Oregon Ducks discuss having fire but playing together

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Oregon Ducks Coach Dan Lanning discusses having fire but playing together as a team and keeping their composure. Lanning emphasized having "execution not emotion" and he said they will grow from their mistakes.

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00:00Significance of Malik's punt return touchdown and also what was working there and obviously

00:09mentioned I think last week just him stepping into that role after being like the third guy

00:13kind of what does it say about him and his contributions?

00:15Another great example of a guy being ready for his opportunity and you saw his speed.

00:20We've seen his speed all season, you know, especially when he's able to go field that

00:23punt.

00:23We did feel like we were going to have some aggressive opportunities for us on punt return

00:28there.

00:28He was going to have a chance.

00:29I thought he did a great job of feeling the ball and getting in high gear and getting

00:31vertical quick.

00:33I'm sure we're in turn on the film and see some great blocks on that as well, but it

00:37was an awesome play, huge momentum swing in the game for sure, and great opportunity for

00:42them to feel like now they have to chase some points, right, rather than us be battling back

00:47and forth.

00:48Right, Zach.

00:50You mentioned being frustrated with the inability to keep your composure sometimes to players

00:54on the field.

00:55When you're in a rivalry game like this and you want players playing with fire and passion,

00:59how do you kind of balance that with, you want them to feel that, but also keep their

01:02head at the bottom.

01:03Yeah, for me all week, we've talked about not worrying about that because the fire and

01:06passion is going to come on its own.

01:07We've talked all week about execution, not emotion, and it's unfortunate that that showed

01:12up, but I hope that can be a learning lesson, you know, to this group and we can take that

01:15and grow from it.

01:17You're going to play this game, you're going to play with juice, especially if you play

01:19here.

01:19These guys care about each other, they love it, right, but we got to be able to reset

01:23and get to the next play.

01:23We didn't do that enough today.

01:25We did that in the second half, much better.

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