Oregon Ducks discuss the importance taking away USC's strengths

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Oregon Ducks Coach Dan Lanning discusses the importance taking away USC's strengths. Lanning talks about them stopping their run but he also said they needed to clean up some stuff.

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00:00Coach, granted they put up some passing numbers, but how important was it for you guys to make

00:11them sort of one-dimensional by stopping the run and maybe putting a lot of pressure on

00:15their quarterback, which led to some mistakes?

00:16Yeah, I mean, you know, I think it's huge when you can take away a team's strength.

00:20I think they've been able to run the ball really well this season, and for us to be

00:23able to stop it was big.

00:25But, you know, obviously we want to go back and clean up some of the passing attack that

00:28they had.

00:28You know, their quarterback's special.

00:29They have some wideouts that made some big-time plays today, contested catches.

00:33It was a physical game from that standpoint.

00:35They were certainly going to attack the ball.

00:37Our guys were trying to battle and fight and keep them from getting the ball, and we can

00:40go improve that and get better in that area and then just go evaluate it.

00:43But, you know, proud that we can, you know, like I said, coming in here rushing for 180

00:47yards and then rushing for 52, I think tells a big story.

00:51In the middle, Matt.

00:54We've always talked about guys being ready for their moment.

00:56What did you see this week, probably the last few weeks with Fox, so that he would get

01:01ready, get himself ready to go?

01:02And he only played 33 snaps before today, and you didn't show it.

01:06Yeah, no.

01:07I mean, he prepared really well this week.

01:09Our coaches have a lot of confidence in him.

01:11And, you know, again, a guy being ready for that, that means he did a lot of work until

01:15he got that opportunity, too.

01:16Right?

01:16That doesn't just happen on accident.

01:19That's a guy that's working his tail off.

01:20You know, world rolled his ankle in the very first play of last game, right?

01:26And played the entire game.

01:27It tells you a little bit about his toughness, but it was, you know, severe enough that we

01:30felt like he was pretty limited today coming in and felt like he could go at moments.

01:34But Fox was ready and certainly have to watch the film and evaluate it, but thought he did

01:38some really good things today.

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