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NFL Draft Deadline, Transfer Portal Closing, NFL Coaching Carousel · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Jeezer, Texas Selectionend, a Hall of Fame broadcaster, the voice of.
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  Speaker 2: The Texas Longhorns, and your host of The Craigway Show.
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  Speaker 1: Herry is now Craigway. All right, welcome back to the
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  Speaker 1: Craigway Show. I'm like the time long one, Rod Davis.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be with you for the next two days, and
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  Speaker 1: so we'll talk a lot, of course about Texas football.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime I'm on with you, we're gonna go behind the
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  Speaker 1: burnt Orange Curtin. We'll stay behind the burnt orange curtain
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  Speaker 1: talking some Texas football. We'll start talking Texas football as
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  Speaker 1: a matter of fact, with yesterday being, of course the
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  Speaker 1: deadline not only for the NFL declarations guys who are
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  Speaker 1: declaring for the NFL Draft, but also the transfer portal
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  Speaker 1: window closing officially, So we'll get into some Texas football.
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  Speaker 1: Now we know at least we have some clarity about
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  Speaker 1: how the twenty twenty five roster is gonna look for
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  Speaker 1: the long Horns. So we'll start off talking from Texas football,
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  Speaker 1: but a lot of conversation previewing the upcoming Divisional round
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  Speaker 1: playoff games in the NFL. We'll do that coming up
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  Speaker 1: a little bit later on the show, and they're all
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  Speaker 1: types of other stories and topics that will dive into.
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  Speaker 1: I want to start with because it here close to home.
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  Speaker 1: Quinn was put out his official video, even though that
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  Speaker 1: it was announced multiple times and the news was reported
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  Speaker 1: multiple times that he was moving on to the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: There were several reports and Chip Brown, a man, Chip
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  Speaker 1: Brown does a great job over there at Horns twenty
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  Speaker 1: four to seven. He recently here close to home, who
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  Speaker 1: kind of knows the you know, he actually knows the
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  Speaker 1: landscape and understands that here locally. Nobody, nobody that I
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  Speaker 1: knew on the inside, who actually had some knowledge of
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  Speaker 1: the situation, thought Quinn would ever hit the transfer portal
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  Speaker 1: and go play for another college football team, like they.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody that I talked to on the inside took that seriously. Now, nationally,
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  Speaker 1: I heard everybody talking about it nationally. I heard, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I heard then Kyle heard, I heard Dan Patrick, I
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  Speaker 1: heard nashally. It being talked about a number of different times,
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  Speaker 1: and I get it. It was a big national story.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that there weren't some offers, but
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  Speaker 1: the reports that were coming from close to home here
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  Speaker 1: on the forty acres from people I trust. My man,
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  Speaker 1: Bobby Burton does a great job over it on Texas Football.
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  Speaker 1: He was telling me for the last few months, this
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  Speaker 1: Quinn is not gonna play for another college. It just
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  Speaker 1: ain't gonna happen. Now. I don't know if we knew
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  Speaker 1: the number of the of the indecent proposals that he
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  Speaker 1: would be offered, we didn't know. I don't think we
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  Speaker 1: know what the value would get to. And here's why
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  Speaker 1: one man, Chip Brown, comes into it. Chip Brown at
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  Speaker 1: Chip Brown two four seven. He's reporting that Quinn turned down.
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  Speaker 1: He turned it down, turned down an eight million dollars
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  Speaker 1: in io offer to transfer instead of declining for the
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  Speaker 1: NFL Draft. It's a being out for one year. I'm
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  Speaker 1: because all these I'm it'd be stupid to try to
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  Speaker 1: sign these guys to a multi year deal when you
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  Speaker 1: can't keep him for moti years. You don't know how
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna work out. So most of your nil deals
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about one year, just like three scholarships were
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  Speaker 1: one year renewals. You go in there every year and
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  Speaker 1: go sign your scholarship again. That's what these nil deals are.
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  Speaker 1: If he was being offered eight meal for one year,
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  Speaker 1: he's not gonna be drafted in the first round. First
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  Speaker 1: round money, you're gonna beat eight MILLI a year. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if he beat it by that much, but
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  Speaker 1: you'll beat it in the second round. I mean you're
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  Speaker 1: talking about but maybe as a quarterback three if he's
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  Speaker 1: the first pick in the second round, three meal, three
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  Speaker 1: to four meal something like that a year. So he
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  Speaker 1: turned down. If my man Chip brown is accurate here,
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  Speaker 1: and uh I love Chick Brownie. He does. He does
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  Speaker 1: great work and he's always you know, obviously that's one
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  Speaker 1: of the hardest workers, hardest guys, hardest working guys I
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  Speaker 1: know in this industry. And his report is accurate or
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  Speaker 1: he were close to accurate. You're talking about eight billion
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  Speaker 1: dollars a year, is I don't that would set a record,
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  Speaker 1: would have to set a record. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: there's any NIO deal that I've heard of that would
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  Speaker 1: surpass he eight million dollar mark. And I'll say this
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  Speaker 1: it is apropos because Quinn Ewers is the first NIO baby.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he left high school early, and quarterbacks cash
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  Speaker 1: in on Nio more than anybody else.
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  Speaker 3: He left high school early to cash.
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  Speaker 1: In on nil which is why he's a young quarterback
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  Speaker 1: actually coming out in the draft, which will help his
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  Speaker 1: draft prospects. We can talk about that later on, but
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  Speaker 1: he was one of the original, one of the ogs
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  Speaker 1: of the NIL era, came out early out of high school,
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  Speaker 1: then went to Ohio State, set you know, behind some
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  Speaker 1: NFL caliber quarterbacks at Ohio State, and then ultimately he
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  Speaker 1: transferred to Texas. And we all know if you went
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  Speaker 1: to if you went to Ohio State and got the bag,
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  Speaker 1: you definitely got the bag when you came to Texas.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how much money he's made in NIO dollars.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's been a multi year starter here in Texas.
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  Speaker 1: The starting quarterback at Texas probably makes more NIL money
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  Speaker 1: or NIL revenue, generates more in our revenue probably than
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  Speaker 1: any other quarterback, a starting quarterback in college football other
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  Speaker 1: than you know, maybe a Sugar Sanders there. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: there are a few exceptions to the rule, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure they were among the top values and the top
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  Speaker 1: money makers in NIL dollars every year was there. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what that means. Let's just assume it's over
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  Speaker 1: a million dollars every year. So he's made good money
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  Speaker 1: I mean to get a meal to go to Ohio's
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  Speaker 1: Day and allegedly and get a million to go to Texas.
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  Speaker 1: And then you got your private jet deals and your
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  Speaker 1: car deals, and he's got all the deal he's on
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  Speaker 1: television with Dr Pepper. He's making good money. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how much he's made. Let's just assume somewhere
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  Speaker 1: in the area five to seven million dollars he's already made.
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  Speaker 1: And they're gonna offer him eight million just for one year,
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  Speaker 1: And people say, why would you pass that up? When
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna go to the NFL and you're not getting
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  Speaker 1: drafted in the first round, you're getting drafted in the
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  Speaker 1: second third round, and you're not gonna make that kind
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  Speaker 1: of money in a year. It'll take you, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a half half to a third year contract,
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  Speaker 1: maybe your second contract to get to that kind of
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  Speaker 1: money and value. I'm saying because I don't know where
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  Speaker 1: Quinn is gonna get drafted. He may still get drafted
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  Speaker 1: in the first round right now, it's not looking like that.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll just say this. I think for Quinn, let
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  Speaker 1: I say he's one of the original nil uh nil
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  Speaker 1: babies in the in the in the NIL era, so
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  Speaker 1: he knows how it works him. Him and his people,
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  Speaker 1: his circle, Uh, they have a you know, they have
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  Speaker 1: a really good understanding of the NIL world and they
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  Speaker 1: think about value, and Quinn yours has I think thought
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  Speaker 1: about long term and short term value in terms of
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  Speaker 1: his athletic skills and him as a quarterback and if
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna end up being a franchise quarterback in the league,
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  Speaker 1: all those things being considered. I think the reason ultimately
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  Speaker 1: he did not go to another university or another collegetball program,
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  Speaker 1: even with the eight million dollar offer, which I would
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  Speaker 1: assume it's got to be some kind of record breaking
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  Speaker 1: offer unless I've seen something else. Maybe there's a higher
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  Speaker 1: number out there, and we all these things are speculation,
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  Speaker 1: rumor and conjecture. I think it's because he wanted he
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to be seen as a mercenary, as the
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  Speaker 1: original Nio baby. He wanted to be considered a lone corn.
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  Speaker 1: I think what it's also done, and maybe he would
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  Speaker 1: have if he went, say he went somewhere else, went
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  Speaker 1: to another school, so he went to another name, or
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  Speaker 1: you know, went to Oregon or whatever. Just they he
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  Speaker 1: went to another school and started there for a year
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  Speaker 1: for the eight million dollars or whatever it was going
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  Speaker 1: to be. And yeah, most of his you know, most
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  Speaker 1: of his time, his tenure in college would have been
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  Speaker 1: with a long corn. So he would have been seen
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  Speaker 1: as most as a loanhorn. But you know there would
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  Speaker 1: have been I think some that would have seen them
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  Speaker 1: more as Oh no, he was just an io mercenary,
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  Speaker 1: went to three different spots, just want to go make
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  Speaker 1: go maximize and make the most money. Even though I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure that's not true. I think he wanted it to
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  Speaker 1: be seen as a longhorn. I think that's part of it.
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  Speaker 1: I think part of it is now I'm a long
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  Speaker 1: one and I'll be one of the greatest loan qbs
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  Speaker 1: in Texas football history, whether you're talking about behind Vy
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  Speaker 1: of course, behind Cote McCoy. You know, some people will
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  Speaker 1: throw James Street up there ahead of him if you
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  Speaker 1: want to go pre modern era and Bobby Lane and
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. But he's gonna go down top five.
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  Speaker 1: And I can tell you right now that has value
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  Speaker 1: once you're done playing. Its value when you're when you
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  Speaker 1: considered a longhorn. When I came up with the term
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  Speaker 1: lifetime longhorn. That's because I was thinking about the brand
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  Speaker 1: and the power of the brand and the value of
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  Speaker 1: the brand. You want to be considered a low horn.
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  Speaker 1: You want to go down as a loan hoorn. So
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  Speaker 1: when you're done playing, whenever that is, could be could
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  Speaker 1: be thirty eight, could be twenty eight, no matter, could
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  Speaker 1: be forty something. That is the hope. But no matter
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  Speaker 1: what it is, you're gonna live in Texas. Nice to
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  Speaker 1: be considered a lonehorn. The most affluent fan base or
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  Speaker 1: one of the most affluent fan bases in college football,
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  Speaker 1: definitely in the top five, and you're revered, respected and
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  Speaker 1: beloved within that community. I know some of y'all got
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  Speaker 1: some harsh critiques and you have very mixed emotions about Quinn.
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  Speaker 1: But when it's all settled, when it's all said and done, man,
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  Speaker 1: there's no doubt he accomplished a ton at Texas and
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  Speaker 1: got to Final four back to back years, and I still, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: didn't reach his ceiling. I mean, I think that's that's
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  Speaker 1: a good thing for him now moving forward, is that
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  Speaker 1: I don't think anybody thought he reached his ceiling here
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  Speaker 1: in Texas. I mean, there's still some meat on that
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  Speaker 1: Bone as well. There should be as a as a
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  Speaker 1: young player, don't. I don't know how Quinn's story is
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  Speaker 1: gonna end. But fourth and thirteen beating Bama, I mean, people,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, other than Vy beating USC, give me a
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  Speaker 1: more oppressive win for a quarterback that Texas in the
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  Speaker 1: modern era. I'm sure James Street has some maybe maybe
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  Speaker 1: going back to Bobby Lane. So I haven't done the
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  Speaker 1: research on that, because you know so. I remember there's
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  Speaker 1: the Game of the Century or whatever, Texas versus Arkansas
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  Speaker 1: back in the day, So maybe that's in that conversation.
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  Speaker 1: V Y in Texas beating USC give me a more
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  Speaker 1: impressive win than Quinn beating Bama on the road, beating
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  Speaker 1: Nick Saban in Tuscaloosa, and not just beating Nick saving
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  Speaker 1: in Tuscal, beating him by double digits.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, no other quarterback had ever.
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  Speaker 1: Done it, not Nick Saban's dynastic run. Nobody ever went
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  Speaker 1: into Tuscaloosa and put a double digit put a double
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  Speaker 1: digit loss and double digit l on Nick Saban.
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  Speaker 3: That was a nice win. I don't there are a
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  Speaker 3: lot of.
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  Speaker 1: Qbs at Texas don't have wins that impressive against the goat.
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  Speaker 1: Then fourth and thirteen. So he's got these legacy moments. Now.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when I try to argue for Chris Simms,
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  Speaker 1: who left Texas as top five, winning his quarterback at
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  Speaker 1: Texas and had stealings in the record books, I can
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  Speaker 1: go look at it for a lot of great achievements.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you gotta look at People want to know
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  Speaker 1: what the legacy moments are.
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  Speaker 3: Did he beat Oklahoma?
