OPENING STATEMENT…
“We had our bye week and going through the bye the first thing you do is evaluate yourself as a football team. The things you have done well the first six weeks and the things you need to continue to improve on. There was a laundry list of things. We have made an emphasis on certain things that we feel if we improve, we’ll become a better football team. I think it’s always about the players and how we can help them improve at the positions they play. I think there has been a lot of work done on that the last six to seven days that we have had the ability to practice. I thought practice was very crisp yesterday, as well as today. I think there is a good focus and good energy about our football team right now knowing that we have only six opportunities left and they're all important. Stanford is a quality football team. David Shaw is one of the better coaches in college football. I have known him for quite some time. Great football coach. Has a DNA of how his teams are going to play week in and week out. They have suffered a couple of tough losses in close games. They are a physical football team. The formula that they play with whether you on a bus, a train, you drive, you hitch hike – it travels well. The toughness of their offense – big physical receivers. All these guys are 6’3 or taller. They are real physical. They have a really good running back that has been nicked up some, but he’ll be well for us. They have got a defense that can get after you and they are very sound and savvy football team. This will be a good test for us. I think our guys are excited about playing. It's Pac-12 contest and it is one that we need to win, we need to start winning some games down the stretch if we want to make some hay for the rest of the season.”
ON TEAM PROGRESSION…
“It’s all about the development of the players and the cohesion of the coaches and the players. Anytime you take on something like this, there is always a learning period between both parties, for me as well – learn the conference, learn the players, learn my coaches. I think we have done some things that we have liked and we have to continue to improve on some things that we have not done a good job of and they are very evident. We struggle in the 3rd and 4 situations of this offense. We do the same thing on defense. We put people in bad positions and we let them get out of them. We have to tackle a lot better on defense. We have to play better in the third quarter offensively. That’s kind of where we have not really improved a whole lot of, but I think the building blocks are there. What we are trying to emphasis on this football team? I think those things are coming to fruition. Young players make mistakes and so do old players. We really talked about the mental errors and if we can clean those things up, then we will have a chance to win some of these games that are one score. A lot of it has to do with a series of plays that we make them or not. If you don’t, you come on the bad side of it.”
ON STANFORD'S DNA CHANGING…
“I think its changed in a sense that they have been down in the first quarter when you look at there numbers. They have only scored two touchdowns in the first quarter and given up 38 points, so they have been a little behind, with that being said, in the second quarter they seem to catch up. The third quarter is when they all sudden take control of the game. That’s when they outscore there opponent by about 47 points, then the fourth quarter not so much because now they are running the ball again because they are playing the clock so when you look at there possessions they possess the ball only about 11 times a game. They are slow, they are methodical but they have improved in the passing game. They have some big receivers and they use their tight ends very well. They are hard to cover, they are physical guys. They have some good receivers as well and (Bryce) Love has been in and out of the mix so that has kind of slowed them down some. He is well now, so we have our hands full now.”
ON STATUS OF N’KEAL HARRY…
“He has been practicing so we anticipate everyone on deck. It’s a big game for us – Thursday night, ESPN game. I think players like playing under the spotlight of national attention, especially good players. They enjoy the spotlight. They don’t run to the shade, they love the lights and so knowing N’Keal and the guys that have been a little nicked up. I thought the bye came at a good time for us because we have some guys that are nicked up but, everyone is nicked up. The only people that aren’t nicked up is the coaches because we don’t play. If you play football, you are going to have some bumps and bruises and that’s part of it.”
ON SELF SCOUTING OF FOOTBALL TEAM...
“Everyone does this, I know we do it in the league all the time. I think in college football you have the same ability to do that. You basically go back to what you have called as a coordinator and your calls kind of pile up after six games. What are your first down runs? What are you first down passes? What are your third down calls in these situations? How do you attack the red zone? So situational football becomes a part of your self-scout and you look at that. You evaluate the players. Every player was graded and evaluated on our football team by position. Winning performance, losing performance, every game that is on the list. I have it. How many plays every player played? All those things come into the process of how you evaluate your football team halfway and from there you get together as a staff and say, okay how do we improve as a team? How can we improve individually? So all those things are talked about. I think we took some good information out of there. I changed practicing a little bit so we can get into some of those situations that we need to improve, whether it was red zone, third downs – backed up, when we are backed up. In other words, when we are backed up in minus 15, minus 10 we don’t do a good enough job of getting ourselves out of there. We end up punting and same way defensively. We have some teams backed up - we let them out. Plus 40 we are really good. We get inside of the plus 40 we find a way to score points, were are in a pretty good flow of some things. All those things you look at and you evaluate it and you first ask yourself, is it the call or is it the player? That’s the question you have to ask and if it’s the player then, you say, are we putting the player in the position to succeed? If we ask him to do some things he’s not capable of doing then that’s coaching. Those are the things you look at. I think when we have a good feel of what are plus/minus are, I think you want to disguise your flaws, that’s what football is about – don’t let them attack your flaws. Don’t be in a position where you have to play that way and sometimes teams get you there and that’s never a fun way to play football.”
