Football

South Alabama Player Quotes

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Cephus Johnson

Sophomore, Quarterback
On the game
“I made a couple of costly mistakes that I can’t afford to make.”
 
On the Nebraska coverage
“They came with some corner blitzes that I wasn’t paying attention to, but other than that I was pretty familiar with what they were doing.”
 
Roy Yancey
Junior, Linebacker
On South Alabama’s defensive effort
"I feel like the defense clicked. We came in with a game plan, and I feel like we executed. We gave up some mistakes every now and then, but for the most part I felt like we did a great job on defense today."
 
On if the defense made halftime adjustments to slow down Nebraska
"We didn’t make no adjustments. We just stayed with the same game plan and did the same thing."
 
On how they were able to slow down Nebraska’s run game
"We felt like we just needed to stop the run and make them throw the ball to let our athletes run and make tackles. That’s what we did to stop the run… try to make them throw the ball as much as possible."
 
On if the defense keyed in on one player
"We just wanted to stop the running back and the quarterback."

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