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September 1, 2026 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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  Speaker 1: Family owned and operated since 1972. Sevchak Service Center, 2200 Longmire,
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  Speaker 1: just down from the post office in College Station.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back.
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  Speaker 1: Glad to have you with us on a Tuesday edition.
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  Speaker 1: We are filled up this afternoon with stuff, which is
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  Speaker 1: always a good thing. This portion of the show is
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  Speaker 1: brought to you by Radiant Dentistry. We're going to hear
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  Speaker 1: from A & M' s Marco Jones coming up. We've got
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  Speaker 1: a high school report. We're going to do a little baseball.
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  Speaker 1: And you Astro fans, I'm going to throw in a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of Joe Espada, believe it or not. He
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  Speaker 1: caught me on a weak moment, I think. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to hear from Mike Elko. And Mallory is with us
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  Speaker 1: with an entertainment segment in the second hour. Texas A
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  Speaker 1: & M quarterback Marcel Reed is making national headlines because
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  Speaker 1: of an interview he did with USA Today. Several months ago.
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  Speaker 1: But he has endeared himself to Aggie fans everywhere. Said, Reed,
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  Speaker 1: I hate the color orange. The colors just look so ugly.
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  Speaker 1: Everywhere you go in Austin, you see that color orange.
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  Speaker 1: Burnt orange? Who likes burnt orange? Texas, it's the rival, bro.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta hate them. We don't like Texas. I don't
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  Speaker 1: like Texas. It sucks. We've lost to them twice, but
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  Speaker 1: they're coming here this year, so they're going to have
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  Speaker 1: to pay. I've got something for them for sure. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I think Aggie fans want to hear that from their quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: even though I don't know why they're dredging up this,
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  Speaker 1: because I think it's a preview from USA Today for
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  Speaker 1: the upcoming season, and that's why their quotes are coming
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  Speaker 1: out now. It is game week over at the big school.
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  Speaker 1: Marcus Ratcliffe, Mario Craver, No, that's not right. They were scheduled,
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  Speaker 1: but we're going to hear, I think, from Marco Jones
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  Speaker 1: actually coming up. And Dabo, you knew he had to
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  Speaker 1: say something because he's playing LSU this weekend. Dabo blasted
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  Speaker 1: the return of NFL players, calling the concept embarrassing. Rarely
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  Speaker 1: am I at a loss for words, but I'm kind
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  Speaker 1: of at a loss for words. I would say it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of embarrassing. It's just embarrassing where we are. I
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  Speaker 1: don't blame the kids and people trying to take advantage
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  Speaker 1: of the system. I think it's embarrassing where we are
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  Speaker 1: with college football. Clemson is a 10-point dog against the
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  Speaker 1: Tigers on Saturday? I think that's Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: No, wait.
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  Speaker 1: Let me double-check.
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  Speaker 4: Um.
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  Speaker 1: Let me double check. I've got all these games written down.
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  Speaker 1: Is it Saturday?
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  Speaker 5: Saturday at 6.30.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, beautiful. TCU wide receiver Dozie Ezukanma was hospitalized three
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  Speaker 1: days with a brain bleed, concussion, and shoulder injury. Resulting
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  Speaker 1: from an attack in the locker room with former teammate
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  Speaker 1: Jacob Fields. The Dallas Morning News citing the arrest warrant affidavits.
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  Speaker 1: Fields was dismissed from the team. Allegedly punched his teammate,
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  Speaker 1: kicked him in the head. He was booked in Tarrant
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  Speaker 1: County Jail Sunday on aggravated assault, released on $ 50, 000 bond.
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  Speaker 1: The altercation occurred August 13th. Fields walked up to Azucanma,
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  Speaker 1: who was sitting in the locker room, struck him in
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  Speaker 1: the forehead, causing him to fall on the floor, and
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  Speaker 1: proceeded to kick him in the head, knocking him unconscious.
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  Speaker 1: As Uconma told police, he thinks it was because he
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  Speaker 1: was playing better than Fields in practice the day before
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  Speaker 1: and that they had been going hard at each other
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  Speaker 1: since the start of camp. He was taken to the hospital.
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  Speaker 1: A TCU athletic trainer told police the brain bleed could
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  Speaker 1: be life-threatening. as Ukama, a junior, appeared in five games
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  Speaker 1: with one start last year, did not travel with the
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  Speaker 1: team to Ireland this past weekend. Mercy. Tony Romo released
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  Speaker 1: a statement today saying he pleaded no contest to operating
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  Speaker 1: while intoxicating players following his Wisconsin arrest in July and
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  Speaker 1: calling it an incident of personal failure. This morning, said
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  Speaker 1: Romo in a statement, I faced a recent personal failure
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  Speaker 1: by pleading no contest to a civil offense for OWI.
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  Speaker 1: I own this completely. Multiple back surgeries ended my career
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  Speaker 1: earlier than I expected and left me with constant, debilitating pain.
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  Speaker 1: That pain led to a dependence on pain medication, and
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  Speaker 1: my efforts to get off those led to an over-reliance
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  Speaker 1: on alcohol. Roma was arrested July 23rd on suspicion of
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  Speaker 1: operating while intoxicated. He was coming from a golf tournament.