ON THIRD DOWN DEFENSE…
“A lot of things have happened whether its rush, whether it’s not properly in the right areas when we are covering people and sometimes they were better. There is a reality to that too. Sometimes the guy is just better and there is nothing you can do about that because that is ball. The guy was better than you on that play. You look at all of that and it all starts, it has to be a coordinated effort. Coverage and rush go together. It is a sequence. The killing part for me is that when you get them in 3rd and 7 or more, you have to make them punt. That’s not the case at times. We have let some guys get out and then the drives continue. It’s about not allowing to drive when you get them in third down because that is the down. When you get to 3rd and 7 or more defensively you are feeling like, ‘Okay let’s get off the field guys’ and that has not been the case so we have to improve on that.”
ON JJ WILSON AND MALIK LAWAL INJURY STATUS…
“JJ (Wilson) is still coming through his ankle, he’s still trying to get ready to try to play. At this point, he’s not ready. (Malik) Lawal is okay. He was kind of in and out today a little bit. I anticipate him playing.”
ON HOW THIRD QUARTER WOES CAN BE ADDRESSED...
“Offensively, it is not sustaining drives. Defensively, it is giving up a big play or whatever it may be. We have got to do a better job of coming out, jumping on teams, and scoring in the third quarter. We are pretty good in the first quarter. We are lights out in the fourth quarter. That is because we are in a mode of sense of urgency when we are behind. I think there has to be a better sense of urgency on third down. For offense, it is hard because it is all about possessing the ball. If you do not possess it enough and you go three-and-out, it is frustrating. You have got to move the ball early in the third quarter especially if you possess it the first time coming out of the half. It is important to change the field. You would hate to get the ball at the 25, go three-and-out, and now you punt. They can get the ball with pretty good field position. You would want to get the ball to the 40 or 45 and if you stall out, then you punt it and pin it down inside the ten. Maybe you would be able to get the ball back with good field position for yourself. We have got to do a better job of that.”
ON MATCHING STANFORD’S METHODICAL DRIVES...
“They are methodical and so are we. They average 11 possessions per game and we average 10 possessions per game, so you could get a quick game. If you blink, it might be over because both teams are very methodical. We can speed it up and they can speed it up as well, but I think it has a lot to do with the running game and how they try to play. For us, we are methodical in a sense, but I think we are explosive too and I think that is where we have to capitalize. We have made a lot of explosive plays whether it is running or passing. I would like more possessions and that has a lot to do with third down. If we convert on third down, we get more possessions. If not, we would be where we are at right now. We would like to be around 13 possessions. That would be kind of nice if we can get up to that number for us because our time of possession would be a little bit better. We would be running about 80 plays, which would be great because you can protect your defense by keeping them off the field. It helps you, so we have got to convert on third downs. I think Stanford is the same way. They are not very good on third downs either and that is why they are at 11 possessions per game and we are at 10 possessions per game.”
ON SUCCESS OF BALL SECURITY THIS SEASON...
