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Ryan Fitzpatrick – September 15, 2019 (Postgame) Download PDF version

Sunday, September 15, 2019
Postgame – New England

QB Ryan Fitzpatrick

(Obviously it was tough out there for you. Where do you think your confidence and morale is?) – “It’s a tough way to start a year with the two losses back-to-back at home like they were. They’re not the way we envisioned it going, but (there is) nothing to do but to go back to work and try to get better.”

(What has to happen for the offense to score some points?) – “Yeah, we had a lot of three-and-outs today. I think the first down was a problem for us today, which puts you kind of behind the chains for the other two downs. There wasn’t a whole lot that was going right on offense today.”

(Did you talk to your o-line after those sacks? What happened on the sideline?) – “There’s a lot of different things that go on. Some of those are – you hate to pass blame around. As a quarterback, you try to get the ball out. You try to get yourself in the best position. There are a lot of things, I think, that I could do better in that regard.”

(Are you all right? You got your face thumped.) – “Yeah, I’m good. It probably looks worse than it is. I’m fine.”

(I would assume it happened on one of the sacks?) – “Yeah.”

(How do you physically?) – “(I feel) good. Physically, I feel good. Mentally and emotionally, not so much; but physically I didn’t take any real big shots today.”

(Did you feel any kind of pressure from the fans’ perspective knowing that last year when Miami faced the New England Patriots and that Miami Miracle happened that last play, do you feel any sort of pressure to give the fans the same type of excitement for this game?) – “I think there’s a lot of things – we’re focusing on ourselves right now and trying to get better as a football team and trying to figure things out. That’s our main focus right now.”

(Are you in a no-win situation? It seems like there’s tons of pressure, guys are dropping balls, you’re behind all the time…) – “Well, I mean, as a quarterback, everything – at the end of the day – it’s all going to fall on you. That’s why we play the position that we do. That’s why I play the position, because I want that responsibility. I want that blame. I know I can go out there and do a much better job. I think especially at this position, if you go out there and play better, then the team as a whole does better, so I’ve just got to continue to try to do my best out there.”

(This offense for two weeks has struggled to move the ball running, throwing the ball, having difficulties. Do you still feel confident that this offense can turn around and become an offense that can put the points on the board to allow you to be in these games?) – “Yeah, that’s why we’ve got to go back and go to work. We put a couple of good weeks of practice together and haven’t showed it in the game, and we’ve just got to continue to every day focus on ourselves and keep trying to get better, and hopefully the results will follow.”

(What’s the feeling in the locker room after back to back games where you’ve been outscored by this much? It’s got to be frustrating.) – “Yeah, not great. It’s pretty quiet in there. Not great. It’s never fun to be embarrassed, especially two weeks in a row at home.”

(Trying to move the ball, you had the one pick-six that was a tip that shouldn’t happen. Can you tell us what happened the other pick-six, the first one?) – “We ran a little play out to the right. They did a nice job. ‘K.D.’ (Kenyan Drake) kind of got hit by the defensive end, and it was 3rd-and-shorter. We were definitely going to go for it on fourth down, just in the situation that it was in the game. I tried to jam one in to DeVante (Parker) rather than maybe just trying to run and get a yard; but being 3rd-and-short, I thought that I had to try to make some sort of play, and it didn’t work out.”

(Another tough opponent next week, this time on the road. It’s a short time to get back. How much improvement can this team – they made some improvement from Week 1 to Week 2 – how much of it will you make moving forward?) – “Yeah, we’ve got to improve. We’ve got to get better. There’s not going to be anybody in this league that’s going to feel sorry for us, so we’ve got to continue to try to get better every day with ourselves and collectively as a team, and hopefully, again, the results are going to start showing up on Sunday.”

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