On the Michigan defeat
“Michigan came in here really ready to play. They’re a really good team. They showed us what it needs to look like, quite frankly. It’s a team thing. We made some of the offensive guys watch what they were doing on offense and how they were playing on offense. Just looking at what it’s supposed to look like, I think that taught us something. There are a lot of people on that team that played and won a national championship. Give them all the credit in the world. After that game, what are we going to do to fix it? How are we going to fix it? I’ve seen us practice at a very high level. I give our team, our players, and Coach Rhule tremendous credit for having the resilience to come out and practice the way that they did Tuesday and Wednesday. I’ve never seen it like that in a bye week. Get away from it for several days and come back focused on Sunday, and then go out again this morning and have a really good practice. You play a good team and the outcome isn’t what you want it to be, then you just need to learn from it. I think our team has learned from it. I’m thrilled to see what it looks like on Saturday.”

On balancing the pass and run game
“Dylan (Raiola) is playing at a very, very high level. So, how I call plays, I call what’s working. I don’t go into a game saying, ‘man, we need to throw for 350 yards.’ It’s all about how the flow of the game is. With that said, our running game needs to improve against an opponent like that. I was happy with where the run was after the first few games. But then you play a top-20 team, and it didn’t look the way it needed to look. We weren’t finishing blocks, and that’s not a shot at our offensive line. That’s a shot at our offense. There’s so many people that are involved in it. First play of the game, Emmett (Johnson) gets 14 yards, and that’s the longest run that we had all day. We’ve got to do a better job of scheming things up. We’ve got to do a better job of sustaining blocks, and that’s everybody on offense. Then we have to run harder. I know a lot has been said about who number two is and all of that stuff. We have options. It’s our job to get them there, and when they get in there, it needs to look better. If you want more running, more rushes – when I call it, it needs to look better. I’m not just going to keep calling things that aren’t working for us. We have a really diverse offense, and we can do a lot of different things. We can get the ball to a lot of different people. That, to me, is balance. That’s balance. My job is to call the plays that are working so that we have the chance to be successful.”

On red-zone efficiency
“We’ve got to get better at it. It’s not like we haven’t emphasized it. We’ve emphasized it since the day that I got here. It’s one of the first things that I pointed out that we needed to fix. This was game 10 last year. It’s a lot of things. We’ve got to do a better job of scheming up runs. We’ve got to do a better job of getting positive yards. We’ve got to do a better job of obviously, finishing. I’ve got to do a better job of more pass game stuff that puts the ball in Dylan’s (Raiola) hands and not just one-on-one RPOs. That worked against Cincinnati; we caught two one-on-one RPOs. We’re going to face man to man down there, but I might need to scheme a few things up more. I’ve got to get creative, that’s my job. We’ve done that the last two weeks.”