catmandoo
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posted 04-29-2014 10:17 PM
There is little doubt that years team is better but still need to get even better.
Brown had to say after Saturday’s game:
Question: How did this spring compare to last spring?
Brown: “Well, we’re a lot better. We know what to do. We’re more talented. We talked about this yesterday: We’re not where we need to be. We need more talent. I think that’s obvious. We did run the ball decent. But I think as we get more talent. So we are better — fundamentally, we’re better. I’m eager to see if those fundamentals translate when people are in the stands.”
Question: Is the running game the offense’s strength now?
Brown: “I don’t know if we had a strength or not. We weren’t very good. I’ve been pretty honest with you all on that. We weren’t very good last year. We were maybe a little better than they had been but still not very good. We got to have something to hang our hat on. I think right now we’re pretty good at running the ball, and our play action game is pretty good. We hit a couple big play-action plays today.”
Question: Is it worrisome when trying to install the ‘Air Raid’ to have so few receivers?
Brown: “We’ve talked about this: our receiver situation a year ago this time was dire. You look back, four of our top five guys didn’t even go through spring last year, so that was a major concern. We are better. By no means do we have it fixed, but we are better. The young guys that played – (Jeff) Badet went through most of the spring then got hurt, Ryan Timmons is much, much improved. He’s got to get in shape, but he’s much, much improved. Jeff Badet is much improved. I would have loved for Javess Blue to get out there, but obviously he couldn’t.
“Now, the young guys, maybe they can come in here and win a job. But if not, now they’re not forced to be starters. Those guys last year, they didn’t have a choice. We didn’t have anybody else. You know what I mean? They didn’t have a choice. So now the guys can come in here, they’ll compete – the Dorian Bakers, the Garrett Johnsons, those type of guys. They can come in here and they can compete. If they don’t win the job, they can be solid backups. You know? Cause it’s hard to play as a true freshman. And then a year from now hopefully we’re getting our depth. Going into the 2015 (season) we’ll have our numbers where they need to be for this style of offense.”
Question: How did the first-team offensive line play?
Brown: “We put (redshirt freshman Kyle) Meadows in there. I wanted to get him – it’s important. He was the one that gave up the one sack, but I thought they protected well. They made some good holes. I thought it was important that we got him in there with the ones. He played better, he played better after his first series. He was a little nervous. But those guys — we’re going to lean on those guys. I’m excited about Ramsey Meyers, I’m excited about Jon Toth. Zach West is much improved. Then our tackles I think are legitimately really good players.”
Question: Was he pleased with the pace of the offense?
Brown: “Yeah, well early I really tried to go fast early. I thought we got on the ball and we moved pretty swiftly. But we didn’t have any guys rotate on either team at wideout, so they got gassed. In the second half, we just tried to take it slow and get out of here without people getting hurt.”
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