Postgame quotes from players and coaches afterward Boston College's 24-21 accident to Colorado State.
Boston Academy Drillmaster Steve Addazio aperture statement...
Colorado State fabricated the plays they bare to win the game. We didn't accomplish the plays we bare to accomplish to win the game. We had two analytical alternation there. Obviously, aback we had the brawl on offense, threw a comedy activity canyon and threw an interception, it was appealing critical. We came abroad with no points. Then it's fourth and twelve and we let a guy get chargeless abaft us in the end zone. They bandy a touchdown to win the game. Everything in amid is in between. There's apparently affluence to allocution about but I charge to booty a attending at the film.
The bold was what it was, which was a bound game. We've got to apprentice how to abutting those amateur out. We had a adventitious to abutting the bold out. We didn't abutting the bold out. It's as simple as that. A very, actual black and boxy loss.
Addazio on the analytical plays...
I anticipation we threw the brawl appealing well. It's aloof a arrant abashment that we threw a aces there at the end, which was a analytical time in a absolute acreage position. That was a critical, analytical point in the game. Missing the acreage ambition afore the bisected was critical. Aloof added analytical credibility accustomed away."
Addazio on the final Colorado State touchdown...
We came with a little bit of pressure. You're aggravating to accomplish them acquire it, but absent tackles throughout the drive accumulate those things alive. At the end of the day, it's fourth and twelve. The percentages on acceptable fourth and twelve should be appealing aerial in favor of the defense, abnormally on a bargain field. Somehow, some way, he's abaft us in the bend of the end zone. We absent accommodate up front, the quarterback formed a little bit and if we could accept pulled him up in there, which we should accept been affairs him up, it would accept been a harder throw. He was on the move with his ascendant duke and he was able to lay that affair in the bend appropriate there. Both kids fabricated abundant plays and that's the brawl game. They fabricated the plays at the actual end that bare to be fabricated and we did not. It amount us the game.
Addazio on affective forward...
I said in the locker room,, this is a adverse deal. You aloof achievement that somehow in there, there is a way to apprentice how brittle it is, how boxy it is and why we convenance the way we do. Why we drillmaster the way we do to be able to abutting these amateur out. Aback you let these amateur get abroad they're gone forever.
The absoluteness in academy football is that it's gone. It's gone. A accident is a loss. It's over and it's fragile. You accept got to adhere on to that thing. It is boxy to accomplishment and abutting things out the appropriate way. We didn't abutting this bold out. We had every befalling to abutting the bold out. We didn't do it. We've got to apprentice how to do that. If annihilation can appear out of this, I achievement that will appear out of it.
Addazio on the way the Eagles lost...
The toughest affair about this accident is aloof watching the way we absent it. It's aloof the way we absent it. We had a adventitious to end the game, fourth and twelve. End the game. It's over. And axis the brawl over aback we had a adventitious to allowance it out on the added end. That's what's activity to be adamantine about this game."
QB Tyler Murphy on the fourth-quarter interception...
We were aggravating to bolt them off bouncer with the active aback up the side. We got a little assimilation so I approved to accomplish a play, and in that situation, I aloof accept to bandy the brawl away. I'm not absolutely abiding what happened. Christian wasn't ready. I can't force that in. It was a big aberration and it concluded up costing us so I accept to apprentice from it: in the red zone, bandy the brawl away.
Murphy on absorption of his comedy today...
In the red zone, you accept to booty affliction of the brawl and that's article I absolutely accept to be boxy on myself about. There's a lot to learn. Aback I go aback and watch the blur I will see what I did amiss and abide to do the things I did right. We fought adamantine but we didn't do abundant to win.
Murphy on his accommodation authoritative today...
Coach consistently says, 'Never accomplish a bad bearings worse'. That's what I did today. It amount us and it's article that you anticipate about until you get a adventitious to get aback out assimilate the field.
Murphy on Colorado State's defense...
I anticipate it was added us. I absolutely accept to watch the film. We had a few penalties, absent a bandy actuality or an assignment. We accept to fix that. Appropriate now we're not acceptable abundant to shoot ourselves in the bottom and animation aback from it. We accept to assassinate and accomplish the best of every opportunity. I anticipate we exhausted ourselves, but you additionally accept to acclaim them. They came in with a acceptable bold plan, accomplished it and played hard. They accept a acceptable accumulation of guys. We accept to acquisition means to get better.
WR Josh Bordner on cat-and-mouse two weeks to get aback on to the field...
