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Jay Cutler – October 8, 2017 (Postgame) Download PDF version

Sunday, October 8, 2017
Postgame – Tennessee Titans

Miami Dolphins Quarterback Jay Cutler (transcribed by Bruno Zayas)

(What did you think about the offensive performance today?) – “It was poor.”

(What was the main problem?) – “I don’t know. We’ve got to look at the film. I think there were a lot of problems though.”

(Were there similar things going on today that you’ve seen over the last couple of weeks?) – “Yes. Nothing different from the last couple of weeks when you put up 6 and 0 (points), then whatever we put up today. You’re going to have the same issues. (There are) a lot of things for us to clean up.”

(How much of this do you put on your shoulders?) – “A lot. I’ll take a lot of it. As a quarterback, whenever you win, you get a lot of praise; whenever you lose, rightfully so, you’re going to get a lot of blame. It’s the nature of the position.” 

(Was there anything at all, any one thing that you felt like was improvement? Or a correction from last week.) – “Improvement? I mean we battled back. We had that drive and got a touchdown when we needed it. That’s a positive; but I think everything leading up to that point was probably pretty bad.”

(What was the difference on that drive? Why were you able to move the ball? I think you had four first downs…) – “We had some play-action going. We protected, we made some plays on the outside, had a few good runs. (Head Coach) Adam (Gase) had a nice call down there on the goal line and gave Jarvis (Landry) a shot. We were just in rhythm. When we get a couple first downs, we protect up front and I get the ball out, good things are going to happen. When we do the opposite of that, bad things are going to happen. That’s what we did for 90 percent of the drives today.”

(So you scaled back the offense a little bit each of the last couple of weeks. Do you still have enough in there to where you are confident that you can move the ball?) – “We’ve got more than enough.”

(Did you hear the “We want Moore” chants and what did you think of them?) – “Honestly, I heard them but I didn’t know what they were saying. I don’t think anyone was going to tell me what they were saying at that point, so I just kept going about my business.”

(Surely there’s frustration with the offense but if you look at what the defense did today, a pretty stout job by those guys. They went above and beyond the call?) – “Absolutely. If we show up on offense, you’re looking at a really good team there. If we keep playing the way we are offensively, and sooner or later we are going to run into a team that scores a few points and we are going to lose ball games like we did in London. That was a great performance by (the defense) in London, as well. We haven’t helped them out in three weeks.”

(How far do you feel off from your own personal standard that you set for how acceptable quarterback play?) – “I mean there’s a lot of things that happen in a game. I’ll go back and look at the tape. Any time offensively we perform like that, I’m going to expect more of myself and I’m going to expect more of the guys in the huddle.”

(How did losing WR DeVante Parker affect the game plan?) – “When you lose a guy like that, it’s always going to hurt. When you lose anybody – any of the starters – it’s tough, but that’s the NFL. It happens week in and week out. Guys have to step in and guys have to make plays.”

(There haven’t been a lot of big plays out of this offense. How do you get that going? Do you feel like this is a team that if you can get a couple of big plays going, that will open things up for you?) – “Yes. We have to get some first downs. We have to get some drives going. We have to loosen up some defenses and wear down the defensive line a little bit. When we’re going three-and-out, three-and-out, it’s tough for (Head Coach) Adam (Gase) to call some play-action or toss one deep because he doesn’t want to be second-and-10, he doesn’t want to be third-and-10.”

(I think you just you just crossed the two-month mark with this team. Is some of the offensive struggles we see part of a natural learning curve?) – “I don’t think so. I’m comfortable with this offense. I’m comfortable around the guys. We just have to clean up a lot of things that every good offense does. You don’t turn the ball over, you don’t have second-and-longs, you don’t have third-and-longs. You continue drives. You line up, you’ve got to get in and out of the huddle and convert the ball whenever we have a chance to make plays.”

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