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  Speaker 1: Right? Did he win in a Big twelve? Did he
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  Speaker 1: win a Big Twelve championship? Need those legacy moments Coats got,
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  Speaker 1: you know, legacy moments like that, we're you know, big
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  Speaker 1: wins over and in that two thousand and eight season, Hell,
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  Speaker 1: they had like, you know, like four or five of
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  Speaker 1: those types wins in that in that season over ranked teams,
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  Speaker 1: really good teams, really good quarterbacks. I mean, I might
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  Speaker 1: even the best year in the history of the Big Twelve,
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  Speaker 1: and you know Texas had Texas won their fair share
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  Speaker 1: against everybody except Texas take down the stretch. Different conversation
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  Speaker 1: for a different day, But in terms of wins, most
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  Speaker 1: impressive wins that we've seen from a Texas quarterback, that Bama,
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  Speaker 1: that win at Alabama for Quinnon, it's hard to find.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard for you to. You ain't gonna find me
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  Speaker 1: three or four wins better than that win for a
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  Speaker 1: Texas football program. I mean, send it to me at
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  Speaker 1: Rod Bay resented Twitter. First, give me a win that's
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  Speaker 1: better than that win other than Vy and Texas went
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  Speaker 1: over usc Like I said back in the day, James Street,
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  Speaker 1: you know that kind of stuff. You know, I've went
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  Speaker 1: over Arkansas win. You know, wins to win a national title. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: those could be in that conversation. That's a big win.
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  Speaker 1: We just got to the playoffs. So you want to
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  Speaker 1: say bold games every more than that. But yeah, bold
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  Speaker 1: games were exhibition games. We all know that now going forward.
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  Speaker 1: So I'll get that to Quinn too. He's got legacy
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  Speaker 1: moments now that if you're a Quinn fan, now you've
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  Speaker 1: got something to argue with. Now you got something that
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  Speaker 1: you know when somebody throws it out, Oh man, I
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  Speaker 1: think Quinn was overrated, they say, hey, fourth and thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: Hey man, he beat Alabama, beat Nick Saban in Tuscaloosa.
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  Speaker 1: So that's kind of Quinn's no, no, no in legacy in
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  Speaker 1: the nutshell. But I say he'll be more appreciated after,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's done that decade or so from now.
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  Speaker 1: But right now, everybody's excited about the arch era, which
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk about coming up a little bit later on.
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  Speaker 1: Can we I want to talk about Michael taff announced
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  Speaker 1: that he was coming back, and Michael Taffins made multiple
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  Speaker 1: All American teams. Now and you know that that sex
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  Speaker 1: As secondary best secondary in the country last year proved
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  Speaker 1: it again. I was listening to an inn with the
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  Speaker 1: third string cardinal take the third string, third string, but
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  Speaker 1: he's the third wide receiver for Ohio State, and he said,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't think you was talking about Texas said, we
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  Speaker 1: didn't think that they would alter their game plan. We
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  Speaker 1: thought they had so much confidence in their secondary, in
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  Speaker 1: their corners, they would try to play them straight up
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  Speaker 1: and wouldn't roll coverage or rotate to safeties or bracket guys.
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  Speaker 1: They did Texas road coverage bracketed drums Smith took him
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  Speaker 1: out of the game. He had one catch for three yards,
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  Speaker 1: but they got hurt by other guys. But that secondary,
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  Speaker 1: you know, one of the things that said to the
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  Speaker 1: part it's one of the greatest secondaries in Texas football history,
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  Speaker 1: is the kind of the football like Q of the secondary.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they were they were just sing me. They
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  Speaker 1: don't have a lot of coverage bus. They didn't have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of coverage bus. They were just very sound
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  Speaker 1: in their coverage play mostly zone, but you never really
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  Speaker 1: saw them have, you know, these weak spots in their zone.
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  Speaker 1: And that's because they they were as high minded as
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  Speaker 1: any group that I've watched. And the big part of
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  Speaker 1: that is Mike Taff and Jday Baron, which we'll get
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  Speaker 1: to next second. I got a question about Jada Baron.
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  Speaker 1: I want to ask you guys, but Michael Taff's legacy
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  Speaker 1: and he still is coming back, and we'll hear from
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  Speaker 1: Michael Taff as to why he came back, because I
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  Speaker 1: think that's a big part of I don't think people
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  Speaker 1: people got to misunderstand why he came back. I do
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: a podcast with Third and Longhorns with my man, Kozie Whitaker,
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  Speaker 1: Derrick Johnson, Jeremy Hughes. It's a good group. We have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fun, and Michael Taff joined us and
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  Speaker 1: told us why I think he came back to Texas
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  Speaker 1: before he made the announcement.
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  Speaker 3: This was actually this past offseason.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we'll get to that audio on the other side,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll also post a question about Jday baron All
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  Speaker 1: Time Great now at Texas after winning the Thorpe Award.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get into that tour on other side. All of
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  Speaker 1: that and more when we come back right here on
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  Speaker 1: The Gregway Show on AM thirteen. All right, welcome back
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  Speaker 1: to the Greig Way Show. I'm love time long one,
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  Speaker 1: Rod Babies. I promise we'll get to NFL discussion, especially
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  Speaker 1: next hour. We'll dive deep into it through some previews
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: of division around, talk about the coaching carousele in the league.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Brady recruiting the top coaching candidate for a lot
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  Speaker 1: of teams right now, and right now the reports are
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  Speaker 1: he might be close to actually finalizing the deal, that
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  Speaker 1: he actually may get it done.
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  Speaker 3: Ben Johnson one of the front runners.
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  Speaker 1: For that job with the Raiders, and I didn't think
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  Speaker 1: of all the jobs out there that he would be
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  Speaker 1: even the least bit interested in the Las Vegas Raiders.
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  Speaker 1: But I think Tom Brady's got that, you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: got that type of swag to him. All Right, So
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  Speaker 1: we'll get to that. We'll talk about that, We'll get
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  Speaker 1: into the other coaching vacancies. We'll talk about the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, in the latest with the reports as relates
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  Speaker 1: to the Cowboys coaching search, Robert Salad now being a
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  Speaker 1: name that's mentioned, I believe they did a request and
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: if you killing Moore, we knew that was coming. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll get to that coming up. But let's get back
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  Speaker 1: to Texas football for a second, because I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: do my DEBU rankings all time DBU rankings at Texas,
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  Speaker 1: myself included, and I usually, I mean, I think it
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  Speaker 1: got to fifty. I'm outside the top twenty by the way,
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  Speaker 1: just so you know, so I'm not I'm not pumping
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  Speaker 1: myself up to be something that I wasn't on the
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  Speaker 1: forty acres. I'm also out the top of twenty, so
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  Speaker 1: and I think I'm getting bumped down again based on
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: some of the most more recent additions to my DBU rankings,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: and I hadn't done it in a few years just.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: Because honestly, I don't know if it was warranted.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know we had secondary I know we had
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: defenders who were going to impact by DBU rankings list
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: enough for me to have to reveal an all new
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: one and come up with an all new rankings. But
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it this year. I'm gonna dive deep
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: into it, and it's based on your accomplishments on the
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: forty acres. And my first, really, I think, really the
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: first big issue that I'm running into that I'm pondering
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: is by Mount Rushmore of DBU. And it's a simple
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Mountain Rushmore, and it has been pretty simple for years now.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: I'd really hadn't I hadn't had to worry about the
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore of it. My top four all time Johnny Johnson, Oh,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: I mean Johnny Johnson, one of the all time greats, right,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: I mean consensus, uh, all American again, beca two time
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: unanimous All American. Actually, I believe Jerry Gray all right, obviously,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Jerry Gray, the Jerry Carroll era of DBU, all right,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: two time contents is All American and Jerry Gray's and
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: that was before the Thorpe Award, which was given to
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: the which is given to the best defensive back in
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: college football. So Jerry Gray and Johnny Johnson, that's on
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: the Mount Rushmore hard. It's gonna be hard for anybody to,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: you know, to be able to leap for all those guys.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: So they're pretty much mainstays there and have been. But
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Michael Huff Huff Daddy. Oh and by the way, congrats
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: to Michael, because Michael Huff recently has been inducted into
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: the College Football or at least he will be inducted
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: into the College Football Hall of Fame that was announced.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: I believe yesterday that he's gonna be in the most
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: the latest class in the College Football Hall of Fame,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: and it is a star study class. Honestly, I thought
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Michael Huff was already in there. So the only reason
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: I was surprised is what I was like, Oh, I
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: thought he was already in there. So it's a no brainer.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: He was gonna be a College Football Hall of Famer anyway,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Just like I said, it was all about the timing
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: of it. And he's going in.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: With some other great players like, oh.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: How Graham Harrell's going in with him, Michael Strahan's going in,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Michael Vick is going into this class to coaches going in,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Nick Saban's going in, Urban Meyer's going in. So pretty
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: sure I study and Nick and Mike, you know, Mike Cuff.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Michael Huff is one of those guys, no question. So
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: he's on the mountain Rushmore because he won the Thorpe
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: and won a national title, and then you got Aaron Ross,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: who also won of Thorpe won a national title, and
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: that's pretty much been the Mount Rushmore. And I don't
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: know if because it's all about what you did, what
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: you've done at Texas and your accomplishment. I don't know
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: if Jday.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Baron has is if its season or his career.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: I should say more anything merits him, leap frog and
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: one of the guys originally in the top four on
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: the Mount Rushmore. So that's kind of the question, you know.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'll throw it out there, hit me up
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: at rod Davers Indie Twitter Verse. If I was going
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: to put Jday Baron on the Mount Rushmore, who do
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: I take off? Johnny Johnson, Jerry Gray, Michael Huff, Aaron Ross.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, who would I take off? That's the quest.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: That's the first thing after ponder is it? And right
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: now I'm just I am leaning toward him just being
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: number five, just right there outside the top four, right
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: outside the Mount Rushmore. But he could when I finished
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: my research, because it's back the stats. It's about you know,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: how you played in big games and your accolades and
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: achievement in the national awards and all that kind of stuff.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Maybe when I added all up today, Baron, maybe you
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: know he's a dark horse and ends up cracking that
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: top four.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Right now, it's hard. It's hard for me to see it,
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: all right.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Another comment my man CB at Chris GB double zero,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: double zero two thousand in the Twitter verse, he pointed
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: out when I was asking about the big games quarterbacks
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: who won big games at Texas, don't forget about James Brown,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: he said, nineteen ninety six Big twelf Championship game, Texas
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: beating two time defending national champion Nebraska thirty seven twenty
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: seven to win the first ever Big twelve championship. And
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: in ninety five in College Station, Texas beat Aggie and
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: ended their thirty one game home winning streak to win
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: the final Southwest Conference championship. It's a good point, CB, now,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: good point, ay, right? Those are big those are big ones. Yeah,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: I know what I'm saying. I'm sure there are some
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: other examples of it. No doubt I would put Quinn's
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: win over Labama right there in that same discussion. But
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: it's a good point though about you know, James Brown,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: James Brown, He's definitely in that conversation of the most
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: underrated Texas quarterbacks considering what he achieved at Texas. They're
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: they're no doubt one championships, one, big games, had the clutch, gene,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. Appreciate that, CV. All Right,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: another nugget I want to get to before we start
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: talking about some NFL topics.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Okay, So Michael Taff.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Came back and he's gonna be your starting safety, of
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: one of your starting safety for that twenty twenty five
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: season after becoming an All American. I mean, it's probably
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the greatest story for a walk on in history of
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Texas football. And I'm not talking about the Ricky Williams
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: walk ons, right, the guys who got drafted then or
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I mean Corn Cosmy might have been one of those
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: guys too, who got drafted to play Major League baseball
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: first and then technically walked on or played another sports.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Was a track athlete, you know that walked on the
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: football like Mark he's good one or something like that.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know that. Don't give me those technicalities. I
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: don't want the technicalities. Okay, I want a true walk
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: on story. And you know why nobody can give me
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: a better walk on story because we don't keep up
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: with the walk Ons.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: I've asked historians.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: I'm the only the late great Bill Little probably put
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the only one that could have shined the light on
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: this and actually given us some information about it.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: But I've asked, you know.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: As many analysts and as many recruiting experts, and as
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: many Texas football historians, and most of them amateurs, amateur
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Texas with wall historians, can you name me a great
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: story about a walk on at Texas football history? And yeah,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: they throw out this story or that story, but none
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: of them are better than Michael Taff going from walk
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: on to All American. No, no, there's no story better
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: than that. There's no walk on story better at Texas
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: football history. And he's coming back to kind of add
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: to the legacy. But why he's coming back. Some people said, well,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: he had his best season, and the NFL usually, you know,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: it's like a lottery ticket, right, You want to cash
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: a lottery ticket when you got it, and you want
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: to hit the NFL when your draft stock is as
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: hot as its going to be. And this is as
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: high as it's been for Michael taff. Our assumption is
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: it won't go higher, but maybe it could. But we
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: spoke to.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Michael Taff on Third and Longhorn.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: This was earlier this year, and I think there's another
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: reason that maybe we're discounting as to why Michael taff
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: might have come back to Texas. Because he does bleed orange.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. And I think there's some
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: unfinished business for Michael Taff. Here is a taff on
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: third Loanhorn don't know it.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: You got to always remember your why when you're in
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: the winter, when you're in the summer, and I have.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: A why, but I also have a bigger why.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: When I'm at Texas and I have the burnt orange on,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: I got a I got to put back where Texas
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: was always been. And it's not just winning the Big
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: teph Championship and making it to the college Football playss.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: It's to win a national championship.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: And every day that I work out, whenever I get
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: discouraged or something like that, I just need a simple
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: reminder you're at the University of Texas, your dream and
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: you're fighting to go win a national championship. That's all
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: I needed, And no matter if I was a walk on,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: no matter if I started as an equipment manager or
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: I was a five star quarterback. That's all the motivation
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: I needed besides my individual wise and so that's really
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: what it came down to. When coach getting and gave
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: me that call, that was all in the back of
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: my mind was like, man, I get a chance to
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: go try to flip the narrative of Texas and change
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: all this five and seven talk, but flip it to
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: you know, now seventeen and oh national champions, SEC champions. Like, man,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: if I can do that for myself, that's a done deal.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: So that was kind of the main emphasis. All right,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: that's my Taff on the third Longhorns podcast. So in
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: addition to you know, draft Stock, I think he's worried
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: about trying to win a national title for Texas. That's
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: why Lowhorn fans are big Michael Taff fans. All Right,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: we come back. We'll get into what the twenty twenty
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: five roster for Texas may end up looking like, especially
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: now that we are past the transfer a portal window
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: and the NFL declarations are done as well, so we'll
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: talk about what twenty twenty five looks like. For the
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Lonehorns a little bit all that more right here on
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: the Greig Way Show, right here on AM thirteen hundred.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Craig Way Show.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: I am Rob Babers right here, sitting in for Craig
