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October 28, 2025 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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Speaker 1: Coming up, we're going to hear from offensive coordinator Colin Klein.
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Speaker 4: We've got a high school report.
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Speaker 1: The hero of Game three Last Night World Series, Freddie Freeman,
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Speaker 1: well besides showy Otani and which by my math, reached
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Speaker 1: base all nine times in eighteen innings, two home runs,
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Speaker 1: two doubles, and after two home runs and two doubles,
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Speaker 1: Toronto said, why don't we walk this guy? So they
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Speaker 1: did five times. He may not get to swing the
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Speaker 1: bat again, which I wouldn't let him do, depending on
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Speaker 1: some very weird situation in the game, but I would
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Speaker 1: not let him swing the bat.
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Speaker 6: Only four of those were intentional.
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Speaker 4: Oh that's right.
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Speaker 1: The fifth was kind of an unintentional intentional walk. But
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Speaker 1: still toronto Is finally said, when asked succinctly, are you
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Speaker 1: going to walk him the rest of the way? The
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Speaker 1: answer was yeah, I mean too late. Two late, Schneider.
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Speaker 1: I mean they come out in the seventh and the
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Speaker 1: pitching coach comes out before Otani steps to the plate
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Speaker 1: in a one run game, and I know the pitching
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Speaker 1: coach says, look, everything has to be to the outside.
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Speaker 1: You cannot give him anything to hit first pitch down
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Speaker 1: the middle four hundred and five feet. That's not what
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Speaker 1: they had in mind when they had that conversation. Dodgers
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Speaker 1: win six to five on a Freddie Freeman home run
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Speaker 1: in the eighteenth inning, and I gotta tell you, no,
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Speaker 1: I did not. After Otani hit the home run to
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Speaker 1: tie it up at five, I went to bed.
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Speaker 4: But here's the deal.
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Speaker 1: You seldom get a series like on this stage like
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Speaker 1: this where both team superstars are doing incredible things and
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Speaker 1: Flad Junior and Otani are putting on a show. I
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Speaker 1: just got to tell you if you care about Major
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Speaker 1: League Baseball. I I know it's Toronto and the Dodgers,
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Speaker 1: but you need to watch this because you just don't
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Speaker 1: see this very often when the two guys who get
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Speaker 1: you there are also like prime time performers. I mean,
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Speaker 1: Carrero put on a show last night in the field,
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Speaker 1: on the bases, at the plate, he did everything he could.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, I'm just saying you might want to watch,
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Speaker 1: and I'll be watching that first at bat for Otani
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Speaker 1: in the bottom of the first today. Do you just
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Speaker 1: say four? Yes, you say four? You put him on base, period,
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Speaker 1: bases loaded, walk him like they did with Barry Bonds, Right,
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Speaker 1: So you're giving up one run, You're not giving up
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Speaker 1: four runs. So yeah, bases loaded, you walk in very easy.
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Speaker 4: It's not it's not rocket brain surgery.
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Speaker 1: The SEC is a s the nc double A to
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Speaker 1: rescind a pending rule change will allow athletes to gamble.
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Speaker 1: Greg Sanke sent a letter to NCUBA President Charlie Baker
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Speaker 1: stating that the conference meeting the message of our presidents
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Speaker 1: and chancellors was clear and united. This policy change represents
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Speaker 1: a major step in the wrong direction. You'd think, I mean,
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Speaker 1: the NCUBLEA can't do anything right. So head coaches right
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Speaker 1: now in college football are owed one hundred and sixty
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Speaker 1: seven point seven million dollars. As we say around here
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Speaker 1: at Texas A and M, that's chump change. Twenty one
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Speaker 1: million for Napier, fifteen million for Gundy, nine point eight
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Speaker 1: million for Sam Pittman, six million for Brent Frytt Virginia Tech,
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Speaker 1: five million for Desjon Foster at UCLA, four million for
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Speaker 1: Trent Bray at Oregon State, two point four million for
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Speaker 1: Trent Dilfer at UAB, one and a half million for
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Speaker 1: Jay Norville at Colorado State. Kelly's buyout, still being negotiated,
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Speaker 1: was thought to be fifty four million, and that would
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Speaker 1: be the one hundred and sixty seven million that's also
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Speaker 1: chump change for Scott Wood. I'm just saying, I mean,
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Speaker 1: that's that's play money. Drew Mestemaker is the Earl Campbell
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Speaker 1: Tyler Rose National Player of the Week. The North Texas
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Speaker 1: quarterback threw for over six hundred yards and four touchdowns
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Speaker 1: last week and North Texas win over Charlotte, Arizona State's
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Speaker 1: hope of winning back to back Big Twelve titles took
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Speaker 1: a hit and Sam Loved. Their quarterback got banged up again.
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Speaker 1: Sam got retweaked there at the end, says coach Kenny Dillingham.
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Speaker 1: He wanted to go right back in. I said, no,
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Speaker 1: you've got to get imaging. We held him out. Jeff
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Speaker 1: Simms came in for Lovett. He's not nearly as good.
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Speaker 1: Arizona State has to go to Iowa State this week.
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Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin's name keeps coming up, and Kiffin says, I've
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Speaker 1: never made a decision based off money, nor will I
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Speaker 1: for people that say you're just like, well, money it
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Speaker 1: does this and does that. I've seen too many examples.
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Sex and my agent gets really mad when I
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Speaker 1: say that. He's like, we got to get this, we
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Speaker 1: got to get this.
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Speaker 4: I'm like, Jimmy, I don't care. We'll see.
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Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin's name is up for every job, and the
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Speaker 1: only soccer coach A and M has ever had announced
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Speaker 1: his quote retirement today after thirty three years. G Gerreri
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Speaker 1: won five hundred and twenty three wins.
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Speaker 4: That's fifth all time.
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Speaker 1: Had an incredible run here at Texas A and M
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Speaker 1: of course all the requisite statements wishing him well. Turned
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Speaker 1: out his contract was over this year. They did not
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Speaker 1: make the SEC Tournament, but this run has been exceptional
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Speaker 1: and we wish coach g the very best going forward. Tomorrow,
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Speaker 2: He led fifty two laps on the day to pick
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Speaker 2: up career victory number one. His name Tyler Gray.
