{"id":5427,"date":"2019-08-07T23:21:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T03:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/?p=5427"},"modified":"2019-08-07T23:21:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T03:21:18","slug":"jeremy-pruitt-full-transcript-after-wednesday-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/2019\/08\/07\/jeremy-pruitt-full-transcript-after-wednesday-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Pruitt full transcript after Wednesday practice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Head Coach Jeremy Pruitt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opening statement:<\/strong>
\u201cUnfortunately last night, Emmit Gooden suffered a knee injury and won\u2019t be with us this year. It\u2019s unfortunate for him and for our football team, but Emmit is a guy that has another year and he\u2019ll continue with going to school and get ready to come back next spring and next fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe worked on our kicking game yesterday. It was good to see our punters\u2019 operation times and them kicking the football. We\u2019ve just been trying to find guys with punt return ability and guys that can do it in live situations, so we created some competition there. I think offensively when we\u2019re consistent, we\u2019ve had a lot of success here in camp. I think our wide receiver group is a very mature group and they continue to work hard every day. The guys in the running back room continue to compete hard every single day. There\u2019s lot of competition up front, and got more bodies at tight end, so we just have to find a little bit more consistency offensively. Defensively, it\u2019s kind of a totally different group. To me, there\u2019s not as many guys with playing experience when you look up and down the roster. Tomorrow is really our last major install day, and a lot of these guys are swimming, but as the install slows down, I\u2019m sure a lot of these guys will speed up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On potentially moving a player to the defensive line:<\/strong>
\u201cNo, we\u2019ll just move some guys up there. We have 10 guys there right now working with the defensive line. There isn\u2019t a whole lot of difference in any of them. Some of them have played in some games, some haven\u2019t. They all have strengths and weaknesses, but most of them have very limited game experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On how the defensive line has looked in practice:<\/strong>
\u201cIn practice, you start with individual and piece together to a drill, whether it\u2019s a half-line or block progression. Right now, these guys show a lot of promise during their drills. When you get to 11-on-11, there are more things flying around. We haven\u2019t had near the consistency that we need to have and that will come with more playing time and more practices. We have to continue to put these guys in those situations and put them out there. That\u2019s why they came here, for the opportunity to play, and they\u2019ll get it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On linebackers Henry To\u2019o To\u2019o and J.J. Peterson:<\/strong>
\u201cJ.J. is still in a black jersey. He\u2019s right at I guess this will probably be four months in two weeks, so he\u2019s about ready to go full contact on Monday or Tuesday of next week. Henry is a guy who things have come real easy to him. He picks things up, instinctive, can cover, fits the runs, is what you\u2019re looking for in a linebacker. He\u2019s pretty advanced for a young guy at that position. He is capable of being a signal caller. He is a guy who can play all three downs. He goes out there and works every day. He\u2019s a hard-working guy, he\u2019s tough, he\u2019s physical. He\u2019s got to continue to do that and work hard every day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Emmit Gooden\u2019s Injury and the status of Nathan Niehaus:<\/strong>
\u201cEmmit tore his ACL. Our classes don\u2019t end till Friday, he\u2019s in a few hours right now so we will let him finish up his classes then Matt will do surgery sometime next week. Let him calm down a little bit. Nathan Niehaus has left the team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Dominick Wood-Anderson\u2019s improvement as a blocking tight end:<\/strong>
\u201cYou know Dom really in junior college didn\u2019t play a whole lot in the \u2018C\u2019 area, he played mostly flexed out. He doesn\u2019t shy away from it, he\u2019s a physical guy. Probably, in our offense, tight end is the one place where the multiples might be the greatest because you play a wide receiver position and you play there in the core. We ask them to do a lot of different things. He\u2019s done a really nice job, he\u2019s been a good leader with that group. We\u2019ve got competition there and we\u2019ve got to find some guys behind him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On physicality at practice in first day with full pads:<\/strong>
