Nobody promises you anything. We've had a lot to deal with when you look at the entire season and all that's happened in a short amount of time. You do the best you can to fight through it and you keep working. |
Now, it's more building their confidence. That's where we're at, ... We have to just do our job, do it as hard as we can do it and just play smarter. If we do that alone, we've got a chance to improve. Just not making mistakes and take care of the ball. |
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Offensively, I think we took a step back today. I don't think we executed very well in anything that we were doing. |
On both sides of the ball I see strong discipline, very good schemes, and players that play in a physical way. They play hard. That's why they win so often. |
On offense, if you`re going to allow people to penetrate and knock you back, you don`t have much of a chance, ... I don`t care what your schemes are or what your great pass patterns are if the guys that you`re facing are hitting you or forcing the guy to throw or sacking him. |
Once, he was a little mad that we only gave him one yard on a run. I said, 'Don't' worry about it. You'll get plenty of yards.' I guess that was a way to keep his pride a little bit while wearing blue. |
Our expectations are always high. I don't know why anybody could ever argue why they wouldn't be. Once our expectations are set, this is what we're after, and then it gets down to each game. |
Our imagination as a staff, and Chuck's imagination with the offensive staff is to move the football, |
Playing a team that's 10-1 gets your attention big-time. Our players recognize it as a major challenge. It does excite them. |
Really, our expectations will not change. I say it every year. We respect Texas. We've been on both sides of it. We've been picked behind them before, and we've been picked ahead of them before. We'll get off the bus when it's time to play. |
Really, the second quarter there, late in the second quarter was really the breaking point. |
Rhett Bomar made a lot of plays, which will continue to give him confidence. He was much better in executing our passing game. |
Rhett was pretty average. Just OK. |
Rufus Alexander made probably the biggest play of the game down at the goal line, and he got the ball back for us. |