Ryan Grubb on Fumbles

Ryan Grubb, UW offensive coordinator, is not happy about the spike in fumbles lost.

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00:00 >> You had some stuff happen on Saturday that we haven't seen all year,

00:03 with Rome with a fumble and then Jaylen Cole.

00:07 He hadn't had any drops all year and he had two drops.

00:09 Is it sometimes that things just kind of build on each other or

00:12 did you see either of those?

00:14 >> No, I mean, I think there's a preparation piece to that if I'm being

00:17 transparent, and that's what I told the guys on Sunday.

00:19 I thought we had a good game, not a great game.

00:22 And there were certainly two red zone turnovers is horrific.

00:26 And we could have helped the defense by staying out there doing that and

00:30 scoring points.

00:30 And getting 50 some points instead of 42 and

00:34 leaving it a close football game when it shouldn't have been.

00:37 So that part is frustrating.

00:40 And the thing I told the guys last week was,

00:42 I think it was a Thursday practice at Oregon Week.

00:47 We were 46 of 47 throwing the ball on Thursday practice.

00:51 The ball touched the turf one time all day.

00:54 And that's not what it was on Thursday practice.

00:56 So we gotta focus up and do a great job.

00:59 And I know Rome and JP, they've made plenty of plays for us.

01:04 So as far as dropping the ball, I don't think that that's something to catch

01:08 the norm on, but I'm more concerned with how we protect the football.

01:12 Rome had fumbled the football out of bounds multiple games in a row.

01:18 And there's just too much of that right now and we gotta get it cleaned up.

01:22 And it's gotta be unit reinforcement, not just the guys with whistles.

01:26 And guys gotta realize last year we led the country and fumbles lost.

01:31 We only had lost two all year.

01:33 And so right now it's just not good enough.

01:35 It's not the standard and we gotta make it more important.