Anthony Belton: "We Had A Lot Of Mental Errors"

NC State left tackle Anthony Belton met with the media to discuss tonight's game against Georgia Tech and much more!

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You struggled earlier in the season with some discipline, but it feels like you've really cleaned it up. What's changed in the last six weeks?
Just really my preparation and understanding everything is not gonna be perfect. I know stuff will come with ups and downs, but I can't let that affect me from the other games. So just changing my habits, really binding with my preparation and just going out there and applying the details and just gonna show them and just gonna continue to show the best again. 

I'm sure at the moment, you don't have the same perspective that you do now. But the trips to the red zone, what do you think you've learned since then? 
They're valuable. We gotta, if we want to win football games, we gotta score every time we're in the red zone, whether it's field goals, whether it's a touchdown. And a lot of the past couple games, we had a lot of mental errors within just a unit as an offense, so we gotta really finish in the red zone. And that's what's valuable when it comes to winning football games.

How much more precise does your execution have to be to get to that condensed area of the field? 
It's gotta be precise because especially with role games too, crowd noise does come into effect. So you really gotta be focusing on what the play is, the snap count and all that stuff like that, making sure everybody's communicating with their combination. So that's pretty effective.

What has it been like seeing some of the young tackles kind of grow up? 
It's always great seeing how they develop, just building a relationship with them, seeing how far they came within their own journey, just trying to be a better version of themselves, whether it's in the weight room out here, outside of the facility. So just seeing the progress all of them made, it's like a proud father moment almost, because you see them as a freshman and then just developing as they come, they just have been maturing as time goes on.