How does it feel to cap off a game that way with getting a couple of sacks to put the finishing touches on the win?
It feels great. It's one of those things that, we were working on definitely. I haven't had a sack in the last couple of weeks. Just getting back into the flow of things, getting back into who I feel I am as a player. It's one of those things where I need to see what I can do to get back into rhythm and know who I can be as a player.
You mentioned other teams have been putting more attention on you with chips, double teams, things like that. When you got that first one (sack), do you feel like it's a weight off your shoulders to get one?
Definitely. It's always something you're working toward, but at the end of the day, the big picture is getting the W. Making sure that I'm doing everything that I can in my manner to help the team.
This team lost four in a row. Things could have gone any number of directions. What about this team do you think has allowed you guys to comeback the way you have the last two weeks?
I feel like there's some resiliency. There is a lot of situations, a lot of things that happened throughout the season. We've had a lot of up and downs. The thing I love about this team is that we don't waver. Every situation that has hit us, there's no one batting an eye, there's no one turning the cheek. Everyone just looks at it and says, 'Alright, how do we get better from it?' The fact that we were able to turn it around and actually take accountability for everything that we did and have that conversation with each other and taking an action to it, is what's amazing about this team.
They ran the ball really well against you guys in the first half. The second half, (Derrick) Henry was held under three yards per carry. What did you see change in those last two quarters compared to what they were doing early in the game to you guys?
We had to have a conversation at halftime. We looked at each other and said, we got to know what we got to do. Especially up front as a front seven and a D-line, we said we have to do our job. We take a lot of pride in what we do, especially our run game defense. We take that personally as a D-line.
Jarran (Reed) mentioned that they were using a lot of different personnel groupings that you guys hadn't necessarily seen. Was that an adjustment that had to be made to win it at halftime, trying to deal with something you guys weren't expecting to see?
A lot of games you end up having what we call un-scouted looks, and you got to be prepared for those. We had to make adjustments on the fly at halftime, and when we have a chance, to talk on the sidelines. It's definitely something that you can't really prepare for, but when it does happen, you have to find a solution to it.
