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Sophomore Linebacker Marcus Newby
How do you sum up the emotions on the last couple drives?
"Like you said, I mean it's tough, you know what I'm saying? Everybody's fighting their tail off throughout the whole game and Wisconsin executed more plays, so it's pretty tough."
On how tired was the defense in the fourth quarter
"I wouldn't say we were tired. It's just, Wisconsin executed more plays than we did. And I give credit to Wisconsin, they're a great team."
On the emotions that you guys are feeling right now
"Like Coach Riley said in the locker room, you gotta bounce back. We're a good team, and we just gotta keep fighting. We did some good things, we did some bad things, so we just gotta correct them and come back next week ready to play. "
It looked like you were battling cramps?
"Yeah, I caught a cramp in my calf and I got back up and got back in and it came right back and it was bothering me throughout the end of the fourth quarter."
Did that make it tougher?
"Yeah, it was tough, but I tried to fight it out and obviously, you know, if I'm not 100% someone else has to go. I don't want to jeopardized my team. Luke Gifford came in and did his job."
On missing that one game changing play
"Wisconsin executed a couple more plays than us in the fourth quarter and hats off to them, they're a good team."
On Wisconsin throwing as much as they did
"It was no surprise, I mean we knew coming into this game they're a big run team, you know, but obviously they can throw, too. But nah, we weren't surprised at all by it."
On defending their run game in the fourth quarter after defending their passing game for the first three
"No, like you said, we stopped them on the run in the beginning and we knew they were coming back to it and like I said, they made a couple big plays in the run game by the end of the fourth quarter. But we knew they were coming back to it."
On defending their tight end, was it man to man?
"Yeah, actually, it was. It was man-to-man and I just had to make a play."
On his played
"I feel like I did well. I prepared well, watched a lot of film and I knew what routes they were running. When my number was called, I knew the play."
On if there were a few plays where he knew what was coming
"Yeah, there were a couple plays where I knew the tight end, the route he was running. So, I jumped it and made a play."
Senior Defensive End Jack Gangwish
On his emotions in those last few minutes thinking that we might win the game
"It was a big roller coaster. I think when they missed the field goal I about tackled Mark Banker to the ground. Pretty excited, gave us some new life there. I had a lot of hope about it. Obviously then we were back out there with a lot of time left and it was back to the grind."
On if guys were tired toward the end, if he could sense it
"You know, yeah. It's a long game. We played a lot of snaps defensively. Good thing our guys are tougher than hell though. I don't think that was much of a factor for us."
On what his message for the team was after the game
"So far I haven't delivered a message yet. Coach Riley did an excellent job. I will probably leave it at that. Moving forward through this week the message is going to be, it's another week it is a new life. We still have goals. You know we want to come out next week firing on all cylinders."
On if he says anything to the coaches to keep them up
"Sometimes. It's not really my place to provide corrections or anything like that. I think it is important to show up with an attitude that creates the kind of culture that we want and you have to express that to everybody. Coaches, players, staff. Everybody around this place. I think that sometimes you need to deliver some energy to the coaches and just like you do to the players and everybody else."
On his elbow injury
"It's coming along. I wouldn't say I'm 100 percent yet. Not completely healed. Luckily I am able to play with it without too much trouble. Certain situations are kind of difficult, but it is getting better all the time."
On if everyone who was injured was healthy, would he not play to try and allow his elbow to heal
"You know, I don't know. That would be up to my coaches. You know I would sure like to think that even with an arm that is not 100 percent I still would be good enough to contribute to this defense even if we were full strength. Should we become full strength and I am still knicked up, I am comfortable letting my coaches make that decision."
Junior Quarterback Tommy Armstrong Jr.
On the struggles in the passing game
"Some of it was on me not getting the ball there. We knew that they were going to be physical, that they were going to try to get a hand on our receivers in certain situations. We just had to make sure that we made a play on the ball, and we were able to out-physical them when it came to running certain routes. Sometimes it didn't go our way. We've just got to accept it and drive on, and I think that's what we tried to do all game."
On not scoring with the wind at Nebraska's back in the third quarter
"At a certain time, the wind kind of died down after the first half, by the direction that the wind was coming from. It was coming from the west side of the stadium and it was kind of getting blocked off, it wasn't really a factor. In certain situations, we knew we had one-on-one (coverage) with our receivers. (Wisconsin) did a great job against the scramble here and there. They made plays, we made plays. Our receivers went up and got the ball at certain times. We just didn't play a whole game like we wanted to, and it cost us the game."
On whether Wisconsin did anything differently to affect the passing game
"No. We were in control of the game ourselves, we just had to make sure we executed. We made plays, but we got flags here and there that cost us some of those plays. We put ourselves in that situation to lose the game, offensive-wise, by not capitalizing when we needed to, not getting first downs when we needed to, not being smart on certain situations. We can't have costly flags in certain situations. I think that's what got us, offensive-wise, we couldn't really find a rhythm in the first half. We saw it, we glanced at certain things happening here and there, but overall we were kind of up-and-down as an offense."
On fullback Andy Janovich's touchdown run
"It was great. We've seen it since we gave him the ball the first time. Once he makes one guy miss, he has the speed to outrun guys. That was a great run by him, it put ourselves in the right situation. It was a great call by our coaches to try to get the ball in his hands, after getting a first down, those guys tried to stack the box knowing we had some push up front. Andy made one guy miss and then he was one-on-one with the safety and made that guy miss also and went down and scored. It was a great run."
On wide receiver Alonzo Moore's development
"He's been making plays since he's been here. It's just a confidence level with him. I told him, 'If you get a one-on-one situation, just look for the ball, just go up and get it.' I feel like nobody can cover our receivers one-on-one. They kind of proved it out there in certain situations, they either got a (pass interference) call or they came down with the ball. That's the way I look at it, I don't think anybody in our conference can stop those guys one-on-one. They made plays. In certain situations they just had to make sure that they were able to get open, and I think they did that."
On whether the players have been encouraging the coaching staff through the 2-4 start
"We're a team for a reason. We're a family. We've got to all stick in this together. We've said from day one, seasons are unexpected. You've got to expect the unexpected. We really didn't think that we would have a season like this. It's heartbreaking to look at it this way, but we've just got to stick together and drive on to next week. We're going to try to progress and improve."
On how he feels the team will respond next week
"Like any other week. That's football. There's not anything you can say, you just drive on. You can't dwell on the past, you can't sit up here and pout about what was happening last week, because we've got another opponent that's preparing for us. All we can do is play another game and practice like we would practice any other week, and just have the same attitude that we've had every week, and that's try and get a win."
On the similar situations the offense was faced with at the end of the last two games
"We just wanted to get a first down. We trusted our coaches. Whatever they called, we wanted to get a first down and we were unable to do it, and we put our defense in a situation that we shouldn't have. We had to be physical, we had to understand that they were going to try to burn down their three timeouts with 1:20 left, and we just had to be physical, block who we had up front and run hard and earn every yard, and we couldn't do that."
On Head Coach Mike Riley maintaining his positive attitude
"He's always told us that he likes the team that we have. We're young, we have younger guys. We have guys that are injured. We're coming up short defensive-wise, with injuries and guys going down, things like that. We've got guys that are stepping up. We've got to realize that it's a long season ahead of us. Offensive-wise, we've got to understand that we've got to take control of the game, score every time we get the ball, and put our defense in the right situation to win games. Our defense is playing great. Coach Riley even said that we've just got to make sure we do what we can to win games and put ourselves in the right situation."