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Steve Sarkisian recaps win over Oklahoma, looks ahead to Georgia · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: It's the Craig Way Show with the voice of the
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  Texas Longhorns in Hall of Fame Broadcasting, Craig Way.
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  Speaker 2: Here are the Longhorns Monday as Texas comes off that
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  thirty four to three winter of the Oklahoma Sooners winning
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  that Red River rivalry matchup. Now, so I know a
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  lot of the trends had pointed out Oklahoma and won,
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  you know whatever, seven of the last ten. Now it's
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  seven of the last eleven. As folks had pointed out.
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  Texas can point to now having won two of the
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  last three, having outscored Oklahoma in that eighty three to
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  three during that time, outscoring them by eighty points. So
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  they get the bragging right to get the Golden hat.
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  And now it's on to Georgia and getting ready for
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  the fifth ranked team in the country. Texas, by the way,
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  did widen the gap in to the voting polls.
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  Speaker 3: The AP Pole and the Coaches poll.
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  Speaker 2: They garnered fifty six of the sixty two first place
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  votes in the AP poll I believe fifty three to
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  fifty five first place votes in the Coaches poll. Warrington
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  is now number two in both polls following the Ducks
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  win over Ohio State. But we all know that until
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  the college football playoff ranking start coming out in early November,
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  the rest of that doesn't matter an awful lot. It's
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  about just continuing to play and get ready for the
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  next one. And that was that code by Long Worn's
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  head coach Steve Sarkisian. We brought.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they didn't waiver, We had a sudden change.
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  They went in, they played really good defense, they settled,
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  they settled everything down in the second quarter, you know,
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  the offense really got rolling. I think we had over
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  two hundred and twenty something yards there in the second quarter,
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  found some explosive plays. Again, played complimentary football. We got
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  the turnover score in one play. Our special teams continue
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  to play at.
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  Speaker 3: A high level.
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  Speaker 4: And then you know, for us, obviously the goal is
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  if we can get a lead, extend the lead, try
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  to make people one dimensional, and then try to go
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  affect the quarterback and so to come out of the
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  game with five sacks I think thirty pressures or something
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  on the quarterback, that's a that's a good, you know,
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  kind of recipe for success for us in a style
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  of play. And on the same token, protect our quarterback.
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  You know, oh you had a really good pass rush
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  and ability to get to the quarterback. They sacked us
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  on the first play of the game and then didn't
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  give up another one after that, and so.
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  Speaker 3: All in all, was really proud of our guys.
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  Speaker 4: They're poise, their composure, their ability to play sixty minutes.
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  I was so proud of that group that in there
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  at the end uh to to maintain not giving up
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  a touchdown in the game.
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  Speaker 3: So, all in all was a good win for us.
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  I was happy for the guys.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's always a great moment and you can
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  bring the golden hat home, But as I said Saturday,
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  it's more work to do and we've got a heck
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  of a challenge this weekend against Georgia, very good football team.
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  Have a ton of respect for coach Smart and the
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  job that he's done at Georgia. They've kind of somewhat
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  been the standard of college football here now for the
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  last oh, you know, six seven years. You know, I
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  think they've been to you know, seven SEC championship games.
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  You know, they won three in a row, back to
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  back national champs, competed for a third and so you know,
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  they've recruited really well, they've got great schemes, are really
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  well coached. You know, I know that the moment won't
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  be too big for them coming into dk R. But
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  with that being said, we need DKR to be rocking.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: We need to make sure that that we've got a
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  home field advantage and one that you know, our fans
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  have done a tremendous job all year.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, and we're looking forward.
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  Speaker 4: For that with another night game, a lot happening in
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  Austin this weekend with F one, with College Game Day
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  being here, and I think to the point I made
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  to the players, we need to continue to stay enamor
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  with us and what we need to do and focus
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  on the task at hand and not get caught up
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  in what you guys are talking about or anybody else
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  is talking about. It's not what other people say. It's
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  actually about what we do. It's about our action and
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  we can control. We can control. And that was today's
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  walkthrough and implementation of the game plan, and then focus
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  on it one day at a time from there. So
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  great challenge, great opportunity. I know our players are looking
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  forward to it. Like I said, against a very good opponent.
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  Speaker 2: All right, those were the opening comments, the opening statement
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  there from Sark, and then it went on to the
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  questions the Q and A. For him, the first thing
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  he was asked about us about the defense, which played
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  so well and really on a day when they did
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  a lot with the five sacks and the takeaways. What
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  impressed Sark most about the defense that.
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  Speaker 3: We're not a one dimensional defense.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you think to yourself, Okay, where's the where's
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  the holes? I would say, gosh, okay, you know there.
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  You know we're we got to try to run it
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  to control it so we can minimize the pass rush.
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  But it's difficult to run it. Okay, you want to
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  take shots. Well, we don't give up explosive passes. I
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  think we gave up one explosive pass Saturday on a
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  curl route. Okay, Well, maybe let's get too empty and
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  spread them out and find completions. Well, the pass rush
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  is getting home, and so that would be the thing
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  and be you always try to look for, Okay, where
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  can I gain an advantage? But I think the one
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  thing in evaluating our defense is that we're playing really
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  well across the board. We're not playing great against the run,
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  and we're struggling against the pass or vice versa.
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  Speaker 3: I think we're pretty balanced that way, all right.
