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BONUS: How Will Muschamp Is Taking Charge Of Texas' Defense · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: We are back with a second bonus show with a
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  Speaker 1: little bit from Steve Sarkeesian, the Texas head coach. On
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  Speaker 1: the last show, you got to hear his thoughts on
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  Speaker 1: the Texas offense. Now, you get to hear a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about the Texas defense. And the Texas defense, they
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  Speaker 1: were pretty darn good in week one. They took on
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  Speaker 1: Texas State, which is one of the best teams in
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  Speaker 1: the nation on offense statistically. G.J. Kinney had the only
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  Speaker 1: offense that had two different thousand-yard receivers per that brought
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  Speaker 1: both of those guys back, and they brought their quarterback
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  Speaker 1: back from last year. This was a high-flying offense. And Texas,
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  Speaker 1: they gave up 349 yards. They gave up about five
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  Speaker 1: yards of play, but they only gave up seven points,
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  Speaker 1: forced three turnovers. All in all, given the quality of opposition,
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  Speaker 1: that was a pretty good result for the Texas Longhorns defense.
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  Speaker 1: And new defensive coordinator, Will Muschamp. Will Muschamp, obviously a
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  Speaker 1: name that a whole lot of people know from his
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  Speaker 1: time as a head coach at Florida and at South Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: He was also a defensive assistant at Georgia a couple
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  Speaker 1: years ago when Ohio State played Georgia in the Peach Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: So a name that I'm guessing most Ohio State fans
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  Speaker 1: are at least somewhat familiar with. And he's bringing a
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  Speaker 1: lot to the Texas defense this year. You're going to
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  Speaker 1: get to hear a little bit more about his impact next.
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  Speaker 1: But we're going to start with linebacker Raheem Biles. Now,
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  Speaker 1: that is a name that you are going to be
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  Speaker 1: hearing a whole heck of a lot this week. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you right up front. If you
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  Speaker 1: read his name, you're going to think it's pronounced Rasheem,
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  Speaker 1: but the S, it is silent. It is R-A-S-H-E-E-M, but
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  Speaker 1: the S is silent, so it is pronounced Raheem. So
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  Speaker 1: there you go. The more you know. Something else you
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  Speaker 1: might want to know, he's from Pickerington Central High School.
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  Speaker 1: He did not get an Ohio State offer out of
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  Speaker 1: high school. He got banged up in his senior year,
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  Speaker 1: missed a bunch of time, so ended up going to
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  Speaker 1: Pitt instead, where he turned into a star player. Then
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  Speaker 1: this past offseason, when he went in the transfer portal,
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  Speaker 1: he chose Texas over Ohio State. So that is going
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  Speaker 1: to be a very, very big storyline this week. And
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  Speaker 1: not just because of the hometown ties, he is also
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  Speaker 1: an absolute superstar for Texas already. He had five tackles,
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  Speaker 1: including a shared tackle for loss, also forced a fumble,
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  Speaker 1: also had an interception, all in one game on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: and he didn't even play the whole game. That is
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  Speaker 1: a pretty good day of work for Raheem Biles. So
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  Speaker 1: what does he bring to the Texas defense?
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  Speaker 2: I think when you see him, you think athletic, you know, versatile.
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  Speaker 2: I think the one thing that he probably doesn't get
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  Speaker 2: enough credit for is the physicality of which he plays
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  Speaker 2: the game. He's a violent player. Like the play he
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  Speaker 2: makes to cause that fumble is elite. Like most guys
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  Speaker 2: just are worried about getting the guy on the ground
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  Speaker 2: and he's coming through with a six inch punch as
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  Speaker 2: he's tackling him to knock the ball out. Like the savviness,
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  Speaker 2: the intent, That's hard to coach that, but he has
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  Speaker 2: those instincts about him, and we'll see it throughout this season.
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  Speaker 2: His ability in pass coverage, his ability to rush the passer,
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  Speaker 2: he's definitely a very versatile player for us, and we're
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  Speaker 2: definitely lucky to have him.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned that the Texas State offense was one of
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  Speaker 1: the best in the country statistically last year, and they
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  Speaker 1: moved the ball some on Texas. They put up more
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  Speaker 1: than 100 yards of offense today. in the second quarter.
