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[Matt Barr] I was talking to a couple of receivers
earlier in the week.
and said you know what if my career
got never broken [unintelligible]
It was just this week we were talking about it
so to have that kind of opportunity
in then to take full advantage
of it and not get caught that was fun.
[Reporter] You have a lot of open field
what did you see when you took off?
[Matt Barr] I saw open field you know
it was uh there was an option play
and...and I took what the defense gave me
the receivers did an awesome job
of holding their blocks down field
long enough to give me a crease
and then from that point on
I just tried to out run the defense.
[Reporter] It's did you hit an extra gear there
cause it seemed like there's a...there's a
cornerback coming up on you
then all of a sudden you put.
[Matt Barr] I like to think that I'm a pretty fast guy
so uh hopefully I showed it to some other people now
instead it won't be just me telling everybody now.
[Reporter] You guys had like 3 drives
and it only lasted in 1 play and you don't seem to
no drive seemed to last more than 3 minutes
is that just part of the new philosophy or?
[Matt Barr] Uh well yeah one of those..one of those
was the long touchdown run.
One of them was a 1 play drive
off the turnover which was great
anythime the defense can give us the ball
on the 1 yard line that's awesome.
And then the last one
it was crunch touchdown and that was just
uh yeah it's kind of uh ..you know a risk taking
offense were taking shots down field.
And were more liable to do that anytime in the game
so the defense have to prepare for that at all times.
[Reporter] Your spreading it around to
I mean that's gotta seems like you
got a lot of different places you can go.
Matt Barr] Nine different receivers caught the ball tonight
I mean that's...that's...that's awesome.
I completed 12 passes [unintelligible] So 13 balls
were completed to 9 different receivers.
I mean that's...that's incredible that's awesome.
The fact that we can do that
and we have so many weapons
we've got 3 or 4 or 5 guys on this team
that can be primary receivers on any other team.
So for me the hardest part
is getting everybody catches getting everybody touches
because theres so many guys
that are out there capable of making big plays
so umh you know I just got to keep
trying to get everybody the touches
and see what they can do.
[Reporter] You got to Drew Helt quite a bit to
how..how...how important has he been to offense?
[Matt Barr] Drew...Drew had an awesome year.
I think probably with this game
he's surpassed the first 3 years
he's been here in terms of catches & yardage.
So the fact that he blocks so well
creates a lot of open routes for me
because were able to do some...some things
some bootlegs type things
and because he's such a force as a blocker
he ends up being wide open in the passing game.
[Reporter] How confident is this team right now?
[Matt Barr] Were feeling really good you know
we know the veterans know
that the Missouri Football Conference
is a tough conference if were going to have
a really tough game from here on out.
But, to win today and win the way we did
we were...were...very confident
going into conference play.
[Reporter] You surpassed your rushing record today.
Can you talk about how special that is to you?
[Matt Barr] That's pretty cool!
Like I said I wanted to...to break
out a long run like that for a long time.
So to be able to do that
and then to not get caught and take advantage
of that...you know that...that was a really good play.
I got my number called a couple other times
in the running game today
so you know it just gives
something something else for the defense to prepare for
in another element of our offense
that's going to be really successful.