TCU-UAPB Postgame Quotes
9/1/2019 12:42:00 AM | Football
TCU Head Coach Gary Patterson
On the game:
"Well I can tell you, as I told them downstairs, we have to play a lot better. There's a lot of teaching. We have an off week, so that'll give us a chance to fix everything. We'll try to get Taye Barber to go, which is going to be a big plus. His leg got tight again, but he'll come back.
But we showed signs of what we can do offensively. We have to play in the red zone, can't kick field goals. Not in this league. That is that. I can sit here and complain, but the bottom line is we really didn't lose anybody. We won the ball game, we know what we're going to work on, we got an off week, so here we go."
On quarterback play:
"We should've had another touchdown, but we fumbled it on the four after they hit him going down the middle of the field. (Derius) Davis dropped one wide open going into the endzone. I think we need to speed up our tempo, but really outside of that we didn't throw a pick."
On special teams play:
"We fumbled two punts, which we talked about because of the Purdue game the other night and both of them come on punt safe, we didn't have a return on. Some guys have to learn that you've got to get away. And what Jalen (Reager) has to learn is that a punt is a critical play and it can't always be a great play.
We kicked field goals and didn't miss any. Both of them, I thought, kicked well. I thought we punted well. I thought we covered well."
On freshmen play:
"We had a lot of younger guys get in. We held a lot of guys out because of the four-redshirt rule. There's probably five or six that we could've played at the end, but we didn't. If they were in the two-deep they played and if they weren't, they probably didn't play.
I thought it was a cool thing, (Darwin) Barlow actually scoring a touchdown for his coach for Newton (High School). He's a good player. Both of our freshman tailbacks are good players."
On managing two quarterbacks:
"We have to go back and watch it because it all goes together and find out how to play in the red-zone. That was the place where I though we have to get better. To be honest with you they weren't good at it in fall ball, and so were going to have to get a lot better down there. And the best way to get better down there is we have to be able to run the football. Its critical because its tighter windows, how you throw it, how you run it, everything becomes a lot tougher."
On UAPB:
"They were vastly improved compared to what they were a year ago. You've got to give Pine Bluff a lot of credit. Like I would have told anybody, "if you saw the spread, I'd probably tell you to not bet on us." If It would have gotten that way, you know what I would have done, I would have taken four knees. We just don't do those kinds of things."
On Max Duggan:
"He came off an inside receiver that he needed to stay on. He threw the outside. If he threw the outside he would have been wide open and it probably would have been a touchdown. But you're going to learn all that from him. The good part now is what we see is what we'll get. With it being the first game, when people have new coaches, you don't know what they're going to do. For them (UAPB), offensively it's the same coordinators so we got about what we thought."
On offensive coordinator Sonnie Cumbie coaching on the field:
"They wanted to do that. We'll probably talk about how we thought that went down."
On how he views this game:
"1-0." There's a lot of people out there today and the last two and three days that aren't 1-0. All we need to do is find a way to get better so we can be one point better than Purdue. You have to go on the road. Then we need to be one point better than SMU and keep improving. Then be one point better than KU. Then we have to go to Iowa State. I don't know. They (ISU) are a pretty good football team but they went into triple overtime with a I-AA team today. Minnesota should have gotten beat by a I-AA team two days ago. The biggest thing is you take the win and go about your business. For us, with as many young people as we've got, they're all going to learn from it. Now they know what to expect. You come from Newton, Texas with a couple thousand people in the stands. Now you're going to have 60,000 people in the stands. It's a whole different animal. How they do the walk. How we do pregame. How we sleep at night. Everything is new to these young guys. How you handle the grind of coming to school and coming to practice and doing everything asked of you to do. It's going to be a chore for them to be honest with you.
On whether he will have just a two-quarterback approach going forward:
"We're going to talk about how we need to do it. Mike Collins is going to keep getting better too, and Baldwin's appeal was approved. So that's a whole new conversation, and you can weave five of them into your conversion."
On the upcoming bye week:
"The best part about this week is that we get Sunday, Tuesday, and Wednesday to have better practices."
On the linebacker position:
"When he came in for Innis (Gaines), I thought Nook Bradford did a great job. He came in and did what he needed to do. We have to play better at the back linebacker. La'Kendrick (Van Zandt) and (Dee) Winters, it was the first time they have played there, and probably a third of their offense came from the back linebacker."
On lack of experience on defense:
"We have to keep working on our pass rush and getting better, but everyone now has played one ballgame. You didn't have one end that played out there today who had played before except for Ochaun (Mathis) who played a little bit. But really, no one else had played in a ballgame at TCU. All of that experience was new and we will learn from it."
