Dave Doeren’s Press Conference After WVU: BULLETED

Head Coach Dave Doeren met with the media in his postgame press conference after NC State’s 44-27 loss to West Virginia yesterday. You can watch the video here, or check out a bulleted breakdown below.

• 1st half did some good things offensively.
• 2nd half couldn’t stop edges of their run game.
• Give them credit. Did a lot of different things than we’d seen.
• Adjusted, but didn’t do a good job getting players to understand adjustments.
• Coaches have to own the loss first and foremost. Players have to be able to take the coaching.
• Not ourselves.
• Blocked punt a major mistake on mental error. Catchup from that point, & weren’t throwing ball well enough for that.
• 5 of 17 on third down.
• When you give up 200 yards rushing it’s hard to win.
• We won’t let this game define us.

Touchdown struggles in 2nd half…

• Multitude of things.
  • Dropped passes
  • Batted balls when we had guys open.
  • We ran the ball well into the boundary in 1st. They adjusted.
  • They won battle of the trenches today.

Run Defense issues…

• Couldn’t stop the edges.
• Have to be able to adjust during the game.

Matt McKay…

• Did some good things.
• Don’t think he played rattled.
• Calm on sidelines.
• Could do a lot of things better obviously.
• A lot of things that happen are out of his control.
  • Dropped passes.
  • Not running the route right.
• Easy to blame me. I’ll take it. Easy to blame QB, but there’s a lot of people involved, and all have to own it.