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COLORADO BUFFALO FOOTBALL / POSTGAME QUOTES Page 1-A Colorado Buffaloes (1-0, 1-0 Pac-12) vs. UCLA Bruins (0-1, 0-1 Pac-12), Folsom Field, Boulder, Colo. (November 7, 2020)

Colorado Head Coach couple of coverage mistakes in the second half. We will fix those things. We have a young secondary and will continue Karl Dorrell to work and get them better.” “I am very pleased with the performance of Sam in his first start. I thought our defense created those turnovers early Opening Statement that we capitalized on. It was a good start to the season. It “I am very proud of this football team. It was a pretty good was a W. Obviously, there are some things to fix but I will performance for the most part. We had some mishaps in the take it.” second half that need to be addressed and I’m sure we will get a chance to fix those things. I like how they came out to On The Team’s Confidence play and really controlled the first flow of the game. It was “They should feel confident that they can win and win a lot really good to see that. (We had) a couple of special teams of games. We won our first one so that is a big bonus for us. plays that got us, offensively, going on a hot streak. I felt We won the game without playing our best football. It was offensively we played well for most of the game, if not all the a good start, and we did a better job offensively. We had a game. We put a lot of points on the board and a lot of yards. great first half with our defense. We need to get some things I am very happy about Jarek Broussard. I mentioned that to addressed in some other areas. We had some issues in our you guys prior to announcing he was our starter this game. special teams. We had two blocked field goals. There is a lot I am just so proud of what he was able to do. You guys had of work to do but we should feel confident that we can do a chance to see what he was doing for us in training camp those things properly. We still have a lot of things we can prior to the season. He was doing the same type of runs and sure up, fix and get dressed before we get into Stanford.” the same type of things that you saw today. I am really excited about him and really excited about Sam (Noyer).” On Sam Noyer As A Dual-Threat Sam is a very competitive player. I am not surprised that he “Sam had a really solid start. He played really well and is able to make some plays with his feet. He is a really good played competitive. He made some nice plays with his feet athlete. He was a safety a year ago. Can you believe that? He and with his arm. He wasn’t completely perfect, but he is a very strong competitor. I think a lot of our players rally knows we had a few plays that we could have maybe around him with his effort and what he does. It makes capitalized on. That was a really, really good start for him everybody play more inspired, particularly on the offensive on his first start of his career. The offensive line played side. When you talk to him, he is going to say there were a really well. They protected him well and we ran for over 200 few plays that he could have made that might have given us yards. There were no sacks. We did some really good things an even bigger lead. It was a great start for him. He played from that standpoint.” well, took care of the football, and made some plays with his feet. I think he is going to continue to get better as the “Defensively, we had a really good first half, held them to season unfolds. I am sure he is going to enjoy it but he seven points and had a few turnovers and we capitalized on knows there are some things left on the plate.” those turnovers. I was very happy with what that looked like but definitely a change in the second half. They were On K James Stefanou more aggressive and started exploring our secondary a little “There was a little bit of a nick with James. He had some bit. We are going to need to get all of those things fixed but issues that we felt we had to make a change and we were we hung on. Our guys found a way to win and a way to score able to do that with Evan (Price). Evan has had some more points in the second half when things got close and got experience. It is good to have two kickers in our program within seven. We found a way to just hang in there. It says a that have had some playing experience. Evan had a lot of lot about this team. They didn’t give up. They kept fighting that experience last year and he came in and did a solid job. and they hung on for a victory. I am very proud of them.” That is an area we will continue to work on and try to get better at. Our field goal protection with two blocks is not On Scoring 48 Points good. We need to really address that and make that a “We knew playing against a third-year starter at nonissue for us as we move forward.” quarterback that we would have to put some points on the board. Dorian (Thompson-Robinson) is a very good player as you guys saw tonight. He can make plays with his feet and his arm. He got hot in the second half. It was really a challenge for us defensively. We knew that points on the board was going to be important. I didn’t know we were going to be able to score 48 but we did a nice job in doing that. Defensively, we kind of got caught a little bit. We had a COLORADO BUFFALO FOOTBALL / POSTGAME QUOTES Page 1-B Colorado Buffaloes (1-0, 1-0 Pac-12) vs. UCLA Bruins (0-1, 0-1 Pac-12), Folsom Field, Boulder, Colo. (November 7, 2020)

Colorado Head Coach Karl Dorrell (Cont.)

