Kansas State LB Desmond Purnell discusses win over UT Martin

it was a l yeah it it was a great deserve win that we needed you know I mean I'm just going to be honest you've come so far as the line do you just feel like you're now just playing yeah it feels just just natural at this point but it's all the credit to the coaches and then my strong and teammates from do screen to Austin Moore to Nick Allen like those guys you know before me teaching me the ropes and everything how' you feel the linebackers flowed side to side tonight I felt like they did great it didn't matter who was in the game I felt like everybody had great communication with each other how good can this defense be really good you already know how last year went uh top one of the top teams in the nation yeah I feel like we can be top five in every category and that's what we start to be every day what do you think you guys did best tonight um definitely stopping the Run we know that coming in that's what they wanted to do that's what they wanted to initiate so us just you know getting on their side of the line of scrimmage and making them you know go three and out and then having to punt the ball so we can give it back to our offense holding a team under 100 yards passing that I mean linebacker secondary you guys got to take a lot of pride in that yeah 100% yeah coach claron preaches that CU once you stop the run you only make him one dimensional so that's what we just focused on doing and then they you know the guys behind me did a great job stopping them how important were the guys up front not only stopping the run but getting the quarterback as well oh yeah Toby phenomenal every Everybody in the D line they were just attacking him he was he was more worried about you know trying to escape them rather than trying to get the ball to his receivers coach claran called you one of the better leaders on the team earlier this week but said you might do it in a little bit more of a confrontational way yeah what's that look like uh just you know just getting after guys not trying to be soft on them or anything but they are everybody on the team knows that it's out of love it's not out of you know trying to get at them personally or anything so kind of a different switch to Flips whenever you get on the field and you're very calm cool Collective here and then on the field it's a there's a certain violence that I feel like we see that is not present here is there a switch to FP yeah yeah there has to be a football you know it's a violent game played by Violent Men so if you don't go out there with that mindset you're kind of just going to get you know get you know banged up and everything so

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