Notebook: Week 2 Press Conference – Texas A&M Athletics

Jimbo Fisher’s opening statement and game film review:

“Good to be with you all. Looking at the film, very proud of our team. Good win. Any time you get a shutout, that’s hard. I mean, those are so rare and extreme. They’re very hard to get.

Defense, we’ll start there. I thought they did a really nice job. I thought up front our defensive line group kept good pressure on the quarterback but also played the run very well. Fit gaps. The linebackers, our front seven did a really nice job in winning the first down battles, which kept you in more second and long, third and long situations, which really helped getting three and outs and being able to get stops. (Fadil) Diggs up front jumped out at me a little bit. I thought (Isaiah) Raikes played solidly, but the whole front up front I thought did really good. In the secondary and I thought Demani (Richardson) flashed, making plays him and 27 at times. The corners made some plays on the ball, which is good. Sometimes there’s overthrown routes when you cover good but it was also being able to play through the ball and got some tips, got their hands on balls, which is very encouraging. Showing the ball skills, showing timing, showing how to play the technique and get your hands on balls. Doing that I thought they did a nice job.

To be able to create two turnovers, got a tip pick down there by Jardin Gilbert, another young redshirt freshman, that was very good to see. We got a fumble later on, that was great. So we got two turnovers in that regard. Really good situation as far as that goes. And then when as we start even subbing in the game, still kept guys playing well, keeping leverage on the football, chasing the football. I thought we played really hard, getting gang tackles, doing the things you have to do with pursuit angles and things like that, for the most part. Couple of times, the quarterback is very athletic, he got out there and squirted through the pocket. But, you know, we got him down, got in space, and I thought we tackled well in space. That was the other thing, too. Wasn’t a lot of space, but we did tackle well opnce we got to space, that was good there.

Thought offense, we started out, struggled a little bit up front, missed some blocks. It was just everybody took a turn. You take a turn here, you take a turn here. Just like a dance line. And when one person’s off, it messes it all up. I mean before right one wrong and get penetration here missed a twist here missing out call here…