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Latest on Arch Manning, World Series Preview, Area HSFB Matchups · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Good Thursday to you.
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  Speaker 2: Glad to be with you here on a Thursday afternoon
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  Speaker 2: here on Sports Radio AM 13 Under the Zone. Welcome
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  Speaker 2: to the program. My name is Craig White. Glad to
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  Speaker 2: have you with us here. We're with you each and
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  Speaker 2: every weekday afternoon, Monday through Friday from 2 to 5.
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  Speaker 2: And happy to be with you again to discuss not
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  Speaker 2: only all manner of and varieties of the world of
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  Speaker 2: perspiring arts, but the specifics. I know a lot of
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  Speaker 2: you like the specificity of specific teams like the Texas Longhorns.
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  Speaker 2: Toward that end, what we have for you today, this
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  Speaker 2: being a Thursday, we'll hear from Longhorns head coach Steve
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  Speaker 2: Sarkeesian from that Thursday media Zoom he does. It's the
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  Speaker 2: last media availability that he has before the next football game,
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  Speaker 2: in this case, Saturday night's game, as they'll take on
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  Speaker 2: the Ole Miss Rebels. The kickoff exactly at 6.49 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: Our coverage will actually begin at 2.30 in the afternoon
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  Speaker 2: with a third and Longhorn preview from the third and
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  Speaker 2: Longhorn podcast, guys. So we'll have that for you at 2.30.
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  Speaker 2: At 3.30, Longhorns game day down on Bevo Boulevard. They're
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  Speaker 2: in the Winship Circle or the Winship area, however you
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  Speaker 2: choose to describe it. Jake Herman, the producer of this program,
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  Speaker 2: will be down there twisting and tweaking the dials and
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  Speaker 2: offering up some information on the matchup as well as
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  Speaker 2: he joins the hosts, Mike Hardball-Hard, Mark Henry, Eric Henry
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  Speaker 2: will be along in there. So you guys are expecting
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  Speaker 2: a decent day of weather and be able to relax
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  Speaker 2: and enjoy and have a good time out at Winship, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, as much as we love to do
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  Speaker 3: the pregame show in any kickoff time, there is a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of extra juice when you get people that
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  Speaker 3: are spending the day down on Bevo Boulevard and you
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  Speaker 3: don't have to start maybe before the sun comes up.
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  Speaker 3: People don't have to set their alarms to come see us.
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  Speaker 3: So it should be a lot of fun down there
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  Speaker 3: in the Winship area. Come by, grab some food from
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  Speaker 3: a food truck, big beer thos right next to us
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  Speaker 3: and come get ready for the game with us.
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  Speaker 1: It's a big one. Yeah, so that'll be on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: And, of course, this, like I said, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: hear from Longhorn's head coach, Steve Sarkeesian, here in just
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  Speaker 2: a moment. Also, as we do every Thursday, Roger Wallace
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  Speaker 2: will join us, sports director of KXAN, of course, here
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  Speaker 2: in town, and my broadcast partner on Longhorn Football Games
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  Speaker 2: and also works with us with filling in with men's
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  Speaker 2: and women's basketball games and also works with us on baseball.
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  Speaker 2: So Roger will be with us. We'll talk Longhorn football,
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  Speaker 2: college football. Also, we will discuss the high school football
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  Speaker 2: plans this week. There are some huge games statewide on
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  Speaker 2: the high school level, and there are two gigantic ones
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  Speaker 2: here in the greater Austin area. So we'll talk about
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  Speaker 2: that as well. We do have inconceivable this hour. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the things that fall into the inconceivable file
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  Speaker 2: we'll bring to you.
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  Speaker 1: Also this hour.
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  Speaker 2: Next hour, we'll also hear from the coaches of the
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  Speaker 2: resident NFL teams here. We'll hear from D'Amico Ryans, head
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  Speaker 2: coach of the Houston Texans, and Brian Schottenheimer, head coach
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  Speaker 2: of the Dallas Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have that coming up as well.
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  Speaker 2: And then we're going to get a preview of the
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  Speaker 2: World Series. Gene Watson, our MLB insider from the Chicago
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  Speaker 2: White Sox front office, joins us to preview the World
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  Speaker 2: Series matchup between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Tampa Bay Rays,
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  Speaker 2: each of whom have never won a World Series.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll get Gino to break it down for us.
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  Speaker 1: That's coming up in the 3 o'clock hour.
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  Speaker 2: In the 4 o'clock hour today, give you a little
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  Speaker 2: sneak preview, as we always do, of Longhorn Weekly with
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  Speaker 2: Coach Sark. Sark's radio show comes your way tonight at
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  Speaker 2: 7 o'clock. here on The Zone. We record it on
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday evenings. So we'll have SART's radio show. We'll have
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  Speaker 2: a little preview of it about what they're fighting through
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  Speaker 2: and trying to get through right now, injuries included, to
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  Speaker 2: get ready for this matchup with the Ole Miss Rebels.
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  Speaker 1: And so we'll have that.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, Kwon Cosby's our special guest on
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  Speaker 2: the program. It's a great perspective from Kwon, who of course,
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  Speaker 2: Played the position and was our sideline reporter for seven years.
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  Speaker 2: And then also now working, he's up in the towers,
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  Speaker 2: working in the president's office. So the mayor, as I
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  Speaker 2: like to call him, Quan Cosby, is part of the program.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll have that coming up. All right, let's jump
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  Speaker 2: right into it. Hearing from Longhorn's head coach, Steve Sarkeesian,
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  Speaker 2: from the weekly Thursday media Zoom. This is the last
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  Speaker 2: opportunity he visits with any media until my pregame interview
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  Speaker 2: with him, which is about an hour 45 before kickoff.
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  Speaker 1: On Saturday. So first of all, Sarge, opening thoughts.
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  Speaker 4: You know, obviously big time SEC matchup Saturday night at DKR.
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  Speaker 4: I touched on it on the radio show and somewhat
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  Speaker 4: on Monday, but there's nothing like a night game at
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  Speaker 4: DKR with our fans and how exciting this opportunity is
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  Speaker 4: for us to play in.
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  Speaker 5: Front of them.
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  Speaker 4: We've obviously had a lot of success here at home
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  Speaker 4: and they bring an integral part to that. So looking
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  Speaker 4: forward to a great environment Saturday night. Been really proud
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  Speaker 4: of our team this week. They have worked extremely hard.
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  Speaker 4: Now we need to carry that over to the game,
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  Speaker 4: but it wasn't for lack of effort in what they
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  Speaker 4: put in, you know, Monday through Thursday of this week
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  Speaker 4: of getting themselves ready for a big-time matchup.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: A very quick question followed by a very quick response.
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  Speaker 2: When the Q & A opened, he was asked if
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  Speaker 2: the coaches decide, the position coaches decide the personnel groupings,
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  Speaker 2: and who is going in and going out, or does
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  Speaker 2: Sark make that decision? This is, and our friend Chip
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  Speaker 2: Brown asked this, but clearly, you know, this is with
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  Speaker 2: an eye toward questions coming from fans about who's deciding
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  Speaker 2: who's in the game at certain points. So those who
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  Speaker 2: write for the fan sites bring the questions to Sark,
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  Speaker 2: and this was one of them. Do the position coaches
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  Speaker 2: decide who goes into the ballgame, or does he decide it?
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  Speaker 4: We do that as a staff.
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  Speaker 1: Plain and simple. They just do that together as a group. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Next, he was asked if Arch Manning's performance, and this
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  Speaker 2: goes back really what Sark said after they lost to Florida,
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  Speaker 2: that everything would be evaluated. And some people got their...
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  Speaker 2: Feathers ruffled a little bit when they said, well, does
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  Speaker 2: that mean Danny Davis' follow-up? Does that mean Archman? He said,
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  Speaker 2: everything means everything. Apparently, that didn't sit too well with
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  Speaker 2: some folks. I was reading some of the national thing. Sarco,
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  Speaker 2: a terse response saying everything. I think it's just because
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  Speaker 2: he plainly spelled it out. Everything is going to be evaluated.
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  Speaker 2: And then when the follow-up comes, does that mean the quarterback?
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  Speaker 2: Everything means everything. That's what that meant. But going further
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  Speaker 2: into it, This morning, Sark was asked if Arch Manning
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  Speaker 2: would be evaluated while the game was going on, or
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  Speaker 2: would he then possibly only be removed from the game
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  Speaker 2: if the game was a blowout one way or the other?
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  Speaker 4: It just depends. Every game's different. I think Arch has
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  Speaker 4: had a good week of work. He's prepared himself well.
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  Speaker 4: But like the team, we need to play well. And
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  Speaker 4: so we'll go from there.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: He was then asked about how he guides his team
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to blocking out the outside noise. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this is something that's happened quite a bit. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we hear it. And you hear this with regard to
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  Speaker 2: virtually every program in college football at some point during
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  Speaker 2: the season or another, especially the higher profile programs.
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  Speaker 1: And you hear it more... when a team faces adversity.
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  Speaker 2: So he was asked about how he goes about blocking
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  Speaker 2: out the pressure and getting the team to block out
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  Speaker 2: the outside noise and the pressures that can build from outside.
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  Speaker 4: I think the best way to do that is to
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  Speaker 4: pour into one another, stay connected inside of our building.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not one that really succumbs to outside noise. I
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  Speaker 4: really don't care. Quite frankly, that's never been a motivator
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  Speaker 4: for me, whether it's good or bad. Because there's one
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  Speaker 4: week you're the greatest, the next week you're the worst.
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  Speaker 4: And so if you ride that emotional roller coaster of
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  Speaker 4: the opinions of others, that's a delicate way to live.
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  Speaker 4: So you have to be internally motivated, and internally motivated
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  Speaker 4: is the individual, but also collectively the team and the
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  Speaker 4: people in the organization. So that's why I said after
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  Speaker 4: the game, this is now more important of a time
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  Speaker 4: to stay connected to one another, lean into one another,
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  Speaker 4: feed off of one another, and that'll put us in
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  Speaker 4: the best position to be successful.
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  Speaker 2: All right, and then one more this hour, and we'll
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  Speaker 2: hear some from Sark next hour and also in the four.
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  Speaker 1: O'clock hour as well. If you saw.
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  Speaker 2: the SEC student athlete availability report, in other words, the
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  Speaker 2: injury report, and it comes out first on Wednesday nights.
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  Speaker 2: And if you saw the details on it, I'll tell
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  Speaker 2: you what, in fact, instead of just saying, if you saw,
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what it is. those who are available,
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  Speaker 2: and more importantly and in specifically, those who are not available.
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  Speaker 2: And those who are not available includes Richard Wesley, the
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  Speaker 2: edge rusher, who's the backup to Colin Simmons. And Simmons
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  Speaker 2: is listed as doubtful for the game with that ankle injury.
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  Speaker 2: Richard Wesley was injured in practice this week. He's listed
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  Speaker 2: as doubtful. Questionable, by the way, Hollywood Smothers.
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  Speaker 6: There.
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  Speaker 2: Kalik Lockett, who is upgraded from out last week to
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  Speaker 2: questionable now, and Jayden Chapman also listed as questionable. But
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  Speaker 2: the things that really come to mind, Smothers being questionable,
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  Speaker 2: and then the two guys who play that one specific
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  Speaker 2: spot on the edge. Now, that doesn't mean that there's
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  Speaker 2: a blank space there, because the edge rushers can go
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  Speaker 2: from either side. But the fact that Richard Wesley is out,
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  Speaker 2: and the fact that Colin Simmons is out, what does
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  Speaker 2: that going to mean for this football team in terms
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  Speaker 2: of the edge rushers? Well, there's other guys. Lance Jackson's
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  Speaker 2: on the opposite side. Zeno Mozalou's on the opposite side.
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  Speaker 2: There's some other guys as well. And Sark was asked,
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  Speaker 2: you know, what is this going to mean with guys
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  Speaker 2: who are listed as being as out or, in the
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  Speaker 2: case of Colin Simmons, doubtful? What does that mean for
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  Speaker 2: his edge rushing position and how creative is Does he
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  Speaker 2: have to be with his staff in being able to
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  Speaker 2: fill that spot?
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  Speaker 4: Without a doubt, depending on Colin's circumstances, we've got four
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  Speaker 4: really good players still. When you talk about Lance and Zena,
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  Speaker 4: Brad and Colton, to go along with the versatility of
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  Speaker 4: a couple of our interior defensive linemen, depending on personnel
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  Speaker 4: packages that we put out there, And also the ability
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  Speaker 4: of Raheem Biles. So we've got enough depth in there.
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  Speaker 4: We've got quality players in there. You never like losing
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  Speaker 4: good players. That part's disappointing. But that's also part of football.
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  Speaker 4: And that's why you have to recruit to the depth
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  Speaker 4: that I think that we have to withstand some of
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  Speaker 4: the injuries that occur. And we're not unique. Other people
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  Speaker 4: are dealing with injuries as well. So you just have
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  Speaker 4: to make sure you've got the right depth in place.
