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Boston College Postgame Quotes
November 12, 2016 | Football
Postgame Quotes: Boston College
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Postgame Quotes at Florida State
Nov. 11, 2016
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Head Coach Steve Addazio
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Opening Statement:
"There's not really much to talk about here. We were poor on third down, we didn't run the ball well, didn't get anything going on offense, put the defense on the field too long. Credit them, they played very, very well. I thought we evened ourselves out on defense after the first quarter. I thought as the game wore on in the second period and third period we found a way to discombobulate offensively up front and weren't able to get anything going in the throw game."
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Two games to go, are you still in a positon where you can salvage the season?
"Yea, we've got two games to go. It starts with UConn next week. We have an opportunity to beat UConn at home. We are coming off a stretch of some pretty tough games. We've got to get back to work and we've got to play our best football right now down the home stretch – that's what it's going to take."
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How much of the game was on the offense that didn't get going?
"I don't think we played well up front at all. We're not making plays right now. Credit them obviously that's a physical, good looking football team but we are not making plays. We had a lot of breakdowns up front in this game; critical ones on third and two and different things all over the place. That's my job to get that fixed. It wasn't good enough. Just not good enough. I though we came out the blocks, made a couple of plays, and as I said I knew it would be a slugfest in there a little bit with them. They're quite good on defense, they're stout. We went into a little bit of a nosedive on that minus yard sweep play on our 40 and that parlayed into that third and two with the 'backer run through that was ridiculous which then parlayed into a series of an offside penalty, a sack and some nonsense on third down and we never really spun back out of that again. Just never spun back out of that. We didn't make any real plays in the throw game. We didn't get open a couple of times, we tried to run some man-beaters and we weren't able to get those man-beaters open. That was the tale of that. You've got to be able to come out – we thought in the second half come out one play at a time; one series at a time. But we just really didn't get anything done, whatsoever. I don't know what opportunity Patrick Towles had or didn't have – these are the things I'm going to have to look at on the plane on film and get to it and see exactly where the issues were. Obviously they were playing heavy, close to the box, we wanted to throw the ball a little bit more but we had that series, that, with these guys (Florida State) you get in second and 10 and third and long and the next thing you know they are pinning their ears back and it's not a real productive down and distance to be in. We were trying to get something going and get us into some sort of normal down and distances. We never got in synch. Just never really got in synch."
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Boston College Players
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Graduate QB Patrick Towles and Junior DE Harold Landry
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How to build momentum on offense during this week in practice…
Towles: We have to make plays and that's what it is all about. We put ourselves in tough situations during the game. Coach talked to us after the game and said we just need to get back to work this week, that's all we can do at this point, we play UConn on Saturday, we have to win that one and the head to Wake Forest to try to get bowl eligible.
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On how the big losses like these weigh on the team…
Landry: It's not fun to lose and we are still trying to get bowl eligible so we just have to put this one behind us and get on the film. We have to swallow this and get over it if we are going to beat UConn. That's what our main focus is right now. We do wish we had played better the games we have lost like this but that's in the past and we have to move forward.
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Towles: Yes, these kinds of games do wear on us. It's tougher losing games like this. Losing in games like Georgia Tech and Syracuse you can sometimes feel good about how you played and pull positives from those. In these you can't though. They hit hard, we did not play well specifically on offense. We have to do a better job complementing our defense and we haven't done that. We need to play better, including myself.
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On maintaining consistency and playing well going into half…
Landry: I think we can definitely bring consistency into next week. As for tonight, we knew we had to get a big stop and head into the locker room with a little bit of momentum which I think we did. Moving on to next week we just need to maintain that consistency and do that throughout the game. We can't keep making big plays and then give up a long one. We just need to get passed this game and move on to UConn. We still have some great things ahead for this program, which just need to find that consistency.
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Postgame Quotes at Florida State
Nov. 11, 2016
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Head Coach Steve Addazio
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Opening Statement:
"There's not really much to talk about here. We were poor on third down, we didn't run the ball well, didn't get anything going on offense, put the defense on the field too long. Credit them, they played very, very well. I thought we evened ourselves out on defense after the first quarter. I thought as the game wore on in the second period and third period we found a way to discombobulate offensively up front and weren't able to get anything going in the throw game."
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Two games to go, are you still in a positon where you can salvage the season?
"Yea, we've got two games to go. It starts with UConn next week. We have an opportunity to beat UConn at home. We are coming off a stretch of some pretty tough games. We've got to get back to work and we've got to play our best football right now down the home stretch – that's what it's going to take."
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How much of the game was on the offense that didn't get going?
"I don't think we played well up front at all. We're not making plays right now. Credit them obviously that's a physical, good looking football team but we are not making plays. We had a lot of breakdowns up front in this game; critical ones on third and two and different things all over the place. That's my job to get that fixed. It wasn't good enough. Just not good enough. I though we came out the blocks, made a couple of plays, and as I said I knew it would be a slugfest in there a little bit with them. They're quite good on defense, they're stout. We went into a little bit of a nosedive on that minus yard sweep play on our 40 and that parlayed into that third and two with the 'backer run through that was ridiculous which then parlayed into a series of an offside penalty, a sack and some nonsense on third down and we never really spun back out of that again. Just never spun back out of that. We didn't make any real plays in the throw game. We didn't get open a couple of times, we tried to run some man-beaters and we weren't able to get those man-beaters open. That was the tale of that. You've got to be able to come out – we thought in the second half come out one play at a time; one series at a time. But we just really didn't get anything done, whatsoever. I don't know what opportunity Patrick Towles had or didn't have – these are the things I'm going to have to look at on the plane on film and get to it and see exactly where the issues were. Obviously they were playing heavy, close to the box, we wanted to throw the ball a little bit more but we had that series, that, with these guys (Florida State) you get in second and 10 and third and long and the next thing you know they are pinning their ears back and it's not a real productive down and distance to be in. We were trying to get something going and get us into some sort of normal down and distances. We never got in synch. Just never really got in synch."
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Boston College Players
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Graduate QB Patrick Towles and Junior DE Harold Landry
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How to build momentum on offense during this week in practice…
Towles: We have to make plays and that's what it is all about. We put ourselves in tough situations during the game. Coach talked to us after the game and said we just need to get back to work this week, that's all we can do at this point, we play UConn on Saturday, we have to win that one and the head to Wake Forest to try to get bowl eligible.
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On how the big losses like these weigh on the team…
Landry: It's not fun to lose and we are still trying to get bowl eligible so we just have to put this one behind us and get on the film. We have to swallow this and get over it if we are going to beat UConn. That's what our main focus is right now. We do wish we had played better the games we have lost like this but that's in the past and we have to move forward.
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Towles: Yes, these kinds of games do wear on us. It's tougher losing games like this. Losing in games like Georgia Tech and Syracuse you can sometimes feel good about how you played and pull positives from those. In these you can't though. They hit hard, we did not play well specifically on offense. We have to do a better job complementing our defense and we haven't done that. We need to play better, including myself.
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On maintaining consistency and playing well going into half…
Landry: I think we can definitely bring consistency into next week. As for tonight, we knew we had to get a big stop and head into the locker room with a little bit of momentum which I think we did. Moving on to next week we just need to maintain that consistency and do that throughout the game. We can't keep making big plays and then give up a long one. We just need to get passed this game and move on to UConn. We still have some great things ahead for this program, which just need to find that consistency.
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