\u201cWe were in shells yesterday and the last couple of days, so we really haven\u2019t changed the way we\u2019ve practiced. To me there\u2019s been inconsistencies on both sides of the ball. One day you see one group have a little bit more success, then the next day the other group. To me, we\u2019re looking for consistency and when things aren\u2019t going the way we want it to go we got to change that. I guess we got to put on more steam. We got to learn to do that. That\u2019s part of creating the character of the team or the character of a certain unit and that starts with leadership, which I think we\u2019ve got plenty of. That\u2019s something we\u2019ve got to do and they\u2019ve got to exercise that a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Brandon Kennedy\u2019s approach in camp: <\/strong>
\u201cI think he\u2019s grateful for every opportunity he gets to play. Unfortunately for Brandon he has had several injuries over the years. He\u2019s a guy that\u2019s very mature, he goes about his business like you would want one to do. Obviously, he\u2019s graduated from school. He\u2019s fixing to get another degree. He\u2019s in here every day. He\u2019s hungry to get an opportunity to get back out there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On what he\u2019s seen from Darel Middleton:<\/strong>
\u201cDarel is a big bodied guy that has some length to him. He\u2019s one of those guys that\u2019s on day four of an install. There\u2019s a lot being thrown at him and some of that has to do with the linebackers. They have to make the calls so you have an understanding and when you\u2019re sitting there and your back is turned, there will be a point in time that he won\u2019t need anyone to make any kind of verbal calls to him because he\u2019ll understand it himself. He\u2019ll be able to look at the formations and have an idea of what he\u2019s got, but right now he\u2019s relying on someone behind him to make the calls. I\u2019m sure there\u2019s some anxiety with that and there are some times where we don\u2019t line up the correct way, but he\u2019s a guy that has the ability to strike, has ability to rush the quarterback. He\u2019s worked extremely hard since he got here and we\u2019re excited to have him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Crouch getting settled in at outside linebacker and his fit on defense:<\/strong>
\u201cIt\u2019s only practice four. In the spring he worked in our buck on third down, so he worked on a lot of pass rush. Right now, he\u2019s learning a lot of the first and second down stuff. The big thing with him is playing on offensive tackles, just the difference in the size and getting used to doing that. He\u2019s another guy whose motor is always running and he\u2019s flying around. Lots of times he\u2019s not doing exactly what he\u2019s supposed to be doing, but he\u2019s a playmaker.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the importance of the tight ends blocking:<\/strong>
\u201cIt\u2019s been an emphasis since the first day we got here. There is lots of youth in that room. You look at our whole football team, with the exception of the wide receiver room, quarterback and maybe a few positions on defense, but if you look at the depth at each position, we have lots of inexperience. Lots of guys haven\u2019t played. They\u2019re learning, they are learning the basic fundamentals of how we want them to do something. This is perfect for us that we\u2019ve got fall camp right now because we don\u2019t really need to sleep. We need to meet or practice or do something every day even though that\u2019s against the rules. There aren\u2019t enough hours in the day right now and our kids are looking at it like that right now. We\u2019ll see lots of improvement from these guys as we continue to go.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On offensive linemen Darnell Wright and K\u2019Rojhn Calbert:<\/strong>
\u201cDarnell is no different than most offensive linemen at their first college practices. The offensive line, it takes five guys to work together and the defense a lot of times can dictate your blocking assignments. Whether they move around or if they are in an even front or an odd front or a linebacker moves to the end of the line. It changes your blocking schemes and calls. Obviously he doesn\u2019t know all those yet but when he knows what to do, you can see ability and he flashes that, we just have to be patient with him. Have realistic expectations and give the kid a chance to develop as a player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cK\u2019Rojhn is a guy that I believe has really good ability. We\u2019re looking for consistency and he knows that. He plays two or three plays really well and then maybe not so much the next one. We\u2019re looking for consistency from our offensive linemen and our whole football team. He has really good talent and has worked hard and he\u2019s a big bodied guy. He has ability and we\u2019ve just got to find a way to make him play well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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