Don't say that. Don't even think it. |
Going on the road against a team like Nebraska that's getting a lot of scores off turnovers and is pressuring the quarterback, he's just got to make better decisions, |
He's so conscientious. He wants to know everything about every play. He wants to know what every other guy is doing. Sometimes, I have to reel him in a little and remind him he has to worry about what he has to do. But, believe me, I'm not complaining. |
I don't know that there's anybody that good, at any position - and I'll speak offensively - including our quarterback. |
I had no excuses that day. I was healthy. Even now, I know we still would have had to beat Penn State. But if we had won the Notre Dame game and gotten on a roll ... |
I learned a lot the year we won the Super Bowl in Baltimore (with the Ravens). I made mistakes, but I'm also not usually someone who dwells on the great things that happen, either. I can be critical of myself and the people around me, and I want to improve all the time. |
I learned the hard way that the college hash [marks] make it a much tougher throw. There's a lot that I'm still learning, and that was a prime example. |
I really believe if we had won that game, we would have gone all the way. |
I take credit or blame for a couple of the losses. I thought I called some poor games offensively, and I didn't give our players a chance to execute some plays. ... So, I've got a lot of improvement to make. It's not just the players. |
It got pretty hot, pretty smoky, pretty fast in there. There's evidence that they might have still been in there when it was burning pretty hot ... and we are going to catch them. |
It's been two games. We hit a couple in the first game, but we didn't get any in the second one. So I don't know that we're going to push a panic button yet. |
LaRod had a good summer. We're going to be careful that we don't overload him. |
Obviously, getting the turnovers under control is a big thing for us this week. I think Tyler was embarrassed by some of the decision-making that went down in the Ohio game. Going on the road against a team like Nebraska that's getting a lot of scores off turnovers and is pressuring the quarterback, he's just got to make better decisions. |
Our receivers have to get back to some balls, and our line has to protect a little better. So there's a lot involved, but if we can go into this game and just cut down the turnovers, we'll have a chance. |
Rashad has a chance to be a good back -- maybe a special back. He's a big, strong kid who can run people over. |