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The Latest On Texas Sports, NFL Combine · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Andrew Zibbil hanging
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  Speaker 1: out with you on a Thursday edition of the Craig
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  Speaker 1: Way Show. I am on the road as well. In
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  Speaker 1: our studios in Austin, Texas. Is our main men producer
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  Speaker 1: Ronald making sure we sound pretty man. Do we have
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  Speaker 1: a jam pack show for you today? ChRI Cam is
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  Speaker 1: on the road. He's in Starkville, Mississippi, as number one
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  Speaker 1: Texas women's basketball and their head coach, Vick Schaeffer take
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  Speaker 1: on Mississippi State. Craig will be on the program here
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  Speaker 1: in about seventeen minutes so we all can set our
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  Speaker 1: watches to it and to talk about last night's overtime
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  Speaker 1: loss by the Texas men's basketball team eighty six eighty
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  Speaker 1: one in ot We'll hear more from head coach Roddy
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  Speaker 1: Terry here in a moment. We have inconceivable coming up
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  Speaker 1: later this hour, and is it inconceivable for the Philadelphia
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  Speaker 1: seventy six ers to turn it around? Well, podcast p
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  Speaker 1: Paul George thinks that they can. He said, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna cut the podcast and I'm going to focus
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  Speaker 1: on trying to get my team to the NBA finals,
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk about the likelihood of that.
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  Speaker 2: We'll also probably.
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  Speaker 1: Make some fun of Paul George for thinking that the
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  Speaker 1: podcast is the reason that his team is struggling. NFL
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  Speaker 1: Combine starts today, obviously, and the debate now rages on
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  Speaker 1: as Abdul Carter as a stress factor in his foot.
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  Speaker 1: What does that mean for the likely number one overall
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  Speaker 1: pick to the Tennessee Titans. They bok now at the
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  Speaker 1: edge rusher out of Penn State. But we have to
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  Speaker 1: talk first about the breaking news that came down the
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  Speaker 1: line right before we went on the air, and that
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  Speaker 1: is from the San Antonio Spurs and their head coach
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  Speaker 1: Greg Popovich. Now, he put out a statement via the
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  Speaker 1: Spurs earlier today about thirty minutes ago. Quote, I've decided
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  Speaker 1: not to return to the sidelines of this season. Mitch
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  Speaker 1: Johnson and his staff have done a wonderful job, and
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  Speaker 1: resolve and professionalism the players have sticking together during a
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  Speaker 1: challenging season has been outstanding. The head coach wrote, I
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  Speaker 1: will continue to focus on my health with the hope
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  Speaker 1: that I can return to coaching in the future. So
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  Speaker 1: that ends any sort of speculation and debate. Greg Popovich
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  Speaker 1: the Santonio Spurs head coach not returning to the sidelines
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  Speaker 1: this season. I think a lot of people would have
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  Speaker 1: assumed that they could have guessed that, as there's only
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  Speaker 1: about twenty games left and the phena in Victor Wembinyama
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  Speaker 1: as well shut down for the season with a blood
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  Speaker 1: clot in his shoulder. So no Popovich, no Victor wembin
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  Speaker 1: Yama for the remainder of the season for the Spurs.
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  Speaker 1: This does not, by any means mean that Papovich is
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  Speaker 1: done coaching at the NBA level. Anybody who was eulogizing
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  Speaker 1: the career of one of, if not the greatest NBA
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  Speaker 1: head coach of all time, I thought that it was
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  Speaker 1: premature when we started having those conversations earlier this past week.
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  Speaker 1: Now he puts it to bed. He says, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to try to come back next season. I do want
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  Speaker 1: to remind everyone, though, that before Greg Popovich pat Riley
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  Speaker 1: Phil Jackson, there was one Greg Arbach, who is the
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  Speaker 1: GM and head coach of the Boston Celtics where they
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  Speaker 1: were winning banner after banner after banner in the nineteen sixties.
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  Speaker 1: And I remind everybody about Red Arbach. Even if Popovich says,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to be on the sideline day to day.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to do the forty one road trips
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  Speaker 1: this season that it takes to be a head coach
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  Speaker 1: in the NBA. He still will be very much a
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  Speaker 1: member of the San Antonio Spurs organization, and he will
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  Speaker 1: probably have his fingerprints all over the organization until he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't want to have his fingerprints all over the organization anymore.
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  Speaker 1: So the idea that it was just going to be
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  Speaker 1: some sort of mutual disappearing now that never was going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. I didn't understand it. Why everybody was trying
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  Speaker 1: to act that way. He puts it to bed. The
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  Speaker 1: statement from the Spurs reads pop not returning to the
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  Speaker 1: sideline this season, focusing on his health may return in
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  Speaker 1: the future.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of head coaches, Texas men's basketball last night, Rodney
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  Speaker 1: Terry spoke to the media after what was a very
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  Speaker 1: disappointing loss. Needless to say, as the Texas men's basketball
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  Speaker 1: program comes just short in overtime loss, a five point
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  Speaker 1: loss to the Arkansas Razorbacks Ian Fayetteville eighty six eighty one.
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  Speaker 1: Guard Tray Johnson sept the University of Texas a freshman
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  Speaker 1: single game scoring record, had thirty nine points. The mark
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  Speaker 1: the first matchup between the two former Southwest Conference opponents
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  Speaker 1: since twenty ten. Johnson broke the previous freshman single scoring
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  Speaker 1: mark of thirty seven set by Kevin Durant in the
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  Speaker 1: six seven season. He reached the thirty point mark for
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  Speaker 1: the third time this season. He ellipsed his previous season
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  Speaker 1: high of thirty two that he had against Kentucky. I
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  Speaker 1: was talking earlier this week as we geared up for
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  Speaker 1: that game against Arkansas, and I didn't want to bring
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  Speaker 1: it up on the air because I did not want
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  Speaker 1: to jinx the Texas long Corns. But in games where
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  Speaker 1: Trey Johnson had scored thirty or more points, the Long
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  Speaker 1: Runs were two and out. So now they fall to
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  Speaker 1: two and one in games that he scores more than
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  Speaker 1: thirty points. Rodney Terry opened up his press conference last
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  Speaker 1: night with this remark, well, yeah, I.
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  Speaker 4: Like to commit my guys for great effort. Tonight I've
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  Speaker 4: beat at a high level. Even when we got behind,
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  Speaker 4: we knew we were going to have opportunity to still
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  Speaker 4: stay in the game and have an opportunity to win
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  Speaker 4: the game. We were riding position to do that. I
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  Speaker 4: thought we got it really hard. Thought they made a
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  Speaker 4: couple of big shots down the stretch. It's a difference
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  Speaker 4: in the game. They got to the foul line thirty
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  Speaker 4: one times. We got there thirteen times fourteen at the
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  Speaker 4: half of them. But again, you know, I committed. My
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  Speaker 4: guys were playing really hard tonight. Put forth a great effort.
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  Speaker 1: That was head coach Rodney tis Now. The Arkansas Razorbacks
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  Speaker 1: last night shot nine of seventeen from downtown the university.
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  Speaker 1: Texts did a good job of preventing three pointers for
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  Speaker 1: falling for Arkansas, and the question was asked for Rodney Terry,
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  Speaker 1: how do you prevent the threes in the second half?
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  Speaker 1: Text died a very good job of preventing Arkansas from
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  Speaker 1: knocking down threes in the second half. How did that happen?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he has a lot of re pack. He's
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  Speaker 4: one of the best players in this league, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and sometimes he doesn't get protected that way. He treated
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  Speaker 4: that way when he's shooting the basketball, trying to attack
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  Speaker 4: the basket. You know, late in the game, we're gonna
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  Speaker 4: put the ball in his hands and give him opportunity
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  Speaker 4: to go win the game for uce. You know, he's
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  Speaker 4: either gonna get fouled or why he's gonna make the
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  Speaker 4: winning shot, you know, But he's a special talent.
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  Speaker 5: We knew that when we signed him.
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  Speaker 4: He was number one player in his class for a
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  Speaker 4: better part of his career in high school to Cooper
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  Speaker 4: flag reclassified.
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  Speaker 2: But Tray's top, I.
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  Speaker 4: Mean he's top picks one, top.
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  Speaker 6: Players in.
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  Speaker 1: I was talking about Rodney Today's Rodney Terry talking about
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  Speaker 1: Trey Johnson, the all around incredible freshman talent and projected
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  Speaker 1: top five pick in this year's NBA draft class. But
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  Speaker 1: what did you do to fight back in both games?
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  Speaker 1: As Texas was able to rally back in that second half,
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  Speaker 1: outscored Arkansas by twelve points in the second half, only
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  Speaker 1: to come up short in overtime, what did it take
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  Speaker 1: to fight back in both games?
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  Speaker 2: Coach? This is RT five. I thought we got it
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  Speaker 2: pretty hard.
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  Speaker 4: I thought, I guys, again, really good effort on the
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  Speaker 4: defensive end of the floor. We started finishing possessions, and
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  Speaker 4: then we did a good job attacking the paint offensively,
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  Speaker 4: scoring in the paint.
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  Speaker 1: Andrews im Will filling in for Craig Way on The
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  Speaker 1: Craigway Show on Sports Radio am thirteen hundred the zone. Now,
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  Speaker 1: did Arkansas do anything different in this one, Coach Terry,
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  Speaker 1: did they do anything different to jump out to the lead?
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  Speaker 2: That they did?
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  Speaker 4: Well, they just put his down to drive and you know,
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  Speaker 4: hope that again that you follow him and put him
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  Speaker 4: at the file line and stuff. And they got there.
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  Speaker 4: They got to the file line. We bailed him out
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  Speaker 4: on a couple of shots that they had no chance
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  Speaker 4: of making. So, no, they didn't play any different, rent
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  Speaker 4: and they played the last time. They put the ball
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  Speaker 4: inside a few times more this last time.
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  Speaker 1: No, it was a question coming into this one if
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  Speaker 1: Arthur Kaluma would be able to even suit up and play,
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  Speaker 1: and Rodney Terry said before the game that he appeared
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  Speaker 1: that he was going to be available. He finished with
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  Speaker 1: his seventh double double of the season, thirteen points and
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  Speaker 1: a game high eleven rebounds in the thirty seven minutes
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  Speaker 1: of action that he was able to play last night.
