Houston Cougars coach Willie Fritz reacts to loss to Oklahoma Sooners football, 16-12!

Published: Sep 07, 2024 Duration: 00:04:02 Category: Gaming

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opening remarks I guess I'm really proud of our guys I thought our guys playing extremely hard they were very competitive the beginning of the game till the end and uh that was a big step forward I'll be honest with you I was disappointed in our effort last week I might have talked about that a few kind of times this week kids came out and competed and and uh played tough you know the the whole ball game and uh very very proud of him for that you know when you're playing the number 15 ranked team in the country you got to play smart though too we we made some mistakes critical points of the game you know you got to hear the coaching and you got to do exactly what the coach is telling you especially when you have a timeout before you go out there and may that happened on a couple of occasions you know I'm not sure about the punt at the beginning of the game he swears he he didn't touch it but you know we responded and kept playing hard you though that that put us in a Hole uh you know at the end of the game there I was told that they were rewing it that's why I kept everybody out there on the field nobody told me they decided not to review it so uh you so we just uh we got to play smart when you're playing a you know the 15th ranked team in the country you got to play real smart and also play hard and tough physical I'm very very proud of our guys uh you know I I uh I thought they competed at an elite level and I and uh that's Improvement but we lost open it up for questions Willie when you looked at what you did from week one to week two with Donovan maybe some of the quick throws yeah that's how how did you feel just offensively I I thought coach did a good job of of putting us in a position to be successful you know they're just you know whatever it's called we got to execute it you know you got to go you know if you're you're reaching the three you got to reach the three you know especially when running a strike to the to The Big Field you it happened on the the last one with the uh safety you know and we we we went over on sideline before we went out there so that's what we got to get better at the want to the the competitiveness those things that kids have got we got to execute properly in order to win it's hard to freaking win you know it really is and you got to everybody's got to be on the same same page and all the know typical sayings that everybody says about that to get Willie you guys were able to um hold Oklahoma to only 14 points offensively no points in the second half what was working for you guys defensively against them you know I I thought we did a nice job of tackling you know and and uh staying over the top you know they you know they they didn't have any they won I believe Big Shot play besides that we made him have to drive the ball down the field a bunch of different plays and sooner or later you know most of the time they're going to goof up and put themselves in bad down a distance situation and you got to you know finish them off uh I thought we played very well on defense throughout the ball game coach coming into the season we look at Oklahoma there was a lot of talk about their offensive line and you guys really look like you were able to take advantage of that tonight can you talk about that match up with your defense against their offensive line well you know I think we've got a good defensive line we rotated a bunch of guys in there uh we got some tackles for loss you know it's a big deal between second and 8 and second and 12 uh you know so you know we feel like that can be a strength of our team our defensive line you know we're not there yet but we got some good players up there and uh we we feel like we can match up against people with the defensive line and we need to you know we're going to play a lot of guys we we need to do a good job of moving and and uh you know putting them in position where they can you use your athletic ability

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