Sqwirl Williams
I felt like we had a great week. We did everything we were supposed to do. Props to Kansas State. They came out with a great gameplan. Chips just fell in their box today. That’s just how things went.
(Learning from this game) There’s a lot to learn from this game. We didn’t play our best game. Moving forward, just throw this game away. Looking forward to TCU and coming back to work on Monday and start preparing for TCU.
(KSU stopping the run) They’re a great team. They’re very physical. They ran off the football. They had a great gameplan as well and it just matched up well against ours. They had success on their side of the ball. And we didn’t have as much success as we wanted to.
(Shock at the outcome) I would say there was some shock. Coming into this game we had a great gameplan. We were really looking forward to coming out on top of this game. They came out and played a little harder than us. Props to them. We’ll learn from it. We’ll come back to work on Monday and get ready for TCU.
Dillon Doyle
We just didn’t do simple better. It comes down to that. You can throw as many mantras and as many mottos out as you want, we just didn’t do it today. It’s disappointing. Certainly there’s no way to sugar coat it. We just didn’t play good football today, we didn’t play assignment football today.
I mean I’m sure there will be good things to take off the tape. But obviously the result is something we’re not happy with. In times like this, I think it’s important to keep perspective. I mean I just walked into a locker room with a hundred of my best friends. I mean they’re as heartbroken as me and they all love each other. I think just keeping things in perspective that we play football to go through the growth processes to make us better for life, and that’s a big part of being at Baylor. Just knowing those things and knowing we have two weeks to show growth here, and play for each other. I mean I only get to line up behind Apu a couple more times, I guess three. I love him to death. I get to play opposite Blake Shapen three more times, and that’s hard, it definitely makes me emotional to talk about. I mean I love those guys to death, and would rather be on no other team, even tonight.
(KSU early 97-yard drive for TD) Football is certainly a momentum game. We try to go out there and do our best every snap. We try not to feel those ebbs and flows, and we try to go and be where our feet are and be present in every snap and communicate. The key to every snap doesn’t change. The key to playing defensive football is the same thing every time. The guys may change, the personnel may change, but regardless of whatever happens on the field, the guys around you are counting on you to do your job and we just didn’t do it tonight. We’ll watch the tape and get better from it certainly, but we have a lot of growth to go through. I mean 31-3 hurts.
(Will Howard coming in) I mean they were a little bit more of a quarterback scramble game with Adrian Martinez. Everyone knows he’s gifted whether he’s running the ball or throwing the ball. He’s a really dynamic player, Will Howard is too though. I mean he can certainly throw the ball as he showed tonight. The amount of preparation he must have gone through tonight as a backup quarterback going into the game and really going out there and executing, a ton of respect for him. He’s an experienced player. I’m sure that’s not easy for him to do, sitting behind Adrian Martinez like that, just a ton of respect. That whole program really plays hard-nosed football. It’s the kind of football you love to watch. Run the ball and we know what they’re going to do but they’re going to do it anyway. That hurts especially when they do it on you and you can’t stop it. A ton of respect for the physicality they played with, just the edge, all the things we want to do they kind of did tonight. Just hats off to them.
(Not playing complementary football) I don’t think frustrating is the right word to use when we watch the offense go out there because we love them and we’re playing for each other. So I don’t think frustrating is the right word to use. Obviously it stinks when they don’t have the production you would love to see, but it’s like hey we’re going to try to pick you up because we love you. That’s a big thing for us, trying to stay out of the negative space is something we continue to work on. Obviously working on complementary football because it didn’t show up tonight. Hopefully we can kind of turn it around a little bit and stay positive with the right we’re fighting.
(KSU 37 minutes TOP) We’re used to playing tempo teams…90 plays per game so I wouldn’t say it’s that demanding. It makes it actually easier mentally. You have time to communicate and solve some issues. I don’t think that’s necessarily it. It kind of lull you to sleep a little bit. When it comes to the slow pace of play, bringing that edge every snap….when a drive is going…I looked up at the clock and it said 6 minutes or something in the first quarter. It really comes down to doing the basics better. It is a little bit difficult. Football is a lot of between the snaps mentally. How you handle things. Whether that’s emotionally, mentally, physically. All those things. If you mess up it gives you a little bit more time. It is a little more hard to bounce back when they go slow like that.
(Last two games, keep the heartbreak from spiraling) Yeah, the 24 hour rule. It’s big in football. You win a game. It’s 24 hours, you turn it over and it’s on to the next one. You lose a game. You eat it, box it up and move on. This hurt for everybody. Obviously, everybody knows what was on the line tonight. Probably too much. You box it and move on. It’s really hard to do. But it’s the same thing with life. I think it’s a really good skill to learn. You can’t let the past affect the future. Stay grounded in the present and continue to move through your challenges with your values. Those are the things we talk about every day. Person over player. It’s the motto. And that’s what’s important to us. Obviously, you love to lift trophies at the end of the year and those things. But football’s bigger than that. You have to realize that and move through the next two weeks with growth and play with the love we have for each other.
(Last game coming up at McLane Stadium) I had a little bit of those thoughts today. You drive in and it’s the second to last time playing in the stadium you’ve played all your games in. I had a little bit of that today. But really it’s trying to take the emotion out of it next week. You love to play with that raw passion and everything. I think it’s great to use it with positivity, but I think emotion can cloud your head sometimes. I’m not sure next week before the game is the time to be thinking of all the lasts because we’re going to be facing a Top 4 opponent (TCU). When we’re done with all of this, I’ll look back and really appreciate what my time at Baylor means. We have a two-week sprint here with two great teams to play. Really excited to show how hard we can play and how we can grow from this because that’s what’s important.
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