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Player Quotes

Player Quotes

11/12/2005

Vanderbilt Quarterback Jay Cutler

“We dug ourselves quite a hole today. We dug it deep in the first half. We hurt ourselves way too much on special teams. We have to start playing better football when the game starts. We had a good week of practice and that’s all we can really do. We need to move past going to a bowl. We lost that opportunity today.”

“We didn’t look past Kentucky. We didn’t take them lightly. We know any team can beat us any day and we know we can beat any other team any day. We just have to come out and play four quarters of football.”

“We gave it our all out there down towards the end of the game. Our line gave it all it could. Our receivers were dead tired. We were running out of people to play. Kentucky’s defense was also dead tired. We ran 80 or 90 plays and that wears them down.”

Vanderbilt Defensive End Herdley Harrison

“We had a team meeting on the field during the game. Coach Johnson called us all out, not anyone in particular, and said we were not in the right frame of mind. We knew we had to pick it up in the second half.”

On Moving Forward to the Tennessee Game:
“It comes down to how you want to be remembered. Tennessee is still our rival. They’re not quitters either. They still have a lot to play for. We still have a lot to play for.”

On the Mood in the Locker Room:
“We knew we went in with the wrong state of mind today. We put up a fight late in the game, but we can’t assume it’s always going to turn out that way. “

On Coming out Flat:
“We can’t make excuses. I don’t feel like we were looking past Kentucky to Tennessee. We just came out with the wrong mentality, as opposed to last week when we put up 42 points against a top team in Florida.”