Football: Video and Transcript from Coach Tressel Weekly Press Conference – Ohio State Buckeyes
9/16/2008 12:00:00 AM | Football
COACH TRESSEL: Everyone have their power back? I asked that question in the team meeting yesterday thinking four or five of them would say we don’t. I’d say 75% of them had their hand up that they don’t have power. Oh, well, that’s why we’re here, I guess. I was hoping on Sunday when we got back to watch the film the power would be out, but it wasn’t, but, no.
You know, I think as I reflect on our game out at California, the first thing I would say is I think USC is an excellent football team. I don’t think you can begin a discussion of that game without recognizing that. I think they played with excellent quickness. Obviously they have speed. I think they play with the discipline that we talked about as we viewed them on film.
I think they play with excellent toughness, and there was never a point in time where I thought that they allowed themselves to crack at all, and part of it is that we, at any point in time, I don’t think, put enough pressure on them to make that possible to get them to that point where maybe we could have the pressure on them as opposed to them having the pressure on us.
There’s no question about it, our measuring stick, whenever we look at how we would like to be evaluated, we want to be evaluated as to where we are in terms of being the best. Now that makes it a little bit difficult, but that’s the way it is. That’s Ohio State and that’s the makeup of the guys that chose to come to Ohio State and the guys that have played at Ohio State in the past.
As you think about the, quote, old-timers at Ohio State, the ones that have the highest acclaim are the ones that became the best and that’s why they have the reunion for the ’42 team or this weekend, the reunion for the ’68 team. It’s much talked about. I’m sure that last year there was a reunion for the ’67 team, but there wasn’t much discussion about that, because they weren’t the best.
So we understand that our evaluation is going to be based upon being the best and we did not do the things that you need to do on Saturday to be the best in that game or to be considered the best. Obviously if we won that football game last weekend, I’m sure we would be ranked Number 1, or whatever that means, but we didn’t do those things. You can’t make errors in a ball game like that and expect to come up with a win.
Obviously penalties. There’s no way that you can back yourself up when you’re playing against Southern Cal’s defense. Southern Cal’s defense is excellent, and when you throw a touchdown, you can’t have a penalty. A couple plays before that, when you throw a route that gets us down to the 2 yard line, you can’t have a penalty. Earlier in the game at the end of the 15-play drive, which I’m not sure how many 15-play games there will be against Southern Cal this year, but at the end of the 15-play drive, you can’t have a couple 5-yard penalties.
So first and foremost, you have to be penalty-free. Obviously if you’re going to stay in the battle and the fray and the toe-to-toe and go the full round with Southern Cal, you can’t have turnovers, especially turnovers for touchdowns. Many of you come to our jersey scrimmages and see our kind of wacky scoring format that we have and at times people say, well, I don’t understand that format. That format gives 12 points to the defense when there’s an interception for a touchdown or fumble picked up and run for a touchdown because that’s the impact that it has on a game and you can’t give that kind of impact to a football team like Southern Cal.
The other thing that I was impressed with them, everyone knows about their defense, everyone knows about their offense, I thought their special teams were outstanding. We did not do a good job blocking them when we were on kick returns. They did a great job. At the point where they were struggling a little bit in the third quarter and we got them on a three and out and could you see their quarterback all of a sudden not making quite as easy decisions as he was in the beginning of the game, they did a great job and punting us down to the 4 as opposed to punting into the end zone or on the 20, there’s a lot less heat on you when you’re on the 20 than on the 4, and in that usual coming-out phase, that we practiced coming out, talked about the importance of coming out where you have to get yourself at least one first down so you can punt them on across the 50, at worst case scenario, we didn’t get one first down and then the one poor punt we had of the day was at that time.
A. J. Trapasso was our special teams player of the week. He did a great job. I think he punted seven times or thereabouts and his net punt would have been about 45 on the side line, not letting McKnight change the game, except for that 29er, and they got the ball on the 35 yard line and all of a sudden they’re knocking at the door to take — to extend the lead even further.
So all of the little things — you could sit here and go play by play and series by series. They did what they needed to do. We didn’t do what we needed to do, and that’s why the outcome was as it was.
Now, what’s most important is now, and how will we come in — I think everyone in America, as they looked at our schedule, said the most dangerous game on Ohio State’s schedule is Troy because it’s after Southern Cal and if they happen to win at Southern Cal, they’re going to be riding high, if they lose at Southern Cal, they’re going to be disappointed and it’s not a Big Ten game and all those things that are important to Ohio State, and how will we handle this football game? How will we handle getting better at the things we need to get better?
