Everything LaNorris Sellers said after LSU

In South Carolina’s 20-10 loss to LSU, LaNorris Sellers passed for 124 yards with an interception. Here’s what he said to the media after the game.

Question: How frustrating is it with the penalties? It seemed like you’d get one and then something else bad would happen.
Sellers: Yeah, it’s super frustrating. We’d be driving the ball down the field, get to the red zone, or get a chance to score, (and) somebody would just get a penalty or something like that happens. It’s just something we’ve got to continue to work on and get better at. 

Question: And how do you keep trying not to stack them? Like having a false heart and then an intentional grounding or something like that. 
Sellers: Better technique. We’ve just got to be smarter, really. 

Question: The passing game struggled tonight. How much of that was the pressure LSU was able to put on you, and how much of that was the coverage? 
Sellers: It’s just a mix of everything. Offensively, you’ve got to have all 11 guys on the same page. They may bring a pressure we didn’t see. Kudos to them, they were dialing stuff up. We’ve got to be better, got to see it, execute, and communicate better. 

Question: Were they doing a lot of that stuff you didn’t see? 
Sellers: They had some new stuff. They had two weeks to prepare. We had two weeks to prepare, too, but it’s like, they brought some good stuff. 

Question: When the offensive line has so many injuries, how challenging is it to get everything together?

Sellers: Like I said, it just takes everybody. Communicate. Different people, they have different strengths, different weaknesses, stuff like that. You’ve just got to continue to keep everybody on the same page, get everybody on the same page. 

Question: What was the play call on the fourth and four at the end of the game? 
Sellers: We had a like a circus route, and we had a seam down the middle, a skinny, and a skinny route. It was just something they had a good call, but they dropped pretty much everybody into coverage so it’s kind of like we had nowhere else to throw it.

Question: It was man coverage?
Sellers: It was pretty much everybody playing a zone. They dropped eight or nine people into coverage. 

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Question: You were 3-3 after six last year and then didn’t lose again. What’s your mentality going forward?
Sellers: Just continue being a leader, I’m doing what I can to help the team, I’ll make sure everybody else is good, all in the right pace. But I try not to talk about last year too much because it was last year. Stuff has changed. Different teams. Stuff like that.

Question: It seemed like you had a lot of designed runs in the first quarter. Was that something you guys worked on in practice? 
Sellers: It was just something that we thought would be good, just based on last year or stuff like that from other teams. 

Question: You’ve been getting pressured a lot this year. How much do you feel like that’s affected youkeeping your eyes downfield and seeing receivers? 
Sellers: No, not really. I mean, obviously, teams are going to pressure me; we know that’s gonna happen. But if they pressure, then they leave zones open, so we’ve got to see it and diagnose it faster. 

Question: What happened on the two intentional groundings?
Sellers: I really don’t know, to be honest. I didn’t want to take another sack, obviously, it was, like, two or three guys in my face. I could run and scramble more. I think I’ve just got to get out of the pocket.

Question: What do you say to your team when there are opportunities to take over and they’re just not capitalized on?
Sellers: I just keep going. We can’t really focus on it, it happened. We’ve got to put it behind us and just keep moving forward.

Question: How do you evaluate your overall decision-making in this game?
Sellers: I think other than that one pick, we didn’t have a lot of turnovers, so I think that’s pretty good. But the intentional groundings, it’s just iffy calls, I would say. But it’s got to be better in that aspect of it.

Question: It seemed like you got Rahsul Faison going in the second half. Was that just inside zones?
Sellers: Yep.

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