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Texas State Football Preview, Longhorn Linebackers Talk Muschamp, Cowboys Roster Notes · The Craig Way Show

• 0:02
  Speaker 1: Okay, it is officially hum day.
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  Speaker 2: It is a yacht rock Wednesday, and we are three
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: days to kick off of the 2026 college football season
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  Speaker 2: for the Texas Longhorns.
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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the program here on Sports Radio AM 1300,
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  Speaker 2: The Zone, and where you can always listen to us
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  Speaker 2: for free on the iHeartRadio app. My name is Craig White.
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: Glad to have you with us. We're with you each
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  Speaker 2: and every weekday afternoon from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: And as we get over the hump here, hopefully we
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  Speaker 2: can help you do that. And is this the point,
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  Speaker 2: as I bring in the producer, Jay Kermit, is this
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  Speaker 2: the point where we say, You know people who start
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  Speaker 2: their work week on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: Is that today?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 2: So I hope your work week gets off to a
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  Speaker 2: good start. For those of you who are at the
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  Speaker 2: end of your work week that have Thursday and Friday off,
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  Speaker 2: and I know several people in that department, good on you.
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  Speaker 2: Good for you. And I hope you enjoy the next
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  Speaker 2: couple of days. And for the rest of us, right,
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  Speaker 2: just trying to get over the hump. So hopefully we
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  Speaker 2: can help you do that. As I mentioned, it's a
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  Speaker 2: Yacht Rock Wednesday, so you'll hear some return cuts from
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  Speaker 2: some Yacht Rock. We're going to hear some we've not
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  Speaker 2: heard before on this program. One will absolutely shock you
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  Speaker 2: that it's not been on this program.
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  Speaker 3: Will it shock me that it's classified as Yacht Rock?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: So that's why we haven't heard it yet.
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  Speaker 2: It's 1000% Yacht Rock. But for some reason, it just
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  Speaker 2: fell through the cracks.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So you'll hear it.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, among the things that we're going to do,
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  Speaker 2: we're about to hear from Brian Schottenheimer, the Cowboys head coach.
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  Speaker 2: We'll hear from him throughout the course of the program.
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  Speaker 2: We'll hear from Longhorn players, again, more from Connor Robertson,
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  Speaker 2: the Texas center. We'll hear from Justin Cryer, Juice, as
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  Speaker 2: they call him, the Longhorn transfer linebacker from Florida State.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll also hear from Raheem Biles, speaking of linebackers.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll hear from him as well, a couple of
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  Speaker 2: linebackers on that. We do have Inconceivable this hour as well.
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  Speaker 2: Also coming up here in just a few minutes, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to bring to you As I mentioned yesterday on
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  Speaker 2: the program, I like to have the opposing team, the
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  Speaker 2: Longhorns opponents, play-by-play voice.
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  Speaker 1: On with us. And we'll have that.
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  Speaker 2: It's a little bit of a complicated or convoluted answer,
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  Speaker 2: but we'll introduce you to it, the concept that's coming up.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to do that coming up in a
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  Speaker 2: few minutes. But I want to jump right in with
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  Speaker 2: the Cowboys. this has become kind of a thing I've
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  Speaker 2: noticed on social media since the roster cut down to 53.
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  Speaker 2: The highest profile name on that list has been Joe Milton,
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  Speaker 2: who many people thought was, had earned the backup quarterback spot.
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  Speaker 2: Now he was released and Sam, how was the third
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  Speaker 2: guy or the second guy now? And so folks have asked,
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  Speaker 2: you know, is he, Was it a money thing because there's, what, $ 2. 5
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  Speaker 2: million guaranteed to Howell? Was it just the output? Because
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  Speaker 2: Milton had the better numbers, for sure, throughout camp. And
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  Speaker 2: I saw a debate yesterday between a blogger, a Cowboys blogger, and.
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  Speaker 1: Brad Cham, the voice of the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 2: He said, why does it have to be a situation,
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  Speaker 2: as the guy put it, Brad said, what is it?
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  Speaker 2: The coach preferred one quarterback over the other. And it
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  Speaker 2: goes into more than just what they did in those
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  Speaker 2: preseason games against backup defenses. It also had to do
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  Speaker 2: with what they saw in practice, what they liked better.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, at.
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  Speaker 2: The press conference yesterday, Brian Chondheimer was asked, is he
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  Speaker 2: open to bringing Milton back now that he's cleared waivers?
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  Speaker 2: Nobody picked him up. So would he be open to
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  Speaker 2: bringing him back?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 6: Um, yeah, we told you guys, I told you guys yesterday,
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  Speaker 6: you know, these things move fast and, um, it was
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  Speaker 6: a very, very hard decision to make. Um, great conversation
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  Speaker 6: with Joe explained to him, uh, our thought process behind it.
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  Speaker 1: Um, I think when we looked at the.
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  Speaker 6: Whole body of work, you know, we just felt like, um,
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  Speaker 6: Sam had done a little bit more and just in
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  Speaker 6: terms of, you know, executing the offense, uh, in certain
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  Speaker 6: areas and, uh, To have Joe Milton back would be incredible.
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  Speaker 6: We'll see what happens with the claims and then see
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  Speaker 6: what he wants to do. I think we've shown that
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  Speaker 6: we know how to develop him. I think him being
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  Speaker 6: in this system for another year would be amazing. But
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  Speaker 6: I also know that he should have choices. And so
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  Speaker 6: we'll see what happens. But in terms of wanting him back, absolutely.
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  Speaker 7: As talented as he is, did you guys get calls
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  Speaker 7: about possibly trying to trade him?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not going to get into some of the specifics.
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  Speaker 6: He's obviously a very talented person, Calvin, so you can imagine.
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  Speaker 6: Those things don't always come through, but there was definitely
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  Speaker 6: people interested in Joe, so we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: And while we're still on the subject of Joe Milton,
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  Speaker 2: what would be the upside of having him back with
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  Speaker 2: this team in camp?
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  Speaker 6: And I'm going to say the upside, I'm not going
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  Speaker 6: to say you put him into a box of what
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  Speaker 6: he could be, but the arm talent's real. I think
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  Speaker 6: we've talked a lot in here, Clarence, about the touch
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  Speaker 6: and how he's developed the touch. I do know that
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  Speaker 6: he did a much better job with our system. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: this is what guys that come from the– that spread
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  Speaker 6: system have to deal with, you know, in terms of
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  Speaker 6: the learning curve of coming in and, you know, having
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  Speaker 6: to learn how to huddle and call a play in
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  Speaker 6: the huddle and make different decisions. And it's not all
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  Speaker 6: done from hand signals in the sidelines and things like that.
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  Speaker 6: And some of them, it takes a little bit of time.
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  Speaker 6: So again, I think Joe's going to be a terrific
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  Speaker 6: player in this league. I'm not going to say in
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  Speaker 6: what regard, but like I said, it was a very
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  Speaker 6: tough decision. One we did not take lightly. And, you know,
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  Speaker 6: if we can get him back, awesome. If not, I
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  Speaker 6: wish him nothing but the best of luck. He's a
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  Speaker 6: terrific young man. He worked really, really hard to get better. And,
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  Speaker 6: you know, I think he has a very bright future.
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  Speaker 2: So if Joe Milton is not with the team, if
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  Speaker 2: they don't pick him up, obviously Sam Howell is the
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  Speaker 2: backup now.
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  Speaker 1: He's the number two.
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  Speaker 2: And since those preseason numbers in the preseason games were,
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  Speaker 2: favored Milton. What tipped the scales in Brian Schottenheimer's mind
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  Speaker 2: for making Howell QB2?
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  Speaker 1: No, we were debating it.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, you guys were digging yesterday and I get that.
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  Speaker 6: And we really were, you know, I left here and
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  Speaker 6: we went and had to finalize some things pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 1: But, you know, it was back and forth.
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  Speaker 6: But, you know, you know, Sam is a guy that
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  Speaker 6: just at the end of the day, he's got a
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  Speaker 6: great feel for what we're trying to do. And some
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  Speaker 6: of the, you know, The way he played against New
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  Speaker 6: Orleans really was good, and he bounced back. But this
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  Speaker 6: was a great battle between two great competitors. Like I said,
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  Speaker 6: I'm giving compliments to both of them. They both wanted
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  Speaker 6: the job. I know some teams are carrying four quarterbacks
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  Speaker 6: right now. That's not going to.
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  Speaker 1: Be the case.
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  Speaker 6: But at the end of the day, we just felt like,
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  Speaker 6: Making this decision now was in the best interest of
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  Speaker 6: our football team, giving us clarity. And Sam has done
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  Speaker 6: an awesome job of learning the system. Both Dak and
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  Speaker 6: Joe were ahead of him when he got here because
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  Speaker 6: they were here last year. But his... His understanding and
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  Speaker 6: grasp of the playbook is really, really good, and he's
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  Speaker 6: got great field vision. That's one of the best things
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  Speaker 6: that jumps off the film is he understands where everybody
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  Speaker 6: is and how it affects spacing and things like that,
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  Speaker 6: and that's why he's able to play pretty quick through progressions.
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  Speaker 2: So while we're still on the subject of backup quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 2: he was asked, has his quarterback room philosophy changed now
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  Speaker 2: since he kept Howell?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I think you always want to have a guy, uh,
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  Speaker 6: it's a young guy that you're developing. It takes time
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  Speaker 6: to develop quarterbacks. I think, uh, you know, at the
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  Speaker 6: end of the day, when you construct rosters and you
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  Speaker 6: have the limitations that you have with the 53 man roster,
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  Speaker 6: it's hard.
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  Speaker 1: There are new rules kind of make.
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  Speaker 6: It to where it's like, you know, what's the point?
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  Speaker 6: You know, I get, you're going to protect guys and
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  Speaker 6: there's maneuvers and trades and things like that. But, um,
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  Speaker 6: the answer to your question is, you know, you'd always
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  Speaker 6: like to have a young guy and Again, Sam's not old.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if Joe comes back, he's not old. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think we've made it very.
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  Speaker 6: Clear when you're pursuing championships and we want to win now,
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  Speaker 6: we're trying to build the best team possible. And we
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  Speaker 6: felt like carrying two quarterbacks was the best way for
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  Speaker 6: us to strengthen our roster.
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  Speaker 2: And one more about this quarterback thing.
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  Speaker 1: Is it?
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  Speaker 2: Does he always just want to carry two on the
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  Speaker 2: active roster now remember they could resign Milton he could
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  Speaker 2: be on the practice squad they could have another practice
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  Speaker 2: squad quarterback they pick up you know they can do
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  Speaker 2: what do pretty much what you want with the practice
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  Speaker 2: squad but with regard to the active 53 man roster
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  Speaker 2: does shotty always want to just carry two quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah again I I can't remember the last time you
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  Speaker 6: know I've been a part of carrying three I know
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  Speaker 6: it does happen um but you know, it's a physical
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  Speaker 6: game and, you know, when you're in this thing for
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  Speaker 6: the long haul, like we are, it does come into consideration. And, um,
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  Speaker 6: you know, it's just, it's, it's what you have to decide.
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  Speaker 6: And so do you want an extra safety? Do you
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  Speaker 6: want an extra pass rusher? Do you want an extra receiver?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 6: And so, um, those are all hotly debated, you know,
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  Speaker 6: conversations that we have with, you know, Jerry and Steven
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  Speaker 6: and Will and myself. And, um, I feel great about
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  Speaker 6: our roster, but certainly there were some tough decisions made.
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  Speaker 2: We'll hear some more from Brian Schottenheimer. throughout the course
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  Speaker 2: of the program this afternoon and as I mentioned we'll
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  Speaker 2: hear from Longhorn players as well. We have some other
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  Speaker 2: college football notes to get to we'll do that but
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  Speaker 2: coming up like I said we'll, and I don't mean
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  Speaker 2: for it to sound so secretive and cloak and dagger
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  Speaker 2: and all this, but it's a pretty unique situation with
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  Speaker 2: what Texas State is going to do with its play-by-play situation.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll just leave it at that and we'll introduce
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  Speaker 2: you to, you know, what the concept is coming up.
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  Speaker 1: We'll do that.
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  Speaker 2: And obviously within the framework and the context of that,
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  Speaker 2: we'll get some perspective on what G.J. Kinney's team will
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  Speaker 2: look like, the team that he will bring in to
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  Speaker 2: DKR Texas Memorial Stadium Saturday afternoon for that 2.30 kickoff.
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  Speaker 2: And again, our coverage will begin at 10.30 Saturday morning
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  Speaker 2: with the 3rd and Longhorn podcast guys. They're pre-game. from
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  Speaker 2: 1030 to 1130. Our Longhorn game day program comes your
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  Speaker 2: way from the Winship area down there on Bevo Boulevard.
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  Speaker 2: That'll be at 1130 with Mike Hardball-Harge, Mark Henry, and
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  Speaker 2: our own Jake Herman as well. That'll be at 1130.
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  Speaker 2: The network pregame at 130 and the kickoff is at
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  Speaker 2: 230 as this thing finally, finally gets underway.
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  Speaker 1: We're down to three days left.
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  Speaker 2: I had a little bit of selective, not selective, accidental
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  Speaker 2: amnesia about numbers. Our good friend on X, on Twitter, CB,
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  Speaker 2: has been doing this countdown. He's been doing it for
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  Speaker 2: several years where he puts down how many days left.