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  Speaker 1: He was issued four citations. My question is, if his
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  Speaker 1: back is so debilitating, how is he playing golf? Just
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  Speaker 1: a question. He has been suspended from his CBS broadcast
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  Speaker 1: duties and replaced, but I don't know that they've said
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  Speaker 1: anything more about his future status and whether he has
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  Speaker 1: a future status at CBS. In baseball, Oakland and the Rangers,
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  Speaker 1: game two of their series. The Rangers won last night. Repeat,
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  Speaker 1: the Rangers beat Oakland last night. I mean, come on.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob deGrom was really good last night. One hit in
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  Speaker 1: seven innings. Tenth win of the year through 85 pitches,
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  Speaker 1: no walks, and eight strikeouts. Eight to one was the final.
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  Speaker 1: They'll play again this evening. Mackenzie Gore on the mound
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  Speaker 1: for the Rangers tonight. who are still two games below.
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  Speaker 1: 500 and two games behind the Astros with 24 left
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  Speaker 1: in the season. The Rangers have signed Trevor Williams to
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  Speaker 1: a major league contract. The 34-year-old returned from injury this year,
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  Speaker 1: made eight relief appearances for Washington. Had an ERA of.
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  Speaker 1: 265 with 22 strikeouts. Was DFA'd last week. The perfect
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  Speaker 1: Ranger pickup given his injury issues. They have also recalled
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  Speaker 1: Cam Cawley from AAA Round Rock who will be on
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  Speaker 1: his second stint with the Rangers. But more injury issues.
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  Speaker 1: Peyton Gray, right elbow inflammation. Cole Wynn, right rotator cuff strain. So,
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  Speaker 1: Robbie Alstrom is back from AAA. Ben Peoples was recalled
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  Speaker 1: and pitched last night. Rangers have had some serious injuries.
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  Speaker 1: Still no word on Jack Leiter. or Nate Evaldi, or
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  Speaker 1: Josh Young, they could use all three of those guys
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  Speaker 1: down the stretch. The Astros beat the White Sox last
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  Speaker 1: night 6-3, the final there. Cam Smith, two for four
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  Speaker 1: with a double, triple, two runs batted in. Jordan Alvarez
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  Speaker 1: was one for three. And this is bad news for
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  Speaker 1: the American League West. Stan Kroenke has bought the Angels
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  Speaker 1: for $ 4 billion. $ 4 billion. from Artie Moreno, who has
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  Speaker 1: been a disaster as an owner of the Angels. Kroenke
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  Speaker 1: owns the Rams. He owns everything. The Nuggets, the Avalanche, again,
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  Speaker 1: reported price $ 4 billion. And that is not good news
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  Speaker 1: for the rest of the AL West. The San Diego
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  Speaker 1: Padres have called up 20-year-old catching prospect Ethan Salas. The
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  Speaker 1: move comes as the rosters expand because it's September 1st.
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  Speaker 1: He will become the youngest player in Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: The youngest catcher to reach. This is an easy one.
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  Speaker 1: The youngest catcher to reach the majors since... Pudge Rodriguez
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  Speaker 1: in 1991 as a 19-year-old. If this kid is a
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  Speaker 1: third as good as Pudge Rodriguez, he'll help out the Padres.
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  Speaker 1: And they're playing the U.S. Open in New York. American
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  Speaker 1: Madison Keyes won in straight sets today and ninth-seeded American
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  Speaker 1: Taylor Fritz. Beat fellow American Darwin Blanche in straight sets
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  Speaker 1: as well. Hey, there's some highlights of Madison Keyes. Speak
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Dockery has written a book called I am the night,
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  Speaker 1: the ultimate unauthorized history of Batman, the animated series. It
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  Speaker 1: is really interesting. There are lots of people that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: along the way, uh, in this book, including Spielbergo, the
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  Speaker 1: great Steven Spielberg, uh, So we will, Mark Hamill is
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  Speaker 1: part of this, believe it or not. There's all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of people from Batman, the animated series, and how that
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  Speaker 1: animated series was affected by the movies. And even the
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  Speaker 1: TV show. Okay, take a break. We'll come back. This
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  Speaker 3: The sun is hot and that.
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  Speaker 4: Old clock is moving slow, and so am I.
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  Speaker 6: Workday passes like molasses in wintertime.
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  Speaker 1: But it's July.
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  Speaker 6: I'm getting paid by the hour and older by the minute.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for joining us on this Tuesday. Scott Clendenin
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  Speaker 1: will join us tomorrow. We'll have topics. Mallory will be
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  Speaker 1: back with us tomorrow. Thursday, we will have our Clark
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  Speaker 1: Eisenhower outdoor edition. We'll have another high school report on
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  Speaker 1: Thursday and Friday. Kirk Bowles and Tony Catalina, not together, separately,
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  Speaker 1: will get you ready for the football weekend. That is
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  Speaker 1: on Friday. So we got that going on for us,
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  Speaker 1: which is nice. Let's do this. Let's hear a little
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  Speaker 1: bit from a guy who has... Got number one's attention
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  Speaker 1: during summer workouts, Marco Jones.
