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NFL Injuries Everywhere, Texas Players Discuss Road Test, What Went Wrong For A&M, SMU · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: It's second down 14 31 of the giants it's a
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  Speaker 1: shotgun snap to the ram quarterback stafford sets side on
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  Speaker 1: throw leaping catch 20.
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  Speaker 2: Down the middle 10 pass mark five adams touchdown what
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  Speaker 2: a throw and what a catch 31 yard touchdown for
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  Speaker 2: the rams who go up early late first quarter on
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  Speaker 2: the giants.
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  Speaker 3: And week number two of the NFL season in the books.
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  Speaker 4: Now we all turn our.
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  Speaker 3: Attention, NFL, college football, high school football, all levels of football,
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  Speaker 3: to week three.
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  Speaker 4: Good afternoon, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to the program here on Sports Radio AM 1300,
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  Speaker 3: The Zone, and where you can always listen to us
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  Speaker 3: for free on the iHeartRadio app. My name is Craig Way.
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  Speaker 3: Glad to have you alongside. That was Kevin Harlan, Westwood One,
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  Speaker 3: with the call. Do you know, our producer, Jake Herman,
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  Speaker 3: do you know, Jake, that.
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  Speaker 4: Kevin Harlan works without a spotter.
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  Speaker 6: That's incredible.
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  Speaker 4: I know. He does pretty well for work. I wonder why.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I had a producer tell me that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: that had produced him on some Monday night games, a
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  Speaker 3: Westwood one, that he just felt uncomfortable, kind of felt
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  Speaker 3: encumbered by it, felt like it could be distracting to him,
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  Speaker 3: even if somebody's just pointing to who made the tackle
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  Speaker 3: or the interception who grabbed it.
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  Speaker 4: Listen. Listen.
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  Speaker 3: For people who compliment me on what I do, and
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate that, there's no way that I could be
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  Speaker 3: as effective at doing what I do if I didn't
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  Speaker 3: have a good statistician, which we do have in Steve Leach,
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  Speaker 3: and an outstanding spotter. And I didn't even really have
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  Speaker 3: to teach him that much. Andy Wade, my son, has
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  Speaker 3: been my spotter since he was 13. And he's just
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  Speaker 3: gotten better over time with what one has used him.
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  Speaker 3: He's worked on television games. And so without those guys,
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  Speaker 3: in addition to having an excellent analyst and Roger Wallace
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  Speaker 3: and Will Matthews on the sidelines, I couldn't do the
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  Speaker 3: job that I do. So for Kevin Harlan to do
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  Speaker 3: it without a spotter, can be pretty impressive. So, uh,
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  Speaker 3: but he, he would rather not work with one. So
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  Speaker 3: called that touchdown pass to Devante Adams without, without a spotter. And, uh,
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  Speaker 3: he called this touchdown pass as well to Devante Adams.
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  Speaker 4: With the, uh, with the Rams getting the win on
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  Speaker 4: Monday night.
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  Speaker 1: Rams have it first and 10 tight end in motion.
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  Speaker 1: Jaffer gets the pass off the side.
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  Speaker 2: Over the shoulder, catch both side and the end zone
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  Speaker 2: caught touchdown.
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  Speaker 6: Adams lassoes it.
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  Speaker 2: His second touchdown reception tonight. 11-yard touchdown catch as Stafford
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  Speaker 2: has thrown yet another touchdown tonight in the first home
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  Speaker 2: game for the Rams at now 20-3 over the Giants in.
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  Speaker 4: The third quarter.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was another one there, again, from Westwood One
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  Speaker 3: that Kevin Harlan called. Matthew Stafford had a fine game.
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  Speaker 3: He bounced back nicely from that loss to San Francisco.
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  Speaker 3: He threw four touchdown passes. Even without Puka Nakua on
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  Speaker 3: the field, the Rams got plenty of offense. They ran
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  Speaker 3: the ball well with Kyron Williams and Blake Corum and
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  Speaker 3: then got the touchdown pass as well.
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  Speaker 4: Touchdown passes as well. All of that.
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  Speaker 3: And let me tell you something, all of that is
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  Speaker 3: Rams fan. You know, that's nice and all that. I'm
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  Speaker 3: glad they got back to 500 and all that kind
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  Speaker 3: of stuff. And they look a little more like themselves and,
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  Speaker 3: and they had the bonus of Aaron Donald's return. I
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  Speaker 3: think he had what he had three tackles in the game.
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  Speaker 3: And he said it was special to be back there.
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  Speaker 3: Three tackles, a tackle for a loss and, Didn't have
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  Speaker 3: any pressures. He played 32 snaps, 58% of their defensive snaps.
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  Speaker 3: And Sean McVay was asked whether he was on a
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  Speaker 3: snap count.
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  Speaker 4: He said, what do you think? You tell him to
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  Speaker 4: come out.
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  Speaker 3: Now, all of that is well and good, even if
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  Speaker 3: you're a Rams fan like I am. But the best
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  Speaker 3: part of the night for me– Yeah, I mean, the
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  Speaker 3: win's important as someone who was rooting for the team.
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  Speaker 3: But probably just as important was a bit of a
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  Speaker 3: mea culpa after the game. Because, remember, after they went
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  Speaker 3: to Australia, folks kept asking, why did they do it
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  Speaker 3: the way that they did?
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  Speaker 4: Because, remember, they were really....
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  Speaker 3: Really determined to do it how they wanted to do it,
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  Speaker 3: which was to go out, whatever it was, 36 hours
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  Speaker 3: before kickoff, spend one night there, play the game, get
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  Speaker 3: on the plane, come back home. There'd been similar travel
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  Speaker 3: things that had been cited in the past, including last
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  Speaker 3: year when they went to London and play the Jaguars.
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  Speaker 3: But there's big differences there. One, They had just played
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  Speaker 3: a game in Baltimore, so they were still on the
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  Speaker 3: East Coast. They stayed on the East Coast and practiced
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  Speaker 3: until late in the week. Two, from Baltimore over there,
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  Speaker 3: it was only about a five and a half hour
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  Speaker 3: flight to there. It wasn't a 16-hour flight. And if
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  Speaker 3: we're being completely honest, they're playing the Jaguars. They were
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  Speaker 3: not playing the 49ers. So you had all of that
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  Speaker 3: kind of stuff versus what they decided to do, which
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  Speaker 3: was to go out 36 hours before you could tell
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  Speaker 3: that just the They looked sluggish.
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  Speaker 4: They looked out of position.
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  Speaker 3: They jet lagged, as many called it. But the Rams
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  Speaker 3: didn't really, and in specific, the head coach, Sean McVay,
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  Speaker 3: didn't really own it that much afterwards. They were kind
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  Speaker 3: of like, well, we just weren't ourselves. We didn't play well.
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  Speaker 3: Credit the 49ers. We'll get back at it. And then
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  Speaker 3: you heard all this stuff about putting it in the
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  Speaker 3: rearview mirror. What was it McVay said? I never want
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  Speaker 3: to go to Australia ever again. It was something like that.
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  Speaker 3: He said, nothing against Australia. Just never want to play a.
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  Speaker 4: Game there again.
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  Speaker 3: So then last night, He was wrapping up his press
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  Speaker 3: conference and was asked a different question about the response.
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  Speaker 4: But listen to how he finishes this.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think, you know, sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.
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  Speaker 7: And, you know, sometimes you have a dumbass coach that,
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  Speaker 7: you know, makes travel plans that put you in a
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  Speaker 7: bad spot.
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  Speaker 6: There you go.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody was laughing about that and was like, okay, he
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  Speaker 4: owned it.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes you have a dumbass coach who makes travel plans
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  Speaker 3: that put you in a bad spot.
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  Speaker 4: He owned it.
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  Speaker 3: That's part of the reason why I think a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people like Sean McVay because he'll point the finger
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  Speaker 3: at himself if it's not the only one.
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  Speaker 4: And he'll do it in a way that it's, there are.
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  Speaker 3: Coaches who can say, it's on me, it's on the coach,
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  Speaker 3: and it sounds like they're saying what they're supposed.
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  Speaker 4: To say as the head coach. And I get it.
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  Speaker 3: Sean McVay's one of those guys who when he says
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  Speaker 3: it like that, you believe that he believes it. That,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that he's, thinking to himself, I screwed this
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  Speaker 3: up by going out there. So we'll see. They did
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  Speaker 3: look more like the Rams team that everybody's expecting this
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  Speaker 3: year last night.
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  Speaker 4: But it was a home game. Now they got to
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  Speaker 4: go to Denver this week. We'll see.
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  Speaker 3: And we'll see if Pukunuku is back, you know. But
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  Speaker 3: there were a lot of injuries that come out, most notably,
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  Speaker 3: of course, the Giants quarterback, Jackson Dart. We'll have more
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  Speaker 3: on that coming up later this afternoon. There's several other,
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  Speaker 3: Tyson Bajet is probably going to have to go at
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  Speaker 3: quarterback for the Bears. You know, what with the injury
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  Speaker 3: to Caleb Williams, although they don't think it's that serious,
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  Speaker 3: at least not initially. I think the week two injury
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  Speaker 3: report in the NFL is looking a little more extensive
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  Speaker 3: than the week one injury report.
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  Speaker 8: I think it's been a bad year for injuries in general.
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  Speaker 8: It feels like you can say that every year in
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  Speaker 8: the league, but I think there's been a lot of
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  Speaker 8: high-profile injuries, particularly on the offensive side of the ball.
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  Speaker 8: But as we'll get to, there's a few big defensive
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  Speaker 8: injuries out there, too, that are piling up. But I
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  Speaker 8: don't know the why behind that. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 8: potential explanations, whether it's guys playing less in the preseason,
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  Speaker 8: whether it's guys having less time to ramp up to
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  Speaker 8: NFL action. But some of it is just year-to-year variance.
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  Speaker 3: I think that it's almost, almost a can't-win situation. It's
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  Speaker 3: a lose-lose proposition for NFL coaches. Here's what I mean
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  Speaker 3: by this.
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  Speaker 4: Sip of water.
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  Speaker 3: If they play the guys in preseason and somebody suffers
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  Speaker 3: a big injury, then they're just excoriated for what are
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  Speaker 3: you doing playing the guys in preseason? What in the
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  Speaker 3: world are you thinking? You're not thinking. How could you
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  Speaker 3: do that?
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  Speaker 4: But if you don't play them, then.
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  Speaker 3: you can expect it to look a little more sluggish
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  Speaker 3: out of the gate and more susceptible to injury if
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  Speaker 3: they don't play in the preseason. And by the way,
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  Speaker 3: that's another reason why the Rams.
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  Speaker 4: Look so awful against the 49ers.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody plays in the preseason that's going to be a
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  Speaker 3: starter or expected to be a contributor. It's always been
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  Speaker 3: that way for McVay, and that has been a winning formula,
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  Speaker 3: but it didn't help. all the other issues they were
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  Speaker 3: dealing with when they went to Australia, the fact that
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  Speaker 3: they had guys, including Matthew Stafford, who did not play
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  Speaker 3: in the preseason and who looked rusty. Stafford looked 38
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  Speaker 3: against the 49ers. He looked 28 against the Giants last night.
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  Speaker 9: So did Devontae Adams.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he looked 25 instead of 35. So get a
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  Speaker 3: game under Bell. And while, and again, I'm right there
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  Speaker 3: at the head of the line that people think it
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  Speaker 3: was a grievous mistake to go out when they did.
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  Speaker 3: And at the time when we learned that they were
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  Speaker 3: going to do it this way, I was kind of like, okay.
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  Speaker 3: You know, as a fan, I'm like, I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: trust the process. I'm going to trust the coach that
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  Speaker 3: he knows what he's talking about because he's the coach.
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  Speaker 3: He knows the team.
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  Speaker 4: I don't. I've never been to Australia.
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  Speaker 6: Fans trusting a coach?
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  Speaker 4: What's that? Fans can do that? I try to be realistic.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not always. Watch me during a Dodger game.
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  Speaker 9: I was talking to some of our audience.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I understand.
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  Speaker 3: But I was like, I'm going to trust and all
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  Speaker 3: this other kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 4: And then it just looks like pig slop.
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  Speaker 3: It looked awful. They looked awful. I'm like, it had
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  Speaker 3: to be that. What a mess that is. But I
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  Speaker 3: think coming out of that, having the extra time. Remember, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday.
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  Speaker 3: It was 11 days in between games. It was kind
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  Speaker 3: of almost like a bye when they came home. So
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  Speaker 3: they got rested. They got their body clocks right. They
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  Speaker 3: got in some good work, other than Nakua, who had
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  Speaker 3: the injury. They got in some work. They got Aaron
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  Speaker 3: Donald ready. And then it was like, okay. And then
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  Speaker 3: they were anxious to get on the field and on
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  Speaker 3: their home field to play a Giants team that lofty
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  Speaker 3: things were being said about after the win of the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, last night, even on the Monday Night Football,
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  Speaker 3: on the predictions, was it they had seven people who picked,
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  Speaker 3: four picked the Giants to win last night. So all
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  Speaker 3: this stuff said, so they were properly prepared and ready
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  Speaker 3: to go. And I think the Giants were too. They
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  Speaker 3: just got overwhelmed by a better team. Plus the injury
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  Speaker 3: to Dart took a lot of wind out of their sails.
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  Speaker 3: No doubt about that. It hurt them. All right, coming up,
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  Speaker 3: we've got a lot more to get to. We're going
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  Speaker 3: to hear from Brian Schottenheimer, the Cowboys head coach. We're
• 11:40
  Speaker 3: going to hear from Longhorn players. We'll hear from Trevor Goosby.
