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Steve Sarkisian wants the offense to find its "mojo" coming off a bye week · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: We continue on this Texas Tuesday. It has gone final
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  Speaker 1: in Pensacola, number three seed Texas Women's soccer team, the
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  Speaker 1: Texas Soccer team shutting out the eleven ceed LSU three
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  Speaker 1: nil Hollyboard with a pair of goals for the log Warns.
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  Speaker 1: They now move into the semifinals and they'll play on
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  Speaker 1: Thursday against Arkansas, the two seed who won one nil
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  Speaker 1: over Georgia. So that's that's where it'll be on Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: the next time that Texas will play in the SEC
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  Speaker 1: Soccer Championship going on. So it'll be Thursday at six o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: six in the evening our time. Thursday is what it'll
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  Speaker 1: take place. So congratulations to Ange Kelley and the Long Horns.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully they knock it on through and get on into
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  Speaker 1: the into the championship round. Before we get to hearing
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  Speaker 1: from Steve Sarkison or a couple of things from yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: Long Warned Monday Coach sark news conference that we wanted
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  Speaker 1: to get to. But before we get to that from
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  Speaker 1: those on the text line, somebody said, is it a
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  Speaker 1: law you have to say nil for zero if talking
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  Speaker 1: about soccer. No, any more than there's not a law
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  Speaker 1: that says that you have to say zero in football,
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  Speaker 1: that you have to say nothing fourteen to nothing over
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  Speaker 1: fourteen zero. So that so no, But I have a
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  Speaker 1: soccer background. I did I'd broadcast both indoor and outdoor soccer.
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  Speaker 1: Did indoor soccer for on television radio up in Dallas
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  Speaker 1: for nine years, and did and then did outdoor. I
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  Speaker 1: did the World Cup in nineteen ninety four, thirty years
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  Speaker 1: ago for the World Cup Radio network. And also did
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  Speaker 1: the first three years of the Dallas MLS franchise when
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  Speaker 1: they were known as the Dallas burn before they became
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  Speaker 1: FC Dallas. And that was both on radio and television
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  Speaker 1: back then. So I'm used to saying deal. So you're
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  Speaker 1: not down with this Mingo trade? Then?
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  Speaker 2: For the Cowboys fourth round draft pick giving up for Mingo,
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  Speaker 2: When you look at the other deals that were made
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  Speaker 2: for receivers, it just kind of blows my mind that
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  Speaker 2: the Cowboys gave up that amount of draft capital for
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  Speaker 2: a player like Mingo who has let's see, he's got
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  Speaker 2: twenty six passes. Sorry, he's got twelve passes this season,
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  Speaker 2: twelve receptions for one hundred and twenty one yards, zero touchdowns. See,
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  Speaker 2: he does not move the needle. He's a receiver three,
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  Speaker 2: receiver four, probably down from what I understand, because he
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  Speaker 2: still has about two and a half years left on
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  Speaker 2: his contract and he's locked up. That's why the Cowboys
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  Speaker 2: gave up a fourth round draft pick. But do you
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  Speaker 2: think it's that much?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they gave him a fourth round pick, they
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  Speaker 1: get Mingo and a seventh row a seventh rounder. Oh okay,
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  Speaker 1: they also get a seventh rounder. I mean I for
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  Speaker 1: next year and Mingo in exchange for a fourth rounder.
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  Speaker 1: Was that too much to give up? Well?
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  Speaker 2: Why why are the Cowboys buying Dak? Dak's out for
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  Speaker 2: how long? How many games this team ever lost? Three
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  Speaker 2: in a row. They're not gonna make the playoffs. They're
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  Speaker 2: gonna lose their next at least two games, possibly three.
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  Speaker 2: They're not gonna They're not gonna catch up with that
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  Speaker 2: seventh seed. I mean, look at the NFC, you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have at least three teams from the NFC North get in.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna have probably ten eleven wins. And then in
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  Speaker 2: the NFC West there's three teams right there that will
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  Speaker 2: be pretty close to it. It's the Cowboys should be
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  Speaker 2: should be selling in my opinion should be selling. I'm
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  Speaker 2: of the opinion that just tear the whole thing down
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  Speaker 2: at this point. But I don't don't know it's going
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  Speaker 2: to change anything, because if you're Mike McCarthy, you want
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  Speaker 2: to be buying because this is your last last year.
