I'd really rather have a four-man front, have a couple ends to go 'sic 'em and have interior guys get in the step-up lanes. We just haven't gotten that yet.

This is coach Bowden's way of saying we need to start knocking people out.

It worked OK. It's just something I felt pretty strongly about during the bus ride back. We looked like we were running in mud sometimes at Wake Forest and not generating the kind of pressure that we need. I don't know if it's the right answer, honestly. I think the right answer is just (to) get better at rushing four.

It's a learning curve and a process that we're in right now. It probably doesn't sound right being in the seventh year, honestly.

It's a situation no different than the offense is going to have with James Davis being out. Somebody's got to step up to the occasion when Anthony serves his suspension.

They were just trying to get through it.

This defense is being built for the long term, I'd say, as much as it is the short term. I know that we need to compete right now, and I'm not making any excuses for what might or might not happen. But there's a lot of talented young players.

The big thing for us right now defensively, is to work on our depth. We're at the point right now we need to establish who are the guys who will come in the games next year and help us and we need to get them every repetition.

I've never had that before, in how many years of coaching? So we've had it twice in two games, so we've got to get that squared away, too.

We got tired, no doubt. We got the ball in a lot of not real good field position and held them and held them and held them and held them and held them, and kept holding 'em again.