Shane Steichen flashed some of the fire his team sees every day at his press conference following the Indianapolis Colts win over the New England Patriots.
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00:00 I mean, it was huge.
00:00 Our defense, they played awesome the entire game.
00:03 To hold a team like that to six points,
00:05 any team in the National Football League,
00:06 to hold them to six points is phenomenal.
00:08 It's always going to give yourself,
00:10 your team, a chance to win.
00:11 But it was huge.
00:12 That's what we talked about during the week.
00:14 Hey, when they get in the red zone,
00:15 they've been really good down in there
00:16 scoring touchdowns in the red zone.
00:17 So, preventing them from scoring those touchdowns
00:19 at home into the two field goals was huge.
00:21 Yeah, no, it was big.
00:22 I was just talking to him in the locker room.
00:23 He got the pick, and he was about on the two-yard line.
00:25 I'm on the sidelines.
00:26 Get up and get some yards!
00:28 So, we ain't on the two!
00:30 And he got it out to the five, which was good.
00:32 But to get those two interceptions,
00:33 win the turnover battle, shoot.
00:35 We've won the turnover battle now five games,
00:37 and we've won five games.
00:38 What did you think of the play?
00:39 Oh, it was huge. It was awesome.
00:41 Just his excitement that he had to create that big play.
00:44 Great scramble by Gardner to get it to him,
00:46 but to lay out and make that play.
00:48 That's what preparation does.
00:50 You prepare the right way,
00:51 and you've got to make those plays on Sunday.
00:52 Did he double?
00:53 Yeah, no.
00:54 We used him sparingly on some third downs and stuff.
00:57 But you know what? He's been in the system now,
00:59 you know, obviously, 10 weeks in,
01:00 and going through those meetings
01:02 and sitting in those meetings and understand
01:03 what we're trying to get done to go out and execute it.
01:05 Yeah, I think any game, you go into any game,
01:07 there's always going to be some opportunities you want back.
01:09 But we'll go look at the tape.
01:10 Obviously, there's a few, yeah, that we'd like to have back.
01:13 But we found a way to get it done,
01:14 and that's the name of the game,
01:15 is one of the football games.
01:16 And our defense, you know, stepped up.
01:17 We moved the ball offensively,
01:18 but we didn't finish our drives like we normally do.
01:21 But it was good to get the win.
01:23 Yeah, no, he's got some savviness to him.
01:24 You know, some of those third downs,
01:26 especially early on that first drive,
01:27 I think we had two third downs,
01:29 created some big plays on some scrambles, which was huge.
01:32 And then obviously the big one we just talked about,
01:33 the Josh Downs, was huge.
01:36 But he's got good poise, you know, he sees it well.
01:39 And it was a good team win.