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The Craig Way Show Hour 3.2 (1-7-2025) · The Craig Way Show

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Speaker 1: Anyway, we continue on this Tuesday, and as I mentioned
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Speaker 1: at the top of the show, we were going to
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Speaker 1: let you hear from long worn players because this is
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Speaker 1: the best opportunity to hear from them now leading up
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Speaker 1: to this national semifinal of the College Football Playoff, that
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Speaker 1: being the Cotton Bowl in Arlington at Jerry World on
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Speaker 1: Friday evening at six point thirty before we hear from
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Speaker 1: another one of quinn yours receiving targets, namely tight end gunner. Here,
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Speaker 1: I want to hear from one of the guys who
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Speaker 1: protects and namely the most decorated of the offensive lineman,
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Speaker 1: the Lombardi Award winner, the Atlan Trophy winner, that, of
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Speaker 1: course would be the anchor on the left side, the
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Speaker 1: left tackle, Calvin Banks.
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Speaker 2: Kevin.
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Speaker 3: A moment ago, Jake was here and he told us
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Speaker 3: that everybody showed up the day after the Arizona State
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Speaker 3: game with a chip on the shoulder determined to get
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Speaker 3: the run game back. Could you feel that, and if so,
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Speaker 3: what will gives you confidence? What have you seen over
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Speaker 3: the past few days that leads you to believe it's back.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, like you said, we didn't put our best foot
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Speaker 4: forward in that game and the biggest thing Coastart. We
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Speaker 4: want us to kind of emphasized with the run game,
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Speaker 4: and I feel like we didn't do that. So we
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Speaker 4: definitely had a chip on our shoulder for sure, because
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Speaker 4: I know we're better than what we showed in that field.
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Speaker 4: So it definitely gave us a sense of one to
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Speaker 4: want to go out and practice and do better. So
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Speaker 4: we've been doing that. We've been executing very well in practice.
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Speaker 4: We've been kind of just showing we're locked in and
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Speaker 4: focus on the game plan.
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Speaker 5: A Calvin, Ohio State had eight sacks in its last game.
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Speaker 5: Just what stands out to you when you watch a
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Speaker 5: film about their pass rush?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, just physical rushers. Not one of their guys take
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Speaker 4: a playoff. They give maximum effort every time. So just
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Speaker 4: guys who are gonna put the best foot forward for
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Speaker 4: their team and give maximum effort for you. So I'll
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Speaker 4: say that kind of kind of just sums up their rushers.
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Speaker 4: And one on one word.
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Speaker 2: Call in a very similar question just specifically about Jack
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Speaker 2: Sawyer and j. C. Tmoloaw what makes them so tough
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Speaker 2: to go against and what kind of challenge is that
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Speaker 2: for you?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're great rushers, Like I said, they like to
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Speaker 4: press the pocket very well.
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Speaker 6: They can.
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Speaker 4: They have hot motor so it's not like you're gonna
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Speaker 4: block them and then they stop and and not try
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Speaker 4: to chase the quarterback. They do all that, they have
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Speaker 4: good counter moves to give you, uh if the first
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Speaker 4: move don't work. So they're just hot motive rushers. And
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Speaker 4: just me me being locked in on on the techniques
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Speaker 4: that coach Flood has taught me to make sure I
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Speaker 4: do my best of block those two guys.
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Speaker 7: Hey, Kevin, how you doing. I just wanted to ask
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Speaker 7: about the heart of a champion, right That was a
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Speaker 7: conversation before the Georgia game. Y'all describe the Bulldogs as that,
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Speaker 7: and so I'm wondering after they airs on the state matchup,
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Speaker 7: do you feel like that was y'all's part of a
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Speaker 7: champion moment?
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Speaker 1: Oh?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, sir, you could say that because like I was saying,
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Speaker 4: like I said before, we didn't kind of come out
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Speaker 4: there and put our best beforard as a team. We
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Speaker 4: felt like we left a lot out there on the
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Speaker 4: table that we can that we uh that you want
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Speaker 4: to get back at the end of the day, you can't.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 4: The game is a game and it happens, but it
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Speaker 4: definitely shows the heart that we have as a team
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Speaker 4: to go out there and no matter the avarsity adversity
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Speaker 4: that we faced in those moments, we came out and
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Speaker 4: pulled pulled through at the end.
