Nikko Reed Steps up at Corner in Oregon's Win Over WSU

Nikko Reed stepped up at cornerback for Oregon against Washington State with Khyree Jackson unavailable.

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00:00 >> You've been playing probably a little bit more on the outside the last couple

00:02 of weeks than you were to start the season.

00:04 How has that gone, just in general, the second there today?

00:06 How do you think you guys played?

00:08 >> I think we played very well.

00:10 Well, not very well.

00:11 We didn't really give up any touchdowns, so that's a good part of it.

00:15 I've been playing outside more, yeah.

00:18 I feel comfortable there.

00:19 That's where I've been playing for two years.

00:21 And so I just feel comfortable at corner.

00:24 >> How tough is it to, you guys talk about plastering on your guys for

00:27 a long time with the way Ward can run around.

00:29 You've seen him now a couple of times at a couple of different schools.

00:32 How difficult is that and the challenge he presents?

00:35 >> It's as difficult as you make it, really.

00:37 Just have your eyes on your man.

00:38 But it can be difficult when you're locking up a guy and

00:43 then you kind of look back at the end of the route and he's still running around.

00:46 And then you have to, then the receivers start just making up stuff.

00:49 So it's kind of hard, but just keep our eyes on our man and we'll be all right.

00:52 >> Is there anything you guys saw that allowed you to adjust and

00:55 be more successful as the game went on?

00:57 >> I feel like we weren't playing to our standard.

01:00 So I feel like that's what we had to adjust to was playing to our standard and

01:03 came out and we just bought.

01:05 >> Who were you gonna, like going into the game,

01:09 you knew that he was gonna get his, like they throw the ball as much as they do.

01:12 So how are you gonna feel like you had a successful game,

01:14 a defense that was a successful game beyond winning?

01:17 Like was it holding them to a certain yardage,

01:19 holding one of the receivers to a certain yardage, or just more?

01:21 The little stuff like technique and fundamentals because they said they're

01:24 gonna get some yards.

01:25 I feel like all we can do is rely on our technique and just have fun out there

01:29 because at the end of the day, stuff is gonna happen.

01:31 So it just depends on how you take it, how your mindset is.

01:34 And we weren't really trying to do anything specific, but just play with your

01:39 technique and trust the call and play the call, play every down and

01:42 we should be good, win 50/50 balls and all that type of stuff.