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Quinn Ewers on his clutch performance against Arizona State and what Texas needs to do to beat Ohio State · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Tuesday afternoon, Chile. But not frigid in other words, not
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  Speaker 1: in terms of blood freezing or anything like that, at
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  Speaker 1: least not yet. Anyway, we'll see all the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the week goes all right. As I mentioned and been
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  Speaker 1: talking about, we're gonna let you hear from the Long
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  Speaker 1: Orange Quarterbacks or without further ado. Here it is the
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  Speaker 1: conversation with QB one the media zoom with Long Orange
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  Speaker 1: quarterback quin.
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  Speaker 2: Yours Hi, quinn'l Rabine West from the Columbus Dispatch. You're
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  Speaker 2: I was seeing Columbus only one semester. What stands out
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  Speaker 2: to you about that time and and your decision to
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  Speaker 2: come and your decision to go. Obviously CJ Stroud and
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  Speaker 2: established himself. I'm sure that was a big reason. But
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  Speaker 2: if you could kind of talk about your time here, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: learned a lot while.
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  Speaker 3: I was there, under you know, coach Day and and
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  Speaker 3: CJ and just that whole room was awesome to be around,
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  Speaker 3: and no, super thankful for that time that I got
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  Speaker 3: to spend there.
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  Speaker 4: And like I said, I learned a whole lot.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't regret any decision I made on going
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  Speaker 3: or or anything like that. So but the main reason
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  Speaker 3: I went was I felt like I had a you know,
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  Speaker 3: a great relationship with with the coaching staff, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: they were winning a lot of games, and I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to go be a part of something like that. And
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  Speaker 3: the reason that I came back to Texas was one,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to be closer to where I'm from and
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  Speaker 3: just closer to the resources that I have and you know,
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  Speaker 3: the relationships that I've built over time just being from Texas.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Quinn, kind of along those lines, what was one
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  Speaker 5: of the biggest tips that you got from CJ?
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  Speaker 4: And do you still keep up with him as well?
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  Speaker 6: Now he's not too far from you in Houston.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, we don't. We don't keep up that much.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, I got one of his receivers that
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  Speaker 3: he played with in high school in Silas Bolden, So
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  Speaker 3: we we caught up a little bit over that just.
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  Speaker 4: Talking about Silas.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, it's it's been fun to watch him
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  Speaker 3: and as his NFL career, you know, continues and everything.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, what I really learned from from the
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  Speaker 3: guys in that room is really how to be a
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  Speaker 3: college quarterback and kind of what it takes to be
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  Speaker 3: a college quarterback from preparing in the film room and
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  Speaker 3: taking that on to practice and then ultimately the game.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, Quinn, just kind of going off of that as well,
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  Speaker 7: what's it gonna be like going up against you know,
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  Speaker 7: your former coach and Ryan Day, but you've also got
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  Speaker 7: some of your former teammates. Kyler Williams called you his
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  Speaker 7: guy the other day, and you've got you know, a
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  Speaker 7: Mecca Buka.
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  Speaker 4: Guys like that.
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  Speaker 7: So what that what's that gonna be like for you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be awesome just to get to see
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  Speaker 3: all those guys again. I mean in this semester that
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  Speaker 3: I was there, I feel like I made, you know,
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  Speaker 3: some pretty good relationships while I was there, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: those guys were those guys were fun to be around
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  Speaker 3: when I was there. They they took me in and
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  Speaker 3: and kind of in a weird time for sure, for
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  Speaker 3: as me coming in as you know, kind of in
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  Speaker 3: the middle of fall camp, and you know, some of
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  Speaker 3: those guys just kind of you know, Sam, what's up
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  Speaker 3: to me? As simple as that, and you know, kind
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  Speaker 3: of welcome, welcoming me in, and you know, I felt
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  Speaker 3: like I belonged there, and it was It's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: fun to get to see those guys. You know, me
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  Speaker 3: and me and Jack Sawyer were roommates my freshman year
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  Speaker 3: with a couple other guys. So it's it's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna be cool to get to see those guys.
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  Speaker 5: Sure way, good afternoon. So I'm curious from your time
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  Speaker 5: here at Texas, do you remember a time when not
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  Speaker 5: only coach Sarkisian aj Millwey the rest of the entire
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  Speaker 5: staff and team when they put their complete and unwavering
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  Speaker 5: trust in you.
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  Speaker 8: As their quarterback.
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  Speaker 5: Do you remember that time and what.
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  Speaker 4: Was it like?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, sorry, so someone say something. Nope, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: Well I can tell you my first fall camp here. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: I was battling with Hudson Hudson card to earn the
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  Speaker 3: starting job, and then towards the end of that Sark
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  Speaker 3: and me had a, you know, a good conversation where
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  Speaker 3: he pretty much told me that it's it's my job.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I think that was a big step
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  Speaker 3: for me, obviously, because it makes things a whole lot easier.
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  Speaker 3: Whenever you do know that you're going to be the quarterback,
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  Speaker 3: and especially the starter. It just helps my confidence for sure.
