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Texas Depth and Composure after a Bye Week · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred Zone Andrew Zimble filling in
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  Speaker 1: for Craig Way as we roll on in our number
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  Speaker 1: two on a Monday edition of The Craigway Show, Craig
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  Speaker 1: and Cam in Las Vegas for opening night of college basketball.
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  Speaker 1: The men's college basketball season opens in Las Vegas for
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  Speaker 1: the Longhorns as they take on the Ohio State Buckeys.
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  Speaker 1: Pregame begins at Day thirty, tip off at nine right
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  Speaker 1: Steve Sarkisian spoke this morning as the Longhorns exit bye
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  Speaker 1: week number two and enter into a week against the
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  Speaker 1: Florida Gators. Now, this Florida team looked very good defensively
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  Speaker 1: against Georgia this past weekend. We'll start here with Steve
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  Speaker 1: Sarkisian's opening remarks to the media.
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  Speaker 2: You know, buys are always nice to get to get healthy,
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  Speaker 2: get refreshed, get richard charged, to kind of yourself analysis.
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  Speaker 3: But it's also nice to get back to work.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we are a you know, routine oriented operation,
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  Speaker 2: so to get back to work. We know the month
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  Speaker 2: of November for US is one that's going to be challenging.
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  Speaker 2: But as we say around here, the games in November
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  Speaker 2: are the ones you remember. So we got to put
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  Speaker 2: in a lot of work and it starts this Saturday
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  Speaker 2: against the University of Florida, a team that is very talented,
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  Speaker 2: really well coached.
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  Speaker 3: I know a lot of people are gonna look at the.
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  Speaker 2: Record and so on and so forth, but you can
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  Speaker 2: just look at their last three games. You know, they
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  Speaker 2: lose an overtime to Tennessee, they win, and they're beating Georgia.
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  Speaker 2: They got a chance to kick a field goal to
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  Speaker 2: go up late in that ball game within kind of
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  Speaker 2: muff a snap. So they've been playing good football. It's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be a heck of a challenge. And so you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think we got off to a good start today
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  Speaker 2: from a preparation standpoint, but we're gonna need a good
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  Speaker 2: week of work to get ourselves ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: And coach Starkeygen talks about that month of November for Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Here is the last four games and Long Horns SEC
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  Speaker 1: regular season schedule, all played in November. Two home games,
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  Speaker 1: two road games, and it does not get easy. It's
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  Speaker 1: versus Florida, a team that held the Bulldogs to thirty
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  Speaker 1: four points on Saturday, going to Arkansas in a rivalry
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  Speaker 1: game against Kentucky now Kentucky is of the four teams
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  Speaker 1: left on the schedule, feels like the easiest that Longhorns
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  Speaker 1: fans can put a w in the win column, and
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  Speaker 1: then going to Kyle Field to take on the Texas
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  Speaker 1: A and M fight fighting atkes on Thanksgiving weekend, the
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  Speaker 1: last game of the season and a game that potentially
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  Speaker 1: could decide the SEC. No pressure though the month of
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  Speaker 1: November for the long Horns. It does not get any
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  Speaker 1: easier from this point on, so yes games to remember now.
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  Speaker 1: The Florida quarterback situation got very dicey over the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: as a DJ Langwey's prognosis after the game did not
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  Speaker 1: looked very good. The prognosis this morning, however, looks much better.
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  Speaker 1: Florta's quarterback suffered what appeared to be a serious non
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  Speaker 1: contact injury against Georgia in Week ten. Gators head coach
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  Speaker 1: Billy Napier said that he could play as soon as
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  Speaker 1: this week, though against Texas Now Langway came out in
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  Speaker 1: the second half on crutches in street clothes, it looked
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  Speaker 1: like the season potentially could be over for Florida with
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  Speaker 1: that injury. However, if he's able to play this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: that would be huge for the Gators and their chance
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  Speaker 1: to win. But the player who stepped in for Langway
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  Speaker 1: was true walk on Adrian Warner, a freshman transfer from Yale. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: seven of twenty two sixty sixty yards an interception in
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  Speaker 1: the loss, but he looked pretty solid in that recovery.
