Sept. 6, 2008
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New Mexico Head Coach Rocky Long
“I thought we made some improvement. We’re not a good football team by any means. Don’t misunderstand what I am saying. I thought except for one drive, the defense played well. I thought our whole kicking game was much better. Our specials teams were good overall, it’s just that for two-thirds of the game we were terrible on offense. Horrible.”
“It’s always frustrating when you don’t play well. We have a lot of young guys on offense that I thought were a little bit better today. I thought the offensive line was a little bit better. I thought the running game was a little bit better. I thought our passing game was only good in one series and that was right at the end of the game. And to A&M’s credit they were playing soft defense to keep the clock running.”
“I think both games (against TCU and Texas A&M) we’ve beat ourselves. You’ve got to give [Texas A&M] credit though. They took the ball right before half time and took it 93 yards and stuck it in the end zone.”
Texas A&M Head Coach Mike Sherman
“We had a slew of different things we had to deal with during the course of the game with injuries and juggling personnel in and out of the game. We didn’t do well. We used up too many time outs. A couple of times we had too many guys on the field. As good as last week was in game management, this week was the opposite, but the result was different. Last week we had one penalty, this week we had 10. Last week we were flawless in regard to the clock, part of that was the signaling to the new quarterback and all that stuff that goes with that, but still there is no excuse for that.”
“I thought the key for the offense was the 14-play drive we had at the end of the first half. With 50 seconds left on the clock, we scored the touchdown. To give us that breathing room going into the half that allowed us to be as bad as we were on offense in the second half, and in that third quarter, in which we weren’t very good. And then we came back in the fourth quarter and moved the ball a little bit. But in the third quarter, I think we had one first down, so not good there. I thought the key play in the game was after the muffed punt, the ball was on the 14-yard line and our defense held them to a field goal. That showed a lot of character right there. That would have been an easy one just to cave in and give it to them. They kept four points off the board, which was the difference in the ball game as it turned out, and obviously they would have had to play the game differently as would we if that was a touchdown and not a field goal, so I thought that was a key play in the game.”
“We dropped too many passes. We had some plays we should have made in the game. We took a shot deep a couple of times and didn’t make the catch. We dropped some balls we should have caught and it was a raggedy deal. We need to get a lot better. I am happy that we won the game. They had to deal with a lot of adversity in the game and I thought they responded well to that. I give credit to New Mexico. I thought they played hard and tenacious. The blitz package was constant and consistent. They did a fine job.”
New Mexico Senior Running Back Rodney Ferguson
“We need to come together as a team. We played better this week but not good enough. We executed late which was a good sign and hopefully we can build on that for next week. I just want to come back next week, play harder and do more to help us win.”
New Mexico Senior Linebacker Zach Arnett
“In sudden change situations our goal is either to stop them or hold them to a field goal 100 percent of the time and we didn’t get that done today. I think the defense played hard but if you look at the stats their defense caused three turnovers and we didn’t cause any. That’s a big deciding factor in the way a game goes.”