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  Speaker 3: And then you know, in that year there's definitely some
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  Speaker 3: ups and downs we're going.
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  Speaker 4: On with the injury.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we we came out the first quarter against
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  Speaker 3: Alabama and in twenty twenty two, and you know, we
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  Speaker 3: were rolling as an offense, and I feel like that
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  Speaker 3: obviously helped build confidence in me and then everybody around me, and.
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  Speaker 4: From from then on out, it's kind of just built
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  Speaker 4: on from then.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, Quinn, just want to ask from your time at
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  Speaker 7: Ohio State, are there any specific relationships you made with
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  Speaker 7: people there that have really stayed strong for YouTube is day?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, me and me and Kyle still still
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  Speaker 3: talk to get him out. I know he's not there anymore,
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  Speaker 3: but we talk often, and I mean, I'm I guess
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  Speaker 3: it's been a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: But to me, those relationships.
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  Speaker 3: Feel like if I'd see him, you know, walking down
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  Speaker 3: the side of the road, be like, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: was hanging out with them yesterday. I just feel like
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  Speaker 3: those the relationship that I built there were just they
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  Speaker 3: were they were definitely super special for sure.
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  Speaker 7: When what is what is a finish to the Peach
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  Speaker 7: Bowl like you had fourth and thirteen and then turning
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  Speaker 7: right around hitting Gunner for the touchdown, then hitting Matt
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  Speaker 7: for the two point conversion. What what does that do
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  Speaker 7: for your confidence? And as a quarterback, the biggest moment
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  Speaker 7: to deliver.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's you know, it's it's awesome for
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  Speaker 3: everybody around us and everybody around me, and you know whenever,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we had our backs up against the wall
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  Speaker 3: for sure in that game, you know, fourth and thirteen,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in a moment we had to have it
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  Speaker 3: and you know, Matt made a great play on a
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  Speaker 3: on a double move and you know, I think that
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  Speaker 3: that single play he allowed us to regain momentum and
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  Speaker 3: go on to win the rest of that game. And
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  Speaker 3: it's the huge for our confidence, just because you know,
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  Speaker 3: being in those top of moments tho's gotta have it
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  Speaker 3: moments and coming out with a win is huge.
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  Speaker 7: In what what has to happen against Ohio State? What
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  Speaker 7: you know, what kind of performance does the offense need
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  Speaker 7: to have for you all to pull off this win?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we just got to go play our
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  Speaker 3: game and execute at a high level and you know,
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  Speaker 3: have first and second down wins that will ultimately lead
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  Speaker 3: to shorter third downs and more manageable third downs. And
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  Speaker 3: if we're able to do that, then the drive will
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  Speaker 3: continue to work down the field and then you know,
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  Speaker 3: obviously we have to score in the red zone field goals.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think we'll get it done.
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  Speaker 5: Wan.
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  Speaker 8: If you size up the Ohio State defense, and especially
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  Speaker 8: your old friend Jack Sawyer, uh, what stands out? What
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  Speaker 8: jumps out you? I know they had twelve sacks in
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  Speaker 8: the last two games, So how would you assess them?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think that they're a really high effort group
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  Speaker 3: and they play super hard, and you know, they're coached
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  Speaker 3: really well. And whenever you have coaches like that that
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  Speaker 3: that put the schemes in that they have and you
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  Speaker 3: know it's they create, you know, mismatches and they create
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  Speaker 3: you know, one on ones that you know, they do
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  Speaker 3: a good job of, you know, maximizing every opportunity that
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  Speaker 3: they that they get. And you know, I think they
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  Speaker 3: do a really good job of covering on the back end.
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  Speaker 3: And I think they're just a really good overall defense.
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  Speaker 9: I think when when you first got to OHAS, I
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  Speaker 9: think it was in the middle of training camp you
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  Speaker 9: could reclassified. Can you kind of talk about kind of
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  Speaker 9: what the motivation was to arrive in and what the
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  Speaker 9: challenge was like joining the team at that juncture kind
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  Speaker 9: of in the middle of camp.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I guess one of the main things was
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  Speaker 3: that there was that I don't know if you guys
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  Speaker 3: remember or not, but the Texas legislature wasn't gonna allow
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  Speaker 3: high school fotball player to be paid, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: me and my family had a pretty big opportunity in
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  Speaker 3: front of us that you know, we felt that it
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  Speaker 3: was a good a good decision for me to go
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  Speaker 3: on and you know, forego my senior year and enroll
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  Speaker 3: early at Ohio State and you know, have the opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to have some some good money in our pockets as
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  Speaker 3: a family.
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  Speaker 4: And sorry, what was the back end of that question?
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  Speaker 9: Just just uh in getting to the team in the
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  Speaker 9: middle of camp, I imagine that was the challenge.
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  Speaker 6: What was that like?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was definitely definitely had to grow up super fast.
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  Speaker 4: You know, as you know, fall camp is not easy.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, going from a high school schedule to
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  Speaker 3: where you know, you're practicing after school whatever it is,
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  Speaker 3: practicing before school, and you know, for me to kind
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  Speaker 3: of go in in the middle of fall camp and
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  Speaker 3: you know practice at a college level was definitely a
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  Speaker 3: shock for sure. But again, I'm just super thankful for
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  Speaker 3: my opportunity that I that I had up there.
