A balanced offense will make Drew Tate a more effective and dangerous quarterback, ... If he can lean on a good, consistent running game, that'll be a real plus for us. |
Absolutely not a word, |
Actually, our plan was to win every game that we were involved in, ... So we've missed. |
After that game, we probably would have signed on for any bowl that would have taken us. I probably would have signed in blood that evening. I'm glad that we didn't, but at that point there were all kinds of things racing through all of our minds. |
After what they saw (last week), I'm sure that'll give them more encouragement, and rightfully so. |
Any concerns they may have had offensively coming in, it looks like they cured them today. |
As you saw today, we haven't exactly got it mastered yet up front. |
At times, I've wondered how in the heck we've ended up with seven wins at this point. |
Ball security and pass protection -- two things we really needed last year -- he gave us. |
Based on the way things went today, I don't have an awful lot to complain about. Offensively, we haven't looked that sharp since we got started here in August. I think they were really focused on what they were doing and played a pretty clean game. |
Bob Sanders wasn't the biggest guy coming out of Erie, Pa., but I don't think anybody would dispute that he was a pretty good player for us. |
Bryan's rebounded well (from the injury) and has been at full speed through the whole camp. He's done a great job and he's earned the starting job. |
But he was a second-year guy on campus and a first-year starter, and those things are very natural. To me, the whole key is his attitude and that's been excellent. |
By the end of the season, we're going to need all of those guys. That's part of the decision to not redshirt Ryan Bain and Alex -- we realize over the long haul of the season we're going to need a real group effort. |
Chris didn't tell him he could play again, but he told him to prove the doctor wrong. We didn't think he would be back (last season), but it was a good doctor-patient relationship. |