Dolphins 31, Giants 16
Q. What happened on the play? What did you get from them?
BRIAN DABOLL: I haven't talked to the training staff yet. I think he'll be up here to talk. Meet with those guys after this.
Q. What did you see on that play?
BRIAN DABOLL: Got hit pretty good. Been getting hit quite a bit.
Q. You knew coming into this game obviously about their speed. Did anything about it surprise you or your inability to deal with their speed?
BRIAN DABOLL: No, they're real fast. Took a lot of short passes for long gains, so you get explosive plays, that usually leads to points.
Q. Before Daniel got hurt, why did you guys struggle to move the ball so much?
BRIAN DABOLL: It takes all 11 people, so didn't do a good enough job.
Q. How untenable is it for your quarterback getting hit so much at this point?
BRIAN DABOLL: Yeah, you don't want that. Affecting the quarterback plays an important role in the game, and we got to figure out a way to protect him better.
Q. Do you have the personnel on your team to protect the quarterback?
BRIAN DABOLL: Yeah, I mean, we got to do better job. Just all the way around.
Q. You took Josh out.
BRIAN DABOLL: Yeah.
Q. What was your thinking behind that?
BRIAN DABOLL: Yeah, put Pere in, let Pere play.
Q. How close was Saquon to making today?
BRIAN DABOLL: He was getting closer every wee, yep.
Q. What happened to Adoree' Jackson that he wasn't on the field when you gave up the 69 yard touchdown?
BRIAN DABOLL: Yeah, he had a little something there, and then with the two young guys, you know, Tua made a good play.
Q. Was McKinney supposed to be (indiscernible.)
BRIAN DABOLL: Yeah, I'm not going to go into the total in depth of it, but it just didn't get it quite executed.
Q. (Indiscernible.)
BRIAN DABOLL: Yeah. I think, but I don't have him on the sheet right now. Just that time during the game.
Q. Azeez and Banks both came out at times. What was with them?
BRIAN DABOLL: Yeah, Azeez, right here says an ankle. Don't have any update for Tay.
Q. What can you do about the offensive tackle position without Andrew coming back?
BRIAN DABOLL: Just got to keep working with him, get him better. That's what you try to do each week.
Q. Just the tackle position on the line...
BRIAN DABOLL: Yeah, I would just a overall we have to do a better job overall offensively.
Get back to work and try to do better job.
Q. How do you fix the penalties? You have drives that start with promise and then it just seems like it stalls because a sack or...
BRIAN DABOLL: Yeah, tough to overcome those negative plays right now, so staying on track is really important.
Q. (Indiscernible.)
BRIAN DABOLL: Can only take one day at a time. That's what we'll try to do.
Q. Haven't scored a touchdown offensively in two and a half games almost at this point.
BRIAN DABOLL: Yeah.
Q. What you do you make of that?
BRIAN DABOLL: Yeah, got to do a better job.
Q. Did you get any sense from how Daniel was functioning as a quarterback when he was able to function?
BRIAN DABOLL: Yeah, thought he made some good decisions, took care of the ball. Got to do a better job. Took care the ball. Had a couple plays we could have made down the field. Had opportunities on them. Just didn't quite capitalize on them. He battled.
Q. Why do you think the offense struggled over really the first five games?
BRIAN DABOLL: I'd say we're not doing a good enough job.
Q. (Indiscernible.)
BRIAN DABOLL: All on me, the coach. Offense, defense, kicking game.
Q. On the practice field, but do you see signs where you think this team is going to come out and execute and be on pointe and it just doesn't happen?
BRIAN DABOLL: Yeah, they weren't -- we did the right stuff during the week, prepared, practiced. Just not quite putting together during the game. Give Miami credit. They're a heck of a team.
Q. What is your emotion? Frustrated? What's the feeling right now?
BRIAN DABOLL: We got to do better.
Q. Is this the kind of offense...
BRIAN DABOLL: We got to do better.
Q. When you're going against Dolphins, (indiscernible.)
BRIAN DABOLL: Sudden change.
Q. (Regarding two plays.)
BRIAN DABOLL: Get the first down, holding penalty, back us up. A lot of little things. There were some things that were -- have been better, like turnovers on defense, not turning over on offense. Capitalizing when the defense turns it over is something you got to do.
I think it was punt down there, had an opportunity, got a first down, penalty backed us up. Instead of getting 7 you're getting 3. All those things play into it.
Q. (Indiscernible.)
BRIAN DABOLL: He had the wind knocked out of him, so we were set with the play, with people in there to do it. Then he looked at me and said he was good, but he said he needed one and then it was a long break, then he said was good to go.
Q. (Indiscernible.) Was this about attacking this week defensively or more just about being...
BRIAN DABOLL: Yeah, well, I mean, they threw a couple, whether it's handed off on sweeps or cross cracks or screens where you just throw them and rally for the ball, and those guys did a good job out angling and making a lot of the yards on it.
Q. How you guys handling everything lately?
BRIAN DABOLL: Sure. Yeah, look, you don't want to lose. You work extremely hard to put yourself in a good position, so after games it's certainly disappointing with all the effort that you put into it.
So 24 hour rule. Get back in, learn, move on. Doesn't wait around for anybody.
Q. (Indiscernible.)
BRIAN DABOLL: You to build and you have your team from the start of it. Got a lot of good guys with the right mindset. Not putting together in terms of results, but you go out there and you get ready to play next week.
Certainly disappointing, disappointing to lose, but you go back, you look at the stuff, move on, and that's what have to do.
Q. What made you guys thing that (indiscernible.) Would be capable enough to handle a tackle...
BRIAN DABOLL: Yeah, no, those guys have done -- worked their tails off at practice. They have certain skillset, got quick feet, length, but it takes everybody.
Q. We saw Justin walk through the room last week. Could he be an option?
BRIAN DABOLL: Yeah, I think if you take a look at everything after games, we'll see where he is this week. Just acclimating him last week, whether it's -- he's up, not up, I couldn't give you that answer right now.
Q. (Indiscernible.)
BRIAN DABOLL: He has a knee right here again. Haven't talked to those guys.
Q. (Indiscernible.)
BRIAN DABOLL: I just saw him when I came in. He was sitting at his locker. I asked how he was doing and he said, I'll be okay.
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