Louisville vs. Georgia Tech

Louisville Head Coach Bobby Petrino

(Opening Statement) "We got beat, we got beat bad. That's as big of a loss as I've had as far as the scoreboard goes. We didn't have any answers for their offense. They did a good job of executing. They ran the fullback, the quarterback, the pitch guy, and we weren't able to get it stopped. I'm not sure, I think we stopped it one time for a field goal, but other than that, it was something that was disappointing to me. But you've got to give them credit for it.

"Offensively, we knew going in that we had to go score points and take care of the ball. We went for it on fourth-and-one, I would do that again. I really thought we had it there, but it's not good enough to see the play open and have it, you have to execute it. That's part of coaching too, not just calling the play, but teaching them how exactly to block it, how exactly to make the fake, and make the throw. I was watching the routes and as I saw it, I thought 'Ok, we have a touchdown here.' I guess he got hit when he was throwing the ball, but the turnovers hurt us. In a game like that, you can't turn the ball over because you're not going to see it back.

"I did think that we competed extremely hard in the second quarter. I thought the offense regrouped and came out and got us in a position right before half where we got the field goal. You come into halftime thinking, 'Hey, let's do a great job covering the kick. Let's get them off the field and get the ball right back and make this a good game.' Then coming out of halftime, they had the ball for eight minutes. That hurt. We weren't able to get them off the field, and that's a long time to stand on the sideline offensively, we had to get them up and move them around."

"We did some good things at times. Offensively, I thought Puma (Jawon Pass) competed extremely hard. I think he learned a lot. He threw the ball down the field when it was there. He checked it down to the back a number of times, which was good to see. And he executed out play action game pretty good, and that's a lot of points to have to score. When we turned it over – you can't stay in a shootout and turn the ball over."

"It's a bad loss, it's something that's challenging. I told the players in the locker room what they need to do is keep in sight of what their goals are, what their aspirations are, make sure that they understand they're still there for them. They have to stay dedicated, stay committed, but this certainly challenges it. What I want to see us do is take a couple days off. We'll bring the players back Monday morning to watch this video because it's fall break. We don't have school on Monday morning, so we'll come back early Monday morning and watch the video, go out and run and practice the young guys. Then we've got to get ready for a game on the road against Boston College. It's a hard loss, and you've got to give them credit because they did a great job executing their offense."

(They only ran seven third-down plays the whole game. Was there a schematic problem?) "The issue was first-and-10. When they're getting five, six, eight, 10 yards or more on first-and-10. We never got them in a situation where they never felt like they had to do anything different than just run their option package. We didn't do a good job of firing the linebackers to stop the fullback. Then we had some breakdowns on the perimeter. Some of that is you practice against a different speed than what they are. We had some guys that were responsible for the pitch and take the quarterback, and they get to you quicker. Certainly, we need to do better than that."

(Did they do anything offensively that you didn't prepare for?) "No. That's what they do. They run the quick-pitch, they run the trap, they run trap-option, they run triple-option. Even the bunch formation late in the game where they ran the quarterback, we had practiced that too, so it's just a matter of we got out-executed and outplayed."

(On if the coaches can do anything in practice to stop being out-executed) "I think the focus, the concentration. The fourth-and-one play, we practiced live three times. We did it in walk-through yesterday, we did it in the walk-through this morning – against that exact look. Somewhere, I'm not getting it done. We've got to do a better job of getting them to understand it and then go out in the live and be able to execute it. We had that call. We knew what we were doing. We practiced it on fourth-and-one, fourth-and-two all throughout the week. It's unfortunate we didn't get the play executed."

(What message would you tell the fan base to help keep the fans coming into the stands?) "They've just got to hopefully they hang with us. We have to play better and execute better. We do have a young team and we had some really good players out there. We would like to see them come and support them. Let them grow up together."

(This week you talked about how you started game planning for Georgia Tech in the spring and picked it up this week, why do you think the plan you had was not effective?) "That's a great question. It didn't work, we didn't get the fullback stopped. That's the first part of the option game, to get that fullback stopped, rather it was the option or the trap. They made a lot of yards running trap but you have to get that stopped or then everything works for them and we didn't get it done."

(You called the plays and spent a lot of time with the offense, but as the game went on, what adjustments did you guys make defensively to try to slow them down?) "We made every call that we had in the tank. We had the inside linebackers, we tried to run two guys on pressure. We emptied everything that we had as far as the game plan went and every call that we had and It obviously didn't work."

