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  • 6 weeks ago
USC Trojans head coach Lincoln Riley discusses the tight end room and how it has depth
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00:00Who's impressed you had two padded practices into the spring time?
00:03The dreaded question.
00:04Yeah, the dreaded question.
00:06No, I mean, you know, some of the, I mean, Floyd, you know, Bucard, you know,
00:11Jakeem's done a nice job.
00:15You know, I think some of our young DBs are showing up and making some plays.
00:18You know, J.J., Castro, you know, Steve, you know, Alex Graham.
00:24You know, some of those guys have really done a nice job in terms of the young guys.
00:27I think the young offensive linemen certainly have a chance.
00:32And then, yeah, I mean, I think the tight ends have done a nice job up to this point.
00:38The depth and talent and competitiveness and just now some experience.
00:43I mean, you know, that to me for the first time feels like a real tight end room.
00:48And not that the other ones weren't.
00:49We had a lot of, you know, really good players and we've had some good contributions.
00:52But there's a depth and talent in there that, you know, we have not had since we've been at USC.
00:57So, I've been excited about their progress as well.
00:59Yesterday, Chad Billing said he was really looking forward to today's practice, second day in a row.
01:03Yep.
01:04Kids and pads.
01:05Did you get the energy and the effort level you were looking for?
01:07We did.
01:07We challenged them, you know, and we talked to the team about that it's only going to happen if it's important to them.
01:14You know, we can sit there and say whatever as coaches.
01:16I mean, they've got to make it important to them to come out here today and, you know, match or exceed the intensity and all that that we had on Saturday.
01:25Because Saturday was a great practice.
01:27And they did.
01:28They were intense.
01:29We actually had to break them up a couple of times, which I don't mind doing that.
01:34And it's good to see them kind of pushing the issue.
01:38So, you know, two practices in, we've handled the intensity level well.
01:42Now we've just got to keep climbing.
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