We are real excited that he is out, |
We can rotate the guys who have playing experience. I'm not sure there are any freshmen ready to play. |
We didn't have our poise in the first half and that is something that if you don't have it against a good football team at home, it is going to be ugly. |
We feel better about our offensive line now than when we first got here in fall camp. Especially the last 7-10 days, they've done a real nice job. |
We felt like if we come out with a great attitude and get after these guys and play physical type football then we could move the ball. |
We had a draw play called, ... which probably wouldn't have worked. |
We had a good plan with getting him in there early. I think we'll continue to do that. Marlon's role will obviously pick up if Mark's hurt and can't go this week. That's one of the reasons we wanted to try him in there. |
We had high expectations for him because we know how hard he works and we know how talented he is, ... At times, he has with some of those scrambles and things like that. |
We had to find a way to finish strong. We hadn't done that in two years. We hadn't won a game at the end of the year yet. And we wanted to do that for our football team and especially for our seniors. |
We hit Keith on a quick screen and two of our linemen had to make some downfield blocks. Keith set them up great and not many people can catch Keith Brown in the open field. |
We know we're in for a tough one, maybe the toughest one all year. |
We need to find an identity. I think we've had good leadership, but when you get out here in the stadium in front of some more people -- just like obviously when the season comes with a lot more people in the crowd -- that's when we really need that leadership. I thought it was a little bit lacking in that area today. |
We need to pick up where we left off mentality-wise. We had a physical football team. We need to continue with that and understand how important that's going to be for us. |
We need to see the improvement and the consistency. I think we've seen some really good things from both guys, and some things that have been average. |
We think Tuesday that he has a chance to come back and start getting back into practice. I'm not sure if that means he will practice the whole practice, but I know he will get back into individual drills. He's on schedule, if not ahead of schedule. |