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Is Texas equipped to win a National Championship? · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Steve Starkeys and the rest of this before we wrap
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  Speaker 1: up today's show. He was asked by Kirk Bolz, is
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  Speaker 1: Texas equipped to win four straight games in a national championship.
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, the one thing about our team
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  Speaker 2: is we're really versatile. I think we can do a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things well and we can lean into different
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  Speaker 2: aspects of our team for what's needed to win whatever
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  Speaker 2: style of game that we're presented with. And so I
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  Speaker 2: think that's a huge factor and our ability to be successful.
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  Speaker 2: I think our depth is another, you know, huge factor
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  Speaker 2: in us being successful. We can withstand injuries and when
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  Speaker 2: guys get knocked out games or for an extended period
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  Speaker 2: of time, and we can continue to perform at a
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  Speaker 2: high level. And we've been in this arena before. You know,
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  Speaker 2: there's this is a twelve team playoff this year. There
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  Speaker 2: were four. It was a four team playoff last year,
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  Speaker 2: and we're the only one that's in it again this year.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that says a lot about our staff
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  Speaker 2: that we're able to get back into this this space
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  Speaker 2: again when when the other schools weren't able to do so.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think us being comfortable in the arena
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  Speaker 2: understanding the task at hand, I feel comfortable with that
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  Speaker 2: that you know, again it's going to take a great effort.
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  Speaker 2: We're you have to play really well and all that,
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  Speaker 2: But I feel comfortable that that we've put ourselves in
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  Speaker 2: position to do that. I don't I don't favored or not.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is going to be a war Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: That's how I look at it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, three of the other four teams in the playoff
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  Speaker 1: last season didn't even really well. Two of them then
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  Speaker 1: even stepped the playoff. Washington, of course, new head coach
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  Speaker 1: with the bar going from dub to Alabama. They went
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  Speaker 1: six and six this season under coach Fish Michigan. We
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  Speaker 1: know about their struggles with Sharon more than Alabama had
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  Speaker 1: an outside chance and then they lost to Oklahoma, a
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  Speaker 1: five win Oklahoma team. Have you had any discussions with
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  Speaker 1: any Alabama fans about them being upset they missed out
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  Speaker 1: in the College football playoffs? Just show them highlights of
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  Speaker 1: that game and show them Jackson Arnold, who I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: even through a football pass in that game, just rend
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  Speaker 1: the ball right down Alabama's throat. But Texas back to
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  Speaker 1: back seasons the College Football Playoff and back to back
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  Speaker 1: seasons playing for a conference championship one to two. Whether
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  Speaker 1: you're a frustrated or not with the way Texas has played.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta gotta give Sark and the staff and Quinn
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  Speaker 1: youwrs credit for what they've been able to do. Speaking
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  Speaker 1: to Quinn yours a very interesting exchange. I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 1: play the whole exchange for you between the reporter and
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  Speaker 1: on whar interestering with Obie Orange Bloods and Steve Sarkisan
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  Speaker 1: was asked if this is Quinn Yours' last game, and
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  Speaker 1: Start quickly interjected and said I will not do IFFs,
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  Speaker 1: no hypotheticals, and on Arre like no, no, I mean
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  Speaker 1: sark said, no, if you, if you, if you say,
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  Speaker 1: what is Quinn Yours' impact ut during his time? I
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  Speaker 1: will answer that, And so an war did ask him
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  Speaker 1: what is Quinn Ewers' impact at Texas through his three
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  Speaker 1: seasons in Austin.
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  Speaker 2: Win's had a tremendous impact from where our program was
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  Speaker 2: when he arrived, in the faith that he's had in
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  Speaker 2: our program. We were a five and seven football team,
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  Speaker 2: and the fact that he endured an eight and five
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  Speaker 2: team to the next season going twelve and two, being
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  Speaker 2: Big twelve champs, going to the College Football Playoff, to
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  Speaker 2: our first season in the SEC, taking us to an
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  Speaker 2: SEC championship game, and again with a fairly high seed
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  Speaker 2: in the College Football Playoff. Again. I've been really proud
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  Speaker 2: of the impact that he's had on our program. He
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  Speaker 2: continues to perform in critical moments for us, he continues
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  Speaker 2: to fight through adversity, and there is not only physically
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  Speaker 2: but mentally as a guy that I'm very proud of.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk more about Quinn you We was on our
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  Speaker 1: pre game show tomorrow, Mark Henry, Mike Carge in my
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  Speaker 1: self Longcorns game, Get New and some a good discussion,
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  Speaker 1: I promise you between us surrounding Quinn viewers and his
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  Speaker 1: impact at Texas and uh, what he can do to
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  Speaker 1: end his career at Texas on front of him, you know,
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  Speaker 1: four more games, four more victories to make history. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: diego Pavia. Actually we'll come back to that one. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: the transfer portal has been open and we we've you know,
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  Speaker 1: we've had CJ focal on, We've had Eric Henry on
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  Speaker 1: talking about the portal additions for Texas. So far, they've
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  Speaker 1: they've added three signees and still working on more. But
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  Speaker 1: at the same time, this football staff is preparing for
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  Speaker 1: a college football playoff game. We'll also trying to not
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  Speaker 1: only recruit players out of the portal, but keep the
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  Speaker 1: guys who are on their team out of the transfer portal.
