USC Trojans discuss how their defense responded to Iowa

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USC Trojans Wide Receiver Makai Lemon, Coach Lincoln Riley, and Inside Linebacker Eric Gentry discusses how their defense responded to Iowa. Riley talks about having quality reps and closing down the lanes.

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00:00Coach, you like the final goal, obviously, with the rim.

00:03You stress all week coming out and you started getting out of the game fast.

00:07You love giving up no point in the second half.

00:09Why the slow stress?

00:10Yeah, I mean, you know, the thing about, you know, stressing things is, you know,

00:14what happens is if you overdo it and then you come out and you don't start fast,

00:19then you don't want their heads to go anywhere.

00:21Like, we're playing pretty good football.

00:23Like, we're winning a lot of games, you know.

00:24And so, yeah, I mean, obviously, we're going to continue to work on it and try to do a better job.

00:31We're also going to try to keep winning games, you know,

00:33which we've been pretty good at up to this point.

00:35You know, I thought we responded well.

00:48I thought we did, you know.

00:49And those are two of our leaders, obviously,

00:51two of our most experienced players there in the back end.

00:53But, you know, CP and Kennedy Erlacher and some of those guys came in

00:57and gave us some really quality reps.

00:59And I thought we really picked up the pace in our front seven.

01:02We're really, really active, started to close down some of those lanes

01:05and played the game much more on our terms.

01:07So, we got a lot of confidence in those guys that came in.

01:10We felt like we built a pretty good safety room and it showed up tonight.

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