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USC Trojans Quarterback Jayden Maiava, Coach Lincoln Riley, and defensive tackle Alex VanSumeren. discusses what they needed to improve on against Wisconsin. Riley talks about how they prepped hard but they did not play good enough. He talks about many things that needed to change.
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00:00Lincoln, you had obviously an emotional win at Penn State,
00:02then you had to buy it.
00:03How do you explain kind of the slide back from that kind of hot moment?
00:07Yeah, you know, we prepped hard.
00:11We just didn't play good enough.
00:14I mean, you still got to get in this moment
00:15whether you have seven days to prepare, 14 days to prepare.
00:19You still got to go execute in these moments, you know?
00:22You got to take care of the ball.
00:24You got to, you know, you got to get off the field on, you know, third downs.
00:29You got to not give up second 19 pass interferences.
00:31You got to not have penalties.
00:33You got to not have bad calls by us.
00:35You got to make field goals.
00:36I mean, like you have to do all those things.
00:37And we just, I'm disappointed.
00:40You know, we just, you know, none of the three sides,
00:42I felt like really held up their end of the bargain.
00:45There were some moments of good,
00:46but we just weren't able to sustain it and really grab momentum.
00:49We had some big stops defensively after the turnovers.
00:52We had a lot of really good drives offensively.
00:54And just once we kind of crossed the 50,
00:57kind of down in the high red zone area,
00:58we obviously weren't very good.
01:00So we had a lot of scoring opportunities that we missed.
01:03And then, you know,
01:03and special teams for tonight were not what they've been.
01:06And so, yeah,
01:07when you don't play good on all three sides on the road
01:09against a good team in an environment like this,
01:11like you're not going to give yourselves a really good chance to win the game.
01:14And we didn't do it.

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