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Kyle Flood previews Texas/Arizona State · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Final hour of the Craig wayte Show until Thursday, because
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  Speaker 1: we are off tomorrow and Wednesday, but you know, kind
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  Speaker 1: of off, kind of not off on Wednesday because Texas
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  Speaker 1: does play in a college football playoff dealing against Arizona
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  Speaker 1: State on Wednesday at noon. Of course, our local coverage
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  Speaker 1: begins at nine am. Myself, Mike Hardball, hard and Mark
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  Speaker 2: Come out to.
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  Speaker 1: Us some breakfast tacos before Texas takes on Arizona State.
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  Speaker 1: Our coverage is until eleven am. Then Craig Way, Roger Wallace,
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  Speaker 1: got to catch up on so far from today's show,
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  Speaker 1: including from our good friend Seapal in regards to quinn
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  Speaker 1: Ewers' response to Sam Levitt about Sam saying he wants
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  Speaker 1: to prove he's a better quarterback in this matchup, and
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  Speaker 1: Quinn has taken the high road. Well, Seapal said, Quinn
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  Speaker 1: should have said he he has to go against our
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  Speaker 1: Texas defense. We'll see who has the better defense. You
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  Speaker 1: know what, Seapal, I bet you Quinn yours is thinking that,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure a lot of the other offensive members
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  Speaker 1: on Texas think that, is that he doesn't have to
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  Speaker 1: play us. He has to play the Texas secondary that
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  Speaker 1: has been lights out this season. Seapal also said that
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  Speaker 1: Scott Aboo, Yeah, he has had some under one hundred
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  Speaker 1: yard games. Do not let him get going pressure Levitt
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  Speaker 1: contain edges under control. Watch out for trick plays.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: For Arizona State offensively, from what I've seen, they love
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  Speaker 1: love to run screenplays. They love to get quick pitch,
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  Speaker 1: quick passes to the outside to the edges. You're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna see a lot of slow developing plays like we
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  Speaker 1: see from Steve Sarkisian and from Quinn Ewers. That's just
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  Speaker 1: not how Kenny Dillingham's offense works. I mean think back
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  Speaker 1: to his time at his time at Oregon. You know,
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  Speaker 1: fairy quick gets the ball out right and We're going
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  Speaker 1: to see that a lot, especially now without you Jordan Tyson,
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  Speaker 1: the number one receiver, a lot's going to have to
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  Speaker 1: rely on Cam Skataboo, who not only is their number
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  Speaker 1: one running back, but with Tyson out, he's basically their
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  Speaker 1: number one receiver as well. So a lot of pressure
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  Speaker 1: will be on Sam Levitt and Cam Scataboo to lift
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  Speaker 1: up this Arizona State offense. A Steve Sarracusan met with
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  Speaker 1: the media today and we have a few sound bites
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to share from Stark's time with the media today,
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  Speaker 1: starting off with how him and his staff have tackled
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  Speaker 1: preparing for a second playoff game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, we've kind of
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  Speaker 3: been in playoff mode really since.
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  Speaker 2: Since the first Georgia game.
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  Speaker 3: We had to kind of went out to get to
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  Speaker 3: the SEC Championship game, and then we kind of reset
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  Speaker 3: ourselves and it said, hey, we're in a four game playoff,
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  Speaker 3: you know. And it was a great celebration at DKR
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  Speaker 3: to have that first home game in the CFP.
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  Speaker 2: It was amazing environment.
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  Speaker 3: And with the extended time between games, we took a
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  Speaker 3: moment to celebrate that, and then it was back to
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  Speaker 3: work as usual.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it really wasn't very difficult.
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  Speaker 3: We've got a really mature team, an older team that
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  Speaker 3: I think understands the task at hands.
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  Speaker 2: So how different is.
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  Speaker 1: It preparing for a second playoff game and for a
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  Speaker 1: college football quarterfinal? Then it is maybe preparing for a
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  Speaker 1: New Year six bowl, right, because you know two years
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  Speaker 1: ago this bowl game, what it just featured two teams
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  Speaker 1: in not in the college football playoff?
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  Speaker 2: Right? So is it any similar? Is it any different here?
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  Speaker 3: Sarks thoughts, Well, I think again, differently than before if
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  Speaker 3: it's just your traditional New Year's Day bowl game and
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  Speaker 3: you're at the bowl site for about a week or so,
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  Speaker 3: a little bit different challenge this being a playoff and
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  Speaker 3: we're only here for about three days with the goal
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  Speaker 3: to be back here January twentieth. You know, you always
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  Speaker 3: have as a coach, you have your concerns, But like
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  Speaker 3: I said, we're a really mature team, you know, knock
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  Speaker 3: on wood, you know, we do it the right way.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously we got curfew and all those things in place.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I think our guys understand, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: the task at hand. They're focused on that first year in.
