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USC Trojans Quarterback Jayden Maiava, Coach Lincoln Riley, and Defensive End Luke Wafle discusses dealing with crowd noise. Maiava talks about how it was a great team victory and how the sound system at home is helpful to help them prepare for a hostile environment like Penn State.
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00:04Yeah, the D-line got a good push and kind of flushed the quarterback right into my lap.
00:09So credit to the defense, credit to the coverage, it's perfect for me.
00:13Luke, what was the feet of holding at the 2.2 yards?
00:18Man, that's what we have in size on the D-line.
00:21Stop that run, and the game will open up.
00:24And you close that little section of their playbook and the game gets a lot more fun.
00:30James, how have you guys been able to communicate in the office?
00:32I'm a crowd, I'm doing things, I'm a challenge, I'm a big.
00:36How did you feel like the offensive line, what was your shape?
00:40Yeah, I mean, great team victory.
00:43I think the new sound system over there back at home was super helpful to play in a hostile environment
00:48like this.
00:49Yeah, credit to their fans for showing up, but I mean, the guys handled it well.
00:53Yeah, whichever donor money went to that sound system, tip of the cap.
00:58Lincoln, you had a scoring drive where you kind of lean on King in the run game,
01:02then came right back and scored, and he almost called it the throw game.
01:05Can you just talk about that sequence and what's up with the defense there?
01:09Yeah, it's a good defense.
01:10You know, we tried to be balanced tonight.
01:13We knew we were going to have to do both at times, and I give our guys credit.
01:18You know, they executed, the O-line executed.
01:20I thought the backs ran really hard, ran through some stuff.
01:22We made some big plays in the throw game, just good execution on all sides.
01:27Gives a play caller confidence to call anything at any moment,
01:30and these guys definitely gave me that confidence tonight.
01:33Coach, what was the deal on the field tonight?
01:35Did you see that on the field?
01:37Yeah, I mean, he's always been really gifted at that.
01:40I mean, he's great at layering throws, and we got some guys in there that we trust.
01:43So guys made plays, protection was there,
01:45and we ran the ball good enough to get some value out of the play action.
01:49I mean, I'm going to try to get a little bit of a kind of spark.
01:52You guys want to play?
01:54Yeah.
01:55Yeah.
01:55Yeah.
01:56Yeah.
01:57Yeah.
01:58Yeah.
01:58Yeah.

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