“We have been pretty good at not turning the ball over. But we have not done a good enough job at taking the ball away. We have a defense that stresses that. Actually, every defense stresses that. But, you want to take the ball away. We have only got three interceptions and we have got some fumbles. We have some sacks, which is nice, but you want to create possessions. That is another way to create possessions. That is another way to get the offense the ball. If you get to about two takeaways per game, they can have two more possessions. All of a sudden, instead of having 10 possessions, we would be possessing the ball 12 times. When the opportunity presents itself, we have to get on the ball and find a way to catch the ball. During the six last days, we have done a lot of ball drills with the defensive backs catching the ball. Speaking as a former defender, I think there is a knock on defensive players that they can not catch. I am never going to admit that they can not because I always felt as if I could catch the ball pretty good. Sometimes when you do not throw them the ball in practice or set up drills for them to play the ball, then they do not have a feel for it. Some of these guys are former high school running backs or wide receivers. The joke as a defensive player is that they used to be wide receivers, but they could not catch, so they were put on defense. I think you have to do drills that allow them to go after the ball. I am really big on attacking the football as a defender. I have always said that when the ball leaves the quarterback’s hands, it does not belong to the offense. It has no one’s name on it. You have to be confident enough to play the ball. I see that in football in general that most guys are not confident. They do not play the ball, they play the man. When you have the ability to play the ball, you have to play the ball. You have to put them in position and do drills. We have really worked hard on it this whole week. I have been with the secondary every day. I have emphasized that with them. Hopefully, it will come to fruition and we will catch a few balls.”
ON STOPPING A FULLY HEALTHY BRYCE LOVE...
“We have got to tackle him and not let him get outside because if he gets outside, we are not catching him. He can run fast. It is going to take a total defense to do that. We have to be gap control responsible and we have to understand that because he is a guy that has tremendous vision. He can start one way, but if he sees any kind of daylight another way, he is gone. He is a tremendous running back. There is no doubt about it and we have to tackle him. It is going to take more than one guy. We have done a lot of work this week against the run. With that being said, these 6'5, 6'7 receivers bother me because they throw it up to them, even if you are covering them. They do not care. They will hope that their guy will out jump your guy. If they do that, they win because they just out jumped us. Utah did a nice job of turning to the receiver and playing the ball. I wish I could make everybody jump 43’ verticals, but not everybody has a 43’ vertical. If you are covering a 6’7 guy and you are only 5’11, that is not good. We better get a rush and better find a way to play the ball because if not they will catch balls even when we are right in there faces. They do it every week, so that is what we have to try to defend.”
ON N’KEAL HARRY PLAYING ON PUNT RETURNS...
“As long as a guy does not come from the sideline and tackle him. The guy made a play. He found his way on the field and we have to be smart enough to block the guy. We did the same thing the other way. If we blocked the guy that came in and tackled him, N’Keal would have scored because there was no one over there.”
ON HANDLING MOMENTUM SWINGS WITH YOUNG PLAYERS...
“Yeah, it will be interesting. You have to get them focused on the task at hand. I love emotion. It is an emotional game. I love guys that get emotional, but the emotion can not get the best of them where all of a sudden a series of plays affects them. That’s what happens when you are dealing with young guys. It is not just young guys. We have got some veteran guys that get a little emotional too. It is okay as long as you let it out on the sideline, get it out of your system, and go back on the grass and perform. You can not take it onto the grass with you because then you are not focused in on your job. As a former player, I could talk as good as all of them, but I knew once I lined up I had to focus on the job now because when you are playing out there as a corner, you would be one pass away from being on the wrong side of the highlight tape. I understood that, but that was my mentality. You have to have a certain mechanism takes you from one place to another. Every guy is different. That is what some guys struggle with sometimes.”
ON SPREADING OUT TOUCHES ON OFFENSE...
“It is hard because you have so many explosive players you want to get the ball to. If you feel like you are running it well with Eno (Benjamin), then you might want to take a shot. We also have to keep N’Keal (Harry) involved because he is our number one player on offense. (Frank) Darby and the auxiliary players are a part of it too. Offense is hard because you play with the ball. If you go three-and-out, someone is not touching the ball. I always tell them that if you want to touch the ball, go get a first down. If you go nine or ten plays, everyone will have a chance to touch the ball. Sometimes, you can take the guy out of a mix receiver-wise if you take him out. That is why you have to move guys like N’Keal around so that they can not consistently roll up on him or bracket him. So, we have got to consistently move him around. With that being said, he has to be smart enough to line up in five different positions. That just comes with the territory when you are a player like that. When you possess the ball and go on long periods of drives, then we become very good on offense because when you watch us play. If we can go on those seven, ten play drives, it is fun for me to watch on the sideline because we are in a flow and you can just see it. Defenses have to react to that. They have to think who is going to get the ball and what are they going to do. That is part of the process of playing offense and it is hard when you do not have enough plays.”
