Weekly press video. I'll add the transcript after it's posted later.
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COACH TRESSEL: Welcome all. It was a little bit different ball game than I think any of us anticipated. We knew Wisconsin was a heck of a football team and we knew we were going to have our hands full. We felt they had a very, very good offense with a quarterback who was playing well, playing tough, and my opinion of him didn't change a bit. He stood in there under a great deal of duress. Defensively we thought that they were a high-pressured defense with a lot of guys that could run around and that Number 50 would probably cause some havoc, which he did, but the good thing is, is that we came up with some plays that are game changers. Obviously Kurt Coleman's play and the pressure that was put on the quarterback, his being where he was supposed to be, and then I thought the execution on the interception return was outstanding. You always say when an interception is thrown, if you can block the intended receiver and you can block the quarterback and then get everyone else running down the side line, you have a chance and they did that just as you would hope they would do. And the same thing occurred on Jermale's excellent play and then of course Ray Small's kickoff return. The execution up front, what Ray did was great, he was like a bullet coming out of there.
The double team was great. The guys did an excellent job on their aiming points and took their cover guys where they needed to be taken. And the off returner did a good job of leading up through and was able to distract the kicker. Usually you count on your kicker to the a least turn the ball back into the rest of the pursuit and the off returner did a good job with that, so the execution was great. It led to us not being on the field offensively for about an hour, which I guess you'll take, but I think it was a little bit before 5:00 when we scored at the end of the first half and it was right around 6:00 when we took the field again and ended up with, I think, about 32 gradable plays. Which to me the downside of that is, whereas Number 16 for Wisconsin had a chance to experience 47 throws and the line got to experience 47 pass protections against very, very good people, that was something that we didn't get a chance to do, which was part of the situation, but we had a number of our defensive guys grade a winning performance, we had eight of them. They played 89 plays.
Fortunately we substitute a lot, so there weren't too many of our guys that played the whole time. I think Kurt Coleman and Chimdi Chekwa and Ross Homan and B-Rolle, but the rest of the folks were able to roll in and out, but they got a heck of a day's work and they were sore on Sunday, I can assure you that. Offensively we had only one winning performance, Brandon Saine, we thought did a very, very good job. Ray Small was our special units player of the game. He had a great punt return, unfortunately we made a critical error with a block in the back that really didn't even need to happen on his 30-some-yard punt return. And of course he had the long kickoff return and did a good job back there on punts in general and so he was our special units player.
I think Kurt Coleman was the defensive player and very productive, you know, good leader out there, gets us lined up. Wisconsin gives you a million formations, the motion and shift, and he does a good job in the back end making sure that we adjust very well, and plus he makes plays, and so he was the defensive player.
We didn't really have an offensive player of the game, nor an offensive lineman of the game, just didn't feel as if there were enough snaps graded to the point with a high enough grade and so forth to have those awards. Ross Homan was the attack force player, was very, very active. They have a tough run game and even when you meet them in the hole, that John Clay is something now, and Ross Homan did a heck of a job there. In fact, I thought I just heard on the Big Ten call that he was the defensive Big Ten player. I think that's true. He was the defensive player in the Big Ten, and then our guys did a good job getting us ready, which you never want to ignore that fact. Every week it's a different scheme you're playing and that Wisconsin scheme was a lot different. We even had some of our top tight ends, Jake Ballard and Jake Stoneburner and Reid Fragel, we were down working with the defense just so we could give them as good a look as we can and special teams-wise, Ricky Crawford did a good job getting our special teams ready. Spencer Smith wore Number 89 all week and really did a great job emulating the Graham kid, who is a very, very good player. And then on the offensive side, it was Taylor Rice who did a nice job, their secondary play was a little bit different than some and he did a nice job of emulating that and doing -- sometimes when you ask kids to do things that are a little different than the way we teach them, it has to be a quick learn and some film study and those kinds of things and Taylor Rice and really rest of the defense did a good job there.