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  Speaker 4: so that those players are prepared to perform and their
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  Speaker 4: numbers are called.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and the Brad and Colton you mentioned, obviously Brad
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  Speaker 2: Spence and Colton Vosick, who are listed as strong side linebackers,
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  Speaker 2: but we've seen it all season long. Those guys do
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  Speaker 2: spin down to the edge and they flex down to
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  Speaker 2: the edge, especially Vosick has done it, but even Brad
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  Speaker 2: Spence has done it. So there are a couple other guys,
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  Speaker 2: in addition to the aforementioned Lance Jackson and Zeno Mozalou,
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  Speaker 2: those guys in for Richard Wesley, who's definitely out. Colin
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  Speaker 2: Simmons is doubtful, so... doubtful means probably not going to
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  Speaker 2: play is what that means. So, um, probable means doubtful
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  Speaker 2: that he wouldn't play. That's how that spins. But it's, it's, I,
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  Speaker 2: I'd be surprised if Colin Simmons is out there, doesn't,
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  Speaker 2: but he's listed as doubtful, not out, which means they're
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  Speaker 2: trying to get him ready and he's trying to get
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  Speaker 2: himself ready. And he's been banged up quite a bit,
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  Speaker 2: but Richard Wesley's definitely out. And, um, Brad Spence and
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  Speaker 2: Colton Vosick, along with Lance Jackson, Zeno Moselu, are the
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  Speaker 2: guys who probably yet to keep an eye on in
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  Speaker 2: terms of being able to fill those edge rusher spots
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  Speaker 2: and be able to get that type of play they
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  Speaker 2: want on them.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Coming up, we'll visit Roger Wallace, my broadcast partner along
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  Speaker 2: with football. We'll get his thoughts on this weekend's game
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  Speaker 2: and then talk some high school football with him as well,
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  Speaker 2: right here on Sports Radio AM 13 Under the Zone
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  Speaker 2: and where you can always listen to us for free
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  Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 7: Scattered like splinters and four or five years slipped.
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  Speaker 2: Away here on uh thursday on sports radio am 13
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  Speaker 2: under the zone of course whenever we uh have roger
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  Speaker 2: wallace join us being the jimmy buffett not only maven
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  Speaker 2: and aficionado that he is but also the knowledge of
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  Speaker 2: that the uh the authority that he is on buffett
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  Speaker 2: i i i have to tell you roger here's the
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  Speaker 2: true confessions you know you know jake has been pulling
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  Speaker 2: these out on his own This one came at my urging.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of my favorites. And I thought, why would
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  Speaker 2: he went to Paris?
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's see.
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  Speaker 2: The Saints and Steelers will be in Paris this Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: For anybody who's thinking, you know, where is Sark going
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  Speaker 2: for answers right now? It would not be Paris, you know,
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  Speaker 2: about that. So I was sitting there just fishing for answers.
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  Speaker 2: I finally said, ah, the hell with it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I want to hear, he went to Paris anyway. And
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  Speaker 2: I know it's one you appreciate. Yeah, that's a good one.
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  Speaker 7: Now, that's one where, you know, at a concert, obviously
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  Speaker 7: that's pretty slow. Sometimes he'll just give the band a
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  Speaker 7: break and play that one by himself. But, you know,
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  Speaker 7: he got excited when he heard that Bob Dylan was
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  Speaker 7: a fan of that song. And it's funny the reverence
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  Speaker 7: he holds for so many artists today. And, uh, Tom Petty,
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  Speaker 7: for instance, played, covered one of his songs once he
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  Speaker 7: heard about that. So he, he covered wildflowers, uh, for
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  Speaker 7: Tom Petty and, and he heard Dylan liked that song.
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  Speaker 7: And I think he's been quoted as saying that's his
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  Speaker 7: favorite song he's ever written. So yeah, that's, uh, I
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  Speaker 7: say it every week, but that's, you know, that's one
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  Speaker 7: of those Buffett anthems. It's about an old Army veteran. Obviously,
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  Speaker 7: the song kind of tells the story.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know what I like about it?
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  Speaker 2: It certainly tells the story about how, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: he lost his sight in a night, a bomb killed
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  Speaker 2: his wife and kid.
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  Speaker 1: He was in London and all this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And then he retires to the islands and leaving to
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  Speaker 2: Buffett to leave in there, he drinks his green label.
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  Speaker 1: I think he says there.
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  Speaker 2: So you're thinking, okay, is he talking about Tangeray there?
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  Speaker 1: What's he talking about?
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 7: You know, that kind of thing. I'm not a beer aficionado,
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  Speaker 7: but he's got a few of those. He's got one
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  Speaker 7: where he references two-perg beer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: And he says 25-cent beer, and he'll joke this is
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  Speaker 7: an old song. That's a woman going crazy on Caroline Street.
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  Speaker 5: So, yeah, he.
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  Speaker 5: It's fun.
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  Speaker 7: The thing about Buffett that I've learned over the years
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  Speaker 7: from people that worked with him is he doesn't like
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  Speaker 7: to repeat lines in his refrains or choruses or whatever
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  Speaker 7: it is. And so if you listen to a song,
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  Speaker 7: he'll change something up subtly. Now, he will some, but
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  Speaker 7: a lot of times he'll change something subtly. So it's
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  Speaker 7: not that same line, but.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here's a perfect example. Yeah, yeah, it is a
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  Speaker 2: perfect example. And by the way, by Green Label, I
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  Speaker 2: think he was talking about gin. I think he was
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  Speaker 2: talking about Tang Ray Gin down in the islands. That's
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  Speaker 2: what I, because I've heard.
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  Speaker 5: See, I don't know anything about beer.
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  Speaker 2: No, I think it's gin in this case. But to
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  Speaker 2: your point about changing lines... One of his all-time favorite
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  Speaker 2: pop songs, I would say, that people love is Cheeseburger
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  Speaker 2: in Paradise. And earlier in the song, he says, you know,
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  Speaker 2: heaven on earth with an onion slice. And then later,
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  Speaker 2: he says, making the best of every virtue and vice, right?
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  Speaker 5: Virtue and vice.
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  Speaker 6: Yep. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So there's an example.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Exactly on that.
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  Speaker 7: And that's about the guys that come back from a
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  Speaker 7: long stay at sea without, you know, much variety in
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  Speaker 7: their diets.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: They want a cheeseburger.
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  Speaker 2: It had me going for the dictionary to look for
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  Speaker 2: bulgur wheat to find out what that was. And I
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  Speaker 2: found out I could see why somebody would want a
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  Speaker 2: cheeseburger after eating that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. We move on to the Longhorns.
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  Speaker 2: One thing that's noteworthy, and I know you spent some
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  Speaker 2: time with Sark this morning, and he did the media
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  Speaker 2: Zoom as well, and the time I spent with him
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: last night talking about all of a sudden, it's like
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: if you took that defensive line, all of a sudden
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: it tilts. because Colin Simmons is probably not going to
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: play since he's listed as doubtful.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: And then Richard Wesley got hurt in practice. And so
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: he's out for this.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Now, he did make a point of talking about Brad
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Spence and Colton Vosick as guys who can come in
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: there and kind of lift up that end of the
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: teeter-totter a little bit to go with Lance Jackson and
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Zeno Moseluk.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: But those are.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: That's taking a shot. That's taking a punch.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: They're not having those two guys, if indeed Simmons can't
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: go as.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Well on Saturday.
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and then you get into how many snaps.
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: Because you know how they like to rotate that defensive line.
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: And I'm sure Jackson and Moselew are going to have
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: to play more snaps. And so it's not just about, yeah,
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: they've got backups. They think they can make some plays,
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: but they're going to lean on the guts. And so
• 18:41
  Speaker 7: what's that toll going to be in the second half?
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: Not to mention you're doing it against an offense with
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: Trenton and Chambliss and.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: Keywon Lacey and all those guys.
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: So, yeah, this is just in the blink of an eye,
• 18:54
  Speaker 7: one area becomes a pretty big concern Saturday night.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: You know, there's a guy on my broadcast board, on
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: my two deep, on my chart, because he's listed there
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: and it was listed there at the start. that have
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: had on there and have barely even mentioned his name
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: other than like in late stages against Texas State or UTSA,
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: I think, that he's gotten into the ballgame. But the
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: reason why I bring this guy's name up is because
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Sark brought the guy's name up last night when he
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: was talking about how proud he was and how pleased
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: he was and how impressed he was with the guys
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: who were running scout team and the guys that aren't
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: in the regular vernacular, the guys we talked about.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: The guy I'm talking about is Josiah Sharma.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: And with them being shorthanded on that defensive front, that
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: sophomore from Folsom, California is a guy we might see
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: out there. He's one of those guys that Sark mentioned
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: that he was pleased to see his work and what
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: he's done this week as everybody had to go.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Back to work.
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and it's funny because you think about training camp
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: and Sark will get asked his availabilities, almost like a
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: laundry list of questions about, and it's usually about the
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: young guys who we don't know. I mentioned Sharma once,
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: and I think one time he kind of forgot him
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: and then mentioned him a second time, so I don't
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: want to forget. Josiah Sharma again. So yeah, it's a
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: guy that's been mentioned a little bit in camp. And
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: then once the season starts and they get into the rotations,
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: you kind of, you kind of forget about guys, but yeah,
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: I mean, this is that perfect storm of, of what
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: he talks about in August is, is building the depth
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: and you never know when they're going to have to
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: be ready. And my goodness, They're going to have to
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: be ready tomorrow night or Saturday night.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: And then one other name I'm glad to see not
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: on the injury list, and I think they're going to
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: try to make sure he contributes as well as Derek
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Cooper because of what's happening now with Hollywood Smothers listed
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: as questionable. You may see them rely on the freshman, Cooper,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: whereas he just wasn't quite ready, they said, to be
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: on the field against Florida last week.
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and so then does Michael Terry elevate into a
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: role where maybe he gets more snaps or some snaps
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: or something like that? And then there's the other thing, Craig,
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: about when he talks about, you know, you've got to
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: do something. And could that mean a change, get a
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: bigger back like Terry in there, get more snaps?
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: I don't know, but... But, you know, we.
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: Keep hearing about it. Now injuries are one thing. You
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: thrust into it because of necessity. Now the question, are
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: we going to see some different guys? I think we're
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: going to see Jermaine Bishop featured even more, just trying
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: to get him the ball in space. And, you know,
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: you go back, and I'm sure you did this too,
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: but you think of a handful of plays that didn't
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: go Texas way. I think of the Bishop play on
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: third down that led to the fourth down miss. And
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: somehow he got turned around. So I think his, I
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: think the knee went down to the first down, but
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: the ball was behind him. I mean, how many times
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: has that happened where he got spun around? So the
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: ball wasn't to the first down marker, the knee was,
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: and then obviously they fail on, they fail on fourth down.
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: But I think Bishop shows when he gets the ball, that's,
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: That's potential for one of those home runs that they've
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: been sorely missing.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: You're right. Agreed.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: And we thought he picked it up. I know I
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: did anyway. I even mentioned that at first. And, of course,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: our broadcast position is from a different angle now, so
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: the depth perception is a little bit different. You have
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: to see off the monitor, but it certainly looked like
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: he had it.
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: And I mean, you think about that, you think about
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: Archer's fumble and how many times is he going to
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: slam the ball into Trevor Goosby's side of his thigh
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: and dislodge the ball? I mean, they're just kind of
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: at a if it will go wrong, if it can
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: go wrong, it will go wrong. And at some point
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: you think that's going to flip. And and and I
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: think about balls on the ground and.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: They can't get on them. Uh, so anyway, we'll, we'll
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: see what, what happens.
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: I got a pretty good team coming in Saturday where
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: they're gonna try to figure all this out.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: No doubt about it. Roger Wallace 20 is here on
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: 13 under the sun. All right, let's, uh, let me
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: jump to high school. Um, and I want to make
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: sure that there's a reason where I'm going, where I'm
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: going with this. You know me, I'll go around the
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: garage to get to the barn any chance I get. But, um, the, uh,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: The whole thing about the UIL announcement this week, and eventually,
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: I know a lot of people are.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Excited about the shot clock.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: That's going to be slowly phased in. That's to give
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: the schools, and you notice how it's being scaled out,
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: the 1As and 2As wanting to worry about until 2032.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: That's all financially driven to get, you know, because... Not
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: only do you have to have shot clocks, you have
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: to have people to operate them. How many times have
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: you been at a basketball game and seen, you know,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: and there was concern about getting somebody to keep the
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: book or run the scoreboard and they're going to have to,
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: that's one more piece they'll have to add.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: So there was that.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: The pilot program for girls flag football, that's very good
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: as well, all that. And then kind of at the
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: bottom was mentioned, oh, and over the air live linear
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Friday night telecast will be allowed starting next year. And
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: it might have slipped past some folks' notice, but I
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: know it didn't slip past our notice when we saw that.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: The reason why I bring this all up is because
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: a massive game like Westlake-Lake-Travis, yes, fortunately you guys have
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: it available on KXAN +, but this time next year,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: maybe that's on KXAN or at least on KBVO or
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: KMVA on your CW because you would have that option
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: next year to put it on live over-the-air television.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's been a fight.
