Get a big play that's close to the goal line and he feels like the defense is you know, slow to get back. He'll hurry up to the offense. But they run the same you know play most of the time. They try to get a quick run and see they can catch you off guard no matter what the personnel is.
And so we were prepared for that. We did a good job, I think of getting everybody lined up, um, and really I just shot the gap and just um, you know, I was hoping to get a negative play and I thought that was huge that back him up a little bit. Um. And then the interception. Uh, I probably owe Walter Thurman the Christmas gift because I'm on the mendola and he did a good job, but really just beat me inside. Um. I knew I had some help in there, but it wasn't a true double team.
But Walter saw kind of the position I was in and he he took it and I was able to tip the ball up and you know I'm right there to catch it, and you know, so he really, you know, my mind made that play. I just kind of, I guess, took the glory for not a lot of people. People given you guys, just shot to come in here, specially the way Brady's played in this place. What does it say about you guys in the game? UM, I think it's you know, it just shows that we're resilient group.
We believe in what we're doing. We believe in the guys that we have UM in the building. UM. And it was just a matter of playing the way the we're capable of playing. And we know for our team to win, everybody has to contribute. You know, it's not just going to be the defense or the offense or special teams. We all got to play together to get a win. And we saw that today. We came here, UM, beat a really really good team, beat you know, the best quarterback in the league. UM. And that's not that's
a tall task. They don't lose at home and so but this was a game that we needed to win. We needed this momentum. We needed this UM it's spark to kind of carry us on throughout the season and the games don't get any easier for us going forward. Previous How does this fact well, I mean, I think anybody who said our confidence is low was probably outside of our building. I think that the entire time, even though we weren't getting the results that we wanted. I
think guys were confident in themselves. I thought we were confident in the scheme and I think it was obvious that we needed to change some things or add some things, but we were confident in what we were we could do because we've seen it in the past. And I think really that was Chips message from the beginning of the week is just reminding us of who we've been. Defensively, we've been great until as of late. Um offensively we're been able to move the ball. You know, everything that
people say that we can't do, we've done before. And really we just needed to get back to whatever that is. And so I think guys started to believe themselves. The morale all week was was hired in the normal. We didn't need a huge Rock Ross speech. You know, guys just went to work and believed in the game plan and came in and executed. Feedback that you get from the teammates about what you and do you think it
helped in any way? I don't know if you know what I said helped, Uh, you know, it's really but what I can say is I know that our the vibe around the building felt a lot different, I think, UM, And I don't know if it had anything to do what I said, but it was it was just different. I think guys did a great job but really detailing their their part of the game plan, really taking ownership and what was going on. Uh. There was a lot of feedback going back and forth. Everybody had input, UM,
and everybody was it believed. You know, we were preparing and we felt good about our plan and we felt like we could come in here and get a win. UM. And and that's it's been different than in previous weeks since, not that we haven't been confident, but it's just a different field. And so whatever that that is, we're going to try to feed off of that and keep it going. Possibly.
I mean, you know, there's there's um, you know a little bit of personality that comes out when when some somebody, especially one of your leaders, kind of uh speaks out. And not that I was calling anybody out or anything negative, because there are no problems in our building, but UM, I think it does kind of shock the system. Whatever. It starts conversations, it starts UM to open guy's eyes as far as you know, taking ownership and UM and really taking a look at what's going on and what
we've been doing and where we can get better. Uh you know, but like I said, whatever that spark is, hopefully um our leaders will continue to lead and continue to set the example or we'll keep building on top of this from Malcolm said, Uh yeah, I mean, and you know the main thing really and when where my comments came from is just myself. You know, I feel like I played better when I'm coach harder, and you
know I don't. I don't like to get you know, if I when you start to play at the high level or you want of the leaders, A lot of the times you don't get coach as hard as some of the rookies or some of you know, the guys who aren't your your main guys because they expect you to know what they expect you to kind of correct yourself. Um, but you know, I'm human too and I can let some things slip, and so I think, Uh, my coach definitely challenged me. I know my difference back. Coach challenged
me all week. Um, you know that I was gonna have a huge matchup and and have to play a big part in this game for us to have success, and so I had that challenge either this week. And you know, I think just as a team, we all played great. Last question for Malcolm, Sam's ready and I got Chip praised you because he said that, well, you took the risk to turn this, turn the touchdown, to turn the interception there would touchdown. Can you talk about it?
You might set and I'm making that play. I mean, anytime I get the ball in my hands, I'm trying to score. And it's that simple. Uh yeah, I mean it's yeah, there's no other option. It's there's nothing to lose. There's really no risk in it at all, you know, it's uh, I got the ball like thankfully, thankfully to
thankful to Walter Thurman because he tipped it up. I think made up one of the lineman miss and I felt some pursuit coming from our left, so I just cut back and it's just a full race, all right, Thanks everybody, No problem,