(Bobby you expressed a lot of confidence in the preseason despite the loss of Lamar Jackson. Do you think you raised expectations too high?) "Probably, but I'm always going to have high expectations. I am. I think that Puma has been playing the last couple of weeks better, the way thought he would early in the year. But I'm always going to come out with high expectations and set the standards high. We've got to come back and get back to being a good football team. We're actually not excelling right now and that's coaching. What you need to do as a coach is teach your players to have confidence and excel and we're not getting that done right now."

(Jordan Travis, was this just an opportunity to see how far he's progressed or you guys thought about his redshirt?) "He's been taking a lot more reps in practice and he can really throw the ball. He's got the arm strength and can really throw the ball, so we have been giving him more reps and giving him more looks. It was a situation where I thought Puma did a good job at times and executed at times. He certainly took a step forward in the right direction, but it was time to get him out of the game and I wanted Jordan to go in there and throw the ball around and he showed the type of talent that he has and arm strength that he has. He got tired. I think the interception, he said that he didn't know the play on the other side. We had, what we call a sinker route, where the tight end runs the hook go and it was wide open for him but he just went to...then you tag the single receiver and he just went to the tag, because he didn't know what the other route was and you know, that's his youth."

PJ Blue (LB), Dez Fitzpatrick (WR), Jawon Pass (QB)

(About preparation) PJ Blue: "There was a lot of stuff that we didn't see in practice that we saw on film. I'm not sure. I guess guys just weren't playing their assignments well enough and mistakes were made. Stuff like that. I guess they are the type of offense that you need to be sound and everything is critical."

(About staying focused as players and trying to keep pushing forward to improve) Dez Fitzpatrick: It's like Coach Petrino said, we can't lose sight of our goal. Individual goal, team goal, really just everything. When you start to lose like this, one person's negativity is really contagious. That brings everybody else down. High expectations, we still have those high expectations offensively and defensively. We know what we are capable of and I feel like sooner or later, we're going to show it. We just have to click."

(About goals moving forward) Dez Fitzpatrick: "Not quitting. Not giving in. Keep playing Cardinal football. At the end of the day, obviously you have to lose at some point. So when you lose, Coach Petrino always said that's when you test the measure of a man. And when you get knocked down, how fast and how strong can you come back? The last couple weeks, we've taken some losses we shouldn't have. We've just got to bounce back up."

(About the Option being difficult to defend and what adjustments were made) PJ Blue: "We installed a lot of schemes this week that were designed to stop the option. We saw it at practice, it's just the scout team can't replicate that speed. But we have to just be ready to play. I don't know who we have to be ready to play, we just have to be ready to play it. You saw what happened. It's just a hard offense to go against. Everybody has to be sound in their assignments."

(About what makes it difficult to go against) PJ Blue: "It's the triple option. And they run it very well. You can't go in with your basic 3-4 defense. You have to have it leveraged out and guys have got to play their roles every time, perfectly. They have to see the guard pulls, the guy's got to stay outside to keep the edge set, play the pitch right. One guy has to play the quarterback, one guy has to play the pitch. They have to fight cut blocks. There's just a lot you have to do and a lot of variables to it. You have to prepare for that, and it's hard to prepare for that in practice. I'm not making any excuses, but I'm just saying I'm not sure that we prepared the best for it and to be ready for it was just something we had to be ready for."

(About GT's speed) PJ Blue: "Yeah I mean, we knew that it was going to be faster than what we saw in practice, it's just how fast we could adjust to it. We thought as the game was going to go along, we were going to adjust to it and it's just, I mean we just couldn't get it handled on everything we were supposed to do and put it all together."

(About moving forward from the loss) Puma Pass: "Just stay positive, keep moving forward, put the past behind us. It's life at the end of the day, you know? It's not always going to go your way, it's just how you respond when adversity hit."

(About goals) Dez Fitzpatrick: "Like he said, not giving up on the season, not quitting and obviously winning games."

(About Pass' progression) Puma Pass: "I feel like I'm progressing, but at the end of the day I just want to win games. I feel like I've gotten better as the season has gone on."

(About criticism of Petrino) Puma Pass: "Yeah definitely. I mean we're a family at the end of the day. I mean in the locker room we stay together, we come out every week, work hard, stay together and put it together on game day."

PJ Blue: "That's our coach, we're behind him 100% and we got to do our jobs. It's not just him, it's not him, it's collectively all of us and we got to turn this thing around."

