Miami Dolphins 20, New York Giants 9
Q. Logan, Saquon just said, you know, he thinks the defense is annoyed by how the offense performed. You're on the defense. How do you feel?
LOGAN RYAN: I don't feel annoyed. Not at all, man. We knew what the challenge was. The challenge of how their defense is playing, their four-game win streak. They're almost playing like top defense in the league right now.
We kind of took that challenge to try to match that, beat them. That's how we -- you know, we've got to play against Miami's offense and we can see what their defense is doing, but we can't get into -- we can only control what we can control.
And Miami's defense beat us in turnovers today. And I think getting the ball has been a big key to us winning games. Today we didn't get one. If we don't get the ball, we're not going to win the games. So we've got to go get them. And unfortunately we didn't get it today.
Q. You've, obviously, always been very comfortable with us. Saquon was in here. You could tell he was really down. He felt like he was in a slump personally. Can you appreciate that as a teammate and obviously he's one of the leaders here? What do you see in him and how he's handling it?
LOGAN RYAN: I mean, you got guys young, guys with money in their pockets. And, you know, you can say Saquon has the world at his feet. And he still cares. He cares about this game. He cares about winning very deeply. He takes responsibility and accountability.
And when you don't win games, you want to have people that take ownership. You want to have people that say, guys, it's on me. It's not on one guy. We know it's a team sport. But I appreciate that about Saquon. I appreciate that me and Saquon had talks when I got back about leading our side and doing what we got to do to find wins and fighting and scratching and clawing.
And, you know, I'm sure he took accountability. And I'll let him speak for himself, but I love playing with Saquon. He's a lot more than what people see, just a super star or whatever they want to name him. He's a very thoughtful, works very hard and he takes accountability each and every day. And I respect that about him.
Q. You hear the cliche in this league all the time you can't win games by kicking field goals. When you're not scoring touchdowns as a team, how do you remain confident that you can still win these games?
LOGAN RYAN: I've seen teams do it, man. Look, you've got to -- we understand our starting quarterback was out today, which is similar to us going to Seattle last year, found a way to win it. You've got to find ways on special teams, find ways on defense. And obviously offense had opportunities today.
But we've seen it happen in the past. We've seen defenses carry teams. I remember the Jaguars teams of the past for a couple years. And, you know, obviously historically good defenses.
But you've got to generate points on defense. Field position is really important. Those punts, flipping the field and giving our offense the ball in scoring position was a big part of getting those field goals. And them obviously executing in the red area. Giving up 7s. We couldn't afford to give up 7s today. If it was going to be a field goal fest, we've got to keep it a field goal fest. Similar to last week. But we couldn't give up 7s today. We didn't have the margin of error to give up 7s today.
Q. What happened on that first touchdown? Looked like you and James maybe had miscommunication?
LOGAN RYAN: No. I wouldn't say miscommunication. A lot of that stuff was dashes, boots, scrambles. And sometimes people were uncovered in those plays kind of off script. And we know 2 is big on rolling out to his -- his left, lefty, very different. A lot of people in the league are flat right teams, defensive left. He's a flat right, our defensive right because he's a lefty. So just guys uncovering, extended play.
So I don't think it was miscommunication at all. He just found -- he's very accurate. He found a little void there and dotted it in. So we've got to look back on tape and review it. But it wasn't any type of miscommunication.
Q. Do you think this trip to Arizona could be a good think?
LOGAN RYAN: I think it could be great. It's great for team bonding. It's great to get away from you guys a little bit. I know you guys are coming or whatnot. But it's good. It's good to get away.
I mean, we're in Tucson. So I don't know what's going on in Tucson. But we'll be out by the mountains or whatever and looking over at Mexico. And we'll be hanging out and get over this and get ready to go to LA.
LA played really good today. I saw the score. So be a great challenge. But the team's I've been on the past, this has been very beneficial. I'm sure Joe spoke on that. And that's why we're doing it, to get away from the noise a little bit. Kind of in training camp we don't really go away. Training camp is really different.
So this is an ability to free up our schedules and go watch the tape together, go do some bonding activities and go be tighter as a team because down the stretch, it really doesn't matter how much you care about each other. Those little things do play a difference in building team unit.
Q. Is it hard to say here we are early December and we still have to work on team bonding and community? I mean, you guys have been together since July.
LOGAN RYAN: Yeah. I mean, but -- it's football, had a lot of injuries, a lot of new guys in there. The secondary today was completely different from the secondary three weeks ago. We had Aaron Robinson played no perimeter corner for us for all of camp and now he's out here starting at perimeter corner. Jaron Williams is starting at the nickel. He hasn't played with us very much. I move around a little bit today, played some nickel, which has been very different. Julian who has been our nickel was back at safety today. So we need team unity, we need team bonding. We have four guys playing four different positions just in our secondary alone.
So it's been like that, a lot of moving parts this year. But that's football. There's injuries in football. Every team deals with it. We've got a lot of guys on the trip. A lot of these practice players, these guys bust their butt every single day don't get to come to the road games, don't get to be a part of that experience. They get to be with us, travel with us and they get to see, these young guys get to see what it's like to be a pro on the road and how you've got to pack it and go play in visiting stadiums. So it's a good bonding experience for the youth of the team. And I think it's very important.
Q. Logan, obviously you didn't have Daniel. And then we got word in here -- I don't know if you've heard yet, so I apologize for springing it on you -- that Mike Glennon has a concussion. So you go into potentially this week having Jake who wasn't on your team last week as your starting quarterback. In your experience, in this league or even earlier than that, have you ever seen something like this where, you know --
LOGAN RYAN: Yeah. I was part of the whole Brady to Garoppolo to Brucett thing where we had our third string in there and found a way to win games.
Look, I don't know if you guys saw my high school quarterback tape, but I'm going to put it out there, emergency. A lot like Tua, a lefty. I can throw 2 yard passes to the left. I'm accurate. I'm smart. I'm going to put it out there. But, look, we're going to do what we've got to do.
Had no idea on the injury situation. Not going to speak on it. But we're prepared to play some good defense, go get some turnovers, go score some points, support whoever's back there and get ready to have some fun on this trip and find a way to win on the west cost.
I was a four star recruit. Dan remembers. You can check it out, man.
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