sign in sign up
<<
Home , Chip Kelly, Darrin Chiaverini, Mike MacIntyre

COLORADO BUFFALO FOOTBALL / POSTGAME QUOTES Page 1-A Colorado Buffaloes (4-0, 1-0 Pac-12) vs. UCLA Bruins (0-4, 0-1 Pac-12), , Boulder, Colo. (September 28, 2018) Colorado three in a row. The is a great athlete and got outside of him one time. [OLB] Drew (Lewis) is doing really Mike MacIntyre well. [Buff] Davion (Taylor) is starting to really flash. Those General two guys can really run and I think you’ll kind of keep seeing “I thought UCLA is extremely talented and I think their that. They are starting to really get comfortable, see things, quarterback is going to be really good. He is getting better and understand things. Drew can fly. He is a 4.4 guy. Davion and better. I thought our defensive staff did a good job of is a 4.4 guy. They are 225 pounds. They are athletic. They putting pressure on him tonight. I thought in the second are really starting to understand it. As the season goes on, I half, the offense and the defense really made just good think they will make more and more plays.” adjustments at half time. I saw some things they were doing On WR Laviska Shenault Jr. a little different in a week off and corrected and did an “We’re doing a good job with it. There will be some games excellent job. Hats go off to our coaching staff. I thought our and there were some things that happened tonight, where kids came out in the second half and kept playing and they were doubling him and Steven (QB ) playing. This group of young men, they have done it twice saw it and went other places. It also opened up some things now. They just don’t really blink. They are really calm. They for us in the run game. Steven is able to see it. Chev (Co- keep playing. They are a physical group. They believe in Darrin Chiaverini) and they are able each other. Hopefully we’ll keep doing that down the road.” to see it upstairs, then we were able to execute some things On Defensive Adjustments that helped us. When teams do that, we’ll take advantage of “Defensively we were doing a little bit of stunting from it in other ways.” some stuff they had done before. We didn’t get over in a gap On Impact Of Penalties On Both Sides one time and a guy broke loose. In the secondary, we were “Those are big situations. We had one right there at the end able to change up a few things they were doing and our kids of the half, we would have been on the 10-yard line. Those kind of camouflaged it a little bit. They understood it. I are things that we have to control. It was a physical football thought [/OLB] D.J. (Eliot) did a good game. I thought both sides played physical. We don’t that job if mixing up his pressures. We pressured a little bit more (penalties) to happen. We’ll look at it on tape and see which I thought was good. Those were some of the changes exactly what happen. Those are things that we’ll try to we made. Then he just made a few different calls than we correct for sure.” were thinking going in because they had changed a little bit. So he changed up a few of his calls which helped us.” On Slowing Down UCLA RB “Early in the game we did a stunt and didn’t get across. He On Halftime Adjustments Being More Effective This kind of ran through an arm tackle and took off. Then in the Season first part of the second half, we fit a run wrong. We kind of “In the spring and in fall camp, I pushed us to do our whole settled in, kids understood what was going on, that’s really offense and our whole defense quickly; and do it over, and what happened. He’s a good, hard runner. He hit downhill over, and over. We kind of overload the kids early in camp. quick, if you’re not right there he can pop one.” Then we just keep doing it and doing it. We try to take everything to the game. There are certain things we want to On QB Steven Montez call and work on. But we are taking our whole package to “His work ethic is there. He’s seeing everything now. Kurt the game. Therefore, when we get in a situation and they (QB Coach ) has done a great job with him on change some things, we can go to it because we’ve practiced that. He’s always been extremely accurate. He’s stepping up it and done it enough. I think that’s helped us have a little in the pocket and throwing the ball instead of moving out bit more in our arsenal. We are little bit concerned about and trying to make a play every time. He’s going to make a doing that sometimes. With a new defensive staff last year, bunch of big plays anyway. I’ve been very pleased with that. we kind of backed it down and tried to add some things and Our receivers are also catching the football when he throws we just couldn’t go back to them as much. This year, we it to them, that’s a big part of his [completion] percentage. accelerated that and pushed that hard. We really took They’re making really good catches and pulling balls in. I’m advantage of our ability to meet with our kids in the pleased with Steven, he just has to keep doing it.” offseason. We really pushed meeting, watching it, putting it On WR Jay MacIntyre’s Pass in, installing it. Our kids have really been able to handle that. “He doesn’t lobby for it, but they know he can throw. We’ve Our coaching staff has done a good job of being able to teach had him throw some other ones before. He made a heck of a that and understand that. That, to me, has helped us.” throw and Kyle (TB Kyle Evans) made a heck of a catch. That On OLBs Drew Lewis and Davion Taylor was a big play in the game and got some momentum going, “I think he is getting comfortable out there now with an so that was fun to see.” extra week of practice. We brought him some more with some of the things they were doing. He’s mad at himself because he should’ve had a third sack. He should’ve had COLORADO BUFFALO FOOTBALL / POSTGAME QUOTES Page 1-B Colorado Buffaloes (4-0, 1-0 Pac-12) vs. UCLA Bruins (0-4, 0-1 Pac-12), Folsom Field, Boulder, Colo. (September 28, 2018) Mike MacIntyre (Cont.)

