Sir Purr
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RE: What was the reaction after last week, how did you get it turned around so quickly here?
I think we looked in the mirror right after the game was done, we saw who needed to be held accountable and guys came in, mentally just ready to battle, mentally to get back up. How we operated back then, it's just how we get back up off the mat for the next week. All you've got to do is go 1-0, so we knew going in this week, we'd be prepared, have to focus back in and know that we are a good team.
RE: What does the shutout mean to you?
It is not easy to do in this league. When you do it, it's a blessing. It attests to the hard work that you put in, week in, week out. Especially like Joe just got done saying, last week we got it handed to us and this week we came back out understanding that, we don't have to do anything special, we just have to do our jobs and guys went out there and they did their jobs and did them well.
RE: How much of a factor for the defense was PJ Walker getting his first start, and trying to take some of that pressure off of him?
As a defense, we knew what time it was. We knew with PJ going in there we needed to do a good job helping him. And that's not just helping him as an individual but help him as a defense, that's playing well, getting the ball, getting turnovers, giving them extra opportunities on offense, and I thought PJ did a great job with that. His two turnovers, they were on their side of the field and for us, as a defense, we take those as just punts, we take those as just kickoffs. Mentally we have to put ourselves in a good space because we knew we couldn't get down and we would never get down. We know what type of team we are, we pick our brothers back up and to go out there and do what we need to do to help PJ and the offense get started and win the game for us, is just attests again going on to the week that we had.
RE: How much of what you guys were doing different in terms of moving guys around affect what the Detroit Lions were doing on the offensive side?
We knew we had to give them different looks. You have a veteran quarterback in Matthew Stafford, great quarterback, so we knew we couldn't make it easy on him. We had to allow ourselves to go in there, disguise a little bit more and make sure that gives him just an extra tenth of second, it doesn't matter what it gets, it's just an extra second he has to read the defense and then go about playing. I thought we did a great job of it. Coach threw it on us Wednesday, Thursday and I thought we did a great job of coming out here and executing it.
RE: How good is it winning the game?
I try to keep myself the same for the media, win or loss. For us, it was great. I was jumping around, letting guys know even before the game, during the game, just trying to keep the energy there to allow guys to understand that we really got this. And for guys to show up the way that they did, for me, the last few plays were big discipline and coach talks about being disciplined on this team, being focused. To win the game like that, with them jumping offsides two times, us calling victory, it's just one of those things that you can look back and tell that this was a brand win.
RE: Anything specifically you did differently on third down this week?
Guys having their eyes on their man, guys being a little more focused, guys understanding they don't have to make the play for somebody else. They don't have to make this crazy outlandish play that nobody had seen before, just do their job. We took accountability this week, coming in each day focusing on our job. Of course just throwing a little bit of disguising against Matt Stafford, but I think it was just us individually, coaches, players coming in each and every day focused on the task and knowing that we just have to go 1-0 this week.
RE: What do you think the brand is?
Oh, the brand? We are the toughest, hardest-working team, most competitive team in the league. For us, it starts with being tough, we have to be tough, we have to work hard and we to be the most competitive team in the league. For us, that's about every week going in there, fighting, and that's something that we have seen this whole year, except for maybe one game, that the Carolina Panthers will fight you all four quarters. Coach has come in here with that and again, this was a brand win. We knew what time it was going to be. We're back on PJ at quarterback. Dinged up here and there but nobody cares. You have to go out there willing to fight, and for us that is what we did as a family, went out there and fought for each other and it showed today. Offense, defense and special teams, we played together, again this was a brand win.
RE: Brian Burns
You're talking about a guy who on a lot of teams would just be the second guy, he would be a guy who is on the upcoming. For this team, Brian Burns is our league dog. It's year two and he is our league dog. For him to take that and shoulder that and come out here and play well, game in and game out, knowing that we need him year two, it's special. He is going to be special. This is year two. I have to remind people sometimes that this guy is in year two. I can only imagine him down the road. He is going to be very, very special. We have guys like Yetur and our d-linemen, young d-linemen who are following, but Brian is playing good ball for us and we need him. As long as he is playing the way he is playing, he is going to be wreaking havoc for us for a long time.