media {l Wrote}:Q. Where does the defense go from here after giving up 600 yards?
Captain Ketchup {l Wrote}:We're in the same place we have been. If you watch our defense right now we're a little bit of a roller coaster ride. And what we have to learn to do is handle adversity a little bit. We make a lot of mistakes right now and we have to learn how to grow up and handle that. It's not like, oh, this guy's getting blocked into here and, oh, we're getting mauled or -- no, no, no. What it is we have a lot mistakes being made we have got some coverages being blown and I thought we did a good job of starting to tap that back down the couple weeks before that. And then it showed up a little bit again. We lost essentially our whole secondary and the Hamp deal hurt us and the McDuffie deal hurt us too. So on top of everybody we lost, we also lost those two guys that really should have been functioning within the framework.
So what we have to do is, the thing is, is what we're doing right now is developing some good younger players though. It's not like, oh, there's no talent. No, there's talent, we just got to mature it, we got to develop it. Some of the teams we're playing are explosive. Louisville's got some really good athletes, really fine athletes in space, you just saw that. I mean, I forgot what they put up against Florida State but you just saw this. You saw the 19th team in the country got 62 put on them. So I'm just saying, that's an explosive team.
So right now we have got to smooth that out, make less mistakes and smooth that out and continue to develop on that side of the ball and clearly that's where our focus is right now to do that. But the attitude, the mentality, the how hard they practice, what they're putting into it, phenomenal.
I hate these press conferences because the media is a bunch of pussies. Don't let him get away with that. Have a follow up question. Coach you gave up 600 yards on defense and you tell us that in order to fix that, you have to develop younger players. Coach weren't you doing that all summer and if not, why wait until the season is half over?