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Kenyan Drake – October 8, 2018 Download PDF version

Monday, October 8, 2018

RB Kenyan Drake

(Is the way that you and RB Frank Gore are being utilized the way you thought you’d be utilized? Just the way you guys are…) – “That’s not my job. My job is just to play football. However Coach (Gase) has the game plan schemed up, I put my utmost trust in how he plans to get everybody the ball that deserves to get the ball and whatever the case may be. That’s not my job.

(How would you describe the mood of the players when you guys got here today?) – “We’re just looking forward to Chicago this week.”

(How do you get through these dog days, because every team will hit a slump at some point in the season?) – “That’s the league. You win some, you lose some.”

(How difficult is it to swallow this pill? I know you guys were in control and then things kind of just fell apart. Does it make it more tough knowing that you guys were in control?) – “Yes, in retrospect; but at the end of the day, we’re 3-2. Regardless of if we got blown out or if it was the circumstance of a loss by one point at the end of the game, a loss is a loss. You have to learn from mistakes, try not to make the same mistakes twice and look forward to the next week.”

(Did your eyes get big when you got out of the backfield on your touchdown and you see the linebacker trying to cover you in the open field like that?) – “Yeah. In practice, we repped that a few times. I dropped I think more than I caught, just on a variety of land markers or wherever (Ryan) Tannehill was expecting me. We just weren’t on the same page on some aspects of it, so it was good to see practice make perfect and for the reality of the situation to come to fruition.”

(What’s it going to take to keep going with where you guys started with the running game this past week?) – “Just stay on schedule. That’s the most important thing. I feel like in the second half, we got off schedule. It just put us in situations to where it was third-and-unmanageable. As long as we get those 3-, 4-, 5-, 6-yard gains on first down, keep us in second- and third-and-manageable, then I feel like we’ll be successful.”

(How much will running backs have to help in pass protection, especially this week, with the Bears’ pass rush coming in with LB Khalil Mack?) – “We definitely have to keep an eye on the edge with guys like that. Just making sure you have bodies around him, making him uncomfortable so he doesn’t have a straight path to the backfield is a key to stopping somebody as disruptive as he is.”

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