If yesterday’s practice is any indication, we have a chance, because I thought our guys came out with a good focus, not whining or moaning or in the tank, if you will, about what we didn’t do, and they went to work.
Now, it’s going to be critical to do that today, tomorrow, and Thursday, and then to have a great performance on Saturday against a good Troy team. Troy has got excellent speed. They thrashed Middle Tennessee pretty good, and we all know what Middle Tennessee has done the last couple weeks, they beat Maryland and ended up on the half yard line or something and should have or could have or whatever beat Kentucky, and Troy had their way with them. And so we know Troy is an excellent football team. Great speed. Great tradition. Their whole personality is made up on the fact that 10 years ago they wanted to be Division I and they said their road to Division I is to go to every great stadium in America and introduce themselves to that team, they’ve been to Nebraska, LSU, Missouri, Florida State, Mississippi State, South Carolina, on and on and on. That’s the way they’re building their program, and they’ve been wanting to schedule us for a couple years and we finally found a spot to get them in and they can’t wait to stake claim to visiting a Big Ten stadium and letting people know who they are. So it will be a great challenge for our guys, one that we’re very capable of confronting and I’m anxious to get out on the practice field and go from there.
REPORTER: Have you lost any confidence in Todd Boeckman or is he not being put in a position to succeed because of the offensive line play or none of the above?
COACH TRESSEL: Or none of the above? You know, I think, like I told the team when we met on Sunday, or Monday, I guess it was, what we have to work on is what we are doing in the game of football that we need to do better. No one has changed any thinking about who they are. Now, is it disappointing that we had a couple turnovers? Absolutely. Is that a problem? Yes. Do I think he’s capable of not having those turnovers and doing what we need to do? Yes. Are some of those things in part because we weren’t as good as we could have been on the offensive line? Yes. We weren’t as good as we could have been out wide? Yes. And everything in between.
So the nice thing about football is you probably need to think that the only thing that’s important is what I need to do better, but the reality is, what we all need to do better is going to make the difference and all of that will help Todd, all of that will help Ohio State, all of that will help our defense and on and on.
REPORTER: Speaking of the offensive line, Steve Rehring, what’s his status?
COACH TRESSEL: I think Steve will be out. I think we’d get Andrew Miller back in. Todd Denlinger will give us more time, I think he only got in a snap or two Saturday. Who else was out? Well, Beanie right now is listed as questionable by the medical staff. He did all of the cardio and straight line and all that stuff yesterday. Today will be the day where he has to go back and do all the cutting and all those kinds of things and that’s where we got our setback last week, so we’ll have to see how that goes, but we’ll update that day-to-day.
REPORTER: As you looked back on that, I mentioned this on Friday, but as you look back on how the weekend went, was the Beanie situation a distraction for this team?
COACH TRESSEL: You know, I really don’t think it was. I think our guys know what Beanie looks like when he’s 100%, and they never had him 100%, so I don’t know if any of them were hoping for a miracle or something, and I think they were pretty glued into what it was they wanted to do and I think our guys have confidence in Danny Herron and Brandon Saine and Mo Wells. Would you like to have Beanie? Of course. But I don’t think our guys were thinking of that one bid. If we had had it such that we said, you know what, after warmups, we’ll decide, in my mind, then, we would have been creating a little, I don’t know, probably unfounded hope and that may have turned into a distraction.
REPORTER: Who will be your starting quarterback on Saturday and how do you think that worked on alternating snaps on the same series?
COACH TRESSEL: I liked how it worked when we did things well. On the plays when we didn’t, I wish we would have done something else, but I don’t think it was a bad thing. You know, I don’t know how many plays like in the long drive we had, I don’t know how many of the plays Todd was in or how many Terrelle was in or that kind of thing:as we got done with the Tuesday game plan, what we’re going to work on on Tuesday, you divide it up into various situational things and so forth, at the end of the evening, getting it done, I asked the question, how should we go about practicing our quarterbacks and how do you envision how much of the time each is going to play throwing it out to the offensive staff. And everyone likes to have an opinion, and you craft your own opinion by the logic of others, and so with the things that we’re doing today, we came to the consensus that Terrelle was going to do about 65% of them and Todd was going to do about 35% of them in part because so many of them Todd has done so many times already and we know what he can do. That’s certainly affected by what Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday looks like and that’s certainly affected by what Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday looks like. I don’t know if that’s more than what you’re asking. That’s the first time I’ve heard that. That was good.
