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What is Sark's message to the team entering Top 5 showdown against Georgia? · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: And we're back to the Craig Way Show.
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  Speaker 3: App here on a Longhorns Monday on Sports Radio AM
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  thirteen under the Zone. Before we get back to hearing
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  from Longhortons head coach Steve Sarkisian, let me let the
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  Houston Texans certainly deserve and merit mentioned as well, very
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  thorough in their road win at New England, beating the
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  Patriots forty one twenty one. And here are the Texans
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  rolling along and I would say one of the best
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  teams in the AFC right.
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  Speaker 2: Now and more impressive Craig, considering all the injuries that
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  are starting to suffer defensively without a couple of cornerbacks
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  in that game against New England, obviously without Nico Collins,
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  who was having one of the best seasons in the NFL,
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  and you're thinking, Okay, maybe this will be a drop
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  off geame for CJ.
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  Speaker 1: Stroud.
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  Speaker 2: Nope, look look like they're gonna score one hundred points
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  in the first quarter. Ended up just hammering New England,
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  I mean Newland defensively. There was a couple we just yikes,
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  moments on defense with the lack of effort some of
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  their players. But if you're Houston Texans fan, I mean,
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  they're a team that it feels like every week they're
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  getting better and better. And some of their wins have
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  been a little dicey. You know, it could have gone
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  either way, but you know, they came up with a victory,
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  and now each week they've gotten three in a row.
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  They're just getting a little bit better and better and
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  now set up for a real fun showdown at Lambeau
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  and Screen Bay on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Let's hear some more from Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian
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  on this Long Horns Monday. It is from the news
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  conference earlier that they heard live here on the Zone.
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  Speaker 1: It was pointed out.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was our friends Center Golden the Austin
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  American State's been pointed out to sark that this is
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  a marquee quarterback match up at dk R on Saturday night.
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  Carson Beck of Georgia, when you were in Texas and
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  he was asked if he remembered being part of a
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  marquee matchup when he played at BYU, And then the
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  second question and there were two questions. The other was
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  about Quinn you were was taking responsibility for his mistakes,
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  how he has done that, and what he does to
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  do that, and whether Sark has to say anything to
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  him about it, and how he gathers himself.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if I ever had a Marquee matchup.
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  There's probably a lot of other There's probably a lot
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  of other better players than me. I don't know if
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  I was ever the Marquee guy. Yeah, he was a
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  true freshman. Yeah he was a good player.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I think one thing that Quinn and I think any
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  one of our players would kind of say the same thing,
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  like we really believe in accountability, and accountability is taking
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  responsibility for one zone to the actions. And I don't
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  know if you remember, even a couple of weeks ago,
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  Jayden Blue came up to me and said, I can
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  play better. And it's like when you can really be
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  honest and watch the tape or come out of a
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  game and know how you played and say, okay, where
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  is their room to be better and then try to
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  address it.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's what Quinn's saying.
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  Speaker 4: And it's probably a little easier for a veteran player
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  to acknowledge that than a younger player, but we really
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  try to instill that into our players. Is about let's
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  just take accountability for our actions, whether it's on the
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  field or off the field, and then and then move forward,
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  and how do we get better because of it? And
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  so I just think that's a sign of kind of
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  what we try to instill in the players. And Quinn
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  had a lot of that innately, but I do think
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  our culture has helped that as well.
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  Speaker 3: Okay this Sometimes in news conferences, Sark will be asked
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  questions that involve phrases, and sometimes it's words he has
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  used to describe things in the culture and the program.
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  So then the reporters are interested in finding out in
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  a little better, more in depth to tail what exactly
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  is meant by some of those phrases. For example, the
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  when Sark talks about in the recruiting game being able
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  to line up young men get commitments from young men
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  who are, in Sarks words quote enamored by us and
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  in this day and age of nil and everything else,
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  Sark was asked what goes into getting a potential recruit
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  to be quote unquote enamored by the University of Texas.
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  Speaker 4: I think through a level of consistency. That's the first part,
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  you know, I don't. I don't just touch on it,
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  you know, once a week or you know, once a
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  month or the first, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Team meeting.