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  Speaker 1: The SEC obviously for Texas and Steve Sarkeesian, How different
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  Speaker 1: was it this year in terms of the physicality level
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  Speaker 1: of talent than it was in the Big Toeve last year?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, you know, the natural thing to point
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  Speaker 3: out was the physical grind that that the SEC puts
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  Speaker 3: on you, the body types, the speed, the physicality of
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  Speaker 3: which the game is played in the SEC.
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  Speaker 2: But the thing that we worked a.
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  Speaker 3: Lot on that I thought paid dividends for us was
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  Speaker 3: the mental intensity needed week in and week out in
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  Speaker 3: this conference from top to bottom. If you don't show
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  Speaker 3: up and play well, you can get beat. And I
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  Speaker 3: think we saw that kind of across board in the
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  Speaker 3: conference this year. I think a credit to our players,
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  Speaker 3: I thought they showed up every week ready to play. Naturally,
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  Speaker 3: we didn't win every game, but for the most part,
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  Speaker 3: whether it was at home or on the road, we
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  Speaker 3: showed up ready to play and we didn't have those
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  Speaker 3: lapses you know that maybe some of the other teams had.
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  Speaker 1: And last thing from Sark you mentioned about how different
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  Speaker 1: it was to being the SEC this year. Has he
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  Speaker 1: had to adjust the way he recruits and buy that.
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  Speaker 1: Has he adjusted the type of athletes he recruits in
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  Speaker 1: terms of do they play other sports because Texas is
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  Speaker 1: playing in a different conference.
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  Speaker 3: I think again, like we I really value competitors and
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  Speaker 3: a lot of times, you know, not every one of
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  Speaker 3: the guys we recruit as a multi sport athlete, but
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  Speaker 3: we really look for that. We look for guys that compete,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's in track, whether it's in basketball, whether it's
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  Speaker 3: in baseball, whether it's in wrestling, whatever that can look like.
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  Speaker 3: We're looking for true competitors because this league challenges you
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  Speaker 3: that way. You just don't get to take a week off,
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  Speaker 3: because the moment you do, you can get beat. And
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  Speaker 3: we've seen it, right, and we've seen it across the board.
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  Speaker 3: We got a lot of teams complaining that they didn't
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  Speaker 3: get into the college football playoffs, but they stubbed their
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  Speaker 3: toe at some point along the way as well.
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  Speaker 1: Thoughts from Seam Sarkeys and as Texas prepares for Arizona State,
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  Speaker 1: let's go back to Coyle Flood and we've played the
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  Speaker 1: first half of his media availability in the second hour.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the second half of it as we begin our
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  Speaker 1: three of the day's program.
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  Speaker 2: Perry Middleton, go ahead, Blood, good afternoon to your career.
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  Speaker 4: You've coached a lot of great players.
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  Speaker 5: What is it about this group of guys that you'll
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  Speaker 5: remember most.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 6: I think the first thing is that I've had them
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  Speaker 6: for three and four years. You know, It's it's kind
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  Speaker 6: of unique. You know, nobody likes to move around, you know,
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  Speaker 6: as a coach. You know, I was in one place
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  Speaker 6: for eleven years, so I'm certainly I've had that experience
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  Speaker 6: before this. Everybody likes to be in one place. You
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  Speaker 6: like your family to have kind of stability. All those
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  Speaker 6: things are good things, but things happen in the profession,
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  Speaker 6: you know, whether sometimes you get promoted to a job
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  Speaker 6: and it's a job you know that's a good job,
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  Speaker 6: and you move kind of like I did when I
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  Speaker 6: came here from Alabama to be the office corn in
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  Speaker 6: Uenter of Texas.
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  Speaker 4: So those are all really good things.
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  Speaker 6: But now to have been here for four years and
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  Speaker 6: have guys like Jake and Hayden who I've had for
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  Speaker 6: four years, and then that first recruiting class where we
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  Speaker 6: took seven and they're all still here, that's unique.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, in this day and age.
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  Speaker 6: Especially now with the portal and all the other stuff
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  Speaker 6: that's going on, to recruit seven players in the same
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  Speaker 6: class and have them all still be here.
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  Speaker 4: That is really really unique.
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  Speaker 6: So I've got a real connection with these guys, and
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  Speaker 6: I've had good connections with other players in the past.
