11/14/2026 10:59:00 PM | MGoBlue Podcasts
00:00:00 Jon Jansen
Michigan comes out to Autzen and drops one, 31 to 7.
00:00:03 Jon Jansen
There's a lot to learn from this game and some positives to take from it as well.
00:00:07 Jon Jansen
We'll dive into a whole bunch of that and more here on In the Trenches.
00:00:12 Jeff Laurence
Welcome to the official podcast of Michigan football in the trenches with Jon Jansen presented by Meijer, presenting sponsor of the 2026 Michigan football season and proud supporter of hundreds of local sports teams across the Midwest.
00:00:26 Jeff Laurence
Nobody covers Michigan football better than the two-time captain, national champion, and Michigan Athletics Hall of Honor inductee.
00:00:34 Cam Brandt
Little mistakes that cost us in the game against a good offense, great team.
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So it's just
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Assessing, reviewing, seeing what we did wrong, coming back the next week, get ready to go, fire on all cylinders.
00:00:48 Jeff Laurence
This is In the Trenches, presented by Meijer.
00:00:51 Jeff Laurence
Once again, here's Jon Jansen.
00:00:53 Jon Jansen
At this time, I want to bring in my partner, Brian Boesch.
00:00:56 Brian Boesch
With the first half, Jon just got away from Michigan because of some of those big plays.
00:01:00 Jon Jansen
Well, it did, and you know, anytime you give up big plays in the passing game, especially to an offense like this, where you know they've got speed on the edges, you know that they really want to be aggressive, that's a
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of a Dan Lanning team.
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They want to be aggressive, whether it's offense, defense, or special teams.
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And they took their shots downfield.
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They connected on a couple of deep ones, one for a touchdown.
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And it really changed
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the complexion of the first half and how the defense was going to have to match up with them.
00:01:28 Brian Boesch
In particular, that final play, late stages.
00:01:31 Brian Boesch
If it goes in 14-7, especially considering that one long drive Michigan had in the second-half, maybe there's some life, but it was such a gut punch.
00:01:37 Jon Jansen
Well, it was, and it was just a breakdown of protection because they had everything covered up.
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Dylan Raiola was, he was under duress.
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And as he rolls to his right, he finds his number one receiver, Moore, and is able to connect.
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And I don't know if that was Zeke who was supposed to continue with him down the field or if it was Smith Snowden over the top.
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It doesn't really matter whose fault it is.
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Michigan gave up a very crucial touchdown to go into halftime down 21-7.
00:02:01 Brian Boesch
What was different on that one long drive?
00:02:03 Brian Boesch
It ended up stalling inside the five, but it was the one time other than the Savion Hiter explosive 70 yarder that Michigan got something going.
00:02:09 Jon Jansen
Well, Michigan was good on first down and they were picking up 4, 5, 6 yards.
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a couple of times, 9 yards on first down.
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When you do that and your offensive line is starting to gain some confidence, your running backs as well are gaining some confidence and they're getting hard yards, but then you keep a defense on their heels because second and six, second and five or shorter,
00:02:31 Jon Jansen
They don't know, hey, if you're going to throw a quick pass out to Andrew Marsh or if you're going to continue to run the football, that's really the key.
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And it's been the key for Michigan.
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Anytime they've had success, you can look back and say, yep, they were able to have success because they were good on first down.
00:02:44 Brian Boesch
Impressions of the two quarterbacks setup with Carr and Underwood doing a lot of rotating.
00:02:48 Brian Boesch
And then what you saw from Jim Harding is play calling.
00:02:50 Jon Jansen
Well, I understand it because, you know, Michigan hasn't had anything going offensively.
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So you give Tommy a couple of drives, you give Bryce a couple of drives.
00:03:00 Jon Jansen
I'm not a fan
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of it.
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I would rather, hey, if things aren't working out, then you make a switch, but you make a wholesale switch.
00:03:07 Jon Jansen
So it's how they want to operate right now.
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And you could look at both and say, yeah, there's a couple of things that both did well, and certainly a couple of things that both didn't go well, didn't do well.
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In the second half, Tommy had the fumble.
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And in the first half, at the end of the first half, Bryce put the ball in jeopardy a couple of times.
00:03:24 Jon Jansen
So, you know, it's kind of 6 in one, half dozen in the other.