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  Speaker 1: And then, of course you remember starting quarterback Graham Mertz,
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  Speaker 1: who suffered in acl that ended his collegiate career earlier
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  Speaker 1: this season as well. So the quarterback situation is dicey,
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  Speaker 1: to say the least for for Florida. Steves arccusion was asked,
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  Speaker 1: how do you prepare for the multiple quarterbacks? How do
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  Speaker 1: you prepare to scheme against a quarterback that you might
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  Speaker 1: not know until game time?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think you prepare for the scheme. You know,
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  Speaker 2: coach Napier has been doing it quite a while. You
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  Speaker 2: know it's time at Lafayette and what he's done at Florida.
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  Speaker 2: So they've got a very intricate scheme, a lot of shifts,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of motions, a lot of formation adjustments that
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  Speaker 2: they that'sy tax you with, you know, so I think
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  Speaker 2: that's the first part.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Again, they're a little bit of limbo from a quarterback perspective.
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  Speaker 2: But in the end of the day, I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna run their offense and that's what we got
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  Speaker 2: to prepare for.
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  Speaker 1: And the offense for for Florida this season has done
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  Speaker 1: an okay job of scoring touchdowns. Again in that in
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  Speaker 1: that Georgia game, they looked mediocre in the second half
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  Speaker 1: without their starting a quarterback. Through their last four twenty
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  Speaker 1: four points against UCF and win seventeen and a loss
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  Speaker 1: at Tennessee, a rivalry game. But they put points on
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  Speaker 1: the board against Kentucky and forty eight to twenty win
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  Speaker 1: at home. So this is a team, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: when they get the ball moving, they could potentially score
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  Speaker 1: some points on you. My point has continued to be
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  Speaker 1: though for Longhorn fans who are expecting a high flying
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  Speaker 1: style of offense in this game against Florida, I would
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  Speaker 1: say not so fast. The Florida defense against Georgia played marvelously.
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  Speaker 1: They did a great job against the Bulldogs in preventing
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  Speaker 1: them from getting into their uptap of offense, and they
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  Speaker 1: picked off Carson back twice. I would say that Florida's
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  Speaker 1: defense will be one of the better ones that the
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  Speaker 1: Longhorns have faced so far the season, and they might
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  Speaker 1: be the best defense they face in the month of November. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the Longhorns haven't helped themselves in some situations when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to curbing penalties. You don't want drives to start
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  Speaker 1: further back than they have to, and that you don't
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  Speaker 1: want your drives stalling out due to penalties. So how
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  Speaker 1: does Sarkesian and the coaching staff for Texas going to
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  Speaker 1: curb some of those penalties two.
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  Speaker 2: Weeks in a row, I think there was eighteen penalties
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  Speaker 2: of those two our last two ball games, you know,
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  Speaker 2: some of which you know, we really try to minimize
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  Speaker 2: the pre snap stuff, the stuff, you know, the lining
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  Speaker 2: up off sides, the jumping off sides, and then and
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  Speaker 2: then trying to look at our fundamentals and techniques on
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  Speaker 2: some of the things that happened in play. And I
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  Speaker 2: think we've addressed those things pretty well about you know,
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  Speaker 2: hand placement from the offensive line perspective in the secondary,
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  Speaker 2: getting our head around when we're in phase on the
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  Speaker 2: deep ball.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we've been really good.
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  Speaker 2: As aggressive as we've been of getting after the quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: we've been good about not targeting people and doing those
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  Speaker 2: types of things. So we just got to get back
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  Speaker 2: to our fundamentals, are our beliefs and how we go
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  Speaker 2: about our business, and I think will be okay.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting that he talks about the offensive line. The
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  Speaker 1: line so far for Texas has done a good job
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  Speaker 1: of opening up holes the Texas running back room before
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  Speaker 1: where the season was one of those specialty positions that
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  Speaker 1: many across the country thought of as the best in
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  Speaker 1: the SEC. They thought the running back room for Texas
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  Speaker 1: could be the thing that really gets the ball rolling. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: due to injuries, it has been a kind of revolving
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  Speaker 1: door of who is going to be the starting running
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  Speaker 1: back and can Jayden Blue play and can he not play?
