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Sark on postgame comments from Oklahoma player: "Not My Problem. We Won. Next Game" · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 3: All right, thanks again, the Gene Watson, our MLB insider,
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  joining us here to preview the two League Championship Series,
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  of course, the National leg Championship Series, one game in
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  the books, already in Game two underway right now at
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  Dodgers Stadium, and the New York Mets turning the tables
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  from last night's nine to nothing shut out loss to
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  lay got a one run on a leadoff homer by
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  Francisco Lindor on the top of the first and the
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  second an RBI single has given the Mets a two
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  to nothing lead and they're still batting with the bases
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  loaded two outs in the inning.
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  Speaker 1: We'll keep you up on that. One.
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  Speaker 3: American League Championship Series gets underway tonight in New York
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  with the Mets are excuse me, with the Yankees at
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  home against the Cleveland Guardians in Game one of that. Cleveland,
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  of course, won its first postseason series since the year
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  they went to the World Series when they lost to
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  the Cubs. When they had Chicago down three games to one,
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  and the Cubs came back to win that World Series.
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  And the Yankees, of course, are trying to win their
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  first World Series since two thousand and nine. That's the
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  last time New York won, So it's been fifteen years
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  since the Yankees have won a World Series. So that's
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  what's at stake there is. Those two teams get together
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  tonight in the Bronx in New York. And as we mentioned,
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  we'll keep you updated on the National League Championship Series
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  between the Dodgers and the Mets. I wanted to hear
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  some more from long Worn's head coach Steve Sarkesian. You know,
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  there was a there was a question, I don't know
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  if we've got the whole Q.
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  Speaker 1: And a exchange on this.
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  Speaker 3: Just the answer, just the answer, okay, all right, there
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  was a there was a question posed by a young
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  lady who asked. And by the way, the Mets have
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  just blown it open on a grand slam home run.
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  Mark Biento's with a grand slam down there, he was
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  down in the count, a ball and two strikes worked
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  at full into hit a grand slam, and now all
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  of a sudden, the Mets have jumped all over the
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  Dodger they leaded six to nothing as they bat in
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  the top half of the second inning on that, So
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  again we'll keep you updated on that, as they fully
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  took advantage of the rookie Land and Knack who made
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  three or four big mistakes in that inning already so.
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  Speaker 2: Very composed for that because I may have tossed my
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  laptop and this was the roles.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I also understand what the Dodgers have been through
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  with their pidgeon, and now things are, you know. The
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  thing is, the thing is, he made a couple of
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  big mistakes zero to two in the count, uh and
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  to another hitter and gave up, elevated, just floated a
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  breaking ball that went for an RBI single RBI to make.
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  Speaker 1: It two to nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Then they called for an intentional walk, and rightly so,
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  to Francisco Lindor, the left handed hitter who had already
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  homered off of Ryan Brazi of the right endor that
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  loaded the bases. Then he got ahead of Mark Entto's
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  the ball and two strikes let the count get full,
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  and Vanto's hit a grand slam, so it's six nothing.
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  Me's looked like they may well even that series at
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  a game of piece. All right, So to go back
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  to what long Worn's head coach, Steve Sarkesian was, he
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  was asked, and I'm I'm not being critical of anybody,
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  but the question was I could have predicted what his
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  response would be when some of the questions are more
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  of the they if a question isn't analytical, let me
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  just put it that way. If it's more emotional than analytical,
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  the head coach is going to take a dim view
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  of it. So instead of asking, you know, what has
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  made the difference for your team in how you attack
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  a team and how you go about earning your victories,
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  he would have responded final that. But when you start
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  off with Billy Bowman, if Oklahoma says you guys didn't
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  earn it, I mean you know you're going to have
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  the kind of answer that gifts to that followed by
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  the question that actually does bring about a decent answer.
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  Speaker 4: Not my problem. We won next game.
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  Speaker 1: So that was that was the question.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he said that when Billy Bowman said that
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  Texas didn't really earn it. I thought Bowman's original tweet
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  about it or response about it was that they didn't
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  earn things after or the early mistake early on.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's what I thought, because I was in the
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  press conference room and the question was I think asked
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  to Bowman, was first quarter, you guys told them the
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  zero rushing yards, It was zero zero. Then you had
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  the two turnovers. What changed in quarters two, three, and
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  four defensively for Oklahoma as opposed to the first quarter,
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  And you know, he kind of mentioned the mistakes, and
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  I think what he was trying to say was Texas
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  didn't earn those two touchdowns because they were coming off
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  fumbles on Oklahoma's side of the field. Yeah, I didn't
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  take it as Texas did not to start to win
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  that game, which is now how it's being construed now.
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  I could be I could have, you know, maybe understanding
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  what Bowman is saying. That's exactly what he is saying.
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  But that's not what I got from that answer. I
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  think he was more pointing to the two turnovers in
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  the second quarter that resulted in fourteen points for Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, and I do agree with you.
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  Speaker 3: That's how I Yeah, yeah, it was it was fourteen
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  points that made it fourteen three when they got there,
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  or took it from seven to three to twenty one three.
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  That's right the the I agree with you that that's
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  what Billy Bowman's in tent was.
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  Speaker 1: However, I think Billy Bowman.
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  Speaker 3: Uh is is being a little less than realistic understanding
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  that those were forced turnovers that they did on those fumbles.
