00:00Coach, first row on your right side.
00:02Coach, good to see you.
00:04You too, brother.
00:05USC has a lot of returning starters coming back this season, Coach.
00:10You couple that with some of the class that you've had, the 2026 class and 25 class.
00:15Would you say this is the most complete team?
00:17And then the offensive line essentially is returning itself.
00:20Would you say this is the most complete team from the trenches inside out on both sides?
00:24Yeah, I think that would be a great way to characterize our roster right now.
00:30I do think there's certainly the talent from top to bottom, the competitive depth.
00:35I told somebody the other day, I felt like last year we got to the point where our offensive line,
00:41our top groups on offense and on our defensive line were able to compete at the top of this conference.
00:49And I think that was largely the case.
00:51You know, when we got to some of our down-the-line pieces there as we had injuries and all
00:57that
00:57that you deal with throughout the season, you know, you could see that we still had some depth issues
01:01that we needed to attack because we weren't quite as good when that happened.
01:04And I do feel differently this year in terms of the quality of players, returning starters,
01:10the freshmen, some of the transfers that we've added.
01:13I mean, there's just a ton of competition.
01:15We've got a lot of guys on both sides of the line of scrimmage that we feel like we can
01:18win with
01:19and that we can dominate with.
01:20We just do.
01:21And so I think that's certainly one of the biggest differences in this football team right now.
01:28Coach Lincoln Riley, thank you so much for your time.
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