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  Speaker 10: What's been the biggest part of your game that you
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  Speaker 10: felt like you've improved this fall camp?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think overall for me, something that's really just improved.
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  Speaker 8: I think instead I was just lowering my pad level
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  Speaker 8: and just kind of staying in a more athletic base
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  Speaker 8: more often. I think at times last year I played
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  Speaker 8: a little too high. which, you know, just causes certain things,
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  Speaker 8: not necessarily like the worst thing in the world, but
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  Speaker 8: you definitely want to work on Pat Lowe. That's a
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  Speaker 8: big thing in my position. So I think that was
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  Speaker 8: the biggest thing for me. Alex.
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  Speaker 10: First, just wanted to ask you what you felt like
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  Speaker 10: the biggest strides this defense made during camp and what
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  Speaker 10: are some of the things y'all are talking about still
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  Speaker 10: room for improvement in?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think for us, you know, like we really like, Like,
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  Speaker 8: we've been talking the whole offseason about creating turnovers. I
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  Speaker 8: think that was a big thing. You know, we didn't
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  Speaker 8: have as many turnovers as we would have liked last year,
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  Speaker 8: so I think that was something that we've made big
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  Speaker 8: strides in. And I also think, like, you know, we
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  Speaker 8: just playing as one, like, one sound, right, like one click.
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  Speaker 8: I think that's, like, what just, you know, you look
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  Speaker 8: at all the elite defenses, they all play like it's
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  Speaker 8: one heartbeat. They're all on the same page all the time,
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  Speaker 8: so I think that's something else that we've been focusing on.
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  Speaker 10: And then I want to ask you about Anto Saka.
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  Speaker 10: What's impressed you the most about him, and just what
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  Speaker 10: are the ways you've maybe seen him improve over this offseason?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, his motor is just, like, out of
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  Speaker 8: this world. Like, he just always plays hard. Like, you
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  Speaker 8: never see him take plays off, right? He can have
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  Speaker 8: a good look at something, a bad look at something,
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  Speaker 8: whatever it is, but he's always going to play hard. And, like,
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  Speaker 8: you know, playing hard just, like, creates plays, right? Like,
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  Speaker 8: you play hard, like, a lot of people will give
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  Speaker 8: up the harder you play. So I think, like, that's
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  Speaker 8: what impresses me, just, like, Like that and just like
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  Speaker 8: his dedication to the game. He just loves the game
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  Speaker 8: of football. Like some people play it for, you know,
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  Speaker 8: other reasons, but he really, you could tell he loves
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  Speaker 8: the game of football.
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  Speaker 11: All the way in the back with Landon. Margot, you've
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  Speaker 11: had to have a few linebackers step in this offseason
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  Speaker 11: with Damian going down with his injuries. Kind of talk
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  Speaker 11: about their progression this offseason from your perspective and their
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  Speaker 11: level of communication to you guys and learning what they're
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  Speaker 11: supposed to be doing in the defense.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, all the linebackers, like the whole linebacker room, right,
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  Speaker 8: like whether it's Jordan, Noah, Ray, T-Watt, all those guys
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  Speaker 8: have really stepped up. They've all really done a great job.
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  Speaker 8: I think that they're all playing together now and not
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  Speaker 8: just trying to figure it out. They all understand it.
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  Speaker 8: I think they all understood it before, to be honest.
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  Speaker 8: You see it when the game slows down. You can
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  Speaker 8: tell the game slows down for everyone, especially the freshmen.
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  Speaker 8: The other guys have a lot of experience, but the
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  Speaker 8: freshmen really, at least I know for me last year,
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  Speaker 8: it kind of moves fast. You can tell the freshmen
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  Speaker 8: the game's slowing down for them. They're really good at
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  Speaker 8: communicating now. They make sure the front is always set.
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  Speaker 8: We're all on the same page, and they're just the
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  Speaker 8: communicators of the defense.
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  Speaker 2: Travis and then Carter. Hey, Marco, when you sit where
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  Speaker 2: you are right now this year compared to last year,
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  Speaker 2: how do you feel like y'all are ahead, same, behind schedule?
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  Speaker 2: Where do y'all feel like y'all are?
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  Speaker 8: I think we're right on pace. I think that as
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  Speaker 8: long as you just keep your head down and just
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  Speaker 8: work hard, you'll always be in the right spot. Obviously,
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  Speaker 8: week to week, things happen, things change, stuff like that.
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  Speaker 8: There's going to be a dogfight throughout the whole season.
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  Speaker 8: You play that many SEC games against that many good teams,
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  Speaker 8: it's going to be a dogfight for every team in
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  Speaker 8: the SEC. I think that's kind of what we're just
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  Speaker 8: trying to look one game at a time, especially now
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  Speaker 8: that fall camp is done. We're just trying to focus
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  Speaker 8: all our energy and focus on one game at a time,
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  Speaker 8: one day at a time, and just stay on the
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  Speaker 8: same page.
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  Speaker 12: Carter? Marco, what's been your impressions of the offensive line,
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  Speaker 12: and how have you kind of seen them grow this preseason?
