USC Trojans Coach Lincoln Riley discusses the Trojans explosive the running game

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00:00Out of the team, you know, we set some goals kind of in this game in terms of how we wanted to play

00:05complimentary football, our first chance to play together as a team against someone else and,

00:09you know, wanted to be able to affect their quarterback, wanted to be efficient offensively

00:12and then make some impactful special teams plays and we did that. So, fun night, you get great to

00:17obviously be able to see a lot of guys get first game action, whether it's, you know, some freshmen

00:21that just came in, there's a lot of really impressive plays, some of the newcomers,

00:24obviously like Bishop and several guys that came in and impacted the game right away.

00:28And then a lot of guys that have been phenomenal in our program for a long time

00:32that were able to get their first, you know, first real burn there out there on the Coliseum, man.

00:38It's just a cool moment in the locker room right now for some of those guys that do a lot of work

00:41behind the scenes that maybe our fans and everyone outside don't always see. So,

00:45those nights are always special. So, great start and looking forward to next week.

00:50Coach, you saw some explosive plays out of your running game today. Can you kind of talk about it?

00:54Yeah, we did a pretty good job. I thought from an O-line standpoint, I thought the perimeter blocking

01:00by the wide outs was really good. You could saw several big blocks on those that sprung it

01:04and then obviously, yeah, the ball carriers did a great job as well. So, anytime you have those explosive plays,

01:09that means people at all levels of the offense are executing. That's what you saw.