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Speaker 8: Tell them the last time you were underdogs was going
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Speaker 8: to Alabama last year. Do you get the same sense
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Speaker 8: of resolve amongst your teammates knowing that you're the team
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Speaker 8: that's being counted out in this game?
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Speaker 2: I mean you could say so, yeah, anytime.
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Speaker 4: I feel like anytime any football team that's counted out
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Speaker 4: and going into a game, it definitely makes puts a
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Speaker 4: chip on the shoulder that want to go out there
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Speaker 4: and prove people wrong. But at the end of the day,
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Speaker 4: we treat every week the same. We kind of coming
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Speaker 4: to everybody with the same mindset. We try to make
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Speaker 4: sure we're we have the same mentality of going out
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Speaker 4: there and one wanting to go dominate, no matter if
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Speaker 4: we're the favorite team or if we're not.
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Speaker 9: Hey, Calvin, you know Burt Auburns struggled a little bit
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Speaker 9: just kicking what's going on with him since the Beach
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Speaker 9: Bowl and how do you get his confidence back?
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Speaker 4: I mean, that's kind of that's not a kind of
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Speaker 4: a question for me. It's kind of kind of couch
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Speaker 4: for coach Banks. But Bert's Burt's been itself. He's I mean,
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Speaker 4: he's been he's been a selfie. I don't think any
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Speaker 4: athlete people go through slumps. I mean, I've had slumps
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Speaker 4: before where stuff happens you kind of kind of just
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Speaker 4: got to move one from it and just brush off.
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Speaker 4: But Bird, he's he's been doing fine. He's been doing
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Speaker 4: good in practice. And you know what I'm saying, his
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Speaker 4: confidence doesn't like his uh went away at all. So
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Speaker 4: we trusted him as a team and we believe in
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Speaker 4: his ability to go out there and make field goals.
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Speaker 6: Alvin, So as a team, you guys throughout the whole
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Speaker 6: entire season have always every game you try to get better,
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Speaker 6: fix the mistakes and so on. Against Clempson, you guys
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Speaker 6: had two penalty Boch Sharkisian talked about that was a
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Speaker 6: result of it come to Jesus meeting. But I'm just curious,
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Speaker 6: how do you guys go into practice, like, for example,
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Speaker 6: this week, you guys are self motivated, You don't you
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Speaker 6: probably need to come to Jesus meeting. But how are
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Speaker 6: you guys working on that aspect of the game to
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Speaker 6: lesson or refine not as many penalties.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it kind of starts up front with
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Speaker 4: O line if you want to be honest, pre snap
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Speaker 4: pre snap penalties and stuff like that. That's like that
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Speaker 4: stuff that puts you behind the states, and it kind
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Speaker 4: of makes it hard for you to go out there
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Speaker 4: and go score and put droughts together. So things like
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Speaker 4: that just has to stop. I mean, it's it's stuff
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Speaker 4: we learned were doing practice. Where we get in practice,
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Speaker 4: we don't. We don't have the same mistakes. So it's
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Speaker 4: just that that moment of uh staying calm, being being
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Speaker 4: calmon in the field of play and understanding what your
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Speaker 4: job is and not kind of getting too over too over,
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Speaker 4: too over excited, or too uh too over emotional, because
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Speaker 4: that's when you start having pre snap penalties.
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Speaker 2: Uh as such.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I was just curious about the mindset of the team.
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Speaker 9: Did the way y'all win, both of your confidence or
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Speaker 9: or blowing the sixteen point lead hurt your confidence? How
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Speaker 9: y'all react to those.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't say it hurt our confidence
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Speaker 2: at all.
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Speaker 4: We understood kind of understanding what we did during that game,
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Speaker 4: and just at the end of the day, you're here
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Speaker 4: for a reason, Arizona starting was here for reasons. So
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Speaker 4: we kind we kind of just go in there and
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Speaker 4: think we're gonna play reds game, but obviously no game
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Speaker 4: is gonna be perfect, so we just we go in
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Speaker 4: we win.
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Speaker 2: Okay, now it's time to go back and fix the mistakes.