(How do you do that) PJ Blue: "It's staying positive, it's fighting. The offense, they're getting better. Y'all see it. The defense has to. This time we didn't show up this game. We got to put it together, we have to put it all together."

(About execution)PJ: "Everybody has to go hard. Every week in practice everybody has to go 100 percent, nonstop. Everybody has to go full speed and that will translate to the game."

(About being positive) Dez Fitzpatrick: "When you said 'how do you do that?' I was thinking you just have to stay positive. Like I said before, negativity is contagious, like really. In the beginning of this season, I felt myself getting negative and had to pull myself out of it. And I felt myself bringing other players down and I can't do that. And other players bringing me down with negativity, like the first thing someone said before practice 'man, its' hot' and now I'm feeling like 'dang it is hot, now I don't want to practice' and everybody's on the same page like, let's go out here, let's get our work done and go 100 percent, let's get better today and at the end of the day we can go home because we'll have to go through practice anyway. Honestly, we'll have to go through practice anyway so might as well go 110 percent and so that' what I do now. A receiver be trying to say obviously we're losing, we're going through adversity and it tests your manhood."

(About upholding the tradition) Dez Fitzpatrick "I feel like it is disappointment and confusion. We had high expectations before the year. We believe we could be a good football team which I believe we could. We just keep shooting ourselves in the foot with mistakes. A lot of teams beat us but like a certain play, a certain third downs, certain coverages it was just us shooting ourselves in the foot. When we eliminate those, we are coming closer."

(About negativity) Dez Fitzpatrick: "Last few weeks, yeah. The lost to Florida State was obviously a bummer. When we were up however much, 21-3, or whatever, I don't even remember what it was. When we were up a good amount of touchdowns, I felt our team back. The positivity was up, the vibe was good. Then I was talking to Seth (Dawkins), they started to march down, I was like, 'Bruh, I feel it.' It was like a mood change. I feel like we're frontrunners. We can't be frontrunners. We're like the 2013 (Miami) Heat. We're good when we're hot, honestly. We just have to get passed that. It really starts on the practice field, I believe that."

(About when the negativity set in) Dez Fitzpatrick: "Last few weeks, yeah. The loss to Florida State was obviously a bummer. When we were up however much, 21-3, or whatever, I don't even remember what it was. When we were up a good amount of touchdowns, I felt our team back. The positivity was up, the vibe was good. Then I was talking to Seth (Dawkins), they started to march down, I felt it change. I was like, 'Bruh, I feel it.' It was like a mood change. I feel like we're frontrunners. We can't be frontrunners. We're like the 2013 (Miami) Heat. We're good when we're hot, honestly. We just have to get past that. It really starts on the practice field, I believe that."

PJ Blue: "I see a lot of talent on this team. A lot of guys that are going to play the next level. We just have to bring it all together. We have to come together as a team. I feel us doing that, we just have to show it. We go out and practice hard, we just have to translate it to the field."

(What would you like to see from the fans as the season continues?) Dez Fitzpatrick: "Support. That's the biggest thing. For us players to run out the tunnel and see spots of red, a lot of spots of red or then after halftime it's growing even more, that does something to us. They probably don't even know that. I'm asking coach, 'Why are our fans keep leaving? Why can't they just support?' He's like, 'I can't tell you anything.' Someone asked me, 'If you was a fan, would you stay?' Honestly, probably not."

PJ Blue: "We have to bring something to the table too. We have to bring the excitement, the energy. We're going to progress throughout the week."

Derek Dorsey | UofL Defensive End

(About offense of Georgia Tech) Dorsey: "It all comes down to discipline and playing your assignment and you've just got to trust the guys around you and know what you need to do on every play. We slipped up a little bit and it's just something we've got to learn from and just get better as a team."

(About a lack of preparation, lack of practice, and/or execution) Dorsey: "I think it's probably a lack of experience. I thought we had a great game plan going in. We saw a lot of the looks that they gave us and I just feel like we have a lot of young guys playing right now and just getting guys more experienced playing is really what our defense needs. We've just got to keep improving."

(About GT running anything that UofL didn't prep for) Dorsey: "There's always a couple of looks that you see. We saw most of looks that they gave us. There was one play that we had to make adjustments to."

(About moving on from loss) Dorsey: "Louisville has always been a winning program. This is tough, but it's something that we as a team have got to learn from. All success comes from failure and we've just got to take it one day at a time, keep improving, and just really come together. We can't fall apart as a team. We've just got to keep pushing through and things will turn around."