REPORTER: We were talking about this week and we went back to last week. 50/50 is the playing time this week?
COACH TRESSEL: We said if we had a game last night with what we were planning to do, that we envisioned that it would be 50/50, but it will be affected by what we do in practice, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and obviously what occurs during the course of the game.
REPORTER: Having star quarterbacks, Coach, you’ve probably seen from both sides that there are pitfalls to having two quarterbacks, and there are good things that come of it, everybody uses Florida as Exhibit A. Can you talk a little bit about what’s at risk when you do not have one set quarterback who everybody looks to as a starter?
COACH TRESSEL: I think the biggest thing at risk is you always don’t get the number of snaps you need in practice in order to progress nor the number of snaps you need in a game. You can improve a lot more if you get 75 snaps in a game than if you get 40 or 35. I think what’s been impressive to me about Terrelle is if you take the 20 some preseason practices, Todd probably had 50% of the snaps, Terrelle had 25%, and so did Joe Bauserman. And then you move into the games, Todd probably had 75% of the snaps in the first game and the other two guys shared 25%, and then in the OU game, Todd probably had what, 95% of the snaps, yet Terrelle has progressed with the lack of snaps in practice and the game more than you think he would. I’ve seen a freshman get kind of thrown into the fire and grow every practice and grow every game because he got so much experience.
I’ve seen him grow with a little bit less experience, which means he’s done a good job of learning by observing, which is the hardest thing for a player to do. Most guys when they’re standing outside the lineup, I have two right in the front row that, they’re not thinking solely about what they can learn. Now, these guys probably did. But that’s been impressive to me about Terrelle is he’s had limited snaps, yet considerable improvement.
REPORTER: When you look back on Saturday night, what was your take on how he handled that atmosphere?
COACH TRESSEL: I thought Terrelle — I don’t think — if you knew nothing about football and you were at the game, that you would ever take away the fact that that was a freshman playing his first significant amount of football. Now, I don’t know that that environment is quite like a Camp Randall or a Beaver Stadium or something like that that does hover on top of you and maybe we didn’t make it close enough at any point in time in order to make them more rapid, but I thought he handled it, I don’t know, I guess I would reflect that back to anyone in the room. Did anyone think that he looked shook out there? I didn’t.
REPORTER: You liked the play by play, can you talk about that?
COACH TRESSEL: What we did last week was more within a series so we had a chance to talk a little bit in between plays. Now, it became a little bit hard to talk to Terrelle in between plays when he wasn’t in there because he was down on the line of scrimmage screaming and yelling at the guys who were playing, and we kept having to say, come back here, we need to talk to you about what play you’re running next or what play you just ran and all that, but he’s just such an into it guy that, I think we got better at that, but that I think we to was the best thing for that at that moment, but we’ll have to see as we go into this one.
REPORTER: Is there a risk that if you play a younger quarterback that you can lose the senior classmates or other people might lose a little bit of faith because of a change, a fifth-year senior as opposed to a freshman, is that also a risk that you might have to face.
COACH TRESSEL: I think what someone is thinking is always a risk, because you don’t know what they’re thinking. You hope what they’re thinking is, A, they need to get their performance better, and, B, they’re going to have faith that the guy on the other side of the ball or the coach in the other office or whatever has the best interest of the team in mind. If thinking deviates at all from that, of course.
REPORTER: Jim, I know kickoff returns was big for you in the preseason —
COACH TRESSEL: And it wasn’t on the opening kickoff, is that where you’re going?
REPORTER: How disappointed were you?
COACH TRESSEL: Very. You can’t have missed assignments. We had two guys go and totally miss an assignment as to who they were supposed to block and those two guys happened to hit Boom at the same time on the 10 yard line. If I was Boom, I might have got up and hit those two guys, but very disappointed.
REPORTER: Any thought of putting Ray Small back on kick returns?
COACH TRESSEL: Do you think Ray Small would have enjoyed that? You didn’t see that opening kickoff? Holy smokes. Ray might have run out of bounds.
