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Could Quinn Ewers return for another season at Texas? · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 3: All right, Let's let's hear some more from Loggorn's head
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  Speaker 3: coach Steve Sarkasian, And somebody asked him about this whole thing.
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  Speaker 3: Is there a concern about how the College Football Playoff
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  Speaker 3: Committee views it views Texas as to whether they're quote
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  Speaker 3: unquote winning ugly and how do you define ugly ball?
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  Speaker 4: And does it make it more difficult?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: First of all, a ton of respect for coach Stops.
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  Speaker 5: I think his teams are coached really, really well, very
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  Speaker 5: sound football teams in all three phases.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're gonna they're gonna grind.
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  Speaker 5: You out defensively, and then they're going to grind you
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  Speaker 5: out offensively. And when they get their opportunities in the
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  Speaker 5: fourth quarter, they're gonna take their shots at you. And
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  Speaker 5: I think that's what happened in the Old Miss game.
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  Speaker 5: They tried their best in the in the Georgia and
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  Speaker 5: Tennessee games to do the same. But a ton of
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  Speaker 5: respect me very talented defensive football team. These guys have
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  Speaker 5: NFL guys all over the place, so heck of a
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  Speaker 5: challenge for us, all right.
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  Speaker 3: Next up, he was asked about Alfred Kyle, or actually
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  Speaker 3: about his offense, the numbers would reveal it. He was
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  Speaker 3: our friend Eric Henry who pointed this out. The numbers
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  Speaker 3: in terms of a total number of explosive plays are
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  Speaker 3: very close to last year, and so does he feel
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  Speaker 3: this year's offense is as explosive as last year's If.
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  Speaker 5: The numbers say that, sure, you know, you know, we're
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  Speaker 5: just trying to move the football. We're trying to win games.
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  Speaker 5: We're trying to do what's necessary to win games. You
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  Speaker 5: know what I was super impressed with with our offense
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  Speaker 5: Saturday In the fourth quarter. We had to have a
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  Speaker 5: drive and we and we was a three point game.
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  Speaker 5: We needed a drive and we needed execution. They did that.
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  Speaker 5: We got turnover six point fifty five left to go
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  Speaker 5: in the game. We need to possess that ball the
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  Speaker 5: rest of the game.
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  Speaker 1: They did that.
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  Speaker 5: Like so, as much as we want to look at
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  Speaker 5: explosive plays and all those kinds of things, and that's
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  Speaker 5: great offenseive football, it's about execution in the moment and
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  Speaker 5: what we're trying to accomplish. And I think that's something
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  Speaker 5: that this offense is doing at a really high level.
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  Speaker 1: They are managing games in a way.
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  Speaker 5: That is putting us in position to be successful, and
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  Speaker 5: we're creating explosive plays too, you know when that time comes.
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  Speaker 1: But I was that fourth quarter offensively.
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  Speaker 5: I couldn't have been more proud of those guys in
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  Speaker 5: the way that they managed the opportunity that they had.
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  Speaker 3: All Right, So there's that now a question about Alfred
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  Speaker 3: Collins and that climb up not only to having that
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  Speaker 3: consistent level of play, but also play making like causing
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  Speaker 3: the fumble on Saturday and tipping both passes that got
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  Speaker 3: intercepted in the Florida game, those types of things, and
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  Speaker 3: what role Kenny Baker, the new defensive line coach, may
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  Speaker 3: have played in all.
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  Speaker 5: This, Like anything, you know, with opportunity comes responsibility, and
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  Speaker 5: I think Alfred has assumed the responsibility of the opportunity.
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  Speaker 5: Vernon is the same way. You know, they're both playing
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  Speaker 5: at a really high level. It sometimes it's more difficult
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  Speaker 5: to remain consistent when you know, oh, well, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 5: get my you know, ten twelve, fifteen plays. But when
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  Speaker 5: you know you're getting counted on for thirty five forty
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  Speaker 5: plays a game, you tend to lean into. I got
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  Speaker 5: to do all the little things right, and whether it's
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  Speaker 5: your hands whether it's your footwork, whether it's fitting to
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  Speaker 5: run a certain way, staying in your gap, whatever that
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  Speaker 5: looks like. And so I think Alfred sees the moment
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  Speaker 5: and sees the opportunity, and you know, totally like I
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  Speaker 5: can't tell you guys enough. I know I'm speaking a
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  Speaker 5: lot on because I'm reminiscing on a lot of these
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  Speaker 5: guys and knowing its senior day, but like so proud
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  Speaker 5: of him from where he's come.
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  Speaker 1: To get to this point.
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  Speaker 5: And I remember doing press conferences, you know, three four
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  Speaker 5: years ago talking about Alfred.
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  Speaker 1: What's the issue with Alfred Well, consistency.
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  Speaker 5: All of a sudden, now we have a really consistent
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  Speaker 5: player who's very talented, and he's making a lot of
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  Speaker 5: plays for US.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, continuing with the defense. John A.
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  Speaker 3: Baron, of course, had that tough decision to make whether
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  Speaker 3: to return for a six season. It will surely pay
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  Speaker 3: dividends for him having a Thorpe Award type of season.
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  Speaker 3: I would be shocked if he's not a finalist for
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  Speaker 3: it and have to be considered one of the leading
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  Speaker 3: contenders for the Thorpe Award. And so he was asked
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  Speaker 3: about when Jeanne made the decision to come back. What
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  Speaker 3: was the biggest thing area where you wanted to see
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  Speaker 3: him improve.
