Sunday With Guy
10/15/2006 12:00:00 AM | Football
Oct. 15, 2006
After dropping a 63-31 decision at No. 6 Texas, the Baylor football team returns to the friendly confines of Floyd Casey Stadium to host the Kansas Jayhawks on Saturday, Oct. 21, at 2:05 p.m. (Central). Here are Baylor head coach Guy Morriss' thoughts about the Texas loss:
What went wrong in the second quarter last night?
"You know, they pressured the quarterback which led to an incomplete pass. Now you're looking at second and ten. We had an interception...The protection was okay, but then they shifted fronts. And we didn't adjust to it when they shifted fronts. A guy got loose right up the A-gap, so we're scrambling to get rid of the ball. It's just a combination of all three things."
Could you have done anything differently in the second quarter to slow them down?
"There was that whole first quarter and a half where we were doing a three step drop and cutting. We cut a lot more to try and slow the rush down. But we just didn't get them down. We didn't do a good job of cutting through the legs....So then we had a sack, fumble, two penalties. And we had a third and eighteen, a long situation, and Carl [Sims] was down on the other end of the field thinking it was a punt return. So that's what we got a delay for."
Could you tell on film that the match-up probably wasn't as bad as some thought going into the game?
"I think there were a handful of times that we got out-physicalled a little bit. But again, in getting out-physicalled, it's like a tackle being told to sit straight back off the ball, and he jumps outside and gets beat underneath. You're playing against great athletes, but still, your techniques will nullify the difference in athletic ability if you do what coach asks you to do. We had a bunch of that. Whether it was the pressure of a big game or the pressure of better athletes, we just kind of at times do our own things."
What was your outlook coming out of halftime down 28-10?
"Well, we knew we were getting the ball back. Let's take it down and put it in the end zone and get back in this thing. And we did that, but we couldn't sustain it."
Where do you go from here?
"Honest to goodness, I think we're in a situation where we could win out, or we could get beat in all five of them. That's what I'm talking [to the team] about today. You have got to trust what your coach is telling you to do, and do it. You've got to be disciplined enough to do like he's telling you to do it. It's just example after example and time after time... But overall, I came out of this game feeling like we can play with the big boys."
Did you go into this game thinking that you needed some help from Texas?
"I think it's to the point where you talk about, `we need to take care of our business."
Do you come out of this game frustrated?
"After the game I think I said, `I'm mad enough to bite a nail in two, but I'm kind of proud of the way we kind of hung in there.' We played hard. We just didn't play smart."
Sunday Notes: Senior QB Shawn Bell has completed at least one TD pass in nine consecutive games, extending his Baylor record ... Bell, who passed for a career-high 303 yards against Texas (the most by a Bear since Aaron Karas' 359-yard day vs. Kansas in 2002), has thrown for at least 200 yards in nine straight games, extending his Baylor record ... Bell has 32 career touchdown passes, which ties the all-time mark set by Cody Carlson from 1983-86 ... Bell has 32 career TD pass against 15 career interceptions--no other BU quarterback with at least 25 career TD passes had fewer than 27 career picks ... Bell now has 194 completions on the season to eclipse his own school record (190) set in 11 games a year ago ... Senior WRs Trent Shelton and Dominique Zeigler extended their consecutive games with receptions streak to 40 and 27 games, respectively ... Shelton has had at least one TD reception in four straight games and totaled at least two receptions in 17 consecutive games ... Zeigler has had at least two receptions in 27 straight games ... Sophomore walk-on inside receiver Thomas White posted career-highs for receptions (6) and receiving yards (95) ... Sophomore WR Mikail Baker's 58-yard kickoff return was a career long and the longest for a Bear since Shaun Rochon's 98-yard TD return at Oklahoma ... Sophomore RB Jacoby Jones hauled in his first career TD catch, a 9-yard grab ... CB C.J. Wilson tied his career-high with seven tackles, equaling his total from the Oct. 7 Colorado game ... Redshirt freshman DE Jason Lamb registered his first career sack among his five solo tackles in the loss to Texas ... Redshirt freshman LB Joe Pawelek led the Bears in tackles for the second consecutive game with eight tackles, all solos, at Texas ... Pawelek continues to lead all Division I-A freshmen in tackles with 7.9 stops per game, which ranks T-No. 9 in the Big 12 and T-No. 70 nationally overall ... Baylor is looking for its first 3-1 start in conference play since 1995 (opened 3-1 en route to 5-2 finish in final season of SWC ... Baylor will honor its 1985 Liberty Bowl and 1986 Bluebonnet Bowl champion football teams during halftime of Saturday's game against Kansas, and present 1986 Thorpe Award winner Thomas Everett with his College Football Hall of Fame plaque.
