On scheme against Minnesota being too “vanilla”
“I think he’s referencing the fact that I didn’t call the game as aggressively as I had planned. We started off pretty strong the first two drives, got into a decent rhythm and then after that explosive run, that probably affected me more than it should and it shouldn't. Every play has its own life, so what's going to happen on the next play is not about what has happened on the previous play. So, a ‘what's next’ mentality, I’ve got to stick to the plan and say regardless of what happened on the previous play we still gotta approach the game with an aggressive mentality, a little bit of a learning experience for I think all of us, but I don’t disagree with that.” 

On two games without takeaways
“I think it’s an emphasis every week, you get takeaways two ways through dominant contact on the body to the ball carrier so whether that's running back, receiver, tight end knocking the hell out of them with dominant contact at or around the ball and the second way is effecting and hitting the quarterback. I have to do a better job of designing things and calling things that are going to do that and I think the takeaways will come as we get that accomplished.” 

On problems defending outside-mid zones
“The run that hit us last week is the same run that hit us against Michigan. Everybody is running it whether they have it in their game plan or not. That’s a process of every offensive coordinator goes in and sees the explosive plays that a team has given up. They are going to put them in the game plan and that’s my responsibility to get them stopped, so we’ll continue to rep them like we do every week, continue to provide awareness to the players that we are going to see those plays, create a system of awareness to make sure when those formations show up in the game cause they’re the same exact formation, pretty consistently, that, that awareness and then when the opportunity comes to fit your gap properly or make a tackle or get off a block that we do that.”