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WATCH: Casey Woods previews SMU vs. Navy

On3 imageby:Billy Embody•11/22/23•

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SMU OC Casey Woods. (Matt Visinsky - On3)

SMU offensive coordinator Casey Woods met with the media on Tuesday to recap the Memphis game and look ahead to Saturday’s matchup with Navy. The Midshipmen are coming off back-to-back wins and now look to upset the Mustangs on Senior Day.

“I think quietly they’re really good on defense,” Woods told reporters. “They were a lot better than I wanted them to be when I turned the film on Sunday morning. They are obviously precision execution, they execute at an incredibly high level. They’re very precise. They’ve got a lot of complicated looks that they can operate. We talk about our one-word calls that we want to do offensively and be able to run up there and give complicated looks to the defense and do that, they do the same thing but defensively.

“They get one-word calls and they get in there and they present to you fronts and a twist and a pressure and they adjust all their coverages on the fly and they do an incredible job of that.”

Ultimately, it’ll be on the Mustangs to wake up and be ready to play on Saturday with a lot on the line for SMU.

“Our kids have got to understand that when they wake up and they roll in here in their sweats and music’s playing and everything, that ain’t how they’re waking up there,” Woods said. “So we’ve got to make sure that they’re they’re dialed and locked in here and and have great respect for this opponent.”

SMU and Navy kick off at 11 a.m. CT on ESPN2 inside Ford Stadium on Saturday. If the Mustangs win, they advance to the AAC Championship Game, where they’ll play the winner of Friday’s Tulane and UTSA matchup.

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