Opening Statement:
"I guess we will run up the week. It is a short week of course, and it is not like all of a sudden we woke up and said we have a game Friday. We have known it for a while. We knew we were Sunday, Saturday, and Friday; the whole scenario. Our focus has been to put a little money in the bank so to speak to where we will need it this week, we will have it. We have tried to gear our guys to have it where we will be as fresh as possible Friday night up in Buffalo, New York. We know they are having a blackout, and it is a big game and big excitement for them and for us. I am anxious to get our guys up there and get after it."

On Bryce Petty:
"He is really good. I saw him in the locker room just a few minutes ago. He ran yesterday, and he said he felt great quite honestly. He said he was sore, but not painful and that is a big difference. There is a difference between pain and soreness. He will probably try and go a little bit today to gauge him. I haven't seen him throw. I haven't seen him run. We will get out there in a couple of hours and see what it looks like. If he is able to go, he will go."

On Xavien Howard:
"X-man and Ryan (Reid) have both done well. They are in positions where they get challenged often by coverage. X is really a phenomenal corner. We go against a bunch of press corners through the league, and in practice he is as good as anybody we go against, game or practice situation. Ryan is a guy learning the trade, and getting better. He has some skills and he is a really good player. Terrance (Singleton) is another guy in the same boat. Those guys are all really talented and that is what we have felt good about all along. We knew that they had talent. We just had to get them on the field and let them play. X jumps out there and has two picks in the first two games, which is good."

On Success against Buffalo:
"Last year was a hot football game. They had gone to Ohio State the week before they came up here. They had gone back to back travel dates a good distance, and it kind of got away from them. It was a pretty good game early. They actually scored on us first, 21-13 midway through the first quarter. Mack, the number five pick in the draft, was an exceptional player. Coach Quinn has done a great job up there; 8 and 5 football team last year. They are a good football team, but it just got bad on them here in a hurry. We know that they wanted us to come up there this year. We offered them the opportunity to come back down here and play, and they decided they wanted the game to be up there. So happens that it is a Friday night ESPN football game, and they are having a blackout. I don't know how many they have had, probably one. To me that is good. It challenges us to some extent, and I like that part of it because we are not going to be in any comfort zone. We are going to have to go out there and depend on the guys we look around and see. That part of it is kind of inspiring to me."

On Buffalo testing the secondary:
"They do that well. Quinn handles the offense, a pro style offense. The same QB (Joe Licata) that they had last year, I think he was like 10 for 16 with 200 yards against us last year. They have averaged close to 38 points a game, 500 yards of offense a game through the first two games this year. They do a good job, and they are very capable. They have good people, and it is kind of a step up from what we have seen these past several weeks. It is a good situation to gauge to see where we are at."

On Seth Russell playing up to expectations:
"Apparently some other people thought he was pretty good to because he was voted co-Big 12 player of the week. It kind of goes without saying, we are in the proving business. Every week is a different week. Russell, he was good last week, and as the future goes on when he has his opportunity again we will judge him again. There were some situations last week that allowed for success on the field by what was transpiring in the schematic part of the football game, and that might not always be the case. He was exceptional in how he handled himself, and the decisions that he made. That is the thing that I told him I was proud of. I have always known that he can throw. I have been around him for three years, and he can throw the football really well. I know he can run. He is exceptionally athletically gifted. He can jump, he can run, and he has great body control, but can he make great decisions? That is the part where he sometimes has not been where he needs to be if he is going to be a starting quarterback for us. He did that the other night. His decision making was on cue. He had two plays out of 48, and you can't have two, but he had two plays out of 48 where maybe he didn't do what he should have done, or tried really to do too much is what he tried to do. Other than that he was exceptional, he was right on, and he kept some plays alive with his feet."

On the first road game coming up on Friday and starting Big 12 play soon:
"You know you have to win on the road. That's just it. You have to go on the road, you have to win, and you've got to understand that now it's a situation where it might not have been that way five years ago. People would have beaten us. They want to get us on their home floor and they want to slap us around. We know that's the scenario. So either you man up, you play tougher, you bond more together, you fight harder for each other--or you stay at home and don't get on the plane. And that's what will happen to the ones that don't do that. So it's a situation like I mentioned earlier. We're going to get challenged a little bit, and to me, that's exciting. It's inspiring."

