Georgia Post-Game Quotes - Georgia vs. Troy
September 20, 2014 | Football
Sept. 20, 2014
Opening Statement...
""It's always nice to give guys a chance to play. We had a massive amount of guys get in. Guys got in and guys made plays. We played a bunch."
"I want to say thank you to our fans. The Dog Walk was outstanding, the students were in their seats in numbers in presume, the Redcoat Band, the cheerleaders, they all did their part. When we got started, they were all there ready to go."
"Now we've got to turn our attention to conference play with Tennessee. It's hard to get the feeling after South Carolina out of your system quite frankly. This helps a little bit, but we've got to play a conference game and get a victory to get back on track. Hopefully we'll be up for the task."
"It's always nice to get a shutout and it's always nice to score a lot of points."
"The greatest thing that happened today was the play on both the offensive and defensive lines. The offensive line created space for the runners and gave the quarterbacks time to throw. The defensive line took care of business and made it hard for them to run the ball. It was a really good performance."
TB Sony Michel
On his big day...
"It was awesome to just get a chance to come out and win again. We just want to win. The stats will come but it's the win that matters most."
On the game plan for today
"We were just going out there to execute. We wanted to start fast and finish strong. We really wanted to emphasize starting fast and maintaining. I think we accomplished that today. It was a good win."
QB Hutson Mason
On today's game...
"Today was all about just taking care of business. We wanted to come out and move on from last week and just execute. The maturity of this team was really great all around. There were no lasting emotions from the South Carolina game. It was good to play our best and move on."
On not throwing an interception through the first three games of the season...
"It's really more about making good decisions and putting in the preparation in the film room compared to accuracy. I think this speaks more about my work in the film room and knowing where to go with the ball before the play. If you know where you're going before the snap then you know it's going to be a completion and not an interception."
OLB Jordan Jenkins
On his sack...
"It feels like a little bit of a weight off my shoulders. It was one of my better sacks too. I didn't think I was going to get to [Troy QB Dontreal Pruitt] because he had been getting rid of the ball early all game. But it was a good hard hit and I'm just ready to go out and get some more."
On using this performance as confidence moving forward through SEC play...
"I think we can carry this and compete in SEC play if we all click. If we execute our game plan to the best of our abilities it's definitely possible."
S Tramel Terry
On the defense needing a game like this to gain more confidence...
"I feel like we needed to correct some mistakes that we didn't do last game. I felt like this game helped us a lot with the forced turnover and being aggressive."
On the shutout...
"We don't worry about what the scoreboard says. We just take it play by play. That's really what Coach Pruitt has tried to instill in us this year. We just have to go out and execute and we did a good job of that today."
Troy Post-Game Quotes
Troy Head Coach Larry Blakeney
On the game...
"I've been on the wrong side of one those one other time in my career. We got beat by a good team and we aren't very good, which is pretty obvious. Certainly nobody had us picked to win coming but I wish we could have played better and done a little better against Georgia. I think they have great personnel and they coach them good. They are pretty multiple on offense and they do a good job defensively. I think they can compete with anyone in their league. The SEC is very tough and I think Georgia can be competitive. What I am getting at is that we got beat by a good team. We would probably stack up about as well against other teams in that conference. We have work to do and painted a real scary picture of it today."
On Troy's mindset...
"We got a bunch of conference games left and we are 0-4. You can try all of your psychology or whatever to get through this but what it boils down to is the leadership on the team and on the coaching staff to see if we can over something like this. We need to get into trying to be winners in our conference and try to get back to a championship level in our conference. Those guys are pretty resilient most of the time, but we've taken four in a row and it's not been fun. I don't want to forget how it feels to win games."
On quarterback Dontreal Pruitt...
"We were so-so all day and couldn't put anything together. Dontreal wasn't bad but he wasn't great. He did better early than I thought he would do, but they (Georgia) seemed to get a book on us and showed him some things that he hadn't seen. He's a good player and can do some good things. He just has to make sure he gets his pre-snap and post-snap reads down and go to the right side. He can make throws and he can fit them in there, but he has to do a better job."
LB Mark Wilson
On how the team can put this loss behind them...
"Like coach was saying, we just look forward to [Louisiana] Monroe now. We put our eye on the prize and get ready for Monroe. Now we enter conference play and it's time to go to work. We'll go to work Sunday with Monroe on our mind. That's our number one concern right now, trying to win at Louisiana Monroe."
On his team's performance against the run...
"Our number one issue is that we weren't making tackles. We weren't wrapping up, including myself, and we missed quite a few tackles. Number two, we had a few misfits, which has been our issue this last week and the week before. This team was big on hitting the cut-back lane and that's one of the things that we have to get corrected because Georgia's running backs were able to find the cut-back lanes on us."
QB Dontreal Pruitt
On his team's struggle to score points...
"I feel like we have got to take advantage when we get down to the red zone. We've got to try and punch it in no matter who it is, whether that's Georgia, or next week ULM, we've got to be able to punch that ball in right there. They were a great team that made adjustments and we didn't capitalize."
On his emotions playing in front of the Georgia crowd...
"I just wanted to come out and be the leader that I know I am by giving the team a chance, putting us in great positions, and giving us a lot of energy on offense while trying to drive the ball against a great defense."
WR Chandler Worthy
On the conference play ahead...
"We've got to understand that we still have a lot of games in front of us and a chance to still go to a bowl game so the hope isn't lost. We've just got to dig deep for the rest of this season and see how bad we really want it."
