Will Howard
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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There's actually a very good chance that half the teams you could go to potentially in the NFL, the pressure is not going to be the same as going into that game and after. But I'll say that you don't have to say that. The rematch with Oregon, I mean, just maybe the best half of football you're ever going to see. You guys are rolling.
Do you think it's the same game against Oregon without the one in your back pocket?
You know, I said in that first game, I think if we play on a neutral field, I think it's a different story. I think definitely the environment played into it. We had a lot of false start penalties, kind of just self-inflicted wounds that I think we were a little overcome by events and the atmosphere and the environment a little bit. And that's a collective effort. That's me included.
I think coming out of that game, we knew that we should have beat those guys. And we knew that if we got another chance at them, we weren't, we didn't have to make it close. And, you know, obviously I didn't know it was going to be 34, nothing before halftime, but you know, I knew that coming into that game, I felt really, really good about our game plan. We were going to be aggressive.
I mean, the first play of the game, you know, coach Kelly's calling the, the, you know, smoke screen and go like from that moment, I was like, okay, we're, we're here to freaking, we're not here to just win. We're here to blow these guys out. And I think it was, you know, we just were able to take over our defense, uh, did their thing, man.
Like that's an explosive offense that they were going against and for them to have eight sacks on, on DG and you know, that explosive offense to be able to hold them to, you know, only even 21 points. But I mean, really it was probably, you know, you know, we knew they were going to eventually come back and start scoring and, and doing their thing. But I mean, our offense or our defense,
offense played an unbelievable game. And that first half was like you said, like one of the best halves of football I've ever been a part of, you know, comprehensively, you know, all three phases. And, and we knew going into that game, you know, we had a chip on our shoulder that we didn't feel like they had.
And, and I think definitely that first game, you know, the revenge thing plays into it a little bit, but I always say, man, it's, it's really, really hard to beat a team twice, especially a team like us.
Yeah, I mean, you roll through Tennessee, who looked like they wanted nothing to do with that game. It's a blowout against the number one team in the country in the first half. The funny thing about the Texas score, and then before the Jack Sawyer recovery, you're like, how is Texas in this game? What were those...
conversations like on the sideline is it felt like every time you looked up you're like oh it's second and 22 again like that's the story of that game outside of the scores what five straight possessions where you're looking at the down and distance going we're just killing ourselves right now
That's the thing is coming out of that game and really in the middle of that game, it's like they're not stopping us. We're stopping ourselves right now. And it's these self-inflicted wounds that are killing us. And it's deflating a little bit. And you feel like it's just like, man, we just keep getting ourselves in these situations. But it's also... you know, it's kind of a positive.
And what I kept saying to everyone is like, they are not stopping us. It's not anything that they're doing. It's us hurting ourselves. It's holding penalties. It's false start penalties. It's, you know, personal frowns, all these things that are backing us up behind the sticks.
And, you know, I think that's a little, you know, something you can kind of cling to and be like, Hey man, like it's not them. It's us. Like if we fix what we're doing and we go down and do what we have to do, like, We went down on the first drive and scored. It was no big deal. We knew it was going to be more of a methodical game.
They weren't going to let us hit the shots like we did against Oregon. They were just not that kind of defense. They were a deep zone kind of playing defense. They played the shell over top. They wanted to bring two simulated pressures. That's kind of what they did. We knew it was... We were going to have to march the ball down the field methodically.
Obviously, that fourth quarter drive that we had to go down and score and make it 21-14, that was huge. I think that touchdown right before half to Trey was unbelievably big. That was just a crazy play. You're going out there in that situation and we're saying, hey, we did the same thing against Tennessee. Hey, we're going to either run the ball, run a screen right here, see what we get.
And if we, you know, get into a deal where we get a first down, we can start the two minute drill. But if not, you know, maybe we'll take a knee. It was kind of one of those deals like, Hey, we'll see how this first play goes. And then there goes 32, you know, screaming down the sideline. And that was, it was a different game than the first two for sure.
But you know, when it came down to it, we said we were going to have to win the game in the fourth quarter. And we did just that.
The Notre Dame game had an interesting... Each game has its own feel to it. The score can say something, but you're like, okay, but who do you actually feel better about? You're a big favorite in that game, but then it's like, is Notre Dame back in this thing? Then it's third and 11, and you've got number four one-on-one.
Take us through... Because you take the one-on-one shot, which I think even though it's a third and 11, it's third and long here. With him, it's like, hey, that's always going to be the best look I have. Take me through what the call was, walking up to the line of scrimmage, seeing that coverage, and just all of the things that transpired before that conversion that basically seals it.
Yeah, man. So that, that, I mean, I'd love talking about that play. That's one of my, one of my favorites. Yeah, man, that, that one triggers a, a good memory for me. So, you know, first of all, we go out there and we, you know, we were kind of in a four minute drill kind of mode. So we're trying to run the ball. You know, I think coach day wanted to call that play earlier on in the drive.
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