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BONUS: Can Texas Solve Its Goalline Struggles Against Ohio State? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: All right, we're back with another bonus show. This one,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to get to hear a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: from Texas head coach Steve Sarkeesian. He has always been
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  Speaker 1: an offensive guy and a quarterback guru. And in this show,
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  Speaker 1: he's going to be talking about his offense and his
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  Speaker 1: quarterback and how that sort of shapes up and matches
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  Speaker 1: up with the Buckeyes this weekend. Ohio State came out
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  Speaker 1: of its first game against Ball State with some questions
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  Speaker 1: on the ground game. And Texas, very much the same.
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood Smothers had a 45-yard carry on the first offensive
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  Speaker 1: carry of the game for Texas. After that, though, 35 rushes,
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  Speaker 1: 111 yards. They finished with 4.3 yards per carry, but
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  Speaker 1: they were south of four yards a carry against Texas State,
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  Speaker 1: which is not a school that's necessarily known for its defense.
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  Speaker 1: So what were Sark's views on the run game in
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  Speaker 1: week one and the challenge they're about to go up
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  Speaker 1: against in terms of the defensive interior for Ohio State?
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  Speaker 2: So from a run game perspective, I thought we had
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  Speaker 2: a good plan going in. As always, when you get
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  Speaker 2: into some of those games, there's a lot of slanting, stunting, moving,
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  Speaker 2: and there's some things where we didn't have great angles
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  Speaker 2: on plays as the game went on. There was others
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  Speaker 2: where I felt like we could have strained a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more in the run game, and that's all parties involved.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not talking just about the O-line. There's opportunities for
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  Speaker 2: tight ends. There's opportunities for receivers that could have created
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  Speaker 2: some bigger runs. I thought at times the runners ran
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  Speaker 2: it good. I thought at other times we danced too much.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think it's a byproduct of everybody looking
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  Speaker 2: at the tape. All right, now where can we improve
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  Speaker 2: from week one to week two? And that's going to
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  Speaker 2: be needed in a game like this to have the
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  Speaker 2: ability to have balance in these types of games. But again,
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  Speaker 2: everybody's got to take a step forward from week one
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  Speaker 2: to week two. And generally, that can happen as long
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  Speaker 2: as we're coachable and then as long as we apply
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  Speaker 2: the things that we need to apply to try to
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  Speaker 2: get better. As far as Ohio State's interior defensive line,
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  Speaker 2: they're deep. They're talented. Larry Johnson has been there a long,
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  Speaker 2: long time. He's a heck of a coach. And so
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  Speaker 2: I know they lost some of what was the veteran guys.
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  Speaker 2: They still have some, but they're good, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: they're a penetrating group. They're active. They do a good
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  Speaker 2: job of, you know, collapsing the pocket in the pass
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  Speaker 2: game and they're stout in the run. So it's a
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  Speaker 2: heck of a challenge.
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  Speaker 1: Last year's game between Ohio State and Texas was a
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  Speaker 1: separate top five matchup, but it was kind of a
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  Speaker 1: different vibe. You had two guys who were first-time, full-time starters,
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  Speaker 1: Arch Manning, Julian saying both being taking the reins of
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  Speaker 1: the team for the first time last year. So how
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  Speaker 1: much have things changed from last year to this year
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  Speaker 1: with both of those young quarterbacks?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think pretty drastically different. You know, I just
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  Speaker 2: think you see the level of confidence that both guys
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  Speaker 2: are playing with. I think, um, what you notice is
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  Speaker 2: the presence in the pocket. I think you notice their
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  Speaker 2: confidence to use their legs. You saw Julian do it
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  Speaker 2: last week. He tucked it and scored a touchdown and,
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  Speaker 2: I just think the confidence both guys deliver the ball with,
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  Speaker 2: with accuracy, you can see the trust and timing. And
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  Speaker 2: so pretty drastic difference, you know, of the two players
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  Speaker 2: now the second time around going up against one another.
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  Speaker 2: So should be pretty high level quarterback play Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Steve Sarkeesian has some NFL buzzwords. background to his game.
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  Speaker 1: And so he had some, maybe some different insights into
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  Speaker 1: how some NFL coaches might be adjusting to the college level.