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Speaker 9: Honest to executing restarts separated is what separated me from
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Speaker 9: the spring race. So I feel like I executed all
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Speaker 9: my restarts in the spring race, and the last one
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Speaker 9: I let the jump with me and let him be
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Speaker 9: in striking zone of me and getting into one. That's
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Speaker 9: what lost me in a lead. And then the caution
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Speaker 9: came out and obviously we react him and I did
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Speaker 9: the same thing to him. And you know, at that point,
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Speaker 9: I don't know what I do different to now get wreck.
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Speaker 9: Maybe you know little things that I've looked at But yeah,
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Speaker 9: I mean, I don't know. I think the biggest thing
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Speaker 9: tonight was just not letting anyone in striking distance getting
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Speaker 9: in their one. I think it's a combination of two things.
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Speaker 9: I think it's redemption and I also think it's a.
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Speaker 9: I've learned from the two races I've lost here and
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Speaker 9: made sure I didn't lose another one.
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Speaker 1: Smacking the boys on a Tuesday afternoon. Thanks for being
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Speaker 1: with us. Glad to have you in on this Tuesday edition.
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Speaker 1: We've got stuff. We have stuff every day. I'd be
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Speaker 1: the first admit some days are better than others. I
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Speaker 1: think it's a decent day where Colin Klein spent time
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Speaker 1: with the media yesterday along with defensive coordinator Jay Bateman,
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Speaker 1: and we'll see how time.
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Speaker 4: Does for us. We may hear a.
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Speaker 1: Little from Jay Bateman in the second an hour of
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Speaker 1: the program, depending on how our schedule works out with
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Speaker 1: Paul Myers and his book on John Candy. I printed
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Speaker 1: out n CUBLEA stats today, which I haven't done in
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Speaker 1: a while, and I'm looking at third down conversion defense.
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Speaker 1: A and M is second in the country in that.
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Speaker 1: Let's see, there's just there's so many stats to go through.
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Speaker 1: Let's see. I don't care about the penalty yardage. A
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Speaker 1: and M seventeenth in first down offense, they are number
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Speaker 1: one in the country. And fumbles lost. You know why,
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Speaker 1: because they've lost As far as I can tell, they've
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Speaker 1: lost zero fumbles. Is that right? There's a value on here.
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Speaker 1: It says zero. Texas is fourth they've lost one fumble.
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Speaker 1: Miami and Virginia are the other two teams that have
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Speaker 1: not lost a fumble yet. We were talking about this
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Speaker 1: yesterday on the Writers round Table, and I guess I
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Speaker 1: just didn't realize that. I mean, there's been interceptions, right,
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Speaker 1: So let's see, I don't care about that. Passing yards allowed,
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Speaker 1: passing passing yards per completion. A and M is seventh
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Speaker 1: in the country. There's second in the SEC behind Ole
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Speaker 1: miss punt returns. You know, A and M is up
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Speaker 1: there in pump returns because of concepcion their fourth nationally.
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Speaker 1: Texas is second nationally. Iowa Iowa is number one nationally.
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Speaker 1: Red zone offense. A and M is sixteenth in the nation,
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Speaker 1: but they're just fifth in the league. A and Oklahoma
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Speaker 1: is number one in red zone offense. That's going to change,
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Speaker 1: by the way.
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Speaker 4: Let's see.
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Speaker 1: Aggie's are twenty sixth nationally in rushing offense at two
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Speaker 1: hundred yards per game. That is fourth in the league
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Speaker 1: behind Missouri, Arkansas, and Vanderbilt. Anima is twelfth and tied
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Speaker 1: for Vanderbilt for number one in the SEC for sacks allowed.
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Speaker 1: They have allowed only twelve sacks. Let's see scoring offense.
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Speaker 1: A and M is fourteenth nationally, third in the league.
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Speaker 1: I don't think I would ever guess this. Frankly, Tennessee
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Speaker 1: is seconds. That's easy. They're averaging over forty five a game.
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Speaker 1: You know who's number two in the SEC and scoring offense?
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Speaker 1: Who would you say would be number two in the
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Speaker 1: scoring offense? Two teams would come to mind immediately, Not
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Speaker 1: be Ole Miss in Arkansas, I would be wrong.
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Speaker 4: Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt is averaging thirty eight point four points per game.
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Speaker 4: How about that?
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Speaker 1: Well, they did score seventy on Georgia State. That may
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Speaker 1: skew a little bit, but still it's the doors man. Okay,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna hear from Colin Kleine a little bit.
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Speaker 4: I say a little bit part of what he had
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Speaker 4: to say yesterday, you.
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Speaker 13: Know, speaking about Marcella Reid and just his development.
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Speaker 1: How how important has that been and for you guys
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Speaker 1: to be able to be so multiple in your attack,
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Speaker 1: just the way he's been able to progress this season.
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Speaker 14: Yeah.
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Speaker 10: No, I've been really proud of him and even these
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Speaker 10: last you know, three four five weeks that he's kind
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Speaker 10: of put together and really grown in a lot of areas.
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Speaker 10: I think you know we've been and will be a
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Speaker 10: very very multiple based offense to where we put a
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Speaker 10: lot on his plate and have from the jump, and
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Speaker 10: I think he's he's been managing it really well. I
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Speaker 10: think our efficiency has increased the last few weeks, and
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Speaker 10: in large part because of his ability to get through progressions,
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Speaker 10: check down the football, be really decisive when okay, hey
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Speaker 10: it's time to pull the ball down and run and
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Speaker 10: doing so in a very very aggressive, assertive, timely manner
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Speaker 10: and has kept us in much much better positions on
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Speaker 10: third has created obviously a ton of explosive plays with
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Speaker 10: him running the football and scrambles as well, and so
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Speaker 10: it really really helps me as a play caller, obviously
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Speaker 10: when you're staying in those manageable situations, when you're getting
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Speaker 10: those explosive plays to to be able to continue to
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Speaker 10: try to call the game aggressively.
