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Utah vs. BYU Postgame Quotes
9/10/2017 1:28 AM | Football
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Utah head coach Kyle Whittingham
Still, have a lot to work on, we were penalized way too much, relying too much on Tyler Huntley and the run game. We need to get some help for him in the run game or he won't be able to hold up for season. We have our issues. That team (BYU) played hard tonight. They're well coached, I love their head coach and love what he is doing. They played hard.Â
Statistically, the game was closer than the statistics. We didn't do a good job scoring touchdowns in the red zone. We didn't do a good job on third down. We just don't seem to be quite in sync offensively yet. I think it's still a work in progress. Defensively, I thought we played very well. We gave up a couple things, but overall I thought we played very well. We held them to 230 or 40 yards and we got about 450 yards, so statistically, we beat them up, but the statistics don't matter. The score is what matters.Â
I'm proud of Matt Gay, our kicker. I should have gone to him on the 4 and 1 in a three-score game and listened to myself and not get caught up in things. He may have not made it, who knows, but that was probably the wrong decision to make at that time to go for it on 4th and 1.Â
I thought our receivers played well. Caught some big balls down the field. Wilson caught that deep post. Carrington, I don't know what he came away with, seven or eight catches, he was good again. But things we have to do better is get more rushing production and not Tyler Huntley runs because we don't have enough. We've got to continue to clean up the penalties. Red zone issue we had it again today from last year. Defensively we got three take aways and had some sacks. The impact plays went up, but anytime we come down here it's going to be tough. We didn't expect to come in here and just have an easy time. We knew it was going to be a dog fight, every single one of these is. It's just how it goes, down to the last series or the last play and tonight was no different. I said that all week long. I didn't care what had happened previously, that's just how this series has been. Very hard fought.
I don't think the rivalry plays into the penalties. They weren't ignorant penalties, malicious late hits or stupid things, swinging at somebody, but still too many penalties. 97 yards, basically 100 yards in penalties. That's too much and it can't continue. 140 something last week and 97 this week. What I can tell you is how proud I am of our players. I can't tell you how proud I am of our players and our coaches. Even though we are not hitting on all cylinders right now, we're working hard and everyone is bought in. We had a great buy in with this staff and in this program and the care about each other, which is good.Â
I think Tyler is making good decisions, and I'm not talking about the QB run game when he is involved, but the pure run game. When he is not in a running situation, he's just handing off the ball to our backs, we got to be more efficient with that. I think there was enough tonight to get going with it, we just didn't get it going. We put the ball on the ground, I think we had two turnovers, and it can't happen. Not if you want to be a really good team.Â
We address the penalties in practice every week and punishment goes along with it. We just keep coaching it. The technique on the outside, we seem to be getting the majority of the penalties blocking on the perimeter, holding in particular, and we had three or four of those tonight, one from our running back and a couple from the wide receivers. And Tyler's got to understand that when we got the run pass option call, you can't really scramble around throw the ball because our linemen are going to be down field.
 Boobie Hobbs
We just prepared on being ready for whatever they had basically. They're a very physical team we knew they were going to pound it. The throwing game; I don't know if it worked out too much but we just prepared on both sides running it and passing.
If someone makes a mistake, we're going to go cheer them up. You know, short-term memory, just forget about it. We're all a family. You get in a game and we're just not going to turn our back on someone that made a mistake. That's not how we roll.
We pride ourselves on turnovers, man. Four in the score is usually our motto. Getting turnovers was the main point. We have to get turnovers. We have to. Last year we had a great secondary we got a ton of turnovers. People kind of think we're weak back there in the secondary so turnovers was a big part in this game.
Without the defensive line there's no turnovers, there's no picks. You know, those guys play a hell of a game by getting pressure and when they get pressure, we get picks, so we like it.
Darren Carrington II
We need to come out faster and buckle down a little bit, play more disciplined. We shoot ourselves in the foot sometimes, but we work and get past it.