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Way for the rest of the week. So we appreciate
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Craig Waite giving us the opportunity. But I want to
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: get back to some Texas football conversation. We'll talk NFL
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: on the other side. I predicted earlier this year, like
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: early on, I'm talking about early last year. I should say,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: forgetting to twenty five has already happened. But I predicted
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: early last year that when Archie Many became to starting quarterback,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: that he would be on the c wrote the College
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Football video game, you know, within his within his two years,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: that he's going to be the starter of Texas. Uh,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: they say they're going to and now they said it
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: has announced the College Football twenty twenty six will be
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: released this summer. Uh, they made that announcement. And I
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: don't I don't know who in college football, of course
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: who is in the running to be on the cover.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: But something tells me arch Manning's got a really good
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: chance to do it. If that is the case, that
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: would give you back to back. That's the only thing
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: that might hurt him actually is the fact that Quinn
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: was on the cover of the video game of the
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: A Sports collg Football video game last time around, and
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: this time around. They may not want to seem like
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: they're too you know, too lenient when it comes to
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Texas athletes, like they're favoring Texas athletes over other athletes.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: But it is a Manning first family of football. It
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: just seemed like it was a you know brainer at
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: one point it was going to happen. We'll see if
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: it happens for the twenty twenty five college football video game,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: because I just saw that announcement to come out there
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: all right to talk about Texas speaking of twenty twenty five,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: talking about the twenty twenty five roster, the official NFL
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Draft declarations from underclassmen, because that window now is closed.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Quhen Yours, Jaydon Blue, Matthew Golden, Isaiah Bond, Kelvin Banks,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: and Cam Williams all on offense, Trey Moore has decided
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: to stay. That was something else that I think broke
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: today too, that he's decided to stay with yesterday we
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: found out DJ Campbell it was the only member of
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: the offensive line that you're going to bring back. So
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: you have to replace four starters there. You gotta replace
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: your quarterback, got to replace one of your weapons on
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: front of call, Jaydon Blue just are running back considering
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: how he was weaponized. You got to replace Jaydon Blue,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: got to replace two of your starting wide receivers at
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Matthew Golden and Isaiah Bond. And you got to replace
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: your two tackles of course too. So it's and you're
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: starting tight end. Gunnhelm is obviously not an underclassman, but
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Gunnahelm also going see you replacing a lot on the
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball. But like I said, the
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: future is bright with Arch Manning and Bryan Wingo and
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: some of the other pieces you're bringing back Offensively, trefor
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Gooseby's another guy I think long run fans are really
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: excited about. On the offensive line, proved he could play
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: right and left tackle this year. On defense, Trey Moore
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: is staying around, So you're gonna have got Trey Moore's
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: last eight games. I don't think long run fans really
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: understood how effective he was those last eight games. Actually
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: no last seven games. So your last seven games twenty pressures,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: six and a half sacks, ten tackles for lost, three
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: forced fumbles, one fumble recovery, and seventeen total tackles. The
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: more effective that pass rush became, and the more effective
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Colin Simmons really became, especially in that NASCAR package which TRADYE.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Moore was in two and I'll go, look, I bet
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: a lot of those sacks came in that NASCAR package
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: they did. They had to, you know, leave him to
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: one on one blocking assignments, and he can beat one
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: on one blocking assignments, but you may not be the beat,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: you know, when they if the offensive line decides to
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: slide protection his way, or they're a running back out
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: there to chip them, or there's a tight end that
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: he's got to go around first and a tight end
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: wants to bump them. That may be a little bit much,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: you know, for and Trey Moore not and he can't
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: do it. But he may not have all those splash
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: plays when it comes to that, but he starts to
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: get those splash plays late in the season. So you'll
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: have the best edge one of the best edge rooms
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: in the country with Colin Sims, Trade Moore, You'll have
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Colin Vas you know those, Ethan Burke.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: You have some really good players on the edges for you.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: At the secondary level, or at least the second level
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: of the defense. You'll have Anthony Hill and Lafoule at linebacker.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Both of those guys are back. That's a really good
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: sign for you. You'll in the secondary, you'll get Michael Taff,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: as we mentioned, and I think Taff wants to be
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: a draft pick. I think he wants to come complete
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: the greatest walk on story in Texas football history by
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: going from walk on to draft pick, which I don't
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: know if that's ever happened. Don't give me the technicalities
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: about Ricky Williams and those kind of guys. I'm talking
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: about a you know, a walk on that actually ends
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: up based working their way into being an NFL draft pick.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: I think that's his goal.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: I think, as we just played the audio from third
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Longhorns winning a national title is his goal. That he
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: wants to do those two things. And I don't know
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: if he was sure he was going to get drafted,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: because maybe some NFL coaches still, of course, maybe question
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: whether it was an aberration him this season. I think
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: obviously want to see him do it, you know, back
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: to back seasons, play at a really high level, and
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: then they're still the testing, right, you know whether he
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: would test well. We still don't know that there's the
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: stereotype of the white safety.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: It's gonna hurt him, right, I'll talking about it all
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: the time.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Low Hun fans even hate on Blake Gideon and Dylan
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Haynes and hey, no Michael Tafford. I remember Lowland fans
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: hate no Michael to have to and I used to
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: always say listen when loan when when the white safety
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: is about their logan fans always end up hating knowing
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: the white safety. Don't know what it is. But Blake
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: just started more games the end of the player in
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Texas football history. Uh, Dylan Haynes is like top five
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: all time in interceptions at DBU, and Michael Tafwan from
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: walk on to All American. Some Longland fans steal hate
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: know them things the bomb. So I think he's got
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: two goals, win a national title and becoming the NFL
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: draft pick. I don't know if he accomplished bost but
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: I just think that that's his goal with the secondary,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: especially with the safeties. That's gonna be a strength. Jeli
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: McDonald back there. You got Derek Williams coming back off
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: the injury. Uh, Jonah Williams coming in. Save your feel
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: so for me, uh, they're loaded there, so you didn't
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: have any departures that we that were unplaying. My Malik
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Muhammad is still expects to be there at the other
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: corner as well, and we'll see maybe Kobe Black, where
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I think is gonna be the the corner potential that's
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: gonna be the starter opposite Malik Muhammad. But you've got
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: a lot of pieces on defense offense. There's gonna be
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: a lot of new faces. But the most famous of
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: those whose famous that will be arch Manny. We'll talk
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: about that too. But coming up next, let's get into
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: the NFL. Let's talk about the coaching vacancies and the
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: coaching carousel. Let's preview the Texans and the Chiefs all
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: that more when we return right here on the Craigway Show,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: right here on AM thirteen hundred the Zone. All right,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: welcome back to the Craigway Show. I am not Craigway,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: even though at times I wish I was. Craigway. But
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: I don't have the intellect, the recall, or the overall talent.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: So I appreciate Craig just let me sit in for
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: him for a couple of days here on the Craigway
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Show while he's out and about. You can reach out
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: to me at Rod Daberson's for the Verse anytime you
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: want to connect with me today.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: But I'll get into some NFL discussion here.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: We talked a lot about the Longhorns and the players
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: who are departing, the forty acres, the transfer portal window closing,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: what that twenty twenty five roster's gonna look like. Also,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Quinn yours reportedly turning down eight million dollars in an
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: NIO deal to transfer to another college football school. That
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: was portabaull Manchip Brown over at Horns twenty four to seven,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: and I wouldn't looked it up. Listen, if you are
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: drafted in to say, your first pick in the second round,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: If you're one of the first picks in the second round,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: which is kind of where Quinn projects right now, you
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: can expect to make nearly ten million dollars in your
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: four year rookie contract. That according to spot Track, which
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: as to Mace, the first pick of the second round,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: will pull in just under ten million dollars, while the
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: next eight players picked will make north of nine million.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: That's what spot track says, and my man Chip Brown
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: says that Quinn yours turned down an eight million dollar
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: nil deal offer to transfer and declare for the NFL draft,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: and some people are saying, bad business decision, terrible business decision.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Shouldn't have made that business decision. You know, if you're
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: gonna make ten million, let's say ten to twelve million
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: in four years in the NFL, you should take the
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: eight million in one that you can make. You can
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: very well make that argument because then you'll still be
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: able to go to the NFL, and then maybe you'll
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: increase your draft stock too, Like maybe you'll actually increase
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: your draft stock and be able to go to the
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: first round and make even more money.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: There's also injury, so there's the injury risk you're throwing
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: there too.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: There's also the there's a chance you could drop your stock,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: that your stock could actually be damaged by going out
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: there and playing again. So it is a roll the dice,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I think, ultimately, for Quinn, who transferred from Ohio State
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: to Texas member. He's the original, He's the nil og
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: right before nil was really a really mainstream commonplace thing,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: which it is today now and everybody discusses it openly
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: and it is a huge factor in recruiting and talent
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: acquisition and talent retention. He left school early to go
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: capitalize on NIO dollars and then transferred from whole state
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: to Texas. I'm sure got another bag of ini own money.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know how much he's made. He was a
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: three year starter at Texas, and Texas quarterbacks make as
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: much as any definitely more than most quarterbacks in the
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: country when it comes to their NIO earnings. So he
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: made a lot of money in Texas. So, you know,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: maybe the eight million, I know, eight millions a lot
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: of money. I'm not saying it ain't a lot of money,
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: but he's definitely made at least five to six million.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Can we all agree with that. He's probably in that range,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: if not more, we don't know, which is all speculation,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: and so maybe it wasn't all about the money for him.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: I'm not disputing that. Maybe that was a questionable business decision.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: But he's going to the NFL, all right, he'll make
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: that ten take said ten twelve million over that four
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: year period on that contract. And I think it mattered
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: to Quinn that he be seen as a long corner.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: If he goes somewhere else, he will be seen as
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: a mercenary inn ilew mercenary. Nothing wrong with that, by
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: the way. Lot a players fine with that, and they are,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: but there is still.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: A powerful allure.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: And I think it is something that for some players,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: it is a connection that they that they want to
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: cultivate all right, all throughout their careers. And when Quentin
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: gets done, he wants to live in Texas, and I
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: think he wants to be seen as a Texas long wran.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: He wanted to come to Texas.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: He was committed to Texas before you know the Tom
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Herman situation, and then he decommitted and goes to a
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: house state.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: I think he always wanted to be a long horn.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: I think it matters to.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Him, and not that not that if he goes somewhere else,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: nobody will ever connect him to the long hooint brand. Again,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: of course he will be connected to the Longhoint brand,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: but not everybody will see him as Oh no, Quiteers
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: is a long horn nobody sees Queen Years as a
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: buck eye. Nobody there's a long horn, and I think
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: that matters to him, And so I think that I'm
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: not saying that was a big part of this decision,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: but I think it actually played a part in it
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: that No, I want to I want to leave it
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: better than I found it, and I want to be
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: a lifetime Longhorn. When I came up with the term
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: lifetime longhorn, it was because of the power of the
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: brand and the value of the brand. And everybody wants
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: to be a lifetime longhand will say like it, all
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: want to be a lifetime lohorn, will have to be
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: a legendary lifetime longhorn. And Quinn was very, I think,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: very close to being a legendary lifetime longhorn. And he's
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: got fourth and thirteen. He will always have fourth and thirteen.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: He'll always have that win over Bama. Not a lot
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: of quarterbacks in Texas can say they got to win
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: that big and fourth and thirteen and everybody knows what
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: it means fourth and thirteen. Yeah, you're right. Every Quinn
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: hater ever will always have to at least give you that.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: If you're a if you if you're a paying that
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: argument about Quinn, you go, man for thirteen, They go, yeah,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: you're right. I was. That was actually pretty impressive. Yeah,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: it took a lot of testicular fortitude game on the line.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: That was a clutch gene moment right there.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: So he's got that, you know, And I argue for
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: for sim Sim's over, I don't. I don't have that
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: moment to argue for Sim's like that that, Oh he's
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: got the he's got four to thirteen.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: Well, everybody knows exactly what.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: You're talking about, so, uh, Quinn, you know, giving up
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: eight million dollars, we'll, you know, we'll talk more about it.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: But I think ultimately for Quinn, he's been at least
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: those I know close to him, they've always said he's
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: going to the league. Nobody that I know is an
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: insider that's close to the situation ever actually seriously entertained
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: him going elsewhere now that they know the price tag
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: would grow up to eight million dollars. I don't know
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: if anybody do that, but nationally it's been like Dan
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Patrick and Colin Coyle Hurd and the national narrative that, oh, man,
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Quinn's will gonna be offered big money, and I think
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: he got offered big money. That's what Chip Brown's reporting.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: But those close so all things can be true. Those
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: close to the situation that I know, they told me
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: he ain't going he ain't going no worse. He's gonna
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: end his career as a long horning college and he's
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: going to the league. And that's what happened. He's going
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: to the league. Speaking of the league, let's talk about
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: the league a little bit. Uh oh no, before we
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: tell that Fourth and thirteen. So we're talking about fourth
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: and thirteen. This is great. So Matthew Golden was on
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: the third and Longhorns podcast.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: I do.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: It's great. Alex Okerfer is on there, Jeremy Hills, Fozzy Whitaker,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Derrick Johnson. It's really fun. They bring in a lot
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: of different special guests from man Nick Shuley does a
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: great job on there. It's really really fun. And they
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: had Matthew Golden on there recently and I couldn't be
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: there for this one, and it hurts my hearts. I
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: wanted to ask some questions for Matthew Golden, who turned
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: out to be the number one wide receiver Texas and
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Darrel Jeremiah, who watched film on Matthew Golden, said he
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: thinks Matthew Golden can be the top receiver taken in
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: the draft. Like that I did not see, but I
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: will admit he don't have a lot of weaknesses in
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: his game. And nobody increased their draft stock. I'm talking
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: about nobody in the country increased their draft stock more
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: than Matthew Golden did the last four or five games
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: of the season. And so, Ronald, would you have this ready?
