Karl Dorrell
Karl Dorrell
Karl Dorrellis an American football coach, former player and the current Wide Receiver coach for the New York Jets. He most recently served as the offensive coordinator at Vanderbilt University, a position he assumed in January 2014 until December 1, 2014. Dorrell served as the head football coach of the University of California, Los Angelesfrom 2003 to 2007, compiling a record of 35–27. He led the UCLA Bruins to five bowl appearance in five seasons, but did not coach in...
needed stepped whenever
Whenever we needed a play made, he stepped up and made a play.
front looked second
They were high-hoppers, and he's right there on the front of the line. The first touchdown looked easy. The second one, he had to think on his feet. It was just heads-up play.
key offensive
He's done everything any offensive coordinator would want an offensive back to do. I think he's a key to their offense.
excited football good great high member recognized saw school similar
He's a very good football player. I've always said that and I'm very excited he's a member of our team. I've always recognized the great things he does for us. I saw him in high school and he was doing similar things.
drew execution year
The first year (2003), Drew was sporadic in his execution of a new offense,
exposure great
It's going to be great exposure for our conference,
plays
Make one or two more plays than they do.
adrian best coming defense game job limiting rushing tremendous
Our defense has been coming up with big stops, ... They had their best game of the season. They did a tremendous job of limiting Oklahoma's rushing attempts, particularly Adrian Peterson.
anxious dust pants time
We're anxious to get off the ground, dust our pants off and find another time to fight.
buzz click felt good great playing point ran saw time week
We ran into a buzz saw. We had a great week of preparation and felt good about ourselves. It was just a point in time in the season, probably, that things weren't going to click for us as well as in the past. We saw some things that were uncharacteristic of how we've been playing all season.
reduce thinking tried
We just tried to reduce our thinking before that first touchdown, let's just get one series.
affect dynamite healthy hoping kinds pad runners shoulder step throw
When you try to arm-tackle runners like him or even throw a shoulder pad on them, it doesn't affect those kinds of guys. He's a dynamite player. We're just hoping to keep him healthy every step of the way.
care continue envisioned improve ourselves position
We're in a position that we envisioned ourselves being at this time. Now we've got to take care of business, continue to improve and do the things that got us to this point.
composure early good kept reduce thinking tried
We still kept our composure and we just tried to reduce our thinking early in the game. Initially, we just wanted to get one good series. Then it was just one good play.