Obviously when you're at the midpoint of the season, it's interesting in that our guys work out all year long and they're halfway through the season and yet there's only about 40 days or 30 some days left that's going to really decide what kind of football team we have. And the next thing we need to do is go on the road. I think a very difficult situation, because if you really study the film, I've been through all the films including last year's with the exception of half of the Minnesota game and if you watch the film, if Purdue doesn't have a turnover here or a turnover there or a special teams problem here or there, who knows what their record is, and we've got to make sure that we attack this challenge the same way you do any other and that's simply by film study. They're a very veteran team. I think I wrote down just sitting there having my Dorito lunch there, they've got 11, looking at their newest two deep, they've got 11 seniors starting on their first unit when you take offense/defense, plus you add a senior punter, so 12 of the 24 are seniors, eight of which are fifth-year, one is sixth-year, and two are fourth-year. And then they have a couple backups who are seniors. So they're a very veteran team. They've played us before. They know they've gone toe to toe. I think our last two games have been 16-3 or something and 23-7 or 10 or something like that, so they know what is ahead and we're going over to their place and we've got to make sure we do a great job of staying rested, getting rested first especially from a defensive standpoint, but preparing extremely hard. Whenever you face a senior quarterback who now has had a chance to throw a whole bunch of balls and who leads our league, two weeks in a row now we're facing the guy that leads the league in passing. So our challenge, I think, is great.
Going on the road in our conference, each time you do it is a heck of a challenge, but as I look at our team after the midpoint here, I love the way we prepare. Our guys prepare extremely hard. Defensively, as many things as Wisconsin gave you, and then they would go to the next thing, if the first thing wasn't quite what they needed, they would go to the next thing and our guys would adjust to that, I thought they did a heck of a job doing that.
Offensively, I think our guys have done a good job of preparing. Where I really think we need to get better preparing from an offensive standpoint is understanding that what we study and prepare for all week long may not be what you're going to get and then adjusting in the midst of the flow and that's why it's disappointing when you only get 30-some snaps, to make those adjustments and learn those lessons and so forth, but it is what it is and we've got to improve from that standpoint in my opinion, and so we're right in the meat of the schedule. We're right in the heat of it, getting ready to take the road and looking forward to it.
REPORTER: When you say the offense needs to adjust in the flow, is that the players in the game? The coaches?
COACH TRESSEL: All of us.
REPORTER: Specifically who are you referring to?
COACH TRESSEL: If you study all week long, here's what they've done, here's what we're going to do and so forth and then what they're doing is not exactly what we have rehearsed, we've got to, from an immediate standpoint, say, okay, I see what they're doing, now here's what we've got to do next. The problem is we were three and out three straight times to start the game and the one touchdown drive we had was only like five plays, so it wasn't like, okay, we've figured this out, we'll do this, do that, do this, we figured out what they were doing a little bit and happened to hit some big plays, we won't turn down those interceptions for touchdowns, we won't turn down those big plays either, but from a consistency ability to really hang our hat on the fact that, okay, I know exactly what they're doing, it was a great experience for, I thought, for those two young tackles.
Jimmy Cordle should be back a little bit this week. I don't know if we would get a full practice week out of him or a full game, but three, the really three young tackles had a chance to see if they could deal with Number 50 who was very, very good. Their other end was very, very good and so there were good experiences, unfortunately only about, I think, Marcus might have had, I don't know, 15 snaps and J.B. 20 some, and we just need to work to get better and understand, hey, here's how they're trying to attack us.
