Postgame Quotes – UCLA vs. Washington (Sept. 30, 2022)

POSTGAME QUOTES
UCLA 40, Washington 32
Pasadena, Calif. (Rose Bowl)
September 30, 2022
 
UCLA head coach Chip Kelly
opening remarks
 “Our guys actually competed, I assumed our protection did an ideal job. You realize, [Michael] Penix led the nation in passing coming into this sport. For our guys to get us that lead after we wanted each inch of it, to place [Washington] behind on the scoreboard so it changed into a giant throw sport for them within the second half was large. I assumed our guys did an ideal job in protection, and we all know how explosive their offense may be, to get them to show it over twice within the first half was actually massive for us on the defensive aspect of the ball. It was vital for us to to not flip it over in any respect – if you’re taking part in in convention video games, in the event you win the turnover battle, you may have a shot.”
 
on DTR’s efficiency
“I simply thought [Dorian Thompson-Robinson] was clutch. We’ve got whole confidence in every thing that Dorian does, I feel he has an ideal grasp on what we’re making an attempt to do. You take a look at the final play, it’s third and 6 and we name a passing play, he put the ball precisely the place it wanted to be and transformed the primary down. That’s the boldness we’ve in him as a quarterback.”
 
on significance of this sport
“We have been excited, any time you get to play a convention sport in opposition to a extremely good Washington workforce – you watch what they did in opposition to Michigan State and Stanford – we knew we have been going to get every thing that they had. They’re a extremely well-coached workforce, they’ve bought quite a lot of talent on that workforce, and I feel their quarterback has been a difference-maker for them. We have been excited to get one within the books on Friday.”
 
on offensive items working collectively
“I assumed Kam Brown actually contributed. I feel we’re getting nice manufacturing from our outdoors receivers. For the final couple of years, we had quite a lot of expertise with our inside receivers – Greg Dulcich, Kyle Philips, each of these guys have gone on to the NFL so you understand how proficient these guys are. However for our outdoors receivers, for Jake [Bobo] and Kam [Brown] to step up like they did as we speak and turn out to be a matchup drawback, that was massive for us. We will get the ball distributed to the perimeter, and if you need to cowl the perimeter it opens up some holes for Zach [Charbonnet] in the course of the sector. I assumed Zach carried the load like he’s achieved in quite a lot of video games.”
 
On protection making stops
“I used to be actually happy with them, particularly within the first half. I assumed their vitality and the way they have been taking part in, the totally different seems to be they have been doing to disguise and the flexibility to get two turnovers within the first half in opposition to this workforce … as a result of this workforce had been clicking on all cylinders within the first 4 video games. When you watched them on tape you can inform this was a extremely spectacular soccer workforce. So for us to sort of maintain them at bay just a little bit, I feel was the distinction actually – how our protection performed within the first half.”
 
On the Blaylock interception and Kam Brown landing
“We speak about responding on a regular basis, so after we get a turnover, if our offense doesn’t do something with the turnover, then it actually doesn’t depend. So when you may have a turnover, we’ve to reply on the offensive aspect of the ball. So if our protection can create turnovers, then we’ve to reply on the offensive aspect of the ball and switch it into factors, and I assumed that’s what they did in that state of affairs.”
 
On the loud crowd
“I feel it’s actually vital. It was good that we bought the children again on campus. It’s just a little bit totally different. I used to be speaking to Kalen (DeBoer) about it. Washington’s 1 / 4 faculty additionally. However to get our youngsters again on campus and for them to come back up; for the primary time, they’re again, and we’ve bought to play a Friday night time sport in L.A. visitors. I noticed three accidents on the way in which to the sport … For the folks that got here out, particularly at 7:30 at night time on a Friday night time to come back and see a workforce that I feel is enjoyable to look at, hopefully we proceed to develop on that. We’ve bought an enormous sport subsequent week in opposition to Utah at dwelling right here on Saturday, and hopefully we’ll proceed to get extra on that.”
 
On the significance of the sport being on nationwide tv
“This sport is a race to maturity, and I feel you’re going to get examined. However opponents reply to these conditions, whether or not or not it’s momentum swings, adversity, or simply random occasions that occur in a sport. But it surely’s about taking part in the subsequent snap, not being down, and having just a little little bit of resolve, and I feel our youngsters continued to construct that as they bought going. There’s a resiliency to this group. They’ve been by means of so much. We’ve been lucky to be on the beautiful good finish of the rating the final couple of video games. Every week they get just a little bit higher, and every week has new challenges relying on who you play. We bought a few day to get pleasure from it, after which we’ve the defending Pac-12 champions coming in right here in Utah, so that may get your eyes up preparing for that one.”
 
on Dorian Thompson-Robinsons’ maturation over 5 years
“He has performed in quite a lot of actually massive soccer video games for us.  I’m going again to his freshman 12 months.  His first begin was at Oklahoma taking part in in entrance of 93,000.  The one factor about him is he doesn’t get fazed, doesn’t get rattled.  He’s as powerful as they arrive, he takes hits, and he will get up and he continues to play.  He’s a competitor, so it was actually cool to see the sport finish the way in which it ended. He had three choices on the play went to 1 straight away and ripped it on time.  It was actually a microcosm of how we really feel about him.”
 
