Sam Brown had his best game as a Miami Hurricane against Louisville, making 3 catches for 125 yards and a TD. He met with the media to discuss the win:
On overcoming adversity early in the season: Football is patience, and life is patience. You can't really dwell on the times that it's not going your way. It's just about pushing to the next.
On the offense scoring almost every drive: That's our goal. It's not necessarily how we reach it. That's the standard. It's trying to keep the main thing, the main thing. We’ve got to score on every drive, be the best offense, play-by-play.
On settling down: Every game is not going to be my game, but I can impact the game in some way. It finally came together for me as a complete game.
On the receiving corps: It was a three-headed monster, but we created something different, a four-headed monster. Game-by-game, you never know who can show up and be that guy for the team and be a difference maker for the team. We all keep that same standard and same mojo. It could be anybody's game, man. When we’re not playing with urgency, just the body language, we do a good job of picking everybody up.
On the problems the offense creates for opposing secondaries: It's difficult in the back end. You can go to certain coverages to try to slow down X, but then the outside guy is going to come up. We all present a little bit of different stuff, but we all present explosive plays in some way or form.
On what stands out about Cam Ward: His leadership on and off the field. Just how he conducts himself. Like today for instance, we go up by seven before half. He said to everybody, “I'm about to dot them up, I'm about to dot them up.” For a receiver, that’s what we want to hear. That’s what our offense is. If you go man, it's pretty much going to be a long game for you. If you go zone, it’s window shopping.
On Michael Irvin: His energy is amazing. I've been to a couple schools like West Virginia and Houston, but the alumni weren’t really impactful like Michael Irvin, Santana Moss, Reggie Wayne. Seeing them at the facility is amazing. That’s a legacy.
On going for it on fourth down: That’s football. Especially with our offense, if you stop us four plays in a row, kudos to you. Once we start throwing out the different personnel, it's like, “Oh, my God.” And then we go tempo with all tight ends. It's hard to stop.
On the running game: It’s impressive. Especially with our O-line play. Our O-line play makes you want to run the ball, run the ball, run the ball. We’re pretty much an Air-Raid offense. But we keep it balanced with our running backs and keep everybody happy. We see it [with the running backs] every day. We see it in the weight room. That's what we expect out of them.
On overcoming adversity early in the season: Football is patience, and life is patience. You can't really dwell on the times that it's not going your way. It's just about pushing to the next.
On the offense scoring almost every drive: That's our goal. It's not necessarily how we reach it. That's the standard. It's trying to keep the main thing, the main thing. We’ve got to score on every drive, be the best offense, play-by-play.
On settling down: Every game is not going to be my game, but I can impact the game in some way. It finally came together for me as a complete game.
On the receiving corps: It was a three-headed monster, but we created something different, a four-headed monster. Game-by-game, you never know who can show up and be that guy for the team and be a difference maker for the team. We all keep that same standard and same mojo. It could be anybody's game, man. When we’re not playing with urgency, just the body language, we do a good job of picking everybody up.
On the problems the offense creates for opposing secondaries: It's difficult in the back end. You can go to certain coverages to try to slow down X, but then the outside guy is going to come up. We all present a little bit of different stuff, but we all present explosive plays in some way or form.
On what stands out about Cam Ward: His leadership on and off the field. Just how he conducts himself. Like today for instance, we go up by seven before half. He said to everybody, “I'm about to dot them up, I'm about to dot them up.” For a receiver, that’s what we want to hear. That’s what our offense is. If you go man, it's pretty much going to be a long game for you. If you go zone, it’s window shopping.
On Michael Irvin: His energy is amazing. I've been to a couple schools like West Virginia and Houston, but the alumni weren’t really impactful like Michael Irvin, Santana Moss, Reggie Wayne. Seeing them at the facility is amazing. That’s a legacy.
On going for it on fourth down: That’s football. Especially with our offense, if you stop us four plays in a row, kudos to you. Once we start throwing out the different personnel, it's like, “Oh, my God.” And then we go tempo with all tight ends. It's hard to stop.
On the running game: It’s impressive. Especially with our O-line play. Our O-line play makes you want to run the ball, run the ball, run the ball. We’re pretty much an Air-Raid offense. But we keep it balanced with our running backs and keep everybody happy. We see it [with the running backs] every day. We see it in the weight room. That's what we expect out of them.