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Speaker 7: So and that's that's a credit to him. Coach.
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Speaker 15: We'll go to the right second row.
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Speaker 13: Olin ye're calling.
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Speaker 6: You know about thirteen years ago this time you were
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Speaker 6: a heismotrophy candidate, about thirty pounds ago to Yeah, So
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Speaker 6: having an experience that do you look at how much
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Speaker 6: do you look at Marcel as being a Heisman candidate
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Speaker 6: now and what do you think, you know, where do
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Speaker 6: you think that's going to go from here?
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Speaker 10: Well, I think first and foremost that it is a
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Speaker 10: team award. You're not even in that conversation unless you're
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Speaker 10: you're winning football games and winning big football games. And
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Speaker 10: that's a complete team deal, right in credit to everyone
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Speaker 10: on on the offensive side of the ball for making
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Speaker 10: it all happen around him, right, And uh, he knows
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Speaker 10: that and has grown and as a tremendous leader, you know,
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Speaker 10: through every position group in that way, you know. And
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Speaker 10: the other part is too, is there's still a lot
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Speaker 10: of season left, right, and we've got to really keep
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Speaker 10: our our our head, our heads down and and and
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Speaker 10: be very very process driven, which he has been and
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Speaker 10: we've been able to do, uh, you know, down the
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Speaker 10: stretch here absolutely.
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Speaker 15: Coach to the left third row.
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Speaker 7: We've seen you guys.
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Speaker 9: We've seen you guys kind of get creative in short
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Speaker 9: yarded situations with the T formation and stuff. What kind
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Speaker 9: of advantage is going under center give you kind of
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Speaker 9: schematically in that aspect?
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Speaker 10: You know, It's that that's an interesting question because there's
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Speaker 10: times obviously at times we're able to get it in
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Speaker 10: the ballcarrier's hands, not at a at a shotgun type depth.
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Speaker 10: But there's also times that when you do have a
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Speaker 10: dual threat quarterback that it can hurt you because you
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Speaker 10: can't control an extra defender in whatever type of red
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Speaker 10: game or scheme that you're running.
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Speaker 7: And so it's it's it's been good for us.
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Speaker 10: We have some wrinkles out of it, you know, have
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Speaker 10: some more in in the hop are ready to go,
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Speaker 10: but at the end of the day, it's a little
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Speaker 10: bit based on whatever short yardage package that we're going
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Speaker 10: against that week.
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Speaker 16: To the right, Carter, what's maybe impressed you the most
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Speaker 16: about the offensive line this season?
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Speaker 10: Well, I think first first of all, just their mentality
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Speaker 10: and approach from the get go has been outstanding. I mean,
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Speaker 10: they come to work every day, they're prepared, they have
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Speaker 10: great energy. You know, obviously two of our captains are
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Speaker 10: out of that unit and do a great job that
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Speaker 10: way for our team and obviously our offense. You know,
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Speaker 10: Coach Kushing does a great job with those guys, and
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Speaker 10: we're able to put a very very big run game
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Speaker 10: package on the field every week, right, And you can't
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Speaker 10: do that if if they're not very very intelligent football players.
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Speaker 10: They work at it and they're prepared in this league
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Speaker 10: with with all the different things that we have to face,
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Speaker 10: and so the way they attack that and allow us
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Speaker 10: to be able to put a lot of different a
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Speaker 10: lot of pressure on people in the run game is
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Speaker 10: is huge. And then you know the way they've pass,
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Speaker 10: protected and and battled against some of the rushers in
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Speaker 10: this league.
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Speaker 7: Like it's it's been really good.
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Speaker 16: And how have you handled sort of the national outlets
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Speaker 16: talking about your name as potential head coach UH this
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Speaker 16: coming off season and and how interested are you in
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Speaker 16: staying at A and M long term?
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Speaker 10: Well, I think coach Elko said it best a week
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Speaker 10: ago or whatever that was. But again, it's it's an
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Speaker 10: honor and it means you're doing something right. It's credit
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Speaker 10: to our players and and our entire staff here of
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Speaker 10: what we've what we've been able to do. And like
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Speaker 10: I said, there's a lot of season left and and
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Speaker 10: and a lot of big things ahead of us.
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Speaker 13: Second row Alex similar to Olin's question, when when you
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Speaker 13: were in the thick of that as a player going
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Speaker 13: through that twenty twelve season particular, what's the hardest part
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Speaker 13: of dealing with the success that comes with being the
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Speaker 13: quarterback and the leader, and maybe some of the lessons,
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Speaker 13: encouragement advice that you've imparted to Marcel as you guys
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Speaker 13: continue to have this strong start to the season.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I think a big part of that. And the
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Speaker 10: best part about that is it's truly where your foundation is,
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Speaker 10: you know. And I think I was very fortunate going
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Speaker 10: through it myself with the leaders and the leadership that
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Speaker 10: I had with Coach Snyder and his staff and my
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Speaker 10: support system with my parents and family, like to have
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Speaker 10: the foundation that, hey, it doesn't matter how much a
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Speaker 10: credit you get positive or you know, hardship negative, you know,
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Speaker 10: publicity that way, that it's not who you are, it's
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Speaker 10: not why you do it. And Marcel is very very
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Speaker 10: blessed in that same way, like his foundation, his core,
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Speaker 10: his wiring is right, you know. And and he cares about, uh,
24:02
Speaker 10: his teammates greatly. He cares about doing not just the
24:06
Speaker 10: right thing, but doing it the right way and all
24:09
Speaker 10: those things and really just trying to block out the noise.
24:12
Speaker 7: And and it's a it's a.
24:13
Speaker 10: One player to time mentality, a one game at a
24:15
Speaker 10: time mentality, and and you know, the chips will fall
24:19
Speaker 10: uh where they will.
24:21
Speaker 13: And then with the offensive line too. Just where have
24:23
Speaker 13: you seen them improve the most throughout this season in particular?
24:27
Speaker 10: You know, I think we've been able to uh. I
24:30
Speaker 10: think our physicality has increased through the course of the season.