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  Speaker 2: And there's usually a highlight of the, like say, 21
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  Speaker 2: days to kick off. And he might have a highlight
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  Speaker 2: of Ryan Niblett with a punt return or a touchdown
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  Speaker 2: from last year with our call on it. And that's
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  Speaker 2: always very nice of him to do it. So today
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  Speaker 2: was three. And when I woke up this morning, I thought,
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  Speaker 2: three days?
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  Speaker 1: Three days. Who's he going to go with? Garrett Gilbert?
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me, Quinn Ewers? Yeah, here with his hand raised.
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  Speaker 2: Totally just, I just blanked for a moment. And sure enough,
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  Speaker 2: I thought, well, if there's one Quinn Ewers highlight above all, it's,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the fourth and 13 touchdown pass in the
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  Speaker 2: Peach Bowl to Matthew Golden to keep the season alive
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  Speaker 2: and enable the Longhorns to win the thing in double overtime.
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  Speaker 2: So I momentarily blanked out. happens when I'm, you know,
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  Speaker 2: clogged up with things, just trying to prepare for the
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  Speaker 2: first game of the season.
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  Speaker 1: But yes, it is Quinn Ewer's days until kickoff, three days.
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  Speaker 2: All right, coming up, we'll talk about this opponent, Texas State,
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  Speaker 2: when we continue on Sports Radio AM 13 Under the
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  Speaker 2: Zone and where you always listen to us.
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  Speaker 1: For free on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 5: She says, what? I said, Texas. She says, what?
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  Speaker 8: They got a big, long road.
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  Speaker 1: I got a lot of things in Texas.
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  Speaker 2: The late, great Chris Ray with his song, Texas. Which,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, used to be the actual network identifier
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  Speaker 2: for the stations down the line. They'd be playing this
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  Speaker 2: and going, you're on line for Texas Longhorns football this afternoon.
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  Speaker 8: And it would just.
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  Speaker 2: on a continuous loot until they got to airtime on that.
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  Speaker 2: It is a yacht rock Wednesday and it does belong
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  Speaker 2: in that category.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Toward the end of talking about Texas, of course, the
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  Speaker 2: season opener is on Saturday, three days hence, as they'll
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  Speaker 2: take on the Texas state Bobcats. The last time they
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  Speaker 2: played was 1930 when it was Southwest Texas state teachers college.
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  Speaker 2: Texas won that contest 36 to nothing. Now, As I mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: I always endeavor and have been able to really establish
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  Speaker 2: some relationships with play-by-play guys for teams that the Longhorns
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  Speaker 2: have played through the years, and they become good friends.
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  Speaker 2: And this is no different today. It is, however, a
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  Speaker 2: rather unique set of circumstances. And rather me try to
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  Speaker 2: explain it, I'll let the play-by-play voices of Texas State.
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  Speaker 1: Spell it out for you.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, Brant Freeman, who has worked for the
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  Speaker 2: university and has for years and has done their, did
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  Speaker 2: the radio play-by-play, then their ESPN Plus, and now back
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  Speaker 2: on the radio side as well. It's great to see
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  Speaker 2: you again, Brant, and I know you're excited about a
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  Speaker 2: new football season.
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  Speaker 9: I really am, Craig.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, this is, you know, an exciting time around Texas State,
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  Speaker 10: certainly with the way the program has ascended over the
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  Speaker 10: past several years, and now being members of the Pac-12 Conference,
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  Speaker 10: and You know, very, very excited to be covering the
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  Speaker 10: team here in.
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  Speaker 9: The 26th season.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. All right.
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  Speaker 2: That tells part of the story. Now, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: let you guys tell the story. And I say guys
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  Speaker 2: because you see if folks are watching there on YouTube,
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  Speaker 2: they would see it. But for those of you listening,
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  Speaker 2: the other member of this Texas State football broadcast pairing
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  Speaker 2: is none other than our own Cameron Parker. And it's
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  Speaker 2: a rather unique situation. So, Cam, would you care to
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  Speaker 2: explain a little bit about this, how this thing is
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  Speaker 2: going to work? And I'll get both of your thoughts
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  Speaker 2: on this. Because this is not your everyday run-of-the-mill, this
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  Speaker 2: guy does the play-by-play and this guy is the analyst
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  Speaker 2: and this guy is the sideline reporter like most programs,
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  Speaker 2: including Texas, have right now.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a rather unique situation. 100%.
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  Speaker 11: It's a situation that you might see, I think, in
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  Speaker 11: Major League Baseball, in some college baseball teams where you
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  Speaker 11: might have an announcer who will call play-by-play for usually
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  Speaker 11: the first three innings or four, and then the analyst
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  Speaker 11: will swap chairs, so to speak, and then they're on
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  Speaker 11: for innings four, five, and six, and then back to
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  Speaker 11: the play-by-play guy who did the first three innings to
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  Speaker 11: close out the broadcasts.
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  Speaker 1: Different broadcast teams have we'll handle it differently.
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  Speaker 11: The idea came to me, or not came to me,
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  Speaker 11: but the idea was proposed to me, I don't know, Brant,
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  Speaker 11: probably about, maybe about two or three weeks ago. Like, hey,
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  Speaker 11: what do you think about working with Brant, but you
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  Speaker 11: both do play-by-play? And it's an idea that I, you know,
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  Speaker 11: hadn't really heard for in football ever before. But, you know, Craig,
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  Speaker 11: I picked your brain, and Brant, we talked about it,
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  Speaker 11: and we came up with, I think, a plan that's
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  Speaker 11: going to work very well throughout the season, where depending
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  Speaker 11: on the game, We'll have one broadcaster do the first
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  Speaker 11: and fourth quarter and the other one do the second
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  Speaker 11: and third quarter. And I think it's a great way
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  Speaker 11: for Texas State and for this new broadcast team to
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  Speaker 11: kind of get acquainted with the Bobcat community. Obviously, Brant
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  Speaker 11: has been in San Marcos for a long time. They
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  Speaker 11: know him very well. But for me to come into
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  Speaker 11: the situation as well, I think it's a great way. And,
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  Speaker 11: of course, we start tonight. with the Coaches Show, our
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  Speaker 11: first Coaches Show of the season at Chimney's down in
• 17:01
  Speaker 11: San Marcos. So any Bobcat fans or even Texas fans
• 17:05
  Speaker 11: who are nearby, come out. Six o'clock is the first show,
• 17:09
  Speaker 11: but I'm excited for it, Brent. I'm not sure how.
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  Speaker 11: If you've even seen or heard of any crews like
• 17:17
  Speaker 11: this before, but I definitely think we might be the
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  Speaker 11: first for college football.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Brant, before you answer this, I want to
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  Speaker 2: make sure folks understand this because Cameron's being kind of
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: modest about this.
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  Speaker 1: The way that I.
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  Speaker 2: Understood it was there was an opening for the play-by-play
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: broadcaster and an analyst, and they had all of these
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: candidates apply.
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  Speaker 1: For both spots.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: And in the end, whether it's the university and or
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Learfield or a combination or however it worked out, the
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: decision was made that the two best broadcasters to come
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: out of all of these candidates were you two guys.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: And so then they were like, let's just go with
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: our two best broadcasters and let them do it.
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  Speaker 1: Is that kind of the way you understand it?
• 18:01
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I think that's probably a safe assumption, Craig. And,
• 18:07
  Speaker 10: you know, I joke that, you know, as you pointed out,
• 18:10
  Speaker 10: I was the radio broadcaster for the football team for
• 18:12
  Speaker 10: a number of years before going over to the TV side.
• 18:14
  Speaker 10: And Learfield must have been so impressed with my radio play-by-play,
• 18:18
  Speaker 10: they wanted me to do it half the time.
• 18:21
  Speaker 9: So, no, but I joke.
• 18:24
  Speaker 10: I do want to point out, you know, kind of
• 18:27
  Speaker 10: the circumstances behind all this. So when I moved over
• 18:30
  Speaker 10: to the television side, we then had a new radio
• 18:33
  Speaker 10: broadcast team, Clint Shields, play-by-play.
• 18:35
  Speaker 9: Jeff Gandy, analyst.
• 18:37
  Speaker 10: Jeff was a player in the Big 12 back then,
• 18:41
  Speaker 10: the Southwest Conference with Baylor. He was the Mike linebacker
• 18:44
  Speaker 10: that took over after Mike Singletary. So, well, Jeff is
• 18:50
  Speaker 10: now with Baylor. Your good friend, our good friend, John Morris,
• 18:53
  Speaker 10: reached out to him. They had an opening for radio
• 18:56
  Speaker 10: analyst and Jeff being a former player, it was a
• 18:59
  Speaker 10: good fit. So he went on to Waco and I
• 19:02
  Speaker 10: couldn't be happier for him. I was a part of
• 19:05
  Speaker 10: Jeff getting into the business, using him for some high
• 19:07
  Speaker 10: school games, and he just continued to get better and better.
• 19:10
  Speaker 10: So I'm very happy for Jeff. For Clint, there's a
• 19:13
  Speaker 10: lot of personal issues regarding family, leading to the reason
• 19:17
  Speaker 10: why he had to kind of step away. So definitely
• 19:20
  Speaker 10: a lot of thoughts right now with Clint for he
• 19:23
  Speaker 10: and his family, and that'll be the case throughout the season.
• 19:27
  Speaker 10: And for me on the TV side, it was really
• 19:31
  Speaker 10: enjoyable over the past seven, eight seasons doing television. Um,
• 19:35
  Speaker 10: but that was with, uh, Texas state's ESPN contract partnership
• 19:39
  Speaker 10: with the Sunbelt. And that partnership does not exist with
• 19:42
  Speaker 10: the PAC 12, the linear net national networks taking over
• 19:45
  Speaker 10: all the football. Um, and so I was no longer
• 19:47
  Speaker 10: going to be calling football on television. So it, made
• 19:50
  Speaker 10: me available once again to do radio. And, you know,
• 19:53
  Speaker 10: the fact that things, the way that they happen, couldn't
• 19:55
  Speaker 10: be happier than to be jumping back into the booth. And,
• 19:59
  Speaker 10: you know, I've had Cameron actually fill in for me
• 20:01
  Speaker 10: before at Texas State on the television side. I know
• 20:04
  Speaker 10: him through you, Craig. And so I'm looking forward to
• 20:08
  Speaker 10: working with Cameron. I think this is going to be,
• 20:09
  Speaker 10: it's a unique, you know, situation, but I think it's
• 20:11
  Speaker 10: going to be a lot of fun.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Well, and just to add on to what Brant was saying,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: you know, Jeff Gandy goes to Baylor, of course, the
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: tragic passing of JJ Joe, John Morris color analyst, a
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: season ago.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: So Gandy is over there with that.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: And then, as you mentioned, Clint having to deal with
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: some family things. And so it opened up both spots
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: on this deal. And as to the rotation, because folks
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: would say, will it work like baseball? Cameron actually asked me,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: He said, have you ever done a deal? And I said,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: I actually have. One time, this would have been the
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: 1991 1A State Football Championship of Texas. High school games
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: at Pennington Field in Bedford. I got called in at
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: the last moment along with a guy that both of
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: you guys know, Chuck Kelly, to ask to provide a
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: broadcast back to Crockett, the radio station in Crockett, who
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: was doing Oakwood. Oakwood was playing Memphis. Well, they had
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: not broadcast Oakwood all season long. They'd done Crockett and
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: a couple other schools. Here's Oakwood in the state championship.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: They had nobody available to go. It was right before Christmas.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: And I had a guy from the Crockett radio station
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: contact me and said, would you or would somebody do it?
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: And I said, let me just check, whatever. And so
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: I checked. And so they said, you know, I didn't
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: have an analyst I could work with, but Chuck had
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: done it before. And we said, okay, well, we'll do it.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: And we said, why don't we just split the play-by-play?
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: And then Chuck said, how are you doing? I said,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: why don't I just do first and fourth and you
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: do second and third? It worked out great. We had
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: a sideline reporter. Everything went really, really well. That was
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: my only experience with that. So that's what I communicated
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: to Cameron about that. And I think a big part
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: of all this is less about who's actually calling the
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: play in the moment. Because a lot of folks used
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: to tell me that when Bill Schoening and I were
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: doing the games, he said, We didn't, who actually did
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: the play by plays? Well, Bill did the play by plays.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: And when you guys had broadcast rapport. And so the
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: conversation worked well. And I think that's going to be
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: the same for both of you guys, because as you mentioned, Brent,
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: you've known Cameron a long time and, and, and.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: You're both professionals. And I think this thing will work
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: out fine.
• 22:19
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I agree.
• 22:20
  Speaker 10: You know, um, I think that, uh, you know, the, the,
• 22:23
  Speaker 10: the two of us, um, uh, work well together. I mean,
• 22:27
  Speaker 10: we haven't been on the air yet, but, uh, you know, we,
• 22:29
  Speaker 10: Cameron and I've had a lot of conversations about this
• 22:32
  Speaker 10: and we're both going in, you know, um, uh, with, uh,
• 22:37
  Speaker 10: you know, um, open arms. Uh, I had a chance
• 22:40
  Speaker 10: to actually to invite Cameron to a, um, kickoff event
• 22:44
  Speaker 10: for Texas state and had a chance to introduce him
• 22:46
  Speaker 10: to the coaching staff, some of the, uh, administration, maybe
• 22:50
  Speaker 10: even some of the players, uh, Um, funny enough, uh,
• 22:53
  Speaker 10: one of our assistant coaches, uh, he and Cameron look
• 22:56
  Speaker 10: exactly alike.
• 22:57
  Speaker 9: So they kind of joked about having the same barber.
