Following USC's win over Oregon State, I asked Sam Darnold about the offensive malaise over the past four games and whether defenses are defending USC differently. His response is pretty, pretty interesting. Here's a transcript of our exchange:
The offense for the past month hasn’t looked the way it did vs. Stanford. Are teams taking things away that they hadn’t before?
Darnold: “No, they’re giving us some of the same stuff. I can sense that defenses are focusing on tendencies of ours, so we just got to run different plays out of different formations and motion some more guys and get away from our tendencies a little bit, and I think we’ll be fine if we do that.”
Here’s the link to the full interview and other postgame video.
The offense for the past month hasn’t looked the way it did vs. Stanford. Are teams taking things away that they hadn’t before?
Darnold: “No, they’re giving us some of the same stuff. I can sense that defenses are focusing on tendencies of ours, so we just got to run different plays out of different formations and motion some more guys and get away from our tendencies a little bit, and I think we’ll be fine if we do that.”
Here’s the link to the full interview and other postgame video.
