Postgame Quotes: Mississippi State Student-Athletes (Sept. 7)

2019 Mississippi State Football
Student-Athlete Quotes
vs. Southern Miss
September 7, 2019

Offensive Student-Athletes

Kylin Hill | RB | Jr.
Q: How pleased are you with your last two performances these past two weeks?
KH: "You can always get better, but so far I'm pretty pleased. The hard work is paying off."

Q: What do you feel like is working for you by now having big statistics game after game?
KH: "Just being comfortable. One year in the system, I feel like I can be myself now."

Q: When you see Tommy get down you know you're going to get more touches. What excites you?
KH: "It never excites you to see your teammate go down. Tommy is a hard-working guy, but I had to step up to the plate. I had to do what I had to do to get the win."

Garrett Shrader | QB | Fr.
Q: Did you feel prepared to play today, or was it one of those things where you won't know until you try it type of things?
GS: "I thought I was, but it took a while to adjust. Systematically, I was ready to go. Processing the line, I was a little bit slow, but I'll get used to it."

Q: Tommy goes out and then Kylin went out not long after that. Those are two of your key players in the offense. Was there panic? What were the attitudes like in that moment?
GS: "Next man mentality, next man up. That's what we did, that's how we played. We had a bunch of young guys making plays today. Lee [Witherspoon] came in there and scored a good touchdown, Martin [Emerson] with a pick. It was just a flash of the good stuff coming."

Q: How much confidence did you have walking into this week only having two reps this past week?
GS: "The guys were really supportive when they saw me step in there. A lot of help around me was what got us the win today. I was just in there managing and trying to do what they gave me. We came out with the win, it was good."

Defensive Student-Athletes

Jaquarius Landrews | SS | Sr.
Q: Talk about the defensive effort. It seemed like you all had some good plays out there today, little bit more yardage than you all wanted to but still getting turnovers.
JL: "I feel like the first half we did pretty good shutting them down. The second half, we got a little too comfortable and gave up a couple of explosive plays. We are going to take the win, learn from our mistakes and make sure we come back the second half prepared like we were the first half."

Q: Some people talk about a bend but don't break defense. Are you all okay with that, or is it just a game-by-game thing?
JL: "Most definitely, it is a bend but don't break. There's always going to be adversity, and you never know when it is coming. So, we always stick to the bend but don't break mentality."

Q: You all had trouble getting to their quarterback Jack Abraham at the beginning of the game. You got to him more later in the game, and he got more inaccurate. What was the difference?
JL: "I feel like everybody did what they are supposed to do, and everybody locked in a little bit more. Of course, there were a couple of explosive plays, but everybody did their job for the most part."

Brian Cole II | STAR | Sr.
Q: People talk about this defense finding their own identity. Do you feel like after a couple of weeks now that you all are finding it?
BC: "Yeah, but we are still figuring it out too. We have to get better because we are about to get into SEC play. So, obviously there is more, a lot more we can do. We still have errors we need to correct. We just have to get better regardless, keep stacking these little wins and run with it. We always have mistakes to fix."

Q: Coach mentioned the only thing that matters in his mind is the score margin, is that a new mentality?
BC: "Most definitely. At the end of the day when our back is up against the wall, we still got to stand our ground. We can't let teams put points up on the board, just like coach said. The offense can have a whole bunch of bad plays. It won't really hurt, but the defense can have one bad play. There could be points on the board. So, we always just got to go. I like the mentality though."

Q: How big was it to force the field goal that was missed?
BC: "It is always good. It is a turnover basically in our book. So, that's basically a three and out. It gives the guys on the offense a chance to get back on the field.

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Postgame Quotes: Mississippi State Student-Athletes (Sept. 7)

Players Mentioned

Brian Cole II

Kylin Hill

Jaquarius Landrews

Garrett Shrader

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