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Cameron Wake – September 11, 2016 (Postgame) Download PDF version

Sunday, September 11, 2016
Postgame – at Seattle

Miami Dolphins DE Cameron Wake (transcribed by the Seattle Seahawks)

(On the final drive…) “I speak for most of the guys on that side of the ball, that’s the way you want it. You want to be on the field. You want to be in position to take control. We just got to get a stop and we didn’t get it done. I’ll have to look at the tape, but I am sure there are some things we could have done better to make sure that happened. Tough way to go out.”

(On the way they played before the final drive…) “Well, it’s not a 49 minute game, it’s not a 52 minute game. You have to play the entire 60 minutes. No matter, what it is, no matter what the situation, we were right there, we had an opportunity to win. On defense it doesn’t work that way. You can play great every play but two. But two touchdowns can change the game. It’s not a pat on the back to say you did good for so long. You got to play the entire game.”

(On if he lobbied to play more on that final drive…) “I am a guy that wants to be on the field no matter what especially situations where it is a key situation. At the same time, with the group that we have I am 100 percent confident in whoever comes in. We have a great group of guys. We have guys that have been in the fire. Jordan [Cameron] might be the youngest guy and he’s seen his fair share of football. Other than that, whatever guys are out there you got to go out there and play to the level. Every one of us has that mentality. we want to get there on the field. When it’s your time, your button is pressed, your number is called, you got to get in there and get the job done.”

(On his playing time…) “It’s always tough whether it’s now or five years ago. You got to see the big picture and be smart. Coaching staff and I and we are doing the best to ensure myself and the other guys on the team or used to the best of our ability.”

(On the most encouraging thing he saw in the defense…) “We just never say die. Just going out there and fighting is the way it’s going to be. This league is not a situation where you are going to go out and get 40, 50 point blowouts. Every game is going to come down to a drive or a play to win a game. That’s just the way the NFL is, a small margin an error can change the entire course of the game. If you play three quarter of great that’s not good enough. You got to play the entire 60 minutes, whistle to whistle until it’s over. I am not a guy who takes pats on the back. Ws are the only things that matter.”

(On what he learned about the team today…) “There’s nothing surprising. Going out there and playing, fighting, scratching that’s the way I have seen since guys have come together so It wasn’t new to me. I knew that we were going to go out there. I knew that we were going to do everything that we needed to do. It’s just if anything it’s just that we didn’t make the plays that we should have made to close this thing out. Maybe some other people might have been surprised about us. That’s not the way we feel.”

(On what they need to do to close out games…) “It’s not one specific area. There is a lot of places we had opportunities to win. More games are lost than won. I feel like we lost this game. It was on our backs, in our hands right in our grasp. We had opportunities to go there and put it away. What we have to do to fix is a hard call. I know we got to get back to work. Its short term. Another game is right in front of us. We have to get back to work starting tomorrow make sure we fix things that need to be fix. Put us in situations where we have those kinds of situations where one play can change a game or whatever it may be.”

(On the decision to take a knee prior to kickoff…) “As far as I am concerned, I support anybody who chose to exercise their right to have an opinion. Everybody on this team is grown man, everybody has a way they think. They have experiences of their own. Football is very unique that you have a lot of guys coming from all different kinds of backgrounds race, religion, socio-economic, all that. We come together and we play. I feel like it’s always something that has been created and blown out of proportion to be honest. You can be aware of things that are going on around your and also be in love with your country and love the military and also speak out against injustices. Whoever exercises their right to protest in whatever way they do that’s the nature of this country. that’s supposed to be the nature of this country.”

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