Some coaches have a hard time admitting when they’ve made a mistake. Miami Dolphins head coach Adam Gase isn’t one of those coaches.

In Wednesday’s press conference with the media, Gase was asked about what he had learned from using defensive end Cameron Wake on a limited snap count during the team’s first five games of the 2016 season. Gase was candid about how he wishes he could have gotten Wake more playing early last season.

“I made a mistake,” Gase said. “I should have been playing him more early. We were trying to think long term. When we were getting down, it really put us in a bad spot because we didn’t want to stick him out there and all they were doing was pounding the football. We wanted him in there when teams were passing it, we just kept getting behind, and that was putting us at a disadvantage. That’s when we decided we have to make sure he’s out there more. That’s why we made that switch. We thought we were being smart and it backfired on us. We should have just went with … What we should have done was just let him play.”

Gase and then Dolphins defensive coordinator Vance Joseph thought it was better to limit Wake’s snaps since he was coming off an Achilles tear in 2015. After Miami’s 1-4 start to the season, the Dolphins played Wake more and it certainly paid off. From Wake’s first start in Week 6 to the end of the season, he recorded 10.5 sacks (finished with 11.5 for the season), 25 tackles, four forced fumbles and an interceptions in the Dolphins’ final 11 games.

Wake spoke to the media after the Dolphins final minicamp practice on Thursday and he seemed like he had moved on from Gase’s mistake.

“Well, we’re all human, right,” Wake said. “We all make mistakes. Players make them on the field. Coaches make them off the field. As a man in this game, you’ve got to be able to admit when that happens. I think there are probably other coaches who don’t do that and obviously with him being a different kind of guy, I think that’s part of the reason why guys respect him , why guys relate to him and why guys love him.”