The last three games have not really been a factor, so to speak, on whether we needed to really improve. We've found out a lot more about some of the players who we had question marks about. |
The more games you play, the more chance you have of playing a bad game on offense. Your defense can play good every week as long as they play hard. It's a lot easier to play defense than it is offense. |
The next few days, he'll visit a couple teams (to) see if there's any interest that he's wanted to get back into the NFL. We'd love for David to stay. He's done a great job for us, but I don't want anybody on my staff that doesn't have aspirations of a future in whatever they want to do. He did a good job for us. |
The problem we had last year was people ganged up on our running game, ... We've already got a good running game, a good play-action passing game. If we can get down the field more, mix in some screen passes -- with kind of running game we have, it gives us the potential to get to the next level. |
The problem we had last year was people ganged up on our running game. We've already got a good running game, a good play-action passing game. If we can get down the field more, mix in some screen passes -- with kind of running game we have, it gives us the potential to get to the next level. |
The rest of the week we'll get our legs back and start pulling back on the contact. |
The thing I told Auburn fans when I took this job is that we want a sound, solid program where our players get an education, do things right on and off the field, and when we line up on Saturdays, we have a chance to win. |
Their defensive front is the best we've seen, |
Their quarterback did a great job getting the ball downfield. That's the best offense we've seen. |
There are no professional sports in the state, so the Auburn-Alabama game is the Super Bowl in the state. The fans are very passionate and truly make the rivalry what it is. |
There was a little more contact today. We had a goal line session at the end that wasn't live all the way. One thing we wanted to do today was mix up the run and the pass. We did a lot more blitz. We looked pretty good. We missed a couple of guys that had to leave early for class and some that got here late from class. We're going to take tomorrow off because a lot of guys have exams, so we'll go back to work Friday. |
There was no doubt who was going to win this football game after the first 5 or 6 minutes. Our guys came out and made a statement. |
There were some battles and we always lose some and we always win some. They even out. This year we probably won more than we have in the last few years. We needed that to happen. |
There'll be some guys who I don't need to see Saturday, but we haven't decided on that yet. There will be several guys who won't get very much contact. It will be for mostly the younger guys. |
There's no reason to complain about it. That's why I didn't complain about it last year. I know the system. We knew it going into the year. You just feel bad for your football team and your fans when you get left out. That's life. I think a lot of our players learned from it. Our fans learned from it. I learned from it. |