Karl Dorrell
Karl Dorrell
Karl Dorrellis an American football coach, former player and the current Wide Receiver coach for the New York Jets. He most recently served as the offensive coordinator at Vanderbilt University, a position he assumed in January 2014 until December 1, 2014. Dorrell served as the head football coach of the University of California, Los Angelesfrom 2003 to 2007, compiling a record of 35–27. He led the UCLA Bruins to five bowl appearance in five seasons, but did not coach in...
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This year, coming back in great shape from the knee injury (at the end of 2004) and the competition he faced in training camp (from Ben Olson) has put him over the top. He's playing now at a level he visualized himself playing at over the summer.
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We've been playing very, very well in the red zone offensively. We want the opportunity to put points on the board, and those are opportunities we've been taking advantage of.
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That's really pretty easy given our lack of success against Washington State, particularly going up to Pullman and playing them. We haven't had a lot of success in this particular week, so our focus has been the best it has been all season.
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We ran into a buzz saw. We had a great week of preparation and felt good about ourselves. It was just a point in time in the season, probably, that things weren't going to click for us as well as in the past. We saw some things that were uncharacteristic of how we've been playing all season.
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Playing your rival from the same city, No. 1 in the country with a tremendous win streak, this is a tremendous opportunity,
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There are so many things that we need to improve upon and continue the momentum that we're building in our program -- which is playing better and better week after week. We did that three weeks in a row and now have had a bye week. We don't want any hiccups, even though we'll probably have a few.
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His ankle is really sore. Playing on that surface probably made it more significant.
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He's learned a lot. He's grown. He's matured, both physically and mentally, he's the best that he's ever been. Am I surprised that he's playing that way for us now? No. He's been visualizing this type of season for him. He's been visualizing having a great senior year and leading this football team and putting this offense into a position to do what it's doing.
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We just tried to reduce our thinking before that first touchdown, let's just get one series.
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We had such a rough start, being down so early, by so much and still keeping our composure. We just kind of reduced our thinking before that first touchdown: 'Let's just get one series.' Then we reduced it even further to 'let's just get one positive play.' Then start the energy going in a positive fashion over the course of that series of play. We did that and our confidence started to kick in.
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We won a game up there last year that was a barn burner, that went down to the last seconds, so I'm sure in their minds, they have something to prove. In our minds, we have something to prove about the caliber of team that we are and the steps that we've made so far this year.
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We got the bad taste out of our mouths and we are excited about the momentum in our program. We are ready to take our best shot.
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We got some recognition in our program, which was good to see, from a national standpoint,
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Drew has played all the way through, from training camp to (the OSU game),