Dolphins 17, Texans 9.
ERIC ROWE: These past six, seven weeks, how hard we work, we put a lot of effort in in practice. We have a lot of energy in practice, and, you know, today it showed on the field. We finally came away with one.
Q. You have a short week coming up. How long will you enjoy this one before you get ready for Thursday night?
ERIC ROWE: I know it's short. We've got to enjoy tonight, and then, you know, we're right back in on Monday getting ready for Baltimore because we got Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday we're in the hotel, and right back at it. We're going to enjoy tonight, but, you know, we know we have to get right back at it where.
Q. What are the plans for tonight?
ERIC ROWE: I haven't thought about tonight. I just got out of the locker room. We're celebrating the win. Maybe go out to eat with my wife, have a good dinner.
Q. In a game with so many turnovers like that. You guys on defense feel like, hey, we got to keep taking the ball, giving it back to our offense with sort of the helter-skelter nature with how the game is going?
ERIC ROWE: Yeah, we have that mind set every week. Obviously, everybody wants to get as many turns as they can, but that's our mindset every week either through interceptions, sack fumbles, turnover on downs. However we can get the ball back to the offense, because ultimately, that's how you win the game.
Q. (Off mic)
ERIC ROWE: Initially I thought it was incomplete. I thought he was going to do an out route, but he just turned around and just instinctively I just know to keep fighting throughout the whole play, and I felt the ball, and then when I saw it pop out, you know, I saw Brandin almost had it, and I was, like, man, that could have been an interception. We should have got off. Happened to be a fumble. Either way, it was a good deal.
Q. Mentally what does this do for you guys to finally pull one away?
ERIC ROWE: It gives a lot of confidence that the work we're putting in is not going to waste. That's the biggest thing, because once you start believing that all the hard work you are putting in is not going anywhere, then ultimately you stop working hard, and then you lose even worse. The fact that we came away with this win, the fact that we came away with the win and the hard work that we put in showed on the field, and it just gives a lot of boost and confidence.
Q. Feels like maybe the last two weeks you've seen maybe some of the old defense that you guys played last year as far as the success and the blitzing and turnovers. What has that been for you guys defensively, particularly the last two weeks?
ERIC ROWE: I'm not the one coming up with the game plans, but this week we wanted to put the pressure on Tyrod, and then once you see the offense can't figuring it out, you keep running it. You just keep running it until they figure it out. That's our mindset. Get pressure on the quarterbacks. It's already hard enough if you don't get pressure, they just pick us apart, so getting pressure, blitzing, and, obviously, you know, keep focus on turnovers.
Q. I don't know if you saw the one-handed catch -- when he does that, does that fire up the defense?
ERIC ROWE: It fires the whole sideline up. Offense, special teams, defense. It to me it's not a shock because I'm telling you, every day in practice, you know, either walk-through or real practice, he is catching at least, 150 balls a day. While we're up on defense, you know, doing -- like on scout team, he is over there just catching passes constantly, constantly. One-handed, both hands, two hands, no-looks. I mean, he is doing it constantly, so when he does it on the field, it's a great play, but it's not a shock to me because I'm, like, man, he does that every day in practice consistently. All right.
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