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  Speaker 6: But when you say, like I would say, hey, the
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  Speaker 6: fact that I've had these guys for four years, three
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  Speaker 6: or four years, my connection to them, and how much
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  Speaker 6: they like each other, because I promise you they wouldn't
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  Speaker 6: all state if they didn't like each other. And they
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  Speaker 6: get along, they kid each other, they push each other,
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  Speaker 6: they're not afraid to hold each other accountable. It's really
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  Speaker 6: a special kind of culture that they've created in this room,
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  Speaker 6: you know, kind of more specific, even more than what
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  Speaker 6: it is as a team. So all that stuff is
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  Speaker 6: really neat. And you know, the other part of it
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  Speaker 6: for me is, you know, I had an older son
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  Speaker 6: who kind of grew up in a football building, and
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  Speaker 6: now I've got a younger son who's doing the same
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  Speaker 6: thing here and they were both out there in practice
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  Speaker 6: today and that was that was kind of neat for
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  Speaker 6: me to see that and how comfortable my younger guy
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  Speaker 6: is now with these players, kind of like my older
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  Speaker 6: guy was with a group of players that were at
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  Speaker 6: another place. So those things are all special and they're
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  Speaker 6: all kind of they make this this group a little
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  Speaker 6: bit unique.
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  Speaker 2: That time for the last few questions in Q, Jeff, how.
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  Speaker 4: Will go ahead?
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  Speaker 7: Hey, Kyle, I know Sark has talked about Isaiah Bond
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  Speaker 7: trying to get healthy.
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  Speaker 4: And work his way back.
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  Speaker 2: When when you've got IV healthy and a part of the.
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  Speaker 7: Plan, how much does do that dynamic change what you
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  Speaker 7: guys can do offensively, not just his ability to stretch
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  Speaker 7: the field, but also acting as an extension of the
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  Speaker 7: run game on screens and jets sweeps.
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  Speaker 3: And things like that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know that it changes what we do
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  Speaker 6: on it's necessarily, but IB is a special kind of weapon.
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  Speaker 6: And you kind of answered the question with the question
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  Speaker 6: like his elite speed, it's it's just different. You know,
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  Speaker 6: he's got the ability to be explosive every time he
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  Speaker 6: touches the ball because of how well he runs, and
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  Speaker 6: you know he's been out there practicing. I'll let Sark
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  Speaker 6: speak to his availability. I don't know if he has
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  Speaker 6: yet or not, but I'll let him speak to that.
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  Speaker 6: But certainly we're all excited when he's out there, and
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  Speaker 6: I do think it just causes one more different kind
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  Speaker 6: of stress on the defense when you have somebody out
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  Speaker 6: there with that kind of speed.
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  Speaker 8: Vogel go ahead, yeah, coach, I asked Pkus yesterday, but
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  Speaker 8: wanted to get your take on it from an offensive side.
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  Speaker 8: These extra bull practices aren't really bull practices like they've
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  Speaker 8: been in the past, where you've had two or three
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  Speaker 8: weeks building up for one game. What's that like for
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  Speaker 8: you to kind of utilize the young talents moving forward
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  Speaker 8: and what's expected to be you know, extra practices or
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  Speaker 8: you know, opportunities for development for these younger guys.
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  Speaker 4: I kind of like it. I like it for this reason.
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  Speaker 6: I think learning a game plan is a skilled and
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  Speaker 6: just like any other skill in life, the more you
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  Speaker 6: do it, the better you get at it. So even
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  Speaker 6: though these some of these younger guys are playing on
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  Speaker 6: the scout team and they're maybe doing some different stuff,
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  Speaker 6: they're still in some of the some of those game
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  Speaker 6: plan meetings and they're having to learn the game plan.
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  Speaker 6: And I think that's gonna that's going to serve those
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  Speaker 6: guys really well going forward next year when they're a
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  Speaker 6: little closer to the top of the depth chart. So
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  Speaker 6: I think the idea of continuing to have to learn
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  Speaker 6: game plans in a game kind of game specific mode.
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  Speaker 6: I kind of like it. I think it's been good
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  Speaker 6: for these guys.
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  Speaker 9: One going to ask you about outside of Georgia, you've
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  Speaker 9: found some real success in the run game the last
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  Speaker 9: back half of this season. What do you can what
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  Speaker 9: do you attribute to that success, and what do you
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  Speaker 9: need to do moving forward to to be playing on
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  Speaker 9: through January twentieth.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I think like you're a little bit you're thinking
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  Speaker 6: a little bit more big picture, I think than coaches think.
