USC Trojans Devan Thompkins discusses being a leader

USC Trojans Devan Thompkins discusses his leadership role and looking for the other leaders on the team.

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00:00The leadership role this season, did you address anything with the D-line or the defense in general, speaking up to them after the loss?

00:08Obviously, it was a devastating loss, but I would just say that we just got to start faster.

00:14It took us too long to adjust to the game, and that starts in practice.

00:18Whatever we got to do to get ourselves going, being a leader, as you said,

00:23obviously pushing that narrative and just looking for the rest of the leaders, too, on the team to follow it up.

00:29The D-line, it looks so good through the first four weeks.

00:32What was different, maybe, about this game?

00:33Like I said, it just took us too long to get adjusted to the game.

00:37We definitely got to start faster, and that's been our focus so far.

00:40Why do you think it took so long?

00:44It all starts in practice.

00:46We just got to attack practice better, the better mentality.

00:49We're never satisfied with any, obviously not with the results, but we can't be satisfied with good.

00:54We're looking to be great.

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