24:33
Speaker 10: You know, you look at uh you know these last
24:36
Speaker 10: couple of games down the stretch of being able to
24:37
Speaker 10: really assert ourselves and and grab control of ball games,
24:42
Speaker 10: you know, and it starts there, you know, And and
24:44
Speaker 10: with their level of physicality and attack mentality upfront's been
24:48
Speaker 10: been big time front, right, Travis Colin?
24:54
Speaker 17: What goes into the what was what was the process
24:57
Speaker 17: in dusting off the old t formation?
25:02
Speaker 7: You know, it was.
25:05
Speaker 10: Had seen it on tape a couple of different ways,
25:08
Speaker 10: and a couple people have used it in different ways,
25:11
Speaker 10: and a couple of guys on our staff had some
25:12
Speaker 10: history with it. And you know, when when they load it,
25:16
Speaker 10: put a hat in every gap on the inside to
25:18
Speaker 10: be able to crash down an edge and see if
25:20
Speaker 10: we can get a crease.
25:21
Speaker 7: So it's it's been good for us.
25:23
Speaker 17: And how do you find figure out that that neate's
25:25
Speaker 17: the best pushion for the person for the fullback?
25:27
Speaker 10: There Uh, you know, I think a little bit of
25:29
Speaker 10: it just uh in practicing and working on those things.
25:34
Speaker 10: He's been pretty natural at it and been really secure
25:37
Speaker 10: with it through through those exchanges, and uh does a
25:40
Speaker 10: great job in those same positions and some of the
25:43
Speaker 10: blocking things that we have out of those sets.
25:45
Speaker 7: So it was a good fit.
25:47
Speaker 17: And then looking ahead to your future, whenever an opportunity
25:51
Speaker 17: rights that makes the most sense, would head coaching be
25:54
Speaker 17: something that you'd like to get it into down the line.
25:57
Speaker 7: Absolutely, it's it's been a dream and a goal of mine, but.
25:59
Speaker 10: It's a out being with the right people at the
26:02
Speaker 10: right time, and and that's here right now, and again.
26:04
Speaker 15: A long long way to go all the way in
26:06
Speaker 15: the back Donna coach after Le'Veon beck here, just how
26:14
Speaker 15: pleased are you with the way that the rest of.
26:16
Speaker 3: The running back room has been able to step up?
26:18
Speaker 15: And it seems like you can kind of call on
26:20
Speaker 15: a different guy every game and still get the job done.
26:22
Speaker 10: Well, it's it's it's it's a full stable, you know,
26:26
Speaker 10: as they call themselves and we call them and so
26:29
Speaker 10: it's a credit to them, a credit to again just
26:34
Speaker 10: coach Troop and and and everything that he's done in
26:36
Speaker 10: that room of those guys competing but helping each other
26:41
Speaker 10: and supporting each other and carrying the load whenever they're
26:44
Speaker 10: their numbers called, you know, and and allowing us to
26:47
Speaker 10: do a lot of a lot of two back stuff
26:49
Speaker 10: with with two guys out there, you know, grabbing, you know,
26:53
Speaker 10: in the four minute drill a couple of times in
26:54
Speaker 10: the last couple of weeks of of being able to
26:56
Speaker 10: keep us on the field and and some critical times
26:58
Speaker 10: and uh, you know, reward the work of that offensive
27:02
Speaker 10: line and tight ends and everybody else blocking for him
27:05
Speaker 10: to uh to finish, you know. And so it's it's
27:08
Speaker 10: a it's a great room that every one of them have,
27:10
Speaker 10: you have, has a little bit of a unique skill set,
27:13
Speaker 10: but their their mentality is the same.
27:15
Speaker 13: To the right third row, David Colin, can.
27:18
Speaker 18: You speak to the emergence of Ashton the last couple
27:20
Speaker 18: of weeks.
27:21
Speaker 14: He's making it harder to double those other guys.
27:24
Speaker 10: Yeah, well, it's it's it's just been a matter of time,
27:28
Speaker 10: you know, and and we've we've known that, we've seen that.
27:31
Speaker 7: I mean, so I think.
27:33
Speaker 10: It's it's been great to see those plays kind of
27:36
Speaker 10: finally come to fruition for him.
27:38
Speaker 7: Credit to him. I mean he's he's.
27:40
Speaker 10: Had as good a week of practice as he's had
27:42
Speaker 10: the last two to three weeks, you know, And and
27:44
Speaker 10: his mentality is even even ramped up as as the
27:47
Speaker 10: season is has progressed, and so being able to get that,
27:50
Speaker 10: you know, get the ball going his way and has
27:53
Speaker 10: been really really impressive.
27:54
Speaker 19: And he's capitalized front left Tony Coach Obviously the screen
27:59
Speaker 19: game has been a big part are you guys' offense
28:00
Speaker 19: this year?
28:01
Speaker 13: And you know it's feel like situationally, they've come at
28:04
Speaker 13: really good time. So without giving up trade secrets, can
28:06
Speaker 13: you talk about just know as a play caller when
28:09
Speaker 13: the feel and the sense for those moments come for you?
28:12
Speaker 7: Man, I don't know.
28:13
Speaker 10: I think it is just that it's you know, it's time,
28:16
Speaker 10: feel field position.
28:18
Speaker 7: You know.
28:18
Speaker 10: The other thing it does is it allows us to
28:20
Speaker 10: distribute the football right and and kind of get some
28:24
Speaker 10: of those dynamic playmakers in space and get them started.
28:27
Speaker 10: And you know it's it's uh, all the fancy lines
28:32
Speaker 10: go for not and unless guys execute and and and
28:35
Speaker 10: they've done a great job of getting in front of
28:37
Speaker 10: guys and blocking and giving us some explosives in that screen.
28:40
Speaker 15: Game coach will stay to the left, Rob had a coach.
28:45
Speaker 20: So as the season has progressed and you know with
28:48
Speaker 20: this talent that that's come in, does that help open
28:52
Speaker 20: up the playbook for you as you coach?
