Oregon Holds Off Late Surge in Playoff Game Victory

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00:00Let's take a look at the night matchup.

00:02Oregon laid a huge number, Coach.

00:04They built a huge first-half lead.

00:07They hung on.

00:08They allowed a touchdown with a minute left

00:10that allowed the Dukes to cover the double-digit number.

00:14They win it by 17.

00:16Dante Moore and that offense put up numbers,

00:19but James Madison did put up 500 total yards of offense.

00:23They didn't turn the football over once.

00:25Are you concerned about Oregon's defense entering their Week 2 matchup

00:30against Texas Tech?

00:33No, I'm only concerned about the quality of their third-teamers

00:36because they did something.

00:37Their coaches and their players lost interest in this football game.

00:42I mean, they were up 34 points, I think, at that point,

00:44and they took out all their starters.

00:46You've got to remember, this is playoffs.

00:48They don't want to play anybody and get them hurt.

00:50They not only took out their starters,

00:51they took out their rotation starters,

00:53and they're down to those guys that they're trying to reward.

00:56And lost interest.

00:57You had to see them lose interest in this football game.

01:00And once you get momentum switched, it tends to be a problem.

01:03So the only people that lost that game were the people that are Oregon fans

01:07that bet they would cover, and they didn't, but they didn't.

01:11But you know what?

01:12It's all about playoffs.

01:13This was the regular season, and you needed to win big or convincingly.

01:17That would be one thing.

01:18But right now, you've seen people in the NFL not play people early

01:21so that they won't get hurt before they get to the playoffs.

01:23So that's the only thing that I saw.

01:25Those coaches, they should have chewed those backups out on the sideline

01:29and said, get your act together.

01:30You ain't going in next time.

01:32But I don't think they ever feared for their win.

01:34I don't think they ever worried about their players that were playing

01:37because it was a dominant, dominant performance,

01:39and the score was a real disappointment to their head coach

01:43because of how they let it happen.

01:45Dante Moore had a dynamic performance coach.

01:49He completes 19 of 27 passes, 313 yards, four touchdowns.

01:55He's looked at as a difference maker.

01:58What did you see out of his performance moving forward?

02:01Could his ability potentially be a problem for Texas Tech's defense

02:06in round number two?

02:08Oh, he's a problem for anybody.

02:10What a great dual-threat quarterback he is.

02:11He can throw, he's a smooth runner, and he understands what he's doing out there.

02:17He is a difference maker.

02:19Now, he threw a couple of picks, got to eliminate that.

02:22But, again, the score was one of those things in this game.

02:25As a quarterback, even, you can relax and not pay a lot of attention

02:28when you start getting way ahead.

02:30But he threw four touchdown passes, ran when he had to.

02:33I don't think he had a lot of running yards

02:34because he didn't have to have a lot of running yards.

02:36The receivers were so wide open.

02:38But, yes, he is one of the top five in the country at the quarterback position.

02:42He keeps them in the – it would be a great game against Texas Tech.

02:45I know that much.

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