USC Trojans discuss their offense against Rutgers

Obviously, this team has had some trouble going east. I know you talked about having that experience and how much maybe that helps decide how to do things. Do you feel like that travel plays any bit of a part in this, or the fact that this keeps happening on road trips? I didn't think it did. I mean, I thought we started off the game edgy with momentum. I mean, I think, listen, no matter where you're playing, when you got somebody backed up into the half and you give them a 50-yard play on a fake punt, especially on the road, it just flips momentum and it kind of breathes life into them. Where you flip that scenario and don't give up the fake punt, get the ball back. We were moving it pretty good at that point, go score. I mean, the air is gonna be out of that stadium when you go into halftime. So I just think when you're on the road, you have to capitalize on those moments to grab and take hold of the momentum. And we weren't great at that tonight. We had that opportunity I felt like was one where the game wasn't gonna be over, but we could have really separated there. And then we have multiple times in the second half where we score and you just go stop them and get one more, gonna break their back. And one time we got the ball back. We didn't score on that one, that's when I went for it on fourth down. And then a couple times we scored and didn't get the stop. So we gotta play better together. And any injury updates on the guys who went down today? No, nothing yet, I just got off the field. Offensively, you guys had some big explosives today, a couple red zone stalls. How do you evaluate that side of the ball? Kind of the same as the other. I mean, there was a lot of good. Guys made some clutch plays. I'm most proud of being able to run it out there and kind of end the game with the ball in our hands. That's the thing I was most excited about. We made some big time plays, but we also had some big time mistakes. And then time with penalties, it'll have to get better.