REPORTER: On the play where Todd was blindsided before half and fumbled, what is the responsibility there? Is it Boom’s to see the guy? Is it Alex’s, is? It the quarterback to see first who’s coming?
COACH TRESSEL: Well, on that particular play, it was the quarterback’s hot read, and unfortunately the play before, they had brought a similar look, but they peeled off on the back and Todd incorrectly assumed that they were coming with the same one and so as he peeked at his hot read, he thought, oh, he’s going to peel off on the back again and he thought, okay, I’m safe back there, and took his eyes off of it, and he erred. Now, he knew he erred. When he came off, after he peeled himself up off the turf, because he got whacked, he knew exactly the mistake he made, but that’s a start. I’ve had guys before who have come off and say, I have no idea, but that was an error.
REPORTER: Does Boom not have a responsibility there when he sees the guy come?
COACH TRESSEL: No, no, he’s hot. He might still be running.
REPORTER: I want to ask you about the play calling in the red zone. You’ve been in the red zone 10 times, you have three touchdowns and in those 10 times, you had 14 first downs in the three games in the red zone and in none of those first downs have you thrown the ball into the end zone. At what point do you assess and look at things and say, hey, when we get down here, we’ve got to take a shot at the end zone. Of course the first down play with Terrelle when he gets stopped is endemic.
COACH TRESSEL: What is endemic? I’m trying to gather the whole question.
REPORTER: An example.
COACH TRESSEL: That’s an example, okay, I went to Baldwin-Wallace.
REPORTER: Are you examining what you can do to put the ball in the end zone?
COACH TRESSEL: The only time you want to put the ball in the end zone is if the defenders aren’t there. I don’t recall any of those situations and I’d have to go back and look at those 14 first down calls right this second. I don’t remember any of those such that there was an open end zone, if you will. The tough thing about the end zone is that those defensive backs can — if you’re on the 12 or whatever, they can plant their feet in the end zone and not back up anywhere, and it makes it harder. Do you examine what you do? Absolutely. At first glance, the biggest problem we’ve had is we’ve moved backwards, whether it be a sack or a procedure penalty. I think we even had one run play that might have been a minus in the last three games there, but do you examine it? Absolutely. Do you need to get better at it? Let’s go back to the measuring stick, if we’re ever going to become the best, sure. So it’s a valid point.
REPORTER: Is best rhetorical or do you still think you can be the best team in the country or is that out the window?
COACH TRESSEL: The best is the best you’re capable of being and are we capable of being the best team in the country? Well, that’s what we’re going to find out. Now, based upon the standings and the system and all that stuff, are you sitting there thinking, gosh, I wonder if January 7th or 8th we’re going to be — no. I hope we weren’t sitting there thinking in August that that was the issue. The issue is becoming the best you can be, and if that’s good enough, maybe you’ll have a chance to prove that. There have been some teams, I’m sure feel as if they were the best team in the country and didn’t have a chance to prove it.
But, no, becoming the best, I think there’s two different definitions of the best. Our definition is we’ve got to become the best we can be. The measuring stick definition that we’re measured against is are we the best team in the country, but that’s real, that’s okay. I don’t think our guys would want it any other way.
REPORTER: Are you confident that Beanie will heal with team and he does not require surgery?
COACH TRESSEL: That’s what I’ve been told, yeah. Have I studied the MRI like Coach Bruce when he used to do the x-rays? No. That’s out of my league. But from what I’ve been told, absolutely.
REPORTER: Have you heard at all, is there a chance that his season’s over?
COACH TRESSEL: No, I have not heard that once.
REPORTER: Are you surprised by how the quarterback situation has evolved? Did you envision it coming this way as quickly as it has and if so is that more Todd or more Terrelle that you’ve been surprised in?
COACH TRESSEL: I don’t think at the outset I thought, okay, now this might happen because what you practice and what you talk about and so forth is not having interceptions and is not missing a read, a hot throw or whatever. I would say this. Terrelle has been very impressive. There’s not many freshmen that I’ve had with very limited reps have been able to conceptually pick up as much as he has, and he’s a pretty special player. But did I think this would happen? No. But again, I don’t usually think that far out. Things unfold how they unfold, you’ve got to deal with them. Most of us didn’t envision that we’d be sitting here today, you know, or people in Texas didn’t envision they’re going through it, you’ve got to go. Now, do you have disaster relief plans? Yeah. But that’s what practice is. I’m sorry.
