Jaguars 9, Bills 6
Q. Josh, pretty good game today against the other Josh. You got your first career interception against Josh Allen. At some point you're going to have to tell that story to your kids and grandkids. Can you kind of think about the fact that they're probably going to look at you and say, what do you mean you intercepted Josh Allen?
JOSH ALLEN: Ooh, I didn't think about it that far yet. But I've got to make it more -- it's going to be an exciting story. I know I'm going to hype myself up a little bit more, but great team win, first and foremost.
Oh, my gosh, this defense, man, I'll tell you, when we fly around, when we don't hurt ourselves, we can be one of the best defenses out there. To hold that team to zero touchdowns, it's tough to do.
Hopefully they score a lot of touchdowns the rest of the season so we'll be the only team to do that.
Q. We talked to you earlier in the week about this whole Josh Allen thing, about if you get a sack on him, it's the first time in NFL history and we were all joking about it. Could we have imagined that you would not only have a sack but you would have a forced fumble and the pick and 10 tackles?
JOSH ALLEN: I mean, got to make those plays when my number is called. For me, I visualize everything. I'm a visualize person. I like to speak plays. I like to speak greatness into my head, so when it happens I'm not surprised. I know I work my butt off. We all worked our butts off in practice to get right for this week, and I feel like I had a great week of preparation. I feel like I was in a great mindset, and got to go out there and play.
Q. What sort of statement does this send to the rest of the league about you and about this team?
JOSH ALLEN: We're not going nowhere. We've got -- we're going to build on this. I'm glad I'm not up here saying, oh, we've got to do better. No. When we're on our stuff, we can be a really great defense, and it showed today. Our defensive line can go against any offensive line any time of the week, any offense, stop any run, stop any pass. We did what we needed to do.
Hopefully we've got to capitalize on this, get better Tuesday or Wednesday, and go out here with the mindset we've got to beat the Colts and get better and win this game.
Q. What was the conversation with Josh like after the game? Did you guys get a chance to chat?
JOSH ALLEN: No, we didn't get a chance to chat. Kind of fist pump. I think him and Duey grew up together, are really close, and I knew Ed Oliver really well. I went to high school with him. Definitely had blood in there, so I wanted to go holler at my boys and he wanted to go holler at his boy. That's not going to be the last time I'm going to see him, I know that, so definitely a lot more catching up later, but ooh, good day.
Q. So no jersey exchange?
JOSH ALLEN: No. I'm going to get it, though. But I wanted to get Ed -- I train with him. I've seen how hard he worked, he's seen how hard I worked, and I'd see greatness in his eyes and he seen it in mine, so we kind of bonded off that, so it's like, it was a great experience to see him out there, and hopefully we can play a lot more games together.
Q. Does it feel cool, neat? Does it hit you yet about the piece of NFL history about being the only guy to ever sack a guy with the same name?
JOSH ALLEN: No, right now -- I've got so much going on in my head right now that I really can't just think about one thing. Definitely can get better from this week. Definitely can improve and definitely grow. I'm going to go back and look at this film.
The history is the history. I read the history books, not only for this but a lot of other stuff. That's always going to be there, and I know that. I don't want to live that; I want to get better every week and make more plays for this team and that's exactly what I'm going to do.
Q. What was it like to see other guys on the defensive line kind of all complement each other and see Smoot and Taven had a big day. You talked earlier in the week about the defensive line rushing together. How did it feel to see it all come together?
JOSH ALLEN: That's what we're supposed to be doing. This is our job. It feels great when we're out there doing what we love. We're playing with the people that we love, playing with people to the left and right of me that I know if I mess up they're going to have my back, or if I mess up, somebody is going to go out there and make a play. Just to have that trust, it feels great. Smoot had two or one -- Smoot had two, Taven had two, I had one, Rudy had one. How many sacks did we have?
Q. You had four. You had one, Smoot had one. They didn't count that second one.
JOSH ALLEN: Really?
Q. That one at the end on like the 4th down --
JOSH ALLEN: That's crazy. Well, we're supposed to. But Smoot has been playing at a high level, as well, every game, and it shows. And then Taven, oh, my gosh, that's -- that's all I'm going to say on that one. People hated on him, but he got better. He's getting better. He's a big asset to this team, and he's going to continue to make a lot of plays for us in the back end, so I'm excited to see that growth, too.
Q. Three turnovers in the second half. What does that do for your confidence and energy?
JOSH ALLEN: We can do it. We can do it. Go out there as hard as you can, play that play as hard as you can, good things are going to happen, and we did that every play, and good things happened. This is only just a testament for the words that we say in the meeting rooms, for the words that we say in the locker room. It's just to finally put it together and go out there and have fun for each other. That's a great feeling in itself.
