Stoops Post-Game Audio (See below for transcript)
Opening statement:
"It was a good solid win here today. Our compliments to Art Biles and Baylor. They really played disciplined, good football. They are in a bad position. I thought their quarterback did a really good job but obviously he doesn't have the experience their other quarterback has. We caught a break that way, but overall I think they have done a good job all year.
"It was pleasing to win a good football game. I thought it was pleasing to go in at half, 14-7, and come back in the second half and play so well and so solid throughout the game. Anytime you have an offensive day when you have no turnovers and fewer penalties, you rush the ball for over 200 yards and throw for near 400 yards and you are doing things that are positive. I was disappointed in the drops, but again I think a lot of that is inexperience. We have all kinds of yardage and big plays, if we just catch the ball better. I'm hopeful and I believe the ability is there. It's just time and time on the field to make improvement and to make those plays when they are there to make.
"I thought our kicking game was very good. It was encouraging to see Jimmy Stevens do so well when we really needed him to do so well. I think Dom (Franks), with some big returns, was a big part of getting good field position.
"Defensively in particular, I thought in the first half even though we held them to seven, there were some plays we could have definitely played them a little bit better and been in better position, and we did in the second half. Anytime you hold someone to six yards rushing, that is positive, and hold them to seven points with as a wide open offense they have, and formations and adjustments they give you. I thought in the second half we really settled in and played good disciplined football to be where we needed to be."
On Jimmy Stevens kicking so many times:
"It was pleasing to see him hit so well. I am not surprised because I have been pleased with him through the year, just overall and in practice he has been very consistent. I would say a year ago, even at practice sometimes he was too inconsistent. That hasn't been the case and it was good to see him do so well. The downside of that, if you want to immediately go to the negative we needed to score more touchdowns in the red zone. We will work on that. It gets down to execution, and blocking and we had a drop or so where we had opportunities to catch it."
On Sam Bradford:
"He played really well. To have been off as much as he has and to go out there for his first go at it and to play as well as he did, I thought he played great. He stays away from the negative plays, the bad plays. He had a great night with seven, eight or nine drops. You can cut that and say there were five legitimate drops that were in their hands, he had an incredible night. He is a great competitor and talking to him in the locker afterwards, I asked him how if felt and he said it felt great. Right now, he doesn't have any discomfort and that is encouraging. He will only get better from this. In practicing, he will trust it more and I think in another week he will get stronger with his throws and he will continue to get better."
On the amount of throws Bradford threw:
"It's probably because we had 100 plays. You don't go in anticipating 100 plays and through the week we had him throwing 30 to 40 balls each day to keep up with how many. That's why we limited how much he warmed up just so we didn't wear it out."
On the defense:
"I thought we tackled well. You saw all the formations they give you and it was pleasing to see the discipline to be where we needed to be and make the adjustments to put ourself in position to make plays."
On Dominique Franks' returns:
"Dom has great speed and the knack to make people miss him. I really liked the guys on our team doing a nice job blocking, hustling, and not getting forced penalties with the blocks in the backs down field and letting Dom make people miss him."
On receivers Jaz Reynolds and Dejuan Miller:
"I thought they did well. They will see plays where they can play better, catch the ball and make some plays. As they are on the field, they should get better and I thought Dejuan (Miller) came up with some nice catches and showed some spark that he can play for us."