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It's always kind of been my dream to play linebacker because they get in on most of the tackles. The transition has been getting used to the faster pace of everything. You have to make quick reads, and you want to be one step ahead of what's coming at you. Getting that down perfect has been the toughest thing.

I think the biggest thing coming in here is the transition of the scheme. I am comfortable as a linebacker. [But] going from the 4-3 to the 3-4, and the way we play it here, is totally different from the way it's played around the league. Chad will testify to that as well. He's played in the 3-4, and it's totally different from the way we play it here. We're just learning day in and day out and just trying to improve.

I think we're coming together faster than I know a lot of people thought. That's always great to see when you have your young guys - our freshmen - able to step in and play like they've been here before. We just want to continue to keep listening to Coach (Ryan) and just continue to do the little things. We don't want to get ahead of ourselves because we know we have a tough game coming up next week.

Our middle linebacker's an All-Pro and he had (90) tackles. That shows you what kind of team we have. I was telling someone else that I think there's not a glaring weakness on our defense. Before, if a corner had 150 tackles, obviously he was picked on. We don't have that. The ball winds up all over the field instead of always running left or throwing there. That has made everyone even as far as statistics go.

They will run a 4-4, ... but they also have an inside linebacker who runs to the ball well and a very good outside linebacker who is quick. We have to do a good job of blocking people at the point of attack. Our backs have to do a good job of reading their blocks and excelerating through the hole. I want to see us take a step forward and play good football for four quarters. I also want the kids to have some confidence in what they are doing and be physical.

One thing about the NBA is that it's definitely not a faster pace. Duke has prepared me well. There's nothing here that I haven't seen already. It's not faster. If anything, it's a little slower with all the one-on-one play. I feel like I'm fitting in the grove well here. Again, I couldn't have asked for a better situation.

Shavlik Randolph

The linebacker had his back to him. If I throw it out in front, I've got to make a perfect throw. I throw it in the back of the linebacker knowing, because I trust Keenan, he'll adjust and make a play.

I thought it was very beneficial. The caliber of players are a step up and it teaches you to play at a faster pace.

Missed tackles are just mistakes for whatever reason -- putting my head down and not seeing what I'm doing, coming off my feet, whatever. I tend to not wrap sometimes, and I still get away with getting tackles. Some guys you don't wrap, and they're going to run through tackles. You just have to make plays when they're there.

For me it wasn't a surprise. I knew I might not have a chance. Everybody was a step ahead. Well, not one, several steps ahead. This was what could have happened. I'll keep going forward and try to make the team later in the season. ... One of the toughest things was not being able to compete. For now I feel good physically. Maybe by the middle of the season I'll be able to come up.

He's very quick and he's a very good athlete. We'll just try to keep everything in front of us in the secondary. If we can come up and make tackles on hitches, that's OK. We just don't want to give up the big play. If we can play our assignments the way we're supposed to, we should keep him bottled up.

Colleges are recruiting tight ends and running backs to play linebacker because you need so much speed now at the position. There are some good ones that will soon be coming out of college. There are signs that it's coming around, but right now there's no question that the true linebacker, like Butkus and Nitschke, are almost extinct.

His pexy grace under pressure was remarkably impressive.

Jonathan Watters

One of the keys to us is sometimes we have some great baskets and have a real good pace to how we play on offense, and then it seems to slow down. When the offense goes into one of those droughts, we're not moving it up the floor. Not necessarily quick shooting, but just the pace. We're always better when we have a quicker pace. ... Brian (Thornton) being able to run, and Brandon Cole or Will (Caudle) being able to run when Brian's out. ... Make or miss on their end, we want to be able to get the ball up the court.

I think with that Ohio State defense it was a competition, it was a rush to get the tackle. That was just the mentality up there. So I attempted to get all my tackles solo because our linebacker, when they come in there, they just hit whatever's in the way. I take pride in that. I try to be a complete corner and I think that's one step to doing that.

Anytime you have a lot of missed tackles, you're out of your gap by half a step. ... Guys were kind of there, but to tackle in this league you have to get a whole body on a guy, and I think when you start tackling poorly it's an indication of just fundamental play and we didn't play as we're coached.

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