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USC Trojans Quarterback Jayden Maiava, Coach Lincoln Riley, and defensive tackle Alex VanSumeren discusses their offensive struggles. Riley talks about how once they crossed the 50 yard line, they were not really good. He also talks about how they had some fundamental issues also.
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00:00Alex, you guys held me down rushing while I was pretty good in that first quarter,
00:03and you kind of got away from me a little bit for the rest of the game.
00:05What was the big change there, do you think?
00:09It just wasn't good enough.
00:13We got to be better, and we will be.
00:14We're going to own it, and we'll be better next week.
00:20Alex, what was your message to the defense?
00:25Just dominate one play at a time.
00:26Do what we're coached to do.
00:27Do what we do every day in practice.
00:30At the end of the day, we just didn't execute good enough.
00:32We had a chance as a defense to step up, and we didn't seize the moment.
00:38You've never really seen your offense struggle to move the ball like it did tonight.
00:42Was there anything in particular that was getting the offense troubled?
00:46Yeah, just the biggest thing was the scoring zone.
00:49I mean, once we would cross the 50, we just weren't very good.
00:51We had the two turnovers early.
00:53One was a really good throw.
00:54We didn't make the catch, and their guy was there.
00:56I mean, those happened some.
00:58Yeah, and we just kind of took our turns with a couple of key drops.
01:03We had a couple of missed protections.
01:04You know, we missed a few things.
01:05I had several bad calls.
01:08Yeah, we just – we got to where we were moving it, but then we just – we weren't
01:12scoring points, you know, and then, you know, it got to the point where we had to
01:15throw it a bunch, and we gave up some pressures, gave up some sacks.
01:19I had some bad calls in that moment.
01:20They did a good job keeping us off balance there.
01:21We did a good job keeping us off balance there.
01:23We did a good job keeping us off balance there.

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