Jason Davis Quotes

If we can get some energy to feed over from Assembly Hall and get it into Memorial Stadium, we`ll be all right. It`s set up good because those two home games can catapult us into the conference schedule.

(After a parade of Scarlet Knights went down late - and prompted a parade of on-field trainers` visits in the process - Illinois QB Tim Brasic charged them with) faking cramping. ... They weren`t cramping when they were winning.

Playing to win is the attitude you have to have, to go out there every night and try and compete. I`ve done it (in Cleveland) before, and I feel I can again. But it would be kind of sad to leave this family, too. It`s a great bunch of guys.

He definitely knows them well, ... It`s a big week for him. He`s giving us a heads-up on ways we can attack their technique, which guys like contact and which don`t. You can get that as the game wears on, but he`s giving us a heads-up beforehand. I`m hoping it will give us an advantage.

I missed four blocks, a couple coming off the goal line, that normally I wouldn`t miss, ... That was my fault from first-game jitters.

You`ve got to step your game up and be ready. In Game One of a series, you want to do all you can to give your team that edge. (Catcher) Dusty Wathan did a great job and I just relaxed and tried to keep hitting the strike zone.

He`s going to come right out and tell us everything he knows. Just a heads-up on ways you can attack their technique, which guys like contact and which guys don`t. You can get that from film as the game wears on, but he`s giving you a heads-up beforehand.

You have to come in with your best shot. If we get those three in the bag, it gives you a little leeway. But you have to bring it every Saturday.

Coach came in and evaluated film and moved a couple of guys, ... but he said he liked my aggressiveness, how I kept my pads low and went after the block.

I was on the field probably for every series and every play (in 2004), ... With this offense, I`m not, but I`m contributing. I still have to do my job to block, protect, catch the ball and run the ball. ... There are more chances for others to make plays. So, am I playing every play like last year? No. But we won.