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Quinn Ewers on facing Arizona State, the return of Isaiah Bond and more · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: And we're back to the Craig Way Show.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 2: Hefirst from Steve Sarracus. We've heard from Kyle Flood, from
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  Speaker 2: Shandy Baron, from Burt Auburn. Thanks to Craig Way, heard
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  Speaker 2: from Quinn Yours. Well, let's hear some more. It's Texas
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  Speaker 2: prepares for Arizona State in the Peach Bowl. Coming to
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  Speaker 2: ask you Wednesday, kickoff at noon. Our coverage begins at
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  Speaker 2: nine am. But here's more from Quinn Yours at the
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  Speaker 2: media availability.
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  Speaker 3: What when I think a bond is healthy and and
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  Speaker 3: ready to go, well, what kind of impact does he
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  Speaker 3: have on the offense?
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  Speaker 1: And how much does he change? How dynamic you guys
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  Speaker 1: can maybe, I.
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  Speaker 4: Mean, yes, it's always gonna be hard to cover, guys.
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  Speaker 4: You know that fast and you know how's that much
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  Speaker 4: speed on the siding can make moves and it's just
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  Speaker 4: a really dynamic receiver.
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  Speaker 1: Josh Newman, go ahead.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Quinn, just with this season alone, how much have
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  Speaker 5: you seen Arch grow up? You know in terms of
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  Speaker 5: you know, his mentality and how he approaches the game
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  Speaker 5: and just how prepared. Uh, do you believe he is
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  Speaker 5: to kind of take the reins up starts offense.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think over the past two years has definitely growing
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  Speaker 4: and mature for sure to be able to be successful
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  Speaker 4: at Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Danny Davis, go ahead, Quinn, over your three years, what
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  Speaker 1: has Jake meant to you personally into this program? Take majors?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he means a lot to everybody on
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  Speaker 4: this team.
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  Speaker 1: I know that for sure.
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  Speaker 4: I mean just the amount of juice that he brings in,
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  Speaker 4: you know, just the amount of comfort that we all
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  Speaker 4: have playing playing beside him and knowing that he's gonna
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  Speaker 4: get us all in the in the right call for
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  Speaker 4: for past protection and for for the run game. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: just a super smart guy and awesome, awesome got to
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  Speaker 4: be around for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Setter Cold and you're up, Hey, Quinn.
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  Speaker 6: We talked to Jeday and Michael Taff yesterday about the
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  Speaker 6: the grind of this seasons long season. You played long
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  Speaker 6: seasons at South Lake Carrol getting all the way to
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  Speaker 6: state title game. How is this similar to that? And
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  Speaker 6: what do you have? What special preparations do you have
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  Speaker 6: to go through to stay fresh because it's a real
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  Speaker 6: grind you to play seventeen games.
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  Speaker 1: It's gets all of January twenty.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure. I mean, like you said, it's a
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  Speaker 4: long season, and you know, it's nice to have a
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  Speaker 4: little more time in between these games to be able
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  Speaker 4: to get to you know, as close as close as
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  Speaker 4: you can back to one hundred percent and also just
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  Speaker 4: gives you more time to prepare for for for you know,
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  Speaker 4: the opposing team that that we're playing. And but at
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  Speaker 4: the end of the day, it's awesome. It's awesome to
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  Speaker 4: to still be playing football whenever you know, other guys
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  Speaker 4: or at home or training for the combine or whatever
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  Speaker 4: it is. But it's definitely a blessing to to to
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  Speaker 4: still be playing football for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Day. But Acker go ahead, sorry, it is going off.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Quinn, I'm just curious, what what what are two
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  Speaker 3: or three things that you specifically need to do to
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  Speaker 3: be successful on Wednesday?
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  Speaker 4: I think I just need to be a good leader,
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  Speaker 4: uh through through the adversity, because adversity is going to strike,
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  Speaker 4: and just take care of the football.
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  Speaker 1: Barry Middleton, go ahead. Good afternoons.