On WR K.D. Nixon “He is close to 100-percent. He probably could have played if we wanted him to. It is just the start of the season and he has missed some time in training camp. We didn’t want to put him out there when he is not completely prepared to do that. We are hopeful this week. He has a great mindset about getting himself back as quickly as he can. We just didn’t feel like this was the game for him to come back yet.”

On Emotions Coaching Against UCLA “It wasn’t an emotional moment for me until the end of the game for our players. I am just so proud of them and what they accomplished today. It gives us a start to recognize that we are an up-and-coming program. We didn’t have many practices to get ready for a season, had no spring and a new quarterback. It tells you a lot about our coaches and how hard they worked and how hard our players worked to create the production that you saw today. There is a lot that we are looking forward to moving into the future. I am proud of these players. For me personally, I haven't been on UCLA’s sideline in over 13 years. I have been at four or five different stops since then. There wasn’t any emotional reaction, from my standpoint, because of me being an alumnus there. We are going to be playing UCLA every year in the south division. It is all about taking care of business and taking care of the things that are right in front of you and going onto the next one. The next one is Stanford, and we have to get ready for that one.”

On Broussard And Noyer “(There is) perseverance for sure for Broussard. He hasn’t played in a while and for him to have the game he had and the confidence in how hard he ran, that just tells you a lot about what I’ve expressed to you guys in training camp. He was having a great camp and was so consistent, so effective, and so efficient. You saw all of that today. With Sam, this is definitely vindication for him. He believed he was a quarterback but did a team, unselfish thing a year ago when he moved to safety. Finally, he is back playing a position he has wanted to play from the very beginning. For him to play the type of game he played today in his first start, I am very proud of him too. Both of those guys had well deserved accolades for their first performance.”

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UCLA Head Coach Chip Kelly On if they felt unprepared for CU’s run game “No, it was the same offense they ran a year ago. It was the same offense and same defense that they've run. Darrin On if he saw anything in the defense that could’ve Chiaverini, the coordinator, kind of did the same things that helped their chances he was doing before. But again, we put our defense in bad “I think we put our defense in some adverse situations in situations so I can't look at that part of it and say, ‘Hey, we the first half. We dug too deep a hole in the first half to be didn't come up where we needed to come up’. I think able to come back when you’re down 35-14 at half. We got they're obviously going to run the ball a lot more because to do a better job securing the football. I thought our they were up the way they were up when the lead was so defense started off well. We forced them into a punt, but big. They're trying to work clock and they ran the ball then we turned the punt over and gave a short field. probably more than they thought they were gonna run the There’re things we can build on. I thought there were some ball coming into it. But we need to improve on that.” newcomers and new players that flashed and did some really good things for us. We need to continue to grow and On if he’s considered using Dorian Thompson-Robinson get better.” as a running option more “Yeah, I think we did that tonight. Sometimes I think the On if the big deficit felt familiar score dictated we were throwing more. Some of the throws “I don't think anything about 2020 feels familiar.” off the back foot are necessary because he couldn't step through. We've got a rush and they got a pretty good third On how to account for this start in the season down package and blitz package that they've run and bring “I think it's one game. I talked about that, I mean it's not people from different angles and people at him so that's anything more than we turned the ball over too many times, understandable. Obviously, we'd like to be a little bit more and we need to rectify that. You're not going to win games balanced. We always want to be able to run the football and when you have four turnovers in the first half. That's what obviously he's a he's a threat in the run game.” this league is all about and we've got to do a better job coaching.” On turnovers still being a problem in his third year at UCLA On if the early turnovers changed the game plan “I don't think the year has anything to do with it. If it was “I don't know if it really took us out of our game plan, but it year one or year 40. Penalties and turnovers are things that just put us into a little bit more hurry up. I still think we you can’t do if you're trying to win football games in this were able to run the ball. Dorian (Thompson-Robinson) had league. I don't think that the context of the year has a big long run right at the beginning of the second half for a anything to do with it. You need to clean up and win the touchdown. Felton had one for a touchdown. But we turnover battle. We also have to be able to stay away from probably threw the ball a little bit more than anybody wants the self-inflicted wounds. The offsides on the defense to to throw it. I think when you're behind 21 you’re going to keep drives alive and things like that. It seemed like there throw the ball.” was a lot of flags on both sides tonight. It was not a very clean game by any stretch of the imagination, and I think On Dorian Thompson-Robinson’s performance you talk about it, but we need to continue to drill it and work “I think like everybody there's a lot of positives you can on it.” build on. Obviously, mounting the comeback that we did, there were a lot of positive things there. But it's a matter of everything. You got to look at the whole game and how do we clean up what happened to us in the first half and build on what happened to us in the second half.”