“We had our bye week and going through the bye the first thing you do is evaluate yourself as a football team. The things you have done well the first six weeks and the things you need to continue to improve on. There was a laundry list of things. We have made an emphasis on certain things that we feel if we improve, we’ll become a better football team. I think it’s always about the players and how we can help them improve at the positions they play. I think there has been a lot of work done on that the last six to seven days that we have had the ability to practice. I thought practice was very crisp yesterday, as well as today. I think there is a good focus and good energy about our football team right now knowing that we have only six opportunities left and they're all important. Stanford is a quality football team. David Shaw is one of the better coaches in college football. I have known him for quite some time. Great football coach. Has a DNA of how his teams are going to play week in and week out. They have suffered a couple of tough losses in close games. They are a physical football team. The formula that they play with whether you on a bus, a train, you drive, you hitch hike – it travels well. The toughness of their offense – big physical receivers. All these guys are 6’3 or taller. They are real physical. They have a really good running back that has been nicked up some, but he’ll be well for us. They have got a defense that can get after you and they are very sound and savvy football team. This will be a good test for us. I think our guys are excited about playing. It's Pac-12 contest and it is one that we need to win, we need to start winning some games down the stretch if we want to make some hay for the rest of the season.”
ON TEAM PROGRESSION…
“It’s all about the development of the players and the cohesion of the coaches and the players. Anytime you take on something like this, there is always a learning period between both parties, for me as well – learn the conference, learn the players, learn my coaches. I think we have done some things that we have liked and we have to continue to improve on some things that we have not done a good job of and they are very evident. We struggle in the 3rd and 4 situations of this offense. We do the same thing on defense. We put people in bad positions and we let them get out of them. We have to tackle a lot better on defense. We have to play better in the third quarter offensively. That’s kind of where we have not really improved a whole lot of, but I think the building blocks are there. What we are trying to emphasis on this football team? I think those things are coming to fruition. Young players make mistakes and so do old players. We really talked about the mental errors and if we can clean those things up, then we will have a chance to win some of these games that are one score. A lot of it has to do with a series of plays that we make them or not. If you don’t, you come on the bad side of it.”
ON STANFORD'S DNA CHANGING…
“I think its changed in a sense that they have been down in the first quarter when you look at there numbers. They have only scored two touchdowns in the first quarter and given up 38 points, so they have been a little behind, with that being said, in the second quarter they seem to catch up. The third quarter is when they all sudden take control of the game. That’s when they outscore there opponent by about 47 points, then the fourth quarter not so much because now they are running the ball again because they are playing the clock so when you look at there possessions they possess the ball only about 11 times a game. They are slow, they are methodical but they have improved in the passing game. They have some big receivers and they use their tight ends very well. They are hard to cover, they are physical guys. They have some good receivers as well and (Bryce) Love has been in and out of the mix so that has kind of slowed them down some. He is well now, so we have our hands full now.”
ON STATUS OF N’KEAL HARRY…
“He has been practicing so we anticipate everyone on deck. It’s a big game for us – Thursday night, ESPN game. I think players like playing under the spotlight of national attention, especially good players. They enjoy the spotlight. They don’t run to the shade, they love the lights and so knowing N’Keal and the guys that have been a little nicked up. I thought the bye came at a good time for us because we have some guys that are nicked up but, everyone is nicked up. The only people that aren’t nicked up is the coaches because we don’t play. If you play football, you are going to have some bumps and bruises and that’s part of it.”
ON SELF SCOUTING OF FOOTBALL TEAM...
“Everyone does this, I know we do it in the league all the time. I think in college football you have the same ability to do that. You basically go back to what you have called as a coordinator and your calls kind of pile up after six games. What are your first down runs? What are you first down passes? What are your third down calls in these situations? How do you attack the red zone? So situational football becomes a part of your self-scout and you look at that. You evaluate the players. Every player was graded and evaluated on our football team by position. Winning performance, losing performance, every game that is on the list. I have it. How many plays every player played? All those things come into the process of how you evaluate your football team halfway and from there you get together as a staff and say, okay how do we improve as a team? How can we improve individually? So all those things are talked about. I think we took some good information out of there. I changed practicing a little bit so we can get into some of those situations that we need to improve, whether it was red zone, third downs – backed up, when we are backed up. In other words, when we are backed up in minus 15, minus 10 we don’t do a good enough job of getting ourselves out of there. We end up punting and same way defensively. We have some teams backed up - we let them out. Plus 40 we are really good. We get inside of the plus 40 we find a way to score points, were are in a pretty good flow of some things. All those things you look at and you evaluate it and you first ask yourself, is it the call or is it the player? That’s the question you have to ask and if it’s the player then, you say, are we putting the player in the position to succeed? If we ask him to do some things he’s not capable of doing then that’s coaching. Those are the things you look at. I think when we have a good feel of what are plus/minus are, I think you want to disguise your flaws, that’s what football is about – don’t let them attack your flaws. Don’t be in a position where you have to play that way and sometimes teams get you there and that’s never a fun way to play football.”
