Oregon Ducks discuss staying mentally locked in as a defense.

Both of you guys each answer this one. What's the difficulty of staying mentally locked in as a defense when you're having to sort of keep the team in the game as the offense figures things out? I think it doesn't really matter for us. It doesn't matter how many times we go out there. We got each other's back. We got our brothers back. It doesn't matter if we're out there three times or 30 times. We believe in our offense. I don't care who does or doesn't. We believe in our offense. We believe in our special teams. We believe in our defense. we believe in our team we believe in our players we believe in our coaches like it doesn't matter how many times that we're on there or not on there like i believe in our team and like it doesn't really matter yeah just like devin said man we believe in our team no matter what um and every time we go on the field man we just got to get the ball back to our offense man so they can go and score and obviously win us the game uh so yeah i'm just proud of everyone tonight Tatum Calandria is someone that can definitely attack with his legs as well we saw a little bit of that but you were able to get in the backfield quite a bit what was working so well for you specifically in the defensive line as a whole yeah i think it's just effort man that's a great quarterback and and he's shifty for sure um but just effort man we knew that this quarterback was was going to try to escape the pocket so friend we knew we had to cage him um and it's not going to look perfect every time he's going to get out of the cage sometimes uh maybe it's not the you know perfect perfect look for our d-line but at the end of the day man i think we did a great job of affecting him and and getting him down when we had to