Florida State Post-Game Quotes
Florida State Post-Game Quotes
Coach Bobby Bowden:
“They should have won the game. They outfought us, outhustled us and out executed us. I don’t know how we won the ball game.”
“We were not looking ahead. It was Murphy’s Law out there – everything that could go wrong did. The fumble, the facemask at the end after we had him stopped.”
“Our QB did not play well enough in the first half for us to win. I would have subbed for him if I had somebody healthy – Rix was not able to go in. He did play better in the second half.”
On Leon Washington:
“We wouldn’t have won the game without him having the game he did – it was the one bright spot for us.”
“I told our boys not to say anything but how well Syracuse played. We just didn’t deserve to win, and that is what I told Paul.”
“Thank goodness we shut down their run or we wouldn’t have won. Their QB played very well and he is going to be a good one.”
DT Travis Johnson:
“No matter what, we’re to make plays and get everybody to the ball. We said at halftime that we needed to calm down and play Florida State football. It definitely was a different atmosphere here in the Dome.”
“We thrive on shutting down the run game, and then go from there.”
“On the last drive, the QB was under duress and had to get rid of the ball.”
RB Leon Washington on the difference in his yardage from the first half to the second:
“The main thing was just picking my feet up. That carpet … man oh man. The first time I got the ball I tripped on that carpet. We had to be patient with our runs. I think the two runs I scored on, I was patient. We came out blocking. They made a block and I got up in there and did the rest. The second half we just came out in the kicking frame of mind and decided to run the ball.”
“Coach said to have good patience. Take your time because we know we’re a lot faster, not taking anything away from Syracuse, but we’ve got a lot more team speed than those guys do.”
