Cade Klubnik and Peter Woods, 08/31/24

yeah being joined by quarterback K kumnick defensive lineman Peter Woods youall please far away with questions whenever you're ready swey said he was proud of you after the game um not only the way you fought and played but your remarks in the locker room the leadership that you show what some of the things you your teammates um first thing I said that uh first thing that I said was you know for the guys in that room um when they leave one day I want those guys the only thing that they remember yet remember me as is somebody that never quit on them um and I hope that they remember that right now and I hope they remember that last year when we're sitting four and four and I never quit on them and I'll never quit on him now and I told him when I show up on Monday I'm show up with more energy than I ever have in my entire life and I'm going be showing up like we haven't even played a game yet um and I said that I'm never quitting on this team and I challenge them never quit on me and never quit on each each other um because at the end of the day it's one game and we got a long season ahead and we're going to flush this and learn from it and go get better and uh just challenge them to not quit on me and I won't quit on them because I'm never quitting on them um or let's go have a great great week next week and great season Peter uh pretty comfortable out there on the Ed today had a great first half how good it be able to play out there it felt it felt it felt good you know I've done it before you know it's not really my first time ever doing it but uh you know just kind of working the game plan stuff that the coach has had for me to do and you know just kind of worked out that way why why do you think you all had so much success in the first half stopping their offense and you know kind of got away from the second half uh you know credit credit to Georgia you know they're they're a great team but you know like just like K said you know we got to come out Monday and you know we'll watch it on tape and see what really happen you know schematically but then at the end of the day you know what I'm saying just we got to fight we got to finish it's a long season ahead and you know there's no hope hope for a better yesterday but uh there's hope for us to do something about it tomorrow and the day after that in the days to come so that's kind of how we're approaching that what would you attribute just generally offensive struggles to one specific thing or few things um you know I mean I can't really put my finger on it exactly um I thought we had a pretty good first half in terms of moving the football um and then it would be you know penalty penalty like when we really can't have it you know third down conversions we're moving the ball you know hit the backside hook route to Antonio penalty big third down right there we're getting in the Red Zone we're marching um you know just shooting ourselves in the foot um um so you know I you know they they're a great team and um I just you know I think that I I think we have a great offense and I think that we're going to be able to do some really good things this year and um just continue to uh you know find tune the details and um but you know I think and I think throwing the football we did some good stuff today um and running the football Phil ran it really hard today and made some great cuts um you know protection I felt like I had a lot of time back there and um just gota you know take advantage of the opportunities when they come this is L defense um and and turnovers were so problematic for yall last year especially the catastrophic turnovers um must be a positive take away that you didn't put the ball on the ground against that defense yeah had the one interception that was just a great play by yeah unbelievable play you know I mean you know saw saw TB kind of have a yard on him and and let it out there and you know guy did a great job kind of pushing Tyler to the sideline line and I mean one of the best plays I've seen um since playing at Clemson so uh kind of you know TI the hat to that kid right there but yeah I mean I thought we did a great job obviously handing the football and um and taking care of it I mean other than that I don't think we even had a turnover all night um other than the fourth down stop if you want to count that so you know I mean just I thought we did a pretty good job you know taking care of the ball just just got to take advantage of opportunities when they're there and um just a couple Mas so what are y thoughts on the upcoming week with App State very competitive team coach Tav say one of the best G5 teams out there night game at Death Valley good to be back home kind of as you said as I said flush this away what are uh Kaden Peter what are your thoughts on what to expect when the Mountaineers come in uh next Saturday night uh like I said to y'all before the standard still the standard uh just like I said you know playoff ready game one now playoff ready game too and we're going to approach it with the same intensity as if we were coming out to play the number one team in the nation just like we did this past week and that's just kind of the mindset that we got right now in the locker room the conversations that we had is like hey look we we took this one to the chin but I'm I'm just keep saying it there there's no hope for a better yesterday but that we can do something about it tomorrow and so that's that's that's what we plan to do you know just come out here with Focus intensity and uh get ready to have a great week of practice and a great game on Saturday against that yeah kind of what I said show up Monday ready to go it's kind of all I have Peter um you guys held Georgia sorry you guys held Georgia to six points in the first half then gave up 28 in the second I guess what did Georgia kind of change from the first to second half that kind of led to that offensive explosion yeah like I said we just uh got to go and watch the tape on Monday and see you know kind of kind of where we slipped up and uh credit to Georgia too I mean they're a great team I mean they're not robots just like we're not robots they went in and made some some adjustments in the second half that kind of uh that kind of gave him the edge over us in the second half and so you know credit to them but you know there's always little things and and big things too that we can do to be better on that side of the ball but uh you know we played our hearts out and we're going to come back and we going to punch and we going to punch and we going to fight we not giving up we not quitting and you know that's that's not even in us not in our DNA anybody else for these guys yeah okay there was a couple times early on I think that your receivers of lost the ball while it was in the air was there any kind of explanation or what they saw on those plays um which ones specifically are you talking about think Antonio in the end zone the flag route early on Nicole when he was going down field looked like he had a little bit of space yep um yeah first one to tone he just say he lost it in the lights um you know lights kind of shine it down but I mean that's it was a great play it was it was definitely there just kind of you know that one sucked to kind of hit um we had him exactly kind of where we wanted them and tone tone ran a great route just kind of lost it in the air and um definitely wish we had that one back just kind of missed opportunity and then yeah the one the one to Cole um I just don't think he was expecting it I I really I yeah that's kind of that's kind of what I heard from it I think was on the fourth and one in the first half um something miscommunication what happened on that one halfway the hle you guys come offer you know call time oh yeah it just my fault um kind of honestly didn't understand what he was thinking um and I didn't know you know I I we just wer on the same page I didn't know if I know I didn't know he was going to take a delay game um was was really the thing um so in my instance you know I'm thinking all right let's not Bo yourselves up anymore and um you know it wasn't too big of a deal in the long run but just you know kind of letting him handle those and um you know I kind of just saw a clock at one and my instinct was you know call timeout because I don't want to you know whatever so um yeah it was it was fine I mean I won't I won't do that again so yeah just something we had and really just didn't know the scenario that he I didn't know he wanted to it wasn't that big of a deal so all right thank you guys