The Bucs had a big win both on the road and on a short week against the Carolina Panthers on Thursday. Thanks in part to a great defensive performance led by Shaq Barrett and a gigantic fourth down stop by Vernon Hargreaves III to save the game, the Bucs held Carolina to only field goals (and a safety) in their 20-14 win.

That victory for Tampa Bay was also the first win for Bruce Arians as the Bucs’ head coach. After the game, Arians spoke with the media to discuss their win. Here is a full transcript from Arians’ press conference.

Opening Statement
“They won that one in spite of me. Obviously the double timeout was stupid and it was a situation where I had called timeout, Todd didn’t realize it, coach called timeout, we always do that. It almost cost us the game but it didn’t, our defense stood oup and made a hell of a play. Really proud of how our defense played all night, I thought we handled McCaffrey extremely well, Olson on the other hand gave us a little problem, but I’d rather have him give us a problem than McCaffrey. I thought Todd had a great plan coming in and our guys played for 60 minutes, it wasn’t perfect but we played extremely hard for 60 minutes. I thought obviously our run game is building strides, last week I thought was good, I thought tonight was really good against a hell of a front. To come in here and win is a hard thing to do so we’re really really pleased.”

On the play of Shaq Barrett
“Yeah Shaq, he beat about two or three different dudes. I can’t say enough about him, he had one last week and I think that’s the type of year he’s going to have. He can rush the passer.”

On the last play and the tackle by Vernon Hargreaves
“It was a great tackle by Vernon just to drive and to keep a good running back out of the end zone, let alone get a first down. It was a great play by Vernon.”

On Kevin Minter coming in for an injured Devin White
“I’ll give Kevin a game ball. Kevin jumps in there, he’s a pro, he’s always ready to roll. Devin I don’t think is that serious, we didn’t want to take a chance with him and we knew we had a veteran going in there to call the defensive play.”

On the play of Jameis Winston
“I thought he was outstanding. He had a hell of a week as far as mentally getting ready for this ballgame. I think that’s the type of game he can play, I didn’t think he played that bad last week, he had the one bad play, but tonight he was really spot on.”

On how the defense played
“That’s two weeks in a row we did a great job of not giving up tocuhdowns and defending every blade of grass. That’s what we talk about all the time is it’s not over till it’s over. They’ve done a hell of a job for two weeks.”

On his previously struggles defeating the Panthers in the past
“Especially here, especially here. I’ve lost a lot of games here, big ones. This was special, something to build to go home, stack a couple wins hopefully, get ready for New York. We got a lot of guys beat up, this was a very physical game so we need the three days off. It really came at a good time.”

On if the injury to Jamel Dean is serious
“No the X-rays came back negative, it’s just a shock to his tibia.”

On the game played by Peyton Barber
“Like you said, I’m going to ride the hot hand. RoJo had a nice run but he kind of came out limping and said he was okay. Then Peyton had the hot hand and just was breaking tackles, moving the chains, there were a lot of really good four and five-yard runs in that whole game.”

On those runs setting up the pass game
“That sets up the play-action, that sets up the easy touchdown pass to Chris [Godwin] because they’re in there.”

On how comfortable Chris Godwin is in this offense
“The guy physical, he’s a blocker, and that’s going to give him touchdown passes.”

On getting his first win as the Bucs head coach
“You always want to get that first one off your back, you know? The guys have bought in, they gave us everything. We did some dumb things in the first half but we were in the same situation last week…one-point lead coming out of halftime, this time the defense stopped them, offense had a good drive, then we gave up the saftey. Couple of dumb things happened but there was no panic on the sideline. Guys were convinced we were going to win that ball game.”

On the importance of getting a NFC South win on the road
“Oh huge, a road win in the division is always big, it’s going to help us. We don’t have this game at home, we have to go London to play them again, so, this was big getting it here.”