Oregon Ducks Coach Dan Lanning discusses the Ducks composure during their win against Penn State

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00:00I think we got the best quarterback in college football, right?

00:12I mean, anybody watches that game, I don't know, maybe I don't see everybody else, but

00:17that guy's composure, his poise, I mean, even the big play at the end there on the first

00:22overtime, you know, we're about to throw a screen in the boundary, he has the wherewithal

00:26to not throw it in the boundary, turn around and get it thrown back to the field, and get

00:29a fourth and one, I don't know, you guys will have to tell me, I thought that was going

00:32to be targeting, looked like it from the field, but we ended up, you know, converting to fourth

00:37and one, that's just like one example in that game of the poise that he had, the command

00:42he had of our offense, remember I came up and talked to him about a, hey, if we go to fourth

00:46down here, here's what I'm thinking, he's like, coach, let's just get the third down, and he

00:50did it, you know, so it just tells you a little bit about that guy we got playing for us.

00:53Yeah, I think that's two years in a row, we played in the biggest, in front of the biggest

01:09crowd in Oregon history, and it speaks volumes about how these guys can handle the stage,

01:13you know, we said the whiteout was really going to be a white canvas for us today, and

01:17we get an opportunity to paint our masterpiece, and those guys did it, did an unbelievable job

01:21of just going out there and executing every play, and playing the next play, I thought

01:25we had really good composure throughout the game, there was a couple times we hurt ourselves,

01:30penalty, obviously there, late, you know, from Harkey, something we got to be able to control,

01:35didn't see it on the field, but obviously it happened, but overall, our players played,

01:39you know, their asses off whistle to whistle, and that showed up.

01:43myself, as a team of players, I thought I did it, I was very grateful for those guys to

01:56play it on the field, and they were at the field stand, and I thought it was a tough,

02:01lot of people were in the field, they felt like we were at the field, and they felt like