ON THIRD DOWN DEFENSE…
“A lot of things have happened whether its rush, whether it’s not properly in the right areas when we are covering people and sometimes they were better. There is a reality to that too. Sometimes the guy is just better and there is nothing you can do about that because that is ball. The guy was better than you on that play. You look at all of that and it all starts, it has to be a coordinated effort. Coverage and rush go together. It is a sequence. The killing part for me is that when you get them in 3rd and 7 or more, you have to make them punt. That’s not the case at times. We have let some guys get out and then the drives continue. It’s about not allowing to drive when you get them in third down because that is the down. When you get to 3rd and 7 or more defensively you are feeling like, ‘Okay let’s get off the field guys’ and that has not been the case so we have to improve on that.”
ON JJ WILSON AND MALIK LAWAL INJURY STATUS…
“JJ (Wilson) is still coming through his ankle, he’s still trying to get ready to try to play. At this point, he’s not ready. (Malik) Lawal is okay. He was kind of in and out today a little bit. I anticipate him playing.”
ON HOW THIRD QUARTER WOES CAN BE ADDRESSED...
“Offensively, it is not sustaining drives. Defensively, it is giving up a big play or whatever it may be. We have got to do a better job of coming out, jumping on teams, and scoring in the third quarter. We are pretty good in the first quarter. We are lights out in the fourth quarter. That is because we are in a mode of sense of urgency when we are behind. I think there has to be a better sense of urgency on third down. For offense, it is hard because it is all about possessing the ball. If you do not possess it enough and you go three-and-out, it is frustrating. You have got to move the ball early in the third quarter especially if you possess it the first time coming out of the half. It is important to change the field. You would hate to get the ball at the 25, go three-and-out, and now you punt. They can get the ball with pretty good field position. You would want to get the ball to the 40 or 45 and if you stall out, then you punt it and pin it down inside the ten. Maybe you would be able to get the ball back with good field position for yourself. We have got to do a better job of that.”
ON MATCHING STANFORD’S METHODICAL DRIVES...
“They are methodical and so are we. They average 11 possessions per game and we average 10 possessions per game, so you could get a quick game. If you blink, it might be over because both teams are very methodical. We can speed it up and they can speed it up as well, but I think it has a lot to do with the running game and how they try to play. For us, we are methodical in a sense, but I think we are explosive too and I think that is where we have to capitalize. We have made a lot of explosive plays whether it is running or passing. I would like more possessions and that has a lot to do with third down. If we convert on third down, we get more possessions. If not, we would be where we are at right now. We would like to be around 13 possessions. That would be kind of nice if we can get up to that number for us because our time of possession would be a little bit better. We would be running about 80 plays, which would be great because you can protect your defense by keeping them off the field. It helps you, so we have got to convert on third downs. I think Stanford is the same way. They are not very good on third downs either and that is why they are at 11 possessions per game and we are at 10 possessions per game.”
ON SUCCESS OF BALL SECURITY THIS SEASON...
