Ray is a mature young man. You can talk to him like a man and he listens. And there's competition. Competition always keeps everyone's head on straight. |
Right now, with where we are with this program ... we still have a lot of things that are out there on the table for us. One of them is to secure a bowl bid and play good football. |
Ryan has been a consummate team player and really helped Mike and helped the offense. We just felt overall that (Teel) gives us a better chance to be a successful offense. It was a tough, tough decision. And if it was that hard and we still did it, there's a strong a strong belief in what Mike Teel can do. |
Ryan has grown as quarterback in that he really understands what defenses are trying to do to us and he understands his own game. |
Sometimes you make a play like that interception in the end zone and you stem the tide and find a way to win. We interfered. |
That's something that gets overlooked by a lot of people. Clark did a great job when he filled in, but he hasn't done it in a while. We'll need to make sure we put a lot of pressure on him this spring and get him ready. |
That's something the players came up with. |
The greatest in their game have their off days. |
The running backs are the strengths of their football team. They have quality players who can do a number of things for their team. |
The twins will get a lot of work. Jason will play, and Devin may play. |
There definitely will be some special plays. It's never easy to prepare for an opening game with a new staff filled with NFL experience. |
There were points in the game where the momentum could have swung in the other direction. It was the first time the entire team had a fighting, chopping wood attitude the entire game. |
They're a team we really don't know a heck of a lot about so we just need to prepare for everything and adjust on the run as the game evolves. |
They're both doing things at different periods that show you that they can be the guy to help us in that situation. Mike's got a little stronger arm, can get the ball down the field a little better and Ryan's experienced. |
They're not always tip-to-tip blowouts. |