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Ndamukong Suh – November 5, 2017 (Postgame) Download PDF version

Sunday, November 5, 2017
Postgame – Oakland Raiders

Miami Dolphins DT Ndamukong Suh (transcribed by Ted Leshinski)

(Suh, first of all how are you feeling? You went out of the game for a while. You were able to come back and play?) – Yeah. Unfortunately it’s football. I got tangled up and lucky enough I had the opportunity to come back. “

(When you look at yourself defensively – first half, good job against the run but there were third downs, third and longs, they were able to convert most of the time to the tight end. How frustrating does that get for you as you move along and try to stop that football team early on?) – “I think we understood what they wanted to do, we allowed them to stay on the field. We weren’t getting off the field on third down. We were putting them in situations that we wanted to be in but at the end of the day we’ve got to find ways to get off the ball, make plays and get off the football field.”

(Raiders QB Derek Carr seemed like he was able to get the ball out quickly. He didn’t get a lot of pressure on, maybe a little bit late in the game, but early on it seemed like he was getting pushed but not enough to get him off his game. Were they doing something different?) – “He’s the best in the NFL. He’s getting the ball out in under 2.3 seconds. So, we understood that we have to continue to press no matter what. At some point in time he’s going to hold the ball. The times that he did I felt like we did our jobs to get back there. The other side of the ball we needed to figure out how we could knock balls down and obviously knock passes down to get off the field. We didn’t do enough. It’s as simple as that.”

(Did you feel like you guys played well enough to win this football game?) – “No. We gave up way too many points. Obviously I think they ended up having 27 it’s not going to be winning football, if they’re scoring 27 points.”

(You’re 4-4 now. You’ve got a big game coming up next week, another Monday Night game on the road in Carolina. They’re another very good football team. How do you bounce back from this one and get ready for them?) – “Every game is big in this league and obviously no matter who you are playing it’s going to be a tough opponent. Obviously knowing who we have in Carolina … they’ve got a great offense, a great quarterback and some weapons that we need to go and stop. But we’re going to go back and look at the film tonight and tomorrow morning and figure out what mistakes were made because it’s a copycat league. They’re going to find ways to either do the same things or see things that we did in the past that we weren’t as good at and try to attack it. We’ve got to clean those mistakes up in practice.”

(You looked like you were in pain when you walked off the field and went into the locker room. You came back and played. Is there any reason to think that these injuries may hold you from playing next week?) – “I don’t make those calls. You’re going to have to talk to Coach Gase about it and we’ll go from there.”

(Ndamukong, there’s been a lot of points the last three weeks. Do you feel there’s been anything missing defensively?) – “I think we miss tackles. We weren’t getting off the football field. It’s a combination of things. But, it’s primarily those two pieces.”

(And the stuff you didn’t see early in the season when things were going better?) – “I think we were tackling a lot better. We were finding ways to get balls out and then obviously create turnovers in some aspects, especially the Jets game last time we were at home. We’ve got to find way to get back to that football.”

(You had one of the few real open pass rushes where you knocked the ball out of QB Derek Carr’s hand. Was the field hard? They were talking about the turf being wet or somethings?) – “No. I don’t feel like the field was of any particular issue for me personally. Maybe some of the other guys had a little struggle but as professionals you understand what cleats you need to wear and be prepared to go out there and deal with all conditions.”

(To be 4-4 right now, do you feel like that’s a big underachievement for this team?) – “Nobody wants to be 4-4. We’ve had opportunities to win games. We’ve had every opportunity to in all eight games that we’ve played so far to win. Unfortunately we haven’t and we’re going to go able to go from there. Luckily it’s half way so we can figure out a way to still get into the games and obviously the playoffs. That’s our ultimate goal and we still have that opportunity. We’ve just got to go out there and focus and understand what we need to do to get wins.”

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