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Postgame Quotes: Mississippi State Student-Athletes (Sept. 14)
September 14, 2019 | Football
#23 Mississippi State vs. Kansas State
MSU Student-Athlete Quotes
September 14, 2019 | Davis Wade Stadium
Offensive Student-Athletes
WR Osirus Mitchell
Q: What have you seen from Garrett in these past two weeks?
OM: "He one of the toughest guys I've seen. You saw how he tried to jump for that first down. That just shows his toughness, and he puts the team first, so I really like Garrett. I feel like he has a very bright future."
Q: A play like that, how much do you think guys see that?
OM: "He definitely has a lot of respect, and it boosts everyone's confidence up too. He just a freshman, and you can tell that he puts the team first."
Q: How quickly can you put this game behind you and get ready for Kentucky?
OM: "It's already behind me. I'm about to go watch film right now, go to Palmeiro and do a couple drills."
QB Garrett Shrader
Q: Can you take us through the second half?
GS: "This week, after last week, I wanted to stay ready. Just the same thing, prepare like I'm going to start. Looking at them, we knew they were a great team, disciplined, really physical, and that's what we got today."
Q: Does the playbook shrink with you being a true freshman?
GS: "At first, he tries to stay conservative, but I always tell him I want to throw it. It's pretty much the same, depending on situations, he tries to modify it. We all have successors."
Q: Walk us through that long play, where you just took off running.
GS: "I made the decision that we had to get a first down. So I made the decision to go for it. It was all or nothing. I got talked to about that, but I just have to reach the ball, and maybe, I'll get in."
OL Darryl Williams
Q: What was going on with the issues on the snap in the first half?
DW: "That's my problem. I need to fix it. I was holding the ball in between, but I fixed it as the game went on."
Q: What have you seen from Garrett today?
DW: "A guy that competes. Whenever his name is called, he's ready to step in and take charge of the offense. Mainly, he can take charge of a situation that's tumbling down hill. He prepared throughout the week as if he was going to be the starter. I think he did an excellent job. I think Coach [Andrew] Breiner did an excellent job with him."
Q: What was the reaction when Garrett when up the air?
DW: "I was wowed. It could have been our season, so I was glad he came out okay. Like I told him, he has to be able to take those kinds of hits."
Defensive Student-Athletes
LB Tim Washington
Q: How do you feel like the defense did?
TW: "I feel like we did good as a team. We just have to clean up some details tomorrow, keep moving forward and keep getting better."
Q: Brian [Cole] was saying that some of the trouble with the play-action pass came with some of the eye candy they were giving you?
TW: "It's all a part of the game. I think we will watch the film tomorrow and try not to repeat mistakes going into the next game."
Q: You had a couple busts in coverage when they would leak out the tight end, what were you seeing on those plays?
TW:" They were using a lot of play action and just to get our eyes moving in different directions. We will see what really happened tomorrow."
S Brian Cole II
Q: Big second half for the defense. What adjustments did you guys make in the second half to come out and play as well as you did?
BC: "We just put in a different blitz. We really made mistakes in the first half, as you can see. We had to get our [reads] better and get our [reads] right. We put in [a couple of] different plays, which I am not going to talk about, but Coach Shoop came in and made a couple different adjustments."
Q: I understand he showed you lot of fire you guys there in the halftime locker room, what was his message?
BC: "They run a simple offense, as you guys can see, a lot of split zones, powers, zone reads, it really is just downhill plays. We really just have to ball our best and we got to take on the block better. [It's] Just the little things."
Q: You mentioned how they run a simple offense, at times is it had to comeback, because you are used to seeing more complex stuff?
BC: "Exactly, because all the play actions they keep running downhill and running down-hill, next thing you know they [hit the] play action and somebody is leaking out."
MSU Student-Athlete Quotes
September 14, 2019 | Davis Wade Stadium
Offensive Student-Athletes
WR Osirus Mitchell
Q: What have you seen from Garrett in these past two weeks?
OM: "He one of the toughest guys I've seen. You saw how he tried to jump for that first down. That just shows his toughness, and he puts the team first, so I really like Garrett. I feel like he has a very bright future."
Q: A play like that, how much do you think guys see that?
OM: "He definitely has a lot of respect, and it boosts everyone's confidence up too. He just a freshman, and you can tell that he puts the team first."
Q: How quickly can you put this game behind you and get ready for Kentucky?
OM: "It's already behind me. I'm about to go watch film right now, go to Palmeiro and do a couple drills."
QB Garrett Shrader
Q: Can you take us through the second half?
GS: "This week, after last week, I wanted to stay ready. Just the same thing, prepare like I'm going to start. Looking at them, we knew they were a great team, disciplined, really physical, and that's what we got today."
Q: Does the playbook shrink with you being a true freshman?
GS: "At first, he tries to stay conservative, but I always tell him I want to throw it. It's pretty much the same, depending on situations, he tries to modify it. We all have successors."
Q: Walk us through that long play, where you just took off running.
GS: "I made the decision that we had to get a first down. So I made the decision to go for it. It was all or nothing. I got talked to about that, but I just have to reach the ball, and maybe, I'll get in."
OL Darryl Williams
Q: What was going on with the issues on the snap in the first half?
DW: "That's my problem. I need to fix it. I was holding the ball in between, but I fixed it as the game went on."
Q: What have you seen from Garrett today?
DW: "A guy that competes. Whenever his name is called, he's ready to step in and take charge of the offense. Mainly, he can take charge of a situation that's tumbling down hill. He prepared throughout the week as if he was going to be the starter. I think he did an excellent job. I think Coach [Andrew] Breiner did an excellent job with him."
Q: What was the reaction when Garrett when up the air?
DW: "I was wowed. It could have been our season, so I was glad he came out okay. Like I told him, he has to be able to take those kinds of hits."
Defensive Student-Athletes
LB Tim Washington
Q: How do you feel like the defense did?
TW: "I feel like we did good as a team. We just have to clean up some details tomorrow, keep moving forward and keep getting better."
Q: Brian [Cole] was saying that some of the trouble with the play-action pass came with some of the eye candy they were giving you?
TW: "It's all a part of the game. I think we will watch the film tomorrow and try not to repeat mistakes going into the next game."
Q: You had a couple busts in coverage when they would leak out the tight end, what were you seeing on those plays?
TW:" They were using a lot of play action and just to get our eyes moving in different directions. We will see what really happened tomorrow."
S Brian Cole II
Q: Big second half for the defense. What adjustments did you guys make in the second half to come out and play as well as you did?
BC: "We just put in a different blitz. We really made mistakes in the first half, as you can see. We had to get our [reads] better and get our [reads] right. We put in [a couple of] different plays, which I am not going to talk about, but Coach Shoop came in and made a couple different adjustments."
Q: I understand he showed you lot of fire you guys there in the halftime locker room, what was his message?
BC: "They run a simple offense, as you guys can see, a lot of split zones, powers, zone reads, it really is just downhill plays. We really just have to ball our best and we got to take on the block better. [It's] Just the little things."
Q: You mentioned how they run a simple offense, at times is it had to comeback, because you are used to seeing more complex stuff?
BC: "Exactly, because all the play actions they keep running downhill and running down-hill, next thing you know they [hit the] play action and somebody is leaking out."
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