 Adam is Michael Don and Peter. How how much damage control do you have to do in your locker room for the players that were rumored to at least have offers to the Jets about do you have to go up to Jamal Adams you have to talk to Robbie Anderson and say listen you know you're on our team you got it you got to you got to be great I think every guy is different you know a lot of times you know you roll by a guy and just kind of start talking with them and they'd bring it up to you or you say something to them it just depends on the situation you know Robbie obviously was the one that his name was kind of getting floated out there prior earlier along with Leonard's so you know I had a couple conversations with Robbie and really it's just all about staying focused on you know trying to do his job playing well and getting ready for the last game. How about with with Jamal Adams you know there were reports that and obviously you're not making this deal it would be up to Joe Douglas but the first round trap pick and then Ryan Clark of ESPN announced that you know Jamal Adams did want to go to Dallas so he could return home he said after Sunday's game he's tired of losing is that somebody that you have to talk to? Yeah I mean for me it's no one came knocking on my door to give me a heads up on anything so in my eyes it was I don't know how real that something like that was. So you're not really involved in any of the deals or nobody talks to you about who could stay who could go? Well I mean when it comes down to a lot of the trade stuff it's you know we're getting ready for this next game you know that's what those guys get they get paid to do and you know they're they have to do everything they can to try to build the best team that they can for us you know now and moving forward you know a lot of the things that happen people people call they ask about you know certain guys and and sometimes none of that stuff materializes. So Leonard Williams was a former six-pick in the first round not when you were here and not when Joe was here he gets traded yesterday after every game people would criticize he wasn't sacking the quarterback and you would say he's still doing a good job why did you guys deal with Leonard Williams then? Yeah I mean that's just that's just kind of one of the decisions that was made and an opportunity came up you know for you know good picks and you know it gives him a great opportunity moving forward and he did everything we asked him to do he did a great job here prepared every week you know that's just that's just kind of the part of the business. Alright everything's clicking first half the cowboy game your quarterback admitted to us that a couple of times that you guys left points on the table in the second half against Dallas but you won the game and the feeling was good what's happened since that it just has not clicked on either side of the ball but more specifically offensively with your quarterback. Yeah I think the New England game is a hard one to really gauge we screwed it up so early that he got out of hand and really took us away from what we wanted to do and the last game we just didn't have enough good drives you know we we hurt ourselves we had drops you know we had penalties we put ourselves in the second and long you know we just we didn't take advantage of anything that any of the opportunities we had and a couple of those three and outs you know the two drives that we did have they were good it was you know we dug ourselves out of a hole one time and we had positive plays on almost every play that the second touchdown drive. Let me ask you about Levy on belly had nine carries that's the the second fewest he's had in the last five years why was he used so infrequently. Yeah I mean that's not intentional I mean you know part of the problem is Jacksonville's run defense you know I mean coming off the game where they played since and added it 33 yards rushing against them you know our longest run outside of a reverse was five yards you know we weren't really getting guys covered up you know the way too many run-throughs too many guys penetrating he didn't really have any room to run try to get him the wall in the passing game you know a couple times we we missed them you know we have a drop here you know a couple times he got skipped in the progression which you know we kind of went back and corrected their price should have been a you know quite a few more touches there for him we had prolonged some drives early in the game where you know that's where he makes some of his money where we get first down second down first down he's involved in a lot of that when we had a couple of three now it's way up second and 20 you know it just that's that's that crushes us you know and we I mean every game is fully based around him for the most part and when it gets tough getting him the ball that's that's that's a problem for our whole offense all right couple of things with the protection he was sacked eight times of the game against Jacksonville first part of the question how much of that is on the line and how much of that is on your quarterback yeah I mean it's it's all of us you know I mean I know everybody wants to it's easier to just say hey it's it's this you know it's the line it's a quarterback it's you know the running back it's play calling it's really we all took turns and you know there's play calls I wish I could have back there's there's times I don't say I'm wishes he would have got rid of the ball went to a different guy I got you know you know trying not to to be greedy down the field there are some times where we didn't do a good job of using our help and protection there's times where we flat out just got beat man-to-man you know and it's a shame because you know we got receivers open you know and we we have plays there to be made we just we're just not able to get the ball off and you know there's a lot of things that we can clean up and that's why we're we're really focused on