Steve Sarkisian<\/a>]. Mix in a little quarterback run inside zone, a slider. just wanted to make sure that I protected the ball. (On how his 35-yard touchdown played out)<\/p>\n\u201cThis team just never loses the fight. Shows up every week, no matter what the media says about them. If we didn\u2019t play well the week before, we just keep fighting and keep continuing to get better. It\u2019s fun to be a part of.\u201d (On the team\u2019s resilience against such a tough schedule)<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m so glad. He was a football player and his career got cut short, so wins like this, where he\u2019s in the locker room after the game, really makes me appreciate it more.\u201d (On his dad\u2019s advice to \u2018keep chopping wood\u2019)<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s awesome. Just everything that this rivalry means, it\u2019s awesome for me to just be a big part of it, and I\u2019m blessed for it. I\u2019m just blessed.\u201d (On playing a big role in this game against Texas A&M for two-straight years)<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were really just enamored with us and just doing what we needed to, worrying about us and what we can control. So that was the biggest thing.\u201d (On sentiment of team focusing on themselves)<\/p>\n
\u201cWe knew coming into the game how much of a factor [Marcel Reed] was going to be and how important it was to try and take away his running ability. Because when he gets going and can run the ball well, it\u2019s really hard on the defense to stop him. We really honed in on that and I felt like we did a pretty good job of containing him. Obviously, he had a couple big plays, but you can\u2019t limit all of them. He\u2019s going to get his plays, he\u2019s a good player.\u201d (On the defensive approach to limit Texas A&M QB Marcel Reed)<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re relentless. Obviously, we dropped some games, and we wish we could have those back. We feel like we\u2019re a great team at the end of the day. We play for each other, we play hard, we play fast. We\u2019ve been through a lot as a team, and we continue to fight back and come back stronger.\u201d (On why Texas deserves to be in the College Football Playoff)<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were in great coverage to take away the verticals. We knew that we wanted them to march down the field and earn every single yard. We were just taking away the verticals. I knew he was trying to take the one-on-one shot, so I took that away early and then fell back and tried to break on that little over route and he threw it and I trusted it. I just went and made a play. I couldn\u2019t have written the story better for myself, so it was a special moment.\u201d (On his interception and what he was feeling during that play)<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, man. It\u2019s just so special. You\u2019re one of those kids out there that\u2019s asking for autographs when you grow up. Nobody believes in you all your life, except yourself. And then you go from walking-on to living out your dream in the last game that you get an interception in is against your rival, at home, last game at DKR. It just feels so good. All my teammates were really proud, so it was super cool. And you know, hard times make this moment much more sweet.\u201d (On what kind of highlight tonight was in his career)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 16 Texas went to task on rival No. 3 Texas A&M on Friday night, 27-17, in front…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1507,35445,9514,9516,27,29,28,29696],"class_list":["post-69675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-arch-manning-23-isidore-newman","tag-liona-lefau-23-kahuku","tag-michael-taaffe-21-westlake","tag-steve-sarkisian-92-west","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-trevor-goosby-23-melissa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69675","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=69675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}