Jeffrey Bassa on Win Over Oregon State
Oregon linebacker Jeffrey Bassa discusses a 31-7 win over the Oregon State Beavers.
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00:00 Jeff, you guys have been in the back a lot against D.J.
00:02 What was the game plan going in?
00:05 How do you feel like you guys executed that?
00:07 Yeah, so some of the game plan was just
00:08 to get pressure on him.
00:09 Looking back to some of his Clemson days
00:11 and then some things I've seen on film from Clemson.
00:14 And then just me, I had to--
00:17 Mateo actually had brought up something good.
00:20 So you know what I mean?
00:21 So it's just getting pressure on the quarterback.
00:23 And then also just always just being around the quarterback,
00:27 being in the quarterback's face and stuff like that
00:29 with the defensive line.
00:30 We knew that the defensive line was
00:31 going to get pressure against our O-line with some
00:32 of their guys being out.
00:33 So yeah, just being able to entosh,
00:37 believing in the linebackers and just not putting us out
00:40 on coverage all the time.
00:41 So yeah.
00:42 And what was that that Mateo brought up?
00:44 Just little things like quarterback pressures
00:46 and stuff like that that he struggled with in the past.
00:48 But it wasn't nothing too crazy.
00:50 How did getting those hits in feel?
00:52 It felt really great.
00:53 Just a rivalry game like this with a lot of noise
00:57 surrounded around it.
00:58 And then also with it being the last Civil War,
01:01 that's what I'm hearing.
01:02 But it just felt great to get in the backfield a lot
01:05 and then get some pressure.
01:07 Last year, obviously, was a 21-point collapse,
01:10 the 19 straight runs from Oregon State.
01:12 You were on that team.
01:13 You were part of those runs.
01:14 Just what did it feel like for you guys on this defense
01:16 to hold them to 53 total yards, almost 80
01:19 less than their lowest total going in at this game?
01:22 What did it feel like for you guys?
01:23 Yeah, it felt amazing.
01:25 We always preach that we're a different team than last year,
01:29 100%.
01:29 And a lot of the guys were dialed in this week.
01:33 It was more film study.
01:35 I see guys were staying up at the facility longer.
01:38 And it was just great to see all of the guys dialed in
01:40 for this week and being ready to stop the run.
01:42 We knew they were going to be a run-heavy first offense.
01:44 So the guys stepped up to the challenge,
01:47 and they were happy for us.