REPORTER: For example, what did they switch up, Jim? Give an example of what --
COACH TRESSEL: They played a lot more people up in the box and played us a little bit different in the secondary, which allowed them to shift their linebackers, when you drop a guy in the box, shift their linebackers and they did a good job. You could see that their plan was, most people are going to have two people on the quarterback when you're doing some of the things we do. They had about two and a half. They were not going to allow the quarterback to get outside and hurt him and so forth. And they did a good job, I thought, of allowing their ends to freelance a little bit because they had an extra guy in the box if he would lose contain, there was always a guy behind him. So it really made it -- if you didn't kick, set, and square as an offensive tackle, you were going to have a chance to get beat inside, which sometimes you don't worry about if there's no one out there to contain because the quarterback can -- and then hurt him by breaking contain. So there were some good lessons of someone who just said, hey, look, we're not going to let you beat us this way.
REPORTER: When you looked at Terrelle's game, obviously there's very few plays to grade and stuff, did you see, was it more of an offensive problem than a Terrelle problem?
COACH TRESSEL: Oh, yeah.
REPORTER: How do you deal with him? He's getting a lot of criticism out there in the public and stuff and from the media.
COACH TRESSEL: Sure, sure.
REPORTER: But how do you deal with him this week kind of like settling down?
COACH TRESSEL: I think the thing you do with any of us is understand that when things go just right, I probably didn't do it by myself and when things didn't go the way you'd like, it probably didn't have everything to do with me. Now, that being said, what is it that I can do better, whether I'm a coach or I'm a quarterback or I'm a left tackle or whoever I am. Do you like it when it doesn't go quite as well as you want it to? Absolutely not. But you know, that's one of the great lessons about playing this game or playing that position or coaching this game or whatever and so you have to -- we will all say one of our fundamentals is whether it be in football or life, you've got to handle adversity, which I think is a little bit instinctive to do, and you also have to handle success, which sometimes is a little harder to do.
REPORTER: How much harder is it to make those adjustments when you do have a sophomore quarterback, three sophomores playing on the offensive line and do you maybe expect defenses to continue to try to do things they haven't shown before maybe because you're young in some of those spots?
COACH TRESSEL: Yeah, I think defenses are going to -- football is a game of pressure, just like our defense, they made things a little bit hard on 16, it was a tough day when you throw two picks for touchdowns, that's a tough day. You can have all the completions you want, but you're probably not going to overcome two touchdowns thrown the other way. That's what defense is all about, and that's what offense is all about is you're either the guy getting pressured or you're putting pressure on them. We didn't do as good a job, other than, you know, we scalded it down there that one drive real quickly. Outside of that, we didn't put the pressure on their defense, then all of a sudden you have the game that's the score that it was and you have to make those decisions as to what is it you want to do, practice or win the game? And we're always, I hope, going to err on the side of trying to win the game.
REPORTER: Boom got dinged up in the game and Jamaal didn't dress, where do you stand at that running back position going into the week?
COACH TRESSEL: Well, we've got Brandon and Jordan Hall and then Tim
May is the third back.
REPORTER: Now you're in trouble.
REPORTER: Is Boom --
COACH TRESSEL: I don't think we'll have Boom this week, I think we probably got set back a week or two and Marcus Williams was kind of the old steady, he knew everything to do, he probably wasn't going to carry it a bunch for you but he could do some things. Jermil Martin is a guy that has to step up. I'm the eternal optimist, I keep waiting for Jamaal Berry to be healthy because when he's been healthy he's been very, very good, but right now it's Brandon and Jordan. But Jamaal Berry has been back, got a lot of reps. He had to run a lot of John Clay last week but he got some of our stuff. And we're just going to have to share. We have to get our defense ready, but we also have to have three tailbacks ready, so at least we know we're in that situation. The hard part about the course of the game is all of a sudden Boom was in like his third play and he was out and Jermil didn't have that many reps. I guess the upside to the less plays was that's less plays at the tailback that particular moment as well.
REPORTER: How is Andrew Miller doing?
COACH TRESSEL: Andrew should practice today. He worked out Friday for about 20 minutes from a cardiovascular standpoint. He worked out Sunday, everything everyone else did, which wasn't a whole bunch, but he should be back. And Jimmy Cordle should be back. I'm trying to think who else has been out. Dex won't be back. Boom won't be back. Tyler Moeller, of course. Who else have we been missing? Not too bad.
