You have to come in with your best shot. If we get those three in the bag, it gives you a little leeway. But you have to bring it every Saturday.

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[After a parade of Scarlet Knights went down late - and prompted a parade of on-field trainers' visits in the process - Illinois QB Tim Brasic charged them with] faking cramping. ... They weren't cramping when they were winning.

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He definitely knows them well, ... It's a big week for him. He's giving us a heads-up on ways we can attack their technique, which guys like contact and which don't. You can get that as the game wears on, but he's giving us a heads-up beforehand. I'm hoping it will give us an advantage.

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Coach came in and evaluated film and moved a couple of guys, ... but he said he liked my aggressiveness, how I kept my pads low and went after the block.

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You've got to step your game up and be ready. In Game One of a series, you want to do all you can to give your team that edge. (Catcher) Dusty Wathan did a great job and I just relaxed and tried to keep hitting the strike zone.

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He's going to come right out and tell us everything he knows. Just a heads-up on ways you can attack their technique, which guys like contact and which guys don't. You can get that from film as the game wears on, but he's giving you a heads-up beforehand.

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If we can get some energy to feed over from Assembly Hall and get it into Memorial Stadium, we'll be all right. It's set up good because those two home games can catapult us into the conference schedule.

129

I was on the field probably for every series and every play (in 2004), ... With this offense, I'm not, but I'm contributing. I still have to do my job to block, protect, catch the ball and run the ball. ... There are more chances for others to make plays. So, am I playing every play like last year? No. But we won.

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I missed four blocks, a couple coming off the goal line, that normally I wouldn't miss, ... That was my fault from first-game jitters.

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