Am I obsessed?

[Husker B]

Out of stater? Try out of country-er.

 

I married a chick from England. Oh how she hates football season.

[BIGREDIOWAN]

My wife is getting better with the whole thing. I'm originally from Iowa, but Nebraska red through and through and she is starting to get the Husker Fever bug. She wears red every weekend on her days off!!! She has a blast at the games and is learning the game very well.

[HUSKER 37]

I'm so obsessed (trying to cope with the offseason) that I find myself looking for clues to the syche of a certain QB to make sure opposing teams wont assume he can be rattled easly in a tight game or pushed to anger and big mistakes...

 

 

At 3:37 AM

 

 

I DID find this OLD press conference: After ASU lost to USC a couple of seasons ago..

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Derek Hagan And Sam Keller Press Conference Quotes

Offensive leaders talk about this week with media on Monday. Oct. 3, 2005

 

Derek Hagan PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES, OCT. 3, 2005

 

ARE YOU GLAD LAST WEEK IS OVER? "Not really. We put the game behind us

already. We know that if we finished the game we would have come out

on top."

 

DOES THE TOUGH LOSS MAKE IT HARDER TO PUT THE GAME BEHIND YOU? "It

might be a little harder, but once practice gets started Tuesday, guys

will get going. There's still a lot of season left to go. We have

Oregon coming up this week, so we have to put the game behind us no

matter what."

 

 

TALKING ABOUT Sam Keller BOUNCING BACK "I think he'll be fine. Sam is

just one of those guys, when things go wrong he'll keep playing and

he'll just put it behind him, we just got to be prepared, he's already

in the film room watching film on Oregon. He needs to do the things he

needs to do, some of the mistakes he made last week, he's going to

make those corrections, and hopefully not make the same mistakes this

week."

 

AS A LEADER, TALKING ABOUT CALMING EVERYBODY DOWN "I think the

veterans, we know what we have to do, but some of the younger guys you

know haven't been in big games like that, and we just got to make sure

their keeping their heads up, not letting that game bother them.

There's going to be other opportunities in the years to come for them

to step up and make some plays for this team."

 

ON THE INTERCEPTION OVER HE MIDDLE OF THE FIELD IN THE 4TH

QUARTER "That play was very strange, that's just one play I feel like

I should make no matter where the ball is, it's just one of those bad

breaks, the ball just happened to fall right into the guys hands, he

really wasn't paying attention, he was falling down and the ball just

hit him right in the gut. Its just an interception, but it's sad to

see that guy got hurt, you don't want anyone getting hurt, especially

not when they blow their knee out. I guess you can say he made a great

play. It's just one of those lucky plays that happens and I think that

was the turning point of the game right there. I jumped up and I was

just trying to bring the ball in, I guess my momentum just caused the

ball to fly out."

 

TALKING ABOUT HOW TOUGH IS IT TO PUT THAT PLAY BEHIND YOU "After that

play it was rough, I went to the sidelines and watched the replay and

you know it was just one of those plays I felt like I should have

made. Sam put the ball on the spot where I was the only player that

could get it, I jumped to get it but the ball just didn't get up in my

hands."

 

TALKING ABOUT ANY POSITIVE THINGS TO TAKE AWAY FROM THE GAME "We know

we can compete. We know that we got six or seven more games and we can

win those games. Our two losses came to the number one and number five

teams in the country, we know that if we had won those two games we'd

be in the top five right now so we just have to put those games behind

us and keep playing. We need to keep getting ready for Oregon this

week because we know they're another good team that jumped on top of

USC, they just didn't finish."

 

TALKINGABOUT IF THIS LOSS FEELS BETTER THAN THE 45-7 LOSS LAST YEAR TO

USC "Well losing feels bad anyway you go, you don't ever want to lose

you know especially when the number one team comes into your house.

You are up on them and the game just gets away in the end and you lose

the game. Last year after we lost, a bad loss, just getting blown out

like that on television 45-7 guys just really didn't want to be on the

sideline anymore when the game got out of hand in the first half. We

know we competed with USC and we felt like we should have won that

game but we just got to finish, you know they're not number one for

nothing. They play four quarters of football."

 

 

 

Sam Keller PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES, OCT. 3, 2005

 

EXPLAIN LOSS TO USC "It's hard because we know we had it, you think

for a couple of days how life would be different if we had won these

games, even though you go back and try to rewind and pick out some

things that you wish you could just do over, but once you get over

that you know that's what yesterday is and today is for, come tomorrow

it's time for the Ducks so you got to have a short memory when you are

a quarterback and I have one so, it's not as hard as you may think."

