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Steve Sarkisian on why Jaydon Blue was benched against Mississippi State · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: I did attend the news conference yesterday with Long Words
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  head coach Steve Sarkisian, and we heard some of his
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  comments yesterday, some of the things he was talking about,
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  but here's more.
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  Speaker 2: From him.
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  Speaker 1: He was asked about being back in a league with
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  the rivalry with Texas A and M, and carrying forward
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  the rivalry with Oklahoma from the Big twelve end of
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  the SEC, and the Arkansas rivalry. In other words, rivals
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  and rivalries in college football and how it affects the
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  game these days.
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  Speaker 3: I'm chuckling right now because my two games against the
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  University of Utah when I was at BYU my.
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  Speaker 2: Junior year, I threw four interceptions.
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  Speaker 3: I threw three in the first half and they were
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  booming so bad my mom left the stadium at halftime. Okay,
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  my second year, we played in a blizzard and I
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  was seven for twelve for like eighty yards and we
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  rushed for like three hundred and fifty yards and we won.
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  So no, there's no like these great moments. But I
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  remember both games vividly for their own, for their own
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  for their own reasons. But that's like the rivalries in
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  college football.
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  Speaker 2: That's what this is all about. You know. I mean
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  that it's so special and.
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  Speaker 3: And I I love the pageantry of college football. I
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  love the energy of the crowd. I love the smell
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  of the popcorn, all that stuff. And there's nothing like
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  this game. When you pull into the State Fair and
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  you see fans from both sides and they're intermixed, and
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  both teams buses pull up and we're in the same tunnel,
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  and you come out and here's all those use OU
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  fans and you look and there's all the sea of
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  burn orange and you're just like, I can't wait.
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  Speaker 2: To get over there with my people.
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  Speaker 3: I just want to get get with them and like,
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  but that's that's what it's about.
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  Speaker 2: And the best way.
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  Speaker 3: To enjoy and experience a rivalry game is to prepare
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  really well, because I think that the people that get.
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  Speaker 2: Caught up in the game on on Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday missed the preparation and then you
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  don't play very good and then you get your buck
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  kicked and then you think, man, this was a terrible experience.
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  And so if you want a good experience, we got
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  to make sure we prepare really well so that we
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  can enjoy the experience.
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  Speaker 2: Because we're playing good football.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's well put about preparing for your rival
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  means preparing period. You have to prepare and be ready
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  for that. He was asked for an update on Jayden Blue. Now, Jayden,
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  as we know, had the outstanding performance against U EL Monroe.
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  Had one hundred and twenty four rushing yards, street rushing touchdowns,
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  caught a pass for a touchdown. So he had this
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  really stand out performance. And then you experience the other
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  side of that sort of thing, and that happened with
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  his two fumbles in the ball game. One earlier in
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  the game on the second drive when it looked like
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  they might go in for a two score advantage. And
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  then on the first drive of the second half there
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  in the third quarter when he fumbled when he thought
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  he was down and originally was ruled down and then
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  replay review overturned the call. And that was all we
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  saw from Ja and Blue the rest of the ball game.
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  So he was out and Trey Wisner and Jared Gibson,
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  even Ryan Nibbling in there a little bit finished up afterwards.
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  I asked Sark after the game about Jayden Blue, and
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  he said, and I'm worried about him. We'll get him
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  back up and tell him, you know, we need him,
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  and so and so, and he was asked a very
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  similar thing about about Jayden and his status and what
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  kinds of things. He says, to a guy who experienced
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  what Jane Blue did on Saturday, Yeah, Ho'll be okay.
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  Speaker 3: You know, physical physical errors or physical errors are just that.
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  I think there's some things technically that we're going to
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  work on with him to get him back in the
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  right frame of mind. But hey, he's a competitor. Like
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  I said Saturday night, we need Jayden Blue and and
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  he is. He is an asset and a weapon on
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  our team. He's a good teammate. Got to get back
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  to work. Like I said, everybody on our team has
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  got stuff that we're going to try to get better at.
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  And like I told all the this morning, what's the
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  what is the what right? What am I trying to
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  get better at? Why do the coaches want me to
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  get get better at it?
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  Speaker 2: And how are we going to do it?
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  Speaker 3: And if we can give them those three things, then
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  I think every player will accept it and go to
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  work on those things for a few days so that
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  when they come back next week they're ready to roll.
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  And that that happens to be his What right, I
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  got to take care of the ball better? Why because
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  we can't fumble. Here's how we're going to do it,
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  and that that's kind of his process.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So then he was asked to follow up question or
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  at least for his thoughts on the thing that Jayden Blue, then,
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  after fumbling twice and being taken out of the game,
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  did appear in the postgame media availability after being in
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  the locker room and coming out, and he you know,
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  stood up to it, answered questions about how he expects
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  more of himself and the team expects more of him,
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  and he's got to be better and all that sort
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  of stuff. It's surprized, it certainly impressed. It might have
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  surprised a few members of the media that Jane Blue
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  actually appeared and didn't have to, but Sark said, that's
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  all part of the process of being a long worn
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  and growing up.
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  Speaker 3: Well, hopefully all of our guys would do that, you know,
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  but I think it just shows this real sense of maturity.
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  You know, he's grown a lot in his time with us,
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  and again I credit him for that and his willingness.
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  I credit all those other running backs that he had
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  in that room, and he was a youngster. From Bejon
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  to Roshan to Keelan Robinson, Jonathan Brooks, I think they
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  were great mentors for him.
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  Speaker 2: I think any one of those four.
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  Speaker 3: Guys, if they would have fumbled twice, would have came
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  and sat with the media.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I vividly remembered Bejon fumbling at Texas Tech in overtime,
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  and he came and talked to y'all. And because that's
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  what we do right as as men, you know, we
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  have to take accountability for our actions, right, That's that
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  is what it is. And I think that, you know,
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  we try to still that in our players, and Jaden
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  understood that he and he went and spoke to the
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  media and I think answered the questions, you know, real frankly,
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  and then moved on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was it.
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  Speaker 1: So they'll move on from that through the rest of
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  this open date.
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  Speaker 2: On the schedule.
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  Speaker 1: Sart Gids say yesterday in some of the comments that
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  we played that today Tuesday would be treated like a Monday,
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  and what that means is on Monday they go through
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  some lighter things and normally their big hay in the
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  barn days for practice, the heavy days are Tuesday and Wednesday.
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  This week it would be Wednesday and Thursday, and then
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  he said they were going to give him the rest
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  of the weekend off.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to get off their feet relax.
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  Speaker 1: That's why that question came up from Central Golden yesterday
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  about do you encourage your guys to watch other games
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  when you have a buy on your schedule on Open
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  Day and he said, yeah, we want him to see
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  that and see guys in those positions and things of
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  that nature. So they'll want them to be off their
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  feet after that. But they have two pretty heavy days
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  of practice coming up tomorrow and Thursday, and we'll hear
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  more about that and some other things from Start coming
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  up as well. Up next Inconceivable for a Tuesday afternoon
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