(About identifying the two or three things that sent the season off the rails) Dorsey: "I'd say the biggest issue would be the lack of experience. We've got a lot of young guys in and just not a lot of experience at least from a defensive stand point. As the season goes on guys will get better and learn the game. That lack of experience probably would be the biggest issue."

(About the lack of experience being recognition or understanding what the other team is trying to do)Dorsey: "It's a little bit of everything. Recognition, knowing the plays, kind of understanding defense mostly. Kind of how everything fits together. You can know what you need to do on one play but if you don't know how it fits together collectively it can be kind of tough and might cause you to stray from what exactly you need to be doing. So you know the more we are in the system and kind of develop we start to get the hang of things."

Georgia Tech Head Coach Paul Johnson

(Paul, offensively, I know you scored a lot of points last week, but you didn't punt. It seemed like you were doing anything and everything that you wanted to do offensively.) "We were executing pretty good. Our quarterback was playing well, and he was doing a nice job getting us in the right place against the right fronts. And, the kids played hard and executed. That's probably the best string I've seen in 40 years of coaching. I don't know what it was last week. I think it was 8 out of 9 scoring, and tonight we scored every time we had it. So, when you think about it, that's about 17 or 18 times out of 19 possessions. That's pretty good. At times, I thought we needed it."

(With [senior quarterback] TaQuon [Marshall], have you given him a little more freedom in terms of making those checks and calls, or is he just being more aggressive with it?)
"No, what we had is, we had certain plays for certain fronts. And he did a great job identifying them when he went in and getting us in the right call at the right time."

(Seemed like the communication was really good up front.) "Yeah, we were on the same page. We simplified some things a couple of weeks ago. We went down there, and we were running our 4 or 5 base plays and we're getting better at them."

(That was the best offensive line push we've seen in a while. It seemed like you guys were kind of getting what you wanted up front in terms of getting good push.) "Yeah, I think so, I think for the most part. They tried to play a lot of fronts. I thought they might. The last time we played them, they never kinda… in the second half, they were more consistent. But in the first half, they played a split-tough look, they played a regular 3-4, they played a triple stack, they played eight-man front, they played all that, and TaQuon did a great job of getting in the right play."

(Talk about TaQuon, and what he did. I know he's had a lot of great games, and good games. This may be one of his, maybe his best game, you think?) "He's played really well the last two weeks. And it's funny, because the very first play of the game, we had the media timeout and all that, we screwed it up, we made the wrong formation call, and the wrong thing, and he got frustrated with himself. And I said, 'Dude, we made a first down. Just relax. Just play.' And so, when he gets in that groove, he's a really good player. He's hard to tackle. He's really quick—so is (redshirt freshman quarterback) Tobias (Oliver)."

(Being a coach, how difficult is it going to be for you to find faults here in this game to point out when you start reviewing this?) "Well, I think we can find some. I know we had two or three busts on the trap play in the third quarter. So, I know we can fix that, offensively. Defensively, there's a lot of things we can fix."

(It seemed like [freshman defensive back/linebacker] Charlie Thomas gave you a little bit of a spark.) "I think he played…the good thing about the defense is we got some turnovers. If you can get—I don't know how many there was total. ("Four turnovers") So, if you can get four turnovers, that's better than four punts. One of them went all the way back. Gave the offense some short fields and played together."

(Every coach comes into the game thinking and wanting to win. But did you have any idea that you would explode tonight like this? I know you had a great game last week. 66 points and eight touchdowns. Could you see it in practice?) "The kids today, our practices have been mostly the same all year. Truthfully, we had a bad half of offense at Pitt, and then, against Clemson, we got outmanned a little bit and we didn't play particularly well. But, the rest of the time, offensively, we played pretty good at South Florida. We had 600 yards. In the first half against Pitt, it was a stinker. In the second half, we scored on three of five possessions against Pitt. We have a good nucleus back from last year on offense and I was frustrated early that we weren't playing better because we should've been better. I think once we got back and simplified and went back to basics, then the kids got better."

(You were obviously running the ball well in the first half. What were they showing you or giving you? What were you guys doing that enabled that?) "Just executing the offense, just running. They took the B-back, we were pulling it, and we were loading the guy that had the quarterback some. We were just changing up the blocking schemes by the fronts, and we had to pitch it, we pitched it, and when they put everybody inside, we tossed it outside. When the quarterback does that, it's hard to play if you're not making mistakes. I think he…on one read, he pulled it and dropped it and he fell on it. Other than that, they were spot on, him (Marshall) and Tobias both did a good job."