On who stood out tonight “Obviously, I thought Qwuantrezz Knight was around the ball and doing some really good things for us on the defensive side of the ball. JonJon Vaughns showed up a few times and made some plays. We'll look at the rest of the tape and see things, but those are some guys on the defensive side that caught my eye.”

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teams now, and so we're just we're just excited to play. I mean Colorado Players I think you saw that with some of the energy on the sidelines tonight. It's just great to be back out there and I can speak for QB Sam Noyer my whole team, when I say that. ON HIS PLAY - “It felt great, getting my first start under my belt and getting the win, it was a fun game for sure. There are some ON DEFENSE-“I think they're gonna clean up the small things we need to clean up for sure, but overall a great mistakes that they had. Just like we will on offense, but I mean experience. Obviously, it's our new norm playing in front of it's important to capitalize in those in those situations, and you 900 people rather than 55,000 and that takes getting used to know we got however many turnovers we had on defense. The but you know, we continue to preach that nothing changes and defense side of ball did a great job and you know we got to go we have been putting in a lot of work during the week to be down there and score every single time so that's one thing you prepared and I think you saw that tonight.” know we're gonna work on and get better at. That’s just capitalizing a little bit more in those situations when our ON FIRST START- “I’ve learned under two great quarterbacks, defense gives us the ball in great field position. Sefo (Liufau) and Steven (Montez) and some guys on the defensive side last year. There were some jitters but with a S Derrion Rakestraw great offensive line and weapons we have, it really helps and ON DEFENSE ISSUES – “We just had to make a couple made me feel a lot more comfortable out there. corrections, there were a couple missed assignments, but it was nothing major. It was nothing that we couldn’t fix. Going ON PUTTING UP POINTS WITHOUT NIXON AND FONTENOT- in next week we’ve got to be keyed in on those kinds of things, “I would say we would put more up. We left a lot of points out and we are going to continue to get better. This was a good there tonight and we have some things we need to clean up. I first win.” mean if a guy goes down, it's the next man up and that’s the mentality that we have. Jarek did a great job coming out here ON SETTING EARLY TONE-“It was huge, we have been tonight.” stressing that all week, that we want to go out and set the tone. The takeaways are something that we have been ON RUNNING THE BALL - “I’d like to say (running) is part of working on all of camp. We have been working at punching my brand. When Coach (Dorrell) called me to get me back here, the ball, trying to get the ball out, and trying to get takeaways. that’s one thing he wanted me to do (utilize my legs) and I think It was good to see that translate onto the field today.” you saw that tonight. As far as my health, I feel great. I mean obviously I played safety last year so I’m kind of used to the ON 4 th DOWN STOP-“That was huge, and it was crazy because hitting at this point and I have to be smarter in some Nate Landman was telling us that he was going to go in there situations.” and make a play. I think that he was the one who made that play so it was crazy to see that happen. That was huge for us ON OFFENSIVE WEAPONS – “It's awesome. It just makes you we needed it. feel so much more comfortable back there in the pocket knowing that I can go through my full progression knowing if ON TYSON SUMMERS MESSAGE-“On game day coach (Tyson) he's not open then I can get to my next guy and he'll make a Summers is always pretty chill. He just got us to the sideline play. And knowing that my offensive line will do a great job of and got us corrected. It was really just the missed keeping me protected, and I think that happened tonight and assignments, and guys not being where they need to be, and you know I think you're gonna continue to see that happen. those are easy fixes for us. And once we get those things And like I said there's some things that we need to clean up, but corrected, we can just go onto the next week.” overall, I just love the guys that we have, and like I said we have a next man mentality and everybody's ready. It's great having ON PUTTING OFFENSE IN GOOD FIELD POSITION-“That’s those weapons for sure. huge to be able to put the offense in good field position. That’s why we stress it on punt, we want to pin them deep. ON EMOTIONS OF STARTING-“It felt amazing. You know, I just We needed the takeaways down in their territory, so that was wanted this opportunity from the start. And I finally got it in, great. and that's all I could ask for. I mean I’ve got to continue to get better and there's things I need to continue to do to get better. ON CHRIS MILLER, ISAIAH LEWIS-“They played great, Chris But overall, I mean it's just, it was a great opportunity. UCLA is Miller is an athletic freak so he’s always going to be able to go a great team and I tip my hat to them. They fought back and out there and make some great plays. Isaiah Lewis has been they showed resilience, and so I think it was just overall a great waiting on his time, so it was good to see him go out there and night and it just feels good to get the W under our belt. do some good things. Those two guys are going to continue to get better. ON TEAM PLAY WITH UNCERTAINTY-“Guys are just excited to be back out there playing ball. A couple months ago we didn't know if we would get this opportunity. So, guys feel very happy to be back out there playing, and you know, not just playing against black and gold jerseys, but we're playing against other COLORADO BUFFALO FOOTBALL / POSTGAME QUOTES Page 3-B Colorado Buffaloes (1-0, 1-0 Pac-12) vs. UCLA Bruins (0-1, 0-1 Pac-12), Folsom Field, Boulder, Colo. (November 7, 2020)