• 22:59
  Speaker 10: Um, so, uh, yeah, I can already tell that the
• 23:02
  Speaker 10: chemistry is going to be there. Um, you know, we've
• 23:05
  Speaker 10: been on the same page on a lot of things
• 23:07
  Speaker 10: and You're right. It's a unique set of circumstances. But
• 23:11
  Speaker 10: you know what? Like, why not break some barriers here?
• 23:13
  Speaker 10: And maybe this will become a thing.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Who knows? Yeah. Okay. All right.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: So, Brant Freeman and Cameron Parker, the play-by-play voices and
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: analyst voices, because they're going to do both. And I've
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: had people say, well, how do you shift from one
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: to the other? Hey, you're looking at the same game. So, Cameron,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: I know you're looking at the same game. And like
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: you said, one guy actually calls the play, but the
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: other guy is seeing what's going on.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: And then he talks about it.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: And, you know, the who, what, when, and where described
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: by the play-by-play guy. And then the analyst is the why.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: And you tell how it happens. And you go back
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: and redo it all again. He just happened to change
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: out at the next quarter.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: And honestly, you know, when I was thinking about the idea.
• 23:56
  Speaker 11: I thought about your broadcast booth, you and Roger Wallace,
• 23:59
  Speaker 11: where of course you are the play-by-play broadcaster and Roger
• 24:02
  Speaker 11: Wallace is the analyst, but he wasn't a former player.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: At least I don't think so. Roger may have played
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: some peewee football.
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: No, he didn't. He didn't.
• 24:10
  Speaker 11: But he's done play-by-play, obviously. I think he's filled in
• 24:13
  Speaker 11: for you once on the football side, but of course
• 24:15
  Speaker 11: calls men's and women's basketball, baseball as well. So he's
• 24:18
  Speaker 11: not your Tony Romo type analyst, right? Where He's seen
• 24:23
  Speaker 11: the game, but he is providing an analyst role, even
• 24:27
  Speaker 11: though he is not a traditional analyst broadcaster. So, you know,
• 24:31
  Speaker 11: I thought about your guys' broadcast booth and thought, okay,
• 24:34
  Speaker 11: it's not all that different.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Different from what we're going.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: To end up doing that's correct yeah that's correct that's
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: why I think the thing is going to work fine
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: uh so uh as we as we talk about this
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: matchup now we'll shift to the game here uh Brant
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: let me get you to give kind of an overview
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: of what you're seeing what you've seen in practice for
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: what G.J.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Kinney plans to have on the field on Saturday Well,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: for those.
• 24:58
  Speaker 10: That have followed the program since G.J. Kennedy took over,
• 25:00
  Speaker 10: you know, it's been a lot about the offense.
• 25:03
  Speaker 8: G.J.
• 25:03
  Speaker 9: Has an offensive background, as we all know.
• 25:06
  Speaker 10: As you know, Craig, former Texas high school football quarterback, Gilmer, and,
• 25:13
  Speaker 10: you know, went on to play at the University of Tulsa,
• 25:15
  Speaker 10: did spend a little bit of time at the University
• 25:17
  Speaker 10: of Texas before going to Tulsa. And so he's carried
• 25:20
  Speaker 10: that along with him throughout his coaching career, just that
• 25:23
  Speaker 10: offensive type of mind and And then one great year
• 25:26
  Speaker 10: in Connor Word and then that's translated to Texas State.
• 25:30
  Speaker 10: So a lot of his pieces from a year ago
• 25:33
  Speaker 10: are back. The team, I think, in terms of points scored,
• 25:36
  Speaker 10: total offense, second most in program history. The only team
• 25:39
  Speaker 10: that put up more was his first team in 23.
• 25:43
  Speaker 10: And his quarterback a year ago, Brad Jackson, it was
• 25:47
  Speaker 10: the first time since Gigi became the head coach, he
• 25:49
  Speaker 10: was working with the quarterback who wasn't, who didn't have
• 25:53
  Speaker 10: prior experience. Everybody had previously was, you know, a ready-made product.
• 25:59
  Speaker 9: Brad Jackson had to kind of like come into his own.
• 26:02
  Speaker 10: He was a redshirt freshman with very little college playing experience,
• 26:05
  Speaker 10: got a cup of coffee as a true freshman, but
• 26:08
  Speaker 10: he exploded onto the scene. You've seen the numbers, top
• 26:11
  Speaker 10: 10 in the country a year ago in a number
• 26:13
  Speaker 10: of major categories, pass efficiency, completion percentage, I think yards
• 26:18
  Speaker 10: per completion, rushing touchdowns, fifth in the nation. So great
• 26:21
  Speaker 10: dual threat quarterback and very young, only a sophomore. His
• 26:25
  Speaker 10: two big pieces are back. I say big, they're, you know,
• 26:28
  Speaker 10: physically small. His receivers are not, you know, the 6'3
• 26:32
  Speaker 10: Randy Moss type or Terrell Owens or anything like that.
• 26:35
  Speaker 10: You know, more of the Wes Welker types, you know,
• 26:38
  Speaker 10: in both Sparks and Chris Dawn Jr. So a lot
• 26:42
  Speaker 10: of retention on offense, you know, at the major skill positions.
• 26:45
  Speaker 10: Offensive line going to be a question mark because they
• 26:47
  Speaker 10: lost a lot from a year ago. So we'll see
• 26:49
  Speaker 10: how that pans out running back as well lost a
• 26:52
  Speaker 10: tremendous leader in lincoln perry although he's now back on
• 26:55
  Speaker 10: the coaching staff um and defensively they have a new
• 26:58
  Speaker 10: defensive coordinator um they have some pieces back from a
• 27:01
  Speaker 10: year ago but also some new guys that are being
• 27:04
  Speaker 10: brought in so i think offensively they feel good defensively
• 27:07
  Speaker 10: they've got some questions to answer.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Cam how about your thoughts on the overview of what
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: you see as as uh brant talked about and and
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: uh you know the the question marks that there are,
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: you know, if this guy comes through, it'll be, you know,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: it'll work out really well for them, those kinds of things.
• 27:23
  Speaker 11: Well, Kenny's been very vocal talking about, you know, three
• 27:27
  Speaker 11: consecutive winning season at Texas State, probably the three most
• 27:30
  Speaker 11: successful seasons for Texas State on the D1 level. But
• 27:34
  Speaker 11: he said earlier this season that, you know, when he
• 27:37
  Speaker 11: took the job by year four, if you look back
• 27:40
  Speaker 11: at those wins, you know, you'd be like, yeah, you know, we,
• 27:42
  Speaker 11: maybe we overachieved, but he talked about how, Now, looking
• 27:46
  Speaker 11: at the talent they had in the coaching staff, he
• 27:49
  Speaker 11: wants to do more.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: He wants to win more.
• 27:51
  Speaker 11: And as they enter this Pac-12 inaugural season for Texas State,
• 27:56
  Speaker 11: they want to be able to take that next step
• 27:59
  Speaker 11: and contend for a conference championship. And it's going to
• 28:01
  Speaker 11: be a very tough conference. Of course, Boise State will
• 28:03
  Speaker 11: be a top 25 team and one of the favorites
• 28:06
  Speaker 11: to get that group of five bid to the college
• 28:09
  Speaker 11: football playoff.
• 28:10
  Speaker 8: But G.J.
• 28:11
  Speaker 11: Kinney and the staff, they're very confident. He had his
• 28:14
  Speaker 11: press conference yesterday. Talking about facing Texas and a lot
• 28:19
  Speaker 11: of local awesome reporters there asking about what it means
• 28:22
  Speaker 11: to play Texas and what do you think and what
• 28:24
  Speaker 11: would the moment be like for you?
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: And he said, hey, we're here to win this game.
• 28:29
  Speaker 11: We're not here to walk in the stadium and look
• 28:31
  Speaker 11: at the bright lights and kind of fawn at, oh,
• 28:34
  Speaker 11: the 105,000 people there.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: They are there to win.
• 28:37
  Speaker 11: And Brent, correct me if I'm wrong here, but I
• 28:40
  Speaker 11: think this is a really good litmus test for Texas
• 28:43
  Speaker 11: State to see, okay, we're facing one of the top
• 28:45
  Speaker 11: teams in the country.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: How do we stack up?
• 28:48
  Speaker 11: And using that this week's game, no matter the result,
• 28:52
  Speaker 11: where do we need to improve?
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: What are our strengths?
• 28:54
  Speaker 11: What are our weaknesses as they enter a critical Pac-12 season,
• 28:59
  Speaker 11: which the staff and the team, they want to be
• 29:01
  Speaker 11: winning and they want to be contending for a conference
• 29:03
  Speaker 11: championship at the end of the season.
• 29:06
  Speaker 9: Absolutely.
• 29:07
  Speaker 10: You know, if they're able to compete, you know, take
• 29:10
  Speaker 10: this game into the fourth quarter, you know, um, uh,
• 29:13
  Speaker 10: maybe even, you know, stun a lot of people to
• 29:15
  Speaker 10: win the game. Certainly that's going to have them feeling,
• 29:17
  Speaker 10: you know, very good going into Pac-12 play. As you
• 29:20
  Speaker 10: pointed out, Cameron, um, And this is going to be
• 29:23
  Speaker 10: a very good conference headline by Boise State. The conference
• 29:26
  Speaker 10: that they left, the Sun Belt, was really good too.
• 29:28
  Speaker 10: Let's not lose sight of that. James Madison was the
• 29:31
  Speaker 10: group of five rep in the playoff this past year. So, um, but, uh, yeah,
• 29:37
  Speaker 10: you know, how do they handle this, this big stage,
• 29:39
  Speaker 10: not only, you know, playing, you know, in front of
• 29:42
  Speaker 10: the largest crowd they ever will have played in front of,
• 29:44
  Speaker 10: you know, but also national TV against a team like
• 29:47
  Speaker 10: Texas ranked fourth, fifth in the country, depending on the
• 29:49
  Speaker 10: poll that you're looking at right now. Um, you know, there's, uh,
• 29:54
  Speaker 10: there's a lot that can take away from this game. Um,
• 29:57
  Speaker 10: And so they're really relishing the opportunity. As you said,
• 30:01
  Speaker 10: they're not going to take the field hoping to keep
• 30:03
  Speaker 10: it close. They're playing with that mentality that they want
• 30:06
  Speaker 10: to win. Certainly it's not the same caliber of opponent,
• 30:09
  Speaker 10: but you go back to G.J. 's very first game
• 30:11
  Speaker 10: at Texas State, Not many people believed in them, and
• 30:14
  Speaker 10: they went into Waco and beat Baylor pretty good.
• 30:16
  Speaker 9: So this is a big opportunity for them, no doubt.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: I want to wrap up by getting both of you
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: guys' thoughts on this new world for Texas State, which,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: like we said, has been G5-G5. Now it's actually G6
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: since we have the newly reconstituted PAC-12.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: So now that becomes the 6G. And who knows?
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Maybe they become, the PAC-12 becomes a power conference again.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: And it goes back to power five on down the road.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: The proof will be in the pudding long-term, I think.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: But Cam, let me start with you about, you know,
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: how excited are you about the possibility, you know, and
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: going into places like Boise, like San Diego, like Corvallis, Oregon,
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: places like that new frontiers, certainly for the Bobcats, and
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: then we'll get.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Brant's thoughts on it as well.
• 31:04
  Speaker 11: Well, selfishly, personally, I'm excited because we have to go
• 31:07
  Speaker 11: to San Diego in October. Obviously, going to Boise, Idaho,
• 31:11
  Speaker 11: that's going to be a great environment. Corvallis to Oregon State.
• 31:15
  Speaker 11: There's going to be a lot of fun road trips
• 31:17
  Speaker 11: that we'll be able to embark on during Texas' state
• 31:21
  Speaker 11: time in the Pac-12. I think you've got to credit
• 31:24
  Speaker 11: the administration and the athletic department for positioning themselves in
• 31:28
  Speaker 11: the Pac-12 conference during this ever-changing landscape of college football.
• 31:32
  Speaker 11: Because who knows what it will look like in a
• 31:34
  Speaker 11: year or two? Will the SEC and Big Ten have
• 31:37
  Speaker 11: their own conference down the line? But credit Texas State
• 31:40
  Speaker 11: for putting themselves, I think, in a position to succeed.
• 31:43
  Speaker 11: And from being around the administration a week or so ago,
• 31:46
  Speaker 11: that kickoff bash, everyone talked to me about how much
• 31:50
  Speaker 11: the university has been able to adapt and improve and
• 31:55
  Speaker 11: how far they've come in just a short span, even
• 31:57
  Speaker 11: from 20 years ago, five years ago to where they
• 32:01
  Speaker 11: are now. It's a place where You can attend academically,
• 32:05
  Speaker 11: but also athletically play and you're competing for championships. I mean,
• 32:10
  Speaker 11: look at the women's soccer team who knocked off Texas
• 32:13
  Speaker 11: A & M a few weeks ago.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: They're doing a great job. under Coach Holman.
• 32:17
  Speaker 11: So it's a university, Brant, that I don't think is
• 32:20
  Speaker 11: just here to be here, right? They are here to
• 32:23
  Speaker 11: achieve and win and contend for conference championships.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: And Brant, since you toiled, worked so hard in the
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Sun Belt, I mean, it's nothing against these schools, but
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: going to San Diego or even Boise, it's going to
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: be a little bit different than going to Lafayette or Mobile,
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: isn't it?
• 32:40
  Speaker 9: Yeah, no doubt, Craig.
