If you execute well, I think you can see that he will have success. He made good reads and the line blocked well. You look at what he did, he set a school record for rushing by a quarterback but it wasn’t like he was making dynamic runs and making seven people miss. Every single day you have to work but not just him, that’s all of our players. On what Nick Fitzgerald has to improve on … Going forward into the season, I didn’t want him to have to feel that.”
The plan through camp and even through game one, I don’t think there was any pressure one way or the other. “After the first game, I didn’t want him to worry about that. The more we could get guys ready to play, be game ready, and have game experience, the better off we will be in the long run.” All of that comes from experience and trust, trusting your technique, and knowing what’s going on – on the field. “I thought he did some good things and missed a couple of critical things in the second half. This will be a great challenge for us and a tough environment for us to go out there and win.” You look at the personnel, they have as many good players as any other team in America. They don’t have a lot of weaknesses on their team. They have dynamic playmaking wide receivers, possibly the best running back in America, a bunch of veteran players on offense, a lot of playmakers on the defensive side, dynamic secondary physical-athletic offensive linemen and linebackers, and a bunch of players that can really run. This week will obviously will be a much different challenge going on the road and in a very difficult environment to go and play in against an excellent team that’s got talent all across the board at every position. I don’t think we had as good of a second half that I would’ve liked to have had in the game, but I am very pleased with our guys making the plays we needed to make in order to win that football game. I think that hour to 20 something minute halftime break (lightning delay) made it tough to keep the focus and intensity of the team. On defense, we had guys playing hard and offensively, we played with some good tempo, pretty aggressive approach in the game, getting after people, running the football, and those are the things we really like to do. We came out and played Mississippi State football with 11 guys running to the ball. “I was pleased last Saturday on how we came out, especially in the first half.
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