Here's what QB JT Daniels, offensive coordinator Tee Martin and QBs coach Bryan Ellis had to say about USC's multiple bad snaps last week. Daniels and Ellis mostly downplayed it, saying they expect center Toa Lobendahn to fix it moving forward.
Daniels:
"We were on silent count the two weeks before that, so going back to verbal, I guess there were just some issues there. It's nothing to be concerned with. There's two bad snaps in a game, that's very fixable."
Martin:
"Got to get better, just can't have it. They were making some hard verbal cadences themselves on defense, and a couple times they got penalized for it and a couple times they didn't. And I think it affected the snaps. And it's just hard. They've got the nose guard moving right in front of you, two or three D-linemen moving right in front of you. That was hard for him, but no, it's something that we've got to get better at -- the low and the high snaps. ... It's something that we addressed in the meetings. It's something that we addressed (Tuesday) in practice."
Ellis:
"Yeah, we've got to get better snaps. Toa's a great kid and a really good football player. He'll get it figured out. He'll get it right."
Daniels:
"We were on silent count the two weeks before that, so going back to verbal, I guess there were just some issues there. It's nothing to be concerned with. There's two bad snaps in a game, that's very fixable."
Martin:
"Got to get better, just can't have it. They were making some hard verbal cadences themselves on defense, and a couple times they got penalized for it and a couple times they didn't. And I think it affected the snaps. And it's just hard. They've got the nose guard moving right in front of you, two or three D-linemen moving right in front of you. That was hard for him, but no, it's something that we've got to get better at -- the low and the high snaps. ... It's something that we addressed in the meetings. It's something that we addressed (Tuesday) in practice."
Ellis:
"Yeah, we've got to get better snaps. Toa's a great kid and a really good football player. He'll get it figured out. He'll get it right."