Q. But in the big picture, you mentioned to us at the beginning of season, running the ball and stopping the run were two big identity points for you. Where do you feel you are with those two things right now?
COACH BRIAN KELLY: I think good. I mean, we've got to have better -- look, you know, stopping the run by and large, you know, they were committed to running the football today. I think they had almost 50 carries. You can't -- you know, you can't beat us, you know, running it 50 times with just two big plays. We don't want to give up any big plays. Our top-down run support's got to be better. Our safety support's got to be better to. It our fit by the backers has got to be better. We'll get that cleaned up. We're not getting pushed off the ball. We're not getting manhandled. None of that concerns me at all.
From an offensive line standpoint, could we have been better today? Probably. But they weren't going to let us run the ball up inside, so we are going to move to some of the things that we can do. We threw for almost 450 yards.
That's the nature of college football today. You'd better be able to do both. If you can't run it because they don't want you to run it, you'd better throw it, and if you can't, you're in trouble, and I think we can do both.