“I told them I would be. I told them I think Auburn is a special place. I told them Auburn is a place where you can go and coach and be there for a long time. That's what I was looking at.”
“Nick is an outstanding coach and makes decisions based upon the best interest of the organization. Dom is an outstanding coach. I enjoyed my time in Miami and am proud of what we accomplished. We had a good thing, and I expect the Dolphins to continue accomplishing good things looking forward.”
“In the NFL, it's all coaching. You don't have to do the recruiting part of it, which I had always enjoyed. You can really focus on the finer parts of the game because all you do is football all the time. I think I'm a better coach having been there and experiencing that. I look forward to bringing that experience back to Auburn.”
“We got after it good today. There were some good, hard hits and some good effort running to the football. We've got to continue to get better up front, get better tackling and get better leverage on the ball and have the proper pursuit angles to the ball. We don't understand that yet, but we're getting there.”
“We were trying to improve fundamentally. You either take a step forward or a step back every day. You've got 15 opportunities, and we need to get better all 15 times out.”
“We need to play the run better, the sacks will come. We'll be able to generate pressure on the quarterback. We need to head-butt the guys in front of us and play the run better.”
“We did some different things today. I wanted to see how we fit the run. I'm a little disappointed we didn't fit the runs as well as I thought we would.”
“He's an athletic guy, moves around well and we're not really getting much production other than Will Herring at (strong-side) linebacker. We felt like we needed another productive guy.”
“I wish we hadn't given up the screen, and we didn't play well in the red area. Other than that, we made some plays on the ball and made some turnovers. We've got to continue to progress.”
