{"id":8152,"date":"2015-04-23T22:50:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T02:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=8152"},"modified":"2015-07-07T19:31:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T23:31:00","slug":"doeren-talks-about-wolfpack-spring-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=8152","title":{"rendered":"Doeren talks about Wolfpack spring football"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dave<\/a>
Dave Doeren.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

DAVE DOEREN: It was a good spring.
\nWe got a lot accomplished. I was really pleased
\nwith how hard our guys practiced and put the
\nmomentum from the end of our season, winning 4
\nof the last 5 games, and entered the off-season
\nwith a lot of good energy, good confidence. Guys
\nlearned, as a young team, the do’s and don’ts of
\npreparation, I think, and saw the results in how we
\nplayed at the end of the year.
\nIt was fun to be the head coach here this
\nspring. There was just a lot of competition a
\nvarious positions. The way Jacoby and Jalan
\nthrew the ball around.
\nWe had several players we held out, just
\nbeing banged up like we were after the Bowl
\ngame, trying to get David Grinnage and several
\ndefensive linemen healthy. So a lot of young guys
\nwere able to take part in the drill work.
\nSaw great strides on the offensive line.
\nTyler Jones at left tackle had a great spring, got a
\nlot better for us. Will Richardson got better and
\nbetter and better as we went.
\nIt’s good to have our inside three back,
\nQuinton Schooley, Joe Thuney, and Tony Adams
\nare very veteran, good players with good chemistry
\nplaying well together.
\nAlex Barr returns. The guy has three
\nyears of experience on the O-line and is very
\nmotivated to have a great senior year.
\nBenson Browne and David Grinnage,
\nJaylen Samuels did some good things at tight end.
\nI had a receiver, Bra’Lon Cherry, had a really good
\nfinish to his spring. He was a little banged up at
\nthe beginning and finished really strong.
\nIt was great to have Gavin Locklear back.
\nHe had an injury last season in the summer. One
\nof the best leaders in the receiver room and did a
\nnice job being a constant presence for the
\nquarterback position.
\nWe moved a young man over to receiver
\nnamed Elliott Davis from DB, and he did a nice job.
\nHe was probably the most explosive player. And
\nJumichael Ramos probably made the most big
\nplays in the position group. Running back, Matt
\nDayes and Shad Thornton and we have a
\nfreshman that’s here already, Reggie Gallaspy,
\nthat had nice springs for us.
\nOn defense we have a lot of players back
\nwith experience. If we counted the other day,
\nthere’s nine different guys in our secondary, if you
\ninclude our nickels, that played for us last year —
\nthree linebackers, five or six defensive linemen.
\nSo excited, even though we’re young,
\nwe’re experienced. Experienced sophomore
\nteams, experienced junior class, probably the
\nbiggest question mark going into the fall will just be
\nthe production at the kicker and punter position
\nbecause we lost such veteran players there, two
\nfour-year starters.
\nSo the kids here competed hard this spring
\nand was impressed with them, but it’s going to be
\nabout game day for that position.
\nSpring game here was tremendous, had a
\ngreat crowd, a lot of people here supporting not
\nonly the football team, but the Kay Yow spring
\ngame raised over $16,000. So very thankful for
\nthat. Look forward to a good summer.<\/p>\n

Q. I know you brought up Jacoby
\n(Brissett) and Jalan (McClendon and just what
\nyou can say about each of them individually,
\nhow they looked through the spring.
\nDAVE DOEREN: Yeah, they looked great.
\nBoth of them can make every throw. They’re very
\ncompetitive. Jalan is going through kind of a
\nlearning curve we saw Jacoby in two springs ago,
\nhow to manage the clock and how to take care of
\nthe huddle, and when we want to go fast, how to
\noperate. He’s got tremendous leadership skills,
\nvery competitive and super coachable. It’s fun
\nwatching him progress through the spring.
\nAnd Jacoby on the other side of it has just
\nturned into such a great manager of what we do
\nand very consistent, doesn’t have a lot of change
\nin his personality, good play, bad play. Just keeps
\nplaying, and excited to have both those guys in the
\nquarterback room.<\/p>\n

