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USC Trojans defensive tackle Jahkeem Stewart, Coach Lincoln Riley, and quarterback Jayden Maiava discusses how their team played against Washington. Riley talks about how they played pretty steady, but he said they couldn't get out of their own way and how it is a defining thing for the team.
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00:00If you guys are down 21 to 10 on the third quarter, what do you see from your team after
00:04Atlanta?
00:04Yeah, I mean, we were even pretty steady at half.
00:07I mean, we felt like we were outplaying them.
00:09It's just, you know, we just kind of couldn't get out of our own way a little bit.
00:14And that's going to be probably a defining thing for this team going forward, right, how much that we can
00:20do that.
00:22You know, I am proud, though, that we never wavered.
00:25I felt like the guys didn't waver, the coaches didn't waver.
00:28You know, we made the adjustments that we needed to.
00:30We didn't kind of get into the poor us.
00:32You know, we caused a pill to hear.
00:34Should have this been called there?
00:35Like, we just kind of had like a whatever it's going to take attitude, and that's what it took.
00:39How do you feel about coaching a team that is kind of having trouble shooting itself in the foot or
00:44having those mistakes?
00:45What's the message to them when it does keep happening?
00:48You know, you just, how do I feel about coaching?
00:52I mean, I love coaching this team.
00:55You know, I think you look at it twofold, right?
00:57There's the frustration of, all right, these can't happen because it's frustrating to do, like, all the good things and
01:05to stop them the way we were and to move the ball the way we were.
01:07But then you look at the scoreboard, you're like, all right, this doesn't make sense.
01:10So that's got to get better.
01:12The flip side of it is, like, to overcome all that and still win shows me some of the guts
01:17and toughness and culture in this room right here because we could have folded.
01:21And then I think if those things weren't present, you know, maybe we don't come back and get it.
01:26And so, yeah, excitement, but we also got to get better.

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