Skip Holtz Great Quotations

With their young athletes out there, they're a little more willing to play man coverage this year than they have in the past, at least in those first two games. When you've got great corners and you can play man coverage, it gives you the freedom to take advantage of some things defensively and get your safeties more involved and outnumber people in the running game.

It will be a great challenge for us to stop them on offense. I think our defense has a good grasp on what we are trying to do, now it's time to go out and execute in a real game.

The best thing that could happen to Tim is for Leak to have a great season. And Tim can just sit back and learn.

We take nothing for granted sitting here at 1-0. It was great to win but ... hopefully with that open date we can make huge gains because we made an awful lot of mistakes in that opener.

He's a great back. He's strong. He's powerful. I could go on and on and on about him. I think he is as good as the billing and the hype.

This is certainly an event we all really look forward to. Anytime we have the chance to play in front of the greatest fans in the country, it's a tremendous and overwhelming experience.

Everybody blocks a gap and you give it to a back and say 'find the hole'. And they do. They've got great vision, they hit it, they're tough, they're physical, they run hard.

I think we did a great job of not giving up the big play. There were some missed tackles, but overall I was pleased. I keep telling people that we are going to be solid on defense, and if we can build on today's performance, we will be in good shape.