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  Speaker 1: Now ut comes back to the Moody Center. They host
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  Speaker 1: Georgia Saturday, March first, which is this Saturday. Tip is
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  Speaker 1: at seven pm. I'll be on ESPN two and long
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  Speaker 1: the radio, your Longhorn Radio network as well. But this
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  Speaker 1: is one of those games that the first time these
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  Speaker 1: two teams matched up, Arkansas and Texas, you wanted to
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  Speaker 1: have it back at the end that Texas was able
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  Speaker 1: to fight back at the end to make the score
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  Speaker 1: a little bit closer, but you would thought, oh, that
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  Speaker 1: was one that might have got away from us. And
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  Speaker 1: then last night to battle back the way that they
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  Speaker 1: did is very important and it's going to be a
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  Speaker 1: calling card for this team as they continue to move
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  Speaker 1: forward into the SEC Tournament. But coming into last night's matchup,
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  Speaker 1: both Arkansas and Texas were essentially presented as bubble teams
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  Speaker 1: and this game, we said beforehand was not a must
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  Speaker 1: win for the long Horns, but it was a you
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  Speaker 1: sure like to win it. It would make life a
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  Speaker 1: lot easier if you want it. Now the road for
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  Speaker 1: the Longhorns to not only get a seed come March
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  Speaker 1: Madness time, that will give you an easier path to
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  Speaker 1: your eventual goal, which of course is to get deep
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  Speaker 1: into March Madness. But this makes the trip just that
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  Speaker 1: much more difficult. You have to be excited though, for
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  Speaker 1: a guy like Trey Johnson and for Longhorn fans that
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  Speaker 1: came into this season with high expectations and high hopes
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  Speaker 1: for the freshman guard. I feel like there's no way
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  Speaker 1: that you can present this as not a outstanding success
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  Speaker 1: of a season for Trey Johnson. Now, he probably wishes
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  Speaker 1: that the wins were kind of piling up a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more for his idea. Probably single season on the
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  Speaker 1: forty acres as he's probably gonna go in the draft
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  Speaker 1: in the NBA draft is a lottery pick and a
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  Speaker 1: high one of that. You would hope that the wins
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  Speaker 1: would kind of pile up. But every game he has
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  Speaker 1: gotten a little bit better, which is exactly what you're
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  Speaker 1: looking for out of a five star freshman like Trey Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: When we come back, Craig Way names on the show.
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  Speaker 1: He will join us to talk about last night's loss
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  Speaker 1: and preview some of that UT baseball action as they
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  Speaker 1: travel out to Las Vegas for the Las Vegas Classic.
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  Speaker 1: All that coming up. Andrew zim will fill in for
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  Speaker 1: Craig Way on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.
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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio thirteen hundred The Zone. Andrew Zimmile filling in
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  Speaker 1: for Craig Way. But we have a treat. We have
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  Speaker 1: the guy's name who's has his name on the show.
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  Speaker 1: It's Craig Way, Craig, how you doing today?
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  Speaker 3: I think the praise you were searching for was eponymously named.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's what I was going when they named
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  Speaker 3: the show with my name on it, because before I
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  Speaker 3: came back to iHeart, I've never done a show that
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  Speaker 3: actually had my.
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  Speaker 6: Name on it.
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  Speaker 3: I was, you know, and it went by different names
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  Speaker 3: across town. And when I was iHeart the first time,
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  Speaker 3: and when I was up in Dallas, did a lot
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  Speaker 3: of different shows, just didn't have my name on it
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  Speaker 3: until they decided to.
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  Speaker 7: Do that when I came back.
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  Speaker 6: But you know, you go with it. Hey.
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  Speaker 1: They tell me that if your name's in the show,
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  Speaker 1: that you're doing something right. So you must be doing
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  Speaker 1: something right.
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  Speaker 6: Craig.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about last night's game, man, Longhorn.
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  Speaker 1: As they come up just short, they battled back in
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  Speaker 1: the second half, they dropped one to Arkansas eighty six
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  Speaker 1: eighty one.
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  Speaker 2: You were on the call. What's your main takeaway here?
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  Speaker 3: That the most difficult part of all of this for Texas,
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  Speaker 3: and this has happened on four or five occasions that
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  Speaker 3: there are eleven loss or twelve losses this season, is
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  Speaker 3: digging themselves a hole from about the ten minute mark
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  Speaker 3: of the first half to the ten minute mark of
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  Speaker 3: the second half. And that's what happened against Texas A
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  Speaker 3: and M, both at home and on the road. They
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  Speaker 3: couldn't recover. Actually they were tired with the Aggies in
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  Speaker 3: College Station at the happen They got dominated on the
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  Speaker 3: glass in the second half.
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  Speaker 7: In the home game, they fell behind by.
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  Speaker 3: As many as twenty two with fourteen minutes ago and
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  Speaker 3: came back and won. They've had other games where they
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  Speaker 3: got behind and rallied back. They could not recover against
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina, and it looked like they had recovered as
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  Speaker 3: Arkansas that were down fourteen with ten minutes ago, came
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  Speaker 3: all the way back and Trey Johnson's heroic efforts helped
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  Speaker 3: them actually take a two point lead and then one
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  Speaker 3: point lead, and then it winds up going overtime, and
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  Speaker 3: they had the lead two or three occasions in the
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  Speaker 3: first couple of minutes of overtime, but.
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  Speaker 7: Couldn't finish it after that.
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  Speaker 3: And so digging a hole is the issue for this
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  Speaker 3: basketball team. If they can prevent that from happening, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they put themselves in a position down the stretch to
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  Speaker 3: be able.
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  Speaker 7: To win these games.
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  Speaker 1: You talk about Trey Johnson, he braced the record that
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Durant said. I talked to some people around the
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  Speaker 1: NBA crack today, some of my people who are big
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  Speaker 1: into the scouting, and they think that he's the best
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  Speaker 1: guard now coming out of this year's draft.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he's certainly trending up. He's continuing to play better
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  Speaker 3: and better now. Trey will be the first to tell
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  Speaker 3: you he felt terrible about the turnover there and overtime,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, I think that's a product of how
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  Speaker 3: much the long words.
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  Speaker 7: Have had to lean off him. He was exhausted when
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  Speaker 7: it was over.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, he had a couple of difficult moments
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  Speaker 3: trying to guard Carter Knox of Arkansas, who got some
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  Speaker 3: straight line drives to the bucket doubtless drench in the
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  Speaker 3: second half, but he was more than make it up
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  Speaker 3: for it with what he was doing in shooting and
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  Speaker 3: driving and then finding some other guys available to hit
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  Speaker 3: some shots. And then he had the turnover there and
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  Speaker 3: over time, and he could just tell, because we were
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  Speaker 3: sitting right beside the bench a look on his face.
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  Speaker 7: He felt terrible. And I know Arthur Gloom and went over.
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  Speaker 3: To don't worry about him, man, let's go, and there
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  Speaker 3: they were with an opportunity. They had a shot. It
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  Speaker 3: worked out that way. But it wasn't for his lack
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  Speaker 3: of trying. He had a great effort.
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  Speaker 2: So the universe wy of Texas last night. Craig in
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  Speaker 2: the second half.
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  Speaker 1: Really really did a good job on the perimeter making sure.
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  Speaker 2: Arkansas couldn't knock down those threes.
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  Speaker 1: Did it feel like there was an intensity coming out
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  Speaker 1: of the locker room?
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  Speaker 7: There was.
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  Speaker 3: And here's the other thing about this, zim Arkansas was
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  Speaker 3: seven to twelve beyond the arc in.
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  Speaker 7: The first half.
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  Speaker 3: They shot fifty eight percent from three point range in.
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  Speaker 7: The first half. In the first six or seven.
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  Speaker 3: Minutes of the second half, they didn't even really try
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  Speaker 3: to shoot. They had built the lead and then they
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  Speaker 3: kind of went half court and that kind of played
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  Speaker 3: in the Longhorn's hands to fight back. And then they
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  Speaker 3: started launching some threes. The missing some threes, but they.
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  Speaker 7: Hit two in the second half. Meanwhile, was the Longhorns
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  Speaker 7: to turn their three.
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  Speaker 3: Point fortunes around in the second half. That helped them
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  Speaker 3: climb back into the game. But as Rodney Terry poured
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  Speaker 3: out who just paired the comment. Free pro shooting was
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  Speaker 3: a big difference as well. Algworns hit some down the stretch,
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  Speaker 3: but Arkansas really front loaded a lot of free pros
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  Speaker 3: in the first half and building the other legend league.
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  Speaker 1: Did you feel like they just were getting the calls, Craig,
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of what it felt like with Rodney Terror
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  Speaker 1: was hinting at that they just were getting calls.
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  Speaker 7: Well, let me put it to you this way, Zim.
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  Speaker 3: I had somebody tell me a couple of folks with
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  Speaker 3: the University of Arkansas kind of smile when you were
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  Speaker 3: chatting on my way out of the arena getting to
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  Speaker 3: the tunnel to go up, and they kind of smiled
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  Speaker 3: and said, you got Bud Walton to night, meaning home
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  Speaker 3: court officiating, low home boocket thing. I don't think let
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  Speaker 3: me let me be honest about this. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: that the officials were you know, biasked or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm also here to tell you that was not
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  Speaker 3: a good crew. That's a bottom level crew. The lead
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  Speaker 3: official is a pretty good number three official, and the.
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  Speaker 7: Other two got one guy didn't make.
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  Speaker 3: A call the other night, and the other gentleman flat
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  Speaker 3: out missed call after call.
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  Speaker 7: He's also the one.
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  Speaker 3: Who teed up Rodney Kerry's well, Rodney Finley just had
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  Speaker 3: enough because there was a shot of his face looking
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  Speaker 3: quizzically when the ball went out of bound, said he
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  Speaker 3: called it off Texas.
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  Speaker 7: It was clearly off the message of Arkansas.
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  Speaker 3: And that's when Rodney started to loose it at that point,
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  Speaker 3: and Rodney asked another offis who was seating right nearby,
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  Speaker 3: why didn't he help him out there? And the official
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  Speaker 3: told Rodney that's not my call. What do you mean,
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: it's not your call?
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: He could help.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: We see it happen all the time, you know, to
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: overturn the call and say no, it goes back the
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: other way. But let me say this, the officials didn't
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: lose Texas the game. It's just to work some key moments, like,
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: for example, after that ruling that the ball went out
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: of bounds off Texas when it didn't, Arkansas came down
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: and hit a three point and it pushed a eight
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: point lead. Do an eleven point lead makes a difference.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: It makes a difficdult to rally back. But in the
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: second half, I will also tell you that this proved
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: missed some calls two or three calls against Arkansas should
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: have gone.
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: Against Texas and did not.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: So if you say, okay, well they were equally bad
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: on both sides, maybe pretty close, you just hate it
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: to me that way. You want them to be, you know, compliment.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Well you what you don't want is you don't want
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: to give them an option. You want to put yourself
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: in a position that the refts can influence the game
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: like that.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: I think that's really what it comes down to.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: I know before the game the coach you staff wasn't
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: really thrilled when they saw it was gonna appreciate because usually,
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: and the way this thing works is they'll put one
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: really good official, one decent, and one who's kind of
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: lesser experience in the fruit for any specific SEC games.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: I've already seen the list of officials for Saturday nights
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: team against Georgia, and they follow the script to that
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: there's a really good official still kind of learning and
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: things so that he's like the number three. Well, they
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: put three number three on the game last night, so
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: they didn't help didn't help either side for sure.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: So Texas plays Georgia. You you hinted to that this
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: is another team that's in the same win area as Texas.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Arkansas was in the same win conference record as Texas.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: What do you feel about this game on Saturday, Craig.
