Oregon Ducks discuss how special teams have been important

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Oregon Ducks Coach Dan Lanning discusses how special teams have been important for the teams success. Lanning talks about how they needed specail teams to come through especially Kicker Atticus Sappington.

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00:00Just kind of going off of that, there are so many things that you can recreate in practice.

00:09I imagine field goals is one of the things that you don't feel like you have control over.

00:13This program has a history of November kicks not going in their favor.

00:17Did you see anything during the week where you're like, he's got this in him today?

00:21I see it. I see it consistently throughout practice.

00:24It just happened to be this is the game where we needed all of them.

00:26And, you know, I think he's done a really good job for us.

00:30I'm excited that he can have that moment because he works really, really hard.

00:33You know, even nobody's going to credit the squib kick there at the end,

00:35but obviously they struggled to feel the squib.

00:37You know, I just thought our specialists played really well today.

00:40And like I said, we felt like coming into this game, defense was going to be really important

00:43and special teams had to be special, and they were tonight.

00:46Yeah, this seemed to be the ultimate gut check for both teams,

00:50but specifically you in a stadium like this, crowd against you, everybody can stay you down.

00:56Final minute, you have to do this.

00:58I mean, what does this say for you guys going forward?

01:01You're able to come into an environment and take a win like this.

01:04We've been really good on the road, you know, really regardless since we've hopped in this conference.

01:08And again, it wasn't always pretty, but our guys are resilient.

01:12They're tough.

01:13They can handle tough moments.

01:15And if it's a four-quarter fight, we can do a four-quarter fight.

01:17If it's going to go into OT, we can do that.

01:19And again, just proud of the way they handled the moment.

01:23You know, we had guys coming to me in the end of the game like, Coach, breathe.

01:27You know, it's like that's what I'm telling them all week.

01:29And for them to be able to come up and say that same thing to me,

01:30it just tells you that they believe in what we're doing.

01:32It makes me really proud.

01:33It makes me really proud of them.

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