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: The Texas Association of Broadcasters have been after this for
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: a long time. And part of it is, if you
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: allow live streams, what is the difference in 2026? Because
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: you can turn on your TV, turn on the app KXAM.
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: +, and watch a high school game on a full.
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: Broadcast-looking game, and you're watching it on your 60-, 70-inch TV,
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: and you're 10 minutes in, you don't know if you're
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: watching TV or a stream. So I think that's part
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: of the TAB's reasoning. And the other part is they
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: still have the.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: Loophole, not the loophole, but the.
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: you have to get permission. So if there are school
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: districts that are worried that a game might be, a
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: gate might be affected by a game being televised, they
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: can refuse permission.
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: So they covered them in that regard.
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: But I think once streaming became so prominent, it just
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: didn't make sense that there's, in this day and age,
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: there's really no difference. You consume it virtually the same way.
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: So I think that's part of it. And now if
• 25:38
  Speaker 7: Westlake and Lake Travis, if they were to say, you
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: know what, We think this would hurt our gate, which
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: I can't imagine because they're going to sell out. You
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: know what I'm saying? Then they hold the final say
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: to get approval. And we do that even with our
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: Thursday night games, Craig. We still go through the steps
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: of contacting each school district, each high school, and getting
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: their permission.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: To broadcast the game. And we do it with streams
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: as well.
• 26:03
  Speaker 7: So they've covered themselves, but it just opens it up
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: for us to, maybe we'll have two games a week
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: next year on TV. Or maybe if Westlake's playing somebody that, say,
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: we kind of have a hunch it's a mismatch, then
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: we might plug in our KXAN Plus game. We would
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: normally do it. Maybe we'll put that on TV. So yeah,
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: it just opens for a lot of options. And it's
• 26:26
  Speaker 7: not going to affect a lot because There aren't a
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: lot of outlets like ours that have three channels that
• 26:31
  Speaker 7: can broadcast a game and not preempt primetime network programming.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: And let me also mention somebody who is no small
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: player in this. It's kind of gotten glossed over because
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: everybody's just talking about the other stuff. But I'm here
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: to tell you, I started hearing hints of this back
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: several months ago. One of the impediments... to preventing it
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: in the past. Obviously, the school districts, and they were
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: worried about, you know, the gate being heard, all that,
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: although I thought some of that was silly of somebody
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: that's got, you know, Tyler playing Longview, and they're concerned
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: about a live over-the-air telecast of Midland Lee and Odessa
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Permian hurting their gate in East Texas.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: That's the example I always go to.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: But the other people who were down on it all
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: the way up until pretty recently were We're the Texas
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: High School Coaches Association. But let me tell you something,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: because I've heard this. The THSCA is getting a little
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: tired of the Big 12 and other leagues coming in
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: and televising college games in the state of Texas on
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Friday night. And the poster child this year was Houston
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: at Texas Tech. Tech didn't want it either. And now
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: the THSCA has spoken up and said, hey, if they're
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: going to televise college games on Friday night, What's holding
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: us back from televising high school games to counter programming
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: on a Friday night?
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's interesting.
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: And that's, I hadn't thought of that, that angle of it,
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: but that, that makes sense. And I think there are,
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: there is an appetite out there. I mean, obviously high
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: school is a community, but there are fans that just
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: enjoy watching a high school game for whatever reason. Maybe
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: they're turned off by college football, NFL football, but they,
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: you know, they kind of like the purity of the
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: high school game or whatever are just curiosity. So, yeah,
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: I mean that, It just gives it another chance for
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: people to watch it and enjoy a high school game
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: where maybe it's not all about the stuff now we
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: deal with in the college and the pros.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: I wanted to give you a chance to talk about
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: what you have on your platforms this week and what
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: you have on KBVO tonight.
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it'll be a good one. Rouse and
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: Hutto at Gupton. We know Hutto is a high-flying offense.
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: And they gave us a great show against Cedar Park.
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: I know they didn't like the way it ended because
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: they led virtually the entire game a couple weeks ago.
• 28:56
  Speaker 7: And then Rouse is probably one of a couple teams
• 29:00
  Speaker 7: looking for that fourth playoff spot in 24-6A. Uh, and there,
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: if they get to three and one tonight, then obviously
• 29:06
  Speaker 7: that really, uh, helps their chances because they still got Vandegrift.
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: And then we game, we've got, uh, the final Thursday is,
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: is Rouse and Eastview. And that, that very well could
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: be for that last spot. And then, um, Hutto still
• 29:19
  Speaker 7: has to, uh, take on Vandegrift. Uh, they get a
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: week off. So, uh, that should be good tomorrow night,
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: obviously with the battle of the lakes, uh, on KXAM
• 29:28
  Speaker 7: Plus at Lake Travis. And then Keith and I will
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: be out at Dragon Stadium tomorrow night. Oh, by the way,
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: the undefeated 6A team in 25-6A is.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: The rich. It's not the one everybody thought would be.
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: That's right.
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: Now they still, they still have to go to Westlake, uh,
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: and take on Westlake next week and then close with
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: round rock, but Cedar Ridge seven and oh, against Stoney point.
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: If Stoney point, you know, wants to have a fighting
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: chance of, of getting, you know, that fourth spot, uh,
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: and 25, six, a, they're going to need.
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: To pull off the upset of dragon.
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: So, uh, that's our menu three games, uh, one tonight,
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: two tomorrow on, on KX and plus, obviously the highlight is, uh,
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: is Westlake and Lake Travis, so that should be a
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: lot of fun.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: And folks on KXAN Plus can see feeds from other games, correct?
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: That's right, that's right.
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: And, you know, we're dealing with technology, so we've kind
• 30:21
  Speaker 7: of moved past, let's just say, go to KXAN Plus
• 30:25
  Speaker 7: and see what's there.
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: We've had, you know, it's year one of this, so.
• 30:28
  Speaker 7: Sometimes it's there, sometimes we've had some technical issues, but
• 30:33
  Speaker 7: we control the feed.
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: Of the games I'm talking about.
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: We produce the games ourselves, so that's why.
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: We promote the Westlake, like.
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: Travis, the Chaparral TV broadcast group takes care of that,
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: and then our crew will be out at Dragon Stadium
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: for Stony Point Cedar Ridge.
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: But there are other options.
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: We're working to deal with Dripping Springs to try to
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: get those games streamed, Bob Shelton Stadium, McCallum. So, yeah,
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: we're just trying to increase the menu over on KXN +.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: No doubt about it. Hey, Rod, thanks for the time.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Appreciate it. And see you at the stadium on Saturday.
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: Thanks, Craig. Take care. All right.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: That's Roger Wallace, KXN.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: And again, yeah, should be a good game tonight, Hutto
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: and Rouse. And then tomorrow, unbeaten Cedar Ridge taking on
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Stony Point. That's on KXN Plus, but also on KXN
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Plus is, yes, Westlake Lake, Travis Battle of the Lakes.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: That'll be on as well.
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Coming up, Inconceivable here on a Thursday on Sports Radio
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: AM 13 Under the Zone and the iHeartRadio app. Second
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: hour of the program here on Sports Radio AM, 13
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: under the zone. Craig Way alongside the producer, Jay Kerman.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Coming up in a few minutes, we'll talk baseball. Gene Watson,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: our MLB insider, will join us. But let's jump into
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: the NFL now. It just depends on how you look
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: at it, right? Glass half full, glass half empty. Last
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: two weeks, it's been half full for the Texans. They've
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: gone from 0-4 to 2-4.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: The Cowboys? Half empty.
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: Half empty.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: It's gone from 2-2 to 2-4.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: They both have the same record, but they've arrived at
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: it differently. So D'Amico was asked, first of all, hey,
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: how about your quarterback?
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: C.J. Stroud, you got AFC Player of the Week honors.
• 32:19
  Speaker 8: That is really rewarding for C.J. to get that Player
• 32:22
  Speaker 8: of the Week. It's rewarding in the sense of, you know,
• 32:24
  Speaker 8: everyone seeing it across the NFL of what he's been doing,
• 32:28
  Speaker 8: not just us, me talking about it all the time
• 32:30
  Speaker 8: of how well he's been having an off-season training camp
• 32:34
  Speaker 8: and all the way now to the start of the season,
• 32:36
  Speaker 8: it's been.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: That way, right?
• 32:38
  Speaker 8: He's been doing a great job since he's been back,
• 32:40
  Speaker 8: and he's done a great job leading us in the
• 32:42
  Speaker 8: games as well. So I'm happy that he's able to
• 32:45
  Speaker 8: get that national recognition that he truly deserves.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Is the reason or part of the reason for why
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: the things are working out for Stroud the fact that
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: he's been more hands-on with the offensive coordinator, Nick Caley?
• 32:57
  Speaker 8: Nick and CJ's process hasn't changed. They've been in communication.
• 33:00
  Speaker 8: I mean, last year they were in communication on things
• 33:03
  Speaker 8: that CJ, like any offensive coordinator, when you're calling plays,
• 33:06
  Speaker 8: you have to call plays that the quarterback likes.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: So they've always.
• 33:10
  Speaker 8: Had that consistent communication.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: When it comes to that. Okay.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: The wide receiver room is getting healthier now, and there's
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: a benefit, obviously, of that configuration.
• 33:21
  Speaker 8: The benefit of our wide receiver room is we're going
• 33:23
  Speaker 8: to put stress on defenses. Who do you want to...
• 33:26
  Speaker 8: you know, put special attention to. Well, whoever you want to,
• 33:30
  Speaker 8: whoever gets that special attention, we have other guys who
• 33:33
  Speaker 8: are capable of making plays. So it's credit to the
• 33:36
  Speaker 8: guys that we have in that room and what they've
• 33:38
  Speaker 8: done throughout their career, what they've done this year. Like
• 33:41
  Speaker 8: all those guys have made plays for us in the
• 33:43
  Speaker 8: wide receiver room. So I see it as a strength,
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: a true strength of ours. And I see us really
• 33:49
  Speaker 8: being able to, you know, press the tempo and really
• 33:52
  Speaker 8: put defenses in a bind.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: And then, here they are playing the New York Giants.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: And anybody that saw that game saw J.J. McCarthy come
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: off the bench. And all of a sudden, the Giants
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: offense was alive and well. And he nearly brought them
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: back from down 34-10 in the fourth quarter to the
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: Saints to a victory.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: They didn't win, but.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Suffice to say, everybody knew, yeah, McCarthy's going to get
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: the start. He's going to have the opportunity. So, D'Amico
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: was asked, does anything change now facing J.J. McCarthy instead
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: of Jameis Winston?
• 34:27
  Speaker 8: For us, it really doesn't matter who plays quarterback. For us, defensively,
• 34:31
  Speaker 8: it's been about our process and how do we do
• 34:35
  Speaker 8: things that we do the right way and do them
• 34:36
  Speaker 8: well so whoever's their quarterback doesn't really dictate what we're
• 34:40
  Speaker 8: going to do defensively it's about us we got to
• 34:42
  Speaker 8: play better defensively because it wasn't wasn't good enough as
• 34:45
  Speaker 8: our in our last.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Outing okay all right uh and a reminder on the
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: program change here the texans can normally hurt on 1300
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: on sunday you'll be on 103.1 fm because we have
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: the texas women's basketball game against defending national champion UCLA.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: So it's.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: On 103.1 FM, Austin's 80 station, to listen to that matchup.
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: We know the Cowboys are going to be playing the
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Eagles on Monday night, and that'll be on 98.1 FM KVET.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: Brian Schottenheimer trying to get his guys configured. This was
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: just a little while ago at a media availability, and
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: he was asked to speak to the fact that People
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: have to rely on one another when you face that adversity.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: It's been a lot of talk about that down here
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: in Austin with regard to the Longhorns. What about the Cowboys?
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Who does Shoddy speak to when adversity strikes?
• 35:35
  Speaker 9: It's different, you know, for me, a lot of different things.
• 35:37
  Speaker 9: I talk to my pastor a lot. I talk to Dr.
• 35:39
  Speaker 9: Tony Evans. You guys know my faith is so important
• 35:42
  Speaker 9: and God is so good to me and I'm overly blessed.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: He kind of keeps me grounded in a good way.
