Dolphins - 19, Bengals - 7
Q. I know the competitor you are, when you did the Edwin Moses and high hurdled over the defender the way you did, total disregard for your body. Obviously got nicked up a little bit though and Paul Sparling ruled you out. First question is, what's the injury? Second question is, do you think twice about going up, up and away like that again?
TEE HIGGINS: The injury, just had a little hamstring tweak, but I'm a playmaker. Playmakers try to make plays and I tried to make a play. So if it comes about again I'll do it again.
Q. No second thoughts about it? No, I'm going to -- and obviously in the situation in the game, it's just like no matter what, no water the situation you're going to go out and give it everything you've got every snap?
TEE HIGGINS: 100 percent. That's who I am. I go out there and try to make a play. I call myself a playmaker. That's what I try to do every play.
Q. X and O wise and mindset wise, how did things change for you when Tyler Boyd got ejected?
TEE HIGGINS: He's a big part of our offense. But once -- when he got ejected, we talked and we just gotta step it up as a receiver, as a receiver corps. It didn't happen today. And we didn't come out with a W, so...
Q. Did they do anything defensively differently on the back end? I noticed that different guys were covering different receivers at different times. The football game, was it just determined what you guys were doing formationally?
TEE HIGGINS: You know, preparing for them, we saw a lot of zeros, a lot of 1s. And towards the end of the game they started playing cover 2. We didn't think they were ever going to do that. They showed it. And we wasn't -- just wasn't ready for it.
Q. You don't see two teams come together like that very often. What is that balance like for you in terms of trying to stick up and protect your teammates, but not do anything that's going to hurt you or the team?
TEE HIGGINS: Once I saw that, I tried to go out there and just separate guys. And it's hard to do. There's grown men out there. Some are way bigger than me. But just gotta still step in there and take over for my teammates. They're family, and I would do anything for family.
Q. How much did it affect the flow of the game when the officials took 20, 25 minutes to sort everything out after that melee and such in terms of penalties, who is involved, ejections all that stuff? How much did that screw the game up flow-wise?
TEE HIGGINS: You know, it was crazy it took so long. But, you know, I mean, I guess we lost an edge. You can't lose an edge when something like that happens. You've got to stay ready, stay warm, stay focused and come out firing.
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