We played pretty much a four-man front for years around here and we played against people with a four-man front. ... If you get good enough playing a three-man front we don't care what they play against in practice. |
We used to be pretty good on the goal line. But somewhere along the line, we've lost it. They wanted to get in more than we wanted to keep them out. |
We would have had a hard time beating (season-opening opponent) Miami today. |
We're disappointed. What it presents now is a challenge for someone to take over. We have to ask our freshmen not to play like freshmen. |
We're not playing hard enough, we're not playing mean enough, and we're not finishing plays. We're just way too nice. We would have won the Mister Friendly contest out there. |
We're still having too many breakdowns - getting people out of position. Too many penalties. They don't do anything if we don't give them four penalties in the first half. |
Weights, running, overall conditioning — everything. Not just because he had to, but because he really and truly wanted to do whatever it took to make himself better. He understood, you know? Some guys get it and some guys don't. |
When we turned that thing over to them that last day, it was the best senior day and the best response out of underclassmen when the seniors were conducting the drills. We just need more younger guys (as leaders). You don't need just seniors to lead. |
You can prevent penalties -- just don't do anything. We could go out there today and I promise you play 60 minutes and never get a penalty. But we aren't going to be any good on defense either. |
You got to be a winner, and bring coaches and players that winning is important too, and want to do their best. I think another thing is that coach (Bowden) has hobbies (and) priorities that are set and he has ways to keep himself from burning out. I don't think his competitive spirit has dropped any. |
You've got to have passion to play football. We had it on the goal line. But we didn't play like that all the time on the field. |