Adrian needs work. He can polish a lot of things up to become a better and better player, and he's aware of that. I think this can really help him. When you think of the time he has lost - spring last year, two-a-days the year before - he's playing on a lot of raw ability and I think some of this practice time can really benefit him. |
All those guys are coming in ready to play at some point. |
As soon as I saw him go up for the ball I knew it wasn't going to be dropped. He doesn't drop balls. |
At this point, we anticipate him playing, ... Start or not depends on how we feel practice is going, what we feel we need to do. Depending on what further happens from here, we'll see. |
Brent's an excellent coach, so if that's something that goes in a positive direction, I'm all for it. |
But I feel overall that coming into the year that we would have been stronger and better than we have been. You can name a bunch of reasons why we haven't been. Blame it on me. That's fine. |
But there are other parts of what we do here as college students and on a college team that also need to be fulfilled. |
By no means am I sitting here saying that Paul Thompson is responsible for the way we played Saturday. That's not the case. We had a lot of guys, mostly older guys, play as poorly as I have seen them play. We feel Rhett deserves the same opportunity that Paul had. |
Congratulations to Texas, they played an excellent football game. The team, coaches and players really executed well and made big plays. Our compliments go out to them. They are an excellent football team, which we knew coming in, and they showed it again today. |
Defensively, it was kind of frustrating. I have to compliment their quarterback. He did such a good job. What an excellent competitor. |
Disappointed across the board, definitely. I told the players, 'Just because you had it before doesn't mean you're going to do it again.' Maybe they tune me out. |
Don't anyone ever tell me that Adrian Peterson isn't tough. Guys like him don't come around all the time. |
Each day he's gotten more and more confident, knocking the rust off. Larry brings a lot of energy defensively, just with his attitude and all. Having him available to play to some degree hopefully will be a boost for us. |
Even if it goes against us, I told (the official), I thought it was fair, |
Even if it goes against us, I told (the official), I thought it was fair. |