Q. It seems like the front seven got a lot of pressure this week, and it seems like it's been building throughout the season. Has that allowed you to give the secondary more of a chance to actually cover the guys? And what was the emphasis you guys had this week in defense compared to prior weeks?
JOSH ALLEN: I'm going to start with the second one. The second one, I feel like our game plan really -- they're a tempo team. They're going to get the ball out quick. We've got to line up quick, we've got to get the call and we've got to play. Our mindset up front is to get the call, line up and go play. The back end, I know it's a little bit more challenging, but they did a hell of a job today. First of all, in tackling. The open field tackling was -- I believe was one of our best performances in the back end, and we're only going to get better back there, too, and then just up front, man, dominance. Myles Jack told me yesterday it's going to be the best game. Like this game is meant for us to win. They're talking about this team can throw the ball, they really don't run the ball that much. Okay, they're working into our hands. Myles said it earlier, man, and we went out there and just go, do what we do. This is a team that we felt like we should have beat. It's a team that we did beat. It's only time to grow from here and focus on the Colts, but enjoy this one.
Q. Can you build off of that actually? You mentioned just the belief in the locker room despite the struggles, even the struggle in Seattle last week. You guys never really wavered in that confidence that you guys can go out there and win games.
JOSH ALLEN: Yeah, I mean, I truly believe we can go out there and win the rest of these games. If we all play assignment-free football and no mistakes, I don't think nobody saying -- if you're talking about skill, we've got skill. You talk about this team has this much skill, okay, we got players that can match that. You talk about this offensive line got skill, one of the best in the league, well, okay, we got a defensive line that can match that. We've got linebackers that fly around to the ball every play. We've got a defensive line that gets off the stack every play. The deep end, making up for the tackles getting their dudes down.
I guess I feel like we can win the rest of these games if we go out there with the mindset of dominance, to dominate every play. I feel like we can compete against anybody.
Q. I know you don't get to see the secondary play too much when you're out there on the field. Can you talk about Rudy Ford, a guy who's really rising to the opportunity and growing into a role on this defense?
JOSH ALLEN: Yep, I feel like Rudy had a hell of a game today. I feel like that's another guy that flies around, that's fast. When his opportunity was called, he made the plays.
Man, the interception, batted balls, open-field tackling, oh, my gosh. I can't wait to watch this film. Just so I can probably text him later, like damn, okay. This is the type of dude I've got, man, and definitely going to enjoy watching it. We haven't had a lot of opportunities, but let's start having fun with this. Yeah, I can't wait to go ahead and watch that.
Q. I forgot to ask you about Taven's sack celebration.
JOSH ALLEN: Didn't he -- what was it? Oh, yeah, that was pretty fire. Taven is like a freak of nature. He's strong as heck. He's probably the strongest on the team. He's fast. He's physical. And flexible. I can't even do that. I can't even bend down right now. You know what I'm saying? But man, Taven had those opportunities to go out there. They've been seeing him do it in practice, do it in a game last week, do it this game and do it next game, but it all starts the way we practice, man. We practice hard. We practice efficiently and we practice fast, and that's the way we're going to play.
Q. Did you know that that was a campfire that he was doing?
JOSH ALLEN: No, that's -- I've got to go home and watch it.
Q. I thought it was a yoga pose. That's why I was like, isn't it a yoga pose? He's said, no, it's the campfire.
JOSH ALLEN: Campfire? I'm going to call him about that one.
Q. Then you did the Gator chomp.
JOSH ALLEN: No, I didn't do that. Come on now. Come on, man. Tried to get me right there.
Q. When you mentioned all the visualizing you did this week, were there tendencies of Buffalo Josh Allen that you were focused on, or what stood out to you there?
JOSH ALLEN: Making plays, getting sacks. You know, it was kind of crazy because like the -- reading the headlines, I wasn't trying to get in the media but every time I checked my phone it was something, and it was like, Josh Allen versus Josh Allen. When you really look at it, in my position it's really not. It's me versus this right tackle or this left tackle. I've got to study this dude to beat him every play to get to him. In my mind I'm not worried about what he does. I'm worried about what this guy is going to give me so I can beat him every play.
So yeah, that's why I just -- you know, yeah, it was cool. I'm glad we won, and I'm glad to play against him, first, first, whatever, but I was focused on winning this game and I was locked in, and I knew when my opportunity come, it was going to come. Yeah.
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