Video: David Curry, Tyler Davis & Jared Southers Discuss Loss To Virginia Tech

DAVID CURRY, LB, RS-JR

On how Virginia Tech leveraged Georgia Tech to get outside:
“Just leveraging us as you said yourself. That’s on us not setting edges and that was a big point of emphasis of us going into this game and we just didn’t execute it. That’s their game, is getting on the perimeter and getting slip screens in, the wide delays and stuff like that which they were successful with.”

On what caused the issue with eye discipline:
“We were definitely prepared, this has absolutely nothing to do with the coaches, the coaches gave us a great game plan. I take this personally as the leader of the defense. This is on us; we did not execute. We had coach in some of our meetings, if you look at what you’re supposed to look at the plays will come to you and it’s just guys trying to overcompensate not trusting other guys on the defense to make the play and when you do that, you leave guys open. I included, there was one long wide delay play where I was supposed to cover the guy and I tried to take off on the stretch and they got me. So, we’re not pointing fingers at anybody but as a whole defense, you’ve got to trust the guy next to you and you got to do your job.

On individually preparing themselves for a short week:

“You just have to speed up the process. You keep your same process; you watch as much film as you can earlier and you go get treatment. I mean this man [David], lives in the treatment room and I’m probably going to do that the next few days too.

On the team’s ability to move past this game:

“We’ll be here early in the morning; we’ll go over the film and after you watch the film you get the corrections you move on. It’s a rule, it’s done, and you move on. As a leader of my room personality, it’s on me to get these guys to show them that we have a short week, you gotta speed up your process. That’s just going to be on the older guys both offense and defense to show the younger guys that we are young, and they may not know right now so that’s just on us guys who do have a process to show them.”

TYLER DAVIS, TE, RS-SR

On the struggle to get offensive line going after shooting themselves in the foot early on:

“It’s hard to play on offense and shoot yourself in the foot like that. Obviously, we like to stay ahead of the chains not behind the chains. We kind of shot ourselves in the foot early in the game playing behind the chains. It’s never good offensively to play like that. So, just some mistakes that we made and moving forward we’ll learn from them and help change that next week.”

On Individually preparing themselves for a short week:

“Like he said, just get in early tomorrow, watch film, correct it and get out to practice tomorrow and just speed up our weekly process. Days are just fast forwarded now; tomorrow is like a Monday or Tuesday instead of Sunday. We just move forward, get ready to play NC state and just move on from this one quickly.

On evaluation of Jordan Yates Performance:

“It was cool to see him out there. He loves football and he loves to play. I think when he got the opportunity to go out there his eyes lit up, he had a big smile on his face, and we were all excited on offense to see him. Obviously a very talented player, I think you guys saw that out there, he can make a lot of people miss, can make all the throws so we were all excited for him. I was happy he was able to get into a game and really play in a situational opportunity and make some plays. He’s a good dude in general so it was good to see a good dude go in there and play well and he works his tail off too so I’m really excited to see what he can do.”

JARED SOUTHERS, OL, RS-SR

On What Virginia Tech did to get in the back field today:

“They pressured a lot, pressured almost every snap but we’ve got to pick it up, no excuses.

On how good Virginia Techs’ s defensive line compared to others he’s faced this year:

“They had a good scheme, they’re a good team and they’re well coached and they executed better than we did today.

On Jordan Yates getting extended playing time:

“Jordan is a great kid; he works his tail off. He’s worked as hard as anybody else here since day one, so I was happy for him to get a chance to compete and he did a great job.

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