Oregon Ducks linebacker Jeffrey Bassa discusses a 34-31 loss to the Washington Huskies in the Pac-12 Championship.
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00:00 James Karpi of the Oregonian.
00:02 Jeff, you guys have been a top 10 run defense all season.
00:05 What was it about Dylan Johnson
00:07 and their run offense tonight,
00:08 particularly in the fourth quarter
00:09 that just gave you guys a lot of trouble?
00:11 - Yeah, overall, I think it just comes down to execution.
00:15 We didn't execute.
00:17 We weren't in the right fits
00:18 from what it seems like on the field.
00:20 I still have to go look at the film
00:22 and see what particularly went wrong,
00:24 but it just came down to execution.
00:26 That was really it.
00:27 I don't think coach called any bad calls
00:30 or nothing like that, like you said.
00:31 We're a good defense,
00:32 and I think it just came down to execution.
00:35 - Eric Skopel, 24/7 Sports, back here, Jeff.
00:39 How disheartening was it
00:41 after you guys have the Treshawn Holden touchdown?
00:44 Your defense has a chance to stop them,
00:45 and they're unable to do so.
00:47 - Yeah, when Treshawn scored that touchdown,
00:49 obviously gave the whole team a lot of confidence.
00:52 Sideline was going up and down and stuff like that,
00:54 and so it's up to us on the defense
00:57 to go out there and get a stop,
00:58 and we failed to execute.
01:00 I think that's what the moral of the game was,
01:02 really just execution.
01:03 It's not that we were letting dudes run free
01:06 down the field and stuff like that.
01:07 It just literally came down to little details.
01:09 - In the second half,
01:13 you were seen up on the bench
01:14 kind of yelling at your guys,
01:15 getting them going, getting them excited.
01:17 What were you saying to your defense,
01:18 and what did you see from the fight they showed today?
01:21 - Yeah, so right after Nico Reed had got that
01:24 and made that amazing play on the corner blitz,
01:27 I kind of just went over to the team.
01:29 I got everybody up, and I just told everybody,
01:31 "Don't let our highs get too high
01:32 "and our lows get too low."
01:33 We still got a full game to play,
01:36 and one play is not just going to save the game.
01:38 So I was just kind of telling guys,
01:41 "Keep their poise."
01:42 Like I said, "Don't let our highs get too high
01:44 "and our lows get too low."
01:45 - Brenna Green, Coyne, back here.
01:48 You guys are so close to going to this goal
01:52 that you all guys had of going to the college football
01:54 playoff.
01:55 How does it feel to have it be so close at your fingertips
01:58 and have it be ripped away?
01:59 - Yeah, it feels great.
02:02 I'm so blessed to be in this position,
02:05 to even be here right now,
02:06 with Coach Landon, year two under his system,
02:10 and just the team that some of the little improvements
02:13 that we've made since last year.
02:15 Obviously, we didn't get the result that we wanted tonight,
02:17 but I'm so blessed and grateful to be in this position,
02:20 to even be playing for that college football
02:22 playoff national trophy.