00:03:28 Brian Boesch
You and Doug said a few times down the stretch in the game, this was a winnable game.
00:03:31 Brian Boesch
Oregon's a good team.
00:03:32 Brian Boesch
It's a tough place to play, but there were chances for Michigan, just not enough consistency early, and then the turnovers let it go away.
00:03:38 Jon Jansen
Well, it felt like Oregon did what they could to keep Michigan in the football game.
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They, you know, they wanted to take their shots even late in the game.
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They're still throwing the ball around, stopping the clock for Michigan.
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Michigan just couldn't capitalize on them.
00:03:50 Brian Boesch
And should the Dakorian Moore drop, that would have made it 21-7, and then Michigan gets a stop.
00:03:55 Brian Boesch
The fight was there.
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It's just not materializing.
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And frankly, if Michigan doesn't get a win in the final two games, it's
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going to be a non-bowl season, a five and seven season.
00:04:04 Brian Boesch
This team's just too talented for that.
00:04:05 Jon Jansen
It's way too talented.
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You look at, I mean, and I'm not going to be that dead horse, but the amount of talent that was back from last year and then you throw in some of the transfers that you're getting great production from like a Chris Bracy or a JJ Buchanan, John Henry Daley.
00:04:21 Jon Jansen
Like there's, there is way too much talent for this team not to be in a better position than they are right now.
00:04:27 Brian Boesch
Boy, that first half for Michigan Jack, a few big plays
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Michigan's defense surrendered, setting up Oregon.
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They ended up having six fewer yards than Michigan's highest output for the season allowed.
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What were the issues for Michigan's defense in the first half?
00:04:41 Jack Miller
I just didn't get pressure on Raiola enough.
00:04:43 Jack Miller
He's able to sit back there and they got weapons offensively.
00:04:46 Jack Miller
And if you let a quarterback sit back there, eventually they're going to get open.
00:04:49 Jack Miller
That's what happened a few times.
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And then busted coverage there late in the second quarter with only 6 seconds to go to get them up to 21-7 at that point and kind of take the wind out of Michigan sails.
00:04:59 Jack Miller
Michigan was hanging in there.
00:05:01 Jack Miller
you got a sense that maybe they needed to get to halftime and kind of regroup, get the ball back, maybe only down 14-7 and then they go down and score with six seconds left.
00:05:09 Jack Miller
I think that was a real damper for the team.
00:05:10 Brian Boesch
Yeah, it's a shame because Michigan was kind of hanging around.
00:05:12 Brian Boesch
You felt like if it could have gotten to 14-7 at the half, Michigan would have had a real chance with the ball coming out of the half.
00:05:19 Brian Boesch
But when you let this type of environment and this type of offense get a little spark, it's really tough to overcome.
00:05:23 Jack Miller
Yeah, there's a lot of talent on an Oregon team and you let them hang around long enough, they're going to find ways to make plays.
00:05:28 Jack Miller
And then at the end of the day, we didn't make enough plays.
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offensively, defensively.
00:05:33 Jack Miller
There were some bright spots in there, but the frustrating part is you're still losing games that are winnable.
00:05:37 Jack Miller
And that's the sense that you get.
00:05:39 Jack Miller
There was some improvement.
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There really was.
00:05:41 Jack Miller
That was the first time we've ever really controlled the ball, controlled the clock at different times.
00:05:46 Jack Miller
Still not good enough to put up points and win the game because of it, but there was some progress out of that at least.
00:05:50 Brian Boesch
Offensively in the first half, Savion Hiter's 70-yard touchdown run represented half of Michigan's yards.
00:05:56 Brian Boesch
They got something going with that lengthy drive in the third quarter into the fourth quarter, but to not punch it in, that was pretty demoralizing.
00:06:03 Jack Miller
Yeah, and it's kind of the same story, right? It's a guy missing a block here. The running back should keep running. He doesn't. Maybe not the greatest play calls.
00:06:12 Jack Miller
It's all of that that's been symptomatic of the entire season with this Michigan offense is just the minute you think that they're going to start figuring it out and find ways to put it together because there's glimpses of it, they're just not able to, just out of sync.
00:06:25 Brian Boesch
What do you think about Tommy Carr and Bryce Underwood, how they kind of shuffled guys in and out?
