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  • 5 months ago
USC Trojans head coach Lincoln Riley, wide receiver Makai Lemon, and Cornerback DeCarlos Nicholson discusses what the Trojans need to execute better
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00:00What do you hope to tighten up defensively or when you put up 755 yards, does that not matter?
00:05Yeah, no, it does. I mean, listen, it's like I told the guys last night, like there's plays
00:11we made last week and probably some to a point this week that, you know, if we're not cleaner
00:15when we play more talented teams, right, the results aren't going to look like that. And so
00:21like we have to have look at it through the lens of did we do our best? And, you know,
00:26we're still a long ways off from our best defensively. You know, we have we have to eliminate
00:31the penalties. I mean, that's the number one thing that showed up. You know, offensively,
00:34we had a couple of drives stall out, had the fumble, just a couple of things that we didn't
00:39execute very well. So, yeah, I mean, it's not as locked in on the results. I think I have a sense
00:45of how good this team can play and that's all of us as coaches doing. So we're trying to push them
00:50to that and make them see like don't pay so much attention to scoreboard stats. It's like it wasn't
00:55our best and where do we just need to own it and get better. And so far the team's done that,
01:01but we'll have to continue to do that. What did you see from Jakeem Stewart in his first real action
01:05year? Yeah, he was he I saw some active plays. I mean, a little bit of, you know, I'm sure there's
01:11just a little bit of rust, but and for him just, you know, first game, as you said, in a long time,
01:15but he's a he's a really talented guy that I think is going to impact our defense very positively
01:19here, you know, this year and in the future. With you and Jacoby, the stress that you guys
01:25put on opposing defenses and how Coach Riley is putting you guys in position to take advantage
01:30of the mismatches and holes in the defense. Is Jaden finding you guys through his progressions
01:36or he's just throwing it to the open person? I feel like Jaden's doing a great job. You know,
01:40he has a job back there. You know, like you said, he got to read the defense, read progression. So
01:43he doing a great job of that, you know, getting us the ball and then, you know, we just blessed to be
01:47an opportunity that, you know, to catch the ball and to get the ball. So every time that we do that,
01:52you know, we just got to capitalize off that because I know, you know, all the receivers can ball and
01:56there's only one ball. So, you know, we just try to make the best of it every time.
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