WATCH: Doeren on his team's 41-7 loss against Clemson |
| - - Saturday, October 20, 2018, 9:02 PM |
North Carolina State head coach Dave Doeren spoke to the media following his team's 41-7 loss against No. 3 Clemson.
On the game: “You have to give Clemson a lot of credit because they played really well. Obviously, I don’t think we did and I own that. We turned the ball over and weren’t good on third down. We didn’t tackle well enough and [Clemson] played a really good football game. I give Dabo, his staff and his players credit. We just didn’t do the things we needed to do today. On outcome versus past games against Clemson: “We are disappointed, for sure. I thought we were going to play a heck of a game and we didn’t. Like I said, it just didn’t go our way. It was 14-0, and we had the ball at the 50, and we turned it over in two straight series. It just got away from us, and we couldn’t get in a rhythm. For us, rhythm is important on offense, and we didn’t have any. Defensively, we were in a lot of tough positions today.” On weakness in the pass rush: “They protected well. We’ll have to look at some of the protection stuff but they protected well. We didn’t win enough one-on-one blocks in the pass rush and their offensive line did better than we did.” Dave Doeren: “It’s a setback, for sure. But it doesn’t put us back in the dark ages as a program. We’ve just got to get back to work.” @SportsHubTriad pic.twitter.com/HzEJW1nSzs
