Grant and Danny
Benjamin St. Juste Joins Grant Postgame After The Win
Before we get to game balls to the best, and you could tell us who gets your game ball from yesterday's domination at the hands of the Browns eight hundred six three six one oh six seven. One of the guys that played very well and I think is quietly played better than he gets credit for his Benjamin st. Just who's a corner who travels at times who plays generally the number one receiver on the opposing team. I think you see guys occasionally get beat or give up a touchdown just to expect or assume that they're not playing that well. He has clearly been their best corner on the outside this season seems to be getting more and more comfortable in games where they don't play elite wide receivers or special quarterbacks. He stacks up really favorably like yesterday caught up with him in the locker room after the best defensive performance for Washington this season. Benjamin, you guys got after him today, seven sacks of the Sean Watson, they were over their first ten on third down. Is this one of those games that you come out of feeling like a million bucks defensively? A million bucks, I don't know because we still got a lot of work to do but we definitely feel great. I feel like we see improvement every week and that comes from the work that we put in during the week and then once we press on the pedal and we start seeing a few turnovers and we playing well and when we came back out of the halftime the job was not finished. Everybody's mind was on let's take them out of their misery, let's keep pushing, let's keep getting more turnover, let's keep sagging him, let's keep getting off on third down because sometimes you know you can see like you know the second half guys come out and the mindset kind of shift like oh we play well, we're good, now we're put on the gas all the way until the playoffs. I felt like a blood in the water game like who's going to get to him, who's going to make the hit. There was one point where we saw Allen and Payne were like paper rock scissors and on the field to see who was going to come off the field. Was it like that kind of vibe out there of someone's about to make a play? It's the kind of culture that we're trying to cultivate throughout the whole week, throughout the whole training camp actually since this new stuff got hit like who's going to make the most plays. We got a competition on who's going to make the most plays and we got points for it and like I said like our mantra, what we always say is the ball is life you know, so even like you said we kind of feel the blood in the water and once the ball is running running back quarterback, receiving we're hunting for it for the four spawn ball for the interception for the tackle. It's the first person to get to the ball make you know gets the points you know so that's the kind of mentality we have right now as a defense. Outside you guys really weren't tested a ton, you had the big pass break up on the throw down the field near the end zone, how do you feel about just the secondary in general kind of locking their big play opportunities down? I mean if we give the D line at least three seconds just to cover up some routes then after that they can do their thing and after that once they start getting this act and they're going to try to change up a little bit of their route you just got to stay on top make sure you don't give them no chance to get some big gains or explosive plays and once that offense see that they can't get any explosive plays then it's demoralizing you know because now they got to run the ball they got a nickel and diamond here and there and then like next thing you know they all throw down and then boom we sack him off the field. If an offense can't get any explosive plays they can't put points on the board. How does it change things for you guys with the offense doing what it's doing? This would have been, you guys kind of at one point just said okay we've got enough backups went in there but it would have been the third straight game with 35 or more which would have been the first time since 1983, like what does that do for you guys? That makes it, well first of all we're fresher because we're not on the field every time and also it makes it easier because the more points we score the less momentum the other team has. Like every time we take them out on third down and get a second turn over whatever anything we score then the other team is like oh wow we got to climb out of this we got to climb out and at some point they tap out you know and it's over so that's what's new this year. You know we actually have you know the offense that can go out there and put teams out the way and then the defense just finish it off. Lastly 4-1 Ravens up next I mean you guys got to be feeling really good a third of the way through this thing just about where you're sitting right now. I mean honestly like every week new opponent and we're just going to keep doing the same formula that we've been doing it's been working and we're going to keep increasing the intensity and the attention to detail it's kind of like it's crazy as much as it's crazy like once this game is over it's over you know what I'm saying we forgot about it we already moved on to the next one we're trying to recreate the same recipe so we can't be like too content of what we did until you know we had the final goal. It's Benjamin St. Juice in the post-game happy loud music laden locker room yesterday over at Northwest stadium I appreciate his time one of my favorite guys to talk to thought he played well look you get to go up against the Sean Watson that's going to help there were a couple of times where Watson made life a little easier by not putting the ball in a good place but I just think he is consistently like this defense getting better and better without a doubt and his last answer summarizes kind of the theme throughout the interview which is going crazy and having a lot of fun is for us right fans get to dream us meaning the GND radio program and then fans of the team and everybody watching them can have calls like our buddy Mo and Largo card earlier and is like yeah I feel like they're going to the Super Bowl I'm just sort of tongue in cheek right we get to do that they're supposed to do exactly what he just said we won the game that's awesome right and we have a huge challenge ahead of us and then a whole bunch of others they've got 12 more games they're probably gonna have to line up and play them all you know what I mean nobody's awarding anybody anything just yet and their attitude in the approach isn't we've arrived it's this is great that's fun we've got a lot of work to do and you can see that sort of thematically that's a leadership down thing which I love.