EUGENE — No. 16 Oregon routed Nevada 77-6 Saturday night at Autzen stadium.

Wolf Pack coach Jay Norvell, quarterback Carson Strong and linebacker Lucas Webber spoke after the game.

Below is a transcript of Nevada’s postgame press conference.

JAY NORVELL

“Just really disappointed in the mental intensity of our execution today. We started off fairly strong and then the second quarter we made too many mental errors. Gave up too many easy plays in pass coverage and we’ve got to do a better job of that. We’ve got to correct that. Some of the same error that we had a week ago cropped today today. Turned the ball over offensively, just didn’t get any continuity there. Carson had a couple of throws that he’d like to get back, we had a couple of fumbles that were not helpful, that allowed us not to really get going. But more importantly, our football team’s got to understand that it’s really about our own execution and our own play. Everybody’s accountable for what was put on film today, I’m ultimately accountable and we’ve got to make the corrections to play better football. We didn’t play good football today. We got a chance to make those corrections and get back on track. We play a very, very quality, well-coached team this week in Weber State and we need to get back on track and make the corrections to some of the error that we made today.”

On Justin Herbert’s performance:

“I think — I’m not disparaging Herbert — we didn’t play good today. We didn’t play good at all and so some of the mistakes we made, if we would’ve played this way last week, Purdue would’ve scored 70 points on us. If we play like this next week, Weber State will score 70 points on us. He’s a very good player. I think he played excellent today.”

On Oregon’s defense:

“They didn’t do anything that we didn’t execute, we just didn’t execute very well. They’re a good football team, they’re a good defense. They’re well-coached. They obviously, they were ready to play. I’m just disappointed at some of our execution and how we played collectively.”

On whether Oregon’s tight ends were a surprise:

“Not really. We were close in coverage a couple of times, those kids made some big plays. So I can’t so, no, that they were a surprise.”

On change of emotions over first two weeks of the season:

“Going into the season, we wanted to manage the nonconference schedule and play good football consistently through. We obviously didn’t do that collectively tonight. But we’ve got two more weeks. This is an important game for us coming up this week. We get a chance to come back home. We play a quality opponent; they just had a big win tonight I understand. So we’re going to have to have a great week of preparation and have a heck of a football game next week The challenges keep coming, every week is its unique week and we have to prepare and get ready for the challenges of the week.”

On if Oregon did specific things to force negative plays

“Typically when you get negative plays you get penetration and you’re not handling the line very well and we didn’t. We had some pressure on the quarterback. They did a good job. They have a good football team. We obviously didn’t control the line of scrimmage like we wanted to. I thought like we could play better in the trenches today but we obviously still got some work to do there.”

On if Nevada was asking the defense to do too much:

“The turnovers, we mishandled the punt, we had a bad snap there. We had turnovers in the second quarter and then the big plays. You can’t pile on those types of mistakes one on top of the other and expect to have a proper outcome. it’s just not going to happen. It was a combination of too many of those things and we just have to play better and we’re capable of playing much better than we played today. We know we’ll have to look at the film. The important thing is that our kids see what they did today and they’re accountable for it, we as coaches are accountable for it and we make the corrections. I have a lot of confidence in our team. i think we have a good football team. I think we’re very young still at many positions and we showed it today. I think we showed it in the secondary. I think our quarterback still has new experiences every time we go out and this is a challenging environment to play in. Let’s face it, as much as I felt like we were ready to come and play at a place like this we have too many players that showed that they’re not quite ready. We have to go coach them and get them better and improve them and get them ready for next week.”

On whether there was an over-commitment to stopping the run:

“No there wasn’t over-commitment to stopping the run, we just didn’t play good pass defense. I mean, we just didn’t and we have to play better. We didn’t play very good pass defense last week at time either so it wasn’t something that just happened today. We have to improve that area of our defense.”

QB Carson Strong

On the game:

“Overall we got to be better. Got to move on, learn what we can from the game and be ready to beat Weber State next week.”

On Oregon defense:

“It wasn’t really about what they were doing, it was about us. It all starts with us and there were guys open downfield and I got to be able to see them and be able to get them the ball. I missed a lot of plays. I left a lot of plays on the field tonight.”

On getting back on track:

“All of our goals are still in front of us. We got to learn what we can from this game and go out next week and do what we can to win the game. We got to put this one behind us and learn what we can from it.”

On how team will respond:

“When we come in tomorrow, watch film, we just got to move on. There’s nothing we can do about it now. We got to get ready for Weber State.”

On how experience will make him better:

“I’ll learn every thing I can from all the mistakes I made. I made a lot of them so there’s going to be a lot of plays for me to get better on from tonight.”

On how Oregon stopped him from running:

“They had a pretty fast defense. Like I said, it’s all about us. There was plays out there to be made and we didn’t do it tonight.”

On Nevada’s penalties:

“It’s tough just getting penalties. It makes the drives tougher but we got to be able to respond from them and we still got to be able to pick up first downs. We got to be way better on third down. We were not good on third down tonight and we were not good on third down last week. We need to be a lot better on third down.”

On Justin Herbert:

“Justin’s a really good quarterback. He’s a top quarterback draft prospect for a reason. He stood back there and he was cool, calm and collected the whole game and he was delivering strikes. I’m not really going to watch his film to take anything from him but he’s a really good quarterback.”

LB Lucas Webber

On defense being asked to keep making stops:

“It happens. It’s football. Things sometimes don’t exactly go your way, you just got to go out and play. It’s as simple as that. We didn’t execute on situations.”

On what were the differences for Nevada compared to last week:

“We made some mental errors against Purdue too, I think there were just more mental errors today. It’s frustrating. We got to bounce back We got to get things cleaned up. Guys got to get in the film room and ask questions. If they don’t know, they’ve got to ask. I think that’s the biggest thing, we got some young guys playing and if they don’t know they got to ask. They can’t just (think) ‘hopefully it doesn’t come up in the game.’ No, it’s going to come up and it came up tonight and guys didn’t know what to do at times.”

Like coverage?

“Coverage, things like that. Fits in the run. I would say coverage and their eyes got to get better on the back end a little bit. But we’ll get it fixed, I know we will. We’re a resilient team. Tonight just wasn’t our night.”

On Oregon’s big plays:

“Whether it be miscommunication, it wasn’t like we didn’t practice the plays. I think the biggest thing is guys’ eyes weren’t disciplined tonight. If they wanted to add in on the run, the secondary, they were trying to be a little too aggressive, I think, on play-actions and stuff and they would come down and bite. We got beat, it’s as simple as that but we didn’t play well. We got to bounce back.”

On Oregon’s offensive line:

“They knew where they were blocking. They knew what to do. They were physical. They played well. I felt like we were doing some good things in the run game defensively but they were able to play-action us a little bit and throw it over our head.”

On what Nevada can take from this game:

“There’s a lot of things we got to correct. I think that’s the biggest thing we got to take forward. Guys can’t just look at the film and say. ‘Oh wow we played really bad or whatever, put it in the backseat.’ They got to make the corrections. It’s not like they do elaborate things. Other teams are going to run the same concepts so we got to get those concepts fixed. they just do it at a really high level. We got to get those things fixed.”