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  Speaker 12: And then in Fordham being Adams in particular, what have
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  Speaker 12: you kind of made of them going up against them
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  Speaker 12: in practice?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think our O-line is going to be a
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  Speaker 8: really good group. I mean, I feel like, you know,
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  Speaker 8: like for people in the media and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 8: it's like a big question mark just because we had
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  Speaker 8: our super veteran line last year, but I think we're
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  Speaker 8: not going to really miss anything like we did last year.
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  Speaker 8: I think like, you know, Our O-line plays really well
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  Speaker 8: together from none of them really playing together outside of
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  Speaker 8: one or two guys maybe. But yeah, I think our
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  Speaker 8: O-line plays really good together. Tyree and Wilkin, they both
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  Speaker 8: are really good players. They both just know what they're doing.
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  Speaker 8: You don't ever really see them mess up a whole lot,
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  Speaker 8: stuff like that. That's kind of what you need in
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  Speaker 8: an O-line. You just need people that are reliable and
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  Speaker 8: are going to get the job done on the time.
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  Speaker 1: Tony?
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  Speaker 2: Marco, I asked Elko about just your development, and he
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  Speaker 2: said this is a year where you kind of match
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  Speaker 2: your size, where your skill set, and how you've kind
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  Speaker 2: of developed. So from your standpoint personally, have you kind
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  Speaker 2: of hit the 10 poles that you were trying to
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  Speaker 2: this year? And do you feel like you could have
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  Speaker 2: a breakout year that many hope to see from you?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, I think that, you know, like my overall goals,
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  Speaker 8: like I kind of, you know, like I'm still striving
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  Speaker 8: every day. I feel like, you know, as a competitor
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  Speaker 8: and an athlete, like for however long you play, you're
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  Speaker 8: never actually going to reach all your goals that you want,
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  Speaker 8: because whether you're Like Tom Brady, he went seven Super Bowls.
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  Speaker 8: You're always going to want another one, right? You can
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  Speaker 8: never be perfect. So I think always, like, I'm always
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  Speaker 8: striving to be better, be the best version of myself.
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  Speaker 8: But overall, like, I think I've progressed a good amount.
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  Speaker 8: Just really just, you know, just kind of just being
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  Speaker 8: a little bit more experienced, right? Like, I mean, last
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  Speaker 8: year I came in, never really played at edge before, like,
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  Speaker 8: coming in because I was a backer in high school.
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  Speaker 8: And so, like, it's really got that under my belt
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  Speaker 8: and really just, like, you know, just stepping up and
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  Speaker 8: trying to do my job.
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  Speaker 10: Alex and then Matthew. You mentioned playing linebacker in high school.
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  Speaker 10: What was the biggest change you had to go through
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  Speaker 10: in your game to be able to play edge at
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  Speaker 10: a higher level?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think just really, for me, just coming off
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  Speaker 8: the line of scrimmage, it's just a little different. Like,
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  Speaker 8: you know, when you're in space at linebacker, you know,
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  Speaker 8: you're four or five yards deep. It's a different flow.
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  Speaker 8: You have different reads, stuff like that. Like, you can
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  Speaker 8: kind of move at your own pace a little bit.
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  Speaker 8: When you're at edge, like, you know, it's right there
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  Speaker 8: in your face. There's no, like, you have to Focus
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  Speaker 8: on the job right in front of you, the man
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  Speaker 8: in front of you, before you try and go do
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  Speaker 8: the next thing. A linebacker, you can kind of look
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  Speaker 8: at the overall perspective and, like, go, like, make the play.
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  Speaker 8: At edge, it's a little different where, especially in, like,
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  Speaker 8: the run game, where you have to defeat your block
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  Speaker 8: first and then go get off and go make a
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  Speaker 8: play instead of, like, trying to just go make a
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  Speaker 8: play from the jump.
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  Speaker 10: And then Hemphill had mentioned Sam and Pemba to us
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  Speaker 10: the other day. Just what have you seen from his
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  Speaker 10: growth and what he could maybe bring to the table
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  Speaker 10: for you guys this season?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, Sam's a really good player. I mean, I think
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  Speaker 8: he's gotten a lot better, and he's been doing a
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  Speaker 8: great job. I mean, I think this year is going
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  Speaker 8: to be his year. He's going to show everybody. Everybody's
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  Speaker 8: going to know his name by the end of the year.
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: Sam's a dog. He just has a really strong work ethic.
• 21:50
  Speaker 8: He flies around. He knows what he's doing. You don't
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: see him messing up a whole lot. He's one of
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: them guys for sure.
• 21:56
  Speaker 11: We'll wrap things up with Matthew.
• 21:59
  Speaker 10: I think with the season getting closer, what do you
• 22:01
  Speaker 10: think the defensive line can be like by the time
• 22:03
  Speaker 10: you all get into the SEC play?
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: I mean, that's kind of a hard question to answer
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: because kind of like I said, like, you know, I'm
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: not really thinking about SEC play right now, to be honest.
• 22:14
  Speaker 8: We're just thinking about the game one. But, I mean,
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: you know, we're a group of dogs, so that's just
• 22:20
  Speaker 8: what you can expect. You can expect us to go
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: out there and make plays and, you know, give it
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: all every single down, every single play, every single game, so.