improving this week especially just worry about ourselves we gotta stop you know worrying about what's going on on the other side of the ball now the other part of it from the offensive line standpoint what can you do to get more help in the blocks and can you do that and yet still have enough personnel to go down field to try to make place happen yeah I mean it's it's really it's really kind of opposite of what you would think it seems like the more guys that we actually have protecting the the worse our protection is so that's where we just got to do a better job of when we do our six-man protections of just understanding you know where we going where we slide and who's got help who doesn't have help who's one-on-one should the ball come out you know really we just there's these little tiny details that if we just get those cleaned up it's the numbers go way down you know the Dallas games a good example of balls coming out quick we're able to kind of get some of our screen game going you know we're spreading the ball over the place for keeping them off balance we're able to run the ball and you know all plays in together and we that's that's what we've been lacking last couple games you know we can't get behind early we got it we got to stay in a rhythm throughout the game Adam Gates is our guest on the Michael case show and I'll apologize in advance for this question and I don't mean it to be rude you've been kind to us and very amenable to all the questions but Adam from the outside looking in it looks like you're not doing a good job this year do you feel that you're doing a good job coaching this team yeah I mean the record speech for itself right now as far as we're at I mean it's not what we want to be but you know when you look at it from our perspective you know from inside we're looking at this is this is a process this is our first year in the program you know we've had some some adversity type things happen our guys are doing a good job of coming to work every day they're putting the work in on the practice field it hasn't translated to to game day quite yet but this is this is kind of the these are the things that happen when you're in your first year when you're trying to turn things around when you're trying to get things going in the right direction and everybody's trying to learn how you want to do the program I mean that's part of the process and and people they get frustrated very quickly and expect immediate results it doesn't always sustain and I've already been through that and I saw how that worked out and that's why we have to just focus on getting better every day and if we do that then that's going to give us a best chance for the results on Sunday now we're taking phone calls for two hours today Adam and you don't I'm sure you're not monitoring what fans say but I mean there have been a lot of phone calls that we're fighting them off Adam Gaye should be fired I mean what do you say to those fans after seven games where you've been besieged by injuries that fans that want you fired what what do you what would you say to them well I understand their frustration I promise you it's it's not the funnest thing to go through when you're on on our side and the our players I mean everybody wants to win but we have to do a good job of staying focused on what we're doing which is getting better this week trying to find a way to win one game and then really when that happens and we work on the next one and if we look any further ahead or if we if we look behind us that's that doesn't snow good do you believe you have the personnel to be better I do think we can get better because I'm looking at as are we blocking the right guys are we covering the right guys are we doing the right things in our zone pressures are we doing the right things on special teams I'm looking at all the detail type things that are not talent based and we just got to keep getting better at those put ourselves in position we could be in some kind of talent aspect that's that's a different story I just don't think that's that's the case for us right now we just got to keep cleaning up these mistakes that we're making we're you know that put ourselves in bad positions we've been in a couple games where we have opportunities to win games and we just got to figure out a way to just make sure that we're doing the small details of our job right the first time we talked to you right after the press conference you were excited about working with Sam Donald you believe that he was a quarterback that can lead this team you still have that faith that he is the right quarterback for this team 100% I love working with him every day you know just seeing him every day you see him and no matter what your record is you get energized because you know this kid puts in the time he puts in the work on the field he's always looking to get better I can feel his grasp of what's going on with the offense it's improving every week the way that he's really starting to take control of things and he's understanding the little nuances of stuff that that gets that gets me excited and and when things start going consistently better for us it's it's gonna be a great thing to see Adam you play the dolphins the dolphins are just brutally terrible terrible I would say that there has to be an enormous amount of pressure that you guys can't lose this game do you feel that way no I don't feel that way I'm more focused on our guys doing a good job of preparing this week and having a good week of practice and and going out there and executing the correctly on Sunday now Sam said you guys had a great practice going into Jacksonville would you agree with that I thought they guys practice really well you know we're coming off that Monday night game you know I know guys were beat up pretty good because you have that one day's rest then you turn right around on Wednesday and you got a roll and you know to see those guys the effort and energy they played with and and being a little