Avery Cutshaw Quotations

When you can initiate plays like that, it says a lot. What Sa'D does helps the overall defense, helps the whole team. He inspired everyone to play hard.

I look for him to be pretty special by the time he's a senior.

He's a blue-collar worker. He's here every day, trying to get things right in practice. I think what's really helped him is his vision and reading blocks in front of him. We teach him to follow his big guard, his big tackle. Those guys will take him to the end zone.

He's a team player. He gives everything he's got no matter where he's playing.

I always communicate with (assistant) Mike White. Mike said, 'Our defense is playing good. Go ahead and go for it.' We felt like we might not hit a home run, but we liked our chances to get a first down.

I think he can play, but somebody is going to have to give him a chance.

That was his speed. That's what makes him so dangerous.

We could move the football; we've just got to figure out a way to get it in the end zone. We had opportunity after opportunity. We just didn't capitalize.

We work all the time on catching balls in traffic like that. You know you're probably gonna get hit and have to pay the price, so why not catch the ball.

We knew we had to slow him down. We didn't. But we did enough good things to keep him out of the end zone.

We had some drives going, we had some targets open and he just overthrew the ball. But in his defense, the protection broke down a little, too. When that happens, you lose vision real quick.

I've said all along we've got two backs that we believe can run the football.

The wheels just came off early for us. Their big plays hurt us, especially on a couple of punt returns and kickoff returns when they got great field position. We spent the night with our backs against the wall.

Ford's our go-to receiver but not our only one. Keegan sees the field and distributes the ball based on what the defense gives us.

Daniel's a big target, he's got good hands and he gets open. On the play when Daniel scored the touchdown, I told Keegan (Linza) not to give up on him, that he would shake the defenders off him and get open.

If you give him a little crease and he can get in there, he's pretty dangerous. We have to find a way to run the ball a little more to be a little more consistent. Any team that spreads it out and throws the ball still has to have a running attack.

He's probably the toughest football player around. He'll make play after play after play. He took some of their best shots and bounced up and was still out there playing.

He's not all that verbal on the field. But when we needed big plays down the stretch, he was there for us. You could see it in his eyes. He was going to make something happen. He's got this inner drive that makes him valuable.