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SEC's "Elimination Weekend" includes Texas-Ole Miss, World Series Getting Underway · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Hey, we made it to Friday, right? Depends on what
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  Speaker 1: Friday means to you, right? I mean, by saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we made it to Friday, might not mean the same
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  Speaker 1: to some folks. Yeah, Friday's here. Hopefully it's good however
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  Speaker 1: it is. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the program here
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  Speaker 1: on Sports Radio AM 13 Under the Zone, and where
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  Speaker 1: you can always listen to us for free on the
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  Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. My name is Craig Wade. Thanks very much
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  Speaker 1: for joining us. We appreciate you listening. to the over
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  Speaker 1: the air terrestrial signal at 1300 on your AM dial. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: we appreciate those of you listening on the I heart
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  Speaker 1: radio app, uh, and, those going to YouTube route as well,
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  Speaker 1: where you can see that both the producer, Jake Herman
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  Speaker 1: and I have faces made for radio. So we're glad
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  Speaker 1: you joined us nonetheless, uh, to talk about a variety
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  Speaker 1: of things on this Friday afternoon, heading into the weekend, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if cataclysmic is the right word, but
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  Speaker 1: it's an important weekend, not only for the Texas Longhorns,
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  Speaker 1: but for a lot of teams on the college football landscape.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get into that a little more. There's quite a
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  Speaker 1: bit written about what's to come. And I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: share something coming up here in a few minutes with you.
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  Speaker 1: And then something else a little bit later on in
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  Speaker 1: the program. And that will include, you know, the elimination weekend,
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  Speaker 1: if you will. That'll happen not only in the SEC.
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  Speaker 1: but in other places as well. Also, the World Series
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  Speaker 1: begins tonight, in case you'd forgotten about it since I
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  Speaker 1: haven't played in a few days. The Milwaukee Brewers, who've
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  Speaker 1: had eight days off, at home against the Tampa Bay Rays,
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  Speaker 1: who've had a few days off. And they'll go tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Nick Martinez will start for the Rays. And for the Brewers,
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  Speaker 1: it's the Miz, Jacob Mizorowski, who will go for Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 1: We'll hear from the managers tonight. of those two teams
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  Speaker 1: as well. And coming up here in just a few minutes,
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  Speaker 1: we'll bring you an excerpt from Longhorn Weekly with Coach
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  Speaker 1: Sark that aired last night. We do it on Fridays,
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  Speaker 1: both in the two o'clock hour and then for those
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  Speaker 1: who miss it, can't join us in the two o'clock hour,
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  Speaker 1: but can in the four o'clock hour. We play it
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  Speaker 1: then as well because there's some who can listen now
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  Speaker 1: that aren't listening to the program later. There's some who
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  Speaker 1: can listen later that can't listen now. So we didn't
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  Speaker 1: want you to miss out on it. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: the game planning thing and his look at the opponent.
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  Speaker 1: We do this every week on the show. The show
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  Speaker 1: airs Thursday night at 7 o'clock. It was on last night.
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  Speaker 1: And we had Kwon Cosby join us as a special guest.
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  Speaker 1: We have a lot of fun on that program. But
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  Speaker 1: we talk football and we talk about what else is
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  Speaker 1: to come. And we know what's coming. Right in front
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  Speaker 1: of them, the Ole Miss Rebels. Jake Herman is the producer.
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  Speaker 1: of this program. He is also a part of our
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  Speaker 1: Longhorns Game Day programming, which will come your way tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: afternoon from Bevo Boulevard down in the Winship area, circle, space,
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  Speaker 1: whatever It is down there, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we quoted Joni Mitchell talking about it last week.
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  Speaker 2: It's changing every week. It's exciting to see what progress
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  Speaker 2: is made, what food trucks are popping up.
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  Speaker 3: Now they've got these sort.
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  Speaker 2: Of bar railings that you can come and rest a
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  Speaker 2: drink on while you stand there and listen to us. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we've gotten some good crowds for every game that's kicked
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  Speaker 2: off after 11 a.m. So it should be a solid
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  Speaker 2: crowd for a night kickoff tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 1: There might even be some food left even after Mark Henry,
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  Speaker 1: you know? avails himself of the cuisine that's available down
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  Speaker 1: there off the food trucks and things.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there were some delicious wings we had from It's
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  Speaker 2: A Wraps, the food truck right next door. Juicy Lucy's
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  Speaker 2: always a favorite as well. So we'll see what comes
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  Speaker 2: across his plate.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. All right. Before we go any further on this,
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  Speaker 1: we've got something else we're going to do here in
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  Speaker 1: a couple of minutes. But before we get to that,
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  Speaker 1: are we coming up to a momentous occasion for you?
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  Speaker 1: Is it next week? Don't you go see the allergist?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: So I saw the allergist this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm going to follow up next week.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it is. That's right. All right. So you
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  Speaker 1: went to the allergist. Now, people have heard me say that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Jake Herman is 27 now and food allergies.
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  Speaker 1: Probably not 27, but we're going to find out. what
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  Speaker 1: your upgraded allergic content is, not just to foods, but what,
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  Speaker 1: to pollens or whatever?
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  Speaker 3: I'll get my.
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  Speaker 2: Version of the SEC student athlete availability report.
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  Speaker 1: I like it. I like that. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: At least 27 allergens were tested for when they took
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  Speaker 2: three vials of my blood this morning for further evaluation.
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  Speaker 1: And then, and so they took, they took... vials of
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  Speaker 1: your blood. They didn't do the scratch test with you. Now,
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  Speaker 1: why was that?
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  Speaker 2: No, that's what they call a complex case, Craig. They
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  Speaker 2: can't do the scratch test.
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  Speaker 1: Because- Why is that?
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  Speaker 2: I've got some chronic itching stuff that's related to allergies.
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  Speaker 2: So I take medication to deal with that. So that
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  Speaker 2: would make everything negative. If I got off the medication,
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  Speaker 2: not only would I be unhappy, but everything would be positive.
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  Speaker 3: So that doesn't work for me.
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  Speaker 1: So are you telling me that you couldn't do a
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  Speaker 1: scratch test because you get the hives if they scratch?
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  Speaker 3: Pretty much.
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  Speaker 1: Is that it?
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  Speaker 3: Pretty much. So it's, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Bless your heart.
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  Speaker 2: We're working on it. Newer research is showing you can
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  Speaker 2: outgrow some of these allergies.
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  Speaker 1: That's true.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't been tested since I was a college student.
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  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 2: Well, and I've been in college more recently than this, luckily.
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  Speaker 2: But my last allergy test was seven years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm hoping some of these numbers have come down.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and didn't you also say that you have... You've also...
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  Speaker 1: been able to, they're trying to wean you off certain
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  Speaker 1: allergens to certain foods. Is that the way to describe it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, they're trying to figure out if I can take
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  Speaker 2: a food challenge. So I'm allergic to shrimp, but the
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  Speaker 2: numbers are pretty low. And if these numbers come in
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  Speaker 2: low again, I can go back to my allergist office
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  Speaker 2: and eat shrimp under careful observation.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And then, you know, small amount is okay. 20 minutes later,
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  Speaker 2: here's a little more. And if I pass the test,
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  Speaker 2: then there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Boom.
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  Speaker 3: Right back in the diet.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: So.
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  Speaker 3: I say back in and I've never eaten it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right. All right. So you say under special supervision,
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  Speaker 1: does the doctor like sit there and watch you eat shrimp?
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  Speaker 1: Is that how that works?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I guess. I've never done it. I did
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  Speaker 3: one at home.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the two of you get together, like, and
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  Speaker 1: you have this big platter, you know, of peel and
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  Speaker 1: eat shrimp. And you've got these lemons there to squeeze
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  Speaker 1: the lemon juice on it. And you do that. And
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  Speaker 1: you got the cocktail sauce. And Doc is having himself
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  Speaker 1: just a good old time. He's popping shrimp. He doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have any problem with that. But he's watching you to
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  Speaker 1: see if all of a sudden you blow up like
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  Speaker 1: a balloon. Is that how that works? Oh, no.
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  Speaker 6: Salt and pepper.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting. Interesting.
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  Speaker 3: No, I guess that's how it's going to work. I
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  Speaker 3: hope we had a lot to talk about. I also think,
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  Speaker 3: do the other doctors get jealous? Hey, you know, this
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  Speaker 3: person took an ice cream challenge today. Oh, I got
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  Speaker 3: to eat a steak.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Hey, hey, hey, I got the liver and onions, dude. Okay?
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  Speaker 3: What about the filet mignon?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So they have this big chart, and it's like an
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  Speaker 1: assignments board, you know? Anybody ever at old school that
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  Speaker 1: saw Hill Street Blues, and they saw the assignment there?
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  Speaker 1: They have an assignment board up there. Steak. That's Dr. Smith.
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  Speaker 1: Seniority rules.
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  Speaker 7: Shrimp.
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  Speaker 8: Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Phillips. And all this kind of stuff. For you, it.
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  Speaker 3: Would be the broccoli challenge. Be the one you want
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  Speaker 3: to avoid.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's a well-known fact that I am allergic to broccoli.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, wait.
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  Speaker 3: I just thought you didn't like it. I forgot you
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  Speaker 3: were allergic.
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  Speaker 1: Yes and yes. And I didn't like it when I
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  Speaker 1: was a kid. And it used to make me physically
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  Speaker 1: ill and all this stuff. And my parents just thought
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  Speaker 1: I was, you know... sandbagging they thought that it was
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  Speaker 1: then then we go to the do we go to
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  Speaker 1: the doctor we found i'm allergic to broccoli and cauliflower
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  Speaker 1: it's all that leafy thing off of that you had
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  Speaker 1: to feel so vindicated i did but it also at
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  Speaker 1: the time said that i was allergic to white bread
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  Speaker 1: and also to oreos wait.
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  Speaker 3: What they have name brands on allergy tests.
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  Speaker 1: Well that the stuff that was in it Yeah, Craig,
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  Speaker 1: it comes back. You're allergic to mellow yellow. You know,
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  Speaker 1: for about six weeks, I couldn't eat anything but pumpernickel.
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  Speaker 1: That's when I was a kid.
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  Speaker 3: So no wonder you're so fascinated by my allergies.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I still have them to ragweed and cedar. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I had no idea about cedar until I got in
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  Speaker 1: Texas and was moved down in the Austin area. And
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  Speaker 1: about seven years into it is when all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden I just broke out everywhere. Didn't know what was
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  Speaker 1: going on. Went to the doctor and they said, well,
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  Speaker 1: you're off the chart on cedar. I'm like, cedar? I've
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  Speaker 1: never had any problem with cedar. And they said, yeah, right.
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  Speaker 1: They said, how long have you lived here? I said,
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  Speaker 1: seven years. They said, yeah. The average expectancy on your
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  Speaker 1: body's resistance, if you are susceptible to being allergic to
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  Speaker 1: cedar pollen, is in the six to seven year range.
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  Speaker 1: It happened at the same time that Mack Brown had
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  Speaker 1: it happened to him. So I wonder if I get
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  Speaker 1: bailed out by the break when I left Texas, four
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  Speaker 1: years in college, now a year plus back. Am I
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  Speaker 1: coming up on it?
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I started to say, I think if your body's
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  Speaker 1: resistant to it, I don't know. Doctors smarter about it
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  Speaker 1: than I am. They're the ones who could Can tell
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  Speaker 1: you that for sure.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see what the arrivals board has for my challenges. Hopefully,
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  Speaker 2: we can reduce that 27 allergies. We're expecting a full report.
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  Speaker 1: I want to know. You can bring in the chart
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  Speaker 1: if you want. I want to know exactly everything that
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  Speaker 1: you're allergic to.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder if the peanut's still going to be off
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  Speaker 3: the charts.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, see, you know, I have to be careful. I
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  Speaker 1: have some nutter butter bites here. But I have to
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  Speaker 1: be careful if I eat anything with peanut butter or
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  Speaker 1: peanuts in it because so as to keep you from just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, busting out all over and having all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of issues. I kind of keep it away because I
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  Speaker 1: love peanut butter. Absolutely love it. But I got to
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  Speaker 1: be careful because I don't want Jake to get ill
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  Speaker 1: or twitchy or. Itchy or sick or anything like that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And luckily, look, you're not like eating peanuts at the
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  Speaker 2: baseball game here. If there was dust flying everywhere, I'd
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  Speaker 2: have some issues. But a peanut butter cracker, that's going
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  Speaker 2: to be okay.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever told somebody in a ballpark, please keep
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  Speaker 1: your peanuts to yourself?
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  Speaker 3: I have had to once.
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  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 3: How'd that go down? Oh, they felt so bad. They
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  Speaker 3: felt so bad.
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  Speaker 7: Did they really?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You landed on a good person then.
