Nico Davillier and Eric Gregory Press Conference - Arkansas 70, UAPB 0

a shut out I mean how how does that feel from the defensive perspective it feels good man I mean we ain't had one of those in the minute I mean it feels good just for our first game coming back it it feels pretty good but I mean we left a lot of stuff on the field too we weren't perfect so I mean we still got a lot to prove in but I mean it it was great for us I feel like it was good as well um I feel like everything we've we've worked for is paying off now and we we got to we got to get better at some things but we had a good a good game tonight yeah I guess for for both n you take for this is your first start you got to be a captain what what did that mean to you uh it meant a lot to me today uh especially coming back to Little Rock um getting to put on the shule for the for the fans and it just felt good to be a captain and be a starter and for both guys n youd take first you want you know 70 nothing hard to doing much better than that a lot of points and then not any points for the other guys and I know this was a team you expected to to beat s and you beat him even worse than probably the prognosticator thought is how good was it to open with a game like this when you're coming off a tough season you obviously got a big game next week uh I think it just builds us a lot of confidence to going into next week um it just felt good to go out there and play against another team today yeah kind of basically what he said man it was a it was a great starter for us man just coming back and playing against somebody else it's not our team I Manan it it felt good so I mean it going to be big for us we can use this momentum to propel us throughout the the rest of the season but I mean it was great and Travis I think he was upstairs last year yeah and he was downstairs tonight what impact did that have how you think looked like must have work pretty well what you guys think having Travis on the sidelines there with you I think I think it was good I mean he bring a lot of energy so I mean he can't give give that energy from upstairs through the headset to us so on the field just give us the extra energy and just telling us ay lock in Focus we have four quarters I mean not just one or two so I mean it was great having on the sideline with us I agree with what EG said as well yeah for either of you I guess one of the UAP you know wide receivers you know made the comment earlier in the week did you get a sense that the secondary guys you know maybe had a little extra chip on their shoulder coming in today's game oh yeah for for sure I mean we seen it I mean we uh we talked about in meetings I mean I mean last year we had ups and downs so I feel like they were looking more so of that and not really just prepared on what we got this year I feel so I mean they definitely put had had a chip on their shoulder and they really wanted to come out and show them that we got speed did either y did either of y'all happen to see Ton's touchdown run there before half thoughts on that it was crazy crazy I'm glad I'm glad he played for the Hogs man I guess Sam was particularly proud that you know the first second and third string defense were able to preserve the shut out I guess what you just kind of think of all the entire units working together to get the shut out I mean I think it was I think it was big I think it's a real confident booster for the young guys I mean just to get that experience of playing and just being a part of the I mean not just seeing the ones do it or even the twos do it just for the young guys to get their experience also I mean I feel like was big there's never a perfect game and you even said there are things to clean up what is it that sticks out to you just for cleanup wise I mean just little little things I mean stuff that we been doing since day one just being in our our hands and eyes and our gaps I mean just transitioning better it was it was a lot of things that we could fix up I say the same thing just because um it's a lot of the little techniques that we got to clean up in order to be the the best defensive line we could be and I feel like we gonna fledge this next week and and get on rolling speaking of next week thoughts on taking this on the road Stillwater Oklahoma National Television uh to me it's just another football game I think I think the defense is ready and the offense is ready this a confidence booster I think we just gonna go out there and and play how we know how to play football yeah I'm payback on what he said it could the same thing I mean just GNA take it as another football game it's a tough opponent so we're going to go in study study them well focus on us focus on the little details that we need to get better at I mean and going and play our best game two-parter if that's okay you guys if I understood samai you get tomorrow off do something Saturday and get Sunday off I mean how nice is that especially going a tough road game you get to relax a little bit and get a little bit time off by playing early like this I think it's good man because just coming out of fall Camp I mean you got days on upon days just stacked up on us I mean so I feel it's going to be big just have a a full day off just to relax I mean even watch some games I mean it's it's gonna be big I say the same thing he said it give the older guys some rest you feel me um we've been going hard for for a long time so it's gonna be good to get give our body some rest and just sit back and just relax you know old guy like Eric he needs that like I and then I know you guys obviously you're doing your thing on defense but you know running game last year even in against Western Carolina FCS team it struggled and that kind of turned out to be a red flag how good was it to see if you got to observe in the first half um how good that running game was early on and really kind of setting the tone I mean we play against every day of practice I mean so we we believe in those guys we see what they can do every day so I mean just for them to Showcase showcase it to the world that we are able to run the ball now and we can do it efficiently I mean it's big it's definitely a confer booster for both us defense and offense yeah I'm say the same thing he said uh I feel like it just it helped them and it helped us as well um running the ball good is gonna open up the pass game so it's gonna be we G we're gonna have a good team this year all around guys great job thank y'all