Austin Allen Quotes - 10/21

Nebraska Football
Weekly Press Conference
Memorial Stadium (Lincoln, Neb.)
Monday, Oct. 21, 2019
Indiana

Austin Allen
Sophomore, Tight End

On what he has seen from his team the last week
“Practices were by far more intense last week. The guys were really getting after it. We had a little time off, that was nice. Our legs got back a little bit more. They took care of us last week, we took care of them with what we had with that week of practice.”
 
On if they did any live work during the bye week
“I think most of our team period were ones verse ones, so we’re getting good looks. Blackshirt defense going against our number one offense. We battled all week I think four team periods a day so it was intense, but we definitely got better last week.”
 
On if it was live tackling or just thuds
“Thud.”
 
On what they accomplished in the time away
“There’s a big mental aspect in football. We got away from each other. I know everybody’s minds got a little clearer, I know mine did, I went home and went hunting. So, I’m a big outdoors guy so I got my mind off of football completely. It was the same for a lot of guys. We really needed that.”
 
On not fearing failure as a young player
“My mindset is people are going to fail. Nobody’s perfect. I’m going to fail. I have a handful of times in the last couple of games. I need to look past that and I can’t look back at the past and repeat my mistakes. I’m going to learn from that. I think a lot more guys are finding that mindset to have no fear to make a mistake because we’re going to fix it. Fix it in film, fix it on the practice field and then a week like last week, I know we have another bye week coming up. People are going to make mistakes the next couple of games. It happens, we’re young, but we’ll get them fixed in that bye week.”
 
On what he wants the offense to look like coming out of the bye week
“Just physicality period. It isn’t one position. I felt like maybe we were a little timid, we weren’t the most physical team on the field at Minnesota. I think that started shifting gears last week, going good on good. Just come off the ball firing on all cylinders and I think that’s going to carry into this week into Indiana.”
 
On what he knows about Indiana
“They’re big up front. They’re stout. They’re not very fast so to say, not very athletic. Looking at them up front on film, but they’re very big. They’re a talented defense, they’re going to be tough to handle but nothing we haven’t seen before. We just need to handle business.”
 
On how he feels the offense made progress last week in the run game
“I think most of our team periods, probably 90 percent of them were base run. Base inside zone, base mid zone. We’re just getting better at the basics. If you can be very physical, you can dice people on the base stuff, that opens up a lot more stuff on the outside where we can really open up our offense.”
 
On what needs to be different for tight ends in the receiving game
“Taking care of business up front. I think we give Adrian [Martinez], Noah [Vedral], Luke [McCaffrey] time and that’ll open us up to allow us to put more guys out in the field in the pass game. We will get it accomplished, as a tight end group, selfishly, I think we’re doing alright in the run game and pass block. I think Coach Frost we’ll see that and open us up more.”
 
On Adrian wanting to get back out on the field
“Adrian is always determined. He has a different mindset to get better and get back out there. He’s got a good mentality about it. He knows it. He trusts Noah or Luke, [Andrew] Bunch, whoever goes in there, but I can see it in his eyes that he’s anxious to get back out there.”
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