After dropping both match-ups against New Orleans in the regular season, the Bucs battled back and beat the Saints 30-20 on Sunday to clinch a spot in the NFC Championship against the Packers next week. Despite a slow start, four turnovers forced by the Bucs’ defense and 17 unanswered points to finish the game allowed Tampa Bay to get past New Orleans and live to play another game.

Head coach Bruce Arians spoke to the media following the Bucs’ win on Sunday. Read the full transcript below.

On the plan for the Bucs’ defense coming into Sunday’s game
“I think that our guys knew that they had to play tight coverage. We’re coming in, we’re going to play man-to-man and get on them, not let them get going, not let [Drew Brees] dink-and-dunk and then get after him, get him off the spot, make him throw on the move. Then they ran the ball pretty good on us there for a spurt, but once we got the lead we kind of had them where we wanted them.”

On Devin White
“It was great. Just to see Devin make those plays and that’s what he’s capable of making. Everybody was criticizing him that he can’t cover anybody, I think he just proved that he can.”

On the mentality of this team and defense to have this performance after their performance in Week 9
“This is a different football team than that week. I tried to tell everyone that and no one wants to believe it, but this is how we’re capable of playing. Defensively we’ve had some rough spots at times, but we’ve had some really, really good times and this is one of the best times.”

On Leonard Fournette and Ronald Jones II
“It was a great combination to have [Jones] healthy again and then Leonard playing really good but the blocking unit did a great job of blocking these guys and the tight ends especially, the last time we played them our tight ends struggled with these big guys. Joe Haeg did a great job and [Rob Gronkowski] did a great job also.”

On no turnovers from the offense again
“Going into the game we knew, all week, we have to protect the football. Protect your quarterback and protect the football and take it away. That was the outcome in the game, that’s what decided the game, it was going to be the turnovers and we talked about that all week.”

On the locker room after the game
“It’s jamming pretty good right now. I don’t have any dance moves so I’m not in it.”

On holding Michael Thomas to zero catches
“Carlton [Davis] has played him well over the years and he’s a physical corner and I think Todd [Bowles] had a great game plan for all of our guys. [Jared] Cook and Deonte Harris were the guys that scared me, but guys really punched the ball out, got one from Cook, got the interception from him. The guys really stepped up.”

On Aaron Stinnie and the offensive line
“Tom was clean most of the day, he did a really good job I thought protecting the ball, not taking any chances and they got close a couple of times. But yeah, Aaron Stinnie played his tail off, I knew he would. He’s been around now for a year-and-a-half, two years, and he’s a good little player.”

On how high this ranks among his biggest wins
“It’s up there, probably with the Green Bay win in Arizona that put us in the championship game, then it went to overtime. I’m looking forward to going back to work this week and playing another great team this week, different circumstances and getting ready to play.”

On Antoine Winfield Jr.’s turnover
“It really was [a game-changer] and I can’t say enough about him. To me he’s Defensive Rookie of the Year and 7.5 sacks
isn’t anything [compared] to what he’s done.”

On if he had any doubts whether this team would put it together this year
“No, I just saw the steady progress. We battled through some injuries, losing Vita [Vea], losing O.J. [Howard] and those guys. And we battled through some injuries today, I mean [Jack] Cichy breaks his arm on the first punt and we’re down to three linebackers. Guys stepped up there at the end of the game, we were almost out of corners, but I can’t say enough about our guys. It’s a very resilient team and these guys work. And they have a great belief in each other.”

On the fourth down conversion early in the game from their own territory
“I had a lot of confidence that we’d get it done and Tom does a really good job on that stuff and got us in the right play. We had a couple plays called and he could take the sneak if he wants it.”