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Oregon Ducks Outside Linebacker Matayo Uiagalelei discusses having an experienced Linebacker room. Uiagalelei talks about how it has been helpful to have experience and it helps with the younger players to see what the standard is.
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00:06How much did you talk to the other three defensive linemen?
00:09Was there a decision made together to all come back together?
00:13Or had Tatum left?
00:14Would you have left or vice versa?
00:17I mean, we would talk about it, but, you know,
00:20it's everybody's individual process, I feel like,
00:24when it comes to deciding whether to stay or go.
00:28I mean, it's cool y'all came back.
00:29I mean, I'm hella excited for that.
00:31But, you know, the process, I think, we would talk,
00:35but it was really, you know, I'm pretty sure Amari made his decision
00:38because of him and Bear because of his circumstance.
00:41And then Tatum, you know,
00:43I'm pretty sure everybody kind of individually made their decisions.
00:47You're back there.
00:49Kind of building off of that, when you head into another spring
00:52with a room with a lot of experience,
00:54just I feel like last year it was getting everyone up to speed,
00:58but how has it kind of felt this year with the amount of experience
01:02and success that you guys have had
01:04and being able to build off that this spring?
01:07Yeah.
01:08True.
01:09I mean, it's been really helpful.
01:13You know, like you said, having guys,
01:15everybody that came in that was playing last year on the front,
01:18you know, is here.
01:20We're not having, you know, people left,
01:21but I think it helps with the young guys that come too.
01:26Like, they see what the standard is supposed to look like.
01:30And I don't know, in my opinion, like this freshman class,
01:32I feel like it's one of the most, like they just pick up fast on everything,
01:36like all positions.
01:39So I'm excited to see who's really going to stand out
01:41for this freshman class.
01:42But I think just that leadership and, you know,
01:46having a standard that everybody already knows what it is
01:49and we keep elevating it.
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