Q. Last Sunday against a 7-1 Colts team that had the best RB in the league spearheading an offense averaging over 30 points per game, your defense held that RB to 45 yards and a 3.2 average, which forced 50 pass attempts, which allowed you to get to your pressure packages, which led to 5 sacks, 3 interceptions and 2 fumble recoveries. Is that the vision or expectation you had for this defense in terms of the way it needed to play?

A. It is certainly the mode of operation in terms of how you play defense, or how we envision playing defense. You minimize the running game. You get people one-dimensional. You get them behind the chains. You're in more advantageous possession down circumstances, and the more advantageous possession down circumstances you're in, the higher the probability is fo

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