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Oregon Ducks Defensive Coordinator Chris Hampton discusses bringing back an elite defense for another year. Hampton talks about how their guys decided to come back another year instead of going to the NFL with the expectation to get better and grow.
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00:06you talked about being the best defense in the country you brought all four defensive linemen
00:10back those guys could have been draft picks if they wanted to what's the next step for them to
00:15become that being one of the best defenses in the country and then secondly you just referenced it
00:20there too the guys behind them some new some new guys are going to be there because of departures
00:25or the additions just how you get that second group ready yeah i think all those guys came back
00:31with the with the opportunity and the expectation to get better they all want to grow they all could
00:35have went pro like you say and they all decided to come back for another season i think they they
00:40all believe that we have unfinished business as a team and then they all have individual goals to
00:44improve themselves as players so our job as coaches is to help them get to where they want to go
00:49and
00:50then their job is you know helping us reach our goals and aspirations as a team and so i think
00:54we're all on the right path of doing it you know we've got a a bunch of young guys we've
00:58recruited
00:59who played behind those guys of the previous season we've got a couple guys who brought the portal
01:04a few younger guys that we recruited like tony cumble and tank jones and those guys are getting
01:09better and better you know each and every day and how we practice is there's there is no starters
01:14there's a green team there's a yellow team everybody's divided up so there's a freshman beside a
01:18sophomore uh and a senior and a junior and so on and so forth there's not mateo and tatum on
01:24the
01:24same team they're on different teams right now and so uh guys that do a train to learn a lot
01:28of
01:29different a lot of different positions and they're rotating different uh there's you know uh a freshman
01:35going against poncho you know and so we're going to find out if he's good you know quick so that's
01:40what's going to happen in the real game right so um we're throwing them in the fire and they're
01:44actually learning pretty quick
01:45you
01:52you
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