Adam Gase

Head coach Adam Gase reflects on the 2016 season, with thoughts on the team sticking together, possibly switching to a 3-4 defense and wanting his players to remember the feeling of losing in the playoffs.

Q. What are the two or three things you’re most proud of this year, things that succeeded to you in your mind?

AG: The biggest thing that, when we look back at what happened during the season, was just our guys sticking together. Things weren’t always perfect, especially at the beginning of the year. We started off in a rough spot. That first month of the season wasn’t easy. We played some good teams and had some tough trips on the road and guys fought and competed and stuck with it for four quarters. Just being able to give ourselves a chance in the fourth quarter and then finding multiple ways to win games in the fourth quarter, which that’s what you try to do every week. You just try to make sure that those last five minutes of the game, you’re in it and giving yourself a chance to win, and guys did a good job. Some phase stepped up every week. For us to find five different ways to have a game winning touchdown — which I think only had happened one other time in the last 20 some years — that was impressive to see the fight our guys had. We saw it early. We saw it early in that New England game, that first one. We were on the road, down the way we were down, and guys kept competing and fighting and trying to find a way to win the game.”

Q. How committed are you to running a 4-3 or would you be open to switching to the 3-4?