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Speaker 4: So at the end of the day, we just got
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Speaker 4: to look at that and learn from those mistakes and
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Speaker 4: then and bring it to the next game.
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Speaker 10: And Kelvin, what does.
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Speaker 8: It mean to this team to be playing this game
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Speaker 8: in the state of Texas just rolling up I thirty five.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it means a lot.
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Speaker 4: It means a lot to us, especially just because it's
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Speaker 4: kind of like you're playing the home game in a sense.
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Speaker 4: Con just wanted to defend your state, just defending the
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Speaker 4: state of Texas. So just just going in there and
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Speaker 4: knowing like, hey, you don't have to travel for a
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Speaker 4: kind of just kind of like in your backyard. So
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Speaker 4: it means a lot to us, and just we want
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Speaker 4: to go out here that's cute and just play hard
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Speaker 4: for our fans and play hard for our teammates, and the.
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Speaker 8: Last time you were in Jerry World it was for
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Speaker 8: the Big twelve Championship.
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Speaker 10: So any good vibes from that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can say so.
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Speaker 4: It's always a good vibe when you go into a
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Speaker 4: stadium that you've won in before.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, Kevin, I just wonder for you personally, what are
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Speaker 11: the last you know, kind of six weeks I guess
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Speaker 11: been like from you know, dealing with the injury against
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Speaker 11: A and M, and then you got the award circuit,
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Speaker 11: then you're right back into the playoff and now you're
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Speaker 11: in the January and the semi finals. Just kind of
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Speaker 11: how this whole world win for you this last six
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Speaker 11: weeks spend. Yeah, it's been it's been pretty crazy.
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Speaker 4: Kind of some high some lows, but at the end
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Speaker 4: of the day, you just gotta kind of focus on
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Speaker 4: what you have going at the moment, and that was
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Speaker 4: kind of the team in that point.
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Speaker 2: You know, people go through stuff.
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Speaker 4: Now everybody run this time is one hundred percent healthy,
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Speaker 4: So you just got to have that in the back
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Speaker 4: of your mind going into the game and just understanding like, yeah,
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Speaker 4: you win these awards, but these the big goal is
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Speaker 4: definitely to win that championship.
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Speaker 2: For a team.
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Speaker 4: I mean, the awards are great, but at the end
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Speaker 4: of the day, I feel like when you win collectively
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Speaker 4: as a team and it means it means a whole
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Speaker 4: lot more.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, Kevin, going back to thatnversation about playing at and
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Speaker 12: T Stadium and then you know, just playing in Mercedes
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Speaker 12: Benz twice. Now, what are the benefits of playing these
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Speaker 12: big games in stadiums that y'all that y'all all are
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Speaker 12: familiar with.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's definitely a lot of benefits, kind of kind
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Speaker 4: of you just being used to the atmosphere, You've been
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Speaker 4: used to what it will sound like when the stadium
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Speaker 4: is packed, how to turn feels, just different things like
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Speaker 4: that that not many people may think impacts you or
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Speaker 4: may impact you going to the game, but it's definitely
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Speaker 4: something that you kind of have in the back of
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Speaker 4: your mind and just just just it's a good thing
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Speaker 4: to kind of have that opportunity to have been played
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Speaker 4: in the stadium before, not going in to a new environment.
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Speaker 13: When you look at Ohio States defense, obviously they're you know,
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Speaker 13: they're very talented, but their offense has jumped on teams
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Speaker 13: pretty quick. What do you guys have to do to
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Speaker 13: stay on script offensively to you know, kind of avoid
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Speaker 13: that hole that you know their offense can put you
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Speaker 13: guys' defense in.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, just to win, win on first and second downs.
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Speaker 4: I feel like that's the biggest thing for us right
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Speaker 4: now is winning on first and second downs. Like not
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Speaker 4: getting sticks early on in the downs. That kind of
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Speaker 4: helps us out by staying on the field to help
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Speaker 4: the defense out as well by getting their rests and
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Speaker 4: things like that. So just make sure we stay in
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Speaker 4: front of the sticks on on schedule and just having
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Speaker 4: that mentality.
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Speaker 2: I want to run the ball as well.
