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Ndamukong Suh – December 11, 2017 (Postgame) Download PDF version

Monday, December 11, 2017
Postgame – New England Patriots

Miami Dolphins DT Ndamukong Suh (transcribed by Lexie Balboni)

(You said before the game your job was to hurt Tom Brady. You guys clearly roughed him up and made him aware that you guys were around. It seemed like that started from the opening play of the game, that you guys got in there.) – “Our focus every single game is to hit the quarterback as hard as we can and make them uncomfortable. I think we did a pretty good job of it, I think we could have done more.  We’ll go back and watch the film and see what our mistakes were, which I don’t feel like we made too many.”

(They were able to pick up yards running two weeks ago against you. I don’t think they had more than 30 or 40 yards rushing in the game today. What was the difference in the ball game?) – “I think as you watch them, especially over the last two weeks or so, they wanted to run the ball and they’ve been successful against us obviously the first time we played them so we knew that was going to be a big focus. Seeing that they had five receivers open they would probably want to pass a little more, using the tight end, things of that nature. So just understanding their scheme and their personnel and how they want to attack us and just go from there.”

(You guys seem to be aggressive, king a little extra curricular a little here and there. I know that’s something they’re kind of known for. Did you go into the game feeling we need to make these guys uncomfortable?) – “I think at the end of the day we looked at two weeks ago, saw that they were a lot more physical than us. We wanted to make sure we were physical, played to the whistle and imposed our will. “

(You talked about Jordan Phillips, he had a big game, had a sack, you had a sack, but hurts his ankle late in the game, comes back and again makes a play and gets a holding penalty against him and fights through it. What does that say to you about a kid like that?) – “As I said before Jordan understands his role and he’s embracing it. I think no matter what happens, as long as he’s healthy enough to be out there, whether its 60, 80 percent, obviously hope to be 100% but I think at this time of the year nobody is. He’s going to go out there and produce and that’s what we expect from him.”

(Your run defense, you guys know the Patriots are 25-yards on the ground. How big was that in terms of being able to stop them from being able to move the ball consistently?)– “As I said before, they wanted to run the ball previously, understanding their personnel. Our focus was always, no matter who we are playing, trying to shut down the run and obviously get after the quarterback.”

(Xavien Howards interceptions, what did that do for the defense, what did that do for the team overall?)– “X is doing his job, being in the right place, making plays. We’ve always said it, there’s going to be opportunities, just make the most of them. X has done a great job of that these last couple weeks.”

(The fact it didn’t look like you guys made a lot of mistakes. What does that say about the team considering two weeks ago there was like 20?) “We watched the film, we understood what we did. We made a lot of mistakes previously when we were up there. They do a great job, they run the same offense and once you pick up on that and don’t make mistakes it’s fairly simple to stop it. But when you do make mistakes they’re going to execute and make plays against you.”

(You have Buffalo next week, you guys can get to 500 with that, still be in the hunt. How much do these two games give you the confidence to go up to Buffalo and try to get back to 500?) – “I think it’s 12 o’clock now, we’ve got 12 hours to enjoy it before we get back in our office and we have to understand it’s a big task ahead of us. We’ve got Buffalo twice, we need to take care of business up there. It’s going to be tough. It’s probably going to be really cold and we’ve got to embrace that.”

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