([Sophomore running back] Jerry Howard ran the ball pretty hard tonight) "Jerry and (redshirt freshman running back) Jordan (Mason) are giving us what we need in that position. They're playing hard. I got on Jordan in the third quarter for reaching the dang ball out. He knows better than that. I think he's frustrated because he wasn't getting it in the end zone, he was getting it right down to the goal line. Those kids have played good."

(It seems like the A-backs are picking up the blocking and running through tackles when they get their opportunities, whether it's on the pitch…) "I thought that, offensively, when you don't have penalties and you don't have missed assignments, you got a chance. That's kind of what we've eliminated…and not have the ball on the ground."

(Your offensive drive before the half, I imagine that it'd be pretty satisfying in the two-minute offense to march down the field like that) "We scored too quick, 32 seconds."

(TaQuon on that score, you pulled [redshirt senior A-back] Qua [Searcy] over. Was that a check or was he just in the wrong place?) "We were in a different formation. They lined up with everybody inside and he wanted to toss it, so, we brought him back to where he could toss it."

(Does that make you happy to see him [Marshall] start to see those things?) "Yeah, that's the way he should play. He's a senior quarterback, just play. In the last two games, he's been dialed in and really good. I think early on sometimes, maybe he was trying to do too much. He was, and just let it come to you. Just let it happen. There's going to be games where he won't run the ball at all because people just take him out. He's just got to let it come to him."

(How's he feeling?) "He's fine, he could've gone back in."

(Seems like some of the younger offensive linemen like Zack [Quinney] and Connor [Hansen] are starting to emulate the type of play…) "Well, they're playing. Now that they're playing, that's the other thing I think that's helped the offense. While he wasn't, he was far from perfect, but I think the other thing that's helped the offense is getting Connor in there at guard. He's a little bigger body and a little stronger. I think we've been better since we put him in there."

(I imagine that It feels good to close a game, to play that well the whole game on offense) "Yeah, I felt that we talked at halftime because we kind of lost the momentum there, that opening drive was going to be big. Then, you come out there and hold it for eight or nine minutes and get the touchdown. Then, we come back and got the turnover, put that one in and that kind of was lights out."

(Lost in all of this, you got a 40-yard field which was pretty important.) "Yeah, he's (sophomore Brenton King) kicked good. He's made every kick we've asked him to kick. He's my kind of kicker. He's just goofy and don't care. I don't think it's going to bother him. He doesn't get too excited. He just kind of goes about his business and kicks"

(Are you going to cut the punter) "I'm sure he's going to have his time and he's really a good player. He's one of our better players."

(I imagine it was exciting to see [freshman safety Juanyeh Thomas] get the ball and get into space…) "Yeah, that was good for him. That series was a train wreck, defensively. To let that kid run the ball all the way down the field, he must've made 40 people miss. But to see Juanyeh break under there, he's pretty fast. I knew they weren't going to catch him."

(How good will it feel not to hear about your road losing streak?) "Oh, I'm sure the people who want to talk about it will find something. I mean it is what it is. It's like I told the team, "Just turn off the noise. Just play." I mean we're playing one game seasons. That's what we've done the last couple weeks and now that's what we have to do this week against a really, really good team. This is probably the best team we've played, not probably, it will be the best team we've played since Clemson."

(On what has transformed his game) "First you have to thank God for everything, having the stability to play and also everybody's getting used to the defense. People are fitting where they're supposed to fit, and when that happens everything kicks into gear. I feel like everyone can individually can make plays. I feel like I'm fitting into the scheme of the defense and I'm feeling it more. I'm understanding the formations of the other team, and knowing when the pass is coming and when I can cheat and hit the gaps. I'm Just understanding defense more and everything filling into place is helping me out."

(Talk about winning on the road finally and getting that off your back.) "It feels great to finally win on the road and come to a locker room and everyone's smiling, happy because you won the game. You come back to the city with a great moral, and you want to keep that going."

(Is this going to be one of those years where you guys keep piling up the turnovers as you go along?) "That's what we're hoping for, that's what we're practicing for. That's what we came in as a mentality on defense as one of our goals, to win the turnover battle. That helps us put the offense in a great position, it gives us the ball more, and that's what we're hoping for."

