|
MIAMI (2-0) 21, FLORIDA (1-1) 16
FLORIDA HEAD COACH WILL MUSCHAMP Post Game Remarks
Opening remarks
“Well
I think we gave them way too much momentum early in the game
defensively. The first drive we just got out of sorts of our
substitution and communication. We settled
down as the game went
on, gave them a big play. You give a team belief and certainly that’s
what we did defensively early. You can’t turn over five times and go
one-forsix in the red zone scoring touch downs. We moved the ball, had
over 400 yards. I thought we mixed the run and pass well. I thought we
did some good things at times but
bottom line is that you cannot
continue to shoot yourself in the foot and give someone else the
opportunity—especially on the road—and we certainly did that. And
you’re not
going to win any games turning it over five times,
especially in the red zone. Just killer turn overs. It felt like the
fourth down, going for that early, I felt like we needed to.
We
weren’t stopping them defensively—at that time—very well. It felt like
we needed to try and spit the ball in the end zone. But I’m
disappointed with the turn overs in the
red zone situation and the
momentum early in the game. I thought our kids fought hard and gave
themselves an opportunity there at the end for an onside kick and see
what
happens. Credit our kids for that. But we need to go back in
the off week and just go back with ball security and coming together
and playing a little better in this situation.” Can you talk about going for two? Why’d you go for two there?
“Well
that’s the situation. We had the look we wanted. We block it right
we’re going to get two points. We didn’t block it right but no, I’d do
it again. There’s a lot of football to
play in that situation.” How would you address Driskel’s performance?
“Well,
again, ball security. I thought he hit some balls down the field. I
thought he did some nice things in the run game. But you can’t have the
turn overs, especially in the red
zone. You can’t do that. You
can’t make those decisions. We can’t afford to take points off the
board in those situations and that’s such an emotional lift for the
other team.
So that just can’t happen.” What do you think of the defense, your defense in particular?
“I
was disappointed early. I thought we gave them way too much momentum
and belief early in the game. I thought we should have played much
better early in the game. I’m
very disappointed with the first two
series. Alignment, communication, assignment, you name it. We didn’t do
it very well in the first series. And we just got very discombobulated
in my opinion, defensively. The big play should not have been there, we
should have made that play. We had repped and practiced over and over
again, something
that they have done very well since they’ve been
here. Certainly we prepared for it so that was disappointing. But I
thought we rebounded and came back and played through
some
adversity and tough deals but you’ve got to create an opportunity for
your team and we didn’t do it well enough obviously. So we’ve just got
to continue to do that.” What about Matt Jones’ first game back, what were your thoughts on that?
“I
thought he ran well. Again, first game back. I thought the fumble… we
need to hold onto the ball. There’s a good tackle on there, probably
put his hat on the ball. We’ve given
Matt plenty of contact going into that situation. So I think that was a good hit on their part.” What do you think Jeff is seeing or not seeing?
“Well,
again, we need to watch the film. But again, I think at times we just
need to get rid of the football in those situations. And you cannot
throw into traffic in the red zone,
that’s something you can’t do.” What was the play call after the time out on the key third down, late in the game?
“It
was a sprint out. It felt like we had the edges on them there and we
need to look at it. Possibly the receiver could have kept the route
alive and we just need to look at that.” On the inside running game…
“They
had some guys stacked in there, we felt like we could get on the
perimeter as much as anything. They’re big inside and we had to
reshuffle our offensive line. Tyler
(Murphy) went down for a time.
Jon Harrison went down for a time. Max Garcia was down at one point. So
we had to makeshift some guys there to get through it at the
time.
Right now, D.J. Humphries was very sore at half time. He didn’t feel
like he could go in the second half so we held him. And then Tyler
(Murphy) hurt his ankle there at
the end, I’m not sure how severe that is at this time.” What are your thoughts on Solomon Patton?
“I
think Solomon’s had a really good camp. I think he’s played well. He’s
a guy we need to get the ball to. He caught the ball well, he’s run all
the reverses, and he’s done all the
things we’ve asked him to do very well.”
Based on what you saw last year, how do you think the pl
|