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  Speaker 3: I did because, well, it's not telling them to stop
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  Speaker 3: eating the peanuts.
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  Speaker 2: It's telling them to, hey, stop dropping your shells at
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  Speaker 2: my feet, which is a common courtesy anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you know, I used to tell my sons when
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  Speaker 1: I would take them to a baseball game, there are
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  Speaker 1: two actual laws. They have to have a hot dog
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  Speaker 1: in the ballpark and you have to eat some peanuts.
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  Speaker 1: And they were like, really? When they were a kid.
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  Speaker 2: I would have had to relive your broccoli experience at
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  Speaker 2: that point. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So, because what I do, now, Linda's allergic to peanuts. So,
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  Speaker 1: when we've gone to ballgames, and we went again to
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  Speaker 1: ballgames this year, when we've gone, like early in the season,
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  Speaker 1: we saw the Astros play the Dodgers over in Houston.
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  Speaker 1: I don't get peanuts when I'm with her because I
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  Speaker 1: don't even want to, and she's not, she's not as,
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  Speaker 1: you know, freaky as, resistant on it as your situation.
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  Speaker 3: It's probably like my other allergies, her peanut allergy.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So, uh, but, but out of courtesy to her, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't, I don't, I don't even get them. If, if,
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  Speaker 1: if I happened to, when I was with Cameron for
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  Speaker 1: the women's final four and we were out in Arizona
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  Speaker 1: and we had a day off before the things got
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  Speaker 1: going and the Diamondbacks were playing the Tigers and Tarek
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  Speaker 1: Scouble was pitching for Detroit and, um, I remember this.
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  Speaker 1: I talked to you on air before you went. Robbie Ray,
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  Speaker 1: I think, was going for the D-backs before he went
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  Speaker 1: to San Diego.
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  Speaker 8: I think it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was a one-nothing ballgame.
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  Speaker 1: One-nothing ballgame. A Corbin Carroll home run in the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the first, and that was it. And, but, I
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  Speaker 1: was in peanut heaven on that. I'm eating a whole
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  Speaker 1: big old bag of peanuts. My own personal thing is also,
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  Speaker 1: I like to drink the, have one, only one, one
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  Speaker 1: of the hometown beer of that team. Now, in a
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: lot of places, you know, if it's, St. Louis is
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  Speaker 1: going to be Budweiser or Wrigley Field would be Budweiser.
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  Speaker 1: But there was a time, you know, you go see
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  Speaker 1: a White Sox in Chicago, you're having a Heidelman's Old Style,
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  Speaker 1: you know, or you go to Pittsburgh, you have Iron
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  Speaker 1: City or Icy Light beer, you know, Iron City beer, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: So there's different ones.
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  Speaker 2: Peanut heaven, that's where I would go if I ate
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  Speaker 2: a peanut. I would hope it happened. It might be
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  Speaker 2: peanut somewhere else.
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  Speaker 1: It would die and send you to heaven. I get it.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 5: I understand.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Here's what I'm going to do right now. Lo
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  Speaker 1: and behold, I had an extra pair of tickets for
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: tomorrow night's game between the Longhorns. And I have to
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: specify this. As we know, this is a massive sports
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: weekend in this town. I mean, it starts tonight with
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  Speaker 1: some huge high school games. You got the Battle of
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  Speaker 1: the Lakes. You got Westlake Lake Travis going on over
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  Speaker 1: at Leaf Johnson Ford Field at Cavalier Stadium. there in Lakeway,
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  Speaker 1: or in BK, well, it said in Lakeway.
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  Speaker 3: Where Lake Travis is looking to get back on the
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  Speaker 3: right track.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. So that stadium there in Lakeway hosting that
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  Speaker 1: game tonight, I mentioned BK, that's where the new Leaf
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  Speaker 1: Johnson dealership is. But anyway, that's in BK. So you
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  Speaker 1: have that tonight. Just up the road from a St. Gerald,
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  Speaker 1: I am not kidding you, Number one in the state
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  Speaker 1: against number 11 in the state. You have Stephenville, the
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  Speaker 1: top-ranked team, unbeaten in the defending 4A Division I state champions,
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  Speaker 1: taking on this rising team at Gerald, coached by Alan Hare.
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  Speaker 1: And that is tonight. That's a big game. But there's
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  Speaker 1: other big games as well going on around the area.
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  Speaker 1: So that's tonight. Then you got tomorrow. And you got
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  Speaker 1: the Longhorns against Ole Miss. And then on Sunday, yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's F1 weekend. In case you're wondering why hotel rooms
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: are in the four-digit variety, even for the budget hotels,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to dinner tonight with my friends from Westwood One.
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  Speaker 1: We're doing the national broadcast, Danny Reed and Derek Rackley,
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  Speaker 1: the producer, Tim Parker, Mike Purtle, the engineer who helps
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  Speaker 1: us out a lot of games as well. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to dinner with Linda and myself tonight. And Cameron's going
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  Speaker 1: to join us as well. And I think Brant Freeman's
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  Speaker 1: going to come along because Brant and Danny are longtime
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: friends from the Sunbelt days when Danny was doing Georgia Southern.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, we're all going to dinner. And so as
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  Speaker 1: we go to dinner tonight, we're talking about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: all the big events that are going on this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: And you have those high school football games I mentioned tonight.
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  Speaker 1: And then Texas Ole Miss tomorrow. And then on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: is the F1 race. So I asked them where they
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: were staying and they're staying at one of those, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a nice enough hotel for some, like some business travelers,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a, but it's a more of a budget
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• 16:03
  Speaker 1: from 75 to $ 150 range, something like that normally. And
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: I said, Oh, you're at such and such. And they said, yeah,
• 16:12
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• 16:15
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• 16:17
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• 16:25
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• 16:28
  Speaker 1: thing that they're saying is, is that Monday going out
• 16:32
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• 16:35
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• 16:39
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• 16:45
  Speaker 3: Leave yourself some time.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of time. Busiest travel day ever out
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: of that.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Better start looking for rooms up in Williamson County.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, good old Wilco. Okay, so here's the deal. I
• 17:01
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• 17:05
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• 17:11
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• 17:13
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• 17:15
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• 18:32
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• 18:37
  Speaker 1: to take on the Ole Miss Rebels. Now, they met
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: two times relatively recently, and they split the two games
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: in 2012 and 2013. And each team won on the
• 18:50
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• 18:55
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• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. In 2013, Ole Miss won back here in
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Austin 44-23. Texas leads the all-time series 6-2. Now, they
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: lead the all-time series 6-2. They've won two out of
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: three at home, and they've won one on the road.
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  Speaker 1: Neutral site, 3-1. And the last time they played at
• 19:24
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• 19:29
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• 19:36
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• 19:41
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• 19:44
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• 19:49
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• 19:52
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• 19:55
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• 20:10
  Speaker 2: If Monday's blue, Tuesday's gray, and Wednesday too.
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: Thursday, I don't care about you.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: It's Friday, I'm in love.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Aren't we all in love with Fridays? Well, we are
• 20:27
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• 20:35
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• 20:36
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• 20:39
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• 20:41
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• 20:44
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• 20:47
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• 20:49
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• 20:50
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• 20:59
  Speaker 1: hopefully we help you get over the hump. And then,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: bless your hearts, there's some of you for whom Friday's
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: just kind of the start of the work week. But hey,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: that means Wednesday and Thursday are big for you, right?
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: So we hope it goes well for you. It went
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: well for one guy who knew the answer to our
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Longhorn trivia question, to win a pair of tickets for
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: tomorrow evening's game against the Ole Miss Rebels at DKR
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Texas Memorial Stadium. The question was, the Longhorns lead the
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: overall series 6-2. And Texas.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Overall has won two of the three in Austin. They
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: won the only time they played in Oxford. That was
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: back in 2012, and they'll be going back there next year.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: And they're three and one in neutral sites. That would
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: mean bowl games. So what I wanted to know is
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: the last time they got together in a bowl game
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: at a neutral site, what bowl game was it? And
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: this gentleman knew it.
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  Speaker 9: 1966 Blue Bonnet Bowl in Houston.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: All right, Kyle. Congratulations. You're the winner. Yep. 1966 in
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: the Blue Bonnet Bowl in Houston. And Texas had played
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Ole Miss other times. 1958 Cotton Bowl was the first
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: bowl game that Texas played in that Darryl Royal coached
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: in coming off that surprising loss 57 season, but Ole
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Miss was great. Johnny Ball was coach of that team,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: and they won that one over the Longhorns by a
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: score of 39-7. Then they played in 1962, and in
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: the Cotton Bowl. By the way, they had one neutral
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: side game back in 1912, but the other three games
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: were in the bowl game. 62 was in the Sugar Bowl,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: and Texas won that one 12-7. And then in 1966,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: or actually that was in the Cotton Bowl where Texas
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: won that one 12-7. Then 1966, as Kyle mentioned, in
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the Blue Bonnet Bowl in Houston, one of those bowl
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: games that's gone on to the great beyond. It was
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: played at Rice Stadium for several years. When the Astrodome
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: first opened, or a couple years after that, they played
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: it in the Astrodome and changed the name to the
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Astro Blue Bonnet Bowl for a while. Then it just
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: went back to being the Blue Bonnet Bowl. Texas played
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: I think in the last Blue Body Bowl, one of
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: the last ones, a game against Air Force back in
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: the 80s as well. Okay, but they're playing here in
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Austin tomorrow. And last night on Longhorn Weekly with Coach Sark,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: we always take a look at the opponent. And here
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: was our conversation about this matchup between Texas and Mississippi.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: And Ole Miss, 5-1, their one loss was to Florida.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: So obviously we know what Florida's all about as well.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: But this is a team that knocked off LSU. They're
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: up to number seven in the country, and they've been really,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: really good.
• 23:59
  Speaker 10: Really good football team. A dear friend of mine is
• 24:01
  Speaker 10: their head coach, Pete Golding. We were together for two
• 24:04
  Speaker 10: years at Alabama as coordinators and won a national championship together.
• 24:08
  Speaker 10: And he went on to Ole Miss to work for
• 24:10
  Speaker 10: Coach Kiffin and took over last year kind of the
• 24:13
  Speaker 10: start of the playoffs, which was.
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: A unique time.
• 24:15
  Speaker 10: But what a tremendous job that he did last year
• 24:18
  Speaker 10: in the playoffs and getting them to the semis. What
• 24:21
  Speaker 10: a job he's done the start of this season. You
• 24:23
  Speaker 10: can see his kind of imprint on the team. They're
• 24:27
  Speaker 10: a physical group. He believes in running the ball, believes
• 24:30
  Speaker 10: in playing good defense. But one thing that hasn't changed
• 24:34
  Speaker 10: is Trinidad Chambliss at quarterback. And, boy, is he a dynamic,
• 24:37
  Speaker 10: dynamic football player.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. What are the things, the challenges that he presents
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: with everything he can do?
• 24:43
  Speaker 10: Well, I think one is there's a level of confidence
• 24:47
  Speaker 10: in which he plays the game. He was a highly
• 24:50
  Speaker 10: successful player at Ferris State, and he kind of goes
• 24:53
  Speaker 10: under the radar to Ole Miss and is not the starter.
• 24:57
  Speaker 10: I think three games into the year, he gets put
• 24:59
  Speaker 10: into action and has never looked back since. But I
• 25:02
  Speaker 10: think it was the confidence he gains as the player
• 25:04
  Speaker 10: at Ferris State. Then he gets to Ole Miss, has
• 25:07
  Speaker 10: the season he had last year, And he really just
• 25:09
  Speaker 10: hasn't missed a beat. It's his ability to innately play
• 25:13
  Speaker 10: the game on schedule from the pocket, but it's his
• 25:17
  Speaker 10: playmaking ability on the off-schedule plays.
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: And he can run.
• 25:22
  Speaker 10: And believe me, he's probably going to be one of,
• 25:25
  Speaker 10: if not the fastest guy in the field Saturday.
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: He can run. But what he does is scramble the pass.
• 25:30
  Speaker 10: And so when he breaks the pocket and he starts
• 25:32
  Speaker 10: to scramble, it's all the shots he takes down the
• 25:34
  Speaker 10: field once the pocket breaks down. So we've got to
• 25:37
  Speaker 10: do a great job of trying to contain him in
• 25:39
  Speaker 10: the pocket. We've got to do a great job of
• 25:41
  Speaker 10: staying sticky in coverage for the first.
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: Play and the second play, as I always like to
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: call it.
• 25:46
  Speaker 10: All the while, they got a running back, Kiwan Lacy,
• 25:48
  Speaker 10: who's a fantastic player as well, who can hurt.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: You on the ground.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Kiwan Lacy, a lot of folks know, is a
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: former Missouri Tiger. He's also a former Lancaster Tiger from
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: the Dallas Fort Worth area. I know Chris Gilbert of
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: your staff, well acquainted with him and a guy who can,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: he's had to fight through some injuries, but he's really
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: been effective.