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: We are now in we must win territory.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: Got a They absolutely, I think, short of winning the
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: SEC tournament, and all you're asking him to do there
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: is win five games and five nights, which is not
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: practically impossible. But it's happened twice, Spikey's I think with
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: yukon Syracuse. It happened in the ACC with Virginia Tech
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: a couple of years back.
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: But it's a really hard.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Thing to make happen, to try to win five games
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: and five nights because your legs just go after about
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: the night. So that's why it hasn't happened in the
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Big twelve.
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: So they're in a position.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Where they've got to win the two home games Georgia
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: on Saturday and in Oklahoma on Senior Night the following
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Saturay for a couple of reasons. One first and foremost,
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: they need to win. But the other thing is those
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: are two teams, desperate bubble teams, and they can knock
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: them off the bubble if they've win those games. Now
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: the game in between is in Startfille against Mississippi State.
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: If they were to win that and.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Sweep the last three games, I think they're.
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: In the field.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: If they don't win that, and that's gonna be a
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: tough assignment in Startfield, then they're probably looking at needing to.
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: Win at least one game in Nashville.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: So they absolutely have to win the two home games,
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: I think too, and then maybe with one more game,
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: whether it's a Start Bills or in Nashville to get
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: into the field.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: And I spoke to our mutual friend Cameron Parker earlier
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: today and he wanted me to ask you about your
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: travel story. So before I let you go, what's what's
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: the travel story that I need to hear, Craig.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Everything was pretty sedate going to Arkansas.
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: You know, it's a pretty quick flight up.
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: We were back late late last night.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Listen, I hope he.
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: Told you about his travel story.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Have you heard about them having the dinner at Big
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Shaker's Bar?
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: No, there, I've seen pictures.
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: See.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: He threw me off the set. I should have gone
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: after their travel story, Craig.
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: That was on me.
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: Oh, listen. Roger Walla sent me photos. I asked Cam to.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Do it, but I think he was too busy eating
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: the sumptuous meal they laid out, because you and I
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: know campam packed away the groceries.
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: Eddie Rine says he's.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: On the old knife and fourteen, so he might have
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: been too busy eating to take photos.
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: But Rogers sent me photos and that.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: Was a really impressive place what Vick Shaper had the
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: entire team there for their teen meal last night, and
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: it was a really impressive site. And hopefully it works
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: out well and they're ready to go tonight in their
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: matchup at Mississippi State.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, we will start highlighting some of that later
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: in the show. His name is Craig Wag's the voice
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: of Longhorns. His name's on the show and he's a
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: good buddy of ours. Craig, thank you so much. We'll
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: talk to you tomorrow as you head to Vegas.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Hey, yeah, we're gonna tell people a couple of things.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Longring Weekly Tonay with Robbie Terriot Pluckers at six o'clock,
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: So we'll have that and then I race to the airport.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: A touch of Black the Vegas and I'll check on
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: d tomorrow from Las Vegas as the Longmoort baseball team
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: prepares to play Washington.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Perfect. Thank you so much, Craig.
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: Thanks Jim.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll have more coming up next on sports
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Good afternoon, Austin Andrews,
• 23:17
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• 23:20
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• 23:24
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• 23:33
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• 23:45
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• 23:48
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• 23:51
  Speaker 1: every morning I turn them on. When I'm I get
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: done working out, I'm getting in the shower, I throw
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: them on and it's a laugh a minute. I cannot
• 24:00
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• 24:02
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• 24:04
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• 24:08
  Speaker 1: of the Craig Waves show continues as UT men's basketball
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: loses a tight one in Arkansas last night eighty six
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: eighty one. We'll hear from head coach Rodney Terry. Will
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: also hear from assistant coach for the Razorbacks, Kenny Payne,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: who gave a lot of love to freshman phenom Trey Johnson.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Johnson broke the Kevin Durant freshman single games scoring record
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: last night with thirty nine. And everybody I'm talking to
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: across my network of people when it comes to NBA
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: draft stuff, I'm a big draft nerd in that way.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Everybody's telling me that Trey Johnson is continuing to climb
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: up on all of their mocks. The question then turns
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: into who ends up with the lottery pick that gets him.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Cooper Flag is the consensus number one overall pick. But
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: if you know how these things work, every year, when
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: we get closer and closer to draft time, we want
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: to make the argument, well should we get this guy
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: this guy? So don't be surprised if you see some
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: mock drafts when we get closer to the NBA Draft
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: they have Trey Johnson going top two, top three. I'm
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: just saying, don't be shocked. It's a quarterback battle at
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: the NFL Combine. One guy's throwing, one guy isn't our
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: guy is. Queen Ewers will be throwing, and according to
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: reports yesterday, spoken with the Dallas Cowboys, which is kind
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: of interesting when you think about what the Cowboys organization
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: is trying to do. Obviously, the Cleveland Browns signed Deshaun
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Watson to an awful contract that is now rippling through
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: their organization to the point where Miles Garrett doesn't want
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: to be there anymore. What is the Dallas Cowboys doing
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: talking to Queen Yours? Is that the move in the
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: first round? Do they think they'll fall or are the
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Cowboys going to be strategically aggressive like Stephen Jones has
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: hinted towards. Are they gonna be strategically aggressive and go
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: after Quinn? Could you see the Cowboys trying to trade
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: up for multiple first round picks? Is Micah Parsons on
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: the trade block? All these things swirling around As Day
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: one of the NFL Combine continues today, we hear from
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Vic Shaffer later as well, the head coach of the
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: women's team. He gives us an inside angle at his daughter,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Blair Schaeffer, her career to this point and is she
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: going to be a head coach one day we hear
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: from the head coach with the women's basketball program, but
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: let's talk baseball. UT baseball, huge win the other night
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: against Incarnate Word. They continue to roll at home. They're
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: now going on the road, taking on the Las Vegas Classic.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: It's a big ten sandwich, we're gonna call it because
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: we have Washington at to start Illinois on a Sunday,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: and in between it's Texas Tech. Now head coach Jim
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: shlast Angle. He knows his way around UNLV. He started
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: his career there and he was asked yesterday during media availability,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: what does he remember about UNLV.
• 27:03
  Speaker 9: Well, I'm not as familiar as Vegas. It's been a
• 27:05
  Speaker 9: long time since they've been back there. It was a
• 27:07
  Speaker 9: much different city even in two thousand and two and
• 27:10
  Speaker 9: three than it is today.
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: But awesome memories of first head coaching job.
• 27:15
  Speaker 9: And inheriting an awesome group of players and a group
• 27:20
  Speaker 9: of really young players from right there in Vegas that
• 27:24
  Speaker 9: had one estate championship at Silverada High School and they
• 27:26
  Speaker 9: all decided to go to UNLV and we had an
• 27:29
  Speaker 9: awesome transformation. First year we were thirty and thirty and
• 27:32
  Speaker 9: the next year I think you're like forty seven and
• 27:35
  Speaker 9: fourteen or forty seven and seventeen something like that, won
• 27:37
  Speaker 9: two conference championships, played in regional final, and just have
• 27:41
  Speaker 9: incredible relationships with those kids to this day.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: So Jim Slashtangle very humble when a coach. You know,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: oh maybe I remember, maybe I don't. The record. They
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: remember the record. Everybody remembers your first head coaching job
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: UNLV and your number one, thirty and thirty, which was
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: a step up from the year prior UNLV three.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: He believe it's been twenty years.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: O three, forty seven and seventeen gets them to the
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: NCAA Region and that is when regionals, and that is
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: when his career really takes off. If you remember, he
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: jumps from UNLV to TCU and was the head coach
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: when the Frogs transitioned from the Mountained West Conference into
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: the Big Twelve where they went to not one, not
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: to but four consecutive College World Series. Yeah, then goes
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: to Texas A and M, and there is a College
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: World Series runner up last year before going to Texas.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Now there is James Sloshnengles resume. Obviously, if you're a
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: fan of the Texas baseball program, you know that already.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Though what did you.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Learn in your first two years though coach your first
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: head coaching job at the Division one level?
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: I mean I learned a lot.
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 28:56
  Speaker 9: The beauty of that versus today's world is, you know,
• 28:59
  Speaker 9: you you get to screw up a lot when you're
• 29:01
  Speaker 9: at your first job, and not too many people pay
• 29:04
  Speaker 9: attention to it, and not you know, people weren't recording
• 29:08
  Speaker 9: every single thing that happens, like happens at a place
• 29:11
  Speaker 9: like Texas or A and M or TCU. So just
• 29:16
  Speaker 9: really learned how to run a program from a thirty
• 29:20
  Speaker 9: six thousand foot view. I had watched my mentor at TWU,
• 29:25
  Speaker 9: Lane Rick Jones do it, but to do it yourself
• 29:28
  Speaker 9: is a whole nother thing. And then had the luxury
• 29:30
  Speaker 9: of working for he just passed away. But coach John Robinson,
• 29:34
  Speaker 9: he was a great coach at USC Hall of Fame
• 29:36
  Speaker 9: football coach.
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: He was my athletic director. He was the football coach
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: and the AD.
• 29:41
  Speaker 9: So just to have awesome stories with Coach rob But
• 29:45
  Speaker 9: then just learn you know how to run a program
• 29:48
  Speaker 9: and everything that goes with it.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Andrew's a little filliated for Craig Way. We're listening to
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: a head coach from Slowsnagle from media availability yesterday as
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: a University of Texas gets ready to travel to Las Vegas,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Nevada the City of sin as they take on the
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Las Vegas Classic, which would be Washington, Texas Tech Illinois
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: in that order of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Now, Ethan
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Mendoza has been the talk of the forty Acres this season.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Early this year, the sophomore has been kind of all
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: over the lineup for Texas, goes from the ninth spot
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: all the way to leading off in that win against
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Incarnate Word. Oh and by the way, hit his first
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: home run of the season in that win against Incarnate
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Word as well. Are you going to stick with him
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: their coach batting high in the order at number one,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: or is he going to be somebody that you moved
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: back in the order during this Classic.
• 30:42
  Speaker 9: I we'll probably stick with it for a little bit
• 30:44
  Speaker 9: and see what happens. I think, you know, it's a
• 30:46
  Speaker 9: constant juggling act, trying to figure out who can do what,
• 30:49
  Speaker 9: who's comfortable where. We have some guys that are certainly
• 30:53
  Speaker 9: capable of performing, you know, at a higher level than
• 30:56
  Speaker 9: they are currently in.
