Wilson On TD, Offense, And Tiger

On the play that lead to his touchdown catch:

MW: Yeah, that drive I think coach just had confidence me. I think I had 2 big first down catches. That's the way it goes. Coach Shaw believed in me. I believed in myself. He called the play. We practiced it all weekend, and KJ thew a catchable ball. I just had to come down with it.

On what the offense needs to be consistent across all 4 quarters of a game:

MW: I mean, that I think we do enough. We relay the message all the time, saying for us, you know, to start fast. That's our motto. That's why we take the ball every time in the first quarter. So we've kind of created that as our identity. Everyone knows that as soon as Stanford walks on the field, we're going to take the ball first. We want our offensive to go down and score, but we just couldn't do it today. We got outplayed by UCF, but you know, we got a big game next week. We got to flush it by Monday and move on. And you know, we're looking at Oregon now.

On the offensive struggles in the 1st half:

MW: Ah, you know, we were short on linemen, it starts with the line. You know that's Stanford's identity. That's every team's foundation. We've had to throw young guys in, you know. We have what three went down? Walker went down, Foster went down from last week. Had another guy go down. Devery was banged up a little bit. So we just got to get healthy. That's bottom line. We can't keep losing big time personnel, that's going to hurt us, you know. Jovan got ejected in the first, I think that was maybe the first drive of the game. So that was huge. He's a huge part of our team, huge part of our defense, huge leader on the team. Guys look up to him, so that was a huge loss. But at the end of the day, you know, these things happen. It's football, and we just didn't respond well. We didn't get the response we wanted. And, you know, we just got outplayed bottom line.

On the pregame message from Tiger Woods:

MW: I mean, it was very unexpected. When Tiger Woods walks in the room, I was like, geez, this is really Tiger Woods. I mean, he's one of the greatest of all time in any sport, you know. He's a legend. So being in the face of a legend, you know, brings a lot of motivation to myself, and the team had juice after that. We were fired up. He said some great things to us even showed us. one of his Masters jackets. Oh, yeah. And put it on Coach Shaw. It was a little small. But I just have utmost respect for Tiger Woods and what he's accomplished in his career, you know, if I was to accomplish half of what he did I think I'd be an all time great in football. So it's just, I was just shocked and just so happy to be able to be in the presence of someone whose name is gonna, you know, be remembered forever.