(It seems like you're settling into your role even more, the production is going up each week. Is that something you feel when you're out there?)
"Most definitely, everyone's flowing and fitting into their spots. One of my sacks today, if Brandon didn't get up to the field and push that pocket then I wouldn't be able to get there. So everyone's doing their job and getting in where they fit in, and that's going to help us out as a whole."

(What do you think about Charlie Thomas?) "Charlie, he's great. He's a young guy, he's still got a lot of things to learn. But he's playing his heart out and that's what you want."

Georgia Tech Linebacker Charlie Thomas

(The second one seems like a pure-effort play, you were rushing the quarterback and then came back and trailed the play and got the fumble recovery.) "I just keep chasing the ball, you have to get to the ball."

Georgia Tech A-back Qua Searcy

(It must feel good for the offense to be a part of a performance where you guys did everything you wanted.) "We just had a better scheme of offense. We executed everything Coach Johnson wanted. It was just a good night for us."

(Every time you guys got in the huddle or started a drive, you must have felt you could take it all the way because that's what you've done the past two weeks.) "We feel that way every week, it just goes back to execution and how we go about Coach Johnson's plan."

(Is this a testimony to what this offense is when you don't get penalties and you don't turn the ball over?) "Oh definitely, I think we can be even better. There's a lot of things we can correct, every team can correct a lot of stuff. We just have to go watch film, flush this game down the drain and get ready for Duke."

(On quarterback TaQuon Marshall's performance) "He's a great quarterback, a great leader. He comes every week prepared to play and lays his heart out on the line."

(Can you describe what it feels like on offense when everything's clicking?)"It feels great, we've done it for the past two weeks. The thing that excites me the most is that we ended that losing streak on the road. I'm happy for the guys, I'm happy for the team. We just have to build on it from here on out."

Georgia Tech Quarterback TaQuon Marshall
(On what has changed over the past few weeks) "We did a good job at practice this week and we knew going into the game they were going to throw a little bit of wrinkles at us defensively. That's one of the things we harped on all week. As long as we are on the same page, everything will go fine. That's part of it ,and PB does a good job getting me the calls and stuff. The tackles do a good job at making everything vocal, so I think that's one of the main reasons we're always on the same page."

(Could you envision anything like this coming up here? I know you hit a bunch of points last week, sixty something. And coming in here, it seemed like you did whatever you wanted to do offensively.)"Of course, you always think about putting up a lot of points, but I think we just kind of let the game come to us. And we just tried to keep attacking. I know when we were coming into halftime we just knew that when we came out, no matter what, we just had to get some kind of points. Whether it was three or seven, that was kind of the goal coming out of the half. Before the half we just tried to keep working and things were falling in our hands."

(You've broke this losing streak on the road talk about that)"It's huge. I've been telling the guys, we haven't won a road game since UGA in 2016, that was my sophomore year. It's been a long journey. The small things have been killing us on the road and I think us getting this win shows everyone including ourselves that it can be done, and not only put up a little points but put up big numbers. They had a lot of turnovers on the other side of the ball and they helped us out a lot with that. It's just huge being able to get on the plane back home, there won't be any sad faces, there won't be any regular looks. We will be walking on the plane smiling, cracking jokes with Coach Johnson, cracking jokes with my teammates, and it will be all good."

(How important was that two-minute drill before the half for you guys to get the touchdown there?)"It was huge. I thought we did a good job of getting in and out of the huddle and getting right on the ball. It's something we work on all the time in practice, so it wasn't any different. We just tried to get down. The guys did a great job getting out of bounds, stopping the clock especially under two minutes so we really didn't have to waste our last timeout. I think we did a great job on that drive."

Georgia Tech Offensive Lineman Parker Braun
(Do you feel like this is the best push you guys have had this year against a defensive line?)"No doubt, without a doubt. This is by far the best we've played as a unit this year.

(Is there anything going on in practice, or have you guys been practicing better? Anything in particular that you feel when you're out there?)"Yeah, I think some things have changed, without a doubt, things have changed since the first three weeks."

(Has it helped now to see the offense running?)"Confidence. For sure. To be even, not to be in a hole anymore. That's another confidence boost.

(I imagine that you enjoy seeing TaQuon check those plays now.)"Yeah, it's really helpful. I think one of the improvements we've made is being on the same page as the offense. So, not separated by position groups. I think we are all sort of thinking as one, all eleven of us, that's really been a big help."

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Players Mentioned

Derek Dorsey

Dez Fitzpatrick

Lamar Jackson

Jawon Pass

Jordan Travis

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