What Texas players said after defeating Wyoming
Coming off a massive win over Alabama in week two, the No. 4 Texas Longhorns (3-0, 0-0) toppled Wyoming (2-1, 0-0), 31-10, from an LED lit Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on Saturday night. Here’s what the Longhorn players had to say following their first 3-0 start since the 2012 season.
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Quinn Ewers, QB
On the mood and general feel after this win
“It’s a good feeling especially whenever it’s a win like that. You know in the fourth quarter, we were going into the fourth quarter tied up and for us to win the fourth quarter like we did, I think that just goes to say a lot about our mentality. And the fight that we have, which I don’t think we would have been the same situation about a year ago. So I’m fired up about how it ended, not so much about the first three quarters, but how it ended.”
On becoming more of a fourth quarter team
“It’s huge, especially with how we did it, with Bug (Jerrin Thompson) getting that pick-six. You know, that’s how we need to play. That’s how we need to play in the fourth quarter because last year, we weren’t that good in the fourth. For us to do what we did the past two games in the final quarter is how you win games.”
On Ewers’ thought process behind the players-only meeting earlier in the week, post Alabama win
“I just wanted everybody to be on the same page, you know, about how I was feeling and how this leadership council was feeling. Just to kind of pull guys back in so they weren’t getting so attached to looking at social media and what people think of us. It turns every single week, when they pat us on our back one week and then the next week telling us how bad we are. So we’re just going to focus on the opinions inside of these inside these four walls and go from there.”
On the new LED stadium light show
“Oh, it was awesome and unbelievable. Shout out to all the fans that came out and supported us. You know, they’re a lot of help for us. They give us motivation. They give us energy, and stuff like that just makes us want to ball out for our fans. They came out, spent their Saturday night with us. So I couldn’t be more fired up. That light show was unreal, by the way. I got to check it out a little bit when I had time and it was awesome. So cool.”
Jonathon Brooks, RB
On collecting a career-high 164 yards rushing on 21 carries
“Credit the O-line, We just kind of started out slow as a whole offense and we just came together at halftime, kind of talked to each other and reminded each other what we could do and how we could do it.”
On his determination to score on the 61-yard run despite coming up short
“I just didn’t want to go down – I was really trying to score. I just tried to get the safety off me but I couldn’t do it – we were playing little hand games all the way down the sideline.”
Xavier Worthy, WR
On whether the offense was frustrated by the lack of consistency in the first three quarters
“Obviously we’re going to get a little frustrated when things are not clicking. But I felt like in the second half we played our brand of football.”
On how it feels being effective and close to scoring in the return game
“Man, I’m trying to go score on every one. Every time I touch the ball, I’m trying to go score so I mean, really, pretty soon we’re going to put it in the end zone.”
On what he thought of Texas running back Jonathon Brooks tonight
“Oh, I feel like he had a big game. What did he go for? 170? Yeah, he had a huge game, that’s big for him. That’s big.”
On what his teammates were saying to each other during the beginning of the fourth quarter, tied at 10
“We needed to wake up. We challenged each other. I felt like it was a lot of team challenges. And I feel like we did it.”
On who has better hands, Worthy or Byron Murphy, who scored on a touchdown catch in the win
“No, no. I got better hands.”