• 32:42
  Speaker 10: And as you pointed out, I've been covering Texas State
• 32:44
  Speaker 10: for a few years now, and When I think back
• 32:46
  Speaker 10: to when I first started, you know, being in the
• 32:48
  Speaker 10: Southland Conference, you know, going to places like, you know, Thibodeau,
• 32:52
  Speaker 10: Louisiana and Hammond, Louisiana and, you know, Nacogdoches, Texas, you know,
• 32:58
  Speaker 10: and nothing against all those schools, the great college towns.
• 33:01
  Speaker 9: And, you know, they're always great places to visit.
• 33:04
  Speaker 10: But if you told me then that, hey, you know,
• 33:07
  Speaker 10: down the road, you're going to.
• 33:08
  Speaker 9: Be at the blue turf.
• 33:09
  Speaker 10: You're going to be going to Boise and you can
• 33:10
  Speaker 10: be going to Corvallis and San Diego and I wouldn't
• 33:14
  Speaker 10: have believed it. You know, it's a testament to the administration,
• 33:18
  Speaker 10: to the job that G.J. Kinney has done. Let's be honest,
• 33:21
  Speaker 10: if football hadn't improved over the last several years, the
• 33:24
  Speaker 10: Pac-12 invitation never comes, even with the success of the
• 33:27
  Speaker 10: other sports. Football had to get better, and it did,
• 33:33
  Speaker 10: you know, and as a result, you know, to take
• 33:35
  Speaker 10: advantage of the opportunity, and so, you know, to go
• 33:38
  Speaker 10: to places like this and to be a part of
• 33:40
  Speaker 10: something like this is remarkable, and I know we're talking
• 33:43
  Speaker 10: football here, but let's not forget basketball. And you're in
• 33:45
  Speaker 10: the likes of a conference with Gonzaga, San Diego State,
• 33:49
  Speaker 10: who played for the national championship only a few years ago.
• 33:51
  Speaker 10: So baseball, Morgan State, a traditional power that's won national titles.
• 33:58
  Speaker 10: But Texas State, when they were in the Sun Belt,
• 34:00
  Speaker 10: they were winning the Commissioner's Cup year in and year out.
• 34:03
  Speaker 10: I think they won three of the last four they
• 34:05
  Speaker 10: qualified for. And had they qualified last year, they would
• 34:07
  Speaker 10: have won it again. And they want to continue that
• 34:11
  Speaker 10: type of success in the Pac-12 across the board, not
• 34:14
  Speaker 10: just football, not just baseball, but every sport.
• 34:18
  Speaker 9: So this is a really exciting time for us.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: They are the broadcasters, the play-by-play voices of the Texas
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: State Bobcats. Brant Freeman, Cameron Parker, they'll be calling the
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: action for Texas State for Learfield on Saturday afternoon against
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: the Longhorns. Fellas, I appreciate that. I look forward to
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: seeing you in the press box on Saturday, Brant.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, me too, Craig.
• 34:40
  Speaker 10: I understand it's a bit of a different vantage point
• 34:42
  Speaker 10: this year, too, so looking forward to that.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Cameron has seen it, so he understands as well.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: All right, we'll continue coming up here on 13.
• 34:50
  Speaker 8: Under the Zone.
• 34:52
  Speaker 11: He's a Texas legend, a Hall of Fame broadcaster, the
• 34:57
  Speaker 11: voice of the Texas Longhorns.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: And your host of The Craig Way Show.
• 35:03
  Speaker 8: Here he is now, Craig Way.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Second hour of.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: The program here on Sports Radio AM, 13 under the
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: zone on the Yacht Rock Wednesday. Glad to have you
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: with us. My name is Craig Wayne, alongside the producer,
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Jay Carman. I didn't want you to think, if you
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: were listening to the first hour of the program, that
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: we had forgotten about Inconceivable. Normally, we bring it to
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: you in the first hour of the program. But because
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: of the time element that we were working with, meaning
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Brant Freeman and Cameron Parker, who will be the two
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: play-by-play voices of Texas State. And if you joined us
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: late and you're wondering how that works, you can listen
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: on the podcast page. They're going to basically split the
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: play-by-play and analyst duties for Texas State on their broadcasts.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: So we talked about that and we talked about the
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: type of team that G.J. Kinney will have on the
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: field against Texas on Saturday. You can catch that on
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: the podcast page after we're done at 1300thezone. com. But Because
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: we needed to have that conversation at that point and
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: the length of it, it was going to be easier
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: just to move inconceivable into the three o'clock hour, into
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: the same slot, the back half of the three o'clock hour.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: So we will have that coming up a little bit
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: later on this half hour. But I want to jump
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: to Longhorns and hear from some more Longhorn players. How
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: about a couple of linebackers? Start with Justin Cryer, the
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: Florida State transfer. And Cryer was asked about the fact
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: that the guys, even though Even though Ty Anthony Smith
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: is no longer with the team, he was asked about
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: discussing the depth behind him and the rest of the
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: linebacking corps.
• 36:58
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I said it in one of my last interviews
• 37:00
  Speaker 12: that I had. They don't get to be the whole, like,
• 37:04
  Speaker 12: I'm just a freshman thing. We kind of need them
• 37:06
  Speaker 12: to kind of grow up a little bit. And that's
• 37:09
  Speaker 12: just the nature of the position right now. And if
• 37:11
  Speaker 12: I could guarantee them that me, him, and Brad can
• 37:13
  Speaker 12: go out there and play every single play on the
• 37:15
  Speaker 12: defense with no injuries... no problems, and I would, but
• 37:18
  Speaker 12: that's not the nature of the position, that's not how
• 37:20
  Speaker 12: football is, so we're going to need them, at what
• 37:23
  Speaker 12: point in the season, I don't know, it could be,
• 37:25
  Speaker 12: it could be, I was going to say tomorrow, it
• 37:27
  Speaker 12: could be this Saturday, it could be in Death Valley, like,
• 37:30
  Speaker 12: it's going to happen this year, and I feel like
• 37:32
  Speaker 12: Coach Nelson has done a good job of preparing those guys,
• 37:34
  Speaker 12: but we're going to need them this year at some point,
• 37:36
  Speaker 12: so they did a good job of accepting the challenge,
• 37:38
  Speaker 12: and kind of just being with us as we go
• 37:41
  Speaker 12: along this process, but We're definitely going to need all
• 37:43
  Speaker 12: three of them because it's a very physical, demanding position,
• 37:46
  Speaker 12: and it's a lot on a person. So we obviously
• 37:50
  Speaker 12: don't wish for injuries on anybody, but if it happens,
• 37:54
  Speaker 12: they're going to have to.
• 37:55
  Speaker 8: Show up for us.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Next, Cryer was asked about, and this is something that
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: we've heard quite a bit about, the intensity of the
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: work put in by the Longhorn defense, courtesy of of
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: the once and future defensive coordinator will must champ and
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: the intensity that that brings uh i mean.
• 38:14
  Speaker 12: You hear all the stories about him whenever you uh
• 38:16
  Speaker 12: when he first got here and obviously on your on
• 38:18
  Speaker 12: your recruiting visit he's everybody's in a polo he's all
• 38:19
  Speaker 12: nice and stuff uh that first meeting though he was
• 38:22
  Speaker 12: i was like oh this is this is how this
• 38:24
  Speaker 12: is this is the guy i've heard about and so
• 38:26
  Speaker 12: um he's he's an intense guy but also like he
• 38:28
  Speaker 12: gets he's demanding but he gets the most out of
• 38:29
  Speaker 12: you so uh He's someone who you love playing for.
• 38:32
  Speaker 8: He gives you a lot. He's your earful sometimes.
• 38:35
  Speaker 12: You probably don't want to hear it a lot of
• 38:37
  Speaker 12: the times, but at the same time, on Saturday when
• 38:39
  Speaker 12: it shows up, he knows he's got your back. That
• 38:42
  Speaker 12: communication that he has with me, especially when he's on
• 38:44
  Speaker 12: the mic, he speaks a lot of trust into me,
• 38:47
  Speaker 12: a lot of belief into me.
• 38:49
  Speaker 8: I'm super excited for what we've got going on.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: Up next was the thought about the communication differences.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is when.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: You play an up-tempo offense, like the Longhorn defense is
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: going to encounter from Texas State on Saturday, you're looking
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: at high-speed, up-tempo offensive attack. And so, yes, it can
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: take a toll on you in terms of the stamina.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: But the other thing that Cryer points out is You
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: gotta be on the same page when you're communicating with
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: one another so that you don't lose track of who's
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: supposed to be where.
• 39:28
  Speaker 12: A little bit, just for the fact that there's going
• 39:30
  Speaker 12: to be obviously less communication from that side because they're
• 39:32
  Speaker 12: going to be going faster. So it's more the onus
• 39:35
  Speaker 12: is on me to kind of get everybody lined up,
• 39:37
  Speaker 12: get everybody set. Also to get everybody nervous to calm
• 39:40
  Speaker 12: down a little bit. It's going to be the first
• 39:41
  Speaker 12: game of the season. Everyone's going to be kind of
• 39:43
  Speaker 12: hyped up with energy. So you don't want anybody to
• 39:45
  Speaker 12: be out there kind of like just running on straight adrenaline.
• 39:47
  Speaker 12: You want people to think a little bit, slow it down.
• 39:50
  Speaker 12: Can't let the game get bigger than what it is.
• 39:51
  Speaker 12: So when we go out there, we know what we're
• 39:54
  Speaker 12: going to get. We're going to get tempo. So get
• 39:55
  Speaker 12: the guys lined up, calm them down a little bit,
• 39:57
  Speaker 12: and let's go out there and play.
• 39:58
  Speaker 8: It's football at the end of the day.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: Among the adjustments that the Longhorns have had is Colton Vosick.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: And this was something that was brought up in Sark's
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: news conference on Monday where it was discussed– That Colton Vasek,
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: who had been used on the edge primarily, would still
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: be there, but he had been used a little bit
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: as well at the outside linebacker spot. So Justin Cry
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: was asked about Vasek kind of cross-training the both.
• 40:30
  Speaker 12: At least for us, the man had a few words.
• 40:32
  Speaker 12: He got the little country accent. I think it's funny,
• 40:34
  Speaker 12: but no one else seems to really think it's funny.
• 40:37
  Speaker 8: He works really hard.
• 40:37
  Speaker 12: It's not a huge transition, but at the same time,
• 40:41
  Speaker 12: he does a good job. We don't ask him to
• 40:43
  Speaker 12: do too much. When he does go in there, we
• 40:45
  Speaker 12: kind of have a pretty set of rules for him
• 40:48
  Speaker 12: so he doesn't have to go out there and think
• 40:49
  Speaker 12: too much. He's done a great job for everything we've
• 40:52
  Speaker 12: asked him to do. I love what Cryer said. He's
• 40:54
  Speaker 12: got a little bit of a country accent. We are
• 40:55
  Speaker 12: talking about a guy from Westlake.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: That's what it was like. But he's got the country accent. Okay.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: Now, in zeroing in on Texas State, what about the
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: difficulties that that Bobcat offense poses?
• 41:09
  Speaker 12: Yeah, this won't be the only time we'll see that
• 41:10
  Speaker 12: this year. So we have to be prepared for it now. But,
• 41:13
  Speaker 12: you know, they present a lot of challenges, especially wide splits, tempo.
• 41:17
  Speaker 12: Coach Kenny's done a good job the last couple of
• 41:18
  Speaker 12: years and just running as many plays as possible. So
• 41:22
  Speaker 12: we're going to have our hands full on defense. So getting,
• 41:25
  Speaker 12: first of all, get the front line set.
• 41:26
  Speaker 8: That's the biggest thing.
• 41:27
  Speaker 12: You don't want anybody without with their cleats to the
• 41:30
  Speaker 12: ground that's the first issue I want to make sure
• 41:32
  Speaker 12: that the front guys are taken care of Justice Terry
• 41:34
  Speaker 12: always likes to like turn around and look at me
• 41:36
  Speaker 12: whenever he doesn't have a call so I need him
• 41:37
  Speaker 12: to face forward and get set but get the front
• 41:41
  Speaker 12: guys ready make sure they're aligned and then just get
• 41:43
  Speaker 12: communication in you never want to start a play without
• 41:45
  Speaker 12: knowing exactly what you're doing so whether that's looking out
• 41:47
  Speaker 12: to my right and talking to Grayson or having communication
• 41:50
  Speaker 12: with him just making sure that everyone's on the same
• 41:51
  Speaker 12: page so when the ball snaps there's no question marks
• 41:54
  Speaker 12: on the field and we have to do that pretty
• 41:55
  Speaker 12: fast because obviously they go up tempo but The easiest
• 41:58
  Speaker 12: way to kill that is to, I feel like if
• 42:00
  Speaker 12: you stop the run early in the down and kind
• 42:02
  Speaker 12: of dictate when they have to pass the ball, you
• 42:04
  Speaker 12: have a better idea and better chance of knowing what
• 42:06
  Speaker 12: you can expect and kind of playing the offense from there.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: So he's one of the Longhorn linebackers who have to
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: deal with that Texas State offense.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: The other is Raheem Biles.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: I know you've seen it, maybe you hadn't heard the news,
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: that it's actually pronounced Raheem, even though there's an S
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: in the name.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: He explained that a couple of weeks ago.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: But Raheem Biles, the Pitt transfer, and he was asked
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: to describe what is the collective personality of this Texas defense.
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: Fast and physical.
