Those turnovers in the second half were just too much?
"Yeah, anytime you have a team that runs the ball that well, you can't turn
the ball over and give the momentum back to them. I thought their
quarterback handled their offense really well, and I thought they converted on a
couple critical third downs that kind of took the momentum away from us."
How did the flow of this game feel to you?
"Again, the sport of football is played with momentum. We had it in the
first half. Unfortunately we couldn't get it back in the second half.
A lot of that is due to the way that the offense has performed, and we need to
look at it on tape for where we went wrong. I thought that the defense did
a much better job in the second half in giving us the ball back. We just
need to put some points on the board."
The momentum started to shift just before halftime - is that your sense?
"Yeah, a little bit. I think they scored right before we headed into
halftime. I think anytime a team scores like that, pretty convincingly,
they are going to pick up a lot of momentum going into the second half. I
know that they scored pretty quickly coming out of the gate, and due to the
turnovers, we weren't able to come back."
What happened with that interception in the endzone?
"It was a great playcall. I was just too far behind the receiver.
I need to know that it's third-and-goal and I can't put the ball in man coverage
behind the receiver. Unfortunately the DB made a great play on it, and I
definitely would have liked to had that one back."
What do you guys need to improve upon overall right now? General
execution? How about the offense?
"I think we just need to get a break, man. To be honest, I feel like
we're pounding the ball. We're doing all the things right at the right
time, but it's not going right at certain times for us."
You feel this team is a little snake-bit?
"I feel like that's a bad excuse. That's just me being frustrated right
now. You have to give a lot of credit to San Jose State. They're
very well coached, and I have a lot of respect for their coaching staff and
their players. I think the better team won today."
What was going right in the first half that wasn't going right in the
second half?
"We were getting some turnovers. They were turning the ball over, and
we were able to put some points really quickly on the board. We had some
big plays that we weren't able to put together in the second half."
With 2:12 on the clock for that final drive, did you feel like you guys
were going to go down and score?
"Sure. Going into that drive, I was feeling very confident. I
thought we had a great gameplan. We have practiced those two-minute
desperation situations. We practice them on Sundays and on Thursdays every
week, so that's nothing that our offense hasn't faced before. Their
coverages weren't anything major, and their defense wasn't anything we haven't
seen before. I had all the confidence in the world. It just didn't
work out."
We asked you last week how you felt. You said that wasn't how you
wanted to start your senior season. Now with this game coupled with that
game, what is your mood?
"Again, frustrated and disappointed. For me to be in the situation that
I am and to lose a game like that, it doesn't say a lot about the type of player
that I am. I'm not thinking very highly about the way I performed today.
Especially, being a fifth-year senior - a game like that needs to be won by a
fifth-year senior quarterback, and I wasn't able to do that today."
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