28:55
Speaker 7: Elco mentioned you know when E. J.
28:57
Speaker 20: Smith goes out there and he produces, then he is
29:00
Speaker 20: going to get more touches. And do you kind of
29:02
Speaker 20: feel that way with everyone that that as as their
29:06
Speaker 20: continue to produce that it allows you to open up
29:08
Speaker 20: the playbook and as a bye week at a time
29:11
Speaker 20: that you can kind of maybe add something to the playbook.
29:16
Speaker 10: Well, I think it's something that we from a playbook standpoint,
29:20
Speaker 10: it's and and how I've always done it, and I
29:22
Speaker 10: think is is just a really good way to do it.
29:24
Speaker 10: Is it's it's it's building the the puzzle based on
29:28
Speaker 10: what you're going against that week. So it's not like, hey,
29:30
Speaker 10: we're going to ever run these these plays or that
29:32
Speaker 10: like we have to build it to help exploit a
29:36
Speaker 10: weakness or a matchup or something that we see that
29:39
Speaker 10: given week.
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Speaker 24: Welcome to the high School Report. I met Williams and
33:23
Speaker 24: today we're going out to the Hilaris Fund Center front
33:25
Speaker 24: line to visit with the head football coach for the
33:26
Speaker 24: Lake Creek Allions, Pat Kennedy. How are you doing today?
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Speaker 14: We're doing great, We're doing.
33:30
Speaker 4: Great, awesome.
33:32
Speaker 24: You took the helm at Lake Creek in twenty eighteen
33:34
Speaker 24: as the school launched its football program. What was your
33:36
Speaker 24: initial vision for the program and how is it held
33:38
Speaker 24: up or of all since then.
33:41
Speaker 14: I think when we opened the school, what we wanted
33:43
Speaker 14: to do is have something that was successful and all
33:48
Speaker 14: facets of athletics as far as all our fours, and
33:52
Speaker 14: then we wanted to be good in football, right, So
33:54
Speaker 14: I mean, and since we've opened, I think I think
33:58
Speaker 14: currently at this time in mcgo County, we're the third
34:01
Speaker 14: winning this football program. I think the Woodlands and I
34:04
Speaker 14: think Willis and I are Tide. And then you know,
34:06
Speaker 14: we have three state championships in softball. We have fifth
34:08
Speaker 14: round playoff appearances for our baseball team. Our basketball team
34:12
Speaker 14: appeared in a regional tournament. So I think athletics is
34:16
Speaker 14: very very important here at Lake Creek High School and
34:18
Speaker 14: we've had a lot of success.
34:20
Speaker 24: Having previously been a defensive and special teams coordinator at
34:23
Speaker 24: the Woodlands High School, how has that experience shaped your
34:26
Speaker 24: overall approach as a head coach.
34:29
Speaker 14: Well, I think what it has done when I got here,
34:33
Speaker 14: you learn to appreciate what you have at the Woodlands.
34:37
Speaker 14: Have a lot of kids, You have a lot of bodies.
34:39
Speaker 14: You have a lot of kids that can be your
34:41
Speaker 14: backups and stuff. And we came to five A. You know,
34:43
Speaker 14: we started we played our first varsity season in eighteen
34:46
Speaker 14: without any seniors. What you do is you learn the
34:50
Speaker 14: appreciation of depth and those sorts of things. You know,
34:55
Speaker 14: I'm still a We're a little bit more different now.
35:00
Speaker 14: If you had asked me in twenty seventeen when I
35:02
Speaker 14: interviewed for the job. Hey, I think you got to
35:04
Speaker 14: have a staunch defense. You got to be great in
35:06
Speaker 14: the kicking game, you don't make mistakes, you know, and
35:09
Speaker 14: be pretty steady heading on offense. We're not that here
35:14
Speaker 14: at Lake Creek. We throw the ball, we play a
35:16
Speaker 14: little aggressive defense, and we're very, very aggressive in our
35:19
Speaker 14: special team. So I think it's come down to data
35:21
Speaker 14: analysis and how many positions you have in a football game.
35:25
Speaker 14: So that's kind of how I've evolved from that defensive
35:28
Speaker 14: coordinator special teams guy.
35:31
Speaker 24: And given the growth of the Montgomery County, I know,
35:34
Speaker 24: Conro's like exploding in the surrounding areas, how is your
35:37
Speaker 24: competition evolving and how does Lake Creek adapt to the
35:40
Speaker 24: shifting demographics enrollment in the talent pools.
35:43
Speaker 14: Well, you know, the Montgomery County is blowing up, the
35:48
Speaker 14: Conroi area is blowing up. But you know out here
35:50
Speaker 14: at Lake Creek and then the Montgomery ISD we're about
35:54
Speaker 14: a ten percent growth. I mean we opened that we
35:56
Speaker 14: had if you say we had twelve hundred kids and
35:59
Speaker 14: eight team I think we're only going to turn in
36:02
Speaker 14: sixteen sixteen ninety here next Friday. And so you know
36:06
Speaker 14: we've grown four hundred kids eight years. That's you know,
36:09
Speaker 14: it's fifty kids a year. You know, the competition wise,
36:15
Speaker 14: it's pretty good. I mean it's it's pretty good. Montgomery's
36:17
Speaker 14: got a good football program. Coach Cooper does a great
36:19
Speaker 14: job over there. They've gotten the better of us the
36:22
Speaker 14: last two years. So the competition is good. You know,
36:26
Speaker 14: the growth is not what you want. But you know,
36:29
Speaker 14: when you think, I think when you had you know,
36:32
Speaker 14: I what it is is you got high interest rates,
36:36
Speaker 14: you got people don't want to buy houses. So I
36:37
Speaker 14: mean it's one of those things. As far as growth,
36:41
Speaker 14: they do predict that the district will take off here
36:42
Speaker 14: in the next eight years. So that's kind of where
36:46
Speaker 14: we're at.
36:47
Speaker 24: Right Who graduated last year that left big shoes to
36:50
Speaker 24: fill and have you guys had trouble filling those shoes
36:53
Speaker 24: this season?
