I’m out with an illness today, but here’s a transcript of what Chip had to say:
FILM TAKEAWAYS?
“The film takeaway is we gave up 13 points on three turnovers, we can’t turn the ball over on the offensive side of the ball. It was as 12-point game and we have to do a better job offensively in all phases, especially in the turnover game, and then all the turnovers came different ways–we need to protect better, we need to route run better and we need to throw the ball better, so the front, the receivers and the quarterback all have a part of it, so we have to do a better job, especially in the turnover deal. You can’t lose the turnover battle on the road in this conference and expect to win the football game, so.”
HOW ADDRESS THREE STRAIGHT PICK-SIXES?
“They’re all the same, they’re all the same and you can’t do that, you can’t give up points, the defense doesn’t even have a shot to get on the field in those situations to stop them, so we’re playing well on the defensive side of the ball and if you look at the games, in the two games we lost the turnovers were a big part of that, so we need to get that fixed.”
HOW THE SAME, PROCESSES AND DECISION-MAKING?
“No, all three–any pick-six–happens, it’s the same, it has the same impact, so that’s what I mean by that–the impact of that play is a really big deal. A turnover is a turnover but a turnover that directly leads to points is a big deal, so.”
HOW GO ABOUT KEEPING DANTE’S CONFIDENCE UP?
“I think that’s part of Dante’s makeup, I think he’s a very resilient young man, he’s mature beyond most kids at that age–he’s still an 18-year-old kid but I think that’s one of the things that he’s got a great set of intangibles, he’s a really, really resilient person and I think he has the ability to live in the present, he doesn’t live in the past, he doesn’t live in the future, he lives in the present and that’s a really special quality for people to have and so I think it’s something that in every situation, I think he learns and he’ll grow from that.”
WHAT CAN HE DO DIFFERENTLY ON THOSE TURNOVERS?
“They’re all different and individual–sometimes it’s decision-making, sometimes it’s footwork, so they’re all different. There’s not one specific thing; if there was one specific thing–we’d say, ‘Hey, do this’ and then it would never happen again but each time it expresses itself in kind of a different way, so.”
UPDATE ON COLLIN SCHLEE?
“He’s unavailable today.”
LOOK LIKE A LONGTERM THING?
“He’s unavailable today.”
IS ETHAN GARBERS AVAILABLE IF YOU NEEDED HIM AT QUARTERBACK?
“Yeah. Yes, very much so.”
HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH DAVID SHAW, HOW ABOUT TROY TAYLOR?
“I don’t know Troy very well at all. I’ve met him at league meetings but I don’t know Troy that way. I was with David since 2009–we were both head coaches earlier in our career and obviously David’s son is with us now, so I’ve known David for a long time. I don’t know Troy–I have a lot of respect for Troy, did an unbelievable job at Sac State and is doing a really good job now–they had a huge win last weekend and he deserves a ton of credit for what he’s doing with those guys right now.”
HOW WERE THEY ABLE TO COME BACK DOWN 29-0?
“Um, you know, I think they did a good job of really just coming out in the second half because it was 29-0 at halftime and again, I saw the coaches copy, I didn’t watch the game on TV, but I thought they did a good job of containing a really explosive offense, you know, Shaddeur and that group of guys, especially in the throw game is really, really explosive and they did a good job of kind of stemming some of the things that hurt them in the first half and then their receiver went off. They had a kid that had almost 300 yards in the second half and seemed almost unguardable at times. He had a 93-yarder on a slant, he caught a ball and a lot of times you give Colorado credit–they’re there in coverage and the kid just made some spectacular plays in terms of catching the football. But the quarterback I think got settled down a little bit and knew where to go with the ball and it seemed like one of those things that just kind of–as bad as the first half was for them, the second half just kind of steamrolled the other way for them, so you’ve got to play four quarters, especially in this league. It’s tough to win on the road in this league and for them to go do that in a really hostile environment at Colorado is a real credit to them, so.”
HOW ACCOUNT FOR THAT RECEIVER?
“There’s got to be a lot of different things–again, there’s not just one coverage. You’ve got to be able to roll coverage to him, you’ve got to be able to push guys underneath him, but they have some other guys too. You know, the Brockmaier kid who’s a young kid, a young receiver out there, did a nice job in some of their things. They lost their tight end, Yuresek (sp?), early in that game, so I think they became a little more wide-receiver driven, but they do have some other players but I think one of those guys that you’re going to have to know where he is at all times–I think we faced the same thing when we were facing Josh Kelly at Washington State, you know, being really aware of where the receivers are is a big deal, so I think they’re growing as a team, they’re still trying to figure out their identity but that win last weekend was a real huge step for them.”
