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Damien Williams – November 19, 2017 (Postgame) Download PDF version

Sunday, November 19, 2017
Postgame – Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Miami Dolphins Running Back Damien Williams (transcribed by Paige Jefferson)

(On that run – your career long – in terms of production, what did you see?) – “The line … We started off with a pass and it went straight to a run. The line, they did their jobs. After that, I got to do something for them.”

(What’s it like when you’re involved in a game where you’re moving the ball and there will be a turn over, you’re moving the ball and there’s a penalty. How frustrating was that today?) – “It’s frustrating. I feel like we’re just beating a dead horse over and over and over with the penalties. It’s starting to jump on our back. We came back, but at the end of the day, that’s what jumped on our back were the penalties.”

(You feel like you had the spot on fourth-and-1?) – “Oh, yeah. For sure. I felt like I did. I felt like we had the push. It was a bad spot for me.”

(What happens to this offense when QB Matt Moore is in there at quarterback?) – “I don’t know. It’s just something … Matt is just … He knows how to get to us, I guess.  He has been around us a lot. So he kind of knows how to work guys, who has the motor. He knows how to get guys going.”

(I may have missed this, but WR Jarvis Landry said at halftime there was no signs pointing to QB Jay Cutler not coming out.) – “No, it wasn’t. We all knew he was going to come out there and he was going to be there. But when he wasn’t, we knew we had another guy who was ready to go.”

(How frustrating was it to rip off that big first run and then not really be able get the run game going?) – “It’s frustrating, because I’m a running back. At the end of the day, you got to keep pounding it. You got to keep pounding it. You got to keep pounding it and keep pounding it and hopefully one of them pop. I feel like we’re moving forward. We’re trying things out. I feel like we’re going to get it done.”

(How frustrating were all those penalties? 17 of them.) – “It’s very frustrating just to see how we move, big play, oh no, it’s coming back. It’s frustrating. It drains you. That’s something we need to eliminate.”

(How do you regroup now with a big game coming up against New England?) – “It’s going to be one of those games. At the end of the day we’re going to – like our coach said – let this one soak in. You should feel this one. But when we go to work, it’s time to go to work. You’re going against a great team.”

(What makes this one so painful to have it sink in? Is it because of where you guys are now?) – “Just where we are, how we’re moving as an offense, and then just to have a stupid penalty. At the end of the day, it’s frustrating.”

(Is it an encouraging sign that despite turning the ball over as many times as you guys did today that you were still in there to win the game in the end?) – “At the end of the day, we have a great defense. We have a great team. The only thing that’s holding us back are the penalties and those are self-inflicting. As soon as we get that out the way, the sky’s the limit.”

(Do you feel like some of the penalties may have been borderline questionable? Because from our vantage point it just seemed that way.) – “Yeah, but at the end of the day, that’s not my job to decide if it’s questionable or not. At the end of the day, everybody needs to be clean on their techniques and how they do things, and we’re going to move great. What you see is what we got.”

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