• 26:04
  Speaker 10: He really has, and I'm a lot of admiration for
• 26:07
  Speaker 10: him for the toughness that he's exuding because you know
• 26:09
  Speaker 10: I know he's dealing with a leg injury he's dealing
• 26:11
  Speaker 10: with looks like sounds like a shoulder injury but he's
• 26:14
  Speaker 10: fighting through it he's been in and out of the
• 26:15
  Speaker 10: lineup but man when he's healthy when he's going he
• 26:18
  Speaker 10: can make it he can make it very difficult because
• 26:20
  Speaker 10: you're trying to put all this attention on stopping the
• 26:22
  Speaker 10: passing game and Chambliss at the same time they're running
• 26:25
  Speaker 10: stretch outside zone to to number five and Lacey and
• 26:29
  Speaker 10: and uh you know we saw the amount I don't
• 26:31
  Speaker 10: know how many touchdowns he had last season for him
• 26:33
  Speaker 10: so They're a great two-headed monster to go along with
• 26:36
  Speaker 10: a lot of skill that they have at the wide
• 26:37
  Speaker 10: receiver and tight end position.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Let me ask you about the defense because that's the
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Pete Golding specialty as well. Your thoughts on that defense?
• 26:44
  Speaker 10: Well, I think everything they do starts up front. You know, Echols,
• 26:48
  Speaker 10: Will Echols is a first-round draft pick, hands down, and
• 26:51
  Speaker 10: he's kind of at the forefront of what they do defensively.
• 26:56
  Speaker 10: Cam Franklin is a monster at one of the defensive
• 26:59
  Speaker 10: end spots, kind of Reminds me of Alfred Collins because
• 27:02
  Speaker 10: of the size, 6'5, 300-pound defensive end. And then to me,
• 27:07
  Speaker 10: where Pete makes his, hey, it's the stickiness in coverage,
• 27:11
  Speaker 10: similar to our coverage mechanics, very kind of man principles.
• 27:16
  Speaker 10: Even when they're playing zone, it can feel like man,
• 27:19
  Speaker 10: very contested. And so they challenge you at the line
• 27:23
  Speaker 10: of scrimmage. They challenge you in the secondary. A lot
• 27:27
  Speaker 10: of new faces, especially in the back end. I think
• 27:29
  Speaker 10: they had some growing pains early in the season, but
• 27:31
  Speaker 10: have gotten better and better and better. And we saw
• 27:33
  Speaker 10: what they did to Missouri last week. I think beat
• 27:35
  Speaker 10: them 31-3, held them to three points. A Missouri team,
• 27:38
  Speaker 10: by the way, that was hot. So we know what
• 27:40
  Speaker 10: this group is all about.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: And that's what the SEC has been all about this year, right?
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: It's been crazy. It's been crazy.
• 27:46
  Speaker 10: You know, I was joking the one day about... Florida
• 27:50
  Speaker 10: seemed unbeatable. They had just, they had just beaten old
• 27:53
  Speaker 10: miss 52 to 28. And then they.
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: Turn around and go to Missouri.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 27:58
  Speaker 10: And Missouri hands it, hands it to them. Then South
• 28:01
  Speaker 10: Carolina beats Florida. Then Florida comes and beats us. And
• 28:03
  Speaker 10: then old miss goes and beats Missouri last week, 31
• 28:07
  Speaker 10: to three. So it's like, who's who, but all the
• 28:08
  Speaker 10: while Auburn goes to Athens, Georgia and beats Georgia. Kentucky
• 28:12
  Speaker 10: goes to Norman and beats Oklahoma.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Alabama goes to Tennessee.
• 28:17
  Speaker 10: Alabama goes to Tennessee and Tennessee beats them by three scores.
• 28:20
  Speaker 10: So it's like, I've said this all along. I don't
• 28:23
  Speaker 10: think people wanted to believe me. Any team in our
• 28:26
  Speaker 10: conference can beat any other team in our conference on
• 28:29
  Speaker 10: any given Saturday. Forget what's on the side of the helmets.
• 28:33
  Speaker 10: Forget what jersey they're wearing. There's too many good players.
• 28:36
  Speaker 10: There's too many good coaches. There's too many tough environments
• 28:39
  Speaker 10: that everybody's playing in. It's any given Saturday. And so
• 28:43
  Speaker 10: when I always said like, Yes, you have to be
• 28:46
  Speaker 10: physically tough to compete in this league. You have to
• 28:48
  Speaker 10: be mentally tough to compete in this league because you
• 28:51
  Speaker 10: have to get back up the very next Saturday. Forget
• 28:54
  Speaker 10: what nobody cares what you did last Saturday. What are
• 28:57
  Speaker 10: you going to do this Saturday? That's the most important thing.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, for sure. Our coverage will begin here on the
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: zone some four hours prior to kick, and that will
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: be at 2.30 with the third and longhorned. preview with
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: the 3rd and Longhorn podcast, guys. At 3.30, it's Longhorns
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: game day from Bevo Boulevard. Mike Hardball-Harge and Mark Henry
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: down there. And, of course, Jake Herman, Eric Henry, Horns
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: 24-7 will be there as well.
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: So look forward to their coverage.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: We'll pop in. I'll have a little visit from the
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: booth with them. And then our network pregame takes here
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: at 530. The kickoff is actually going to be 649 p.m.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: 649 p.m. will be the kickoff for that one. All right.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Coming up next, it's inconceivable. Jake, we know what inconceivable
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: means on Friday, even though the University of Florida played
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: here last week and they're gone. That does not stand
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: in the way of what we deal with on Friday.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: It's going to be hard to top last Friday's Florida
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: man file because.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: That's where we're headed.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: The Sunshine State, the most flaccid of the lower 48
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: to grab the low-hanging fruit.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: That's Florida man coming up next on Sports Radio AM
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: 13 Under the Zone and the iHeartRadio app. Second hour
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: of the program here on a Fire Me Up Friday
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: on Sports Radio AM 1300 The Zone. Craig Wade joined
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: by the producer, Jake Herman. Glad to be with you.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: A couple of things are going to run down, and
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: then we're going to have one more World Series preview.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: We'll have that since Game 1 of that takes place
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: tonight in Milwaukee. One thing, and it wasn't because I'd
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: forgotten about it, we were pretty busy. and didn't get
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: a chance to get to it. But I always like
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: to get to it, and I'm not going to forget
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: about it. And what we're talking about is the bottom 10.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: We have to do that. You should know, by the way,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: that Texas, which was in the bottom 10 last week,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: is not in the bottom 10 this week. You see,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: the way that Ryan McGee works that thing is, If
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: you're a team, like, especially from a Power Four conference,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: and you're supposed to win and, you know, do all
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, and you don't, and you get surprised,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: you do wind up, you know, in the bottom 10.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: You might. There's a decent chance you might wind up
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: in the bottom 10. But unless you're just, you know,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: all the way to the finish line. You're probably not
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: going to stand it because he moves on to get
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: another team. And this other team is also usually from
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: a Power Four conference. And, you know, so it's anyway,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: that's part of it. And we'll get to that coming
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: up in a little bit. But before we get to that,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: I wanted to get what's called get to what's called
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: elimination games in certain conferences. And one of them is
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: staring the Longhorns right in the face, as well as
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: the Ole Miss Rebels. See, what these elimination games are
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: all about is the elimination from contention for the college
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: football playoff, or at least realistic elimination from being able
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: to advance to the college football playoff. And I think
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: I saw this morning on SportsCenter, There was the, I
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: don't know, I don't think it's their football power index.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's that, but I think it's something
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: like their computer probability if they don't, if they win
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: the game tomorrow against Ole Miss or if they lose
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: the game against Ole Miss. And I think it said
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: currently the Longhorn's chances to reach The college football playoff.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Right now, staying at 41%. If they win tomorrow, it
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: jumps to 52%. If they lose, it falls to 14%.
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: Yikes.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: So that's what I mean, and that's what they mean.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: And ESPN's not the only ones doing this. The Athletic
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: is doing it. Sports Illustrated is doing it. These deals were...
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: They're calling them elimination games.
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: So.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Because they're elimination games, you know, it's an important thing
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: to make sure you're handling your business. So, they're calling
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: it Elimination Day, ESPN is, in the SEC. So, they
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: point out that last week, the top four favorites... In
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: the SEC, it's that SP plus index. That's what they
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: use to figure out what your chances are of being
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: able to get into the playoff. And said the top
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: four favorites all lost. Georgia remains the favorite overall, but
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: they're just at 48% right now, which tells you how
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: difficult the SEC is. And I know a lot of
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: fans get tired of it. I think I saw something
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: on social media where somebody said, I'm tired of hearing
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: the Tom Herman rhetoric of winning is hard. I'm hearing
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: it everywhere. Now, he was one of the first ones
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: I used to hear say it pretty regularly. I heard
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: it in the NFL a lot, winning is hard. And
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: it is, whether fans want to accept it or not,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: it is. But it really becomes paramount when you get
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: to this point.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: When you get to face teams that are very much
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: capable of beating you on their best day, and you've
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: got to do it after facing two or three teams
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: like that in a row.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: That's the difference.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So Georgia remains the favorite overall. But Tennessee
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: is 12%. LSU is 12%. Ole Miss 10%. And so
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: one of the elimination games is definitely Ole Miss at Texas.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: And they said it's a tale of two bye weeks following...
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: A humiliating 52-28 loss to Florida. Pete Golding's Rebels got
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: a week off to lick wounds and mend an increasingly
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: awful defense. They returned to action and beat Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: has fallen way off from no longer having Diego Pavia.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: So that helped as a stepping stone. And then they
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: had a really good home win against Missouri. And they
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: won those two games by a combined total of 83-20.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: This week, that same week, Texas was off after moving
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: to 4-0. The Longhorns returned to action and suffered back-to-back,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: as they put it, catastrophic upsets, first to Oklahoma, then
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: to Florida. Now, trends in momentum don't mean nearly as
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: much as we tend to think, but if they mean anything,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: they skew drastically toward Ole Miss, according to ESPN's SP
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Plus index. The Rebels also have a clear quarterback advantage.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Trinidad Chambliss has played remarkably controlled ball, producing a total
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: QBR over 80 in four straight starts and saving his
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: legs of late. He's taken few risks and has rushed
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: only seven times with one sack since the bye. He'll
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: probably run more in this one. Meanwhile, as you may
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: have heard, Arch Manning's play and confidence have plummeted. He's
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: 78th in total QBR since week one and has taken
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: 13 sacks with three interceptions in his last three starts.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: He might even be playing for his job. Unlike Ole Miss,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Texas is a defense that didn't start playing well just
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: two weeks ago. With incredible defensive end Colin Simmons hurt, however,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Coordinator Will Muschamp might have to raise the risk profile
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: a bit. Can the horns contain Chambliss without Simmons wreaking havoc?