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: So he was on fourth and loan.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: A third Longhorn, excuse me, and he was talking about
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: fourth and thirteen and I didn't even know this, But
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: turns out the fourth and thirteen, hell Man. Not only
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: was it a clutch play by Quinn, the clutch call
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: by Sark, but Matthew Golden he had to battle through
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: some adversity on that play. And listen to him describe
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: it to you. Here's Matthew Golden on third and longn Like,
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: where are your eyes? Do you realize that he's exabering Outfred?
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Do you realize he's flat footed? Yeah?
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: I seen, Yeah, That's what I seen in preaching that reed.
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: So when I stuck him and I looked and I
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: seen the safety.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: It was nobody you know where you're going?
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you aiming right at the middle of the zone.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: The zone I see you. Then I go up. You
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: know the ball's coming. It's just about locating the ball, right.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: You almost out ran the football.
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because look when I looked, you know, I got advisor.
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: So when I looked at the light was right in
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: my eyes.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: So I seen it last minute.
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: Nobody know that I've seen it last minute, and I
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: just I hadn't said. Nobody know that exclude right there.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: I'm like, man, he almost out ran that ball.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: So you located late, and that's why the.
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: Hands from you know what I'm saying, That's why he
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: was down there. Yeah, I mean I know I had
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: Once I had it, you know, I turned around and man,
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: I ain't know what the thing.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: I just I was like, man, we got it. You
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, We got it? Like where are
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: your eyes? Do you realize that? Back you go? Then
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: on the third Long Horse podcast, saying, yeah, he didn't
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: locate the ball too late. That's why he did bobble
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: it a little bit. I think it was to the
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: catch up on Some people disputed that he bobbed a
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: little bit late. I think he located late, and it
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: turns out the glare was in his eyes. Oh man,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: could you imagine the situation if he had dropped the
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: ball because the ball the glarres in his eyes. So, ma,
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: if you go to man showing more and more, he's
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: got the clutch gene and that's why he's gonna be
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: one of the top receivers taking in upcoming draft. All Right,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: speaking of the draft, has talk NFL. On the other side,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: I talk NFL coaching vacancies. Aaron Glenn is one of
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: the hot names. He's a defensive coordator for the Detroit Lions.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: He's one of the hot names out there. He brought
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: up something that I thought was really interesting that really
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: got me thinking about a theory that I once had
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: about the best coaches in the NFL and if I
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: was choosing a coach, a trait that I would look for.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: And also, why don't they do this more with head
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: coaches in the NFL because it does seem to work.
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: We'll discuss that and Ben Johnson.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: To the Raiders. Potentially it would prove once again that
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady's the goat. All of that and more right
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: here on the Craigway Show. Right here coming up next
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: right here on AM thirteen hundreds of zone. All right,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: welcome back to the Craigway Show here on AM thirteen
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: hundreds of zone. I'm life time, oh Horn. Rode Berbery
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: was sitting in for craig Way a little bit. Let's
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: talk NFL head coaching vacancies. The I think some of
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: the more intriguing headlines right now are coming out of
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: Las Vegas. It is being reported that the Las Vegas
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: Raiders may be wooing Ben Johnson, who is considered the
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: top candidate for any head coaching vegacy, who is the
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: office of coordinator right now for the Detroit Alliance. And
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: the world on the street is is that Tom Brady
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: and he have had conversations and that Ben Johnson is
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: pretty you know, enamored with tom Brady's pitch or maybe
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: just because Tom Brady is Tom Brady, and that the
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: Raiders are now a dark horse to get Ben Johnson,
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: and some people are saying right now they're a favorite
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: to get Ben Johnson. Nothing's confirmed, but nobody even saw
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: that they would be in the mix. And this is
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: when the Tom Brady association. He helps you if you're
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: the last Vegas Raiders. Now you're on the Lost Vegas Raiders.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: You're the Raiders, number one, the Raids. So you don't
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: need you know what I mean, You don't need much.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: You don't need a bump from anybody. All Right, you're
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: the Raiders. You got historical clout, and you're in Vegas,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: so you're in the glamorous city. All right, You're sexy
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: enough in that regard. But looking at the roster, and
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: nothing really sexy about the Raiders roster.
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: Nothing really sexy about the.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: Raiders situation being in the AFC West, right, that's an
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: ugly situation. That is, even if the roster had some
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know very if the roster did have some
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: very attractive elements to it, which I don't know if
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: it has that many. The brock Bauers one is interesting,
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: love Brock Boss the Beast. But other than that, if
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: you're gonna look at you gotta play in the AFC West,
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: So you gotta go up against Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes. Now,
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: Andy Reiding gonna be there forever. Andy Reid's getting older,
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: maybe' spags takes a job, But You're still gonna deal
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: with Brett Beach, the best GM arguably in the NFL,
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: and deal with Patrick Mahomes, the best quarterback in the NFL.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: And quarterbacks play into their forties now and play pretty
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: well into their forties.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: Tom Brady knows that bred to anybody.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: So you're going to deal with that. That ain't sixy.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: And then Sean Payton, who I think is one of
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: the better coaches in the NFL. You got to deal
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: with him. He got a young quarterback bow Knicks who
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: he likes. He made the playoffs. That's gonna be a
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: problem for it. They ain't no easy win. And then
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: you got John Harball. I'm sorry, Jim Harball got one
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: of the hornballs. You got Jim Harball, who is I mean,
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: that's a ball coach just won a National talent in college,
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: has already coached a team to a super Bowl in
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: the NFL. Everybody knows Jim Harball and coach Ball, and
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: that guy is just coming off a playoff, a playoff
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: game as well. So you got three playoff teams in
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: that division right now, and one is the best team
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: in football, period.
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: So that's a hell of a sales pitch.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: By Tom Brady. Now we know Tom Brady can recruit.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Go look at his ex wife, Go look at the
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Hollywood starletts that he's all right been associated with. Mc
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: brown used to always say, I'll never hire a coach
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: who's got an unattractive wife because that means he can't recruit. Well,
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady, if that applies in terms of recruiting, the
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: man can recruit. And if he ends up getting Ben
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: Johnson all right and getting big just to agree to
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: play the Chiefs twice a year and Andy Reid try
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: to win the chess match against Andy Reid twice a year.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: Sean Payton twice a year, and Jim Harball, two coaches
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: who have won the Super Bowl, and another coach wo's
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: been to a Super Bowl and one of the best
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: coach in the history of football at any level. And
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: then Andy Reid a top five coach all time, and
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: another Super Bowl winning coaching Sean Payton, and teams who
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: have young quarterbacks, good young quarterbacks. Justin Herbert bo Knicks
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, the best quarterback in the league, said that
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: is the hell of a sales pitch. And then we
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: all got to get some props to we gotta get
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: some props to Tom Brady. Not only is he the
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: goat on the field all right, and has you know,
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: had many beautiful Hollywood starlets and supermodels all right in
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: his uh you know, on his on his roster, if
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: you will.
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: But now he's gonna prove that, no, indeed, that he's
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: worth every.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: Basically every penny that the Raiders are gonna pay him,
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: and he's worth all of the trouble of making him
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: a minority owner with that franchise, even though there's a
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: lot of conflicts of interest because he's also calling games
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: for Fox. Now that he's worth every penny and he's
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: worth all the trouble and all the headaches if they
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: get Ben Johnson, because that will be all Tom Brady,
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: because they ain't got nothing unless he just likes Vegas
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: about likes Vegas that much, dude. I just came. I
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: came from I went to Vegas last year for the
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl.
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: Vegas is awesome. Who won't staying Vegas bore in like two.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: Or three days. Even if you got a great job
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: in Vegas, that's a great job. But I don't know
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: if being a coach in the AFC West is a
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: great job. But Tom Brady, that's how you know that
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: that man can recruit. We shall see that that is
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: the scuttle. But if you will other coaches. Speaking of coaches,
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: I was just talking about Sean Payton as one of
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: the coaches in that division that if Ben Johnson agrees
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: to take that job with the Raiders, heed to be
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: going up against uh. You know. One of the things
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: that's interesting that about Sean Payton, Sean Payton was traded.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: You know what. This is one of those things people
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: don't think about a lot that Sean Payton was actually
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: a coach that was traded from the Saints to the Broncos.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: And I remember at the time saying, man, that's a
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: great move. That's a great move to trade for Sean Payton.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: And I know it was because you know, he wanted
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: to go there and he wanted out and the Saints,
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: you know, they wanted to move on and they wanted
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: to get some returning investment. I get all the technicalities,
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: I get all that, but in the history of the NFL,
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: there hadn't been a lot of coaches that have been traded, really.
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: In the last twenty five years.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: Over the last twenty five plus years, there have been
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: like seven coaches that have been traded. Of basically seven
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: deals involving big name head coaches to be traded. And
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: Bill Parcells was traded ninety seven. Mike Holmgren, Bill Belichick
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: was a trade, John Gruden was a trade, Herm Edwards
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: was a trade, Bruce Arians was a trade. Sean Payton
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: was a trade. Now that didn't happen a lot. Like
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: I said, I don't have all of the listed trade
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: of head coaches over the years, and you know, I'm
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: sure there are other examples of it going horribly wrong.
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: But I always say a lot of the trades have
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: worked out.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: I wonder why they don't do it more often. I mean,
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: of the seven trades here that have happened recently for
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: big name head coaches, three of them won Super Bowls.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: Bill Belichick won Super Bowl, John Gruden won a Super Bowl,
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: and if you go look at ye, Bruce Arians won
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. John Gruden and Bill Belichick those are
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: three Super Bowl winners. Now, Bill Parcelles didn't win it
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: with the Jets, but I believe they got to I'm
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: not mistaken. I thought they got to the AFC Title Game.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: I could be mistake. I believe they got to the
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: AFC title game. Mike Holmgren went to a Super Bowl
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: with the Seahawks. So after seven, four went to a
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl, three won a Super Bowl. Bill Parcells coached
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: in an AFC title game, and Sean Payton got the
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: Broncos to the playoffs in where like his second year,
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, the only one that really just didn't work out.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: Among those, the most high profile of those head coach
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: trades the NFL was herm Edwards. Harm Uss was traded
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: for a fourth round pick from the Jets to the Chiefs.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: Speaking of the Chiefs, and they haven't cost they haven't
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: cost a lot of draft cap leaves. Now, Bill Parcells,
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: that was a first round pick, a second round pick,
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: a third and a fourth. That's a lot, I think,
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: and some cash considerations. That's a lot. Mike Comgrean went
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: for a second round pick. Bill Belichick was Now, that
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: was costly. That was the first, a fourth, and the seventh.
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: Well worth it now in retrospect, John Gruten, that was expensive.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: That was two first round picks and two second round picks.
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: But you did win the Super Bowl like immediately after that,
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: because remember John Gruten knew all the plays. Uh, and
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: the Raiders never changed the place. And they played the
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: Bucks in the Super Bowl and they never changed the place.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: And then John Gruten figured out midway through the first quarter,
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: Oh these dopes, they haven't changed the place. They still
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: running my place with my hand signals. Guys, I can
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: tell you what they're running, just that easy. And then
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: they blew out the Raiders, so they worth every penny.
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: Bruce Arians went for a sixth round pick and the
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: Bucks got a seventh in exchange, so that was really nothing.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: That was pretty much a wash. And Sean Paygnon went
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: for a first round pick and a second round pick.
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: Broncos got a third round pick in exchange. We'll see
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: if that works out too. I would you know, we
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: used to be traded. Mike Tomlin needs to be traded.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: I would trade for Mike Tomlin. If I was looking
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: for a coach right now, I would trade for Mike
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: Thomain because I know what Mike Tommin needs. He just
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: needs a quarterback. Mike tomin gets a quarterback. Mike Thomas
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: don't get you to the playoffs. No matter what your
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: quarterback situation is. You get a quarterback for Mike Tomblin.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: That'll put you over the top, make you a Super
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: Bowl contender. He needs a quarterback. If you got a
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: quarterback and all you need is a head coach, trade
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: for Mike Tomlin. I remember saying that about petition for
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: the Texans before they hired to Miko rans And I
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: love to meet go because he's won two playoff games
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: in his first two years, and he and CJ are great.