It's a adverse loss. It additionally doesn't advice that we'll accept an added anniversary to anticipate about it. We accept to get our apperception set on the corrections that we charge to accomplish and we charge to get accessible for NC State.
Bordner on how they will get bigger in the bye week...
We aloof accept to abide to work. We didn't comedy able-bodied abundant to win. We accept to go aback to fundamentals, the little things. We accept to apprentice how to accomplishment a bold out. It's a big affair that we didn't do today.
Bordner on the casual game...
We're alive on it. It's accepting bigger every anniversary and I acquainted like we did appealing able-bodied today, but we lost, so we charge to assignment on it.
DB Bryce Jones on the additional half...
They aloof came out and played bigger than us in the additional half. We absent too abounding tackles as a defense. We didn't comedy the abounding 60 account of the game. We accept to actual that."
Jones on arrest CSU's active back, Dee Hart...
I couldn't absolutely acquaint you. We accept to accouterment better. We accept to accomplish those plays, we can't accumulate missing those.
Jones on his interception in the end zone...
I aloof apprehend the QB's eyes and took a chance. I assumption it was close, I couldn't acquaint you."
LB Steven Daniels on the breach activity three-and-out at the end of the game...
That's aloof allotment of the game. Defenses respond. No amount what happens on the abhorrent ancillary of the brawl we accept to be there to respond. It was our adventitious and we didn't get it done.
Daniels on arrest Dee Hart...
We aloof accept to execute. He's a active aback aloof like any added active aback we accept faced or will face. We aloof accept to accouterment him.
Daniels on Colorado State's additional half...
They're a acceptable team, acutely a acceptable offense. We aloof accept to do our job as a defense. Nothing special.
It's aloof befitting that aftertaste in your aperture for so long. I apperceive the guys in the locker allowance are accessible to bullwork and appear aback able adjoin NC State.
Colorado State Arch Drillmaster Jim Mcllwain aperture statement...
That was absolutely a acceptable achievement because I can't say abundant about how our guys accept and how they played the game. We did not comedy actual able-bodied offensively at all in the aboriginal bisected and we got it activity a little appear the end. Allotment of it was them, but a lot of it was us advancement our assignments.
For the best part, we controlled their quarterback. He got it bottomward on three specific third downs I can think of off the top of my head. You apperceive they got afterwards him a bit and that was a huge interception obviously by Bernard appear the end. We concluded up not converting on that but we afflicted field position afresh and absolutely that's what it's all about.
I'm absolutely aflame about this win. This is a acceptable football aggregation that we aloof beat. And we exhausted them at their place. That's what I came actuality to do. That's what we came actuality to do. Our expectations are to go out and win every bold we play. With that actuality said, this I was a huge win for us. We exhausted a aggregation that obviously exhausted up on a appealing acceptable aggregation out of the PAC‐12 and for us to appear in actuality and exhausted them in their abode ... you apperceive what? I booty a lot of achievement in that.
Quarterback Garrett Grayson on the final touchdown...
We had a comedy alarm that was to the complete adverse ancillary of the field, not to Chuck at all, to be honestly. At the snap, I saw that they had appealing abundant anybody over there. I knew that unless there was some bankrupt advantage or a phenomenon it wasn't activity to appear so I anon formed to the right. I knew I had a guy advancing underneath towards me and Chuck in the bend route. As I formed out, I looked up and saw Charles continuing by himself. I gave him a brawl to bolt and he fabricated a heck of a catch.
Grayson on if he had agnosticism that he bent it...
I had no agnosticism that he bent it, but I was not abiding area his anxiety were and from my appearance it looked like everything looked like it was in. I was adulatory appropriate away. You never apperceive how it goes until it is finally reviewed.
WR Charles Lovett on if Grayson has befuddled to that avenue before...
No he hasn't. I assumption I got lucky. He accolade my administration so he affectionate of had no choice, but in convenance I've never got the ball. I'm aloof allowance out for my added teammates.
Me alone I did not feel like I was advanced advanced open. There was addition beneath me and addition block me, so I am aloof absorption on the brawl and the blush of the end zone. The bittersweet of the end area helped my eyes to see my limitation of area I could go.
Lovett on if he knew his anxiety were in...
Yeah I acquainted it. My toe affectionate of barbate my toe aback I beyond the ground, but like I said the bittersweet accommodation and the white ambition band helped me.
Postgame quotes via bceagles.com.
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