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  Speaker 2: You're lame duck head coach at this point, so obviously
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  Speaker 2: you want to be buying here. But this trade does
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  Speaker 2: not change anything. I mean, they need to be adding
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  Speaker 2: more debt at running back, defensive line. It's just this,
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  Speaker 2: it's I don't, I don't. It's not a trade that
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  Speaker 2: moves a neel for me, right.
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  Speaker 1: So in other words, you are in agreement with the
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  Speaker 1: Texter who said, did not see mingo on a bingo card?
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  Speaker 1: Interested to hear Jerry's lingo. Seems like the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the league is laughing like a dingo. It's one way
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  Speaker 1: to put it, laughing like a dingo. Jerry does have lingo.
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  Speaker 1: He does. Anyway, there's a couple of things let's hear
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  Speaker 1: from Sark. We've been talking a lot of college football
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  Speaker 1: playoff stuff since the first rankings will be released. But
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  Speaker 1: first of all, for those who didn't hear, Sark was
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  Speaker 1: asked in the news conference heard yesterday live here on
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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio AM thirteen hunder the Zone for an update
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  Speaker 1: on Isaiah Bond and Andrew mccoobaugh and is there one
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  Speaker 1: thing he can fix to make him feel more confident?
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  Speaker 3: Both those guys practice today which was really encouraging, and
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  Speaker 3: they both, you know, look pretty good again. It's a
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  Speaker 3: Monday of a game week, and and so how do
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  Speaker 3: they respond each day? I think is important for Drew
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  Speaker 3: and Isaiah, But today was a good start. And I
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  Speaker 3: think for us as a team, you know, our mojo
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  Speaker 3: offensively is one thing I want to get back. You know,
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  Speaker 3: our our our whether you want to call it our
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  Speaker 3: our sense of urgency, our intent, the way we go
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  Speaker 3: about our business. You know, we've got a talented group
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  Speaker 3: of guys that are very competitive. They're tough, they work
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  Speaker 3: really hard, they want to play well. Sometimes you can overtry,
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  Speaker 3: if that makes sense. And and to me, that gets
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  Speaker 3: back into your mojo, that gets back into our swagger
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  Speaker 3: a little bit. And I want to I want to
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  Speaker 3: try to recreate that with the guys because I know
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  Speaker 3: what we're capable of and if we can get that
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  Speaker 3: clicking to go along with what we're doing, defensively and
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  Speaker 3: special teams wise, that would be a huge bonus.
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  Speaker 1: Sark was asked, are there differences between how he dealt
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  Speaker 1: with the first bye week, which of course was as
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  Speaker 1: you know, at the end of September, as opposed to
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  Speaker 1: the second bye week? And are there some young guys
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  Speaker 1: who impressed him while he was looking during the bye week?
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  Speaker 3: Not a whole lot change from a format standpoint, I
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  Speaker 3: think naturally the second bye you hold some guys a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more who just are a little bit more
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  Speaker 3: nicked up. You know, I've been impressed with a lot
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  Speaker 3: of our young players. You know, Kobe Black continues to
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  Speaker 3: make strides. I think Jared Gibson, you know, showed us
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  Speaker 3: a lot last week. Again, you know that both young safeties,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Jordan Johnson, Rebel and Xavier both are kind
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  Speaker 3: of on the come. And so the good part is
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  Speaker 3: it's not always just about on offense and defense. It's
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  Speaker 3: finding roles for them on special teams as well. And
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  Speaker 3: so you know, a lot of those guys have shown
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  Speaker 3: me a lot. I'll say this, I think Sadeir Mitchell
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  Speaker 3: the last two weeks has had his two best weeks
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  Speaker 3: of work here in quite some time. So that stuff's
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  Speaker 3: encouraging to me that we've got a group of players
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  Speaker 3: that are continuing to push one another and push themselves
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  Speaker 3: to be the best they can be, because that's how
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  Speaker 3: our team is going to become really good. And like
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  Speaker 3: I said last week, we're not a finished product. I
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  Speaker 3: think are best football still ahead of us, and we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna need all these guys. I don't know when, but
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna need them all. So we've got to keep
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  Speaker 3: coaching them to be the best they can be.
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  Speaker 1: All right, And then Sarkus asked about this logjam at
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  Speaker 1: the top of the SEC. By the way, Cameron Parker
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  Speaker 1: did more research during the break, you said, there's a
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  Speaker 1: possibility of not a seven but of an eight way
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  Speaker 1: tie at the top.
