Joe Flacco Postgame Press Conference After Win vs Bears
Browns Quarterback Joe Flacco talks with the media after the Browns take down the Chicago Bears 20-17 at home.
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00:00 I think it was a human eye. I forget how he got the three points there.
00:08 Probably even got a total rank. But such a good guy.
00:12 How do you keep going after three interceptions?
00:16 Believe me, part of you wants to crawl into a hole somewhere and try to cover both your feet.
00:22 It's just not... you can't do that.
00:25 Especially somebody like me. I've been in this league a long time.
00:31 So much happens, you just have to keep your eyes on what's next.
00:39 You have to continue to have faith that your teammates are going to get themselves in the right position to get the ball to them.
00:48 It might not happen, and today it just happened to work out for us.
00:53 I don't think enough can be said about how well our defense played.
00:57 With all the turnovers that we had, that's a little amount of points they let up.
01:02 How do you go about looking in the fourth quarter?
01:06 I think when you look at it, we just got a few chunks.
01:10 And the guys did really good on the ball.
01:14 I feel like they did a pretty good job of keeping us underneath them all day.
01:18 We were trying to take a little bit of time, but we were allowed to.
01:23 They were aggressive. It's on the ball for them. They were breaking on things.
01:27 Making us go the long hard way.
01:29 And then late in the game we started to get some chunk plays that definitely kind of thrive on them.
01:35 We'll get those going, but we're a good offense.
01:38 Did you hear the one-two-o-marney?
01:41 Yeah, I saw him coming around the Mike Linebacker.
01:45 I knew somebody was out to the right, but there was a huge hole in there.
01:49 So I let the ball go, kind of as he was wrapping around the Mike.
01:54 It was all him.
01:56 You saved our day with the Joe. Not only the touchdown catch that he had,
02:00 but then on that final try to set up the field goal to convert that big third 15.
02:04 Yeah, he did awesome.
02:06 When you get the ball in his hands, he's such a strong runner.
02:09 I don't think you get a great chance to see what he does in the run game and how physically he moves.
02:16 But you do get a chance to see that when he gets the ball in his hands.
02:20 It's just the kind of player he is.
02:22 Started to drive with him.
02:24 It was a huge play by him to get us down to the lower end there.
02:27 Joe, what is it about this game?
02:31 Sarah Frank has a record with five wins, a game-winning score in the last two weeks.
02:37 It looks like you guys have been asking a lot of questions about it.
02:48 I think it tells you a lot about the kind of guys that this organization has purposely put on the roster and in that locker room.
02:59 I think it's one of those things you probably can't quite quantify.
03:06 Having hard workers, having tough guys, and all those things.
03:10 If you're put in situations where you need to have that resilience.
03:15 Like I said, not everyone of them are going to work out.
03:18 So there is a little bit of luck involved in things like that.
03:21 I think it's just the character of the guys in that group.
03:28 I think you have to get credit for the dedication.
03:31 What kind of line work do you guys do?
03:39 I watch the guys and say, "Hey, let's go. Let's get back in our rhythm. Let's go get one."
03:46 It's a stupid, simple little thing. It just kind of keeps everybody's heads up.
03:50 But I've got to say, all those guys, there was never a time when we got to the sideline, getting ready to go out for a drive, and just all headed down.
03:58 Everybody had their eyes up and were ready to go.
04:01 Like I said, if they had a little bit of a different feeling inside, but they weren't shown, that's what you have to do.
04:08 It's a trick of your mind to think that it's not that good.
04:12 What kind of beauty do you have?
04:17 I saw it all the way down in the bus stop.
04:24 I think when you watch and are a part of all the games that go on every week, you know not to get excited until that clock hits zero.
04:37 There's so many things that can happen, whether we've been a part of it or whether, like I said, we've seen it on some days just watching.
04:45 Believe me, I was over there and guys wanted to come up and congratulate me and things like that.
04:50 I was just sitting there just waiting for that clock to hit zero.
04:54 Can you tell us about the guys last year who were down four of your starting five offensive linemen?
05:05 I think the guys that came in there did a great job of stepping up.
05:10 Our center had to go out for a play.
05:16 It's not an easy thing.
05:20 I've done that for a couple of years.
05:21 You're on the sideline.
05:22 You have to be constantly ready to go out there and feel if something's going to happen.
05:27 It's not an easy job.
05:29 The fact that those guys have come in and just spilled it and done the job that they've done, it's really impressive.
05:38 I don't think you can understand how impressive it is.
05:41 We probably had to experience that to some extent.
05:44 It's not a very easy job.
05:47 It says a lot about who they are.
05:49 When you first came in, you said you felt it was the most exciting.
05:53 How much of that drives truly by everybody's set?
06:00 I think it goes hand in hand.
06:02 You have to have that mindset, but also when you've had success doing it, going out there and proving to yourself and to your teammates that we've done it.
06:12 It helps the next time that it happens.
06:14 The next man up has already seen two or three other guys go in there and do it and step up.
06:19 He's like, "Okay, why not me?"
06:21 I think we, by example, all those things, they all play off of each other.
06:27 The fact that we've done it in the past definitely helps for when we're going to have a play here today, when we're going to do it in the future, all that stuff.
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