On This Year’s Group “Their brotherhood. Their closeness. That’s not just something (I’ve noticed), I’m having parents tell me about it, kids tell me about it, auxiliary people tell me about throughout the building. Their mental toughness. A lot of that I credit to our coaching staff and our captains and [Director of Football Strength and Conditioning] Drew Wilson and the strength staff for holding them accountable, and the culture of our program in going to class, all of that matters. I thought we were physically tough tonight. That’s what we need to do in the Pac-12, that’s another dimension we need to keep getting better at and I thought we did. The main thing I’ve seen though is just their brotherhood. It’s really unique. Nobody’s getting on each other (in a bad way), everybody is helping each other. Nobody is panicking, everybody is just playing. Same thing with the coaching staff, everybody is under control, everybody is working well. It’s a unique thing to see. We’ll have some hard situations ahead of us, but hopefully we’ll be able to fight through those and do the same thing again.”

On Trick Plays

“We practice trick plays all the time. I have a ‘gadget’ period that we do every day. We’re going to keep doing them. We’ll see things that teams are doing and work it. We kind of have an arsenal. We see things that look good for that game or what they’re doing during the game and Chev (Co-Offensive Coordinator Darrin Chiaverini) calls it and runs with it. I let him call it and look at it where he feels like it’s best to do it. He’ll see stuff and he has a good feel for that.” On The Colorado Rockies Making The Playoffs “I almost forgot to say something about the Rockies. How ‘bout those Rockies?”

COLORADO BUFFALO FOOTBALL / POSTGAME QUOTES Page 2 Colorado Buffaloes (4-0, 1-0 Pac-12) vs. UCLA Bruins (0-4, 0-1 Pac-12), Folsom Field, Boulder, Colo. (September 28, 2018)

