Bucs head coach Dirk Koetter took to the podium after his team’s 19-17 upset of the Chiefs on the road Sunday. Below is a full transcript of the press conference.

Can you discuss Alterraun Verner coming in, he made some plays? “We felt like all season corner was a position that we had good depth at and Alterraun’s had to kind of wait his turn. He has a lot of experience in this league and when he went in I fully expected him to play well and he did. He did a nice job, gave up the one deep one but other than that he played well. I don’t think Brent Grimes is too serious of an injury but it’s great when it happens that early, it happened on like the third play of the game, to have a guy that can go in there and play like Alterraun did.”

This is a tough place to play it’s a good team, what does this victory say about your team? “That’s for you guys to say, but today we were a really good football team. Today we played well in all phases, defense minus a few plays, played really strong. Offense we had good mix, special teams held up their end. This is a very tough, a team that’s won 17 of I think their last 19 games and shoot I’m proud of these guys for the way we came in here, awesome atmosphere, always an awesome place to play here at Arrowhead and we played good football today.”

Two games in a row now that Chris Conte has made an interception like that, I hope your head is okay. I don’t think he head butted you again, but what does it say about him the fact that he’s been able to make plays like that? “Great for him, we just got a nice hug this time. That was a big play because that would have been, they were in automatic field goal range and then the decision to bring it out and take that thing as far as he did, that was probably the biggest single play of the game.”

Can you talk about Roberto’s [Aguayo] ability to kick in elements that aren’t conducive to field goal kick? “It’s not like we were in Siberia today, it wasn’t terrible out there but Roberto had a good day, he had his best day as a pro and Roberto was clutch today. You could probably ask kickers in a lot of other cities that have kicked in far worse weather than that. For Roberto that might have been bad, but for Kansas City at Thanksgiving time, this was a beautiful day.”

How hard was it to execute on third down the way you did today with Jameis [Winston]? “That number, when Nelson [Luis] told me the number I didn’t believe it. I thought that was a misprint. First of all Jameis [Winston] was out of sight today. That’s as good of quarterback play of however many years I’ve been in the league now, Jameis he was awesome all day. Jameis played a great game, we gave him the game ball already so we don’t have to wait until the next time I see you, Jameis got the game ball. There was other plays to be made but from the first play all the way through Jameis was outstanding.”

You thought Roberto Aguayo was turning a corner in practice but wanted to see it in a game. Was this that game? “I hope so. Yeah. That’s what he should be saying. We couldn’t punch it in. These guys are really tough in the red zone. They’re tough to score on. It’s not like we were doing anything wrong, no one is scoring points on these guys. We had a couple things we thought we could take advantage of, but they shut us down. We needed all those field goals.”

Talk about the play of Alan Cross. You put him in at fullback a few times and he did well. “That’s actually the same play we scored on in the Rams game. It’s a two-man game and the most popular goal line pass play in the NFL. It’s just a little motion on there to dress it up a little. Luke Stocker was doubtful and didn’t practice much this week so we played [Brandon] Myers and Alan Cross more in this game. Alan Cross is a good football player. He’s one of those guys that is always overlooked but then when you go back and watch the tape you say, ‘That guy is doing what he’s supposed to do.’ We’ve been trying to get him a little more involved.”

Your team just beat the best team in the AFC record-wise, on the road and in a place they don’t lose very much. What does that say about the Buccaneers and what they’re doing right now? “That’s for you guys to say. Today we played good football in all three phases. I’m proud of our guys and proud of our coaches. What it says in the big picture, I don’t know.”

This team has come together in a lot of areas. Is this a team that can win a lot of games like this? “We got a good football team coming to Tampa Bay next week. We’ve got a whole new set of problems. We’ll start worrying about that later. We’re going to enjoy this one for now.”

Cecil Shorts has been playing pretty good football the last couple of weeks. What did he do today that allowed him to be successful at the line of scrimmage? “I thought all of our receivers: Mike [Evans] six catches for 105 yards, Cecil [Shorts] five for 62 yards, Adam [Humphries] four for 47 yards, [Russell] Shepard three for 54 yards — our receivers came up big. When they got their chances to make plays, they made them and that’s all you can ask of anybody.”

Your quarterback on Wednesday I think it was, he printed out a letter for the players and read it – how unusual is that and what it meant? “Yeah, Jameis [Winston] came to me last Saturday night – a week ago Saturday night before the Chicago game and had his letter written on a notepad, and asked me. I thought he was talking about doing it for the Chicago game, and he said, ‘No, Coach. After we beat Chicago, I want to do it on Wednesday of Kansas City week.’ I said, ‘Yeah, of course. That’s fantastic.’ It was a fantastic letter. He read it to the guys on Wednesday after practice. He just reminded them about it in there. Jameis is a special guy. We would never, ever question his leadership or his toughness, but the way he controlled the game today, other than a very brief stint at the start of the third quarter, he was as accurate as I’d seen him, made great decisions and took care of the football. He played really good today.”

The Chris Conte interception – you guys were able to take the ball and then put it in? “That was a huge turnaround. Yeah, what is that – 10 point turnaround right there because they were going to at least get a field goal. As a single, individual play that was the play of the game.”

Is this as disciplined as your team has played in a while? “Again, you guys judge discipline – I don’t judge that. That’s for you guys to judge about that. Ira [Kaufman] asked me that the other day, if we were more disciplined on the road than we are at home, again, that’s for you to judge. We’re trying to be disciplined all the time, but I don’t know.”

Pretty good decisions overall, right? “Really good.”

On what was in the letter that Jameis Winston wrote to his team? “I’m not going to get into that. If he wants to, but that’s a personal thing with Jameis [Winston]. I would never get into that.”