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: That's just what it is. But, you know, I can't
• 22:30
  Speaker 8: really speak too much in the future because, you know,
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: it's just like time will tell. But I'm definitely confident
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: in our D-line myself.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: It's Marco Jones, defensive end. And it's Tuesday. Kickoff's Saturday.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Tennessee has signed a jersey patch sponsorship with First Horizon.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: What is First Horizon? Is that a bank? Look that up.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Ten years, more than $ 120 million. Was it the Big
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: 12 that was bragging about their name sponsorship? It was
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: like $ 14 million or something like that?
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: First Horizon is a bank.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Okay. I'm assuming in Tennessee. I mean, that would be
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: the Assumption there. 10 years, more than $ 120 million. So
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: $ 12 million for a patch for one team. And the
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Big 12 got, what, $ 14 million for a patch or
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: something like that? And everybody said, I think they undersold this.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: And I think they did undersell that. Texas A &
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: M says there have been 41,000 student tickets claimed. That's
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: a lot of student tickets. Now, we've talked about this before.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I think this is correct. There's not necessarily 41,000 seats
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: for the students at Kyle Field, but that doesn't mean
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: there won't be 41,000 students at the game. That's a lot.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Why is Kyle Field loud? Well, let's start with the 41,000 students.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: That's crazy. Wouldn't you.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: And I don't know what the second biggest student section is.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say, generally speaking, at most of these,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: and I'm talking about big-time schools.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: 10,000.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: To 12,000, 13,000 students. So up to, yeah, go ahead, Stan.
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: So the second place is Ohio State. with 29,000.
• 25:24
  Speaker 14: Okay.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: And third place is Penn State with 21,000.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Okay. So, almost double Penn State, which is the third
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: most students. Ohio State, 29,000. That's a lot. I mean,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: it's a big school, right? A big stadium, but still,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: that is a lot. I'm going to say, look up
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: how many Texas has. I'm going to say it's around 12,000
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: to 13,000. That's my guess. Um, 41,000 students. That makes
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: it loud. Now, as I said yesterday, I'm going to
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: look today. Tickets on the secondary market were about the
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: cheapest tickets were $ 42 in the upper deck end zone
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: for the game Saturday evening.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: Texas' stadium for their student section is $ 13, 000.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: That's what I thought. Somewhere around there. So I mean,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: that's a third. My Richardson high math tells me that's
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: less than a third.
• 26:36
  Speaker 8: Okay?
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's awesome. It's awesome that they would do that.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, they get some revenue through the passes, but not...
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Not nearly what it would be like for, you know,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: regular seats. Not close. So that's pretty cool. And it
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: is opening game. I expect the majority of those 41,000
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: to be at the game on Saturday night. And Let's see,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: I had one more little note here. Ah, I didn't
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: have this in my headlines, but UCLA fired their athletic
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: director five days before kickoff. So we're going in another direction.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know if the president or board members were
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: at practice and didn't like what they saw. I did
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: see that UCLA is like a two-point favorite over Cal.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I'm going to throw that out there. That's one of
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: our games that we're picking this week. And saw that
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: UCLA at Cal, UCLA was maybe a two-point favorite. That
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be, given the history of the programs, and this
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: is a state school, right? Right. And this just in, Stan.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: According to the Dallas Morning News, Dallas-based streaming platform Victory Plus,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: which until earlier this season carried the Rangers and carried
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: the Dallas Stars, has been dissolved. And it did high
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: school football. according to an email sent to multiple school
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: districts in the DFW area who are scheduled to have
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Texas high school football broadcast this season on that streaming platform.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: So Victory Plus is no more, okay? The Stars had
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: already announced that they would not be broadcasting on Victory Plus,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: but they would be broadcasting On Amazon Prime, which means
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: you have to pay for it because Victory Plus was
• 29:31
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• 29:42
  Speaker 1: the Rangers left, the Ducks terminating their contract, and most
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: of all of this came amidst reports of missed payments and, quote,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: financial issues. concerns the Seattle Kraken are also on Prime
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: it would be part of an encompassing Amazon Prime subscription
• 30:16
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• 30:21
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• 30:27
  Speaker 1: of what you're already paying for in your streaming service
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: But yeah, that's a mess. I've said this many times.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: I stand by it. It will not be too much
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: longer at all until you will be paying for all
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: of your sports. Yes, fans, including Aggie football. Games will
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  Speaker 1: going to pay the schools okay most of the espn
• 31:07
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• 31:25
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• 31:28
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• 31:33
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• 31:43
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• 31:47
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• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Welcome into the High School Report.
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: I'm Caleb Rapley, and today we are jumping out to
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: the Polaris Fund Center phone line.
• 34:38
  Speaker 16: To visit with the head coach of the St. Joseph
• 34:40
  Speaker 16: Eagles football team, Mr. Jeff Norris. Coach, thanks for joining
• 34:44
  Speaker 16: me today.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Happy to be here.