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: But I try to trade for Mike Tomlin with the Stealers,
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: trade you Mike Tomlan. That's a different discussion. I don't know.
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: I know they're looking for a way out because.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: They think that now they have kind of hit their
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: ceiling with Mike Tomlin and that maybe they can't get
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: over the hump now with Mike Toumblin as a franchise.
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: But the Salors don't just fire coaches.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: They don't. I mean, they've had like three coaches in
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: the last fifty sixty years or something. That's not what
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: they do.
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: But trade for a coach. I would trade for Mike Tumblin.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: I would speaking on Mike tomin Mike Tomlin is a
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: special coach for a specific reason.
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you why.
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: On the other side because Aaron Glenn, who's a coaching
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: candidate in this coaching carouseles cycle, he brings up something
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: about himself, bragging about his skill set as a coach,
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: and I think it actually shed somebody on why Mike
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: Tomlin is so special. We'll get into that, but we'll
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: also talk about the Cowboys coaching vacancy. They're interviewing Killen
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: Moore in it. They have a permission to interview Kellen Moore.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: I should say that.
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: So we'll get into it and talk about it. But
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you what I want the Coyleboys to do.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: I've decided what I want the Dallas Coyleboys to do
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: at their head coaching position, and we'll dive into it
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: on the other side right here on the craig Ways Show,
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: right here on AM thirteen hundred zone. All right, welcome
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: back to the craig Way Show here on AM thirteen
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: hundred zone on Mike tom Longhorn, Rod Bavers. Let's get
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: back to the NFL coaching carousel a little bit, and
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: of course the Dallas Cowboys are at the center of
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: that coaching carousel. They have submitted a request to interview
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: Killing Moore, which makes sense. I think we all knew
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: that was happening. Who is now the offensive coordinator of
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles. Also was reported that Robert Salad now
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: has been added to the list for Dallas Cowboys' potential
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: coaching candidates. And how about this, Jane Slater reported recently.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: Matter of fact, Jane Slater reported, and I saw a
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: report from Ed D. Edward recently too, who either confirms
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: her report or in addition to her report, they believe
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: that Jason, that Jason Witten even before the coach, before
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy parted ways with the Cowboys, or they mutually
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: agreed to part ways even before that. Jane Slater's reporting
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: that Jerry had planned on bringing in Jason Whitten in
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: a coaching capacity as a part of the agreement with
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: my what was to be the future proposed agreement with
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy, almost as a coach in waiting or coach
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: in training situation. I BSU not, yep, it is. There's
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: an audio of it. We could play it, but I'll
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: say it. She said it on NFL Network. Jane Slader
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: knows her stuff. I know, Jane, Jane's really good at
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: that job. And Jane's reputation is you know it, Christine,
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: So she says it, I believe it, And so that
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: would make sense as to why now there's a coaching
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: change and Jerry knew that he was a Jay's been
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: talking about Jason winning for since twenty twenty three as
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: a guy he thinks can be a Matt Campbell like coach,
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: you know, great motivator, great emotional connection with the players, players, coach,
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: locker room guy, that kind of thing. So yeah, if
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: you think he's a Dan Campbell type figure, that would
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: be great, because nobody saw Dan Campbell really becoming the
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: coach that he is. With that connection, he's the right
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: kind of crazy for what Detroit needs. But in addition
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: to her report, Edward's reporting, I believe there is a
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: very high probability that's depending upon whom is hired as
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: head coach, that Jason Whitton will be included in the staff.
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: There were scenarios discussed with like McCarthy when he was
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: hired where that could have happened, But McCarthy was understandably concerned,
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: perhaps remembering how Wade Phillips inherited Jason Garrett, who eventually
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: replaced him. So yeah, add that to the list of
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: drama of the things that whatever the next head coach
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: he's got to consider and he's got to potentially deal
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: with that. Jason Whitt might be a part of the staff,
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: whether you like it or not. And Kellen Moore was
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: like that, right, Kellen Moore was, let's say it was
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: forced on Mike McCarthy. But hey, Kellen, the Cowboys, they
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: when they say they like their guys, they do they
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: do a lot of in house promoting because the Cowboys
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: have a very unorthodox.
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: Higher and it's a very kind of obtuse.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: Structure, business structure where the players can talk directly to
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: the owners and that kind of thing. Usually there's a
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: chain of command. Cowboys don't really have that. And the
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: Cowboys just have a very unorthodox, unconventional culture, and they
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: like to promote from within because they don't want people
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: coming from outside going that's weird. Y'all shouldn't be doing that.
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: That that's that's not very you know, I mean, that's counterproductive.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: That's not gonna help you win championship. They don't like
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: it because they're a TV show first, in a football
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: team second, which, by the way, I'm not hating on
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: that because they are the most valuable sports team, more
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: sports franchise in the world. So it works. But you know,
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: their philosophy is be good or be interesting, and sometimes
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: it's too it's too hard to be good, so let's
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: be interesting and it works. Like I said, Jerry Jones
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: understands that this is entertainment and it is a TV
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: show and the Cowboys are the number one TV star,
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: number one TV show in America. That's why, Honestly, even
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: though the Kellen Moore thing makes sense, the Kellen Moore
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: thing makes sense because Kellen.
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: Moore knows how.
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: And I said this other day, I was like, I
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: don't know why they're not considering Dak Prescott's development and
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: Dak Prescott's ceiling when they're looking at.
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: Whoever the next coach is gonna be.
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: You gotta get who's gonna bring out the most and Dak,
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: who's gonna help you bring out that big Dak energy.
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: And you got there with Mike McCarthy.
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: You got that Text Coast offense, and you got big
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: Dak energy, best season he's ever had. If the next
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: coach can't get you big Dak energy, you stuck with
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: him for the next three four years, So you gotta
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: get somebody that's gonna maximize Dak.
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: And Dak is like I said, the Cowboys.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: The Cowboys are drafting the fewest amount of quarterbacks in
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: the NFL since two thousand. They don't operate by drafting quarterbacks,
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: and they should draft more quarterbacks. Right even with Dak,
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: you should still be drafting quarterbacks because it's just a
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: healthy organizational habit.
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: They don't do it.
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: But even when they got Dak, see it still worked
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: out for him. When they drafted Dak, they didn't think
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: Dak was going to be the franchise quarterback. He was
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: behind Killing Moore, who's behind Romo, and Romo gets hurt,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: killing Morgans hurt, Dak Shu guy, and then Dak exceeds
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: expectations that becomes a franchise quarterback. But then Kellen Moore
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: was relegated to be his backup and then ultimately to
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: be his quarterback coach and then ultimately be his offensive coordinator.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: So Dak and Kellen Moore have.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: The most unique relationship of any potential head coach oc
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: play calling quarterback in the league because nobody's had that
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: type of journey with that quarterback like he has with Dak.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: And here are the Dallas's offensive ranks across the NFL
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: in games were killing and Dak were together from twenty
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: nineteen to twenty twenty two points per game, first yards
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: per game, first yards per play, second, passing touchdowns, second,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns third from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty two.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: When they were together, now and Dak got hurt and
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff, they were a really politic offense.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: Big Dak energy. Kellen Moore brings out the big Dak energy.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: He always said Dak was a Dak was a happy
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: accident for the Cowboys. I always say he's views viagra.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: They did no viagar. What's gonna be viagral? They the
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: them finding out the benefits of viagra. The by product
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: byproduct of it was because they were looking for some
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: uh I think it was angina. They were looking for
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: some type of treatment for some heart ailment, and then
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: they end up figuring out, oh, it.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: Also does this, so you know what, let's sell that
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: that was Dak.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: They didn't expect Dak end up being a franchise quarterback
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: drafts to be a backup, third string developmental quarterback turns
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: out what a happy accident. And honestly, he's speaking of viagra.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: You're gonna need big Dak energy. Kellen Moore is the
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: it can be the viagral for your big Dak energy.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: All Right, I took that analogy too far. Let's get
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: to Aaron Glenn thing. Can we play this Aaron Glenn
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: sound Aaron Glenn, who's the defensive coordinator for Speaking of
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: dv's defensive coordinator for the Detri Alliance, he said this
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: when talking about his specific skill set, and he got
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: me to thinking as a head coach here. It is
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: one thing that.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 5: I would say by myself. I'm a coach. I just
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 5: happened to be on defense. I understand the offense just
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 5: as well as a number of people. So if you
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 5: want to hire me, you're gonna hire a coach. You're
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 5: not gonna hire a defensive coach. I'm gonna talk to
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 5: the offense just so much I'm gonna talk to the defense.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: One thing that I've always said that if I was
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: hiring a coach, I would want a coach that had
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: experience on both sides of the ball. It's like if
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: I'm hiring a lawyer, and I need a good lawyer.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: I like the lawyers who have worked also on the
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: other side of the justice system. I want them. I
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: want a guy who's got experience on both side, who's
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: that experience on both sides, they know how the other
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: side works. And I always wonder, you know, most of
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: the coaches in the NFL, they have expertise in one
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: phase of the game offense, defense.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: And that's it.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: And there are only a few coaches like John Harbaugh
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: is one of them, Mights another one of them, Sirianni's
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: another woman that have experience at the college of the
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: pro level in more than one phase of the game.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: It's only like six of those guys. You know, I
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: would look for that because that would help me if
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: I think, I would have more faith that you would
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: know how to build and construct a program or organization
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: from the bottom up in the top down. So I
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: like that about Aaron Glynn. Aaron Clinton does not. He's
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: not one of those coaches though he does not have
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: a background. I believe on offense, on especially if they
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: are three phases of the game, but most people only
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: aspire to have expertise in one. And yet you want
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: to be a football coach, and then you have to,
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: you know, delegate all three phases of the game. That's
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: why Belichick is special. I called the BELICHICKI and principal
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: the BELICHICKI. In theory, Belichick was the only coaches of
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: all in the history of the NFL that coached all
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: three phases. Maybe a reason why he had so much success.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: Sort of things I would look for if I was
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: hiring a head coach. All right, we come back, speaking
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: of head coaching and hirings. I'll tell you who I
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: want the Cowboys to hire. I've decided this is all
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: I want the Cowboys to hire. I'm not saying this
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: will be what's best for the Cowboys, but I think
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: it would be definitely what's most entertaining for the Cowboys.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: All that more right here on the Craigway Show, right
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: here on AM thirteen hundred. All right, welcome back to
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: the Craigway Show. I'm like talking about one ride they
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: were sitting in for Craig Way. Let's talk about the
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: Cowboys and their head coaching vacancy for a second. Here
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: of the Cowboys have requested and then if you were
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: Kellen Moore. Kellen Moore makes a lot of sense. Told
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: you why because he and Dak work so well together,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: and Jerry Jones loves him from Kellen Moore, right, that's
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: a homegrown product for them, and there's a comfort level.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: And Jerry likes people that he's comfortable with, and he
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: likes people that already know how he does business. Right,
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: they've already been inoculated, if you will, all right, they
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: know they know idea. Jason Widde knows how he does business,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: so Jefe SODA's Kellen Moore. That helps. You don't want
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: anybody kind of shocked by how you do business, so
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: does Dean Sanders. By the way, Dean Sanders is saying
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: that he is not using this as a negotiating tactic.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: Adam Schefter put that out.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: There that some people think he thinks that Dion's using
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: Some people think he's just using the as leverage, that
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: the conversations with the Cowboys is just leveraged so that
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: he can win negotiations or get a new contract if
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: you will. With Colorado. He says he doesn't need to
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: do that. I agree, by the way, he doesn't need
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: to leverage himself even more with Colorado. He wants a
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: new contract he can get it with Colorado. But I'll
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: I'll say this, I think Diane also understands that he's
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: a unique beast in college that he won't be in
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: the NFL. Right, A Hall of Famer coaching in college
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: is rare, like now Belichick's coaching in college now. So
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: maybe not as rare as it used to be now
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: with Dean there, But you get my point. As a
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: a athlete that reached the Hall of Fame, Belichick is
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: gonna be a Hall of Fame as well. But as
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: an athlete that reached the Hall of Fame, it's rare
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: for them to go back to the college level. Dion
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: did that. Nope, that's a rare generational thing, and it
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: gives him a universal cool factor and coolest currency in recruiting.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: He gives been a universal cool factor that no other
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: coach in college football can can compete with in that way.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: They can't compete with Deon's cool factor. They're just not
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: coole as then who very few are, right, So he
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: appeals to young people in a way that makes even
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: Colorado now seem cool. I like Colorado. When I was
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  Speaker 1: coming out, Colorado was among my top five schools. It
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: was Colorado, Texas, Texas A and m Florida State and
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: Penn State. So it did have a cool factor back then,
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: but it lost his cool factor. Dion brought it all
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: back and made it cool again. And he has that,
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: like I said, unique elements and that unique alure in college.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: He does not have that NFL Hall of Famous coach
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: all the time. The NFL, that's where they go to
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: coach and it recruiting is a non factor at the
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: NFL level, and recruiting is really because he's kind of
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: a one man showing recruiting. Man, that's something you don't
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: need at the NFL level too. Now he can't just
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: coach ball. And I'm saying he can't coach ball, uh
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: that But that's what it will be about at the
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: NFL level. And at this point, since Man the cole
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: which is right now, it seems like some of the
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: reports have them settling on killing more, which would work
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: for Dack and you know maybe at Jason Whitten.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 3: Bill by the way, Bill Belichick has.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: Not signed his deal. That has also been reported that
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: Bill Belichick has not signed his deal. That's also interesting,