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: Terms of results.
• 30:59
  Speaker 9: The the work ethic and all of that has been amazing.
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: If anything, we just need him to relax a little
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: bit and play. But yeah, I just.
• 31:08
  Speaker 9: Try to take a little pressure off shooter, give him
• 31:10
  Speaker 9: a chance to watch the game a little bit, slide
• 31:12
  Speaker 9: a few guys.
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: Mendoza's getting on base.
• 31:16
  Speaker 9: He's the player that he showed up here as the
• 31:19
  Speaker 9: player that really we really want him to be.
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: He's really buying into that.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: And as.
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: I watch him evolve, then.
• 31:30
  Speaker 9: You can see what he's capable of, which is hitting
• 31:32
  Speaker 9: the lead off on a potentially good team.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, through nineteen and bats this season, Mendoza batting four
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: twenty one with two home runs and a cup four
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: RBIs as well, So not too shabby for the south
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: leg Carol Alump, Now, how important coach is it to
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: have players that you can move around in the order.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: You can get a guy like Mendoza and put him
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: in the ninth spot, or you can move him up
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: at number one.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: How important is that?
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: Well?
• 32:02
  Speaker 9: Ideally, ideally, well, hopefully they're interchangeable in a good way.
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: But ideally you would want that.
• 32:08
  Speaker 9: You know the best teams, I've our best offenses I've
• 32:10
  Speaker 9: ever coached, you could or been around coach, and you
• 32:13
  Speaker 9: can flip them upside down and you feel good about
• 32:15
  Speaker 9: it on that day.
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: But I think when we're right, which.
• 32:19
  Speaker 9: Like every every coach sees at least, I see the
• 32:21
  Speaker 9: best in our players and I envision the best in
• 32:23
  Speaker 9: them every day. So I'm cool with the lineup in
• 32:28
  Speaker 9: any direction. But we have to live in reality, and
• 32:32
  Speaker 9: guys have to continue to get better and right now,
• 32:34
  Speaker 9: Ethan be up there at the top.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: In that win against in Carnate where the Longhorns were
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: able to throw a couple of arms at the Cardinals,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: they pitched four pitchers, starting with Jason Flores, who did
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: an incredible job in his first collegiate start, was able
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: to go three up, three down twice and then got
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: an ending double play. Do you expect the rotation to same,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: stay the same coach this weekend?
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: I do.
• 33:05
  Speaker 9: I don't see any reason why we would change it.
• 33:07
  Speaker 9: Having Cat's felt fine since throwing, and less something pops up,
• 33:13
  Speaker 9: we'll leave it the same way.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta love that University of Texas plays in
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Classic this weekend. You can hear those
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: games right here on the zone. Our man Craig Way
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: will be on the call. He's all over the place
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: doing Pluckers tonight on the West Campus location, talking to
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: head coach Rodney Terry for the Coaches Show, then jumping
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: a flight and heading out to Vegas. And I'm not
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: glad that we're gonna get Craig on the calls. If
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: you've listened to the station, you hear the promos playing
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: for a University of Texas baseball. He has an incredible
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: home run call. We need to get a couple more
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: of those in the can. I want to play one
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: more clip here, Ronald, our incredible producer back in Austin.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: I want to ask about Ethan and Die because Max
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Grubbs got a good answer yesterday when asked, this is
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Grubbs two.
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and you can expect more of it.
• 34:09
  Speaker 9: I think he's a really good player, and I like
• 34:11
  Speaker 9: the way that he plays the game.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: I'm really glad to have we have a team on
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: the forty Acres that already seven games in feels very connected,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: which is very important when it comes to the game
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: of baseball. Anybody will tell us play the game at
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: the highest levels will tell you that the locker room camaraderie,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: having all those guys on the same page, it's not easy.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: It's not something that you just wake up one morning
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: and everybody loves each other.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: And it takes time.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: When head coach Jim Slosnegel came from A and M
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: to Texas, yeah, you talk about all of the success
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: he's had everywhere else, but you talk about the locker
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: room culture that he has been able to build at
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: every stop he's had along the way. That is one
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: of those intangible things that you get out of your
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: head coach. When we come back speaking of head coaches,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Vic Schaeffer Women's backasketball head coach Spoke gives us a
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  Speaker 1: little insight on what we can expect tonight as the
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  Speaker 1: women's basketball team travels so Starkville to take on the
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  Speaker 1: Mississippi State team. We'll have that for you next right
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  Speaker 1: here on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.
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  Speaker 2: Sports Radio AM thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: Hundred The Zone Andrew zim will taking you on your
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  Speaker 1: cattle drive as we work our way through the work
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  Speaker 1: week together and tonight big matchup University of Texas number
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  Speaker 1: one overall team currently in women's basketball. They have that
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  Speaker 1: number one next to their name for the first time
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  Speaker 1: in almost twenty years, and it's very important for this
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  Speaker 1: team to continue to take that momentum that they've already
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  Speaker 1: shown that they've had and keep it moving. That is
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  Speaker 1: the number one thing right now for the or i
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  Speaker 1: should say, for the longest time, the women have been
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  Speaker 1: chasing the number one. Now they are going to be
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  Speaker 1: the team that gets chased, which is big. Texas women's
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  Speaker 1: coach Vick Schaeffer. He was named as the Name of
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  Speaker 1: Women's College Coach of the Year watch list this week.
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  Speaker 1: He's a twenty eighteen National Coach of the Year after
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  Speaker 1: leading teams to the Elite Eight in six of seven
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  Speaker 1: years and ten seasons of twenty five or more wins.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Coach Schaeffer had his media availability yesterday and spoke about
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  Speaker 1: the matchup tonight against Mississippi State.
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  Speaker 10: Well, just really proud of our team last night.
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  Speaker 6: You know, it's always.
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  Speaker 10: Hard on the road, you know, lots obviously lots going
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  Speaker 10: on and lots of potential distractions, and yet they were
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  Speaker 10: able to go in there and persevere on a night
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  Speaker 10: when we didn't shoot it that well. For three quarters,
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  Speaker 10: shot sixty four the fourth quarter, but first three quarters
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  Speaker 10: were a bit of a grind.
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  Speaker 6: But our defense was elite.
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  Speaker 10: And once you all think about this now, they went
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  Speaker 10: in there and held the home team in the Southeastern
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  Speaker 10: Conference on their home floor to twenty six total points
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  Speaker 10: for forty minutes.
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  Speaker 6: For two hours.
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  Speaker 10: They absolutely grinded and defended at an elite level, and
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  Speaker 10: I am so proud of them.
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  Speaker 6: To be able to do that.
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  Speaker 10: I don't think I've ever had a team do that
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  Speaker 10: in a conference game, and so and much less do it,
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  Speaker 10: you know, on.
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  Speaker 6: The the opponent's home floor.
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  Speaker 10: So you know, sometimes on the road, y'all those things happen,
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  Speaker 10: you don't shoot it quite as well. But that's why
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  Speaker 10: we always talk about defense travels. You got to have
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  Speaker 10: an inside game, and we did. I thought Kyla and
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  Speaker 10: Taylor were much better in the second half. We weren't
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  Speaker 10: very good first half. They were two for seven at halftime,
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  Speaker 10: but came back and ended up ten for nineteen. So
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  Speaker 10: again I thought we had some kids really step up
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  Speaker 10: play well. I think, you know, we just sometimes it
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  Speaker 10: takes that. And again, when you're not maybe not making shop,
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  Speaker 10: you know, house, can you help me win? I thought
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  Speaker 10: we also had some kids do that. So it's a
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  Speaker 10: great win for us again some uncharted territory waters for
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  Speaker 10: you know, for these kids, and uh, to be able
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  Speaker 10: to go out and function and play.
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  Speaker 6: I was really proud of them.
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  Speaker 10: So now we've got to get ready and go on
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  Speaker 10: the road and have another road game. Only have basically
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  Speaker 10: a day back here and we leave out tomorrow. Got
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  Speaker 10: to play a really good Mississippi State team, a team
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  Speaker 10: that's going to be in the NCAA tournament.
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  Speaker 6: Play them on their home floor. I'm sure they'll have
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  Speaker 6: a great crowd.
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  Speaker 10: Those Bulldog fans are so special and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 10: they love their Bulldogs, and so I'm sure they're going
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  Speaker 10: to create a great atmosphere and home court, you know,
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  Speaker 10: advantage for their team. And so we're gonna have to
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  Speaker 10: go in there and play well. It's a team that
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  Speaker 10: has a great size inside, have great guard play, veteran guards,
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  Speaker 10: fifth and six year guards.
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  Speaker 6: So they're a wise old.
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  Speaker 10: Team and so we're gonna have to really go in
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  Speaker 10: there and execute and play extremely well. So, you know,
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  Speaker 10: excited about the opportunity, excited for our team. We're now
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  Speaker 10: down to in my mind, a two game season, and
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  Speaker 10: we've just got to do what we've done all year,
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  Speaker 10: which is being the present, be where your feet are.
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  Speaker 10: The most important thing is today. The most important practice
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  Speaker 10: is today's practice. Can we get one percent incrementally better
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  Speaker 10: today than we were yesterday? And at the same time,
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  Speaker 10: we've got to prepare with intentionality, which we've done a
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  Speaker 10: great job of, and get ready to play a really
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  Speaker 10: good Mississippi State team in their gym.
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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio Am thirteen hundred the zone. That was head
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  Speaker 1: coach Vic Shaeffer talking about the lead up this game
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  Speaker 1: and then playing tonight against Mississippi State. Now it's a
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  Speaker 1: family affair tonight. As of course, Schaeffer play or coached
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  Speaker 1: for a number of years at Mississippi State, but his daughter,
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  Speaker 1: Blair Schaeffer, also was a member of that program. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: one of the largest most important classes ever was her class,
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  Speaker 1: part of the winning's class in program history. As a
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  Speaker 1: senior class posted a one, twenty six, and twenty two
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  Speaker 1: record over the four years. There were a national finances
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  Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen, and they made the
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  Speaker 1: NCAA Tournament every single year. She also helped leave Mississippi
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  Speaker 1: State to the first trip to the final four national championship.
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  Speaker 1: Your role expanded as a senior started all thirty nine games,
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  Speaker 1: was a three point specialist. She was of course all
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  Speaker 1: academic honor roll. She then went to ESPN, the se'sc network,
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  Speaker 1: before now coming back to Austin to be part of
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  Speaker 1: this program. Now, head coach Vick Shaeffer's spoke about Blair's
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  Speaker 1: want to be a head coach.
