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Steve Sarkisian on creating turnovers, facing Bobby Petrino's offense at BYU, and more · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: We have that it's the Craig Way Show with hat
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  Speaker 1: of vane broadcaster and voice of the Texas longhearns Craig Way.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so we're gonna hear some more from Long Wartns
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  Speaker 2: head coach Steve Sarkisian from the weekly news conference. We
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  Speaker 2: brought it to you live in its entirety this morning.
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  Speaker 2: We always do it every Monday morning at eleven thirty.
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  Speaker 2: Our coverage begins at eleven am from the UT campus
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  Speaker 2: on Long Worns Monday here on the zone, and then
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  Speaker 2: we bring you the news conference live at eleven thirty.
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  Speaker 2: Then we bring you selected moments from that. So let's
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  Speaker 2: go back to it. It's funny, there's lot there was
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  Speaker 2: a lot of looking back, so to speak, for Sark
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  Speaker 2: and for this Texas team playing Arkansas. Now, sark only
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  Speaker 2: has that one experience against Arkansas. I was in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty one. But and I credit the local media asking
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  Speaker 2: him this, who you remember who was that asked this
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  Speaker 2: question about the Bobby Petrino thing when he was Eric Henry,
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  Speaker 2: good old Eric Henry, Good for you, Eric. He he asked.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, because he did say Eric, he's addressing the question.
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  Speaker 2: He asked Sark if he had any recollection of the
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  Speaker 2: game in ninety six when BYU, when he was quarterbacking
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  Speaker 2: at BYU, when BYU was playing You Toss State and
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  Speaker 2: Bobby Petrino was the offensive coordinator. Since he's going up
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  Speaker 2: against a Bobby Petrino coach team, and so he was
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  Speaker 2: asked about that about Bobby Petrino, if he had any
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  Speaker 2: recollection of that.
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  Speaker 4: You know what, I remember that game. This might take
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  Speaker 4: a minute, but sorry, Eric asked a question. So in
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  Speaker 4: that game, at the end of the first half, we
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  Speaker 4: were in kind of one of those situations where how
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  Speaker 4: much times on the clock there was might have been
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  Speaker 4: fifteen or twenty seconds. We were out of timeout and
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  Speaker 4: it was we took a time out. We were on
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  Speaker 4: the sidelines and here's myself, here's Norm Chow, our offensive coordinator,
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  Speaker 4: Robbie Bosco. Everyone's trying to decide what to call and
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  Speaker 4: there could be no agreeance of what was happening. And
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  Speaker 4: Lavelle Edwards rarely would he step in on play calls.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he's very CEO like. And he said, well, Sark,
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  Speaker 4: what do you want to run? And I can't remember
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  Speaker 4: what I said run. He goes, well, that's what we're running.
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  Speaker 4: He walked off, and so the first time I got
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  Speaker 4: to call play in my life. So but the value
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  Speaker 4: in that, what I do remember is like when you can,
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  Speaker 4: when you can really start to trust your players and
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  Speaker 4: the players feel your trust as a coach, you start
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  Speaker 4: to get more out of them. We talked about the
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  Speaker 4: fourth and one the other day from your own twenty
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  Speaker 4: four yard line when I went for it, and that
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  Speaker 4: was just trust in the players, and coach Edwards was
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  Speaker 4: fantastic at that. So I don't know if I remember
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  Speaker 4: specifically Utah staid as much as I remember, man, the
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  Speaker 4: impact that Lavell Edwards had on me.
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  Speaker 3: So there's one thing.
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  Speaker 2: The reminiscence of going up against Bobby Petrinov.
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  Speaker 3: Now one thing.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of the young guys get a chance to play,
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  Speaker 2: and got a chance to play a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: second half snaps against Florida with the game well in hand.
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  Speaker 2: So Sark was asked if he looks at the film
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  Speaker 2: on those young guys, regardless of the situation where the
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  Speaker 2: game was from that contest against Florida.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, definitely, And we touched on that this morning too.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we played thirty guys on offense. Saturday, we
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  Speaker 4: played twelve offensive linemen. We played thirty four guys on defense.