00:06:30 Jack Miller
I think Tommy has a lot of heart. I think he plays really hard. He's trying his best out there. He doesn't have the arm that he probably needs to have at this stage in the game. And Bryce, it was pretty much picking up where he had left off, where locking onto receivers, not going through progressions the right way, forcing the ball into there. So it's a lot of the same stuff that we've been plagued by the whole year. It was encouraging to see the offense fight. There was some energy on that sideline. some hope that they could do this.
00:06:58 Jack Miller
And that was good to see because in the first half in particular, didn't really get that feeling.
00:07:03 Jack Miller
And then the second-half, okay, they were battling, they were feeding off the crowd energy and all that stuff.
00:07:07 Jack Miller
So no quitting the team and then Tommy Carr in particular as well.
00:07:11 Brian Boesch
Anything in particular you noticed about the differences, Jason Beck to Jim Harding in terms of play calling, personnel, cadence, all that?
00:07:18 Jack Miller
I think Coach Harding's trying to do a better job of making it clearer for the running game.
00:07:22 Jack Miller
They're spreading the field a little bit more and the offensive line, the running backs have a cleaner picture, I think, of where they should be running, blocking and attacking, those types of things.
00:07:31 Jack Miller
I like the way that they were trying to use Oregon speed to our advantage by some of those.
00:07:36 Jack Miller
Runs, those draw runs where they're hoping the defense over pursues.
00:07:39 Jack Miller
So they were trying some of those things.
00:07:41 Jack Miller
But until you can get into any kind of rhythm and we still can't pass the ball very well, right?
00:07:45 Jack Miller
So you start running the ball in the second-half and you're getting four or five
00:07:48 Jack Miller
yards a pop, that's great, but you're going to have to take 8, 9 minutes off the clock and when.
00:07:52 Jack Miller
You get down 21 to 7, you lose steam when you're not able to punch that in. At the end of the day, there's not enough things going right just to stay in a real good offense. Running the ball better there in the second-half, but just not enough, not enough for it.
00:08:05 Brian Boesch
And unfortunately, a guy that I felt like could have had a really big impact in this game, JJ Buchanan goes out early, missed most of this contest.
00:08:12 Brian Boesch
Again, you can't make excuses from an injury standpoint, but Michigan's already pretty short-handed.
00:08:17 Brian Boesch
We saw guys on the offensive line
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banged up, a new lineup in there.
00:08:20 Brian Boesch
Again, you just kind of run it out of personnel options in addition to some of those troubles.
00:08:24 Jack Miller
They are. They are. Buchanan in a game like this might have helped where, hey, throw the ball up to the guy. He comes down with it a number of times. The offensive line banged up.
00:08:32 Jack Miller
I thought they played pretty well today, actually. It's certainly not perfect. There's a lot of youth and inexperience out there, but I think those guys will get better in time. But there's just not enough playmaking on the field. There's not enough. We're already at this point in the season. They don't have an identity really offensively, and so that makes it really tough.
00:08:49 Jack Miller
It makes it tough to call plays, makes it tough to execute plays, where it feels like you're just throwing stuff against the wall.
00:08:54 Jack Miller
And if you get lucky, something starts working, you ride that hot hand. Well, a good team like Oregon, they're gonna figure that out.
00:08:59 Jack Miller
They're gonna make it one-dimensional, and it's been a struggle to put up points.
00:09:03 Jon Jansen
Coach, what was a tough one?
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What was the message to the team after the game?
00:09:07 Kyle Whittingham
Well, it's disappointing, frustrating, humiliating, you name the adjective, loss.
00:09:14 Kyle Whittingham
Didn't play well in any of the three phases.
00:09:18 Kyle Whittingham
Sound like a broken record, but -2 in the turnover margin again.
00:09:23 Kyle Whittingham
I believe we were either last or out of 138 teams were right there towards the end of turnover margin.
00:09:31 Kyle Whittingham
Throw game really hurt us defensively.
00:09:33 Kyle Whittingham
The quarterback did a great job.
00:09:35 Kyle Whittingham
He was over 70% completion.
00:09:38 Kyle Whittingham
Didn't turn it over and threw for a bunch of yards, nearly 300 yards.
00:09:43 Kyle Whittingham
We couldn't convert a third down.
00:09:46 Kyle Whittingham
I think we're under 30% or right about 30%.
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Couldn't convert a fourth down at all.
00:09:51 Kyle Whittingham
0 for three there.
