We played 80-some, almost 90 snaps on defense, ... 12 for 31, 51 quarterback rating. We did a pretty good job there.

Both teams predicate what they do on defense. They (both) are pretty demanding in that sense.

I thought getting off to a good start was important. I felt our defense was pretty good and we limited them to one shot.

We did a great job defensively in a lot of ways. I'm very pleased with the defense overall, but very disappointed in the mental mistakes the last five minutes of the game.

The defense seemed to get better as the game went on. It's a progression we like to see.

We hadn't been playing good defense, and we got a group in there that could. We had to step it up man-to-man guarding and we did and we survived it. It's a very big win.