Colorado Players (Cont.)

LB Carson Wells CB Christian Gonzalez ON THE WIN-“It felt good. We got out to a hot start early, ON FIRST START-“I feel I played alright, could have done got a little rough there at the end but we were able to finish better. But looking back at everything, we got the first one it.” under the belt. I’m excited about that for sure.

ON THE INTERCEPTION-“I actually messed up. I shouldn’t ON DIFFERENCE FROM HS-“Honestly, not really, especially have even been there, but, it happens. I got lucky on that. I with the crowd. I’m from Texas so I am used to big crowds should’ve had that second one, I should have had it.” at every game. The game was a little faster but in terms of ON THE IMPORTANT STOPS-“It was all about the just going out and playing it’s just about the same as high turnovers.” school.”

ON IMPROVING-“We have got to limit the bus. Too many big ON CREATING ENERGY-“Coach told us last week that plays. We left two guys wide open for touch downs, two there’s not going to be that many fans so we have to come screens, we shouldn’t have let that happen. out and just bring our own energy. We created it in the locker room then took it out on the field.”

TE Brady Russell

ON BEING BACK PLAYING-“It’s incredible. I’ve been waiting to play another opponent.” TB Jarek Broussard ON THE WIN “This really means a lot to us and what we had ON HAVING SAM NOYER IN THE GAME-“Shoot, everything. to go through with the coronavirus and getting They’re bomb. They carried us for sure. It was fun blocking cancelled/paused, it felt really good to come out here and for Sam because he was running the ball well. It was get the win tonight” awesome.” ON HIS O-LINE- “Shout out to my hogs, they really did a ON IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED-“There’s lots to improve on. good job tonight opening a bunch of holes.” If you execute every play right, you’re hitting 70. There’s always little details that the crowd might not notice but we ON OVERCOMING INJURIES- “All those experiences I use as notice for sure and we are going to fix those in meetings and motivation for me honestly. hopefully come back better next week.” ON SAM NOYER-“Early in the game we told each other that ON HIS GAME-“I had an alright game; I always have high we had to depend on each other and you know we just got expectations. I played well but I could have done better. I’ll comfortable” fix my mistakes too and get back out there.” ON TURNOVERS “We all feed off one another, so you know OL Kary Kutsch when the defense is making big plays, it brings momentum to the offense. It makes it a lot easier to put it in the ON NOYER AND BROUSSARD- “Both looked really solid endzone” (Sam and Jared). You can’t really ask much more than that.” ON HIS HEALTH-“I’m good. I’m a little nicked up but I mean ON O-LINE CONFIDENCE-“Nothing’s ever perfect. The if we had to go another quarter, I would've been out there.” numbers say we did pretty well in the end, but there’s always things we got to fix. Overall, we are pretty happy ON IMPROVEMENTS TO BE MADE-“Sure, there is always with it.” room to improve, but we came out, got a win and we’ll be back next week.” ON CREATING OWN ENERGY-“I think we are all just so close just because of quarantine and everything so we just have a ON PLAYING IN FRONT OF LIMITED FANS -“I came into the certain internal energy among us. We just all have to keep game like football is football, you still have to show up and going together.” do your job and that's what I did.”

