Brent Key has Full Faith that Haynes King Will Bounce Back From the Clemson Game

King threw Four interceptions in a loss for Georgia Tech against Clemson on Saturday

There is no doubt that Haynes King has been a huge upgrade at the quarterback position for Georgia Tech this season. He is one of the top passers in the ACC and Georgia Tech has one of the ACC's best offenses because of it. 

With all of that said King arguably played his worst game of the season on Saturday against Clemson, throwing four interceptions against the elite Tigers' defense, and the Yellow Jackets never really had a chance to win the game. 

His head coach has not lost any confidence in his quarterback however and when speaking with the media , Brent Key talked about how he loves King's mentality and how he expects him to bounce back this weekend: 

"Haynes is a competitor now. When you sit down and talk to him, his knowledge of the game, his competitiveness. The competitiveness is what makes people great and when you get down in a game a little bit and look face it, when things are not going right, he is the guy that is going to step up and try to make things right. Sometimes he does not always have the right decision and like I said, it is a route or a protection and look at the end of the day he is the quarterback and he has the spotlight on him and I am the head coach and I have the spotlight on me. That is the nature of the position, it is. Is he hard on himself, yeah he is hard on himself, most competitors are.

The thing you love about him though, talking to him the other day, I made the comparison to Brett Favre, not as a player but Brett Favre would throw a pick and then let it rip the next one and then he would rip it again and that is what made him a great player as he matured and got older and got comfortable is that he progressed in his years playing that game and he was ripping those things in those tight windows when nobody thought he should have. But it is that confidence to continue to make a play and be the guy to put the ball in the right spot, to pull down and run and those things and is there coaching to it? Yeah, but that is like every game, there is coaching whether you win or lose.

There are as many things that go blindly... that go blindly unseen I guess you could say that go by in wins that need to be corrected in losses every week, we are going to correct mistakes that need to be fixed so yeah he is hard on himself and he is going to continue to grow and he is going to continue to mature and he is going to continue to rebound like he has, I have full faith and confidence in Haynes King."

Haynes King threw four interceptions against Clemson on Saturday / Ken Ruinard-USA TODAY Sports

King is the third leading passer in the ACC with 2, 459 yards and Georgia Tech is sixth in the conference in passing yards. He will have to play a good game on Saturday against Syracuse if Georgia Tech wants to get a win and get to a bowl game, which is also something that Key wanted to talk about on Tuesday:

"So up until Sunday, I had not said the word at all, it is the same mentality each week, it is a one-game season each week and that is the mentality each week and taken, but yeah on Sunday, I brought it up, I did. This is playoff football now, this is NFL Championship, win and you're in. There is no... there is no dwelling on the last game, it is boom and you have to move on and that is the way it works and we brought it up. We talked about it. It is a big deal for these kids, a really big deal. As an alumni here, it is a really big deal for me, it is a big deal for these guys coming back here, it is a big deal for Georgia Tech, it is a big deal for the athletic association, it is a big deal for the entire Georgia Tech community so heck yeah we talked about it and these guys understand that and know it is something special they have in front of them to work and get."

Georgia Tech vs Syracuse will kick off at 8:00 on Saturday night on the ACC Network. 

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