Coordinators Wednesday: Satterfield and White hope for better results this week Gamecocks​

Nov. 02, 2022 / VIDEOS COURTESY OF USC SPORTS OUTLET​

Gamecocks were only able to generate just 203 yards of total offense, while the defense allowed scoring drives of 96, 84, and 75 yards in the opening half as the Tigers built a 17-0 lead. On Wednesday, offensive coordinator Marcus Satterfield and defensive coordinator Clayton White met with the media to discuss what improvements each side of the ball has made as the Gamecocks get ready to visit Vanderbilt on Saturday night. The Gamecocks have won thirteen in a row over the Commodores, with Vandy’s last victory coming in 2008 by a 24-17 margin.


Quotes from OL coach Satterfield

Satterfield: “It was very disappointing. The production, the execution, everything. I thought we had a really good week of practice. I thought our guys were ready to go. We just never could get going. Couldn’t get a first down to stay on the field.”
Satterfield: “If I had a pause or rewind button on every play, I’d like to do certain things different on most of them. If you watch the first half, it’s a block here, a decision here, a call here. It was one of those days where things were not trending in our direction, at least offensively. “With 11 minutes, 12 minutes, we were already in ‘rally mode’ because we were two touchdowns down, so we’re having to play fast and trying to get chunks and trying to save timeouts and trying to score. I would probably, if I had to do over, would go back and just play that as a true possession. If it takes eight minutes, it takes eight minutes. Just go get a touchdown and run your offense. So I probably got to rally (mode) a little bit too early.”
Satterfield: “It got to be a real drop-back game. They were getting a good pass rush on us, and I was just trying to slow down the pass rush and let Spencer (Rattler) have some plays where he throws it out there and then, obviously, a crushing blow when when MarShawn (Lloyd) got banged up and he’d be there for a play and then he’d be gone. He was fighting his butt off.”
Satterfield: “MarShawn Lloyd, I think, is a really talented back. You get him five carries, he’s probably going to break off a 12- or 14-yard run every three carries. So that allowed us as an offense to sustain drives, get first downs. I think it became a lot harder to move the ball and get first downs when we lost him.”
Satterfield: Losing Lloyd early in the Missouri game impacted their ability to run the ball, sustain drives, get first downs because he's such a special back, but he likes the next guys behind him as well and feels like they can do the job in his absence.
Satterfield: On how other players will get opportunities with the ball: “We got a lot of guys that played running back in high school but, you know, all hands on deck, whether it be quarterback runs, backup quarterbacks, quarterbacks that played in the ball game, receivers who played running back, receivers that return kickoffs back 109 yards. Everybody’s gonna have a chance to see what they can do on Saturday night with the ball.”
Satterfield: “(Anfernee Orji) is unbelievable. I think from a schematic standpoint, (Vanderbilt is) very tough, hard-nosed, they’re gonna make you earn everything that you get. On certain down and distances, they make it tough on you with certain types of pressures and simulators that they bring on certain down and distances that we got to be ready for.”
Satterfield: On running Juju McDowell through tackles despite his size: “He’ll run into a wall without a helmet on if you ask him to. I don’t think you can physically sustain a game of him doing that. You gotta get Juju some bigger guys in there when you’re running between the tackles. Juju is a better runner whenever he doesn’t have to carry five to seven times inside the tackle box and get beat up a little bit by those big guys.”
Satterfield: On Spencer Rattler saying the offense didn’t know what to do: “He was laughing about that Sunday, just how it was misinterpreted. I can promise you he knew what to do. Coach Beamer sits in our quarterback meetings every day and listens to it. Through the progression of teaching, installing, Spencer knew exactly what to do.”
Satterfield: The offensive staff has given it everything they have, they continue to have the trust of the players, based on what he's seeing, they've been good in practice this week.
Satterfield: Feels like he got into rally mode too soon when they went down two touchdowns, in retrospect, he should have stayed with the regular play calling at that point.
Satterfield: You try to get the right personnel package on the field to fit the circumstances, they didn't get to a lot of the plays they had practiced all week because they got caught with the wrong groups on the field for what the defense was doing.
Satterfield: Missouri did a nice job of scouting them, watching their sideline to determine tendencies, they've done a deep dive starting on Sunday night to make sure they are changing up so they aren't tipping off the other team.