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Sark's thoughts on where Texas sits in the SEC · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: It's the craig Way Show with the voice of the
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  Speaker 1: Texas Longhorns and Hall of Fame Broadcasting Craig Way.
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  Speaker 2: Some more input coming off the tex slide.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody said, I think if we talking about Texas managed
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  Speaker 3: to play clean football, meaning penalty free football, he said,
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  Speaker 3: we will win these last few games, even if it's ugly.
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  Speaker 3: The penalties killer Mojo. They did a better job, although
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  Speaker 3: I still think they had seven penalties in the game
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  Speaker 3: in the winter for Florida on Saturday, but they were
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  Speaker 3: kind of spread out and rather inconsequential as opposed to
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  Speaker 3: the Vanderbilt game where they really were impactful. I think
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  Speaker 3: Sarks said that of the ten penalties they had, seven
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  Speaker 3: were huge, and that the impacted drives and killed off
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  Speaker 3: big plays and things like that that made that game
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  Speaker 3: closer than a lot of folks have, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, figured it to be, and it could have
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  Speaker 3: been much a wider.
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  Speaker 2: Margin. But that's what happens.
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  Speaker 3: If you make mistakes, whether it's turnovers or penalties, you
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  Speaker 3: can keep a team in the football game, and it
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  Speaker 3: happened in that one.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm curious how many of those came with, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the twos and threes up versus the first I remember
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  Speaker 1: Kelvin Banks had a holding penalty in the first half.
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  Speaker 2: He came on a first down.
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  Speaker 1: But was there any other flags in the first half.
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  Speaker 1: I don't I'm trying to think. I don't remember any.
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  Speaker 1: The biggest thing to me was the false starts, yeah right,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought Texas maybe they had something with the
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  Speaker 1: second units. But I don't remember anything in the first
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  Speaker 1: two quarters outside of that Kelvin Banks holding penalty.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm trying to think. I uh, when there were
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  Speaker 3: one laid hit on a quarterback might have been. I
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  Speaker 3: can't remember for sure anyway, that most of those Your
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  Speaker 3: point is is well made. Most of those came after
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  Speaker 3: the issue had kind of already been said. But yes,
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  Speaker 3: to his point, they're going to need to stay penalty free,
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  Speaker 3: especially on the road, and I've done a good job
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  Speaker 3: on the road other than that Vanderbilt game. I think
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  Speaker 3: of the Oklahoma game, I think of the Michigan game
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  Speaker 3: of staying away from from costly penalties.
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  Speaker 2: So they're going to have to do a good job
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  Speaker 2: on that.
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  Speaker 3: On Saturday, somebody else pointing toward the Cowboys and Jerry
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  Speaker 3: Jones's rock Bottom, Jerry rock bottom.
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  Speaker 1: There was that illegal block in the back on Shalen
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  Speaker 1: Gilbot on the trade more fumble in turn right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that nullified most of the return. The net wound
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  Speaker 3: up being like five yards or three yards or something
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  Speaker 3: like that.
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  Speaker 1: And then there was also another legal block, remember like
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  Speaker 1: on it was like that like Reid option play, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and Gilbot came in and like it was kind of
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  Speaker 1: like he It's one of those weird where the defend
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  Speaker 1: the defensive players called.
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  Speaker 2: For whole for the for the illegal chop block.
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  Speaker 1: There's three right there in the first.
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  Speaker 3: Half, and so I think that one was in the
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  Speaker 3: second when Florida was making a drive, wasn't it.
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  Speaker 1: It was second quarter, second to the second quarter. It
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  Speaker 1: was on the drive where Gilbolt later came back and
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  Speaker 1: at that third and fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, that's right, very important on that one.
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  Speaker 3: And then somebody else said that, hey, oh was her
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  Speaker 3: man seatpalace. So the way the soccer team won was
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  Speaker 3: amazing and clutch Texas Fike. Yeah, it was what a
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  Speaker 3: beautifully placed ball, you know, that was just that's that's
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  Speaker 3: what the Brits would say in soccer. Oh a lovely
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  Speaker 3: ball that was that was laid up lots like exquisitely played.
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  Speaker 2: That was knocked in on the header by Curly Montgomery.
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  Speaker 2: I will ask, uh, we'll ask as Kelly about that tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Trevor guzy face mask in the third quarter, Ye throw
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  Speaker 1: up the four and then there was a Kim Williams
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  Speaker 1: holding penalty when he came back in after the injuries.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, so they're five. They do want to clean
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  Speaker 3: those up going into the rest of it, but they
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  Speaker 3: did a better job than they had. It was all
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  Speaker 3: part of a much better effort on that. A couple
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  Speaker 3: more thoughts from Steve Sarkisian and the next one would
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  Speaker 3: be about efficiency, working on efficient practices and practicing being
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  Speaker 3: efficient on the drive and is that practiced during the week.
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  Speaker 4: No, not necessarily like that.
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  Speaker 5: We really made a point of emphasis and I talked
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  Speaker 5: about it like playing good football on first and second down.
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  Speaker 4: You know a lot of times we want to.
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  Speaker 5: Talk about critical factors and stats of third down red area.
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  Speaker 4: You know those things.