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  Speaker 3: We'll hear from Arch Manning. And we will also hear
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  Speaker 3: from Longhorn's men's basketball coach, Sean Miller, who, you know,
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  Speaker 3: practice got underway yesterday. This is a team that is,
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  Speaker 3: at least in the early projections, picked to be a
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  Speaker 3: top 10 team. So we'll see about all of that.
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  Speaker 3: So we've got all that coming up and more right
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  Speaker 3: here on a Tuesday afternoon on Sports Radio AM 13
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  Speaker 3: Under the Zone and where you can always listen to
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  Speaker 3: us for free. Oh, and by the way, we didn't forget,
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  Speaker 3: we do have Inconceivable this hour as well. All that
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  Speaker 3: coming up here on The Zone and on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 3: It is a Texan Tuesday here on Sports Radio AM
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  Speaker 3: 13 Under the Zone, which means certainly we hear from
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  Speaker 3: some of the biggest legends in Texas music included in.
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  Speaker 6: Our return cuts.
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  Speaker 3: Included in, but not exclusive to, in the 4 o'clock hour,
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  Speaker 3: the king, George Strait. In the 3 o'clock hour, the
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  Speaker 3: iconic Willie Nelson. Here in the 2 o'clock hour, we
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  Speaker 3: ring it in with the immortal Stevie Ray Vaughan.
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  Speaker 8: And his first cut off the album Soul to Soul
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  Speaker 8: titled Say What?
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  Speaker 9: With an exclamation.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot of that over the weekend. Sure was.
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  Speaker 4: Say what? Kentucky beat A & M in College Station?
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  Speaker 4: Say what?
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  Speaker 9: And beat them by two scores.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah. There was one of them. Some.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of grumbling and growling about the long words. They
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  Speaker 3: only won by 24?
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  Speaker 6: Oklahoma only won by eight?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: 7-6 in the third quarter of that game.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, it's the day and age of college football now.
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  Speaker 4: Things change. There's a lot that's changed.
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  Speaker 3: So the Longhorns right now are 3-0 and getting ready
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  Speaker 3: to go to Knoxville, Tennessee to play the Tennessee Volunteers
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  Speaker 3: in the state of Tennessee for the first time in
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  Speaker 3: school history. They have three prior meetings with the Volunteers
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  Speaker 3: all in the Cotton Bowl in 1951 and 1953. Texas
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  Speaker 3: lost the first meeting. They had a 14-6 lead going
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  Speaker 3: into the final quarter. That one ended up losing 20-14.
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  Speaker 3: The next time out, they won 16-0. And then January 1st, 1969,
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  Speaker 3: which capped the first season after the conversion to the
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  Speaker 3: wishbone in the 1968 season when they lost a game
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  Speaker 3: early and tied a game early and then got on
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  Speaker 3: a roll. won the rest of them, including the Southwest
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  Speaker 3: Conference title, and then beat Tennessee in the Cotton Bowl 36-13.
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  Speaker 3: And it set the stage for the back-to-back national championship
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  Speaker 3: seasons that followed in the 20-game winning streak in 1969
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  Speaker 3: and 1970. So there's all of that. And now they
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  Speaker 3: get ready to play at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville for
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  Speaker 3: the first time ever. Trevor Goosby, anchor of that offensive front.
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  Speaker 3: I was talking about thinking and asked, you know, we've
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  Speaker 3: seen the running game at times look good with Hollywood
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  Speaker 3: Smothers and Raleigh Brown. And then Derek Cooper got his
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  Speaker 3: first touchdown as a long one last week. And then
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  Speaker 3: times when it hasn't been consistent enough. So Goosby was
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  Speaker 3: asked to evaluate the team's running game.
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  Speaker 10: You know, I think we're in a good spot. You know,
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  Speaker 10: I just think there's still more that we can do.
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  Speaker 10: But that's always a good thing, you know, being able
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  Speaker 10: to improve. And, you know, we just got to go
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  Speaker 10: out and execute on the road.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and the road means going to Knoxville. How about
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  Speaker 3: the excitement level for that?
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  Speaker 4: I'm super excited. You know, obviously, Neyland is an amazing stadium.
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  Speaker 10: You know, obviously, Tennessee has great fans and, you know,
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  Speaker 10: they always show up for their team.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm super excited to go play Rocky Top. All right.
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  Speaker 3: So you go to Rocky Top and what's the most
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  Speaker 3: important thing a team needs to do and needs in
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  Speaker 3: order to play well on the road?
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  Speaker 10: I think just a sense of unity and understanding, like,
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  Speaker 10: we're going into a hostile environment, especially Neyland Stadium, you know,
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  Speaker 10: playing Tennessee. You know, we just have to have a
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  Speaker 10: sense of unity and making sure that we're all on
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  Speaker 10: the same page and just, you know, communication, especially up front.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I mentioned that Dylan Sikorski is, or excuse me,
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  Speaker 3: that Goosby is the anchor of the offensive front. They're
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  Speaker 3: along with Connor Robertson at the senior spot there at
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  Speaker 3: the center. But at left guard, they've had a pretty
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  Speaker 3: good rotation over Dylan Sikorski. As a starter, Lawrence Seymour
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  Speaker 3: getting snaps as well. And Goosby's asked, what is it
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  Speaker 3: that we don't know about the junior transfer from Sumner, Washington,
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  Speaker 3: by way of Oregon State, Dylan Sikorski?
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  Speaker 10: Man, Dylan, I could talk all day about that guy, man.
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  Speaker 10: He's an amazing person, first and foremost. And, you know,
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  Speaker 10: he came in as a transfer, obviously. But he's bought
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  Speaker 10: in super early. And, you know, he trusts what Flood
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  Speaker 10: is doing. And he trusts the guys around him, you know,
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  Speaker 10: Connor Robertson and I and, you know, Melvin and Baker.
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  Speaker 10: You know, we're all just kind of super close. So
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  Speaker 10: Dylan really bought into that. You know, I appreciate him
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  Speaker 10: for that.
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  Speaker 3: Yesterday was obviously the player availability. So it's early days
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  Speaker 3: in terms of trying to evaluate the opponent on tape.
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  Speaker 4: And the media asks anyway, you know, what do you think?
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  Speaker 3: And so he was asked, you know, what about Tennessee's
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  Speaker 3: defensive playmakers?
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  Speaker 4: What he notices on video.
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  Speaker 10: Definitely number six. Number six is, uh, he's definitely one
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  Speaker 10: of their playmakers for sure. He, uh, he'll come downhill and,
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  Speaker 10: you know, make some plays, um, him and then number
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  Speaker 10: 22 as well.
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  Speaker 4: Um, I think, uh, their DC has said easily.
• 17:22
  Speaker 10: You know, the heart and soul of the defense and,
• 17:23
  Speaker 10: you know, you don't become the heart and the soul
• 17:25
  Speaker 10: of it, you know, sec defense by, you know, playing mediocre.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: So obviously those guys are, are really good for them.
• 17:30
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Good points there.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Uh, we'll hear more from him a little later on and, uh,
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: we'll hear from Arch Manning coming up, uh, as well. Um,
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Brian Schottenheimer, Cowboys head coach. Cowboys coming off that win
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: over the Washington Commanders. So they're one and one. And
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: now they go to Rio de Janeiro. They play the
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Baltimore Ravens in Rio. I was invited. I was at
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: a gathering of some friends last Sunday. And the host
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: of the party included... A woman and her partner who
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: have this beautiful house out in Jonestown overlooking the lake.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: But they also have a place that is right beside, gosh,
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: the beach.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: It just went away out of my head there in Rio.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: Not Ipanema. Anyway, and they have a place there.
• 18:36
  Speaker 9: Is it Copacabana Beach?
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: It might have been Copacabana. I thought about that, but
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: I was thinking it might have been a different one.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: It might have been right off.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: Of Copacabana Beach. I don't think it was that one.
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: So anyway, but the point being, it was close to
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: the beach. It was like, hey, you should come down
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: and stay at our house down there and go to
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: the cowboy game and all that.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: I'm not doing that.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: I'll be coming home from Knoxville on Sunday.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: But.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Um, Sean Iver was, was, uh, talking about the game
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: in Rio among, I think, first of all, how about
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: updates on the Marvian Overshawn and some of the other
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: banged up guys?
• 19:12
  Speaker 11: So the guys that have been doing the rehab, uh,
• 19:14
  Speaker 11: Dmo's doing good, make good progress. Uh, Malik Hooker, you know,
• 19:18
  Speaker 11: continues his rehab, uh, Kobe Durant and, uh, PJ Locke.
• 19:22
  Speaker 11: Kobe's got the hamstring strain and, uh, P, uh, PJ, uh,
• 19:26
  Speaker 11: you know, uh, toward the plantar fasciitis. plantar fasciitis in
• 19:31
  Speaker 11: his foot. And so both those guys could be a
• 19:33
  Speaker 11: few weeks.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: One thing that Shadi was asked about, about the grass
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: in Rio, the grass they play on in Rio. And
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: did he have some concerns hearing some of the stuff
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: that had been said about the condition of the grass
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: in Rio?
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: I mean, no concerns, literally.
• 19:50
  Speaker 11: Just walking down here, Todd Williams came and saw me
• 19:53
  Speaker 11: and said, the NFL has people down there. They said,
• 19:56
  Speaker 11: we're going to be fine. Um, so I have zero
• 19:59
  Speaker 11: concerns about it. They've got people down there, eyes on it. So, um,
• 20:03
  Speaker 11: you know, we look forward to the trip.
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: And then, so that means also, uh, does the playing
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: surface impact what the decisions that he'll make about injured players?
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:16
  Speaker 11: Again, you know, I'm not saying that, you know, um,
• 20:19
  Speaker 11: until I put eyes on it, but everything that we're
• 20:21
  Speaker 11: hearing from the league, sounds like it's great.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: Okay. He mentioned about P.J.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: Locke, the Lifetime Longhorn, had a tear of the plantar fascia. Now,
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: did you hear who it was that asked him the question?
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: I don't know if it was Todd Archer. Somebody asked.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: This might have been Clarence Hill.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Yes, I think it might have been. Might have been Chills.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Clarence Hill asking Schottenheimer that he had heard that it's
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: better to just go ahead and have the full tear
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: of the plantar fascia instead of the partial tear. And
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: he was asking for Schottenheimer's thoughts on that. That is correct.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: You and I are both learning about doctor stuff. But yeah,
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: they say it's better. It's pretty sore for a week.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: And then it begins to heal much quicker when you
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: tear it fully.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 21:16
  Speaker 11: Okay.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: Strange though it may be.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: And then strange, Todd Archer was asking him about how
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: strange it is to have an international week for signing
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: players and then getting them acclimated and ready for the trip.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: Weird week this week.
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: If you sign somebody, they need a passport, a visa.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: Can you kind of do all that stuff still? Or
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: are you kind of locked in the Dallas Cowboys, man?
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: We can do it.
• 21:42
  Speaker 11: We know people. We can do whatever we got to do.
• 21:47
  Speaker 11: I mean, might be a Brazilian citizen. I mean, who knows?
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 21:53
  Speaker 9: He knows how to get that room going.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: We're the Cowboys, man. We can do what we got
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: to do.
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: Amazing what a win will do.
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: Amazing what coaches will sound like in a press conference
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: after they get to face Washington.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: He stops just short of saying we can do whatever
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: we want. He didn't say that. But he said we
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: can do what we need to do to do that.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: So we'll see. Speaking of quarterbacks, as we were early
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: with all the injuries that are going on with quarterbacks,
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: the Jets made a roster move.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Remember Will Levis?
• 22:24
  Speaker 9: Oh, yeah.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Signed him to the practice squad. And he had worked
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: out for the Jets before week one. He was 5-16
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: as the Tennessee Titans.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: Starter in 23-24.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Missed all of last year due to a shoulder surgery,
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: second-round pick back in 2023. And in a corresponding move,
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: the Jets released, remember Bailey Zappi, the guy from Western Kentucky?
