About Sol winning the award for the 2nd time, GM said:
“That’s great. He played sideline to sideline. He made a lot of tackles. … He got dinged at one time, and he still didn’t want to come out. He kept begging to go back in.” (WB)
“He had a great game. I’m proud of him.” (WB)
About being named WAC defensive player of the week for the 2nd time in 3 weeks, Sol said:
“The defense is trying to get more of them than Colt. Nah, just joking.” (HSB)
About how he’ll go for it this week because they have a bye next week, Colt said:
“I’ll be going all out this week. I’ve got nothing to lose.” (HA)
“I definitely think I could’ve pushed it and played on it in the second half. But I think the way the game played out it was better to rest it. We have a bye week after San Jose State, so it’s kind of like this week is all or nothing.” (HSB)
“I’ll be ready, there’s no doubt about that. (Utah State) played tough. Coach (June) Jones felt these guys would rise up. These teams come in with nothing to lose and they play pretty well. But what matters is we controlled the game by the third or fourth quarter and were up by a comfortable margin and got a good victory.” (HSB)
About how his right ankle injury was aggravated during the 2nd quarter vs. Utah State, Colt said:
“My ankle got caught when I got hit (while throwing a pass). My ankle was planted. I strained that exact same part of the sprained ankle.” (HA)
About how they needed to retape his ankle after the first drive of the 2nd half, Colt said:
“I had this throbbing pain because my ankle was swelling up, but the brace and the tape were compressing it. It made it extremely uncomfortable and achy. It didn’t leave any room for my ankle to breathe. When I got it retaped, it was sore, but the throbbing pain went away.” (HA)
About how his right ankle really swelled up after the game, Colt said:
“Even the trainer thought it would be really bad in the morning.” (HA)
But when he woke up yesterday morning, the swelling on the ankle had subsided.
About how the swelling on his ankle had gone down when he woke up Sunday morning, Colt said:
“When I went to get treatment, they were like, ‘I can’t believe how much the swelling went down. What did you do?’ I don’t know, but for some reason, the swelling went down.” (HA)
About how he will practice today, a normal rest day for the team but a practice day this week due to the game being on Friday, Colt said:
“I felt like I had my rhythm and momentum back as far as throwing the ball,” Brennan said. “I felt I was out in front most of the time, and I was throwing good balls. I don’t want to lose that rhythm. I’ll practice every day.” (HA)
About how he’s been recovering quicker when he right ankle injury has been aggravated lately, Colt said:
“I’ve had some bad luck in practice. I’ve had cases where I’ve gotten leg-whipped. I got stepped on really badly. Another time a running back got blown back into my ankle. I mean, it swells up. The good news is that even though it got hit and it was really bad because it was on the same spot, it’s been easier to bounce back from.” (HA)
About their win over Utah State, JJ said:
“Six-0 is a good spot for us. I thought we did a lot of good things. Utah State should have beat UNLV. … They played Oklahoma.” (HSB)
About how the 15-point margin of victory was misleading, JJ said:
“We played a lot of guys. Our second defense gave up a lot of yards in the fourth quarter. But we did enough defensively. Michael (Lafaele) is hard to replace. We didn’t adjust quite as well as we should have.” (HSB)
About how they missed Michael Lafaele vs. Utah State, Sol Elimimian said:
“Of course we need Mike. I bet if we had Mike the (Utah State) score would be less than it was. But I think that team really wanted to beat us. I think we underestimated them. We learned a lesson tonight that teams like this can be more dangerous than ranked teams because they’ve got nothing to lose.” (HSB)
About how they will be focused on the SJSU game, Colt said:
“We’ve got a bye after next week, so there’s no reason for us not to be totally focused and prepared.” (HSB)
About the win over Utah State, DE Karl Noa said:
“It was a good, hard-fought win. Props to Utah State. They came to play.” (HSB)
About how mistakes affect his team, Utah State coach Brent Guy said:
“We can be playing pretty good, but when something big happens to us we disintegrate.” (HSB)
About his kickoff return for a TD, Lane said:
“I just took it to the middle, made a little move and I saw a crease out of the corner of my eye and just hit it.” (HSB)
About how his passing is different on different nights, and was good for the USU game, Tyler said:
“When I throw the ball it comes out different ways on different nights. Tonight it was coming out really nice from the get-go.” (HSB)
About Graunke’s play in the game, Hawthorne said:
“Tyler didn’t skip a beat; he was amazing. He put a smile on everyone’s face.” (HSB)
