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Cameron Wake – December 16, 2018 (Postgame)

Sunday, December 16, 2018
Postgame – Minnesota

Miami Dolphins DE Cameron Wake (Transcribed by Minnesota Vikings)

Q: What did they do that the Vikings were able to score 21 points in 1st quarter?

A: They did whatever they wanted it seemed like. I’ve said this many times, it’s not good football if you are going to be inconsistent. I said this to Reshad [Jones] I’m sure we can do it all, really. We just have to run, we can rush the passer, we can cover receivers, take the ball away, and so on and so on and so on down the line. And then there are games that you can go back and look at where we don’t. It’s not ‘can’t’; it’s ‘don’t.’ The reason? No idea. Way above my understanding, above my paygrade. If I knew the answer, it probably wouldn’t be happening, but there’s inconsistency. It’s not complementary. It doesn’t work.

Q: Were you surprised by how the game played out?

A: I don’t know the exact quote, but they say that disappointment is a disparity between expectations and outcome. So, I was very disappointed today.

Q: Did wins the last couple of weeks raise expectations?

A: Two weeks ago doesn’t matter today. Today is today, and they’re going to go out there and they’re going to bring their A game and give you their best shot, and you have to go out there today. I say it all the time. I don’t care if you won by 50, lost by 50, you can’t let last week affect how you are today. You have to go out there and give them your best 90 mile-an-hour fast ball, no matter what happened two weeks, five weeks, six weeks ago. I personally wasn’t thinking about last week; I hope we weren’t, because I guarantee Vikings weren’t either.

Q: Does it feel like playoffs are slipping away?

A: I’ll be real honest with you, I don’t know the formulas and the calculations and all the things that need to happen. I know when you have an opponent in front of you, you have to take care of your business. All the ‘what if’s’ and ‘if this had happened’…win. Let everything else fall into place however it is. You win your match-up. You take care of what you can control. And all that is left is outside of my perspective. I live by, ‘hope is not a strategy; you have to act.’ We had an opportunity today, and we didn’t.

Q: Did the Vikings do something different that they had 200 rushing yards?

A: Fundamentally, I could say they probably didn’t run any new plays that we haven’t seen before. We could probably look and see the personnel we’ve seen in the past, that we’ve stopped in the past. We could go down the line. We’ve faced probably top five running teams and we’ve met the challenge. But it’s NFL. There are no bad teams. Every team has good players, every team has good coaching, every team has an opportunity, and every Sunday you have to match and exceed expectations. That they’re 30th [for rushing] doesn’t mean much to me, because they’re going to come out and give their best shot, and we have to step up to the challenge and today we did not.

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