Trice at Sugar Bowl

UW edge rusher Bralen Trice spoke in the Sugar Bowl postgame about respect and the work his team puts in.

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00:00 You heard about that you're an underdog over and over again.

00:03 And you seem to get a little impatient with that,

00:07 wanting to come out with a decisive win.

00:09 You've been the underdog in three of your last four games.

00:12 Do you feel a little bit better?

00:13 Maybe you've sold more people on who you are and what you do?

00:16 >> I mean, obviously, yeah, I feel better about that.

00:18 >> [LAUGH] >> Yeah, I just think we prove everybody

00:24 wrong time and time again, and we'll continue to do that.

00:28 And this is what we do as dogs at UW up in Seattle.

00:34 We're bred for this, we prepare for this.

00:36 And you can overlook us all you want, but

00:40 we go out there and we prove everybody wrong every time.

00:43 So yeah, as a guy that's been around for a while, since 2019 over at UW.

00:49 But this guy's been around for a while, it's just crazy to see the adversity we've

00:53 been through and the point where we're at now.

00:57 All the guys around us that stayed around, stuck around through the mud to get to

01:01 where we're at, it's a great feeling to know that we're at this point in our

01:05 careers now where we can look back and be like, man,

01:07 we had to go through that to get to where we're at.

01:09 And I'm just proud of everybody on the team, both sides of the ball, and

01:15 it's a great feeling to be where we're at, but we're not done.

01:17 >> This team has talked about all season about the belief that it has in prevailing,

01:22 getting the win.

01:22 Could you talk about what that belief looked like on the final drive in

01:25 a stressful situation?

01:26 >> Yeah, from a defensive perspective, I mean,

01:30 that belief just stems from all of our preparation throughout the whole season,

01:35 throughout these past three, four weeks that we've had to get ready.

01:39 Early on before the season, in our training periods, but it's part of our

01:46 standard, as a player of that team, we do that every single day, right?

01:51 We put ourselves in those situations out of practice to where we're ready when that

01:54 happens, and I think you could think we were shook out there, obviously,

01:59 but we weren't, we were ten toes down, ready to go.

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