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Chase Krumholz — THE BATTALION

Senior defensive back Toney Hurd Jr. discussed the A&M defense’s need to improve over the bye week.

the bye week will provide the team with time to regain focus and treat injuries.

“We’re focused on getting some injured guys healed up,” Malena said. “I think that’s the importance of the bye week. We need to maintain focus and starting focusing on our next opponent. Last year we went on a 12-week stretch without a bye week, but I think it’s fortunate this year that we have two bye weeks.”

During the Arkansas game, the A&M defense allowed 483 yards while surrendering 33 points, 68 yards and four points over the Razorbacks’ season average.

Despite A&M’s perfor-mance, senior defensive back Toney Hurd Jr. remained optimistic about the develop-ment of the youth-injected squad.

“I feel like each and every quarter we’re playing better football,” Hurd said. “We started playing better and bet-ter against Arkansas, but each and every quarter, I feel like the defense plays more to-

gether — the communication is better and there’s less missed assignments. The passion and energy is there.”

Defensive coordinator Mark Snyder said the Aggies have increased their consisten-cy as a unit, generating stops and turnovers when needed.

“We’re getting some conti-nuity,” Snyder said. “We need to continue to have continu-ity and have some consistency. We play well in spurts. We did a good job of showing [Arkan-sas] some things they hadn’t seen, but consistency is key for us.”

Junior defensive back De-shazor Everett broke his thumb during fall camp and is still in the process of recovering the injury. Despite the hindrance of playing with a cast, Everett has emerged as the Aggies’ star defensive player, securing two touchdowns for the defense in the past two games.

Everett’s key interception for a score in the third quarter helped A&M hold off a surg-ing Arkansas squad. Sumlin said Everett’s presence in the secondary was vital to its suc-cess down the stretch.

“I can’t wait until [Everett] gets that cast off, maybe he’ll

score twice a game,” Sumlin said. “We moved him from corner to safety and he’s mak-ing tackles, he’s scored in back-to-back weeks. He’s an invaluable piece to what we’re doing. He understands what we’re trying to do.”

Offensively, sophomore quarterback Johnny Manziel and his stable of running backs kept consistent pressure on Arkansas through the game, even against harsh weather conditions.

Offensive coordinator Clar-ence McKinney said the unit was sub par on third downs and within the red zone and the Aggies’ offense would re-quire improvement over the course of the recovery time to become more efficient against tough conference defenses.

“Every time we get a pos-session, our goal is to score a touchdown, and we haven’t done that yet,” McKinney said. “I think we’re about 54 percent conversion [on] third downs and we’d like to build it higher than that. We’re about 80 percent in the red zone and we’d like to be 100 percent.”

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