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  Speaker 6: You know, we've we've had some success run the football. Uh,
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  Speaker 6: they've been in a couple games where we haven't. But
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  Speaker 6: regardless of any of that, we don't start the game
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  Speaker 6: with any rushing yards this week, so we've got to
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  Speaker 6: execute this game plan.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 6: That's kind of That's how I look at it from
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  Speaker 6: from our perspective. You know, it was great to rush
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  Speaker 6: the ball the way we did in the last game,
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  Speaker 6: but we don't get any we don't get any kudos
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  Speaker 6: for that. So we got to earn in every yard
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  Speaker 6: that we rush for this week against the defense that
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  Speaker 6: presents a lot of challenges. So you know, I'm not
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  Speaker 6: worried about January twentieth, right now. I'm not worried about
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  Speaker 6: tenth or the eleventh right now. You know, we're worried
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  Speaker 6: about the Peach Bowl and playing really well in this game.
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  Speaker 6: And I think the way you do that is to
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  Speaker 6: practice well. And I'm excited about how we practice. The
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  Speaker 6: last couple of days, last one for coach flood O Cook.
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  Speaker 5: Coach talked a lot this year about how you got
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  Speaker 5: outside zone back on track, and he spoke some to
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  Speaker 5: the to the offensive line and what they did. How
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  Speaker 5: did Trey and Jayden as well, you're running back help
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  Speaker 5: outside zone also get back on track.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, there is no good running game if your running
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  Speaker 6: backs aren't in sync with the offensive line. So I
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  Speaker 6: think the tracks, the reads having their eyes in the
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  Speaker 6: right place. You know, when you watch running backs, the
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  Speaker 6: way you know you have a really good running back
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  Speaker 6: is when you see a change of speed as they
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  Speaker 6: go through the line of scrimmage. That means they're really
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  Speaker 6: seeing it. I've heard people say like their feet are
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  Speaker 6: connected to their eyes. Well, that's kind of what they mean.
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  Speaker 6: Like there's an acceleration as they burst through the line.
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  Speaker 6: I think you saw that last week with Trey and
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  Speaker 6: with Jaden. So I think they've you know, the reps
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  Speaker 6: they've gotten this year have shown up, and you know,
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  Speaker 6: we're doing a better job of blocking it.
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  Speaker 4: I think they're doing a better job of reading it.
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  Speaker 6: And then when they do make their read, they're doing
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  Speaker 6: a great job of accelerating through the line. And you know,
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  Speaker 6: and every once in a while they got to make
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  Speaker 6: a guy mess and they've done that too. So you know,
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  Speaker 6: we're fortunate, even with the situation we're in the running
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  Speaker 6: back room to have guys like Trey and Jaden and
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  Speaker 6: Jeric who are doing a really nice job run the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Force hands up.
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  Speaker 1: Who who has jam and blues seventy seven yards touchdown
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  Speaker 1: run as their favorite moment of the twenty twenty four season.
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  Speaker 1: It might be up there, especially coming with all the
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  Speaker 1: injuries Texas had sustained in that game on the offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he of Cam Williams leaves the game, Jake
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  Speaker 1: Majors leaves the game, Kelvin Banks to one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: But the job that Hayden Connor and Cole huts I
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  Speaker 1: think it was Hayden Connor and Cole Hudson on that
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  Speaker 1: play to open up the hole and then Jaden freaking
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  Speaker 1: Blue seventy seven yards if you if you, if you
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  Speaker 1: stop that picture, and I think if still frames can
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  Speaker 1: get some trouble because you know a lot of people,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they'll take a screen grab and they'll say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: look the receiver's wide open, but it doesn't really count
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  Speaker 1: for the dB just not being in the frame, but
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  Speaker 1: he's actually there. If you take a if you take
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  Speaker 1: a screenshot of when Blue right before he hits that hole,
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  Speaker 1: and you say he's gonna score seventy seven, he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: go seventy seven yards untouched, I don't know, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I believe you. But that just
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  Speaker 1: a tests to the speed that Jayden Blue has, but
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  Speaker 1: also to the level of confidence and trust that Sark
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  Speaker 1: and cale Flood have because obviously Jayden Blue has had
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  Speaker 1: his troubles fun with the football this year. Jared Gibson
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  Speaker 1: as well, But it was Trey Weisner, it was Jack Gibson,
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  Speaker 1: it was Jaden Blue that had a phenomenal game and
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  Speaker 1: helped push Texas over Clemson. I think we're going to
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  Speaker 1: see something similar against Arizona State on Wednesday. Our three
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  Speaker 1: just getting started. More than come here, as the Craig
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  Speaker 1: Way Show continues on AM thirteen hundred.
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  Speaker 2: The zone