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  Speaker 4: And so just from that perspective, and we're not talking
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  Speaker 4: about kicker, snapper, holder, punter, those types of things. So
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  Speaker 4: to be able to play that many players in an
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  Speaker 4: SEC game, that's pretty good. And so the ability to
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  Speaker 4: have to get to coach them this morning off of
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  Speaker 4: that tape and where things were done well and where
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  Speaker 4: we need to improve, I think is huge for them
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  Speaker 4: to not continually watch someone else get coached, but get
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  Speaker 4: coached themselves and then help them grow to because you know,
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  Speaker 4: I keep harping on it, we're gonna need those guys.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Now, of course Texas has been good on the defense
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  Speaker 2: at the back end of the defense, interceptions leading the
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  Speaker 2: Southeastern Conference, And does he have something he particularly would
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  Speaker 2: ascribe this to happening.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's a combination of things. I think
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  Speaker 4: one it's we have a veteran secondary. A lot those
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  Speaker 4: guys have played a lot of snaps of football. They
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  Speaker 4: communicate at a really high level, and they're playing with
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  Speaker 4: a lot of confidence, even not so much on the
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  Speaker 4: interceptions but the contested catches, the PBUs. I mean, I
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  Speaker 4: think Manny Muhammad had one or two the other night.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's really closed on a curl route and
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  Speaker 4: just those guys playing with real confidence back there. The
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  Speaker 4: second part of that is, I think the multitude of
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  Speaker 4: coverages that we're playing couple that with the pressure up front,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and a lot of times, you know, we
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  Speaker 4: always want to look at sacks as applying pressure on
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  Speaker 4: a quarterback. But you know Alfred Call on both those interceptions,
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  Speaker 4: he gets his hands on those balls and tips them
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  Speaker 4: and that really forces the interception.
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  Speaker 5: So it's not always the edge.
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  Speaker 4: Rush, it's the internal rush, and it's those guys tying
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  Speaker 4: that whole thing together. So I think it's a combination
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  Speaker 4: of things. But again I think it starts with kind
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  Speaker 4: of we have a veteran secondary that works really well
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  Speaker 4: together and kind of works off of one another at
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  Speaker 4: a really high level.
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  Speaker 2: This next responsive trey funny only because of the way
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  Speaker 2: that the question was phrased. As you know, a Steve
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  Speaker 2: Sarkisian coach offense is going to feature a number of
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  Speaker 2: times during a game where they're going to take a
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  Speaker 2: deep shot, especially with the type of receiving cortexas has.
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  Speaker 2: But like all this question was phrased about how many
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  Speaker 2: shot plays those deep balls.
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  Speaker 3: So these deep shots are baked into the game plan.
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  Speaker 2: It's like it's coming out like a casse role or
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  Speaker 2: a pie or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: How many shot plays are baked into that game plan.
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  Speaker 5: I would say this like when when you game plan.
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  Speaker 4: Game plan is very game planning, and putting a game
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  Speaker 4: plan together is very analytical, and I guess you could
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  Speaker 4: call it, you know, mathematical and scientific in that way, right.
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  Speaker 4: I like to think calling a game is a little
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  Speaker 4: bit more of art, you know, that it's a little
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  Speaker 4: bit more of a blank canvas. Because anybody, I could
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  Speaker 4: hand you guys the call sheet and I can tell
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  Speaker 4: you it's third and six, and you look, there's five
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  Speaker 4: or six calls at third and six, and just pick
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  Speaker 4: one of them, right, and you could kind of follow
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  Speaker 4: the script to some degree and.
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  Speaker 5: It might go, well, it might not. You know, you
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  Speaker 5: don't know.
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  Speaker 4: But one thing I've learned and just trying to study
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  Speaker 4: the best guys that have done it, you know, historically,
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  Speaker 4: is you have to have the willingness to adjust. You
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  Speaker 4: have to you have to be willing to take calculated risks,
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  Speaker 4: and you have to trust your players and and then
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  Speaker 4: when you do that. Sometimes going into a game, you thought, hey,
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  Speaker 4: we were going to take five or six shots in
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  Speaker 4: this game, but predicated on the way the defense is playing,
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  Speaker 4: we have to scale that back and play a different style.
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  Speaker 5: Some games you go into thinking, hey.
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  Speaker 4: We're not going to get a lot of shot opportunities,
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  Speaker 4: and then how they're playing you and how your offense
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  Speaker 4: is performing, you may take two or three more shots.
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  Speaker 4: And so I think that's the blank canvas aspect of
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  Speaker 4: calling it on a game as opposed to today when
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  Speaker 4: we're sitting in there watching the tape and what do
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  Speaker 4: the numbers say, and what are the percentages? And this
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  Speaker 4: coverage is when and how and if we get this
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  Speaker 4: guy in this spot, we can get this and so
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  Speaker 4: on and so forth, and so then you got to
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  Speaker 4: blend the two together, and you've got to make sure
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  Speaker 4: the players understand the whys you call certain things as
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  Speaker 4: they go.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Next, he was asked Squitch about Cameron Williams.
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  Speaker 2: Cam Williams, of course, starting right tackle, got banged up
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday, came back in the game, was able to finish.
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  Speaker 2: Cam Is, also in his first season as the starter,
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  Speaker 2: got a chance to experience some really good things and
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  Speaker 2: then the misfortune of some penalties.
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  Speaker 3: And some other things.