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: so maybe Bill Belichick is now back on the list.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: He has not signed his deal. Robert Salad now being interviewed,
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: and these are these are all reasonable, very sound choices.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: The Bill Belichick thing makes a lot of sense, I do.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: I'm concerned about who Bill Belichick would hire as his
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: old c anytime you're hiring a defensive minded coach, got
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: to be weary about who they're going to pick and
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: what offensive philosophy they are going to pair up with
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: that struggle. Robert Salo had that issue, all right with
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: the Jets. Bill Belichick had that issue late after Tom
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: Brady left, because that was Tom Brady was the executive
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: of that offense, and it was his offense. And you know,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: I just think often times that can be a struggle
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: for defensive minded guys. Ben Johnson, who we talked about
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: right now, a lot of momentum for him going to Vegas,
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: which it's questionable, but hey, Tom Brady, that's why he
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: used to go. It's got a hell of a sales pitch.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: Some people are thrown out John Gruden out there. I
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: don't know about John Gruden. I think it may be
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: a little past John Bruden's John Gruden's time, but hey,
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: John Gruden is a guy who's won a Super Bowl.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: He already came up on the show early we talked
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: about coaches that were traded. Then he got Lincoln Rally
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: and Kellen Moore, and people bring up Doug Peterson and
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: Pete Carroll. The more I hear these names, none of
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: them actually end up getting me really excited. I just
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: think at this point I truly believe it, especially since
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: I know Jerry also adopts this philosophy. If he can't
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: be good, just be interesting, man, just hired Dion, Just
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: do it, Just do it. At this point, I don't
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: I can't necessarily see a path to success, a guaranteed
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: path to success with the of these guys. Now, I
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: will say Jerry does not make big splashes when he
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: makes hires. That's not really how Jerry operates, right Jerry
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: the Bill Parce sales one that was, you know, big splash, But.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: Usually Jerry has stayed away.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: From the big splashes in the hires that he's made recently.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: And that's why I wonder if you know, all of
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: this is just so you know, we can get hype
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: and they can get the headlines and the free media,
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: and ultimately, if Jerry's just gonna you know, take a
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: safe choice like a Kelled Moore or or Jason Witten won.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: I mean Jason went hadn't coached you know, football at
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: the college on the pro level. I don't think so
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: that would be that would be that would be outside
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: the box. But if you do outside the box, just
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: do d On, then you would guarantee you would be
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: the most and you're already the most talked about team
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: in the most talked about league on the planets. All right,
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: so you're the number one TV start a number one
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: TV show man with Dan at least.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 3: I that would be hope because it might work.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: It might work. The d On the dun, I would say,
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: the Dune situation, it's got a good chance to work.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 3: It.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: It's got a good chance as working as probably half
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: of these candidates they're gonna hire that Jerry Jones thinking
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: about hiring At this point, I just want to be entertained.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: It's just I'm a quasi fan. I'm more of a
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: Texans fan than a Cowboys fan. But man, I just
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: can't if Dion is still in serious consideration now and
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: some people are saying like he's the one that candidates
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: you're gonna hire Jason Witten, you might as well just
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: hire dun If you hire Jason Wiitden hired Dan if
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: you're gonna hire Jason Widden, like I said, hired Dn.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: The Kellen Moore thing, I get it, I get I
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: totally understand. I don't know if Kellen Moore has proven
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: that he will be a great head coach, but he
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: understands that organization, He understands Jerry, he understands Dak. Kellen
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: Moore is probably the safest choice. But yeah, the most
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: entertaining choice, spide Dion and I'm I'm here for it.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: I love me some Don. I think Don's really entertaining.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: I've always been a fan of d On. I warred
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: number twenty one at Texas because of Dion. And I'd
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: love to see Dan with the Cowboys again. That would
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: be and him and Jerry press conferences together. Oh man,
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: they'd be must watch television. Uh and my apologies Cowboys fans.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: All right, we come back. We'll get into some of
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: the long horn football discussion, talking about the departures, talking
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: about Quinn yours declining eight million dollars in nil money.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: Uh to uh go to the c for the NFL draft.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 3: We'll talk about that a little bit.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: We'll also get into previewing some of the upcoming playoff
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: games coming up this weekend all day more right here
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: on the Craig Way Show, right here on a thirteen
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: hundred zone. All right, welcome back to the Craigway Show
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: here on a thirteen hundred the zone.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 3: I'm lifetime on Hunt Rode. They were sitting here for Craigway.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate Craig Way giving me the chance to come
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: on here and talk some sports with you. I'm actually
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: gonna dive into the NFL playoffs a little bit. I'm
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: gonna be with you tomorrow too, so I'll get into
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: some detailed previews and breakdowns in the matchups in the
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: divisional round Tomorrow.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 3: We'll get into a lot more detail in it.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: But one of the things that I think is a
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: kind of a theme in these playoffs, at least in
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: this division round.
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  Speaker 3: There's no doubt about it in my opinion.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: I brought this up two days ago when I joined
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: you guys on Tuesday. This is and I've been keeping
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: up with.
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  Speaker 3: This that for a while.
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  Speaker 1: This is the most I think true dual threat quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: that we've seen or maybe the best group of dual
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: threat quarterbacks that we've seen this late in the NFL
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: playoffs in some time. And I know this is but
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: I'm sure debatable depending on you know what year you're
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: looking at it. But I said, it's definitely one of
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: the best years for dual threat quarterbacks. I've been tracking
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: this for a while so and I brought this up
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: early this week. Fifteen players in the history of the
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: NFL that have led their team in passing in rushing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, so these guys are they are the rushing
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: attack and the passing attack. That's hard to do in
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: the NFL. Min It's really tough to do, especially for
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: a good team, right for good teams, and you're starting
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: to see more and more of these types of weapons
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: at the quarterback position. And the latest to do is
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: Jane Daniels. Jane Daniels did it this past year. He
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: was the latest quarterback to do it. And except doing
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: it for a really good team, and that's rare too.
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  Speaker 1: You would think that's a bad team if you're having
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: to lead the team in rushing and in passing. This
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: is the first year that Lamar Jackson hasn't led the
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: Ravens in passing and rushing in five years. I think
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: he led him in nineteen, in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty one,
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: twenty two and twenty three, he was their lead masler
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: and their lead rusher.
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  Speaker 3: So you're just talking about, you know, unique freaks.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: At the quarterback renaissance with some of your best athletes
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: are now playing in the quarterback position. So are these
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: fifteen athletes in NFL history that have led their team
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: in passing and rushing. Four of the fifteen who have
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: done it at some point in their careers will be
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: a part of the final eight of the Division round.
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen did it in twenty eighteen. He's gonna be
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: a part of the division round. Lamar Jackson. Of course,
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: we talked about nobody's more than lower direction. Randall Cunningham
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  Speaker 1: is the next closest. He did it eighty seven, eighty eight,
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: eighty nine, and ninety four times. Lawa Jackson did it
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: five so Lamar Jackson. He didn't do it this year though,
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: because he's got Derrick Henry. But yeah, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson,
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: Jamie Hurst did it in twenty twenty one, and Jade Daniels.
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  Speaker 1: Those are your four. And I'm telling you, even though
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  Speaker 1: you know you don't see it a lot. And I've
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: just kind of my started the preview for Tech, the
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: Texans face and the Chiefs. Patrick Mahomes in college was
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: by definition of dual threat quarterback, and he got to
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: the NFL and has now been masquerading as a pocket
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: passing quarterback. But if you watch Patrick Mahomes enough and
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: I have, and you guys will notice in the playoffs
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: he somehow and I think in critical moments too, So
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: I will say in third downs and big games, he
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: channels that dual threat quarterback ability. He really does, and
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: he's really good at it. And I think one of
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  Speaker 1: the things in these playoffs that you have these really
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: dynamic scramblers and runners at the quarterback position. Like I said,
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: I include bat Mahomes in there too. I think just
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: watch scrambling period in this division round. Just the play,
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: just the concept of a quarterback scrambling out of the pocket,
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: and how impactful it's going to be on third downs
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: in the red zone. Just period in these division rounds.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: Go back to go watch how many critical plays happen
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: because the quarterback can extend the play and then even
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: scramble in a whether he's talking about improvising, operating outside
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: of the structure, off schedule, because I was doing some
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: research about because I think for the Texans scramble and
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: keeping Patrick mahone homes is scramble rate and him as
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: a scrambler, keeping him contained is gonna be big for
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: them unfortunately. And I'll throw this stat out there before
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: we start diving into the Texans matchup. In my Texas research,
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: I found this little nugget. I'm not happy about it.
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: Texans allow more rushing yards per carry on quarterback runs
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: and scrambles than any other team in the league seven
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: point eight yards per quarterback run or quarterback scramble. Not
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: a good sign when you're going up as Patrick Mahomes.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: Trust me who will break it out on patri Mahomes
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three. Just a little nugget before I
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: get into my take about scrambling. He was second to
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson in scramble yards last season, not this passingason
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: last season. I haven't got the numbers from this season,
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: but just to let you know how much he scrambles.
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  Speaker 3: He not a dual third quarterback. But like I said,
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 3: I think he is a dual ThReD quarterback.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: I'm masquerading and cross dressing as a pocket passing quarterback,
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: butmbing period. The scramble play about quarterback. Did you know
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: it's the most efficient play in football. Yeah, it's the
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: most if you go just look at it overall, it's
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: the most efficient play in football. Its average is around
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: eight a little over eight yards per play. Yeah, and
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you're gonna look at that's, you know,
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: that's more than your average rush attempt or your average
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: pass attempts. You know, that's to me, that's and it's
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: one of those things that's when the play breaks down too.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: So as a defender, you can do everything right. You
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: do everything right, you can have a great play call,
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: great defense, and then these quarterbacks who have that ability
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: to scramble. Once the initial play breaks down, then you
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: gotta cover and defend the second play, which is the
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: scrambled drill. And that can be hell on wheels because
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: that's you defending wide receivers who are freestyling and improvising
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: routes downfield and you're covering four five six seconds. Imagine
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: covering guys like xavier' worthy for five six seconds who
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: have world class speed, and then your front seven guys
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: on the defensive lineman having to chase down guys like
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson and Jalen Hurts and Josh Allen in the
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: open field. That's that exercise. And then if you do,
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  Speaker 1: if you defend the scrambled drill correctly, let's say you
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: by some miracle, you defend the initial play, then the
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: scrambled drill, well, oh, then you gotta worry about Lamari
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: Jackson just tucking the football and deciding I'm just gonna
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: use my four to three speed, I'm just gonna run it,
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: and I'm more and the more dynamic runners in the league.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 3: You gotta defend three plays in the one with a
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 3: lot of these guys.
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  Speaker 1: That's that hurts. Remember texts when they played Arizona State
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: and Sam Levitt, who really didn't do much from the pocket,
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: but he kept hurting Texas by the by extending the play.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: They played ninety I think they defended ninety something plays
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: in that game, but it was how many plays they
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: he extended. They have to defend for five six seconds,
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: so the scramble. That's why they average almost eight and
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: a half yards per play on scrambles three percent of
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: offensive plays or scrambles by the quarterback. It was one
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: point seven percent in two thousand and seven. Random nugget
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: about two thousand and seven, Vince Young led the NFL
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: in designed runs for quarterbacks. He had twenty of them
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven. But if you're averaging eight
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: point five yards per scramble and Lamar Jackson right now,
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: I mean you're averaging he's averaging eight point eight yards
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: per attempt. That led the NFL per passe attempt eight
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: and a half yards, eight point eight yards per pass attempts,
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: eight and a half yards per scramble. The scrambling might
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: be the most effective weapon in football today. The quarterbacks
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: scrambled just because of how it stresses the defense.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 3: I just brought that up.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: Quarterback scrambles for last year to twenty twenty three generated
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: point three to one epa per play. The average run
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: play was point seven e pier per play, the average
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: pass play point one to three ep of per play.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: It's blown it out of the water in terms of effectiveness,
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: efficiency overall per play, and your average pass play generated
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three seven yards per pass. You're averaging
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: more than that per scramble and overall on scrambles. Your
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: first down rate on scrambles last year thirty damn near
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: thirty nine percent first down rate. I means you got
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: you got a first down thirty nine percent of the time,
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: thirty eight point seven to be exact, of the time
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: a quarterback scrambled seventy four hundred yards three hundred ninety
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: eight first downs on scrambles. You had thirty six hundred
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: yards on scrambles total in two thousand and seven, and
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: now you had seventy four hundred and twenty twenty three.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: I haven't even got the twenty twenty four numbers. I
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: have to get those to you tomorrow. And like I said,
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: my homes was second in scramble yards behind Lamar Jackson.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen was third. All those guys are still in
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. Those are your most scrambled happy quarterbacks. I
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: went and looked at the top scramble rates for quarterbacks.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: All right, these are the quarterbacks that scramble the most
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: in the NFL. Josh Allen eighteen point two, Jalen Hurt
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: seventeen point nine, Laarn Jackson seventeen percent, Bryce Young seventeen
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: point two percent, Lord Jackson seventeen point three. Mahomes is
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: fifteen point seven percent, same with Drake may Bo Nicks
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: is at fourteen percent scramble rate. C J. Strouds at
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: fourteen percent, and y'all say he don't even run Just
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: Trouds at fourteen percent, KENI Williams at twelve point nine percent,
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: Kyler Murrays at twelve percent, Jane Daniel's at twelve percent,
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: twelve point one percent.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 3: So out of those top ten, six of the top ten.