UCLA Head Coach On Takeaways From Today’s Game On Strong Start Early “It is in the details, it’s the little things. There are some good “I think that we were having some miscommunication up things that we can improve upon but the penalties are front but we started to get that settled down. I think that we hurting us, and we can’t live with those if we are expecting can be consistent when we are running and throwing the to beat a really good football team. That is what Colorado is ball. I think that we are a little balanced on the offensive side right now, Mike has done such a nice job here. We have to of the ball and that helped us out. Then we couldn’t sustain continue to improve, we got knocked down but we aren’t offensively, we need to stay on the field a little longer. I think going to stay down, we are going to get back up and get that we left our defense on the field for too long; some of ready for our next opponent.” those drives that Colorado put together in the second half. We just couldn’t sustain our offensive consistency in the second half.” On The Impact Of Penalties “They are self-inflicted wounds and it is something that we do, it is in our control. Obviously, against a good team like Colorado you can’t extend them. The first two times they scored in the first half those drives got extended because of penalties. We have to make sure that we are playing with emotion not letting emotion play with us. And understanding that when we have an opportunity to get off the field, we have to get off the field, we can’t be shooting ourselves in the foot in the penalty game. It is something that we have to clean up. On Having A Game Plan For Laviska Shenault Jr. “You have to make sure that you know where he is. (Colorado coach) Mike (MacIntyre) does a really good job, they have him lined up in wildcat and they move him around. He plays inside and outside receiver so they do a good job on how they disperse him. He is good football player, you have to give him credit.” On Montez Stressing The Defense “Yeah, there were a couple times that we had him down but he is just such a big strong kid that he shook us off. You know that one at the end of the third quarter, we may have had him sacked to get them out of field goal range and it is a whole different ball game. But he was able to shake out guys off, stays on his feet and ends up getting a first down in the red zone and then score on the next play. So when you have a physical quarterback like that it is difficult and we didn’t do a good enough job tackling him today.” On Joshua Kelley’s Performance “Josh gave us a little spark in the run game. There were some physical runs that he had to make and I think that Josh did it and came out the other side. It was good to see him start to get acclimated in terms of what we are doing. He practiced really well this past week so I was happy to see Josh and his performance this week.”

COLORADO BUFFALO FOOTBALL / POSTGAME QUOTES Page 3-A Colorado Buffaloes (4-0, 1-0 Pac-12) vs. UCLA Bruins (0-4, 0-1 Pac-12), Folsom Field, Boulder, Colo. (September 28, 2018) Colorado Players

S Evan Worthington TB Travon McMillian ON WHAT THE TEAM DID TO ADJUST AFTER 7-0 DEFICIT- ON THE OFFENSIVE EXPLOSION IN THE SECOND HALF- “We just made some adjustments on the sideline, we had to “Yeah at half time we got together as an offense and we stop the run on the edge and it just came down to that and made a few adjustments and we just had to execute better. a little bit of route concepts and that was about it.” We were killing ourselves with a few penalties and things like that so we knew if we cut the penalties out, just focused ON THE PRESENCE OF DREW LEWIS EARLY IN THE GAME- on our job at hand and we’ll be ok so. Yeah we just came out “Yeah Drew was amazing for us tonight. He really helped us in the second half with a different attitude so we just tried a lot, got plenty of pressure on the quarterback, helped out to execute, focus on the details.” all of the defensive backs so that’s what we need every game, we just love that.” ON WHY THE TEAM COMES ALIVE IN THE SECOND HALF THIS YEAR- “Yeah we have a tighter group and the ON WHY THE TEAM COMES ALIVE IN THE SECOND HALF brotherhood on this team is really good. We believe in each THIS YEAR-“Yeah we definitely come together, we have this other and we don’t doubt each other at all. We don’t blink little chant we do to just get us hyped and you know that’s and just keep moving forward.” the big change from last year and all of the other seasons I’ve been here. We come together and we just get ready to ON HOW LAVISKA”S VERSATILITY OPENS THE OFFENSE- get back on the field.” “Yeah I mean it opens it a lot. Laviska’s versatile so you can move him around so it’s kind of hard to defend him. When ON WINNING THE CONFERENCE OPENER-“You know it guys are doubling him, there’s less guys in the back so that means a lot for us, we haven’t been 4-0 since I don’t know opens up the running game for me so I’m just really how long it’s been. You know, opening up the conference appreciative of the players that we have.” like this is great for us. We have plenty of more games to go but this is a great start.” ON CU’s STATEMENT WIN AGAINST UCLA-“It’s awesome, to get a win at home in front of our home crowd, we just ON WHAT THE DEFENSE KNEW ABOUT UCLA’s have to continue to do this. We have another game against QUARTERBACK-“We knew we had to put pressure on him Arizona State and it’s home so we just have to make sure because he’s a great mobile quarterback so we just had to that we lock in for that game and you know be in our P’s and adjust with that because we’ve had problems with that in Q’s and execute.” the past. We knew we would have to shut him down and then we would be good.” ON HIS IMPROVEMENTS-“I mean I’m just getting more comfortable with the offense in general so it’s not anything ON CU’s STATEMENT WIN AGAINST RIVAL UCLA-“You really specific but I give all of my credit to the offensive line know it’s a great feeling for us, just opening it up at the because without those guys I wouldn’t be able to do what I home crowd too. It’s just amazing for all of us so we’re just do so as long as they give me one guy that I can make miss going to continue what we’ve been doing.” or two guys I’m willing to do that so I’m just really grateful for all of those guys.”

