Q. Foye, could you walk us through the interception in today's game.
FOYE OLUOKUN: They just came off a turnover themselves, I believe. So just stressing let's not let them in the end zone. Grady and the D-line made a good pass rush. Grady was on his legs. I think he was trying to play some hero ball, threw it up and overthrew him, maybe behind him. I was there doing my zone drop and kind of moving with the quarterback, and he overthrew it. So I just capitalized off that and took off trying to score.
Q. You looked like you protected it pretty good. They were trying to come for it.
FOYE OLUOKUN: Last year, same kind of similar thing down in Kansas City, where Tyreek Hill popped it out, and that was the scariest moment of my life. As soon as I felt that pressure on the right, he tried to pop it up and tried to push it down, and I just held on to the ground.
Q. Did you think you were going to get in the end zone there?
FOYE OLUOKUN: Yeah, I played receiver in high school, All State. No, I was trying to score for sure. I pulled away from the linemen. I saw the tight end on the right that I pulled away from. Just hoping and praying I was going to get there. I'm not thinking I'm going to get tackled.
Q. You said you thought Tua played a little hero ball on that play. Were you seeing more and more of that as the game went on?
FOYE OLUOKUN: I'd probably have to look at the film. Eventually they kind of just spread us out and went tempo. Maybe he was inching around the pocket some. I know he got out a couple times. I don't know if it was hero ball or just good quarterbacking from him.
Q. That last drive that they gave up then the potentially game-winning touchdown. Did anything change on that drive? Obviously, it was a short field.
FOYE OLUOKUN: Their last drive, where they scored?
Q. Was there anything that changed defensively?
FOYE OLUOKUN: No, they were just tempoing us. We've got to do better while we're getting tempoed to be detailed and do what we need to do to get off the field. I think we had them in a long down and distance situation. We'll go over the play they hit, the kind of deeper pass they hit, and then got to be detailed and get off the field.
Q. Arthur Smith was talking about how he felt really calm. His heart rate was really steady when he sends Youghoe out there for the field goal. From your vantage point what do you feel in those moments? You've seen him do it before.
FOYE OLUOKUN: I've got all the faith in Youghoe. I'm going to stand down there and look the opposite way.
Q. You don't look?
FOYE OLUOKUN: It's my superstition on that. If I do that part, he's going to do his part.
Q. Can you see the jumbotron?
FOYE OLUOKUN: Theirs was like blank. I didn't even see. I look at the fans' reaction. I think I turned around and saw it go through the upright. I didn't see him kick it, though.
Q. When did that start for you?
FOYE OLUOKUN: High school, college. When I was in defense even in college and offense had the critical drive, like fourth down or something, I would go to the opposite sideline, opposite part of the thing and look the other way, and it worked out. I'm superstitious.
Q. Did you turn away on that last drive as well, when Matt hit Kyle a couple times too?
FOYE OLUOKUN: I was sitting down breathing trying to get some oxygen in me, but as soon as they got down in the red zone, I had all the faith in it. When Youghoe went out there, that's when I got up.
Q. Are you surprised at all by anything that Kyle has done?
FOYE OLUOKUN: Coach has challenged him a lot. He said, we expect you to make those plays. Everybody talks about you like this, we expect you to make those types of plays, so he definitely stepped up to the plate. I've got a lot of respect for Kyle, especially how young he is. I think he's just a baller. The more confidence he gets, the better he's going to be.
Q. Defensively, you have played, Grady doing his thing, people going down, coming in and out. How do you keep building as a unit off of these game experiences?
FOYE OLUOKUN: At the end of the day, we're finding ways to win games. We obviously want to be cleaner so we could not have to go through the whole struggle of the last drive. A lot of NFL games will come down to the last drive. If we do what we're supposed to do throughout the game, finishing when we're supposed to, I think it will be good for our defense.
Q. In the course of a game, do you have time to appreciate a left-handed, one-handed catch?
FOYE OLUOKUN: Yeah, I got up. I was yelling at him, pumping him up. It was nice.
Q. Anything in particular you yelled at him?
FOYE OLUOKUN: Nothing I'm going to tell you (Laughter). It was good stuff, though. Very, very good play.
Q. You go back to your supposed wide receiver days in high school?
FOYE OLUOKUN: That's what I told him when he got to the sideline. I said, you look like me in high school (Laughter). That was spectacular. I don't know what the saying is, but very high ceiling for him. I'm excited to see him keep growing.
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