• 34:47
  Speaker 16: So we are officially in the thick of the Texas
• 34:52
  Speaker 16: high school football season in both the public, private, and
• 34:56
  Speaker 16: homeschool schedules. Your Eagles got their season started this past weekend,
• 35:01
  Speaker 16: Friday night, taking on local rival Allen Academy, unfortunately, coming up.
• 35:07
  Speaker 16: little bit short in that game but it was a
• 35:09
  Speaker 16: very competitive football game 42 to 30 the final score
• 35:13
  Speaker 16: it's very early in the season hard to say too
• 35:16
  Speaker 16: much about your team but what were some of your
• 35:18
  Speaker 16: takeaways from week one we had a.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: Couple of breaks go against us which you know that
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: sometimes it's hard to come back from things like you
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: know big momentum swings and things like that um it
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: was kind of an odd night as well. We had
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: over a two hour delay for our kickoff. And so
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: I think it was just a combination of things. It
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: wasn't ideal for, for our first game out, but you know,
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: at the same time, Alan had to deal with the
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: same things. So, but I was really pleased with how
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: our kids kept fighting back. They just never could get
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: the lead. I feel like if they could have, converted
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: some of the, you know, one of those drives where
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: they could have taken the lead. I think it would
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: have been a different story, but they, man, they fought hard.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: I just, you know, physically, they just ran out of gas. And,
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: you know, by the end of the game, it was
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: well past midnight and, you know, kids just aren't used
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: to playing at that time. You know, it just didn't
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: quite have enough in the tank to get it done.
• 36:26
  Speaker 16: Well, that is, The purpose of early in the season
• 36:29
  Speaker 16: non-district games is to get your lumps early and develop
• 36:34
  Speaker 16: from those.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: We don't have a lot of depth across the board,
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: and so we're still trying to figure out the best
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: way to utilize certain guys and certain positions to be
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: able to get guys enough rest, but also have key
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: guys on the field when we need them. Still trying
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: to figure those things out. You know, and of course,
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: everybody's been battling the heat. So, you know, trying to
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: get enough practice time, you know, around the heat guidelines
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: and things, you know, has been tough as well. So really,
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: really just trying to get enough reps to see what
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: all these guys can do.
• 37:14
  Speaker 16: It's always interesting, you know, for someone like myself, whenever
• 37:18
  Speaker 16: I'm reading the preview magazines and I'm looking at returning
• 37:21
  Speaker 16: starters and I say, oh, this team's only got two
• 37:24
  Speaker 16: returning starters. And then I realized, oh yeah, this is
• 37:26
  Speaker 16: six-man football. So there's not as many players on the roster.
• 37:31
  Speaker 16: So to that effect, if it being six-man, does that change,
• 37:36
  Speaker 16: for example, with conditioning, not having any offensive, defensive linemen,
• 37:40
  Speaker 16: does that change kind of your strategy when trying to
• 37:43
  Speaker 16: develop these players?
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: No, we still have those personnel groups. They're more situational than...
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: maybe you would see, you know, we may not have
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: a full gamut of offensive linemen on the field at once.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: We typically have at least two on the field. And
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: so we do still have that position group in practice.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: You know, we still have defensive linemen. We have defensive
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: ends and nose guards, but we don't, you know, we
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: don't employ the nose guard a whole lot, but you
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: still have, you still have those groups. And so we
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: do still have to practice those things. Yeah, the conditioning
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: part of it, it is a little bit more demanding.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: There's a lot more accountability in six-man for you to
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: cover space. And so I think it's almost percentage-wise, it's
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: almost two-thirds as much of a field as an 11-man
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: player would have to cover. So yeah, it is different.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: I have coached at both. I will say that the
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: years that we did 11-man, it improved our training for
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: six-man because of just the different things that we figured
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: out how to cover and practice and it made us
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: a better six man football team. So, but yeah, it
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: is a challenge. And, you know, to your earlier question, we,
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: we don't have a lot of returning players. We had
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: a few seniors graduate from the team last year. We
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: had a couple of current upperclassmen that decided not to play.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: And we, we had a serious loss in our first
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: scrimmage with one of our starting offensive lineman, Harrison Hundle.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: And so, yeah, we don't, we're still trying to find
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: some chemistry. These guys, they haven't. played together a lot,
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: at least not in recent years. Maybe they did in
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: middle school, but last year they had a lot of
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: injuries of the guys that did come back. And so, yeah,
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: still trying to find that chemistry, that balance.
• 39:44
  Speaker 16: So like you said, not a lot of returning players
• 39:46
  Speaker 16: this year. Have there been any young players in particular
• 39:49
  Speaker 16: step up to fill those holes?
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: Well, I think the big thing with me coming in
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: was just a new set of eyes. And so we
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: pretty immediately moved some guys around from positions that they
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: had played previously just because of the system that we
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: run and kind of the expectations of different positions and
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: the skill sets that these kids had. And so Luke
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: Krasinic is, he's a sophomore. He was not really a
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: quarterback in the past, but we kind of identified him
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: pretty quick as a very intelligent player, very hardworking, very coachable.
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: And he is, he's done a really good job of
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: stepping in and And he had a pretty good game Friday.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: I think he ended up seven out of 11 through
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: a touchdown. He also caught a touchdown, which in six man,
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: that's not unusual. We actually had three guys throw the
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: ball Friday and four guys rush and six guys catch passes.
