Adam Gase – August 4, 2018
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Saturday, August 4, 2018
Head Coach Adam Gase
(Your observations from the scrimmage, either good or bad?) – “Not sure if I can really get … The only thing I noticed was the pre-snap penalties. We’ve just got to get that cleaned up. The delay of game, I’ve got to figure out what really happened there. I don’t know if we were a little slow, either me calling it or relaying it in, or whatever happened there. We didn’t change personnel. That was odd. We’ve got to do a better job. I know it’s second group going against the ones and they’re trying to get a little bit of a jump. Sam (Young) going against Robert Quinn, that’s always a fun matchup for him. We’ve got to do a better job of not losing 5 yards on a no play.”
(When you have pre-snap penalties with the first team anyway, could that have anything to do that the Kilgore-Tannehill relationship is new?) – “No because it hasn’t been those two guys. It’s usually a lot of times we’re getting a little anxious on the edges. That’s really where we’ve had any kind of issues. The ones really haven’t been an issue for us, outside that delay of game we had.”
(What did you want to get out of today and what did you get out of today?) – “Really, for us it’s just getting ready for Thursday. Going through the pre-game warmup, getting into the stadium, just all those little things. You don’t want that to be the first time – the headsets, just everybody, the communication. It’s a little different because you’re not going back to the bench and then going back out for another series, so it’s kind of going a little quicker; but there’s a lot of things that we can carry over to Thursday.”
(Would you say the gassers approach is working? Not working?) – “Did it look like it was working?”
(What more can you do to get…?) – “I don’t know. We’re just going to have to fix it. We just have to focus and understand the cadence is for us on offense to help us, not to hurt us. We’ve just got to hang in there and we’ve just got to do a better job being consistent with it.”
(What did you notice about DE Charles Harris today?) – “He’s a tough matchup, especially on pass downs. The thing that he’s improved on, especially from last year to this year and then through training camp, is his transition to a pass rush when it’s first and second down. That’s really kind of where rookies across the league will struggle always. You’ll see that their pass disruption numbers aren’t as good on first and second down because they’re always thinking run and then they have to transition to the pass rush. I think he’s really improved in that area and then you can see he causes disruption, especially if he gets a matchup where it’s a tight end/tackle trying to work with him. It’s really tough if he wins off the ball.”
(How big could it be for DE Charles Harris’ confidence to get after the quarterback like he did today?) – “I don’t think he had any confidence issues to begin with. He’s doing the same thing he’s done since he’s been here.”
(Did you have any tackling-to-the-ground segments today?) – “Were you there? (laughter) I want to say something, but I won’t. (laughter) But we did, yes. We did with the twos and the threes in that last period, we did. We went to the ground.”
(Does DE Andre Branch look a little different to you now that he’s healthy this year? Has he regained maybe what he was missing with the issue last year?) – “For him, he tried all season to fight through that and he gave us everything he had. His numbers, he had one less sack. Really, where he struggled last year was … He made a lot of plays that were away from him down the field with extra effort. Last year it was hard for him to get that burst that he showed the year before. I think now that he’s healthy, we see it in practice every day. There’s eight guys rotating in there with that first group. When those guys are fresh, it doesn’t matter who’s out there, they’re tough to block.”
(We didn’t see a lot out of QB Ryan Tannehill obviously but a couple plays stood out and one was the bootleg. It seemed like he was pretty good moving there.) – “Yes. Ever since he’s come back from spring to now … He rehabbed extremely hard. He’s probably stronger than he’s ever been. When you spend that much time in the training room and the weight room, it’s going to happen. I know he’s excited to get going and get in a real game and just kind of get the season rolling.”
(I know it’s early and you haven’t looked at the film or anything but off the top of your head, are there any guys who might have been under the radar who you’re saying to yourself, “Maybe I should take another look at this guy next week?”) – “That’s hard for me to say. After we get done watching this, we’ll have a better idea. If we have to shuffle things around, whether it be on offense or defense, even special teams, ‘Rizz’ (Associate Head Coach/Special Teams Coordinator Darren Rizzi) might see a couple of things that maybe gives a guy a boost and give him a little more playing time in that Tampa game.”
(What has Rob Ryan been doing with you guys?) – “He’s just really kind of taking in some ball. I know he’s working around probably a little bit of the country and dropping in some places where he knows people. That’s what coaches, when you’re not with a team, you try to go to a couple places. It’s learning. You’re just trying to keep the knowledge expanding and learning different things, so when the next one comes around, you’re ready to go and your mind is still on football.”
(Are you guys considering bringing Rob Ryan on staff?) – “I mean, he hasn’t asked me or I haven’t asked him. He’s just here visiting (Senior Director of Football and Player Development) Joe (Vitt) and a lot of us know him.”
(What is the most impressive thing you saw today in the scrimmage?) – “I think it was good to see in that second group, they made it tough on … The ends made it tough on the outside guys. I think they always do. We got them with the twos, but really they are ones. I think Brock (Osweiler), you can see he’s been around for a minute. He likes being in this offense. It didn’t seem real difficult for him to move the ball down the field. That was good. I think Brandon Radcliff did a good job as well. He had some good catches, had some good runs. We need kind of our ones and those guys that are really kind of locked in already, we need those guys to keep improving and that’s going to be the biggest thing for us.”
(What was the most horrible, vomit-inducing thing you saw?) – “Pick one of the pre-snap penalties. They all can go in the same area.”