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: He had nine career starts. He was released for the
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: practice squad. And, of course, Geno Smith and, yes, Cade
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Klubnick are on the active roster. So if something were
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: to happen to Geno, yeah, you'd see Geno. Plumnik, the
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: one-time Westlake Chaparral being there. Levis became available when he
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: was cut by the Titans at the end of the preseason.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: They decided to go with Cam Ward, obviously, as a starter,
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: and then Mitchell Trubisky as their top two quarterbacks because.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: Some folks still see some things in Mitchell Trubisky as well.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: So there we go. In the NBA, important to.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Mention this, this whole drama and everything has been going
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: on with Kawhi Leonard and That trade from the Clippers
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: to the Raptors and the Clippers' ownership and management being
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: hauled up before the magistrate and suspended and fined and
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: draft picks docked and all that kind of stuff. The
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: one guy who wasn't punished for all of this was
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Kawhi Leonard.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: He didn't get... punitively assessed by the league.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: And it's interesting. I was listening to a few different
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: perspectives on it. It sounds like there's the widely held
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: belief is that he was willing to come to the
• 24:06
  Speaker 8: table and cooperate on this as was the players association
• 24:10
  Speaker 8: in a way that maybe the Clippers side wasn't.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: So the deal is now done between the Clippers and
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: the Raptors. And Leonard today has agreed to a two
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: year $ 115 million contract to go back to Toronto and
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: that's a contract extension plus a player option for 2028-2029
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: so he took $ 11 million less than the maximum extension
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: number on top of waiving the.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: $ 7, 450, 000.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Trade kicker to accommodate that trade from the Clippers so
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: because of what's going on with the Raptors' salary books
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: and things of that nature. So it was back on
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: June 30th when the Raptors and the Clippers agreed on
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: that trade with Kawhi going back to Toronto for Brandon Ingram,
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Grady Dick, two unprotected first-round picks, one first-round pick swap,
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: and two second-rounders.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: So the deal was placed.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: On pause when the NBA had that you know, investigation
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: going on because they informed the Raptors in July that
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: they would be liable for any discipline for Leonard, you know,
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: amid the investigation. So they just held off until the
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: league said, no, he's all right.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: He's cleared. It's good to go.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: So, I mean, meanwhile, the Clippers get hit with the
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: loss of five future first round picks, a $ 30 million fine,
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: And in a year-long suspension for the owner, Steve Ballmer,
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: for violating that salary cap circumvention, Leonard was paid $ 700, 000
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: in restitution, or he paid $ 700, 000 in restitution for improper
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: benefits provided by the franchise for his uncle and his
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: former business representative.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: Dennis Robertson.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: He had to pay that money back, which he did.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: And Leonard also fired Robertson. And his agent, Mitch Frankel
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: and Juney, hired... this new agent Harrison Gaines of Slash Sports.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: He hired him as his new agent weeks later, and
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Robertson's been banned by the NBA from all business dealings.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: So there's some NBA for you.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: All right, coming up next, Inconceivable on a Tuesday afternoon
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: here on Sports Radio AM 13 Under the Zone and
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: the iHeartRadio app. Second hour of the program here on
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Sports Radio AM 13 Under the Zone. Craig Way alongside
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: the producer, Jay Kerman. We'll be with you up until
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: 5 o'clock this afternoon. More NFL sound coming up here momentarily.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: Also more from the Longhorns and a couple other college
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: and pro football notes.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: And we'll hear a little bit from Longhorns basketball coach,
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: Sean Miller. Practice began.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Listen, I said that for some folks who think that, wow,
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: we're talking about college basketball here in just the backside
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: of the middle part of the month of September here,
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: headed toward late September, today being the first day of autumn.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: And I know it didn't feel like it outside. You know,
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: to be talking about college basketball, maybe that seems a
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: little weird to you. I'll see that and raise you
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: What Sports Illustrated used to call the sign, another sign
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: that the apocalypse is on us. Seeing highlights of NHL
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: exhibition games on SportsCenter and in their top 10.
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: That seems really, I first saw it Saturday night while
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: doing the post game. For the long words, there was
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: scores flashing along the bottom. Jets won, Islanders won, third period.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: You know, I'm like, what? Bruins two, Maple Leafs one, final. Yeah. Now,
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: as a fan of the reigning Stanley Cup champions who
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: opened defense of their championship, I'm not as put off
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: by it since the Carolina Hurricanes will try to.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Defend that cup. But he's weird, don't you think? I mean,
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: even you followed and worked in the hockey world for
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: a bit.
• 28:17
  Speaker 8: You know, preseason hockey, Craig, is a bit of a snooze.
• 28:20
  Speaker 8: I hate to admit it. I'm not a preseason fan.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Of much.
• 28:23
  Speaker 8: I always enjoy seeing how a pitcher looks in spring training.
• 28:26
  Speaker 8: Maybe that's just the baseball nerd in me. But the
• 28:28
  Speaker 8: Capitals did something cool last night. They played up in
• 28:30
  Speaker 8: Hershey at the AHL Arena, I believe against Philadelphia, and
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: they sold the place out, which was a really cool
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: atmosphere for preseason.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: I like that very much. Okay, also, coming up in
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: just a few minutes, Greg Tepper. Editor-in-Chief Dave Campbell's Texas
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Football Magazine, our weekly look at college football and high
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: school football in the Lone Star State. But let's jump
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: back to the NFL, coming off that Cowboys victory, and
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: Brian Schottenheimer, the head coach, was asked about things, and
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: among those, Don Vaneziraku, and how he can turn the
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: pressure that he's getting on quarterbacks these days into more
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: in the sack category.
• 29:06
  Speaker 11: Well, that is the million dollar question, but I will
• 29:10
  Speaker 11: say I thought our pass rush was really, it really
• 29:13
  Speaker 11: was terrific last night.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: We had these guys moving all over the place.
• 29:17
  Speaker 11: Again, it's the last two QBs we've played and including
• 29:21
  Speaker 11: Lamar this week, they're nifty guys. um but really it's
• 29:24
  Speaker 11: more just you know when you when you get near
• 29:26
  Speaker 11: them being able to wrap them up you know part
• 29:28
  Speaker 11: of what we're doing is we're you know getting close
• 29:31
  Speaker 11: we're trying to attack.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: The ball as well but if you can't get to
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: the ball we just got to be a.
• 29:34
  Speaker 11: Little bit better at finishing those things up and again
• 29:38
  Speaker 11: it's every guy doing his job so if you know
• 29:40
  Speaker 11: if we win you know winning the rush off the
• 29:43
  Speaker 11: off the left side of the offense you know we
• 29:45
  Speaker 11: got to make sure we've got the quarterbacks contained because
• 29:47
  Speaker 11: where they're kind of hurting us right now is stepping
• 29:50
  Speaker 11: up in and out so they're going north and south
• 29:52
  Speaker 11: first and then getting out and.
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: So we got to close some of the seams.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: Next, that lack of sacks the Cowboys have not been
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: able to accrue of late. Is that due to the
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: quarterback's face? And by the way, how does that dovetail
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: into having to deal with Lamar Jackson this Sunday in Rio?
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, it's certainly got something to do with the quarterback.
• 30:14
  Speaker 11: It certainly means that we have to do a better job,
• 30:17
  Speaker 11: like I said, of finishing and wrapping guys up. And
• 30:19
  Speaker 11: a couple of times we've been getting a little high
• 30:23
  Speaker 11: on the guy rather than getting the legs. But these
• 30:26
  Speaker 11: quarterbacks that we've had to face these first couple weeks
• 30:29
  Speaker 11: are very, very athletic. But I believe that these things
• 30:34
  Speaker 11: do come in bunches. And if you're close, it means
• 30:37
  Speaker 11: you have a chance. And if you can finish a
• 30:39
  Speaker 11: couple of those things, that would be tremendous for us
• 30:40
  Speaker 11: because talk about some of our struggles on third down.
• 30:44
  Speaker 11: A couple of those have been really good rushes that
• 30:46
  Speaker 11: we just haven't been able to finish, and the quarterbacks
• 30:48
  Speaker 11: have either scrambled for big plays like Jaden did last
• 30:51
  Speaker 11: game or found some people open late.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: But I'd rather be.
• 30:56
  Speaker 11: Around the quarterback than not around the quarterback, but we
• 30:59
  Speaker 11: definitely have to finish better.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: Since we're still on the subject of the defense, coaches
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: always like to talk about things that can clean up.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: We need to clean up some things. We've got to
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: get into the cleaning up thing. What can his defense
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: clean up from the win over the commanders on Sunday?
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say, obviously, our run defense.
• 31:20
  Speaker 11: You know, I still think that there's some things we
• 31:22
  Speaker 11: got to do from a running game, you know, containing
• 31:24
  Speaker 11: the quarterback. I thought, you know, White hurt us some
• 31:27
  Speaker 11: with a couple things.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 31:30
  Speaker 11: We're going to play a team this week that's very,
• 31:32
  Speaker 11: very good running the football, both with Derrick Henry and
• 31:34
  Speaker 11: with Lamar. We're going to see runs. I would run
• 31:40
  Speaker 11: against this. So we've got to be better. We've got
• 31:43
  Speaker 11: to set edges better. I thought there was some steps
• 31:46
  Speaker 11: in the right direction, but I think you can see
• 31:49
  Speaker 11: that if we can get people behind the sticks, we
• 31:52
  Speaker 11: have the ability to rush the passer, but you've got
• 31:55
  Speaker 11: to get people behind the sticks, and that starts with
• 31:57
  Speaker 11: run defense.
• 32:00
  Speaker 12: All right.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: So, uh, PJ Locke being banged up, uh, Siobhan Ravel, uh, how,
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: how is he going to be? Oh, and is he
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: ready to go? And how prepared is he to step
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: into that position? No, he's definitely ready. Um, working really,
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: really hard.
• 32:15
  Speaker 11: I do think he played, you know, uh, well in
• 32:18
  Speaker 11: the game, you know, they, uh, they tried them immediately,
• 32:21
  Speaker 11: which that's part of the deal of being a young corner.
• 32:23
  Speaker 11: You know, they went right after him. Um, you know,
• 32:25
  Speaker 11: I think it was the army Brown, right, right down
• 32:27
  Speaker 11: our sideline. And, Um, the next time they came back
• 32:30
  Speaker 11: and they were going to try the same thing and, um,
• 32:32
  Speaker 11: you know, it was him on, uh, McLaurin and his
• 32:35
  Speaker 11: technique was, was excellent, outstanding, just the way we teach it.
• 32:40
  Speaker 11: And so every, every rep he plays, Nick, he gets better,
• 32:43
  Speaker 11: better and better. And, um, you know, it's good for
• 32:46
  Speaker 11: his confidence.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: Next, the thoughts about Marquise Bell having to step in, uh,
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: formerly cookers out with the surgery and how that's all going.
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: Same thing.
• 32:58
  Speaker 11: Here's a guy that wasn't planning on playing a whole
• 33:00
  Speaker 11: lot and went in there and got forced into duty
• 33:03
  Speaker 11: when P.J. went down and was mentally ready and did
• 33:07
  Speaker 11: a good job in communication. That's the benefit of having
• 33:11
  Speaker 11: that deep safety class and a veteran like that that
• 33:14
  Speaker 11: understands the defense even though he doesn't usually get a
• 33:18
  Speaker 11: ton of reps in terms of what we're doing. He's
• 33:21
  Speaker 11: getting more reps and walkthroughs and things like that, but
• 33:24
  Speaker 11: veterans generally can do that and certainly the good ones.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: And one more defensive question, talking about trying to be
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: better on tape defensively from.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: Week one to week two and week two now to
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: on coming to week three. Yeah, I thought the communication
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: was better. I really did.
• 33:39
  Speaker 11: Again, I thought Jay Sean did a terrific job with
• 33:42
  Speaker 11: the green dot.
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: I was really proud of him.
• 33:43
  Speaker 11: You know, I think, you know, he played well, got
• 33:46
  Speaker 11: the forced fumble.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: That was great.
• 33:48
  Speaker 11: But, you know, and like I said, I wasn't surprised
• 33:52
  Speaker 11: that the communication was better, but I would start there.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: All right, and we'll hear more from Shadi coming up
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: next hour. But up next, we turn to college football
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: and high school football, specifically in the state of Texas.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: The editor-in-chief of Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine, Greg Tepper,
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: joins us for our weekly Tuesdays with Tep installment. That's
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: next here on Sports Radio AM 13 Under the Zone
• 34:15
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• 34:18
  Speaker 1: I am following the river down the highway through the
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  Speaker 3: The Civil War. Some prefer the Paul Simon version. But
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: it's hard to say Willie Nelson's ever done a bad
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: version of anything, including going to Graceland there. Of course,
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: we hear from the iconic Willie Nelson at 3 o'clock
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: hour every Tuesday. And on this Texan Tuesday in the
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: 3 o'clock hour, we visit with Greg Tepper, the editor-in-chief
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: of Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine, who the impression I
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: got from you, Tepp, between over the weekend and what
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: we've done this week, is that you are definitely ensconced.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: Not only are we knee-deep into the football season now
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: with the NFL two weeks in, and obviously what's happened
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: with college football and high school football, all this stuff
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: kind of comes at you in a tidal wave right now,
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: a rush with it, with everything you got, your daily responsibilities,
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: calling your game on Friday night, all this kind of stuff, right?
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it comes in waves, right?
• 35:32
  Speaker 13: One of the things that I think is fun and
• 35:35
  Speaker 13: also terrifying about this job is that there's almost no
• 35:39
  Speaker 13: opportunity to sit back and reflect on what you just saw.
• 35:43
  Speaker 13: Because now, that time has become truncated. Basically, by Tuesday morning,
• 35:50
  Speaker 13: you need to be on to the next week because
• 35:52
  Speaker 13: it's coming fast and furious. We got games on Thursday.
• 35:54
  Speaker 13: whether it's in the college ranks or the high school
• 35:56
  Speaker 13: ranks coming. So you've got to get all your stuff done,
• 36:00
  Speaker 13: get all of it out of your system by Monday,
• 36:02
  Speaker 13: because then on Tuesday, it's got to be on to
• 36:04
  Speaker 13: the next one. It just comes fast and furious. And
• 36:07
  Speaker 13: especially when you're covering the state holistically from widespread, any
• 36:13
  Speaker 13: opportunity to sit back and look back too far, I
• 36:17
  Speaker 13: think you're losing time.
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: Because there's so much on the horizon that's coming.