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: So very versatile group, but he's done a good job.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: Felipe said along goes another sophomore that is just extremely hardworking.
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: He's very tough. He's not the biggest kid, but he's
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: probably our best tackler. He's really intuitive on offense. He
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: can play a lot of different positions. And so we've
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: moved him around a little bit as well. But yeah,
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: Simon Weiderholt had never played at St.
• 41:31
  Speaker 9: Joe's.
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: He's a junior. He's extremely talented. If anybody saw that
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: game Friday, he's, he was pretty outstanding on both sides,
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: but he was over 200 yards offensively and had several big,
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: big plays throughout the game. I think he had an
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: interception as well. So yeah, I mean, we've, we've had
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: to have, you know, with not very many guys returning,
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: we've had to have new people step forward. And so yeah, Yeah,
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: they continue to do that. You know, Jaron Cruz is
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: another sophomore. We're very sophomore heavy. And so he's kind
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: of a speed guy. He can make plays for us.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: You know, we hated losing Hundle. I really thought Hundle
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: could have been an all-state player, possibly even on both
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: sides of the ball. We lose him at linebacker and
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: on offensive line. And so that's a big loss for us.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: And he's a captain. He's kind of a big leadership
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: role on the team. And so we'll have to fill
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: his shoes somehow. Um, but yeah, we certainly could use
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: a few more guys to continue to step up.
• 42:37
  Speaker 16: Your next game, uh, will be this weekend against leverage
• 42:41
  Speaker 16: chapel going on the road. Uh, so what do you
• 42:43
  Speaker 16: expect to see from them?
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: Kind of similar to us, not very deep, but you know,
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: guys playing both ways, um, pretty much at every position.
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: I think they're starting six is the same on both sides. Um,
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: they're a good group. They've, you know, their, their linemen
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: are physical. Um, one of their backs is pretty good
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: size as well. So, you know, just with, with any,
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: anytime we play UIL schools, we know they're going to
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: be aggressive. They're going to, they're going to get after us.
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: They're going to be physical. So our guys just have
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: to be ready for that. But, you know, we had
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: a pretty physical game Friday against Allen. And so I
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: think they'll, they'll rise to that, to that challenge. And
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: I think we learned a lot about ourselves last week
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: as well. So, Hopefully we can contain, you know, Leverett
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: said they got a pretty good running game, some pretty good,
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: decent athletes. And so hopefully we can contain that, move
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: the ball offensively and come up with a good night.
• 43:46
  Speaker 10: All right, Coach.
• 43:46
  Speaker 16: Well, I appreciate your time today. Good luck this season.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Jett Nelson with your Houston Astros report. The Astros
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  Speaker 4: used big swings to open up the series against the
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  Speaker 4: big swings to defeat the Chicago White Sox last night,
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  Speaker 4: that final score 6-3. The first two innings were quiet
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  Speaker 4: as Peter Lambert started strong for the Astros. He finished
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  Speaker 4: with only two runs allowed on three hits, but walks
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  Speaker 4: was the issue with five given up. Jordan Alvarez struck
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  Speaker 4: first with an RBI ground out in the bottom third.
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  Speaker 4: The White Sox would respond with a pair of runs
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  Speaker 4: to take the lead in the top fourth. And in
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  Speaker 4: the same inning, Nelson Velazquez would use this long ball
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  Speaker 4: to put Houston in front for good.
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  Speaker 1: That ball drilled high and deep.
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  Speaker 13: Astros lead it 3-2.
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  Speaker 14: Third hit is an Astros and two-run home run for
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  Speaker 14: Nelson Velasquez.
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  Speaker 4: Christian Walker and Cam Smith would provide another pair of
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  Speaker 4: insurance runs in the fifth to secure the win. Game
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  Speaker 18: I got a few years on me now.
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  Speaker 13: But there was a time back in my prime.
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  Speaker 9: When I could really lay it down.
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  Speaker 1: The late great Toby Keith with us here on the program.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us on this Tuesday. Last night, the
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  Speaker 1: Rangers beat the A's. Now, normally you'd say, so what?
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  Speaker 1: It's the A's. And you'd be right, but the A's
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  Speaker 1: just have owned the Rangers historically. Last night, Oakland looked
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  Speaker 1: like a bad team. But, you know, tonight, given who
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  Speaker 1: the Rangers are, they could look just as bad. Mackenzie
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  Speaker 1: Gore is on the mound tonight. Last night, everybody got hits.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody was doing good, including Brandon Nimmo.
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  Speaker 18: We just did a really good job of making every
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  Speaker 18: at-bat count, and we didn't leave many runners on base.
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  Speaker 18: So however that was, whether it was some two-out knocks
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  Speaker 18: with runners in scoring position or... you know some sack
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  Speaker 18: flies you know just kind of not trying to do
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  Speaker 18: too much honestly I think a little bit of like
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  Speaker 18: kind of what the Brewers did to us you know
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  Speaker 18: over the weekend so I think the guys came out
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  Speaker 18: and played really well tonight had great focus right from
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  Speaker 18: the beginning and it manifested in to a pretty good win.