• 42:35
  Speaker 7: That's really the best way to describe it, to be honest. Like,
• 42:39
  Speaker 7: we all got to be physical. Like, you know, much
• 42:41
  Speaker 7: I'm saying, no thud, no play. So we got to
• 42:44
  Speaker 7: show physicality every day. And just with the fast part,
• 42:47
  Speaker 7: it's just like, I feel like he got the right
• 42:49
  Speaker 7: players and like the right scheme to fit around us,
• 42:53
  Speaker 7: to let us play fast.
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: And just, like, be able to just know the scheme
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: and make the game easier for us, for real, for real.
• 43:00
  Speaker 7: So I feel like, especially, like, during these last couple
• 43:03
  Speaker 7: weeks we had, like, in and off camp, going into, like,
• 43:05
  Speaker 7: the season prep, you could just see, like, everybody's just
• 43:08
  Speaker 7: playing faster. Like, everybody knows what's going on. So it's
• 43:11
  Speaker 7: really just been great playing under Muschamp.
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: With his enthusiasm, he's going to bring it every day.
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: We know that.
• 43:18
  Speaker 7: We know if we mess up, no matter who you is,
• 43:19
  Speaker 7: he's going to get on you. So it's just great
• 43:21
  Speaker 7: playing under him. And fast and physical, that's definitely, like,
• 43:24
  Speaker 7: probably my way to, That's probably.
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: Playing for Muschamp.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: Biles was also asked which of his skills would show
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: up more and be more highlighted in this Will Muschamp-coordinated defense.
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: I don't really know. I feel like everything, for real,
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: for real. I ain't going to lie.
• 43:42
  Speaker 7: Because I want to say my off-the-ball linebacker skills more.
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: Because it's a.
• 43:48
  Speaker 7: Little bit different from where I played at and the
• 43:50
  Speaker 7: system I played in at Pittsburgh. But also, I'm covering
• 43:54
  Speaker 7: a lot, too, in this system, too, like a lot
• 43:56
  Speaker 7: of man-to-man.
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: And I'm rushing, too. So it's really, I don't really
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: think it's a specific thing.
• 44:02
  Speaker 7: I think it's more so showing off my skills, saying, like,
• 44:04
  Speaker 7: I can do everything on the field.
• 44:06
  Speaker 5: So I would probably say that.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: There's always some bonding that has to go on with
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: a team. And a lot of the time, that happens
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: off of the field. And Biles was discussing there was
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: a bonding dinner, if you will, that the linebackers have
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: with the interior linemen.
• 44:24
  Speaker 7: Dinner was great. It was a great bonding experience. Ate
• 44:27
  Speaker 7: some great food. Shout out Bulls Steakhouse. They ain't really,
• 44:32
  Speaker 7: we all ate good, so I mean, it was a
• 44:35
  Speaker 7: little pricey, but it wasn't nothing like, you feel me?
• 44:37
  Speaker 7: It was just, the boys hanging more. It was more
• 44:39
  Speaker 7: for the vibes. We really weren't worried about the price
• 44:41
  Speaker 7: of it. It was more just for the good vibes,
• 44:44
  Speaker 7: get more connected, and just bond for real, for real.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: I didn't hear the name of it. Did he say Bulls?
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: Something Steakhouse. I wish it.
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: Had been louder.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: B-U-L-L apostrophe. Yes, it sounded like Bulls. But anyway, no matter.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: So since that was kind of a bonding moment, how
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: important is it to have those kinds of bonds?
• 45:09
  Speaker 7: That's big, especially going into the season. Knowing we're going
• 45:11
  Speaker 7: to have a long season ahead of us. We got
• 45:13
  Speaker 7: to be able to just... know people's different personalities, how
• 45:17
  Speaker 7: somebody's feeling this day, how somebody.
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: Might be feeling that day.
• 45:20
  Speaker 7: I feel like everything matters, especially, like I said, we're
• 45:23
  Speaker 7: going to play a long season this year. So us
• 45:25
  Speaker 7: being able to be more connected, that's going to help
• 45:29
  Speaker 7: us in the long run for sure.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: Okay, and that also means developing the younger players, not
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: just at his position, but the defense overall developing the
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: younger talent.
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: I feel like they already knew that.
• 45:41
  Speaker 7: When they came in, all three of them, They had
• 45:44
  Speaker 7: the expectation like they wanted to be on the field.
• 45:46
  Speaker 7: So I feel like it's really hasn't been too much
• 45:48
  Speaker 7: of a change. Like they still been preparing like they're
• 45:50
  Speaker 7: going to be day one starters like they have been
• 45:52
  Speaker 7: since they've been coming in. So it's really just been
• 45:54
  Speaker 7: telling them like more so like just clean up this
• 45:57
  Speaker 7: little stuff, clean up that little stuff. It ain't nothing
• 45:59
  Speaker 7: like I've been a significant change, though. Like it's just
• 46:02
  Speaker 7: been them being who they've been. That's them working hard,
• 46:05
  Speaker 7: been in the playbook, been in the study, been in
• 46:07
  Speaker 7: the film room, executing on the field.
• 46:10
  Speaker 5: And just playing fast.
• 46:11
  Speaker 7: I feel like they've been doing a great job since
• 46:13
  Speaker 7: they got in.
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: It's just leading on.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: So there's some thoughts there from the two linebackers there,
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: Justin Cryer, Juice, as they like to call him, and
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: Raheem Biles. All right. Hey, I want to remind you,
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: we're going to give away a pair of tickets to
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: the game on this program tomorrow. So stay tuned for that.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: Coming up, We'll shift back to the NFL. We've got
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: some other college football notes to get to, and we'll
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: hear more from Brian Schottenheimer, the Cowboys head coach, when
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: we continue here on Sports Radio AM 13 Under the
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: Zone on the iHeartRadio app.
• 46:47
  Speaker 5: Such another round. She serves them whiskey and wine. They'll say,
• 46:53
  Speaker 5: they'll say, Brandon, you're a fine girl.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: What a good wife.
• 46:56
  Speaker 5: You would be. Yeah, your eyes.
• 47:00
  Speaker 7: Could steal a sailor from.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: The So here's a story for you on a Yacht
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: Rock Wednesday. This song, Brandy by Looking Glass, was actually,
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: I learned, was actually played, it's a little more up-tempo
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: than it was originally supposed to be. And one hit wonder,
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: Looking Glass, although I will tell you this, I don't
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: know if you ever saw this, Jay, during the pandemic,
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: We saw a lot of unusual things, obviously, in that
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: year of 2020. Were you a student of Texas yet?
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Sure was.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: Okay. And what was that like for you? in the
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: in in the pandemic i mean how difficult was it
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: for you to do and keep the music going because
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: i'm going to explain this song i.
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: Mean without going into too many details it was difficult
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: but it was better than it could have been i
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: already knew people by that point i was living off
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: campus i was able to still go out and broadcast
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: games i was able to sit in some classes with
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: masks on and things like that right so there were
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: hardships there were summer plans canceled there were broadcast that
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: had to be done remotely from my house in Maryland
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: rather than Flow Sports in Austin. But while challenging, it
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: certainly could have been worse. I would not have wanted
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: to be a freshman.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: That's a good point.
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: The reason why I bring this up is we saw
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: a lot of creative musical things happen during the pandemic.
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: One was this group 50 years later, because this is
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: 1971 the song came out.
• 48:29
  Speaker 5: So here it is.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: 49 years later.
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: And They did an acapella version of this, kind of
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: like we saw a lot of people, people in boxes
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: because they couldn't be around one another. Social distancing and everything.
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: Looked like the Brady Bunch with the boxes. And they
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: did this song with the same lead vocalist. And they
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: did it acapella. It was really good. Here's the fascinating
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: thing about this. This is one of the poster child
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: yacht rock songs. even though it's early 70s. Brandy, it
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: just is. That's about as yacht rock as you can get.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: That song has not been on this program. on a
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: Yacht Rock Wednesday in over a year. I know that
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: for a fact because I have the list of all
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: the Yacht Rock.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: Tunes, and it wasn't on the list.
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: Now, we played it once when I guess it was
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: before I even made up the list.
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: I want to say, too, there is an off chance
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: that I played it filling in for you on the Wednesday.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, there you go. There you go.
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: Because I couldn't remember doing it, but I thought if
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: I did... We did it before anyway. So, yeah, it
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: very well could have been you.
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: If I did, it was a while ago.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: Or it might even have been Andrew Zimmel who preceded you,
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: you know, before. And Zimm is up in Milwaukee now
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: running things up there for the Iheart family.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: So good for Andrew.
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: So anyway, yeah, that's about as yacht rock.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: As you can get is Brandy.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: And it had an air that I could remember on
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: a program we were, and I was just going through
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: my list. And it came on the radio, and I
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: was going through it on the list, and I was like, well,
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: surely we've done this, haven't we? And I rolled all
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: the way through the list of what I've been doing,
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: and it wasn't there. So I said, well, it's definitely
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: on tap for this Wednesday. The other thing that's on
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: tap is hearing more from Brian Schottenheimer, the Cowboys head coach.
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: We heard him last hour talking about his decision to
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: keep Sam Howell instead of Joe Milton, and there'll be
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: some more quarterback conversation. But he also had some questions
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: about his offensive line, like– they added one more to
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: the practice squad and shot. He was asked, what does
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: he envision for more being signed to the practice squad?
• 50:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah, again, a guy we really got a lot of
• 50:53
  Speaker 6: feel for the year Geit was coming out. He was
• 50:56
  Speaker 6: on the opposite side of Tyler and a guy that
• 50:59
  Speaker 6: we've seen play some good ball.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: We love the athleticism. We like the size.
• 51:04
  Speaker 6: And the line looked pretty good out there today with
• 51:09
  Speaker 6: those guys all kind of lining up out there.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: And they've got a lot to learn.
• 51:13
  Speaker 6: They're definitely having to play catch up.
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: That's part of it.
• 51:17
  Speaker 6: But I think you've seen us improve the athleticism of
• 51:21
  Speaker 6: the position for sure. And that's always a good thing
• 51:24
  Speaker 6: when you're talking about edge players that have to block
• 51:27
  Speaker 6: some of the best athletes, if not the best athletes
• 51:30
  Speaker 6: in the National Football League.
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: Continuing on the offensive line, Sean Iver was asked about
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: Tyler Guyton and what Guyton has been able to show
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: him and how he worked through some things. And was
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: there a moment when Guyton really just kind of figured
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: things out?
• 51:49
  Speaker 6: I mean, we sensed the OTAs, but like I talked
• 51:52
  Speaker 6: a little bit about yesterday, until you start playing real
• 51:54
  Speaker 6: football and put pads on and stuff, I would say
• 51:56
  Speaker 6: probably that second week of training camp is where we
• 52:00
  Speaker 6: were like, whoa, okay. It was just the way, the
• 52:04
  Speaker 6: confidence that he was taking in his sets and the
• 52:07
  Speaker 6: counters that he was countering. So when a defensive end
• 52:10
  Speaker 6: rushes upfield and tries to counter and go inside and
• 52:13
  Speaker 6: his ability to move his feet and.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: Slam the door shut on that.
• 52:17
  Speaker 6: Um, you know, going up against different guys and watching them,
• 52:20
  Speaker 6: you know, go up against easy and then watch them
• 52:22
  Speaker 6: go up against RG and Malachi and guys like that.
• 52:24
  Speaker 6: It was, you saw a guy that was beginning to
• 52:26
  Speaker 6: understand the matchup element.
• 52:28
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: Well, this guy's going to rush me this way.
• 52:30
  Speaker 6: This guy's, you know, cause they're very different. They rush
• 52:32
  Speaker 6: different ways. And so that's part of the matchup. It's
• 52:35
  Speaker 6: no different than a receiver learning how corner plays technique wise.
• 52:38
  Speaker 6: There's when you're a tackle, you have to understand who
• 52:40
  Speaker 6: you're going against and And what's their fastball?
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: What's their changeup? What's their curveball?
• 52:45
  Speaker 6: And I'd say probably second week or so of training camp,
• 52:49
  Speaker 6: we were kind of like, okay, this is what it's
• 52:52
  Speaker 6: supposed to look like.
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: Tyler Guyton also had to go through some injuries as well.
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: And Shotton Amber was asked what Guyton was able to
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: show the coaching staff playing through those injuries.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: He knows. I mean, he's been.
• 53:06
  Speaker 6: As aware of it as anybody that his availability has
• 53:09
  Speaker 6: not been the best.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: And He didn't blink with the elbow.
• 53:13
  Speaker 6: And I think that's all part of the maturation process
• 53:16
  Speaker 6: of a young player. And I think you're the one
• 53:18
  Speaker 6: that actually asked the question, you know, three years, whether
• 53:21
  Speaker 6: it was Parcells or whoever said, talk about maybe D-line. But, like,
• 53:23
  Speaker 6: I think that's really for most positions. You know, you
• 53:25
  Speaker 6: get into that third year and you're kind of like, okay,
• 53:27
  Speaker 6: you know, this is time for this guy to kind
• 53:30
  Speaker 6: of put it all together. And, you know, he's growing fast. And,
• 53:36
  Speaker 6: like I said, I say it every time you guys
• 53:37
  Speaker 6: ask me, but I won't say it again.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: I'm just super proud of him.
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: Next, Schottenheimer was asked about backup guys in general and
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: his philosophy on that. And does he really kind of
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: lean in toward having those high floor backups?
• 53:55
  Speaker 6: It depends. Each one, each thing is different, Nick. You know,
• 53:58
  Speaker 6: I think, you know, you factor all those things in.
• 54:00
  Speaker 6: But like I said, you know, we're trying to build
• 54:02
  Speaker 6: the best football team to go and beat the New
• 54:04
  Speaker 6: York Giants. And then the football team the next week
• 54:07
  Speaker 6: might look a little bit different when you get ready
• 54:09
  Speaker 6: to play.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: The Washington Commanders.
