Quotes from the Hawaii media and the Associated Press

About how in their last 3 games QB have thrown 3 TDs against them while they have 4 INTs for TDs, with 12 sacks and 9 INTs over the 3 games, hoping that watching the film worries QBs, Michael Lafaele said:
"We want them to watch that film and say, 'We gotta get ready for these guys?' We want them to see what has happened to other quarterbacks." (HA)


About how he and the rest of their QBs have a lot of respect for their D, Colt said:
"We (UH quarterbacks) go against them every day in practice so we know what they can do." (HA)


About the Utah State QB, Jeff Reinbold said:
"If I'm the Utah State quarterback, I'm thinking maybe there is somebody else who would like to have my seat on that plane. Leon is a good quarterback who does a good job and has some escapability, but we'll get after him." (HA)


About how their defense works on getting turnovers and scoring off of them, Myron Newberry (WAC Defensive Player of the Week) said:
"It's something we've been working on in practice every day. Every week, we go out there just trying to make plays. If I get an interception, I'm looking to score if I can." (HA)

About his INTs in the Idaho game, Newberry said:
"I just went out there and did my job, did what I had to do and made plays. I watched extra film all week so I was familiar with the plays, and when the plays came to me I just made them." (HSB)


Praising Newberry's improvement, JJ said:
"(Newberry) has really gotten better every week. He's bought into the scheme. All the corners have." (HA)

"Myron had chances to make some picks early in the season, but he wasn't as confident in the scheme. He just stepped up and did them this week and I think he'll just keep getting better." (HSB)


Newberry praised their defensive scheme that:
"helps you make plays." (HA)


About how their D tries to match their more-respected offense, Newberry said:
"Not in a negative way, but we know our offense is great and we try to be just as tight," he said. "They helped us out down at Louisiana Tech, and we helped them out against Charleston (Southern) and Idaho. Every week, we go out and do the best we can do." (HA)


About how they cannot take any opponent lightly, Newberry said:
"We saw what happened this weekend with everybody getting upset. We're just entering our sixth week and we can't afford to take anybody lightly." (HA)


About kicker Dan Kelly's pain in his right (kicking) foot, JJ said:
"He's fine." (HA)


About how their opponents gear up for them due to ranking, JJ said:
"They play harder against you. Idaho played very hard in that game (last Saturday). They didn't quit the whole game and they're flying around and they're doing that because we're a target for them. Just like Utah State, we're a target for them." (HSB)


About how their high ranking will do them no good if they don't win every week, JJ said:
"All this is gone for naught, if we don't win week in, week out. If we win week in, week out, then the country will find out we're a pretty good football team.'' (AP)


Calling this his best defense since he's been a head coach at UH, JJ said:
"I think defensively this is the best team we've had." (HSB)


About how a defense that can get turnovers will help them win games, JJ said:
"I have believed forever, that if you can take the ball away on defense and run our offense, you're going to win a lot of games." (AP)

"In reality, that's what defense is. It's one thing to play good defense, but what wins, is taking the football away." (KHNL)


About how their D played vs. Idaho, JJ said:
"Coming into it every week, we were coming in with a little bit more of an attitude, and a little bit more aggressive. We played that way the whole game. That was pretty good stuff." (KHNL)


About he passed along Craig James' criticism of their D to GM, JJ said:
"I made sure Greg knew what Craig James said." (AP)

"well, I made sure Greg knew what Craig James said." (KHNL)


About how Newberry is quiet in front of reporters but loud with teammates, Adam Leonard said:
"Don't let him fool you, he's a talker. (He's quiet) when he's got a microphone in his face. Take that away and he's one of the loudest people in the room. ... When you get him, Gerard (Lewis) and Davone (Bess) together, all you hear is just a whole bunch of yelling." (HSB)


Bess said that Newberry doesn't talk much on the field, but with teammates off the field:
"you can't stop him from talking. He likes to freestyle rap and clown around and just be him." (HSB)


About his celebration penalty for diving into the end zone, Newberry said:
"I wasn't trying to showboat or nothing, it was just spur of the moment. It wasn't even a real good dive." (HSB)


About how the practice time Colt missed affected him more than his injured ankle, JJ said:
"I don't care what you say, when you don't practice as much it does affect your play and I think it affected his a little bit. But it was some bad luck, too." (HSB, AP)

"Some of it was, Colt wasn't practicing. I don't care what you say, when you don't practice, it does affect your play. It affected him a little bit, but he had some bad luck too." (KHNL)


About needing an MRI on his right knee a week after getting an MRI on his left knee (that one turned out to be a bruise), Mouton said:
"I'm just not having much luck with these knees." (HSB)