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  Speaker 2: If Missouri wins out. If they went out, because they
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  Speaker 2: only have two losses, they do not play any of
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  Speaker 2: the other top seven teams in the conference conference. If
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  Speaker 2: they went out, they were to be an eight way
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  Speaker 2: tie first place, but it would still be LSU Alabama.
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  Speaker 1: They have what Oklahoma, Oklahoma, ARKANDENSA and Mississippi State, Sippy.
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  Speaker 2: State, and I think one more team that's losing record
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  Speaker 2: in the conference.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so anyway there could be as much
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  Speaker 1: as an eight way tie atout the conference standing. So
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  Speaker 1: Sark was ashed yesterday at the at the news conference.
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  Speaker 1: If he's paid that much attention to the logjam at
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  Speaker 1: the top of the SEC.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there is a lot of football to be
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  Speaker 3: played here in the month of November, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: how critical all these games are over the next four
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  Speaker 3: weeks for a lot of different teams. Uh. The one
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  Speaker 3: thing that I took away from is all we can
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  Speaker 3: control is us and what we're going to do and
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  Speaker 3: how we can try to go handle our business to
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  Speaker 3: the best of our ability. I think one thing you
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  Speaker 3: learn not necessarily from A and M or from it
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  Speaker 3: was a bunch of teams that you know, had had
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  Speaker 3: games and tough games, and some swung in different directs
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  Speaker 3: like that mental intensity. I talked about of how challenging
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  Speaker 3: that is week to week in this conference, right, you
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  Speaker 3: want to get up for each week and you just
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  Speaker 3: got to fight that drop off because you've got to
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  Speaker 3: stay up again and again and again. And that's what
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  Speaker 3: makes our conference very very difficult. You have to stay
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  Speaker 3: mentally locked in as well as you have to be
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  Speaker 3: physically prepared to play mentally prepared to play. And I
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  Speaker 3: think there's there was a lot of good teachable lessons
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  Speaker 3: from this weekend of anybody can go play anybody at
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  Speaker 3: any time in this league, and it's it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be a heck of a game. And so you saw
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  Speaker 3: it with Vanderbilt their ability to rebound and get get
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  Speaker 3: a big win this weekend. We saw it with Florida
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  Speaker 3: playing Georgia the way that they did even after losing
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  Speaker 3: their second string quarterback. We saw it with South Carolina
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  Speaker 3: and their ability to step up and do what they did.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a challenging league, and that's why we talked
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  Speaker 3: about the kind of mental fortitude you have to have
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  Speaker 3: in this league as much as it is the physical ability.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, there it is, And I'm looking at the type
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  Speaker 1: breaking table the two.
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  Speaker 2: It's fun. How long you just spend on this website tonight,
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  Speaker 2: with like thirty minutes, you think you're gonna get lost
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  Speaker 2: in this.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it'll be after watching the playoff thing. It'll probably
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  Speaker 1: be while during Lyn and I have the well, it'll
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  Speaker 1: probably be while Lynda and I have the election coverage
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  Speaker 1: on tonight that would be more interesting. Yeah, because you
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  Speaker 1: know one of my favorite guys to watch is Steve Karnaki.
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  Speaker 1: I like to watch him. Which channels on He would
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  Speaker 1: be NBC, so he'll be I think he'll be on
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  Speaker 1: regular NBC. I know he'll be on MSNBC, but I
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  Speaker 1: think he'll be on NBC. Uh, he's on NBC because
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  Speaker 1: he's on Sunday Night Football. They have him doing the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: Hits him with the touch screen, with the.
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  Speaker 1: Touch screen, the rolled up sleeves on, the white Oxford
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  Speaker 1: shirt with a tie loose, and it's a red tie
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  Speaker 1: and khaki pants.
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  Speaker 2: That's his uniform.
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  Speaker 1: He wears that every time and he will be wearing
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  Speaker 1: it again tonight. I noticed him in action yesterday, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when we were in the hotel in Las Vegas and
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  Speaker 1: where we walk from the elevators into where the meal
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  Speaker 1: room is. Yeah, and then that that big screen was up.
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  Speaker 1: There were a lot of South Carolina women's basketball fans
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  Speaker 1: watching stuff there. He was already at it. It's already there.
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  Speaker 1: He kind of leans over like this and he's pointing
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  Speaker 1: in us. It's great. It's great television, no matter no
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  Speaker 1: matter who you want to win the election. At Karnak
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  Speaker 1: he's pretty funny and you see him You see him
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  Speaker 1: also on uh on Sunday Night Football when he talks
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  Speaker 1: about all the playoffs