Tom O'Brien Postgame Interview After Wake

KEY QUOTES

on today's loss...
"I mean we've just got to make a tackle there at the end of the game. Take a timeout, you get the ball back and take four more shots at it every time and see what happens. We didn't make the tackle. That kid (Josh Adams) wanted it more than we did."

on if there were any surprises...
"No. It's just that we continue to self-destruct. We have to do that on the practice field, we have to do that with coaching , and then some guys have to grow up too. Some of it is youth. That's no excuse but they better grow up fast or we'll have a long season."

on Wake Forest's field position throughout the game...
"They had a lot of short fields. We had a lot of long fields. That comes down a lot to the kicking game. The kickoffs change field positioning almost every time in the game."

on NC State's pressure...
"We worked hard on getting there and we worked hard on keeping (Skinner) in the pocket. He steps up and he makes plays, and that's when he made plays. We tried to keep him in front of us and i think we did a good job in coverage- that's why the ball was being dropped down...He's a heady , smarty guy. He figures out how to do it but I think we got him down quite a few times though."

on NC State's quarterback's efforts...
"Russell (Wilson) competes all the way to the end and he's always going to keep competing. As long as he's got the ball in his hands I think we've got a chance to win. We'll take any effort Russell gives us all the time."