A lot of things are going through your head when the game's getting tight. We had to make a play. Let me tell you something, I don't want to walk out of this stadium with a loss. |
And I saw how hard that was, ... I sure could have used instant replay for that. |
Been like that all summer. We've got to keep that intact. |
But we had 500 or something total yards, so we're not about that. |
Everybody's older. We do so much work against blitz pick-ups, so we're pretty confident about everything and Drew has a fast release. |
For one, we were putting (our defensive) guys in bad field position. And another thing, we weren't giving them any breaks. Those guys need to be able to go on the sidelines, catch their breath and regroup. When the offense is going three-and-out, it's like (the defense) has hardly been off the field. |
He's steady. You're not going to see him taking any losses. He might not be as fast as all of us. I'll be honest with you, I don't know how he pulls it off and I ask him sometimes, but he gets yards and you can't be mad at that. |
How can you post us No. 1? ... I don't really give too much merit to that because they don't know what they're talking about. |
I can't really play with Iowa too much, because you don't want to play using yourself. When you play using yourself, you try to get yourself the ball every play instead of trying to win it. |
I don't pay too much attention to what the score was from their last game. They could've won by 50. (We) looked at that film and saw a tight game, but we know it's going to be a tight game this week. |
I think it's ideal, I like it. You can never have enough backs. Especially after last year. |
It felt like every time I was running I didn't have a good base under me, |
It's better to get things right. |
It's going to be a long film session for the defense to watch, ... I don't have to watch 101 plays. There was a point where it seemed like, 'Man, we haven't been out there in a while.' |
It's tough to explain. We just couldn't finish. We'd get close down to their territory and they'd get a big sack. That would change the whole scheme of things. We know we have a better offense than that. |