 

ON WHAT THE USC LOSS TEACHES "You know that I'm not perfect, I'm not

going to be perfect everytime. I fought hard. I was over aggressive

sometimes and I just got to learn for the future even though you're

playing an excellent team just stay within yourself. Everyone was

talking about how we were going to coward down and flinch and stuff,

that really got to me because I never do that, so I was not scared for

one minute the whole game. It never hurt any of my confidence, and

maybe that hurt me a couple of times because I was too aggressive on

some of the throws. I just wanted to win so bad, so in the future just

stay within myself, trust the offense."

 

ON OREGON'S QUARTERBACK KELLEN CLEMENS "I haven't seen him that much

from what I hear he is pretty good, he's running the new spread

offense which gives him a lot of options, he can run a little bit. I

haven't seen much of him it looks like he's got a good release, he's a

good Pac-10 quarterback."

 

ON SENIOR ASU WR Moey Mutz "He's one of my best friends on the team,

you can't say enough about him, we played ball all the way back

against each other in high school, I think that last time I had more

that five picks in a game is when I had three, and [Moey] had all of

them when they played against us, just a little side note (laugh).

Moey is a great guy, he's one of my best friends and he's a stud, he

comes to work everyday and he's one of those reliable guys, he's very

smart, he gets open, he finds little holes and sits down and he has

deceptive speed, so he's a great receiver, he'd be a starter in a lot

of offenses in this country, he'd be the number one go to guy in a lot

of offenses."

 

ON INTERCEPTION IN THE FOURTH QUARTER "I got hit after I threw that

ball, after I got hit I was on the ground I looked up and I saw it in

his hands after I got hit, and I was like `nice', that's one of those

freak plays that just happens for a really lucky team that is number

one and they haven't lost and they've had a lot of breaks go their way

and so it's another one that went their way, it was the turning point

in the game, I wish it didn't have to happen that way, the kid that

caught it you know was in the right place at the right time and so,

it's just a bummer that it didn't go our way."

 

ON TAKING ANY POSITIVES AWAY FROM THE GAME "You know everybody in the

world can see, everybody in the world wants W's and that's pretty much

what everybody cares about is wins, but when you look at it, and coach

Koetter said it, we fought and we competed and we were with them. If

they want to call USC on of the best teams ever we had them on the

ropes and the same thing goes for LSU, so what we can take from this

is that we're just as good as them, it's horrible that we couldn't win

them, but I can look anybody dead in the eye and say that we are one

of the best teams in the country, and you know if somebody wants to

disagree with me that's fine, but I really believe that and I think

everybody on our team believes that, as well as our coaches and that's

what we can take from it, you know it's just painful to lose that way

though when you know your as good or better."

 

TALK ON IF SAM WAS GLAD THAT LAST WEEK IS OVER? PLAY REST OF SEASON "I

really liked last week because I kind of like that stuff, the big

atmosphere and everything going on, we finally had a gigantic crowd

with as many people as I've ever seen in an upper deck section, I like

that stuff I like all the stuff surrounding if I could go back and do

it all over again I would you know now that it's over it's over and

it's time to move on, that's just part of the season, this week's a

very critical week we can't let USC beat us twice. We have to come out

and practice hard and go just as hard as we did last week, because

this is not a slouch coming in here and these guys are really angry at

us for beating them ever since I've been here, two times at there

house. There going to come down here with a lot of fight so we just

got to look forward and be ready for this week."

 

TALKING ON PROBLEMS WITH THE HEAT "I didn't have any problems with the

heat, because I was so focused on the game, the outside factors that

you can't control you learn to block out. I can block anything out

pretty much when I want to, so the heat wasn't bothering me. I was

just sweating a lot and I had to towel off a lot which is fine but

that's one of the things about being a Sun Devil you play in the heat

and you love it, that's for the other teams to come in here and moan

and cry about. I don't have a problem with the heat that's part of our

deal."

 

TALKING ABOUT A CHANCE OFA LETDOWN VS. THE OREGON DUCKS "Derek and I

and the leaders of the team aren't going to let that happen. It's not

going to, we are going to come out just like we did after people

thought there was going to be a letdown against Northwestern, we are

going to come out and were going to be firing on all cylinders,

because that's the kind of team we have."

 

TALKING ON YOUR BIGGEST GAME OF YOUNG ASU CAREER "Purdue was huge

because it was my first one and it was a bowl game, but you know when

you look at everything surrounding the game on Saturday, I'd have to

say that game that was pretty huge and it was a lot of fun. I was just

loving it. We were winning and everything is going good, even when

they scored I said that's fine we're just going to come back and score

and we did, then they came back down scored and I though we were going

to go right back and score again, and so I was just loving that game.

