Gase: Struggles plain to see
Coach on loss to Texans: ‘Things weren’t quite right’
Less than 24 hours later, Thursday night’s blowout loss against the Texans still stings for Dolphins coach Adam Gase.
Sitting at 4-2 just two weeks ago, the Dolphins have dropped two straight, falling to .500 for the first time this season. In last night’s nationally televised contest, Miami’s defense surrendered over 400 yards of total offense and allowed quarterback Deshaun Watson torch the ‘Fins secondary for five touchdowns in a 42-23 defeat.
After evaluating film from Thursday night’s game, Gase said the Dolphins have a lot of work to do.
“We did a bad job executing quite a few calls, which is obvious when you look at the numbers and the score,” Gase said Friday in a conference call with reporters. “Anybody with the naked eye can see things weren’t quite right. We have to do way better job of what we’re asking players to do. We have to do a better job of coaching it.”
When asked how much blame should fall on Matt Burke, Gase refused to put the onus on his defensive coordinator.
“First, I always look at players because to me at end of the day they have the final say on a lot of this stuff. I’m not going to blame anybody for anything. It’s not Under pressure: Western running back Jerrett Hampton is tackled by Miramar's Lenard Ingram during the first half Friday night. Miramar won 26-23 in overtime. Story, 5C
Results
Atlantic 14,
Boca Raton 7 American Heritage 37,
Hallandale 0 King’s Academy 22,
Benjamin 21 Cardinal Gibbons 38,
Stranahan 6 Chaminade-Madonna 51,
Flanagan 0 Deerfield Beach 35,
Piper 0
St. Thomas Aquinas 58,
Blanche Ely 0 Jupiter 34,
Seminole Ridge 31 Palm Beach Lakes 31,
Forest Hill 21
Park Vista 28,
Santaluces 7
like we’ve been ripping it up on offense over the last three years. I just think the entire group — players coaches on that side of the ball — continue to do a great job of working together and making sure everybody’s on the same page and everybody’s trying to do the same thing on the call.“You can say all you want about scheme. All that s--- don’t matter. Play what we’re all supposed to play.”
The Dolphins have five days until their next practice and won’t play again until a Nov. 4 home game against the Jets. During that time, Gase said he plans to evaluate everything — including whether some defensive starters need to be benched.
“If one person’s playing bad over the entire group then you can look at, ‘Hey we need to make some adjustments here,” Gase said. “It’s not like you’ve got 40 guys waiting in the wings here. We don’t have so many guys on defense.”
Asked if the defense has looked physically overmatched, Gase said it’s hard to judge based on what he’s seen so far.
“If you have 11 guys that are doing close to what you’re asking them to do, then you can start looking into physical limitations — who we have to protect, what we have to do better,” Gase said. “When you don’t execute anything right, it’s hard to evaluate that and that’s where we have to do a way better job of doing what we’re coached to do. And if we actually do the right things, then we have to adjust and figure out where are our strengths and where are our weaknesses.”