• 36:23
  Speaker 13: You've got to be moving forward even when you're looking back.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: Here's where.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: I am reminded weekly of the scope and the expanse
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: of the state of Texas. And I know you would
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: appreciate this because sometimes you catch part of our broadcasts,
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: the Texas Longhorn broadcast. And one of the things that,
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: and we started this a few years ago with our
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: studio anchor, because here's a little bit of inside stuff
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: behind the curtain stuff. Our studio anchor is not in
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: the state of Texas. He's in the state of North Carolina.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: That's where the network studios are, where it all goes
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: into that. So we have a new studio anchor this year,
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: and Jeff Marson, who's really sharp and for years had
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: been the studio anchor for Mississippi State.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: So he knows the SEC inside out. He's very, very
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: good on that.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: But he needed a little bit of education on some
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: of the other colleges in the state of Texas. And
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: I started doing this even with the guy we had
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: before him, who had been the Vanderbilt studio anchor before
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: he was ours. And that was to acquaint them on
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: the large scale of scope of colleges and college football
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: programs in the state of Texas. This was an idea
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: I got once when I was driving from Manhattan, Kansas,
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: back to Kansas City after Texas had a day game
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: at K-State. And I'm listening to their scoreboard show. And
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: that dude is knee-deep in JUCO scores. Because, you know,
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: JUCOs are big in Kansas. Yeah, Butler County, Cloud, all
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: of those, Coffeyville, all those. And so I got to thinking,
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: I thought, you know, we don't have to go to
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: the JUCO level, like Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine dives
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: that deep into it. However, we could do at least
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: the Division II and Division III in addition to the
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: FBS and FCS scores. So what I then drew up
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: the following week, and we've done it ever since, is
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: to have like a scoreboard thing, and it's usually like
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: the last one he does, like in the case of
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: the other night, pretty late in the evening, and we're
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: still waiting to visit with Sark, or we just finished
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: with him, and we were done with the player interviews.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: We've got a couple more segments we've got to fill.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: So what I do is I have him do all
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: the SEC score. Well, in the state of Texas, there's
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: only one other SEC team. You'll recap what happened with
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: A & M, which was a doozy last Saturday. Then
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: the other P4s, in that case, the Big 12 with TCU, Baylor,
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: and Tech, the ACC with SMU. Then I have him
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: go to the other FBS G6 schools, so the other
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: American conference schools. And then beyond that, then I have
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: him go FCS, so we go Southland Conference, and then
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: United Athletic Conference.
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: Him do that. then Division II with Lone Star Conference.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: And by the time he gets down to Division III
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: and he's doing American Southwest and the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association,
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: some folks may be saying.
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: Where exactly is Schreiner?
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: Where exactly is Southwestern University?
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: That kind of thing.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: But that's always a weekly reminder of the scope because
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: there's college football going on at all levels in this state.
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 39:30
  Speaker 13: So fascinating to me is that basically as you were
• 39:32
  Speaker 13: going through that, you took a tour of our magazine.
• 39:35
  Speaker 13: Like that is exactly, if you go and you look
• 39:38
  Speaker 13: at the way that our magazine is laid out, we start,
• 39:40
  Speaker 13: it used to be forever and ever, we started with
• 39:42
  Speaker 13: the Southwest Conference. Then Southwest Conference goes by the wayside,
• 39:45
  Speaker 13: the Big 12 became the conference of record in the state.
• 39:48
  Speaker 13: And now we start with the SEC. The SEC is
• 39:50
  Speaker 13: the biggest conference that the Texas team's playing. We do
• 39:53
  Speaker 13: that one, move on to the Big 12, et cetera.
• 39:55
  Speaker 13: You actually flow perfectly through the magazine, but you're right.
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: Like that's the thing.
• 40:00
  Speaker 13: There's now, I think like one of the things whenever
• 40:02
  Speaker 13: I do like, I'll do like some public speaking. One
• 40:06
  Speaker 13: of the things I'll lead with is I think people
• 40:08
  Speaker 13: know it's like 1,500 high schools across the state. I'll
• 40:11
  Speaker 13: tell people there's 50 colleges, college football teams in Texas,
• 40:14
  Speaker 13: and that catches them almost.
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: More by surprise.
• 40:16
  Speaker 13: Because I think that they are thinking of Texas and
• 40:19
  Speaker 13: A & M, and maybe they're thinking of Texas State, right?
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: Or they're thinking of UTEP.
• 40:24
  Speaker 13: But they're probably not thinking of Southwestern Assemblies of God.
• 40:27
  Speaker 13: They're probably not thinking of UTRGV. And by the way,
• 40:31
  Speaker 13: that's to say that it's a pretty good year.
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: In the non-FPS ranks in Texas right now.
• 40:38
  Speaker 13: You've got two top 10 FCS teams in Tarleton and
• 40:40
  Speaker 13: SFA already. who have looked fantastic to start the year.
• 40:48
  Speaker 13: You go on the Division II level, you've got UT
• 40:50
  Speaker 13: Permian Basin and Midwestern State are off to really nice
• 40:52
  Speaker 13: starts as well. It's a good year in non-FPS, and
• 40:56
  Speaker 13: it's one of those things that in my job, you
• 41:02
  Speaker 13: almost get more, I think it's the same way with
• 41:03
  Speaker 13: high school, you get more gratification the deeper you go
• 41:07
  Speaker 13: because you realize, oh wait, there's good ball down here.
• 41:10
  Speaker 13: If you're a 6A fan, Go watch some 3A ball
• 41:13
  Speaker 13: and you'll be like, man, there's some really good football teams. Yeah,
• 41:15
  Speaker 13: there's not as many guys on the sideline, but there's
• 41:17
  Speaker 13: some really good football teams. That, I think, is probably
• 41:20
  Speaker 13: the magic and probably just what doesn't happen in any
• 41:23
  Speaker 13: other state and probably why our state is so singular.
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt.
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: And while the magazine probably does a little deeper dive,
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: for example.
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: You probably... won't hear.
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: Our studio anchor give too many Texas college scores, not
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: too much NAIA stuff. And by the way, there's a
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: new name, isn't it, for the old Southwestern Assemblies of
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: God College?
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: It's a one-person name.
• 41:46
  Speaker 13: Oh, did they change their name to Texas Wesleyan?
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: No, there's another one. It's a person's name.
• 41:55
  Speaker 9: Nelson.
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: That's it.
• 41:56
  Speaker 6: Nelson. Thank you. That's right.
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: That's it.
• 41:59
  Speaker 6: Got to update my memory.
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: That's right.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: Located right there in the heart of Ellis County. But
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: from other levels, obviously, we strive to do that. Same
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: thing that you guys do. And that is inclusive of
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: your Texas Power Poll, that college football power poll that
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: you and the staff and Mike Craven all put together
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: each week and do this. And I noticed the drop
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: of Texas A & M down there to the number
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: four slot. How about your thoughts on the Aggies last week?
• 42:29
  Speaker 13: I did one of my least favorite things on Saturday
• 42:33
  Speaker 13: in the fourth quarter of that game against Kentucky, which
• 42:36
  Speaker 13: is that I texted Mike Craven and said, you were
• 42:39
  Speaker 13: absolutely right. Because, and he took it with the amount
• 42:43
  Speaker 13: of stride that you think Mike Craven took it with.
• 42:46
  Speaker 13: Because even if you go back and you read what
• 42:49
  Speaker 13: he wrote after their win over Arizona State, he... He more,
• 42:55
  Speaker 13: and even though they won comfortably, won by like three
• 42:58
  Speaker 13: touchdowns in that game, he pointed out, he goes there,
• 43:02
  Speaker 13: he's like, something's rotten here.
• 43:03
  Speaker 6: Like there's something going on.
• 43:05
  Speaker 13: And he kind of targeted the offense and specifically Marcel Reed.
• 43:09
  Speaker 13: and just said, right now he's not carrying his weight.
• 43:13
  Speaker 13: They're getting away with it because the defense swore some turnovers.
• 43:16
  Speaker 13: They're getting away with it because they're making some plays
• 43:19
  Speaker 13: in special teams and winning field position battles and stuff
• 43:21
  Speaker 13: like that.
• 43:22
  Speaker 6: And you can win like that.
• 43:23
  Speaker 13: He goes, but basically, he kind of said, he's like,
• 43:26
  Speaker 13: time's going to run out if he doesn't kind of
• 43:27
  Speaker 13: take that step.
• 43:28
  Speaker 6: And time ran out last week. And basically, Kentucky... Didn't turn.
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: The ball over.
• 43:32
  Speaker 13: Like, Kentucky was the aggressor on defense, and Kentucky put
• 43:36
  Speaker 13: them in a position where they made Marcel Reed put
• 43:39
  Speaker 13: the ball up. And he was just inaccurate, plain and simple.
• 43:43
  Speaker 13: And that's kind of been the knock on him. He
• 43:45
  Speaker 13: can't make the throws consistently. That he makes some dazzling plays.
• 43:49
  Speaker 13: but he can't make those throws consistently. I think that
• 43:51
  Speaker 13: was all of A & M' s worst fears kind of
• 43:54
  Speaker 13: come to fruition there. I thought the defense played okay.
• 43:59
  Speaker 13: I thought they were put in some tough spots because
• 44:01
  Speaker 13: of some turnovers as well as because of some field
• 44:06
  Speaker 13: position issues. But I thought the defense played okay, but
• 44:09
  Speaker 13: the offense is in a tough way right now.
• 44:11
  Speaker 6: It's a bad way.
• 44:12
  Speaker 13: And by the way, It's not like the schedule gets
• 44:16
  Speaker 13: any easier, considering they go this weekend to what has
• 44:20
  Speaker 13: to be a frippy, upset LSU team on the road
• 44:24
  Speaker 13: to Death Valley. There's at least six teams on their
• 44:28
  Speaker 13: schedule that are as good or better than Kentucky. And
• 44:31
  Speaker 13: if they're not beating Kentucky at home as, what.
• 44:33
  Speaker 6: 18-point favorites, then it could be a long season for
• 44:36
  Speaker 6: the Aggies.
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's an angry LSU team.
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: As we visit with Greg Tepper, of Dave Campbell's Texas
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: Football Magazine. And the other one, I wanted to get
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: your thoughts on SMU. I mean, it's been said about,
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: you know, SMU that had a shot to get in
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: the playoff, and maybe they still do. They still have
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: to deal with Miami. They've still got some other big games.
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: But it definitely was a sting. It definitely hurt them
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: taking a step back with that loss at Louisville.
• 45:05
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, look, it's one of those things where
• 45:09
  Speaker 13: on the road against a good nationally ranked Louisville team.
• 45:13
  Speaker 6: If you guys didn't know, Louisville's pretty good.
• 45:16
  Speaker 13: They went toe-to-toe with them, and they went play-for-play with them.
• 45:20
  Speaker 13: But in the end, what ended up costing them is
• 45:24
  Speaker 13: that they just turned the ball over too much.
• 45:27
  Speaker 6: You know what I mean?
• 45:29
  Speaker 13: You can't be like that on the road and do that.
• 45:33
  Speaker 6: They were minus three in turnover margin. You can't be
• 45:36
  Speaker 6: like that.
• 45:37
  Speaker 13: And there are a couple of throws that Kevin Jennings
• 45:40
  Speaker 13: is going to want back.
• 45:41
  Speaker 6: And that's kind of what turned the game. I'm not
• 45:43
  Speaker 6: here to bury SMU.
• 45:44
  Speaker 13: I think that they went on the road and played
• 45:46
  Speaker 13: a tough team and they came up short. There were
• 45:50
  Speaker 13: a couple of things that they need to do a
• 45:52
  Speaker 13: little bit better. I think they need to run the
• 45:54
  Speaker 13: ball a little bit better, more consistently, if they're going
• 45:56
  Speaker 13: to get where they want to go. Look, this is a,
• 45:59
  Speaker 13: you know, although I thought that Kendrick Raphael had a
• 46:01
  Speaker 13: nice game, they just need to shake it off and
• 46:05
  Speaker 13: not let, there's one of those things where don't let
• 46:07
  Speaker 13: one game beat you twice.
• 46:09
  Speaker 6: That's one of the things that I keep coming back to.
• 46:11
  Speaker 13: If they are able to, you know, with the way
• 46:13
  Speaker 13: that college football is now, you can take a loss
• 46:16
  Speaker 13: and you can still be in the mix, especially.
• 46:18
  Speaker 6: A ranked loss on the road in a competitive game.
• 46:22
  Speaker 13: SMU is still in it, but their margin just got smaller.
• 46:25
  Speaker 6: Their margin just shrunk and they can't afford one more
• 46:29
  Speaker 6: of those. That's the thing. And you'd rather that you
• 46:31
  Speaker 6: lose your margin.
• 46:32
  Speaker 13: In week 10 as opposed to week three because But
• 46:35
  Speaker 13: such as the breaks there on the hilltop, they've got
• 46:37
  Speaker 13: to come home and regroup and make sure they don't
• 46:39
  Speaker 13: let something like that happen again.
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: All right, let's move to the high school ranks. Here's
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: the well-worn-out question. Is DeSoto back?
• 46:48
  Speaker 13: Yeah, you know, here's the thing about DeSoto, and I'm
• 46:51
  Speaker 13: going to sound like a broken record here about the Eagles,
• 46:53
  Speaker 13: because they go and they get a win over a
• 46:55
  Speaker 13: previously unbeaten Burleson Centennial team. I think they are better
• 46:58
  Speaker 13: than Burleson Centennial. That's not necessarily surprising. Their defense was really,
• 47:04
  Speaker 13: really good in this game. They were able to bottle
• 47:06
  Speaker 13: up Burleson Centennial and especially reduce them to essentially not
• 47:10
  Speaker 13: being able to run the ball.
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 47:13
  Speaker 13: They, the issues for me and where I like, again,
• 47:17
  Speaker 13: I hold DeSoto to an extremely high standard.
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: They've won three titles in the last four years.
• 47:20
  Speaker 13: So when we talk about is DeSoto back, the question
• 47:22
  Speaker 13: is not, are they going to make the playoffs? Yes,
• 47:24
  Speaker 13: they're going to make the playoffs. Are they, my question is,
• 47:27
  Speaker 13: can they win a state championship? And my concerns for
• 47:30
  Speaker 13: them continue to be that offensively, they're really one dimensional.