REPORTER: Any other flu cases or anything like that?
COACH TRESSEL: One popped up today, but, you know, it's Tuesday so hopefully that won't lead to two and three and four. You have to get them away from the crew and get them healthy and get them rested. We're hoping, what Dr. Kaeding told us Sunday was, as he's talked to the team physicians of the Big Ten schools, which most of the Big Ten schools are semesters, so their flu started about two to three weeks before our flu started and they're finding on college campuses both with the general student body and the student athlete population is that there's a spike early in the term and then it gradually goes down. For instance, Wisconsin's team physician told Dr. Kaeding that they were virtually a hundred percent healthy for the last couple three weeks, whereas we're the a the other end of that thing and hopefully ours will start going the other way.
REPORTER: I want to ask about the fake field goal. Is there ever a time to just play that safe? What was the call on that? Were you trying to block the field goal?
COACH TRESSEL: Yeah, we always put pressure on the side. The lesson is the guy that was in charge of containing needed to have a little bit more width, but it was a great lesson. It was something we talked, interestingly enough we talked about Friday is that we have never seen them fake a field goal, which is all the more reason why we thought they might because they came in two years ago, if you recall, and did two fake punts. One they hit us and the other one was 24-17 and they did it on their own 25 and all of a sudden and we stopped it and it was 31-17 and different ball game. So that's their nature, so we really felt like it was coming and we just got out-flanked a little bit and Jermil was fighting hard to get out there, and Spit, but didn't quite have the leverage that he needed, so the correction obviously is better leverage. The correction then leads to, okay, what's the thing you do against the people that have more leverage, what other kinds of things do you do, so it's an ongoing thing but the thing that we won and it happened, it was a good thing that that ended up being the difference in a loss, I guess you could say it's a good lesson, but we don't like lessons like that.
REPORTER: You talked about making the end game adjustments like you've been, how much of that falls on your center? Is that a big deal? Line calls and stuff?
COACH TRESSEL: Really from a center standpoint we were in pretty good shape. We didn't have a bunch of missed protection calls or anything like that.
REPORTER: Jim, when there's eight in the box and I think you mentioned two, two and a half linebackers dedicated to Terrelle, is that an indication that opposing defenses want you to beat them through the air?
COACH TRESSEL: Oh, sure.
REPORTER: And how much of a concern is the development in that area?
COACH TRESSEL: Well, I think when you talk about beating someone in the air, you have to talk about the whole picture. You have to talk about the protection, the routes, the quarterback play and so forth, and so when you have more people in the box, there's a few more protection issues and so that's what you work against when people are bringing extra folks. And we probably would have thrown the ball down the field a great deal more had the game been a little bit different, but each time we got the ball back after the long lull, the last thing in your mind was, hey, why don't we go three and out in 42 seconds. You know, you weren't going to think that way. And even though they might have had eight guys up there, we had to figure out a way to see if we could move the chains. I think the drive down for the field goal gave our defense a chance and so forth. I wish we'd have driven down for a touchdown, but it, A, burned up X amount of minutes and got us to a three-score game. Someone asked in one of the earlier things about the intentional grounding thing, didn't we think that Terrelle should have thrown it out of bounds. And I told them that I thought he was covering me knowing that Pettrey misses those close ones, so he was just trying to move it back into makeable range, might have been his thinking, I don't know.
REPORTER: After a game like that, just in general, do you come out of
that with more offensive concerns than you had previous or because it was such a strange game as you've talked about, do you just kind of --
COACH TRESSEL: You probably come out with less and I'll tell you why. If you play 70 plays, there's 70 plays worth of concerns because we evaluate them independent. You come out of there with 30 and it's like, okay, these six things happened or these nine things happened and so there's less to learn from and so to me the biggest concern is we didn't get the kind of practice that you need. Wisconsin got a heck of a deal. They got 89 plays, however many rushes Clay got, what did he have, 25 or so? Yeah, he got 20 reps at a very difficult situation. Quarterback had 47 throws, not to mention the times he didn't get to throw it, so he probably dropped back 50 some times. So you can learn a lot from that. So I don't know if I have more or less concerns or whatever. I have less data.
