Arkansas QB Taylen Green on Bobby Petrino: 'He's very, very intense'

Arkansas became the first FBS team in the last 20 seasons to open the year with 10 touchdowns on its first 10 drives. Four of those touchdowns came in the first quarter. Redshirt junior quarterback Taylen Green, a seasoned transfer from Boise State, orchestrated that offensive masterclass in a 70-0 rout of FCS Arkansas-Pine Bluff.

But offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Bobby Petrino was the conductor.

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Green joined The Paul Finebaum Show Wednesday and discussed what it’s like working with Petrino, a former NFL and college head coach who is calling plays for the Razorbacks in his first year as OC.

“He’s very, very intense,” Green said. “Whether it’s in the film room or out on the field, he demands excellence from the quarterback position. He demands me to be on my Ps and Qs every single day, and having no excuse.”

Green continued: “That trickles down to the O-Line, to the running backs, to the receivers, just to everybody, just having the mentality of, ‘We’re going to score every single drive.’ Every single time the ball gets our hands, the belief and the execution that we need and that we’re going to have is ’10 out of 10.’ That’s how we practice every single day.”

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Green completed 16-of-23 passes for 229 yards and two touchdowns in Arkansas’ runaway victory last weekend. He also ran for 88 yards and a pair of scores on just six carries.

Last year at Boise State, the 6-foot-6, 230-pound Green threw for 1,752 yards while posting an 11:9 touchdown-to-interception ratio. He tacked on 436 rushing yards as well as nine scores on the ground. The year before that, he put up even better dual-threat numbers with the Broncos, accounting for more than 2,000 passing yards, 14 passing touchdowns — and only six picks — 588 rushing yards and 10 rushing touchdowns.

Green was a three-star recruit coming out of Lewisville High School in Texas, where he became the On3 Industry Ranking’s No. 48 quarterback in the 2021 class.

Green is hoping to continue exceeding his recruiting ranking in his first season at Arkansas. The Hogs will get a much stiffer test Week 2 when they face off against No. 16 Oklahoma State in Stillwater.