Erik Ainge Quotes:
“We were about six inches from being up 14-7 on a fade route. We were one camera angle away from having the ball on the half-yard line. We could have easily scored 28-21 points in that game.”
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“I'm glad to be out here. We signed for what, 90 minutes. I'd stay as long as needed to help out.”
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“We left a lot of plays on the field, whether it was a bad route, bad throw or dropped pass. I thought we played pretty good, but pretty good isn't enough against Florida.”
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“Once you get out of that rhythm and you're trying to get back into that rhythm sometimes you try to do too much. You want to stay on the field, so you try to make plays happen.”
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“Coach Sanders is not the one out there dropping the ball or making bad plays. We put that on us.”
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“We didn't take care of our business against Florida. That's on us. We know what kind of football team we have, but we've got to prove it. If we can win this one, we still feel like we'll be able to control our own destiny.”
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“If you're scared, buy a big dog and tie it around your waist.”
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“I don't see us having a substitution problem. I don't see us dropping the football or making a careless play at quarterback or at running back because he's going to demand so much more than that.”
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“It's no fun getting beat up in the press. That's for sure. I grew up more in that one year than I had in the previous 18.”
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“I'm really not the kind of person who is going to blame everybody else, but it's hard [not to] when everybody is looking at you. But it finally made me realize that maybe I'm not putting enough time into my game. Maybe I'm not getting focused enough on practice. Maybe I'm not taking this seriously enough.”
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“And you know, making those mistakes and learning from them is part of growing up as a quarterback. There were mistakes I made last year that I won't make again.”
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“I love coach Sanders, but getting Coach Cutcliffe in here is probably for the better and we'll all get out there and take one day at a time.”
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“We're doing a lot of different stuff. We're not just doing the stuff we did last year. I don't want to get too in-depth on what we're doing, but it's all good stuff.”
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“There's never a dull moment. If you walk on your last two steps before you get to the next drill, he's in your ear screaming. It's new, but I think it's going to be good for us.”
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“It's as frustrating to me as it is anyone on offense, any time you're not getting it done. Dropped balls, we had a few of those. Poor throws, we had those. We threw too many interceptions. There were just a lot of things. It was not any one thing that got us beat.”
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“It was as frustrating for me as for anyone on offense. Anytime you're not getting it done -- dropped balls, poor throws. There were a lot of things, not just one thing that got us beat today.”
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“You saw about a quarter of the defense. The offense had a little bit of an advantage. It came down to execution.”
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“You probably saw about half of what (the offense) has and a quarter of what the defense does. We're just focusing on execution and learning again what it really means to work hard.”
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“I thought we played pretty good on offense, on both sides. We made some plays and that's the biggest thing. We're out there making plays and we're having fun.”
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“If I need to say something, I can say what needs to be said. Last year, it was difficult with Rick and I both trying to say stuff. You can't really do that. Now, I think I have the respect from the team and the coaching staff.”
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