn’t matter to me.

If you were allowing that to affect your game, you’ve already lost. So for me, and I think I speak for most of the guys, it’s just another day at work.

Q. Is there still great trust in the locker room?
CAMERON WAKE: I believe so. I hate to bring up old stuff, but last year, it was situations where people wrote us off, panicked. It was: The sky’s falling, oh, no. And obviously things went differently, because the group of guys we had. The guys who believe in one another and continue to work and continue to work. And make sure at the end of the day you get your job done.

So I don’t think this situation is any more different. A lot of guys are the same guys who we’ve been counting on from years ago. And we’ve been in tough spots and we fought our way out. I wouldn’t expect anything different this year.

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