FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno State head coach Matt Entz addressed the media Monday morning to reflect on the 39-0 shutout win by No. 14 USC in the Bulldogs’ season opener last Friday, Sept. 4.<\/p>\n
Entz has full confidence in quarterback Jayden Mandal, who made his 1st start in 21 months at The Coliseum. “Those reps he took on Friday were invaluable,” said Entz.<\/p>\n
The Bulldogs’ second-year HC chalked up Mandal’s struggles — 7-of-15, 77 passing yards, and two turnovers — to inexperience. He even pointed to another former Fresno State QB’s regular-season debut.<\/p>\n
“David Carr threw four interceptions in his first start here [at Ohio State],” said Entz. “If someone pulled him, would he never have had the career he had? Someone’s got to be committed to these guys.”<\/p>\n
In preparing for Sacramento State (1-1) this coming Saturday, Sept. 12, Entz has told the Bulldogs to do four things — “grab the good, fix the fixable, correct the critical, and stay the course.”<\/p>\n
“I know we’re going to lean into what we do, and we’re just going to do it better,” said Entz. “If I walked into the team meeting room today and changed a whole bunch of stuff because we got beat, I think I’d lose the team.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno State head coach Matt Entz addressed the media Monday morning to reflect on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-456743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}