It's just all about belief, believing in those young guys. We have a lot of young guys playing and you can't tell. It's like they've been here. What we're going to do moving forward is continue to be us, continue to get in the film room, continue to study, continue to get bigger, faster and stronger and just come out and compete when it's our time to compete.
Tyler Huntley
You need to be prepared for everything. But we pulled it out and we've just got to prepare for next week now.
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I feel like because our offense is fast, we are still trying to get used to our offense. It's only going to get better. It's only the second week and our first big game. We are just taking it game by game.
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I think they always tell me that. I try my best to get out of bounds but everything inside of me tells me to get more yards. But I need to start working on getting out of bounds.
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We felt like we should have put up more points but we've got to live with it and come out better next week.
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I excepted a good game. It's a rivalry game and I was expecting them to come out hard. We came out hard and left a lot of points on the field. We need to come out next week and play harder.
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Matt Gay
There is always pressure out kicking a field goal with so many fans out here. I grew up here so it's a game that's close to home. I live 10 minutes down the street. I grew up with all my friends and everyone cheering for BYU, so I definitely wanted to come out and prove a point and keep my nerves down and I got those chances.
There's some frustration on the sideline a little bit, just because I'm on the sideline more so than these guys are. I'm there for most of the game. I feel the energy going on the sidelines, so when you get those penalties it's kind of frustrating because it's kind of like DC said, we're kind of shooting ourselves in the foot. I mean a lot of their offense or a lot of things we were doing are stopped by our own selves our own penalties that we need to clean up. We definitely left a lot of points on the board that we could have cleaned up as penalties, turnovers.
Obviously, I like to help my team in any way that I can so if they call my name, call my number, then I'm going to go out and do what I'm prepared to do. But that's coach's decision, he needs to make that call and I respect and trust whatever coaches decide. I got out there and was on the field, act like I was going to kick kind of throw them off a little bit, see what they were going to bring us. But in the end result they decided to go for it and I support that and I trust our guys.
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Utah head coach Kyle Whittingham
Still, have a lot to work on, we were penalized way too much, relying too much on Tyler Huntley and the run game. We need to get some help for him in the run game or he won't be able to hold up for season. We have our issues. That team (BYU) played hard tonight. They're well coached, I love their head coach and love what he is doing. They played hard.Â
Statistically, the game was closer than the statistics. We didn't do a good job scoring touchdowns in the red zone. We didn't do a good job on third down. We just don't seem to be quite in sync offensively yet. I think it's still a work in progress. Defensively, I thought we played very well. We gave up a couple things, but overall I thought we played very well. We held them to 230 or 40 yards and we got about 450 yards, so statistically, we beat them up, but the statistics don't matter. The score is what matters.Â
I'm proud of Matt Gay, our kicker. I should have gone to him on the 4 and 1 in a three-score game and listened to myself and not get caught up in things. He may have not made it, who knows, but that was probably the wrong decision to make at that time to go for it on 4th and 1.Â
I thought our receivers played well. Caught some big balls down the field. Wilson caught that deep post. Carrington, I don't know what he came away with, seven or eight catches, he was good again. But things we have to do better is get more rushing production and not Tyler Huntley runs because we don't have enough. We've got to continue to clean up the penalties. Red zone issue we had it again today from last year. Defensively we got three take aways and had some sacks. The impact plays went up, but anytime we come down here it's going to be tough. We didn't expect to come in here and just have an easy time. We knew it was going to be a dog fight, every single one of these is. It's just how it goes, down to the last series or the last play and tonight was no different. I said that all week long. I didn't care what had happened previously, that's just how this series has been. Very hard fought.
