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Adam Gase – December 12, 2018 (Conference Call) Download PDF version

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Head Coach Adam Gase Conference Call with Minnesota Media

(What is it like from your side, you’re going against a new offensive coordinator, so there might be some uncertainty on some of the things that you’ve seen versus previous film? How do you guys handle that?) – “We’ll probably just have to adjust on the fly. The biggest thing for us is we can’t focus so much on that. We’re always trying to focus on what we’re doing and trying to make sure we execute what we have in our game plan. We can’t get caught up in what’s necessarily going on in or who’s calling plays and if they’re changing things on the offense. We have to focus on really what we’re doing.”

(How do you manage the emotions after such a high of the way you guys ended a game against New England?) – “We really don’t have a choice. We’re in survival mode as far as every game is big for us. We have to do everything we can to try to win this one. We don’t have time to get caught up in last week. That’s over and done and we have to move on to the next one.”

(Has there been any change in the mood or atmosphere this week in light of that finish to beat the Patriots?) – “It has been basically the same as it was the week before and the week before that. I think really once we hit the bye and guys had a chance to kind of re-group and we got some guys back and healthy … That week off really helped us. We’ve had really good energy since that bye week.”

(QB Ryan Tannehill exited the game for a little bit, but came back. Do you expect him to be fully healthy going into this weekend?) – “I don’t know if he’ll be fully healthy, but he’s as tough as they come. He’ll be ready to go when Sunday comes around. We’ll get through the week of practice and see where he’s at. He practiced today. I know he’s probably not feeling great, but it’s hard to tell with him. He’s never going to say that he can’t go or he’s hurting too bad. He just puts his head down and grinds.”

(I know you’ve been complimentary of his play, but how do you manage the development of QB Ryan Tannehill knowing he’s played just eight games in the last two years here?) – “We just keep going. We just keep working on the things that we can work on. What happened to him, he … In 2016, it wasn’t anything that he could really control and this last one was kind of an odd injury getting hit underneath his arm. And then last week was really just … That was friendly fire. He got stepped on by our own guy.”

(Which do you think was a better miracle, the one you guys had last weekend or The Minnesota Miracle here with WR Stefon Diggs in the playoffs last season?) – “That’s tough. I’d say the thing that probably amped theirs up even more was the fact that it was a playoff game. Just being in those … With my experience of being in the playoffs, those games are so intense and the emotional swings are so great. I can’t even imagine how that felt after that.”

(As a coach, how do you handle a league where up to a third of the head-coaching jobs will turn over just about every year?) – “It’s a good question. I never worry about it. I just … Nick Saban told me something when I was 22 years old and I’ve always just lived by it. He said, ‘You do your job until somebody else tells you not to.’ That’s what I focus on. I focus on doing my job every day and however it turns out, it turns out.”

(You got a pretty up close look at Head Coach Mike Zimmer’s defense when you were with the Bears. Have you seen evolution in the defense maybe over the past couple years or maybe just even this season as teams have schemed against it?) – “I would say the evolution is he’s got a lot of the same players as he had last time I played him except now they’re veteran players. You can tell how comfortable they are. They play fast. They’re as tough as you get when you’re playing any kind of defense. Then you put him behind the wheels of a defense, now that doubles everything, because he’s very hard to prepare for. He always has change ups. Even if you do have a little bit of success, he always has something else to go to. He always knows how to adjust in game. It’s a long three-and-a-half hours on Sunday because you’re constantly working and you’re constantly fighting to try to stay ahead of him. It’s very difficult.”

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