• 35:49
  Speaker 9: There's a group here by the name of O2X, where
• 35:53
  Speaker 9: some of their leadership guys, former Navy SEALs that have
• 35:56
  Speaker 9: seen way worse things than I have in battle. They
• 36:00
  Speaker 9: talked to me about staying consistent with your anchors in life,
• 36:07
  Speaker 9: which is my faith in my family. And then of course,
• 36:10
  Speaker 9: there's a lot of people in the industry I talk to,
• 36:12
  Speaker 9: Bill Cower, people reach out. And I've been the guy
• 36:16
  Speaker 9: that You know, when someone's going through tough times, I
• 36:19
  Speaker 9: try to reach out because I know this is not
• 36:22
  Speaker 9: just solely happening to us. You know, you talk to
• 36:25
  Speaker 9: people around the league, you know, talk to guys like
• 36:27
  Speaker 9: Dan Quint, you know, and this is a tough profession
• 36:30
  Speaker 9: for tough people. And that's why I know I'm built
• 36:32
  Speaker 9: to handle it.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: All right. So is he built and better yet, is
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: his offense built to run the ball better than they've
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: been doing of late?
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: The more you run it, the better. you feel.
• 36:45
  Speaker 9: You figure out combination blocks and things like that. I
• 36:48
  Speaker 9: will say early on in most of our games, we've
• 36:50
  Speaker 9: not run it as well as we're capable of. And
• 36:53
  Speaker 9: there's been times where, again, as the head coach and
• 36:55
  Speaker 9: the play caller, I have to make the decision of, okay,
• 36:58
  Speaker 9: the clock says X, we're down.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: X, what is it? All right, it's time to go.
• 37:04
  Speaker 9: And so those are decisions that we discuss and we
• 37:07
  Speaker 9: make those decisions. But You know, it starts with just
• 37:09
  Speaker 9: letting these guys get into a groove. Let these guys
• 37:12
  Speaker 9: get bats at the plate, if you will. And, you know,
• 37:16
  Speaker 9: that's a big part. But the negative runs, you know,
• 37:18
  Speaker 9: have to... We got to clean those up. There's too
• 37:20
  Speaker 9: many negative runs.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: And then he was asked, where do you... At what
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: point is there a number deficit on the scoreboard where
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: you're kind of, if not abandoning the run, really ramping
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: up throwing the football more?
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: It depends on the game. I mean, it depends. You're
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: out there. You're kind of watching. You're seeing.
• 37:38
  Speaker 9: you know, okay, how's, how's this game unfolding? What's the
• 37:40
  Speaker 9: play clock look like? I mean, teams are obviously trying
• 37:43
  Speaker 9: to keep the ball away from us. That's the plan.
• 37:44
  Speaker 9: They want to try to limit our ops because they
• 37:47
  Speaker 9: know how talented we are and how, how explosive we
• 37:49
  Speaker 9: can be.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: And so I don't think there's a magic number.
• 37:52
  Speaker 9: I think it's more each one, each game, each situation
• 37:55
  Speaker 9: is different. And, um, speaking this last game again, I
• 37:59
  Speaker 9: felt like, you know, it was the right thing to
• 38:01
  Speaker 9: do because we had to, when we were down 17,
• 38:03
  Speaker 9: we had to go a little bit and, um, I
• 38:06
  Speaker 9: felt like that was the best chance to get us
• 38:09
  Speaker 9: back into the game.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: Okay, and so what that also means is, what are
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: you going to do to try to get George Pickens
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: going again, since you need to get some offense and
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: you need to get him involved in that passing game?
• 38:21
  Speaker 9: Again, I think GP is one of those guys where
• 38:24
  Speaker 9: I don't ever see him really affected in terms of
• 38:27
  Speaker 9: the emotion. Does he get the ball? Does he not
• 38:29
  Speaker 9: get the ball? These guys play a lot of snaps.
• 38:32
  Speaker 9: I think part of it is us rotating those guys through,
• 38:34
  Speaker 9: but He needs to understand that he impacts us in
• 38:38
  Speaker 9: the running game as well. And, you know, he's got
• 38:40
  Speaker 9: to do the same thing in the run game, picking
• 38:43
  Speaker 9: up safeties and blocking corners, just like Javante does picking
• 38:47
  Speaker 9: up blitzes so he can catch balls. And that's part
• 38:50
  Speaker 9: of the team first mindset. And GP does understand that. And,
• 38:53
  Speaker 9: you know, when he's going, they're going to play soft
• 38:57
  Speaker 9: to his side. When he's not going, then the safeties
• 38:59
  Speaker 9: get pretty good runs at our backs.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: And that's got to improve.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: All right, we'll hear more from both of those head
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: coaches coming up next hour. Up next, a shift to
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: baseball and a preview of the World Series. Gene Watson
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: joins us next on 13 Under the Zone. It is
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: time to preview the World Series. And to do that,
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: we're glad to have him with us. And hopefully we've
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: been able to extricate him from the depths of depression
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: of that... heartbreaking loss for the Fighting Irish in Notre Dame.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: Gene Watson joins us now. Hey, listen, cowboy, I'm with you. A,
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: there should have been a penalty call. B, even without that,
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: they should have one second left on the clock. I'm
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: going there with you on that. Not to rekindle anything
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: painful for you there. maybe, maybe one of the.
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: Worst Saturdays I've had in my life, relatively speaking.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: But, um, cause you were at the Texas.
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: I would have to say, yeah. And then went into
• 40:01
  Speaker 6: watch that game. But you know what? If, if, if
• 40:04
  Speaker 6: they have the team, both of them, if they have
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: the character, they're going to find a way to pull
• 40:09
  Speaker 6: themselves out of this and they'll be playing in December
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: and play off. And so sometimes these losses can, can
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: move you to greater depths and, uh, and turn you
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: into the team that you were supposed to be in
• 40:20
  Speaker 6: the first place. So I don't get too worked up
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: about it.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I would say this too.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: Notre Dame's two most difficult remaining games are both in
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: South Bend. Miami, which you're planning to be at next week,
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: if I remember. And then the other one is SMU,
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: who's pretty good. But both those games are in South Bend.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: They're handling their business on that. Like you said, it's
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: going to take care of themselves. They're going to be
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: in the playoff. Anyway, Longhorns have a steeper hill to climb,
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: but are not by any means out of the race yet.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: They've just got, as Spike Dykes would say, they've got
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: some doing to do.
• 40:52
  Speaker 6: Well, the last five losses that Notre Dame has had
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: have just been gut-wrenching. In the last two, the game
• 40:59
  Speaker 6: in Provo Saturday night and then the game against... Texas
• 41:03
  Speaker 6: A & M on what should have been a hold call. But,
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: you know, my problem with all of this, and I
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: know we're here to talk baseball, is like you're saying
• 41:14
  Speaker 6: don't leave it in the hands of the ref at
• 41:15
  Speaker 6: the end of the game is like saying that the
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: 112th play of the game means less than the first
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: play of the game. And it's all encompassing. It doesn't matter.
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: When it happens, it happens, and sometimes.
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: It's not right.
• 41:25
  Speaker 6: But, again, your team's character will always come out in
• 41:28
  Speaker 6: the end. So we'll see where it goes.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: Well, and to weave that into baseball– the same corollary applies,
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: doesn't it, Gino? If the tying run is at third
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: with two outs, and I'm not going to say a
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: pitch is called a ball on strike because we have
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: the ABS to settle that, but if it's a check swing,
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: if the umpire calls it a strike, because it says
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: he went around when he didn't, or in the minds
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: of the offensive team didn't, like you say, it's leaving
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: it in the hands of the umpire at that point,
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: isn't it?
• 41:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and I mean, man, if you could go back
• 42:02
  Speaker 6: over the course of history, and I'll go back to 2014,
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: Game 5, when we had a pitch call up here.
• 42:09
  Speaker 6: If you have ABS, now Lorenzo Cain is up with
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: the bases loaded. Who knows where that goes? But thank
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: gosh we have it now. The technology has been incredible.
• 42:19
  Speaker 6: I was pretty critical of it early on. I think
• 42:22
  Speaker 6: everything that they've done to make the game better, when
• 42:24
  Speaker 6: you're talking about a 13th, billion-dollar industry. I think everything
• 42:28
  Speaker 6: they've done has been magnificent.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: Let me ask you this.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: There's been some talk about it, and I think some experimentation.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: You can clarify this for me.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: There's been some experimentation in a similar fashion with check swings.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: Do you see any future in that, or is it
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: too nebulous?
• 42:44
  Speaker 6: Really? 100%. They're already doing it in the Fall League.
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: They did it in the Fall League last year, and
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: it really is. I mean, anybody that's ever umpired, and
• 42:52
  Speaker 6: I've umpired at the high school level. I did a
• 42:55
  Speaker 6: couple of dsl games in the winter league last year
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: with our kids and man it's a tough job it
• 43:01
  Speaker 6: is not easy and god bless the people that have
• 43:04
  Speaker 6: to do it in our youth world right now with
• 43:07
  Speaker 6: the parents and the way they are uh but it's
• 43:09
  Speaker 6: not an easy job but but but again if you
• 43:12
  Speaker 6: have the technology to get the calls right with um
• 43:17
  Speaker 6: today's game and everything that's on the line even with
• 43:21
  Speaker 6: one second left on a pass interference call on the
• 43:23
  Speaker 6: last play of the game you get.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: The did you really put on the gear down in
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: the Dominican?
• 43:30
  Speaker 6: No, not the gear, down the line, first baseline. And
• 43:33
  Speaker 6: I'll tell you a story. One ball went right over my.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: Head, and that was ballgame for me.
• 43:37
  Speaker 6: Had about 109 miles an hour off the bat.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: You had enough.
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: That was it.
• 43:43
  Speaker 6: These are 17-year-olds.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt. Gene Watson's with us here. All right,
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: let's talk about these two teams. We're going to have,
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: for the first time, Since our pal, Keith Moreland, was
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: playing for the Phillies in 1980 and went to the
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: plate as a pinch hitter against the Royals. I think
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: it was game three, I think he told me. It
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: was either game three or game four. We've got two
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: teams who have never won a World Series who are
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: going to face each other in the World Series. And
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: I've kind of joked with you about this, that some
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: folks had referred to Tampa Bay as Milwaukee Light, which
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: to me sounds like a beer, but saying that they
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: were a lot like the Brewers. Just how closely resemblant
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: are these two teams to one another, the Brewers and
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: the Jays?
• 44:32
  Speaker 6: It's incredible. And Matt Arnold, the president of the Milwaukee Brewers,
• 44:36
  Speaker 6: went to Milwaukee from Tampa. Matt and I actually did
• 44:40
  Speaker 6: the James Shields and Wade Davis deal in 2012 at
• 44:43
  Speaker 6: the winter meetings. And I'm so incredibly happy for him.
• 44:47
  Speaker 6: Eric Neander, the president. And what I'll say about both organizations,
• 44:51
  Speaker 6: and I was asked this question last night, who are
• 44:54
  Speaker 6: you pulling for? I'm happy for both these organizations because
• 44:57
  Speaker 6: their leadership, number one, they care about people and they
• 45:01
  Speaker 6: treat their people well. Number two, they're very, very high
• 45:05
  Speaker 6: volume scouting and analytics. And so they understand even in
• 45:09
  Speaker 6: smaller markets, the value of both. They have created great
• 45:13
  Speaker 6: cultures for And they have both of them have great managers,
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: Pat Murphy and Kevin Cash. I saw I saw Kevin
• 45:20
  Speaker 6: Cash playing a ball for the Dunedin Blue Jays. And
• 45:23
  Speaker 6: I still give Pat Murphy a hard time every year
• 45:25
  Speaker 6: in 1988 when his Notre Dame Irish came into St.
• 45:29
  Speaker 6: Edwards and we knocked him off. And every time I
• 45:31
  Speaker 6: see him, he says, it's the worst loss of my career.
• 45:34
  Speaker 6: And so just, you know, when you're watching these teams
• 45:36
  Speaker 6: and it is competition, there's a lot of teams you
• 45:38
  Speaker 6: don't pull for. These are certainly two of the classiest organizations.
• 45:42
  Speaker 6: They've done it right. They're very good to their people
• 45:45
  Speaker 6: to have great leadership. And, and I'm just so excited
• 45:48
  Speaker 6: for this series. This is going to be one where
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: you'll watch every pitch because it's going to be baseball
• 45:53
  Speaker 6: and you have two very good rotations, two very good
• 45:56
  Speaker 6: defensive clubs. Runs are going to be at a premium
• 46:00
  Speaker 6: and it's going to be must watch TV for at
• 46:03
  Speaker 6: least six games, I believe.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: And, and, um, You know, I tell people, a lot
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: of people say, well, aren't you, who are you rooting for?
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: Aren't you brokenhearted that the Dodgers didn't get in? And
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: I said, no, I was a little disappointed. It's been
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: a great run. I mean, I went 32 years as
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: a fan between championships. I count myself lucky. There have
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: been three in the last six years. And I think
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: they'll be back depending on what happens with the game future-wise.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: But I said, I have no beef. with either of
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: these ball clubs. And I think that's the way a
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: lot of fans feel. They have no beef with the
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: Brewers who haven't been in a World Series in 44 years.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: And they have no real beef with Tampa Bay.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: The only beef some folks could have with it is
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: that both World Series at both sides are going to
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: be playing indoors unless the weather's really nice in Wisconsin
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: and they open it up. But other than that, we're
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: going to have good baseball, right?