REPORTER: Is there anything that you can do this week at practice, maybe one on ones to kind of make up for the lost reps?
COACH TRESSEL: One on one against our defense? We probably won't do any more of that than we normally do. We normally have full team. On Tuesday we'll probably have maybe 18 snaps against one another. On Wednesday, very similar. Thursday, none at all. We probably won't do more than that because our defense needs time working on Purdue. We'll have some inside drill where it will be nine on nine kind of thing or we'll have some perimeter drill, seven on seven against one another. But our defense just had 89 plays. They've got to get ready to handle Purdue.
REPORTER: How much has Purdue changed under the new regime?
COACH TRESSEL: They've probably lined up in the eye with two backs a little bit more. If you had to say what's their primary formation, it would still be three wides and a tight end, which when they had Dustin Keller and those kind of guys, that was their base. I think the kid threw it almost 50 times Saturday, didn't he? Against Minnesota? So that's not far from what they've typically done. Defensively, I don't see them being a whole bunch different. Now, the coordinator's new, but three of the position coaches are the same. So I don't see them changing a whole bunch and I don't know how many of the offensive guys are new. Maybe two. That's one of the pluses of the coach in waiting thing that you're not bringing in nine new people. Especially, teams are about relationships and they've got, like I mentioned, all those seniors and juniors and stuff and they had relationships with their coaches and really at the end of the day how good you are at something is going to be based on how good your relationships are, so if nine guys him could in, it's a little bit harder to develop those relationships, so I don't see them being that much different.
REPORTER: You talked about watching Purdue and some of the turnovers, I think Joey Elliot's thrown nine picks, I think Ricky Stanzi at Iowa has thrown eight, Daryll Clark has thrown nine, from what you're seeing are the quarterbacks putting more pressure, we talked about Terrelle's picks, but it seems like a lot of guys are throwing picks this year.
COACH TRESSEL: I noticed this weekend -- I don't get to watch games much, but I try to catch some highlights and even in the NFL, I saw a guy from the Cardinals take one back, I saw another guy from there take one back. The first play of the game, I think, in the Iowa-Michigan, one went to the house, I'm not sure why. I don't want to join that club because just like in our jersey scrimmage which you all poke fun at me that you can't figure out the scoring, the scoring is 12 points if you take back a turnover, the defense gets. That's the kind of impact it has on a game, emotionally. Offense is not going and getting plus points and defense is going and getting points the other way, that's double jeopardy. Why there have been so many, I'm not sure, I couldn't answer that.
REPORTER: On what you've scouted on Purdue, are people getting pressure on the quarterback, is there decision-making there that you've seen?
COACH TRESSEL: I haven't watched a whole bunch of their offense and the special teams ones have been just someone getting the ball knocked out of their hands. I'm trying to picture, I haven't watched enough of their offense to see why the picks occurred, but chances are this: One is that protection broke down; two, there was a route adjustment problem; or, three, there was an ill-advised throw and I'm sure that's the case.
REPORTER: What was Terrelle's? Was there a route problem on Terrelle's
pick last week?
COACH TRESSEL: Yeah, probably was not a great call to start with. They'd been playing on third and long that coverage the last two times and as we looked hindsight, probably wasn't the best position to put him in. Two, if he was going to throw it to that guy, then it needed to be done without a hitch. It needed to be as soon as it hit his back foot, he needed to go, but we hit the back foot and we hitched a little so it made it that much too late. One thing that you try to do with your quarterback is talk about who can take the play away. We don't worry about what the other nine guys are doing, who cares, who can take the play away, and that's the guy we've got to keep the ball away from and that was the guy that could take it away if not thrown on time. But it wasn't -- it wasn't the play that you would love to have versus that coverage.