• 47:34
  Speaker 6: They cannot throw the ball consistently.
• 47:36
  Speaker 13: I mean, their leading passer in this game was Sir
• 47:40
  Speaker 13: Rod Baker.
• 47:42
  Speaker 6: He threw the ball. He went eight for 10. Pretty
• 47:44
  Speaker 6: good passer.
• 47:45
  Speaker 13: Turns out having one of the best players in Texas
• 47:47
  Speaker 13: high school football is great. The problem is he's playing
• 47:49
  Speaker 13: out of position. And that's not a long-term solution, in
• 47:52
  Speaker 13: my opinion. And that's not something that they can do.
• 47:55
  Speaker 6: They need to.
• 47:55
  Speaker 13: Find a way to get the ball out on the
• 47:57
  Speaker 13: edge and make it so that they're not stacking the box.
• 48:03
  Speaker 13: Having Theroux Baker is fantastic. They are going to need
• 48:05
  Speaker 13: to find another element to that offense to get where
• 48:08
  Speaker 13: they want to go. Because, by the way, I know
• 48:10
  Speaker 13: we've all talked about them dropping down and, oh, wow,
• 48:14
  Speaker 13: look how.
• 48:15
  Speaker 6: Good they are.
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: I will just tell you this.
• 48:17
  Speaker 13: Take a look at 5A Division I and look at
• 48:19
  Speaker 13: the other teams in that classification. Smithson Valley has looked spectacular.
• 48:25
  Speaker 13: Richmond Randall, 3-0. Frisco Lone Star, really strong. Port Arthur Memorial. Angleton,
• 48:31
  Speaker 13: I think, is flying under the radar. I think this idea,
• 48:33
  Speaker 13: I will say this, I'm ready to now say four
• 48:36
  Speaker 13: games in that, yes, I think DeSoto is certainly on
• 48:39
  Speaker 13: that short list of teams that can win a state championship.
• 48:41
  Speaker 13: But any thought that they were a prohibitive favorite in
• 48:44
  Speaker 13: 5A Division I, I think has gone out the window.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I look at Smithson Valley, and you know me,
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: I'm a Dodger fan. I kind of look at them
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: like I did the Dodgers in June, a two-time defending
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: champ who looks every bit the part. Now, the Dodgers
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: had a horrible August, and they're kind of recovering themselves.
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: So we'll see what happens with Smithson going forward. But
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: Larry Hill's got it rolling, and there's no reason to
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: think they won't be a contender and maybe coming out
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: of Region IV, be in that championship game yet again.
• 49:10
  Speaker 13: I think we take them for granted just because they're
• 49:13
  Speaker 13: not flashy. It's a very Larry Hill coach ball club.
• 49:16
  Speaker 13: They're not flashy. Now, they are flashier than they have been.
• 49:19
  Speaker 13: Ty Knutson, their quarterback, the Texas commit, is a star,
• 49:23
  Speaker 13: I think. They have a legit blue chipper at the
• 49:24
  Speaker 13: quarterback spot. Hunter Haug, their Texas Tech commit, in the
• 49:28
  Speaker 13: first half last week, had a 40-yard touchdown catch and
• 49:32
  Speaker 13: three defensive touchdowns.
• 49:34
  Speaker 6: In the first half against Porter Maynard. Yeah. They're legit.
• 49:38
  Speaker 13: And I think that that Smithson Valley, maybe it's just
• 49:41
  Speaker 13: because they're in the San Antonio area and San Antonio
• 49:43
  Speaker 13: has been been relatively down the past decade or so
• 49:46
  Speaker 13: kind of from a statewide perspective. But man, like, like,
• 49:50
  Speaker 13: take the scales off your eyes as far as Smithson
• 49:52
  Speaker 13: Valley is concerned, because they are. and if you've forgotten
• 49:55
  Speaker 13: about them, they're the guys with the 5A Division I crown.
• 49:59
  Speaker 13: Just because there's another team there that has a 6A
• 50:01
  Speaker 13: crown doesn't mean that they got the one.
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: The Smiths and Valleys got.
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: Let me also say this, and it may not be
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: a popular opinion in these parts, and I want to
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: make sure I'm clear in saying this. I'm not saying
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: there's a quote-unquote changing of the guard in 6A in
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: the greater Austin area.
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: I will say this.
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: Um, you know, Westlake does not look as dominant as
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: they have been in the past.
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: Lake Travis comes off losing to Cornerstone.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: Uh, and I just, last Friday night, it was a
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: marvelous ball game at six lead changes, but Round Rock
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: did emerge with the win at Vandegrift.
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: I'm not saying Round Rock's better on them.
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: And by the way, Round Rock will get a chance
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: to prove itself because they're now in the same district
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: with Westlake and Lake Travis. But, um, Maybe between that
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: and an unbeaten Cedar Ridge, maybe we're starting to see
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: a little.
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: More balance out in 6A in these parts.
• 50:49
  Speaker 13: I like to think about gaps, right? Okay, and so
• 50:51
  Speaker 13: for a long time, we talked about the gap between
• 50:53
  Speaker 13: Austin and San Antonio, that Austin's just had San Antonio's number,
• 50:56
  Speaker 13: plain and simple.
• 50:58
  Speaker 6: I think that gap is closing.
• 51:00
  Speaker 13: I think part of it is that Austin's maybe falling
• 51:02
  Speaker 13: back to the pack and San Antonio is on the rise.
• 51:04
  Speaker 13: Teams like Johnson have been really, really good, a team
• 51:07
  Speaker 13: that I think is a legit state championship contender. The
• 51:10
  Speaker 13: other thing is that I think that that gap between
• 51:13
  Speaker 13: that upper, upper, upper crust, the Lake Travis, the Westlake,
• 51:17
  Speaker 13: the Vandegrift, I think that gap has narrowed because I
• 51:21
  Speaker 13: think that this, what you would call probably, again, I
• 51:24
  Speaker 13: don't mean this disrespectfully, but the middle class of high
• 51:27
  Speaker 13: school football in Austin is rising up. Round Rock, you
• 51:32
  Speaker 13: mentioned that. Cedar Ridge has been fantastic. There's a lot
• 51:35
  Speaker 13: of good football teams in the Austin area that if
• 51:39
  Speaker 13: you are only paying attention to the big brand names,
• 51:43
  Speaker 13: then you might end up being shocked on a Friday
• 51:45
  Speaker 13: night whenever Round Rock goes and beats Vandergrift. Those are
• 51:48
  Speaker 13: the types of things that I'm looking at. And I
• 51:49
  Speaker 13: think that gap between the tier one and tier two,
• 51:53
  Speaker 13: call it, I think that gap has closed, which should
• 51:56
  Speaker 13: make for a real dynamite district season and some real
• 52:00
  Speaker 13: fun playoff chases going as we get into when it
• 52:03
  Speaker 13: hopefully starts cooling down.
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: All right, on to the meanest thing we do each week.
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: I give you three games, and it'll be different. Now,
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: you've got a Corker this week. You've got North Shore
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: and Tascosita. So that's removed from the equation here. But
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: I've got three others, and you give me your choice.
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: If you couldn't be there for North Shore and Tascosita,
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: which of these three would you teleport to?
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: How about down there at Freedom Field for Angleton, Iowa Colony?
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: I have, this one I think could be really a
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: lot of fun. Bernie at Alamo Heights. And then the
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: other one, my old pal Rodney Vinson doing it up
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: with Shallow Water. And they're unbeaten and they've got Idlew
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: this week. Which of these do you like?
• 52:47
  Speaker 13: Man, that's really what I wish you hadn't put in,
• 52:50
  Speaker 13: Idlew-Shallow Water. Because that game's going to be great. I think,
• 52:53
  Speaker 13: first of all, I think Shallow Water's really strong. Idaloo
• 52:57
  Speaker 13: might be a team you need to upgrade your priors on.
• 53:00
  Speaker 13: I think Idaloo's really, really good. And the games in
• 53:04
  Speaker 13: Shallow Water should be a fantastic ballgame out there. Fascinated
• 53:09
  Speaker 13: by the Angleton game because Angleton, again, kind of doing
• 53:12
  Speaker 13: the Angleton team thing very quietly off to a 4-0 start.
• 53:16
  Speaker 13: They play District 11 5A D1 play. Richmond Randall will
• 53:20
  Speaker 13: loom for both of these teams. But I'm going to
• 53:22
  Speaker 13: keep my powder dry for that one because I want
• 53:24
  Speaker 13: to keep– when Randall and Angleton rolls around, I'm really
• 53:27
  Speaker 13: interested in that one.
• 53:28
  Speaker 6: I'm going to go with Bernie and Alamo Heights.
• 53:30
  Speaker 13: It's a District 13 5A Division II opener between two
• 53:33
  Speaker 13: state-ranked unbeaten teams. Um, Bernie beat Alamo Heights twice last year,
• 53:39
  Speaker 13: and there is a chance. I think the winner of
• 53:41
  Speaker 13: this game is the district is the early favorite to
• 53:43
  Speaker 13: be district champion. And therefore we'll be at least on
• 53:46
  Speaker 13: the very short list of being regional champion.
• 53:48
  Speaker 6: And again, one of those, one of these games where
• 53:50
  Speaker 6: it wouldn't be.
• 53:50
  Speaker 13: A surprise if we saw it twice. I love Grant
• 53:53
  Speaker 13: Sweeney at the quarterback spot for, for Bernie. Can he
• 53:56
  Speaker 13: put it up against a really good defense there from
• 53:58
  Speaker 13: Alamo Heights? Uh, that that's my, I think that's my
• 54:01
  Speaker 13: game of the week is, is Bernie and Alamo Heights.
• 54:03
  Speaker 4: That's a good call.
• 54:04
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• 54:11
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• 54:23
  Speaker 3: Have a lot of fun this week, even as busy
• 54:25
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• 54:27
  Speaker 6: It's a lot, but it's a good kind of a lot.
• 54:29
  Speaker 6: You know what I mean? Better than digging ditches.
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: No doubt about it. Thanks, Tepper. All right.
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: That's our Tuesdays with Tepper segment. We have more coming
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: up on 13 Under the Zone.
• 54:42
  Speaker 6: Driving baseline.
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: Works it back around into the corner. Sinks the shoot
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: in the corner. Cam Heide at three. Good! It's good!
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: 14 seconds to go. Texas up four.
• 54:54
  Speaker 5: Into the frontcourt.
• 54:55
  Speaker 6: St.
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: Saberi launches a long three.
• 54:57
  Speaker 6: Short.
• 54:58
  Speaker 4: Off the rim. Rebound Texas.
• 55:00
  Speaker 12: It's going to happen, folks. It is going to happen.
• 55:03
  Speaker 12: Modest focus. Heides lays it in. That'll do it. An
• 55:08
  Speaker 12: 11 seed has crashed the Sweet 16 party.
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: It's the Texas Longhorns.
• 55:14
  Speaker 12: Final score, Texas 74, Gonzaga 68, San Jose. The next
• 55:21
  Speaker 12: stop on this Longhorn postseason saga.
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: We're back.
• 55:26
  Speaker 13: It's the Craig Way Show with Hall of Fame broadcaster
• 55:29
  Speaker 13: and voice of the Texas Longhorns, Craig Way.
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: Doesn't seem like it's been that long ago, and then
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: at the same time, it seems like it's been about
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: six months, right, since the Longhorn basketball team reached the
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: Sweet 16 in Sean Miller's first season. Cam Heide with
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: a big three in the corner leading the way for Texas,
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: getting the victory, the upset over Gonzaga, and then getting
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: there into the Sweet 16 and took Purdue to the
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: wire before falling there by a point. So that happened,
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: and yesterday was the first day of practice with a
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: almost completely remade roster, the only returning starter being Modest Vocantitis.
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: Sean Miller had a press conference yesterday talking about it.
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: First of all, let's get his opening thoughts on this.
• 56:11
  Speaker 7: You know, in some ways it feels like a long,
• 56:12
  Speaker 7: long time ago that basketball season was up and running.
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: We're playing Purdue and.
• 56:17
  Speaker 7: San Jose, and all that is now a distant memory.
• 56:23
  Speaker 7: In another way, it feels like it just happened a
• 56:25
  Speaker 7: couple weeks ago.
• 56:26
  Speaker 4: But here we are again.
• 56:28
  Speaker 7: I'm very excited about our season that lies ahead.
• 56:33
  Speaker 4: For a couple reasons.
• 56:34
  Speaker 7: I think that what happened last spring gave a lot
• 56:38
  Speaker 7: of momentum to our program moving forward. So much of
• 56:42
  Speaker 7: our game is about what happens in the month of March,
• 56:45
  Speaker 7: and we had a lot of great things happen to
• 56:47
  Speaker 7: us by the way we played a year ago in
• 56:50
  Speaker 7: the tournament. And I think that set a healthy tone
• 56:53
  Speaker 7: for this spring, this past spring and summer leading into
• 56:56
  Speaker 7: where we are today. But I love the group of
• 56:59
  Speaker 7: guys that we have. I think we have a lot
• 57:02
  Speaker 7: of good elements. I think the two things that really
• 57:05
  Speaker 7: strike out is, or that are striking for me versus
• 57:09
  Speaker 7: where we would have been a year ago is just
• 57:11
  Speaker 7: our overall depth as a team is significantly greater. And
• 57:16
  Speaker 7: I also think the size of our team with that depth,
• 57:21
  Speaker 7: you know, the same. And I think those are two
• 57:24
  Speaker 7: really good attributes to have in college basketball, depth and size.
• 57:28
  Speaker 7: And now it's up to us to, to take advantage.
