Andy Smyth Quotations

We appear to be the smallest team on the field each week. They're big. They're a very big, physical team.

Now we found out we have two more weapons in the backfield.

If we can't learn to execute and tackle better, we're going to get into a vicious cycle.

I don't think you come and if you lose, you're behind the 8-ball. We're not approaching it that dramatically. But with the season we had last year, we're trying to get it off on the right foot. We're trying to build up. We're not living in last year, but we're reminding these kids how important it is to get something early to reverse those fortunes.

He had a tough night. It happens. You hate (to bench him), it's hard to do it.

We've got to minimize mistakes. We absolutely have to execute in the red zone. In two games, we've been fairly successful moving from our 20-, 30-yard line to other teams' 20 or 30 -- and then we bog down. Instead of really concentrating, we've been sloppy.

I see a lot of hard luck. I'm sure they're saying the same thing about us. They have some really outstanding receivers. They have the kind of players, if you're not focused on them, and if you don't game plan for them, who could really open the game up with some big plays.

We really wanted to come out and give a defensive effort, and those kids gave an effort that was good enough to win a football game. Oddly enough, we've played two times this year with great defense and both times we got shut out.

We'd like to play a game with no turnovers and keep the other team from big plays. If we can get into the fourth quarter, anything can happen.

We obviously have to pay more attention to the big plays on the outside. West Ashley's running game is more off tackle, outside, off the flanks.

We kind of feel like we can still right this ship, but we have to start on Friday.

We just felt that we were way too up and down. We spread the blame equally. Everybody did something bad.

You hate to be feeling a sense of urgency in the third week of the season, but it's there.

We're going to try to speed the game up, limit their defensive substitutions.

We're going to try to get down to the nuts and bolts of what we know we can do. And then we just have to really work hard at creating that awareness amongst the players.

They're struggling with stopping the pass, with what we've seen on film. We feel like we can create some mismatches.

It's kind of a repeating story: Lots of total yards but no points.

It's a different form of the option, but it's an option all the same.

They were quite physical. They were everything we anticipated. They were much bigger than us at several positions.

They have what appears to be a great group of skill players who are very quick.

At this point, we're not really worrying about Berkeley. We have a number of other issues through injuries and trying to replace people. We're kind of drawing back right now and trying to get people ready.

The last three teams (the Gators have) played, they've moved it on everybody. Big teams up front are giving us trouble. We need to be able to get a few more three-and-outs.