USC Trojans discuss their defensive performance

How concerning was that defensive performance, would you say? I look at more just some of the individual breakdowns. We also had to play with a lot of different guys in the secondaries. We had some guys go down throughout the game that weren't available. I thought we were just kind of untimely as a defense really. The picks were huge. It's hard to underscore how big those turnovers were really with the fourth down stop. We caused three turnovers. That is obviously significant. I like our good, but when we get teams, especially behind the chains, we got to do a better job of making them pay. That's kind of when the game is in your favor defensively. That's when we were at our worst today. We got to be better at that and we got to do a better job just some of the explosive plays in the run game. I don't know, there were probably two runs that really got out, maybe three the entire day and they probably averaged a couple yards of carry on everything else, but you have to do that. We misfit a couple runs and missed a few tackles in the secondary. We got to be able to get those down. When you play good, your explosive runs are a 10 or 11 yard gain and not those. Just got to be better. Got to improve. Challenge is going to change as it does every single game in this league. We got to continue to get better. That's what we'll do.