Patriots 25, Texans 22
MATT JUDON: Freak, that was a good game. All right.
Q. How exciting was it to pull off the victory? How good did everything feel?
MATT JUDON: It felt great, man, to just kind of comeback, tough, it was a tough week. We was down linemen, down Mills, at was a tough loss Sunday night and to go can do something like that, and just to never -- we never got down on ourselves. I got a little down. I was a little frustrated and I think we all felt it. But we all just gelled together, came together as a team, I think LG block on special teams sprung us and we got three out of that and we got three-and-out and offense scored. It was just freaking juiced up, man. We juiced up and it felt good to get that win, man. It felt good to get that win, especially when you feel like you been playing some good ball, and just some things wasn't going your way.
Just to fight back like that, that's a good team, all right. They missing some guys, a little banged up, but that's a good team. It's hard to get wins on Sundays in this league and you cherish every one that you can get. I was really happy about it and everybody in the locker room was.
Q. The two sacks there in the red zone, did that feel like a turning point in the game plan?
MATT JUDON: No. It was LG's block. They still got points out of that drive. Then I believe we came out at halftime, we turned the ball over and they got points out of that drive. Then it was -- we finally stopped them on third downs, third and short and LG just blocks the punt. It was LG, correct, he got it? So he blocks the punt and that's what turned it around. It wasn't me. It wasn't me. I wish it was. But it was definitely LG and congrats to that guy. Congrats.
Q. The trick plays, what was the biggest change?
MATT JUDON: You know it's a trick play. You know it's kind of one of those kind of things that like, I can't believe they got us on that. But that's what trick plays do. Usually if they ran properly, which they ran it properly, got good protection, the wide receiver did a good stop block and didn't release and it was a trick play and they only had 40 yards to go and trick plays usually hit between 30 and 50. So that's kind of -- it was a good call by them. They executed well but like I said, man, we just came back and we didn't hang our heads. Just kept the defense if the game. Kept ourselves in the game and then the offense just start putting up points.
Q. What's it like to play with Collins?
MATT JUDON: Jamie way more athletic than me. He play every spot. He play every spot on the defense. He can do any and everything. He kind of like a Hightower. Just to have him out there, him rush the A-gap and get a sack, you know, I think he was only out there for like two defensive snaps and then he got a sack. So wish I could do that. But you know, I'm on the edge and when he's in the middle, you know, going for it, we going to have 100 percent confidence and what Jamie can do and when Jamie is out on the field.
Q. You were a part of some tough teams in Baltimore. What does a win like this tell you about the toughness that you have on this team?
MATT JUDON: I said this earlier in the week, but we are not here to hang our heads. We are not here to feel down. We are not here to feel sorry for ourselves. We are all here to win games. Regardless of the score, our record, we are a really good football team.
We're going to make that clear here in the upcoming weeks, but we got to just continue to grind. We have to continue to come into work, ready to work, and willing to work, and understand the stuff that we did bad and then understand the stuff that we did good and we got to correct it.
Q. Was it concerning after the Bucs last week that you came out flat?
MATT JUDON: We didn't come out flat, the defense came out flat, we was giving up yards but they was hitting us on screens and stuff like that. But kudos to our offense.our offense was kind of picking us up. Our offense was going and moving the ball. They was really moving the ball. Just unfortunate that one turnover. But in the first half, they scored and took up the whole first quarter our offense scored I think on the second play of the second quarter. You know we right back in it. If it wasn't for that fumble on the goal line, it would have been, you know, 12-12 or 12-13. We didn't come out flat, I don't think so.
We just got to put it together. We got to put it like the second half, like we played in the second half, we got to put that in the first half. Like I said we just got to go back to work, continue to grind, continue to execute and then just make sure when we come out on Sundays, we put it all together first, second half
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