USC Trojans discuss their run game against Oregon

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USC Trojans Defensive Tackle Devan Thompkins, coach Lincoln Riley, and quarterback Jayden Maiava discusses their run game against Oregon. Riley talks about what they were lacking in their run game including some injuries.

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00:00That might be the dumbest question I've been asked as long as I've been a head

00:18coach and I've been asked a lot of questions you ought to feel a little

00:20embarrassed to ask that question this is a professional thing you ought to try

00:30slow down pretty effectively what was different maybe this time not being able to run

00:35as well. Yeah we had a couple of you know a couple of busts I mean John Ray Reed went in there and gutted

00:41it out for us he wasn't very healthy you know Killian going down was a factor I mean there's

00:46no question about that obviously not having Paige and but no we did we just we missed a couple

00:52assignments in the run game where we had some opportunities and listen they're good up front

00:55I mean we knew that I mean their their D lines good their D tackles did a nice job against us

01:00and then we didn't help the fact by by missing a couple of assignments that hurt us so no we didn't

01:05we didn't run the ball nearly as well as we have and nearly as well as we expected to.

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