Adam Gase – October 8, 2018
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Monday, October 8, 2018
Head Coach Adam Gase
(Your offensive tackles had some inopportune misses at crucial times. Was that situations they should have been better man on man or as a play-caller, do you wish you would have done something differently protection wise?) – “We were in 8-man protection on one. I don’t know what other protection to call in that situation. The running game was starting to dry up a little bit. We’ve just got to execute some of these calls a little better.”
(How is T Laremy Tunsil?) – “He’s in the protocol. That’s all I know.”
(Is T Sam Young your left tackle now?) – “I don’t know. We’re going to evaluate everything this week, the next two days.”
(What do you put the offensive issues on the last couple of weeks?) – “We were moving the ball fine and we have a turnover that basically started a freefall. When you have a third-and-1 and you don’t execute the play, after that it’s all downhill.”
(What was the call on that third-and-1? QB Ryan Tannehill’s primary was in the flat and it was covered? Is that right?) – “Yep. We didn’t execute the first part of the play, so Albert (Wilson) got knocked off, and then Ryan should have had the opportunity to run but he couldn’t because we didn’t do what we were supposed to do on the front side, (and) on the back side to help Albert to get free.”
(You guys have put a lot of resources into the offensive line and now you’re scrambling. What’s that like?) – “It’s the NFL. That’s what it is.”
(QB Ryan Tannehill was saying a couple of weeks ago that he feels he’s a better pocket presence. How would you evaluate his pocket presence?) – “Well, he’s been pretty good. Yesterday, I don’t think he was horrible. When a guy gets beat so fast that he can’t defend himself, unless he’s Houdini, not many guys are getting away.”
(How did TE Nick O’Leary play and what skill did he bring?) – “He did well. He’s tough. He did a great job blocking. When we throw him the ball, he’s going to catch it. His effort was outstanding. He was throwing some blocks down the field. He got a 15-yard penalty called on him because he finished the play. I thought he did a good job. I thought it was a good mix with those three guys. We played all three of them and had different groupings for each guy. I thought they did a good job.”
(You had some crucial penalties. The one on S T.J. McDonald, was that a good call or a little questionable?) – “I don’t know. There’s no point for me to worry about it. It is what it is.”
(The penalty on LB Martrell Spaight, that was jawing?) – “I’m not over there to hear. It’s hard to really know what exactly was said. I just know right when I saw the play and I saw kind of some heads start bobbing, we’re all screaming the same thing: ‘Get away!’ We just can’t get caught up in that part of the game.”
(When you said basically everything on the table was being evaluated, you personally, what are you evaluating this week?) – “We’ve just got to figure out what we’re going to be able to do best (and) who’s going to be in there. We’re playing a team that’s playing well right now on defense, so we’re going to have to make sure that we do a good job of setting everything up to where, personnel-wise, who’s in there, what we’re running, what we can get to. We’ve got a lot to look at this week.”
(What are the key elements of trying to slow down LB Khalil Mack?) – “You’re not going to slow him down, so …”
(Do you think major changes are needed after the last two weeks?) – “No. It’s not that. We’ve got to kind of make a couple of decisions on who’s playing where or who’s going to available. It’s nothing drastic. There are some things that I can do different to just make sure that we’re in a good position. We’ll be fine.”
(How do you think your defensive tackles – the three of them – fared with increased snaps?) – “I thought the defense did well. The defense played exactly the way that we talked about all week. That’s why it probably irritates me more than anything that we screwed it up on offense. We scored more offense for their team on the offensive side than they let up. And that bothers me. I feel awful because our defense played really well and they did exactly what we wanted to do.”
(Do you have a sense – I know it’s early – on guys like WR DeVante Parker who didn’t play this past week?) – “I have no clue. No idea.”
(It was a good blend yesterday with RB Kenyan Drake and RB Frank Gore. Was that your vision of what you’d like to do ideally?) – “Yeah. We want to play them both. We were trying to figure out the rhythm. It felt like we found it yesterday. We had a good plan going in. That’s why Kenyan … That’s why he is here because he doesn’t have to be the first one on the field and get the carries right away. He can do it first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, fourth … it doesn’t matter. When you stick him in the game, he’s going to be full throttle and ready to go.”
(S Reshad Jones, it seems like he really picked up where he left off. Is that what you saw?) – “Yeah. It was great to get him back out there. He did a really good job of getting his hands on balls and playing tight coverage when he was asked to. He did a good job anytime he had to tackle. I mean, you couldn’t even really tell he had anything going on with him. That’s him. He’s tough. If he’s healthy enough to be out there and he has enough strength, he’s going to be out there. It’s probably good that we didn’t play him the week before. It was probably a smart decision on the trainer’s part just to make sure we could get him a little bit stronger. But I thought he did a good job. It’s nice having him back.”
(How would you evaluate CB Torry McTyer’s start at corner?) – “I thought the whole secondary did a good job. We did what we wanted to do with A.J. Green. I think his longest catch was 22 yards. There were a lot of those catches where not many people were covering him and there were scramble drills. I think Andy (Dalton) made some really good throws for them. You can’t cover the perfect throw. But as a group, I thought the whole secondary did a good job as far as what we were asking them to do.”
(Was this what the vision was as you recall sitting in draft meetings, of what you all thought LB Jerome Baker could be – fast, active and blitzing effectively?) – “Yeah. That’s why we liked him. We liked him because he can cover a lot of ground and when he blitzes, he has no regard for his body and tries to annihilate the other guy. I thought he played well. I thought Raekwon (McMillan) did a good job. Our defense did what we needed them to do. They did a lot of different stuff. Guys were trying to do exactly as the scheme asked them to do.”
(The last two weeks there were two losses in very different ways. Do some losses hurt more than others?) – “Every loss hurts. When you put 110 hours in a week and get kicked in the nuts like that, it pisses you off. This isn’t like a 9-to-5 (job). We have a lot of people putting a lot of work into this stuff. You’re going to be mad today and tomorrow. When Wednesday comes, you have to forget about it and move on to the next one.”
(I know it’s early in the week and you have days to make this sort of decision, but in general, with T Zach Sterup, from what you saw in preseason practices, is he to the point where he can be a contributing NFL player as a left tackle?) – “Yeah. If he’s on the roster, we think he can play. You make decisions based off of multiple things. Whether it’s just one position … Sam (Young) has always been the guy up because he has a lot of experience playing big tight end if we get into a situation like that. If he has to go in at left or right, he’s done that. There’s a lot of things that he has always brought to the table. We just need to evaluate what we’re doing, as far as who’s up, who’s down, who’s doing what. It’s usually that every week. It’s just that nobody makes a big deal about it. This week we’ve got to make sure we have the right guys out there.”
(Do you feel like there is an answer for that offensive line long-term?) – “Yeah. we’ll figure it out. That’s what we do. They’re not going to stop the season. We’re going to play next week no matter how many guys we have. We just have to make sure that what we decide is the right thing for us this week and then what we run is the right thing for us.”
