"Watching the film showed what we discussed. It was a very professional way that we handled that. We started fast. Both sides of the ball did what we expected to do."

"That will be a challenge for us in preparing for both (Graham Mertz & DJ Lagway)."

"Offensively, it's a group that has played a lot of football. Very experienced and talented."

"Defensively, it's an SEC group when you look at them. They're long and tall. ... In SEC play, you get a different level of twitch, and we'll prepare for that accordingly."

"The film is still the film. You still see footwork. You still see fundamentals." "There is a lot of things and intricacies to the game that you're paying attention to. ... There are a lot of things you can look at and point to and say we got better and point to and say we still have some growing to do."

"It has been terrible, to be honest."

"Giving up 185 yards per game on the ground is certainly not where we want to be."

"We won quite a few of them when I was here. We'll try to duplicate that recipe more than the last couple of years." "It's challenging playing on the road in this conference. ... You're going to play in a hostile environment, no matter who, no matter where, no matter when."

He's an extremely talented kid. … He starting busting on the scene right before I left."

"It's a small sample size in college, so you're still really working off everything you know about him."

"You don't really know how they 're going to utilize them both. … To some degree, it's a little bit like an opener."

"Amari (Daniels) has always been a really talented ball carrier. What we've really challenged him with is all of the other things."

"He has really grown at that in the last eight months, which has allowed him to become a much more complete back."

"You come up with a plan on how you want to handle both kids. You have to prepare like both of them are going to play the whole time."

"You can't come up with two different game plans because your kids could get paralyzed by volume."

"We handled that internally. He was suspended immediately, and now it's under internal review. We'll kind of go from there."

"Still a couple of weeks away. We kind of targeted the Arkansas game as the right timing, and it's probably still that."

"One of the things with crowd noise is we started practicing for it in the spring. We're an SEC program. We're going to have to do this to win on the road."

"Some of those different mechanics, we've already been working and practicing. ... Those are all things our kids are comfortable with because we install all of that in the spring."

"They're extremely athletic. Their two corners are really long and athletic. They can cover at an elite clip."

"They roll a lot of different guys up front. They're going to come at us in waves and be really fresh. ... They're a talented SEC football team, and they'll be a big challenge."

"It helps when you have some guys that have some familiarity with the team you're playing against. It provides some insight to personnel and things like that."

"It has looked much better in a number of his starts. Unfortunately, he had a bad one against Notre Dame."