Here is what he had to say after the game regarding his own performance and the team’s performance.
On the reasoning behind the Tigers’ turnovers:
“There’s different situations that happen throughout the game. Obviously, no matter how a turnover happens or occurs, you don’t want those. So, we’ve got to do a better job of protecting the ball, and that starts with me. I touch the ball every single play. So, got to do that, and like you said, back to the drawing board a little bit. We’re not going to abandon our offense, but it’s got to be sharper.”
On losing the field position battle:
“I thought our defense really played well today. They had a short field on an interception, I think that was first half. Did they score on that one? I think they did. That’s not on them. And then, we just didn’t do a good enough job of getting first downs when we’re backed up to flip the field. Obviously, field position is an important thing in this game and at this level. Like I said, I thought our defense played really well today, and we weren’t able to do enough to help them out.”
On his fourth quarter interceptions:
“I didn’t think it was necessarily a miscommunication on the first of those two. I saw a man in coverage over there with Cam (Coleman). We talked all camp that one-on-one, we like our chances, and we feel like we’re open. And I found out afterwards, I think, that he was a little shaken up on that, so I don’t think he was 100%. That stinks. Obviously, I didn’t know that. That’s not on him. Like I said, obviously, if he’s not 100%, that’s going to make it tough. But I don’t know what the verdict is on that. I think he’s OK.
But yeah, that was the first one. And then the second one, we had 30 seconds left. We’re trying to get a chunk play. We ran something, we tagged something over there, and we haven’t gotten a ton of reps at that, I guess. Me and KeAndre (Lambert-Smith) hadn’t talked on the sideline about that play, so he was expecting that post to be way down the field, and with one-high zone, that’s going to be just a jump ball, and that’s tough. So I was trying to fit it in there, like a bang post-type deal. And like you said, we were just on different pages there.”
On the lack of rhythm from the offense:
“Their defense did a good job mixing some things up. It felt like when we did get a rhythm going, bang, a negative play. You don’t obviously want that. We try to limit negative plays as much as we can. We had a few too many tonight. I have to go back and look at the film to really see momentum-type stuff like that. Obviously we weren’t able to hold onto that momentum tonight.”
On if the Cal defense changed anything following Auburn’s opening drive score:
“Not necessarily. Obviously I missed a couple throws today that I feel like I make on the regular. We were on different pages on one of them, kind of. Then the other one, I just kind of missed him. I don’t think the defense did too much different. They gave us a couple blitzes that we had only seen once on film. That’s a credit to them. I don’t think they did too much terribly different.”
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