Dicaprio Bootle Quotes - 9/9

Nebraska Football
Weekly Press Conference
Memorial Stadium (Lincoln, Neb.)
Monday, Sept. 9, 2019
Pre-Northern Illinois

On Monday’s Practice 
“Full of energy. A lot of people came out ready to work today after everything with a loss like that. That’s what you would want from a team. A team that is going to bounce back. Practice was great. A lot of energy. A lot of flying around. Guys aren’t holding their heads down over that devastating loss. We try to move forward. We've still got goals this season. Things that we want to accomplish. Just because we lost one game doesn’t mean that this is the end.”
 
On how he thought he played on Saturday 
“At the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter how I played individually. It’s a team. That’s why this is a team sport. Everybody has to do their job in order for it to work. So it doesn’t really matter how the one person plays. It matters how the team plays. All 11 guys on the field, it matters how they play. How they interact with each other. I was matched up against a pretty good receiver for most of the day. I would go ahead and say I did my job against a pretty good receiver. It doesn’t matter. At the end of the day, wepve got one job, and we've got to come out with that win.”
 
On Cam Taylor-Britt being listed as the starting safety on the depth chart 
“Cam is a guy where you can kind of put him anywhere because of his frame. Also his mindset of being an outright dog out there. Going out there and competing at a high level at whatever he does. You could ask him to go play O-line and he is going to compete at the highest level. Putting him at safety helps our defense. He is going to go out there and make the calls. He’ll just try to go in there and keep things rolling just as anyone else was at safety. That is a good thing about our [secondary] room. We are so deep that anyone can play anywhere.”
 
On how Cam Taylor-Britt responded on getting beat for a touchdown in the fourth quarter 
“After the flea-flicker, he missed a tackle trying to run after the flea-flicker. He got in the end zone. We had to go through the field goal block procedure. They made the field goal. On my way to bench in overtime, I just kind of ran over to him. I have been in this situation before. I know what it is. I actually slapped him and told him to keep his head in the game. He just let me know that he was going to come back. I told him that there was plenty of time in this game and that he could still make a play. That he’s got the chance to make it right again. He goes out there on the kickoff and everyone thinks he [Colorado receiver Laviska Shenault] is off to the races and take it back. He is out there doing something that you can’t teach. He’s out there running after the ball carrier. He did what I expected him to do. He made a play. He knocked the ball out and gave the offense an opportunity to put something into motion when we needed it.”
 
On if the defense can focus on the good of the first half 
“There is good and bad. It is a tale of two games. There’s a team out there that went out there fired up, just firing on all cylinders. There’s also the team that at times was in a frenzy. Trying to get things together. Trying to make things right. We have to mindful of that. Going forward, we just have to take the proper steps in practice. It doesn’t matter. We have to back up the offense. We got to go out there and make a point with everything that we do. It doesn’t really matter what happens on that side of the ball. We got them. Those are our guys. We have to find a way. We have to find a way.”
 
On how he has seen his game improve from last season especially in overtime 
“A year ago, that [third down] play [in overtime] I don’t make. Game on the line, that is a play I didn’t make. A year ago he caught that ball. This year, I thought about it for a long time. Summer nights, even during our workouts and stuff, having that game and certain games in my mind and what I did wrong. What things I could have done better. I put it in my mind that if the play came around again, I would make the play. It’s safe to say the play came around, and I made the play.”
 
On how tough the 24 hours after the game was for the team 
“Whether it is good or bad, that 24-hour rule is still in place. Good? Okay cool. We can be happy with it. Bad? Okay, cool. Soak in it. Feel it. Roll around in it a little bit, but once those 24 hours are over, you have to snap back because we have a whole different opponent this week. We've got Northern Illinois coming in here. Last time they were here, they put our face in the mud, and we weren’t happy. That’s something to be mindful of.”
 
On how he has seen this team react to losses 
“This team's got a lot of fight. Right after the loss, we were already talking ‘We can do better.’ Understanding the feeling and the loss, especially when we know we could have won that game. At the end of the day, we have to face the realities that we didn’t. This team did a good job of coming out today, practicing, getting after it, no matter what. We got a loss? Okay, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t end here.”
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