On what makes a quarterback successful (is it decision making?):
"That's it. That's really one of the main ingredients. Accuracy, decision making, leadership. There are so many intangibles that are involved with that. And intelligence and talent level. But we feel like with our offense, we do a decent job of putting people in positions of success. Or try schematically with personnel, with formations, and with playing up to their abilities. So that's something that we take a lot of pride in from an offensive standpoint. We don't have an offense where we just run our offense. We're going to adapt our offense to whoever is running it."

On whether the injured receivers/tight ends will be back this week:
"I think Corey will be back. Antwan is probably 50/50 right now. Tre'Von will be back. He could have played a little bit more the other night. So I think everybody will be back except for Clay and Levi. Like I said, Antwan is a little bit of a question mark. And I think Bryce will be back. I'll know more in two days, but right now, I'd say he'll be back."

On what he is seeing from the offensive line:
"We still feel like we've got a long way to go. We really do. That's the great thing about the offensive linemen. I love them and they love to be challenged, and we've challenged them. We're very, very disappointed, but we're leading the Big 12 in rushing right now and we feel like we haven't done anything. That's a good thing. Because we haven't run the football to the level that we need to and that we're going to, so that part of it is encouraging. The pass protection? Now that's something that we've gotten really good at. And the reason we're good at it is because we go against our D-line in pass drills. And we'd better be good or they'll eat the O-line up. So it's great competition. The best people we want to go against are in practice, both sides of the ball. That needs to be our stiffest competition, when we go out there on the practice field and go against each other."

On the freshmen receivers and how they compare to the deep threat of Tevin Reese:
"Of course. Without question. I mean, you go back to Kendall Wright. Kendall Wright is a great deep threat. David Gettis was a great deep threat. We've always liked to have one. I had a couple guys at Houston that were that way. We're always going to have a guy that can stretch the field, or try to. And when you get more than one, which is what we're on the verge of developing right now... Antwan is a deep ball threat. Corey Coleman is a deep ball threat. These guys can run. And Jay Lee, if you asked him, he'd tell you he was. Which is good. That's when you have a chance to really have a chance. Because if you've got one guy, they'll put a guy over the top of him. If you've got more than one, then they can't do that. So that, to me, is the greatest thing about the other night. You talk about a 1,300-yard receiver last year in Antwan, and Corey will have a breakout year once he gets right, so I think it helps us."

On whether the coaches were aware of KD Cannon's record game:
"Not a word at all. We knew the stats were good. If you go 6 for 223 and 3 touchdowns, and we knew Seth's stats were good. But we also knew it was an FCS opponent. And to me, records don't exist against them."

On Silas Nacita and Devin Chafin:
"Silas is a good back. He's a tough kid that plays with a lot of grit and effort. That's why he's got a chance to be a good back. I would be surprised if Chafin is ready to go this week. High ankle sprains are usually a minimum of three weeks. His wasn't a bad one. Bad ones last all year, quite honestly. But his wasn't that bad, so I think there's a chance he'll be ready to go after the open date. I would not expect him this week."

On the defensive line and how they're doing so well:
"I don't think it's anything that I'm telling them. Quite honestly, I think they just like what they do, and that's being very disruptive to the opponents' offensive line and running backs. They play at a dominating level and to me, that's the thing that's been so good about our football team so far overall. We're playing at a high intensity level. When you get guys with talent that are big and powerful and strong and have an aggressive nature to them playing very hard, very physical, very tenacious, then you have a chance to be very disruptive from the defensive standpoint. And that's the way these guys are playing. So if they'll keep playing at the level they're playing at, then it's a good thing because like I've always said, you won't see grandma get up and say something bad when you sack the QB. She'll sit there and knit until all of the sudden, the quarterback gets sacked, and all of the sudden, it's on. So those guys like to do that because it's exciting. The guy the other day posed a problem. He was a good scrambler. The guy moved around pretty good, so that's good for us. But they're playing with a lot of effort and that's the key."

