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USC Trojans Coach Lincoln Riley discusses how practices are with Defensive Coordinator Gary Patterson. Riley talks about how Patterson is intense and very active in practice. He also talks about how the guys feel his presence defensively.
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00:00Is there a different feel to practices with, like, Gary Patterson in there?
00:03Like, oh, yeah, he's run things on the defensive side with him out there?
00:08Yes, yes, there is.
00:10You know, coach is intense.
00:12He's always coaching.
00:14You know, he's very active at practice, you know,
00:16involved with a lot of the position groups.
00:19You know, he does a really good job, I think, of explaining to the group,
00:22you know, what we're doing, why we're doing,
00:24and bringing the whole group on the same page.
00:26And I think that's what, you know, really great coordinators do.
00:28And he's done a – yeah, you see him.
00:30I mean, he's with the D-line, and he's with the linebackers,
00:32and he's with safeties, and he's with the corners.
00:34I mean, he's just kind of – he's kind of just all over.
00:37And you feel his presence.
00:38I think defensively we feel his presence on the field.
00:40I think for our guys having the ability to tie in all that we're doing
00:43so that more players on the field have an overall understanding of not just their job,
00:49but, you know, why they do what they do, why we adjust, you know,
00:53where their other players are at.
00:54He's just – I think that's one of the things that makes him really good at his job.
00:57Did the structure change at all, just like maybe different periods or things?
01:01A few.
01:01Yeah, there's a few things that, you know,
01:04that he wanted to emphasize defensively that we've implemented.
01:06I don't know to the untrained eye if somebody would come out here
01:09and, like I say, it feels like a totally different practice.
01:12I mean, there's a lot of the periods that are the same.
01:13But we've certainly changed a couple of drills, both in special teams
01:18and in defense that have affected the practice structure.
01:21And so far, you know, I feel like they've been very positive.
01:24I know you've got to the right.
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