Q. As far as how you kind of look at it
\ngoing into the fall, is Jacoby the guy for you?
\nOr is Jalan someone who can fight his way
\ngetting the opportunity? How do you view your
\nquarterbacks going forward?
\nDAVE DOEREN: Jacoby is our starting
\nquarterback, there’s no doubt. He’s a senior. He
\nplayed his butt off as a junior, excited for him. But
\nalso excited to have a guy as good as Jalan
\nbehind him. You can look at Ohio State and see
\nhow important your next quarterback is, and for
\nthem, the next and the next.
\nWe’re not going to enter the season with a
\ncontroversy or anything like that. We’re just
\nexcited about the quality of both of our guys, and
\nwe hope that we can get Jalan some great minutes
\nand get him ready to be the guy in it case that
\nwould happen.<\/p>\n

Q. Coach Doeren, can you talk about
\nhow Darian Roseboro acclimated himself as a
\nfreshman that graduated early from high
\nschool, from Lincolnton?
\nDAVE DOEREN: Absolutely. I just met
\nwith him today. Had a great conversation. He’s
\ngrown up a lot. I’m just really glad he was able to
\ncome in early. He has such a great family. I knew
\nhomesickness would be an is
\nsue, and it was. I’m glad he didn’t have to go through that during the
\nfall semester.
\nBut he got over it pretty quickly and is
\nreally acclimated. Took a lot of reps with our
\nstarting defense because Mike Rose is out for
\nspring with an injury. So he was the beneficiary of
\na ton of repetitions, and I know that made him so
\nmuch better. He had two great plays in the spring
\ngame.
\nSo excited for Darian. Now it’s just going
\nto be a matter of getting some shape so he can
\nplay the way he wants to play every snap, and the
\nconditioning factor that’s just completely different
\nthan the high school level.<\/p>\n

Q. He played all over the map in high
\nschool, including offense. Is there any thought
\nto do that with him at your level, or do you see
\nhim as a defensive lineman specifically?
\nDAVE DOEREN: He’ll be a D-lineman. I
\nhave used D-linemen in goal line packages before.
\nIf we get to the point where we feel he can help us
\nwin, we’ll have that conversation. Right now he’s
\ntrying to learn what side of the ball he’s on and do
\nall the things we need him to do at D-line, so I think
\nit’s premature for that.<\/p>\n

Q. Coach, what have you seen from the
\ndefensive units as a whole this spring that has
\nimpressed you more than anything else?
\nDAVE DOEREN: A lot of the guys are
\nback. So the chemistry, their ability to
\ncommunicate with each other and know where
\neach other is going to be. We do a lot of things
\noffensively here. So you have to be able to adjust
\nand make your calls and adjust your rules all the
\ntime. You just see how well they function as a unit
\ntogether now.
\nLast year there were three new starters in
\nthe secondary. So there was a lot of new things
\nhappening, there was new starters at every
\nposition. We have a lot of guys back that have
\ntaken valuable game reps, and it’s just a lot more
\nfluid.
\nWe’re building off what we did last year. I
\nthink we finished the season bringing a lot of
\ndifferent pressures, and it helped our kids. We’ve
\nbuilt on that here in the off-season. The guys are
\nexcited about what they’re doing, and they
\nunderstand what’s asked, and where the strengths
\nand weaknesses of the calls are.<\/p>\n