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: Most scramble happy quarterbacks in the league, the quarterbacks with
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: the highest scramble rates in the league, six of the
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: top ten are still playing the scramble. Watch how many
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: times a scramble determines a drive or determines the outcome
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: of a series or maybe even a game during these playoffs.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: Because Jane Daniels, that guy scrambled. His scrambled rates when
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: he was in college twenty seven percent of his scrambles
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: results in explosive play. When he played a power five
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: team in the LSU, and his scrambles are great, he
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: had seventy and twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 3: He had sixty seven and twenty nineteen.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: He was among those scrambled happy quarterbacks in all of
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: college football when he played, and he's really effective at
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: it too, So that will be a big theme in
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: this division around. I guarantee you how many those quarterbacks
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: can make something out of nothing, extend to play and
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: you know, force quarterforced teams to have to defend the
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: scramble drill and them as runners. All right, we come back.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: We'll dive deeper into the NFL playoffs. We'll talk about
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: Quinn as well. Quinn turning down declining an eight million
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: dollars nil offer to declare for the NFL draft. Was
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: it a smart business decision by a Quinn? Tell you
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: why it might have been. All of that and more
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: right here on the Craigway Show on here on Anthie Own.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to the Craigway Show here on
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: AM thirteen, so own on my tom on one rod.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: They were sitting in for Craig Way, who is on
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: the road. Of course, he is a busy man. He'll
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: be back with you next week. But I'm happy I
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: get to see that and talk some football with you.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: Getting back to Texas football, specifically a big story on
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: the forty acres of course transfer portal window closes officially,
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: and the window for players to the clayer for the
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: NFL Draft has also closed.
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  Speaker 3: And we do know, at least we have.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: Some clarity about how that twenty twenty five roster for
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: Texas is going to look. A lot of guys that
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: were at least reportedly rumored to be on the fence.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: They did not, at least we didn't hear they had
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: to put their name into transfer a portal. So that
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: is good news. Guys like Trey Moore coming back for Texas,
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: Guys like DJ Campbell coming back for Texas as well,
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: Malik Muhammad coming back for Texas. Both our receivers Ryan Wingo,
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: DeAndre Moore. So that's really good news. But we knew
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: that quinn Ewers was declaring for the NFL Draft. It
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: was reported before the bowl game, sorry before the Ohio
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: State game, i should say, and also was confirmed yesterday
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: when he put out a farewell video to all the
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: Longhorn fans and Longhorn Nation. Today, my man Chip Brown,
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: who does a great job over there at Haunts twenty
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: four to seven, he is reporting that quinn Ewers turned
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: down an eight million dollar nil offer to transfer and
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: declare for the NFL Draft. Now, like I said, I
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: don't we don't know how many of these you know,
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: how many these numbers and how accurate and substantive and
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: truthful these numbers are a lot of this stuff is
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: just speculation. Chip Brown does a great job, so I'm
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: sure Chip brown stuff is accurate. But there's another report
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: that Carson Back was offered like ten million dollars or
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: something like that. That's a rumor going out there, offered
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: like ten million for him to transfer from Georgia to
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: Miami and what would have been a very similar situation.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: So either way, this would have been, you know, close
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: to reconsenting or a record stating amount for a quarterback
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: to be lured into the transfer a portal and wooed
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: into starting for another college football program. That's what happened
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: to Carsson Back. His woman, his girlfriend, she plays basketball
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: for Miami. So he had a lot a lot of
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: other incentives, all right, and he probably some other things
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: he was considering. But all those who are close to
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: Quinn that I have talked to, who had connections with
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: Quinn and with Quinn's people, his agent, his representative, they
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: all said, from the jump, he's declaring for the NFL draft.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: Bobby Burton does a great job at all at Texas Football.
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: He's been saying for months, ever since these rumors have
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: been out there that oh, no, Quinn's going to go
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: to the NFL. He's not gonna play football for another university,
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: another program. Now, I mean, I know he wasn't gonna
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: play front of the program, But did they know it
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: was gonna be an eight million dollars offer? That's a
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: big butt. That's a Kim Kardashian, Nicki Minaj Soriena Williams's
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: Cardi b size making the Sallion size butt. They're eight
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: million dollars, And some people are saying, well, that's a
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: bad business decision by Quinn if he's gonna pass up
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: eight million dollars for a one year, you know, one
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: year nil deal with whoever was offering it.
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  Speaker 3: And may that may very well be true, because if
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 3: you look.
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  Speaker 1: At where he's projected to be drafted, which is not
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: in the first round right now, that could change, maybe
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: it would work out something like that, but right now
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: he projects to be second tier quarterbacks, so second maybe
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: third round. Some of the first picks in the second
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: round of the draft can make can expect to make
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: nearly ten million throughout their four year rookie contracts, so
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: you know maybe from ten to twelve minute. It goes
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: up every year. And this is from spot track from
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: last Sea last year, so it goes up every year.
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: So maybe from ten to twelve million that's what he
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: made over the four year life of a contract.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 3: In the NFL where he's projected.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: To be drafted, he'd have made eight million dollars reportedly
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: in just one year. So if you want to make
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: the claim that it's a bad Bits decision, you can.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: I would counter with Quinn, who's, by the way, one
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: of the nil ogs, right. He was the first got
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: to leave high school early to go, you know, capitalize
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: on the NIO deal with Ohio State, and then got
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: you know, another big bag.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 3: I'm sure of nil earnings when he.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: Got to Texas and he's been a starting the quarterback
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: at Texas for three years, and we know that prestigious
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: present position earns you a lot of nil revenue, private
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: jet deals, Dr Pepper deal, He's got deals with everybody,
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: tons of deals, so I'm sure he's earned and then
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: able to five to six million at least in you
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: know these four years right since he left high school
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: to go to Higo State and then transfer to Texas.
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: So maybe money's not the be all end off. Eight
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: million dollars is a whole lot of more, so I'm
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: not saying it's not. But Quinn's people, obviously they do
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: a good job of kind of looking at the long
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: term strategy for Quinn and they believe him going to
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: the NFL. Yes, he'll make like I said, between ten
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: to twelve million as opposed to eight million to one season,
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: and who knows, I mean, his career maybe over.
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 3: After that first contract.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: I think they're betting that he is gonna get to
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: a second contract in the league, whether it be because
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: he's a franchise quarterback, because he's a career backup, whatever
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: it may be, and he'll earn good money there as well.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 3: But ultimately I got to give Quinn some props.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: I think it matters to Quinn that he be remembered
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: as a long corn and think it matters.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 3: We know he wanted to come to Texas. He said
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 3: he always wanted to come to Texas.
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: It was his dream school, and ultimately he committed to
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: a holl State because he didn't agree with the coaching
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: staff there at the time.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 3: That changed.
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: He committed, transferred to Texas and has been committed to
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: Uiversity of Texas. And I think it matters that he
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: is remembered in his legacy as a longhod and not
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: a mercenary. If he went to a house state, then
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: went to Texas and then went somewhere else but another year,
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: he wouldn't truly be remembered by everyone as a long one.
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna remember him as a Buckeye in this day
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: and age of transfer a portal, you know, sometimes you know,
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: guys get remember where they had the most success. Quinn
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: will be remembered as a Longhoan. That's his legacy. And
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: I don't think he wanted to go somewhere and be
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: considered a mercenary and all. Like I said, I think
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: this decision has been made for a while. But even
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: Quinn and is people probably didn't expect somebody to throw
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: out an eight million dollars a year number.
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 3: You got to consider that, you just have to. And
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 3: I think he considered it and in the end thought.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know what the long term value of
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: being a lifetime Longhorn and considered that you'll make that backup.
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: Once you're done playing, you're gonna live in Texas, You'll
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: have business businesses in Texas. You'll you know, you'll want
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: to come back around to university and have some affiliation
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: in that regard.
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  Speaker 3: You'll make that money back up. Guy, he'll make that
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 3: eight million back.
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: I promise you.
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  Speaker 3: That's the brand of when I came up with Lifetime Longhorn.
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 3: That was part of it.
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: Brand yourself for life with that brand, and then the
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: value of that brand. And I think he understands the
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: value of being a lifetime Longhorn. Now, is that the
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 1: be all end Dolge's decision. No, I think there was
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: a ton of things he considered, right, a myriad of
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: different things he considered. That was definitely one of them.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: And he will be a Longhorn.
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  Speaker 3: They considered that, and so I think for yeah, fourth
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 3: and thirteen, we all remember it.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: He's got Like I said, the Bama game is one
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: of the greatest wins for any quarterback in Texas. Quinn's
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: got a pretty good legacy. It'll look better in retrospect
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: as the years pass. Right now, our Longhorn fans can
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: see is that he underachieved based on the expectations. Truth is,
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: when guy's come in with the expectations like that, your Chris, Sim's,
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: your Quinn, yours, hell, even you you can go way wait, wait,
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: way back right, And anytime my quarterback comes in with
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: you know, really really high expectations, it is really hard
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: to meet those expectations. Even if you like Quinn, you know,
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: achieved a lot. I thought he came pretty close. I
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: mean he got to the final four twice and was
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: on the goal line instead first and goal. And we
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: heard from Jim Knowles earlier this week. He said on
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: the second down when they tossed it, he knew they
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: were vulnerable to the toss because they had their big,
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: heavy defense in there to defend Texas on the goal line.
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: And that's why Start called a toss and they snuffed
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: it out. But on the second on the third and
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: fourth play, third and fourth down, he called a red
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: zone defense that he had not called all season long.
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: He broke tendency, He broke tennantsy at the right time,
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: and that's why Quinn looked perplexed and stupefied and discombobulated.
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 3: He had never seen that. They didn't prepare for that.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: Now my man, my man. Kyle Shaned always has a saying.
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: He said, be coachable, don't be a robot. Go make
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: me right even when the defense makes me wrong. Right
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: when they got a good call and they got a
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: better call than I do, and go out there and
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: nickel play and make me right. That didn't happen with Quinn.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: But you know, Texas didn't break enough tendency in that
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: game offensively. I watched a lot of Texas football and
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: I talk about it with you guys a lot, and
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: I always say, to win a big game, you gotta
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: break tendency, especially once I want to playoff. That's gonna
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: happen in these playoff games. To win big games, you
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: gotta break tendency. Happen with the Rams. When the Rams
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: played the Vikings, they are like twenty seventh and man
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: coverage rate, and I want to say in that game,
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: they double the amount of man coverage their man coverage
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: rate during the season, right, because you got to break tendency.
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: There's so much preparation put into these big games. You
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: got to find a way to break tendency at the
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: right times. That's exactly what they did. Texas did it too.
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: When the way they took away jeremih Smith. Texas hadn't
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: bracketed and rolled coverage that aggressively alas long, but they
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: broke tendency at the right time. One of my criticisms
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: was started in that game after watching it three different times.
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: He didn't break tendency enough. There wasn't enough tendency breakers
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: to surprise Ohio State and get you some of those
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: play is a big exposive place more tendency break because
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: I think with El Texas that's another step. We'll talk
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: about that too. Steps Texas needs to take to win
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: a championship. They're really close final four two years in
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 1: a row. What other steps they need to take. We'll
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: discuss it on the other side. All that and more
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: right here on the crag Ways Show. Right here on
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: A thirteen, I welcome back to the Craigway Show on
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: Lifetime Long Horn Rock. They were sitting in for one
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: craig Way for today's show and tomorrow's show as well.
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: So we'll be talking a lot about the NFL playoffs,
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: the Division A round. We're breaking down the matchups tomorrow
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: I'll give you my predictions, but also getting too the
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: x's and o's of that matchup. But I want to
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: talk a little Texas football while well, I still got
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: it on the brain. I was just talking about Quinn Quinn.
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: Moving on, there's a lot of excitement about how the
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: Texas team is gonna. Look, you're losing a lot. I mean,
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: this is gonna be a brand new offense basically, because
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: you're losing your starting quarterback, losing four of your five
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: starting offensive lineman, losing your starting tight end, losing two
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: of your store wide receivers, and losing one of your
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: biggest weapons, a fourteen touchdown guy in Jayden Blue. It's
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: it's yeah, it's been a while since sexist. I mean
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: you also a lot the year before that too, I
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: mean you did you also a lot. You didn't lose
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: your entire offense line and you had your quarterback coming back,
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: but you lost a lot at the skill positions. Lost
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: start and running back, lost three wide receivers, ever, starting
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: lost and starting tight end. This year, man does feel
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: like there is a mass of kind of exit is
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: happening of talent off the forty acres.
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 3: And it's a good thing. These are first world problems.
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: This is a good problem to have because Sexas is
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: now has to worry about, you know, having double digit
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: players potentially draft. They had eleven last year. I think
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 1: they could have ten to eleven this year, which would
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: be the best two year run Texas has ever had
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: in the NFL draft. But how's the offense gonna look? Right?
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 3: How's the team gonna look?
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: That is the question. I think the defense, that's pretty
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: in my opinion, that's pretty. Yesy Michael Taff coming back.
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: You have Derek Williams who was dealing with an injury.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: He's coming back. You also have you know, Johnny McDonald's
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: stepped up last year last season. I should say he
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: looks really good. You're gonna be deep at the safety position. Corner,
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: you got Malik Muhammad. Didn't hear anything about him in
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: the portal, so you got Malak Mohammad coming back. I
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: think Kobe Black I'm surprised Gavin Holmes decided to leave.
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: I think Gavin Holmes could have easily been, you know,
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: the star in the corner opposite Malik Muhammad. I think
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 1: he's a better coverage player right now than Kobe Black
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: is and was one of your better coverage specialists, but
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: decided to leave. So no telling really how you know
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: when he's gonna get drafted. And you know what Gavin
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: Holmes was advised on in terms of why he left.
