Head coach Mike Riley
On the win - “I’m proud of all parts of the team
and the coaching staff. We had a great week of practice, and practice is a good
indicator of enthusiasm and hard work and attention to detail.”
On the team - “Everybody’s working hard and has
kept working throughout this to keep it going, and to get better all the time.
That’s what I’m the most proud of. The last two weeks we look like
we’ve gotten better. We just need to figure out a way to keep doing that.
On the “Wildcat” - “The players were kidding
Danny (Langsdorf) for a long time about when he was going to call that in a
game since we’ve been practicing it since last spring. As I always say,
that play was in the lab forever. We have been practicing it for a while, and
I thought it gave us a jump start and we made some good plays on it.
On the bye week - “We’ll practice all the days
we normally practice to get ready for the game. It’s coming at a good
time. It’s in the middle of the year. I think if you have to pick a time
for a bye this would be it."
Running Back Jacquizz Rodgers
On the win - "This definitely was a big win for us. Stanford
came in as the No. 1-ranked team in the Pac-10. It gave us the energy to come
out, get the win and get everything rolling now."
On running the wildcat - "The first thing was to just
get the snap, everything just fell into place after that."
On his 61-yard rush - "I was just patient to let everything
happen in front of me, so then I just hit the crease."
On what the win means and the next game against USC - "We
just need to stay focused and have everyone be ready for USC and come out strong
for practice."
Quarterback Sean Canfield
On having two weeks to get ready for the road - “We’ll
take a bye next week and look at the film tomorrow of this game and evaluate.
I think we can always learn something from a win. They are a good USC team.
We know them, so that will be a tough place to play down there.”
On this being the best offensive performance of the year -
“Yeah, I mean it goes back and forth. We look at things on film, and it’s
hard to say, but it was a great day offensively, execution-wise, and we kept
at it.”
On how it felt to have success early on in the game - “It
was awesome, and we did the same thing last week. So we have to keep that going.
The main thing is that we kept at it and we kept putting points up. We just
keep that going for USC in two weeks.”
On being aggressive out on the field - “You have to
play to win. You can’t play to lose so that’s my mentality as a
captain. I was proud of the way we played.”
Defensive Tackle Stephen Paea
On Stanford throwing so much during the game - “We practiced
to stop the power run, and I think they knew that, because they do a lot of
running.”
On what they did to prepare for the run game - “Their
O-line is big. We were trying to hit them before they move their feet. That
O-line is good. It’s the best in the conference.”
On the significance of the game - “It was a defining
moment for us. We were expecting a tough game, and it was a tough one, but this
is just another win in the pac-10.”
On what changed since the Arizona game - “Guys are playing
hard. If we didn’t get the double teams, our linebackers can’t get
their hands on the ball.”
Safety Cameron Collins
On the game plan - “They’ve got one of the best
backs in the nation, so we knew we had to contain the run. Once we took away
the run, we had to take away the pass.”
On this game being the best defensive performance - “This
might have been our biggest challenge, so I’d say this was our best performance.”
On the first play they dropped - “It was a great play
call. It was a good thing, it made us realize that not only can they run the
ball, but they can throw it as well. They’ve got a pretty good quarterback.”
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Head coach Jim Harbaugh
On his opinion of Jacquizz Rodgers - “He was very effective
getting around the perimeter, whether he was catching it out of the backfield
or being able to jump two gaps to get outside, and that was breaking us down.”
Safety Bo McNally
On Jacquizz Rodgers - “He’s one of the best running
backs we’ll play. You don’t see guys that small who can run it like
he can and we had a hard time tackling him and getting him down.”
On what made Rodgers hard to stop - “With a guy like
that who’s as talented as him, you know what plays they’re going
to do but you can’t stop them.”