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: The line, believe it or not, favors Texas by three
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: and a half. The FBI projection, well, the SP Plus
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: projection is Texas by six and a half. And the FBI,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: the Football Power Index projection, is Texas by 7.7.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Well, and according to those two metrics, Texas's losses these
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: last two weeks were complete anomalies. I mean, just by
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: looking at things like success rate, they think Texas lost
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: this game on three or four plays in each that
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: if you played 10 times, Texas might win seven, but
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: that's not how football works.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Right, right. It's on that given day, as we know. Anyway,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: so that's an example of it. Here's the other elimination game,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Tennessee at South Carolina. Now, it said in August, and
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: this is Bill Connolly who wrote this, my take on
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Tennessee was that the Vols would have an excellent run
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: game and major defensive potential with the addition of coordinator
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Jim Knowles and some high upside transfers. But they had
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: major unknowns at quarterback where Josh Heupel was going with
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: blue chip freshman Faison Brandon. Seven games into 2026, the
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Vols indeed have an excellent run game and defense, but
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: QB remains a mystery with Jordan McIntyre having replaced a
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: struggling Brandon. And so it goes on, talks about South
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Carolina's run game is clicking now. The current line is
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: South Carolina minus two and a half. The game is
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: in Columbia. It flipped from minus two and a half
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: for Tennessee on Sunday. The SP plus projection is the
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: balls by five. The football power index projection is the
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: balls by basically three and a half is the way
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: that puts. Okay, so there is one. Then you have
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: LSU at Auburn. It says, the earthquake game, the barn burner. Yeah,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Auburn LSU can get weird, and Lane Kiffin hasn't even
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: been involved yet. Talk about Auburn upsetting Georgia last week,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: despite getting pummeled statistically. LSU's defense ranks second in sack
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: rate without blitzing much. Edge rusher Prince Will, Yuman Mayalen,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: the Mainer High School product, has eight sacks, and freshman
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: Deuce Geralds might already be the nation's best pass rushing tackle.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: So anyway, it goes on. LSU is minus 7.5. The
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: projection has them by 11.2. The FPI projection has LSU
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: by 7.7%. Now, this game is on the plate. It
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: is at Auburn. Okay, so those are SEC elimination games.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Then they've got one. You'd say, how could this be
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: an elimination game? Consider where they're coming from in the
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: conference they're in. Houston at Utah. And game day is
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: going to be in Salt Lake City for that. And
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: it said only two games kick off after 8 o'clock
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Saturday night, but they both could be outstanding. Houston visits
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Utah on a top 15 battle with serious Big 12 implications.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: And North Dakota State visits New Mexico in a major
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: game for the G6 hierarchy. So he said, I'm guessing
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: the atmosphere of both games will be spectacular. Houston's ranked 14th.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Utah's 10th. Current line, Utah minus six and a half.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: The SP plus projection, Utah by 7.6. The FBI projection,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: Utah by 6.1. And then North Dakota State and New Mexico.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: There's no doubt this is an elimination game in terms
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: of thoughts of being the G6 representative. In fact, last night,
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: And Memphis' chances aren't great to be there. Their chances
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: are better to win the American, but they already have
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: two losses. And if they were to have lost last night,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: and they were down 16-3 in the third quarter, and
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: had to come back, climb the hill all the way
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: until late in the game to force overtime, and then
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: they won it in overtime, they would have been eliminated.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: They're still alive, although... you know, the odds are against it.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: These two teams still have a shot, especially one might
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: say North Dakota State. But the game is in Albuquerque.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: And if New Mexico can win, they kind of keep
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: their at-large G6 hopes alive. New Mexico is a four-and-a-half
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: point favorite. The projection, the SP Plus has them by
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: just under four. The FBI projection actually has them by
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: 11-and-a-half on that. So, Anyway, those are the elimination games there.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to say upset, alert, but just keep
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: an eye on BYU at UCF. That game's in Orlando.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: UCF has played pretty well at home this year. BYU
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: coming off that emotional win at home against Notre Dame,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: and now they travel across the country to play in Orlando.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Just keep an eye on it. Road favorites. Indiana at Michigan.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Indiana by seven, according to the line. Iowa at Minnesota.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Iowa by six and a half, according to the line.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: USC at Wisconsin. USC by three. I like Wisconsin. That's
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: my upset pick of the week. Okay. They played pretty
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: well this year. And we'll see how USC does with that. So, anyway,
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: those are some games to keep in mind. in addition to, obviously,
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: the Texas game. Speaking of Texas, coming up, we're going
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: to hear from Longhorn's head coach, Steve Sarkeesian. This is from, actually,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: we're going to hear from him in the 4 o'clock hour.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: And you might have missed it, the 2 o'clock hour
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: segment of Longhorn Weekly. But we've got some other, we've
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: got some pro football that we're going to get to
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: coming up next.
• 42:51
  Speaker 8: We'll do that.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: And we've got some other topics and the World Series
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: to preview. All that and more when we continue on
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio AM 13 Under the Zone. All right, it
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: might be apropos to hit final countdown on a Fire
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: Me Up Friday anyway, just because it might fire you up.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: But it probably makes even more sense to hit final
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: countdown when we're doing that countdown of the bottom 10,
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: which happens with Ryan McGee from ESPN, who does such
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: a great job. His inspirational thought of the week was, quote,
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: It seems we lose the game before we even start
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: to play. Who made these rules? We're so confused. Easily
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: led astray. Let me tell you that. Everything is everything.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Everything is everything. Everything is everything. Everything after winter must
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: come spring. Everything is everything. Yo, that's from Lauren Hill.
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: Maybe I should have come back with that.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Everything is everything. I always love where he He kind
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: of sets the scene about bottom 10 headquarters, about how
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: it's better. He's here at bottom 10 headquarters, located behind
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: the scrap heap where they toss all the old 0
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: for 5 college game day picks graphics before anyone can
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: go back and check them. We keep thinking about the
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: words that were set forth out of Austin after the
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: horns got hooked for the second straight weekend.
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: Good thing nobody's making graphics on our game day show.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So it's a good thing, I guess, that
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: that turned out that way. So anyway, he goes on and,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: you know, he says, not the words that filled my
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: inbox and social media timelines after we had Texas in
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: the coveted fifth spot last week. Besides, those weren't so
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: much words as they were a series of, you know,
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: the cuss word type letters. and middle fingers raised between
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: the thumb and index. It's a different sign entirely. He said,
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: I'm speaking of the perturbed announcement from head coach Steve
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Sarkeesian when he was asked about the upcoming week and
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: what would need to be evaluated. He said everything. When
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: inquiries were made, if that included his quarterback, he tersely
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: told the room, everything is everything. That's right. That was
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: the follow-up. I think the post came from Danny Davis
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: in the press conference when he said everything will be evaluated.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, everything would seem to be the quarterback, right?
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Include the quarterback. And when Danny asked that, he said,
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: everything is everything. So then every people, everybody's jumping on
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: Sark for having a terse response after he already answered
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: the question. And that's, I think that's part of what
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: has come down when folks are levying criticism, not at the,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: you know, whether he needs to give play calling to
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: somebody else or hire an offensive coordinator. And I'm telling you,
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: that's not going to happen, certainly not going to happen
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: in mid-season. Let me just put it that way. It's
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: certainly not going to happen in mid-season, no matter how
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: you feel about it. That's not going to change in mid-season.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: But now it's gotten to the point, and I saw this.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: I saw this with Matt Brown and with Charlie Strong
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: and with Tom Herman, with John McEvick, where folks are line-iteming,
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: picking out lines, and being critical of the head coach
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: for his response to something. Like, for example, he's getting
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: a lot of heat for saying if Arch Manning had
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: a different name. He was answering a question. I can't
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: remember who asked him. It might have been Bob Luke.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Asked him, do you think if he had a different
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: last name other than Manning, he would be Trenton? And
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: so he was answering the question. Yeah, if his name
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: was whatever it was.
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: Joe Smith.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Joe Smith. People would say, oh, yeah, you know, so
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: on and so forth. Now, it wouldn't matter what the
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: name is because he's struggling. And Sark would be the
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: first to agree with you on that. Well, and people are.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: Calling him out for going back and forth and saying
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: different messages. Well, yeah, Arch's play has gone back and forth.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. So that's why this is a big weekend
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: all the way around. But anyway, in terms of the
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: bottom 10, he said, you know, after the everything is everything,
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: he said, also, anything... is anything. And that's where he
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: got to the everything is everything from the Lauren Hill thing.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: He said, and if we learned anything from week seven
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: of college football, it's that anything goes. Because while the
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: rest of the world was watching the top 10 cave
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: in on itself, like Lauren Hill's accountants hard drive, we
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: here at the bottom 10, we're watching our hometown Charlotte
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: 49ers orchestrate their own giant record needle scratch musical masterpiece,
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: The Miseducation of Lincoln Financial Field.
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, come on, Ryan. Come on.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: Well, with what they did up there, with what Temple did,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: it's just a 21-point favorite to have that thing collapse.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: It's amazing. Anyway. Okay, so here we go. The Americans,
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: Ryan McGee did tweet. He said, y'all are talking about
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: the bottom top 10 teams losing. Meanwhile, the soon-to-be former
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: bottom 10 teams taking care of business about Charlotte getting
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: its first win, beating Temple 38-31. So anyway, here's his 10.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: I always go from backward to forward. Number 10, Temple
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: of Doom. That's the same Temple team that lost to Charlotte.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: He said, apologies to Temple alums, Quinta Brunson and Kevin Agondi.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: not to mention 2020 graduation speaker, Lauren Hill. But if
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: you lose to the former top bottom 10 team at home,
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: and it snaps that top bottom 10 team's nation-leading 15-game
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: losing streak, and you think you shouldn't be ranked here,
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: then in the words of another pair of Temple alums,
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: I can't go for that. No, no can do. Yeah,
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: that's right. All the notes.
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: Look at that.
• 48:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: So there you go. On his waiting list, is Mizzou State,
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: the Charlotte 1-6ers now, because they were 0-6ers, Baller State,
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: Sam Houston, we have a problem, they lost again on
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: Wednesday of this week, Old Dominions of Old Dominions, Southern Missed,
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: Washington State, replacing mid-level bowl games with first-round playoff games
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: that look like mid-level bowl games. No nine, Minute Rice.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: It's the Rice House who are one in six. He said,
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: it's homecoming season, so it only feels right to see
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: these old friends returning to these rankings. That'll happen when
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: you lose six straight. If they lose three more, we
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: could be setting up a pillow fight of the week
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: of the year of the century on November 19th when
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: the other, other owls visit the other, other owls of
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: Temple of Doom. So could have that. I mean, how
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: many other owls are we talking about? We got Kennesaw State, right?
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: They're the owls.
• 49:53
  Speaker 5: Rice.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: Temple.
• 49:56
  Speaker 5: F-A-U.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: F-A-U.
• 49:58
  Speaker 5: There you go.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: Number eight is acrimonious.
• 50:01
  Speaker 9: Acrimonious.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: At one and six this week's undercard pillow fight of
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: the week will be when Akron zips over to waiting
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: Lister's state of Kent. Um, in related news of my
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: hotel last weekend, I found a card under my pillow.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: Happy birthday, Janine. I'm assuming that was you, Janine, who
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: spilled red wine all over the comforter. I also left
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: a card, a comment card, zero stars, the bottom 10
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: of housekeeping. Ooh, that would be tough to get that
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: in your hotel room. Um, I had a hotel room
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: deal once, and it was at the Doubletree out here
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: on I-35. And this was the first year that I
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: was in the broadcast booth, 1992. So 34 years ago.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: And in those days, Host Communications was the broadcast rights
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: holder for the University of Texas. And in those days,
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: they paid for the travel for their broadcaster. not the university.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: So they had a hotel room because I was commuting
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: for all the games, and it was a night game.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: And if it was a day game, I would drive
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: back or fly back, back to the Metroplex. But if
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: it was a night game, they would put me up
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: at a hotel. And that hotel was usually that Doubletree
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: on I-35. Very nice hotel. Been there, stayed there many times.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: Not for a while. And I did find it kind
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: of poetic and weird some, I think, 18 or 16
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: years later when I was taking one of my kids... Well,
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: I wasn't doing it, but I was setting up the
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: limo service to take one of my kids down there
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: for a prom. But I get there one night after
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: a game. I get the key. I go up. I
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: get off the elevator. I go in, and this is
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: in the days before the key cards where you just
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: put the key in the lock and open the door.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: I put the key in the lock, open the door.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: And as the door opened, I saw a flash of flesh.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: go by. Yeah. It was so quick. All I could
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: tell was like, like the side of a person who
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: was unclothed. And I heard, Hey, uh, and I went,
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. And I closed the door and I went
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: downstairs and I got off the elevator. And as I'm
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: walking toward the thing, I see the desk clerk running
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: toward me. I'm so sorry.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: I gave you the wrong key to a room that
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: was occupied. I said, yeah, I've noticed. So then they
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: gave me another one. So that's the only really Absolutely
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: weird thing I've had happen with regard to that sort
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: of thing.
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: That's pretty good for the career you've had, the miles
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: you've logged.
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: No kidding. Number seven on the list was Boiling Green.
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: Boiling Green at two and five. The Brown Falcons were
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: on the bottom 10 waiting list, but like me on
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: the bench outside the Texas Roadhouse on a Saturday night,
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: as soon as the buzzer went off, they came charging
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: into the door and started stuffing their faces with rolls.
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: Only their buzzer was a buzz kill, a baller state
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: two-point conversion in overtime. It's a ball state had beaten them.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: Number six, Sacramento State, and that's sack with a K,
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: like getting sacked. Sack State fell to 0-4 lifetime in Maction. See,
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: they joined the Mid-America Conference this year.
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: See, I always get confused with them in the Pac-12
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: because it's all the state schools.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that's true.
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  Speaker 3: But they were in the MAC, you know, because of course, Sacramento, yeah.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: A result that was supposed to set up a potential
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: pillow fight of the week of the year, but were
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: denied a long list of bottom 10 sentences that were likely...
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: To get me sent to HR when Ball State avoided
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: said PFWOY by beating Boiling Green. Number five is polling. Yep.
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  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: As election day nears, voters are being flogged with polls
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: that will probably turn out to be totally wrong. For
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: college football fans, that's already old hat. Week seven turned
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: the AP top 25 into a coveted fifth spot slot machine.
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: I would say go home. Top 25 voters, you're drunk.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: But then again, I write the bottom 10 every week
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: using only one hand because I'm holding a bottle of
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: amber liquid in the other.
