Postgame Quotes: Football at No. 4 Ohio State

Rutgers Head Coach Chris Ash
Opening statement....
I'll go ahead and start. Obviously we ran into a really good football team today. We give them a lot of credit. When you play teams like this, especially on the road, the margin for error is very, very small. We made a lot of mistakes. They took advantage of those mistakes, capitalized on them, and you just can't do that against good teams. It was disappointing, we were hoping we could come and play a better football game, but we didn't. We'll get back home, review the tape and move on and get ready for our game against Kansas next week. With that, I will open it up for questions.

Did your guys let (Nick) Bosa be one on one too many times…
He's a pretty good player and that's what happens. We had ways to try to protect him. He is one of the top players in the country, regardless of position and we had a plan to try and protect him but he still is a great player. He made some plays. It is what it is.

They are a good team. I don't care if you have a freshman or seniors at cornerback, they are a good football team. Top to bottom they are one of the best teams in the country, that is why they are in the top-5 in the country. When you can't generate a pass rush, it's going to be really hard to play good pass defense and then when you make some mistakes in coverage on top of that, it makes it even worse. We have to find a way against teams like this, thankfully we are still going to play a lot of good teams, but you know this is one of the better teams we are going to face, it is every year. And when we do have them, we have to find a better way to generate some pass rush, we tried to press, we played off and none of it worked today. Again, if we can't put pressure on the quarterback then it is going to be hard to play pass defense.

What did you learn about your team…
I love our team. It didn't work out like I had hoped. We have season goals that we set at the beginning of the season, all of those goals are still out there. We need to learn from our mistakes and get better. I need to get better, we need to coach better, we need to play better, and we need to move onto next week. We're going to go on the road again, and we need to get ready to play Kansas.

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