• 54:10
  Speaker 6: And then We go international, and the team might look
• 54:13
  Speaker 6: a little different then. But those are real conversations, so
• 54:18
  Speaker 6: I'm not avoiding the question. The answer is yes, but
• 54:22
  Speaker 6: it's case by case.
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: Going back to that offensive line, Schottenheimer has asked, what
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: is it that he likes now more about that offensive line?
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: How much better has it gotten, even after the final
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: roster cut down and what they've added to the practice squad?
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: I think we've gotten better at tackle.
• 54:42
  Speaker 6: I think I'm going to say with also the improvement
• 54:44
  Speaker 6: of Drew Shelton, I think we've got more athletic.
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: I've talked about that. I'm a big fan of Nate Thomas.
• 54:52
  Speaker 6: I really wish him nothing but the best in Houston,
• 54:54
  Speaker 6: and I still think that he's got a chance to
• 54:57
  Speaker 6: become a really good football player. I think the versatility
• 55:00
  Speaker 6: that we have inside with T.J. Bass and– You know,
• 55:06
  Speaker 6: Nick Leverett, you know, battling that out. And, you know,
• 55:09
  Speaker 6: we've got good flexibility with all the different things that
• 55:11
  Speaker 6: we're trying to do and move around. And basically, I
• 55:15
  Speaker 6: feel like we got the guys we wanted back on
• 55:17
  Speaker 6: practice squad. And those are guys that you guys know
• 55:20
  Speaker 6: you're going to be elevating those guys. You know, I
• 55:22
  Speaker 6: keep going back to the Jets game last year where
• 55:24
  Speaker 6: you got four brand new starters.
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: And so I like the depth. But I really the
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: first thing.
• 55:31
  Speaker 6: I would speak to Tommy is the athleticism at our
• 55:33
  Speaker 6: tackle spot.
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: Going back to that.
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: Backup quarterback thing, it makes me laugh because it always
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: makes me think about the line that was uttered by
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: Donovan Forbes. If that name sounds unfamiliar to you, Donovan
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: Forbes was the backup quarterback for Texas, was a backup
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: quarterback for Texas in the late 80s behind, I think,
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: first Brett Stafford and then Peter Gardere. And when either
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: of those guys struggled, there was this big human cry
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: for Forbes to get out there and play. And he
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: was asked about it one time and he said, let
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: me tell you something. The most popular guy on campus
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: is the backup quarterback. That's just how it is for Texas. Well,
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: that also kind of falls along the lines with a
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: lot of NFL teams. Now that's not the case, obviously
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: with the Cowboys, Dak Prescott is the guy, the unquestioned and, uh,
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: absolute unchallenged leader of the offensive quarterback however there are
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: lots of questions about the backup spot and why Sam
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: Howell was kept instead of Joe Milton and Schottenheimer was
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: asked how did Howell's NFL experience playing for Jake Herman's
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: Washington Commanders for example play into the decision for him
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: to stick with the club that.
• 56:56
  Speaker 6: Was discussed um wasn't the only decision i think again
• 56:59
  Speaker 6: i i told you guys like the discipline of this
• 57:02
  Speaker 6: process is don't get caught up in a big throw
• 57:06
  Speaker 6: here a big play there a turnover here a sack
• 57:09
  Speaker 6: there it's throughout the whole process and from the scope
• 57:13
  Speaker 6: of from the time we got back together in april
• 57:16
  Speaker 6: to yesterday at whatever time it was one o'clock um
• 57:21
  Speaker 6: this was very hotly debated and uh You know, Sam's
• 57:25
  Speaker 6: got over 20 starts in the league, and I think
• 57:28
  Speaker 6: that that played a part in it, but that was
• 57:30
  Speaker 6: not the only reason for the decision.
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: One more this hour from Brian Schottenheimer, and we'll hear
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: some more from Shottie coming up in the 4 o'clock
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: hour as well. And this is about the fact that
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: they've got this kind of three-day weekend coming up, the
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: Labor Day thing, because remember, the Cowboys season opener comes up,
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: not only a week from Sunday, it's a week from
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: Sunday night, Sunday night game against the New York football giants.
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: By the way, that's how they, I think they still
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: answer the phone that way. If you call, I know
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: they did for many, many years. You answer, you'd ring
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: it and they'd say football giants. That's because there used
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: to be a baseball team called the New York giants,
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: but they left in 1958. The giants, the New York
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: giants baseball club with Willie Mays and everybody else left
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: in New York, after the 1957 season, they went to
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: San Francisco, they relocated and they opened up in 1958
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: and they've been in San.
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: Francisco ever since.
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: However, for all those years, if you called the New
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: York Giants football team, certainly back in the fifties, they
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: would answer the phone, football Giants. And that lasted well,
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: at least into the nineties, because when I was working
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: up in Dallas and say, Jimmy Johnson at a news
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: conference or Barry Switzer at a news conference on Tuesday,
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: And then there would be a media lunch thing they
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: would do. And then Jerry Jones would hold court and
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: all this kind of stuff. And then they would get
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: the opposing team's head coach on a conference call, speakerphone
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: type thing. I remember that when Bill Parcells was coaching.
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: And I remember two things.
• 59:09
  Speaker 4: One.
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: Was when they would answer the phone, they would go
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: football giants. So they would say it was still football giants.
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: The other thing I remember was one time they were
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: calling to get Parcells on the phone. And the way
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: these things always worked was the opposing team's media relations
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: director or director communications, whatever, would answer the phone and say,
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: hold on, I'll have coach ready for you in just
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: a second. And then the coach would get on the phone.
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: This one particular time, they're getting ready to play the Giants.
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: The media relations director for the Giants picks up the
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: phone and goes, hold on, I got to get a Frankfurter.
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: We're saying that. Oh, a Frankfurter, okay. Yeah, that's very
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: much a New York kind of thing. So anyway, they
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: play the Giants a week from Sunday. But there's this
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: three-day weekend going in through Labor Day, through the holiday.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: And as such, Brian Schottenheimer was asked, what's his philosophy
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: on this upcoming three-day holiday weekend for his football team?
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 6: I mean, the league mandates this, and I think they're
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 6: about the wellness of the players, which I support. Um, no,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 6: I think, you know, I'll address it with the guys,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 6: you know, we have put ourselves in a position where
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 6: we should get away and relax a little bit, but
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 6: we need to still work. Like, you know, this is
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 6: not a time, you know, where you fly all over
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 6: the world and, you know, you go shopping in Paris
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 6: and things like that. Um, I think, you know, we'll,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 6: you know, I'm sure our skill guys will get together
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 6: somewhere and throw, um, cause we are, we've built ourselves
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 6: up where we feel.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: Great going into, uh, this part and I don't want
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: to lose that.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 6: And I think this is a very mature professional locker
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 6: room and I don't think that they're, um, you know,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 6: going to waste this weekend, but I do want them
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 6: to spend time with their family and, you know, and
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 6: sleep in a little bit and rest their bodies a
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 6: little bit and do things that, that make you happy.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: I think that's important.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: So there's the, uh, thoughts, uh, from Ryan Schottenheimer, the
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: Cowboys head coach. We'll hear some more from Shadi coming
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: up at next hour. Now, as I mentioned, Last hour,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: because we had the extended conversation talking about Texas State
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: with their, not one, but two, play-by-play guys, Brant Freeman
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: and our own Cameron Parker. And again, if you want
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: to hear how all that's going to break down, you
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: can listen to it on the podcast page on that.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: But they're going to basically split both the play-by-play and
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: analyst duties. When we did that, we had an extended
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: conversation with those guys. So we didn't have time to
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: bring you inconceivable last hour. but we do have time
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: this hour. So that's coming up next. Inconceivable. Albeit in
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: the three o'clock hour here, only got rock Wednesday on
• 1:01:54
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• 1:01:56
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• 1:02:04
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• 1:02:07
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• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: Jay Kerman, uh, I want to do a little bit
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: of housekeeping and tell folks, I mentioned this when we
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: were doing the inconceivable segment that the reason we did
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: it in the three o'clock hours, because the length of
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: what we're doing a two o'clock hour. And I said,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: the reason we were doing some Florida related stories is
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: I said, we don't have a show in, in its
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: typical form on Friday. There is however, a show and
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: hope you can tune in and hope you can show up.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: It's a big, football kickoff program coming your way Friday
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: from Back Porch Social in Round Rock. And it'll start
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: off with Mike Hardball-Hards and the world's strongest man, Mark Henry.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: Eric Henry, Orange 247, will join. He'll be on with them.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: Of course, Cameron Parker will be there. I'll be there
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: as well. And it'll go from 2 o'clock all the
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: way up to 7 o'clock. And hope to see you
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: out there on that. So just wanted to make sure
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: we mentioned that. Okay, a couple other housekeeping things. The
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: other day, was it Monday, Jake, when we were talking
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: about that great win for Sebastian Gorsny at the U.S.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: Open.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and the dramatic fifth set tiebreaker, which goes to
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 4: 10 points.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it was pretty impressive. The dream and the
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: run ended today for Gorsny because... that can happen when
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: you're running up against one of the best players in
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: the world. Uh, Danielle Medvedev, the seven seed who won today, uh,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: in straight sets, uh, in the Louis Armstrong stadium up there,
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: Flushing Meadow. They won, uh, he won six, one, six, three, seven,
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: five off of that. So Medvedev advances in the run-ins
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: for the Longhorn Sebastian Gorsny, but a great run for him, uh,
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: in that as well. Um, A little bit of jurisprudence
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: for you. We all remember what happened to Tiger Woods
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: when he had that DUI. And that was back in
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: the end of March. And he's reached a plea deal today.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: It happened this morning. It was a plea deal. And
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: as a result of that, and this was in Florida,
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: maybe I should have put it in the Florida stories, right?
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: But Tiger did reach a plea deal.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: And let me just say this.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: On the surface, if it was just you or I
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: getting this kind of plea deal, it wouldn't sound like
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: a great deal to you, Jake, or to me, if
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: we'd had the type of DUI incidents, plural, that Tiger
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: has had in some recent years. This plea deal, this
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: impaired driving case, was present for the change of plea hearing.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: Judge Darren Steele.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: Said that Tiger will have to serve two sentences Five-year
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: driver's license suspensions.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: They'll run concurrently. One is a reckless driving charge, one
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: on a careless driving citation. The judge said there are
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: no exceptions. If you were to drive for any reason
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: at all, you would go immediately back to jail.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 8: Wow.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: Tiger also was handed fines. He has 30 days to
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: appeal the ruling, but apparently they've agreed to it. He
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: arrived at the Martin County Courthouse this morning. seated in
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: the front passenger seat of a black SUV.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 8: He didn't drive.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: He did not answer questions from the gather reporters as
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: he and girlfriend Vanessa Trump walked in and out of
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: the building at 7.30 our time this morning for that
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: change of plea hearing because he initially pleaded not guilty
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: to driving under the influence charges stemming from that rollover
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: crash back in March. At the time, he told authorities
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: he was looking down at his phone and did not
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: realize the truck in front of him had slowed down
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: before his crash. No one injured, but according to the
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: probable cause affidavit, Woods did have two hydroconone pills in
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: his pocket. The officers observed him to be lethargic, slow,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: sweating profusely, with eyes that were bloodshot glassy and Pupils
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: that were extremely dilated. That sounds like your broadcast crew
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: after we get done with the game on Saturday. Sweating profusely.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 8: Anyway.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: Not as badly as the fans.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: No, no. Absolutely.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: The judge, Judge Steele, granted Tiger's request to travel outside
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: the United States to receive treatment in a controlled environment.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: And in a statement back in March, Tiger said he
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: was stepping away to seek treatment and focus.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: On his health. In May.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: the judge granted prosecutors' request to subpoena Woods' prescription drug
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: records covering the period from the start of 2026 up
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: until this past March 27th, the day that his Land
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: Rover rolled over on the Tulane Road near his home
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: in Jupiter Island in Florida. In July, the judge granted
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: a similar request that allowed prosecutors to obtain hospital records
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: connected to his medical treatment following the crash.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 7: And.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: And by the way, in case you were wondering, Tiger's
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: won 15 majors. So he's three shy of Jack Nicklaus'
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: record of 18. He also has won 82 PGA Tour events.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: That's a record he shares with Sam Snead, a guy
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: who spent 683 weeks.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: Record number is the world number one.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: And he's the only player to have held all four
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: major titles at the same time, known as the Tiger Slam.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: It wasn't all in the calendar year. I think it
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: started what? with an Open.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: Championship and then a PGA and then a Masters in
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: the U.S.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: Open, I think, when he got that.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: But in any event, the punishment is he goes five
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: years without a driver's license. Now, this is where I
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: point out that that would be a lot more difficult
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: for you or I.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: If we had to go five years.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: Tiger can have a five-year suspension of driving a license.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: He can afford to have somebody drive it.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 8: Of course.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: if you'd done that in the first place, we wouldn't
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: be having this conversation, right? He wouldn't be compelled to
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: do that now. But, it could have been worse for
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: him because the way.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: It worked.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: Is that it's two concurrent five-year license suspensions for the
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: reckless driving and the, what do they call it, careless driving.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they didn't, they didn't, Make them stand alone.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: No, and they didn't go with the DUI portion of it.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: In other words, they reduced the charges, if you will,
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: to reckless driving and careless driving. But because of his
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: past record and his history and things like that, that's
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: why they, you know, why the judge said five-year suspended license.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: But He can live with that. Just have a driver, right?