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  Speaker 5: Well, sometimes it's football is a lot easier when you
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  Speaker 5: don't have to play third down. And the reason you
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  Speaker 5: don't have to play third down is you're really efficient
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  Speaker 5: on first and second down. And so we're at our
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  Speaker 5: best when we're like that. Now, you have to minimize
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  Speaker 5: the self inflicted wounds, right, the false starts, the penalties,
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  Speaker 5: the negative plays. But when we can play efficient football
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  Speaker 5: and move the ball forward on first and second down,
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  Speaker 5: generally that bodes well for us, and that's when we
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  Speaker 5: can start to create some of those explosives.
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  Speaker 4: So but but no, we don't.
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  Speaker 5: Practice it per se, but in reality, that's really what
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  Speaker 5: we're doing every day.
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  Speaker 3: This has been brought up several times, the downfield blocking
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  Speaker 3: that the Longhorns have done with receivers. There was one that,
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  Speaker 3: speaking of penalties, there was a penalty flag thrown it
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  Speaker 3: first on Isaiah Bond, and then they picked up the
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  Speaker 3: flag and said no, it was not an illegal downfield block.
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  Speaker 3: But Sark was asked about how important it is to
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  Speaker 3: be blocking downfield after after a catch, in helping guys
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  Speaker 3: maximize the game.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I think there's some there's some great things
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  Speaker 5: to look at, Like, you know, the around Isaiah Bond,
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  Speaker 5: Matthew Golden makes a really critical block against an unscouted look,
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  Speaker 5: and then you go watch Ryan Niblet go block the corner.
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  Speaker 5: You watch Cam Williams thirty yards downfield. You watch Gunner
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  Speaker 5: Helm thirty yrs downfield. You watch Jake Major's forty yards
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  Speaker 5: downfield blocking on that play. You watch the touchdown pass
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  Speaker 5: to Golden there at the end of the first half.
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  Speaker 5: You see Trey Wisner coming off from the opposite side
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  Speaker 5: picking up a blitzer to give Quinn that time to
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  Speaker 5: throw that ball to Matthew Golden. You see Jack Gibson's
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  Speaker 5: run late in the game, and you watch Silas Bolden
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  Speaker 5: block in a corner. You see Ryan Wingo blocking two
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  Speaker 5: defenders so to give Jack that opportunity to score.
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  Speaker 4: You look at the screen to Trey Wisner.
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  Speaker 5: You'll see Kelvin Banks with an initial block off the edge.
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  Speaker 5: You'll see You'll see Jake Majors, you see Cole Hudson
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  Speaker 5: out in the open field block, and you see Gunner
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  Speaker 5: Helm downfield. You'll see Jayden Blue running from across the
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  Speaker 5: field trying to get a block. And so I think
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  Speaker 5: that's the nature of this team right now. We're very selfless.
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  Speaker 5: They love playing for one another. We've been talking about
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  Speaker 5: it last week, preaching it all week. Eleven is one.
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  Speaker 5: Eleven is one where we don't want eleven different players
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  Speaker 5: on offense. We want one offensive team that plays together
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  Speaker 5: as one and so we take a lot of pride
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  Speaker 5: in that, and that's when our offense is at its best.
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  Speaker 5: And I think it showed up probably in its best
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  Speaker 5: kind of frame Saturday of us playing that type of football.
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  Speaker 3: And one final comment from Sark and again about blocking
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  Speaker 3: Trevor Goosby. We mentioned Gooseby had that had that face
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  Speaker 3: mask call, but Goozby that was like the second play
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  Speaker 3: he was in after Cameron when Hes went out with
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  Speaker 3: the injury, and then he played really well after that.
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  Speaker 3: So the depth on the offensive line was tested a
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  Speaker 3: little bit. I've been fortunate that they haven't had, you know,
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  Speaker 3: offensive line and key starting offensive line and go down
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  Speaker 3: for significant amounts of time. And they had a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of scare with Cam going out, but then he
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  Speaker 3: came back in later. But Goosby played, you know, there
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  Speaker 3: was that one penalty, but otherwise played.
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  Speaker 2: Well at that right tackle spot.
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  Speaker 3: And he was asked Sark was asked about Gooseby and
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  Speaker 3: his development coming off the bench.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I'm super pumped for Trevor. You know, he
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  Speaker 4: he was.
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  Speaker 5: A skinny, tall, skinny kid when he first got here,
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  Speaker 5: and he is really worked it and developing his body
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  Speaker 5: he's gotten with coach Beckton.
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  Speaker 2: In the weight room.
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  Speaker 5: He's worked hard with our with our dietitians of eating
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  Speaker 5: the right stuff because he's always been extremely athletic and
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  Speaker 5: he's always been very tough. I mean, he's got a
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  Speaker 5: nasty streak about him, but now he's got the size
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  Speaker 5: to kind of back it up. And I think the
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  Speaker 5: development that he and coach Flood have put forth of
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  Speaker 5: his ability to play really either tackle spot, left or
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  Speaker 5: right tackle and given us the confidence to put him
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  Speaker 5: in there to go in there and play. And he
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  Speaker 5: wasn't perfect, and I didn't expect him to be, but
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  Speaker 5: he's got a very very bright future ahead of him.
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  Speaker 5: And I think a lot of it is kind of
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  Speaker 5: internal drive that he has, but he's also got some
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  Speaker 5: great measurables that that equate to being a really good player.
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  Speaker 2: All Right.
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  Speaker 3: So there it is. Comments from Sark will be back
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