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  Speaker 3: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: Number four, Kennesaw Mountain Land Estate. It's Kennesaw State. That
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: says owls. Continuing to speak of pillow fights of the week,
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: the other owls lost last week's edition. falling via last-second
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: field goal by then ninth-ranked Mizzou State. Hey, remember when
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: last second actually meant the last second? Ah, the good
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: old days. Am I right, Michigan and Notre Dame?
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, who's with me?
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: Number three, you tepid. One and six. Speaking of not
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: getting too far ahead of ourselves. Have you noticed where
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: the season ends for the minors just before Thanksgiving? At
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: Northern Illinois. The only time this game will be bigger
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: is when it becomes a first-round game in the next
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: wave of expansion of the college football playoff. By the way,
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: Northern Illinois is hosting Hawaii this week, which is the
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: longest travel distance for a conference game in college football.
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: Surely in college football.
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: History, right?
• 54:53
  Speaker 7: Well.
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, because it does outpace, say, USC or
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: UCLA going to Rutgers. It does outpace that. Number two,
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: ULM pronounced, um, they're 0-6. Um, speaking of pillow fights
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: of the week, um, aren't we all that, um, interested
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: in this week's trip to Troy because, um, Southern Mist
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: is coming to town on, um, Homeoween.
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of fans will be dressed as empty
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: seats on Homeoween.
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and number one is Northern Ill Ugg Noise 0
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: and 6. You know that when the other Huskies made
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: their move from the Mack to the Mountain West, a
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: big part of the pitch was now we get to
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: go to Hawaii just as it's getting super cold. Then
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: imagine this week in Honolulu as the Warriors were preparing
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: for the Pillow Fight of the Week. Now we have
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: to go to Illinois just as it's getting super cold. So,
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: There is your bottom 10. I guarantee you.
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: I don't guarantee you because it's hard to predict these things.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: We might see a game like that on SVP's Bad
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: Beats Monday night. Just saying.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: Good chance of that. Okay. Let's hear some NFL. The
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: Texans are going for three straight wins when they play
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: the Giants on Sunday.
• 56:06
  Speaker 7: C.J.
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: Stroud, the Texans quarterback. was talking about now, you know,
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: getting Tank Dell back and obviously making the trade with
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: Marvin Harrison Jr. coming in. Nico Collins is back. How
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: do you manage a crowded wide receiver room?
• 56:20
  Speaker 11: Like you said, I've been in this situation before and
• 56:23
  Speaker 11: I don't think it's, it's not easy, but it's also,
• 56:25
  Speaker 11: I think it's good because now like you can't really
• 56:28
  Speaker 11: just focus in on Nico and then you can't really
• 56:31
  Speaker 11: just focus in on Tank or whatever it's been in
• 56:33
  Speaker 11: the past. And I think there are a lot of
• 56:35
  Speaker 11: different ways that we can, you know, move the ball and,
• 56:38
  Speaker 11: create explosives and use everybody. And I think if you
• 56:41
  Speaker 11: watch the bulk of my, my, my career, I've been
• 56:44
  Speaker 11: able to like use a lot of guys and throw
• 56:46
  Speaker 11: to a lot of different receivers throughout games. Um, so
• 56:49
  Speaker 11: I don't, I don't, at least I try not to be,
• 56:51
  Speaker 11: you know, like, um, picky on who I throw to,
• 56:54
  Speaker 11: you know, if you're open, I try to try my
• 56:56
  Speaker 11: best to get you the ball. Um, and you know,
• 56:58
  Speaker 11: there's times when I miss people too. So, um, I
• 57:00
  Speaker 11: just like, I would like for everybody to be patient,
• 57:02
  Speaker 11: you know, and not to, but we've never, I haven't
• 57:05
  Speaker 11: had that from anybody thus far. Um, And everybody really, like,
• 57:08
  Speaker 11: the room has really been good.
• 57:10
  Speaker 6: Like, at practice, they're all talking to each other, helping
• 57:13
  Speaker 6: each other out.
• 57:14
  Speaker 11: And it's a cool thing to see because there's a
• 57:17
  Speaker 11: lot of talent in that room. But definitely don't want,
• 57:19
  Speaker 11: you know, that could be something that the outside can, like,
• 57:22
  Speaker 11: push on that room. But I believe that they've been
• 57:24
  Speaker 11: able to, you know, block that out and really just
• 57:27
  Speaker 11: focus in on one another and help one another.
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: One of those wide receivers is Tank Dell. And he
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: talked about how, as he fought his way back from injury,
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: the support he's received from the Texans organization.
• 57:39
  Speaker 5: I'm grateful for it.
• 57:40
  Speaker 8: I'm thankful, man.
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: And I'm so excited.
• 57:42
  Speaker 12: I'm so happy that I got D'Amico, even Nick, my
• 57:47
  Speaker 12: receiver coach Ben, and everyone in the staff, especially the
• 57:50
  Speaker 12: trainers like Roe and my RTF girls and everybody who
• 57:55
  Speaker 12: contributed to me getting back to where I am. The
• 57:58
  Speaker 12: whole time, you know, D'Amico was calling me during the offseason, like,
• 58:03
  Speaker 12: take as much time as you need. When you're ready,
• 58:05
  Speaker 12: we ready. Like, just get yourself together to be who
• 58:08
  Speaker 12: you are, man. And I'm here for you every step
• 58:10
  Speaker 12: of the way. That's what D'Amico was preaching to me.
• 58:12
  Speaker 12: So he gave me the confidence and made me, like,
• 58:16
  Speaker 12: he made me not stress, you know what I'm saying?
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: Like, it was just, it's awesome to have that.
• 58:20
  Speaker 5: So it was good.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: Then you have the Cowboys, who, like the Texans, are 2-4.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: But unlike the Texans... who started 0-4 and now have
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: won back-to-back games. The Cowboys were 2-2 and now have
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: lost back-to-back games. They go to Philadelphia to play on
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: Monday night. And Quinnen Williams, the Cowboys' outstanding defensive lineman,
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: was asked, is the playoff urgency increasing for this team?
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: Not at all.
• 58:45
  Speaker 7: Not at all. Right now we've got a lot of
• 58:46
  Speaker 7: stuff we need to fix, especially on the defensive side.
• 58:48
  Speaker 7: I haven't been playing. to the standard that I want
• 58:51
  Speaker 7: to be able to play to be able to be
• 58:52
  Speaker 7: a game changer so all that stuff right now is
• 58:54
  Speaker 7: on the front focus on my mind and I'm doing
• 58:56
  Speaker 7: the things that we know we can do each and
• 58:58
  Speaker 7: every day to get better and each and every Sunday
• 59:00
  Speaker 7: to win football games.
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: You know another reason why the playoff urgency hasn't increased
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: because they're in the NFC East where the Giants lead
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: with a 3-2-1 record and think about this if the
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: Texans beat the Giants, the Giants will still be in
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: first place at 3-3-1, no matter what happens with Cowboys-Eagles.
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: Because the winner of that game would be, what, 3-4, right? Yep,
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: and this is one of those games where, one of
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: those divisions, where... You could have somebody like the 2020
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: Washington football team. Just diagnosis by elimination. It could happen.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: Javante Williams, the Cowboys running back. A lot of questions
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: have been asked of Brian Schottenheimer this week about how
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: do you get the running game going? Where has the
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: running game been? And Williams has asked, is the offense
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: getting frustrated by these things?
• 59:49
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, it's very frustrating knowing the guys that
• 59:52
  Speaker 13: we got and how hard we worked throughout the week.
• 59:54
  Speaker 8: We know what we're capable of.
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: We just got to go out.
• 59:56
  Speaker 5: Like I said, we just got to go out and
• 59:58
  Speaker 5: show the world.
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: Okay. So there you are with that. All right. The
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: Cowboys game on Monday night can be heard on 98.1
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: FM KVET. That comes your way, coverage beginning at 6
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: o'clock to kick off around 7.20. And the Texans game
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: this weekend only can be heard on 103.1 FM. Normally,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: it's here on 13 Under the Zone, but because we
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: have the Texas women's basketball game against UCLA Sunday afternoon
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: at 1 o'clock, the Texans game will be on 103.1 FM,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: and you can listen on the iHeartRadio app as well.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: All right, up next, Some more World Series preview. Brewers, Rays,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: that's next. Yeah, we know. It's an instrumental version of
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: Everything is Everything there with Lauryn Hill. There's specific reasons
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: why we're rolling out the instrumental version.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: Well, this is actually another Lauryn Hill cut that fires
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: you up a little more than that one.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: This is doo-wop, that thing.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: Which also is the instrumental for a very specific reason.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we can't air some of that.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah. But we can let you sample the music background
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: on that. And that's good enough. Here on a Fire
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  Speaker 1: Me Up Friday. Okay. Are you fired up for the
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: World Series? Maybe not. No, it's Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 5: It's Tampa.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, come on.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: Who are we kidding?
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: We got to get fired up for this World Series, Craig.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: You know, here's the thing that I find interesting. You
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: will read... The annual stuff that comes out every year,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: if it doesn't have the marquee teams on it. Now,
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: the last two years, the Dodgers had been in it.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: But a perfect example is 2023. Rangers and Diamondbacks. And
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: it was all the lamenting about, oh, this will be terrible.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: This will be in the dumper, ratings-wise. cares about that.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: The regular rank and file fan, you either watch it
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: or you don't. It doesn't, you know, my mom used
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: to say, God rest her soul, that she always watched
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: the World Series. Now, my mom grew up in inner
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: city Jersey City, New Jersey, the daughter of Italian immigrants.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: And she used to say that she, you know, in
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: those days, in the 50s, In New York, they had
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: three baseball teams. In the 40s and 50s, they had
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: three baseball teams, had the Giants and Dodgers in the
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: National League, and of course, the Yankees in the American League.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: And she went to some ballgames on occasion. She dated
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: a guy who was a Brooklyn Dodger season ticket holder.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: Imagine that. Maybe that's where the Dodger thing seeped into me.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: I don't know. But she said, I didn't go to
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: many ballgames. I'd go on occasion. And Not many games
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: were on television back then. You know, you mainly listened
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: to the radio. So she didn't really do much of that.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: But she said, but you know what? I always watched
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: the World Series because the World Series was the ultimate,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: the final, you know, the final step to a world champion.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: So maybe you're not a Brewers fan. Maybe you're not
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: a race fan. Or maybe it's just the opposite because
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: I've seen this too. From those who said that 99%
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: of the world was cheering for the Brewers to beat
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. I get that. I understand that.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 3: That, by the way, is why the Dodgers are good
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: for baseball.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: So you've got to have some villainy in there, right?
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: And with the Rays. Now, the Rays and Guardians, it
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: was a little bit different because, you know, it was Cleveland.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: You kind of felt sorry. Just like you felt sorry
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: last night for Cleveland, by the way. 29-point lead on
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: the Sixers, and they lose the game. The largest lead
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: ever blown in an NBA game in what's called the
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: play-by-play era since they started keeping track of when each
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: basket was made.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 5: That was 97-98.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: So we're talking 30 years.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 3: Maybe LeBron's last win in Cleveland?
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: We don't know.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 3: Could be a historic one.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. So we'll see about that. That game was
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: in Philly, though, wasn't it, last night?
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 4: Oh, okay.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 6: Never mind.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was in Philly last night. So he'll have
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: another shot there to win.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 7: So.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 6: Anyway, in.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: Fact, this is how I know that it was in Philly.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: It was a great soundbite from LeBron after the game
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: talking about how he said, yeah, it was great, you know,
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: from the bad part where you're getting booed to the end.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: And he goes, which we deserved to the end when
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: we win. Welcome to Philadelphia, LeBron. Yeah, right. So he
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: gets it. He understands that. So anyway, you have two
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: teams that may be a lot of, glamour baseball watchers
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: that want to see the Yankees or the Dodgers or
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: the Red Sox or whatever. Those teams aren't there. But
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: those who follow baseball know what a really good matchup
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: this is between the Brewers. and the Rays.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: These are the two best teams. There's no doubt about that.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: No doubt about it. They had the best records in
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: both the National and American League, and they were the
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: one seed. This is only the sixth time that both
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: one seeds have made it all the way through. Okay,
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: Pat Murphy is the Brewers manager, and he was asked
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: about facing this Rays team and the similarities between the two.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 4: Know the american league and i just don't know the
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 4: american league that well you know we prepare for that
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 4: team that week and then it's on.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 5: To the next you know you only play him once
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 5: usually um.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 4: I respect to have watching what i've watched this week
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 4: i mean i respect the hell out of them um
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 4: they've done an incredible job of winning baseball games um
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 4: similarities on the field and that kind of mean Yeah,
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 4: I mean, they win a lot of games. They've got
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 4: some real talent. They try to beat you in different ways,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 4: which is similar.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 5: I don't know about the organization.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 4: I know Arnold was there, so I give him a
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 4: hard time every time he mentions that he signed Snell
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 4: or whatever. But I don't know the similarities in the organizations. Obviously,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 4: Tampa Bay has been good before, so.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 5: It's not.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 4: I respect him. And Kevin Cash, I've known for a
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 4: long time. Not so much personally, but I've just respected
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 4: the job he's done in that organization.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: Now, it'll be an interesting thing when Freddie Peralta takes
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: the mound. Of course, former Milwaukee Brewer, now with the Rays.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: Fastball Freddie, as they know him. And Murphy was asked
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: for his thoughts on Peralta's turnaround and the memories he
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: had of his debut.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 5: I love that kid, man. I just do.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 4: If you're around him every day, this kid is just joyful.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 4: It's just a beautiful spirit that comes to do his job.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 4: He doesn't look at himself as better than others. He's
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 4: just a great teammate.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 5: Just a matter of.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 4: Time before Freddie broke through because he was great for
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 4: us for so many years. I still remember his first
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 4: game in 17 against the Rockies.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 5: Was it 17?
