Oregon Ducks Coach Dan Lanning discusses the importance of the Ducks rivalry against the Oregon state Beavers

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00:00yeah hey coach um this is the the second time you've played the beavers in september

00:11non-conference game how do you feel about this rivalry right now that certainly means a ton to

00:16us um you know i think everyone feels like this resonates a little bit more when it's on that

00:21thanksgiving weekend it's a little bit different when it's not but it's still a game that means

00:24a ton was this 129th meeting um one that we have a lot of pride in um so yeah it means a ton to our

00:30players and i think they really vocalized that throughout the week and then today in the middle

00:34matt what makes the corian's ball skill ball skills so good for the one-on-one back shoulder throws

00:41and just how effective of a weapon is that for your offense yeah i mean what makes him good is he

00:45catches it right and um you know he's he's been a guy that can win in those one-on-one i think there's

00:51some opportunities that wishes he had back today but ultimately it's he's a tough guy to guard and

00:55if he can beat you over the top he'll win over the top if you're even he's going to be able to beat

00:58you on a back shoulder how do you think james has done so far punting the ball and what did you see

01:06on that fake that he was able to convert yeah he was he was able to execute a look that we thought

01:12might be there and did an unbelievable job you know if it wasn't there he had some options um did a

01:16really good job putting him inside the 10 there which was huge right to flip the field so overall i

01:20think he's executed really well all right there for a minute dan with how hot you guys have started

01:27in the games before this um you guys there hasn't really been an opportunity where you guys have

01:32needed to steal momentum but in this game it's a tie game you guys almost punted back to them with a

01:36chance for them to take the lead so what was the message to kind of for the first time this year

01:40take the momentum back from the beaver side yeah we didn't really talk about momentum but we talked

01:45about making plays um talked about creating opportunities for yourself and uh momentum can

01:50go one way or the other but ultimately it's about stacking multiple plays it's about how many plays

01:54in a row can you win you're going to win each play individually and i thought our guys did that

01:57obviously overall today

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