Defensively we have to find a way to keep them out of the end zone. College football has changed. Everyone has the ability to spread you out and it's not easy to stop them for four downs. |
Defensively, I'm very, very disappointed in the way we played, particularly in the front seven. I don't think we played well at all up there. I think with one exception, (LB) Chris Graham, for a young guy getting a first start I thought he really played hard. He made a lot of plays. We're just not where we need to be. We need to play harder. We need to play more physical. That is our intent. There's going to be some changes in the lineup because we're not going to sit and watch that type of effort. We need to play harder, we need to play tougher. |
Defensively, it's become an assignment game. It's had an unbelievable impact. |
ever stop thinking about them. |
Every program has goals and you have to decide, do you still have the same goals, because when you look around at what's happened in the first two weeks, a lot of very good football teams have lost. I don't think at this stage anybody is out of anything unless you've lost two games. |
Everybody is disappointed. And yet everybody is resolute to try to do the things we need to do to turn the season around. |
First and foremost, when you get off to a start like this after very high expectations that you have as a group of people, you have to maintain an attitude that you're not going to be distracted by all the things that go around you, |
For the guys that are going into it for the first time or the first time they're going to play in this game, there's a lot of things that they don't know yet and they're going to find out in a hurry, |
He ended up fighting for his life. |
He felt a pop. It's really too bad because he's done such a great job. His family had moved to Texas, and his dad was going to get a chance to see him play, and he didn't play. |
He has a tremendous attitude. He's very optimistic. He's very positive. |
He has really improved his throwing from the standpoint of seeing the field. He's doing a great job of looking off the (defensive backs) and finding alternate receivers. He's being very patient in the pocket and doing all the things you want a quarterback to do. |
He is an incredible competitor, |
He knows exactly what he did wrong, |
He understands that I have great confidence in him, |