00:09:55 Kyle Whittingham
Got stuffed in the red zone.
00:09:56 Kyle Whittingham
You know, we're coming back.
00:09:57 Kyle Whittingham
It's 21-7.
00:09:58 Kyle Whittingham
We got a chance to run the first and goal on the eight and ended up coming away with nothing.
00:10:04 Kyle Whittingham
And that was very disappointing there.
00:10:07 Kyle Whittingham
So all around disappointing game and give credit to Oregon.
00:10:11 Kyle Whittingham
They've got a great football team, got a ton of good athletes, terrific athletes, and they're well coached.
00:10:16 Jon Jansen
Savion Hiter did have one for 70 yards.
00:10:19 Jon Jansen
It was a touchdown.
00:10:20 Jon Jansen
You know, your thoughts on just when that happened, it was hard to find some positives, but was there any positives in the rushing attack today?
00:10:29 Kyle Whittingham
Not really.
00:10:29 Kyle Whittingham
We had the one big run, but other than that, it was pretty pedestrian.
00:10:32 Kyle Whittingham
And credit Savion for breaking that open.
00:10:37 Kyle Whittingham
And he's got a bright future, I can tell you that. A very high ceiling.
00:10:43 Jon Jansen
Right before halftime, they scored their third touchdown.
00:10:46 Jon Jansen
Was that a breakdown in communication or just in coverage?
00:10:49 Kyle Whittingham
In coverage and it can't happen.
00:10:52 Kyle Whittingham
I mean, situation was 20 seconds left and 60 or 70 yards to go and we let them get behind us.
00:10:58 Kyle Whittingham
I mean, that's, you can't do that.
00:11:00 Kyle Whittingham
You just can't let that happen.
00:11:02 Kyle Whittingham
Unfortunately, we did.
00:11:03 Jon Jansen
I know you never want to go with two quarterbacks into a game, but you guys had a system in place.
00:11:07 Jon Jansen
What did you think of the play of the quarterbacks?
00:11:10 Kyle Whittingham
Not good enough.
00:11:10 Kyle Whittingham
We'll have to watch the tape, obviously, to get the full evaluation, but there was really not good enough play that I can say anywhere in the game today.
00:11:20 Jon Jansen
Coach, thanks for your time.
00:11:21 Kyle Whittingham
Thank you.
00:11:24 Jason Avant
Andrew, tough loss here in Eugene.
00:11:27 Jason Avant
What were some of the things that they were able to do in order to prevent you guys from scoring as much as you like?
00:11:34 Andrew Marsh
I mean, they obviously, they're a good team.
00:11:36 Andrew Marsh
I mean, they flew around fast and covered the field, but at the end of the day, they didn't do nothing too special.
00:11:41 Andrew Marsh
I mean, they gave us exactly what we saw on film.
00:11:44 Andrew Marsh
We just gotta do better as a team, as an offense, as a receiving corps, quarterbacks.
00:11:49 Andrew Marsh
We just gotta be able to connect more.
00:11:51 Andrew Marsh
We gotta make more plays.
00:11:52 Andrew Marsh
We gotta do better.
00:11:53 Andrew Marsh
We can't win games like that.
00:11:56 Jason Avant
It seemed like there is pressure on the offense because of how well their offense were
00:12:02 Jason Avant
doing on the other end, do you feel that sense of pressure with their scoring at a high level or frequently?
00:12:09 Andrew Marsh
I mean, obviously you feel them scoring, but at the end of the day, we got a great defense and we trust them to go in there and make the stop.
00:12:17 Andrew Marsh
When you really look at it, skill-wise, no team is as talented as us.
00:12:21 Andrew Marsh
At the end of the day, we gotta come in and we gotta make plays, we gotta execute, we gotta eliminate the mistakes, the fumbles, the turnovers, we just gotta play better.
00:12:31 Jason Avant
That was a different week of practice because of the offense coordinator situation.
00:12:37 Jason Avant
How was it different between last week and this week?
00:12:42 Andrew Marsh
Honestly, not too different.
00:12:44 Andrew Marsh
At the end of the day, it's still the same scheme for the most part.
00:12:47 Andrew Marsh
So really just, I mean, just doing what we can do.
00:12:50 Andrew Marsh
Control what we control, go out there and make plays.
00:12:53 Jason Avant
JJ left the game prematurely.
