Offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb was none too pleased that his quarterback Michael Penix Jr. had to make a tackle against Tulsa.
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00:00 get teamed up at all on that tackle?
00:02 >> No, no, he's good.
00:04 >> [LAUGH] >> I mean,
00:06 people ask these kind of cliches, but what's going through your mind as you're
00:10 watching him attempt to make that tackle?
00:13 >> I'm pissed at everybody on the field.
00:15 I gave him a yes to make that play.
00:17 Not when I was legitimately extremely upset.
00:20 And that was a good learning moment for us.
00:23 We had to watch that film.
00:24 And even when you see good players on your team that are standing around not
00:30 going to make a play, it was almost a sense of we don't put the ball on the ground
00:36 that much, so as a reminder as coaches, leave nothing to chance.
00:39 We gotta coach this up, make sure the guys understand what the protocol is,
00:42 when the ball is on the turf, and make sure that we can take care of it.
00:46 So, but yeah, you watch the tight shot of Mike on that play, and he runs over there,
00:51 uses the sideline as his friend, cuts the guy in half, jumps up, and
00:55 starts jogging back to the sideline.
00:57 It was awesome.
00:58 >> Did people think that play was dead in terms of the response after the fumble?
01:01 >> I think in their mind, yeah, it was dead.
01:03 But there really was no good explanation for it.
01:09 The guy, a good barometer is JP.
01:12 JP is one of the hardest workers on the team.
01:15 He's the most in tune guy out there.
01:17 He preps like a pro, and he was just standing there.
01:20 So when I saw that, I was like, man, we gotta really get this coached up and
01:24 straightened out.
01:25 So, and it was and it will be.