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Cameron Wake – September 18, 2016 (Postgame) Download PDF version

Sunday, September 18, 2016
Postgame – at New England

Miami Dolphins DE Cameron Wake (transcribed by the New England Patriots)

(On how he feels leaving the building after fighting hard to get back in the game) – “I’m disappointed. This leagues not a league where you can spot points. You can’t go out there and start slow and then kick it on later on. We played well at times, but again, that’s not going to get it done in this league, especially as tough a game that those guys played on the other side. You can’t go out there and play catch up. It would’ve been nice to play the way we played in the second half in the first half. Obviously things would’ve been differently, but that didn’t happen.”

(On what the Patriots were able to do that allowed them to build such a big lead early) – “Well, I think when things like that happen it’s something that you have to look at yourself and say ‘What is it that I’m doing that’s allowing that.’ Again, in this league the margin is very slim so I think there’s a lot of things that, again, I’ll have to watch tape but things that we probably did to ourselves whether its miscommunications or people being out of leverage, whatever it may be, but again you can’t come out there and start off that way and then turn it on. The guys, again, came in at halftime and we fought out of a hole but again that’s the bed that we made. Again, that’s the part that’s disappointing because you show that you can play with the team. Everybody went out there and did their job in every facet but to start off slow, that’s the part that’s kind of disappointing.”

(On if Jimmy Garoppolo’s quick release made it difficult to put pressure on him) – “Well, I’d like to think that that would be smart of anybody standing back there with the kind of guys that we have, but that’s something that we have to know going in. We have very talented front guys that get after the quarterback and if I was a quarterback I wouldn’t hold on to the ball either. That’s something that, again, you have to know going into the game we have to play accordingly. Again, trying to force their hand into our situation instead of the other way around is something that we have to do going forward.”

(On if you were surprised by how much confidence Jimmy Garoppolo played with) – “No, it’s the NFL. I don’t know anybody in this league who’s not confident or you wouldn’t be in this league. Everybody in this league should have pride or else you probably wouldn’t be taking snaps. So, whether it’s him or our fourth-string quarterback, anybody that puts on a jersey on Sunday, I would expect that you would have a certain level of pride about yourself and a certain level of  pride in going out and doing your job, so that’s not going to be surprising to anybody.”

(On if it was frustrating watching Jimmy Garoppolo escape from some would-be sacks) – “No, he’s a football player like any other. I think people – generally – people fail to realize how small the difference is between a number one, and a two, and a three, and a four. This is the NFL; everybody here is the best in the world. So, I don’t know if people think that the number two guy is going to be a bum. That would be silly. I don’t think our number two guy at any positon is a bum and it’s probably the same thing across the board of any team that’s in this league. To expect that he would’ve come out and laid an egg, I don’t understand that.”

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