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Nebraska Football
Pre-Iowa
Monday, Nov. 23, 2020
Press Conference Video
On his dad’s advice after a loss:
"Just keep your head up and keep working. Just keep working because that's all I know how to do. So bad things happen when I don’t play as well as I want to which I haven't. When plays don't go your way you just got to keep working because that is all you can do. So I've just been taking that approach and put it towards practice. Put it towards meetings weight lifting anything I can. Just keep working. I'm confident that I've reap what I sow."
On his mustache:
"Yeah I think the mustache there was over. I was going to shave before the season and you all made me keep it for a couple more weeks but I figured yeah it was over. But now everyone's doing mustaches for Iowa so I guess I shaved it just a week early. But yeah who knows."
On the rivalry with Iowa:
"It's been a couple close games. Last two I've played in I think it came down to a field goal. So we're right there. We're confident. We obviously didn't show out as well as we wanted to last week and that starts with practice. Starting yesterday and today we practiced much harder. There's been a new kind of intensity and detail towards the practice and the plays and I think that we will have a different result this weekend but I think it's going to start with the juice we bring and so far in practice we've done well. Bring our own energy and our own juice. We have to bring again Friday."
On the wide receivers:
"I think we did a good job. We didn't do good enough. I don't think we got open enough but I think that throughout the game plan our young guys did well learning it. I think that's the biggest key for a lot of them because they have the athletic ability and talent to succeed. So I think all our young guys knew the plays and for the most part we do what were supposed to do. There's just some effort things we have to fix I think is the biggest key that I saw in the game from young guys all the way up to me. I think there's some effort plays we can fix that we've been detailing in practice. Just finishing the blocks making sure your guy doesn't make the play at the end of the day and that's the approach going forward. But out of the whole last game we ran the right routes. We got some separation when we needed to. I think the biggest thing was that we're preaching his effort."
On what is holding the offense back:
"I think the biggest thing right now is I think is turnovers. I think were to loose with the football. We stress it in practice and we stress it right before the game too. I think we have too many turnovers and too many self-inflicted negatives. What we call sins. So I think we got to stop beating ourselves and giving the defense short fields and giving the other offenses the opportunity to score and I think if we fix those and just play our game and play the way we're supposed to play in and and quit those sins I think it will turn around for us. So we're stressing that again in practice. Just going back to the fundamentals and the details moving forward."
On Adrian Martinez:
"He knows his job is to help the same way. He's going to do it anyway he can whether it's giving a good look in practice whether it's motivating the guys whether it's a pregame speech or giving us energy on the sidelines. He'll do it all. And he knows that that the roles change right now and it might change moving forward. And who knows what's going to happen moving forward in the future but at the end of the day all of our jobs are to help us win football games and he knows that. And I think that he's had a very mature approach going forward and knowing that he's going to do his job and he's going to do everything he can to help our team in whatever position he put in. So it's been great to see. He's really stepping up as a leader in all the roles he's been in. He's just a great dude all around."
On improving downfield throwing:
"I think the biggest thing is building that trust in practice. I think that last week in practice we didn't do a good enough job running around full speed and getting our depth and building that trust with the quarterback in practice. And if you don't build trust then there's no way you're going to have it during the game. So I think that in practice now we're doing better of getting to our depth and getting there with speed. So the quarterback can trust us and the line can still protect for that long because it all starts with us. If we don't get there on time quarterback has to hold it for too long. Line has to protect for way too long. It doesn't really work. So I think we just got to still work on the details. We still work on getting our depth still working on full speed. Just building that trust with the quarterback and they have to trust us that when the ball is in here we're going to get it and we're continuing to work on that."
On Luke McCaffrey:
"Yeah I guess what’s great about Luke is that he's always go go go and he always has full energy and he's always super confident in himself which is great. So yeah the game wasn't going our way and I went over and talked to him and I said hey you good and he knew I knew he was good. He was fine. He's ready to go. I told him hey we don't we don't pay you to aim we pay you to throw you know what I mean so he was getting more relaxed and get in the groove of the game and as the game went on he got better with it. I just think that moving forward as I said the trust in the practice we had to build up more so that we get in the game we don't frazzle anybody and I think he's done a really good job of stepping to the role and staying confident and collected and doing his job and I think that's what's great about Luke is that he has the mentality that I'll always be ready and he is always ready so I love the guy and he's been a great job for us so far."
NU Athletic Communications