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  Speaker 5: Well, obviously it was the move to corner, right, and
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  Speaker 5: we're going to move you to corner and make this
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  Speaker 5: a kind of a full time deal and then use
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  Speaker 5: your versus and nickel and dime and those types of
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  Speaker 5: things that present themselves, and his commitment to that I
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  Speaker 5: think has been one of the more impressive things of
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  Speaker 5: like understanding, Hey, I'm gonna go play corner, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 5: do it at a high level. When I go play
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  Speaker 5: dime and linebacker, I'm gonna blitz, I'm gonna do those
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  Speaker 5: things that I do well. But he's a it's an
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  Speaker 5: awesome example of I'm talking about Alfred, I'm talking about
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  Speaker 5: John a. Like, you stick around our program and you
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  Speaker 5: and you stay committed to what we're doing, You're gonna
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  Speaker 5: reap the benefits of this. And I think John a
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  Speaker 5: Is is a great example of that. And I'm so
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  Speaker 5: proud of him too. Like I know I'm kind of
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  Speaker 5: a broken record on some of this stuff with these guys,
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  Speaker 5: but I'm very proud of him. For it's one thing
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  Speaker 5: to come back, it's another to come back and then
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  Speaker 5: put forth the effort and the work and the leadership
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  Speaker 5: that he has, and it's showing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's paying off for him.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the quickest answer to a question of the news
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  Speaker 3: conference all see long. He was asked if he thought
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  Speaker 3: Quinn Yours would be playing his final college home game
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  Speaker 3: on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: No idea.
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  Speaker 3: I forgot who asked that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know his name, but he writes for Lone
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  Speaker 2: Star Life. Okay, Josh Newman. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: The thing about that is, even if Josh's intimation is
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  Speaker 3: that Quinn is going to leave after this season, it
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  Speaker 3: still not might not be his final home game, like
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  Speaker 3: we said it could. They could wind up playing on home
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  Speaker 3: playoff game there as well. So that's why it would
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  Speaker 3: also be impossible at this point to say for certainty
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  Speaker 3: whether it is his final home game. If you watch
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  Speaker 3: the Sunday NFL game, and I had it on my laptop,
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  Speaker 3: but it was in the arena, so I didn't get
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  Speaker 3: a chance to it. Now, Cam, which play was it
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  Speaker 3: that Kansas City ran SARS played? Was it the counter reverse?
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  Speaker 2: It was the seven misdirection snaps, Yeah, Isaiah Bond that
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  Speaker 2: he ran for about forty yards?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that counter reverse play, okay, and.
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  Speaker 2: It was exaper' worthy who actually was who took the
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  Speaker 2: role of Isaiah Bond on that misdirection.
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  Speaker 3: And so he was asked, you know, did that give
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  Speaker 3: him a little bit of pride knowing that Andy Reid
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  Speaker 3: actually copied a Texas play for an NFL game.
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  Speaker 5: I've copied way more plays from Andy, from Andy Reid
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  Speaker 5: than Andy Reid's ever copied from some from Steve Sarkisian.
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  Speaker 5: So they he they do great stuff, you know, and
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  Speaker 5: but hey, we're in this world of now more than
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  Speaker 5: ever on Twitter, and plays are everywhere and diagnosed, and
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  Speaker 5: you know, why did they do this and that? And
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  Speaker 5: you know, for us to have Andy Reid run our
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  Speaker 5: play the first play of the games, hey, that that's
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  Speaker 5: kind of cool. But like I said, man, we've copied
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  Speaker 5: way more plays from Andy Reid than Andy Reid's ever
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  Speaker 5: copied from us.
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  Speaker 4: That's fair to say that.
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  Speaker 3: And then after that, he was asked about tracking his
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  Speaker 3: team tracking to be the number one total defense in
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  Speaker 3: the country and what meaning that might carry.
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  Speaker 1: I love it, you know that.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's a mentality, right, and it's the way
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  Speaker 5: that we go about our business. And I think the
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  Speaker 5: defensive players will probably tell you, and you guys have
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  Speaker 5: to ask them. But I'm very connected to those guys,
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  Speaker 5: I don't, you know, I don't just gravitate to the offense.
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  Speaker 5: And that's easy to do, right and I'm over there,
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  Speaker 5: I'm calling the place and whatnot. But I'm really I
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  Speaker 5: probably have better, you know, to some degree, better relationships
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  Speaker 5: with the defensive players on our team then sometimes the
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  Speaker 5: offensive players because I go overboard to make sure that
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  Speaker 5: I have those relationships. And so to watch those guys
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  Speaker 5: the way they're playing right now, I'm, like I said,
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  Speaker 5: very proud of them, very proud of our coaching staff
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  Speaker 5: of what they're doing. And they're doing it at a
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  Speaker 5: high level. And you know, we talked a lot of
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  Speaker 5: this season going into it about getting the ball back,
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  Speaker 5: and then what they're doing at such a high level
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  Speaker 5: of getting the ball back and taking the ball back
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  Speaker 5: for our offense. They're stopping the run, they're minimizing the
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  Speaker 5: explosive plays, they're getting after the quarterback. They're just doing
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  Speaker 5: a lot of really cool things, and they're doing it
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  Speaker 5: in a way where they're celebrating it with one another,
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  Speaker 5: and that's that's a joy to watch as well.
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