REPORTER: After the game Terrelle was talking about what happens when you guys are aggressive. He was specifically talking about the score before halftime, is that a mindset that the offense has to have and how do you get them to be that way more often?
COACH TRESSEL: Typically offenses, if they'll get a spark, can catch fire. Our first play of that long touchdown drive, we cut back, not by design, right thing to do because they had so overplayed things that all those white jerseys were there and the right thing to do was to cut back and you cut back one gap even further and now all that pursued and now we've got a 20 something yard play and, boom, we hit something that sets fire and then we hit a nine-yard play and then we hit a 22-yard dig route and all of a sudden it's a touchdown.
A similar-type thing happened when we started that long drive against Indiana after it was 10-7, boom, you hit a play and all of a sudden, you catch fire. That's putting pressure on the defense. That's what you'd love to do every drive. That's when you're good: if every drive's about a four-play, 80-yard drive, then we'll be in good shape.
REPORTER: With a young offense and quarterback that's going through ups and downs, do you worry about confidence, like with Terrelle and the offense going through growing pains?
COACH TRESSEL: Sure.
REPORTER: And how do you combat that?
COACH TRESSEL: I think anytime you're doing something that isn't going exactly the way you'd like is that's a moment in time where you have to say, okay, how can this go the way you want it and typically whether it's life or football, you go back, what simply are the thing we've got to do better? You better set square when 50's rushing, because he doesn't care whether he's contained or not and he's got extra people up so he's got the free -- so we better set square or we better do a better job or I better not plant my foot and hitch once before I -- you know, all those kinds of things. We better not put a guy in a situation where, hmm, that probably was a tough split second decision to make, what else could we be doing at that moment. So you have to go back to the fundamental things and I don't worry about the belief that our kids have in themselves, but now you have to have 11 guys and five coaches and everything doing it in conjunction and that's what growing up is all about.
REPORTER: Jim, who would you describe is the emotional leader of this team, in the past we've had guys like Alex Boone or Barton, guys that wear their hearts on their sleeves, who is that guy this year?
COACH TRESSEL: The emotional leader of this team? I'm not sure I would have used those two examples that you used, but I'm not writing the story, so you've got it written already, but I would say Kurt Coleman obviously has done a great job. Austin Spitler does a heck of a job. Dougie Worthington does a heck of a job. They have a lot of confidence. They have an understanding of what they need to do. They've had a lot of growing. Doug's a fifth-year guy, Austin's a fifth-year guy, Kurt's a fourth-year guy that's played a whole bunch. So I would say those would be the guys that I would think would have that type of influence.
REPORTER: Let me clarify this for you. Is there an emotional guy in the locker room, a guy that gets a little fiery like a Boone or a Barton used to get, maybe you didn't always approve of it, but you'd know how they were feeling because their heart was on their sleeve?
COACH TRESSEL: I think you talked to them after the game.
REPORTER: We don't see a guy like that now.
COACH TRESSEL: After the game?
REPORTER: Yeah, a guy that comes out and lets you know --
COACH TRESSEL: Good, we've progressed. We're getting better.
REPORTER: Coach, with Purdue having the 1-5 record, how much of your job this week is selling how good they can be as opposed to schemes and match-ups like you would every other?
COACH TRESSEL: I don't think you have to sell, but you better make sure that your guys are watching plenty of film like they always do, because if you're watching film, and especially if you're watching cut-ups and situational things and so forth, you say how in the heck did they not win this game? If you watch the flow of the game and you see a turnover, you say, well, that's how they didn't win the game. But as long as we prepare with the same type of intensity that our guys prepare, I'm not concerned about that.
REPORTER: You mentioned something earlier about practicing versus
winning. Are there certain things that you just don't feel comfortable calling because they don't put your team in the best position to be successful on Saturdays?
