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Nebraska vs. Purdue
Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014
Memorial Stadium (Lincoln, Neb.)
Opening Statement
“I thought our team did a good job in terms of coming here and being ready to play, I thought our defense played extremely well. We put them in way too many short field opportunities, our kicking game hurt us. We couldn’t convert some of those third downs that we needed to convert against a good football team. I thought those guys stood up and played a pretty hard football game. Tough football game."
On Danny Anthrop's injury
“I am not sure what his status is."
Continued....
“We will have to look at the whole offense and where we need to make some adjustments, it is too early to say right now, we will get the report on him pretty shortly. Obviously he has been an impact player for us, so it would be a big loss if we lost him."
On what Nebraska did to bottle up Purdue's offense
"They took their backers and ran them to our flat routes, and taking those guys away that we have been so successful throwing to in the last three or four weeks. We have to run the ball inside, and we were only being able to get one or two yards on the zone plays, they were coming off the blocks so we have to take a close look at that."
On Austin Appleby's performance
“From the sideline it looked ok, we'll have to look at the film. From the sideline though I thought he competed and got himself out of trouble a couple of times, and made some big throws. Obviously you are going to miss some reads here or there, but he just continues to compete the way you like him too."
On the blocked punts
"You know, I don't know, we are going to have to see the film, I felt the one was really slow and the second one felt really slow--that is what it felt like to me. We will have to get a time on it, they came off both the tight side and the split side and I don't know, someone broke down or we were just too tight with our splits on the tight side. It has been very solid for us all year so that is why it is so disappointing it was not today."
On defensive approach, if it changed after Ameer Abdullah went out
"No, I thought they did the same things, just listening to them on the head set I felt they were doing the same thing. They were attacking and a couple times the ball came out. The quarterback on the 4th-and-4, was a big play, we had an all out blitz on and we missed a tackle. Otherwise we stop them on that possession, that would have been big for us."
On all the injuries
"We will look at it tomorrow as an entire staff, and look at the roster and see whether you pull a redshirt off somebody---you wouldn't like too but we will maybe have to change some things schematically to get one less receiver on the field or get a different defensive package."
On challenge of getting the offense and defense to play on same level
"I don't see it that way, I see them as a good defensive football team, I thought our defense played great, I really did, and they were put in some bad positions. But I think that is a good football team defensively, sometimes they are going to slow you down."