It would be huge for this team's confidence. We didn't show a lot of maturity at Iowa State, and this is another challenge. |
It's been good having Abdul here this week. We've been together for the last four years. We've complemented each other on the field over the years at Iowa, but this week, we're here to improve ourselves in front of the NFL. |
It's been such a great run - 38 wins in four years and four January bowl games. We don't have a lot to complain about. |
It's just completely two different worlds. But that's the beauty of America; you can come from different places and you can end up in the same place. |
Right now we're feeling pretty good about our special teams. We've had a great punting game, our protection's been good and I think our kickoff team's one of the best in the Big Ten, right now. |
That was typical of what the refs were doing today. But it's not about that. It's about Florida beating us. They outplayed us today. |
The first time I ever played 11-man football was when I came to college. It was the first I'd ever seen 11 men on a football field. I never played in an all-star game. My only Division I offer was Iowa. You basically didn't have any choices. You were going there or you didn't, and when I got there, it's not really any different. It's still about tackling and catching and running. |
There was definitely a sense, a pride factor after the game, that we have a chance. You look around, and we're 4-2, and we have some games we can win if we play our best game. If we play like we did Saturday, we can win the majority of our games we have left. It's ironic how it happened last year, but it's the exact same situation we're in right now. |
They kind of saw that and I think they really thought I could take my cover skills as a safety and move them to linebacker, and it worked out perfectly. I weigh 245, and I'm actually a lot faster than I was when I came here. |
They recruited me as an athlete. Whatever that means. |
Under the radar? I wasn't even on the radar. I was on the ground. |
We could play another one right now. I honestly didn't know they had that many plays. I walked in here and (a reporter) said they had 101. It seemed like they had 70. I guess they added up (when) the offense scores quickly and we didn't get off the field in some situations. |
We did not play Iowa football and you have to give credit to Iowa State. ISU was prepared and shut us down. |
We had never had that this year. We were doing some things (Saturday) we hadn't done. We were getting off the field as a defense on third down. We were driving and pounding the ball on offense. We really had a lot of confidence in what we were doing. |
We have to adjust our defense to a certain play. We've done it every year since I've been here. It was really ridiculous, the call. You can't blame a game on the ref. You can't do it. It was just really weird to have that call happen because if you adjust your defense you have to do it. What do you want us to do? |