Jacksonville Jaguars 35, Los Angeles Chargers 6
Q. Josh, what does it mean to you to get the record but get it in a win in such a team win all the way around, such a blowout fashion?
JOSH HINES-ALLEN: It felt great. I think our energy was up all game from the beginning, from the first play of defense getting intention fall grounding. I wish they could call those as sacks, but to effect the game and then first, second, third down, just getting off the field, our energy was high. Special teams had a heck of a game on kickoff. Made a lot of big place for us and offense, man, it was unbelievable to be part of and for me just to break the record, it was cool for the many achievements that happen to do. Cool to be part of that and just keep stacking.
Q. Josh, how did it feel to see guys like Danny Striggow, BJ Green, Christian Braswell just being able to come in and do what they did today?
JOSH HINES-ALLEN: Man, those my rooks, man. Those my rooks, man. I'm so proud of those dudes, man. They work their tails off every day in practice. They come in, they're one of the first people in the building, one of the last to leave the meeting rooms, if that's meeting extra with the coach or just watching film themselves. They're true pros, man.
I want to help lead them down the right direction and kind of maintain that because they can play, obviously. Both be undrafted to make the 53-man, man, that's unbelievable. And for them to keep making strides every single day and making plays when we need them, I told Danny, man, he was one of the sparks. We had a couple sparks but he was one of those guys that kind of kept sparking it for us and I thanked him and told him to keep staying within the game and you don't know when the next opportunity will be here for you.
Q. Josh, is there any relief in getting the record and maybe now being done with the record chase? Now it's just padding on, padding on, padding on moving forward?
JOSH HINES-ALLEN: I don't think it was ever a chase thing. It was just for me just playing football and doing what I needed to do. I'm ready to go out, watch this film. Who are we playing next week? Arizona. Good, young team, I think, and go out there and play as fast as I can as hard as I can and play the same game plan we did today.
Q. And coach said you guys were pissed this week about last week's result and he said it showed up in the team meeting, it showed up everywhere. Can you just take us through what does that look like for you guys and what we saw on the field, was that a result of being... of how last week ended and being pissed all week?
JOSH HINES-ALLEN: You know, I think that week needed an extra motivational message from having a loss like that. But again, it's like we're happy this week, how are we going to piss ourselves off? I don't think that needs to be the motto. I think we need to take each week separately and have that same attention to detail that each player came out with this week to have and I think that's where our focus needs to kind of remain. If we tend to stay within that type of focus as a team, as individuals, we will continue to have the outcomes we had today.
Q. Josh, overall flow of the game. You get them off the field, you're up 7-3, you give the ball back to the offense, Trevor throws a bad pick. You guys, sudden change, plus territory, how critical was it for you guys to hold them to a field goal there and kind of slow the momentum down on their end?
JOSH HINES-ALLEN: It was massive. At the end of the day, it was just one of those games that you go out there on the field as a defense and you know they can't piss a drop. If we continue to hold them to field goals, obviously they're in that fringe area, two first downs get them to a good field goal range. So for us to continue to play, getting behind the sticks, keep them behind the sticks was great and so for us as a defense, man, we just knew the way the game was going, it wasn't going to score and for us to keep making those big plays in critical moments, I think that was a critical moment because if they score, now it's 7-7 or I don't know what the score was. They take the lead and now we're playing from behind. It's always good when we play from a lead and continue that momentum and just play good team football.
Q. Josh, you're getting into that time of year where teams are trying to build some momentum. How do you guys build off this win?
JOSH HINES-ALLEN: Connection and like I told Mark, I think it's from connection and it's from the attention to details that we have to have, starting with myself. How am I approaching practice each and every day? The next guy, to Arik, to Trey, to Foye', to Devin to Ventrell to the secondary, to the offensive line, to the wide receivers, how is everyone coming into the week open-minded, get the game plan, play what's being played and don't get a flag (laughter).
Q. Josh, how do you capture that pissed off feeling without having anything to be pissed off about?
JOSH HINES-ALLEN: Again, I think it was just -- being pissed off was great for us because we lost and the way we lost, especially to a team -- like at that current moment, we needed to play pissed off. Next week, obviously what are we going to find something to be pissed off about? I think being pissed off kind of made people focus on their details, focus on what I have to come into this building and do. Maybe I have to come up earlier and get extra treatment. Maybe I have to do more studying. Maybe I have to be in the play book a little bit more. Maybe I have to study something differently, you know? I think that put more focus on everybody has to be where they need to be. If that's the focus that we have moving forward, we'll be a tough team to beat.
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