here<\/a>. Below is what else Brennan said following the loss:<\/p>\nOn scoring twice in the 1st quarter: \u201cI think we came out fast and physical early, I think we set the tone for how we wanted to play early. I felt like a huge momentum swing was when we didn\u2019t get the 4th down (in the second quarter), when we went for it deep in the red zone, and then ended up giving up points on the back side of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the run defense last 2 games: \u201cI think we\u2019ve played two good football teams, for starters. Both played a bunch of plus-one run with the quarterback run. It\u2019s a lot different than lining up and handing off to the running back. But that\u2019s something we\u2019re going to see, Colorado\u2019s quarterback is a great runner, so we\u2019re going to see that the rest of the season, so we\u2019ve got to figure that out. Today. Coach Gonzales is a fantastic football coach, we\u2019ve played excellent defense this year. We\u2019ve had a tough go with two really good football teams the last two weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the sideline interference penalty: \u201cI wish it was a sideline warning, it was not. That was Coach (Bobby) Wade. I\u2019ll tell you this, there\u2019s no person on our staff or in our program or in our athletic department that\u2019s worthy of 15 (yards). Nobody, not me, not Coach Wade. That\u2019s ridiculous. And so we\u2019re going to address that, too.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the turning point of the game: \u201cWe didn\u2019t get it on 4th down. That\u2019s a situation right there where we have to play complimentary football. We\u2019re inside the 30 I believe and we go on 4th and 1. Number one we need to get it, like we did in the game. We were aggressive, we had our foot on the gas pedal in the 4th quarter. That one in the first half, we need to get that first down so we can keep that drive moving and add points there. But what happened was we didn\u2019t get it and we gave up points right at half. That was a big impact on the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Tre Spivey: \u201cTre\u2019s awesome. He\u2019s a transfer kid but he\u2019s an Arizona kid, and it\u2019s so important that we recruit the state of Arizona. And if those players leave the state of Arizona and want to come back we\u2019ve got a good place for them. And I think Tre Spivey would tell you this is a good place for you to come. I think he improves every week, he\u2019s someone getting more comfortable in the scheme. That first touchdown was an incredible play by Noah, and then the DB undercut it and missed it and Tre got out, which was great, because you got to see how fast he was for such a big body.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Noah Fifita: \u201cAmazing. You know how I feel about Noah Fifita, he\u2019s special in every way. I mean that. To be 24 of 26, like how many times has that ever happened in college football? I think what\u2019s happening is kind of the synergy between Noah and Coach Doege and the offense continues to accelerate. The more we play the more we know each other and the more we get into the flow of things. And I think Noah is trusting in the offense and believing in Coach Doege and you\u2019re seeing good results. Now damnit, we want to win. We want to win the damn game.\u201d<\/p>\n
On coming back from down 14 in the 4th: \u201cThis team\u2019s got a ton of fight. This team is a great group of kids, they love the U of A. They love each other. They love this program. I think a lot of people say that, it\u2019s lip service, I think it\u2019s BS when we people say it. When we say it it\u2019s real. All these kids chose to stay or they chose to come because they believe in what\u2019s happening here. That fight didn\u2019t surprise me at all, I loved it. I\u2019m just crushed we couldn\u2019t get a stop there when we needed to, to try and turn it back and go the other way. The way they responded late in this game was fantastic. And a week ago we were down two touchdowns in the first quarter and we came roaring back. These kids are fighting their ass off.\u201d<\/p>\n
On his message to the team after the loss: \u201cMy message to the team is we have a good football team. We\u2019ve lost to good teams on the last play of the game and in double overtime. And as much as that hurts, the good news is we can fix it. The easiest errors to fix are assignment errors. If you get beat by a better player \u2026 sometimes that happens in football. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the case these last two weeks. I think we showed we can play with these people. We\u2019re right there. With the team, I was like okay, let\u2019s fix what we can fix. Let\u2019s stay together and not let the outside noise, social media, whoever, pull us apart and do the right thing for each other now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arizona rallied from down 14 points entering the fourth quarter to tie it on Saturday at Houston, only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4938,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-10320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-arizona-football","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}