Ryan Tannehill – September 25, 2016 (Postgame)
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Sunday, September 25, 2016
Postgame – vs. Cleveland
Miami Dolphins Quarterback Ryan Tannehill (transcribed by Sara Perez)
(Ryan, Adam was in here a few minutes ago and the look on his face was not one of a coach who just won his first NFL game, what do you think in terms of … just was there more to be pleased about that you won or just concerns over the way you guys won?) – “I’m always happy to get a win, first and foremost. We play to win. So, it was ugly, we didn’t play well at times today, but we stuck together and found a way to get a win. Sometimes that’s the way it’s going to be. It’s going to be ugly, it’s not going to be pretty; but if you find a way to get a win that’s really all the matters. Obviously, we have a lot of stuff to get cleaned up. Offensively, we didn’t come out and execute. We left a lot of plays on the field, just with poor execution, and we have to get that cleaned up, immediately. We’re three games in now and we’re too far in to be having the kinds of mistakes that we’re having. We have to be cleaner, we have to be better and we have to be better right now.
(Today was one of those days where you did some good things out there and there were some times where you just couldn’t get anything going and you talked about being consistent with your game, how do you find that? You have a short time before the next game and there’s still a long way to go, what do you guys need to do to get that consistency and be where you want to be execution-wise?) – “Just execute the way we do in practice. We have good practices, guys doing the right things and we’ve had some mistakes when we got into games. We just have to be consistent with what we’re doing in practice translating over to how we’re doing in the games. It’s every man out there, starting with myself down, every guy on the offense. We have to be cleaner, we have to execute and make the plays that are there and we need to make to win games.”
(Were you surprised at how well they played defensively against you?) – “They did a good job. Like I said, I don’t want to take anything away from them, but we had a lot of mistakes. You have to give credit to those guys. They came out and they battled. They played well, they played hard, didn’t give us anything cheap. As an offense, we just need to be cleaner.”
(What were you thinking when C/G Anthony Steen went down, C/G Kraig Urbik was in, and I saw you taking snaps from G Billy Turner over there, not sure who you were going to have in there, kind of an odd situation for you, wasn’t it?) – “Yes, we were comfortable with Urbik. We knew he was coming in the game, but God forbid something else happened to him, Billy would have been the next one up at center. Just getting some snaps with a guy that I don’t normally get snaps with.”
(Ryan, it’s easy to pick out the bad things from this game, aside from the victory are there two or three things that you liked out there today?) – “Yes, there’s always good things. There’s always more good than … the bad things stick in your mind, especially me. You think about all the things that went wrong, but there’s always good things. We did some good things, put some drives together out there. (We) made some big plays. Guys made big plays. We had some good protection on a few snaps, guys were able to get open and get the ball downfield. We had some good stuff. It’s not all bad. We had some good runs in there. We just have to be good and execute at a much higher percentage than what we did today.”
(The challenge of getting things cleaned up, how is that compounded by the schedule?) – “Well, it’s tough on a short week. Obviously, your time is compressed. You have to be able to make the corrections quickly, as well as physically get ready to play another game and mentally install our new game plan. We have our hands full. It’s going to be a job for us and the coaching staff, but I’m confident in the guys that we can get it done.”
(What were you thinking right before they kicked the field goal at the end and they missed and then what were you thinking right after they missed it?) – “I was trying not to think about it whenever they lined up to kick it. I couldn’t believe he missed it. I don’t think we deserved that other chance, but I’ll take it and take that win any day.”
(Do you feel more comfortable about the run game after today’s performance?) – “Yes, I think we did some good things in the run game. I think there’s still some things to be cleaned up, but I feel like we had good, positive runs on the early downs a lot of the day and a couple went for first downs, then the big one at the end to seal it. So there are some good things and I think we can build on that.”
(Was it at all a surprise to you that at the game’s most important times WR Jarvis Landry made two huge plays to put you in a position to win?) – “No, it’s no surprise. The guy’s a football player. He shows up in practice, he shows up every game and he’s one of our best players, so if we can get him the ball in a critical position, we’re going to do that.”
(How many times did you practice the final play?) – “I think we got one rep, one rep at it. I felt good about it. Went in, their corners were pretty aggressive all day, (so I) felt good about it. I had some pressure so I just had to get it up quickly, but he ran such a good route that he was so open and it was easy to get him the ball.”
(Could you take us through the two picks?) – “The first one, it was Cover 2. I tried to hold the Will (line)backer. We had a slant (and it) should be a good window there. (Browns CB Jamar Taylor) just turned and anticipated it and he jumped it. The second one, I was going to throw it and my arm got hit and the ball just fluttered up right to the guy.”
