Redskins Notes & Quotes 9-14-2015
The Washington Redskins lost to the Miami Dolphins, 17-10, in front of an announced crowd of 76,512 people at FedExField Sunday. Below are a few notes and quotes from the weekend.
Kirk Cousins – On the tough loss:
“We battled and came up short. I guess we’re all pretty tired of that around here. We’ve done that too many times. So, eventually the tables need to turn, the tide needs to turn. We need a day like today to end up having us be on top at the end and we’re going to keep working. All we know to do is to go back, be hard on ourselves, be hard on one another, challenge one another, have a great week of practice and come back with the right mindset next Sunday. I believe that if we keep doing that, I was encouraged by what I saw today and I think if we keep doing that this rock is going to break here eventually.”
Alfred Morris – On the penalties on the offense:
“Yeah, sometimes it feels like we can’t get a break. Penalties either home or away, we get a lot of them for whatever reason. I don’t know why, but we just have to find a way to overcome that. They definitely hurt us. One of them was in the red zone. It backed us way out and put us in punting distance and we’ve just go to find a way to capitalize and make some plays. It’s a saying that big-time players make big-time plays in big-time situations. That could’ve been one of those situations. We didn’t. We fell short today and it’s very, very disappointing. But we have to find a way to come back and build from this.”
Preston Smith – On his forced fumble:
“Me and [Jason] Hatcher were running the twist. I thought he got the sack but I saw the quarterback got free. I saw the ball, the quarterback was holding the ball in a certain position. I came down on it and it popped out. I saw the team running around. I thought we recovered it. I kind of picked it up. It kept on bouncing around. It’s kind of hard to describe.”
Morgan Moses – On being matched up against Dolphins DE Cameron Wake:
“He’s an explosive pass rusher and he’s a great football player. So being able to go out there and compete and just work on the things that I’ve worked on over the week was vital for me.”
Jason Hatcher – On what Miami’s offense did successfully in the second half:
“They did a lot of speed sweeps to kind of spread us out. It’s hard to run straight at us like they did. They did great making adjustments at the half. We made adjustments as well and stopped them there. We’ve just got to do better late in the fourth and capitalize, like I said, on the two interceptions. We can’t have them.”
Jay Gruden – On running the ball:
“That’s what we want to do. We want to run the ball. We ran the ball I think 35-36 times in this game, threw 27, so we like to have that ratio, personally, I do like that. We’re going to run the ball this year, I’ve stated it before, I’ll state it again. Sometimes when you want to commit to something, you stick with it. We did that tonight and it looked like were conservative but the penalties there, the holding from the one drive coming out from our end zone killed us, but overall, I’m encouraged by the way we ran the ball, [RB] Alfred [Morris] and obviously [RB] Matt Jones when he came in there.”
On the difference in this season:
“I just feel like we have a different room in there. I feel like guys are competing and they are staying together. I didn’t see a lot of heads down when they came off of the field. There are a lot of plays there, they returned the punt for a touchdown, they took the lead, I didn’t see anybody hang their heads and say ‘Oh, here we go again. This is BS or whatever, man.’ They all strapped it up and we took the next drive right down there and it was a bang-bang play. They made it, we didn’t. We’re on the right track. It doesn’t seem that way by you guys but I know we are.”
Notes:
- The Redskins outgained the Dolphins, 349-256, including a 161-74 edge in rushing yards.
- Running back Alfred Morris gained a game-high 121 rushing yards on 25 carries.
- With the 122-yard effort, Morris (4,083) now sits three yards shy of Terry Allen (4,086) for fifth-most rushing yards in Redskins history.
- Morris played in his 49th consecutive regular season game, extending the longest active streak among NFC running backs.
- Quarterback Kirk Cousins started and completed 21-of-31 passes for 196 yards with one touchdown and two interceptions.
- Linebacker Preston Smith recorded his first career sack, forced fumble and fumble recovery on a single play in the third quarter.
- Defensive end Jason Hatcher recorded the team’s first sack of the season, giving him 33.5 for his career.
- Linebacker Ryan Kerrigan split a sack with defensive lineman Chris Baker, pushing Kerrigan’s sack career total to 38.5 putting him only 1.5 sacks shy of fifth place in team history.
Below is the game-book from yesterday’s matchup:
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