ON HIS FIRST START AS A BUFFALO-“I’m willing to do whatever it takes for the team. If the coach needs me to touch the ball 20 times a game I’ll do that. I want to do whatever it takes, I’m really unselfish. I’m fine if I didn’t get any carries, I’m still over there cheering my team on. So I’m taking every week one week at a time and just trying to get better in practice each and every week.”

ON IF HE KNEW HE FOOLED THE DEFENSE ON THE TRICK PLAY- “Yeah definitely, Montez, he’s been doing a great job with his reads and everything so he made a great read and Montez was looking fast today too so that’s good.”

COLORADO BUFFALO FOOTBALL / POSTGAME QUOTES Page 3-B Colorado Buffaloes (4-0, 1-0 Pac-12) vs. UCLA Bruins (0-4, 0-1 Pac-12), Folsom Field, Boulder, Colo. (September 28, 2018) Colorado Players (Cont.)

WR Tony Brown WR Jay MacIntyre ON HALFTIME ADJUSTMENTS-“I just had to talk to GENERAL-“We just continue to fight every single play. It everybody. Even though we had a rough first start, it was doesn’t really matter what’s going on in the game. We just our mentality, brotherhood, unity, and communication as a kind of feel like we are going to win and we look to each team that allowed us to do certain things and make moves. other and say, ‘Let’s go’. We made some big plays in the third We could make plays and we knew that, so we made moves quarter to get us ahead. Montez made that long run on a and made plays and kept moving forward.” really good play call by [Co-Offensive Coordinator/WR coach] (Darrin) Chev (Chiaverini). Montez looked like he ON THE POSTGAME ENERGY-“It was our first Pac-12 game. could run there. It was all fun for all of us. We just have to It’s exciting. Especially playing UCLA, they are a very good continue to do that every game because there are going to team. Everybody was going to be lit with that excitement, be highs and there are going to be lows. We have to continue energy, and vibe. We are excited.” to fight together.” ON IF HE LIKED THE PAINTED BLACK END ZONES-“I definitely did, especially with the black uniforms. It was a ON QB STEVEN MONTEZ-“He’s grown up a lot. He continues good look.” to grow every single day. He’s a leader on this team and a great quarterback. He’s always had the talent. He’s always OLB Drew Lewis had the arm. Now it’s just putting it all together and it’s ON TEAM GOT BETTER AS GAME WENT ON- “We came out something special to watch. He is going to really help our team.” pretty hot in the first quarter then we kind of slowed down in the second. The big emphasis that our coaches told us was to come together as a team and do what we do best. We ON SLOW START-“We didn’t really panic. We knew that we have brotherhood, we have mental toughness, and we would get it going. We have confidence in coach (Darrin) showed it in the second half.” Chev (Chiaverini) calling the plays. We have confidence in every one on the field. We knew that once we hit a big play ON HOW IT FELT TO GET HIS FIRST SACK OF THE SEASON- here or there we would get it going and that’s what we did.” “I have been thinking about the same thing because in the first three games there were no sacks. I had some pressures, had a tackle for loss or two, but no real sacks. I wanted to step that up and today was a perfect platform to do that in the Pac-12 opener.

ON HIS MISSED -“I think the ball took a weird angle or something, but I have next week. I’m going to get it next week.

ON HOW IT FEELS TO WIN FIRST CONFERENCE GAME- “It really is because we haven’t had a truly challenging opponent, and that’s what UCLA is. They are a great opponent to play, and the real bar is set at this level. We are trying to take this forward to the rest of the Pac-12 season, and hopefully we can keep that streak alive.

