UVA cornerback Fentrell Cypress II impressed head coach Tony Elliott against Richmond
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00:00 >> The thing with Fentrell is just confidence.
00:03 He's a lot more confident.
00:05 He's getting opportunity, okay?
00:07 I've made it known that I believe he can be a really good player to him.
00:12 So I think he feels that there's trust from the coaches,
00:16 that he can do what we need him to do and do it at a high level.
00:19 He was a player of the game for us from a coaching staff.
00:22 So we voted him the player of the game.
00:25 Obviously, Nick Jackson's gonna get a lot of recognition for his tackle, but
00:29 we felt like overall, Fentrell played the best game of the guys on defense.
00:34 Paris was the player of the game on offense, and
00:37 then we had Elijah Gaines as the special teams player of the week.
00:40 And we'll do that every week as a coaching staff.
00:43 And then I know Jim and the media,
00:45 they'll have some recommendations for the conference awards.
00:49 But Fentrell is just confidence and experience and
00:53 understanding and relationship with new coaching staff.
00:57 And understanding too that he's gotta go, that we're pushing him.
01:04 Now you gotta go, okay?
01:05 You need to step into your role as a starter and play with that confidence.
01:10 So it was good to see him have those pass breakups.
01:13 Because a lot of it is too with both Dez and
01:17 Rudd, you're still evaluating and you don't know till you get to a game.
01:21 So now to see him be able to go up and play some balls in the air down the field,
01:26 now gives you a little more confidence as a play caller to be able to put yourself
01:31 in a situation where you can be a little more aggressive and
01:33 take some chances, some calculated chances.