“We have been pretty good at not turning the ball over. But we have not done a good enough job at taking the ball away. We have a defense that stresses that. Actually, every defense stresses that. But, you want to take the ball away. We have only got three interceptions and we have got some fumbles. We have some sacks, which is nice, but you want to create possessions. That is another way to create possessions. That is another way to get the offense the ball. If you get to about two takeaways per game, they can have two more possessions. All of a sudden, instead of having 10 possessions, we would be possessing the ball 12 times. When the opportunity presents itself, we have to get on the ball and find a way to catch the ball. During the six last days, we have done a lot of ball drills with the defensive backs catching the ball. Speaking as a former defender, I think there is a knock on defensive players that they can not catch. I am never going to admit that they can not because I always felt as if I could catch the ball pretty good. Sometimes when you do not throw them the ball in practice or set up drills for them to play the ball, then they do not have a feel for it. Some of these guys are former high school running backs or wide receivers. The joke as a defensive player is that they used to be wide receivers, but they could not catch, so they were put on defense. I think you have to do drills that allow them to go after the ball. I am really big on attacking the football as a defender. I have always said that when the ball leaves the quarterback’s hands, it does not belong to the offense. It has no one’s name on it. You have to be confident enough to play the ball. I see that in football in general that most guys are not confident. They do not play the ball, they play the man. When you have the ability to play the ball, you have to play the ball. You have to put them in position and do drills. We have really worked hard on it this whole week. I have been with the secondary every day. I have emphasized that with them. Hopefully, it will come to fruition and we will catch a few balls.”
ON STOPPING A FULLY HEALTHY BRYCE LOVE...
“We have got to tackle him and not let him get outside because if he gets outside, we are not catching him. He can run fast. It is going to take a total defense to do that. We have to be gap control responsible and we have to understand that because he is a guy that has tremendous vision. He can start one way, but if he sees any kind of daylight another way, he is gone. He is a tremendous running back. There is no doubt about it and we have to tackle him. It is going to take more than one guy. We have done a lot of work this week against the run. With that being said, these 6'5, 6'7 receivers bother me because they throw it up to them, even if you are covering them. They do not care. They will hope that their guy will out jump your guy. If they do that, they win because they just out jumped us. Utah did a nice job of turning to the receiver and playing the ball. I wish I could make everybody jump 43’ verticals, but not everybody has a 43’ vertical. If you are covering a 6’7 guy and you are only 5’11, that is not good. We better get a rush and better find a way to play the ball because if not they will catch balls even when we are right in there faces. They do it every week, so that is what we have to try to defend.”
ON N’KEAL HARRY PLAYING ON PUNT RETURNS...
“As long as a guy does not come from the sideline and tackle him. The guy made a play. He found his way on the field and we have to be smart enough to block the guy. We did the same thing the other way. If we blocked the guy that came in and tackled him, N’Keal would have scored because there was no one over there.”
ON HANDLING MOMENTUM SWINGS WITH YOUNG PLAYERS...
“Yeah, it will be interesting. You have to get them focused on the task at hand. I love emotion. It is an emotional game. I love guys that get emotional, but the emotion can not get the best of them where all of a sudden a series of plays affects them. That’s what happens when you are dealing with young guys. It is not just young guys. We have got some veteran guys that get a little emotional too. It is okay as long as you let it out on the sideline, get it out of your system, and go back on the grass and perform. You can not take it onto the grass with you because then you are not focused in on your job. As a former player, I could talk as good as all of them, but I knew once I lined up I had to focus on the job now because when you are playing out there as a corner, you would be one pass away from being on the wrong side of the highlight tape. I understood that, but that was my mentality. You have to have a certain mechanism takes you from one place to another. Every guy is different. That is what some guys struggle with sometimes.”
ON SPREADING OUT TOUCHES ON OFFENSE...
“It is hard because you have so many explosive players you want to get the ball to. If you feel like you are running it well with Eno (Benjamin), then you might want to take a shot. We also have to keep N’Keal (Harry) involved because he is our number one player on offense. (Frank) Darby and the auxiliary players are a part of it too. Offense is hard because you play with the ball. If you go three-and-out, someone is not touching the ball. I always tell them that if you want to touch the ball, go get a first down. If you go nine or ten plays, everyone will have a chance to touch the ball. Sometimes, you can take the guy out of a mix receiver-wise if you take him out. That is why you have to move guys like N’Keal around so that they can not consistently roll up on him or bracket him. So, we have got to consistently move him around. With that being said, he has to be smart enough to line up in five different positions. That just comes with the territory when you are a player like that. When you possess the ball and go on long periods of drives, then we become very good on offense because when you watch us play. If we can go on those seven, ten play drives, it is fun for me to watch on the sideline because we are in a flow and you can just see it. Defenses have to react to that. They have to think who is going to get the ball and what are they going to do. That is part of the process of playing offense and it is hard when you do not have enough plays.”