Adam Gase – September 30, 2018 (Postgame)
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Sunday, September 30, 2018
Postgame – New England Patriots
Miami Dolphins Head Coach Adam Gase (transcribed by New England Patriots)
(What do you tell your team after this loss?) – “It is what it is. They beat us. They beat us in every phase of the game. They out-physicaled us, but at the same time we have to put things into perspective, one game. We have to go back to work. We have to find a way to win another game on the road.”
(Adam, so not a lot went right. What did you think coming in that you could do?) – “Well, we really didn’t anticipate getting out-physicaled like the way we did. We had been good all year; the first three games, as far up front and our run game. You know last week was tough, they did some things different than what we had seen and we were trying to make some adjustments and the passing game kind of came alive, so we hung on that. This game, we just couldn’t get anything going. We were getting pushed back, a lot of pressure on Ryan [Tannehill] even though they weren’t pressuring with blitzes. So when you are getting pressured on three, four-man rushes that’s going to be an issue and that’s really what happened, we could not get anything going on offense and then it just kind of trickles down to the defense because now they’re on the field and we had a couple of chances to get off and we had some penalties and it just affects everybody.”
(So T Ja’Wuan James wasn’t in the game late in there. Was that a coach’s decision?) – “I think he may have something going on. I’m not even sure the exact situation; I haven’t met with the trainers yet, but I think it was more a possible injury issue for us.”
(How serious was CB Bobby McCain’s injury?) – “I don’t know the details yet. So I’ll know more tonight, but obviously him not coming back into the game wasn’t really a great sign.”
(CB Xavien Howard had played well up until today. And then today it was almost like they were picking on him.) – “Yeah, I mean it happens sometimes where it depends on coverage and call and what they call. It’s just every game you’ve got to start over. You can’t, it doesn’t matter what you did last time, nobody cares. I mean Tom Brady’s not going to care. So we’ve just got a lot of things to clean up.”
(Coach, you talked about being out-physicaled. This was a game that it certainly looked like they won both sides at the line of scrimmage. It’s tough, I think it took you until QB Brock Osweiler went in before you guys were able to get past your own 45-yard line offensively. What was going on that made your offense so inept throughout the majority of the game?) – “Just too much penetration. In the running game and pass game, they did some good stuff to where they challenged our receivers and we didn’t get open fast enough. When we did have opportunities we didn’t hit them, which there wasn’t a lot of them. We could just never get a first down to really get things going. We lived in third-and-10-plus and that’s never going to be good.”
(Defensively it looked like you guys were getting up field and they were kind of finding the gaps in there …) – “We didn’t do anything good today. So every question you ask can be the same thing.”
(Adam, so I know it’s early, but you had a chance today to put your foot on their [Patriots] neck. And it didn’t happen. How does that make you feel?) – “Anytime you play a game or you have a chance to pull away from somebody in the division or go 4-0, I mean, there’s not a lot times that opportunity comes about. There’s a reason they [the Patriots] haven’t lost three games in you know, 20 years, or whatever it’s been. Probably since Coach [Bill] Belichick’s been here. We had an opportunity. We came into a place that’s tough to win and we didn’t do a good job in any aspect of the game.”
(How do you get this thing turned around in one week’s time?) – “Get back to work on Wednesday. Clean up a lot of stuff. That’s why we were trying to do some of the things we were doing there at the end of the game and make sure we can put something together and get into some kind of rhythm and carry it over to the next week.”
(How concerned are you with that offensive line? You lost G Josh Sitton, now C Daniel Kilgore for the duration. You’re having problems. What do you do going forward?) – “Well, we’ll reevaluate everything when we get back. Probably on the plane tonight we’ll start talking about it. We’ll get more information on Tuesday when guys get back in and we get doctors and all of that stuff going on so we’ll find out what the extent of everything is and then we’ll adjust.”
(Is Kilgore out for the year?) – “I don’t know what he is.”
(Did you think you had a game like this in you after the past three weeks?) – “No, I didn’t see this coming. I didn’t think that we would get out-physicaled. That surprised me. I knew it was going to be tough because that’s just what it is. You come here, I mean I didn’t see too many teams walk out of here [with a win] against a Hall of Fame quarterback. It’s just not going to happen. We’ve got a lot of things to clean up, but it’s fixable.”
(You can correct mistakes like you mentioned, but how do you correct lack of physicality?) – “Well, I mean we’re talking about one game. One game that we got out-physicaled. It’s just disappointing more than anything and we just have to go back to work and clean some things up.”
(How well did they play some of the short passing game that you guys had been really successful with?) – “Well, we really didn’t try it. We pushed the ball down the field and that’s what happens when you do that and you don’t complete it. That’s what you get today.”
(They were using seven defensive backs early, I don’t know if they continued it, but a lot early. Did that take away…) – “We knew that was coming. I mean, we knew that was the best way for them to match our speed. It didn’t matter. They were still getting to their fronts that they needed to and they were putting their two linebackers on the edge in line secure, too, when they were in dime. They did a good job of just stopping the run. It’s a better number count for us, but you have to take advantage of it and we didn’t do it.”
(Second week in a row the running game hasn’t done anything. What do you think the cause of that has been?) – “I just think we have to get into a better rhythm. I’ve got to do a better job of making sure we’re giving the backs more touches and just be more consistent. I’ve got some ideas on what we’re going to do.”
(Kenyan Drake I think had three rushes today.) – “There were some runs called in there that ended up getting flipped out to one of the receivers because of the number count, but that’s football.”
(You guys were rolling confidence-wise. How do you prevent this from being deflating?) – “We’re going to have to work, that’s what the NFL is. Trust me, by Wednesday they’ll forget about it.”
(Do you buy into the idea that this is a measuring stick because of who New England is?) – “I think it’s one game in a 16-game season.”
