Miami Dolphins 33, New England Patriots, 24
Q. What's the confidence level of the team going into the playoffs right now?
HUNTER HENRY: I mean, it will be good. I mean, we're going to learn from this and -- I mean, we didn't play our best today, you know, offensively. I mean, we just gave them too much. Obviously, gave them a touchdown. Turned the ball over in the red zone. Some crucial mistakes just offensively.
But things that we can learn from, I felt like we finished strong too. We've just got to play consistently. But, yeah, I don't think we lost any confidence. We know what we have in there. We've just got to play clean football. That's the biggest thing.
Q. Is there anything you can pinpoint with some of these slow starts? Any common threads?
HUNTER HENRY: I mean, we've had games where we started fast and we've had games where we don't. So kind of goes hand in hand. We've got to execute better earlier in the game. They came out ready to play, and we just didn't.
Put yourself in a hole like we did. It's very tough. And so I mean, we've got to learn from it and just keep going. It's a new season. It really is. So everything is on the line now.
Q. You guys will go to two different places depending on what happens tonight. How much will you watch the game tonight?
HUNTER HENRY: Honestly, I don't even know. I'm just going to -- whoever we line up against and play, I mean, that's who it is. I mean, it is what it is. We've just got to go out and take care of business.
Q. You still have a rookie quarterback, and he's still had a few early mistakes, but we saw those drives. Give me a little bit more impression.
HUNTER HENRY: I mean, he's tough. He's resilient. Obviously, it shows a lot. He obviously didn't play his best early, had some crucial mistakes. I know he's going to learn from them and grow. He's young. But, still, just the resiliency of him. The toughness of him taking some shots today especially. He's a tough, tough dude. And I'm glad to have him as our quarterback.
Q. Anything different you saw from them in the first half (no microphone) --
HUNTER HENRY: Yeah. They were definitely bringing some pressure, mixing up coverages, doing different things that we just weren't on to the best that we should have. I mean, we threw a ball into a good player, made a play. And, I mean, we had two turnovers like that, it crushes us. And we put ourselves in a hole. It's tough early on. It kind of changes sometimes what we've got to do.
Q. Earlier you said you've got play clean football and that's a key. What is the key to getting back to playing clean football?
HUNTER HENRY: I think it starts in the week, focusing on it every single day, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Just reminding ourselves in practice. I think that's the biggest thing is going out there and executing in practice and just being conscious of it.
I felt like we protected the ball better as a skill group. We gave them two in the first game fumbles. And then, you know, no fumbles today, you know, the mishandled snap and the pick but, you know, just being conscious, all of us, you know, where defenders are and protecting the ball.
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