Thought we played really well against Duke in the 1st half and hit some big plays in the first half. We gave up a ton of yards but kept them out of the end zone. Got off to a terrible start with a with a turnover and then another fumble and almost gave it away.
We play a very talented UNC team this week.
ON SUCCESS LAST WEEK
We've been playing good offensively for the last three weeks. Andy pointed out last night, we are averaging 6.5 yards per play and way up from the start, the last three or four games have been around 8, so hopefully we can keep that going.
ON UNC QB BEING TOUGHEST TEST SO FAR
He completes a high percent and is very accurate. Their offense has check downs that make it a high percentage and he is very talented and knows what he is going to do.
WHEN GROWING THE PLAYBOOK
Not really, it is what it is, pretty similar week to week, never know which part we are going to use and we have an idea and we have tweaks, but that is one thing that allows us to get better historically and the execution is better. We aren't going to trick anyone. One we you can't run BYU then the wishbone, you will trick yourself. Justin is playing better and when the QB is playing well then it is good.
ON FREEDOM TO CHECK OUT FOR JT
Four of five times a game, normally checking same play the other way. I trust him and he isn't going to check runs to passes, but that was built into the game plan last week and he did it for a TD, maybe an inside run versus outside, he knows what to do.
ON THIRD LONG ESCAPES BY JT
It is good when he has an opening and not good when they hem him in. He made a couple of plays, the last one we had a guy wide open too, but anytime he can pull it down and go with it it is great.
ON PROTECTING JUSTIN IN PASS PRO
We are better at it and we added more stuff and use more play action and that helps, our OL pass pro is better. Up until the last game the B-back has been better.
ON PASSING MORE HELPING IN RECRUITING
I don't know, we don't throw more, we just complete more, we threw 14x, we throw between 15-20 times a game for a long time. We are more proficient and we aren't running as many plays as normal.
ON PLAY ACTION PROTECTION
The first play we hit in the game was a stop n go, if I told you why I ran it, they were breaking on three step and go and the guy broke on it, so the one to Ricky was a roll, Clinton was a check against the safety in the box, the rest were play action.
ON WATCHING DUKE WARM UP
Yeah I watch stuff in warm ups. Our play action protection is 7 man, our pass is 6-man so that helps even in non-play action.
ON FREDDIE PLAYING BETTER THIS YEAR
They don't make a lot of checks up there, but he is playing well. It is good having an experienced guy, two true freshman on left side and a sophomore on right and a junior Andrew on the right plus the backups are young guys, so a lot of young guys.
ON DEDRICK
He is physically cleared.
ON ANDREW MARSHALL INJURY
It is nothing serious, he is a tough kid and has fought through it.
ON MAKING THE OFFENSE WORK
For us to be successful on offense we need to be able to run the ball and if you run it successfully, the long pass to Clinton in the last game for TDs, playing man to man rocking a safety in the box, if you can't run it the safety won't rock down. It feeds itself and when you are operating correct you have answers for what people do. If they whip your butt upfront it makes it all look rough, when we run successfully, 280 in a game to 400 we look good. In 2014, we ran for 340 a game and they have to take chances in the passing game and our receivers get one on ones and when we get the deep ball to Ricky is a run/pass option and it was a jump ball and it comes so fast guy looses it.
ON WHAT THE DEFENSE NEEDS TO DO BETTER
I think everyone has to have an idea what everyone else is doing and limit the mistakes and alignment errors, then you have to cut back what you are doing. If they guys can't get it on the field then it won't be good. You have to make some plays, some has to bat the ball down or get a sack. There were two times on Saturday, TE caught a ball Terrell Lewis was draped on the guy and just missed the ball by half an inch, or a guy missed a tackle in the backfield and they get a first down. It steam rolls you. We got a couple of fourth down stops, turnovers and a key third down stop at the end. We should be able to play better than we played.
ON GOING ON THE ROAD
That has never been an issue here. Sometimes there is a noise factor, other than that, we don't approach it any different. We played good at Pitt, just came up 3 points short. Historically we've done okay on the road. In '15 we were bad at home and one the road. Some places are hard to play on the road, sometimes. Blacksburg is hard to play at, it is loud and that is a big advantage, but the field is 100-yards long and you just have to play.
ON FSU DOING SHOWTIME SHOW WOULD YOU DO IT
You'd have to look at it, it is certainly not helping them, they are 5-3, I don't know a team that has done it that has had a good season and depends on the editing rights. Probably a positive for recruiting, I haven't seen it, I taped it, but I haven't seen it.
ON ROAD NOISE VERSUS DEFENSE
You can't have stuff that is hard to communicate, you can't change things four times before a snap even in a quiet room, make a call and play it, some of it is real and some of it is not. In 38 years never had a kid say I couldn't cover him, it was always I thought, he thought, I couldn't hear and some of it is real and some of it isn't. I know what is reasonable and not, Saturday we had one that was real, the kid was trying to get two others lined up and he was trying to get them lined up and he lost his guy, that is real and you see it on the field. That was real, you have to line.
ON DEDRICK NEEDS TO BE CLEARED
He needs another type of clearance to play. (Sounds like his parents have to sign off or he does on his head being fine)
ON LOCKER ROOM CHANGES FOR SOCCER TEAM USING BDS
We wanted to build a new locker 3-4 years ago, we won't do it for $275k (what the soccer club is paying for upgrades), hopefully we can spruce it up some. There is no timetable yet for it.
