Patterson Meets With The Media
10/14/2014 12:00:00 AM | Football
Press Conference Video
FORT WORTH, Texas -- TCU head football coach Gary Patterson held his weekly news conference Tuesday in the Four Sevens Team Room.The 12th-ranked Horned Frogs host No. 15 Oklahoma State on Saturday at 3 p.m.
Included below are excerpts from Patterson's meeting with the media.
Opening Statement ...
"Tuesday. Oklahoma State. Third game of a fun-packed October. We have Oklahoma State and Texas Tech left to get through the month. We're 4-1, and now we're moving forward. Oklahoma State is a very good football team and ranked 15th. They play really well on defense.
"(Running back) Tyreek Hill can move around and play wideout. KU tied the ball game, and he ran the kickoff back for a touchdown. He's very explosive and good on the outside. Our matchup on defense will be their big receivers. They play a lot of vertical routes and jump balls. Offensively, they're very good upfront. We have work to do, but that's like every week."
On his team's defense ...
"They played 109 plays at Baylor. It's a good thing that game wasn't at 100 degrees. You win the turnover battle and we felt like we had the edge in special teams, but they won the fourth quarter. They did a great job. We just have to get better at what we do. I think our kids, being back at home, will play a lot better. It was a pretty intimidating place for a couple of new players.
"Everybody has good wideouts, but we cover good ones. We cover Kolby Listenbee in practice, and there's nobody in this conference faster than him."
On defense in the Big 12 ...
"Obviously, I want to play great defense. You have to be able to even the playing field, and maybe we have to get used to winning 45-31. Sometimes you get into those ball games. I don't know how you prepare for that to happen. There's only one person you can blame, and that's me. In the fourth quarter against Oklahoma, we had our crowd give us energy. In the fourth quarter at Baylor, they had the crowd give them energy. It could've gone either way. You can look at it all you want to, but the bottom line is Baylor won by a field goal and we need to move on to Oklahoma State."
On his team's morale ...
"It was a better practice on Sunday for Oklahoma State than it was for Baylor on Sunday the week before. We had a great practice, and I expect us to have a really great practice today. I think people handle failure a lot better than they handle success sometimes."
On Oklahoma State ...
"I think you'll get them playing with more emotion. They came off bye weeks the two times they played us up there. They run Tyreek Hill everywhere, in the back field, going vertical and running fly sweeps. He's doing a lot of things with them, along with their wideouts. We'll have our hands full, but the biggest thing is scoring one more point whether it's 14-13 or 45-44. Our goal is to get to 5-1 and 2-1 in the conference."
On how to prepare for Tyreek Hill ...
"Carefully. They put him in a lot of places. You have to understand that he is a terrific athlete, but there are a lot of terrific athletes in our conference. He can run it. There are some clues for what you have to do when he's in certain places to help you. Our guys upstairs have to do a tremendous job of telling me where he is. He's awfully fast."
On the difference between OSU and TCU's receiving corps ...
"They have a different style and are bigger. Some of them are in the 6-4 to 6-5 range. They present a different problem than Baylor in the way they do their schematics."
