Brock Osweiler – November 11, 2018 (Postgame)
Sunday, November 11, 2018
Postgame – Green Bay Packers
Miami Dolphins QB Brock Osweiler (Transcribed by Green Bay Packers)
(on drives ending in field goals instead of touchdowns)
“Yeah, it’s very frustrating. Anytime you play a good team like the Packers, you know you have to score touchdowns. Field goals aren’t going to be enough. Really at the end of the day, those problems start and stop with me. I need to be better and I need to find a way to get this offense in the end zone scoring touchdowns. This is two weeks back-to-back now that we’ve struggled finishing drives in the end zone. Point blank, period. I’m the only guy on the team that touches the ball every play on offense and I need to find ways to be better and score touchdowns.”
(on what he needs to do better)
“Find ways to score touchdowns. Like I said, this football team deserves touchdowns the way the defense has played the last two weeks. Special teams making a big play for us. This whole organization just deserves better and like I said, I’m going to go to work tomorrow, in fact, on this flight I’m going to watch this game. We are going to watch the game again tomorrow and I’m going to find ways to get the ball in the end zone because I need to do better.”
(on going nine quarters without a touchdown)
“I think it just goes back to watching the game film on all those games. We need to look at, ‘Okay, when we cross the 50-yard line, what are we doing? What are we doing well and what are we not doing so well?’ But, more importantly, what can I do better? Like I said, whether it’s a run play or a pass play, the ball is my hands to make decisions for this football team. And obviously, I need to make better decisions.”
(on the mentality of the football team)
“This football team believes in itself, we really do. I think this football team does a great job of blocking out the outside noise and focusing on the task at hand. You saw tonight, overall, I really think our team played a great game. It’s just up to me to make plays to score more points. You look at our drives and we had plenty of opportunities. It’s just unfortunate because a lot of guys gave everything they had tonight and left it all out there on the field.”
(on the fumble on the opening drive)
“It’s just an unfortunate deal. Regardless of what happens, I just need to find a way to get my hands on the football, especially if the ball is on the ground, I need to find a way to get on top of it, especially down there. The offensive line and running backs and receivers did a tremendous job on the opening drive, whether it be run plays, pass plays, finding ways to have success. You know, if you want to beat a good football team like the Packers on the road, you can’t go down in the red zone and have turnovers. That’s just unacceptable.”
Adam Gase – November 11, 2018 (Postgame)
Sunday, November 11, 2018
Postgame – Green Bay Packers
Miami Dolphins Head Coach Adam Gase (Transcribed by Green Bay Packers)
(on injuries affecting the outcome of the game)
“I think we were able to adjust our plan, try to put ourselves in the right spot. Once we fell behind, having a turnover, that put us in a situation where they knew we were going to throw a little more. It just started collapsing with those guys pressuring us. We didn’t handle it very well.”
(on struggles with offense)
“We just have to execute in the red zone. When we get our chances, we need to hit what’s open, we need to protect at the right time, run the right routes. When we have what we’re looking for on defense, we have to make that play.”
(on playing well in the first three quarters)
“We felt like the run game was going okay. We were getting some good chunks and then it just really kind of dried up for us where we started getting second-and-long, third-and-long. We weren’t really getting the yards we were getting before. We were getting out of manageable situations. We were trying to find some ways to get some quick throws and get the ball out. They did a good job of covering us when they were in man. We shook free a few times and there were a couple of times when we got wired a little bit and it caused a negative play.”
(on inconsistencies week-to-week)
“That’s why we just keep working on making sure we can have four quarters of consistent football. You can see when they realize that we’re being a little too loose in certain spots and they tie it down and it stops for a little bit and then somebody does something where another one pops free. We just have to find a way to be consist for four quarters. I know those guys are working hard to try and get that done. Hopefully we can just keep that groove together in the last six weeks.”
(on what went wrong on offense)
“We turned it over. We didn’t take advantage of the opportunity. It just seemed like we had so many little things we were counting on – somebody making a play, a blocked punt, we get a turnover on downs, things like that. We didn’t take advantage of that on offense. And that hurts us and it’s hard. If we don’t execute the right things on offense and then now the defense is put into a bad position, it’s just this snowball effect for us and we needed to play a certain way. It was close and at the end of the day, we just didn’t get it done.”
(on if they believed they could win this game)
“I felt good about what our plan was as a team, what we needed to do. I think we missed the opportunities that we had. We either got a stop on defense, we had some kind of turnover, whether it be special teams blocking the punt. That field position we didn’t take advantage of. We had a good drive to open the game up and then we had a fumble. Those types of things you can’t do against this guy [Aaron Rodgers]. You do that and it’s just a matter of time before he makes it right. We had opportunities to at least get us to the fourth quarter where we’re either winning or it’s close and see what we can do, but we didn’t do that.”
