Bacon is a really good-looking kid who can do a lot of nice things. There's a lot of good about Powell. He's got a frame that could allow him to play a couple of different positions. And everybody knows Tiger James. He was looked at by a couple of different schools. |
From talking to these (coaches), they like what they're seeing. I think right now that he's second-day, probably a fourth-round guy. I don't know how much he can move up from there because of the talent above him. I don't think he could slip much farther than that, though. |
Getting off to a good start like that was big. Whenever you play a team like Southern, getting out front quick is a big key. |
He'll be a player for us. He's a young guy, so we'll have to get him in here and see how he does. But with our situation, he'll have a shot. |
I don't have anyone in mind that I want to call. I'm just going to go through the resumes and make some calls and find the right guy. One thing I know for sure is that I've got to get an experienced offensive line coach in here to take over and stay consistent in that area. But I don't have anyone in mind for it. |
I don't think either of them are serious. They may just be fatigue more than anything. We'll have to get back and look at it, but neither looked very serious. |
I feel good about these guys. I think all of them can come in and help up right away. That was our reasoning for going after these guys -- we needed experience. And these guys provide some quality, college-level, game experience. |
I knew it was going to happen. You could just feel it coming on. You could just tell that we weren't taking this team as serious as we should've been. I can't put my finger on why I feel that way, but you could just tell. |
I lashed them pretty good. I'm just so tired of it. There's nothing more we can do as coaches. It's up to these guys to play up to their capabilities. |
I think he's really beginning to catch a lot of eyes out there. He's just a little raw right now, because he's never had an experienced quarterbacks coach work with him. But you don't get the kind of interest he is if teams aren't liking what they see and what they hear about him. He's obviously impressed the scouts, and the teams are sending coaches to check him out. |
I think it was a high blood pressure thing. We took him over there and he was being checked out, but his blood pressure was way up. |
I think we've done pretty well. I feel like we've got a lot of the kinds of players we went after. We've got some good athletes in here. |
I was pleased. We got the guys we knew were coming and didn't lose anybody at the last minute. I think we're all pretty excited about this group. |
I wasn't pleased with the way we played in the second half. It seemed like we just got complacent. You can't do that in this conference. We won the game and everybody's happy, but if you do that against Southern or Grambling, they'll be back in the ballgame on you. |
I would be shocked to see him fall past the fourth round. From the people I've talked to, I'm thinking there's a good chance he could be taken in the third round. A lot of that fourth- and fifth-round talk started after his combine work when some people still had some questions about him. But since then, he's held a lot of workouts for different teams and answered a lot of those questions. He's been moving up. |