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  Speaker 1: He was asked about NFL guys coming down to work
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  Speaker 1: as coordinators in the college game now, and whether that's
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  Speaker 1: maybe easier than it was at times in the past.
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  Speaker 1: This obviously a question about both Ohio state defensive coordinator,
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  Speaker 1: Matt Patricia and Ohio state offensive coordinator, Arthur Smith.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, I think it has to
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  Speaker 2: fit philosophically with what you do. Um, you know, Ohio
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  Speaker 2: state's very pro style driven in what they do. And that's,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Ryan's time in the NFL as a player
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  Speaker 2: and as a coach and his exposure to that. Um,
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  Speaker 2: and I thought it was really, really great hires. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, these guys are fantastic coaches. They're elite at
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  Speaker 2: what they do. Um, and I think, but I think
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  Speaker 2: it fits philosophically for who Ohio state is and wants
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  Speaker 2: to continue to be. Um, I don't know that that
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  Speaker 2: fits everybody with what they do, but I think it
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  Speaker 2: fits them really well, and obviously it's paid dividends for them.
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  Speaker 1: Last year's game between the Buckeyes and Longhorns, that was
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  Speaker 1: a week one game, so that was the first look
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  Speaker 1: that anyone got at either of those teams. This year,
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  Speaker 1: it's week two, so we've seen both teams play. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't play very competitive games, and they both seem
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  Speaker 1: to kind of go out of their way to not
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  Speaker 1: put a ton of stuff on tape. So how different
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  Speaker 1: is it to play this game in week two this
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  Speaker 1: year as opposed to week one last season?
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  Speaker 2: I think for both of us, we both had a
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  Speaker 2: fair amount of influx of transfers, right? You know, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they've got the receiver from UTSA, you know, McEwen, who,
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  Speaker 2: you know, obviously they had to fill a void with
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  Speaker 2: Carnell Tate moving on. They went and got a transfer.
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  Speaker 2: They have a transfer in John Walker at defensive tackle.
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  Speaker 2: They have a transfer at safety in Earl Little. you know,
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  Speaker 2: no different than us. You know, we're talking about Bo
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  Speaker 2: Masco or Cam Coleman or Hollywood Smothers. We have transfers too.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think for both of us, it was
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  Speaker 2: probably helpful to get a game under our belt so
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  Speaker 2: they could get a sense and a feel for how
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  Speaker 2: we each play. But on the flip side, we get
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  Speaker 2: a chance to kind of see those guys play in
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  Speaker 2: that uniform. And not that everybody's going to be deployed
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  Speaker 2: the same Saturday. I promise you what they ran last
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  Speaker 2: week ain't what we're getting Saturday night. And probably can
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  Speaker 2: same be said the other way around. But Um, in
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  Speaker 2: the end, it's more of the personnel of, of seeing
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  Speaker 2: the personnel and what some of the new faces look like.
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  Speaker 1: This is one of these questions that gets asked when
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  Speaker 1: a team has lost a few games in a row
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  Speaker 1: to an opponent and everyone's sort of trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: out the why behind it. Is there a common denominator
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  Speaker 1: of the last two losses to Ohio state? The reporter
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  Speaker 1: asked was Ohio state just more physical than Texas the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of times.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know if there's a common denominator.
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  Speaker 2: I think that each year was different. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just like this year's different, you know, we're, we're a
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  Speaker 2: different team today than we were, you know, three years
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  Speaker 2: ago or two, two and a half years ago. And
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  Speaker 2: they are too, you know, and they were a different
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  Speaker 2: team last year than they were the year before. Um,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I mean, when you talk about, you know, Quinn,
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  Speaker 2: Sean Jenkins and Travion Henderson, those guys were real factors,
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  Speaker 2: obviously in that game two years ago, you know, last year, well,
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  Speaker 2: they had some elite defensive players. I mean, they had
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  Speaker 2: three of the top 13 picks were on defense with
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  Speaker 2: Downs and Reese and Stiles. And so everybody's changing and
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  Speaker 2: evolving and playing to our strengths. Like I said last year,
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  Speaker 2: I thought we ran the ball really well, and I
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  Speaker 2: thought we defended the run really well. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: it was about physicality. I think it was about our
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  Speaker 2: inability to execute the other half of the offense to
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  Speaker 2: get points on the board when we had chances earlier
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  Speaker 2: in the game. And then I think the biggest common
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  Speaker 2: thread in both games was we essentially played behind. We
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  Speaker 2: were playing from behind in the second half. And that's
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  Speaker 2: an uncomfortable feeling when you feel like you're having to
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  Speaker 2: play catch up. You have to take a few more risks.
