Head coach Sean McDermott emphasized before practice that as a team, particularly on defense, that they will go back to their fundamentals to ensure that their standard is met.
"Trust the routine and trust the process is certainly one approach," McDermott said. "It's certainly what I subscribe to. But within that is you better bring your heart, you better bring your guts, you better put it on the line, you better give max effort, you better put it on the line… It's the approach and the preparation and the mindset has always been the mindset of this is football. You've got to bring it every day, every week."
Allen and DT DeWayne Carter reiterated the trust the process approach that McDermott spoke about.
"I think we just continue to trust the process," Allen said. "Don't change anything after wins, obviously trying to make corrections after wins as well and that's all we're trying to do. We're trying to stick to what we know, learn from what happened and move on."