36:54
Speaker 14: Well this year, I guess last year Taivon Byers who's
36:56
Speaker 14: at Rice, and Eli Marcos who's at Texas A and M.
37:00
Speaker 14: They graduated last year. You know, they're they're good and
37:04
Speaker 14: they're great football players and we were glad to have them.
37:06
Speaker 14: We were blessed to have them on our program. But
37:10
Speaker 14: we have great kids this year. You know, we haven't
37:12
Speaker 14: had the success, but you know we're we're you know
37:16
Speaker 14: this year, this time last year, we were out of
37:18
Speaker 14: the playoffs. Uh this time this year, we are not
37:22
Speaker 14: out of the playoffs. We still control our destiny as
37:24
Speaker 14: far as getting in. So you know, I don't look
37:27
Speaker 14: at it. You know, those are great kids that graduated.
37:29
Speaker 14: We had. You know, Sam Lee graduated, he's playing baseball
37:32
Speaker 14: in sam Houston. I mean all the things. Great kids graduated,
37:35
Speaker 14: you know. But we we go ahead and just the
37:37
Speaker 14: next guy up and we try to win a football
37:39
Speaker 14: game with.
37:40
Speaker 24: Him, right, And what is your identity of the crew
37:44
Speaker 24: this year? Who do you think has really stood out?
37:46
Speaker 24: Anyone specific on the team.
37:48
Speaker 14: Well, we you know, we came in with question marks
37:51
Speaker 14: at quarterback, running back and uh so we came in
37:55
Speaker 14: and I guess Zach cole Well has stepped up. He's
37:57
Speaker 14: a senior US he's stepped up at the quarterback position.
38:01
Speaker 14: I think, you know, we we struggled at the running
38:04
Speaker 14: back position early. I think we we've settled on a
38:08
Speaker 14: senior named Luke Middlebrook. He's backed up by a freshman
38:12
Speaker 14: named Ethanke excuse me, Cannon Davis. And uh, you know,
38:16
Speaker 14: so those were two positions because quarterback running back, we're
38:20
Speaker 14: Eli and us Eli and Taytay. So you know, uh,
38:26
Speaker 14: those guys have stepped up. We've had some big receiver
38:29
Speaker 14: step up one one Gonzalez had stepped up. Cooper Gary
38:32
Speaker 14: on defense has stepped up for us. We have a
38:35
Speaker 14: sophomore Nico Cancela who's a really good football player. Z
38:39
Speaker 14: Island Pete has been here for three years or four years,
38:42
Speaker 14: played on the varsit three years. He's been very steady,
38:44
Speaker 14: yety on defense. So you know, it's just the next
38:46
Speaker 14: man up.
38:48
Speaker 24: Right. You lost your last game against Huntsville. What do
38:51
Speaker 24: you think went well and what do you think challenged
38:53
Speaker 24: your team?
38:54
Speaker 14: Well, we came out, we scored on the first position,
38:56
Speaker 14: and we moved up, we moved down the field, so
38:58
Speaker 14: and we thought it was gonna be and then we
39:02
Speaker 14: sputtered offensively. You know, I'm not really not really disappointed
39:06
Speaker 14: in the kids' effort. I mean I tell them that
39:08
Speaker 14: all the time, not really disappointing their effort. You know,
39:10
Speaker 14: we got to do the little things better. We didn't
39:13
Speaker 14: do enough little things better to win the game, so
39:16
Speaker 14: that that ultimately cost us down the stretch.
39:19
Speaker 24: Yeah, and which matchup the season do you think has
39:22
Speaker 24: been most difficult and what did you take away from it?
39:25
Speaker 14: I thought, well, okay, so we started the year, we
39:28
Speaker 14: had a lot of question marks. I lost to Magnolia.
39:31
Speaker 14: We stubbed our toe against Saint Thomas. That's one that
39:34
Speaker 14: in thirty two years of coaching, you know, I feel
39:36
Speaker 14: like I let get away from me. Then we beat Stray,
39:41
Speaker 14: We played Fort Nah's. Fort Nach is a really good
39:43
Speaker 14: football team. Montgomery is a really good football team. So
39:46
Speaker 14: we're sitting there, you know, basically one and four. We
39:48
Speaker 14: beat Dayton, we beat Needling, we lose to Huntsville. I
39:53
Speaker 14: feel like the lost to Huntsville because our kids played
39:56
Speaker 14: so well. It's put us on the right path to
39:59
Speaker 14: finish season.
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Speaker 24: And you face Splendora next. What are your what are
40:04
Speaker 24: you expecting out of that match and how do you
40:06
Speaker 24: think your teams will class?
40:08
Speaker 4: Just in terms of play style, I've ay like.
40:10
Speaker 14: To throw it all over the yard. They're pretty aggressive
40:13
Speaker 14: on special teams. So I expect a high scoring football game,
40:18
Speaker 14: but I expect us to come out on the top
40:19
Speaker 14: of the end.
40:21
Speaker 25: Yeah.
40:22
Speaker 24: Shifting to a more coaching perspective, as the game evolves,
40:26
Speaker 24: you know, offensive schemes, athletes, specialization safety protocols. How do
40:29
Speaker 24: you stay ahead of the curve and ensure your program
40:31
Speaker 24: is current while staying true to your core values.
40:34
Speaker 14: Well, you know, we're I'm old, so thirty second year,
40:39
Speaker 14: so we're we tackled, but you know you got to
40:41
Speaker 14: you got to make sure your kids. You know, your
40:43
Speaker 14: kids are protected. So we we use them, the little
40:48
Speaker 14: bump caps, we put those on our helmets. We do
40:50
Speaker 14: a lot, we do. We we basically pan down our
40:54
Speaker 14: tackle circuit. I think that has helped our help I
40:59
Speaker 14: mean and put in so you know, you're you're very
41:02
Speaker 14: cognizant of head injuries and all those things in the
41:05
Speaker 14: year twenty twenty five, so you know, the proper teaching
41:08
Speaker 14: of tackling, the proper teaching of blocking and all those things,
41:14
Speaker 14: and then protect the kids. So that that's kind of
41:17
Speaker 14: the twenty twenty five philosophy.
