University of Florida Football Media Conference

Saturday, October 28, 2023

Gainesville, Florida, USA

Jason Marshall Jr.

Press Conference


Georgia - 43, Florida - 20

Q. The challenge of covering Ladd McConkey today, what was that like? I know you had some pass breakups, but he got the better of you a few times too. Talk about that battle this afternoon.

JASON MARSHALL JR.: Like you said, some plays he did get the better of me. But at the end of the day, he is a great player. I'm a great player. He's going to make plays. And that's pretty much it.

Q. What would you say were some of the things that maybe didn't go right for you today, your immediate thoughts after the game? What do you think held you guys back on this one?

JASON MARSHALL JR.: Nothing really held us back. It was just a lot of mistakes, offense and defense-wise, game changing-wise, and basically we had to fix those.

Q. Jason, just talk about what pressure was put on the secondary, because you know the defensive line struggled to really put pressure on Beck. So what does that then do for the secondary, knowing that is not really a lot -- there's not really anyone coming to the quarterback?

JASON MARSHALL JR.: Nothing to that. Just gotta cover our guys. It's as simple as that. They have to do their job. We have to do our job. At the end of the day, just gotta cover our guys.

Q. How difficult was it the way things just spiraled out of control there at the start of the second quarter and was it just one bad quarter the whole time?

JASON MARSHALL JR.: Like you said, it was a bad quarter. Like I said earlier, the mistakes kind of held us back. As we grew on the mistakes, the lead grew. So we can't allow that to happen.

Q. You're one of the longest tenured players on the team at this point. You've seen a lot of downs over the years. What is your message to guys who haven't experienced much after a loss like this to keep guys motivated and going through the rest of the year?

JASON MARSHALL JR.: Nothing much. We have a lot of football left to play. It's getting back to the lab, and we have work to do. That's the message, we have work to do.

Q. How confident are you that this team is not going to let this be in vein, they'll capitalize on this and it's going to be a beneficial learning experience, for a lot of the young guys, especially, on this team?

JASON MARSHALL JR.: Like I said, I'm excited for the young guys that haven't experienced some type of loss like this. Myself being a leader, just telling them, like I just said, keep your head down, keep working, we have a lot of football left to play.

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