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UCLA Players LB Bo Calvert ON WHAT WAS SAID TO THE TEAM LEADING UP TO THE SECOND HALF-"Yeah I mean I think the whole team was QB Dorian Thompson-Robinson together, obviously it's the season opener, first game, it's ON HOW THE EARLY TURNOVERS HURT THE TEAM"-Yeah, the first live reps you're getting for a long period of time. I mean, anytime that will hurt right? Coach told us this Obviously there are a lot of jitters and nerves you're going statistic from the NFL, if you have two or more turnovers to have, especially in a season like this. Everything is new, you might as well go home. It's hard to turn the ball over we haven't experienced this stuff yet, so I think you saw a and win the game. What Coach told us after the game, we lot of that in the first half, a lot of mistakes. A lot of things got ourselves in a hole, but couldn't get ourselves out." that are obviously easily correctable and you know, what we can fix. So that is a positive thing but coming into the ON HOW THE TEAM CAME OUT AND PLAYED BETTER IN second half, like you mentioned, people were able to come THE SECOND HALF-"Coach made some great in-game in more relaxed, a lot more realizing that it's just a regular adjustments. We saw what the base looks were going to be, game and things slow down." so we could make adjustments on that. Really just the players coming together as one, you know we have to play ON HOW THE DEFENSE OVERCOMES THE CHALLENGE OF one play at a time. So just doing that and executing." FOUR TURNOVERS IN THE FIRST HALF- "I think you just have to find shelter, you know, against the ON IF HE WAS TIRED TOWARD THE END OF THE GAME- wind right there, you just have to lean into it, there is "You can never put an estimate on your stats, or how many nothing you can do about it at that point. A lot of it is not in times you're going to get the ball, so whatever it took to win our control but we have to make the best of every is what I was going to do. In terms of being fatigued, I was situation. I think the most reassuring thing is seeing that not fatigued. They had a good defensive line, they put a lot guys were not willing to give up easily and I saw that in the of pressure on me and so I was getting hit around a little bit second half, we'll fight to the very end. I just wish we were for the first time in a while." able to do that in the first half."

ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE FIRST HALF ON THE EMERGENCE OF NEW COLORADO RB- OFFENSE AND SECOND HALF-"Yeah I mean I think just "I think we made him look a lot better than he was but we coming together as one offensive unit. Again, just playing did know some things coming into the game. That other for each other, playing for the defense and all that stuff so starters might have been injured but obviously coming just coming together as one and just playing each play." into the first game, like I mentioned before, is the first time that you're full go for the whole game, for 60 minutes. ON THE UNFAMILIAR SITUATION LEADING UP TO Seeing that beginning obviously having a hard run game TONIGHT-"Yeah, I mean, we haven't played against a live and having to stop that. Some things are just because it's opponent most of the year. You see it around the country, the first game, but I think we'll be better coming into week guys making mistakes early on and even later on in season 2." too, so it's definitely a tough year. It's different, different from any other year. You just have to go out there and again, ON IF THE MISSING CROWD NOISE HELPED THE just play each play and execute each plan into place." DEFENSE AT ALL-"Not really, no, because you know you can hear everything that everyone is saying. So if they ON WHAT TO SAY TO YOUR DEFENSE AFTER 4 make a check, we can hear that and check right back. You TURNOVERS-"Its not us going up to them, it's them going up know what I mean, so I don't think there's really any to us, letting us know that we got their backs and vise versa. advantage offensively or defensively. It just becomes sort It's definitely a brotherhood around here, and you can of a different game." definitely see that on the field."