Auburn starting quarterback Payton Thorne tossed four interceptions during the Tigers’ Week 2 loss to the Cal Golden Bears from Jordan-Hare Stadium on Saturday.

Asked plenty about his performance postgame, here’s everything Thorne had to say after throwing for 165 yards, a touchdowns and four interceptions on 14-for-27 passing during Auburn’s 21-14 loss to Cal:

On the reasoning behind Auburn’s turnovers: “There’s different situations that happen throughout the game. Obviously, no matter how a turnover happens or occurs, you don’t want those. So, we’ve got to do a better job of protecting the ball, and that starts with me. I touch the ball every single play. So, got to do that, and like you said, back to the drawing board a little bit. We’re not going to abandon our offense, but it’s got to be sharper.”

On Auburn being on the losing side of the field position battle much of the night: “I thought our defense really played well today. They had a short field on an interception, I think that was first half. Did they score on that one? I think they did. That’s not on them. And then, we just didn’t do a good enough job of getting first downs when we’re backed up to flip the field. Obviously, field position is an important thing in this game and at this level. Like I said, I thought our defense played really well today, and we weren’t able to do enough to help them out.”

On the pair of interceptions thrown late in the fourth quarter: “I didn’t think it was necessarily a miscommunication on the first of those two. I saw a man in coverage over there with Cam (Coleman). We talked all camp that one-on-one, we like our chances, and we feel like we’re open. And I found out afterwards, I think, that he was a little shaken up on that, so I don’t think he was 100%. That stinks. Obviously, I didn’t know that. That’s not on him. Like I said, obviously, if he’s not 100%, that’s going to make it tough. But I don’t know what the verdict is on that. I think he’s OK.

But yeah, that was the first one. And then the second one, we had 30 seconds left. We’re trying to get a chunk play. We ran something, we tagged something over there, and we haven’t gotten a ton of reps at that, I guess. Me and KeAndre (Lambert-Smith) hadn’t talked on the sideline about that play, so he was expecting that post to be way down the field, and with one-high zone, that’s going to be just a jump ball, and that’s tough. So I was trying to fit it in there, like a bang post-type deal. And like you said, we were just on different pages there.”

On the Auburn offense struggling to find any rhythm: “Their defense did a good job mixing some things up. It felt like when we did get a rhythm going, bang, a negative play. You don’t obviously want that. We try to limit negative plays as much as we can. We had a few too many tonight. I have to go back and look at the film to really see momentum-type stuff like that. Obviously we weren’t able to hold onto that momentum tonight.”

On if the Cal defense changed anything following Auburn’s scoring drive to open the game: “Not necessarily. Obviously I missed a couple throws today that I feel like I make on the regular. We were on different pages on one of them, kind of. Then the other one, I just kind of missed him. I don’t think the defense did too much different. They gave us a couple blitzes that we had only seen once on film. That’s a credit to them. I don’t think they did too much terribly different.”

More on the lack of rhythm on offense: “I’m not sure. I’ll have to study, to be honest with you, that question. Like we said earlier, we couldn’t get into much of a rhythm outside that first drive on offense. So I guess the passing game would go along with that. Like I said, I’ll have to take a look on film to study up on that.”

On how Auburn moves on after the loss: “It’s early in the season; it’s only Week 2. It is important — if we hang our heads here and think the season’s over. Thankfully this year, the season’s not over. It’s go-time now and time to respond.”