Opening Statement
“Obviously I am pleased with the win on Saturday. I am excited to get moving forward and excited to go on the road. Maryland will present quite a challenge. They have a fantastic defense that is top in the county in terms of yards allowed. Third down, they have great pass rush and great rushers, dynamic wide out core. It’ll be a really great opportunity for us to go out and play a really good football team and to get out on the road. We did that at Kansas City but not truly –we get on a plane and go across the country. I look forward to it as a chance for our team to grow and build a sense of brotherhood even more. I am excited about it.”

On travel affecting road teams
“One of the great things about being in Nebraska is we’re centrally located. We’re on only six hour flights. I think about some of these guys going west coast to east coast and how hard that is. Even in the NFL you probably only do that like once a year; you go from the east coast to west coast or vice versa. We study everyone and reach out to everyone after they do it and if they play we ask ‘hey what’d you do’. There is great collegiality amongst the league because we all have to deal with it. I think the number one thing is we don’t complain about it, that’s the first thing. Any time you go play a game there are several opponents in the game and one of them is the conditions and the travel. It's part of it. We’ve had a year to prepare for it and we know what to expect. We were glad it’s not a night game because we come back and play on Friday night. We were hoping for an eleven o’clock game but three o’clock, we’ll take. The only difference is we’ll go out Thursday because when you arrive there you fly into BWI and you have to drive about an hour to Bethesda to get to the airport. We know Washington didn’t get in till about one o’clock in the morning Thursday night. We’re not a big Thursday operation. We like to go on Fridays and keep our routine, but this is one time, and the only time this year, that we’ll go out on Thursday just because of the nature of being on the east coast and traveling in those areas. We’ll take advantage of Friday as a day, like I said, talk about the brotherhood of the team and just spend some time together and take the day to lock in and get focused for the game. That’s just one change we’ve made because when we go to the west coast we don’t do that, but we aren’t having the same travel that maybe we had like my first year here. We flew to Illinois, we flew to Minnesota, we flew to Colorado, and we flew to Wisconsin. They were all small plane 90 minute rides. Now it’s a little different but it's good. I am excited about it.”

On practicing on the road
“We practice on Thursdays and we walk through on Fridays so we will walk through on Friday at a local high school.” 

On the offensive line against Michigan State
“I saw a lot of good things and some other things that have to be improved. Some of the sacks are on them but some of the sacks are on other people. Right now Emmett Johnson is third in the league in rushing so the narrative out there that we can't run the football is silly. College football, you take away sacks. Are we giving up too many sacks? Yes. That's what I love about Dylan Raiola, on one of them he said that’s on me, I was holding the ball. A third down sack doesn’t really bother me as much as a first or second sack because if you just hurry up and get the ball out of your hand and don’t get the first down anyway, you’re punting the ball. We don’t want sack fumbles. There were just some times there, as we all saw, that things kind of got a little out of whack and out of kilter. We have to be better, but I don’t think it’s like oh my gosh we can’t block anybody. We had nine plays for 38 yards in the first quarter. We had a horrific second quarter unlike anything I’d ever been a part of, but we had a 104 yard third quarter and like a 103 yard fourth quarter so that’s on pace to be about a 420 yard day, but we just didn’t play well there for a while. What I was happy about was that the guys just kept playing and they didn’t panic. We have the ball in the red zone and you go back and watch the alt 22 Dane Key runs and over route, he's wide open, it’s a walk in touchdown. They blitz the safety and not that we can’t block them, just the left tackle just busts and doesn’t block him. It’s just a mental error so we fix the mental error and we keep coaching. It’s what we've been talking about all year just trying to improve what we’re doing. Some of them the quarterback is just trying to hold on and make a play. If you want to live with the great plays you have to live with some of those plays too. We’ll keep getting better, but the narrative that hey we can’t block anybody, I mean we have to block better, but we just have to be more consistent.”