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Speaker 4: So I feel like if we get all that stuff
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Speaker 4: worked out, I feel like we'll do pretty good.
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Speaker 7: Well.
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Speaker 1: Good to hear that Calvin's feeling good enough and ready
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Speaker 1: to roll again and to anchor up that left side
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Speaker 1: of the offensive line. All right. Gunner Helm all season
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Speaker 1: long has been a clutch receiver for Texas. Made some
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Speaker 1: big catches and games, and certainly none bigger than the
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Speaker 1: one he made to start the second overtime. On the
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Speaker 1: first play of the second overtime, on the touchdown pass
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Speaker 1: from Quinn, you were so, let's hear from the long
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Speaker 1: warrant senior tight end Gunner.
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Speaker 14: Hilm definite, Gunnar, I just asked us to Quinn earlier.
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Speaker 14: Would love your perspective, you know, as an offensive player,
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Speaker 14: how crucial is it that Quinn is that calming presence
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Speaker 14: for you guys? Mean, no disrespected guys like Kelvin or
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Speaker 14: Jake or veterans like yourself, who's there, all talented players,
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Speaker 14: but how crucial is it to have that quarterback be
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Speaker 14: the calming presence for you guys throughout the games?
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Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean just obviously as our you know, front
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Speaker 15: runner leader on the offensive side of the ball, he's
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Speaker 15: the one that leads us, gets the play going, and
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Speaker 15: just see him calm definitely calls our nerves a little bit,
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Speaker 15: you know, just as we're driving, if things aren't going well,
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Speaker 15: if things are good, he.
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Speaker 10: Keeps us, keeps us in a good headspace.
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Speaker 15: If things might not be going too good, keep going
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Speaker 15: through and now keeps us in a good headspace. You know,
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Speaker 15: it just keeps encouraging us. So obviously, yeah, very effective.
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Speaker 15: Behalf him on our side.
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Speaker 16: Hey, Gunnard, I was wondering if you could take us
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Speaker 16: through that score on the first play of second overtime.
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Speaker 16: What's that route that you're running? Have you guys run
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Speaker 16: that play before, and how do you have to really
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Speaker 16: sell that at the line of scrimmage that you're blocking.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, we run a lot of slider and I guess
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Speaker 10: gap area protection.
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Speaker 15: So we ran it last year against Iowa State and
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Speaker 15: I scored on the same play, but essentially a fake
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Speaker 15: that I'm sliding down in protection and then leak out
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Speaker 15: the back door. It's been pretty effective, and you know,
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Speaker 15: the National Football League this year and a lot of
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Speaker 15: other colleges. I think State ran a version of it
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Speaker 15: against Penn State, so you.
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Speaker 10: Know, we knew it was gonna be a good call.
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Speaker 10: It's been in the entire season.
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Speaker 15: I think we try to run it against Michigan and
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Speaker 15: got shot down. But then you know, as as soon
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Speaker 15: as we called that one, I was pretty confident that
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Speaker 15: I was gonna be able to make a play.
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Speaker 5: Afternoon, Gunner, you talked a lot about your journey at Texas,
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Speaker 5: why you committed to ut in the committee, to the school.
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Speaker 5: In this playoff where you get to play these massive games,
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Speaker 5: you take moments to appreciate it while you're in it,
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Speaker 5: and what are those moments like for you?
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Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean coming to a school like Texas, you know,
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Speaker 15: coach Sark alluded to it today, We're built for games
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Speaker 15: like this.
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Speaker 10: Were playing a lot of games like this in front
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Speaker 10: of a lot of people in big stadiums, on big stages.
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Speaker 15: So you know, I think that I'm pretty used to
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Speaker 15: it that at this point, but early on in my career,
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Speaker 15: you know, it was definitely a really eye opening you know,
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Speaker 15: not playing at a huge Texas high school football program.
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Speaker 15: I mean a pretty big program coming out of the
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Speaker 15: state of Colorado, still the biggest one in Colorado, best
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Speaker 15: one in Colorado.
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Speaker 10: But yeah, I would just say that, you.
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Speaker 15: Know, take a moment, Try to take a moment just
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Speaker 15: just to reflect back in the next years, just where
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Speaker 15: I was as a player.
