Nebraska Football
Illinois
Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020
Press Conference Video
On preventing teammates from getting discouraged from a result like todays
“You need to bring the energy in practice. That's something we, me personally, didn't do a great job of this week and then we need to get better at.”
On the passing game
“You know the number one thing is you can't turn the ball over. I did that too many times today and that's probably a big reason the scoreboard looked like it did.”
On when he noticed the team’s lack of energy
“You know the whole week we addressed it, we discussed it, but we didn't really change it too much. Again, me specifically is the is a target to blame. The attention to detail and the energy that I brought to practice showed up in the game.”
On the impact of the first play of the game
“You can't have critical errors. That was one of a couple that I had and to be on the first play hurts your momentum. So that stinks.”
On the locker room mood after the game
“Yeah we’re angry. We'll get back to practice tomorrow and we're going to have to attack it.”
On if knowing he was the starter at beginning of the week affected his performance
“I'm not sure if that had too much of an effect.”
On what was going through his mind in the first play of the game
“I thought it was a pass, but I can't make a critical error like that. If something's there I probably should have just ran that and got what I could. I got stuck trying to make a play and you can't try and make plays. You just have to do your job.”
On if he felt the game started to get away from the team or if there was too much inconsistency
“Probably more inconsistency if that answers your question. I'll definitely have to go back to the tape and see the specifics of it, but it's a little bit of everything."
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