Dolphins 17, Texans 9
Q. (Off mic)
CHRISTIAN WILKINS: This old thing? I've had it for a while. No big deal. This thing, it's no big deal really.
[Laughter]
Q. What does a win do for this group?
CHRISTIAN WILKINS: Wins are nice. It's been a little while since we got to experience one. It's just good. The fact that we just stuck together, kept working hard. You know, because it's easy in situations like that to just keep your head down or just lose hope, but, you know, we just stuck together, and it's good to experience one together because we all worked so hard. We'll enjoy this one. We got a quick turnaround, so we'll enjoy it for another hour or so and get back to work.
Q. 24-hour rule?
CHRISTIAN WILKINS: No 24 hour. At least cut in half, if that.
Q. How do you celebrate this one personally?
CHRISTIAN WILKINS: I don't know. Like just good energy right away in the locker room. It's just nice to experience a win together with this group. Like I said, with this team that works so hard, so that's always exciting. We'll enjoy it for a few more hours, and like I said, get back to work.
Q. Now that the streak of losing is over, what was that like when you guys were --
CHRISTIAN WILKINS: You know, it's the challenges of the NFL. What kind of comes with it. Each week is a new challenge. It's a new team, and it's tough. Like I said, it's easy to lose hope in those situations, but we never really did. We always just kept good energy around the building, good energy in the locker room. Just guys stuck together. It's just new is to experience a win.
Q. Christian, we heard Eric say earlier --
CHRISTIAN WILKINS: Death Rowe. That's my guy.
Q. We heard him say earlier that wins like this kind of confirms the work that you guys put in. That sometimes when you don't see the result after working so hard, it can be a little disheartening. Is it tough to stay positive when the results aren't there?
CHRISTIAN WILKINS: It can be, but, like I even hit on last week, we have a lot of good guys in the locker room, a lot of good leaders who in those situations where it's easy to, like I said, just lose hope, just guys who stayed positive, guys who came to work every day, had a smile on their face, great energy, and like I said last week, I refuse to be miserable in those situations because it's such a blessing to be in the NFL and be a part of this organization, so just a lot -- even in the negative, there's still a lot of positive.
Q. Christian, what part of today's defensive performance reminded you of some of the stuff from the 2020 defense?
CHRISTIAN WILKINS: We just did a good job of attacking the football. Had a lot of turnovers today, and timely turnovers too like the one by Death Rowe at the end there. We just stayed just all the adversity. Short fields. Turnovers. We were able to go outs and just hold them to three, you know, on a few different occasions, so that was big. We were able to step up and do our part -- and do our part as a defense.
Thank you.
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