Quentin Reddish

You had the Zero and two.

Jacquez White and Quentin Reddish kind of caught in no man's land on the Hicks touchdown.

Looked like someone missed an assignment there.

What I want to say about that really quickly is I think I know what happened.

We saw Aston Stevens get a little banged up in this game.

We saw Quentin Reddish get a little banged up in this game.

So we had a few too many guys who had a few bumps and bruises.

I think you saw the defense get fatigued.

We'll have to look at the tape.

I guess we've got to go back and look at the tape.

But that was one where I think all three of those guys, you had Caleb Spencer, Quentin Reddish, and Jaquez White.

They all immediately after that play looked at the sidelines like, what's going on? So that was busted.

Coming into the year, I thought the corners were really good, two veteran safeties.

Quentin Reddish played great last week with, I believe, three PBUs.

No interceptions, though.

The Hokies need to cause some turnovers.

But there might be some reasons for that.

Last thing I want to mention about the defense, French, was just what you saw out of Quentin Reddish and what he did, making some great plays on the ball and even getting his nose in there with some tackles.

So when he wasn't asked to play single high – He got matched up on tight ends and on crossing routes where he's coming into the zone.

His timing was excellent, stayed away from getting contact early, making a play on the ball.

Brian, you sometimes go back.

Quentin Reddish was screaming his head off, go.

You have to go with him.

And White just stood there saying, like, what am I supposed to do? And you're like, literally the safety is telling you, you've got to go with him.

Caleb had a sack.

Quentin Reddish with five.

DQ with four.

One TFL.

That really stretches your defense horizontally, putting more pressure on your linebackers to play sideline to sideline and make tackles in the open field.

Quentin Reddish, Tyson Flowers at the third level will also be huge factors in that as well.

I found this comment a little bit interesting from James Franklin.

If I'm the head coach at Maryland, I'm telling the offense to get the ball out quickly.

But very fascinated to see DQ Smith get out there for the first time.

And we asked Quentin Reddish, the starting safety for the Hokies, about the addition of DQ Smith.

And this is something I hit on in my emergency podcast when Smith was first announced to be added to the roster.

How does the locker room feel about this? Feel about adding a guy this late in the process, right before the season, when you've been working all offseason with the same group.

Quentin Reddish said it was a little weird at first, and he said it was random.

And so you can tell it might have been a little bit of an awkward situation.

But I think the way the coaching staff and the way the leadership handled it was really important and really valuable.

And Quentin Reddish said, you have to do what you have to do to compete at the highest level.