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Reshad Jones – October 8, 2017 (Postgame) Download PDF version

Sunday, October 8, 2017
Postgame – Tennessee Titans

Miami Dolphins Safety Reshad Jones (transcribed by Ryan Murphy)

(Talk about the play where it seemed like nobody in the building knew it was a fumble except you.) – “I just kept playing. I saw the ball on the ground. The guys up front did a great job of getting the ball out of the quarterback’s hands and I just kept playing and it ended up being a touchdown.”

([Was it] just an instinct that you ran because you never know?) – “Yes, pretty much. The coaches are always preaching that when the ball hits the ground, pick it up, you never know. I just kept playing through the play.”

(Can you just talk about last week in London, if this offense can’t get going and you’ve got to get the job done? Ten points off turnovers today, arguably it was a defensive win this game. Is that something you guys felt, going into the game, you may have to do?) – “I think that’s what good teams do. When the offense is not playing well, (the) defense has to pick up their slack. When (the) defense is not playing well, (the) offense has got to pick up our slack, so I think we just complement each other. We did a great job of complementing them today.”

(What about those guys up front, those linebackers, you’ve got the big crew in their now. [LB Rey] Maualuga comes in and plays well for you, [LB Lawrence] Timmons is back there for his second game and [LB] Kiko [Alonso], that’s kind of the group that you want in there. How much did they help you out today?) – “I think we’ve got one of the best front sevens in football. We’ve got DT Ndamukong Suh stopping the run. He’s a beast up front, so to have a guy like that in front of those guys, it makes it easy.”

(You’re not saying that because [DT Ndamukong Suh] is standing right there?) – “No, no, no. For real. That’s for real.”

(You’re one of the leaders on this team. Sometimes this can happen where you’ve got one side carrying the other, defense or offense. Do you have to guard against that right now with the defense kind of carrying the offense right now?) – “Whatever it takes to win football games. Whatever it takes to win football games. We win and lose together, so like I said, if the offense is not playing well I think we have to step our play up a notch. Hopefully the offense will do the same thing for us. There’ll be a time, probably, where we don’t play to our standards and hopefully the offense will be able to back us.”

(When you took that touchdown in, did you think it was a touchdown?) – “Yes, of course. That’s why I ran it. Like I said, I just did a great job of finishing the play.”

(It seemed like from the very beginning the goal was to not let the Titans have even the slightest hope that they could get going. Was that the mentality going into today? Don’t let the backup quarterback feel like he has a chance.) – “Yes, pretty much. We wanted to make the team one dimensional. When you make a team one dimensional, I think it’s a lot easier on us as a defense. (Defensive Coordinator Matt Burke) said he wanted to stop the run and I think that’s what we did today.”

(Did you think you had a safety on that sack? It was really close.) – “Yes, it was close. It was close.”

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