On the freshman running backs:
"As you can see both Daimarqua (Foster) and (Darwin) Barlow are very powerful in the legs. You're going to have to tackle them. And, they are different styles of runners. They will both get their time as we go forward. To be honest, with the way running back is, they will probably be able to redshirt for the simple reason that it's a long season."
On whether the players tonight were disappointed in their performance:
"I don't think the young guys know yet, they'll watch tomorrow. The older guys know. I saw a couple of signs, and to be honest, it was good for us."
On what he saw from the team tonight:
"Tonight, I saw tonight that I think we have the potential to be what we want to be. We are going to have enough speed at our four wide receivers, but we have to do a better job. We cost ourselves a touchdown at the end of the half because twice we didn't block the key screen. We were supposed to block the safety and outside linebacker. If you want to run the football, and I consider those types of plays as run plays, you have to block on the perimeter. And if you're not going to block, then you are not going to catch. I'm going to be the guy who says who starts and plays. It'll be the first thing I watch before I watch defense."
TCU Kicker Jonathan Song
On the game:
"I'm thankful to be out there. I only have a few months left and every time I put on that jersey it is surreal. Any chance I get I am grateful and I am excited for what this season holds."
On having many opportunities:
"It is something you always have to be ready for. Coach Cross is always saying that we must be ready at any moment. When I was called, I was ready. Being out there to help my teammates is my role and I was glad I was able to do that today."
On overcoming fall camp struggles:
"The specialists and I joke about this, but it is harder kicking field goals in practice than it is in a game, having Coach Patterson behind you, with the intensity and all of the other players watching you. It is great practice kicking out there. It is great practice. Ups and downs are going to happen in everyone's career, but the next kick you will make or miss, and you cannot change the results from a previous kick."
On stepping into the longer kicks:
"There is no added pressure to it, I signed up for it. Whether [Cole] Bunce is healthy or not I will still be prepared to be the guy to kick the long-range ones."
TCU Safety Vernon Scott
On freshman Kee'yon Stewart filling Julius Lewis's spot:
"Kee'yon, besides giving up that big play, I thought he played really poised and confident for his first game. I really liked that he played confident. I know he's only going to get better. I know his confidence is going to raise. I know it's his first game, he's a freshman, he's nervous out there, but he impressed me, really. He's pretty confident. I told him, you're going to mess up, but just go full speed."
On the defense overall:
"I feel like we played well but we didn't play to our best. I wanted to hold them to zero points, but they scored. We gave up one big play, but I feel like we played really well. I know we have some things to improve on and we will through practice."
On safety turnovers:
"Yes sir. Ar'Darius Washington, on his first play in and Ar'Darius got the tip ball so that was really impressive to me. I was really proud of him and Trevon Moehrig, as well. He had the ball in his hands. He should've returned it, but I'm glad he got a turnover."
On how this win feels:
"I wouldn't say disappointing, but I know what we need to improve on. And I know what we did on the field today is not going to let us win against Purdue. We have to improve we have to come back to practice and figure out what we need to improve on and just keep going hard in practice."
On Purdue and the bye week:
I watched the game in the hotel. I saw Nevada came back 17 points, but we've been working on Purdue in fall camp, but this bye week is going to be all Purdue. We just need to keep working hard and working hard in practice during this bye week."
TCU Linebacker Garret Wallow
On the game:
"It's is a great experience for us as a team. I feel like we have a lot of growing to do, but that is what you want, to have room for improvement. I told my guys, I am proud of how you played tonight, but when you come to practice be ready to go and get better as a team for the next two weeks.
On what he saw from Van Zandt and Winters:
"They were confident. We have to build that chemistry between us because we have not played together very much. I am very proud of them, they did very well for their first time out there, they even did better than I did my first time out there. They are very impressive."
On the experience the young guys got:
"As the young guys, and myself, get more experience, we are just going to keep getting better and better. That is the best thing about young guys in the game now, they have so much more career to go and if they keep getting this experience now, they are going to become really great players."
On Ross Blacklock:
"He is definitely a good person to have back. It is fun playing with guys like him. He is very determined and passionate and it makes it easier to play behind him."
TCU Wide Receiver Trevontae Hights
On the game:
"It definitely felt good, the first one kind of hurt me - having a fumble and all - but the quarterback is always telling me to keep my head up and my time was coming, and it came."
On Reagor:
"As soon as I got the fumble he told me to keep my head up, you know after I got the drop and the fumble, he said 'keep your head up, we gotta make plays, it's going to be on us'."
On the tackle:
"I'm proud of myself on special team that was my first thought. I had about five tackles last year and five the year before that, so I promised myself a special team play."
