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Adam Gase – December 7, 2018 Download PDF version

Friday, December 7, 2018

Head Coach Adam Gase

(CB Xavien Howard is out?) – “Yes.”

(Does CB Torry McTyer start?) – “I don’t know. We’ll find out.”

(What’s the latest on CB Xavien Howard? Is there anything you found out?) – “No. We just haven’t gotten him out there moving around. I’m not going to … especially against these guys. He’s got to feel good with all of his movement skills – lateral – his ability to protect himself. You’ve got guys trying to cut him and things like that and you can’t do that. We’ll give it another run next week and see where we’re at and we’ll go from there.”

(Are you encouraged about WR Danny Amendola playing?) – “Yeah, I think he did everything he could this week. We got him moving around and running a lot of different routes. It gives us a chance.”

(With WR Kenny Stills in the slot position, how much different is that for you in terms of plays or what you can do or what it opens up?) – “It’s not much different. Kenny knows all of those spots. He knows if somebody goes down, he’s the one guy that we have that can do everything. He knows all of the spots. He knows all of the different routes. He has a good feel inside to be able to do the right thing. That’s really the biggest thing with the slot receiver is being able to sit in zones, know when to go, know when not to, know when you’re just basically taking two guys out of the play to get somebody else open. His knowledge of that is really good.”

(For you guys to get more snaps per game, is that as simple as converting third downs and extending drives?) – “Yeah. I’m all for it.”

(Is that the basis of it?) – “Yeah. Any time you go first and second down and you’re getting efficient plays and you keep that rolling, that always helps. Third down conversions are nice. You’ve got to keep yourself in third-and-manageable. That gives you your best opportunity. Run/pass options is really what you want to try to do.”

(Third downs have kind of been an issue for a while now. The thought is that if you run and have success in the running game on early downs, you’ll have success on third downs but it hasn’t really…) – “Yeah, we’re still catching ourselves where we have two bad plays and a third-and-10. We’re not going to have a lot of success with that. We have to do a better job and when we do get third-and-2-to-5 or under 6, we have to convert at a higher percentage. We’ve got to have the guys that we’re throwing the ball to get open and we need No. 1 to be available. We can’t be covered. And then we have to pull the trigger. We have to protect.”

(G Isaac Asiata is on your 53-man roster. He gets pretty good reviews from his teammates. Where is he in his development?) – “I think he’s getting better. I think the more he’s seen, the better he’s getting. The whole thing for us is we love his size, we love the way he gets hands on guys. His biggest thing is the consistency of understanding when they’re running those interior starts, just moving – the lateral movement – and getting used to ‘When do I let a guy go? When do I stay where I’m at?’ I think he’s getting a lot better at that stuff. Going against our guys every week and just kind of the quickness they have, I think it’s helped him. I think he’s doing a great job in individual. I think he does a really good job as far as being engaged in meetings. Even though he hasn’t had an opportunity to play, he’s engaged in the meetings, he knows what to do and he’s ready to go if his number is called. Really, that’s all we can ask. The fact that he’s getting better every week and trying to get better every week, that’s what we want.”

(C Jake Brendel is out?) – “Yes.”

(Do you have a feel on C Travis Swanson yet?) – “I mean he had a good week. I hope he can go because we’re low on numbers.”

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