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Speaker 10: Big gunner.
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Speaker 8: How's this team handling being the underdog playing in the
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Speaker 8: state of Texas And what's what's been the messaging from
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Speaker 8: from Sark this week?
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Speaker 15: Yeah, just being where our feet are, you know, going
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Speaker 15: back in in our details. You know, obviously we're we're
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Speaker 15: trusting that our fans are gonna come out and make
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Speaker 15: an appearance, especially being up in Dallas, you know, just
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Speaker 15: up the road, so we feel like we have the
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Speaker 15: advantage of that aspect.
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Speaker 10: But you know, I think we're really dangerous as underdogs.
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Speaker 10: We've been underdogs for a.
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Speaker 15: Lot of big games my early years here, such as
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Speaker 15: you know, Alabama at home and then obviously Alabama on
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Speaker 15: the road and a really tough environment in Tuscal And says, So,
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Speaker 15: you know, I think underdogs the aspect of that makes
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Speaker 15: you really dangerous as a team.
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Speaker 10: But you know it's just another game for us. We're
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Speaker 10: paring the same way as we would.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, you know we've all talked about quinn Is composure
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Speaker 9: and how calm he is. You've known it for a
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Speaker 9: good while. What makes him nervous? Is it like public speaking,
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Speaker 9: going to the dentist? Do you ever see him getting nervous?
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Speaker 15: I guess the only way I can answer that is, uh,
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Speaker 15: sure as heck is in football, because every time I
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Speaker 15: see him, every time, you know, I would be pretty
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Speaker 15: shell shocked as a quarterback thinking back in it. He's
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Speaker 15: been the most level headed that there is on the field.
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Speaker 15: So you know, he carries himself really well, carries himself
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Speaker 15: really well off the field. I don't really have an
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Speaker 15: answer for you on that one. I have no idea
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Speaker 15: what makes him nervous?
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Speaker 17: Hey, Gunner, as your time at Texas starts to come
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Speaker 17: to an end here, Is there something to be said
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Speaker 17: for the fact that you are leaving this program in
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Speaker 17: a much better place than than when you showed up.
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Speaker 15: Yes, yeah, I mean when I showed up, I think
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Speaker 15: we had a two seven team GPA. You know, obviously
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Speaker 15: we went five and seven, the no bowl game, horrible culture,
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Speaker 15: nobody here wanted to be here, and then you know,
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Speaker 15: just kind of built on that as I've gone on
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Speaker 15: through the years. Next year, I think we had a
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Speaker 15: two nine, you know, eight and five, lose the bowl game,
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Speaker 15: you know, however, many draft picks, and then the next year,
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Speaker 15: you know, eleven and two or whatever it was, get
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Speaker 15: to the biggest stage, however, many draft picks, three maybe
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Speaker 15: three zero g P a team GPA. And now this year,
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Speaker 15: you know, obviously, being where we are, I think we
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Speaker 15: have a three to two team GPA, culture stronger than
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Speaker 15: it's ever been, and you know, coming down the coming
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Speaker 15: down the way, who knows how many draft picks. So
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Speaker 15: obviously coach Sark and the rest of the coaching staff
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Speaker 15: has done a spectacular job setting the standard for this team,
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Speaker 15: and just this team buying into that standard and setting
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Speaker 15: the groundwork and building upon itself each year be.
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Speaker 2: Our good afternoon.
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Speaker 6: So I'm just curious. You know, you're known as mister reliance, right,
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Speaker 6: they always find you maybe when the run's not happening
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Speaker 6: or the passes aren't dropping, let's get it the gunner,
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Speaker 6: you score a touchdown or make yardage. So I'm curious,
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Speaker 6: as the game is going on, are you communicating with
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Speaker 6: either Quinn or Sark that says, hey, I think I'm
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Speaker 6: open here. You might want to, you know, look at
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Speaker 6: this coverage that I'm getting because I think I can
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Speaker 6: make a difference. Or is it something that's pre scripted
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Speaker 6: and they're going to go to you when they need.
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Speaker 10: A little bit of both.
