Drew Tate Quotations

Maybe I was out there doing things I had no control over and thought I did. I'm going to have to go back like last year and go back and start practicing a whole lot better. We're so close. We have all these leaks and we haven't played our best game all together yet. We're so close, I think, and we're just leaving things on the field.

He's just very smart and he has great coaches who understand football. We may only have a couple of All-Americans that come here, but he gets results. It's proven, really.

Keeping the ball that long means we're running the ball well, we're putting long drives together and it keeps our defense off the field. Our defense got a lot better as (last week's) game went along.

I thought we would have (tied the game). But it doesn't matter now. It's too late.

Our guys are going to be pretty pumped to go in there and try to run the ball. I don't see why we can't do it. They're a great defense but we're going to have to run the ball. We have to set the tone.

Paschal and Solomon probably throw it the best. I don't think Greenway and Follett can throw it very good. Ed can't throw it very good at all.

It doesn't really matter to me (but) when I start running around, I think bigger plays happen. But we need to make big plays when you're in between the tackles with me stepping up and throwing the ball.

I think I've done a better job of protecting the ball, as opposed to last year. That's pretty much what the No. 1 goal was coming into the year, protect the ball and then complete passes.

I thought I overthrew him. Once Warren caught it, he wasn't going down.

There's not much you can do when you only have the ball for two minutes (in the quarter).

The thing I just get so upset about is when we leave plays on the field. We've got chances to score or make a big play and we don't do it. That's what upsets me the most.

I wanted to go make the tackle since I had thrown (the interception). That's pretty much it.

You saw what happened. Next question, I've got to grow up and act like a Division I football player.

It's a totally different team. There's a couple guys on offense and a bunch of guys on defense who left. It's a new year, new team and it was a new Ohio State team.

It's hard when you're going up against our defense. I hate to say it, but they know what we're going to run pretty much. It's pretty easy for them to figure it out, and I think it's frustrating for an offense, especially in the running game, because that's such a big part and that's what everyone's looking at right now. The best thing is, we have two weeks left.

Every once in a while they might throw the ball across the field and it looks pretty. That's probably about it.

I've got to grow up and act like a football player. Everything is not going to go the way I want it to go, and I've got to accept that and learn how to deal with it.

On both sides of the ball, it was hard for us to establish anything. We can't be playing the same way we're playing.

I gave them a touchdown, the special teams gave them a touchdown. That's two touchdowns on us.

If he was leaving he would have left a long time ago. They offered him, I'm sure, complete control a long time ago. Why would he want to leave? He does whatever he wants now. I wouldn't want to leave.

I couldn't get outside. I couldn't do anything.

I'd say the game went like the season. We started off bad and then we had a good little stretch. We just fell short.