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Anthony Steen – November 28, 2016 Download PDF version

Monday, November 28, 2016

Center/Guard Anthony Steen

(You’ve been trying to play with the neck roll. How’d that go for you? How’s your neck and your ankle coming off yesterday?) – “It’s different having to play with a neck roll. You feel stiff and any time you have to bend over, it’s hard to bend over with a neck roll and you definitely can’t look up; but I’m slowly getting used to it.”

(Are you able to pop up and see everything in time or are you…?) – “When I’m down on the ball, it’s hard to look up. But once I snap it and then come up, it’s fine. It keeps me more back flat, not hunch backed over.”

(Did you come out of it any worse yesterday as far as your neck and your ankle?) – “No, not at all. No, I didn’t tweak anything or hurt anything.”

(That’s progress, right?) – “Yes.”

(Overall, just talking about this team having a flare for dramatics. Every game seems it goes down to…) – “That’s football. Sometimes it comes down to the end of the game, even though you don’t want it to. Especially like last night’s game, we were just sitting on the sideline (saying), ‘Man, what could we do?’ So everybody on the sideline on offense is standing out there cheering our defense on to try and support our defense and luckily they stopped them right there at the goal line.”

(Good thing you guys have a young coach to keep that blood pressure a little lower and whatnot.) – “Yes, he might’ve fallen down right there on the sideline.”

(What does it say about this offense that you guys are now winning without RB Jay Ajayi and the running game being the focal point of it?) – “I think that’s part of being a playoff caliber team. You can’t be strong at just one position. So when that one spot in the run game, for us blocking last night wasn’t very strong for us at all. So when we went to the throwing game and we have a quarterback like Ryan (Tannehill) and the receivers that we do, when we’re struggling in the run game, we go to the passing game. They put seven or eight guys in the box every play and go ahead. We’ll let Ryan (Tannehill) throw it on you all day.”

(Head Coach Adam Gase was saying that he took it as an insult that they were kind of daring you guys to throw) – “Yes, that’s what it seemed like. They kept putting eight guys in the box. They knew we were going to try to run inside and outside zone on them. They were so focused on stopping that, that after the first couple of plays, Gase said, ‘The heck with it,’ And let Ryan (Tannehill) have the ball and let him throw it.”

(What were those conversations like on the sidelines amongst you guys and Head Coach Adam Gase about that they weren’t respecting your passing threat?) – “We didn’t think anything of it. (Head) Coach (Adam Gase) was saying, ‘Keep the job up for giving Ryan (Tannehill) plenty of time and just keep doing what we do.’”

(Head Coach Adam Gase said afterwards that they felt like it was disrespectful. Was that something he was telling you guys on the line?) – “Usually, if we see Gase on our bench, it’s either when we’re doing something really good – he comes by and tells us, ‘Hey, keep it up.’ – or if we’re doing something really, really bad. (Laughter) But I don’t even think he came over last night. It’s usually when we talk to any coaches, it’s (Offensive Line) Coach (Chris) Foerster. He’ll come over. I guess if Gase has something, he’ll tell Foerster.”

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