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  Speaker 1: And what does the reps look like. This has been
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  Speaker 1: a real deal breaker for the Longhorns is the fact
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  Speaker 1: that the offensive line has been so good but still
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  Speaker 1: suffers from some of those holding penalties that stall out drives.
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  Speaker 1: But speaking of targeting, Vernon BroadOn he got a targeting
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  Speaker 1: call against Vanderbilt and now he's gonna have to sit
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  Speaker 1: out the first half of the Florida game this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: and the question was asked, how do you practice like that?
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  Speaker 1: Do you give Broaden normal reps or do you kind
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  Speaker 1: of sit the reps? How do you work that? Sarkisian
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  Speaker 1: had a very I thought insightful answer.
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  Speaker 2: I think about that all the time. I know that,
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  Speaker 2: and You're like, why would you think about it? Because
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  Speaker 2: it stills on your mind. You're like, Okay, how do
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  Speaker 2: you do it? But yeah, Vernon's practicing as normal, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a great opportunity. Jermaine Lay has really
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  Speaker 2: come on here in the last month of the season,
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  Speaker 2: and so we've been impressed with him. Bill Norton has
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  Speaker 2: stepped up, Alex Januaries continue to step up.
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  Speaker 3: Tia Savella. We're gonna need more out of him.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, the last two weeks, I think Sadier's
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  Speaker 2: had his best two weeks since he's been here. So
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna need these guys. They're all gonna have to
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  Speaker 2: step up that way. And so again, and Florida is
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  Speaker 2: a really good running football team. That's what they believe in,
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  Speaker 2: and so we got to be able to stop the
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  Speaker 2: run in this game.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna need all those guys to step up.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be big for the offense or correction for
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  Speaker 1: the defense to step up in this game. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: Longhorns have had a lot of players on the defensive
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  Speaker 1: side of the ball do their job well, one of
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  Speaker 1: those being Anthy Hill. But it's not only Hill who
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  Speaker 1: has been stepping up. It's guys like uh Lea Leah
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  Speaker 1: for who has really helped him this season. Sarkisian was
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  Speaker 1: asked about his linebacker duo.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think there's a level of versatility right to
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  Speaker 2: to what Leonga brings. You know, he can play multiple positions,
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  Speaker 2: He is extremely bright, He communicates well with Anthony.
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  Speaker 3: I think Anthony trusts him that way to go do that.
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  Speaker 2: But on the flip side, I'll say this about David
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  Speaker 2: in the production that David has now maybe with some
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  Speaker 2: limited reps, but when he goes in, his production has
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  Speaker 2: been really high. And so I think it's been a
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  Speaker 2: win on both lends for us. And you know, I
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  Speaker 2: think it's been a good move and it was a
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  Speaker 2: nice adjustment by our defensive staff to do so. And
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  Speaker 2: I think all three of those guys are benefiting from that.
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  Speaker 1: Now, a big thing that this longhornant team benefits from
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  Speaker 1: this week is coming off a buy. Now a lot
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  Speaker 1: of coaches struggle with figuring out how do you mix
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  Speaker 1: in a buy, how do you give your guys some
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  Speaker 1: little bit of time off but at the same time
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  Speaker 1: instilled game plans and keep moving towards the Lsman goal,
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  Speaker 1: which of course is go one to know every week
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  Speaker 1: and then hopefully win an SEC championship and then later
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  Speaker 1: down the road a national championship. But the way that
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  Speaker 1: Sarkesian in this group has regrouped after the bye week
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  Speaker 1: one was looking good. Now bye week number two. The
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  Speaker 1: question becomes, do you do anything different? Are you happy
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  Speaker 1: with the preparation? What is the first or what's the
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  Speaker 1: difference between the first bye week and then now the
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  Speaker 1: second bye week?
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  Speaker 3: For this Longhorned team, not a whole.