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  Speaker 1: But then once things got kind of to halftime, little
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  Speaker 1: Muschamp made some adjustments, things settled down, and Texas kind
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  Speaker 1: of locked them down in the second half. So what
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  Speaker 1: were they able to do? Why was Texas State able
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  Speaker 1: to move the ball on that defense a little bit
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  Speaker 1: in the first half? And what were they able to
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  Speaker 1: do in the second half to kind of get things
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  Speaker 1: under control?
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  Speaker 2: Will's great, you know, and I really feel for the
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  Speaker 2: guys because the– I think about 50 of those yards
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  Speaker 2: came on a quarterback scramble down their sidelines where we
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  Speaker 2: just couldn't get lined up. If you were watching it,
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  Speaker 2: we kept flopping back and forth, and inevitably there's a
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  Speaker 2: gaping hole for the quarterback just to run right through
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  Speaker 2: and run for about 50 yards down inside the five-yard line.
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  Speaker 2: We probably might have to have a little better day
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  Speaker 2: that way, but Texas State causes you real problems. The tempo,
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  Speaker 2: the formations, the quarterback delivering the ball, the speed on
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  Speaker 2: the perimeter. So, you know, they're good. I still contest.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to win a lot of games. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to go into their conference and win a
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  Speaker 2: ton of games, and we'll be hearing about them again
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  Speaker 2: later in the year. But I just think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Champ does a great job. He's a demanding coach, but
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  Speaker 2: yet I think the players respect him and they love
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  Speaker 2: him because, you know, he's demanding in a way because
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  Speaker 2: he wants them to do it right and do it
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  Speaker 2: well so they can have success on game days. And
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  Speaker 2: I thought, like I said, a lot of guys played.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of guys played hard. I know we weren't perfect, but,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I just think it was a good start.
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  Speaker 2: I knew we'd have some growing pains today, which we did.
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  Speaker 2: That's understandable. Now we've got to fix some of those
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  Speaker 2: growing pains going into next week.
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  Speaker 1: Mentioned earlier that they forced three turnovers in that game.
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  Speaker 1: That is a pretty good day of work, and it
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  Speaker 1: does not sound like that was just an accident or
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  Speaker 1: a coincidence. What goes into forcing three turnovers in the
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  Speaker 1: lead-up to the season? And Sark had a really detailed
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  Speaker 1: answer here.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a, you know, it's one thing to
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  Speaker 2: say it's all about the ball. It's another to practice it.
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  Speaker 2: And we practice it every day. You know, we do
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  Speaker 2: a turnover circuit every day, whether it's offense versus defense.
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  Speaker 2: And you guys have been there on those practices in
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  Speaker 2: training camp when we do that, coming right out of stretch.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we go right to ball security stuff. We're
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  Speaker 2: ripping at the ball. Whether when the defense is separate
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  Speaker 2: from the offense and they're working their turnover circuit, you know, like,
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  Speaker 2: we practice picking up fumbles. And I know that sounds
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  Speaker 2: something like so simplistic, but like we call them country
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  Speaker 2: fumbles when you're alone and like racing and you can
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  Speaker 2: pick it up and run. And then there's city fumbles
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  Speaker 2: where it's congested and you need to just, just jump
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  Speaker 2: on it and fall on it. And those are two
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  Speaker 2: different styles, but, but we actually teach that and practice
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  Speaker 2: that the same thing offensively. We do it. We do
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  Speaker 2: a turnover circuit every Thursday for five minutes, just taking
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  Speaker 2: care of the ball. And so, I don't think it's
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  Speaker 2: on accident. I think it's our players understanding that the
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  Speaker 2: importance of it in the program and creating habits and
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  Speaker 2: then applying those habits in real time in the game.