ON LOOKING FORWARD TO ARIZONA STATE-“Arizona State is a very talented team, they could be a little bit better than UCLA. They have a great coach, so we are going to make our adjustments and we are going to keep it rolling.

COLORADO BUFFALO FOOTBALL / POSTGAME QUOTES Page 3-C Colorado Buffaloes (4-0, 1-0 Pac-12) vs. UCLA Bruins (0-4, 0-1 Pac-12), Folsom Field, Boulder, Colo. (September 28, 2018) Colorado Players (Cont.) I was able to get into the end zone. If I was 250 or 245 (pounds), I probably get hawked at the 10-yard line. I’m just happy that I hopped on that treadmill.” QB Steven Montez ON THE TEAM’S MINDSET MOVING FORWARD-“It feels ON THE TEAM’S CONFIDENCE-“It is (the win) a confidence good to go out there and get the win today. We’ve been booster. In the second half, we played well. The first half working hard. Like I always say, this isn’t the end game for was very sloppy and I think a lot of people would agree with us. We have another game next week at home against a very that. Our guys have a lot of confidence which could be good, good ASU team. It’s really just now preparing for them.” but could also be an achilles heel for us. I think we just have to come in on Monday next week and take it exactly how ON HOW THE OFFENSE GOT GOING-“We just came out and we’ve been taking it. Work hard Monday through Friday started to play at our tempo. I think they got a little tired and then the product comes out on Saturday. We just have because we were running that ball quick and making them to keep working and stay humble.” run sideline to sideline, and then getting them back on the ball and running another play. I think the altitude kind of ON THE TEAM TAKING IT WEEK BY WEEK-“We’ve done a got them a little bit there in the second half. The second part really good job this year of taking it one step at a time, and of it was just us doing our thing and playing good football. not looking ahead to who is next. Not looking ahead to going Coach Chev (OC Darrin Chiaverini) was making great calls to a or doing all of that stuff. The guys are in the and we put guys out in space and made people miss. We just moment and are figuring out that we need to take it one step were making plays.” at a time if we want to start stacking wins on top of each other. Our guys do a great job of studying and practicing. ON HIS FIRST DOWN SCRAMBLE-“I just thought it was Hopefully we keep it up.” another play. The guy kind of got on my back, I tried to duck him and he slid right off. There was pretty much nobody ON TRAVON MCMILLIAN-“I was very impressed by Travon. else out there except a guy in front of me and I gave him a He’s a great running back. We kind of knew that when he jab step and he missed. It wasn’t like that was the play that came in. He just looks the part and when he runs, you can won the game. It was just another play in the game. I think tell that he is very athletic. One thing that we didn’t know it helped us win a little bit.” until we actually started playing football is that he can stop and go on a dime. His cuts are really clean and really quick. ON THE CONFUSION ON LAVISKA SHENAULT JR.’S I think it’s kind of deceptive. He looks like a bigger back. He RECEIVING -“We heard something from the is a pretty big dude, but when he stops and he goes, he really sideline. Coach Roper (QB Coach Kurt Roper) was telling us puts the moves on them. He’s a very athletic and talented to tighten those receivers, so K.D. (WR K.D. Nixon) started back.” telling them to tighten down. Then, Laviska was looking at him and was like, ‘What?’ It is kind of hard to hear each WR Laviska Shenault Jr. other when you are talking across the field. I just told him to tighten down and for him and Tony to take two steps ON THE MISCOMMUNICATION ON HIS RECEIVING down. That was it and he absolutely toasted the corner, and TOUCHDOWN-“Me and my receiver (K.D. Nixon) were just he couldn’t run with him. You get the ball in number two’s trying to communicate. I thought I saw something else. I was hands and he is more than likely going to score with it.” trying to make sure I was going to run the right route. I thought it was the route that I had, but I wanted to make ON LAVISKA SHENAULT JR.’S VERSATILITY-“He can really sure. The receiver was talking to me and I thought he was do it all. They’ve got him playing the tight end position. saying something else. I was just trying to understand and Whenever he’s not getting the ball, he’s drawing two or make sure I was doing the right thing.” three defenders because that’s how many guys it takes to get him on the ground. He is a very special player for us. He ON THE 4-0 START-“It’s just another day in the office.” makes a lot of great plays. He even plays a little quarterback back there in the wildcat. He can do it all. He’s a great player. ON THE DIFFERENT ROLES HE PLAYS-“It’s very difficult, He’s my dog.” but I just try to know everything I am doing, study more and study hard. When they ask me to do it, I just do it. I just study.” ON HIS 35-YARD TOUCHDOWN RUN-“We only ran that play one other time. They didn’t really see it and they really didn’t know what it was. When we did the mesh or whatever, the end had been chasing the running back down all night and trying to catch him from behind. We read it and pulled it. (Tight End) Chris Bounds made an incredible block and sealed the guy inside. I lost a little bit of weight so COLORADO BUFFALO FOOTBALL / POSTGAME QUOTES Page 4 Colorado Buffaloes (4-0, 1-0 Pac-12) vs. UCLA Bruins (0-4, 0-1 Pac-12), Folsom Field, Boulder, Colo. (September 28, 2018)