On being named Big 12 player of the week:
"The team did a great job. It was all around a group effort. I was just as surprised as I guess everyone else was."

On if he expected to have such a great start without Petty on the field:
"I just wanted to go out there and play. I didn't know what was going to happen and I just wanted to make the best of the opportunity."

On how having that start under his belt will help him if he is needed again:
"It definitely helped me a lot. It raised my confidence definitely. I think I put more trust in the coaches because I think they weren't sure what I could do. I think it definitely helps in the long run."

On the team's good start and how everything is coming together for them:
"Everything is good. The defense is playing really well. I like the way we have approached each game. We have to go up to Buffalo and be ready to do the same thing. Offensively people said that we struggled in game one, but in game two they really showed what our offense is really about. I think we still have stuff to prove, but I think people are really realizing who we are."

On the differences of going on the road:
"You can't go in there with the mindset of we are Baylor so we are just going to win. We can't wake up thinking we are going to win. We have to go in there knowing they are going to give us their all and they are at home, so we can't go in there with that kind of mindset. We have to go in there ready to play."

On having mobile players on the O-Line:
"It can help and hurt because you're expecting them to be one place and they're not and so you kind of have to trust that they'll be there; but with guys like Seth that can get outside the pocket more a little bit, you have to be on your toes and ready to go."

On having confidence in Seth coming into Saturday's game:
"Yes, we did have a lot of confidence in him. As a backup to Bryce, you always want to be as good as your starter so he came in and did what he had to do and did well."

On Seth Russell's skills:
"He's a very athletic quarterback. You can see he can run the ball, he can throw the ball; he's a good asset to our team."

On getting in the end zone for the first time:
"The way I got it was kind of tough. I think it was a nine-play drive. I didn't imagine my first touchdown being so tough but it's one to remember."

On how the offense clicked last weekend:
"We were just excited and as we got out there we settled down and started playing the way we play and everything just started clicking. We just want to practice more calm and collected and get good practice."

On getting all the playing time he had the other night:
"I waited a really long time. I counted the days. It was 738 days since I played my last college football game before SMU. Just being here is just the greatest feeling. I am thankful for Coach Briles and his whole staff and just the opportunity to come back and play. Every day, every practice, every workout and every chance I get to be with my team is such a blessing. Getting the opportunity to be on the field in McLane Stadium is one of the greatest feelings I have ever had."

On his Journey to play at Baylor:
"I went to Cornell my freshman year with the plan to play football and wrestle, which I did. About the beginning of the football season I realized that it wasn't the place for me, so I started looking around and finding places to apply for and I had a couple of friends who went to Baylor and they said that I should apply here. So I did, and God just started opening up doors for me to come here. I got out here and I went to fall camp and I was loving it. Then a couple days before school started I needed to financially settle because I would have been a walk-on, but I was kind of out here all by myself running this whole show by myself and things just didn't work out. Here I was a day before school started, no longer a Baylor student, no longer a member of the Baylor football team and I was just kind of sitting around with nowhere to go. I couldn't even live in my apartment because it was a Baylor-owned apartment. It was a pretty chaotic week. I just sat around waiting to see if there was anything the coaches or President Starr could do and there really wasn't. NCAA rules are pretty strict, so I kind of went from just having everything to nothing pretty fast. By the grace of God I was able to enroll online at McLennan Community College. I was just an online community college student, a long way from the Ivy League. It was really hard. Every day I woke up and I just wrote down my goal. My goal was to be a 2014 Baylor Football playmaker. I wrote it down every day. I have a book and I have written it down every day since then. It was a very hard year, but God had a lot to teach me in that year. He has allowed me to just develop a new passion for the sport and everything we get to do as football players. I have just been so blessed that God has allowed me to get back here to Baylor and to be back on the football team and back with my teammates. I am just so grateful just to be here at a school like this and on a team like this."