• 46:52
  Speaker 6: Really good baseball in two very loud stadiums, two really
• 46:56
  Speaker 6: passionate fan bases. And again, they're just it's going to
• 46:59
  Speaker 6: be clean baseball. And, you know, I lean Milwaukee in
• 47:05
  Speaker 6: six games because of their bullpen, because they can manufacture
• 47:10
  Speaker 6: runs a little bit easier. Where Tampa bunts a lot,
• 47:14
  Speaker 6: they've got very low contact rates. They're one of the
• 47:16
  Speaker 6: lowest contact rate teams in all of baseball. They're kind
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: of a little bit more reliant on the long ball
• 47:21
  Speaker 6: with Junior Caminero and Yandy Diaz. And so, with the
• 47:26
  Speaker 6: frontline pitching that the Brewers have and the depth of
• 47:29
  Speaker 6: their bullpen, I think it's going to be a little
• 47:31
  Speaker 6: bit harder to manufacture that home run. And one of
• 47:34
  Speaker 6: the best stories is Jake Bowers. This is a guy
• 47:37
  Speaker 6: that was retiring from the game of baseball. His wife
• 47:41
  Speaker 6: found out he was pregnant. He decided he'd go back
• 47:43
  Speaker 6: and play because he needed health insurance. And and to
• 47:48
  Speaker 6: do what he's done, and there's a lot to be
• 47:50
  Speaker 6: said about just the freedom in coming back and playing
• 47:53
  Speaker 6: for the right reasons and taking the pressure off, and
• 47:56
  Speaker 6: I think that's what you've seen, but it's going to
• 47:58
  Speaker 6: be a very colorful series. I think runs are going
• 48:00
  Speaker 6: to be at a premium. I think you're going to
• 48:03
  Speaker 6: see both teams put the game in motion a lot.
• 48:08
  Speaker 6: I don't think Tampa, I don't think they've been thrown
• 48:10
  Speaker 6: out at all in the playoffs, and if Milwaukee's been
• 48:12
  Speaker 6: thrown out, it hasn't been that much, so William Contreras
• 48:17
  Speaker 6: and Liam Hicks are going to have a tough battle
• 48:19
  Speaker 6: of controlling the running game. But anytime the opportunity exists
• 48:23
  Speaker 6: to move runovers, to hit runners over, I think you're
• 48:26
  Speaker 6: going to see that happen in this series.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: Talking baseball with Gene Watson as we preview the World
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: Series here on 1300. I know it doesn't boil down
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: to this, but this is one of those fun little
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: numbers that I looked at and wanted to get your
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: thoughts on this. The top five hitters in the game
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: this season are with the, and I don't mean batting average,
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: the highest average bat speed, okay? Number five, O'Neal Cruz
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: of the Pirates. Number four, Cam Smith. Number three, Nick Kurtz.
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: Number two, Jordan Walker. And number one at 79.4 miles
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: per hour is Junior Caminero. In baseball, we know who
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: has the highest fastball velocity. I'll just say there's a
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: tie at fourth between Jared Jones and Uri Perez. There's
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: a tie at second between Bubba Chandler and Hunter Green.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: But number one, and it's not even close. is Jacob
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: Mizorowski at 100.6 average points. Fastball variety. So, you know,
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: we like to talk about football, about unstoppable force and
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: immovable logic. And I know the old saw is great
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: pitching beats great inning. But it is kind of fun
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: to think about the guy with the highest bat speed
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: against the guy with the highest average fastball, isn't it?
• 49:41
  Speaker 6: Well, and for all the changes you've noticed in the game,
• 49:44
  Speaker 6: the old timers will tell you that to win in October,
• 49:48
  Speaker 6: you got to have two things. you got to have
• 49:50
  Speaker 6: power arms and you got to have power bats and
• 49:52
  Speaker 6: it's going to be a super matchup. And both of
• 49:55
  Speaker 6: them take a lot of pride in their game. So
• 49:59
  Speaker 6: they know what's on the line. And I think that
• 50:02
  Speaker 6: it's going to be, you know, a small town kid from,
• 50:05
  Speaker 6: you know, Missouri and a kid from a small town,
• 50:09
  Speaker 6: the Dominican Republic, it's going to be, you know, it's
• 50:12
  Speaker 6: going to be a great matchup to watch and we're
• 50:13
  Speaker 6: going to get to see a few of them. And
• 50:16
  Speaker 6: it's just great for the game globally. It just, it
• 50:18
  Speaker 6: speaks to, you know, the innocence of the game, and
• 50:21
  Speaker 6: it's going to be really, really fun to watch.
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: Gino, let's get your thoughts on the teams that have
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: the edges in individual categories. First of all, starting pitching.
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: Edge to which side? Oh, you know, Drew Rasmussen, Peralta,
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: and Nick Martinez are... you know, arguably three of the
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: best arms you could ever hope for. I, I, you know,
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: Robert Gasser, the university of Houston product in the three hole,
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: you know, it's, it's not power stuff, but it's a
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: double plus change up. I would probably give the advantage to, uh,
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: to Tampa Bay with Rasmussen Peralta and Martinez, but here's
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: the other entity.
• 50:59
  Speaker 6: And you know how I feel about this. Um, Milwaukee
• 51:02
  Speaker 6: has been sitting for eight days and that's a lot. Uh,
• 51:06
  Speaker 6: Tampa's coming out of a six-game series with a three-day rest,
• 51:10
  Speaker 6: and you never really lose your edge. And we've talked
• 51:12
  Speaker 6: about it 100 times on this show about what the
• 51:15
  Speaker 6: layoff can do. The fact that both teams are going
• 51:18
  Speaker 6: to have to manufacture runs because of the starting pitching,
• 51:22
  Speaker 6: where Tampa could really catch a break is if they
• 51:24
  Speaker 6: jumped on Mizorowski early and got an early lead. But
• 51:28
  Speaker 6: Milwaukee's been one of the better teams at coming back
• 51:30
  Speaker 6: when they fall behind in baseball this year. But I
• 51:33
  Speaker 6: would lead Tampa Bay when it comes to the rotation.
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: Better closer, Brian Baker for Tampa Bay, Trevor McGill for Milwaukee.
• 51:42
  Speaker 6: Interesting, because when you think about it, they're not your
• 51:44
  Speaker 6: prototypical lockdown, lights out, Mariano Rivera, Trevor Hoffman. They're not
• 51:50
  Speaker 6: those type of closers. These guys have kind of all
• 51:53
  Speaker 6: both evolved into that role and have just been high performers.
• 51:57
  Speaker 6: And so I really think this is kind of a
• 51:59
  Speaker 6: draw when you talk about those two.
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: And I know you feel it's kind of a draw
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: offensively in the way that they create runs. Tampa Bay
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: has more power, but Milwaukee does such a fabulous job. And,
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: you know, again, yeah, I wanted my team to win,
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: but they didn't. I had a smile on my face
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: watching former Longhorn David Hamilton do his stuff. for them
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: and and the way that Milwaukee moves runners and advances
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: running old school Augie Garrido style baseball and gets those
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: guys in Tampa Bay does it as well but like
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: you said they got a little more power and then
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: a little more advancement coming from the Brewers isn't it.
• 52:35
  Speaker 6: And the Brewers bullpen as a whole when you talk
• 52:37
  Speaker 6: about Aaron Ashby the Kansas City product who could be
• 52:40
  Speaker 6: a starter for a lot of teams D.L. Hall a
• 52:44
  Speaker 6: light south setup man Abner Uribe a who's one of
• 52:47
  Speaker 6: the better power arms in the game, Jojo Romero, one
• 52:50
  Speaker 6: of the more elite left-handers. The guy I want you
• 52:52
  Speaker 6: to watch, Craig, this World Series. I've believed in this
• 52:57
  Speaker 6: kid since I saw him in the minor leagues. He's
• 52:59
  Speaker 6: one of the most balanced players in all the game
• 53:02
  Speaker 6: of baseball. I thought that he had a chance to
• 53:04
  Speaker 6: win a batting title and a gold glove. Watch Bryce Terang.
• 53:07
  Speaker 6: This guy, if he breaks out, it is going to
• 53:10
  Speaker 6: be a huge, huge lift for the Milwaukee Brewers. And
• 53:13
  Speaker 6: this has always kind of been a below-the-radar, star-powered-type player,
• 53:18
  Speaker 6: and this is his chance on a big stage to
• 53:20
  Speaker 6: show that.
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: You know, every time either Terang or Bauer came to
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: the plate, I looked at Linden and said, here comes
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: a Dodger killer. And they were in both cases. And
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: Hamilton was a big part of it as well in
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: the last game. Final analysis, like you said, two great
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: managers as well. So what turns this series one way
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: or the other?
• 53:41
  Speaker 6: Man, I think if you watch, if Milwaukee's bullpen starts
• 53:46
  Speaker 6: to take dominance, I think that it's going to be really,
• 53:48
  Speaker 6: really hard for Tampa to, They are a great team,
• 53:54
  Speaker 6: and they're actually the more experienced team. They've been down
• 53:57
  Speaker 6: this road a couple of times. Milwaukee, it's just been
• 54:00
  Speaker 6: such a gradual build with all their great matchups versus
• 54:04
  Speaker 6: the Dodgers. But if Tampa Bay wants to have a
• 54:06
  Speaker 6: chance to win this series, they got to go into
• 54:09
  Speaker 6: Milwaukee and get one and try to win one of
• 54:12
  Speaker 6: the two games and come back to Tampa with some
• 54:15
  Speaker 6: momentum because that rotation– that they have is really, really tough.
• 54:20
  Speaker 6: And if they can get to Mizorowski and Logan Henderson
• 54:23
  Speaker 6: and get one of those games, they're going to have
• 54:25
  Speaker 6: a chance. But all in all, I think this is
• 54:28
  Speaker 6: the Brewers in six games overall.
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: Okay, final thing here, and it doesn't have to do
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: with the series. I'm reading a lot of stuff that
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: says that despite the fact that the final three teams
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: left standing, Cleveland, Tampa Bay, and Milwaukee, are not big
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: market teams, despite all of that, and despite the fact
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: that whoever wins is not going to be a big
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: market team. That, the lockout, the shutdown, is inevitable. I've
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: heard and read that, and I want to get your
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: thoughts on whether you think it might be inevitable. And two,
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: here's the other thing I'm reading, that there is going
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: to be like this massive crush on, of teams trying
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: to get the roster stocked with free agents before the
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: shutdown happens? A, do you see, are the storm clouds
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: looking like we're headed.
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: For the shutdown?
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: And B, will we see teams racing to try to
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: get free agents signed or make deals before the shutdown happens?
• 55:30
  Speaker 6: I think there is going to be a lockout. I
• 55:32
  Speaker 6: think the reason there's going to be a lockout is
• 55:34
  Speaker 6: the number one hangup is the salary cap and until
• 55:40
  Speaker 6: teams start, until both sides start to begin that they're
• 55:43
  Speaker 6: gonna lose money, I don't think that it even, it
• 55:46
  Speaker 6: moves off the salary cap. I think that we are
• 55:51
  Speaker 6: gonna see a lot of movement early. It's not a
• 55:54
  Speaker 6: great free agent class at all. Some of the free
• 55:57
  Speaker 6: agents are a little bit older in years. You know,
• 56:01
  Speaker 6: you had a situation last time where the union voted
• 56:03
  Speaker 6: against the executive committee which is the first time that's
• 56:06
  Speaker 6: ever happened. Well, the game has gotten a little bit older.
• 56:10
  Speaker 6: And when you talk about a lockout, you're talking about
• 56:14
  Speaker 6: it truly affecting like the top 2% of the players.
• 56:17
  Speaker 6: And so I think that there's a situation where the
• 56:21
  Speaker 6: ownership side knows that the union is soft. I think
• 56:23
  Speaker 6: the union is gonna really have to come together because
• 56:27
  Speaker 6: it is getting older. And again, voting against the executive
• 56:30
  Speaker 6: committee last time, I do think you're gonna see a
• 56:33
  Speaker 6: flurry of teams trying to get deals done because none
• 56:36
  Speaker 6: of these players know what the economic system is going
• 56:39
  Speaker 6: to look like when you come out of it from
• 56:41
  Speaker 6: free agency in years to arbitration in years. I do
• 56:46
  Speaker 6: think that there's a chance that there's going to be
• 56:48
  Speaker 6: a floor as well as a cap, and that's going
• 56:50
  Speaker 6: to impact a lot of financial contracts. So it's going
• 56:55
  Speaker 6: to be really, really interesting. I think we're going to
• 56:58
  Speaker 6: have an incredible World Series with two great teams, And
• 57:02
  Speaker 6: when you think about, you know, everybody says, well, two
• 57:04
  Speaker 6: of the three lowest payrolls. Well, that's kind of the
• 57:06
  Speaker 6: problem is these two teams would not be able to
• 57:10
  Speaker 6: keep these players for very long because they're going to
• 57:13
  Speaker 6: start making more money and long contracts and lots of years.
