This weekend it is a great honor that Coach Johnson is coming back and we can honor him for his HOF induction and I’m appreciative of everything he did here as the head football coach and his pride in being here. It’s fortunate to have him back here and it is a credit to what he did here and the players he developed and the success he had. His first year as a coach and his guys have graduated and they are becoming very successful in their own right. It is great to see your former players and what they are up to.
Good game this Saturday and excited to play a challenging opponent and a great opponent and two teams that are QB-driven in what they do. Drake is a heck of a QB. It is a different play caller on offense and it is a little different, but it all goes through the QB.
Defensively they’ve made a lot of improvements with a lot of the same players back and they play together under the same coordinator.
Coaches and players make sure they are all on top of things. I'm excited to play on Saturday night and it will be a big atmosphere and a good one surrounding the game.
ON UNC’s Receivers, we want to stop them and stop what they do and stop what they do and some of the bigger plays they do. One of the bigger things is we want to stop them and they’ve got several good receivers and two good running backs. We want to limit explosive plays and limit things on the field.
I think personnel driven the passing game will be better getting guys healthy and playing full speed and help the timing in the pass game and helping things all around. I think I said it on Tuesday, we have to get an efficient running game going and there have been some big yardage numbers but a lot of that has been on QB runs and scrambles. We need to alleviate that. Help out in the run game.
Key said that he made some interjections into the run game better and you don’t want to remake the whole game plan at halftime, you want to practice things and there are other ways to do things with a different shift or motion and take what they are doing and how does that compliment what we are doing as well. Those are things we worked on as well to implement going forward.
On Avery Boyd, You will see a lot of Avery regardless of who is healthy, he will be on the field a lot regardless of who else can play.
On Kyle Efford, he has to continue to improve, but what he brings on that side of the ball is he brings some leadership and it is two-way leadership and doing what you are supposed to do and the respect he has and the way he carries himself and not arrogance. When he speaks up people listen because he has backed it up on the field. His knowledge of the game has improved from playing this year and he is quicker to the ball and quicker in coverage. He didn’t get quicker, it is his true knowledge
Key said they addressed being locked in, people chose not to hear them as much after you win a game, they think you are focusing on the negative. You show them the things that are right and wrong, but they get magnified on your block or your fit on the run game. The same thing took place and someone didn’t get caught in the point of attack. It is about identifying those things in practice. It is not about a loaf in practice, you have to correct it. We have pursuit and takeoff drills and perfect plays. That is the beauty of playing with tempo offensively. It doesn’t allow you to stop and think. That tempo allows you to stay fast and it forces guys to do that. We call them out and peers call them out, if they continue to happen you replace those guys and they don’t play. You don’t have one player playing too much at a position where we need to sub, you don’t want them playing too many snaps as well. We need to do a better job of rotating guys at the right spots and not playing guys too much that we will need in the 4th quarter. That is on coaching, the players and even recruiting because we need to build depth. We have to work to improve on to keep those things from happening.
Key said they are healthier this week as well.
Good game this Saturday and excited to play a challenging opponent and a great opponent and two teams that are QB-driven in what they do. Drake is a heck of a QB. It is a different play caller on offense and it is a little different, but it all goes through the QB.
Defensively they’ve made a lot of improvements with a lot of the same players back and they play together under the same coordinator.
Coaches and players make sure they are all on top of things. I'm excited to play on Saturday night and it will be a big atmosphere and a good one surrounding the game.
ON UNC’s Receivers, we want to stop them and stop what they do and stop what they do and some of the bigger plays they do. One of the bigger things is we want to stop them and they’ve got several good receivers and two good running backs. We want to limit explosive plays and limit things on the field.
I think personnel driven the passing game will be better getting guys healthy and playing full speed and help the timing in the pass game and helping things all around. I think I said it on Tuesday, we have to get an efficient running game going and there have been some big yardage numbers but a lot of that has been on QB runs and scrambles. We need to alleviate that. Help out in the run game.
Key said that he made some interjections into the run game better and you don’t want to remake the whole game plan at halftime, you want to practice things and there are other ways to do things with a different shift or motion and take what they are doing and how does that compliment what we are doing as well. Those are things we worked on as well to implement going forward.
On Avery Boyd, You will see a lot of Avery regardless of who is healthy, he will be on the field a lot regardless of who else can play.
On Kyle Efford, he has to continue to improve, but what he brings on that side of the ball is he brings some leadership and it is two-way leadership and doing what you are supposed to do and the respect he has and the way he carries himself and not arrogance. When he speaks up people listen because he has backed it up on the field. His knowledge of the game has improved from playing this year and he is quicker to the ball and quicker in coverage. He didn’t get quicker, it is his true knowledge
Key said they addressed being locked in, people chose not to hear them as much after you win a game, they think you are focusing on the negative. You show them the things that are right and wrong, but they get magnified on your block or your fit on the run game. The same thing took place and someone didn’t get caught in the point of attack. It is about identifying those things in practice. It is not about a loaf in practice, you have to correct it. We have pursuit and takeoff drills and perfect plays. That is the beauty of playing with tempo offensively. It doesn’t allow you to stop and think. That tempo allows you to stay fast and it forces guys to do that. We call them out and peers call them out, if they continue to happen you replace those guys and they don’t play. You don’t have one player playing too much at a position where we need to sub, you don’t want them playing too many snaps as well. We need to do a better job of rotating guys at the right spots and not playing guys too much that we will need in the 4th quarter. That is on coaching, the players and even recruiting because we need to build depth. We have to work to improve on to keep those things from happening.
Key said they are healthier this week as well.
