Oregon cornerback Jahlil Florence discusses a 35-6 win over the No. 13 Utah Utes.
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00:00 run pretty over from there.
00:02 They don't really have a super great passing game,
00:04 so just the corners, helping show up in the run
00:07 and stopping the run, getting them in those extra
00:09 third and longs, we knew we had them every time.
00:11 Back at you, Eric.
00:15 You guys tackling in space, it seemed like there were
00:17 very few times they were able to get free
00:19 when you guys made contact.
00:21 How proud are you of that effort,
00:22 especially in the second half?
00:23 I'm super proud.
00:24 We practice it every week, open field tackling,
00:26 so we knew it was going to be a big thing for the corners.
00:28 And when we seen them come out of the press conference
00:30 saying the corners are going to have to tackle,
00:31 we took that kind of to the 10,
00:33 and we showed up and showed out and did what we had to do.
00:35 Back in the middle, Matt.
00:37 You talked about the passing attack.
00:39 How important was it for your defense to see the offense
00:42 get up by a score or two early in the game
00:44 and kind of make them one-dimensional
00:46 with what's not their strength?
00:47 It was super important.
00:48 We told the offense as soon as we get a stop,
00:51 excuse me, and we get a stop on them guys,
00:54 and you guys go score, we're going to put them out
00:55 every time, and every time we get them to those third
00:57 down longs, it's really hard for them
00:58 because they're kind of going out of their game.
01:00 So when we got those big-time third down stops,
01:02 it was really hard for them to continue
01:04 doing what they wanted to do.
01:05 They kind of had to play with two left arms
01:07 because they really got out of their game.
01:09 They really wanted to keep running it,
01:10 but when we shut the run down, it's hard for them
01:12 to keep going.
01:13 In the middle, Zach.
01:14 Despite the defensive success this year,
01:16 the turnover numbers have been a little bit lower
01:18 than you probably thought.
01:19 What's it like in the game like this
01:20 where you finally see some of those big plays?
01:22 Man, we practice turnovers all practice every single week.
01:26 So, you know, we just waited for them to come,
01:28 and this week we were really attacking the ball.
01:30 Everybody was gritty. Everybody really wanted the ball.
01:32 You know, this week we knew that the battle
01:33 with the turnover, we know they have a great defense,
01:35 and if we got more turnovers than their defense,
01:37 we knew then it was going to be whoever got the most turnovers
01:40 was going to come out with the W.