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: It shouldn't be that difficult for him. I think he
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: should be able to do it.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 3: No kidding.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: Put it this way.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 4: But what, did Scotty only just pass his earnings? We
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 4: talked about that with Cameron on Monday.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: Right, right, exactly.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: Speaking of earnings, and this was something I also wanted
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: to get into the inconceivable, but we didn't have time
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: for it. But this, again, goes to something that would
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: be much more difficult for you or I than for Tiger.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: And it certainly was for this man. Eating peanuts.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, sorry, not that one.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: You're familiar with the old TV commercials about publishers clearing
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: house to giveaways where you can get rich and you get,
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: you know, $ 5, 000 for life or.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: $ 10, 000 for life, that kind of thing.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: No, what is this? Oh, it was a deal for
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: years called Publishers Clearing House. You get this mail out
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: coming in the mail and you fill it out and
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: you send it in. Well, it opens you up to
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: getting all sorts of offers and junk mail and things
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: like that.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 3: But they pay you $ 5, 000?
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no. It's a drawing.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: It's a drawing. Yeah, so that, okay.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 3: So it's just a.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: The old TV commercial said, Only Publishers Clearinghouse can make
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: you so rich so fast. John Wiley, a 61-year-old Oregon man,
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: did win in the Publishers Clearinghouse sweepstakes. It's kind of
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: like a lottery. He won $ 5, 000 a week for life
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: back in 2012. It's quite a lot, $ 5, 000 a week. Ooh,
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: I hope he invested it. Well, here's what happened. According
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: to an NBC affiliate there in Oregon, he was receiving
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: an annual check for $ 260, 000. That's how it worked. It
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: helped him retire, and it helped him buy a house
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: on six acres in Bellingham, Washington. And then all of
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: a sudden, the check stopped coming last year because Publishers
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: Clearinghouse declared bankruptcy without warning him or the others. So
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: while he told the television station the.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: Turn of events.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: Feels like a nightmare, especially as he hasn't worked in
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: over a decade. He lives with his four dogs and
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: two goats on his property in Bellingham.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 3: That's where the money's going.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: He said he's struggling to find a job now.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: It was the promise of income for life has turned
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: into a legal and financial fight. He's one of at
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: least 10 winners who are still owed prize money that
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: they likely will never receive.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 8: Oh, man.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 4: Well, look, at least he's got a nice piece of property.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 3: I know worst comes to worst, right? He'll be okay.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: There was a group called ARB Interactive on the New
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: York Stock Exchange.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: They were listed as ARCA, A-R-C-A.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: They paid $ 7. 1 million to acquire Publishers Clearinghouse, but they
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: announced that they would only honor prizes won after they
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: took over in July. So the past winners, still waiting
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: on payment, still have to seek payment from the bankruptcy estate.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 4: So.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and this comes, rolls all the way back to
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: where I was going with this. Whenever I, and I
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: don't do this very often, but I do mention when
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: the jackpot gets gigantic. I'm talking about when they have
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: the lottery in Texas. We talk about when it gets
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: to that B, that $ 1 billion.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 8: That kind of thing.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: And it comes up as, you know, what would, if
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: you won, would you take the lump sum payout or
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: would you take the payments? And you said, and it
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: made perfect sense because you're younger, and I used to
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: feel the same way back in the day, that it
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: probably would make sense just to take the payments over time.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: The payments out, I guess, every year for 20 years,
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: I think it is, or 25 years. So you get
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: a certain amount. And by doing that, you get more money, actually,
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: than if you take the lump sum. Because lump sum
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: winds up working out to about, I think I read,
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: about 46% of the amount.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 4: But then if you have a place you want that
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 4: lump sum to grow and you're.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 3: Young, there's an argument for that too.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: Right, right.
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: There's some diversified different areas, right, for income. So here's
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: another argument for taking the lump sum, right?
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: I've thought about this before.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: If I ever won the lottery, would the lottery still
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: be around 20 years from now? Even if I'm still
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: around 20 years from now, would the lottery still be
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: around 20 years from now? And maybe there might be
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: a reason to take the payment. In the case of
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: Publisher's Clearinghouse, he didn't have a choice. The way the
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: sweepstakes work is he would get $ 5, 000 a year for
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: the rest of his life, which worked out to $ 260, 000
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: because 52 weeks times five.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 4: And back when he won, that was probably a huge salary.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 8: 2012.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 4: Okay, okay, not that long ago, but still.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 10: 2012.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: So he'd been getting the payments for 14 years. Not anymore. Actually,
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: 13 years because they stopped last year.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 4: So he only ended up with basically, yeah, I mean,
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 4: he only ended up with 12 years off of that,
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 4: not necessarily for life.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, I guess if we're doing the math.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 10: 14 years?
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: Well, like we said, I don't even think he got
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: 14 years out of it. I think it was going
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: to be 13 years off of it. So if you
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: did $ 260, 000 times 13.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: That's $ 3, 380, 000.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: That's a property in Washington with two goats.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: Two goats and a bunch of dogs, right?
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: But he said the principle of the deal was, the
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: deal was he's supposed to get five grand for life.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: So we'll see how that goes from there. Okay, coming up,
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: more Longhorn sound. We'll hear from Longhorn players when we
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: continue on 13 Under the Zone.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 5: Here on.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: The Yacht Rock Wednesday. Jimmy Messina, they were the new
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: and different way, which a lot of folks will look
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: at this Longhorn football team, how they attack things, especially defensively,
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: in a new and different way with Will Messchamp as
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: the defensive coordinator. Justin Cryer is one of those newer Longhorns,
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: the Florida State transfer. And he was asked about, you know,
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: what does he think he'll feel, his excitement level after
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: playing in Tallahassee. Now as a Texas Longhorn player, that
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: excitement level he expects to have when he runs out
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: on the field with his teammates at DKR on Saturday.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 12: Being in the crowd, it's a little different. I used
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 12: to come to games as a kid, so being on
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 12: the field this time and being in that smoke and
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 12: knowing that you've got 100,000 people outside and you've got
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 12: the cannon to your right, you've got people to your left,
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 12: it's a different feeling. Last week we did the mock
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 12: game and nobody was in the stadium. It was just
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 12: us running out, but I felt it. I felt like
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 12: I was really there. And I was just so excited. Like,
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 12: I had a huge smile on my face, like, the
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 12: entire day, really, because I was like, man, like, I
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 12: just can't believe I'm here. And I just really felt, like,
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 12: just blessed with the opportunity to go out there and
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 12: just go out there. Like, that first tunnel run out
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 12: with no one there, like, I felt like we had
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 12: everyone there.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 8: And it was a different feeling. So I'm super excited.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: Cryer was also asked about his skill set and the
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: mere fact that might he believe his skill set might
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: be accelerated and advanced and showcased a little more in
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: Will Muschamp's style of defense.
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 12: I feel like we get to play in space a
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 12: lot more. I feel like he does a lot of
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 12: Vegas kind of stuff.
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 8: Roam a little bit.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 12: We're not really stuck in one spot. So we're talking
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 12: about we get to do certain stuff that if we
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 12: see certain formations or whenever we're supposed to get a
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 12: certain spot, like we kind of play around with it
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 12: and just have a little personality on the field. So
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 12: there's being a robot standing in one spot. So being
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 12: able to play in space more. One thing I like
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 12: is that we get to kind of. show more pressure
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 12: than I did in the past and get to be
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 12: able to rush the passer a little bit more. So
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 12: I'm excited about that. And again, like we do a
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 12: lot of different stuff covering wise, disguising. So I feel
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 12: like we're going to do a good job of kind
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 12: of bouncing off each other and just showing off different
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 12: things we can do.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: So in getting ready for this and the question has
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: persisted throughout the summer, the reporters have asked players who
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: were returning players, what was the biggest difference that they
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 2: saw in Pete Kwiatkowski's defense and Will Muschamp's defense? Now,
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: That doesn't apply with Justin Cryer because he didn't play
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: for PK. But where he was coming from at Florida
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: State and now playing at Texas with Will Muschamp as
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: the defensive coordinator, there are some things. Should fans, for example,
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: expect to see more blitzing?
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 8: Yeah, we're going to get after it. We're going to
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 8: get after it. We're going to do a lot of
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 8: different things on defense.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 12: But again, Coach Muschamp is someone who likes to be
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 12: aggressive on defense and We're going to show that. We're
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 12: going to go out there and do a lot of
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 12: different stuff. He does a good job of letting his
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 12: athletes play, though. So he's not very too particular on
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 12: what we do. It's more so how we do it.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: And then Cryer was asked about one was one of
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: the popular questions of the week revolved around Hiro Kanu.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: And again, in case you didn't hear that yesterday, he
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: does prefer to have his last name pronounced Kanu, not canoe.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: He didn't speak up about it, by the way, until
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: in the preparations for this season. Everybody called him Hiro
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: Kanu last year. Television, we did the Media relations, everybody
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: called him Hirokadu. In fact, Sark even says it sometimes.
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 2: It kind of slips in a little bit because you
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: get used to saying the same. But he did pass
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: along his desire that everybody pronounce it Kanu. And I
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: asked him personally on Monday, I said, you make a
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: big play, whatever. How do you want me to say
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: your last name? And he said, Kanu. I said, good,
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: duly noted. So he also had attracted attention because he's
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: a very effervescent guy. He's very warm and friendly to
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: be the massive size guy that he is. And we'll
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: talk with just about anybody. As Sark said, he'll sit
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 2: down and have lunch with just about any of the
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: athletic teams over at the tank on campus. Friendly amongst
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 2: his teammates, just a warm personality, even as being as
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: tough as he is along the defensive front. And so
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: Justin Cryer was asked about his impressions of, of Hirokazu's
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: personality and the leadership element that he displays.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 8: He has a certain gravity towards him.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 12: I remember when I first got here with Ashley in
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 12: the Tank, when I first got here, I was trying
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 12: to find my way around certain stuff. He just came
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 12: and grabbed me, put his arm around me. I didn't
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 12: really know him like that, so I was kind of like, hey, man,
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 12: get off me. But he was like, man, you come
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 12: sit with me, man. So I was thinking we were
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 12: going to sit with some guys on the team. And
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 12: we sat with people from track, some people from golf.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 12: We sat with just a bunch of different people. And
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 12: his confidence to just go out there and talk to people.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 8: And I was like, do you know him? He was like, no,
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 8: I don't know him, but we're going to sit with
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 8: him today. That's the type of guy he is.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 12: He's someone like, man, he's someone who who really loves
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 12: where he's at, he loves where he's at, and he
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 12: loves just being around people, he's definitely like, a lot
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 12: of people say that they're a so-called people person, but
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 12: Hero is definitely one of those people who loves being
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 12: around other people, and just enjoying the presence of him
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 12: is something that I really got to enjoy over the
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 12: last couple months, so he has a different type of
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 12: gravity around him, some of you are just naturally drift
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 12: towards as the day goes on, and Even whenever you
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 12: go off the sideline, we mess up on something, he
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 12: comes to you, slaps you in the back of the
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 12: head like, man, you good, bro, with that little accent
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 12: he got. So, man, he's someone who I'm going to
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 12: enjoy playing with for the rest of the year, and
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 12: he's a great guy.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 2: And one of his linebacker teammates is Raheem Biles. Biles,
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: like Cryer, is a newcomer. He's a guy who came in,
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: transferred in from Pitt, and when he first came in,
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: he was asked quite a bit about the Ohio State
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: game coming up the week. Not necessarily for the same
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: reason that a lot of the players were asked about
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 2: Ohio State and kind of overlooking Texas State and not
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: paying attention. It wasn't so much because of that. It's
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: because Raheem Biles is from Columbus, Ohio. And he wasn't
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: initially recruited, you might say aggressively, by Ohio State. He
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: wound up going to Pitt, really showed out well then,
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: entered the portals, And Ohio State did actually show some
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: interest in him that he said, they had a chance
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 2: to give me the first time they didn't.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: I wanted to go on and play somewhere else. And
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: so he winds up as a Texas Longhorn.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: That was when folks were visiting with him early on
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 2: in fall camp workouts, getting accustomed to him, getting used
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: to him.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: So he said.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 2: That this defense, and in specific, the linebacking corps, also
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 2: went through its adjustment phase under pressure will Muschamp. And
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: that includes not only the production on the field, the
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: ferocity with which they are expected to attack opposing offenses,
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 2: be it whether they're blitzing or dropping back in pass
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 2: coverage or just hard.