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  Speaker 4: I try to consistently talk about those things. I try
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  to force their dialogue on those things. We do a
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  lot of different exercises throughout the summer. On our Culture
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  Wednesday activities. We do an exercise every Friday at our
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  team meeting before we go to the hotel or before
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  we get on the plane. So we do a lot
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  of exercises that tries to promote the team and try
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  to promote acknowledging their teammates, whether guys that they appreciate
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  or guys that they that inspire them. We try to
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  promote you know, you know, gratitude lists and being grateful
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  for the things that we have and not what we
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  don't have. And so, but that lends itself to because
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  I believe in culture, and I don't you know, not
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  everybody does, probably the way that we do. But I
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  do believe culture beats talent. And I said that before
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  when maybe we weren't the most talented teams.
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  Speaker 1: But culture beats talent.
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  Speaker 4: But I've also said that culture and talent combined is
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  really dangerous. And I think that's why we've become a
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  dangerous team is because we've built a culture, but we've.
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  Speaker 1: Assembled talent along the way.
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  Speaker 4: And that's a credit to our players and their their
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  belief in the culture and the character that they came
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  in with to pour into that culture and make it
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  better than it even was before.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So then the follow up, well, what is the
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  message to the team this week and getting ready for
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  this Georgia team. Does he have any specific different message
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  than what he has on a week by week basis?
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  Speaker 4: The message didn't change at all today and I and again,
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  like I said, I believe in consistency and messaging. You know,
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  when we start conference play, the first thing I talk
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  about this is an SEC championship game. You know, every
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  week we play this this league, we have no divisions,
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  there's a lot of teams, and any blemish on your
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  record could potentially knock you out of that that championship game.
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  And so we think of every game that way, whether
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  it's Mississippi State, Oklahoma now now Georgia. The messaging stays
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  very consistent on a lot of the things that we
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  talk about because I think the players appreciate consistency if
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  they know if they know that I'm consistent with what
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  I'm doing, then and when I'm asking them to be
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  consistent of what they do week in and week out,
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  it's a little easier if I'm embodying the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: The appeal is this is you know, this is always you.
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  Speaker 4: You love those games that if you want to call
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  them the measuring stick or or kind of a barometer
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  for where you at at what juncture of the season
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  against the really good team and a team that has
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  you know, been in national championship games, conference championship games.
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  Is one games at a really high level and a
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  head coach who's who's done it at the highest level.
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  That's that's the fun part, you know. It's like, Okay,
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  let's see if what we do on a regular basis
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  is good enough and that that's what we can find.
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  Speaker 3: Out Next Sark delivered the unfortunate and injury news with
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  regard to Texas.
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  Speaker 4: UH, Derek Is will be out the remainder of the season. UH,
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  he'll have surgery here in a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, Isaiah,
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  were were I feel better about today than I felt
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  Saturday when he couldn't when he couldn't finish the ball game.
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  So I'm optimistic, but like I said, we'll kind of
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  He'll be day to day. We'll see how looks as
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  we get kind of into Wednesday Thursday. Carson Beck, I
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  know really well. He was committed to US at Alabama
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  and then ultimately decommitted and went to went to Georgia.
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  He's a great young man, military background from his father.
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  They you know, he's a big, strong kid, can make
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  all the throws. You know, he's got a real presence
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  in the pocket, can make all the throws.
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  Speaker 1: And I think they have a scheme that fits him.
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  You know.
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  Speaker 4: They believe in the play action pass, they believe in
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  the double moves. They're gonna take plenty of shots down
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  the field. They utilize the tight end, they utilize the
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  running backs, and so there's nothing from a from a
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  throw game that he really can't do. And he's played
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  enough football now too. It's kind of hard to confuse
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  guys when they've played that much football. And so that's
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  gonna be our challenge, right, how do we disrupt him
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  in the pocket. How can we you know, create a
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  little bit of hesitation in him of of from a
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  from a coverage standpoint, and then we're gonna have to
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  play really well, uh, you know, in tight coverage because
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  he's gonna make these throws and they have elite speed
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  on the perimeter. You know, they're built very similar like us,
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  you know, whether it's you know, Aaron Smith or Levette.
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  I mean, those guys can all go and so now
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  you have to guard them and they have an NFL
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  quarterback throwing.
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  Speaker 1: It to them.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Some thoughts on Carson Beck to Georgia quarterback,
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  as well as Derek Williams being out for the rest
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  of the season with his injury. Although they're hopeful that
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  Isaiah Bond might be available this week, I have a
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  feeling he'll wind up questionable. This is questionable in the
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  injury report on Wednesday. We'll hear more from the Loghorn's
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  head coach, Steve Sarkisian coming up when we continue on
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  Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone.