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Adam Gase – December 19, 2018 (Conference Call) Download PDF version

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Head Coach Adam Gase Conference Call with Jacksonville Media

(Could you give us a little bit of a snapshot of how QB Ryan Tannehill has handled this up and down year with the injuries and stuff?) – “He’s handled it as good as you can handle it when you’re coming off a season where you missed the whole year and then, really, he goes to throw a ball and gets hit right in the right spot and all of a sudden (he) can’t throw with any velocity or any kind of power. Really, it was one of those things nobody could get us a straight answer as far as he would be out. That was frustrating for him, but once he came back, he’s done a good job of improving each week. The New England game when he got the ankle, I really thought we lost him there for … it was going to be a while. But he fought through it and finished that game and then was able to play the last one.”

(Do you get the sense that QB Ryan Tannehill is kind of underappreciated for what he’s been able to go through and the way he’s played not just this year, but throughout his career?) – “Yeah. He’s had some really outstanding games. He’s put together some games where he’s had streaks of games where it’s been very good. I think the thing that a lot of people focus on is the fact that not only this year, but our first year together, we played some tough teams on the road and we haven’t done well as a team. The way that the league goes is really the quarterback gets, for the most part, he gets all the blame and some guys get a lot of the credit and some guys don’t.”

(Home and away is always tough or there’s usually an advantage at home, but any reason you think for your team why it’s such a disparity home and away?) – “I think our away games we played some good teams. We caught Cincinnati when they were first the division and one of the hottest offenses in football. We had opportunities in that game. New England is always a tough place to play. That’s probably why they have the best home record over the last three years. Indy was hot when we got them. Green Bay was still playing pretty good at the time. Houston, obviously, has continued playing well through the entire year. We got Minnesota probably at the wrong time where it was do-or-die for them. They make a coaching change and their guys were pretty fired up to play. They’re a tough defense. We got caught on the wrong end of that one and played it poorly as a whole team and we got way behind on a team you can’t get behind on.”

(What’s it like being around a guy like RB Frank Gore?) – “Any time you get a chance to be around a guy that’s going to be a future Hall of Famer, it’s special. He has so much impact on other players. His work ethic and how he goes about his daily business, it rubs off on other guys. That one is going to hurt. That hurts us as a team, as an offense. Being somebody who was around him 10 years ago, I’ve watched him do a lot of things at that time. I feel terrible for him just because I know he wanted to finish this season out on the right note.”

(What do you see out of Jacksonville, especially their offense has struggled the last three weeks. Do you wonder whether this is a bad time to be playing them because they can get things turned around?) – “Every game in the NFL, you’re going in as … You have to prepare for every game. You have to make sure that you understand what they do well, what you could possibly take advantage of. I know that we have to do a great job on offense because their defense is flying around and they’re causing havoc. They’re very tough to play because you might have an idea what they’re going to do, but blocking them and being able to get on their linebackers in the run game, it’s really tough. They have really good players all over the place on that defense. And offensively, (Head Coach) Doug (Marrone) does a great job with the run game, especially. We haven’t done great against the run. We have to make sure we tighten up, we’re gap sound and we tackle well, because when you got the backs they’ve got, it can be a problem for us.”

(When you watch the tape of them, what kind of stands out for you when you see CB Jalen Ramsey?) – “I see a guy that when he presses you, you don’t see many guys going very far. When he plays off … My window of seeing really good corners is small because I’m not going to count the years I was a little kid and Deion Sanders was playing. (laughter) But in the time that I’ve been in the league, I don’t know if I’ve seen anybody look as smooth as him when somebody’s running across the field. He stays tight. He’s not holding and grabbing guys. It’s almost like he knows the route and he’s running it for them. His ability to find the ball and either bat it down or pick it off … He’s so smooth with everything he does. It looks exactly the way that you wish you could teach every player how to do it. He just does it because he’s that good.”

(So you weren’t surprised when CB Jalen Ramsey made the Pro Bowl?) – “No. (laughter)”

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