We play a very talented UNC team this week.
ON SUCCESS LAST WEEK
We've been playing good offensively for the last three weeks. Andy pointed out last night, we are averaging 6.5 yards per play and way up from the start, the last three or four games have been around 8, so hopefully we can keep that going.
ON UNC QB BEING TOUGHEST TEST SO FAR
He completes a high percent and is very accurate. Their offense has check downs that make it a high percentage and he is very talented and knows what he is going to do.
WHEN GROWING THE PLAYBOOK
Not really, it is what it is, pretty similar week to week, never know which part we are going to use and we have an idea and we have tweaks, but that is one thing that allows us to get better historically and the execution is better. We aren't going to trick anyone. One we you can't run BYU then the wishbone, you will trick yourself. Justin is playing better and when the QB is playing well then it is good.
ON FREEDOM TO CHECK OUT FOR JT
Four of five times a game, normally checking same play the other way. I trust him and he isn't going to check runs to passes, but that was built into the game plan last week and he did it for a TD, maybe an inside run versus outside, he knows what to do.
ON THIRD LONG ESCAPES BY JT
It is good when he has an opening and not good when they hem him in. He made a couple of plays, the last one we had a guy wide open too, but anytime he can pull it down and go with it it is great.
ON PROTECTING JUSTIN IN PASS PRO
We are better at it and we added more stuff and use more play action and that helps, our OL pass pro is better. Up until the last game the B-back has been better.
ON PASSING MORE HELPING IN RECRUITING
I don't know, we don't throw more, we just complete more, we threw 14x, we throw between 15-20 times a game for a long time. We are more proficient and we aren't running as many plays as normal.
ON PLAY ACTION PROTECTION
The first play we hit in the game was a stop n go, if I told you why I ran it, they were breaking on three step and go and the guy broke on it, so the one to Ricky was a roll, Clinton was a check against the safety in the box, the rest were play action.
ON WATCHING DUKE WARM UP
Yeah I watch stuff in warm ups. Our play action protection is 7 man, our pass is 6-man so that helps even in non-play action.
ON FREDDIE PLAYING BETTER THIS YEAR
They don't make a lot of checks up there, but he is playing well. It is good having an experienced guy, two true freshman on left side and a sophomore on right and a junior Andrew on the right plus the backups are young guys, so a lot of young guys.
ON DEDRICK
He is physically cleared.
ON ANDREW MARSHALL INJURY
It is nothing serious, he is a tough kid and has fought through it.
ON MAKING THE OFFENSE WORK
For us to be successful on offense we need to be able to run the ball and if you run it successfully, the long pass to Clinton in the last game for TDs, playing man to man rocking a safety in the box, if you can't run it the safety won't rock down. It feeds itself and when you are operating correct you have answers for what people do. If they whip your butt upfront it makes it all look rough, when we run successfully, 280 in a game to 400 we look good. In 2014, we ran for 340 a game and they have to take chances in the passing game and our receivers get one on ones and when we get the deep ball to Ricky is a run/pass option and it was a jump ball and it comes so fast guy looses it.
ON WHAT THE DEFENSE NEEDS TO DO BETTER
I think everyone has to have an idea what everyone else is doing and limit the mistakes and alignment errors, then you have to cut back what you are doing. If they guys can't get it on the field then it won't be good. You have to make some plays, some has to bat the ball down or get a sack. There were two times on Saturday, TE caught a ball Terrell Lewis was draped on the guy and just missed the ball by half an inch, or a guy missed a tackle in the backfield and they get a first down. It steam rolls you. We got a couple of fourth down stops, turnovers and a key third down stop at the end. We should be able to play better than we played.
ON GOING ON THE ROAD
That has never been an issue here. Sometimes there is a noise factor, other than that, we don't approach it any different. We played good at Pitt, just came up 3 points short. Historically we've done okay on the road. In '15 we were bad at home and one the road. Some places are hard to play on the road, sometimes. Blacksburg is hard to play at, it is loud and that is a big advantage, but the field is 100-yards long and you just have to play.
ON FSU DOING SHOWTIME SHOW WOULD YOU DO IT
You'd have to look at it, it is certainly not helping them, they are 5-3, I don't know a team that has done it that has had a good season and depends on the editing rights. Probably a positive for recruiting, I haven't seen it, I taped it, but I haven't seen it.
ON ROAD NOISE VERSUS DEFENSE
You can't have stuff that is hard to communicate, you can't change things four times before a snap even in a quiet room, make a call and play it, some of it is real and some of it is not. In 38 years never had a kid say I couldn't cover him, it was always I thought, he thought, I couldn't hear and some of it is real and some of it isn't. I know what is reasonable and not, Saturday we had one that was real, the kid was trying to get two others lined up and he was trying to get them lined up and he lost his guy, that is real and you see it on the field. That was real, you have to line.
ON DEDRICK NEEDS TO BE CLEARED
He needs another type of clearance to play. (Sounds like his parents have to sign off or he does on his head being fine)
ON LOCKER ROOM CHANGES FOR SOCCER TEAM USING BDS
We wanted to build a new locker 3-4 years ago, we won't do it for $275k (what the soccer club is paying for upgrades), hopefully we can spruce it up some. There is no timetable yet for it.
