Clay Jordan Quotations

Worthngton is probably one of the best athletes in this conference. I just told him after the game that I really appreciate him being a two-sport kid.

Mike's got good hands. He can catch the ball out of the backfield. He also makes picks,

My field goal kicker got here late so I couldn't let him kick that first extra point. I thought that was going to cost us the ball game.

Number one, I was trying to change our fortune. Number two, we've been preaching a lot about character and showing some class. I just thought it'd be a sign of showing kids that you didn't have to look like a bum all the time to do a job. They got a kick out of it. I think it loosened them up a little bit.

I credit that to our defensive staff. They made a great adjustment on about the 35-yard line, got us in a different front and got us lined up differently from what we were doing. Once we got lined up, we were OK.

(Foy) is a real pleasant kid. He's good to be around, never in any trouble and he has great character.

He has run some offense in practice. He just goes so hard on defense, it's hard to get much out of him both ways,

He gives us a pass defender (at linebacker). He's made for that position.

He's just stuck through it, got his chance and now it's paying off for him. He's a portrait of a kid who just stuck with it.

Our special teams were super. I mean we gave up a (long) kickoff return, which was not good. Before (that), on our punt team, (Sean) Droese kept them pinned up all night. Our punt protection was good because they were bringing a lot of people.

Our offense is one dimensional, ... We have to be able to throw.

People need to know that the cattle and the pastures and the citrus groves they see do not sustain the farming family,

I think if we can get a win, we can get the ball rolling a little bit.

We just decided to go back to our horse and ride him. For an inside run, he's as good as there is around here.

We never could sustain anything offensively because we couldn't block them. They were just too physical. Too strong.

We're not very well coached. We're not working hard enough on keeping control of the ball. We get something going and drop the football. Then we don't catch a few balls that could have broken it open.

We worked on this offense all summer with Tony Jones, but he went out with an injury,

We're still wanting to be a farm family, kind of. But we don't want to be limited to that.

We've got three starters back on offense and two on defense. We're very green, ... We lost our offensive line, quarterback and main wide receiver. We're running around like chickens with our heads cut off. It's kinda early. These endowments, we look at them as a glorified scrimmages.

We should have been up (at halftime). We missed the wide-open guy here and then on third and one we tried to pass and the kid slipped when we had a guy open down the field, but its things like that. (New Bern) made plays when they had to and we didn't.

Both of us are hungry for a win. I think both teams will be hungry to get on the winning side.

DeAndre did a nice job tonight. I knew we might lay it down some, so we had to make up for it with big plays. And we have the players to make those.

It's a balanced offense, ... It's not an offense you can just load up the box and throw it. They don't allow you to do that.

It's going to have a big bearing on who gets the No. 1 seed out of the 3-A division, ... I think the winner of this game is in the driver's seat as far as that goes.

That kind of took the gas out of us. You could see them go flat right then.

That really set us back because a lot of our offense was based on (Moore's) inside running,

They hurt us on the counter all night. We're just not very good against that.

They wore us down in the second half,

Their strength just wore us down. Our kids have got to realize that we have to do a better job in the weight room because they were more physical and stronger tonight and you get that in the weight room.

I think our kids realize that we've got to be a little more disciplined, a little more in control, in that situation. We can't tune down the emotion because, if we're not emotional, we don't have a shot.

(Garris) came in and, for what we ask him to do, he did a heck of a job. He doesn't get a lot of reps in practice.

I don't think we can physically match them, so we're going to try and confuse them a little bit,

He probably wants to run the ball a little bit, but he never questions what we do - just a very valuable asset to our team.

Their offensive line is what makes them so good, ... They're really physical kids and they scheme so well.

This is a long year and we've got a long way to go. We have to get a lot better in the snap. We played hard, we just didn't play smart. We got tackled and we made a lot of mistakes.

All we can do is put our best ones out there and see if we can slow them down and take them on at the line of scrimmage, ... The one worry you (have) as a coach is when you've got everybody in the box you can have and you still can't stop them; you're hands are tired. That's what hopefully doesn't happen.