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Akeem Spence – November 4, 2018 (Postgame)

Sunday, November 4, 2018
Postgame – New York Jets

Miami Dolphins DT Akeem Spence (transcribed by Ken Mendonça)

(How was the defense able to respond today after the performances the last couple of weeks?) – “Just paying attention to detail. Our number one focus was just going out and stopping the run, and then reacting to everything else. Stopping the run, making them one-dimensional, then now our pass rush can work, now our back end can do the things they do well. That was pretty much it, just going back to the basics, not over-thinking things, not trying to do too much. Pretty much everybody just doing their job in the defensive call and just getting it done, play in and play out, one play at a time.”

(As the game progressed, did you feel any desperation coming from their end?) – “Oh yeah, because they were definitely trying to get some chunk plays, get on our side of the field, get things going, and it was a close game all the way until the end. They actually got the ball back and were moving it pretty well, so our defense had to stand up one more time, which we did. I was kind of proud we got to end the game on the field and go out there and close it out because that was really big for our defense after the last two weeks.”

(You put a lot of pressure on the Jets. Was there any trickery, or was it just constant pressure?) – “No, just me pushing the pocket, Cam (Wake) doing what he does outside well, and just everybody rushing together as one, and also our back end doing a great job covering and buying us that extra second that we need to slip off a guy and pounce on the quarterback. Just us constantly all day pressuring in his face making him bubble, overthrowing the receivers, and our back end picking it off, catching the ball when it was thrown to them. We just played a good brand of defense today and that’s just something that we had to get back to – not trying to do too much, not trying to cover up for a guy, everybody just doing their job and letting the calls play. Just playing defense.”

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