COACH MEYER: Thank you for coming. As always, thank the best fans in the land. Great turnout. Provided us a lot of energy on a noon kickoff, and I thought our guys responded very well against a team that was swinging as hard as they can.
Credit to Maryland. I know there’s a lot of stuff out there, and I just can’t stand hearing that stuff. I just respect coaches, respect players. I know one thing, they played their hearts out.
It was a good win. As a matter of fact, it was a great win. We’re going to enjoy that one and get back to work next week.
I know the question about the quarterback is going to come up. J.T. is just a very good player. We’ve been having some red zone issues and the Q run, everything condenses so much in there. Either you have to be extremely accurate, which we’re going to continue to work at that. In the throwing game — or the run game, you have to somehow find an extra hat. That’s only done a couple of ways, that’s option football or Q run to equate numbers. He provided an obvious spark for us in there. Of course, he’s a leader and a guy that needs to be on the field.
I’ll answer any questions.
Q. Did all those hours pay off? Did you break the rock today? Was there a breakthrough?
COACH MEYER: I think there was. A lot of guys were involved offensively. You throw the ball for 300 yards, you get some guys involved. You’re balanced. We wish we could get Zeke out loose a couple times, and we weren’t able to do that, but he ran hard. Give Maryland credit. They were playing their tails off and kind of negating that and allowing us to throw the ball a little bit.
Q. [No microphone] with the quarterback situation?
COACH MEYER: Sure, until next week.
Q. I mean, are you happy with the way that worked?
COACH MEYER: I’m very happy with it. I’m into good kids. I’m into good people that are committed to our program. To see a smile on those guys’ face and to see they worked hard, and it’s a unique situation. We’re going to bring them both up here and let them both talk to you because it is unique.
The attention to this thing, I’m exhausted from it. I can imagine — I don’t read my phone very often, so I can imagine what those two young guys — they stay pretty focused, and they’ve got a support group that’s really, really strong, and that’s down in that locker room.
Q. Number one, did the Perry Hills kid, number 11, catch you all’s defense a little bit unaware?
COACH MEYER: They were starting to read some down linemen. Hadn’t really showed much of that. The Q — true spread offense stuff they were doing that really they were more of a throw team. I thought we adapted well. I shouldn’t say well. After a couple of them, we slowed it down and got them in some long yardage situations.
That last quarter is not on our defense. I’m so angry at that thing that that happened. Defense is done. Stay on the bench and just grind it out. We snap the darn thing like a high school team over the guy’s head. That shouldn’t have happened. I’m not putting that on defense at all.
Guy comes out — athletic quarterbacks are something that’s hurt us two weeks in a row.
freddy from boca
one could have just taken excerpts relevant to md and left the rest out. maybe there are more osu fans who read this than i would have thought.
in meyer’s big 10 press conference previewing the game maryland was never mentioned. not even once.
· 11/12/2019