University of Tennessee Athletics
Postgame Quotes: Vols 19, Mizzou 8
November 22, 2015 | Football
Nov. 22, 2015
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Tennessee Head Coach Butch Jones
Opening Statement:"Just a great, great, great team win. Anytime you go on the road in the Southeastern Conference. Proud of our players. When you look at the score coming in here, we talk about patience and poise, patience and poise in terms of running the football. Again, tops in the country in rush defense and just keeping our poise and just grinding through. And obviously it is concerning that we had to kick field goals and not get seven points in the red zone but our players just kept their poise and kept their patience. You look at the defensive effort today, a point of emphasis going in was forcing three and outs and we forced six. In situational football there were two-out-of-fifteen in third down conversions, so we were able to get off the field and then gave up 88 yards rushing. On the flip side, against one of the best defenses in our conference, we had 248 yards rushing and what can I say about Jalen Hurd. 151 yards, I believe that is a career high for him. Just proud of the guys up front, proud of Kamara. Obviously Josh did some good things on some of his reads. First down at the end of the game. Aaron Medley with four field goals, 36 minutes in time of possession and the biggest thing when you go on the road is you can't turn the football over with zero turnovers and forced two takeaways. Again, a great team effort. Complimentary football. Proud of our players who came in with a mindset. It was great to see."
On the team meeting Missouri's cold weather and having no long sleeves:
"I'm glad you saw the no long sleeves. That is just a mentality, that's a mindset that we have in our football program. You embrace the uncontrollable factors and we embraced it. When we came over here this morning, I could see the kids had that look in the eye and they were looking forward to embracing but we prepared for it all week long. We also knew this would be a tough game, have a lot of respect for their program and the toughness that it stands for and our kids embraced that and they showed great toughness today."
On the game showing the maturity of Tennessee's program:
"It does. And I am so proud of them. They just keep working and we had one of the best weeks of practice we've had all season long and just for our own mindset, going on the road with focus."
On Tennessee setting the tone in the first quarter:
"Well we knew we had to start fast, we knew that there would be a lot of energy involved in this game so we had to come out and start fast. And we had to make them earn every yard and couldn't give up the big score. And then we knew we had to methodically move the football and we were able to do that."
Tennessee DE Derek Barnett
On the play of fellow defensive lineman Kahlil McKenzie and his first career sack...
"Kahlil did a good job. I congratulated him and said good job. The first of many to come. I am proud of Kahlil."
On keeping Missouri from moving the ball...
"Everyone was just flying around. Everybody, we had 11 guys around the ball. They really didn't have anything to do. They ran a lot of draws and screens, but other than that, they didn't really have anything else to do."
Tennessee PK Aaron Medley
On his first of four field goals...
"That first felt good to get out of the way. I didn't hit it as clean as I wanted to, but I had my hips square at impact and the ball went in."
On the importance of points in tonight's game...
"Anytime you go out there, you've got to be efficient. We needed points in this game or mostly every game. We've got to keep that going throughout next week."
On the difference between kicking success and mistakes...
"Just getting in a rhythm. When you start getting in a rhythm, confidence goes up and everything just starts falling into place."