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  Speaker 2: The other things that you got the address, and this
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  was an interesting thing he was He was asked about
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  players who transfer into the program. Now, when this day
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  and age, in this modern era of college football, with
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  the transfer portal and nil and all of the things
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  that have changed the game a bit, sometimes transfers it.
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  It does hit differently, and it doesn't hit differently in
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  a good way a lot of times. And the long
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  runs have had some of those that were kind of
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  more missed than hit. But by and large, the players
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  who have transferred into the program and are playing the
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  season have hit in a big way and they've they've
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  made a difference. And so Sark was asked, what makes
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  it work when you have the are opportunity to bring
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  guys in and what you know. The other part of
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  the question was when you are researching guys who have
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  put their name into the portal, what goes into the process.
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  How well do you know these guys? How does that
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  all come together when you're trying to decide who you
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  would like to take once they had put their name
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  in the portal.
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  Speaker 4: I think all the guys that we took, you know,
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  Trey Moore, Andrew mccuba, Matthew Golden, Silas Bolden, Isaiah Bond,
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  Amari Ny Black.
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  Speaker 3: I feel bad if I'm forgetting somebody here.
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  Speaker 1: But.
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  Speaker 4: All of them, and all the d lineman obviously from
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  Norton to Lola and Tia, we had some sort of
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  background with. Okay, we recruited matt Golden really hard out
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  of high school, so we had an idea of what
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  he was made up of. We recruited Isaiah Bond really
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  hard out of high school. Johnny Nansen coached two of
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  the three defensive linemen and recruited you know, Jermaine lay Uh,
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  Trey Moore we competed against, and then you know, the
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  one that we didn't was Silas. But yet a good
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  friend of mine is Jonathan Smith, who was his head
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  coach at Oregon State at that time. We knew a
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  lot of people from his high school in that area
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  in southern California, Rancho Cucamonga High School, and so we
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  just tried to dive.
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  Speaker 3: Into the character and what his makeup was.
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  Speaker 4: And you don't, you're not a guy of his stature
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  physically and have the success that you've had at this level.
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  If you don't have a huge heart if you don't
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  play the game with an immense amount of courage and
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  effort and resilience. And that's what we got. You know,
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  we got a guy who plays that way. It's maximum effort.
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  Uh exudes courage every every chance that he gets. And
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  I think that that's what we see. You know, I
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  reference to the team today and in our meeting, you know,
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  through our good, bad and ugly session. You know, last year,
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  there was a play last season. It was ironically when
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  Quinny come back, he gets TCU with an interception, when
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  you saw Jordan Winnington and Xavier Worthy both get up
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  off the ground chase a guy down, Jordan knocks the
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  ball loose and Xavier recovers the fumble and and really
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  changed the momentum of that game when that game could
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  have went a different direction. And I felt like the
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  play Silas made Saturday on Trey's touchdown run was another
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  culture play. If you want to try to exemplify what
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  this team is about. Here's a guy that blocks a corner.
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  He's in the backfield and Tray's about twenty yards ahead
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  of him, and nowhere in there did he think to
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  put his hands in the air and just let the
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  guy score. I mean he turned and was sprinting to
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  get to the football, and ironically enough, that ball came
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  out and he was Johnny on the spot. And that
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  was a seven to three game at that time, and
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  how that could have really changed the complexion of that
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  game if we don't score that touchdown to make it
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  fourteen to three. So I'm always looking for plays to
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  point out, you know, you know, amazing effort, and we
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  take pride in the effort that we play with. But
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  then I try to find those plays that I refer
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  to him as culture plays, you know, to me, that
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  was our culture that Silas has fit in beautifully too,
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  that in my opinion, really kind of kickstarted us there
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  in that third quarter, excuse me, second quarter.
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  Speaker 2: One other question, this one about his defensive line and
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  the movement that the Loghorns have employed on that defensive
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  front with the ends swinging around going to three down,
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  look four down, look even five down in some cases,
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  and the movement off the edge as well, and Sark
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  was asked how much of a factor is that in
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  making it more difficult for opposing offenses?
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  Speaker 4: You know, that's something again I think our defensive staff
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  has done a great job with Trey Moore's another one
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  of those guys that's moved around a fair amount.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: Again, we feel like we've got some pretty good pass
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  rushers now. And you know, as an offensive coach, if
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  you know where they're going to line up every play,
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  you can.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of scheme and game plan for that.
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  Speaker 4: But when you start to give a variety of looks
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  and you can try to create some of those one
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  on one matchups for these guys, that's when they are
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  really at their best. And you know, a couple of
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  weeks ago, it was calling, you know, working off the
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  edge and he was getting the one on one Saturday,
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  you saw it with an Hill with a couple of
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  those one on ones to create some rushes. But other
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  guys were doing it too. You know, the sack Serell gets,
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  it's really a heck of a pass rush. We had
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  Vernon Broughton that you know, rushing on the left tackle
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  that kind of squeezed the pocket and forced the quarterback
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  to flush to get the sack. So a lot of
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  the times the guy that gets the sack gets the credit,
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  but it's a combination of all those guys working together.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I'm going into the game.
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  Speaker 4: We talk so much about our rush lanes because we
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  didn't want to let the quarterback escape. We want to
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  make sure that pocket collapse. But yet somebody could get
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  home in the one on one pass rush.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we'll hear more from Sark coming up next hour.
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