41:20
Speaker 24: Right, last question for you here, what is your philosophy
41:23
Speaker 24: around player development and what are the key metrics or
41:26
Speaker 24: indicators you look for beyond just win and losses to
41:28
Speaker 24: gauge whether your program is on the right track.
41:32
Speaker 14: I look to see whether kids, I'll tell coaches all
41:34
Speaker 14: the time in our office. You know, we have a
41:37
Speaker 14: scale of one or zero to one hundred. Where are
41:41
Speaker 14: we at as a team as.
41:42
Speaker 7: Far as.
41:45
Speaker 14: What we know, what we can do and all those things. Well,
41:48
Speaker 14: and it's the same with a player. If a player,
41:51
Speaker 14: If a player is let's just say he's a twenty
41:54
Speaker 14: five when he starts the season out of one hundred,
41:56
Speaker 14: which means he's a developmental player. But you've got a
41:59
Speaker 14: plane and you got to put him on. You gotta
42:01
Speaker 14: put him on the field. Then you need to get
42:03
Speaker 14: that kid somewhere into the seventy five eighty range. So
42:06
Speaker 14: you got to coach him up. And you know that's
42:09
Speaker 14: the new challenge today is you know, you don't get
42:11
Speaker 14: ready made players, especially in five Bay football, don't get
42:15
Speaker 14: ready made players. You got to coach him up. So
42:17
Speaker 14: that's kind of a that's kind of where we're at.
42:21
Speaker 24: All right, Thank you so much for your time, sir.
42:24
Speaker 14: All right, I appreciate it, Yes.
42:25
Speaker 24: Sir, good luck on the field.
42:26
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Speaker 1: You know, I don't pay a lot of attention to
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Speaker 1: the NFL, but I am a huge fan personally of CJ.
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Speaker 4: Stroud. He is special.
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Speaker 1: It's a shame he doesn't have more help because he'd
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Speaker 4: We've seen him better when he had more help. But man,
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Speaker 4: I love that kid. He is a special kid.
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Speaker 1: Uh Okay, speaking of special, the talk today is is
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Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman a Hall of Famer? Well, I would say yeah,
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Speaker 1: Eddie Freeman is probably a Hall of Famer, even if
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Speaker 1: he hasn't done what he's done in the last two
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Speaker 1: World Series. Last night walk off bottom of the eighteenth inning.
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Speaker 34: Hey, Freddy, always a pleasure.
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Speaker 7: Yep.
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Speaker 34: The what what is the mindset?
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Speaker 7: Is?
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Speaker 34: They're walking Showy over and over again to pitch to
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Speaker 34: you and Mookie, and then you know, you had constant
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Speaker 34: situations where you had runners on basin extra innings because
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Speaker 34: the way it was set up, and it's like, then
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Speaker 34: you finally come through with with.
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Speaker 35: No one on, with no one on, weird? Have the
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Speaker 35: game works sometimes?
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Speaker 4: Right?
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Speaker 35: Showy's game. I hope we don't lose sight of getting
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Speaker 35: on our starting picture to Margot on based nine times
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Speaker 35: the night just incredible.
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Speaker 7: You know.
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Speaker 35: It's just kind of how when you're that hot and
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Speaker 35: you're hitting balls right center, left center, like show Hate
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Speaker 35: was tonight, you just knew he was feeling good. So,
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Speaker 35: I mean, that's the right move. You don't want show
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Speaker 35: Hay to beat you and let other guys try and
49:17
Speaker 35: beat you after his first wart bats And it took
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Speaker 35: a lot longer, but we finally did it.
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Speaker 36: Go up the front in the middle here Freddy with Steve.
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Speaker 7: Gratulation, Thank you.
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Speaker 20: Can you talk about and put in towards how exhausted
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Speaker 20: you were on the eighteenth thing.
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Speaker 7: You know, to us, it's all it's just swinging the bat.
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Speaker 7: I know it's more than that.
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Speaker 1: Can you tell us how tired you were at that point?
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Speaker 35: I mean, to be honest, I wasn't actually that tired.
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Speaker 35: When you have your bullpen doing what they're doing, it
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Speaker 35: just keeps firing you up over and over and over again.
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Speaker 35: If you're tired in the World Series game, it's kind
49:55
Speaker 35: of I don't think anybody's tired after that, but it's
49:59
Speaker 35: just when you're going through a that zero after zero,
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Speaker 35: I was just trying to get on base against tough
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Speaker 35: left the sinkerballer with the hard curve ball. I was
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Speaker 35: just trying to get on but got to a three
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Speaker 35: two count and I was able to put a good
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Speaker 35: swing on it. My swings were getting better as the
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Speaker 35: game was going on. I thought I had a couple
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Speaker 35: of hits, and I don't know, twenty one innings ago.
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Speaker 35: I just felt my swing was getting better and better,
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Speaker 35: and thankfully I was able to get one over. But
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Speaker 35: I don't think we're physically tired. I think you're just
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Speaker 35: mentally tired because you're in it every pitch, and every
50:28
Speaker 35: pitch means something. In the World Series and in the playoffs,
50:32
Speaker 35: so I think we're all emotionally and mentally drained about
50:35
Speaker 35: five rows back in the middle.
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Speaker 34: Hey Freddy, you've hit a bunch of balls seemingly on
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Speaker 34: the screws.
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Speaker 4: Even going back into Toronto. Get it down in two
50:43
Speaker 4: and then tonight look like a wall that.
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Speaker 34: Looked like at any point, do you get frustrated, you
50:46
Speaker 34: get annoyed, you get.
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Speaker 35: An I mean, there's the one in Toronto. I thought
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Speaker 35: I hit way better than the one in the center
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Speaker 35: field where it still was like twenty feet short. But
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Speaker 35: it's not I'm not getting frustrated. It's because of the
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Speaker 35: balls on the barrel. So I know if I keep
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Speaker 35: staying with that, if I try and switch it up,
51:02
Speaker 35: then I'm gonna most likely not be on the barrel.
