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USC Trojans defensive tackle Jahkeem Stewart, Coach Lincoln Riley, and quarterback Jayden Maiava discusses how their team played in their win against Washington. Riley talks about how it was a hard fought win. He also talks about how the defense did good but they struggled with penalties. He also talked about how they had to dig deep for this win.
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00:00No, it's a hard-fought win, man, hard-fought win, really proud.
00:03Love the guys fighting through it, you know, excited, you know,
00:07defensively on some of the steps we took and some of the just clutch plays we
00:11made defensively, just kept that in front of them all night.
00:14You know, it wasn't a very clean performance.
00:15Penalties were just massive in this game.
00:19You know, it felt like for a long period of the game we were really outplaying
00:21them, but when you make some of those mistakes, you know,
00:25you just kind of let it kind of keep hanging around and just had missed
00:28opportunities that were just kind of penalty after penalty.
00:31And so we clearly got to do a way better job on that.
00:35Just we had a line of penalties.
00:36We had a couple of dead ball personal fouls.
00:38I mean, it just had the, like, worst times possible.
00:41So despite all that, to overcome it, you know, and overcome, you know,
00:45what we've had to this week and come out and get a win against a quality
00:48Big Ten opponent, we'll take it.
00:51Obviously, lots of cleanup, lots to be excited about.
00:54And, you know, I'm proud of the team, man.
00:56I'm proud of the fight.
00:57You had to, we had to, we had to dig deep for this one.
00:59There's no question, especially with the sloppies we played, you know,
01:03especially offensively.
01:04And they're really proud of the defense.
01:06Again, just to stop after stop against that dynamic of a quarterback was
01:09pretty awesome.
01:14You

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