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Jay Cutler – September 24, 2017 (Postgame) Download PDF version

Sunday, September 24, 2017
Postgame – New York Jets

Dolphins QB Jay Cutler (transcribed by the New York Jets)

On their offensive difficulties…
I think early on we were in a lot of third-and-longs, which is tough against this defense with the multiple fronts and coverages they were showing us.  After that, we got one dimensional and got into a throwing situation. We didn’t help our defense at all and didn’t help ourselves.

On if they were having communication problems early on when they had to call time out…
I’ll take responsibility for that. I’ve got to get everybody set and make sure everybody is on the same page. It can’t happen again. It’s an unfortunate situation there. It put ourselves in third and impossible.

On if communication issues continued throughout the game…
We were passing every play. We’re trying to get everyone lined up. We’re getting a little bit tired because I don’t know how many times we threw the ball there at the end of the game. We just have to do a better job there (in the) first quarter, second quarter of getting first downs and trying to sustain drives.

On his teammates saying the team had a bad week of practice…
I think anytime you go out there and play like that, you’re going to go back and look at what you did at practice and refine some things and change some things and try to get better. That was a good defense we saw, but I believe we’re a good offense. We have a lot of talent. We’ll go and look at this game tomorrow and figure things out and go back to practice. That’s all we can do.

On if the team is road weary…
I don’t know. On one side, you’d say that’s fair and on the other, that’s the NFL. You just have to deal with it. Like you said, we’re not going to make excuses. We felt prepared going into this game. We just laid an egg. We’ve got to figure out why that happened this week and practice better and get ready for this next one.

On what disappoints him most about today…
We didn’t help the defense. The way we played on offense, we didn’t give them a chance. They held them to 20 (points), which is unbelievable the way we played on offense. We couldn’t get a first down those first three or four series. It was first down, second down, third down, punt. You’re not going to win any games doing that.

On if the protests before the game were a distraction…
We just stood and locked arms. I think we were just supporting each other. I don’t think that’s too out of line or something that can be misconstrued as us not being focused on the game because we were. You can look at our practices. There are good days and bad days. There are good plays and bad plays, but everyone was focused and everyone felt like they were prepared.

On the president’s comments on player advocacy…
I don’t think my comments are going to help the situation. I want to support my teammates the best that I can. I’d do anything for those guys in there even though I’ve only been here a month or so. They give us everything they can out there. Off the field, I want to help and support them anyway they need it.

On how they will get ready to play in London next week…
I think that game was a wakeup call for us. We can’t just roll out there and expect it to happen. We have to prepare. We’ve got to be ready each and every game because it doesn’t matter who your opponent is and if they’ve won one game, zero games or 10 games. You can lose each and every week in this league. It’s done. You look at the scores each week and there’s an underdog winning and there’s somebody getting blown out. That happened to us today. It should be a wakeup call for our entire team that we’ve got to get it together.

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