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Opening Statement...
""It's always nice to give guys a chance to play. We had a massive amount of guys get in. Guys got in and guys made plays. We played a bunch."
"I want to say thank you to our fans. The Dog Walk was outstanding, the students were in their seats in numbers in presume, the Redcoat Band, the cheerleaders, they all did their part. When we got started, they were all there ready to go."
"Now we've got to turn our attention to conference play with Tennessee. It's hard to get the feeling after South Carolina out of your system quite frankly. This helps a little bit, but we've got to play a conference game and get a victory to get back on track. Hopefully we'll be up for the task."
"It's always nice to get a shutout and it's always nice to score a lot of points."
"The greatest thing that happened today was the play on both the offensive and defensive lines. The offensive line created space for the runners and gave the quarterbacks time to throw. The defensive line took care of business and made it hard for them to run the ball. It was a really good performance."
TB Sony Michel
On his big day...
"It was awesome to just get a chance to come out and win again. We just want to win. The stats will come but it's the win that matters most."
On the game plan for today
"We were just going out there to execute. We wanted to start fast and finish strong. We really wanted to emphasize starting fast and maintaining. I think we accomplished that today. It was a good win."
QB Hutson Mason
On today's game...
"Today was all about just taking care of business. We wanted to come out and move on from last week and just execute. The maturity of this team was really great all around. There were no lasting emotions from the South Carolina game. It was good to play our best and move on."
On not throwing an interception through the first three games of the season...
"It's really more about making good decisions and putting in the preparation in the film room compared to accuracy. I think this speaks more about my work in the film room and knowing where to go with the ball before the play. If you know where you're going before the snap then you know it's going to be a completion and not an interception."
OLB Jordan Jenkins
On his sack...
"It feels like a little bit of a weight off my shoulders. It was one of my better sacks too. I didn't think I was going to get to [Troy QB Dontreal Pruitt] because he had been getting rid of the ball early all game. But it was a good hard hit and I'm just ready to go out and get some more."
On using this performance as confidence moving forward through SEC play...
"I think we can carry this and compete in SEC play if we all click. If we execute our game plan to the best of our abilities it's definitely possible."
S Tramel Terry
On the defense needing a game like this to gain more confidence...
"I feel like we needed to correct some mistakes that we didn't do last game. I felt like this game helped us a lot with the forced turnover and being aggressive."
On the shutout...
"We don't worry about what the scoreboard says. We just take it play by play. That's really what Coach Pruitt has tried to instill in us this year. We just have to go out and execute and we did a good job of that today."
Troy Post-Game Quotes
Troy Head Coach Larry Blakeney
On the game...
"I've been on the wrong side of one those one other time in my career. We got beat by a good team and we aren't very good, which is pretty obvious. Certainly nobody had us picked to win coming but I wish we could have played better and done a little better against Georgia. I think they have great personnel and they coach them good. They are pretty multiple on offense and they do a good job defensively. I think they can compete with anyone in their league. The SEC is very tough and I think Georgia can be competitive. What I am getting at is that we got beat by a good team. We would probably stack up about as well against other teams in that conference. We have work to do and painted a real scary picture of it today."
On Troy's mindset...
"We got a bunch of conference games left and we are 0-4. You can try all of your psychology or whatever to get through this but what it boils down to is the leadership on the team and on the coaching staff to see if we can over something like this. We need to get into trying to be winners in our conference and try to get back to a championship level in our conference. Those guys are pretty resilient most of the time, but we've taken four in a row and it's not been fun. I don't want to forget how it feels to win games."
On quarterback Dontreal Pruitt...
"We were so-so all day and couldn't put anything together. Dontreal wasn't bad but he wasn't great. He did better early than I thought he would do, but they (Georgia) seemed to get a book on us and showed him some things that he hadn't seen. He's a good player and can do some good things. He just has to make sure he gets his pre-snap and post-snap reads down and go to the right side. He can make throws and he can fit them in there, but he has to do a better job."
LB Mark Wilson
On how the team can put this loss behind them...
"Like coach was saying, we just look forward to [Louisiana] Monroe now. We put our eye on the prize and get ready for Monroe. Now we enter conference play and it's time to go to work. We'll go to work Sunday with Monroe on our mind. That's our number one concern right now, trying to win at Louisiana Monroe."
On his team's performance against the run...
"Our number one issue is that we weren't making tackles. We weren't wrapping up, including myself, and we missed quite a few tackles. Number two, we had a few misfits, which has been our issue this last week and the week before. This team was big on hitting the cut-back lane and that's one of the things that we have to get corrected because Georgia's running backs were able to find the cut-back lanes on us."
QB Dontreal Pruitt
On his team's struggle to score points...
"I feel like we have got to take advantage when we get down to the red zone. We've got to try and punch it in no matter who it is, whether that's Georgia, or next week ULM, we've got to be able to punch that ball in right there. They were a great team that made adjustments and we didn't capitalize."
On his emotions playing in front of the Georgia crowd...
"I just wanted to come out and be the leader that I know I am by giving the team a chance, putting us in great positions, and giving us a lot of energy on offense while trying to drive the ball against a great defense."
WR Chandler Worthy
On the conference play ahead...
"We've got to understand that we still have a lot of games in front of us and a chance to still go to a bowl game so the hope isn't lost. We've just got to dig deep for the rest of this season and see how bad we really want it."
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