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  Speaker 2: Lot changed from a format standpoint. I think naturally the
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  Speaker 2: second bye you hold some guys a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: who just are a little bit more nicked up. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I've been impressed with a lot of our young players.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Kobe Black continues to make strides. I think
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  Speaker 2: Jared Gibson, you know, showed us a lot last week. Again,
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  Speaker 2: you know that both young safeties. You know, Jordan Johnson,
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  Speaker 2: Rebel and Xavier both are kind of on the come.
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  Speaker 2: And so the good part is it's not always just
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  Speaker 2: about on offense and deference. It's finding roles for them
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  Speaker 2: on special teams as well.
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  Speaker 3: And so you know, a lot of those guys have
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  Speaker 3: shown me a lot. I'll say this.
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  Speaker 2: I think Sadir Mitchell the last two weeks has had
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  Speaker 2: his two best weeks of work here in quite some time.
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  Speaker 2: So that stuff's encouraging to me that we've got a
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  Speaker 2: group of players that are continuing to push one another
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  Speaker 2: and push themselves to be the best they can be,
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  Speaker 2: because that's how our team is going to become really good.
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  Speaker 2: And like I said last week, we're not a finished product.
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  Speaker 2: I think our best football still ahead of us. And
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  Speaker 2: we're going to need all these guys. I don't know when,
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  Speaker 2: but we're gonna need them all. So we've got to
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  Speaker 2: keep coaching them to be the best they can be.
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  Speaker 1: Which is important to think about that you don't want
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  Speaker 1: your best game is played in the months of September
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  Speaker 1: and October. You want your best games played in November,
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  Speaker 1: December and then down the road into January. Now there
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  Speaker 1: was updates on the injuries to Isaiah Bond and Andrew
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  Speaker 1: mccubo and how those two players have been kind of
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  Speaker 1: working their way back in after a bye week. Sarkisian
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  Speaker 1: was asked about where mccubo and Bond are.
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  Speaker 2: Both those guys practice today which was really coouraging and
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  Speaker 2: they both, you know, look pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: Again.
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  Speaker 2: It's a Monday of a game week, and and so
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  Speaker 2: how do they respond each day? I think is important
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  Speaker 2: for Drew and and Isaiah, but today was a good start.
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  Speaker 2: And I think for us as a team. You know,
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  Speaker 2: our mojo offensively is one thing I want to get back.
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  Speaker 2: You know, our our our, whether you want to call
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  Speaker 2: it our our sense of urgency, our intent, the way
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  Speaker 2: we go about our business. You know, we've got a
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  Speaker 2: talented group of guys that are very competitive, They're tough,
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  Speaker 2: they work really hard, they want to play well. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: you can overtry, if that makes sense. And and to me,
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  Speaker 2: that gets back into your mojo, that gets back into
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  Speaker 2: our swagger a little bit, and I want to I
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  Speaker 2: want to try to recreate that with the guys because
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  Speaker 2: I know what we're capable of and if we can
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  Speaker 2: get that clicking to go along with what we're doing
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  Speaker 2: defensively and special teams wise, that would be a huge bonus.
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  Speaker 1: Long Words play this Saturday eleven am at home against
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  Speaker 1: the Florida Gators. That game kicks off at eleven am.
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  Speaker 1: Pregame show network starts at ten. Longhorn Game Day early morning.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna make sure you get your coffee for that one
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  Speaker 1: eight am for Longhorn Game Day with Cameron Parker, Mike Harball,
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  Speaker 1: Harsh and of course the world's strongest man, Mark Henry.
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  Speaker 1: keep the Craig Ways Show rolling as our two continues,
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  Speaker 1: Gonna go over some of the big wins and loses,
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  Speaker 1: big wins and losses over the weekend for NFL teams.
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  Speaker 1: Are the Detroit Lions for real? Are they now the
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  Speaker 1: team to beat in the NFC? And are we expecting
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  Speaker 1: them to match up against the Kandidacy Chiefs in February.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have that next on the Craig Waite Show. Andrews
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  Speaker 1: and Will filling in for Craig Way on Sports Radio
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