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Speaker 15: You know, it's not so much as they're gonna go
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Speaker 15: to me when they need me. But you know, I
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Speaker 15: think you put the ball in the in your best
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Speaker 15: opportunity to win the best player's hands when you need
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Speaker 15: it the most. And we have a lot of really
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Speaker 15: good players. There's not you know, one or two that
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Speaker 15: are just the best players. So I think that's the
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Speaker 15: that's the diversity of our team, of our offense.
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Speaker 10: We got a lot of explosiveness. But yeah, no, I
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Speaker 10: mean it's a little bit prescripted but you know it's
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Speaker 10: just flow of the game.
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Speaker 15: Part of our job as a player, just to you know,
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Speaker 15: keep the connection from you know, us coach Stark to
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Speaker 15: Quinn going is coming off the field and telling you know,
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Speaker 15: maybe Coach Banks or Coach Cutter or Coach Sark, just
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Speaker 15: the looks that we're seeing and you know it's their
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Speaker 15: job to scheme up the best place possible and they
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Speaker 15: do a great job of it.
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Speaker 13: Gunner. When when you look at Ohio States defense, obviously
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Speaker 13: Caleb Downs is a big.
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Speaker 10: Part of that. How difficult is he to prepare for?
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Speaker 13: And you know what changes for you guys when you
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Speaker 13: have a guy that can play you know, deep safety,
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Speaker 13: he can play down towards the line of scrimmage, he
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Speaker 13: can play almost a middle linebacker.
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Speaker 10: What kind of challenge is he for you guys this week?
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Speaker 15: Yeah, a huge challenge. Heck of a player can fit
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Speaker 15: the run, very physical and fitting the run. You know,
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Speaker 15: obviously one of the best and pass protection in the
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Speaker 15: country or pass coverage in the country.
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Speaker 10: So yeah, we got our hands.
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Speaker 15: Fall with not only just him, but you know the linebackers,
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Speaker 15: they they feel real hard. You know, they're very physical
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Speaker 15: their front so obviously obviously their fronts and NFL front
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Speaker 15: and their secondary is obviously an NFL secondary is just
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Speaker 15: an NFL defense as a whole NFL scheme.
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Speaker 10: So we got our hands full.
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Speaker 15: It's gonna be a really tough talent, tough challenge, and
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Speaker 15: you know, it's probably the best we've seen.
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Speaker 3: Appreciate you Gun on a moment ago when you were
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Speaker 3: talking about this shift in culture and leaving the program
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Speaker 3: in a better place. You knew the GPA, the team
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Speaker 3: GPA each year. What's that correlation in your mind between
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Speaker 3: team GPA and on field success and has that always
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Speaker 3: been important to you or did somebody push that stat
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Speaker 3: to the front of your mind.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I know, Coach Starks has it all the time.
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Speaker 15: It's you know, your three gears of three gears of life,
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Speaker 15: so your personal life, your school life, and your football life.
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Speaker 15: And you know, if everything's going great, then all the
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Speaker 15: gears are twisting themselves. But you know, if you get
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Speaker 15: something jammed up, maybe you fail a test, maybe you
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Speaker 15: know one of your grades job, then if that's on
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Speaker 15: the front of your mind, then you start to do
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Speaker 15: poorly on the football field, then maybe your personal life
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Speaker 15: isn't going quite as well or you know the other
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Speaker 15: way around. Maybe something gets jammed up in your personal life,
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Speaker 15: you're hanging out with the wrong group of people, you
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Speaker 15: get in trouble.
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Speaker 10: Then the on field stuff.
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Speaker 15: Maybe you get benched, then you're thinking about that, then
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Speaker 15: you fail test, or you know another way around it.
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Speaker 15: You know you're on the field, your your busting assignments.
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Speaker 15: Maybe you benched, then you start to not really care.
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Speaker 15: Then you don't go to school, then you start failing,
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Speaker 15: then you become ineligible. So snowball effects from all three aspects.
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Speaker 15: But that's something that's pressed upon us in the offseason.
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Speaker 15: And yeah, it's part of our culture to have success
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Speaker 15: off the field as well, especially in the classroom, especially
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Speaker 15: at a school like Texas.
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Speaker 10: So I think coach Sark has done a tremendous job
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Speaker 10: with that.
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Speaker 1: We'll hear from more log Worns coming up as we
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