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: Hitting, whatever.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: Not just that, but that Muschamp also wants his defense
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 2: to be led by the players, not necessarily by the
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 2: defensive coordinator.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 5: He wants our defense to be player-led.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 7: And I feel like I've just been, like, doing a
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 7: lot for.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 5: Us on and off the field. Because, obviously, it's player-led.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 8: On the field.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 7: Like, we're the ones out there making the checks. Like,
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 7: he says it all the time. Like, I'm not going
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 7: to be the one playing on the field. Like, it's
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 7: going to be y'all playing. Y'all going to be having
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 7: to communicate in front of 105,000, wherever we at on
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 7: the road. Big environment, big atmosphere. So, it's really just been, like,
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 7: more of a player-led thing. And I feel like that's
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 7: had help, like, in the locker room. Because when we speak,
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 7: we'll still be talking about some stuff that just happened
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 7: in walkthrough as we're walking into the locker room, just
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 7: little stuff. I feel like that's going to go a
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 7: long way with us on the field and off the
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 7: field because off the field is helping us grow a
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 7: crazy connection so that when we get on the field,
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 7: you can just look at somebody and they're going to
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 7: know you got this, we got that.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 5: So I feel like it's going to help us a
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 5: lot in the long run for sure.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 2: You know, if there's one thing you learn about playing
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 2: for Will Muschamp, and I remember this the first time,
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 2: when Will was the defensive coordinator, is that he's very,
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: very interested in the development of his players, loves his
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 2: players a lot. That does not, however, excuse them from
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 2: getting the wrath of the defensive coordinator if they don't
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 2: perform according to what's been discussed and practiced and practiced.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 2: And so Raheem Biles was asked if he recalled the
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: first time that Muschamp got on him.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 5: It was probably a day in the spring. I had
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 5: messed up a couple of calls. And then he just went, like, crazy. Like,
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 5: I was like, dang.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 8: Like, dang.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 5: Like, I didn't really know too much. There's not too
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 5: much you can say to that. You just got to
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 5: look at him like a man. Like, just look him
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 5: in his.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 7: Eyes and just know, like, you don't want this to
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 7: happen again. So I just made sure they happened again
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 7: for real, for real.
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 5: But that was.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 7: Really my moment in the spring. It was probably, like, three,
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 7: four practices in. It was a day I missed.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 5: I was tripping that day for sure. He got on
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 5: me for sure.
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 2: Now, when Viles was sitting at the table, he came in.
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 2: They do this on these media availabilities, and they take
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 2: the opportunity to put two players quite often at the
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 2: same uh place at the desk at the I started
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 2: to say the dais but it's not really a dais
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 2: they're just sitting at a table with a couple of
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 2: chairs and they kind of will start with one player
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 2: and roll a second player in there's a little bit
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 2: of overlap you might say and so it happened with
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 2: Hiro Kanu and Connor Robertson and then it kind of
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: happened with Connor Robertson uh and uh Raheem Biles. And
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 2: then it happened with Raheem Biles and Justin Cryer. So, uh,
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 2: the two linebackers were sitting there and answering the questions.
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 2: And so, uh, it got into this whole, uh, stream
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: of consciousness, if you will, this, this conversation about alpha dogs. Now,
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 2: defensive teams quite often are viewed as being alphas, especially
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 2: the pass rushers, linebackers, even secondary guys can be looked
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 2: at as being alphas leaders. Um, And that's one thing
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 2: coaches are always preaching and wanting to get out of
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 2: their football team. They want it to be player-led like
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 2: we just talked about and heard Biles talking about with
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 2: description of Will Muschamp is that they're looking for the team.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: To be player-led.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: Yes, the coaches have their input and their direction and
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 2: inspiration and all that kind of stuff.
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: But they want the players.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 2: If you have seen any of the documentaries about the
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 2: 2005 Longhorn team, like in the Trojan horse documentary about USC,
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 2: or in the recent one about Vince Young, the one
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 2: thing that comes away from that as much as anything else,
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 2: and it was also 2005, that documentary series about the Longhorns,
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 2: that Longhorn Network produced. If you take away nothing else
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 2: from those documentaries about What you do take away is
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: that that team was very much player-led. It even went
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 2: back to Vince Young in the summer of 2005, coming
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 2: off the Rose Bowl win over Michigan and getting ready
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 2: to go in the season. And USC had this winning
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 2: streak going. At the time, I think it was 22
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 2: in a row or 21 in a row, something like that.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 2: And Vince Young said to his team, if you guys
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 2: want to beat USC, meet me at Denius, the practice fields, tonight.
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: After dinner. So it was like evening workouts and that's
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: player led.
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 2: And it happened on the defensive side, guys like Michael
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 2: Huff and Brian Robison and guys like that on the
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 2: defensive side leading it. So that whole thing about player
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 2: led means you got to have the alpha dogs, those
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 2: alpha guys doing it. Well, Cryer is viewed in that prism.
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 2: so too is Biles. And Raheem Biles was asked, are
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 2: there younger players who could wind up being those future
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 2: alpha leaders after Biles and Cryer's time is completed at Texas?
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 7: Definitely Tyler Atkinson, Kosey, Rocky, all three of them, they
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 7: all gonna talk when they need to.
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 5: Richard, who else is some young guys? I think it's
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 5: some DBs.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 7: I'm going to say Torre. He got that, like, it's
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 7: not too much of a dog, but he carries himself
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 7: in a certain way, like, that he knows he can
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 7: make any play on the field. So I would say
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 7: he's not really vocal yet. but he carries his way,
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 7: he carries himself a certain way, like, as you know, like,
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 7: he got it in him. We just got to just
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 7: keep getting out of him. And I feel like much
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 7: check been doing that with him since.
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 5: He's been here, literally.
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 7: But it's definitely some young guys, but them names I named,
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 7: They definitely stand out for sure.
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 8: Yeah, for sure, Richard Wesley. I feel like he's done
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 8: a great job since the spring.
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 12: He's came in with a certain level of intensity that
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 12: I feel like is uncommon with freshmen. He didn't take
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 12: a backseat to anybody. He kind of came in with
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 12: his mindset on doing a certain thing, and he's been
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 12: playing really well. So I'm super excited to see him
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 12: out there because he's proven time and time again that
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 12: he's hard to block. So he's someone I'm really excited for.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 12: Same with JC, Jamarian Carlson. He's someone who's a goofy guy,
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 12: but when he gets on the field, he's someone who,
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 12: who can go out there and ball. So I'm excited
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 12: for both those young guys to go out there and
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 12: prove themselves.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 2: One more here from Raheem Biles. Of course, you're getting ready.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 2: There's been, again, one of the other big themes at
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 2: the Monday Media availability was about the aggressive nature and
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 2: the explosive, up-tempo, high-octane, fast-paced, nature and direction of the
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 2: Texas State offense they're going to see it right out
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 2: of the gate first game of the season so Biles
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 2: was asked are there some advantages of seeing something early
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 2: in the season that they will undoubtedly see again.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 7: It's very huge because like we're saying this tempo is
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 7: probably going to be the the biggest challenge but obviously
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 7: we're going to see it again with Ole Miss or
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 7: not Ole Miss but probably LSU now with Tennessee like
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 7: we know them teams is going to run tempo so
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 7: just seeing it now being able to adapt our bodies
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 7: adapt our brains just to know we got to get
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 7: lined up.
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 5: There's no time to celebrate after a play.
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 7: You got to get back to the ball, get the signal,
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 7: get the play call, and then go execute at a
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 7: high level.
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 5: It's going to be.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 7: A good challenge for us, but we're happy. Like you said,
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 7: it's great to see it this week one so we
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 7: can be prepared for it down the line, definitely.
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: So there's some Longhorn talk as well.
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 2: Coming up tomorrow, we'll hear more from Longhorn's head coach,
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 2: Steve Sarkeesian. Remember, our season premiered of Longhorn Weekly with
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 2: Coach Sark. It comes your way tomorrow afternoon at 5.30.
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 2: And it normally will be heard at 7 o'clock. But
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 2: because we have a Round Rock Express game whose coverage
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 2: begins at 6.50, it will start at 5.30, Longhorn Weekly
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 2: with Coach Sark, our first program of the season. And
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 2: I can tell you, at least I've been told, our
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 2: special guest, We have a different guest each week. Our
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 2: special guest tomorrow, the man in charge, the athletic director,
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 2: Chris Del Conte, will join us tomorrow on that program.
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 2: So you can hear it tomorrow afternoon at 5.30. Coming up,
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 2: we'll hear more from Brian Schottenheimer, the Cowboys head coach,
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 2: when we continue on Sports Radio AM 13 Under the
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 2: Zone and the iHeartRadio app.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: You've got a weight on your shoulders.
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 5: How you ever gonna find the words to say goodnight?
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  Speaker 1: It was one of their hits.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe not the most popular when you consider, like, Lonesome
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 2: Loser or Help Is On The Way or, you.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: Know, Happy Anniversary.
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 2: But Man On Your Mind was a hit from Little
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 2: River Band. One of those yacht rock bands that you
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 2: say could be on a Mount Rushmore if you're talking
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 2: about just bands alone. on that we continue on a
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 2: yacht rock Wednesday here on 1300 the zone and some
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 2: more from Ryan Schottenheimer the Cowboys head coach who was
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 2: asked about the addition of Amari DiMarcato the one-time TC
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 2: running back had been with Arizona and had been banged
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: up and what he brings not only into the backfield
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 2: but also the special teams to this.
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 6: Team really excited about Newey um you know This guy's got,
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 6: I think, 20 explosives over the last couple of years.
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 6: He's really, you know, and some of that's been with Clayton,
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 6: you know, off some of the G schemes and the
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 6: counter schemes.
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: That they've been running. Got very good vision.
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 6: He's a build-up speed guy that's got explosive play, making ability.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: We love his pass protection.
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 6: He's a really good pass protector, both understanding the scheme,
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 6: but also in executing the protection principles. I think that's
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 6: really important. And then on special teams, you know, he's
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 6: He's been a guy that's played a number of different
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 6: roles for the different teams, and so he's a valued member.
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 6: That was one that we were hoping would work out
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 6: for us in the claim picture, and it did.
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: He's a terrific young man, too. I think.
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 6: Not just Clayton, but anybody that's been around him, Ryan Smith.
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 6: We had a couple guys in Arizona. They all spoke
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 6: to the young man, and what a great fit he
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 6: would be in our locker room, which we obviously hold.
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: In high regard as well.
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 2: Next, Von Miller, of course, is with the Cowboys now,
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 2: and they've been slowly integrating him into it, and might
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 2: he be able to make an early impact on this club?
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you see the natural pass rush ability.
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 6: You know, Garrett, I think, you know, when you watch
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 6: him in the one-on-ones and few reps that he's gotten
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 6: because he's been in a ramp up, you do see that,
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 6: you know, his first step quickness, his understanding of how
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 6: to attack tackles, angles, and break down their hands. And,
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 6: you know, I think he's probably the longest tenured guy
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 6: with BT Jordan in terms of the— You know, the
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 6: pass rush moves and the tools in your toolbox and
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 6: all that stuff, but also the impact that he's had
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 6: with some of the younger players. I talked a couple
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 6: weeks ago about it's not just the pass rushers that
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 6: he works with.
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: He talks to the tackles. He talks to different people.
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 6: And he's one of the most energetic guys on game day,
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 6: even during the preseason. You're in preseason three of year three. 16,
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 6: 17 for him. And first one to run out there
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 6: and congratulate a guy when they make a big play, offense, defense.
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: And I think the guys feel that.
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 2: You know, as a follow-up, remember Von Miller was a
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 2: part of that Rams defense, won the Super Bowl. And
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 2: of course, they had Aaron Donald. Now Aaron Donald is
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 2: back with the Rams. And Sean Embers asked about that. And,
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 2: you know, if you could... if you could bring somebody
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 2: out of retirement, who might that be?
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: Well, I saw a picture of him. He looks pretty good.
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 6: So, uh, he's been training a little different than differently
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 6: than I have. Um, but, uh, you know, a great player.
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 6: It's good for the game, you know, and just, you know,
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 6: gives a good team, another great player, but, uh, we've
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 6: got a little time till we have to see him.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 9: Who would be your back home call to bring out
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 9: of retirement? If you could like Sean McVay with him.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 2: No.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: Um, I'm going to just take a shot, and I'm
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: going to go Michael Irvin. You know what I mean?
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 8: Why?
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: He's right here somewhere. Mike, you around? The same room
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: as me. Huh? You can never have enough good receivers.
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 2: Take Michael Irvin if you could be back and be
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 2: in playing shape. Of course, we mentioned they're going to
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 2: open with the New York Giants a week from Sunday night.
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 2: And Sean Emmer was asked about the pace of ramping
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 2: up toward that game without front-loading too much of it.
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 6: The biggest thing that, again, I want to emphasize is
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 6: this week is, there's things that you hold, Todd. There's
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 6: a scheme that you hold until your roster is a
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 6: little bit more put together.
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: It's never finalized. This thing changes fast. You guys know that.
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 6: But there's some concepts and things that we've held that
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 6: we haven't shown. Because we know teams are going to be,
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 6: players are going to be moving all over. So that's
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 6: part of it. So when I talk about taking care
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 6: of yourself and the self-scout and primary, secondary, game plan
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 6: specific slots for all of your scheme, that's first. And
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 6: then you begin the process of... looking at the Giants.
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 6: So like I said, last night I looked at a
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 6: little bit of Tennessee film, Tennessee Titan film and Denard
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 6: Wilson's defense.
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: But I'm not diving in.
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 6: We'll have a Monday practice where it's all carded and
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  Speaker 6: we begin our process into the Giants, but then the
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  Speaker 6: players get Tuesday off.
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  Speaker 1: It's all part of the league mandated break these guys get.
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  Speaker 6: So the cadence that we hope for is that, you know,
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  Speaker 6: we get a little bit ahead this week, but without
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  Speaker 6: going overboard because we don't want to waste time next week.
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  Speaker 6: And so we'll feel good going into Monday's practice. We'll
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  Speaker 6: get some work Monday, try some things maybe that we like,
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  Speaker 6: but don't, you know, have a ton of history in
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  Speaker 6: and see if those make it the final cut. And
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  Speaker 6: then once Tuesday hits, we're into a normal game plan
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  Speaker 6: game in season mode.
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  Speaker 2: So there is Brian Schottenheimer as the Cowboys continue their
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  Speaker 2: ramp up toward their season opener.
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  Speaker 1: A week from Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be back to wrap up today's edition of the
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  Speaker 2: program on 13 Under the Zone.