Q. Good afternoon. You’ve got some
\nholes to fill on the starting offensive and
\ndefensive lines. How do those holes look to
\nyou coming out of the spring?
\nDAVE DOEREN: I’m excited about our
\nD-line. Mike Rose is back. So is B.J. Hill, who
\nplayed in every game as a true freshman last year,
\nstarted almost all of them. Kentavius Street, we’ve
\nmoved to D-tackle and had a really good spring.
\nBradley Chubb was probably one of the best
\nsurprises of the spring on the defensive line.
\nAnd then we had a number of players that
\nplayed last year that are coming back in the fall
\nfrom injuries — Monty Nelson, Justin Jones, Garrett
\nBradbury. So we feel good about the depth, and
\nwe recruited well on that side of the ball.
\nWe’ve got four D-linemen coming in here
\nin less than a month. So excited to get those four
\nbodies in here too. Two defensive ends that are
\n6’5″ and 6’7″, and two D-tackles that are over 220
\npounds. So we’re happy with the D-line.
\nOn offensive line, I already mentioned the
\nthree starters that are back, in Alex Barr and Tyler
\nJones, had a really good spring, and Will
\nRichardson, who’s gotten better and better and
\nbetter. Bryce Kennedy, who we need to step up
\nthis summer, and did some good things, just needs
\nto be more consistent.
\nWe have a junior college tackle, Darius
\nWorkman, that will be here in May, and three high
\nschool tackles that will be here in June. So we’re
\ngoing to be a little bit younger filling those holes
\npossibly on the offensive line than we are on the
\ndefensive line, but we like who we have to work
\nwith.<\/p>\n

Q. Coach, last time we talked was right
\nafter the spring game. I was wondering, now
\nthat you’ve had a chance to go back and watch
\nthe film, what stood out to you about that?
\nDAVE DOEREN: Well, the way we took
\ncare of the ball on offense. There was a lot of
\nsnaps in that game, and there was no turnovers.
\nDefensively, we tackled pretty well. I thought there
\nwere some great runs by some of the backs, Matt
\nDayes and Reggie and Shad had a really nice run
\nafter the catch. The quarterbacks did a nice job
\ntaking care of the football.
\nDefensively, I think we’re stopping the run
\nabout our first defense very well, and the second
\ndefense has got to step up a little bit. Part of that’s
\nthe guys that were out of the game.
\nYou just see a bunch of guys that know the
\nsystems, that are playing within it and know whato do, playing fast.
\nAnd some of the backup guys, Shawn Boone played with the ones all day, did a
\ngreat job. Jermaine Pratt came in and did a great
\njob. It was fun to see some of the freshmen get
\nout there and make plays, Reggie and Darian and
\nJames Smith Williams and Riley Nicholson and
\nFord Howell. There are some young players that
\njust got here that are out here playing and playing
\nwell.
\nReally what I saw was what I thought it
\nwas going to be. Offensive line-wise, I think we got
\nbodies on bodies. We picked up pressures pretty
\nwell. We need to work on our vertical movement in
\nthe run game, displacing people, creating some
\nbigger lanes for our backs. That’s why you play
\nthose games so you can find the things that you’ve
\ngot to focus on for the summer.<\/p>\n

Q. Now that (Pharoah) McKever had a
\nfull season on defense and is starting to feel
\nmore comfortable on that side of the ball, how
\nmuch more of a weapon can he be for you this
\nseason?
\nDAVE DOEREN: It depends how strong
\nhe can get. He’s a guy that was a role player a
\nyear ago. Was a good pass rush, third down type
\nguy that could do a lot of different things in our
\nthird down package. We’d like him to be a first-
\ndown, second-down, third-down player.
\nWhen you go from receiver, quarterback,
\nsafety, to D-line, there’s a huge curve when it
\ncomes to playing the run. Pass rush, an athlete’s
\nan athlete. But in the run game, you’ve really got
\nto be able to bend and be strong and handle
\ndouble teams and different blocking schemes.
\nSo for Pharaoh, his biggest progress is
\ngoing to come from his strength. He knows that.
\nHe’s just going to grind all summer and get
\nstronger and stronger. He improved a lot in the
\nspring, and I think that’s the biggest thing, to see
\nhim go from being a role player to an every down
\nstarter is just going be to the lower body strength.<\/p>\n

Q. How much weight has he gained
\nsince the end of the season?
\nDAVE DOEREN: Not too much. He’s still
\naround the same weight. He’s just trying to make
\nsure he’s got the right weight, getting rid of body fat
\nand turning everything into lean muscle. He’s a big
\nold guy. I mean, I don’t even know his exact
\nweight right now. I met with him the other day, and
\nhe said he’s been maintaining. So it’s really not
\ngoing to be his weight that matters as much as his
\nstrength.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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