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  Speaker 2: So Sark was asked about Cam Williams development and the
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  Speaker 2: fact that NFL scouts are very, very interested in the
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  Speaker 2: types of things he has to do to continue to
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  Speaker 2: garner that interest as he continues to learn the position
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  Speaker 2: and how to work well within the unit.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think, you know, I think Cam's good.
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  Speaker 4: He was back at practice today, so again, feel feel
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  Speaker 4: comfortable about that. You know, he has he has great measurables, right,
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  Speaker 4: you know, he has unbelievable length, He has athleticism for
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  Speaker 4: his size, he shows physicality, and I think as the
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  Speaker 4: years going on, the experience is starting, he's starting to
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  Speaker 4: get experience. You know that the biggest thing was he
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  Speaker 4: didn't have the experience as he played and even in game,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you know, he and DJ on the right side.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he gave up a sack there on the
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  Speaker 4: first drive of the game on a little on a
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  Speaker 4: little you know stunt that that Florida ran. Later in
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  Speaker 4: the game, they ran the same stunt and those two
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  Speaker 4: guys picked that picked that up and we actually throw
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  Speaker 4: a touchdown to Matthew Golden on that exact same stunt
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  Speaker 4: they ran versus those guys on the man side of
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  Speaker 4: the protection. So the growth he's showing for us, I
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  Speaker 4: think is what's been encouraging. You know, It's not just
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  Speaker 4: the physical ability that he has. I think there's been
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  Speaker 4: a real sense of maturity shift in him this year,
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  Speaker 4: but also the growth throughout the season and now growth
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  Speaker 4: in game that he's able to make adjustments in game
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  Speaker 4: in real time.
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  Speaker 2: Start mentioned the other day he thought his team was.
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  Speaker 2: He told the team that he felt like they were
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  Speaker 2: about to go on a heater, as he called.
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  Speaker 3: It, you didn't really get on a roll. And so
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  Speaker 3: he's asked about that heater stuff.
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  Speaker 2: What you know, what was it that he noticed that
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  Speaker 2: had him feeling that this team was going to go
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  Speaker 2: that way?
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  Speaker 3: Did he see it early? How did he feel about it?
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  Speaker 4: I didn't, you know, I felt like we were growing
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  Speaker 4: as the season went on, but I felt like last
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  Speaker 4: week there was real intent in the way they practiced.
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  Speaker 4: There was a real sense of urgency. People ask me,
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  Speaker 4: how do you know when your practices are going well?
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  Speaker 4: And it's one thing to look at execution, but I
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  Speaker 4: can when I hear US at practice, when I hear communication,
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  Speaker 4: when I hear guys really getting excited for the next
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  Speaker 4: guy when he's making a play. When I hear guys
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  Speaker 4: celebrating plays in practice with one another, that means they're
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  Speaker 4: really engaged. That means they're they're being intentional of wanting
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  Speaker 4: to get it right. And so I felt that going
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  Speaker 4: in and Saturday proved me right, you know, in some degree,
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  Speaker 4: even when you just watch the way the guys played,
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  Speaker 4: the way they were flying around, and then this morning
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  Speaker 4: when I'm doing good, bad and ugly, the amount of
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  Speaker 4: cheers to Anthony Smith got when I was talking about
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  Speaker 4: his interception, the love they have for a true freshman
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  Speaker 4: that's just trying to find his way playing, or when
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  Speaker 4: I talk about, you know, the special Teams player of
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  Speaker 4: the week being Ryan Nibblett in the whole play, start
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  Speaker 4: cheering for him.
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  Speaker 5: That they're all in it. You know, they're all engaged.
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  Speaker 5: And so when we're.
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  Speaker 4: Engaged like that, that's how momentum can build. And my
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  Speaker 4: job is to kind of build on that momentum and
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  Speaker 4: keep them in that moment that we're in right now.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the guys not a lot, and circle tell
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  Speaker 2: you just exactly how many we're on this Texas roster
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  Speaker 2: that three year got lost at Arkansas decisively.
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  Speaker 3: And Sark was asked if the experience.
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  Speaker 2: Back then to help those guys and this teams.
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  Speaker 3: Of the preparation will go through this week.
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  Speaker 5: No, yeah, you know, it's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 4: I think there's eleven guys on our team that are
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  Speaker 4: on our team today that were there in Fayetteville. Nine
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  Speaker 4: of those guys are starters today that probably weren't starters
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  Speaker 4: back then at that time. And so you know, we
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  Speaker 4: can use little subtle video reminders and things of what
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  Speaker 4: that moment was like, but at the end, it's going
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  Speaker 4: to be their leadership, right because we may have some players,
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  Speaker 4: younger players that are looking like it's just another game,
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  Speaker 4: And I know those guys are in that locker room
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  Speaker 4: right now talking about that game and talking about that
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  Speaker 4: environment and in owning that environment and why it's important
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  Speaker 4: to own it and having the right poise and composure
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  Speaker 4: staying enamored with what we need to do. But I
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  Speaker 4: know all eleven of those guys probably got a pretty
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  Speaker 4: bad taste in their mouth and got.