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying you can't play at the NT level.
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: I was just surprised by that move. But anyway, still
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: got at the second level. You got Anthony Hill. You
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: also have leannge Lafou on the edges. We know Tray
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: Moore is all coming back when but traded Moore last
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: seven games had and have sacks in the last seven games.
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: He really started to find his groove and his rhythm
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: as a player towards the end of the season, especially
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 1: in that NASCAR package.
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 3: With three defensive ends on the field.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: So you'll have one of the better edge rooms with
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: Colin Simmis trade more Colden vasik Ethan Burgh in the country.
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: But I've been you know, I went back and rewatched
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: the the Ohio State game. I'm trying to see exactly
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: how close Texas was. Andy were really close, Like I said,
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: Jim Knows admitted he had to break out a coverage
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: he hadn't played all season long in the red zone
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: to beat Texas. And that's what it takes, Like I said,
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: tendency breakers, and I think there are some things now.
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: So Texas has been so close in the last two
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: years Final four, in the last two years, you've been
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: knocking on the door.
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 3: You got to find somewhere to break the door down.
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: And I think there are a couple of things that
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: are hindering Texas, a couple of recurring issues hindering Texas
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: from breaking that door down. If you go look at
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: I mean obviously red zone offense and goal line offense,
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: which are connected. Probably we just saw goal line offense
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: come back to hunt you in this game versus Ohio
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 1: State first and goal couldn't score.
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 3: Same thing happened in the Oklahoma loss.
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  Speaker 1: You have five losses in the last two years, and
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  Speaker 1: two of those you were on a goal line first
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  Speaker 1: and goal on the one and couldn't came away with
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  Speaker 1: zero points that and they were close games. It was
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: we are one score games. That was a big reason
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: why you lost the game. Two of another issue is
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: red zone and in two of those five losses, your
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: red zone offense inefficiency. Deficiency in the red zone has
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: cost you Washington game. Your red zone offense cost you
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 1: last year in the SEC title game, settling for field
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: goals instead of touchdowns to the red zone that cast
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: you as well. And and so that it seems to
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: be a theme that those are two recurring issues and
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: the red zone has been issued for sark. Let's be honest,
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: since Bjon and Rojo left. I think it's a Jon
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: Rojo hangover. That's how I that was my theory a
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: year ago. I didn't know it would last two years,
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: but you have been. You went from top five red
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: zone offense and touchdown percent in the red zone in
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: twenty one twenty twenty one, and in twenty twenty two
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  Speaker 1: you were still top twenty and you were an average
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  Speaker 1: red zone offense overall and touchdown percentage, and then the
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  Speaker 1: last two years one hundred and twentieth and ninetieth and
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: then fifty fourth and one hundred and first in red
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  Speaker 1: zone offense and touchdown percentage. And I think it has
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: something to do with your running backs in the red zone. Now,
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: you had a lot of injuries at the running back
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: this year, so that could be something that really hurt
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: your offensive identity and your identity in the running game.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it is true.
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: But it says Trey Wisner and Jane Blue were better
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: in executing zone blocking concepts, so you ran alloud to
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  Speaker 1: wide zone. You were top ten in the country at
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: running the wide zone. And when team stopped your wide zone,
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: which was Georgia both times, Oile State and Arizona State,
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: those were three games you lost lowest four rush your
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: four sub one hundred rushing totals of the season. Three
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: of those were losses and one was almost a loss
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: in overtime. Versure's on to say if not for a
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: fourth and thirteen, and to me, that's that's not a
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  Speaker 1: recurring issue from last season. Last season you ran the
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  Speaker 1: ball pretty well. Even in your losses to Oklahoma and
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: to Washington, you were able to run the ball. But
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: this season you didn't have a contingency plan. You didn't
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 1: have a counter literally two teams when they were able
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: to stop your wide zone, your bread and butter run concept.
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: That's something you got to work on, and that to me,
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: can be related to the goal line. Goal line is
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: just power gap schemes. You're just that's just power football,
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: downhill running, playing bullyball, and if you can't do that,
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: that also means that you don't run gaping power schemes
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: very well. In between the twenties, and that's why Texas
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: was considered more of a finest football team this year.
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: And when it came to being a physical football team, Georgia,
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: Ohio State on the goal line at times, even Arizona
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: State look the more physical than Texas. That would be
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: the next step too, When can you become a physical
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: football team that can impose their will in situations like
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: goal line, like when teams take away your zone run
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: scheme and you can go to gap power schemes. That's
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: three things. Goal line, red zone, and your run game
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: against against elite physical teams. And I think all those
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: things are probably related. All things are probably related. Those
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: are things that are that are recurring that are keeping you,
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 1: i think, ultimately from becoming a championship caliber football team.
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 1: The third quarter woes, that wasn't all season long, and
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 1: that was something that happened towards the end of the season.
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: And it didn't happen in all your losses. A right,
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: you got five losses in the last two years. Your
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: third quarter wasn't an issue versus Oklahoma last year it
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 1: was versus Washington, wasn't versus Georgia the first time around.
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 3: It was it wasn't very Ohio State. Maybe it was
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 3: versus Georgia.
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 1: So maybe in two of your five losses, the third
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 1: quarter has come up, but not necessarily a recurring major issue,
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: not a tragic flaw. Turnovers though this season was this
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: year you were top you were bottom ten in the country,
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: and giveaways that you lost, You've lost a turn of
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: March in fourteen to seven in your five losses in
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: the last two years. That is something that you got
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 1: to figure out that could come back to haunt you.
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: All Right, we come back, We'll get ready to wrap
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 1: it up and put it in the oven. We'll talk
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 1: a little bit to a preview, little teaser about the
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: NFL playoffs coming up, but tomorrow we'll break that down
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: in detail. We come back, we'll dive into some NFL
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: playoff discussion, all that more right here on the Craigway Show.
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: Here on A thirteen hundred the Zone. All right, welcome
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 1: back to the Craigway Show. I'm lifetime, I'm long one
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: Rode Bay sitting in for the one and only Craig Way.
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 1: We'll be breaking down the divisional games tomorrow, like I said,
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: in great detail. We can start to teased him a
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: little bit and start to talk about the matchups just
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 1: a little bit, and some really interesting matchups. Of course,
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: none more interesting than the Texans taking on the Kansas
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: City Chiefs.
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 3: Well for me anyway, because I'm a Texans fan.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: The issue for the Texans, They're gonna hope that this
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs team is dealing with some rust. They're
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 1: gonna pray that is the case because they've been off
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: twenty well they will be will have been off twenty
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 1: four days.
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 3: When they play the Texans.
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 1: That's a long time. I mean that's three weeks plus.
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 1: That's a long time. So the rust versus you know,
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 1: rest factor for them, I think it is gonna be
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: a lot about rest because they're.
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 3: An older team. Their stars are old. Kelsey's old, Chris
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 3: Jones is older.
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 1: Deandres Hopkins with that group, he's a little bit older
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: as well. They've had guys coming off injuries, like Hollywood
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: Brown coming off an injury, so I think, you know,
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: they've been relying on Xavier Worthy a lot. So the
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: rookie wall he probably could have used some rest.
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 3: I think ultimately it's gonna help them.
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: They had Jalen Watson, one of their starting corners go out,
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: he's gonna return after the sufficient rest they've had to
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: so I think ultimately is gonna help them. But I've
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: done some research I'll share it with you guys tomorrow
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 1: about the Russ factor is real, especially when you're talking
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: about the NFL playoffs and the CANCA Chiefs going for
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 1: three peat. You could have enough Russ to keep the
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: Texans in it early. But they do have the ability
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: to flip a switch right. They got seven walk off
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 1: wins so far this year, and they're used to winning
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: in clutch time. They've won sixteen straight games decided by
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: one score. That is an NFL record seven to zero
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: in game winning drive opportunities. They haven't blown a fourth
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 1: quarter lead. The Texans held attentions have blown four fourth
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: quarter leads this year. The CANCA Chiefs have not blown
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: a fourth quarter lead. But the Kim Kardashian Nikominasi Rhalum
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: Souse card be size.
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  Speaker 3: Making the Sava House.
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: But is Kansas City When their favorite of seven or
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: more points this season oh and six, six and one
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: against the spread, six and one straight up, they win
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: those games, but they don't necessarily cover, so the Texans
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: may be able to say in it, because this this
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: specific Kansas City team is not built to blow teams out,
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: and the Texans shouldn't get blown out. Matter of fact,
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: the Texans they should match up pretty well against the Chiefs.
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: And we'll talk about that a little bit later on
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 1: the two things I'm worried about because the Texans secondary
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: is playing really well as any secondary right now in
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. They're playing at a really high level, taking
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: the football away. They got the best pass rushing edge
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: duo in the NFL with Danil Hunter and Will Anderson.
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 1: So that's match up. Well, they'll get a ziz Al
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 1: Shi year back, who's the leader of that defense at
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: the lineback position. He was not available in the first matchup.
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: But that first matchup, that's what worries me. We're back
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: to look at that first matchup, the last meeting, first
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: matchup this season. We got a lot of rematches happening
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 1: in these playoffs from regular season matchup. The last meeting,
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs scored twenty seven points on nine drives and
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: Kareem Hutt pulled up on one drive that could have
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: scored a touchdown on because they were trying to milk
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: the clock and they they had twenty seven. The Texans
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: allowed twenty five first downs. That was the season high
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 1: for them. They matched that season high the next week
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: when they played Baltimore. YEP. So the first matchup does
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: not giving me a lot of confidence that the Texans
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: are gonna be able to keep this team close. And
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: even if they do keep it close, Patrick Mahomes, as
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: we'll talk about tomorrow at more detail, that's the most
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: clutch player in the league.
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 3: That's the most clutch player arguably of all time.
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: And the Chiefs have been real have been the most
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: clutched team in the NFL this season, So that's something.
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  Speaker 3: So you gonna neaed J.
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  Speaker 1: Stroud to put the cape on. He had two picks
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 1: in that last game. No Tank Dell in this matchup
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 1: because tankdlle is out. He's he had ninety eight yards
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: receiving in that last matchup. We know Stefan Diggs been
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: out for a while. So it'll be CJ. Stroud and Nico.
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 1: C J. Stroud, Nico and Joe Mixon. That group, that
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 1: trio they gotta have. They have extraordinary, out of this
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: world performances in order for them to upset the Kansas
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: City Chiefs. But we shall see. Another big thing is
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: I talked about Patrick Mahone's scrambling ability. The secret playing
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: Patrick mahomes like anybody's really figured it out. But he
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 1: he has his worst performances as a quarterback when he
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 1: holds onto the ball and stays in the pocket. Now,
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: the thing he is keeping him in the pocket because
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 1: he scrambles. When I'll tell you, he scrambles as well
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 1: as any quarterback in the league in twenty twenty three
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: at the second most scrambled yards behind Lamar Jackson. So
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: it's he's almost just as dangerous, if not more dangerous
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: in the scrambled drill exgaining to play outside the pocket
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 1: because he can make any throw in the football field,
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: and he can touch any plate of grass and from
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: any arm angle and also tuck the ball and try
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: to run. But if you can correl him in the pocket,
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: which the Texans have the defensive ends and the edges
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: to do, and you can cover for an extended period
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: of time, which the Texans secondary has been playing really
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: really well, you can cover for an extended period of
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 1: time which you're gonna have to, but keep him in
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: the pocket. His average time to throw has always been
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: a good indicator of how effective he is in terms
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: of being in rhythm as a passer, and that lost
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: to Buffalo, that only lost on the season. His average
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: time to throw three point three five seconds, kept him
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 1: in the pocket, didn't hurt him too much as a scrambler,
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: kept him in the pocket, surveying the field but holding
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: on to the ball. His average time to throw versus
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: Houston in that first matchup two and a half seconds.
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: He saw he's getting the ball out quick by. In fact,
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: that was his That was his fastest time to throw
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 1: up until that point of the season when he played
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 1: the Texans two and a half seconds. So they knew
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: the Texans can get after you. They got two really
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 1: good as rushers. Balls got to come out quick. And
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 1: against Pittsburgh that next week, they his average time to
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 1: throw increased it two point three seconds. It was two
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: point three four seconds an average time to throw. So
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: he understands and they understand the ball has to come
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: out if you're in the Texans and you got those
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 1: edge rushers that can contain him but also collapse the pocket,
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: and you got the dvs, which the Texans do with
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 1: Derek Stingley and that group of young young cropper dvs
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: to be able to cover for an extended period of
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: time him in the pocket holding on to the ball.
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: That's when usually all that has an adverse effect on
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: all of his numbers, his statistical numbers and analytical numbers
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 1: they drop. And can you do that? That's a tall task,
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 1: herculean task, if you will. But having him hold on
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 1: to the ball because he getting rid of the ball quickly,
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 1: and if he's extending the place scrambling outside the pocket,
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 1: that's trouble. And the Texans allow the most rushing yards
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: per carry on quarterback runs and scrambles almost eight yards.
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: You don't want him doing that on you either. All Right,
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 1: we'll talk about that a lot more tomorrow. Like I said,
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 1: we'll dive into it into great detail and preview all
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 1: the matchups from the divisional round. I'm sure that some
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 1: Longhoorn news, so of course we'll always talk Texas football.
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: You go behind the burnt orange curtain. So join me
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• 1:50:07
  Speaker 1: Ronald for twisting and tweeting of the dolls behind the scenes,
• 1:50:10
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• 1:50:12
  Speaker 1: on the Craigway Show today, and for Craigway, and for
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