Jaguars 31, Chargers 30
Q. What was the probability of coming from behind down 27-0, and if you had to pin it on a moment in the second half, when did it turn?
FOYE OLUOKUN: It was gradual. I mean, the odds, I told them boys, I don't like my odds but I love my chances. As long as there's a little probability of winning at all, we're going to keep fighting. We saw the tables started turning, we had momentum, we kept that, we keep getting the ball back to the offense and they started rolling.
I couldn't pinpoint an exact time, but when we started making them punt and we started scoring, I think that touchdown to Evan maybe over the middle, once we saw we had a larger chance, might as well take it.
Q. Foye, first career playoff game for you. Is this one, especially with the way it went, that you'll remember forever?
FOYE OLUOKUN: Yeah, probably. That was crazy. We were down and we won -- I just love the boys came together as a team when things got hard. We were in the locker room, everybody was pretty calm and we said, we're not playing well, let's play better. Everybody said we're going to play better for our brothers, buy some more time for our brothers, and when we came together like that, everybody's accountability went up and we all played hard and came out with a win.
Q. When the offense starts getting it rolling like they did in the second half, what does that do for you guys as a defense? You know if you start flying around more, the energy picks up. Where were you on that?
FOYE OLUOKUN: It's cool to see them start going. It turned from stops to let's get three-and-outs. Like let's get the ball to them as soon as possible, keep the ball in their hands because they're going to do something special with it. We was on our P's and Q's because we was mad about letting them drive that one drive that they missed the field goal on. Our job when the offense was rolling was to get the ball back to them as soon as possible, and they'll just take the game over.
Q. You all have been here before toward the end of games, the Giants, here at TIAA Bank, the Raiders, the Texans. You've been here a lot. How much did all of those experiences of games coming down to the last three minutes here at home help you all get back into this game?
FOYE OLUOKUN: Yeah, I mean, we were down 20 something, a lot, and we've done down a lot a lot of times. Obviously earlier in the year we came back and lost, and then later in the year as the middle of the year went on, we came back and won. It's the same energy, let's just make this game close, and if we do the right things to end the game -- we went into half, we got a touchdown, we came back, we got seven, came back after halftime, I think they might have got three or something, but we kept fighting, made that game closer and closer, just chip away. That game is close, we'll take our shot at the end of the game, and that's what we did. I told them boys we just need one stop and we're going to win it. We had that stop, they went down, kicked the field goal, and that's just situational football.
Q. Strategically, what changed at halftime?
FOYE OLUOKUN: Good question. What happened?
Q. What changed at halftime? They obviously had a few short fields going into the half and things of that nature, but after halftime you previously mentioned that you guys had more of a sense of urgency, it was more about getting three-and-outs. Did anything change as far as coverages, the game plan, anything along those lines, or was it just hey, play better?
FOYE OLUOKUN: Yeah, kind of play better. We had seen the plays that they run to our specific coverages, so we kind of went over how to match the routes and get a little bit of a different nuance within the pass rush, but really just execute our plays. We put some plays in for this week, and we needed to execute them.
Q. Foye, what was the conversation among the defense in the first half, the defenders, when you saw interception after interception that had you guys on your heel, defending the red zone? How did you guys rally a bit when things were seemingly coming downhill on you guys?
FOYE OLUOKUN: Yeah, we've just got to keep them out of the end zone in those situations. Offense, we were just waiting for them to start going. If we just made a couple stops when we were put in those situations backed up, offense is going to capitalize off of that, so our job in those situations is to keep them out of the end zone, and we weren't doing it at first, so we came in at halftime, we're like, we need to play better, we need to communicate better, get there with more urgency, tackle better. I know I missed a tackle maybe first drive, second drive. Just do what we're supposed to do, and when the offense gets rolling, they'll do that.
Q. 30-26, penalty against the Chargers allows you guys to go for two instead of kicking the extra point, and then the field goal ties it. Trevor gets the two-pointer. How does that change everything --
FOYE OLUOKUN: What happened on that penalty?
Q. It was bad. It was a bad penalty. But obviously it could have taken the 15 yards and kicked off from the 50, but they went for two, you got it. How does that change the whole way the defense thinks because now field goal wins it instead of ties it?
FOYE OLUOKUN: We didn't even think about that. I told them boys while they was driving to score that touchdown, we get one stop, we're going to win the game. One stop to win it.
We had the momentum at that time, offense was rolling. Whether they scored a touchdown and made it a three-point game, I felt like we get a stop, they're going to score seven. We knew if we got that stop we're going to win the game.
When it was two points instead, it was even further; let's make this three-and-out, get the ball back to them, and then offense do what they needed to do, run that clock out, kick the game-winning field goal.
Q. Three straight games, but that Dallas Cowboys game that you came from behind in double digits, do you feel that that game itself probably provided you with a lot of momentum going into the final year that you had such an incredible contest tonight to pull it out under unbelievable circumstances?
FOYE OLUOKUN: Kind of like we were talking about earlier we had a lot of close games this year. The Giants game, I think maybe we came back in the Ravens game, the Raiders game. We did those earlier. Then that Detroit game happened, and we just knew the kind of energy and fight we needed to have for four quarters, and we knew if we brought what we were supposed to bring to the table, anything was possible.
Yeah, that Dallas game was cool to see, but we had kind of learned our winning equation a little bit earlier than that. It was just our accountability on doing that. That's just kind of how we are team right now; we just keep fighting all the way through, no matter what's happening in the game. We're going to put ourselves in what we feel is the best chance to win, regardless of what happened in the beginning.
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