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USC Trojans discusses when they knew Tight End Mark Bowman was ready to play. Riley talks about how it was the first week he could fully practice, also how it was day by day basis. He also talks about how he is an explosive player.
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00:00Lincoln, at what point did you know that Mark Bowman was ready to play tonight,
00:02and what kind of a difference did he make?
00:04He's been getting closer.
00:06This was the first week, though, that he was actually able to kind of fully practice.
00:11You know, by the end of the week, we thought, okay, there's a chance,
00:14but still go see how he plays all the right.
00:15He was on that game day, but warm-up went good tonight.
00:18I mean, he was on pretty low pitch count.
00:20You know, we knew we were having to play in many reps,
00:22but, yeah, obviously, you know, he's an explosive player,
00:25and him coming back, I mean, it's like,
00:28again, when you get your best players back,
00:30it makes a big difference, you know, and he made a big difference tonight.
00:33Coach, on the second play of the game, Trent takes him to the house.
00:36I mean, how did that set the tempo just for the rest of the day?
00:38It was huge. It was huge.
00:39You grabbed momentum right away, you know, crowdlet nuts.
00:43You know, I just think you get those opportunities to go take it right away,
00:46and we did, and, I mean, he's an electric player.
00:49Guys blocked him up. Awesome.
00:50And now it's huge just to kind of set the time, like you said, for the entire day.

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