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot like Ohio State, Texas came right
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  Speaker 1: out of the gate looking pretty darn confident and really
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  Speaker 1: seemed pretty much in control most of the day. So
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  Speaker 1: how encouraging is that for a head coach to see
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  Speaker 1: that from your team to start the season? And this
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  Speaker 1: is an answer where you're going to hear a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot of names that you're going to be hearing all
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  Speaker 1: week long.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, again, I think that that comes from
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  Speaker 2: them competing against each other every day in practice. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I think there's something to be said for there's nothing
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  Speaker 2: like competition and there's nothing like having to go against
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  Speaker 2: good players every day. And Trevor Goosby and Colin Simmons
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  Speaker 2: go at it every day. Melvin Ciani and Lance Jackson
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  Speaker 2: and Zena go at it every day. You know, Kate
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  Speaker 2: Phillips has got a guard, Ryan Wingo and Cam Coleman
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  Speaker 2: every day. Grayson Littleson and Emmitt Mosley going at it
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  Speaker 2: every day. Hollywood and Raheem go at it every day.
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  Speaker 2: Justin Cryer and Nick Townsend go at it. They got
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  Speaker 2: to compete with each other. And at the level they
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  Speaker 2: compete at, it's so high in practice that when the
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  Speaker 2: game comes, I just feel like there's a real sense
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  Speaker 2: of confidence for them knowing that man, if he's as
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  Speaker 2: good as that guy I go against every day, I'm
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  Speaker 2: still going to be okay. And if he's not, man,
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  Speaker 2: I'm really going to be okay. And I think that's
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  Speaker 2: where they get that confidence from to say, hey, they
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  Speaker 2: lean and trust one another. I think they believe in
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  Speaker 2: the guys on the other side of the ball too.
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  Speaker 2: When the other side's out there, I think the offense
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  Speaker 2: believes we're about to get a turnover. I think the
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  Speaker 2: defense is like, hey, we're going to go score, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and when they get the ball back, it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be 14 to nothing. So that's the cool part of
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  Speaker 2: this team. And you could hear the interactions and feel
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  Speaker 2: the interactions on the sidelines. And, you know, I really
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  Speaker 2: appreciate that stuff because, you know, when guys are getting
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  Speaker 2: up off the bench, greeting one another and celebrating one
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  Speaker 2: another or picking a guy up after a tough play,
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  Speaker 2: that's the connection, you know. That's the secret sauce that
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  Speaker 2: it's hard just to create it, you know, through thin air.
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  Speaker 2: You have to work at that stuff. And these guys
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  Speaker 2: have worked at it and it paid off today. Now
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  Speaker 2: we got to continue down that path as we go.
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  Speaker 1: And the last thing, what is it like to have
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  Speaker 1: someone like Will Muschamp there to, and the last thing,
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  Speaker 1: what is it like to have someone like Will Muschamp
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  Speaker 1: there to run the defense? Pete Kwiatkowski had been the
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  Speaker 1: defensive coordinator the past couple of seasons, but this year
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  Speaker 1: Sark brought in Muschamp, to really just be the head
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  Speaker 1: coach of the defense and just handle that side of
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  Speaker 1: the ball and let Sark kind of be the CEO
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  Speaker 1: and worry about the offense. So what is it like
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  Speaker 1: to be able to just sort of hand that off
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  Speaker 1: to Will Muschamp and then get the results that they did?
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  Speaker 1: It was great.
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  Speaker 2: He said, Sark, we need a timeout. When they came
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  Speaker 2: out in the little weird formation, they shifted out. And
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  Speaker 2: I trust him. If he said we needed a timeout,
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  Speaker 2: we needed a timeout in that moment because We weren't
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  Speaker 2: quite ready to be aligned to it all. And so
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  Speaker 2: there's a real level of trust. I can tell you
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  Speaker 2: already today, I was less on the defensive headset than
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  Speaker 2: I've been in the previous five years, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: it allowed me to stay on the offensive headset, communicate
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  Speaker 2: more with, with AJ and Mike and Kyle and the
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  Speaker 2: guys on offense. I didn't, I didn't feel like, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: we're in good hands over there. And if there's an issue,
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  Speaker 2: he'll tell me, but, And I think that helped. I
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  Speaker 2: think that helped in our adjustments on the offensive side
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  Speaker 2: of the ball, too. So like I said, it was
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  Speaker 2: the first game. Again, we got we got stuff to
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  Speaker 2: fix and clean up. But but it was a good start.
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