Carson Bruner Talks Game Clinching Safety

Huskies junior linebacker discusses his performance after beating Utah at home.

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00:00 >> So was there a discussion between you and Alphonso to bail out a fellow

00:02 linebacker with that safety given what happened on the previous play?

00:05 >> No, no, no, I mean, hey, stuff happens in the games.

00:08 I mean, everything's moving so fast and I know I had to go in and

00:12 I mean, I'm called to make a play and that's exactly what I did.

00:14 So, you know, it's all love.

00:16 >> And Jabbar mentioned it, but there was some schematic changes.

00:19 It sounds like from the first half to the second half defensively,

00:21 just what allowed you guys to have so much success in the second half?

00:23 >> I feel like just our confidence coming out halftime, I knew obviously we let

00:26 a good amount of points in the first half.

00:28 We weren't kind of clicking.

00:29 The communication was a little bit off, but

00:31 I feel like being able to bring us all together like with the staff,

00:34 with the whole defense and just kind of go over everything.

00:37 We all drilled exactly know what we were gonna do in the second half and

00:40 we executed.

00:41 >> What is it about, did you tell Alphonso that you got two of his six points back?

00:44 >> Well, I told him I got his back no matter what and I mean, that's about it.

00:47 >> Do you guys have a chance to talk about that at all?

00:49 I'm sure he was crushed with what happened.

00:51 >> I mean, yeah, I mean, it's all hard.

00:52 He's definitely gonna feel for a little bit.

00:53 I mean, it's like I talked to him earlier and

00:55 he was like I've dreamed of this scenario to get a pick six.

00:58 And I mean, he had it in the bag.

00:59 But I mean, once again, it's a football game, things happen.

01:02 >> What is it about this defense and this team that's just so resilient?

01:04 You guys go down early, but you still refuse to lose.

01:08 >> I mean, divorces all the time.

01:10 Exactly what you just said, refuse to lose.

01:11 Find a way to win, refuse to lose, and that's exactly what we did.

01:13 I mean, we came out, we knew that we weren't executing.

01:15 We knew we weren't helping out our offense.

01:17 Our offense was clicking, we weren't.

01:18 So then when the second half came around, we told them we got you guys.

01:21 We got your back and that's what we did.

01:23 >> What did you do on the safety?

01:24 >> Huh? >> What did you do on the safety?

01:25 Shot through somehow?

01:26 >> Yeah, I mean, I had my gap assignment, read the play, read the run,

01:30 kinda shot through, ran that cut out to me and just had to make a play.