Oregon Ducks discuss the defense starting to come into it's own.
Oct 22, 2026
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I guess, Tatum, how have you seen this defense kind
of embrace this idea and mentality that
you guys have to be near perfect right now
as the offense is trying to figure out their
struggles and work through it?
Yeah, I think we've done a great job of embracing it, man.
You know, looking at game one to now, man,
our defense done a great job of, you know,
playing together.
We did a great job of just elevating our gameplay.
And it's going to continue to grow
because we have a lot to clean up as well.
Even though, you know, we did a great job out there tonight,
we're going to come back tomorrow and Monday
and we're going to see a lot that we can clean up.
Devin, Dan said he feels like as a
defense you guys are kind of starting
to come into your own, come into who you are.
What has been the evolution over the last few weeks?
What's your sense of kind of the level you're at now
and the level there is still to get to?
I mean, it's simple, though.
Like, who doesn't love playing football, right?
Like, it doesn't matter how many,
you know, opportunities we get, you know,
but we just continue to play off each other
and feed off each other's energy, right?
Like, you know, beginning of the season, it started off slow,
but it's like, you know, feeding off Tatum when he makes a play.
You know, it's whoever makes a play.
Like, just feeding off each other's
energy and, like, we got each other's back.
Like, we know who we can be and we know who we want to be
and just continue to thrive on that and then
not only just elevate our defense,
but continue to, like, elevate our team
and just hold the rope for everybody.

