Oregon Ducks' Kobe Savage Discusses Keys to Facing Penn State

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00:00It's a very like high-tempo offense, it reminds me a lot, I mean obviously their offensive

00:10coordinator came from Kansas and I got to witness it and play against him and do a little

00:13study on him.

00:14So it's a, it's a very different like with formation variation and using different guys

00:20such as 44 and just getting the right guys the ball and just trying to spread out the

00:24defense to get them miscommunicated.

00:25Just how good is 44?

00:26Oh he's really good, as you see he punted, snapped the ball, caught the ball, threw the

00:32ball, even does a little bit of option for him so I mean obviously he's our best player

00:36and we just got to be alert for him.

00:37Was it a challenge to bring him down to the open field because he is such a freaking ball

00:40carrier?

00:41Yeah, just tackle low, just form tackling will help us, sideline tackle, just practicing

00:45that whether it's on a dummy or anything like that, I mean he's a bigger guy so definitely

00:49going low.

00:50How similar is what they are running to what he was running at Kansas?

00:57No, it's very similar but like you said with different players, I remember they had a guy

01:00number 47 at KU, their tight end, they used him a lot as they used number 44 for them

01:05so yeah very similar but having two quarterbacks out there sometimes and just different misdirections.

01:11Postseason has arrived, does that require a different kind of mentality attitude from

01:15you guys or is it more about consistency, same mindset?

01:20Yeah definitely much more consistency, I mean we're going to play a lot of great teams in

01:23the playoffs and then like Coach Landis said this is going to be one week seasons, just

01:27trying to beat 1-0 every week.