UGA Football Sedrick Van Pran Talks About "Tremendous" Offensive Line Play
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ATHENS, Ga. — University of Georgia center Sedrick Van-Pran previewed the upcoming game against Missouri with media on Monday.
On how last year’s Missouri game built the team’s resilience needed to beat Ohio State…
“I think you would like to believe that of course you do [have resilience], because it’s the preparation that you put in throughout the off season, January, summer, even just some of the things you deal with in life being a college student. Sometimes life comes up and it’s not always peaches and cream. Of course you want to believe that you have it [resilience], but I think ultimately that game last year was such an essential role to what that team became. I think we had the opportunity to kind of create our identity through that game. I think we could have [beat Ohio State], but we are grateful that we were able to have that game to help build us.”
On the rhythm of the offensive line…
“The guys have done a tremendous job. I think they’ve done a tremendous job protecting, I think they’ve done a tremendous job communicating on the run, because there’s a lot of things going on. There’s the game inside the game: blitzes, schemes, slants, all types of stuff to try and stop first and second down progress, trying to get you behind the sticks so you end up at third and long. I think we’ve done a tremendous job being able to communicate on first and second down, what’s going on, on the sidelines, making adjustments, to try and hinder that. I think the most encouraging thing is that we’ve done a great job and I want to give my guys their flowers, but I think just being myself I look at things we aren’t doing well and some of the things we would like to clean up and some of the things we want to be better at to possibly have an even better product. I’m grateful for the way the Lord has allowed us to play so far but definitely conscious of some things that we have messed up and want to be able to fix.”
On confidence gained after the win against Florida…
“Ultimately, we are very grateful for what we were able to do last week. I think Florida has a great defense. They presented a lot of challenges. I know some third downs, there was literally seven guys just walking around the ball, no idea what was going on. I think they were a great defense, I think they do an amazing job, but we have to get back to work. We can’t bring any of those points with us to Missouri. That won’t help us this week, what we’ve done in the past. I think it’s being humble enough to understand that you may have had a relatively good game but it’s time to get back to work.”