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T.J. McDonald – December 5, 2018 Download PDF version

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

S T.J. McDonald

(What did you guys learn from the first game against New England?) – “You can’t kill yourself. You can’t make mental errors. When you have opportunities to make plays, you have to make them. It’s the same stuff. We have to be on our details and make sure we do our job.”

(How much is the front important against a guy like that?) – “It’s very important. They try to get the ball out quick. For us, once we’re sticking on them and we make him hitch or go to a second read, it’s important to get pressure on him.”

(Now that they seem to be at full strength at this point, how difficult is that offense, especially if you do lose a player like CB Xavien Howard?) – “It’s just matchups. I don’t know if ‘X’ (Xavien Howard) is actually out or not; but it’s just matchups. Everybody has to win their one-on-one. Everybody just has to do their job.”

(What’s the challenge of facing Patriots TE Rob Gronkowski like?) – “He’s a big body. He’s tough. He has great hands. You have to kind of disrupt him. If he gets going, he can get hot. Tom Brady is going to put the ball where it needs to be, so you have to be sticking (to your receiver) and try to disrupt the timing of their routes.”

(This place has been kind of a house of horrors for the Patriots over the last couple of years. Five of six games the Dolphins have won. Is there something about this building even for a team like the Patriots to come in here?) – “I think that’s just at home in general. We’re a good team here. We’re comfortable. I think that’s kind of the story of the NFL right now. Teams are winning at home and losing on the road. For us, we want to protect home field as much as possible.”

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