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  Speaker 2: This is Shaeffer number eight.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, I think there'll be a day when when I
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  Speaker 10: decide to not do it, there'll be a day when
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  Speaker 10: she'll want to be a head coach. But I think
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  Speaker 10: she embraces her role right now. She really loves recruiting,
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  Speaker 10: She loves the kids, she loves spending time with them and.
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  Speaker 6: Pouring into them.
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  Speaker 10: And she's, you know, just as my entire staff is.
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  Speaker 6: They're all really good at that.
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  Speaker 10: And so but yeah, I think that, And again I
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  Speaker 10: think I think she'll be a great one.
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  Speaker 2: Andrews, I will fill in for Crags.
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  Speaker 1: So when we go through Vic Shaeffer's career before his
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  Speaker 1: final stop hopefully for his career at Texas, and I
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  Speaker 1: want him to coach here as long as humanly possible
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  Speaker 1: for the success that he's had at in the forty era.
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  Speaker 1: On the forty acres you go through and look at
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  Speaker 1: his time at Mississippi State one twenty two and sixty
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  Speaker 1: two in that time more multiple runner up up here,
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  Speaker 1: multiple multiple NCAA appearances, a tournament and Elite Eight appearance.
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  Speaker 1: All of that being said, So when you talk about
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  Speaker 1: somebody like this, what do you expect the reception to
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  Speaker 1: be after leaving Mississippi State after the twenty twenty season,
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  Speaker 1: what do you expect the reception to be?
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  Speaker 2: Coach?
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  Speaker 10: Well, I don't know how it's I don't know if
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  Speaker 10: you'd call it excited.
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  Speaker 6: I don't.
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  Speaker 10: I don't get too fired up by going on the
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  Speaker 10: road in the SEC. But you know, obviously we have
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  Speaker 10: so many special friends there still to this day, and
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  Speaker 10: you know, such fond memories.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I've said this a lot.
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  Speaker 10: Those eight years that we spent there, the eight best
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  Speaker 10: years of the Shaeffer family's lives. Both of my kids
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  Speaker 10: are graduates Mississippi State.
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  Speaker 6: They're bulldogs. You know.
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  Speaker 10: We just had so much great fun, great success there
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  Speaker 10: and again still have so many good friends there. And
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  Speaker 10: it's not just the people at Mississippi State, it's that
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  Speaker 10: state in general, y'all, like that is the most genuine, caring,
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  Speaker 10: loving state.
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  Speaker 6: The people from.
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  Speaker 10: North Mississippi, Olive Branch, all the way down to the
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  Speaker 10: Delta and all the way down to Biloxi and Gulf.
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  Speaker 6: Port, I mean, anywhere you go.
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  Speaker 10: They just really embraced me, my family, my team, and
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  Speaker 10: so there's so many fond memories of our time there,
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  Speaker 10: and obviously it's a place that we still hold.
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  Speaker 6: Dear to our heart.
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  Speaker 10: I still have my farm there where we built our
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  Speaker 10: dream home. I've additionally bought another farm thirty minutes from there.
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  Speaker 10: That's beautiful country, and so it's a place that's still
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  Speaker 10: we still en dear to ourselves, and it's so special
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  Speaker 10: to us and it will always be that for us
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  Speaker 10: because again, we still have so many wonderful friends there.
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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone Andrews and we
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  Speaker 1: will fill you in for Crag now. He talks about
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  Speaker 1: how nice of a vibe it is, how is excited
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  Speaker 1: to go back, how connected he is to the community
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  Speaker 1: community in Mississippi. Coach, do you expect to shed any
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  Speaker 1: tears tonight?
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  Speaker 10: You know, I'm sure it'll be emotional, But for me,
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  Speaker 10: I've got I've got a heck of a team that
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  Speaker 10: I got to go in there and try to win
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  Speaker 10: a road game.
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  Speaker 6: You know, that's that's it for me.
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  Speaker 10: I've got to I've got to go in there and
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  Speaker 10: we my team's got to go in there, and we
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  Speaker 10: got to be tough. You know, it's going to be
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  Speaker 10: I'm sure it'll be a really good environment. It's a
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  Speaker 10: heck of a team we're gonna have to play and
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  Speaker 10: certainly we we've got a lot of fond memories there
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  Speaker 10: and there's no dispute in that. But at the end
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  Speaker 10: of the day, it's a business trip and you know,
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  Speaker 10: I'm going in there with my team, with the number
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  Speaker 10: one team in the country, and we got to try
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  Speaker 10: to find a way to win a word game.
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  Speaker 1: That is correct six point thirty Tonight, you can hear
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  Speaker 1: the game on the iHeartRadio app on one O three
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  Speaker 1: call for that is number one Texas travels to Mississippi State.
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  Speaker 1: When we come back, they're telling us it's a two
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  Speaker 1: quarterback draft. Is it really just between cam Ward and
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  Speaker 1: schidor Sanders or could Texas's quarterback quin Viewers slip in
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  Speaker 1: there as well.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk about that next. Craig Waits show continues.
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  Speaker 1: In a moment, Andrew Zim will fill in for Craig
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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Sports Radio AM
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  Speaker 1: thirteen hundred The Zone. Andrew Zim will filling in for
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  Speaker 1: Craig Way as we work our way through the workweek twogether. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they're telling us that it is a two quarterback draft,
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  Speaker 1: at least that's what mel Kiper Junior Field yates, all
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  Speaker 1: of the muckety MUCKs, all the draft experts are telling
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  Speaker 1: us it's a two quarterback draft, but it could end
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  Speaker 1: up being a larger QB draft do in part because
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  Speaker 1: there are quarterbacks in the NFL that the teams are
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  Speaker 1: not very happy with, starting with Anthony Richardson in Indianapolis. Now,
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  Speaker 1: last year you heard the story about him quitting on
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  Speaker 1: his team. He was exhausted, he was out of shape,
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  Speaker 1: out of breath, and the colt said, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna sit you down and we're gonna play a
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  Speaker 1: veteran quarterback ahead of you. Was not the best look
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  Speaker 1: for Anthony Richardson. Well, Chris Ballard at the Combined earlier
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  Speaker 1: this week, the Combine begins today with guys actually doing things.
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  Speaker 1: The underwear Olympics is what it's called by some Chris
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  Speaker 1: Ballard spoke about where Anthony Richardson isn't what the team
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  Speaker 1: is thinking about.
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  Speaker 11: We drafted Anthony Hie knowing it was going to take
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  Speaker 11: some time, all right, and we knew there's going to
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  Speaker 11: be some hiccups along the way. And it's you know,
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  Speaker 11: I know, we all want to finish product right now.
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  Speaker 3: I do you do?
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  Speaker 8: Fans?
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  Speaker 2: Do we all do?
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  Speaker 11: But I think as he continues to progress in his
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  Speaker 11: young career, US adding competition, I think will help up
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  Speaker 11: everybody's skin.
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  Speaker 1: Which would make me very nervous if I was a
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  Speaker 1: Colts fan, because what do you mean you want to
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  Speaker 1: add competition to what is already a young QB room. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Richardson's twenty two years old, so you would imagine that
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  Speaker 1: they probably are thinking about adding somebody a little older.
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  Speaker 1: But I would not put it out of the realm
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  Speaker 1: of possibility that the Colts maybe trade back or maybe
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  Speaker 1: trade for an older QB. It seems like Indianapolis has
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  Speaker 1: turned into the home of the old guys, the retirement
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  Speaker 1: home four quarterbacks. You think about what Philip Rivers, Joe Flacco.
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  Speaker 1: The list goes on and on about guys who at
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  Speaker 1: the end of their career, the tail end at least,
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  Speaker 1: are trying to, you know, maybe make one more run
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  Speaker 1: at this thing in Indianapolis. It makes me a little
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  Speaker 1: nervous if I was a Colts fan again that a
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  Speaker 1: twenty two year old quarterback who we love does not
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  Speaker 1: seem to have the right work ethic or the right
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  Speaker 1: love of the game. So the reason I bring all
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  Speaker 1: this up is it makes sense for quarterbacks to go
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  Speaker 1: very quickly in this draft. We see it happened last year.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't wasn't in love with the quarterback draft last year. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams and Jade and Daniels both turned out to
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  Speaker 1: be very good, but Michael Pennix didn't really play, but
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  Speaker 1: Nick's surprised some people. And James McCarthy was injured in
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  Speaker 1: the preseason, so the jury is still out on last
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  Speaker 1: year's quarterback draft. But they went very quickly and very high.
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  Speaker 1: But then you talk about the top two qbs, cam
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  Speaker 1: Ward and Shador Sanders now Field Yates pretty much said
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  Speaker 1: it's a two quarterback competition at the combine this year
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  Speaker 1: for the guys he was speaking with.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, the first three picks in the draft are going
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  Speaker 12: to be busy with quarterbacks. I believe cam Ward ends
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  Speaker 12: up as a Cleveland Brown number two overall. Reminder that
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  Speaker 12: Shaun Watson is going to be out for almost certainly
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  Speaker 12: the entirety of this year, and then in twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 12: his money is nothing more than a lost cause. Cam
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  Speaker 12: Moore to Cleveland, and then Shador Sanders, who won't have
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  Speaker 12: to wait a whole lot longer, going to the New
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  Speaker 12: York Giants who owned the pick. The third pick overall,
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  Speaker 12: we've talked about the possibility of Matthew Stafford trade. I
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  Speaker 12: still believe the Giants need to think about a young quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Long and hard. He goes to the Big Apple.
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  Speaker 1: So if Yates has cam Ward going number one or
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  Speaker 1: number two, I'm sorry to the Cleveland Browns and Chador
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  Speaker 1: going number three to the New York Giants. And then
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  Speaker 1: Mele Kuiper has something similar. He says that war goes
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  Speaker 1: number two to the Browns and number seven the New
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  Speaker 1: York Jets select Shador Sanders. So either way, Chador is
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  Speaker 1: playing in the Big Apple. But then you go through
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the quarterbacks Jackson Dart, Dylan Gabriel, Quinn Eewers.
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  Speaker 1: Some of these guys are going to end up going
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  Speaker 1: in the first round and it's going to surprise a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people. And I am putting my flag down now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm planting it today that Quinn Viewers will be the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback that surprises the most people come combined time now
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  Speaker 1: and come NFL Draft in April. That this is a
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  Speaker 1: guy who, according to reports, played the entire season with
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  Speaker 1: torn oblique Okay, when we talk about the throws that
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  Speaker 1: he was able to make this season being banged up
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  Speaker 1: and injured. Last year he dealt with an ankle injury.
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  Speaker 1: This year is dealing with a core injury, and the
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  Speaker 1: way that he still was able to compete, there's no
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  Speaker 1: question at this point. There's no question about his work ethic,
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  Speaker 1: about his try and his drive. We love to hear
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  Speaker 1: stories about guys who played through injury. Right, There's a
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  Speaker 1: difference between being injured and hurt. Every single coach will
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  Speaker 1: tell you that if you're hurt, you can play through it.
