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Adam Gase – September 27, 2018 Download PDF version

Thursday, September 27, 2018

Head Coach Adam Gase

(Do you have any update on DE Cameron Wake? We saw him practicing today.) – “He was full go today.”

(When you have the shortage at defensive line and you’ve been used to a rotation, how difficult is it to get them accustomed to a new rotation or the thought process of playing more snaps?) – “Yeah, I don’t think those guys will have a problem with that. Those guys have conditioned and trained themselves and created an environment to do it, to where they can go more snaps, especially in cooler weather. I don’t think you’re going to have many players complain about playing more plays.”

(With DT Vincent Taylor, what has he shown you since last year or maybe this camp that says that he’s ready for more to be put on his plate?) – “I think experience. One year in the NFL, you’re going to learn so much throughout a season. When you get into the training camp aspect of it since the spring was tough for him – he was recovering. We get into training camp and he’s adding to that library of things that he gets to see. We were doing a lot of different stuff to where it was just the more he was seeing and he’s reacting quickly. He’s playing aggressive. He’s playing fast. You can tell he’s not really thinking a bunch. He just is able to go out there and play. He knows the call, he knows what his job is and now he plays the play.”

(Because so many players do so many different things well, does it really challenge your play-calling?) – “I don’t think so. I think it just helps us be creative and try to keep expanding guys‘ roles and figure out how far we can take things. That’s fun to be able to just kind of draw things up in the dirt and try it. If it doesn’t work, we throw it out and try something different.”

(Do you want your players to view this as a big game or just Game number 4 of 2018?) – “I think our guys are looking at this as it’s Game 4. That’s the feeling I get.”

(Is that what you want?) – “That’s what we’re going through. I mean, it’s the first quarter of the season and it’s the fourth game. It’s a road game. It’s a division game. It’s always tough to go on the road in the division against a team that knows you well. They’ll be prepared and our job is to make sure that we prepare as well as we need to for this week to really, when we hit the fourth quarter, we’ve got an opportunity to win the game.”

(Your offense is in a weird kind of Catch-22 because you’re never been more explosive, but the time of possession has kind of been one-sided. I know you talked before about the importance of time of possession. How do you get that back?) – “It has to be complementary football. We need to do a better job of not having any three-and-outs and holding onto the ball longer. When you score, it’s not as painful for the defense. When we go three-and-out, that’s a little different. I think our defense can help themselves out sometimes with the third down and getting off the field. We had a couple of opportunities last week and kind of hurt ourselves. Both sides of the ball can help each other in that aspect, that’s how you can kind of get that time of possession flipped.”

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