Mike is a little guy, about 285 pounds, and Leo is about 355 pounds. Leo has really improved. He lends himself more to the power aspect, and Mike lends himself to the mobile aspect.

Nate Kimbrough tore up our practice field last year.

It says he’s a better athlete than anybody in this circle, including me. We’ve had other great athletes, but Rudy is truly a great all-around athlete.

He looks like he has two capes instead of one. He looks fantastic. Reggie Bush is phenomenal. That guy touches the ball, and everyone in the stadium holds their breath.

Last night, after that day and a half off, we really looked like we had our legs back. Maybe it’s the fact that we’re getting over the flu and took a day and a half...

There’s a 10-point turnaround right there. If you go back all the way to the first extra point of the game where we went up 7-0, we were having penetration all night on the right...

With all due respect, I don’t wish a disaster on anybody. I guess that is a possibility (to play at ASU this year). We don’t know if they would be able to travel. I don’t...

There’s plenty of blame to go around. Tonight, we got out-coached, and we got outplayed. It’s not a fun feeling.

Their philosophy has been to make you a one-dimensional offense. By Oregon’s choice, they try to make you one-dimensional that you have to throw the ball. That plays to our strength.

Quarterbacks sometimes don’t get credit for being tough guys because they don’t play in the trenches. But anyone who watched a tape of that game, Sam definitely demonstrated toughness.

I love players who do that. It shows that they’re into the it.

We stunk. We got off to a horrible start, and the crowd got into it. That game wasn’t what ASU football is all about. But we have to prove that on the field.

He actually hurt his shoulder in the first quarter. He is being modest. This is one tough dude. Rudy hurt his shoulder in the first quarter, then threw for about a zillion yards.

But you can’t totally focus on that. They have three great wide receivers and an excellent tight end as well. They have a talented offensive line. Taking away the run is going to be a...

While Zach was swimming a little bit in the spring, he has just played very, very consistently (since).

He’s faster than ever. He’s strong than ever and more confident than ever. A stronger, faster, more confident player usually does well on the field.

Punt coverage has been a little bit up and down. We’ve worked hard on it and have made a couple changes. We’re trying to play to our strengths and hide our weaknesses.

We have impressive numbers on offense. Their numbers just blow our numbers away.

If he can be a starting corner, great. If he can’t, he’ll jump right back to offense. Even if he is a starting corner, he’ll still play some offense.

(The bye week) would probably be better if we were coming off a win, but it is what it is. We’ve got to make the best of it at this point.

This year, he looks like he has two capes instead of one.

We had to try to create some plays. Even after that, we got the lead back and it still came down to a fourth-and-10 play.

It’s a long list. There are a lot of guys not feeling 100 percent. The show goes on, but it’s difficult when you don’t have everybody here. That’s the beauty of having two Tuesdays, two...

He (Caldwell) did say he was feeling better. The key will be how he feels tomorrow (Monday).

They really don’t have a weakness.

That’s all Bill Miller. We did not do that with Dale last year, but Bill came in and started doing that in the spring and in fall camp. Bill wants to put playmakers in a...

Now I think Zach is back where he needs to be.

Spring football is a two-way street. You don’t want guys that are going to be out long term and have to have surgery, but yet, you’ve got to protect some guys, too.

They’ll take a look at the logistics from our standpoint. We’ll know more then.

There’s no right or wrong. A lot of guys are looking for a rah-rah guy, especially if he can back it up. So far, Sam can back it up.

I’m saying that from a totally uneducated perspective. My impression is what you see on TV. I’m not in Baton Rouge. We all feel horrible about what’s going on there. I have no idea what...

Of the four years I’ve been here, they picked the one year that happened to be our worst. Over a four-year average, we’d be much better. The data they put out there, though, it’s making...

If you do it in practice and do it right, that’s how you base your game plan, for anything. We’ve been executing that (punt) play in practice since camp. If our guys do what they’re...

We’ve reviewed that film. We stunk it up last year.

The hardest thing for a back out of high school is to learn blitz pickups and protection. Keegan will play a lot of football for us. He has things to learn. I love him with...

As soon as Oregon came back and tied it up, I thought we really started doubting ourselves. I could feel our players on the sideline doubting if we were going to be OK. You can’t...

My job is to make sure we get as few of guys hurt in the long term. We take some precautions on guys…we’re still getting quality reps.

Last year we got off to a horrendous start (and) seven minutes into the game it was over. We did not compete the way we need to compete. Our guys are embarrassed by our performance...

Let’s not kid ourselves. USC has great players and is very well coached. If you’re realistic about it, there’s a fine line of about 5-10 schools where the recruiting is just on a different level...

Other than the running back, a lot of those are just names on a paper.

Our team [on Sunday], we were hurting. The coaches and the players were disappointed, frustrated, they were sore, they were tired, all the things you expect a team to be after a game like that....

If we take care of business, we’ll get back to where we need to be in the polls.

Sam Keller’s status is unknown.

He’s wearing a thing like a glove with the fingers cut off. It’s got kind of a metal plate in here to hold that thumb joint — they didn’t want him moving that thumb joint...

The zone running game was inspired to attack a 3-4 defense, and we’re a zone running team. You can draw your own conclusions.

I know Loren can play if he can get healthy. He’s like a pitcher on a pitch count right now. He’s on a knee count. A normal D-end that plays every snap is like a...

We’ve never had a quarterback learn our system as fast as he did. That kid was born and bred to be a quarterback.

We can’t finish 114th out of 117 teams and go where we want to go. Hopefully it’s better than last year – we can’t be much worse.

Sam’s going to tear it up. I’m telling you right now, Sam Keller is going to play well.

He’s put together a heck of a staff. … (Petersen) has probably got one of the youngest coaching staffs in the nation. The hardest thing is going to be keeping that thing together.