Jimbo Fisher reacts to Texas A&M’s latest loss: ‘Came up 1 play short’
By Keith Farner
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Jimbo Fisher and the Aggies dropped their fourth straight game on Saturday night, 31-28 to Ole Miss.
Fisher elected to start freshman Conner Weigman for the first time this season, and the Aggies started strong on offense, but couldn’t sustain it as Ole Miss churned out 390 rushing yards.
Fisher also said Weigman would be the starting quarterback from here on out, and added, “Conner loves ball … He moved the football … Very happy with him… I love coaching him.”
Here’s some of what Fisher told the media after the game:
Jimbo Fisher on if he should've put Weigman in earlier this season: "You can ruin a guy a lot quicker than you can make a guy."
— TexAgs (@TexAgs) October 30, 2022
Texas A&M head coach Jimbo Fisher: “Very good football game out there today… Competed hard. Came up one play short.”
— TexAgs (@TexAgs) October 30, 2022
Jimbo Fisher: “McKinnley (Jackson) looked like he played really good. Devon (Achane) was outstanding.”
“I thought Conner (Weigman) was outstanding… Gave us a chance to win.”
— TexAgs (@TexAgs) October 30, 2022
Jimbo Fisher said they didn’t mean to kick it into the end zone on that final kickoff. They wanted to pin them back with three timeouts. They were trying to hit it around the five or 10, he said.
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Fisher also said Moose Muhammad should have caught that last punt late in the fourth.
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Jimbo Fisher: “We had a high tempo the whole game.”
— TexAgs (@TexAgs) October 30, 2022
Jimbo Fisher on adjusting run defense: “D.J. (Durkin) is really good football coach… We’ll get it right.”
— TexAgs (@TexAgs) October 30, 2022
Jimbo Fisher on if he thought about an onside kick at the end of the game: “I would have but we wanted to pin them in the end zone… We got the stop.”
“We had three timeouts. I would have onside kicked if I had two timeouts.”
— TexAgs (@TexAgs) October 30, 2022
Jimbo Fisher says freshman Conner Weigman will be the starting quarterback from here on out.
— TexAgs (@TexAgs) October 30, 2022
Jimbo Fisher: “Conner (Weigman) loves ball… He moved the football… Very happy with him… I love coaching him.”
— TexAgs (@TexAgs) October 30, 2022
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
