What they said: Troy postgame with Chris Klieman and players

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CHRIS KLIEMAN

On the score not reflecting how challenging it was: ““t does not at all. They were really really good on defense. I thought they did a great job of trying to make us one dimensional, and not allowing us to rush to football. We continued to do some good things in the run game. Probably not consistently like we want, but give them credit, we were able to get some big plays in the pass game, then I thought their quarterback was a good player. When we were going to try to shut down their rush game too. We gave them one big run that we missed a fit, but other than that, I thought we did a really good job in the rush game there.”

On Will Howard’s play: “I know that he was kicking himself for the one pick that he threw in the endzone, probably taking the shot getting a little a little bit greedy, potentially. I thought he really settled in after that and said, “Okay, I made a mistake. Now I’ve got to own it and I’ve got to come back and play really well” and I thought he made some really good plays in that second half. The kind of flip past RJ [Garcia] was big, him getting the big run right before half, so that we could get the third and short or fourth and short conversion. I thought that was big, so I thought he settled in and played really well.”

On the defensive line: “Well we are just rotating so many guys is what is so important, we’re playing a lot of guys in there, and we’re getting good penetration. We are doing a really good job fitting the run. That’s the thing that I’m probably most excited about, is we work hard on our run game. You know we’re hitting our fits, and hitting them physically, then pushing the pile back. We didn’t have a bunch of missed tackles on the perimeter. I thought our perimeter run defense was much better. I thought Will Lee showed up a few times really well in the run game.”

SENIOR QB WILL HOWARD

On the defense’s impact: “It gives an offense so much confidence. I mean, they gave us the ball at midfield or…

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Publish date : 2023-09-09 22:40:54

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