On the game:
"Well I can tell you, as I told them downstairs, we have to play a lot better. There's a lot of teaching. We have an off week, so that'll give us a chance to fix everything. We'll try to get Taye Barber to go, which is going to be a big plus. His leg got tight again, but he'll come back.
But we showed signs of what we can do offensively. We have to play in the red zone, can't kick field goals. Not in this league. That is that. I can sit here and complain, but the bottom line is we really didn't lose anybody. We won the ball game, we know what we're going to work on, we got an off week, so here we go."
On quarterback play:
"We should've had another touchdown, but we fumbled it on the four after they hit him going down the middle of the field. (Derius) Davis dropped one wide open going into the endzone. I think we need to speed up our tempo, but really outside of that we didn't throw a pick."
On special teams play:
"We fumbled two punts, which we talked about because of the Purdue game the other night and both of them come on punt safe, we didn't have a return on. Some guys have to learn that you've got to get away. And what Jalen (Reager) has to learn is that a punt is a critical play and it can't always be a great play.
We kicked field goals and didn't miss any. Both of them, I thought, kicked well. I thought we punted well. I thought we covered well."
On freshmen play:
"We had a lot of younger guys get in. We held a lot of guys out because of the four-redshirt rule. There's probably five or six that we could've played at the end, but we didn't. If they were in the two-deep they played and if they weren't, they probably didn't play.
I thought it was a cool thing, (Darwin) Barlow actually scoring a touchdown for his coach for Newton (High School). He's a good player. Both of our freshman tailbacks are good players."
On managing two quarterbacks:
"We have to go back and watch it because it all goes together and find out how to play in the red-zone. That was the place where I though we have to get better. To be honest with you they weren't good at it in fall ball, and so were going to have to get a lot better down there. And the best way to get better down there is we have to be able to run the football. Its critical because its tighter windows, how you throw it, how you run it, everything becomes a lot tougher."
On UAPB:
"They were vastly improved compared to what they were a year ago. You've got to give Pine Bluff a lot of credit. Like I would have told anybody, "if you saw the spread, I'd probably tell you to not bet on us." If It would have gotten that way, you know what I would have done, I would have taken four knees. We just don't do those kinds of things."
On Max Duggan:
"He came off an inside receiver that he needed to stay on. He threw the outside. If he threw the outside he would have been wide open and it probably would have been a touchdown. But you're going to learn all that from him. The good part now is what we see is what we'll get. With it being the first game, when people have new coaches, you don't know what they're going to do. For them (UAPB), offensively it's the same coordinators so we got about what we thought."
On offensive coordinator Sonnie Cumbie coaching on the field:
"They wanted to do that. We'll probably talk about how we thought that went down."
On how he views this game:
"1-0." There's a lot of people out there today and the last two and three days that aren't 1-0. All we need to do is find a way to get better so we can be one point better than Purdue. You have to go on the road. Then we need to be one point better than SMU and keep improving. Then be one point better than KU. Then we have to go to Iowa State. I don't know. They (ISU) are a pretty good football team but they went into triple overtime with a I-AA team today. Minnesota should have gotten beat by a I-AA team two days ago. The biggest thing is you take the win and go about your business. For us, with as many young people as we've got, they're all going to learn from it. Now they know what to expect. You come from Newton, Texas with a couple thousand people in the stands. Now you're going to have 60,000 people in the stands. It's a whole different animal. How they do the walk. How we do pregame. How we sleep at night. Everything is new to these young guys. How you handle the grind of coming to school and coming to practice and doing everything asked of you to do. It's going to be a chore for them to be honest with you.
On whether he will have just a two-quarterback approach going forward:
"We're going to talk about how we need to do it. Mike Collins is going to keep getting better too, and Baldwin's appeal was approved. So that's a whole new conversation, and you can weave five of them into your conversion."
On the upcoming bye week:
"The best part about this week is that we get Sunday, Tuesday, and Wednesday to have better practices."
On the linebacker position:
"When he came in for Innis (Gaines), I thought Nook Bradford did a great job. He came in and did what he needed to do. We have to play better at the back linebacker. La'Kendrick (Van Zandt) and (Dee) Winters, it was the first time they have played there, and probably a third of their offense came from the back linebacker."
On lack of experience on defense:
"We have to keep working on our pass rush and getting better, but everyone now has played one ballgame. You didn't have one end that played out there today who had played before except for Ochaun (Mathis) who played a little bit. But really, no one else had played in a ballgame at TCU. All of that experience was new and we will learn from it."