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 4: Against the Rockies, he threw one pitch, just threw a
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 4: high cutter, high cutter, high cutter. And the Rockies had
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 4: a great lineup. Blackman and Arenado and the rest of
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 4: that crew was really good. And anyways, he dominated in
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 4: his first outing. And his parents had came in to
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 4: see him pitch in AAA. First time they were ever
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 4: going to see him pitch. Our AAA was in Colorado Springs.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 4: We just happened to be in Colorado that same weekend.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 4: He had to call his parents and say, no, you
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 4: still fly in, but I'm pitching up the road.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 5: I mean, what a story. And then he dominated.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 4: So, like, this kid has been making great stories like
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 4: that ever since. Yeah, what he's done in Tampa is, yeah,
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 4: Velo's ticked up. The Vert's ticked up. You know, it's awesome.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 5: Love it.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: So there's some thoughts from Pat Murphy, the Brewers manager.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: We'll hear from Kevin Cash, the race skipper, coming up
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: when we continue on 13 Under the Zone. Third and
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: final hour of the program here on Sports Radio, AM
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: 13 Under the Zone, here on a Fire Me Up Friday.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: Glad to have you with us. One more hour of
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: the program to go. Craig Way, joined by the producer,
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: Jake Herman. Coming up, If you didn't hear it in
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: the 2 o'clock hour or if you didn't hear it
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: last night on Longhorn Weekly, we had a really good
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: show last night with Longhorn's head coach, Steve Sarkeesian, who
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: our special guest, Quan Cosby, was with us as well.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: We do that on Thursday nights at 7 o'clock. And
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: we pull an excerpt from that to bring to you
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: on Friday kind of a game plan type of segment,
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: looking at the opponent segment. And so it dials in,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: in this case, on the Ole Miss Rebels. We brought
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: it to you at two o'clock hour, but in case
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: you missed it, we're doing it again in the four
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: o'clock hours when we normally do it as well. So,
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: and by the way, the reason we've done that, I've
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: gotten some correspondence over the past several weeks. There's some
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: people who told me, hey, I'm out in my car
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: in the four o'clock hour or the two o'clock hour,
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: but I'm back in the office at four o'clock hour
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: and I'm not where I can hear you. And some
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: other people said, hey, the other way around, you know,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: I can't, you know, I can't hear it one time.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: Can you play it in the other time when I'm
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: around the radio? So that's part of the reason for
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: doing that. We aim to please on that, just like
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: giving away that pair of tickets we did in the
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: two o'clock hour. We try to be your local community
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: Longhorn flagship radio station. Okay, so that's coming up as well.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: And we're going to hear some more from the Cowboys
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: as well. But right now, the Texans have... I wouldn't
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: say they're all the way back. After all, they are 2-4,
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: but they were 0-4, and they won back-to-back games. They
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: do play a division leader on Sunday. Yes, I know
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: the New York Giants are 3-2-1, but it is a
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: division leader, and they're playing them at home at Reliance
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: Stadium in Houston. So they're starting to feel better about things,
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: and not only are they feeling better about things, their
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: quarterback was the AFC Player of the Week. It was C.J. Stroud.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: And he feels good about a lot of things, not
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: the least of which is getting Tank Dell back in
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: the receiver rotation.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm very excited.
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  Speaker 11: You know, I'm just thrilled to, you know, have my
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 11: brother back out there with me and just really happy
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 11: for him and his family. And, you know, just all
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 11: the work he put in, you know, it wasn't, you know,
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 11: easy and it took a long time. But, you know,
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 11: it was perfect timing. And I think, you know, just
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 11: his faith has grown. You know, his just.
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  Speaker 5: You know, his tough skin. I think he's, you know,
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 5: defined a lot of odds, so I'm just.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: Very proud of him. All right, but dude, you're the
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: AFC Offensive Player of the Week. How about that?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a blessing.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 11: You know, I'm grateful, but like I said, I just
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 11: like to, you know, flush the successes and the failures,
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 11: you know, as quick as I can. Of course, I'm
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 11: going to enjoy it, and, you know, I'm very grateful
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 11: for the honor. I think it's something that you can't
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 11: just overlook, but also you can't harp on it. You know,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 11: it's a great opponent coming in here, and, you know,
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 11: if you play around with them, you know, they've done
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 11: some good things on defense, so You know, they're a
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 11: tough team, so we got to, you know, flush our game,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 11: which was, you know, emotional, you know, a rollercoaster game. But,
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 11: you know, got to be able to flush that and
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 11: prepare this week. Like, you know, it's a new week
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 11: and we want to go 1-0.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: You know, we were talking about the Texans all of
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: a sudden getting healthy again. in the receiver room, getting
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: Tank Dell back. Of course, Nico Collins came back the
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: week before, and they made that trade with the Cardinals
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: to get Marvin Harrison Jr. He had some limited duty
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: last week. So how does the Texans build on that
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: debut of a week ago?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, just grow.
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  Speaker 11: I think, you know, I think, you know, he's done
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  Speaker 11: a great job. Just his mindset, you know, he's always
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 11: been a hard worker. But I think just his ability
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 11: to be in the building. He's always in here and
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 11: trying to learn and asking different people, you know, different, you.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 5: Know, aspects of the offense.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 11: So, you know, hopefully we get him some more touches and,
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  Speaker 11: you know, more opportunities to, you know, make some plays.
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  Speaker 8: And he looked great today at practice.
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  Speaker 10: All right.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: You heard him a few moments ago reference the Giants
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: and what they're doing on defense. So how about facing
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: that New York Giant defense?
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 8: I think their D-line is really good.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 11: You know, I think, you know, Sally, you know, Brian
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 11: Burns went down. I think he's a heck of a player.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 11: But also, you know, Abdul Carter, you know, really good
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 11: young talent. Kayvon Thibodeau has been doing a good job.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 5: DJ Reedert.
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  Speaker 11: Great player for a long time. Two stud linebackers, you know,
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 11: and then they got a really good back end. You know,
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 11: Devon does a really good job playing a back end, Newsome. And,
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 11: you know, I thought Banks has been playing really good.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 11: So they do a good job and they play on
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 11: a string. You know, they do a lot of different
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 11: coverages and blitzes. So, you know, I think they're a
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 11: great team and definitely got to be prepared because, you know,
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 11: they've shown some good things on tape.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: So in getting the guys back and getting them ready
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: to go, Tank Dell, of course, is getting ready to go.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: And he was asked, what are your expectations for your
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: first game back?
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  Speaker 8: Go out there and have fun, man.
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  Speaker 12: First game back, I'm just trying to go out there
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 12: and have fun. Of course, y'all know I'm competitive, so
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 12: I want to make some plays, of course, a lot
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 12: of plays. But my main thing is, man, just live
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 12: in that moment, be where my feet are, and have fun.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: And fly around and just try to be who I am.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 8: Not try.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: Be who I am, you know. Okay.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: That's a good thing there. And, again, the Texans game
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: will be Sunday at noon. You can hear it on 103.1
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: FM if you're out and about. 103.1 FM, Austin's 80s station.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: We'll have the Texas women's basketball game for you here
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: on The Zone. 1245 pregame start time, 1 o'clock tip-off
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: from the HEB Center in Cedar Park. as Texas will
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: host the defending national champion UCLA Bruins. We'll have that
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: for you here on The Zone. But again, the Texans
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: game is on 103.1 FM. Let me jump back to
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  Speaker 1: the World Series. We heard from Pat Murphy last hour,
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Brewers manager. Now, Kevin Cash, the Tampa Bay
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: Rays skipper, was asked, what were the factors in deciding
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: to go with the starting rotation of with Nick Martinez
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: going for Tampa Bay in game one. What all went
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: into that decision?
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  Speaker 14: I think we prioritized Drew getting an extra day. He's
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 14: had a pretty thick workload here. We've relied on him heavily.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 14: We know when he takes the ball, we're trying to
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 14: get the full pitch allotment out of him. With Freddie,
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 14: Freddie's workload in the CS was unique that we did
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 14: ask him to come out of the bullpen for an
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 14: inning in between starts and felt like.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 8: How much of a toll does that take?
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 14: I thought he threw a really good ball game in
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 14: game six, but I did think that towards the end
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 14: of that game, the velocities and stuff remained the same.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 14: The command took a little bit of a dip. And
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 14: when Nick pitches, we win. So excited to hand Nick
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 14: the ball game one, and we'll go from there.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: Of course, Tampa Bay is going to have to deal
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: with the Miz, Jacob Mizorowski, who when we had Gene
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: Watson on yesterday, we were talking about the fact that
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: You had the player with the highest average bat speed
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball this season, Junior Caminero of the Rays,
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: going up against the unquestioned number one guy in terms
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: of fastball speed, velocity, and that's Miz, who averaged over
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: 100 miles per hour on fastballs this season. So what's
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: the approach that the Rays have in going up against
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: The Miz in game number one tonight.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 5: Everybody's going to be pretty amped up.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 14: I think we're going to try to do everything we
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 14: can to stay within ourselves and stay in the zone.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 14: As soon as you start expanding out of the zone
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 14: with a guy as special and talented as Mizorowski is,
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 14: it really works in his favor to have those lengthy at-bats,
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 14: try to get the fastball down. That's very much easier
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 14: said than done because he's got so much ride and
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 14: carry through the zone.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 6: But, I mean, I know they're actively talking.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and remember we were talking about how this is
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: Milwaukee's first trip to the World Series in 44 years.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: The Rays were in six years ago. Do you remember
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: that was the pandemic year? when they can only play
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: 60 games. The Dodgers won that World Series. They beat
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay in six games. Cash was the skipper for
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay back then. Does that World Series appearance help
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: him or anybody else that's still with the team in
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: any way?
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, maybe a little bit. The 2020 World Series was
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 14: kind of a blur. The whole postseason was a blur.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 14: I'm a heck of a lot happier we're in this
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 14: situation now, coming on the other side of that. Those games,
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 14: they're intense. There's a lot of anxiety in them. But
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 14: I felt that same intensity and anxiety in the ALCS
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 14: just two or three days ago. But excited to go
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  Speaker 14: and watch our guys do their thing over the next
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 14: week to 10 days.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so he made reference to coming through that very
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: tense ALCS with Cleveland. Will handling things at this stage
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: at the World Series be any different in the previous rounds?
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 6: I don't think so. Other than that, we're just getting
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  Speaker 6: closer to the end here.
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  Speaker 14: And the magnitude of these games, as much as they
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 14: were in the DS to the CS, they're even elevated now.
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  Speaker 6: But I really have been.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 14: incredibly impressed with the way our entire roster has handled
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 14: you know the intensity of all of these games that
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 14: we've played I know they're excited and they'll be pretty
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 14: amped up and tomorrow will probably be really really loud
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 14: in the other team's favor but uh we'll take that
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 14: all in and know that we're going to return the
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 14: favor when we get back to the trop for game.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: Three all right um great story about Freddy Peralta was
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: with the Brewers did a great job there signs with
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: the Mets things go horribly wrong. And then the Rays
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: pick him up at midseason, and boy, did he turn
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: things around.
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  Speaker 14: He had a unique three months, in my opinion. He's
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 14: had a great major league career. His three months or
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 14: four months in New York didn't go the way that
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 14: he had probably wanted or the way he had performed
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 14: his first five years. Getting to manage him, him walking
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 14: in the door, I got a text or a phone
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 14: call from Willie Adamas and said, you're getting one of
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 14: the best guys in baseball coming here. And he walks in,
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 14: he's got a smile ear to ear on his face.