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  Speaker 2: And so, you know, that's probably the most common theme
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  Speaker 2: of the last two. I felt like both games were
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  Speaker 2: a little bit different. Even though the scores were kind
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  Speaker 2: of similar, the game, the flow of the games were
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  Speaker 2: a little bit different. And so, you know, ideally we
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  Speaker 2: can put a few more points on the board earlier
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  Speaker 2: in the game. and maybe change the math a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of how the game goes and not feel like
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  Speaker 2: we're playing from behind in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 1: There are some questions on the Ohio State offensive line
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  Speaker 1: about shuffling guys in, and are they going to keep
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  Speaker 1: the same five guys in there for the whole game?
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  Speaker 1: And so that's sort of a question and a storyline
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  Speaker 1: that we've been following on the Ohio State side. But
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  Speaker 1: guess what? Texas kind of has the same thing. They've
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  Speaker 1: got a couple guys splitting snaps at left guard the
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  Speaker 1: last couple weeks. So are they planning to do that
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  Speaker 1: again this week?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. I think we're going to need to.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I thought Dylan had a really good game.
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  Speaker 2: I thought he played well. I thought Lawrence was getting
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  Speaker 2: his footing a little bit. And granted, he was coming
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  Speaker 2: off of being out a little bit, and so it
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  Speaker 2: took a minute. But I think we're going to need
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  Speaker 2: that rotation. And as I said, even Saturday, I thought
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  Speaker 2: it was good Andre Kojo got the amount of reps
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  Speaker 2: he got. But I do think we'll see a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of that rotation at left guard for the first
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  Speaker 2: part of the season for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Not a big surprise, but Texas quarterback Arch Manning is
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  Speaker 1: going to be a big storyline in this game. Is
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  Speaker 1: he playing with a little bit of a chip on
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  Speaker 1: his shoulder, knowing that last year the offense didn't look
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  Speaker 1: great in Ohio Stadium? And he has a chance to
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  Speaker 1: maybe rewrite his legacy a little bit if he can
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  Speaker 1: beat the Buckeyes and lead the Horns to the college
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  Speaker 1: football playoff.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think a lot of this is like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in sport, it's... Emotion is great, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and you think you can just thrive on emotion and
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  Speaker 2: emotion is just going to carry you to a victory.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't really work like that. You know, the emotion
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  Speaker 2: is great in pregame. The emotion is great running out
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  Speaker 2: of the tunnel. The emotion is probably great for like
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  Speaker 2: the opening kickoff. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: it comes down to execution. It comes down to mental
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  Speaker 2: and physical toughness. It comes down to poise and composure
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  Speaker 2: and doing what you need to do and owning the
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  Speaker 2: moment when that moment presents itself. Fourth and one, right?
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  Speaker 2: Third and eight, a two-minute drill, right? A fourth and goal.
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  Speaker 2: Like those are the moments that you need to be
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  Speaker 2: at your best. And so being clear-minded, being focused, and
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  Speaker 2: not being emotional. Emotion's good, but the moment you get emotional,
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  Speaker 2: that becomes a distraction. And so hopefully those last couple
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  Speaker 2: games motivate us to prepare better today. Because the better
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  Speaker 2: we prepare today, the better we'll practice tomorrow. And then
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  Speaker 2: we can prepare tomorrow to be better than so on.
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  Speaker 2: on and so forth and hopefully we build up a
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  Speaker 2: week where we're confident in what we're doing and we
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  Speaker 2: go out and execute plays with belief and that we
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  Speaker 2: put ourselves in position to be in those moments and
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  Speaker 2: then ultimately execute in those moments so that we can
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  Speaker 2: be at our best.
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  Speaker 1: All right, there you go. A little bit from Sark.
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