On the freshman running backs:
"As you can see both Daimarqua (Foster) and (Darwin) Barlow are very powerful in the legs. You're going to have to tackle them. And, they are different styles of runners. They will both get their time as we go forward. To be honest, with the way running back is, they will probably be able to redshirt for the simple reason that it's a long season."
On whether the players tonight were disappointed in their performance:
"I don't think the young guys know yet, they'll watch tomorrow. The older guys know. I saw a couple of signs, and to be honest, it was good for us."
On what he saw from the team tonight:
"Tonight, I saw tonight that I think we have the potential to be what we want to be. We are going to have enough speed at our four wide receivers, but we have to do a better job. We cost ourselves a touchdown at the end of the half because twice we didn't block the key screen. We were supposed to block the safety and outside linebacker. If you want to run the football, and I consider those types of plays as run plays, you have to block on the perimeter. And if you're not going to block, then you are not going to catch. I'm going to be the guy who says who starts and plays. It'll be the first thing I watch before I watch defense."
TCU Kicker Jonathan Song
On the game:
"I'm thankful to be out there. I only have a few months left and every time I put on that jersey it is surreal. Any chance I get I am grateful and I am excited for what this season holds."
On having many opportunities:
"It is something you always have to be ready for. Coach Cross is always saying that we must be ready at any moment. When I was called, I was ready. Being out there to help my teammates is my role and I was glad I was able to do that today."
On overcoming fall camp struggles:
"The specialists and I joke about this, but it is harder kicking field goals in practice than it is in a game, having Coach Patterson behind you, with the intensity and all of the other players watching you. It is great practice kicking out there. It is great practice. Ups and downs are going to happen in everyone's career, but the next kick you will make or miss, and you cannot change the results from a previous kick."
On stepping into the longer kicks:
"There is no added pressure to it, I signed up for it. Whether [Cole] Bunce is healthy or not I will still be prepared to be the guy to kick the long-range ones."
TCU Safety Vernon Scott
On freshman Kee'yon Stewart filling Julius Lewis's spot:
"Kee'yon, besides giving up that big play, I thought he played really poised and confident for his first game. I really liked that he played confident. I know he's only going to get better. I know his confidence is going to raise. I know it's his first game, he's a freshman, he's nervous out there, but he impressed me, really. He's pretty confident. I told him, you're going to mess up, but just go full speed."
On the defense overall:
"I feel like we played well but we didn't play to our best. I wanted to hold them to zero points, but they scored. We gave up one big play, but I feel like we played really well. I know we have some things to improve on and we will through practice."
On safety turnovers:
"Yes sir. Ar'Darius Washington, on his first play in and Ar'Darius got the tip ball so that was really impressive to me. I was really proud of him and Trevon Moehrig, as well. He had the ball in his hands. He should've returned it, but I'm glad he got a turnover."
On how this win feels:
"I wouldn't say disappointing, but I know what we need to improve on. And I know what we did on the field today is not going to let us win against Purdue. We have to improve we have to come back to practice and figure out what we need to improve on and just keep going hard in practice."
On Purdue and the bye week:
I watched the game in the hotel. I saw Nevada came back 17 points, but we've been working on Purdue in fall camp, but this bye week is going to be all Purdue. We just need to keep working hard and working hard in practice during this bye week."
TCU Linebacker Garret Wallow
On the game:
"It's is a great experience for us as a team. I feel like we have a lot of growing to do, but that is what you want, to have room for improvement. I told my guys, I am proud of how you played tonight, but when you come to practice be ready to go and get better as a team for the next two weeks.
On what he saw from Van Zandt and Winters:
"They were confident. We have to build that chemistry between us because we have not played together very much. I am very proud of them, they did very well for their first time out there, they even did better than I did my first time out there. They are very impressive."
On the experience the young guys got:
"As the young guys, and myself, get more experience, we are just going to keep getting better and better. That is the best thing about young guys in the game now, they have so much more career to go and if they keep getting this experience now, they are going to become really great players."
On Ross Blacklock:
"He is definitely a good person to have back. It is fun playing with guys like him. He is very determined and passionate and it makes it easier to play behind him."
TCU Wide Receiver Trevontae Hights
On the game:
"It definitely felt good, the first one kind of hurt me - having a fumble and all - but the quarterback is always telling me to keep my head up and my time was coming, and it came."
On Reagor:
"As soon as I got the fumble he told me to keep my head up, you know after I got the drop and the fumble, he said 'keep your head up, we gotta make plays, it's going to be on us'."
On the tackle:
"I'm proud of myself on special team that was my first thought. I had about five tackles last year and five the year before that, so I promised myself a special team play."
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