COACH TRESSEL: Depends on which Saturday and it depends on how we're doing against what or whatever, but, yeah, I think the primary responsibility of an offense is to never put their defense in poor position. You know I've felt that for a thousand years. And also to make sure that you take opportunities to score points. So with as much as our defense was on field, as well as they were playing, the score of the game, yeah, there would be some things I probably -- I wouldn't do a double reverse pass, you know, with 11 yards deep in the back field with Lamaar Thomas throwing it who's thrown zero passes in his life, that type of thing, but, no, base stuff, there wouldn't be -- but the thing that we thought was critical, again, because of the numbers of minutes our defense was on the field the last thing we wanted to do was send them right straight back out there, A, with a turnover, B, with a minute and three second drive, we just thought that was -- made sense.
REPORTER: Can you talk about your philosophy for when to call a coach's philosophy, they're supposed to call a play dead and review it automatically, there was a play in the Purdue/Minnesota game, Tim Brewster got it overturned. Is your philosophy don't use it until the fourth quarter, might you use it earlier in the game? I know you only get one, even if you use it right, you lose it.
COACH TRESSEL: About the only time I would consider using a challenge, because the officials do a good job. Even if I tell them I want a challenge, they won't allow me to burn my challenge until the very last second waiting for their buzzer to go off. So the officials are good to you from that standpoint. The only way I would burn a challenge was if somebody that was out in that field knows for sure, because we have no playbacks in the booth. We have, as it's going along for 30 seconds or 15 seconds while you're waiting, what do you guys up there think, was he out of bounds? Was he in bounds? Coach, I don't know. Can you see a monitor? We don't have a monitor. Well, go down the hall. I mean, but I need to know in 10 seconds. So unless someone on the field or unless someone can tell you that they'll stake their life on the fact that, hey, that was out of bounds or just like that one hit or the team that glanced off the glove there on the left-field line, you guys watch any baseball? Too bad they don't have replay. But unless you can verify, we probably won't use a challenge.
REPORTER: Is there anything about that last drive before halftime that you saw that you could use more, more hurry-up, more whatever, you know what I mean? Terrelle said he not only liked the aggressiveness, he liked the play calls.
COACH TRESSEL: I liked the ones that worked too. I told those guys that too. The things I liked best about it is our guys understood why we were doing what we were doing and the fact that we did this, did this, okay, now, we did this twice, so they're going to overpursue this so let's do this. So they knew why we were doing what we were doing, which I think is a helpful thing.
REPORTER: Is there such a thing as tailoring your offense as to what your guys like to do?
COACH TRESSEL: Oh, sure.
REPORTER: As you go along. Are you slowly getting there?
COACH TRESSEL: Slowly.
REPORTER: Jim, does it make any sense then that the fans and the media can watch the replays and you can't?
COACH TRESSEL: Do they put them on the Jumbo?
REPORTER: No, I mean at home.
COACH TRESSEL: Oh, at home?
REPORTER: Or in the press box.
COACH TRESSEL: Does it make sense? That's a whale of a question. If I lost sleep over everything that didn't make sense, I guess not.
REPORTER: Would you reiterate about your offensive philosophy, number one is don't put the defense in a bad position, does that in any way conflict with the skills that Terrelle brings to playing quarterback, what he brings to the table, what he can do best?
COACH TRESSEL: I don't think so, because one thing, he's been pretty careful with the ball over the course of the time that he's been here and that's why he's been relatively up there in the efficiency ratings and so forth. No, to me the thing that is probably the number one trait I see in Terrelle, first, is he wants to be on a winning team. So if you're doing what might lead to winning, that's number one. I don't think Terrelle would enjoy rushing for 110 and throwing for 300 and being 1-5, being 2-4. I don't think that would interest him. And I'm not saying that -- now, here's what would interest all of us, run for 110, throw for 250 and be 6-0. That's what the second half of the season goal is and we'll see if we can go after it.
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