Colorado Player Quotes
Oct 18, 2003 | Football
SOPHOMORE KR JEREMY BLOOM
On the game"
“We made too many mistakes today. It wasn’t that our offense didn’t execute, it wasn’t that our defense didn’t execute, but that all around, we made mistakes. Two blocked punts added up to 14 points and we can’t make those mistakes and expect to win a ball game.”
On the kickoff before halftime"
“That was right before halftime. The kicker kicked it high into the middle, and there was a little seam off to the left-hand side, and I was able to hit it.”
On having a losing record"
“I really haven’t been in this position before. The first thing Coach said to us when we went into the locker room was keep your heads up.’ And that’s what we have to do. There’s a lot of football left, and obviously we have a challenging game coming up (vs.
SOPHOMORE P JOHN TORP
On K-State’s punt rush"
“I felt like I had a million guys coming at me. You get ready to kick and you see a guy coming right down the middle, and the only thing you can do is kick and pray. It’s one of those frustrating things.”
On correcting the punt protection"
“We can easily fix that. When there’s a letdown, it can be huge and really hurt us. It’s little things and I definitely think we can fix that. It shouldn’t be too hard to get it straightened out.”
On the punt rush schemes"
“We saw most of it (on film). On the first block, they brought in two guys in the one gap and our blockers could only pick up one of them in that situation. For the most part, we knew what they were going to do, but they threw a few curveballs.”
SENIOR DE GABE NYENHUIS
On the game"
“In the first half, we came out right away and got it done. They had a long drive and score. That got to us a little bit and ultimately, we made too many mistakes in the second half.”
On the mood of the team at halftime"
“Everyone was up and ready to go. It’s mistakes that killed us.”
On K-State in the second half"
“They didn’t do anything out of the ordinary. Nothing we hadn’t practiced or seen before. We didn’t execute and we were making little mistakes that killed us.”
On
“We have a big game next week and we are going to prepare like we are 7-0. We will just go out there and fly around and hopefully get a win over
SOPHOMORE TB BRIAN CALHOUN
On their running game"
“We ran the ball pretty well the first half and on the first drive. For some reason, we stall and it usually goes downhill from there. We don’t do a good job of keeping our heads up and we let things get to us a lot quicker than other teams.”
On rebounding after a loss to K-State"
“I think we can come back. We wanted to get into K-State because they lost last week. We have a test next week against
On Jeremy Bloom’s kickoff return"
“It was a big confidence booster. I think we thought we had them on the ropes a little bit. They looked like they were getting tired, so we wanted to come out in the second half and establish something.”
