John Bunting
John Bunting
poor quarter rolling start starts third
You get off to a poor start in the third quarter and things start rolling the other way. It starts snowballing a little bit.
angry coming field tape watching
The only thing that was really disappointing to me was the penalties, after watching the tape again. I was really disappointed about that coming off the field and still am angry about that. But other than that, I thought we got a lot done.
buzz charge good guys happen happened program
There is a buzz about our program right now. A lot of good things have happened during the spring, and now what has to happen is our guys need to take charge and make things happen.
excited four game games luxury playing
To me playing the game is what's most important. We don't have the luxury of playing four preseason games. We don't have the luxury of playing 16 games. We've got 11 games to get it done. Right now my focus, obviously, is that this is game week, and we're all excited about that.
game running runs
We had 17 runs by the running backs; that's not enough in the game to win,
blowing defense extremely facing negative
This team, this defense we're facing is extremely disruptive, ... They're blowing up gaps. They're going to get negative runs.
emotion gut kicked played team third today
This team played with a lot of emotion today and kind of got kicked in the gut in that third quarter. It's a shame.
gotten middle overly people pressures safety trouble
What people have done is try to be patient, and then they try to go after it and then they get burned, particularly when there's no safety in the middle of the field. People that have blitzed with six- and seven-man pressures have gotten in trouble by being overly aggressive.
accept asked guy late start
We got a really late start on him, ... And I asked if the other guy didn't accept, would he still accept our scholarship offer? And he said, 'Absolutely.'
against burn chances few game georgia good hard hurt movement pass pressure run several
When you play against Georgia Tech, you know you're going to get a whole lot of pressure and a whole lot of movement up front, ... And you've got to do a good job. It's hard to simulate that in practice. What you've got to do is hurt them. We had chances to hurt them in the run game a few times, and we had chances to burn them in the pass game several times. Many times we capitalized; sometimes we didn't.
close hopeful win
We're very close to getting a win and we're hopeful it will be this week.
defense further prefer
You'd prefer to play that defense a little further down the road,
giant
As I said to the team, that's one giant M.O. -missed opportunity,
ball focusing half running second stuck
We were focusing on running the ball more in the first half and we stuck with it, ... In the second half, they blitzed about every play.