It was the biggest game I've ever played in, wish we could've won, but

given all the circumstances in them being the number one team and how

we were right with them, I can say that was the biggest game."

 

SAM ON SEEING Lee Burghgraef SCORE A TOUCHDOWN "It was great to see

Lee get a touchdown and the way it happened too. He just held on to

that thing so tight, that was good that was fun. I was happy to get

Lee the touchdown, and number one I was happy to score the touchdown,

because we had to go ahead with five minutes left in the game, we were

first and goal on the foot yard line, I thought the coach was going to

call a running play. He called a pass play and I was kind of surprised

but, hey anytime he calls a pass play I'm happy, and then it went to

Lee and it was just pretty fun."

 

CAN ANY TEAM CAN BEAT USC "No I don't think so, those running backs

are just too good, and the defensive scheme is very good, and they've

got athletes on defense, they wanted to knock their defense all week

for being inexperienced and not having all those guys in there, those

guys were good, those guys were real good. Bing and Wyatt, their

linebackers, were good, and their d-line was real good. They want to

say their weakness is their defense I'd say you're wrong, and so I

don't think they're going lose, that's just the way I see it.

 

TALKING ABOUT WHO HAD A FASTER DEFENSE: LSU OR USC? "Darn close, I'd

say they are both fast, I don't know that's a great question, because

it's so fresh in my mind, USC. Maybe but I think their both close,

real close, as far as team speed on defense."

 

TALKING ABOUT COMING BACK AFTER A TOUGH LOSS "I think we're good at

that and I think it's because it's so important not to go into a

tailspin, and we had leaders last year and leaders now that won't let

that happen and I think it's just part of our team psyche that when we

lose you know rather than feel sorry for ourselves we feel sorry for

the team that has to come in here and play us. We're going to be ready

and it's just part of who we are not stay down in a rut."

 

TALKINGABOUT Lee Burghgraef AS A RECIEVER "He's not one of our first

three options (laugh), but he's got good hands. I'm not going knock

Lee, he's a stud, he's an athlete he just not as fleet of foot as Zach

or Jamaal, or B. Miller, but you know he can do anything, put him in

the right position and he'll catch the ball. He's a fantastic blocker

and he's so reliable, he's just always in there, but you know as a

receiver he can catch just about anything, so you know you just got to

pick the right spots to get him out there. He's probably not going

match up well against most of the safeties in the world, but he's got

great hands, he's an athlete."

 

OREGON'S FOCUS ON RUN, NOT PASS "Oregon State dared us to pass, so if

you dare us to pass were going to pass, so you know, but my eye's

light up any week because we have the capabilities of going out and

racking up yards and touchdowns against anyone we want, just as long

as we don't shoot ourselves in the foot. Look how good our guys are.

There's ways to beat any defense that they put out there against us,

so if there style is to be aggressive and put a lot of guys in the box

and play downhill like Oregon State did, and force us to throw and

make plays and that's probably what were going to do, so we'll be

ready."

 

MINDSET IF POCKET BREAKS DOWN "My mindset is that it's probably better

to wait and see if somebody else is open who's a little bit faster and

more athletic than I am, that's just my thought process, and I feel

like I can make more plays with my arm than my feet, when I scramble

around a little bit sometimes really big plays can happen out of that,

so sometimes you give them a chance or throw them away. If you can get

five yards you just duck your head and run, but that's just part of

it, they were covering us really well, they dropped into their

coverage, cover 2, cover 1 a few times and their linebackers got into

good positions to take our over the middle routs away. Sometimes you

know when our pocket breaks down, you got to get out of there and run

you know that's just part of being a quarterback. You got to make

plays on the move sometimes."

 

TALKING ON INTERACTING WITH ANY USC PLAYERS "Not really I kind of got

off the field kind of quick, Lawrence Jackson came up to me after the

game because we play the Cal/Florida Bowl on the California team he

did well that game and played hard, he was in the backfield a lot,

more of my interaction with him came verbally with him during the

game, that's the way they are, they like to talk a little bit, so I

talked right back at them, I'll always remember this game, the crowd,

the way my linemen fought and we fought hard and had that game and

should've had that game, you know just take back 3 or 4 plays and it's

a totally different game."

