Daryl Patton Quotations

We're a pressure team. We're going to give up some big plays at time but overall ... we gave up some big plays but the kids responded usually with something positive right after that.

We feel it's just part of our job. We're not going to fool ourselves into thinking we can get a kid a scholarship because we can't; a kid's athletic ability gets him a scholarship. What we can do is get his name out there and get him noticed.

I thought our receivers did a good job. I don't remember us dropping too many passes. It was fun. It was fun to play somebody else.

Our offensive line really showed up. Our kids were physical and we did a good job of running the football. Alma gave us some things out of our Dog formation. That's what we stuck with and it worked.

Most of the schools are pretty honest and will tell you they haven't watched the tape or they have and aren't prepared to offer. Sometimes they will tell you they're stocked at that position but they're looking at a kid as a defensive back, even if he hasn't played that position, because he's an athlete.

That's the reason Houston didn't play as much. Houston did some good things passing the ball but we had to line up in the second half and take what Alma was giving us, which was the quarterback run.

We care about the kids and we want them to have opportunities and options to further their careers. And there's not a better feeling out there than seeing a kid 10 years from now successful with a college degree and knowing he used football to help him get it.

We've got some guys who can make big plays and every game it's someone different. Tonight it was Brent Phillips. Before Phillips' big run we were looking to run the clock out before halftime and his run was huge. After that, we went for it and got a big score going into the half.

We did what we had to do. We were rolling kids in and out of there. Getting our defense healed up is going to be key this week. But I have confidence in our defensive coaches to get the job done.

You look at our team, we monitor and adjust. After the first series, we regroup and find out what they're doing and our defensive coaches have done a good job.

We're trying to incorporate all the areas of the game. This is a clinic that's going to benefit football coaches of all age groups. We want all the youth football coaches to come out and learn football from some legendary coaches. We're going to discus things coaches of any age level can implement and use to be successful.

We called timeout because the way they had the ball angled, we thought they were running an onside kick. So we got our hands team out there and then they kicked off deep.

We think this is the best clinic in the state of Arkansas. No clinic has as many quality speakers as we have. We want to help coaches improve and boost football in Northwest Arkansas. We want this event to be something that's around for many years and we want to make football in Northwest Arkansas some of the best not only in the state but in the nation.

We've got three guys that practice there and are dead even, but when you get out there on center stage, you've got to perform.

We've got three guys back there and we've got to catch the ball. In warm-ups, Pine Bluff's punter was booming them and we probably gave him too much distance. He was laying them in shorter and getting good rolls. We've got to do a better job of handling punts.

We've got things to work on, no doubt about it, but I thought offensively, if we don't have a big holding call on (Brent Phillips') long touchdown run, if we don't turn it over, they really didn't stop us all night. We executed. We run blocked real well, our backs ran well, and our quarterbacks did a good job just executing what we were supposed to do.

We should have been running in that situation. Then we didn't run a good route and that's what happens.

Brent's a young man that wasn't getting the attention that we felt like he deserved. We sat down with his dad, John, and made DVDs and sent them out. We're trying to get some visits lined up for him and hopefully things will fall into place and he will get some offers.

Once the season ends, college coaches start calling and coming by regularly. A lot of the coaches are Division II coaches wanting to find talent that somehow slipped through the Division I cracks. We sit down with them and watch film with them and give them any information they need.

As long as the line does what they did tonight, we've got a good chance to be pretty successful.

This gives these young coaches a chance to ask questions from the legendary coaches. It's a very useful tool. They will get the opportunity to find out how these programs were built and how to juggle multiple sports or to turnaround a program.

They were giving us Brent on the outside zone. I think we got them tired and our kids really played well.

It was a weird game. I thought the flow of the game was weird. We made some big plays early on defense and our offense started slow, but finally started coming around late in the first half.

I'm really disappointed in our penalties. We had some big plays called back. We can't do that against good teams because it's going to cost us.

Houston and Dallas are going to make mistakes because they're young quarterbacks. Houston came back and threw some great passes in the third quarter. Dallas didn't tuck the ball away and I know he's learned a lesson there and I think he will be better because of it.