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Eric Rowe – October 3, 2021 (Postgame) Download PDF version

Sunday, October 3, 2021
Postgame – Indianapolis

Safety Eric Rowe (transcribed by ASAP Sports)

(You seemed frustrated at the end of the game on that last touchdown. Was that directed at yourself? Did you feel like there was no call of a penalty or something? What was your reaction there?) – “It was at myself. Just I had good coverage. I didn’t make the play and that’s one thing that we’ve been preaching on all week is these 50-50 balls and we’re not coming down with them, and that was one of our key points going in the game. I was just frustrated that I didn’t come down with it.”

(How would you describe the atmosphere in there after the game?) – “The atmosphere – everyone is frustrated at ourselves because we know we’re a better team. We’re making just mistakes that you can’t make to win a game in this league, so, the atmosphere is — it’s not — no one has their head down, but, we all need — we all know what needs to happen.”

(You were fortunate enough to have been here for the 2019 season. You saw last year’s 10-win season. You saw the turn-around in the 2019 season. What is missing in this team?) – “Right now we’re making mistakes. Like I just said, we’re making mistakes that you can’t make. Penalties, stuff that we can control that if you make just enough, it’s really tough to win. It’s already tough enough to win a game in this league. When you are making just costly penalties and maybe substitution errors, little stuff like that, it just makes it that much harder to win, and right now that’s just — we just need to get cleaned up.”

(How do you eliminate those things? What’s the process to make sure that doesn’t happen?) – “It’s just a mentality thing. Obviously it starts in practice, starts during the week. Really it’s not even a talent thing. It’s everyone getting their mind right for it.”

(Head Coach Brian Flores has been here, the Dolphins it has been one of the least penalized teams. Today Head Coach Brian Flores mentioned penalties, some of the other guys, so did you. What’s been the difference this season with penalties being such an issue?) – “It’s just like I just said, it’s just a mentality thing. We all just need to just tighten up and just kind of get those mistakes out the way. It’s nothing with talent. It’s nothing with coaching. It’s nothing with scheme. It’s nothing with the other team. It’s just us and our mindset that we just need to get it right.”

(When you said that winning the 50-50 balls is a point of emphasis, was that for the defense specifically this week, or is that a team thing?) – “I mean, obviously, you want to win them on offense too, right? But specifically for defense, our kind of – one of our downfalls right now is we’re not winning the 50-50 balls. They’re throwing it deep on us and we’re right there in coverage and we’re just not coming down with them. That was just a key emphasis. That’s why I was just so frustrated.”

(How big of a challenge is facing this team right now given all you have to fix and the fact that next Sunday you’ll be in Tampa and you are playing the Buccaneers?) – “It doesn’t matter who we’re playing. It doesn’t matter because in the NFL it’s already tough to win. Every team is good, and then when you are playing – when we’re making mistakes like that, we’re just making it 100 times harder on ourselves, so, you know, it can be the Bucs, it can be, I don’t know, the Giants. It doesn’t matter. We just need to kind of fix ourselves first.”

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