Jackie Sherrill on beating Rice, Myles Garrett's potential

Key quotes from Jackie Sherrill interview

“When you play teams such as Rice, the chance of losing a player is what you drastically don’t want. You don’t want to lose a player with Speedy Noil's talent. With injuries defensively it’s no question that it makes you play a lot of younger players and can give them more depth. The real test is going to be when you show up in two weeks when you play against Arkansas. We know Arkansas is going to run the football, they ran it 61 times against Texas Tech, with their five fine running backs.”

“John Roper and Aaron Wallace we redshirted so when you’re looking at a true freshman come in out of HS that’s able to do what he has done, and I get to watch the replays pretty close and how Myles Garrett is able to move his body and torque his body, he’s not an average player. Garrett is a young man that doesn’t quit and that’s very impressive.”

“When Garrett latches on to a 300 pounder, who’s going to pound instead of run away or try to pass protect, does he have enough technique work to be able to anchor? He may end up being one of the best outside guys that Texas A&M has every had.”

“Texas A&M wasn’t getting any of the respect they should have. In the SEC you have so many strong teams that it’s hard to be in the top three or four. If you can finish in the upper half of the SEC then you’re going to be one of the top 15 teams in the country.”

“If you took A&M’s offensive line and Mississippi State's defensive line, you could say that team would win it all. Defensively the most impressive guy in the conference is one of their players, Preston Smith.”