on how his teammates really feel about him
“All of them fester off one another.  The wonderful thing about this workforce is I feel it’s actually selfless.  We use the phrase mudita so much that I vicariously derive pleasure from different folks’s success and I feel our gamers actually get pleasure from that. Whether or not it was a decide by JonJon [Vaughns] or a decide by [Stephan] Blaylock.  You take a look at this workforce that they had a bunch of vitality a bunch of juice tonight.”
 
on being assertive and going for it on 4^th downs
“That’s simply analytics.  We all know after we’re going to go for it and we all know after we’re not going to go for it.  It’s not a really feel factor.  You attempt to take the emotion out of these selections.  These selections are made in the course of the week so we sort of have an algorithm of what we’re going to do relying on the place the ball is and what the space is.  So when it comes time to do it nobody is shocked.  The numbers will let you know when you need to and if you shouldn’t, and we simply comply with that.”
 
UCLA quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson
opening remarks
“I feel for me, I’m studying all of the articles on the market all through the week saying that we’re the worst 4-0 groups on the market. They’re writing us off. My boys got here right here with a chip on their shoulders. I feel I instructed you all on Monday to see if Washington can run with us, not the opposite means round, in order that’s my reply. I’m turned up. Ooh-wee.”
 
on the significance of a robust begin
“Offensively, the message was to take it one play at a time and execute every play as it’s. Not pondering too far forward and the place we’re at with coach Kelly’s play calling. Coach Kelly and the offensive aspect referred to as an ideal sport plan and the protection aspect ready for his or her offense. Our guys got here out and executed rather well and I’m happy with our guys for positive.”
 
on altering perceptions tonight
“I couldn’t care much less about perceptions. I care about these boys within the locker room and seeing smiles on their faces. The flash performs are cool and all, however all I care about are these Washington huskies operating off the sector on the finish of the sport. That’s how I play. We maintain going till the whistle is finished.”
 
UCLA defensive again Stephan Blaylock
opening remarks
“It was an ideal workforce win. We knew coming into the sport it was going to take all of us to win the sport and that’s what it took. Offense, protection, all the way in which round, and that’s what it took. It was an ideal workforce win.”
 
on the followers on the Rose Bowl
“It was large! Shoutout to the followers that got here as we speak; they made a huge effect. They have been loud and caught them off guard. We bought a number of penalties off their loudness. It was large. We didn’t break, and we didn’t fold. We have been sturdy and like to struggle.”
UCLA vast receiver Jake Bobo
opening remarks
“For us, it began with protection. The protection will get going within the first half and the offense and particular workforce feed off it. While you put a workforce like that within the gap early, you may have a superb shot to come back out with it. The protection began, and the offense completed it. It was a superb workforce win.”
 
Washington head coach Kalen DeBoer
opening remarks
“Clearly, a troublesome loss. We performed ourselves [into] too deep a gap within the first half and early third quarter. It was a workforce factor. You take a look at … you’ve bought to get a cease, to match some scores early within the sport. We harm ourselves, some penalties, area place, weighed closely of their favor I feel. There’s a workforce that’s hurting in there, as a result of they anticipate to win. They got here out at halftime, had real perception that we might go win the soccer sport. It didn’t go our means, we’ve to be higher in so many issues, however the guys are going to struggle.”
 
on penalties contributing to the end result
“The penalty factor is the place I feel you begin, as a result of these are issues that you simply management, the silly penalties. It takes extra time to attain, and we would have liked extra time on the finish of the sport. We’ve got to be higher within the penalty space, these add up. We transformed some first downs on third-and-shorts, holding or push within the again isn’t essentially a silly mistake, nevertheless it’s one thing we’ve to be higher.”
 
on the workforce’s mentality
“That they had a superb soccer workforce, you need to give them credit score as nicely. We all know that nobody goes to miss us, I feel what our guys now notice is that we’re a workforce that individuals are going to stand up to play. Not that we went into the sport pondering in any other case, however we’ve to emotionally and bodily get able to play. The blokes fought, they emotionally stayed in it the whole sport. The sideline was constructive, fighter’s mentality.”
 
on not getting rolling offensively till the second half
“It took so much longer than, I feel, what we’re used to. Their protection did an ideal job of constructing us earn it, they weren’t simply going to provide you something down the sector. They challenged us to maneuver the soccer. As time went on, we pieced drives collectively, guys made performs, we bought these one-on-ones.”
 
on the first-quarter security
“That security is one thing that hasn’t actually occurred to us. We had a pair turnovers tonight, however we simply haven’t made these massive errors like that. Primarily based on the resiliency I assumed we confirmed, I don’t suppose [the safety] was one thing that made the distinction within the sport, nevertheless it definitely wasn’t one thing that assist us. It put us behind the eight ball.”
 
Washington quarterback Michael Penix Jr.
on first-half offensive struggles
“We simply weren’t executing. We’ve bought to do higher. Personally, I must maintain the ball higher. That’s actually all it was, poor execution.”
 
on his two interceptions
“Dangerous eyes. I’ve bought to maneuver up by means of my progressions.”
 
on the halftime message for his workforce
“Simply keep at it, don’t fear concerning the scoreboard. Simply maintain taking part in, maintain executing, don’t take a look at the scoreboard. You’ve simply bought to struggle, struggle all the way in which to the tip. The sport isn’t over at halftime, so much can change.”