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  Speaker 3: So, thinking back when you were a kid and dreaming
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  Speaker 3: about being a quarterback at the University of Texas, did
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  Speaker 3: you ever have were your dreams this big? Did you
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  Speaker 3: ever think that you would be playing at this stage,
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  Speaker 3: being the general on the field to lead this team
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  Speaker 3: to not only the Peach Bowl potentially.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's it's the stuff you think about
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  Speaker 4: as a kid, for sure, but you know, you never
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  Speaker 4: know if it was actually gonna happen or not. But
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  Speaker 4: you know, now we're actually in this situation. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: I don't think it's really sunk in. You know what's
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  Speaker 4: really going on around around me and just the blessings
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  Speaker 4: that I've been been able to know be a part of.
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  Speaker 1: Jeph How go ahead, Quinn?
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  Speaker 5: As you guys get further along into the playoffs and
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  Speaker 5: the season progresses, that I just want to be you know,
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  Speaker 5: blocking out the outside nois being good or bad?
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  Speaker 1: Seems easier said than done. What what keeps you.
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  Speaker 7: Grounded and focused and locked in and not you know,
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  Speaker 7: thinking about what's outside or what's next or anything, just
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  Speaker 7: kind of focused on today and then the next day.
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  Speaker 1: What what what keeps you keep you grounded?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I think I think my teammates because that's what
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  Speaker 4: they deserve. You know, we were all in the same situations.
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  Speaker 4: We all have stuff going on outside of football, But
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  Speaker 4: you know, we all decide to come here and come
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  Speaker 4: to the facility and practice eachould every day, be away
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  Speaker 4: from our families, away from our loved ones, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: we all have the ultimate goal trying to win a
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  Speaker 4: national championship. And that's what everybody deserves. Everyone, everybody deserves
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  Speaker 4: my best. And I think if you ask anybody in
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  Speaker 4: that room, they or anybody in the locker room, that
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  Speaker 4: they'll say the exact same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Go time for three last questions in Q Chip, go ahead, Quinn.
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  Speaker 1: Does this feel like it's new life? Uh?
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  Speaker 4: For you?
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  Speaker 1: This team?
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  Speaker 8: Now that you're in the playoffs and you know, you
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  Speaker 8: you talk about, you know, your ability to raise your level.
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  Speaker 8: You did that against Clemson and and did DeAndre say
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  Speaker 8: anything to you, you know, after he dropped the pass
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  Speaker 8: that ultimately got picked.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, you know, I mean you can look at it
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  Speaker 4: like our first however many games until a bye week
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  Speaker 4: was a season, and then again until our next buy
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  Speaker 4: was a season, and then again until the playoffs was
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  Speaker 4: a season. So you can say we're kind of in
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  Speaker 4: a new season for sure. But I think what we've
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  Speaker 4: done a really good job of this year is just
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  Speaker 4: taking each week as its own week and and focusing
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  Speaker 4: on what we need to do with that particular particular week,
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  Speaker 4: and not being focused on what's ahead or or what
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  Speaker 4: just happened the previous week. And yeah, and then with DeAndre,
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  Speaker 4: I mean I'm not no one's no one's worried about that.
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  Speaker 4: With DeAndre, I mean I think I might have let
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  Speaker 4: him up the field a little too much.
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  Speaker 1: And it can go either way. Two last ones Thomas Jones.
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  Speaker 1: When Happy New Year.
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  Speaker 9: When you have a guy like Trevor Grusbi up front,
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  Speaker 9: how can you help a young player, you know, in
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  Speaker 9: practice and during during the game itself as a quarterback,
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  Speaker 9: what can you do to help him?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think what helps him the most, And what
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  Speaker 4: I've noticed is just the smaller things, whether that be
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  Speaker 4: you know, it could be as simple as a high
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  Speaker 4: five or a knuckle bumper, just telling them, hey, good
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  Speaker 4: job there, a good job. You know, pass protection, You're
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  Speaker 4: doing a heck of a job out there. And I
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  Speaker 4: think that goes a lot a long way for young guys,
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  Speaker 4: because I know for sure when I was young, that
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  Speaker 4: would that would help me a whole lot, just as
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  Speaker 4: simple as that. If an if an older guy a
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  Speaker 4: leader of the team came up to me and just
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  Speaker 4: told me I was doing a good job. I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: all right now, I'm gonna settle in here a little
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  Speaker 4: bit and you know, kind of get into that flow state.