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  Speaker 1: Those were forced fumbles.
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  Speaker 3: That's the defense creating in turn which, by the way,
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  something oklahomad done really well going into the game and
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  got one early on the Ers interception, which that one
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  wasn't a forced turn I was just Quinn just flat
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  out missing the mark and overthrowing the receiver on that.
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  So you know that to have it construed back as
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  they almost like they were lucky to win, like hear
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  fan say or something like that. If you ask questions
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  like that at a news conference, the coach is going
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  to take and I'm not just talking about Sark. Most
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  coaches would take a pretty dim view of it. And
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  I was just like, I'm not gonna worry about and
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  all Sarks. It's not my problem.
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  Speaker 1: We won the game.
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  Speaker 3: So then it got to the actual question what does
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  your team do to earn victories?
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  Speaker 5: I was refer to the players a lot about you know,
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  getting ahead in the game, of life and what does
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  that mean. That means, you know, having your priorities aligned.
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  It means you know, being early to commitments that you make.
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  And life is easier that way. You know, it's easy,
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  it's life's a lot more difficult when your press conference
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  starts at eleven thirty and you guys are coming to
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  cover the press conference and you're running in at eleven
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  thirty one and you're throwing your mic down. You that
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  life is more difficult that way. Well, football is very
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  simp The game of football is a lot easier to
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  play when you have a lead as opposed to when
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  you're playing from behind. When you have the lead, you
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  have all of your game plan at your disposal. You
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  can make the necessary adjustments because you can foreshadow and
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  see what's coming. When you're playing from behind, you're in
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  a little bit more scramble mode, and sometimes you have
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  to scrap the original game plan. You have to go to,
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  you know, your contingency plans of maybe you know what,
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  if this Plan A didn't work, you got to go
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  to plan B, Plan C. And so we believe in,
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  like I said, our formula for success. We try to
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  get leads. We try to you know, run plays that
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  we think have an opportunity, like I said, to move
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  the football and score.
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  Speaker 4: We try to play a really sound defense.
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  Speaker 5: And then if we can get that lead, especially into
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  the second half, and it's a multiple score lead, and
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  now you have to start to really throw the ball,
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  which is something that we wanted to get better at
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  from a year ago. Is all right, now they have
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  to go throw it. Now let's go rush the passer,
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  and now we can affect a quarterback and create turnovers
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  and things. And so it is a formula that works
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  that The key for us is we've been fortunate that
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  we've got to.
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  Speaker 4: Play that way all year long, and that's the ideal way.
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  Speaker 5: But we have to be prepared for the other way too,
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  because that day's probably going to come at some point,
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  and we have to make sure that we're more than
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  equipped to handle that as well.
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  Speaker 3: All Right, So that was the long way ultimately to
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  get to a good answer from Sark about that, which
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  started with that. You know, like I said, the question
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  that was probably going to throw the head coach off
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  a little bit when you're asked about another player's emotional
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  response to why Texas defeated that player's team and that's
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  why you know you'll you'll never probably get a real
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  good response on those kinds of things anyway. Also, the
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  long words have been really good at once they get
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  in the lead, having that killer instinct. And Sark was
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  asked what changes once Texas is in front to have
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  to have the lead in that once they have the
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  lead in those.
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  Speaker 5: Games, as refer to the players a lot about you know,
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  getting ahead in the game of life and what does
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  that mean. That means, you know, having your priorities aligned.
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  It means you know, being early to commitments that you make.
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  And life is easier that way. You know, it's easy.
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  Life's a lot more difficult when your press conference starts
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  at eleven thirty and you guys are coming to cover
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  the press conference and you're running in at eleven thirty
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  one and you're throwing your mic down. You that life
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  is more difficult that way. Well, football is very simp
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  The game of football is a lot easier to play
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  when you have a lead as opposed to when you're
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  playing from behind.
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  Speaker 4: When you have the lead, you have all of your.
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  Speaker 5: Game plan at your disposal, can make the necessary adjustments
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  because you can foreshadow and see what's coming when you're
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  playing from behind, you're in a little bit more scramble mode,
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  and sometimes you have to scrap the original game plan.
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  You have to go to, you know, your contingency plans
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  of maybe, you know what, if this Plan A didn't work,
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  you got to go to Plan B, Plan C. And
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  so we believe in, like I said, our formula for success.
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  We try to get leads. We try to you know,
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  run plays that we think have an opportunity, like I said,
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  to move the football and score. We try to play
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  really sound defense. And then if we can get that lead,
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  especially into the second half, and it's a multiple score lead,
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  and now you have to start to really throw the ball,
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  which is something that we wanted to get better at
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  from a year ago, is all right, now they have
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  to go throw it. Now let's go rush the passer,
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  and now we can affect the quarterback and create turnovers
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  and things.
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  Speaker 4: And so it is a formula that works.
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  Speaker 5: That The key for us is we've been fortunate that
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  we've got to play that way all year long, and
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  that's the ideal way. But we have to be prepared
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  for the way too, because that day's probably going to
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  come at some point and we have to make sure
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  that we're more than equipped to handle that as well.
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  Speaker 3: All Right, we're going to hear more from Loghorn's head coach,
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  Steve sarsakeshen coming up in the next hour of the
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  program here on sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone.