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Adam Gase – November 2, 2018 Download PDF version

Friday, November 2, 2018

Head Coach Adam Gase

(CB Cordrea Tankersley missed practice today; is there an update on his condition?) – “Yeah, he’s going to be out for the year. He tore his ACL yesterday.”

(What do you now to compensate for CB Cordrea Tankersley’s loss?) – “We’ll have a plan. We talked through a lot of different scenarios last night. We’ll have a plan going into Sunday.”

(Do you feel like you need a veteran cornerback?) – “We’ll get through this game with the guys we have and then we’ll talk about what we need to do next.”

(Do you think WR Kenny Stills will be able to go from what you see today?) – “I don’t know. We’ll see. We’ll see how it plays out. I’ve got to see how he feels tomorrow. It’s the second day that you always kind of wait and see.”

(I guess it was a good sign that WR Kenny Stills was able to practice today?) – “It was good to see him practice. (You guys) kind of got me with the, ‘Does he need to practice and still play on Sunday?’ I really wanted to see him practice just so I could see him run and see how he feels the next day. I do not want to take a chance of he’s active, he plays, something happens, we have a huge setback. I just needed him to just shoot me straight and we’ll go from there.”

(Was it contact with CB Cordrea Tankersley?) – “Just running with a guy and then just kind of took a weird step. It was weird because it wasn’t like … It didn’t look like what it normally has when you see that happen. So you weren’t sure if it was just like he just sprained something. It just looked different than what I’d seen before.”

(You talked before the trade deadline with us that you can’t afford any more of these season-ending things and here’s another one.) – “Can’t afford any more. You know what, it’s a shame because he was pushing to come along and we felt like we had him in a good spot and he was competing. He was practicing better. It’s just young player gets hurt, it’s tough for them to handle it. He’ll be back at some point. The way that those ACLs seem to be, guys come back from those. It’ll be good to get him back when we can.”

(I don’t know if we asked you, but we asked Defensive Coordinator Matt Burke: What is the possibility or the likelihood that S Minkah Fitzpatrick could play on the boundary? I know it’s something he hasn’t really done a regular basis.) – “He can do it. He can do all those positions. I mean, he’s done it all. When we evaluated him, we evaluated all the positions he played. It was pretty incredible to see how much he did over his career. He gives us a nice security blanket, to say, if you have injuries you can always move him around. It’s unfortunate for him to where he never can just get comfortable at one spot, which I don’t think he really cares about because I think that he enjoys that part of the game of constantly mentally being challenged.”

(Does it bother you at all that S Minkah Fitzpatrick is not on the field more at this point, or are you okay with what you’re doing with him?) – “The last two games we got caught in some personnel groupings where he wasn’t on the field, but for the most part before that, the first six games, he was on the field quite a bit.”

(How do you think coming back from injury has affected CB Bobby McCain recently?) – “I would say he’s done predominantly most of his stuff, he’s looked normal. It’s probably more just dealing with practice more than anything. Like, he’ll never say anything. He’ll never say he’s hurt or sore or anything like that. He’ll fight through it. To me, I don’t see a difference in him. Any place we put him, he’ll figure out a way to do a good job.”

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