REPORTER: On the offensive line, who will replace Steve Rehring and is there a chance there will be any other new starters on the offensive line based on performance?
COACH TRESSEL: We went two different ways at the end of the game went Bryant Browning into guard and Jamie Shugarts at tackle and went Andrew Miller into guard. We did both those things yesterday. Michael Brewster had some time at guard. We only ran about a dozen plays as a team yesterday, but I think that might have been the combinations that were in.
I thought that Ben Person played better Saturday than he did his first two games, was my opinion. I thought Alex Boone played fairly well, I don’t know that he was extraordinary. But I thought he played fairly well. Of course Bryant Browning had to play a couple different positions. Jimmy Cordle had tough duty. They lined up in that defense, double legal, the guy on the nose the entire game, and that’s tough duty, but he fought and he made some errors and got thrown around a play or two where he wasn’t able to stay on and sustain, but I haven’t heard any discussions of — but it’s a little bit uplifting to hear someone say that there’s something that we ought to be talking about other than who the quarterback should be because it isn’t that simple in this world.
REPORTER: Some of the USC players said they played that game before, they knew what you guys were going to do before you did it. Is that really concerning to you that teams seem to know exactly what you’re going to do?
COACH TRESSEL: That’s kind of a typical response when you win, is that, man, things went just the way we planned them and we knew they were going to do that blitz and this and that and we knew that Southern Cal was going to do what they were doing, we didn’t execute against it. So is that concerning? I don’t think you can blow it off and say, are we tipping someone off or this and that, or do we have a tendency to zone blitz at this time or whatever, but you’re really a good team when they know what you’re in and they can’t do anything about it. That’s when you become the best.
REPORTER: Jim, you said after the game —
COACH TRESSEL: Let me throw one other thing in there, and I’ll give you a good example of what I’m talking about. In 2002, we ran off tackle 256 times. Now, do you think we were going to run off tackle? We ended up pretty good, but that’s when you get good, so that’s not unusual when the winning team — what do you want them to say? We kicked their butts, we were physically out — no, you don’t talk about that, you talk about the Xs and Os, and hey, I knew how that looked but every defense we run has someone for every gap and someone for every zone, so it’s not like our guys were out there running something unsound, just perhaps on plays that went, maybe something not as well.
REPORTER: You said after the game when you were asked about how this game would leave the perception of the Big Ten, basically you said you were worried about how Ohio State fans feel, you got 1000 emails, they said this is a big embarrassment, third game, I’m just wondering, they think you guys have been outcoached, outathleted, if that’s a word, I know it’s not. What is your response to those fans that think big games, you just aren’t up to the task?
COACH TRESSEL: Well, I don’t think you can refute the fact that in what has been considered big games, two National Championship games and a big September game in 2008, we have not been successful, and I like the fact that they have that measuring stick, that they’re not happy unless we’re the best. That’s the way it should be. And I’m sure when we win a big game, all of a sudden we’re the greatest big game guys in the world. I remember when we lost a couple night games and all of a sudden we won three night games and they said, you’re the greatest night game team, wait a minute, a year ago we were not very good, or we beat Miami or beat Michigan in a big game, they’d say, you guys are the best big game guys in the world, yeah, we were in those. There will be other big games where we weren’t the best, but what did you do in that big game? This’ what your legacy is. So our legacy in 2006 is that we didn’t win the National Championship game. That’s fair. We didn’t. So I don’t — I’m not disappointed that they’re upset.
REPORTER: You beat Texas on the road that year.
COACH TRESSEL: We did, yeah. But that was in September. What have you done lately, you know that. I guess the thing that disappoints any of us is when you don’t do what you’re capable of doing, what you believe you’re capable of doing, and that bothers you more than what others think. I mean, don’t you have to love the fact that they care that much? I mean, I get emails too. Don’t you love the fact that — I got one from some retired colonel or something in one of the military branches. He had everything lined up and I’m thinking, man, they shouldn’t let you guys retire with 20 years, you’ve got too much time. But he’s passionate, that’s probably why he was a great military guy, he’s passionate about his Buckeyes. He had watched the TV copy and foot work and all the things that — and that’s okay.
REPORTER: All three of those games you just mentioned, though, all had something in common. At key moments, whether it’s the offensive line or the quarterback making reads or whatever, guys got penetration, guys made huge plays from the defensive side, I’m just wondering, as you sit here today, are you readdressing some of the things you do up front?