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 14: I mean, I give Freddie all the credit for being
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 14: a really good pitcher and being vulnerable enough to say,
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 14: you know, I wasn't comfortable doing some things.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 6: And I want to get back to my strengths.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 14: And he guided that throughout this entire two months he's
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 14: been with us and then took off in September and
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 14: has continued to take off here in October.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: And then one more from Kevin Cash. You've heard me
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: talk about this, the way— and not an original thought, by
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: the way— many baseball people. smart people that know the
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: game really well, like Gene Watson was on with us,
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: talk about how these two kind of mirror each other
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: in some ways. I've heard Tampa Bay described as Milwaukee light.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: I always say that sounds like a beer, but they
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: play the game in much the same fashion the Brewers do.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: in how they play really sound defense, pitch well, great closer.
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: They do have more pop in the bat because of Caminero,
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: and they hit more home runs, but the Brewers can
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: create more runs. For Kevin Cash, is there a pride
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: in playing the style that his club does as well
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: as Milwaukee?
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 14: There's pride into doing everything you can to win games.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 14: And if we had a club that was built with
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 14: a bunch of boppers, we probably wouldn't be bunting.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 6: And stealing bases either.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 14: But our club's built differently in comparison to some other clubs.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 6: But this.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 14: group here does everything on a nightly basis just to
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 14: win the game and that's kind of what has stood
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 14: out and you know from afar i don't know the
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 14: brewers that well we saw them in april for three
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 14: games it certainly seems like they do very similar things
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 14: with with their lineup their construction and the athleticism that
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 14: they show on a.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: Nightly basis yeah uh in case and we mentioned this
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: the other day somebody tweeted this out the brewers and
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: Rays began the season against one another, and they will
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: end the season against one another. They had a season-opening
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: three-game series at Milwaukee, won two out of three in
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: that one. So game one tonight, game two tomorrow, then
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: an off day on Sunday for travel, and then it
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: goes Monday, Tuesday. If they go to a fifth game,
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: it would be Wednesday, then they would be off, and
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: then Friday, Saturday again to close it out the next
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: week if it works out like that. All right, coming
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: up next, We're going to hear, and we'll hear some
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: more from Pat Murphy, the brewer skipper, coming up later
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: this hour. But up next, the excerpt from last night's
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: Longhorn Weekly with Coach Sark talking about Ole Miss. And
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: we'll also hear, independent of that segment from the show,
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: we'll also hear from the coach of the Ole Miss Rebels.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: We'll hear from Pete Golding when we continue on Sports
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: Radio AM 13 Under the Zone and the iHeartRadio app.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: I see what you're doing there, Jay Kerman, little Rebel Rebel.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 3: This fires you up on a Friday, doesn't it?
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: Sure does. And got to be fired up to play
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: seventh-ranked team in the nation. Last night on Longhorn Weekly
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: with Coach Sark, we did toward the back half of
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: the show what we always do with a look at
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: the opponent. And so here was our conversation talking about
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: tomorrow night's matchup with the Ole Miss Rebels. Ole Miss, 5-1.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: Their one loss was to Florida. So obviously we know
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: what Florida's all about as well. But this is a
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: team that knocked off LSU. They're up to number seven
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: in the country. They've been really, really good. Really good.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 10: Really good football team. Dear friend of mine is their
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 10: head coach, Pete Golding. We were together for two years
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 10: at Alabama as coordinators and won a national championship together.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 10: And he went on to Ole Miss to work for
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 10: Coach Kiffin and took over last year kind of the
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 10: start of the playoffs, which was a unique time. But
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 10: what a tremendous job that he did last year in
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 10: the playoffs and getting them to the semis. What a
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 10: job he's done in the start of this season. You
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 10: can see his kind of imprint on the team. They're
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 10: a physical group. He believes in running the ball, believes
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 10: in playing good defense. But one thing that hasn't changed
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 10: is Trinidad Chambliss at quarterback. And boy, is he a dynamic,
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 10: dynamic football player.
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: What are the things, the challenges that he presents with
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: everything he can do?
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 10: Well, I think one is there's a level of confidence
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 10: in which he plays the game.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 6: He was a highly successful.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 10: Player at Ferris State, and he kind of goes under
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 10: the radar to Ole Miss and is not the starter.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 10: I think three games into the year, he gets put
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 10: into action and has never looked back since. But I
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 10: think it was the confidence he gains as the player
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 10: at Ferris State. Then he gets to Ole Miss, has
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 10: the season he had last year, And he really just
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 10: hasn't missed a beat. It's his ability to innately play
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 10: the game on schedule from the pocket, but it's his
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 10: playmaking ability on the off-schedule plays.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 6: And he can run.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 10: And believe me, he's probably going to be one of,
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 10: if not the fastest guy in the field Saturday.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 6: He can run. But what he does is scramble the pass.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 10: And so when he breaks the pocket and he starts
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 10: to scramble, it's all the shots he takes down the
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 10: field once the pocket breaks down. So we've got to
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  Speaker 10: do a great job of trying to contain him in
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  Speaker 10: the pocket. We've got to do a great job of
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 10: staying sticky in coverage for the first play and the
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 10: second play, as I always like to call it. All
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  Speaker 10: the while, they got a running back, Kiwan Lacy, who's
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 10: a fantastic player as well, who can hurt you on
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 10: the ground.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Kiwan Lacy, a lot of folks know, is a
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  Speaker 1: former Missouri Tiger. He's also a former Lancaster Tiger from
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  Speaker 1: the Dallas Fort Worth area. I know Chris Gilbert of
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: your staff, well acquainted with him and a guy who can,
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  Speaker 1: he's had to fight through some injuries, but he's really
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  Speaker 1: been effective.
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  Speaker 10: He really has, and I'm lot of admiration for him
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  Speaker 10: for the toughness that he's exuding because you know I
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 10: know he's dealing with a leg injury he's dealing with
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 10: looks like sounds like a shoulder injury but he's fighting
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 10: through it he's been in and out of the lineup
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  Speaker 10: but man when he's healthy when he's going he can
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 10: make it he can make it very difficult because you're
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 10: trying to put all this attention on stopping the passing
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  Speaker 10: game and Chambliss at the same time they're running stretch
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  Speaker 10: outside zone to to number five and Lacey and and
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  Speaker 10: uh you know we saw the amount I don't know
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  Speaker 10: how many touchdowns he had last season for him so
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 10: They're a great two-headed monster to go along with a
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 10: lot of skill that they have at the wide receiver
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 10: and tight end position.
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you about the defense because that's the
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: Pete Golding specialty as well. Your thoughts on that defense?
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  Speaker 10: Well, I think everything they do starts up front. You know, Echols,
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 10: Will Echols is a first-round draft pick, hands down, and
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 10: he's kind of at the forefront of what they do defensively.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 10: Cam Franklin is a monster at one of the defensive
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 10: end spots, kind of Reminds me of Alfred Collins because
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 10: of the size, 6'5, 300-pound defensive end. And then to me,
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  Speaker 10: where Pete makes his, hey, it's the stickiness in coverage,
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 10: similar to our coverage mechanics, very kind of man principles.
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  Speaker 10: Even when they're playing zone, it can feel like man,
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  Speaker 10: very contested. And so, you know, they challenge you at
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  Speaker 10: the line of scrimmage. They challenge you in the secondary.
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  Speaker 10: A lot of new faces, especially in the back end.
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  Speaker 10: I think they had some growing pains early in the season,
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  Speaker 10: but have gotten.
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  Speaker 6: Better and better and better. And we saw what they
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  Speaker 6: did to Missouri last week.
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  Speaker 10: I think beat them 31-3, held them to three points.
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  Speaker 6: A Missouri team, by the way, that was hot.
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  Speaker 10: So we know what this group is all about.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what the SEC has been all about this year, right?
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  Speaker 6: It's been crazy. It's been crazy.
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  Speaker 10: You know, I was joking the one day about, florida
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  Speaker 10: seemed unbeatable they had just they had just beaten old
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 10: miss 52 to 28 and then they turn around.
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  Speaker 6: And go to missouri all right.
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  Speaker 10: And missouri hands that hands it to them then south
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 10: carolina beats florida then florida comes and beats us and
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 10: then old miss goes and beats missouri last week 31
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  Speaker 10: to 3 so it's like who's who but all the
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 10: while auburn goes to athens georgia and beats georgia kentucky
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  Speaker 10: goes to norman and beats oklahoma.
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  Speaker 1: Alabama goes to Tennessee.
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  Speaker 10: Alabama goes to Tennessee and Tennessee beats them by three scores.
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  Speaker 10: So it's like, I've said this all along. I don't
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  Speaker 10: think people wanted to believe me. Any team in our
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  Speaker 10: conference can beat any other team in our conference on
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  Speaker 10: any given Saturday. Forget what's on the side of the helmets.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 10: Forget what jersey they're wearing. There's too many good players.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 10: There's too many good coaches. There's too many tough environments
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 10: that everybody's playing in. It's any given Saturday. And so
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 10: when I always said like, Yes, you have to be
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 10: physically tough to compete in this league. You have to
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 10: be mentally tough to compete in this league because you
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 10: have to get back up the very next Saturday. Forget
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 10: what nobody cares what you did last Saturday. What are
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 10: you going to do this Saturday? That's the most important thing.
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  Speaker 1: So that was the conversation with Coach Sark about the
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  Speaker 1: Ole Miss Rebels. How about the Rebels themselves? Pete Golding, really,
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: you heard Sark say that he's one of his closest friends.
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: because Golding was the defensive coordinator when Sark was the
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: offensive coordinator and the play caller at Alabama when they
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: won that national championship. So Golding had to take over
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  Speaker 1: the head coaching range, and I thought Sark said it
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: was a real interesting time, what he had to do. That,
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  Speaker 1: of course, with Lane Kiffin accepting the LSU job after
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: the conference championship game or after the end of the
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: regular season, and then being told by Ole Miss staff
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: you are not allowed to coach the team in the playoff.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: So he had to leave. So Golding had to take
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: over coaching the team in the college football playoff. And
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: what a job he did. They blew out Tulane at home,
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: then defeated Georgia in that outstanding Sugar Bowl game. Then
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: in Glendale, almost beat Miami. Went down to the waning
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: seconds of that one. So they did a really good job.
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  Speaker 1: This year, they'd start off well enough, including a win
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  Speaker 1: over LSU. And there was a lot of hype and
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: a lot of excitement and a lot of, you know,
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: emotion leading into that game. And they beat LSU and
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: then turned around. I don't know if lay the neg
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: is the right word because we saw what Florida can
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: do here as well. But Florida just kind of trampled them.
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: Ran for over 300 yards. and beat them 52-28. After
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: that game, Golding said, we need to do some things
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: to simplify some things on defense. And it seems to
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: have worked, you know, in the last two ballgames, blowing
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: out Vanderbilt and then, of course, holding an explosive Missouri
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 1: team to just three points in the game. So the
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: question for Golding this week, what did he do? Did
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: he do anything specific to simplify that defense?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I don't know how much simpler it is. Like
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  Speaker 9: I told y'all, it wasn't a new call. wasn't anything
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 9: like that I think the attention of detail changed a
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 9: little bit the focus I think every week like we
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 9: talk about is independent of its own so every game
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 9: plan doesn't carry over based on what people do but
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 9: I think the focus of them obviously was a lot
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 9: better and then I think as a staff by that
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 9: point you had more evidence of hey what are some
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 9: things that we're doing well what are we not doing
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 9: well that we need to eliminate not because it's hard
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 9: we just don't do it well and we're asking certain
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 9: guys maybe do things that they can and so there's
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 9: elimination of some of those things that we just haven't
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 9: executed well regardless how complex it was or not you
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 9: know some of them were very simple we're just not
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 9: very good at it so I think that's you know
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 9: evaluated week in and week out that's never going to
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 9: change so You know, every game plan is so different
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 9: based on who's available and what you're going against. So
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 9: I don't know if that's all the way correct of
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 9: how that was explained to you guys, but I think
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 9: the attention to detail and the focus on doing their
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 9: job and quit trying to press and do all the other.
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 8: Things, I think, you know, you did see.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: Next, Golding was talking about, and I understand. Truly, I do.
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: I understand how a lot of frustrated Longhorn fans feel
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: about the team, about Sark, about play calling, and yes,
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: about the quarterback, about Arch Manning. There are those who realize,
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: I think, that it's about far more than just the
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: quarterback in order for the offense to move. And then
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: there are some who feel that the quarterback as the
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: centerpiece should be doing a better job than what he's doing.
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: Arch said he has to play better. Sark has said
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: he has to play better. I think we're all nodding
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: our heads in agreement. Golding looks at Arch Manning on
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: the video cut-ups as well as the offense, and he
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: sees an Arch Manning that Longhorn fans are having a
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: difficult time envisioning right now.