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  Speaker 1: If you're injured, we need to put you on the IR.
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  Speaker 1: I think in oblique injury for most would put them
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  Speaker 1: on the ir not quin Yours, who, according to reports,
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  Speaker 1: torres oblique in the Michigan game first game of the season,
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  Speaker 1: played the entire rest of the year with a banged
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  Speaker 1: up corps and was able to make incredible throws throughout
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  Speaker 1: the end of the season the SEC championship game. And
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  Speaker 1: then you think about the playoffs. I am very high
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  Speaker 1: on what we are going to see out of Quinn.
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  Speaker 1: And then you go through the list of teams who
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  Speaker 1: might need a quarterback, and all of a sudden, it's hey,
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  Speaker 1: how happy are the Dallas Cowboys with their quarterback situation?
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  Speaker 1: The Las Vegas Raiders? How were happier they at their
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  Speaker 1: quarterback situation? Now you saw earlier this week that Tom
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  Speaker 1: Brady and Matthew Stafford just happened to be skiing with
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  Speaker 1: each other, just just happened to see each other on
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  Speaker 1: the slopes. If you are buying that, I have a
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  Speaker 1: bridge to sell you. There's no way that any of
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  Speaker 1: this just happens by happenstance. But the Raiders are a
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  Speaker 1: team that could be looking for a quarterback. How happy
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  Speaker 1: are the Cardinals? How the list goes on and on
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  Speaker 1: and on. There are going to be teams that think
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  Speaker 1: to themselves when you see the quarterbacks available, When Shador
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  Speaker 1: and camp borderre off the board that talk themselves into
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  Speaker 1: some guys, do not be surprised. Do not be surprised
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  Speaker 1: when you see the reports that continue to come out
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  Speaker 1: that there are going to be teams who were going
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  Speaker 1: to be drafting a quarterback. And I'm telling you Quinn
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  Speaker 1: will be the guy who jumps the highest on these boards.
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  Speaker 1: Mel Kiper currently has him as QB nine after the
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  Speaker 1: combine going into next week. Do not be surprised if
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  Speaker 1: he's as high as QB three. Let's talk Philadelphia Eagles now.
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy Fowler reported earlier this week about a team that's
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  Speaker 1: already rich at the defensive position going after maybe the
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  Speaker 1: best defensive player ever to go on the market.
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  Speaker 2: This is Jerry Fowler Garrett.
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  Speaker 13: Let's hear it connecting some dots here, admittedly, but this
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  Speaker 13: is a conversation that some people in the league have
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  Speaker 13: had that the Philadelphia Eagles, one of the most aggressive,
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  Speaker 13: if not the most aggressive teams on the trade market,
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  Speaker 13: will be looking for a pass rusher Josh Sweat and
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  Speaker 13: the Super Bowl likely or close MVP could be out
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  Speaker 13: the expectations that he will sign elsewhere, So they're going
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  Speaker 13: to have a need there Miles Garrett. They would not
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  Speaker 13: want to see him go to the Washington Commanders, for example,
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  Speaker 13: if that was to gain traction, Roseman would likely step
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  Speaker 13: in try to make a deal that is too hard
• 53:04
  Speaker 13: for the Cleveland Browns to refuse. Keep it in mind here,
• 53:06
  Speaker 13: the Browns are a hard no. They're still telling teams
• 53:09
  Speaker 13: they have no interest in trading Miles Garrett. If you
• 53:11
  Speaker 13: were to become available, several teams will be in that.
• 53:14
  Speaker 13: Maybe the Eagles will be won.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: So Howie Roseman might have to step in and make
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: a deal, a godfather offer to make sure that Miles
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: Garrett doesn't end up somewhere else But if you're the
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns, you have the number two overall pick. Maybe Garrett,
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: how bad does he actually want to get out? The
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: Combined is the beginning of the NFL season. It's not
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: the NFL Draft. The Combined is where the deals are made.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: There's GMS all over the place, assistant GMS, media reporters.
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you this is where the deals are getting done.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: If Garrett does end up getting moved, it's going to
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: be a deal that began discussion this week in Indianapolis
• 53:56
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• 54:00
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• 54:03
  Speaker 1: in for Craig Way. All this week is Craig travels
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: about Tonight he will be at the West Campus Locallycation
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: Pluckers for the Coaches Show with Roddy Terry. That is
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: happening tonight, go over there, check it out. And then
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: tomorrow travels to Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, as the
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: Texas Longhorn baseball team has the Las Vegas Classic on
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: the schedule, taking on Washington Friday, Texas Tech Saturday, and
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: then Illinois on Sunday. It's nice sandwich of Big ten teams.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: Now he really Washington Illinois still hard to put rep
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: your head around, still hard to figure it out.
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: And now Texas.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: State knocks off number one Texas A and M earlier
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: this week, and I'm hearing more and more chatter. People
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: are talking about, Hey, could Texas taco to the zombiefide
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: PAC twelve? Could that be something that's on the radar?
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: Oh brother, nothing like watching PAC twelve after dark? Am
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: I right jam packed? The final hour of the Craigway show,
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: Travis Hunter speaks from the combine says that he wants
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: to play both ways.
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: Is that gonna happen?
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: Is it likely? Kind of depends on what team drafts him.
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: And then the Las Vegas Raiders. Ever since the signing
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: of minority owner Tom Brady, they've made some big moves.
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: But are they legal? Is Tom Brady taking his cheating
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: ways out west? We'll talk about it next, But first,
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: UT women's basketball traveling to Mississippi State tonight as the
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: number one ranked team in college basketball does battle on
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: the hardwood. It's gonna be a good one. It's the
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: final of the road games of the regular season for
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: the women's team Starkfield tonight and then on Sunday they
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: finish up the regular season at home against Florida. Now
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: Florida not a team to play around with, but Texas
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: has been on a roll since that loss on Super
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: Bowl Sunday to the South Carolina game Cocks in Columbia.
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: They are I'm sorry, since that loss in January not
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: Super Bowls in January. They have rolled off some very
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: impressive wins fourteen to zero at home, eleven game winning streak.
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: But don't tell head coach Vick Shaeffer about that he
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: wants to be focused in on his team. He wants
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: to continue to keep pushing the game plan now. In
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: that win against Georgia earlier this week on Monday, a
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: fifty seven to twenty six win against the Bulldogs, Texas
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: held Georgia to the lowest points that they have scored
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: as a program in over a decade. It was twenty
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: fifteen the last time they scored that few points. But
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: in that game, it came down to the Fords Vic
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: Shaeffer's ability to get the players who manned down low,
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: and it was Taylor Jones who was the player of
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: the game seventeen points, sixteen rebounds, and five blocks. He
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: had his media availability and he was asked about what
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: goes into games? What do you go what goes into games?
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: Do you think about what you need out of certain positions?
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: This is shape for four.
• 57:20
  Speaker 10: I went to it thinking we need this from this position,
• 57:23
  Speaker 10: and then you go with who's playing well that night,
• 57:25
  Speaker 10: you know, and you know last night Taylor got a
• 57:29
  Speaker 10: really quick file and typically I take her out and
• 57:32
  Speaker 10: put Kyla in immediately, but I didn't and tried to
• 57:35
  Speaker 10: let her play through it a little bit didn't really
• 57:38
  Speaker 10: play that much better, went with Kyla.
• 57:40
  Speaker 6: Neither one of them.
• 57:41
  Speaker 10: Like I said, we were two for seven and a
• 57:43
  Speaker 10: half and I really thought we were kind of getting
• 57:45
  Speaker 10: out tough down there a little bit, to be honest,
• 57:47
  Speaker 10: and so challenged them in the locker room at halftime.
• 57:50
  Speaker 10: Second half they were so much better and our guards
• 57:53
  Speaker 10: were really good about giving them a ball to we
• 57:56
  Speaker 10: turned them down still like that. I'm going to show
• 57:58
  Speaker 10: them the day in film where we turned them down.
• 58:00
  Speaker 10: And you know, we don't need to turn those two down.
• 58:02
  Speaker 10: When they get two feet in the paint, they got
• 58:04
  Speaker 10: somebody buried, we need to give them the ball.
• 58:06
  Speaker 6: So, you know, something we continue to work on.
• 58:08
  Speaker 10: If you come to practice, like we have a drill
• 58:10
  Speaker 10: every day, we start with this triangle passing and you
• 58:13
  Speaker 10: know we work on it every single day. So again,
• 58:17
  Speaker 10: and you give Georgia credit. They were doing some things
• 58:19
  Speaker 10: the first half Dublin and really not letting them operate
• 58:22
  Speaker 10: with very much space, and so we didn't handle every
• 58:25
  Speaker 10: I mean, we had twelve turnovers at halftime and we
• 58:28
  Speaker 10: only ended up with sixteen total. But you know, when
• 58:30
  Speaker 10: you're not shooting well, twelve turnovers is a nightmare. And
• 58:35
  Speaker 10: we all said it with twenty three offensive rebounds, and
• 58:38
  Speaker 10: you think about all those extra possessions when you're shooting
• 58:40
  Speaker 10: thirty percent, and those extra possessions are critical. And so
• 58:45
  Speaker 10: to get the twenty three offensive rebounds was really big.
• 58:49
  Speaker 6: I think Taylor had nine of them, Book had five
• 58:51
  Speaker 6: of them.
• 58:51
  Speaker 10: I mean those are critical second and third chance points
• 58:54
  Speaker 10: that you're getting on a night when you're not shooting
• 58:57
  Speaker 10: it that well.
• 58:58
  Speaker 6: So again of our kids and finding a way to win.
• 59:02
  Speaker 10: And again you look at the game and you're like, stang, boy,
• 59:05
  Speaker 10: you didn't play very good. You know, we didn't play
• 59:07
  Speaker 10: very good when won by thirty one. I mean, it's
• 59:10
  Speaker 10: just crazy. You held a team to twenty six total points.
• 59:14
  Speaker 10: That's absurd in the Southeastern Conference to do that is
• 59:18
  Speaker 10: like crazy.
• 59:20
  Speaker 6: But that's how locked in and how hard.
• 59:23
  Speaker 10: Our kids played last night, and I'm just extremely proud
• 59:27
  Speaker 10: of for that.
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: Acordable head coach Vick Shaffer talking about media availability and
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: kind of recapping a little bit of what it looked
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: like earlier this week against Georgia thirty one point win.
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: Holding a team to twenty six points. Now, if you
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: go through the raw or you go through the box scores,
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: and you look at low scoring games for the University
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: of Texas this season. Now fifty seven is scraping the
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: bottom of the barrel. You don't want to score fifty seven points.
