Klint Kubiak Presser - 9.14.26

Klint Kubiak (0:00)

Just hitting on injuries, you know, DP has a foot, so he'll be day-to-day, and Brock will be day-to-day as well. With that, I'll take any of you guys' questions.

SPEAKER_2 (0:10)

You're getting ready to enter a pretty challenging stretch of games, just speaking, I guess, hypothetically. Do you think you learn more about your team when you play top-level competition?

Klint Kubiak (0:23)

Yes, I mean, you learn something new every day in practice. You learn something new during the games. You know, it's a lot more stress going on.

You learn a lot about your coaches, too. You learn about your training staff, your strength staff. You learn about everybody in this pressure cooker that we work in. And that's what makes the NFL so fun. So, yes, there's a tough stretch coming up because that's what the NFL is, so we just try to look one game at a time.

SPEAKER_3 (0:51)

All right, Klint, when you died, when you died into the film, going back to the office in the second half, where did you feel like you guys needed, you struggled at the most in the second half, where you feel like you needed to improve on after? Because you seemed pretty upset about that performance, particularly yesterday.

Klint Kubiak (1:07)

Yeah, absolutely. I think it starts with me and putting us in better position to be successful. We didn't run the ball very well in the second half. Weren't good on third down.

Overall, I thought just lost our steam. That being said, we put ourselves in good position in the first half, and we just got to play four quarters of football. I was really pleased the way our defense played four quarters of football.

SPEAKER_4 (1:32)

How do you get more going down the field in the passing game?

Klint Kubiak (1:37)

Chunk it deep. Yeah, no, just to answer your question, I thought Miami did a good job of limiting the explosives credit to them.

SPEAKER_5 (1:51)

Do you think it's important to develop that just for opening up everything else in the offense?

Klint Kubiak (1:55)

Yes.

SPEAKER_7 (1:56)

What did you take away from the two interceptions in the second half?

Klint Kubiak (2:01)

Just two plays that were two avoidable mistakes that we had.

You know, I know Kirk wants those plays back. We'll learn from him. I thought Kirk opened the game playing really good football. Those two decisions hurt us. And we also put two balls on the ground. You know, that didn't hurt us because I think Mike had one and Jack had one. So, we're all accountable to that and we can all improve on that.

SPEAKER_8 (2:24)

Klint, when you watch the film, you know, from field level, you know, with all the bullets flying, you don't get to see everything. When you watched the film, was there anything that really stood out to you?

Klint Kubiak (2:33)

I think, you know, aside from the fourth quarter, I was really pleased with our discipline. You know, we weren't penalized.

You know, I thought offensively, I thought the guys are coming off the ball, doing all the little things that we ask them to do that really take no talent. I was happy the way our defense was swarming to the ball. So, discipline and just overall effort.

SPEAKER_9 (2:56)

Nine different skill position players had touches. How important is it with a young team and in a first game to be able to get them into the flow of the game right away like that?

Klint Kubiak (3:05)

Very important and I credit Kirk going through his progressions. Not forcing the ball and it's going to take a lot of guys to win games this year no matter what team you're on. But I was not surprised that the ball went to so many different guys because we're counting on the whole unit.

SPEAKER_6 (3:23)

Once he went in for a DP, the Dolphins targeted him right away and he was able to defend the pass really well. What does that tell you about the Ricky's confidence? What would you like from that play?

Klint Kubiak (3:33)

Yeah, that's what they should do, you know. And DP was ready for his moment and played good football. I'm thinking his 10 plus snaps. So, sorry, Zeke. So, yeah, you know, Zeke's had a good training camp and there's a lot of long season ahead, but he's never lacked confidence.

SPEAKER_3 (3:50)

What are your overall impressions of the game Rob Leonard called in his first time in the DC role?

Klint Kubiak (3:56)

I think with players and coaches, you practice how you play. He's, you know, he's been, he's been excellent throughout, throughout this entire journey from April until now. You can definitely see how hard the guys want to play for him.