OUTSIDE LINEBACKER K'LAVON CHAISSON
Take us through that play, the strip sack and then the touchdown and how big of a spark was that for you and the defense?
Yeah, that was huge. I think that first thing we was talking about at halftime is stop waiting on somebody to make a play and be the one to make the play so. Vrabes (Mike Vrabel) kept emphasizing that for sure. It's something we went over all week and just came to the matching the hand and being able to recover the ball and get in the box.
How good did it feel you know after the offense held there for seven-and-a-half (minutes) for you guys to come right back and put another seven on them?
It's something that we needed obviously. We were feeling like the energy on the defense wasn't up to par like we would like it to be, so it was a jump start to get it going and man, I felt like we just started rolling after that for sure.
When your coach comes back into a place like this, how much of an effect or extra juice? I mean, I know it's real easy for the media to tell us that, but from a player perspective, how much extra, if any is there?
Man, it's crazy. The whole week obviously we tried emphasizing this being a regular game regular week. But man, when you gain such a bond with your peers and obviously with your coach, man, they try not to make it more than what it is, just keep a level head, but you know it's personal for them. And we just want to play hard for him and give him everything we got to make sure they come out on top and get that exact feeling that they would like to feel at the end of the game. So definitely was some extra juice on the defensive end to make sure that our guys, anybody that came from this team or just was a part of this organization in any way, that they got their revenge and they came out on top.
K'Lavon (Chaisson) you've been around a little while in the league, what makes your head coach here, Mike Vrabel, so unique?
Man, great dude just overall. Obviously, him getting the chance to be able to play in the league and see things from our point of view, but just the relatability that he has for each player. To be able to figure out, not even more so everything just being kind of right and wrong things, but just trying to figure out, 'Hey what do you see? How do you see it? Why do you see it that way?' And then, we just talk it through and kind of find the next step forward. So super grateful to have Vrabes (Mike Vrabel) as a coach man. And I'm just proud of him for sure.
And you know from different places, that feeling to come back tom especially to do it here, they're chanting "Vrabel, Vrabel, Vrabel" at the end of the game, I mean how special is that? I guess as a group, all you guys, as players, how nice is that, maybe like a gift for all the hard work all of you have done to get where you are at this point.
Huge, huge. Like I said man, when you gain such a bond man, and with all OTAs and offseason and training camp, we did our best to learn so much about each other and just everybody kind of your heroes, your history, your heartbreaks and your hopes. So just kind of everything about them and their personal life and kind of everything they've gone through in their football career and their journey. You take it personal as well because you want to see your brothers succeed and you want to see them be great. So anytime that we get the chance to help them have success in areas that they want to push for a little bit more than others, we're all for it.
What'd you learn about your team, three road games, three W's. Not a lot of teams have done that, even in NFL history?
We're exactly who we say we are. Just continue to believe in what we praise inside our facility and just keep going. Every week is a new week. So, it's an opportunity that we got to go back home and win games at home for sure and get our home team and our crowd on our back.