 

TALKING ON TRYING TO FORCE PLAYS "I could have made that throw, maybe

just a little earlier, but you know some of them were not open, some

of them made great plays, the one that came out of Derek's hands and

that was a freak play it fell in that guy's hands and he got hurt at

the same time. I feel so bad, you never want anybody to get injured

but the ball falls in your hands and you blow your knee out, if that's

what happened to him, I mean that's just a weird play. The one on the

sideline the first one in the second half that was a force because I

mean, in scramble rules you know your rolling out and the play broke

down. I thought Derek was going to keep coming towards me and you just

put it in a spot where he can get it but that was a total force on my

part just trying to make something happen when I shouldn't have.

There's another pick where they tipped it and the guy got it that's

just them getting their hands on the ball and making plays. I had to

check that one because there was a lot of guys in the box on a run

play, going back I wouldn't have even checked it, I would've kept the

run play, because we probably could have got it off, I just checked to

a pass play I wanted to get it to Derek but the guy got his hand on it

and made a pick. I'm trying to think of all the other ones because

there seemed like there were so many, but that's part of football and

give credit to them for making those plays."

 

TALKING ABOUT HOW BIG WAS SPECIAL TEAMS "Oh man, you watch the film

and our special teams really beat them in all phases, you know

kickoff, punt return, punt, everything we handled them well on special

teams, and that showed, and that's just credit to how hard we play, we

know guys like Terry Richardson, the guys that you don't hear about

working their butts off on special teams, it really shows up on film."

 

TALKING ABOUT THE INTERCEPTION ON SIDELINE TO HAGAN "They were running

this coverage we hadn't seen, some three deep weird coverage, the one

time were going take a shot they pick that coverage to put in there,

you know it didn't work so I came back to Derek and he comes back

towards me and I threw it and tried to make something happen on the

sideline. That kid Wyatt kind of snuck in the back door, I don't even

know how he did it, It was just a force and a bad throw, bad decision

I should say I should've just thrown it away, but that's me being

overzealous I guess."

[papersun87]

That's a lot of Keller quotes . . .

 

In my family, you're the weirdo if you're NOT excited about spring football.

[BGREDSTUCKN IA]

I applaud you for your efforts on finding all of these quotes about Mr. Keller. I think we need to look onto the Nebraska scene now. I am as excited about spring as anyone, but what he did at ASU is dundy! GBR

[huskerdude171]

Even though I'm a big fan, I can't get excited over spring football. The spring game is pretty much a joke since its just the starters versus the 3rd and 4th stringers. When I start getting interested and obsessed is about 2 weeks before the season all the way through the bowl game.

[HUSKER 37]

I applaud you for your efforts on finding all of these quotes about Mr. Keller. I think we need to look onto the Nebraska scene now. I am as excited about spring as anyone, but what he did at ASU is dundy! GBR

 

It was just cut/pasted from one link.

 

The main thing I got from it and reason I wanted to share..Was to get a little insight of how he deals with adversity (interceptions) and also learned that he shares my concern for others (even opposing players).

 

I don't really follow ASU... even though my nephew goes to school there (here) but if he walks on...? I'll definitely go to their games and root for them.

[Blackshirt316]

Theres some great stuff in those quotes, The only quote in there I wasn't too fond of was when Sam was talking about throwing the pick in the USC game. As a QB, It's never good to call a team you just lost to lucky, it's ok to say you were unlucky and that some of the breaks didn't go your way but NEVER say they got the breaks and that they got lucky. EVER... especially when that team is undefeated, playing for championships on a consistent basis and more than likely going to be staring you down the next season.

[hack]

That's a lot of Keller quotes . . .

 

In my family, you're the weirdo if you're NOT excited about spring football.

 

you want more? maybe we can arrange for jack bauer to swing by keller's dorm room to ask some questions.

[HUSKER 37]

Theres some great stuff in those quotes, The only quote in there I wasn't too fond of was when Sam was talking about throwing the pick in the USC game. As a QB, It's never good to call a team you just lost to lucky, it's ok to say you were unlucky and that some of the breaks didn't go your way but NEVER say they got the breaks and that they got lucky. EVER... especially when that team is undefeated, playing for championships on a consistent basis and more than likely going to be staring you down the next season.

 

 

I didn't get that..If I remember that play correctly, The Ball bounced through the intended receiver's hands and dropped into the defender's hands/knees while he was on his back and looking through his earhole..Hard to practice that one..Definite Luck involved..Good and bad (tore knee ligaments prior to making the "catch").

 

Then Sam follows it up by saying "No I don't think so..." when asked, CAN ANY TEAM CAN BEAT USC...Which I was a little dissapointed by, but he showed pretty nice poise at the press conference..especially for being a true Sophmore.