We take nothing for granted sitting here at 1-0. It was great to win but ... hopefully with that open date we can make huge gains because we made an awful lot of mistakes in that opener. |
We're going to treat it like tryouts, and after the week, we're making our decisions and we're going with them. We can't wait any longer. |
We're improving, but at this stage, we need to start putting the pieces of the puzzle together. We are heading into the second half of camp which is a critical part of the development of this football team. |
We're playing a lot of players on the back end on defense, and they keep getting better. We've just needed to get better athletes on the field. |
We've got a long way to go and we're going to have to learn from this if we are going to play the schedule we have in the fall. |
When Chris Johnson runs for three yards, it makes you a little concern. I don't know if we are creating huge holes for them. We have to look at it and try to figure out what the problem is. This is a defense that plays a shell and will make you get four, five or six and say in a 80-yard drive you will shoot yourself in the foot. That worries me because we have had a tendency to shoot ourselves with mistakes. |
When you look at the number of yards per carry, when you face a (defensive coordinator) Joe Lee Dunn defense, it concerns me. I have had the opportunity to play (against) him (for) three years when he was at Mississippi State. He creates an awful lot of problems to you as an offense. You can't run a traditional offense against him. |
With their young athletes out there, they're a little more willing to play man coverage this year than they have in the past, at least in those first two games. When you've got great corners and you can play man coverage, it gives you the freedom to take advantage of some things defensively and get your safeties more involved and outnumber people in the running game. |