• 57:15
  Speaker 6: And that's where the problem lies. It's not that, you know,
• 57:19
  Speaker 6: the two world championships I've been a part of were
• 57:22
  Speaker 6: very small market, low payroll clubs, but we were unable
• 57:26
  Speaker 6: to keep those teams together. And I think that's where
• 57:29
  Speaker 6: the problem lies overall. And so I think we're going
• 57:32
  Speaker 6: to have a great World Series. I think we're going
• 57:33
  Speaker 6: to have a mad dash on December 1st. And then
• 57:36
  Speaker 6: hopefully cooler heads can prevail and we'll get something worked
• 57:39
  Speaker 6: out for at least a spring training or shorter spring
• 57:42
  Speaker 6: training and have a tremendous 2027 season. That's great.
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: Gino, I appreciate the time. Thank you. Enjoy the fall classic.
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: Enjoy South Bend.
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: And we'll visit again next week and see where we
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: are with this thing, if it's still rolling and the
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: climactic end of the regular season and the postseason for baseball.
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: Appreciate the time.
• 58:02
  Speaker 6: All right, Craig. Thanks so much. Thank you.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: You bet. That's Gene Watson, our MLB insider.
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: Coming up, we're going to hear more from Longhorn's head coach,
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: Steve Sarkeesian, when we continue on 13 Under the Zone.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: With Billy Joel pressure?
• 58:20
  Speaker 4: No, I haven't actually.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's great.
• 58:22
  Speaker 5: It's great. Fabulous.
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: You know, in the right smack dab in the wheelhouse
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: of MTV at the time.
• 58:28
  Speaker 5: With the music.
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: You owe it to yourself. You know, YouTube it sometime. Okay.
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: It's really, really good.
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: The Longhorns are trying to get pressure on the quarterback.
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: That's not easy to do with Trinidad Chambliss. And in fact,
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: on this morning's Zoom, the media Zoom, Longhorns head coach,
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: Steve Sarkisian was asked, how has Chambliss been able to
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: avoid sacks?
• 58:52
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I don't know if you guys have
• 58:54
  Speaker 4: watched them play, but he's pretty hard to get on
• 58:56
  Speaker 4: the ground. He's a dynamic playmaker. And it's not always
• 59:01
  Speaker 4: about him scrambling to run. It's him scrambling to buy
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: time to create the second play in the passing game,
• 59:08
  Speaker 4: the explosive plays down the field. And so I think
• 59:11
  Speaker 4: it's really important that we have really good rush lanes,
• 59:15
  Speaker 4: that we try to contain him in the pocket. But
• 59:17
  Speaker 4: he's going to get out of the pocket. I'd love
• 59:19
  Speaker 4: to say, hey, we're going to come out of this
• 59:20
  Speaker 4: game for four quarters and he's not going to get out.
• 59:22
  Speaker 4: He's going to get out. The coverage then has to
• 59:24
  Speaker 4: do a great job of plastering and staying sticky on
• 59:27
  Speaker 4: the second play. Um, so all those things have to
• 59:30
  Speaker 4: work together. Um, but he is a, he's a dynamic
• 59:32
  Speaker 4: playmaker that way. Um, he's been that way for two
• 59:35
  Speaker 4: years now since he's been put into the lineup. And
• 59:38
  Speaker 4: so you, you, you have to, the people that have
• 59:40
  Speaker 4: defended him the best have tried to minimize and of
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: him getting out of the pocket, but also not giving
• 59:47
  Speaker 4: up those, those big, you know, kind of home run
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: plays on when the first play breaks down and it
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: goes to the second play.
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: Um, next pretty interesting question from our friend Anwar Richardson. Um,
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: at Orange Bloods.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: And he asked a question with regard to the fact
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: that last year there was Texas sitting at 9-3 and
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: got left out of the playoff. And Sark pointed to,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: you know, playing a tough team and all this other
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: kind of stuff.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: And then now, you know, here they are with two losses.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: And his thoughts overall, especially with this college football playoff team, uh,
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: coming up, but, but as far as his team is
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: concerned and trying to get things turned around, how about
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: his thoughts on the stakes at hand?
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 4: No, right now we need to focus on this week, Amar.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 4: And that's a fair question. I understand that. But I
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 4: think from an energy standpoint, um, we need to pour
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 4: into this game. We need to go one to know
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 4: this week. Um, this is, there's a lot of football
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 4: left to be played this season. Um, I've never seen
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 4: the SEC look like this where every team's got a
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 4: conference loss this early in the year. There's a lot
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 4: of football left to go. Let's focus on this week.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 4: Let's do our best job that we can do to
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 4: take care of business this week against a very talented
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 4: top 10 ranked Ole Miss team.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: Denny was asked, how much does the creativity... of offense
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: being him, especially, you know, now with the team having
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: dropped two games or so, does that mean that he
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: is able to be as creative as he has been
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: in the past?
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 4: I think offensive creativity is personnel groupings, it's formations, it's
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 4: motions and shifts, it's schemes. It's how you deploy people
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 4: formationally to, to try to create leverage in the passing
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 4: game and, or in the run game, it's timely calls.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 4: You know, it's, It's calling things when they don't think
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 4: you're going to call it and vice versa. You know,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 4: I think every year is different. Like, I don't know
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 4: if I haven't been as creative, but I think the
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 4: times that I've wanted to be creative, it hasn't worked
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 4: as well. And that can happen sometimes. You know, it's
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 4: like you calling around against Ohio State on fourth and one,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 4: it doesn't work. Well, that's not being as creative enough.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 4: If it would have worked, I would have been really creative.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: So that's kind of the life of a play caller.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 4: That's the way it goes. I would say that's the
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 4: life of a competitor. But at the end of the day,
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 4: it's my job and our job as a staff to
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: put our players in the best position to be successful.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 4: And so we leave no stone unturned. We continue to
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 4: grind at it to try to find ways to make
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 4: sure that they can have success when game day rolls around.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: Then he was asked, you know, here you are at
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: the midway mark of the season. A lot of folks was, oh,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: you got to change this. You got to change that.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: Can you tweak and adjust things, or are you even
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: able to consider overhauling several things?
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 4: I think that's kind of, that's a bit difficult to overhaul.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 4: I think when you use the word overhaul, that's probably
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 4: an off-season term in any aspect of your program. It
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 4: could be academics, it could be your run game, it
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 4: could be your off-season conditioning program. Like, Overhaul is a
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 4: really big word. Can you make adjustments? Sure you can, right?
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 4: And can you make personnel changes? Sure you can. You
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 4: can do those things, I think, in six days, and
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 4: you can grow from there. But just to overhaul, like...
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 4: You know, I know Coach Royal would love this, but, like,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 4: we can't come out in the wishbone Saturday night. Like,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 4: that's a tough thing to do in a six-day span.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 4: But we can make adjustments to what we do schematically
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 4: in all three phases.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: Boy, that would be something if all of a sudden
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: I see him line up the wishbone like that.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: And then one more from Sark this hour.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: We'll hear more from him as well as previewing tonight's
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: Longhorn Weekly, a segment of that next hour as well.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: But he was asked about freshmen. there have been freshmen
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: like a Jermaine Bishop who has stood out and played well.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: And then there's some freshmen who have practiced well, but
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: they really haven't played much, if at all.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: And he was asked, where have those freshmen grown?
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 4: I mean, obviously, I think it's clear our confidence in
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 4: Jermaine Bishop. He's really grown into the role that he
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 4: has from an offensive perspective. But I've been really impressed
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 4: by Chris Stewart, Cohen Brown, both those guys, they're contributing
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 4: on special teams. I see them every day, the way
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 4: they work in practice. They are, they're definitely showing up
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 4: in that aspect of it. So I love, love what
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 4: they're bringing. You know, defensively, when you, when you look
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 4: at those guys, I see a lot of these guys
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 4: on the defensive front on scout team, but like I'm
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 4: seeing strides in Tyler Atkinson, Rocky Cummings, I'm seeing strides
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 4: in Jamarian Carlton, Um, I'm seeing strides in Tita, uh,
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 4: and those are just named a few. I'm seeing strides
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 4: in John Meredith to Ray Davis. Like a lot of
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 4: these guys are getting better. And I know you, unfortunately
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 4: you guys don't always get a chance to see them
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 4: cause they're not, you know, playing every Saturday on the weekend, but,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 4: but I see them a lot and I've been impressed
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 4: with these guys. They work hard, their team committed. Um,
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 4: They want to be really good, and I appreciate the
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 4: work ethic that they're bringing every single day. And so
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 4: that's been really cool to see.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: We'll hear more from Sar coming up next hour, not
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: only from this Thursday media Zoom from this morning, but
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: also a preview of tonight's edition of Longhorn Weekly. We'll
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: be back to wrap up hour number two here on
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: 13 Under the Zone. Third and final hour of the
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: program here. On Sports Radio AM 13 Under the Zone,
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: Craig Wade joined by the producer, Jay Kerman. We had
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: Roger Wallace on with us in the 2 o'clock hour.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: We were talking Longhorn football and high school football. Gene
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: Watson in the 3 o'clock hour to preview the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to hear some more from the head coaches
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  Speaker 2: of the Dallas Cowboys and the Houston Texans coming up
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  Speaker 2: here in just a few moments. And more from Longhorn's
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  Speaker 2: head coach, Steve Sarkeesian. Part of it will be a
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  Speaker 2: preview of tonight's Longhorn Weekly with Coach Sark and discussing
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  Speaker 2: what the message is to the team this week on
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  Speaker 2: trying to turn it around. We'll also hear some other
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  Speaker 2: comments from Sark from the media Zoom this week. So
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  Speaker 2: we'll get to all that coming up in a few minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Did you watch some NBA last night?
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  Speaker 3: Well, no, I watched some NBA highlights last night. I
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  Speaker 3: saw the Wizards jump out to 1-0. I watched more
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  Speaker 3: NBA on opening night on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I've watched the Mavericks be summarily smacked
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  Speaker 2: around by the Rockets. They were actually, they were down
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  Speaker 2: 37 at one point in the third quarter and came
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  Speaker 2: back and cut it to, I think, 16. I know
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  Speaker 2: they got within 17, so they shaved 20 points off
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  Speaker 2: of that and they ended up, I think, losing by 18, but.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, it's, it's going to take some time for that,
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  Speaker 2: for that club to build up a little. Kevin Durant
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  Speaker 2: was Kevin Durant. Um, KD had 30 points last night
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  Speaker 2: in the game. Now, Cooper Flagg had 32 for the Mavericks.
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  Speaker 2: He just didn't have much help around him. Um, but, uh, but, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Kevin Durant had, uh, 30, 30 last night for the Rockets.
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  Speaker 1: He was, he was an interesting number.
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  Speaker 2: Um, Our friend Mark Folliwell, who calls the Mavericks telecast,
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  Speaker 2: revealed this at one point in the fourth corner. And
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  Speaker 2: I think it was right around the time that KD
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  Speaker 2: was checking out the ballgame. He said, Kevin Durant, now
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  Speaker 2: you think about it, Kevin's 37. Last year at age 36,
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  Speaker 2: he averaged 36 minutes a game. That's a dude still
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  Speaker 2: grinding there. 36 minutes per game at age 36 last
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  Speaker 2: year for KD. Pretty impressive stuff for him, and he
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  Speaker 2: still scored 30 points, and he had eight assists in
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  Speaker 2: the game.
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  Speaker 1: And then, and I didn't stay up for this, but boy,
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  Speaker 1: did I see the highlights.
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  Speaker 2: How about what happened last night in L.A. between the
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  Speaker 2: Lakers and Golden State? And Luka Doncic was Luka being Luka,
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  Speaker 2: but the showdown he had with Yaxel Lindenborg was something,
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  Speaker 2: here's a rookie coming in, trash-talking him, telling him he sucks,
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  Speaker 2: telling him, you know, he's whiny and all this kind
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  Speaker 2: of stuff. Some of those things might be true. It's
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  Speaker 2: kind of like the time that the old Cowboys running back,
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  Speaker 2: Dwayne Thomas, who was holding out, was quoted as saying
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  Speaker 2: that Tom Landry was a plastic man and that Tech
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  Speaker 2: Schramm was a, senile, deranged, and a liar.
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  Speaker 1: And Tech said, well, they got two of them right.
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  Speaker 2: Um, but, uh, anyway, uh, he was in that case of, uh,
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  Speaker 2: of Lindenborg, you, you can make, you can make, uh,
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  Speaker 2: arguments about Luca and how much he complains about calls
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  Speaker 2: or this or that and leans in and draws the
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  Speaker 2: foul calls. He's very good at that, but he doesn't suck. And,
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  Speaker 2: he had himself a big game last night. So I
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  Speaker 2: thought it was pretty interesting, pretty brave stuff coming from
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  Speaker 2: a rookie.