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  Speaker 9: I think within the system, I mean, I think, you know,
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 9: Sark runs his system and has been really effective everywhere
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 9: he's been. So I think regardless who's that quarterback, that's
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 9: not going to change much. obviously there's packages and short
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 9: yards that feel positioned to where you got to be
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 9: aware of certain things that he's done in the past
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 9: but obviously elite arm talent has been in the system
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 9: a long time I think some people have shown him
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 9: some different looks and taken away some first reads and
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 9: been able to apply some pressure and all that but
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 9: you know the conception of that he's not an elite
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 9: player right now is crazy to me all right you
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 9: can go watch up and I'll get you a 25
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 9: play cut up and he should be the top pick
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 9: in the draft all right and then there's other things
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 9: that you know, up to this point, he'd probably like
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 9: to have back too.
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 8: So we know what we're going up against.
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 9: I mean, I know the perception of what it is
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 9: right there, you know, right now, but I still think
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 9: it's an elite offense. I think starts on the best
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 9: play callers in the country. And we got to be
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 9: ready to play because he's got all the arm talent
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 9: in the world.
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 8: He's a size speed guy.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 9: He's much more athletic than you think still has the
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 9: ability to extend plays. And the guys wanted a high level,
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 9: you know, and it talked about playoff team before, you know,
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 9: two years ago. So, They're used to it. They know
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 9: there's high expectations. They know their back's up against the wall,
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 9: and we're going to get their best shot.
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: All right, so that's how Golding feels about, and he's
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: a defensive mind, so that's how he feels about the
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: Texas offense and Arch Manning. What about the Longhorn defense
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: and the challenges it will pose for Trinidad Chambliss and
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: his Ole Miss offense?
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 9: Yeah, number one, I mean, I think when you watch them,
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 9: I mean, obviously the players they have, I think they've
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 9: got elite players that have done a really good job
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 9: from a recruiting standpoint and putting that defense together. I
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 9: think it starts with the front, really explosive up front,
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 9: create a lot of pressure with four.
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 8: I think Will's done a really good job.
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 9: It's been obviously good to see that defense week in
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 9: and week out. He's been in this league a long time,
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 9: understands what gives people issues. They're really sound on the
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 9: back end, mix up the coverages. but the ability to
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 9: pressure their quarterback with four, with some elite guys up front,
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 9: I think has really played in their favor from a
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 9: cover standpoint to complement certain things. But I think they're
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 9: a really, really talented defense, very, very good scheme, very multiple.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 8: That creates a lot of problems for offenses.
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: And, you know, at this time of year, what is
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: it we hear from all coaches? Not just from Sarg,
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: but from all coaches, no matter what the record is.
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: I remember hearing it from G.J. Kinney when Texas State
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: got off to an 0-3 start. He said, we've got
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: to find consistency on both sides of the ball. I
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: know it sounds like coach speak, but meaning the complementary football,
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: all of those kinds of things, creating some turnovers, protecting
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: the football on offense, all of those things being more consistent. Certainly,
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: Sark has talked about that. Other coaches have talked about it.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: No matter the record, Ole Miss is no exception to
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: the rule. as we've been talking about and has been written,
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: this is truly an elimination game for trying to get
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: into the college playoff. And not mathematically, but perhaps realistically,
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: if it's one of those, then the team that emerges
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: is going to be the one, Golding says, that is
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: more consistent, not just after the game tomorrow night, but
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: the rest of the way. And he knows it has
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: to be that way for his team.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, number one is good players. Number two,
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 9: I think stability and system. And number three is the
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 9: ability to hold them accountable. And I think that's the
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 9: toughest piece sometime like that third one.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 9: When they come off of a really emotional win and
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 9: the ability to refocus and.
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 8: Know like, man, we got to do it again.
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 9: And I think sometimes there's a false confidence that's created
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 9: based on outcomes. And we look at scoreboards and we
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 9: won the game, but it really wasn't based on our
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 9: body of work and our preparation and the things that
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 9: we did.
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 8: We might've got lucky, right?
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 9: Or this thing might've been mirrored a little bit, right?
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 9: And they dropped the ball or they didn't complete it.
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 9: So I think the focus back on your preparation and
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 9: the habits in which you create in order to give
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 9: yourself your best shot. And so that to me is
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 9: a little bit of a motivation piece, you know, now
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 9: as well. I think, you know, the further you go
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 9: in the season, right? The body starts getting a little tired.
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 9: The mind starts getting a little tired. how can you
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 9: shorten some things from a timing standpoint but be a
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 9: little more efficient and have better energy doing it. So
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 9: I think that's always the week-to-week piece now to me
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 9: at this point in the season. It's like you want
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 9: to be fresh for game day, and we've got to
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 9: be able to play fast, and we've got to be
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 9: able to execute. So there's still a body of work
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 9: that has to happen Monday through Friday, but we've got
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 9: to be really smart and diligent about our meeting and
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 9: our meeting times and our walkthrough and how we practice
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 9: to be able to keep these guys fresh physically and
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 9: also mentally. And then there's a fine line to me
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 9: on building on confidence. There's a lot from Saturday that
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 9: we did really well that we got to continue to
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 9: do well. And they should have developed some confidence by
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 9: doing it. But that confidence came from their preparation and
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 9: how they practice.
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 8: And they came out and made their layup.
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 9: And so there's some other things on that tape that
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 9: we still got to clean up. So I think it's
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 9: building on playing well and knowing you got to do
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 9: it week in and week out. While still looking in
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 9: the mirror, all of us, players and coaches, there's some
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 9: things that we've gotten away.
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 8: With that we're about to play a really elite football
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 8: team that we're not.
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 9: And we got to go to work on that this
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 9: week to make sure we don't put it on tape again.
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 9: So I think a lot of it is the guys
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 9: that are in that locker room and what do they
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 9: really want it to look like. And what really is
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 9: their goal? And what do they really want the legacy
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 9: of this team to be? And so I think we
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 9: got the right type of guys that we know we
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 9: screw this thing up early and kind of have our.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 8: Back against the wall.
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 9: And we got to be at our best every Saturday,
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 9: give ourselves our best shot to what our goal is.
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: So that's how the coach of the Ole Miss Rebels
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: feels about that, Pete Golding. All right, coming up, we're
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: going to hear from Cowboys coach, and Brewers, the way
• 1:36:20
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• 1:36:43
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  Speaker 1: What i beg your pardon yeah um let's go back
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: to uh what we're talking about the world series earlier
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: uh pat murphy the manager of the brewers was asked
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: uh how uh well first of all what what the
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: um roster decision for brandon woodruff right and and you
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: know would he be available and he wasn't exactly sure
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 1: at the time being asked yesterday about his uh you
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: know his availability.
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 4: Obviously it would be great for him the organization and
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 4: he could help us you know if he can we
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 4: had three pitchers that haven't pitched yet or at least
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 4: two that haven't pitched yet and um it's a seven
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 4: game series there's no man on second with uh in
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 4: the extra innings, so then you've got to be conscious
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 4: of length. How much length can this guy give us?
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  Speaker 4: He's faced five hitters. And the injury thing. The thing
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  Speaker 4: has continued to be a problem in his life. Now
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  Speaker 4: he's got a clean bill of health, according to the trainers.
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  Speaker 4: But if that same injury comes up again, then we
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  Speaker 4: can't replace him. So those are the things that we've
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  Speaker 4: got to weigh heavily. What is he going to give us?
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  Speaker 4: We'd love to do it. It's a great story, but
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  Speaker 4: We have responsibility to those 20-some guys in there and
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  Speaker 4: to the organization and to the city and, you know,
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  Speaker 4: whoever else we're responsible to.
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  Speaker 5: So those are all things we'll consider.
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  Speaker 1: Next, he was asked, and by the way, it was
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  Speaker 1: announced that Woodruff is on the roster, so he'll be
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  Speaker 1: good to go for the series. How has he prepared
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  Speaker 1: his team since returning from the suite from Los Angeles?
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  Speaker 5: We played baseball. That's how we prepared.
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  Speaker 4: We went out there and played baseball every day, and
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  Speaker 4: live at bats and uh you know you can't recreate
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  Speaker 4: real you know what i mean it's a long layoff
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  Speaker 4: and if we want to use it as an excuse
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  Speaker 4: then let let people use an excuse but i refuse
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  Speaker 4: to do that like we needed a little bit of
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  Speaker 4: a break it was emotional series in la um big
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  Speaker 4: you know cross-country trip all that you know so we
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  Speaker 4: had a few days where it was a little lighter
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  Speaker 4: but then we've picked it up and gotten a lot
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  Speaker 4: of live abs but nothing simulates the game the way
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  Speaker 4: way it is but I don't follow the numbers.
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  Speaker 5: I just know this guy's on point. He's focused. He
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  Speaker 5: feels that responsibility.
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  Speaker 4: And that's, I think, an easier responsibility for him to
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  Speaker 4: carry because it's so natural than to try to carry
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  Speaker 4: the pressure of, hey, I got to get four.
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  Speaker 5: Hits or I got to do this. You know what
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  Speaker 5: I mean?
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  Speaker 4: He's just, you know, he's way more important to this
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  Speaker 4: process than anyone knows.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, he's starting Jacob Mizorowski tonight. So what's
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: his takeaways from those two playoff spots where Miz did
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  Speaker 1: not go deep?
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  Speaker 5: Well, he hasn't been as crisp, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: And I don't think anybody's, people are up there thinking
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 4: it's gonna be 104. And I think they're elated if
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  Speaker 4: it's anything less than that. But they're obviously looking at
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 4: an area and they're always trying to exploit everything. He's exposed,
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  Speaker 4: like all these guys get at some point. He's exposed,
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  Speaker 4: so- they're going to attack a certain way, and we're
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 4: going to try to counter that attack the way we
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  Speaker 4: counter it. But it's all about Miz and his health
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  Speaker 4: and his mental state, and.
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  Speaker 5: It's not easy. It's not easy what he's going through.
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  Speaker 4: This kid is way over what people would call his
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  Speaker 4: innings limit. I think we'll redefine that in years to come,
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  Speaker 4: how we approach that, but that's another day.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, you talk about.
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  Speaker 4: Taking on the responsibility, mentioning Yellich, the Miz taking on
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  Speaker 4: this potential Cy Young winner.
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  Speaker 5: That voting hasn't happened yet, or has it?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 5: Okay. Because I don't know. Anyway, long story.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just saying that he's taken on a lot of
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  Speaker 4: responsibility as a young 25-year-old kid, and I think it's
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  Speaker 4: been a lot for him.
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  Speaker 1: So game one tonight between the Brewers and the Blue Jays.
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  Speaker 1: All right, to the Cowboys, trying to turn it around.
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  Speaker 1: On Monday night against the Eagles, Quinnen Williams, along that
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  Speaker 1: defensive front for Dallas, asked about the impression's and the
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  Speaker 1: importance of this week getting it together against Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 5: It's super important.
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  Speaker 7: It's super important to be able to get back in
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  Speaker 7: that win column. Super important to be able to win
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 7: the football games every single week. Like, I play this
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 7: game to win. So, yeah, super, super great opportunity to
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  Speaker 7: build on what we need to build on personally as
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 7: a defensive unit, especially, and as a team. And I'm
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 7: grateful for the next opportunity, so.
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  Speaker 1: All right, and also ask for his impressions, what he's
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 1: seen from Joey Porter Jr. since he joined the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: in the secondary.
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  Speaker 5: He's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 7: I watched the film last week, and to see him
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 7: cover guys one-on-one and be able to, the energy that
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 7: he brings and the celebration he do every time he
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 7: locks somebody up is.
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  Speaker 5: Super dope to see.
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  Speaker 7: And like I said, like last week, man, it's all
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  Speaker 7: about getting our swag back and all about being.
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  Speaker 5: Consistent.
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  Speaker 7: That's one of the guys you see on tape every
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 7: single day. He's going to play with swag. He's going
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  Speaker 7: to play with consistency.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: And then one more from Javante Williams. We heard from him,
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys running back, earlier in the program. And he
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 1: was asked, what are the keys to help really limit
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: the damage that opposing teams' blitzes have done to the
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: Cowboys' offense?
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  Speaker 8: I think the biggest thing is just communication.
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  Speaker 13: Just making sure that us and the O-line, the quarterback,
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  Speaker 13: are on the same page with our IDs and things
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  Speaker 13: like that. And then just execute when we get those
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  Speaker 13: looks that we had in practice with the guys that
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 13: we have on offense.
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  Speaker 1: Monday night, Cowboys-Eagles, 6 o'clock, pregame start time on 98.1
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  Speaker 1: FM KVET and the kickoff right around 720. We'll be
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  Speaker 1: back to wrap up today's edition of the program on
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  Speaker 1: 13 Under the Zone.