Oregon Ducks Coach Dan Lanning discusses the Ducks ignoring the noise while playing

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00:00For a second straight week, though, we're talking about how good it is.

00:06What does that say about what Ross Douglas is doing with this group

00:09and just the mentality?

00:10It speaks volumes of our players, and it speaks volumes of Ross

00:13and his ability to communicate and Coach Stein and that offensive staff.

00:16Like, it's a group that works together.

00:17It's a team sport, right?

00:19And to have that many threats that can, you know,

00:22be dangerous on the perimeter and block really hard,

00:24like that's something I think you'll continue to see from our guys.

00:27Like, that gives us a chance to be really good.

00:30Second row, middle brief.

00:33Your running back depth is certainly impressive,

00:36starting with Noah Whittington, who had a career-long run today.

00:39What makes him unique so far this season?

00:41He's the best teammate.

00:42He's an unbelievable teammate.

00:44And, like, I think I said this before,

00:47but he was coming off an injury last year,

00:48and I don't know that people get to see what we get to see

00:50every single day in practice.

00:51This guy's got juice.

00:53He's never had a bad day.

00:54He's tough.

00:55He's tough as nails.

00:56And, you know, guys from Peach County are, right?

00:59And he embodies what it means to be an Oregon Duck.

01:02Right here in the middle.

01:05What went into choosing to receive the ball

01:07when you won the coin toss?

01:09We're good when we score first, right?

01:11We got a really good record when we score first,

01:13and we felt good about our openers.

01:15Good here on the right in the middle.

01:19Coach, you often talk about how these situations in these games

01:22just being about you and just being about your team,

01:24and considering the word said on the other side leading up to this week,

01:28what would you note as the sole emotional driver

01:32into this performance today?

01:33Us.

01:34It's still about us, right?

01:35It's always been about us.

01:37It's like our ability to ignore the noise

01:39is always the thing that's going to make us go

01:41and uphold the standard.

01:43Like I said, if you step on the field for us,

01:45in our mind you're a starter, right?

01:46You have a standard to uphold.

01:47It didn't matter if it was the last drive in the game there.

01:49There's a standard.

01:50There's an expectation.

01:51And our guys have upheld that so far.

01:54You've got big enough money.

01:55You've got big enough money.

01:56All right, thank you.

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