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USC Trojans Quarterback Jayden Maiava, Coach Lincoln Riley, and defensive tackle Alex VanSumeren discusses their running game. Riley talks about how they stayed more patient with it and having some player healthy helped them.
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00:00talked about timely plays and kind of last last week struggling to get those at the right time
00:04it seems like today offensively and defensively you got great plays at the right time how what
00:09was the big difference between those two now i mean we played better in the situations you know
00:13the red zone was obviously maybe the biggest differential in the game right how well we played
00:19defensively in the red zone i mean we were awesome and that's not an easy offense to stop in the
00:22red
00:23zone with the the threats they have and obviously you know being able to um to run the ball as
00:28well
00:28so i thought i'd like gary called a really good game um i thought our guys executed their best in
00:33those moments um and then obviously offensively we were able to get this done as well so um that's
00:39what these games come down to when you get two really good teams there's two really good teams
00:42on the field what's two of the best teams in the country on the field right there and it's going
00:45to
00:45come down to who plays the situation for us and we did it tonight and you seem to be savoring
00:49the
00:49moment celebrating every teammate that's walking through the funnel what does this mean for you and
00:54you guys see yeah it's huge team win i mean shout out to the beat miss getting it done um
00:58yeah i was
00:59just making sure everybody got back to a lot on that but i'm changing the red game from from my
01:04last
01:05week to this week what do you think the big difference was you know i thought the backs ran harder
01:09um
01:09that's a that's a that's a tough front to run the football on i mean you got to really go
01:13go work and um we stayed more patient with it um you know having way more back you know a
01:19little bit
01:19healthier than he's been i thought you know that provided a real spark for sure um now we're just
01:25more patient with it uh but the lions stepped up did some really good things um you know we were
01:30just a tick off the other week and then i didn't do a good job staying with it both things
01:33were better
01:34like
01:34you

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