They took him through the mud, pretty much. He was a good man. |
Thomas had no intent, nor did he harm anyone. He was wrong in departing from where he was, and he accepts that responsibility. He knows that there are consequences, and he is in the process of responding to those consequences. |
Thomas is a better back than what you saw today. I'm not saying he was bad, he wasn't bad at all. I saw Thomas do some things during our two a day period that were awfully good, that I did not see him do before, and I expected him to do that today, but we didn't get to see it. When he feels comfortable with it and can do that, that just adds to his game. |
We have to let things settle down a little bit. It's not what it appears to be. And I'm not in position to tell you, to elaborate on that. But I don't think it's quite the issue that it was made out to be initially. |
We spent a lot of time looking backward, and that was out of necessity. What has taken place is we've worked very diligently and hard collectively, our staff and our players, to define exactly what the issues were from this past season. |
Well, how do you want me to measure it, ... On a scale of one to 10, we were a zero. |
You don't have a good running game unless your offensive line is doing well. I think we made some progress after making some unforced errors. It was a little shady but we got better and better as an offensive team in the second half. |
Young people are resilient and can get up at early times. They just like to play. We're not going to make a major issue of it. |