Rhett Lashlee recaps Duke performance, previews matchup vs. Pitt
SMU HC, Rhett Lashlee, looked back on the team’s performance against Duke and sets the scene for the Mustangs’ first home game in a month against Pitt. Watch Coach Lashlee’s full press conference below.
Coach Lashlee opened his press conference with, “Excited to be back game week. Big top 20 game here, [so] excited to be back home. From our road swing, guys are are beat up, but they’re excited and ready to go for Saturday night and in front of what should be a sold out crowd.”
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When asked if anything new stood out on the Duke game, Coach Lashlee said, “Pretty much what we saw. [We} played pretty good football, minus six turnovers and a goal on stand, which makes it really bad football. Defensively, [we] played pretty solid. . [Duke] did a nice job and went back to back touchdown drives on us, but, to give up six turnovers the way we did, and I think at least four of them were on our side of the field and and then we get zero points is just incredible. Offensively, it’s really frustrating because you can’t win turning the ball over. We’ve never had a game like that. It was just kind of like a twilight zone scenario, but you take the turnovers out, we didn’t play bad. But when you have the turnovers, it just waters everything down and makes it as yucky as it was.”
When previweing the Pitt defense, Lashlee said, “Against Pitt, you can look at it and go, well, nobody runs it well. But, a lot of people don’t consistently try to run it on them. I mean, it’s hard to be explosive running the football against Pitt, so you’ve got grind it out. But at the same time, look at all these opportunities in the passing game, they smother the quick, short passes and they make the deep explosive passes really tough. Teams like Syracuse who all they want to do is throw it, [you] saw how that looked. And then teams that only run it, struggle. I think to beat any good defense like Pitt, you got to have the balance and that’s what we’re gonna have to do on Saturday.”