UCLA Players RB Joshua Kelley

ON PERFORMANCE TONIGHT-“Football is a funny game QB Dorian Thompson-Robinson and tonight it was all offensive lineman. It’s kind of easy for me to just run through open holes because those guys were ON DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND HALF-“I fighting their butts off.” think the offense got put in certain situations where it’s hard to move the ball, especially with Colorado’s game plan. ON DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HALVES- “We got to give credit They like to blitz on third down a lot and when you have to to Colorado...they made adjustments on defense. I feel like gain a lot of yards to push it down the field it makes it hard.” we executed great throughout the game but you can only control what you can control, I tip my hat off to them…they ON TYPE OF TEAM THEY COULD BECOME-“I think once we made great plays out there.” clean up penalty mistakes and the mental mistakes, the little things, it’ll get there. We all believe in the process and we all ON DIFFERENCE IN RUNNING GAME COMPARED TO believe in Coach Kelly.” PREVIOUS GAMES-“It was me just trusting my coaching better. Me just saying ‘I’m going to press holes, I’m going to ON HOW HE PLAYED-“There’s always improvement but for trust in my coaching.’ Our offensive line has always done a the most part I feel like the offense as a whole was working great job all year, the tight ends, receivers, they’ve all well. My biggest goal is to put points on the board every blocked. It was just me trusting in my coaching. I just looked drive and we didn’t do that so I always feel like there’s room myself in the mirror and said ‘I need to be better’.” for improvement.” ON UCLA’S FIRST 0-4 START SINCE 1971-“Personally for ON MOOD OF LOCKER ROOM-“It’s definitely not upbeat or me that doesn’t matter, because I know the season isn’t happy. We definitely have work to do, we know what we over. I know that we can bounce back. I have confidence in have to do. It’s very frustrating because you know what the my teammates, coaches, everybody. We look to control mistakes are and you know what you left out there, and what we can control, and we have U-Dub (Washington) next when you have that type of game it’s really frustrating.” week, so we just got to keep hammering at it and fixing all the little details.”

C Boss Tagaloa

ON FIRST GAME BACK-“It felt great to be back out there. Obviously not the outcome we wanted but I think we’re starting to figure things out a little more. Our running game started opening up a little more, so I’m excited. It’s tough to go 0-4 but I’m excited for what’s to come for our young team.”

ON FIRST HALF PERFORMANCE-“I think it was just our communication. The O-line, our tight ends, the whole offense was just in sync with each other, and some calls I made were off but I’m going to get that fixed.”

ON FIRST GAME AT CENTER-“It was crazy to be on the other side. It gives you a different perspective on the whole game. I got way more respect for centers now that I’m playing it.”

ON BEING SUSPENDED-“It was tough knowing that I hurt the team based off my decisions. But I learned from that and those three games were tough to just sit and watch our team, especially when we’re struggling, but I learned from my mistakes and it’s good to be back.”