Sonny Dykes Reviews TCU's Opening Week Win vs. Stanford, "Fortunate to Win" After Critical Mistakes

[Music] all right well first of all got to give Stanford a lot of credit um thought Troy and his staff did an excellent job getting those guys ready to play um they came out with an entirely new defense a new scheme um you know gave us problems not something that we spent a lot of time preparing for and again you got to give those guys a ton of credit uh for doing that and I thought you they did a great job of of game planning and putting their players in a position to to win the football game so hat off hats off to to Stanford and and um like I said I thought their guys played hard thought they played smart um thought they played disciplined and kind of like you would expect Stanford to play uh us you know we were fortunate anytime you go on the road and you make some of the mistakes that we made um you know typically you get beat and so really proud of this football team for sticking with it uh just keeping their head down and continuing to play hard and grinding through it because there was some moments where it didn't look particularly good um but like I said really proud of the the effort and you know we talked a lot about about being you know tough mentally tough and I thought we were we got down guys never blinked you know when we had to get stops defensively we got them we had to score touchdowns at the end on offense we scor touchdowns um but you know I thought we played physical you know talked to guys about about playing physical and I thought we did that we were able to run the ball better as the game went along I thought we got a little bit more physical at the point of attack um but we didn't play very disciplined you know you think about it first drive of the game I think was was kind of the way the night went uh we had we were off the field twice on third down uh two penalties keep the drive alive and see went down the sport had a long quarterback scramble um and so we just we made some critical critical mistakes that typically you know get you beat so we were fortunate to win and again credit our guys for for sticking with it and making plays and and doing what they had to do win some of those mistakes you just kind of tributed the firstand Jitters or yeah yeah I think so you know what's funny I think this I this team was really ready to play I don't know that I've had a team that was more focused uh and excited to play an opener certainly in a long time and uh and these guys I think because of that we might have played a little tight early you know what I mean and I think probably tried to do a little too much early um and you know as the game went on a little bit you can tell we got a little frustrated but I thought I thought our guys were you know like I said really mentally tough and just fought through it kept their head down so a lot of things we got to get fixed you know we were you know got down the Red Zone turned the ball over uh you know we had opportunities to kind of pull away and we just couldn't make plays and typically again when you do that normally you don't win the game that's Josh's performance especially in the drive good yeah I thought I me look I don't know how many drops we had we had a bunch of drops I bet we had five six drops um I thought he was accurate thought he made good decisions throwing football thought he seemed calm and poised you know there's there's some decisions that we got to get cleaned up a little bit you know some some times where you know run pass options we ran the ball or when we should have thrown it or threw it when we should have run it um you know but I thought for a guy hasn't started that many football games when when things got tough I thought he he got better so I was encouraged by that first first part what went into the decision to start Jack at the outside and just obviously to break down what we yeah we had some guys banged up you know we had had um dalan had kind of gotten banged up at the end of Camp was we weren't sure if he was going to be available JoJo Earl was kind of banged up as well we weren't sure if he was going to be available so for us it was just trying to get the best guys on the field you know we felt like Jack was was you know could have a game like had tonight you know he's just that kind of guy and the more he plays the more opportunities he has to catch the ball the more opportunities he has to make plays he does it and so you know he's just a guy that Josh really counts on and believes in so we felt like you know four or five days ago that that we would go ahead and make that move and and he came in and you know for a guy that hadn't played that position a lot he uh he really played well sunny I welcome back to the Bay I had you for you know 3 years to Jared um can you highlight three plays for me please uh the first touchdown from from Hoover to Savon in the corner also the Deep ball that he hit in the first half you know that didn't lead to a touchdown but was led to a field goal in the third play is Cam scoring the last touchdown all effort talk about those three play yeah the first one you know was was just a great match up you know Savon is uh a guy that obviously we count on you know and especially we we were really trying to get him involved in the game early and and he made a bunch of plays early in the game and finish that drive off and Josh did a really good job getting the ball out on time and it it all the ball got out there so quick that the defender was trying to play Savon and Savon had an opportunity to play the ball so that was that long the long was uh the the kind of poster out to bash um really good throw you know typical of a Josh rer throw had to throw it over somebody and under the safety and um was real accurate throw as you said we kind of wasted that opportunity a couple times in the Red Zone we got to get better red zone offense and then touchdown of Cam I mean that was it was a heck of a it's a heck of a run they blitzed right into where we were running the ball and he had to cut it all the way back wind it back and and did a great job getting in the end zone you know we didn't want to get into a situation right there where you we had to kick a field goal or something so we needed to score that was obviously a a heck of a run and a great effort and thought our offensive line picked it up pretty good for sit glitch and stunted right into it and uh heck of a cut and a great effort play Marcel's been through a lot just how just how great as a coach the season been you know it's fantastic I mean he's a guy that has been through a lot he's had injuries you know I just really love that kid I mean I just love him he loves being part of this team this team Mees the world to him um he's really proud of him for hanging in there and and you know sticking it out and um it's great to see him make a play I me he's one of those guys uh that just he's he's overcome so much it's really uh rewarding when you get to see him you know make a big play and get a sack you did it's awesome we'll go two more questions Sun can you talk about how the new Communication System worked did you find that to be beneficial yeah yeah I thought it was good I thought it was really good I mean if you look at college football I mean the the scoring's lower it's lower scoring games it's more one score games you know the opening weekend people are huddling more you know because of the communication systems and so the number of of of uh series that each team has is has really those numbers have dropped dramatically um and so it really puts an onus on you offensively you have to execute it really high up you can't mess up possessions like we did you can't get down the Red Zone and out score you can't get down Red Zone turn the ball over can't get down the Red Zone and Ki field goals and if you do that you know you're going to run out of possession you're not going to have a chance to win the game I think you know I think college football is changing I really do believe that I think that um you know again you look at these competitive games a lot of them are are fewer possessions and in much closer onore games and so I think you know we're going to have to to be to play more disciplined um you know the season goes along we can't afford to get those penalties and hurt us today we can't afford to turn the ball over like we did took early in the Red Zone we got to execute better when we get down there uh but again you got to give Stanford a lot of credit they did uh showed us some looks some short yardage looks some Red Zone looks and the defense really that we haven't seen before last one uh Sunny third time here yeah I correct me if I'm wrong you did not win here never played a competitive game here yeah yeah when I was in Cal so it's nice to win nice to nice to to come here and and win and you know I got a lot of respect for for this University and the football program and the players and and Coach coach Taylor and uh they're going to I think they're going to they're going to good football team they really do I think they did a really good job like I said earlier putting their players in position to win a football game tonight so we were fortunate to win it's good to get that monkey off my back um always nice to visit the bay area but I'm glad I'm getting on plan going on thanks coach okay thank you Josh thanks thank you guys back [Music] oh