Brent Guy Quotations

Leon made some nice plays. He knew when to run and get the yardage. ... He is making better decisions.

Leon is making good decisions, and that is when you can win.

Leon did a fine job of running the football. Toward the end of the game, he didn't do a few things we wanted him to do. He lost his concentration a little bit. But we're pretty pleased with the way he handled the game. He ran well and took some big hits. He's going to do nothing but get better.

I have a great deal of respect for Dan.

We've got to run the football, but not just with our quarterbacks. ... We are blocking better, and Marcus Cross and Ryan Bohm have gotten better at running it.

We lost our composure before the half, we lost field position in the third and we were crippled by penalties. We just flat-out got beat.

We made too many mistakes. All those things will get you beat.

He (Jackson) hasn't complained and said he is fine. It was worse than we originally thought. ... It took longer to heal than we thought.

John Chick makes a play every day, somewhere. That's going to be one of our better personnel moves.

I think it is still going to be competitive at that position. But Leon has shown a lot more understanding of what we want out of the offense, what he is seeing on defense, seeing the whole picture and putting it all together better. That has been fun to watch. He is really throwing the ball very accurately.

Jerod Walker keeps pushing the envelope on the quarterback position. He's a guy that pulls the ball down and makes plays. He is learning how and where to make the throws.

Overall, we are getting better. We had three freshmen playing on the offensive line, but we are running the zone play better. ... Defensively, we are fitting in better with some young guys.

Rob Myers has been coming along. ... That catch he made in the end zone was by far the best catch I've seen him make. ... That was a heck of play by Leon and Rob.

Marcus Cross made some good plays when we went live. When he learns more of the offense and what we expect of him, he will get better.

Marquise has done that a couple of times this spring. He has a good burst and can make those plays. ... That was a nice hit in the open field. That's the way you want to see one side start.

It feels just like a loss when I was an assistant.

I thought it was pretty obvious that Marcus Cross can help us in our offense. He has the ability to get out into space and make plays, get to the edge. He jumped out.

I'm hoping this week is going to hold up. We had about everything last year.

We feel good about that position. And it is good we have competition there.

We played good in the first quarter and about 12 minutes of the second.

We need to learn to practice back-to-back. ... I told the players that every tomorrow is the first day of their career, and they need to get better every day.

We have tried to educate the guys. But we are not going to stick our heads in the sand. We are going to keep educating them and hope to avoid these problems.

We played well in the first half. We did what we needed to do until those last three minutes.

We didn't have first-game jitters. We had last-three-minutes-of-the-first-half jitters.

We didn't have any sacks, but a little bit of that was Leon, who did a good job of escaping a couple times. We need to create more turnovers on defense and get some negative yardage plays.

We want to be a balanced offense. That is the hardest thing to defend, and it makes it so much easier to throw the ball vertically when you have people trying to stop the run.

When you have four injured offensive linemen that you think can really help you, that is not the situation we want. What was good was having the three freshmen get a lot of snaps, get a lot of work.

We need to create more turnovers. We also need negative yardage plays.

We're the new kid on the block. This is where Utah State wants to be.

We wanted to run and throw, but we just couldn't do that. We made a lot of errors and got backed up.

We've got 10 days now to practice and correct things.

We give up two big plays, and then we are behind.

We just got beat 31-7; it's hard to find any positives. I'm not a guy that finds positives out of a 31-7 game.

We were playing well for the first quarter and 12 minutes.

We try to take it one game at a time. I think we took a step back last week. We let the crowd and adversity affect us. I thought we learned from that at Utah.

We didn't have pre-game jitters, we just couldn't convert and we lost our composure before the half. We gave up a long pass before the half, and that's what bothers me the most.

We did run the ball well and didn't put the ball on the ground. I was pleased with that.

Boise State is exactly what we are trying to build and want to be which is a great team. When I say that I mean they are a bunch of guys who know how to win, understand what their coaches want and execute under all situations.

Even our older guys were missing tackles, so I can't blame the entire thing on our youngsters.

Black did a nice job. ... We didn't get many throws today. I wanted to run Marcus.

Everyone will get a chance, but I don't think it is fair to lose a position because a guy got injured. It will be competitive. A year ago, we didn't have a quarterback that had started a football game at Utah State. Now, we have two quarterbacks that have won a football game at Utah State. That is the type of competition we want at all positions.

Cross is coming along and has made some nice plays. Ryan had a nice run today (Thursday). That's what we need, when we split a defense like that.

. . . They are a great team.

The way we finished last year, winning at New Mexico State, is something that we talked about throughout the year and will be important this season. We have to learn to win on the road to become a winning program and to be able to compete for league championships. We will have a lot of opportunities to do that this season.

They're the team everybody points to in this league because of their three consecutive championships. They do things the right way. They win as a team. They know how to execute. They know how to win tight games.

Dale Robinson has made more plays that anyone could have imagined.

Donald is one of the leaders on the team. He has a chance to go on and play at the next level. He is a very athletic guy, who worked very hard to learn how to run block.

It's not going to be something where we stop and chat. I want them focused - that this is it. . . . We're walking down there to defend our ground.

The beginning of our schedule is very challenging. We are going to be playing a lot of football in the month of September where as last year with the hurricane and the open dates, we played just two games in that first month.

It was much easier for the players, because you are talking in the same language. A year ago, it sounded like Chinese to them, because everything was new. The coaches' names were new, everything we were calling and doing was new.

It was 21-7 for a long time. All we had to do to get back in the game was make a play. But we couldn't do it.

He sees the whole field. He makes wide, quick cuts. And he understands pursuit by the defense.

The great thing about Leon is he is not satisfied at all with where he is. He puts a lot of pressure on himself, which is good at that position, which is what we need.