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  Speaker 1: So Steve Sarkistan was asked, how do you navigate the
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  Speaker 1: fine line of preparing preparing for a playoff game will
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  Speaker 1: trying to protect your assets your players.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, all we can do is do the
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  Speaker 2: best we can do, and that's that's really you know,
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  Speaker 2: finding the right balance of game prep, finding the right
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  Speaker 2: balance of working with your players from a retention standpoint,
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  Speaker 2: and finding the right balance of still looking at the
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  Speaker 2: portal for needs that we obviously have on our roster
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  Speaker 2: because of some attrition. And you know, I think I
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  Speaker 2: expressed how I felt about this on Monday that this
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think this calendar is going to need
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  Speaker 2: to change and we're gonna have to to read This
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  Speaker 2: is not I don't think when anybody intended to uh
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  Speaker 2: to be occurring right now. And we're not the only
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  Speaker 2: ones feeling it, you know, I'm I'm not here to
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  Speaker 2: say we're not the only ones. This is it's a
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  Speaker 2: poor system right now that that I think needs to
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  Speaker 2: be looked at really hard to find a better mechanism
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  Speaker 2: for the for the players quite frankly as much as
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  Speaker 2: it is for the coaches and the teams. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: how would I would hate to be on a team
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  Speaker 2: that's trying to go compete for a national championship and
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  Speaker 2: all the while dealing with phone calls and should I
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  Speaker 2: go in the portal should I not? And my agent's
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  Speaker 2: got to talk to them, and how much am I
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  Speaker 2: going to get paid over theres I mean, it's just
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  Speaker 2: it's a it's a poor system and a poor calendar. Really,
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  Speaker 2: I think the premise of the idea is good, but
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  Speaker 2: the calendar is really poor right now that we're going
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  Speaker 2: to have to do a better job of. From a
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  Speaker 2: coach head coaches standpoint, AFC A standpoint, an NCAA standpoint,
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  Speaker 2: a CFP standpoint, we've got to get all the players
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  Speaker 2: involved in this in the same room and find a
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  Speaker 2: better mechanism and a better calendar moving forward for everybody,
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  Speaker 2: because the way this is set up right now is
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  Speaker 2: not it. This is not the way we can continue
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  Speaker 2: to move forward.
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  Speaker 1: It's got to be frustrating for players and coaches all
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  Speaker 1: around to have to navigate through the chaos of a
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  Speaker 1: transfer portal with a ball game in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: swapping semesters. I am all for trying to push back
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  Speaker 1: the transfer portal window until either after the postseason or
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  Speaker 1: after New Year's to allow these teams to be able
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  Speaker 1: to prepare for their postseason games. Well, well, that also
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  Speaker 1: happened to deal with players leaving. I mean, think about it.
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  Speaker 1: If you're in the NFL, right, it's like the regular
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  Speaker 1: season ends. In between the regular season and the first
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  Speaker 1: playoff game, free agency opens up. That makes zero sense, right,
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  Speaker 1: it makes zero sense. So why do we do that
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  Speaker 1: in college football? I don't understand. I'm right there with
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  Speaker 1: Steve Sarkisian. You got to figure out a way to
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  Speaker 1: somehow change this because this the way this system is
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  Speaker 1: currently set up, it's not working out at all. Clemson's defense,
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  Speaker 1: we heard Eric Henry talk about it and kind of
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  Speaker 1: how the Clemson side feels about it, how Texas feels
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  Speaker 1: about it. Here's how sark feels about Clemson's defense and
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  Speaker 1: what has stood out to him so far when preparing
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  Speaker 1: for this game tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, they've you know again, I think they're
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  Speaker 2: They're front seven is very, very talented, and that's not
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  Speaker 2: to take away the back end, but They've got some
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  Speaker 2: really elite players in the front end, you know, with
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  Speaker 2: Parker and Woods and Carter and yeah, true freshman linebacker
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  Speaker 2: who's making a ton of plays, and and they call
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  Speaker 2: the game with that in mind. You know, it's a
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  Speaker 2: very aggressive mindset and their high pressure unit team and
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  Speaker 2: they give you all the different pressures to try to
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  Speaker 2: create those one on one opportunities for those guys to
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  Speaker 2: impact the ballgame. And so to me, that's what stands out.
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  Speaker 2: They know where their strengths lie and they try to
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  Speaker 2: play to those strengths. It's a very athletic front and
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  Speaker 2: they play to that as well. You know, there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of movement and a lot of opportunities for those
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  Speaker 2: guys getting one on one matchups and where they can
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  Speaker 2: try to affect the game that way, especially getting after.
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  Speaker 1: The quarterback three o'clock take off tomorrow Texas and Clemson.
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