USC Trojans Offensive Lineman Justin Tauanuu Discusses How His Bowl Game Appearance Gave Him Confidence For His playing

Transcript

00:00How much confidence does I give you in your training that you were able to have the performance that you did?

00:04It gave me pretty good confidence, like I didn't do as bad as I thought I would be, to be honest.

00:10Like, I always just thought like, oh, shoot, I might make a mistake and then get chewed out.

00:15But when I went back to watch the film, I didn't do as bad as I thought I did.

00:20You guys lost some talented running backs.

00:21What have you seen from the new guys, pretty talented group you still have here?

00:26All of them are great, like once we get that little hole, they just go in it and then just like break out runs.

00:35It's probably already been asked, but what's the competition like right now between you guys and the people for learning?

00:40It's the most competitive I've ever seen it.

00:42Like, we always go back and forth.

00:44The energy is like super high all the time, especially during one-on-ones.

00:48Like, it's the most highest been ever since I got here last year.

00:51And it's been pretty fun because we've been, obviously, the D-line is really good this year.

00:56So, we, like, it's like iron sharpens iron.

00:59Like, they get better as we get better and we get better as they get better.