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  Speaker 5: A chip on their shoulder from the last time we were.
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  Speaker 2: All right on to discussing this team and the feel
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  Speaker 2: he has for this group. Remember when the Logrange went
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  Speaker 2: for it on fourth down early in the ball game
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  Speaker 2: and converted it, and he was asked about did going
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  Speaker 2: forward on fourth down helped spark this team not only
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  Speaker 2: then but maybe going forward.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's helpful.
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  Speaker 4: I think they want to know I believe in them too, right,
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  Speaker 4: and that I'm you know, we talk about being aggressive,
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  Speaker 4: we talk about being an attack oriented football team in
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  Speaker 4: all three phases, and so when I can back that
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  Speaker 4: up with my actions. We say it all the time,
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  Speaker 4: it's not what you say, it's what you do. And
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  Speaker 4: when I can back that up with my own actions,
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  Speaker 4: I think that gives them confidence knowing that.
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  Speaker 5: I believe in them. And we got the.
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  Speaker 4: First down and the very next play I called, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the reverse to bond that. I think there was a
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  Speaker 4: real sense and a feel for me that I was
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  Speaker 4: going to be aggressive, that we were going to attack,
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  Speaker 4: and I think that just gave him confidence to go
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  Speaker 4: to go do with they're capable of doing.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, now about fumbling, you know, he.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Jayden Blue has been been really good and
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  Speaker 2: he didn't fumble the other day. Jared Gibson did. He
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  Speaker 2: had one hundred yards rushing. Remember, Jamean Blue had the
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  Speaker 2: fumbling problem. So Sark was asked about the importance of
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  Speaker 2: Jaden Blue within this attack. And by the way, how
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  Speaker 2: does he manage the fumbling situation with a guy like
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  Speaker 2: Jared Gibson.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think Jayden when he's healthy, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we do need him. You know, we're at our best
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  Speaker 4: when all our guys are healthy. That that's you know,
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  Speaker 4: that's kind of common sense, I understand. But when your
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  Speaker 4: fast guys get to play fast, that's their strength, right
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  Speaker 4: And Jayden's obviously got elite speed, you know, Isaiah Bond's
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  Speaker 4: got elite speed, you know, Silas Bowl and elite speed,
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  Speaker 4: Ryan Wingo, Trey Wisner. And when those guys can play fast,
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  Speaker 4: they can stress the defense in different ways. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: I touched on it last week. You know, as much
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  Speaker 4: as we like to to it, our runners are really
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  Speaker 4: valuable to us catching the ball out of the backfield
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  Speaker 4: as well, And both Trey and Jaden have have really
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  Speaker 4: excelled catching the ball out of the backfield.
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  Speaker 5: It showed the other night Trey on the screen.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Jaden on that kind of option route to
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  Speaker 4: get us down inside the five and then and then
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  Speaker 4: score on the next one, and so those guys are
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  Speaker 4: pivotal that way.
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  Speaker 5: I think Jeric was good for him to know.
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  Speaker 4: That we have a power running game in there with
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  Speaker 4: him and he gets behind his pads and short yardage
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  Speaker 4: and those those types of situations. So all of that
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  Speaker 4: coupled into it. I was really excited about what those
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  Speaker 4: guys were able to do today. Jered Gibson's got a
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  Speaker 4: football all day on the forty acres.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, we just have to keep working at it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, that's that's all we can do as coaches
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  Speaker 4: is you know, you get what you emphasize. We've got
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  Speaker 4: to continue to emphasize it. I touched on the team
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  Speaker 4: we wipe the slate clean and in the second half
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  Speaker 4: of the season, I want to lead the country in
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  Speaker 4: the turnover margin battle. And you know, we're plus two
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  Speaker 4: after the first one. And so everybody's got a responsibility
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  Speaker 4: the football in the organization, myself included, and so we're
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  Speaker 4: all here to help support Jerk or Jaden or Quinn
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  Speaker 4: or whomever it.
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  Speaker 5: Is that possessed the ball to ensure that.
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  Speaker 4: It is of the utmost importance because it's the number
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  Speaker 4: one football, number one Staton football is a turnover margin
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  Speaker 4: and we want to be the best out at here
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  Speaker 4: the second half of the season.
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  Speaker 3: OK.
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  Speaker 2: If you're curious about what exactly encompasses carrying the football
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  Speaker 2: around all day around campus, you'll find that out coming
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  Speaker 2: up next hour as well. We got some NFL notes
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  Speaker 2: to get to next here on Sports Radio AM thirteen
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  Speaker 2: under the Zone.