Jack Rio
Jack Rio
bigger blocking came continues continuing fought fred great guy room running
I think Fred continues to be a great player. I think the bigger the running lanes are, the better he's going to look and feel. He's fought through some things. He's not the same guy who came out of Florida. We're continuing to get him more room by blocking so he can do his thing.
fred held job nice running
Fred held up well and had some really nice runs. He really did a nice job running the ball.
catch coaches confident everybody few full missed pick preference running weeks work
He went through all the (minicamps), and just a few weeks ago he was out here running plays. .... It's always a coaches preference to have everybody for the full time, but it doesn't always work that way, and we feel confident that we'll pick up with what (he's) missed and catch him up.
conscious hospital report run sure tests thoughts
I don't really have anything to report other than he was awake, alert, still conscious and they are going to take him over to the hospital and make sure they run some tests on him. Obviously, our thoughts are with him and his family.
ball blocked control efficient game proud ran run stay
I'm not discouraged at all. We could be more efficient with how we ran the ball and blocked and executed the run game. But I was proud of how we were able to stay with the run game and control the game as much as we did.
anticipate complete evaluation game keys major opener players playing process starting team
We don't anticipate playing our starting players for long. The two major keys to this game is to complete the evaluation process and to get our team to the opener healthy.
guys himself puts
When one of our guys puts himself out there,
front liked showing time work
We would have liked to have had a much better showing in front of the nation. Fortunately this was a preseason game, and we have time to work on some of our mistakes.
approach expect special utilize
We said we think he has some special abilities and we are going to utilize them. I would say expect anything from us. That is how we are going to approach it.
deeper draft good help player talented
We think this draft is deeper than 27 players. We think we can get a good and talented player there, who can come in and help us.
built coach pay starting talent team three work
We've built it from three years. They don't give a young coach a team chock-full of talent. We had a lot of work to do when we got here and it's starting to pay off.
change himself line year
This year he'll have the ability, the freedom, to change the play at the line to get himself out of trouble,
grow guy help played speed
We see him as a guy who's played well, has started, so he has experience, has speed and can help us on (special) teams. We'll let him grow into a role.
events game good pulled quarter series third turned
We had a series of events in that third quarter that turned a real good game into a game they pulled away from.