Miami ‘truly lives on the explosion play’

Defensive coordinator Joe Barry

On dealing with Miami’s speed:

This team truly lives on the explosion play and we’ve got to keep the ball inside and in front of us. I think we’ve got to tackle better than we’ve ever tackled all year long. I think all those things go into eliminating the explosion play, keeping the ball in front of us and then tackling the ball in front of us. That’s the key.

On the Rams converting two early third-and-longs and how the third-down defense improved after that:

One time, they actually did a really good job of using tempo, and tempo-ing into getting on the ball right away, and kudos to them, they caught us. Then the second time, we had a pressure and we actually screwed up the pressure, quite frankly. I think those things are just early in the game jitters, get them out. Unfortunately you don’t want to have those in a money down like third down is, but those were things we were able to correct on the sideline and just kind of understand what their approach was, and then we got them cleaned up.