Oregon Ducks discuss keeping their emotions in check

Yeah, all those conversations happen. You see your brother get hurt, right? And you want to react, I want to react. And I thought you had to find the guys that are emotional. And then the big key for me is, hey, let's play with our passion in between the whistles. Because what happens in those moments is your body starts to tense up. You start to get a heightened sense of awareness and you're wasting a lot of energy in between plays when you still got four quarters to finish, especially as early as it happened in the game. So, you know, there's some breathing exercises that go on. There's some resets that go on. There's just some confirmation of like, hey, here's where we're at. Here's what we need from you. And here's the best way you can honor Dante and the way you operate. So I thought, you know, we had a lot of guys that did a really good job of that. And there's gonna be guys that are emotional in that moment. So they handled it well. Great. Yeah, I mean, it's something we talked about going all throughout the entire week of, Bear, here's what you can expect. Here's what you can anticipate. Let's go ahead and decide what our reactions are gonna be while you're a different person today than you were six years ago, five years ago, four years ago, and how he's grown up. And I think we saw a great example of that today. You saw a leader on the sideline, a guy that was demanding the best of his teammates, a guy that was focused in the game at all moments. I didn't get to watch him specifically play, but I know they struggled to run the ball inside. I think that has a lot to do with our interior D-line. They were able to create some runs outside that we gotta clean up, but I thought he did some great things. I thought he had good composure in moments where a lot of people, under the same scrutiny, hearing those voices, wouldn't react the same.