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  Speaker 1: Last one Joe Cook kind of along those lines.
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  Speaker 7: You know, what's to say about Trevor himself that you know,
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  Speaker 7: if Cam's not able to go, if Calvin gets knocked
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  Speaker 7: out of the game, that you know he can jump
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  Speaker 7: right in and you still feel like you could be
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  Speaker 7: protected on either side by number seventy four.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, he's definitely proved that over the past
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  Speaker 4: few weeks that you know he's more than capable of
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  Speaker 4: of coming in at any moment in time and being
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  Speaker 4: able to go play ball. And you know, just super
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  Speaker 4: proud of the way that he's carried himself and prepared
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  Speaker 4: himself to be able to do that throughout this year.
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  Speaker 4: You know, going to the season, you know you've got
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  Speaker 4: two really good tackles and you know Goosby is sitting
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  Speaker 4: behind him. You know, he's probably thinking he's not going
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  Speaker 4: to get much playing time this year, and then for
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  Speaker 4: him to be able to kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of flip that switch late in the season, it's been
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  Speaker 2: really cool. Trump Gusby has been phenomenal for Texas this season.
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  Speaker 2: Way he's been able to do this step in at
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  Speaker 2: various times against A and M, against Georgia, against Clemson.
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  Speaker 2: You feel really good about where he'll be at next season,
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  Speaker 2: especially with Texes possibly losing what three starters on the
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  Speaker 2: offensive line. If Cam Williams declare so, you know, Kelvin
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  Speaker 2: Banks and Jake Majors will be gone next season. Could
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  Speaker 2: be Cam Williams as well on that right side.
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  Speaker 1: Real quick.
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  Speaker 2: Craig Way mentioned that he thinks Quinn Youwers will have
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  Speaker 2: a good game against Arizona State. Passing defense give about
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  Speaker 2: two hun and fifteen yards per game, fifty seventh in
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  Speaker 2: the country defensively in terms of game yards given up.
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  Speaker 2: I mean they've they've gotten gashed a few times this season,
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  Speaker 2: including against BYU. Gave up three hundred and forty six
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  Speaker 2: passing yards in that win over the Cougars twenty eight
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  Speaker 2: to twenty three. But we've seen offenses be able to
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  Speaker 2: throw against Arizona State. I believe I shared the stat
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  Speaker 2: with you earlier. In terms of EPA just an advanced
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  Speaker 2: metric and way how they grade offenses and defenses. Arizona
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  Speaker 2: State defensively one hundred in first in the country in
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  Speaker 2: defensive success rates on dropbacks. Anytime the quarterback drops back
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  Speaker 2: to throw, I believe successful yards is like four yards
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  Speaker 2: or more. Forty two percent of the time the opposing
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  Speaker 2: offense is successful against Arizona State's secondary, So one thing
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  Speaker 2: to keep an eye on. I believe Texas will be
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  Speaker 2: able to run the ball very well against Arizona State,
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  Speaker 2: and especially so if quinn ewers in the offense can
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  Speaker 2: find the rhythm in the passing game. And I think
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  Speaker 2: having Isaiah Bond back will be huge because Texas has
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  Speaker 2: not really had Bond healthy except for maybe against Florida
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  Speaker 2: and then Oklahoma, but after that not too much. He's
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  Speaker 2: not been healthy that much, did not finish against Georgia,
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  Speaker 2: did not play against Clemson. So having Isaiah Bond back
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  Speaker 2: will help the passing game tremendously. More than come here
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  Speaker 2: as our three of The Greigway Show continues after this