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: But you go through that loss again South Carolina January
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: in a Columbia, South Carolina. He's sixties, having fifty loss. Okay,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: against the number two ranked team in the country at
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: that point, the game cocks. Your ability to win low
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: scoring games, especially in the SEC, helps you later down
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: the road. This is something that has been proven over
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: and over and over again that you want if you
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: are going to have low scoring games doing the regular
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: season a get those experiences under your belt. He spoke
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: about low scoring games and how it helps. This is
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: shape for six.
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  Speaker 10: Well, I certainly think it's probably something that they can
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 10: fall back on.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 6: It's not very good from my heart.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 10: But at the same time, I think, again, any experiences
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 10: where you can really go through some adversity and you
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 10: can come out on the other side in a positive way.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 10: I mean, that's what life's all about, y'all. It's about
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 10: adversity and how you handle it. And I think these
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 10: kids have had adversity throughout the course of the season,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 10: We've been on the road a lot, been pretty some
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 10: days in some games, but yet they continually find a
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 10: way to win. And so, you know, I think it's
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 10: it's certainly beneficial and certainly something that they can draw from.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: Andrews.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: I will fill you in for Creig Way on sports
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• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: affair tonight for the University of Texas As. It's almost
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: like a homecoming for Vic Shaffer coached eight years at
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: the Mississippi State and I essentially built that program up
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: and got them to that national recognition that they've been
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: looking for ever since. To be completely honest, what do
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: you expect the reception to be like tonight, Vic Shaeffer, Well.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 6: I don't know how.
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  Speaker 10: I don't know if you'd call it excited. I don't
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 10: get too fired up by going on the road in
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 10: the SEC.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 6: But you know, obviously we have so many.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 10: Special friends there still to this day, you know, such
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 10: fond memories. You know, I've said this a lot, those
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 10: eight years that we spent there, the eight best years
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 10: of the Shaeffer family's lives. Both of my kids are
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 10: graduates Mississippi State. They're bulldogs. You know, we just had
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 10: so much great fun, great success there, and again still
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 10: have so many good friends there. And it's not just
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 10: the people at Mississippi State, it's that state in general, y'all.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 10: Like that is the most genuine, caring, loving state. The
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 10: people from North Mississippi, Olive Branch, all the way down
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 10: to the Delta and all the way down to Biloxi
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 10: and Gulf Port, I mean, anywhere you go. They just
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 10: really embraced me, my family, my team, and so there's
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 10: so many fond memories of our time there, and obviously
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 10: it's a place that we still hold dear to our heart.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 10: I still have my farm there where we built our
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 10: dream home. I've additionally bought another farm thirty minutes from there.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 10: That's beautiful country, and so it's a place that still
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 10: we still endear to ourselves and it is so special
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 10: to us and it will always be that for us
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 10: because again, we still have so many wonderful friends there.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: So Shaffer went on to explain understanding why they left
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: for those Bulldog fans, that's Shaeffer three.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I definitely think it would have been difficult a
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 10: year after. I think what happens over time is people
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 10: come to understand. You know, I think there was a
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 10: lot of people didn't understand when it happened. But I
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 10: think since we've left, I think they've come to have
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 10: a real clear picture of potentially why it happened and
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 10: the timing of it and those kinds of things. So
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 10: I certainly think that five years later was is way
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 10: better than going back that first year, because I do
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 10: think there were still some things that weren't very clear
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 10: as to what exactly transpired.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: Texas is at the top of the SEC women's basketball
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: standing the thirteen to one in the conference, twenty seven
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: to two overall, Mississippi State, six and eight in conference play,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: but nineteen and nine. It's not going to be an
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: easy task tonight, but don't expect pick Schaeffer to shed
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: any tears, as this is a business trip for the
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: Longhorns trying to continue to roll their way through eleven
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: game win streak on the line tonight. You can catch
• 1:04:38
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• 1:04:43
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• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: When we come back, the Las Vegas Raiders, the victims
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: of the tuck rule, well, they got the quarterback from it.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady, now a minority owner, did he take his
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: patriot cheating ways out west? We will decide next on
• 1:05:01
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• 1:05:04
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• 1:05:09
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• 1:05:12
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• 1:05:17
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• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: goes to Las Vegas for the Las Vegas Classic. We'll
• 1:05:23
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• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: at tomorrow. Washington, Texas Tech Saturday, Illinois on Sunday. So
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: the big one happening right now as the NFL combine starts.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: But the conversation is around a Super Bowl winning quarterback.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: That would be Matthew Stafford, Texas's favorite son. He is
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: up in the air with where he's going to go.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: He could stay in La and be a Ram for
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: the end of his career, or he could go somewhere else.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: And now the Rams do have a little bit of
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: leverage here if they wanted to trade him, could sign
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: and trade him. If they want him to go off
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: and do his own thing, they could just have him
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: do that. They have a little bit of leverage. Sean
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: McVay was on the Fitzgerald and I think it's Andrew,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: the former offensive lineman for the Rams. It was on
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: a podcast. He was talking about Matthew Stafford and it
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: sounds like the head coach of the Rams wants his
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: QB to come back.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 14: I think the important thing was let's be clear, open
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 14: and honest.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: And this isn't that.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 14: We're trying to be able to figure out, you know,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 14: what is the next right move, but let's at least
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 14: have all the parameters relative to you and Jimmy Sexton
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 14: being able to talk to teams that have called on you.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: Don't have to do anything in secret. Want to make
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: sure that we're all abreast of the.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 14: Situation, even though the first goal in mine is to
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 14: have you come back here as the quarterback.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so the number one goal for the Rams is
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: we want Matthew Stafford back. This is the guy who's
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: played five years there. He helped them win a Super Bowl,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: and they feel like they're a team constructed to win
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: another one. Even with letting you know, Cooper Cupp look
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: for a trade partner, and even with Aaron Donald retiring
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: before last season, they feel like they have the infrastructure
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: to compete. But don't get too comfortable because even though
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: you want to keep him, there sounds like there may
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: be a little bit of collusion here.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: And they'll get to that here in a second.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: I want to hear from Pete Carroll because Pete Carroll,
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: the former head coach of the Seattle Seahawks, the former
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: advisor to the Seahawks franchise, decided to be the next
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. Now, what does
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: Pete Carroll have? What relationship does he have to the
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: Raiders organization? I mean, he coached at USC, He was
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: a professor at USC before he took this job. Why
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: would he go Well, he made it abundantly clear yesterday
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: on why he decided to become the next Raiders head coach.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 15: It starts there when Tom wanted to do this and
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 15: he wanted to be part of this thing.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 6: That changed my outlook on what could be possible.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 15: I've found out since how consistently he is a great
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 15: competitive mentality and spirit, and he passed it right through
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 15: to the rest of the ownership group that has been
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 15: incredibly fired up and Jack to do something special. Marcus
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 15: really found a tremendous group to represent. And then I
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 15: didn't know this either, but when I met John Spytech
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 15: and get a chance to understand where he's coming from too.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 15: He represents the competitive mentality that I know Tom lives
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 15: for and I live for, and so it's just such
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 15: a good it's such a good.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 6: Arrangement for us. It's really an exciting opportunity.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: So he is a competitor, Yeah, the greatest quarterback of
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: all time for sure. But we're getting into this very
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: weird area. You saw it happen during the Super Bowl
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: where Tom Brady. Okay, he's going to a chance to
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: look behind the scenes at the Chiefs and the Eagles,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: two competitors of the Las Vegas Raiders. But he's a commentator,
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: so he should be able to get a behind the
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: scenes look. NFL doesn't have a problem with it. Their
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: broadcast partner, Fox doesn't have a problem with it. If
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: I was an owner, I'd have a problem with it.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: If I was an owner of any of these franchises.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: I have a little bit of an issue because it
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: sounds like when Coach Carroll says he is a competitor,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: always bring this competitive spirit to the owner. Because remember
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady is in the general manager, he is the
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders, and it sounds
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: like he has a pretty good chunk when it comes
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: to importance and sway over this franchise. So he brings
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: this competitive edge, which is a secret sauce word. It's
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: a keyword.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 12: Four.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: He knows the loopholes. Remember what Tom was doing in
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: New England. He was with maybe the greatest cheater of
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: all time and Bill be it's not cheating if I
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: do this, it's not cheating if they were able to
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: bend the rules to almost breaking them. And he brings
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: that now to the Las Vegas Raiders. Is it cheating
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: to go seduce a coach?
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: No?
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: No, Pete Carroll was a free agent. He could have
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: gone anywhere, could have gone to be the next head
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: coach of any organization. But it seems like Carol knows
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: something that the rest of us don't. It seems like
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: Pete Carroll has a little behind the scenes background info
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: on what makes Tom Brady such a good competitor, and
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: it's stuff like this. Ian Rappaport today was reporting about
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: a just a chance encounter of Tom Brady and Matthew Stafford.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 16: Tom Brady and Matthew Stafford did bumped into each other
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 16: at Yellowstone in Montana, apparently skied together.
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  Speaker 6: That seemed to be the end of it.
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  Speaker 16: But we have known that the Las Vegas Raiders and
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 16: the New York Giants have had interest in matters sometime
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 16: and considering the fact that his age and Jimmy Sexon
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 16: does in fact have permission.
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  Speaker 6: To engage with these teams and.
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  Speaker 16: Just see what his value might be if there.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 6: Was in fact that trade.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 16: Not allowed to negotiate trade compensation, but is allowed to
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 16: discuss salary. So yeah, these are two teams that do
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 16: need it and that are interested. And actually the Las
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 16: Vegas Raiders do make a ton of sense for Matthew
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 16: Stafford if, for instance, he wanted to still live in Malibu.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 16: It's a forty minute flight from California to Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 16: It's a team where you could drop a quarterback in
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 16: conceivably beginning the process of winning, which obviously is something
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 16: that want. We know that Brady has been aggressive and
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 16: the Raiders have been aggressive and trying to land a
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 16: starting quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: This makes sense.
