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Head Coach Chip Kelly: November 19, 2011 USC Postgame Quotes
Head Coach Chip Kelly: November 19, 2011 USC Postgame Quotes
Head Coach Chip Kelly: November 19, 2011 USC Postgame Quotes
Opening comments…
“You can’t make the mistakes we made, especially against a good football team. In this league when you’re
playing the upper echelon teams [turnovers are] something you can’t do, especially turnovers in the red
zone. The credit goes to the other team. I think they played very well and they’re a good football team. They
lost in triple overtime to Stanford and they played well down in the desert against Arizona State, which I
thought was a good team so I would like to give them credit. I think Matt Barkley is the best quarterback
we faced this year, I will say that after playing against him tonight. The game comes and the game goes. It’s
about making plays. You still have to go out and make plays and execute and we didn’t at the end.”
On Matt Barkley…
“I thought Matt (Barkley) was outstanding. A couple of those deep balls were right on target. He always
seemed like he had the answer. Every time we came back and scored he came back with an answer.”
Opening remarks…
“Obviously [Oregon] is a great team. Especially at home… it’s the hardest place to play against that team
in the country. So, a lot of credit to them. They’re going to have a great year with a great team, led by
De’Anthony (Thomas). He was obviously awesome. As far as the game, we’re just really excited first of all by
our fans. They’ve been through so much. So much has been taken away from them. And second of all for our
players. They’re a lot of young guys. There are very few seniors on the roster. I think half our roster has never
played college football before this year. For these guys to come together like they have over the last five or
six weeks has been great to see…We’re very excited for our fans and for our players.”
On game play…
“It wasn’t fun seeing the score go in the wrong direction. I was trying, obviously, to still move the ball as we
were. We tried to run the play clock down so it was shortened. Fortunately, we were doing that, but then
we were screwing up. We get a miscommunication on the third down to force us to have to punt. We get an
interception down there, a ‘bang-bang’ play, and then missed the handoff between a fifth-year senior and
a Heisman trophy candidate. Those things usually don’t happen, but unfortunately we did those and gave
them a chance.”
On USC offense…
“I thought the second and third quarters they did a great job. And then we were screwing up some plays.
We convert a third down to big momentum third down and the lineman had just barely gone down before
the motion so that came back when we didn’t make the third down after that. So, we did some really good
things throughout the game for an inexperienced group.”
RB Kenjon Barner
On the loss…
“It’s crucial to put this one behind us. We need to move on and put this behind us. We shot ourselves in the
foot when we shouldn’t have, it stings a lot.”
On USC…
“They came in and played great football tonight.”
RB De’Anthony Thomas
On the loss…
“I feel like our team fought till the end, but we’ll just have to get back to work on Monday.”
WR Josh Huff
On the loss…
“I don’t know how to explain how we feel right now, this hurts. We have to come back on Monday and get
back to work. We just thought we were going to come in and run over them, but they came out hard and we
lost.”
QB Matt Barkley
On the game…
“The fact that we finished and pulled the big win was huge. We needed it. Last year the big games didn’t
really go our way in the end. On all parts we played lights out, special teams, offense and defense. We came
in expecting to win and we are happy that we can celebrate like this. We have been the underdog for a while
now, but maybe that has shifted. We don’t really take that in to account though, we just go out and play
Trojan football. We played awesome tonight. There was only one time that you could tell that the noise got
the O line, but they still played well. At the beginning our O line was a mismatched group, but now they are
good and playing well together.”
WR Marqise Lee
On the game…
“I was just focused on making plays for our offense. Robert not playing was a big deal. We had the
opportunity to step up.”
On Oregon…
“They are a fast team. De’Anthony Thomas played well and will continue to. He is fast!”
LB Hayes Pullard
On the game…
“We played our scheme and slowed them down. Our strength is field goal blocks. That might have played a
part in Alejandro (Maldonado) missing the field goal. We couldn’t let LaMichael (James) run all over the field,
but we contained him for the most part. We wanted to show everyone that this is what is coming next year.
Deep inside we know that we are not underdogs, we just want to go out and play Trojan football.”
On De’Anthony Thomas…
“After the game we talked and he said to just keep balling and no matter if we win or lose, we are still
brothers and we love each other regardless.”