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  Speaker 1: Last night in that.
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  Speaker 3: Game brave or dumb yeah you can you can go
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  Speaker 3: with it either way he said quote i had a
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  Speaker 3: lot of respect for him seeing him kill people all
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  Speaker 3: the time but then being in there firsthand watching all
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  Speaker 3: the whining and complaining i lost all respect for a
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  Speaker 3: man that was awful unquote and look linda borg was
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  Speaker 3: trying to get under his skin picking him up 94
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  Speaker 3: feet poking prodding and didn't work it didn't work and
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  Speaker 3: linda borg was minus 21 in the game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah and and he he got called for a foul
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  Speaker 2: trying to pick him up 94 feet.
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  Speaker 1: It was a silly, ridiculous foul.
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  Speaker 2: But there was another call where, you know, Luka kind
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  Speaker 2: of shoved off on him going down the floor, and
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  Speaker 2: that went uncalled.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and you know, Shea got two or three phantom
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  Speaker 3: calls in the fourth quarter against the Spurs.
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  Speaker 5: It's hard.
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  Speaker 1: These guys are good at foul baiting. Right, right. It
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  Speaker 1: works that way. So the season is off and rolling
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  Speaker 1: there in the NBA.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Wanted to get back to the NFL now. with the
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys and Texans trying to turn it around. The Texans
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  Speaker 2: have won back-to-back games. They're now 2-4. Remember, they started
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  Speaker 2: 0-3 last year, and then I think, what, they won
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  Speaker 2: nine in a row and wound up being a playoff team.
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  Speaker 2: They started 0-4 this year. You talk about pushing the
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  Speaker 2: envelope on this deal from digging out. They've won back-to-back games.
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  Speaker 2: They play the Giants this Sunday. And as they have improved,
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: D'Amico Ryans was asked, what still needs to improve on
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  Speaker 2: the defensive side of the ball?
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  Speaker 8: We got to tackle better to start. Our tackling was
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  Speaker 8: not good enough. That has to be picked up. We
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  Speaker 8: got to eliminate the leaky yardage when we are breaking
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  Speaker 8: on the football. We are running, swarming the ball. Guys,
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  Speaker 8: we got to get guys on the ground much quicker.
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  Speaker 8: We allow too many leaky yardage there, especially in the
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  Speaker 8: running game. Some of the short passes that are caught
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  Speaker 8: over the middle of the field, we have to secure
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  Speaker 8: those tackles. Right now, there's just way too many missed tackles.
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  Speaker 8: Guys are leaving their feet, just poor technique. We got
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  Speaker 8: to play with better play style of putting our body
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  Speaker 8: on people, wrapping up, securing the fundamentals of tackling since
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  Speaker 8: middle school football.
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  Speaker 1: You got to put your body on people and wrap up.
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  Speaker 1: We got to do a better job of that.
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  Speaker 2: Next, he was asked about Marvin Harrison Jr. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: they picked him up in the deal with the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 2: Will he see some more snaps this week?
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  Speaker 1: However many he can handle.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I expect Marvin to get his workload to continue
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  Speaker 8: to increase. I thought he got a little bit under
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  Speaker 8: 15 reps in the game on Sunday, and he handled
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  Speaker 8: all those really well, did a really great job. So
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  Speaker 8: he'll continue to get more. One thing I see, Marvin
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  Speaker 8: is a very smart guy. He's picked up things very seamlessly,
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  Speaker 8: and he's moving around a lot of different places on
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  Speaker 8: our offense. Our coaches can put him in a lot
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  Speaker 8: of different spots. He's handled himself really well. he'll get
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  Speaker 8: more workload.
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  Speaker 2: And Tank Dell is coming back, you know, coming off injury,
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  Speaker 2: and that's a good sign as well. And so what's
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  Speaker 2: been his approach to using Dell this week?
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  Speaker 1: It's all about, it's a feel. As we get into
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  Speaker 1: the game, it's a feel.
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  Speaker 8: As I mentioned earlier this week, it's no expectation like
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  Speaker 8: Tank has to hit a certain play number. It's, for me, it's,
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  Speaker 8: and getting Tank back out there after missing, you know,
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  Speaker 8: two years of football, that's the the main thing like
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  Speaker 8: him just going out playing ball i don't care how
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  Speaker 8: many reps he gets right but i'll have my tankdale
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  Speaker 8: jersey on on sunday.
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  Speaker 2: He's listed as still reserve slash injured semicolon designated for return.
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  Speaker 3: Okay yeah they've opened up that practice window and There
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  Speaker 3: was lots of talk in the media, C.J. Stroud talking
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  Speaker 3: today about how excited he was just to see Tank
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  Speaker 3: run out the tunnel.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, the Cowboys are trying to generate some excitement coming
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  Speaker 2: off the back-to-back losses.
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  Speaker 1: Think about it.
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  Speaker 2: They were 2-2 going home to play a winless Tampa
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  Speaker 2: Bay team. And I think Brad Sham and Babe Laufenberg
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  Speaker 2: put it well. He said they just looked tired.
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  Speaker 1: And out of gas.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of reminded me a little bit of the Dodgers
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  Speaker 2: in the final two games of the NLCS against the Brewers.
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  Speaker 2: They just looked spent. uh, from the past couple of seasons.
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  Speaker 2: In the case of the Cowboys, it's all the travel
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  Speaker 2: and going down, uh, and losing the heartbreaker there in
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  Speaker 2: Rio to the Ravens and all that other kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So now they're trying to dig out of it. And, um, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Brian Schottenheimer was asked about the lack of big plays.
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  Speaker 2: They just haven't had many of those lately. And how many,
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  Speaker 2: how much of that is tied to lack of protection?
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  Speaker 9: We've looked at that. We've talked about that. You know,
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  Speaker 9: teams are playing us a little bit soft. Um, And
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  Speaker 9: they're kind of forcing the ball underneath. There's a fine
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  Speaker 9: line between being overly aggressive. We say it this way,
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  Speaker 9: a shot called is not a shot taken. We certainly
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  Speaker 9: have called some shots. And when they're there, we take them.
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  Speaker 9: When they're not, we check it down. I think Dak's
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  Speaker 9: actually done a really good job of being patient against
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  Speaker 9: some of these teams that want to push out deep
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  Speaker 9: and put an umbrella over the top of our elite weapons.
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  Speaker 9: But we're also aware that explosive plays make it a
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  Speaker 9: lot easier to score. And I think as you look
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  Speaker 9: at our last two games, we just haven't been able
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  Speaker 9: to produce those. So it's a, it's a mix between
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  Speaker 9: when we call them, you know, executing them and taking
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  Speaker 9: the shots when they're there, but also, you know, when
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  Speaker 9: they're not there.
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  Speaker 1: We got to manage it and make good decisions. Okay.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Next, trying to pick up the blitz at some of
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: the Longhorns have been dealing with and talking about this
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  Speaker 2: week as well. What gives Schottenheimer confidence that his team
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  Speaker 2: will be better against the blitz this week?
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  Speaker 1: I've seen us do it.
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  Speaker 9: You know, I've, think you know when you look at
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  Speaker 9: the last two games you know um i give those
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  Speaker 9: guys credit but we didn't execute very well we didn't
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  Speaker 9: adjust quick enough um we didn't make some of the
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  Speaker 9: uh you know site adjustments and hot responses that we
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  Speaker 9: normally do but i've seen us do it you know
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  Speaker 9: you know this was not the first time we've seen
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  Speaker 9: a lot of blitzes um but again the balance is
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  Speaker 9: really where i i say you know no one wants
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  Speaker 9: to get in those games where you're throwing it 54
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  Speaker 9: times against a good opponent and a really good pass
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 9: defense so Um, what gives me confidence in knowing who's
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 9: out there playing, starting up front with the offensive line,
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 9: how much pride they take in protecting the quarterback, uh,
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 9: the running backs. What a great job that they do
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  Speaker 9: with their blitz pickup. But, um, at the end of
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  Speaker 9: the day, Dak got hit way too much in these
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  Speaker 9: last two games. And that pisses me off and it
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  Speaker 9: pisses us off because, uh, It shouldn't happen, and we've
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  Speaker 9: got to keep them clean.
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  Speaker 2: And that means getting off of that ugly number, which
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: currently shows the Cowboys allowing the second most unblocked pressures
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  Speaker 2: in the NFL.
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  Speaker 9: Overload blitzes, teams knowing we have to throw it, and
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  Speaker 9: they're saying that they don't want Dak Prescott to be
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  Speaker 9: able to sit back there and have time to throw it.
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  Speaker 1: So there's certainly... answers and solutions to that.
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  Speaker 2: But that's why all right uh next uh talking about
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: the eagles that's the opponent on monday night in philadelphia
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: where does he see the eagles now even with all
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: the injuries we know jalen hurts is out for the
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: rest of the year they have davante smith back but
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: they've had several other guys being obviously uh saquon barkley
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  Speaker 2: guys that are out of the lineup where does he
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: see the eagles right.
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  Speaker 9: Now they look pretty good to me um again you
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 9: guys might have seen 98 90 two pretty good players inside.
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  Speaker 9: Zach Vaughn, I think, is one of the best linebackers
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  Speaker 9: in football. You know, the edge pieces, they're beat up
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 9: there a little bit, you know. But, you know, the
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  Speaker 9: two corners, they've got a ton of resources invested in that.
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  Speaker 1: Cooper Dejean, outstanding.
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  Speaker 9: A lot of moving parts on their offensive line, of course,
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  Speaker 9: but it sounds like they're getting healthier heading back to
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  Speaker 9: this game. We certainly expect to see Saquon Barkley. And then,
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  Speaker 9: you know, Tanner McKee knows the system well. He's got
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 9: some weapons with Lemon and Devontae Smith and Goddard, who
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 9: is a safety security blanket, if you will.
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  Speaker 1: So they're a really talented team. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what they'll be looking at in terms of
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: the Eagles.
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  Speaker 2: And he has asked about signing Kyle Trask to the
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  Speaker 2: practice squad.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, we were talking with Kyle in the meetings today.
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  Speaker 9: He's been on every team in the NFC South. So
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  Speaker 9: he says he's very comfortable with those. Most of the
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  Speaker 9: guys in that room, the quarterback room, I'm talking about
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 9: Sam Howell, Will Greer.
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  Speaker 1: They've been in Philadelphia, so these guys are well-traveled.
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  Speaker 9: The backup quarterbacks in this league, they put a lot
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 9: of miles on their cars because.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: They do a lot of traveling.
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  Speaker 9: But, yeah, excited cows here, and we caught up a
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  Speaker 9: little bit on the Gators' big win the other night.
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  Speaker 1: That's all we are.
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  Speaker 2: That's how it is.
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  Speaker 6: That's how it is.
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  Speaker 1: It was a shot. I'm just saying, it was a
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: little bit of a shot.
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  Speaker 6: I get to push back some, too, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess it's a little bit of a shot there,
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: you know. But then, since we were on the subject.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: of uh talking about uh quarterbacks he was asked about
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: tanner mckee uh there for the eagles you know.
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  Speaker 9: We expect them to get some guys out and i
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 9: think he's got a really good feel for what they're
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 9: doing from a protection standpoint he knows where everybody is
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  Speaker 9: i think that's one thing when we looked at the
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 9: game you know we saw that he understands he's going
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 9: to get the ball thrown quick and throw completions and
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 9: move the ball forward if you will um certainly not
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 9: nearly the athlete that jaylen is but um he's a
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 9: he's a talented passer that knows his strengths and he's.
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  Speaker 1: Been around for a while.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: And then finally asked about what it takes to balance
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: the mental and psychological side of the head coaching position
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: with the X's and O's that he.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: Has to employ.
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  Speaker 9: It's more of a, it's more of a head coaching thing,
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 9: you know, in terms of it's always, there's always ups
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 9: and downs, whether you're coaching the offensive line, the defensive backs,
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 9: you're the coordinator, But when you're in charge of the
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 9: entire team, you get pulled in different directions.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: You know, you deal with the emotions that you have.
