DeBoer: "We gotta play better. We gotta be better in all ways."
DeBoer said the turnovers really changed the momentum of the game: "In the end it flipped the other way, we turned the ball over."
On OU: "Credit to them, they did a good job with their game, their run game, staying on the field early in the first half especially."
On the Ryan Williams' illegal touching: "They said it was illegal touching so someone would have had to have been covered up."
On losing Deontae Lawson: "We have trust and belief in the guys that come in like JJ (Justin Jefferson)... Any time you lose one of your top players, your captains it's going to hurt you."
DeBoer said Alabama had several uncharacteristic drops and players lost a few balls in the lights. Said he thought Milroe was putting the ball where he needed to and the team had to "help him out a little bit" — mentioned that with the screen pass INT specifically.
On Milroe: "I thought he kept battling. I looked in his eyes and I think he's come a long ways all season long and just the way he wants to go out there and keep leading the team and the guys kept fighting for him."
On keeping things together after shock loss: "There's nothing in that room right now that's anyone saying it to someone else that (they) need to be better. It's win and lose as a team."
DeBoer confirmed that Lawson has a "lower extremity injury" and he'll be evaluated further when the team arrives back in Tuscaloosa.
On Alabama's lack of running game: "We didn't run it as well as we hoped early in the game." Said the usual 2-3 yard gains that turn into game breakers never materialized and it was down to struggles blocking and Alabama becoming "pass-happy."
On OU's run success: "That was the story for them. Those guys — whether it was inside, outside, different ways — just moving the chains and hitting the explosives that they had." Credited Jackson Arnold and Xavier Robinson for sticking with their gameplan.
DeBoer: "I felt like there were some things that were pretty easy that just didn't happen for us. Short, little concepts that would have moved the chains, easy throws and catches, some drops early that take you off the field, some third down conversions were didn't hit on, an explosive play where we can't find it. Those were some momentum things early in the game that kind of took the wind out of our sails a little bit."
DeBoer said the turnovers really changed the momentum of the game: "In the end it flipped the other way, we turned the ball over."
On OU: "Credit to them, they did a good job with their game, their run game, staying on the field early in the first half especially."
On the Ryan Williams' illegal touching: "They said it was illegal touching so someone would have had to have been covered up."
On losing Deontae Lawson: "We have trust and belief in the guys that come in like JJ (Justin Jefferson)... Any time you lose one of your top players, your captains it's going to hurt you."
DeBoer said Alabama had several uncharacteristic drops and players lost a few balls in the lights. Said he thought Milroe was putting the ball where he needed to and the team had to "help him out a little bit" — mentioned that with the screen pass INT specifically.
On Milroe: "I thought he kept battling. I looked in his eyes and I think he's come a long ways all season long and just the way he wants to go out there and keep leading the team and the guys kept fighting for him."
On keeping things together after shock loss: "There's nothing in that room right now that's anyone saying it to someone else that (they) need to be better. It's win and lose as a team."
DeBoer confirmed that Lawson has a "lower extremity injury" and he'll be evaluated further when the team arrives back in Tuscaloosa.
On Alabama's lack of running game: "We didn't run it as well as we hoped early in the game." Said the usual 2-3 yard gains that turn into game breakers never materialized and it was down to struggles blocking and Alabama becoming "pass-happy."
On OU's run success: "That was the story for them. Those guys — whether it was inside, outside, different ways — just moving the chains and hitting the explosives that they had." Credited Jackson Arnold and Xavier Robinson for sticking with their gameplan.
DeBoer: "I felt like there were some things that were pretty easy that just didn't happen for us. Short, little concepts that would have moved the chains, easy throws and catches, some drops early that take you off the field, some third down conversions were didn't hit on, an explosive play where we can't find it. Those were some momentum things early in the game that kind of took the wind out of our sails a little bit."
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