The backup offense I thought was poor. The backup defense I thought was good for a period of time. |
The biggest thing I can say is I felt like from start to finish we played hard as a team. |
The fact that Alabama played real well on defense...I don't think that takes away from either side. I think both teams are good teams. |
The first drive of the second half was the most significant drive of the game. They controlled the ball in the second half, keeping our offense off the field. |
The one thing that I discovered about European sports is that they're really good with their feet. I had my choice of something like six kickers, ... But to make a long story short, they didn't do much with their hands. ... As far as catching and throwing, it's not a big part of their arsenal. |
The score affects the clock and it affects the plays you select, but it should not affect how hard you try. We had some cases where it did, and we'll be addressing that Sunday. |
The speed impacted our margin of error. |
The thing that Alabama did a good job of is that they didn't leave you any slack. It was frustrating because I never felt like we were really clicking. |
Their speed impacted our margin of error. Everything coming faster, their ability to react, even when we got them in a bind they were able to react quickly. |
There was Lance Funderburk, ... He's got big hands like Lance. He does have these mitts. The Hodges have big hands and feet. |
There's going to be times a guy's having a tough day or tough series or something like that, but you're not going to have the ability to develop through it unless you stick with it, ... There's times where you've got to make a change, but I don't think changing for the sake of changing is necessarily the (proper approach). You've invested a certain amount of time in developing a guy, in giving him reps, so I think generally the thing to do if he's having a bad day is to settle him down, not switch him out. |
They both surprised me. And I think a lot of it had to do with how relentless they were as far as watching film. You'd wander through the building late at night, and they'd be in there watching film. |
They challenged us. They said, 'Here, try to run past us, try to run inside us.' And they were better at preventing that than we were throwing and catching it. |
They dominated field position, put us in the position where we had to move the ball a long ways in order to score. We successfully moved it part of the way. We didn't move all the way in most instances. |
They hit harder than we did. They ran faster than we did. They wanted to win the game more than we did. |