Jay Ajayi – October 1, 2017 (Postgame)
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Sunday, October 1, 2017
Postgame – New Orleans Saints
Dolphins RB Jay Ajayi (transcribed by the NFL)
Q. How frustrating was the game for you?
JAY AJAYI: Didn’t put any points on the board. Frustrating.
Q. Seems like over the last two weeks, by the time you got the ball, there was somebody in your way, had to make things happen. Had the hole not been there for you, that you had a chance to see on a pretty consistent basis last year?
JAY AJAYI: I just know that we have a standard of running the ball. We know how it’s supposed to look when we’re playing up to that standard. And for the past couple of weeks we haven’t been doing that. And so whatever we need to do to get back to that standard of what we believe we can do on the ground, we need to get there.
Q. How frustrated are the guys in that offensive room right now — how frustrating is it for you?
JAY AJAYI: I think everyone’s frustrated. Two games, really — I mean, to put it, three games. And even in Los Angeles, we didn’t, like, score in the red zone. We’re not putting points up. It’s frustrating.
It doesn’t make sense, because we have the talent. So we have to figure out ways to put points on the board. Our defense is playing well and they’re keeping them not scoring, and we’re not helping them out.
And I know that sucks for the D, because we’re supposed to play together as a team. And we’re not helping them out.
And on offense we need to have some pride in ourselves, have some respect for ourselves, put points on the board. We’re not doing it. We need to get back to what we know how to do.
Q. You looked upset on the sidelines.
JAY AJAYI: From the part of us not scoring, obviously I’m frustrated. Unless you’re talking about a certain incident, maybe on the Saints sideline, where I got hit, or out and got hit when the play wasn’t even around. Other than that, just frustrated at the game, period.
Q. Does it hurt more that it was a special game and you were coming home?
JAY AJAYI: Definitely. I mean, I would have loved to have a great game for my family, have a great game to be able to come back here. Even all of that being said, this is our next game. This is our next opportunity to get a win.
Whether it was here in London, Miami. We lost last week. We needed to bounce back this week. And we didn’t. And that’s frustrating. And we didn’t score any points. So that sucks even more.
Q. Will it be good to get back home and back to a conventional routine?
JAY AJAYI: Regardless of whatever the routine has been, we shouldn’t — it shouldn’t have mattered that we should have zero points on the board.
Wherever we’re playing, whoever we’re playing, we still need to put points on the board. It’s going to be good to get back to Miami and get a home game in. But what happens if we go to Miami and don’t score points? So we need to do whatever it takes to do our job on offense.
Q. No rest in this league. You’ve got Tennessee next week. A very good football team. Is there some way you guys can go from where you are today to be a better offense next week when you need to put points on the board against another very good football team?
JAY AJAYI: Sure.
Q. Can you do that in that week’s time?
JAY AJAYI: We figure it out. We look at the film. We figure out what is inhibiting us from doing what we need to do. And we figure out what those issues are and we fix them.
Like you said, we’re playing against a good Tennessee team. But even last year we were 1-4 going into a couple of weeks. And we figured it out. We finally got it to click.
Whatever we need to do during this week to get our offense to get going, that’s what we need to figure out. And we need to get that done on Sunday.
Q. Is everything ok with your knee?
JAY AJAYI: Coach’s decision.
Q. Can you give us thoughts on this trip as a whole?
JAY AJAYI: I mean, yeah, it was a good trip, got to see my family and all that stuff. This was the main objective of the trip, this was all that mattered for the trip, was this game on Sunday.
Regardless of anything else I did these past couple of days, this was the primary objective. Get a win today. We didn’t get that done.
Q. Is there a little feeling of helplessness that the things that you know need to be fixed from last week aren’t necessarily fixed?
JAY AJAYI: we need to figure it out. Someone has to make a play. Number gets called on at any given time, we need to make the play. We need those moment of truth blocks where you just need to hold on just a second longer so we can spring to the second level.
Or if it’s a guy that needs to get off of a defender and make that big play, or if I need to do better and make sure I get the first down when it’s a third and one, whatever it is, however the play is blocked up, I need to get the first down, keep our drives running.
Everyone needs to be held accountable on our offense, because we’re not doing what we need to do. It’s very frustrating because we’re very talented. We have the skills but we’re not putting it up there. So we need to figure that out.