I don't think the rivalry plays into the penalties. They weren't ignorant penalties, malicious late hits or stupid things, swinging at somebody, but still too many penalties. 97 yards, basically 100 yards in penalties. That's too much and it can't continue. 140 something last week and 97 this week. What I can tell you is how proud I am of our players. I can't tell you how proud I am of our players and our coaches. Even though we are not hitting on all cylinders right now, we're working hard and everyone is bought in. We had a great buy in with this staff and in this program and the care about each other, which is good.Â
I think Tyler is making good decisions, and I'm not talking about the QB run game when he is involved, but the pure run game. When he is not in a running situation, he's just handing off the ball to our backs, we got to be more efficient with that. I think there was enough tonight to get going with it, we just didn't get it going. We put the ball on the ground, I think we had two turnovers, and it can't happen. Not if you want to be a really good team.Â
We address the penalties in practice every week and punishment goes along with it. We just keep coaching it. The technique on the outside, we seem to be getting the majority of the penalties blocking on the perimeter, holding in particular, and we had three or four of those tonight, one from our running back and a couple from the wide receivers. And Tyler's got to understand that when we got the run pass option call, you can't really scramble around throw the ball because our linemen are going to be down field.
 Boobie Hobbs
We just prepared on being ready for whatever they had basically. They're a very physical team we knew they were going to pound it. The throwing game; I don't know if it worked out too much but we just prepared on both sides running it and passing.
If someone makes a mistake, we're going to go cheer them up. You know, short-term memory, just forget about it. We're all a family. You get in a game and we're just not going to turn our back on someone that made a mistake. That's not how we roll.
We pride ourselves on turnovers, man. Four in the score is usually our motto. Getting turnovers was the main point. We have to get turnovers. We have to. Last year we had a great secondary we got a ton of turnovers. People kind of think we're weak back there in the secondary so turnovers was a big part in this game.
Without the defensive line there's no turnovers, there's no picks. You know, those guys play a hell of a game by getting pressure and when they get pressure, we get picks, so we like it.
Darren Carrington II
We need to come out faster and buckle down a little bit, play more disciplined. We shoot ourselves in the foot sometimes, but we work and get past it.
It's just all about belief, believing in those young guys. We have a lot of young guys playing and you can't tell. It's like they've been here. What we're going to do moving forward is continue to be us, continue to get in the film room, continue to study, continue to get bigger, faster and stronger and just come out and compete when it's our time to compete.
Tyler Huntley
You need to be prepared for everything. But we pulled it out and we've just got to prepare for next week now.
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I feel like because our offense is fast, we are still trying to get used to our offense. It's only going to get better. It's only the second week and our first big game. We are just taking it game by game.
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I think they always tell me that. I try my best to get out of bounds but everything inside of me tells me to get more yards. But I need to start working on getting out of bounds.
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We felt like we should have put up more points but we've got to live with it and come out better next week.
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I excepted a good game. It's a rivalry game and I was expecting them to come out hard. We came out hard and left a lot of points on the field. We need to come out next week and play harder.
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Matt Gay
There is always pressure out kicking a field goal with so many fans out here. I grew up here so it's a game that's close to home. I live 10 minutes down the street. I grew up with all my friends and everyone cheering for BYU, so I definitely wanted to come out and prove a point and keep my nerves down and I got those chances.
There's some frustration on the sideline a little bit, just because I'm on the sideline more so than these guys are. I'm there for most of the game. I feel the energy going on the sidelines, so when you get those penalties it's kind of frustrating because it's kind of like DC said, we're kind of shooting ourselves in the foot. I mean a lot of their offense or a lot of things we were doing are stopped by our own selves our own penalties that we need to clean up. We definitely left a lot of points on the board that we could have cleaned up as penalties, turnovers.
Obviously, I like to help my team in any way that I can so if they call my name, call my number, then I'm going to go out and do what I'm prepared to do. But that's coach's decision, he needs to make that call and I respect and trust whatever coaches decide. I got out there and was on the field, act like I was going to kick kind of throw them off a little bit, see what they were going to bring us. But in the end result they decided to go for it and I support that and I trust our guys.
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