PAT NARDUZZI: Well, had a good day yesterday just reviewing the tape with the guys and just going over the good, the bad and the ugly, as you do every Sunday. There’s always good and bad and ugly. You have to go back and watch the videotape.
A lot of self-inflicted wounds. I told our guys that the good thing is you saw adversity out there. After one series in the third quarter it’s 28-21 and there’s adversity, which is always good to fight through that, but self-inflicted adversity. I talked about a couple of them last night. The momentum changes of games, the Desmond Reid punt return for a touchdown was a big momentum change for us. It’s like, okay, we’re going to knock them out, but then we let them come back in the game because of what we do. Example is the muffed punt return that goes for a touchdown. Give them momentum. An interception, big return, but again, our defense gets the momentum back by stopping them and getting their own interception. 3rd and 1, we go three-and-out defensively, we jump over a shield of some sort, which the guy kind of chopped us so it’s a little bit of an odd play, and you can’t block below the waist either on special teams. But either way it’s a momentum changer. All of a sudden defense is back out there. Sudden change again.
Things like that that we did to ourselves. Opening kickoff, I think when you look at just winning the field position, they started off having the ball at — their worst field position was the minus 25, our worst was the minus 5 and the minus 10, so we had 95 and 90 yards to go. So just explaining all that stuff to our guys last night.
But great meeting. A win is a win is a win. We’ll make corrections. They’re very coachable guys, and I like where they are attitude-wise right now, and we’ll move on to a good Cincinnati football team.
Scott Satterfield has been there for his second year. We’ve faced him when he was at Louisville, and he’s a heck of a coach. He’s probably the play caller on offense. I think he does an outstanding job, as good as anybody is going to do, of mixing up personnels in different formations and motions. Heavy, heavy motion team, as well, so we’ll work again a lot on motions and what we’re going to see there.
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