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Speaker 35: So if you just keep putting good swings on it,
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Speaker 35: sooner rather than later, it's gonna it's gonna be what
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Speaker 35: you want. But yeah, as the game went on, the
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Speaker 35: ball was going a little bit more true for me
51:16
Speaker 35: to center field and left center. This the one that
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Speaker 35: Miles ran down and left center off lour that's even
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Speaker 35: though I got out, I was like, okay, there it is.
51:24
Speaker 35: I finally felt the stay behind the ball and drive it,
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Speaker 35: and it just made my confidence soar. And thankfully Will
51:30
Speaker 35: climb MVP of this game, I was able to throw
51:34
Speaker 35: more zeros up and I was able to get up again.
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Speaker 7: Six ers back.
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Speaker 13: Are you're right, Freddy?
51:39
Speaker 7: Freddy?
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Speaker 19: Of all the times that you guys nearly won the games?
51:43
Speaker 19: Will Smith fly out Munsey's foul ball, which one kind
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Speaker 19: of stood out as the dugout, getting most excited like
51:48
Speaker 19: maybe that was gonna be it?
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Speaker 35: Yeah, I mean, I think it's more of you just
51:54
Speaker 35: as an offense, you're trying to get on and I
51:57
Speaker 35: felt for a couple of dnings we were trying to
51:58
Speaker 35: do too much and one of us was just trying
52:00
Speaker 35: to hit a home run. And then as we started
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Speaker 35: getting you know, passing the time Max got the walk,
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Speaker 35: Tail get the hit, we just didn't.
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Speaker 7: Get the hit that we needed.
52:07
Speaker 35: So it was starting to look like better at bats
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Speaker 35: after a few at bats where I think we were
52:12
Speaker 35: just trying to do too much. But as the innings
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Speaker 35: got on, we were getting closer and closer to ball
52:17
Speaker 35: going over the fence, and thankfully our bullpen kept throwing
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Speaker 35: zeros and we got one. Six r us back on
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Speaker 35: your left pretty Hi, Freddy.
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Speaker 27: Hey, have you talked to Yamamoto?
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Speaker 7: I mean if he wouldn't.
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Speaker 35: BECAUSELF you, I know, I hugged Yeah, we hugged him.
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Speaker 35: But that's a testament to our team that he's willing
52:41
Speaker 35: to go do that. It took every single guy tonight
52:47
Speaker 35: and uh for him to want to do that. I
52:51
Speaker 35: think that's just shows you who we are as a group.
52:53
Speaker 35: We'll do anything to win the game. But for him
52:57
Speaker 35: to go out there and I did see him warming
52:59
Speaker 35: up and I was like, oh man, that is we
53:01
Speaker 35: got to keep this guy out of the game. But yeah,
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Speaker 35: it's just even though we didn't come in the game,
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Speaker 35: I think that just shows you who we are as
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Speaker 35: a group.
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Speaker 36: Two last ones, Freddy Julian on your right, Hey, Freddy,
53:14
Speaker 36: you kind of alluded to a little bit, but just
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Speaker 36: how do you describe show Hey reaching base nine times
53:19
Speaker 36: and then he's he looked up and he's your starter starter.
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Speaker 35: Yeah. I think he didn't give a quote that he
53:25
Speaker 35: said he was feeling better at the plate before the game.
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Speaker 35: I think he did. He definitely was. It's I mean,
53:34
Speaker 35: he's a unicorn. It's just I don't there's no more
53:39
Speaker 35: adjectives you can describe show. Hey, it's four for four
53:43
Speaker 35: or five walks. You finally got the pitch pitch two
53:47
Speaker 35: at the in the last last, his last at bat,
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Speaker 35: and you still had the patience to not be trying
53:52
Speaker 35: to do too much and get on base. He's just incredible. Uh,
53:58
Speaker 35: we've been talking about him since you got here in
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Speaker 35: two thousan eighteen. We were still running out of words
54:03
Speaker 35: to describe once in a ten generational player, tarot on.
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Speaker 7: Your left or are the congratulations?
54:10
Speaker 33: So it was about seven hours almost tuesday.
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Speaker 18: Yeah, So did your lovely Childlene get to see that moment?
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Speaker 35: Did who your lovely child?
54:22
Speaker 14: Len?
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Speaker 35: I didn't se him on the field, but I know
54:25
Speaker 35: they were here. I don't know if they got taken home.
54:29
Speaker 35: One of them woke up at seven thirty this morning,
54:31
Speaker 35: so not so sure if he made it. I know
54:33
Speaker 35: Charlie's going to be here for sure. I just don't
54:35
Speaker 35: know if the four year olds made it. But my
54:37
Speaker 35: whole family was on the field except for my kids,
54:39
Speaker 35: so they were on the so I would assume no
54:41
Speaker 35: one got taken home. So I would assume my kids.
54:43
Speaker 7: Are still here.
54:43
Speaker 35: But we'll see, I guess after I finished this, we'll
54:46
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Speaker 16: Freddy, when you hit the walk off last year, you
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Speaker 16: said sort of thing that you dream about, Yeah, back
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Speaker 5: Did you dream about doing it twice?
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Speaker 14: Yeah?
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Speaker 35: I mean no, I don't think you ever come up
54:58
Speaker 35: with the scenario twice. And but you just kept getting
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Speaker 35: the opportunities over and over again. I was the one
55:04
Speaker 35: I flew out to center field. I was just really
55:08
Speaker 35: trying to hit a single there and get a base
55:10
Speaker 35: hit and move on and get get this scheme over with,
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Speaker 35: you know, three hours ago.
55:14
Speaker 7: But it's just.
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Speaker 35: When you're when you're in those situations over and over again,
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Speaker 35: it's kind of what you you're always in, Like that's
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Speaker 35: it was always basis loaded, you know, and you know,
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55:32
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Speaker 15: But.
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Speaker 35: To have it happen again a year later, to hit
55:37
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55:44
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55:47
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Speaker 36: Once in a lifetime moments twice.
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Speaker 35: Yeah, thank you guys.
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