RUN GAME INCONSISTENT WHEN YOU LOOKED AT FILM?
“Yeah, I think there were flashes and there were times we looked really, really good and there were other times when, for lack of a better term, we left some meat on the bone, so we need to continue to grow on the offensive side of the ball. Statistically, when you look at it, we did rush for a lot of yards but Collin had a little bit to do with that too, so that was a little bit different schematic changeup that we hadn’t shown in the past and Collin did a good job of really taking advantage of what we had but we need to be more consistent in terms of just being able to rush the football, so.”
ANY OTHER QBS WHO CAN RUN THE SCHLEE PACKAGE? JUSTYN?
“Yeah, we have a lot of kids who can do that stuff, so we’ll see what happens with that.”
SHOULD COLLEGE ATHLETES MAKING CEO MONEY OPEN THEM UP TO PRO-STYLE CRITICISM SINCE SOME ARE MAKING MORE THAN PEOPLE PAYING TO WATCH THE GAMES?
“I don’t think that I would ever lecture anybody on how they’re supposed to analyze what a person should do and everybody is entitled to their own opinion of anything, so it would be very presumptuous of me or anybody else that you’d say ‘because this guy is doing this, you should treat him in a different way.’ I think we should all treat people nice when we see them, but I don’t really think of that aspect of it.”
IS CALLING COLLEGE PLAYERS PRO ATHLETES NOW A FAIR COMPARISON GIVEN THAT SOME ARE MAKING SEVEN FIGURES?
“I don’t look at it that way. And I also don’t think because a pro athlete makes money that people should be allowed to criticize them, you know what I mean? You know, do people go into the workforce of some banker and just start heckling him? Saying, ‘Hey, you make $750,000 and the mortgage rates are this, inflation is at an unbelievable pace so what the heck are you guys doing? You’re absolutely out of your mind, let’s get rid of you, let’s fire this guy and cut this guy and do all that? I mean, it’s the nature of sports–we all got involved in it, we all understand it, and that’s the beauty of sports–everybody is allowed to have their opinion and everybody thinks they’re the manager of the New York Yankees, everybody has a better way to do things, that’s what makes this country great–you are entitled to your own opinion, but just because someone makes money, I don’t think you can put it into that thing because this person makes money, we should do that, so are we going after every CEO on Wall Street? I mean, are we going after every politician now because the inflation’s through the roof? I leave that up to other people; we’re trying to get some first downs here.”
KENNY CHURCHWELL AVAILABLE TODAY?
“Yeah, Kenny will be available today.”
DID HE PLAY IN THE GAME?
“No. He did not play.”
THOUGHTS ON LAST STANFORD GAME?
“Yeah, I mean, it’s all sad and it’s all–I have feelings on the whole thing. I think we should all still be together and some people should be able to work that out–let’s criticize them, let’s not criticize high school athletes, let’s criticize the people who are making really good money that have put us in this situation and so it is sad and I’ve had some great games, really enjoyed playing up there and Stanford’s had such a great tradition of football players–especially in the last 10 to 15 years of the Andrew Lucks and the Gerharts and there’s been some tremendous players who have come out of there–the Kodi Whitfields, I’ve got to make sure I say the Whitfields, you know, there’s been some tremendous players there some some rivalries–I had a chance to coach some of them, Zach Ertz is one of the best all-time tight ends to play in this conference and has had a tremendous career in the NFL and so that part’s a little, you know, but we’re going to keep saying that almost every week because there’s only four of us going to one league and the other four going to another league and two that didn’t get taken anywhere and my feelings on that, you know, I think we should be able to find a way. You never know in this world; as Kyle Whittingham told me, we both were waxing melodramatic of, and he said, ‘Hey, in two years we’ll probably be back in the same conference together anyway, so nobody really knows in this whole deal, so.”
TALKED TO DAVID SHAW ABOUT IT?
“I have not talked to David, I saw David after, the last time I saw David was after the North Carolina Central game because Carter played and he was here to watch, so Carter got in a little bit and played in that game, and that was the last time I talked to David, so.”
WILL DAVID BE ROOTING FOR THE BRUINS ON SATURDAY?
“I believe he’ll be rooting for Carter, I don’t know–I know the David Shaw I know as a person is probably really, really close to a lot of those players who are still there and is still pulling for those guys, so I have not talked to him this week and don’t plan on talking to him this week until after the game, so I would imagine the David Shaw I know would be pulling for everybody that he knows, so.”
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