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  Speaker 16: However, the Rams due all the cards, they can trade
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 16: him or not. They can decide whether they want to
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 16: pay Stafford or not. So this is not done yet
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 16: with Matthew Stafford in the.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: Ram, Matthew Stafford and the Rams, Matthew Stafford and the Raiders.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of different options here for mister Stafford. Now,
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: the part that caught my attention, we're talking about making
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: a four Lady mane a flight from Malibu to Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: I look, I understand that it's close. I don't think
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: it's that close.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I if I'm the starting quarterback
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: of a team I'm wanting to jettison across it doesn't
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: matter what area, if it's even more than a two
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: hour drive, I don't know if I'm absolutely in love
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: with making that happen. The other thing is too and
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: I think that many people are already forgetting about this,
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: is that the last time one of these Hall of
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: Fame caliber quarterbacks left their situation, that was pretty good
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: for another situation to try to chase after maybe one
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: more ring or a little bit more success, didn't work
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: so well. Talking about Aaron Rodgers with the New York Jets. Now,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: Stafford and Rodgers are two different characters. They have different personalities,
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: and I understand that. But if I'm an organization like
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: the Raiders, why would I not want to just go
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: in the draft and look for a young quarterback that
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: I can potentially mold and then make a run and
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: one of these other quarterbacks who are on the free
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: agent market now, Sam Darnold seems like the highest option,
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: feels like the best option when it comes to these
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: free Asian quarterbacks. I'm not absolutely in love with Zach
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: Wilson by any means. Jacoby Bursett, It's gonna be on
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: the market, guys that I'm kind of overlooking, to be
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: completely honest with you. But if I know I can
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: go get a young quarterback in the draft and it's
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: a stopgap guy, a person that I know is starting
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: for two seasons and then in year three, I have
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: my rookie come in or even shorter. Think about what
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: the Falcons did with Kirk Cousins. They signed Kirk Cousins
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: to a multi one hundred million dollar deal and then
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: drafted Panix at number nine, so Kirk Cousins could potentially
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: be an option here for the Raiders as well. I
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: just don't know if I'm in love with the idea
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: of Stafford going to Las Vegas. It seems like he's
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: in love with the idea, and it seems like his
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: wife's in love with the idea. I like brock Bowers.
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: I think that he Carroll's a very good coach. He's
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: going to help make that defense a lot better. The
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: running game. We'll see where that goes. But a lot
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: of these moves have to be made soon. There is
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: a timetable for all of these things to happen. But
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: the main takeaway I have from all of this is
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: that Tom Brady is taking his cheating ways from New
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: England to Vegas and the Kansasity Chiefs, who've had a
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: target on their back now for almost a decade. There's
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: a new competitor that has entered the chat, and it
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: is Tom Brady. If there was ever a guy who
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: could potentially inflict pain and change the way that legacies
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: are formed, it would be Tom Brady. Even from the
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: owner's box, think about this. Tom Brady is now trying
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: to set up a quarterback who could challenge Mahomes in
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: the AFC West. He's got his coach and Pete Carroll,
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame caliber coach, and he's got a
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: pretty good draft pick too this upcoming draft. There's a
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: world where the entirety of Mahomes' legacy, we're talking about
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: him potentially being the goat. There's a world where he
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: never gets back to being an AFC West champion. If
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: the way that Tom Brady sets his team up works.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: Think about that. Michael Jordan is on a golf course
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: somewhere absolutely laughing and wishing that he had this idea
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: back in the day. If he was a way to
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: take over a team. Oh oh wait, he did own
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: a team and didn't work out so well. So maybe
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady's the goat of all goats. He's able to
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: do it on the field and off the field as well.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: When we come back Travis Hunter, he spoke at the
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: NFL Combined he wants to be like his former head
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: coach Dean Sanders, wants to play both ways. Does it
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: make sense for him to do that though, we'll discuss next.
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  Speaker 1: Andrews I will filling in for Craig Way on Sports
• 1:15:50
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  Speaker 2: Thirteen hundred The Zone.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: Andrews II will filling in for Craig Way on this Thursday.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: I want to remind you, in case you missed it
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: earlier in the show, we gave you breaking news from
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: San Antonio. Statement from San Antonio head coach Greg Popovich
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: via the San Antonio Spurs quote, I've decided not to
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: return to the sidelines this season. Mitch Johnson and his
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: staff have done a wonderful job, and resolve and professionalism
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: the players have shown sticking together during a challenging season
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: has been outstanding. I will continue to focus on my
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: health with the hope that I can return to coaching
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: in the future. Lot to get into there, obviously, we've
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: been saying from essentially November when pop was sidelined due
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: to that mild health or mild stroke with major health
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: concerns with that that if this is the end, this
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: is the end, and he is one of the if
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: not the greatest head coach of all time. But this
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: statement makes me think that for everybody who was writing
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: them off, everybody who was saying, Okay, it's done, maybe
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: you did a little bit too much. Maybe it was
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: a little premature in the writing off of Greg Popovich
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: from the sideline. Sounds like he's not gonna come back
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: this season. I understand no Victor wembin Yama. There's a
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: little front court depth. We talked to Bill Showing yesterday
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: about the injuries that the Spurs have suffered this season.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: There's really no reason to try to rush a comeback here.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: If your Pop there's relaxed, take some time off, do
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: a little advanced scouting, maybe watch some Longhorn basketball games,
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: and start figuring out, Okay, what number is Trey Johnson
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: gonna wear?
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: I love Trey.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: I think that this is a guy who's gonna go
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: top five in the NBA draft. And the Spurs, they
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: continue to struggle the way they have in the past
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks, they could be a team that's drafting
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: the top five. They have their own pick. They have
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: the Atlanta Hawks lottery pick this year as well. The
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: Hawks kind of in the playoffs playing area. You'd want
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: the Hawks to lose some more games and you potentially
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: have two top picks trade up. Maybe you know, We'll
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: see what happens. But good news out of San Antonio
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: is pop is getting better. The health is a concern obviously,
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: but a ring endorsement of Mitch Johnson as well, a
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: guy who's guided a lot of a grief from Spurs
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: fans and you know, interim coach, man acting head coach
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: doing his best. We will continue to see how the
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: Spurs progressed this year with him.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: All right, let's.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: Talk Travis Hunter as the Heisman Trophy winner goes to
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: the NFL Draft, unlike all of these other quarterbacks and
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: different players. Oh, this guy is not going to do this.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: And the duel Carter now saying that he has a
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: broken foot. It turns into could Travis Hunter potentially be
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: the number one overall pick? He was projected as that
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: before the college football season. After he wins the Heisman
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: he was projected as at but now melkiper junior as
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: Abdul Carter going number one In his latest mock. Travis
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: Hunter spoke to ESPN earlier today at the Combine and
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: it was a rapid fire between him and Laura Roughlege,
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: I think was the interviewer.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 17: And this is what it sounded like, Tames that are
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 17: interested in you here, what's the feedback that you've got done?
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 6: I did?
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 8: I did very very good in my meeting, So I'm
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 8: excited to know that.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 17: What do you find these teams about the possibility of
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 17: playing on both sides of the ball?
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 8: A couple of teams they took me in as receiver
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 8: and a couple of teams took me in as DV.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 8: So I think it's still up in the air.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 17: What was the feedback you got from teams looking at
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 17: you as a receiver?
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 8: It's a lot of things I need to work on
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 8: on both both sides of the ball.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: So what do you think you need to work on most?
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 8: It's always you always work on technique, so I definitely
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 8: need to work on technique. And it's a couple more
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 8: small things.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 17: And then what do you think about the potential of
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 17: being an NFL player who plays both wide receiver in dB?
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 17: How important is that for you?
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 8: That's super important to me. You know, I've been doing
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 8: it my whole life, so I would like for them
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 8: to let me give me the opportunity to do it again.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 17: There's a lot of conversation about you potentially the number
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 17: one overall pick. How do you manage all of that
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 17: as you go through this process.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 8: I kind of don't look at us if I just
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 8: look at fishing all day, so.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: What do you see on fishing?
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 8: I just see people catching fish. I can't wait to
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 8: get back home and catch me some fish.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 6: There.
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: He gotta love that. You gotta love a guy who
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: he's not concerned about any of this other stuff. He's
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: not concerned about going number one. He's not concerned about
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: where he's going to play or what position he'll play.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: He's concerned about fishing man. So then you think about, okay,
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: well where's the best fishing spot of the teams who
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: have high draft picks. Because the Jacksonville Jaguars trade up
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: for a fishing superstar, Travis Hunter, it makes sense that
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: he wants to play both ways. I understand it, and
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: I can get behind that. I understand that he wants
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: to do that, and it would make sense for a
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: team like I don't know, the New York Giants, for example,
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: to do something like that. The Giants next year are
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: going to be awful again. They still don't have the
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: quarterback position figured out. They're continuing to just throw money
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: at certain issues on the defensive line and defense side
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: of the ball. So if you have a guy like
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: Hunter playing the number one media market in the world.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: You have a potential to sell a bunch of jerseys,
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: and you can make this kind of like a sideshow,
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: to be completely frank, because that's what it would be.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: If you have him playing both ways. All you're doing
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: is you're looking for the media attention at that point.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: You're not trying to win football games. You're not trying
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: to be competitive in the NFL. Because I know people
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: have continued to bring up Deon Sanders, well, Dion did
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: it well. Devin Hester was a kick return spet. It's
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: a different league today. The players are faster and bigger
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: and stronger. And if Travis Hunter does want to try
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: to play both ways consistently, and we're not talking about, oh,
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: we have the offensive package for him, well in defensive sets,
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: the nickel will play him in a nickelback position, and
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: he truly wants to try to play both ways, he
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: won't be able to, not because of stamina, but because
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: of body type. You don't have the ability, the physical
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: way to run that many miles in an NFL game
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: and still be able to hit guys and tackle guys.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: I watched Travis Hunter in the Almable. I watched him
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: play BYU I watched him a lot this season. His
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: heis and winning season at Colorado. There are some times
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: where yeah, he's right, there are some technique things that
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: do need to get cleaned up. Is he the best
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: defensive back in this year's draft, maybe you can make
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: the case for him. Is he the best wide receiver? No,
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: he's not the best wide receiver. So if you're drafting
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: him as high as you are, you're drafting him for
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: the defensive back purpose and for the teams that need
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: a defensive back at dB. Yeah, he would fit that
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: need for sure. But in five ten years, are we
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: gonna be talking about him like we talk about I
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: don't know, Jalen Ramsey. Are gonna be talking to about
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: him like we talk about Sauce Gardner even out of Cincinnati.
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: I'm not entirely sold. I think that there's a lot
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: to like about Hunter, for sure. His willingness to play
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: both sides of the ball first and foremost, a guy
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: who's willing to put his body on the line for
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: his team, and a guy whose teammates absolutely adore him.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: All of that can be true. But if I'm trying
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: to win football games at the highest level, playing it
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: both ways is not the way to do that. That's
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: not a recipe for success at this level of the game.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: I would love to see it happen, but I'd also
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: love to have a time machine because that's what it
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: would take for him to be successful. It would have
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: to take him back into the nineties when yeah, the
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: guys are still athletic, for sure, but it wasn't what
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: we have now. In a world where you're having to
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: play defensive back on say a guy like DK Metcalf,
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: and then turn around and play against that secondary that
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks have, You're not going to win those
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: battles consistently enough to make you an impact player. It's
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: just point blank period. We will wrap up the Craig
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: Way Show. UT women's basketball plays tonight. Andrew zim will
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: filling in for Craig Way on sports Radio AM thirteen
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