COACH TRESSEL: I think when you don’t execute, I think you have to ask the question, obviously why, and what can we do about that. And typically the more you do, the less well you execute. I mean, I’m sure that’s — they ask you to write 12 stories in one day, you’re probably not going to write them as well, because you probably don’t have it all down. And so I guess maybe it would be good if we went back to running something 256 times in a year, because, boy, we knew how to run that. So do you evaluate that? Now, are we good enough to run that 256 times against those guys? Is it the right design? Is it the right thing to run? Yeah, you do have all those discussions, and it’s become a very diverse world out there, offensively and defensively.
REPORTER: This week, though, are you almost pulling in instead of expanding, you know what I mean? Do what you can do well. Is that kind of the approach? Because Saturday night you tried a lot of things, from one play to the next almost.
COACH TRESSEL: You would like to have something that you say, hey, this is what they do. It’s funny, though, you turn on TV when you get home after a noon game on Saturday and you’re watching the game and you say, man, I didn’t see the same play twice, so there’s a fine line there, and we have to find that because we have to execute that.
REPORTER: When you watch the film offensively then, in terms of the play calling, how often did you look at the play and say, that was a good call, we just didn’t execute it correctly and how often did you say I wish we would have called something different there?
COACH TRESSEL: The biggest one in my mind, because you remember the big ones, the biggest one in my mind was third and long after we’d gotten a penalty down in there, it was 14-3, and we threw an incompletion and all of a sudden we’re having our guy kick a 47 yarder, it was third and 20 and you say to yourself, I can’t believe that you let your competitive self say, we’ve got to get 20. Well, you know what, what were our percent chances of getting 20?
REPORTER: Five, 10%.
COACH TRESSEL: You’re being nice. But what could five have done for that field goal? So that’s the one that I have trouble sleeping with because all of a sudden, you thought it was 14-10, it’s not, it’s 14-3, then we’re way back there, well, let’s make it 14-6, there’s a big difference between 14-6 and 14-3, then you miss a long field goal and give them the ball on the 30 some. Huge change. Now, how many would we have gained if we did something different? It’s always nice to have those, and, hey, you should have done this, but who knows what would have occurred, but that was probably the biggest one in my mind that was a momentum changer type thing.
REPORTER: Where was the officiating crew from, by the way?
COACH TRESSEL: I have no idea, never seen them before, so they had to be from out there.
REPORTER: I was making sure before I ask this question, should a huge intersectional game be officiated by a neutral crew like that?
COACH TRESSEL: There’s a few ways to do it. Like ours in Texas, the Big Ten crew did the game down there and a Big 12 crew did the game here, but that’s above my level. That’s all how they sign those contracts, but again, we’ve got to do so well that it’s irrelevant how well any other entity does, if you want to be successful.
REPORTER: The pass rush, Coach Heacock, what is he coming back with, how they can improve that, they had four sacks in three games I think and really struggled to exert any pressure on Sanchez against a relatively young offensive line.
COACH TRESSEL: How many times do you think Southern Cal used drop-back protection against us?
REPORTER: He rolled out quite a bit, I know that.
COACH TRESSEL: He didn’t roll out much. He did make it two or three times. But they had maximum seven-man protection probably 75% of the throws, and the times where they used drop-back protection was when they emptied out and the ball was thrown like that. Whether it was thrown away or thrown completed. That’s the way you try to combat to keep the sacks at a minimum. You’ve got to do a good job of making sure you know your hot throws when you empty it out and all that, which we erred on. We had one missed assignment. We probably threw drop-back protection twice or three times where you have to do all the pointing and this and that and make decisions after the snap and we had a big MA on the one sack down in. It was a hindsight, you ask the question, is there something you wish you would have done different, yeah, you had a brand new guard in there who had never played at all, we probably didn’t need to have him in drop-back protection, probably should have just gapped him and done maximum protection and that type thing, so our defense is quite often going to see maximum protection or quick throws, which is going to — now, some people get hard-headed and say, hey, we’re going to block you up, that’s the days we get sacks, because we’ve got pretty decent guys out there on the edge. But again, go all the way back to the beginning. There’s nothing wrong with the standard being, why can’t we get sacks? Why did we have sacks? Why did we not win the game? That’s what we’re here for and that’s the fun of it and the challenge of it.
