John Stocco Quotes (22 Quotes)

Part of it is the weather. It's always dreary when we're there.

But, in past summers, when we'd go 7-on-7, I'd drop back, make a read and throw to one receiver,

Joe pulled around and just absolutely crushed the corner. I felt bad for that guy because Joe is just a monster.

The past couple of years, we had opportunities to win both games and we just let it get by us. That's something we obviously don't want to do this year.

Gave me a little kiss. It's just a shot to my head. I'm all right, though. I probably should have slid on that one.

I don't read the papers anymore. I stopped early last season. I don't need to deal with that. The only opinions I need to worry about are from the guys who are watching me day in and day out.

Sometimes down in the red zone, he is the guy that I am going to look to because he can make some big plays for us, ... And he just did a great job of getting open and catching the ball when he has the opportunity to.

I think today was a big learning day for us. Being the first day, we want to get used to the drills and everything that we're doing. Offensively, we're not changing a whole lot of what we're doing, but we got a lot of new terminology, and I thought guys handled it well.

It's all about developing that trust, so I know that I can take my drop and pitch it and they're coming out of their break and going to get it. It's like anything else, it's getting reps and reps and doing it over and over until it gets...

He's done great things at the University of Wisconsin and we just want to send him off in the right way. He's tried to prepare us like it's any other game, but it is a big deal to the players. We want to thank him for everything he has done for us and the best way for us to do that is to play our best game and leave it on the field.

He got the guys in and out (of the huddle). He kept the offense moving down the field. I thought he did a really good job for us today.

A lot of people didn't expect too much from us after that. You've just got to laugh at how far we've come now.

He called a team meeting, and we had no idea what it was going to be about. We thought it was just going to be a getting ready to report for camp meeting, and then he announces this. It was definitely a big shock to all of us.

I think it's a good step. We know what kind of playmakers we have with our receivers and backs. You've got to make teams pay if they want to bring everyone up for the run.

I didn't have flashbacks, ... I just knew I was getting down this time.

He's a guy that I think the sky is the limit for him. He's strong, he's fast and he just needs to get reps and get some confidence going and get to the point where he knows what he's doing inside and out so he can cut it loose. But hopefully he can get healed up and get ready to go.

The fact we're going to have so many young guys, especially receivers, I want to be right with my reads, even more so this year. I want to put more responsibility on myself to make the right reads and make sure the ball is going in the right place.

That's a play that ... we haven't really run that much. I thought they'd all be dropping deep and there'd be a big hole over the middle. He made a nice play on it. I tried to keep it low, a safe throw, but he made a play on it.

I completely thought we would go down and score. Just a mistake on my part. I was trying to hit Jonathan over the middle, and their guy made a nice play.

We practiced a lot and sometimes it really got long, but today it paid off. I've got a lot of talent around me and I just try to get guys the ball.

All I know is our competition is going to get better in a hurry.

I didn't see it coming at all, to tell you the truth. As far as how everything went last year, everything was normal. He had a lot of other responsibilities, but nothing changed in terms of when he was around, him dealing with us. Nothing changed, so I had no reason to expect this.