ON GOING FROM CITADEL TO TEMPLE POSTIVE CHANGES
Our TFLs were down and we were on guys much better and we were really multiple in what we are running and much more balanced in what we were doing and not total spread with QB running. That was a good adjustment and made plays on the edge, good development in the pass game and left a lot out there, week to week project on getting better and the flow of the game. When you go back on Sunday and watch everything and be critical and we did a lot of good stuff. Lot of things we have to get corrected and I don’t think the score is indicative if we get that first one in we are not playing from behind and that is different. There is a lot of stuff to build on and TFLs were down and our protection held up, #90 is a good pass rusher, but we held up and were on the right guys. Our development of what we are doing.
ON JAMES GRAHAM PASSING KNEW LIKE WHERE HE WANTED TO GO WITH IT
Inconsistent, electric, as good as anyone in the country then the next play threw it into the third row, he has to be more consistent with where he throws the ball. His understanding has grown more since the spring, he has ten more steps before he is where he needs to be, but some of those comebacks on the move and Jalen snagged were NFL throws, he has NFL talent and is athletic, has to be more mature on how he studies and what he does. He came in yesterday and said he has to get it right, then I called the same play today that he missed that we went over, he put his foot in and threw the out and the offense came off the field that is the growth with a young Q, there has to be a lot of patience with a young guy, he is like a wild stallion, all hyped up and you can’t play like that, you have to get there, once he settles down.
ON THE OL GOING THROUGH CHANGES
It is difficult getting cohesive they know the calls and know each others patterns and feeling them bumping off each other and if this guy does this I’ll take it. There are a lot of moving pieces. Kenny Cooper is like the rock, he has a bum hip doesn’t feel great, doesn’t feel right, so you start moving pieces around and the guys went in scrapped. Will Lay didn’t have snap issues and played his tail off and we have to punch the ball in in the red zone, despite the turnovers we left 3 scores on the board throwing it, identify why that is and get it corrected, there is a reason why the windshield is this big and the rearview mirror is this big, we have 8 games left and we have to continue moving forward and how to correct it. CGC and CAT mentioned tell the truth Sundays, this was really good, really bad and this was a crap call by the OC, this was really cool, this is why this happened and we all take ownership and on Tuesday we tear the bandaid off.
ON THE TURNOVERS AND WORKING ON THEM
The first thing we did Sunday was ball security and everyone worked through and we ran through a gauntlet of bags and how to carry the ball and your wrist above the elbow, whacking at them and coaches screaming at them to put them in a chaos type deal. If the ball is by your chin and using your off hand to protect yourself. The red zone pick, we got a different look than on previous plays we said if you get this look throw it, James won’t throw it if the FS is in the middle of the field don’t throw that ball, when there is a mid-safety, you have to learn that. Playing QB until you have to live through it, do you fully understand the adjustments and sliding protections. We punch any of those ins. We run a go ball and Sanders runs it perfect and James gets hit and floats it. We have some really explosive plays and missed on it.
ON JAMES BEING ABLE TO MAKE THOSE THROWS
Tobias is an elite level guy outside the pocket and runs the ball tremendous and had hot field, James will stand and deliver and sometimes he wants to throw it deep every time, he had Tyler Davis in the flats open and he didn’t throw it, when you have young QBs understanding what the play is these are the routes and the protections and versus this D this where you go, they don’t always tell you, it looks like cover two but the safety bails then you throw the out, you have to have productive meetings and when he knew where he wanted to go with the ball he threw some nice balls, then we are also like where you throw the ball. He never gunned it in HS, you are starting from elementary level on the dropback passing game and threw it deep. The in-vogue thing is max protect and throw as far as you can because teams are overloaded to stop the run, there is some growth there and continue to grow and we are on the right track and #4 is special.
ON MANAGING THE OL THE REST OF THE YEAR
My job, CBK and CTC is who is the eraser on D and who do we take out and do you park someone next to a guy do you double chip both ends, do you max protect, fake a run and throw it down the field, solo routes and pack it all in and they have to win, do you empty them out and there is only a finite group of guys, there are only X number of guys in and out. Can you screen it, nakeds, throw a hitch, if you are old school and 4 wide you are exposing your OL, we mixed 6-7 man and screens and sprints and at some point our guys will be in one-on-ones and our QB was antsy and guys were running off the edge, I was like bro you are 19 yards deep. That evolution of the ball, we threw two ends and stuck it on Camp, he wouldn’t have made that throw a month ago. Stay out of third and long, in 3rd and 4 we can run 8,000 routes, in 3rd and 14 you only have a few, you have to throw it past the sticks.