00:12:55 Jason Avant
How does it affect the offense?
00:12:59 Andrew Marsh
Yeah, I would say that's a big hit for us.
00:13:01 Andrew Marsh
He's a guy that definitely helps in the receiving room, helps to stretch the field and make plays kind of spread the ball out a little bit more.
00:13:08 Andrew Marsh
So after we lost him, it kind of knew what to expect and what to look for.
00:13:15 Andrew Marsh
But once again, we just got to make more plays.
00:13:16 Andrew Marsh
We got to execute.
00:13:18 Jason Avant
Last question I have for you.
00:13:19 Jason Avant
There was a mixture between Bryce, Tommy, Bryce, Tommy going back and forth.
00:13:24 Jason Avant
How was that in the huddle and dealing with two quarterbacks in the game at different times?
00:13:31 Andrew Marsh
It's not too bad.
00:13:32 Andrew Marsh
I mean, it's getting easier and easier as this is like the third or fourth week that we've done it.
00:13:37 Andrew Marsh
So really just, like I said earlier, just control what you can control, go out there and make the play.
00:13:42 Jason Avant
All the best going forward.
00:13:43 Andrew Marsh
Yes, sir.
00:13:43 Jason Avant
Cam, hadn't been the season that you wanted, tough loss today, tell me how you're feeling overall.
00:13:48 Cam Brandt
Honestly, I just feel like our guys came out there ready to play going into the game.
00:13:54 Cam Brandt
Obviously felt like we were the better team going in, but just little mistakes that cost us in the game against a good offense, great team.
00:14:03 Cam Brandt
So it's just assessing, reviewing, seeing what we did wrong, coming back the next week, get ready to go, fire on all cylinders.
00:14:13 Jason Avant
When it comes to their offensive line play, it seemed like they were able to have some push and give Dylan some time.
00:14:20 Jason Avant
Can you tell me about the offensive line, whether they were, you know, what you thought or not?
00:14:26 Cam Brandt
For the offensive line, the team is in general show who they were on tape.
00:14:32 Cam Brandt
We went out there, they played exactly how they played on tape.
00:14:35 Cam Brandt
We knew what we were getting when we coming in.
00:14:39 Cam Brandt
Obviously, you just gotta execute better as a team.
00:14:42 Cam Brandt
And yeah, they made some plays that cost us and
00:14:47 Cam Brandt
We just had to execute better as a defense, fire on all cylinders.
00:14:51 Jason Avant
When it comes to the second-half adjustments, it seemed like they were limited in the second-half.
00:14:58 Jason Avant
What was different from the first to the second-half for you guys defensively?
00:15:04 Cam Brandt
Honestly, just energy.
00:15:07 Cam Brandt
Trying to steal the crowd's energy as much as possible, going out there, doing our 1/11th, and doing our job, playing for the brother next to us.
00:15:17 Cam Brandt
That's what it's been, just playing for the brother next to you, just having that pride every time you step out on the field, just go out and do your thing, play for your brother.
00:15:24 Cam Brandt
And honestly, that energy we brought going into half really, really helped, and we were able to get needed stops.
00:15:33 Cam Brandt
And yeah, we just can capitalize on them.
00:15:37 Jason Avant
When it comes to last two ball games, you're a veteran player, how do you keep the team engaged?
00:15:44 Jason Avant
when the goals that you guys had at the beginning of the season are not there technically.
00:15:50 Cam Brandt
Honestly, it comes down to pride, who you are as a player and your why.
00:15:56 Cam Brandt
You know, it's unfortunate how our season has gone, but what we have now is we have two more games to play, 14 more days together as a team.
00:16:07 Cam Brandt
So what it comes down to now is what are you gonna do for your brother?
00:16:13 Cam Brandt
How much do you want to give these last 14 days?
00:16:15 Cam Brandt
This is just as a team, as a unit and just putting your all out there.
00:16:20 Cam Brandt
Like what's your why?
00:16:22 Cam Brandt
Why are you doing this?
00:16:23 Cam Brandt
Why do you come to come to the facility every day?
00:16:25 Cam Brandt
So just reminding guys that and just letting them know, making sure, just making sure they know like there's something bigger than like a win and a loss is.
00:16:36 Cam Brandt
I don't know, it's life.
00:16:38 Jason Avant
All the best going forward.
