{"id":27683,"date":"2015-09-28T12:54:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T17:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=27683"},"modified":"2015-10-06T16:07:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T21:07:27","slug":"ole-miss-football-week-4-press-conference-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/ole-miss-football-week-4-press-conference-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Ole Miss Football Week 4 Press Conference Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following a too-close-for-comfort win over Vanderbilt in the SEC home opener, Ole Miss head coach Hugh Freeze seemed optimistic that some of the struggles the Rebels experienced were in fact an anomaly. <\/span><\/p>\n

Specifically regarding his offense\u2019s red zone struggles, Freeze gave credit to Vanderbilt\u2019s defense, noting that \u201cteams in this league are generally really good in the red zone.\u201d He admitted that a couple of play calls were schematically suspect, but that they will \u201ccontinue to work on the schemes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI liked all of our calls [in the red zone] the other night,\u201d he said, \u201cwith the exception of two.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

In regards to his defense, Freeze said that some of the struggles evident last Saturday could be attributed to both injury and coaching.\"VandyBEAT2015\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes it was us making a bad call at the wrong time,\u201d he said. \u201c[but] we do miss Tony Conner and Isaac Gross.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He had similar feedback for the offensive line, saying that his young and injured unit\u2019s \u201ceffort was tremendous, execution not so good.\u201d Freeze said that there was \u201ca lot of progress\u201d made last week in the Laremy Tunsil saga, but remained tight-lipped in regard to specific developments.<\/span><\/p>\n

As for this weekend\u2019s opponent, Florida is riding high after a second-half comeback last weekend over Tennessee. They resemble Vanderbilt somewhat, in that their defense has been consistently competitive despite mixed offensive results over the past few years.<\/span><\/p>\n

In his own press conference Monday morning, Florida head coach Jim McElwain claimed that Freeze\u2019s Rebels might not \u201chave much regard\u201d for the Gators heading into this week. Freeze, however, was quick to sing Florida\u2019s praises, saying that they were a \u201ctest\u201d for his team, and that they are a \u201cquality opponent that\u2019s really well-coached right now.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

The Rebels find themselves in the unfamiliar position of being favored heading into The Swamp, but as has been the case all year, Freeze preached caution regarding his team\u2019s national perception and lofty ranking.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are relevant right now,\u201d he said, \u201c[but] it\u2019s a long season.\u201d\"The<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following a too-close-for-comfort win over Vanderbilt in the SEC home opener, Ole Miss head coach Hugh Freeze seemed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":27684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40,41,653,655,90],"class_list":["post-27683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ole-miss","tag-football","tag-hugh-freeze","tag-ole-miss-football","tag-university-of-mississippi","tag-vanderbilt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/vandybeatFEAT.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}