• 57:31
  Speaker 7: Today is day one for us, meaning we have 30
• 57:35
  Speaker 7: practices in the next 42 days. And today is day
• 57:39
  Speaker 7: one of those 30 practices. So we're excited to get started.
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: Miller was then in the Q & A portion of
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: the press conference asked, starting off, what are the areas
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: in specific where he feels confident that his team, even
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: here in late September, is better than they were a
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: year ago?
• 57:58
  Speaker 7: My hope is that we really achieve that we're better
• 58:02
  Speaker 7: in every phase, in every area. I don't think it'll
• 58:05
  Speaker 7: be that way on day one, but I do think
• 58:07
  Speaker 7: we have the ability to just be.
• 58:09
  Speaker 4: Overall better across the board.
• 58:12
  Speaker 7: Modest, as you guys know, if you followed his progression
• 58:15
  Speaker 7: a year ago, how he would have started in the
• 58:17
  Speaker 7: month of November and where he ended in March, he
• 58:20
  Speaker 7: made a huge jump during the season. And every year,
• 58:24
  Speaker 7: program wants players that are playing to make the rise
• 58:27
  Speaker 7: that Modest made a year ago.
• 58:29
  Speaker 4: But it's difficult.
• 58:30
  Speaker 7: A lot of times you see the progress in an
• 58:32
  Speaker 7: offseason where they add something to their game or physically
• 58:36
  Speaker 7: they grow and get bigger and stronger. And you really
• 58:38
  Speaker 7: see it the following year. Modest's progression really happened in
• 58:42
  Speaker 7: the 30 plus games that we played last season. So
• 58:46
  Speaker 7: it's been interesting following him. He's had a great offseason.
• 58:49
  Speaker 7: As you guys know, he's a really hard worker, loves
• 58:52
  Speaker 7: the game. really pours into what he does. And I
• 58:56
  Speaker 7: think the one thing that I would answer just about
• 58:58
  Speaker 7: your question is I think he'll pick up where he
• 59:01
  Speaker 7: left off. I'd be surprised if he didn't. He's smarter
• 59:04
  Speaker 7: with his fouling. I think you'll see it right away.
• 59:08
  Speaker 7: He moves better.
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: Defensively.
• 59:10
  Speaker 7: He just knows what to do in an easier way.
• 59:13
  Speaker 7: And then offensively, as you guys know, he's such a
• 59:16
  Speaker 7: weapon because it's difficult to defend him without fouling. And
• 59:21
  Speaker 7: I think he's added to that, his repertoire, putting more
• 59:25
  Speaker 7: tools in his toolbox. And I look at him as
• 59:28
  Speaker 7: being one of the best front court players in the country.
• 59:32
  Speaker 4: And one more question for me.
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: It was about the investment that the athletic department and
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: the donors have had in the basketball program and the
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: impact of getting to the sweet 16, how that might've
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: all been affected by this.
• 59:45
  Speaker 7: Well, like I said, you know, I think March, you know, it's, we,
• 59:49
  Speaker 7: we can accept it as coaches in college basketball or
• 59:52
  Speaker 7: try to fight it, but you know, March madness is,
• 59:55
  Speaker 7: it's what it's about, you know, Number one, it's very
• 59:57
  Speaker 7: difficult to be a part of March Madness.
• 59:59
  Speaker 4: I don't think anybody can.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 7: Truly understate just the importance of being in it. And
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 7: by the way, the parity in the game and how
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 7: difficult it is just to be a part of it.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 7: And then, yeah, being a part of it's exciting, but
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 7: can you advance? And I think the word momentum comes
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 7: in a lot of forms, one of which is what
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 7: you're alluding to. But look, being here at the University
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 7: of Texas, it's about excellence and And it's a high
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 7: expectation environment for all of us, coaches, players, teams, programs.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 7: But it's also, as I've been here in the year
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 7: and a half that I've been here, it's also high support,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 7: high investment. I was at the football game, all three actually,
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 7: but the Ohio State game, I've never been at a
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 7: game like that where things aren't necessarily going well throughout
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 7: the game. And yet over 100,000 people remain intact, stay
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 7: in the stadium and And what happened in the fourth
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 7: quarter is just, to me, it's a lasting memory for
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 7: all of us. If you were there, it's like you'll
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 7: never forget how that felt.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 4: And that's football.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 7: But the next day I went to the volleyball game
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 7: and I watched Jarrett's team, who's gotten off to a
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 7: slower start because of these injuries, and especially the one injury.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 7: And there's 10,000 people at that game on a Sunday morning.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 7: My point being, this is a place that's second to
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 7: none when it comes to the leadership, the investment, You know,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 7: I think we all as coaches call it Team Texas,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 7: pull for each other. And no doubt we've had great
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 7: support to put us in a position to compete for
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 7: in our sport, the top prize, the top prize in
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 7: our league and then beyond. And it takes an investment
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 7: both on and off the court to make that happen.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 7: And we have great support here.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: We'll obviously hear some more from Sean Miller as we
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: draw closer to the start of the season, which is
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: just around the corner. but practice is underway on the
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: UT campus. All right, we have more coming up. We'll
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: be back to wrap up our number two here on
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 3: Sports Radio AM 13 Under the Zone and the iHeartRadio app.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: Third and final hour of the program here on Sports
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: Radio AM 13 Under the Zone. Craig Wade, joined by
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: the producer, Jake Herman. Glad to have you with us
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: here for another hour. Up until five o'clock, we've talked
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: some NFL. We're going to have some more here in
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: a moment. We have discussed the Texas Longhorns. We're going
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 3: to have some more sound from them coming up here
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: in just a few moments. So there's plenty to get
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 3: to coming off the completion of the second full week
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: in the National Football League.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 4: So the second week is in the books.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: And as a result, because all of this stuff happens,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: as you know, very, very quickly, The brand new power
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: rankings are out for the NFL. So going in inverse order,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: tell me if any of these ranking spots surprise you.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: Number 32, Miami Dolphins.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 4: Not surprised. Yeah, 0-2.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: Number 31, Atlanta Falcons.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 9: Also not surprised. That's the worst offense in the league
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 9: so far.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and Thursday night they're going to play Green Bay.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: Last night on the Manning cast when they had Andrew
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: Whitworth on the fourth quarter, they were talking about the
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: game he's got Thursday night on prime. With the Packers
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 3: and Falcons, and they're like, Peyton's like, yeah, that's going
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 3: to be difficult.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 9: Do we get an early appearance for Groggy Owl?
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's possible.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 9: Not Groggy, but disgruntled.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, disgruntled. Number 30, Tennessee 0-2.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I'd be surprised if they win more than four games.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: Number 20, excuse me.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 4: Number 29.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 9: He's choking just thinking about this team.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely. Number 29, the 1-1 Cleveland Browns. Okay.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 8: Not a huge bump for Cleveland after winning that rain-delayed
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 8: game in Tampa Bay.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: One of their comments is, one thing we know about
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 3: the QB1, Deshaun Watson found a risk-averse winning formula. Earned
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: his first win since September 2024 with the lowest average
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: depth of target of his career, 3.7. In fact, on
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: all of these, I guess I should have left this
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: in there, they add the line about what we know.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 4: About the QB1.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: For Miami, Malik Willis is still developing and needs more help.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 3: For Atlanta, the Falcons are desperate for Michael Penix Jr. Yeah,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: he's supposed to be back on Thursday, so look forward
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 3: to that. For the Titans, Cam Ward will run the
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 3: ball more this season. And then I mentioned Cleveland. Deshaun
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: Watson found a risk-averse winning formula. Number 28, your 0-2
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: Washington Commanders.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 4: Fair.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 9: Tough, but fair.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 4: One thing we know about the QB1, Jane Daniels can't
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 4: stay healthy.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 9: Not recently.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I hate that.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 9: I hate that for him.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 3: Number 27, the 1-1 Jets. One thing we know about
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 3: the quarterback, look, no interceptions for Geno Smith. They said
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 3: this is notable because he threw a league-high interception, 17
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: interceptions last season with the Raiders. He's making smart decisions
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: with the ball for the most part, not a single
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: turnover and 74 dropbacks. He's completing nearly 71% of his passes,
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: though he's only averaging 5.8 air yards per attempt, tied
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 3: with Daniel Jones for 28th in the league. Number 26,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: the 1-1 Arizona Cardinals. One thing we know about QB1,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 3: Jacoby Brissett should be just fine.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 4: Okay. Number 25, the 1-1 Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 9: Yeah, this is about accurate.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 8: I've seen a lot of people too high on the Steelers,
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 8: so I'm happy they're down in the bottom seven here.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 3: One thing we know about the QB1, Aaron Rodgers is
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 3: no longer comfortable under pressure. That's because their offensive line
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: is Swiss cheese. I mean, the guys are— what was the
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 3: line I heard? I stole it from one of the
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 3: recap shows. I'm going to use it in a broadcast
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 3: I know somewhere. is that the offensive line, or they
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: were talking about a specific offensive lineman that said, was
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: a turnstile.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 9: I like turnstile, traffic cone.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's another one as well. Okay, number 24,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: the Colts, 0-2. One thing we know, Daniel Jones' Achilles
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 3: injury is not impeding him. Number 23, the 0-2 Buccaneers.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: Baker Mayfield is fully healthy, but something is not right.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 3: Number 22... The 0-2 Chargers. Justin Herbert looks uncomfortable.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I heard a fantasy football podcast I like compare
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 8: him to that really nice set of stereo equipment at
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 8: your buddy's house. And he swears it sounds perfect when
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 8: it's all done right, but he's fiddling with it constantly,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 8: and it's never perfect.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go. Number 21, the 1-1 Panthers. Bryce
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 3: Young isn't afraid to throw it deep.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 4: Number 20?
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 9: That one jumps out to me. Too low.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 8: I believe in this Carolina team.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 9: I think they'll climb.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 3: At number 20 is the lowest ranked 2-0 team, the Raiders.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 9: Yeah, the Panthers should be ahead of them.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 3: One thing we know about QB1, Kirk Cousins can handle
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: pressure well. Let me tell you something. On my fantasy team,
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: and I didn't even play him, he's like lighting it up.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: So he's doing really well. And he said, why didn't
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: you play him? Because I got Dak Prescott and I've
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 3: got Patrick Mahomes.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 9: Say hello to my little friends.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 4: All right. Number 19, the 1-1 Saints.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: One thing we know about the quarterback, Tyler Shuck can
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: handle the big moments, but he needs to start faster.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 3: Number 18, the Giants at 1-1. It's all about Jackson
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: Dart staying on the field.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 3: Number 17, 1-1 Packers. One thing we know about the quarterback,
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: Jordan Love is getting hit a lot. He's taken 18
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: hits and sacked four times.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 9: Their O-line is struggling. Struggling in front of him.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: Number 16, the one-and-one Cowboys. One thing we know about
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 3: the quarterback, the Cowboys will go as far as Dak
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 3: Prescott can take them. It says there have been and
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 3: will be growing pains with the defense, so a lot
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: will be on Prescott's plate. The run game has not
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: been what the Cowboys have wanted so far either. Through
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 3: two games, Prescott is completing 73.8% of his passes, and
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 3: he has been able to escape harm with his legs, too.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: He has six touchdown passes and one interception, but the
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 3: one giveaway shows the Cowboys' thin.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 4: Margin for error.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 3: The Giants turned that into a touchdown to shift the
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 3: momentum in Dallas' week one loss. Todd Archer wrote that.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 3: And we'll hear some more. We've already heard from Brian Schottenheimer.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 3: We'll hear some more coming up later on this hour.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 3: Number 15, how about the 0-2 Texans being ahead of
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 3: the 1-1 Cowboys?
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 8: I look at if you're, if your priors on a
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 8: team were so high, two weeks should not be able
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 8: to change them unless you've got catastrophic injuries. And even
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 8: though the Texans have had injuries at the wide receiver position,
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 8: you can't change your takers. on the Texans just because
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 8: they couldn't score in the red zone this week just
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 8: because Josh Allen made the defense look exposed in week
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 8: one they had that game right there.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 3: Uh the one thing we know about the quarterback CJ
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 3: Stroud just needs a healthy supporting cast talk about Nico
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 3: Collins missing the game and you know the other injuries
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 3: they've had Number 14, the one-in-one Lions. Jared Goff continues
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 3: to build a case as the greatest quarterback in franchise history.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 4: Okay, whatever.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 9: Competing with who on that? Dante Culpepper?
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 4: Stafford.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 8: Well, but think about what Stafford did with the Lions
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 8: and start comparing that to golf. Then you see a
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 8: little bit of a closer comp.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 4: Okay, so what has golf done with the Lions?