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  Speaker 9: You deal with the emotions that your players have, that
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 9: your coaches have. And so sometimes you feel like you're
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 9: a clinician, a psychologist. And again, that's where I think
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 9: I am at my best. You know, am I frustrated
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 9: and pissed off? You're damn right I am. But I'm
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 9: going to roll my sleeves up and I'm going to
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 9: go to work and I'm going to solve it. And
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  Speaker 9: I think by leading that way and being like that,
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  Speaker 9: the players are going to follow. The coaches are going
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 9: to follow. And so that's the way I take pride
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  Speaker 9: in trying to carry myself.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys, Monday night against the Eagles. Boy, every time we
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: turn around, they're playing a primetime game. Sunday night, Monday night,
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: a late afternoon game, you know, that kind of thing.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: So it'll be Monday night. And you'll hear it on 98.1
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  Speaker 2: FM KVAT coverage. It'll begin at 6 to kick off
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: round 720. All right, up next, more from Longhorns head
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 2: coach Steve Sarkisian. But this will be a preview of
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: tonight's Longhorn Weekly with the head coach when we continue
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 2: on 13 Under the Zone.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: Heading for a showdown.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: Well, the Longhorns are heading for a showdown just like ELO.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: By the way, speaking of showdown, here's an update on
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: the story we had for you in Inconceivable.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: It is now official.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: The Florida Bar has fired the employee over the comments
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: he made to the Miami football player.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 4: You gotta watch what you say on social media. You
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 4: gotta watch what you say in general, but I mean,
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 4: that's not the lesson here.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 3: The lesson here is to mind your own business and
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 3: don't be sending those types of nasty messages.
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  Speaker 2: Brief investigation in Instagram direct messages sent by Cade McClendon,
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  Speaker 2: who worked at the Florida Bar for about two years
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  Speaker 2: as a computer technician.
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  Speaker 1: Was fired late yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: An account from a person using his name sent a
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  Speaker 2: number of messages to Miami's Damon Wilson II after the
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  Speaker 2: hurricane's victory, which included several racist and homophobic slurs.
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  Speaker 1: Wilson is black.
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  Speaker 2: He shared a screenshot of the messages publicly on Sunday,
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  Speaker 2: called it a glimpse into the life of a black
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  Speaker 2: student athlete.
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  Speaker 1: And the bar said Tuesday McClendon was under investigation.
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  Speaker 2: The group's statement, said those messages were reprehensible and inconsistent
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  Speaker 2: with the mission values and policies of the Florida Bar.
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  Speaker 2: While McClendon denied sending the messages, he did not provide
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  Speaker 2: evidence sufficient to demonstrate to the Florida Bar's satisfaction that
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  Speaker 2: his Instagram account had been compromised. As of today, the
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  Speaker 2: Florida Bar has terminated McClendon's employment. So it's unclear why
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  Speaker 2: those private messages were sent to Wilson's in his first
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  Speaker 2: season of Miami after playing previously at Georgia and Missouri.
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  Speaker 2: He might have said he was hacked, but he didn't
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  Speaker 2: have the evidence to show.
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  Speaker 1: That he was hacked.
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  Speaker 2: So the Florida Bar could not hack that. And so
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  Speaker 2: he's gone. All right. Meanwhile, the Longhorns are getting ready.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: They're dealing with their own issues, trying to turn it
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: around after back-to-back losses. A little preview of tonight's edition
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: of Longhorn Weekly with Coach Sark. where we got into
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: the conversation of how the coach and the coaches, you know,
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  Speaker 2: interlock with the players to make sure that everybody's on
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  Speaker 2: the same page, so they can get things turned around.
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  Speaker 2: We had a baseball coach around here who was pretty successful.
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  Speaker 2: He finished up his time here about 10 years ago.
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  Speaker 2: The late Augie Garrido had eight trips to Omaha, a
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 2: couple of national championships. And he used to say, what
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 2: I'm expected to provide and earn in terms of my
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  Speaker 2: keep is not when we're in Omaha. and not when
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  Speaker 2: we're in first place in the then Big 12 Conference.
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  Speaker 2: It's when things are adverse, when we do have the
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 2: adversity on that. You share a similar philosophy with the coaches,
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 2: not that you're trying any less hard when things are
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  Speaker 2: going well as opposed to the other, but part of
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  Speaker 2: what the coach's responsibility is, along with the players, is
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: to dig out of it, right?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think so, and there's a lot of layers
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  Speaker 4: to that, right? When you think about, you know, everybody
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  Speaker 4: wants to look at the players the final product, right?
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 4: Everyone looks at, did we win or did we lose?
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  Speaker 1: The result.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 4: The result. And as a coach, I think it's important
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 4: to look at all of the body of work, right?
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 4: And you're talking about individual people in the organization, coaches,
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 4: staff members, players. You're looking at aspects of offense, defense,
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 4: special teams, and then you drill down deeper into position
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 4: groups than individual players. And you're looking at schemes and
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 4: But then you're also looking at the totality of the
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 4: temperature of the organization, right? And the culture and the mindset.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 4: And I think that's always like you're, you're, you're kind of,
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  Speaker 4: I was like thinking of it as like playing the
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 4: piano in essence of, of hitting which key is the
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 4: right key at the right time to push the right buttons,
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  Speaker 4: to motivate the individuals, right? To help individuals make the
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 4: necessary changes, whether it's fundamentally, schematically, whatever that looks like,
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 4: could be psychologically, um, But then you're also given the
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  Speaker 4: reminder of that they're part of a team and that
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 4: there's pride in being part of a team. But there's
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 4: also the self-pride. There's the family pride, the name on
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 4: their back. There's the pride of wearing this on your chest.
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  Speaker 4: And all those things adding into, can we find a
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  Speaker 4: source that we tap into that allows you to dig
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  Speaker 4: a little deeper, to work a little harder, to spend
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 4: a little more time And in essence, put you in
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  Speaker 4: a space where you've got the confidence that you can
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  Speaker 4: do your job really well, that you're surrounded by people
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 4: that are supporting you and helping you do your job
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 4: really well. In turn, are you providing the support for
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 4: them so that they can do their job really well,
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  Speaker 4: that you have the trust for them and the belief
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 4: for them? Because I always say, like, everybody wants to win.
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  Speaker 4: That's easy. You know, everybody, Saturday night, we take the
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 4: field at 649 against Ole Miss. I promise you I've
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  Speaker 4: got a locker room full of people that want to win.
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  Speaker 4: But are we doing the things necessary to put ourselves
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  Speaker 4: in the best position to win? And part of that
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 4: is practice. Part of that is the mindset, right? Part
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 4: of that is trust and belief. All those things add
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 4: up to when we take the field knowing we did
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 4: all the work necessary to go out and that we've
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 4: earned the right and the opportunity to go win the game.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 4: And that's one play at a time. And I was
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 4: just talking to the team about this the other day.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 4: Think about, on average, 75 plays of defense, 75 plays
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 4: of offense, roughly 25 or so plays of special teams.
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  Speaker 4: So all of a sudden now we're looking at 175 fights,
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 4: six-second fights. And are we willing to fight 175 times
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 4: one play, one round at a time? And every fight
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 4: is different. Every people in the fight is different. But
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 4: what are we fighting for? And that's where the pride
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 4: has to kick in. But that pride has to kick
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  Speaker 4: in on Monday in the meeting room, right? My attention
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 4: to detail. Tuesday at practice, right? Tuesday night, Wednesday, Thursday,
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 4: so on and so forth. So it's a lot, right,
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 4: that encompasses. But at the end of the day, it's
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 4: not about want to. There's a lot of want to.
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 4: It's about are you willing to do the work? Are
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 4: you willing to go above and beyond to do the
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 4: work to put yourself in position to make that happen?
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  Speaker 1: You love your players.
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  Speaker 2: We know this and I've heard this and your players
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 2: love you from what they've talked about. With all of that,
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 2: the love and the respect and all that, does it
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: make it more challenging to have the difficult conversation when
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 2: you have to have it?
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't think so. I honestly think it, I
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 4: don't want to say make, nothing's easy about losing two
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 4: games in a row. Let's be real candid about that.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 4: There's nothing easy about it. But because of the transparency
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 4: we have in our program, because the honesty we have
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 4: in our program, I was touching on the team on Monday.
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 4: I told them, it's okay to be frustrated. It's okay
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 4: to feel disappointed. It's okay to be angry. But it's
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 4: also okay to have constructive conversations. And we have to
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 4: have the constructive criticism. We have to have the constructive
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 4: conversations if we're going to move forward. And But what's
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 4: not okay is to whine, to complain, to have the
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 4: poor me's, to point the fingers. That's not okay. That
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 4: will not be tolerated. But we do need to have
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 4: constructive conversations. And we're going to start right now, guys.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 4: We're going to start with constructive conversations. And we went
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 4: in about where our issues were, what we needed to
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 4: do to move forward. Because I never like to just say,
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 4: here's a problem and not give them a way to
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 4: get out of it. And then are we are we
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 4: doing those things? And so that's what the week has
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 4: been about. And so we've constantly come back to that.
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 4: So they've been understanding. And I said, if anybody has
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 4: takes any umbrage to this, if I know nobody's going
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 4: to want to really say anything in this moment, but
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 4: feel free and come see me and we can talk
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 4: it through. I think everybody understood exactly what they needed
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 4: to do to move forward. And this has been a
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 4: really good week. Been a better week than a week ago,
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 4: quite frankly. And you'd think it'd be worse, it'd be harder,
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 4: but it's been better. And I've been very proud of
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 4: our guys. I've been very proud of our staff that,
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 4: you know, the lasting message I told our guys on
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 4: Monday as we started the week, be part of the solution.
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 4: Be part of the solution. It's easy to pour gasoline
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 4: on this fire right now. Be part of the solution.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 4: How are we putting this fire out? And what do
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 4: we need to do to get that done? And I
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 4: think that we've got an organization full of people that
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 4: have committed to that.
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  Speaker 2: You have a plan and the coaches have a plan
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 2: and you spell it out to the players.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: As to what you need.
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  Speaker 2: Is it challenging for them to make sure they're not
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 2: pointing the fingers, that they're working together when they're doing
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 2: in addition to what you and the coaching staff are doing?
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  Speaker 4: I think that's where leadership kicks in, right? Like I said,
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 4: I've touched on this team in particular, the connectivity that
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 4: this team has. And I think, as I said, that
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 4: started with a lot of the leadership that this team has.
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 4: And we've got a lot of guys who have been
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 4: in this program four, three years now who understand what
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 4: it takes. We've been through tough times before, and I
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 4: tell the team all the time, tough times don't last,
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 4: tough teams do. And we pride ourselves on the mental
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 4: and physical toughness that is required, especially now more than
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 4: ever in our conference as we're seeing what's been taking
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 4: place in our conference. We will get on the other
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  Speaker 4: side of this, but it just doesn't happen. You don't
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 4: snap your finger and it just doesn't happen. It takes
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 4: hard work. It takes connectivity. You've got to stay connected.
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  Speaker 4: We can't get fragmented. We always say a fist is
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 4: a lot more powerful than an open hand, and we've
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 4: got to stay connected. We've got to stay tight, and
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 4: I commend our leaders. I commend this team for doing
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 4: exactly that.
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  Speaker 2: And also, your players have talked about that this week,
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 2: about staying together like you told us in the postgame
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 2: the other night. I've asked the guys. to stay together
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 2: and to not let this thing mushroom and balloon from them.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 2: And obviously that comes from leadership. And it has to
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 2: come also from them with regard to the younger guys
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 2: who may be going through adversity. You recruit and sign
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 2: a lot of players from incredibly successful programs. So maybe
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 2: if it's not the first, it might be one of
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 2: the few times they've really had a lot of adversity.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: Well, for sure. Personal adversity, too.
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 4: You got to think a lot of these guys have
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 4: been the best at what they've in their in their lives.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 4: Little League football, high school football, All-Americans, how many ever
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 4: stars they had. And now, you know, we're at this
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 4: midpoint of the season and maybe they're not used to
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 4: not playing as much as they're playing. And them recognizing that,
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 4: you know, incremental improvement is a really good thing. And
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 4: I just went and met with the defensive staff before
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 4: I came over here, praising them for the guys on
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 4: scout team and how good of a week they had.
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 4: You know, and I'm talking about, you know, Jamarian Carlton.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 4: I'm talking about Tyler Atkinson. I'm talking about Josiah Sharma.
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 4: I'm talking about Rocky Cummings, guys who are down there
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 4: with us. I'm talking about Tita. some guys who are
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 4: really high-level players who are going to be great players
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 4: for us. But you'd think in the middle of the season,
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 4: we've lost a couple games in a row by a
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 4: field goal. You'd think the dauber would be down. Those
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 4: guys have come to work this weekend, and I'm proud
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 4: of those guys. As much as everyone thinks we're just
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 4: focused on our frontline starters, we've got to keep developing
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 4: our younger players in our program too. So credit to
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 4: everybody in the organization for believing in the process of
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 4: where we need.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: To get to.
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  Speaker 2: All right, that's a little sneak preview of tonight's airing
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 2: of Longhorn Weekly. You can hear the entire program at
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 2: 7 o'clock. Juan Cosby joins.
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: Us as well.
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 2: We'll take a look at the Ole Miss Rebels. All
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 2: out of that, it's Longhorn Weekly with Coach Sark coming
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 2: up tonight at 7 o'clock here on The Zone. We're
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 2: going to hear some more from Sark from today from
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 2: the MediaZoom, getting people caught up to speed on where
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 2: the team is and the preparations. That's up next when
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 2: we continue on 13 Under the Zone on the iHeartRadio app.