thin because you know most again all the guys that we've had inactive the last two weeks have been they haven't been able to practice you know we're down some guys in practice so you got starters playing scout team yeah guys playing out of position trying to give good looks the effort and energy that I'm seeing in practice is is something that is encouraging for me because it just shows me that these guys want to put the time and effort in the win Sam's wrist and toe are they going to be a factor I don't think so I mean he's not complaining to me I mean he's I know I know it's as it's not comfortable you know he took a rougher route than I would have as far as after we we lost that money and I gave him had a tow tow now we're removed and I know that he was in a lot of pain from that but you know he's he's handled that really well and I know the thumb was you know when it happened in the game that was a little scary but you know he just looked at me and says I'm going on I'm good now you mentioned earlier the process it's a process you know first year of a program but Adam fourth right here I mean is there any way you could have imagined this now you couldn't have imagined mono and all the injuries but could you have imagined it would be at this point right now going into the dolphin scheme no you never think that way you know but that's what the NFL that's what makes it the best sport in the world right now is everything is unpredictable and you know we've had opportunities in a few games that we didn't take advantage of you know we have a 16-point lead against Buffalo and we didn't we didn't finish that game and we had our opportunity we're down by seven against Jacksonville and we didn't we didn't take advantage of that you know we had some opportunities where we had short fields we didn't take advantage of it and you know that's just that's just kind of how it rolls right now and and really what we have to do is we have to learn from our mistakes and then we have to to go back to work and then you know pull one together this week and go find a way to win you ever doubt yourself no never it's got to be discouraging though just like even talking to you now got to practice well well you've practiced well but it hasn't translated attitude of the players the attitude has been good but yet the mistakes are still made on the field so when you're assessing this team because you practice way more than you play right so when you see it come together and it's working and the the attitudes right in practice and then not see it translate on the field it's it's just got to be tremendously frustrating because all the work you do is in preparation for that Sunday yeah and that's why I mean you keep the hammering at it because you know it's it's so close to clicking in so many different areas that's what that's what keeps coming making you come back because you can you can see it on the practice field and you know if we keep just keep improving and we get to the point in a game where where things click because I've seen this happen I've seen it to where it was 180 yards of offense one week and next thing I know it's 480 five weeks in a row and it was because guys just kept hammering away and trying to get the fine details out when the opportunities came they made plays when we needed them to and we have the guys to be able to do that especially offensively I know we got plenty of players on defense that have made plays through their career and still are making plays for us and it's just we just got to get three phases playing together complementary football to where these guys put it together for four quarters and next day I know you know you get a win at the end of the end of the day and then another one and then another one and then you get on a little bit of a run Levy on Bell's name was out there before the trade deadline that you know when the Jets were listening were you guys looking to trade Levy on Bell when I heard that that was news to me so I mean that's somebody's somebody's talking about that that I don't know so Joe Douglas would come up and tell you Adam I'm listening on Levy on Bell he didn't do that yeah I mean he he'd tell me if something was real uh-huh that was never said to me is Levy on Bell part of the solution here I think he's done a great job with everything that we've asked him to do I mean I know last week was not it was no fun for anybody you know we just had final consistency and all he's done is try to do everything we've asked him to do and practice hard and on game day he gives us everything he has and you know I need to do a final you know better ways to get him the ball and be able to you know sustain that for four quarters now final thing Jamal Adams after the game on Sunday said he was tired of the losing he looked despondent then you know there was a report earlier today that he would wouldn't mind going to Dallas to go back home how how do you view him in terms of a leader is he is he a leader on your team yeah he is I mean it's it's he feels about the same way as a lot of us do where it's you get tired of losing it's it's frustrating and you don't want you don't want it to happen I mean it's I like the fact that it means that much to him yeah but you don't want to go to Dallas no I do not I don't he said he did according to Brian Clark well he's never said that to me so unless he tells me something personally I'm not really gonna believe a lot of things that are out there he is a little passive aggressive though but you know like I said with the tweeting and all that I know you don't get into the tweeting but you you are confident at least on the surface to me it feels like a guy that may not want to be here you feel differently than that right yeah I mean from the conversations that I've always had with them he's one of the guys that that wants to help us get this thing rolling well Adam thanks for coming on we appreciate a good luck this weekend all right guys I appreciate it all right thank you