12 Quotes by Butch Pedersen

Give them credit, they played very good defense the first half, and then we saw some things we though would be effective against them. It was a great gut check at that point.

He went to some camps and got some additional technique this summer, and he's really started to blossom. I think it finally hit him what we had been telling him. He got some input from college coaches that he has a chance to be really special.

You kind of flood an area and then you get a deep receiver and he was wide open.

The defense was really playing good football. They are swarming to the ball and improving each week.

We knew a game was going to come down to a pitch pass sometime. Paul and I would go out in the street in front of my house and practice it. Someone pitches him the ball and Paul bombs it to me.

I've never had a varsity touchdown before and to come out and get two on defense is big. It's good to know you can help the team win without having a big impact on offense.

It means we're 3-0. They are a great football team, and it's going to give us some confidence.

They came down here two years ago and we had them 8-6 late in the first half. Then within two minutes they scored two touchdowns and we never recovered.

I'm not saying we wore anybody down, but I know we're in pretty good shape. And I thought we started to control the line of scrimmage late third quarter and especially the fourth quarter.