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 8: Well, I mean, I think he's a better winning percentage,
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 8: but that has a lot to do with what's going
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 8: on around him.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, the team around him as well.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 9: Well, he's not the best quarterback to wear the Lions uniform.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 9: We know that.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 3: But says, Jared Goff continues to build a case as
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 3: the greatest quarterback in franchise history.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 8: You put greatest Lions quarterback, not best quarterback to put
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 8: on a Lion helmet.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 9: That you got to go to the future Hall of
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 9: Famer at Stafford.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay. Number 13, the 1-1 Jaguars. One thing we
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 3: know about the quarterback, Trevor Lawrence, has to be better
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 3: against pressure. Number 12, the 2-0 Vikings. The Vikings can
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 3: win with replacement level QB playoff.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 8: I heard Nate Tice yesterday comparing Brian Flores to a
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 8: knuckleball pitcher in that he just keeps offensive coordinators really,
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 8: really off balance.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 3: You know, the best comment I ever made about a
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 3: knuckleball pitcher was Bob, Bob Uecker made it because Bob
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 3: Uecker was a catcher before he became, you know, a
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 3: funny man and a broadcaster. And he said, you know,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 3: people make such a big deal out of catching a knuckleball.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 3: I never worried about it. The guy, if I had
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 3: a knuckleball pitcher and he threw the ball, come across
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 3: the plate, then I would go to the backstop, pick
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 3: it up, and throw it back.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 4: To him afterwards. So, yeah.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 3: Number 11, the one-on-one bears. One thing we know about
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 3: the quarterback, Caleb Williams' hamstring injury isn't serious.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 9: Yeah, what a scare.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they think that Tyson Badgett can operate the offense.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 3: Number 10, New England Patriots. Drake May's accuracy isn't what
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 3: he's accustomed to.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 6: No, he hasn't looked right.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 8: He has not looked right since the back half of
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 8: last year, and I'm going to hopefully chalk it up
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 8: to facing that tough Seattle front without A.J.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 4: Brown.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 3: Number nine, 2-0 Cincinnati. One thing we know about the QB,
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 3: Joe Burrow is a tough customer. I think we all
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 3: knew that. Number eight, the 1-1 Broncos. Bo Nix might
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 3: not be all that fond of September. He gets the
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 3: Rams on Sunday night.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 9: He needs to start taking care of the football a
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 9: little better.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 3: In his first two seasons, he's thrown eight of his
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 3: 23 interceptions in September, including three games with at least
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 3: two picks. And of course, in the season opening loss
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 3: to the Chiefs, he had his first career three fumble
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 3: game and was sacked four times.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 8: He was missing guys by five yards in the first
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 8: half of that Jacksonville game, but he's a winning player.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 6: He was able to get him back into it.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 3: Uh, number seven, the one in one Ravens. One thing
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 3: we know about the quarterback, Lamar Jackson is facing a
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 3: lot of pressure. Um, Baltimore only had a 38% pass
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 3: block win rate in week one against the Colts and
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 3: 33% in week two when they lost to the Saints.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 8: They, they invested a lot on the defensive side of
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 8: the football this year and they are resting even more
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 8: of their offense than ever on the shoulders of two guys,
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 8: Lamar and Derek Henry.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 3: Number six, the two and O Eagles. One thing to
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 3: know about the quarterback, Jalen Hurts is carrying this team in, uh,
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 3: as he's acclimating to Sean Mannion's system as well.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 9: Yeah, quietly, Jalen Hurst has had a really, really good
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 9: start to the year.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 4: Number five, the 1-1 Rams.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 3: One thing we know about the quarterback, Matthew Stafford, is
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 3: still capable of playing at an MVP level. We'll see
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 3: what happens when the time comes to get Puka Nakua back.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 3: Number four, the 2-0 Chiefs. One thing we know about
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 3: the quarterback, Patrick Mahomes can deal from under center. Number three,
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 3: the 2-0 49ers. Brock Purdy looks poised for his best season.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 3: Number two, the 2-0 Seahawks. Drew Locke is one of
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 3: the NFL's best backup quarterbacks. And number one, the Buffalo Bills.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 3: Josh Allen is going to make defenses pay either way.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 8: And look, they're just outscoring teams. The Buffalo defense hadn't
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 8: impressed me at all through two weeks. But if they
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 8: can put up 40 a week, it doesn't matter.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 4: That's true enough.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 3: Okay, before we get to break, I want to jump
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 3: back over to the Longhorns because there was a lot
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 3: made about this. I've read it on a couple of sites,
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 3: like The Athletic, I think at ESPN, and obviously this
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 3: is coming up on the fan sites. And that is,
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 3: and I think everybody figured this was coming, that Arch
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 3: Manning was going to be much more guarded in his
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 3: comments in media availabilities. especially given what happened a week ago.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 3: So this may swing back. The pendulum may swing back.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 3: But for now, he's.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 4: Going to be more guarded.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 3: So here with this, normally when we play sound bites
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 3: from a press conference, if I told Jake to play 12,
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 3: it might take 20 minutes to do it. It's not
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 3: going to take long to do this. So we'll just
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 3: go through this in rapid fire. This is actually how
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 3: it happened. First of all, is he excited to play
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 3: in Knoxville?
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely excited to play. Hostile environment, SEC road game.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 5: That's what it's all about.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 4: That's one of his longer answers. Does getting on the
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 4: road help him focus on football? I think so.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 5: Just being kind of us against the world mentality.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 4: What about the need for consistency?
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 5: Just trying to find that in practice this week, be
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 5: consistent in practice. Excited for this challenge.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 3: Was there any reason that he didn't visit Tennessee during
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 3: the recruiting time?
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 4: No, just never visited. Does he watch Tennessee? tape of,
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 4: what's it say?
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: Allen?
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Josh Allen.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 4: Oh, Josh Allen. Okay.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 12: All right.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 4: I didn't know who Allen was.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 3: Josh Allen tape of protecting himself while using his legs.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 4: Josh does a good job using his legs when he
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 4: needs to. Sometimes I.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 5: Don't need to take these unnecessary hits like he does.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 4: He does a good job of not. Okay.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 3: Does he notice things to help him clean up on film?
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 5: Lots of clean up. That's what we got practice for
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 5: this week. Excited for the challenge.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 4: Okay. And here's what I think is kind of a
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 4: silly question.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 3: Do you listen to Rocky Top at practice and follow
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 3: up on how you would rate it?
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we played it a bunch today. How would you
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 4: rate it? It's not bad. Okay. How is this team
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 4: better equipped for playing on the road? We've got a
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 4: tight-knit group this year, so excited to see how we
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 4: do on the road. Okay. Does he ever get used
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 4: to the crowd noise on the road? I think so.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 4: As the game goes along, you get used to it.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 4: What has he seen from Tennessee when he looks at
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 4: them on video? They fly to the ball well-coached, so
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 4: excited for this challenge.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 3: He was asked a question that a lot of guys
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 3: were asking about what the identity of this Texas team is.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 4: We're going to play hard, tough, smart, physical. and continue
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 4: to show that each week.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 3: And finally, how helpful is it to have a head
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 3: coach who played quarterback at that level, to have Sark
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 3: having been a highly decorated college quarterback?
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 5: It's definitely helpful having your head coach be the play
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 5: caller and play quarterback in his past.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 4: That's it, okay?
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 3: So understand he's going to be, at least for a time,
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 3: perfunctory in his response, especially in that kind of environment.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 3: where the issue happened a week ago, the exact same room,
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 3: the exact same setting. He might be different on the road,
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 3: and he might be different after games, depending on how
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 3: it goes. But Saturday night after the game and then yesterday,
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 3: he's definitely going to be more guarded.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 4: I can't blame him for that.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 3: I certainly just want to make sure he's being.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 4: Buttoned up at the press conference.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 3: All right, coming up. We'll jump back to the NFL.
• 1:17:07
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• 1:17:09
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• 1:17:11
  Speaker 8: I hang my hat in Tennessee.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 3: Here on a Texan Tuesday, of course, in the 4
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 3: o'clock hour, we always hear from the King, George Strait,
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 3: and this song is particularly apropos. All my exes live
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 3: in Texas because that's why he hangs his hat in Tennessee.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 3: Texas at Tennessee this week. I was on a show
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 3: this morning in Knoxville. And the host of the show
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 3: is a sports talk guy, but he also plays in
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 3: a band, and they're going to be playing at a
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 3: place on Friday night.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 9: He's doing his best Bill Shoning.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, probably better when it comes to that. I don't know.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 4: I haven't heard the guy sing, so I don't know.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 3: Anyway, he asked me for suggestions of songs that have
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 3: Texas in it. He said, well, you've got to go
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 3: George Strait.
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 4: All my exes live in Texas. After all, he mentions Tennessee.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 4: He goes, that's perfect. So he'll be doing that.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 9: He knew who to come to with a music question.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 4: I suppose, I guess.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 3: The Cowboys are off to Rio later this week. They'll
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 3: play Sunday afternoon against the Ravens. And they'll be in
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 3: action on Sunday afternoon against Baltimore. Both of the teams
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 3: are 1-1 at his press conference. Brian Schottenheimer was asked about,
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 3: among other things, the always challenging proposition of being able
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 3: to defend Lamar Jackson and was asked about Jackson's ability
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 3: to escape and create.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 4: He's really slippery. I mean, he just, you know, he's
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 4: got got quickness.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 11: Um, he's nifty. He's got, you know, great feet. Um,
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 11: but he's, he's, he's, he's, he's stronger. I mean, he's
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 11: a strong guy, you know, like muscular. And so he's
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 11: just hard to get on the ground. And, uh, those
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 11: guys are, um, hard to find. And those guys are
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 11: hard to, hard to, to play well against because he
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 11: can hurt you so many different ways. And of course,
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 11: when he breaks, he's got very, very good speed. Um,
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 11: but I don't think people talk enough about what a
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 11: great pass for the guys too.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 3: Next, he was asked about his team's defensive depth really
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 3: being put to the test by this Baltimore team.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 11: The old thing, Skyler, is next man up. I mean,
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 11: that's real. I thought we used the elevations well for
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 11: the linebackers. I think we'll look at some things potentially
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 11: on defense, maybe in the secondary. We've got some guys
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 11: there that we feel might step up and help us
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 11: in a couple different roles. But as we get into
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 11: the plan, I think it's going to be what this
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 11: league is about is next man up and whether it's
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 11: you're down for offensive lineman like we talked a lot
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 11: about last year you're down you're down to two linebackers
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 11: and then you got to have some elevations that's why
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 11: the league when they changed the rule to the you
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 11: know the practice squad being larger I think was the
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 11: right idea they were predicting that you know it's a
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 11: physical violent game that there's going to be injuries and
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 11: the game's going to be better when you can have
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 11: guys that actually know what you're doing and not have
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 11: to get guys off the street.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 3: The run production, I think, came up the other day.
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 3: They only had something like 56 yards rushing, something like that.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, 66. 66 yards rushing.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 3: And that was in the win over Washington. And some
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 3: of that is taking what the defense is going to
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 3: give you and doing some other things.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 4: And Sean Hammer explained that the other day.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 3: But he was asked about why the run production has
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 3: been behind last.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 4: Year so far. A couple things.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 11: One, first game, had the ball for 23 minutes. That's
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 11: a big part of it. You get limited ops. Yesterday,
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 11: quite honestly, we came out with a different plan. We
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 11: were going to throw it around the yard. I like
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 11: that plan. It worked good. This week we might run
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 11: it around the yard. But at the end of the day,
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 11: when you look at us, we're... You know, we're getting
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 11: a little bit too much knockback in the backfield. You know,
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 11: we're not getting the movement at times at certain things.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 11: I do think that, you know, it's a feel thing. And,
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 11: you know, we had to run 20-something yards, 30 yards
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 11: callback late in the game. But there's a lot of
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 11: different things. Running games sometimes takes time. And I think
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 11: that's kind of where we are.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 3: He was also asked with regard to that passing game,
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 3: you know, obviously CeeDee Lamb had a big game. on
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 3: Sunday against Washington. Does he have a game plan to
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 3: get George Pickens going?
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 11: Of course, I want to get, um, you know, him
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 11: and CD the ball. I think, you know, CD's playing great.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 11: I think George is playing really well. I mean, some
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 11: of the catches he made yesterday were really, um, you know,
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 11: big time plays and big time situations for us. Third one,
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 11: he catches the over route, gets, you know, smacked, catches
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 11: a slant early. Um, he just didn't have the highlight
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 11: type catches and the explosive catches and things like that. But, um, yeah,
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 11: he draws a lot of attention out there and, uh,
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 11: But believe me, we're looking for ways to continue to
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 11: get those guys the ball. If you look at George
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 11: last year, he didn't really take off until a couple
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 11: games in. And the rest, as I know, is history,
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 11: how well he played. So I have no questions about
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 11: him and his readiness, and he'll be ready to go
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 11: this week.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 3: Andy was also asked about being able to combine The
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 3: run game, the pass game, how important is that to do?
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 3: Given that they've had success through the year, obviously, with
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 3: what Dak Prescott has been doing as receivers, but how
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 3: important is it to combine the run game and the
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 3: pass game?
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, yeah. I mean, I don't want to throw
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 4: it 50 times a game.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 11: And quite honestly, some of the best things we do
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 11: are our action passings. So you've got to have a
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 11: little semblance of a run game. But like I said,
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 11: Javante Williams is a terrific back. um you know the
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 11: offensive line has played very well for us over the
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 11: past two games for the most part and uh Tyler
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 11: Booker you know Terrence Steeler one of the stronger sides
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 11: on the right side of the line that in the
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 11: league and um it's just again we just got to
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 11: tighten some things up.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 3: So we'll see that'll be Sunday afternoon it is a
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 3: 325 like a regular Sunday afternoon kickoff even though it
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 3: is in Rio because Rio Rio is either in central
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 3: time or it's in eastern time. So it's not like it's,
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 3: you know, Australia or even Europe, you know, something like that.
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 3: It's on a much more normal scale. That's why the
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 3: Cowboys are also leaving on Thursday to go down there.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 3: There's not as much acclimation, at least in terms of
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 3: body clock and time. The surroundings are different, but the
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 3: time zone is pretty close. They're two hours ahead of
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 3: us here in Austin. Okay, so that would be Atlantic
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 3: time then. Okay, two hours ahead. Well, it's a little
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 3: bit of adjustment. It's kind of like going out of.
