USC Trojans Coach Lincoln Riley, Quarterback Jayden Maiava, and Defensive Tackle Devan Thompkins discusses missed opportunities during their loss against Illinois

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00:00All right, yeah, super disappointed locker room, great battle.

00:04You kind of knew coming into this one that it was going to be.

00:08I mean, this is a good program right here.

00:10Guys have played a lot of football, so you knew last week was probably a little bit of an anomaly,

00:14and you're coming back here at home.

00:16They're getting a bunch of guys back healthy.

00:17You kind of knew this was going to be a battle, and, you know, unfortunately, we just,

00:21we had a lot of fight, obviously, coming back to take the lead there at the end,

00:24but we just, we missed too many opportunities, you know,

00:27and really ice all sides of the ball to really establish momentum

00:30and really go get a big lead, you know, from the opening fumble when we were moving the ball

00:34to some opportunities to get off the field defensively.

00:38The reality is we squandered too many opportunities to separate in this game,

00:41and we really, I thought, had a chance to really come out strong there and didn't.

00:46And when you do that, you know, you kind of put yourself in position for a dogfight.

00:49And so we had a lot of fight out there on this football team.

00:53We had a lot of guys playing that haven't taken many reps yet, especially really on both sides of the ball,

00:58especially defensively.

01:00And the team just kept swinging, obviously gave ourselves a great opportunity to win there on the road

01:05against a good football team, and you got to capitalize and finish those off.

01:08So we're disappointed that we didn't.

01:10I like this football team a lot.

01:13I like the fight that we show.

01:16We've got to obviously clean up some of the mistakes.

01:19We had some just really huge, huge breakdowns.

01:22Obviously on both sides that, I mean, a few that just directly took points off the board

01:27or put points on that obviously have got to be better in a game like this

01:30when you've got two really good football teams going at it, and that's what you had today.

01:34So, yeah, disappointed with the loss.

01:37We've got to obviously bounce back here in the bye week.

01:40We're not a very healthy football team, you know,

01:41so we've got to really do a good job getting some of these guys' bodies back,

01:45hopefully be a little bit healthier going into this next stretch.

01:47But a lot to love, a lot to correct.

01:50We'll own all of it and be ready to go back to work here in the bye week.

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