Our TFLs were down and we were on guys much better and we were really multiple in what we are running and much more balanced in what we were doing and not total spread with QB running. That was a good adjustment and made plays on the edge, good development in the pass game and left a lot out there, week to week project on getting better and the flow of the game. When you go back on Sunday and watch everything and be critical and we did a lot of good stuff. Lot of things we have to get corrected and I don’t think the score is indicative if we get that first one in we are not playing from behind and that is different. There is a lot of stuff to build on and TFLs were down and our protection held up, #90 is a good pass rusher, but we held up and were on the right guys. Our development of what we are doing.
ON JAMES GRAHAM PASSING KNEW LIKE WHERE HE WANTED TO GO WITH IT
Inconsistent, electric, as good as anyone in the country then the next play threw it into the third row, he has to be more consistent with where he throws the ball. His understanding has grown more since the spring, he has ten more steps before he is where he needs to be, but some of those comebacks on the move and Jalen snagged were NFL throws, he has NFL talent and is athletic, has to be more mature on how he studies and what he does. He came in yesterday and said he has to get it right, then I called the same play today that he missed that we went over, he put his foot in and threw the out and the offense came off the field that is the growth with a young Q, there has to be a lot of patience with a young guy, he is like a wild stallion, all hyped up and you can’t play like that, you have to get there, once he settles down.
ON THE OL GOING THROUGH CHANGES
It is difficult getting cohesive they know the calls and know each others patterns and feeling them bumping off each other and if this guy does this I’ll take it. There are a lot of moving pieces. Kenny Cooper is like the rock, he has a bum hip doesn’t feel great, doesn’t feel right, so you start moving pieces around and the guys went in scrapped. Will Lay didn’t have snap issues and played his tail off and we have to punch the ball in in the red zone, despite the turnovers we left 3 scores on the board throwing it, identify why that is and get it corrected, there is a reason why the windshield is this big and the rearview mirror is this big, we have 8 games left and we have to continue moving forward and how to correct it. CGC and CAT mentioned tell the truth Sundays, this was really good, really bad and this was a crap call by the OC, this was really cool, this is why this happened and we all take ownership and on Tuesday we tear the bandaid off.
ON THE TURNOVERS AND WORKING ON THEM
The first thing we did Sunday was ball security and everyone worked through and we ran through a gauntlet of bags and how to carry the ball and your wrist above the elbow, whacking at them and coaches screaming at them to put them in a chaos type deal. If the ball is by your chin and using your off hand to protect yourself. The red zone pick, we got a different look than on previous plays we said if you get this look throw it, James won’t throw it if the FS is in the middle of the field don’t throw that ball, when there is a mid-safety, you have to learn that. Playing QB until you have to live through it, do you fully understand the adjustments and sliding protections. We punch any of those ins. We run a go ball and Sanders runs it perfect and James gets hit and floats it. We have some really explosive plays and missed on it.
ON JAMES BEING ABLE TO MAKE THOSE THROWS
Tobias is an elite level guy outside the pocket and runs the ball tremendous and had hot field, James will stand and deliver and sometimes he wants to throw it deep every time, he had Tyler Davis in the flats open and he didn’t throw it, when you have young QBs understanding what the play is these are the routes and the protections and versus this D this where you go, they don’t always tell you, it looks like cover two but the safety bails then you throw the out, you have to have productive meetings and when he knew where he wanted to go with the ball he threw some nice balls, then we are also like where you throw the ball. He never gunned it in HS, you are starting from elementary level on the dropback passing game and threw it deep. The in-vogue thing is max protect and throw as far as you can because teams are overloaded to stop the run, there is some growth there and continue to grow and we are on the right track and #4 is special.
ON MANAGING THE OL THE REST OF THE YEAR
My job, CBK and CTC is who is the eraser on D and who do we take out and do you park someone next to a guy do you double chip both ends, do you max protect, fake a run and throw it down the field, solo routes and pack it all in and they have to win, do you empty them out and there is only a finite group of guys, there are only X number of guys in and out. Can you screen it, nakeds, throw a hitch, if you are old school and 4 wide you are exposing your OL, we mixed 6-7 man and screens and sprints and at some point our guys will be in one-on-ones and our QB was antsy and guys were running off the edge, I was like bro you are 19 yards deep. That evolution of the ball, we threw two ends and stuck it on Camp, he wouldn’t have made that throw a month ago. Stay out of third and long, in 3rd and 4 we can run 8,000 routes, in 3rd and 14 you only have a few, you have to throw it past the sticks.