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 4: California, but a little bit later. Okay.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 9: Nothing like Melbourne.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 4: No, then again, nothing is.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 9: Or as Noah Eagle said, Melbourne.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, right. Okay, a couple other NFL notes.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 3: The Giants kind of breathing somewhat a sigh of relief
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 3: on that injury to Jackson Dart.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 4: The X-rays negative.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 3: Uh, MRI today, but expected probably in the four to
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 3: six week range, uh, at the very least.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 8: The Twitter lip readers were right about the exchange we
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 8: saw on the sideline with the training staff and John Harbaugh.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 3: He said, what, four to six weeks or something like
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 3: that is what they were saying. So we'll see, uh,
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 3: how that goes. Uh, other injuries, you know, the Falcons
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 3: have had all manner of injuries with the quarterback situation.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 3: Now they do expect to have Michael Penix back on
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 3: the field, but They'd put their star corner, A.J. Terrell,
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 3: on injured reserve with a groin injury today. He came
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 3: out of the loss to the Panthers, didn't practice yesterday,
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 3: and of course isn't going to be on the field
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 3: when they play the Packers on Thursday night. So he's
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 3: got to miss at least the next four games, not
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 3: eligible to return until week seven. The Giants only have
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 3: made the official call on the IR thing, but they're
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 3: expected to make that call with regard to Jackson Dart.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 4: It'll probably happen like that.
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 3: A couple other things. We've been telling you about Alec Pierce.
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 3: This is unfortunate for the Colts. He's going to miss
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 3: several weeks when he aggravated, and this isn't the most
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 3: common thing on the planet, a left heel injury. So
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 3: they moved quickly to address that absence. They agreed to
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 3: a deal with Darius Slayton. And so he's going to
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 3: attempt to rehab the injury rather than have surgery. So
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 3: that's a tough situation for a really good receiving target.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 8: Yeah, so this is the same leg, remember, that he
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 8: delayed the surgery on until he signed his contract extension.
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 8: And I don't know enough medically where this is a...
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 8: you know, anything related to trying to ramp up quickly
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 8: off of a surgery that was delayed. So that's a
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 8: kind of a looming storyline over this. That's a tough
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 8: look for the Colton Pierce.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 3: And interesting in Philadelphia where Dallas Goddard has an MCL sprain.
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 4: So he's going to be out a few weeks.
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 3: And they went and signed their one-time erstwhile tight end,
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 3: Zach Ertz.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 4: Got him back.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 3: He'd been with Washington. He'd been with Arizona and all
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 3: that sort of thing. And he had been healing up
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 3: as well. He had been working his way back from
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 3: that ACL tear in December. Said to be in good health.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 3: 35 years of age.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 9: How about that?
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 8: I thought he would probably, I thought the injury he
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 8: suffered carted off mid-season last year in Washington would probably
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 8: have ended his career.
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 9: So I'm really happy for him.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 3: Seahawks are planning to have Sam Darnold back on the
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 3: practice field on Wednesday, tomorrow, after he missed most of
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 3: the first two games because of that glute injury. So
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 3: can we accurately say then that he was butthurt? Is
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 3: that what we're saying here?
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 9: Missing a phrase in there.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 3: Anyway, Mike McDonald said there's a chance that he'll play
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 3: against your Washington Commanders at Northwest Stadium this week.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 8: Well, we might be treated to Mariota versus Locke otherwise
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 8: in the home opener for Washington.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 6: That's where the air comes out of the balloon.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 8: The Commander season ends before the team even gets to
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 8: see Jaden Daniels play again.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 4: Well, that's true.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 6: The fans, I mean.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 4: Exactly. Caleb Williams.
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 3: Supposed to be week to week with that right hamstring injury.
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 3: In fact, Ben Johnson, the coach, says he's not even
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 3: really going to rule him out for the Monday night
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 3: game against the Eagles, but he's not expecting him to
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 3: practice this week. And normally, if you're not practicing, you're
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 3: probably not going to get back out there on the
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 3: field unless they really, really need you. But in other words,
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 3: I guess the main thing is the important thing that,
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 3: he's going to be back sooner rather than later because
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 3: a lot of folks wondered about that.
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 4: And then.
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 3: We heard from Sean McVay that funny comment earlier where
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 3: he owned the poor travel planning for the Australia trip
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 3: and the season-opening loss to the 49ers. But McVay today
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 3: said that he's not sure if Pukunukuwa Is going to
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 3: be able to go yet. Held out of last night's game.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 3: Doesn't know if he'll play Sunday night against the Broncos.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 3: He said if he's ready to go, great. If not,
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 3: we'll continue to roll. So he's got that hip and groin.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 3: kind of combo package there. Said still dealing with a
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 3: little bit of soreness in the groin and didn't practice Saturday.
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 3: And it's not related to the injury that caused him
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 3: to miss time during training camp. Uh, it's the soft
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 3: tissue type. He said, you're going to err on the
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 3: side of caution with that. So, uh, we'll see, but
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 3: he's not going to be able, he's not going to
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 3: go there. And then, and then one other NFL note,
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 3: this is kind of weird. Um, the, the Rams took
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 3: a lot of grief and deservedly so for how they
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 3: played when they got whacked by the 49ers in Australia,
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 3: starting with the organization all the way to the top.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 3: And like we said, the, the soundbite that we played
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 3: from Sean McVay, he owned it. said it was just,
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 3: you know, they tried something that didn't work. Poor travel planning.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 3: And I know a lot of us are sitting back going,
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 3: how could he not know that? How could he not
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 3: know how to do that? How can he not know
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 3: that that is not.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 4: Going to work?
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 3: It worked when they went to London, but they're going
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 3: East and they're not crossing an international date line and
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 3: a lot less to do. And they had played in
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 3: Baltimore the prior Sunday. So then they have nearly as
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 3: far to travel before that game. And they were playing
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 3: Jacksonville as opposed to San Francisco. So none of it worked, uh,
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 3: against the 49ers. And he was willing to, to take
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 3: the heat on that, um, put it on himself.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 4: But then, um, The Rams turn around.
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 3: They played really, really well last night and beat the Giants.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 3: And you say, okay, well, that's one thing. There was
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 3: a little bit of trolling that happened. Did you hear
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 3: about this, what the Rams did?
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 11: No.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 4: Okay. All right.
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 3: Los Angeles shared an image of a bitten apple with
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 3: the Giants NY logo on it, like taking a bite
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 3: out of the big apple. But in the caption, the
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 3: team wrote, ate the W, which was a reference to
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 3: an eat a W speech that Jameis Winston delivered when
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 3: he was playing for Tampa Bay.
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 4: Because they kind of ate him up off of that.
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 4: So they took a little jab on that.
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 3: But we've learned and have known for some time that
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 3: the media relations department for an NFL team or a
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 3: lot of times college team is separate of those who
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 3: are handling the social media accounts.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 6: Which is a good thing.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 6: Church and state on that.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and if somebody goes rogue or some 23-year-old fresh
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 3: out of college guy just completely just says something ridiculous
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 3: they can write it off to that boom the guy's
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 3: gone you know something like that as opposed to like
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 3: long-time media relations people who aren't going to do that
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 3: sort of thing for a team so anyway uh somebody
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 3: did that all right uh we've got more coming up
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 3: more on the longhorns as well when we continue on
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 3: sports radio am 13 under the zone and the iheart
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 3: radio app so here we are on the uh Backside
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 3: at 4 o'clock hour here and still on a Texan Tuesday.
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 8: Coming back with Josh Abbott Band, probably making their debut
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 8: here on this program. A band from Lubbock, Texas with
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 8: Texas Women, Tennessee Whiskey.
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 3: Josh Abbott has been on this station before. In fact,
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 3: Josh Abbott has been in this station.
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 6: On this program before, though?
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 4: On my show.
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 6: No kidding, Craig.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 8: Yep.
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 4: Josh Abbott, I met him.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 3: In Omaha, at the College World Series when Texas and
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 3: Texas Tech were both there, this would have.
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 4: Been like 2014, and Augie.
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 3: Garrido took the entire team and the travel party out
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 3: to dinner, and we were at this really nice Italian
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 3: place called La Solomio, and there was Josh Abbott sitting
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 3: across the way with some friends, and Abbott, who is
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 3: an avowed Texas Tech Red Raider, nevertheless, plays a lot
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 3: in Austin, and sent dessert over to the entire table,
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 3: to our table.
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 6: That's awesome.
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 4: Good dude. Came over, visited with us and everything.
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 9: We're going to bring him in for some more Texas Tuesdays.
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 4: That would be nice.
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 3: So, speaking of Texans, the Texas Longhorns headed for Knoxville
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 3: to take on the Tennessee Volunteers.
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 4: We've heard some from Trevor Goosby.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 9: Here's a little more.
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 3: He was asked about this environment at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville.
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 3: And Goosby was asked, what all has SART said to
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 3: them about.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 10: This obviously um you know he knows that it's going
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 10: to be super loud really just anywhere we go you
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 10: know in the sec you know they love football you
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 10: know their fans love football he kind of focused more
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 10: on us though and just understanding you know um you
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 10: know we're going into a hostile environment we got to
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 10: be able to like he said you know be a
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 10: fist because a fist hurts a lot more than a
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 10: hand does so just being unified.
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 3: So uh one of the popular questions we even heard
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 3: arch manning address it earlier this hour about him protecting
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 3: himself a little bit more when he runs the football
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 3: and gooseby was asked about.
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 10: It definitely for sure and uh you know arch is
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 10: a tough guy um so there's no doubt that he'll
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 10: be able to he he can't take those hits that
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 10: doesn't mean i want him to obviously you know being
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 10: our quarterback um You know, just protecting, you know, himself
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 10: and also us, you know, continuing to do a good
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 10: job and, you know, even doing a better job protecting
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 10: him as well.
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 3: You know, we heard from Sean Miller, the Longhorn basketball
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 3: head coach, last hour. And, of course, one of his,
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 3: you know, freshmen really get acclimated and a lot of
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 3: accolades coming in is Austin Goosby, Trevor's brother. So Trevor's asked,
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 3: has he talked to Austin much about this? His first
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 3: couple of years of UT and Austin getting acclimated to everything?
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 10: You know, I told him, the first thing I told
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 10: him is that it wasn't going to be easy coming here.
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 10: You know, playing for the University of Texas, we're a
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 10: big brand. And, you know, people, there's eyes everywhere. You know,
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 10: that was the first thing I told him. And just
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 10: to just buy into the program and work hard. Those
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 10: are the kind of things that I learned from, you know,
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 10: my successors. You know, I always talk about Kelvin and
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 10: Jake and Hayden. You guys hear that a lot. But,
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 10: you know, just the.
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 10: The quality of hard work, or the value of hard work,
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 10: that's kind of what I, you know, hit on him,
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 10: and obviously, you know, he's a good player coming out
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 10: of high school, but, you know, talent only gets you
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 10: so far, and that's kind of what I told him.
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 3: All right, a couple other things, asked about the offensive inconsistency,
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 3: as Sar called it, choppy, whatever, against UTSA.
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 10: I think just, we have to do a better job
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 10: of straining mentally, you know, just mentally continuing to be
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 10: in the game, and making sure that we're executing, you know,
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 10: no matter who's on the field, whether it's Ohio State, UTSA,
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 10: Texas State, or Tennessee, you know, and just making sure
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 10: that we're focused on what we have going on.
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 3: And then finally, one of those, I won't say it
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 3: was a gotcha journalism kind of question, but, you know,
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 3: there's people that always want to see if they can
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 3: get some sort of response out of guys about a
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 3: certain thing. And so Trevor was asked about, has there
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 3: been much locker room talk about all this fan stuff
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 3: going back, and forth about who's the real UT and
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 3: the real Orange and all that stuff, and Goosby wasn't
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 3: having it.
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 4: No, not really.
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 10: We're not really focused on, you know, who the real
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 10: UT is. At the end of the day, this is
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 10: a SEC game, and, you know, we're just, you know,
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 10: getting ready to play whoever it is that, you know,
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 10: steps on the field.
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 4: Who is the real UT?
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 10: I mean, you know, it's kind of up in the
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 10: air for everybody. So, you know, I just know for me, like,
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 10: I'm more of a burnt Orange fan, you know.
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 4: The Tennessee orange personally.
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 10: So I didn't say I didn't like it. I just
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 10: like burnt orange a little bit better.
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 4: You know what I mean? So yeah, there you go.
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 3: And then when he walked away, several, when he was done,
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 3: that was the last question. Several people said, nice job, Trevor.
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  Speaker 4: Nice job. Way to, way to get around that.
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  Speaker 3: A couple other, um, College football notes, Shane Beamer, head
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  Speaker 3: coach of South Carolina, defending his quarterback, Lenora Sellers, who
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  Speaker 3: has struggled coming off. And he said they all need
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  Speaker 3: to play better. Then a reporter asked him about rumblings
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  Speaker 3: from those who say a change at quarterback is needed.
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  Speaker 3: He said people outside of this building don't get to
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  Speaker 3: decide that.
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  Speaker 4: We win as a team and lose as a team.
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  Speaker 3: Are there some throws that Lenores would like to have
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  Speaker 3: back or throws he'd like to make?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: And then there's also some plays we made or didn't
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  Speaker 3: make on defense and special teams that every single person
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  Speaker 3: would like to have back. As I told Lenores, when
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  Speaker 3: you lose a football game, the two people who get
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 3: the most blame are the coach and the quarterback. And
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  Speaker 3: it's no different this week. We'll worry about what we control.
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  Speaker 3: Lenores needs to be better. I need to be better.
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  Speaker 3: Our entire team needs to be better. They better be
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  Speaker 3: better going to Alabama this week. All right, we'll be
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  Speaker 3: back to wrap up today's edition of the program on
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  Speaker 3: 1300 The Zone.