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  Speaker 18: So we've had trouble with them this year. That's been
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  Speaker 18: no secret. And so to come out and win the
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  Speaker 18: first game like this against a great young pitcher in
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  Speaker 18: jump was really awesome. So a lot of quality at-bats
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  Speaker 18: and just not giving one AB away. It makes a
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  Speaker 18: big difference psychologically. Hits are really hard to come by
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  Speaker 18: in this game, especially in the big leagues. You'll take
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  Speaker 18: them however you can get them because you have plenty
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  Speaker 18: of balls that you hit really well right at people.
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  Speaker 18: When you get on base and it was a tougher play,
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  Speaker 18: you want to see that base hit. uh more than
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  Speaker 18: anything i was glad to score the run i didn't
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  Speaker 18: know they had changed it until i got back to
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  Speaker 18: the dugout um and uh some of the guys told
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  Speaker 18: me but um you know for me right now it's
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  Speaker 18: more about the team and winning uh these games and
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  Speaker 18: trying to get into the playoffs so i was happy
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  Speaker 18: that uh i was able to score the run get
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  Speaker 18: on base for us and score the run We've got
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  Speaker 18: a few road games here in September. And so, you know,
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  Speaker 18: we just try and take it one game at a time.
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  Speaker 18: Don't try and blow it out of proportion. Take it
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  Speaker 18: one game at a time. And, you know, we'll see
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  Speaker 18: if we can continue that success here. But it's been
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  Speaker 18: a great place for us to play. We love playing
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  Speaker 18: in front of our fans. We love the atmosphere here.
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  Speaker 18: And we're comfortable here. So, you know, let's keep that going,
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  Speaker 18: but just one game.
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  Speaker 10: At a time.
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Nimmo had a couple of hits and a sack
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  Speaker 1: fly last night.
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  Speaker 13: And.
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  Speaker 1: They need his bat. They really need Corey Seager. How
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  Speaker 1: many times have I said that all year long? A lot.
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  Speaker 1: 68-70 with 24 games to play. Two games behind the
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  Speaker 1: Astros who beat the White Sox last night and the
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  Speaker 1: 6-3 was the final there. Cam Smith had a double
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  Speaker 1: and a triple. Um, Nelson Velasquez had a home run,
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  Speaker 1: his first hit with the Astros. And afterward, let's go
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  Speaker 1: to Joe Espada. Stan, the manager of the Astros talked
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  Speaker 1: about the win.
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  Speaker 19: Well, you know, in that particular bat, you know, Richards
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  Speaker 19: is a reverse split. Righty's handling him well. We have
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  Speaker 19: the lead, so I want to keep my best defense
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  Speaker 19: in the game. And I have a lot of confidence
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  Speaker 19: in Ken Smith, especially against Richard in that spot. It's
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  Speaker 19: a really good matchup for him. Just a young player, man.
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  Speaker 19: This is learning in the big leagues, developing in the
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  Speaker 19: big leagues. For me, it's how we help them throughout
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  Speaker 19: those stretches, right? The ups and downs of baseball season.
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  Speaker 19: We have to trust them. We got to build them up,
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  Speaker 19: give them confidence and You know, he's a strong-minded kid,
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  Speaker 19: so he's going to turn out to be a really
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  Speaker 19: good player. We just got to help him through this process. Yeah,
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  Speaker 19: you know, he also is big. It was his first hit,
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  Speaker 19: but he also had a really big sack fly in
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  Speaker 19: San Francisco. Those count, right? We got to look at
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  Speaker 19: the whole entire approach. He's working hard. You know, he's
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  Speaker 19: hit some balls really hard. He did also in city field.
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  Speaker 19: He did that ball tracing. So it's coming. I'm just
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  Speaker 19: glad that the first one to actually put some numbers
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  Speaker 19: in the batting average meant a lot for him and
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  Speaker 19: our club. Like I mentioned earlier, that's a scrappy lineup.
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  Speaker 19: They will make you work. A ton of pitches, he
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  Speaker 19: pitched out of trouble multiple times. The walks drove his
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  Speaker 19: pitch count up, but Peter just finds a way to
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  Speaker 19: get us somewhere in the fifth. He keeps us in
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  Speaker 19: the game, and I tip my hat to him. He's
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  Speaker 19: been one of our best.
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  Speaker 1: Peter Lambert got the start, but he had five walks,
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  Speaker 1: so he only lasted four and two-thirds innings. Sounds like
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  Speaker 1: a Ranger pitcher, actually. Jacob deGrom was nails last night.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob deGrom pitched like a Hall of Fame pitcher last night.
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  Speaker 1: He has been terribly inconsistent. He was terrible in his
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  Speaker 1: last start, but last night, He went seven innings, gave
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  Speaker 1: up one hit, faced one more than the minimum number
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  Speaker 1: of batters, 22 batters, was great. Eight Ks, no walks,
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  Speaker 1: threw 85 pitches, and that's the guy they need, you know,
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  Speaker 1: every fifth day coming down. He'll get probably five more starts.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what they need, especially with no Evaldi, no lighter.
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  Speaker 1: They've really had to piece things together. So we're in
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