00:16:39 Cam Brandt
Sir, thank you.
00:16:40 Jason Avant
Zeke, being an upperclassman, coming to Oregon, not what you wanted, not getting a victory, tell me how you're feeling.
00:16:49 Zeke Berry
You know, every time you don't win a game, you know, it's hard, especially how, you know, this season has been going, you know, it's definitely tough to have another loss under our belt, especially, you know, throughout the week of practice we had.
00:17:03 Zeke Berry
I feel like we had a good week of preparation and getting ready for this team.
00:17:06 Zeke Berry
I thought we were in a good spot, but
00:17:08 Zeke Berry
outcome wasn't what we wanted, but we just gotta keep doing what we gotta do, keep working.
00:17:12 Jason Avant
It seemed like they were able to get some explosives.
00:17:15 Jason Avant
Why were they able to get so many explosives on the backhand?
00:17:20 Zeke Berry
They got talented guys on their team.
00:17:22 Zeke Berry
The receivers, they're fast, twitchy, good route runners, good catch radius.
00:17:29 Zeke Berry
So they got some playmakers on that side.
00:17:32 Zeke Berry
So being able to contain them, something that we need to be on top of.
00:17:37 Zeke Berry
on top of and we didn't do that.
00:17:40 Jason Avant
It seemed like Dylan Raiola was a different player once you guys made him move out of this spot.
00:17:46 Jason Avant
How were you guys able to have some success in the second-half with doing that?
00:17:51 Zeke Berry
Just make sure he's not comfortable back there.
00:17:54 Zeke Berry
Make sure we got a guy moving, not being able to just have him sit in the pocket and just read our defense and read his keys.
00:18:03 Zeke Berry
I feel like offense or the defensive line did a good job, having to move around and stuff like that, giving them different looks and stuff like that.
00:18:08 Zeke Berry
So yeah.
00:18:09 Jason Avant
What was the hardest part about playing against the offense?
00:18:12 Jason Avant
It seemed like they had a bunch of different shifts and motions and a bunch of different play types.
00:18:16 Jason Avant
What was the hardest part?
00:18:18 Zeke Berry
I would say probably that, just being able to recognize things out of different formations, being able to play from different coverages and match what they're running.
00:18:30 Zeke Berry
Just seeing a lot and just being able to stay in front of things, stay on top of things, something that we had to do better at this game.
00:18:37 Jason Avant
All the best going forward.
00:18:38 Zeke Berry
Thank you.
00:18:39 Jason Avant
Coming back to the Pacific Northwest, didn't get the win that you wanted.
00:18:44 Jason Avant
How do you process everything that just happened?
00:18:47 Jonah Lea'ea
I mean, I think the biggest thing is just identifying our weaknesses.
00:18:52 Jonah Lea'ea
I'd say the same thing every time we.
00:18:54 Jonah Lea'ea
Let points up like that, but it's definitely apparent today.
00:18:57 Jonah Lea'ea
We need to focus on the little things, do our jobs.
00:18:59 Jonah Lea'ea
Me personally, I messed up costed us pretty big.
00:19:01 Jonah Lea'ea
So you know, just focusing on how we can get better.
00:19:06 Jason Avant
What are some of the things that you guys talked about when it came to Dylan Raiola?
00:19:11 Jason Avant
Seem like he was in a rhythm early.
00:19:15 Jason Avant
What was the game plan for him?
00:19:17 Jonah Lea'ea
He's definitely good QB.
00:19:19 Jonah Lea'ea
I thought we gave up too much easy stuff and he definitely took advantage of it.
00:19:23 Jonah Lea'ea
Game plan was, you know, try our best to confuse him with coverages and.
00:19:29 Jonah Lea'ea
You know, get home in the pass rush and we didn't do a good enough job for both of us so.
00:19:34 Jason Avant
When it came to some of the explosive plays in the ball game that Oregon had, what were some of the things that broke down in that situation?
00:19:42 Jonah Lea'ea
I think the biggest thing is tackling for sure, especially that last touchdown.
00:19:47 Jonah Lea'ea
I mean.
00:19:47 Jonah Lea'ea
You know, that's just day one stuff we gotta get better at.
00:19:51 Jason Avant
All the best going forward.
00:19:52 Jonah Lea'ea
Thank you.
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00:20:05 Jeff Laurence
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