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  Speaker 9: You mentioned your report system here and being closer to that.
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  Speaker 9: Was it difficult to be away from them as you
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  Speaker 9: kind of went through that transition there and not getting
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  Speaker 9: to play as much.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's definitely tough whenever. You know, I've
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  Speaker 3: never really been a backup in my life. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: obviously CJ was you know, very much deserving to be playing,
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  Speaker 3: for sure, and I'm a young kid, you know, but
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's tough whenever you're supposed to be a
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  Speaker 3: senior and you know, you see all your all your
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  Speaker 3: buddies who you grew.
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  Speaker 4: Up with, you know, still playing football, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm just.
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  Speaker 3: Sitting obviously because I wasn't prepared to go play a game,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I just got in the middle of fall camp.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, going back to it, I think again,
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  Speaker 3: it was just its just a shock for me to
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  Speaker 3: to to go into a going from high school level
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  Speaker 3: to college level.
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  Speaker 10: Hey, Quentinn, now that you've had a chance to kind
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  Speaker 10: of look over the film and reflect on it, what
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  Speaker 10: stands out about that fourth and thirteen playing? Where is
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  Speaker 10: that kind of rank on your personal favorite plays? Of
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  Speaker 10: your time in Texas.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean it's definitely up there for sure,
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  Speaker 3: But I don't even think I watched it on film,
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  Speaker 3: to be honest with you. You know, just straight here,
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  Speaker 3: straight through Ohio State.
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  Speaker 11: Hey, Quinn Donovan bridge Forth, TXA in twenty four News,
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  Speaker 11: what do you think will be the key to setting
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  Speaker 11: the tone early against Ohio State? And how important is
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  Speaker 11: it to get a fast start in the game of
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  Speaker 11: this magnitude And can you kind of tell me about
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  Speaker 11: like the chemistry how you were talking about earlier of
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  Speaker 11: the offense and how that'll play into the execution.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know, I think if we go out
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  Speaker 3: and just play our game, get completions early, and just
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  Speaker 3: continue to have first and second down wins, I think
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  Speaker 3: we'll be in a good spot to where we want
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  Speaker 3: to whatever start wants to call those shots downfield will
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  Speaker 3: be in a good enough spot to where he's comfortable
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  Speaker 3: enough to call those shots or whatever it is. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, the chemistry off the field definitely helps on
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  Speaker 3: the field for sure, because you know, just the relationship
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  Speaker 3: and the rapport that we've all built together carries on
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  Speaker 3: to the field. You know, we want to play for
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  Speaker 3: each other, We want to play for the guy to
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  Speaker 3: are right in our left. It just acts that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: extra extra motivation if it's needed.
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  Speaker 12: Good Affington Quinn just want to revisit that fourth and fourteen.
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  Speaker 12: We've spoken Matt after the game and he said that
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  Speaker 12: you were kind of the calming presence in the huddle.
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  Speaker 12: I'm just curious how important is it for you as
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  Speaker 12: the quarterback to be that calming presence. Not you know,
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  Speaker 12: no respect to Jake or Calvin or guys like that.
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  Speaker 12: Weels there are great players, but how important is it
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  Speaker 12: for you as the quarterback to be that calming presence
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  Speaker 12: for everybody?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I think that's huge for the quarterback to be that
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  Speaker 3: guy who's going to be calm within the storm and
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  Speaker 3: just the guy to kind of rely on.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, I.
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  Speaker 3: I pictured it as when I want when I when
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  Speaker 3: I see a receiver in Oligneman and running back tied
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  Speaker 3: End look at me, I want them to see the
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  Speaker 3: calmness and hear the calmness in my voice and you know,
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  Speaker 3: just see like, oh he's calm, like you know, we
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  Speaker 3: got this, We're good. You know, if he's comfortable, I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna be comfortable. And you know, I just want to
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  Speaker 3: be that guy that just kind of that example for
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  Speaker 3: for other guys who you know, might be a little
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  Speaker 3: nervous for the for the situation or for the moment,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, it's the guys that make the plays
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  Speaker 3: around me.
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  Speaker 6: When as far as the things you learned in your
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  Speaker 6: semester at Ohio State, is there anything? Is there anything
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  Speaker 6: specifically or anything that's carry over from your time under
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  Speaker 6: coach Day that you feel like was a good habit
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  Speaker 6: or something you learned about football or just like that's
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  Speaker 6: carried over.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean, going back to it again, I
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  Speaker 3: think that they did a really good job of preparing
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  Speaker 3: from week to week and that's like the first time
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  Speaker 3: that I really got to see it firsthand. At this level,
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  Speaker 3: you know how to watch film and how to prepare
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  Speaker 3: for the game, for the upcoming game, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: because obviously it's different from from the high school level,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and getting to see that first I think was.
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  Speaker 4: Awesome for me.
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  Speaker 1: There it is from long Orange quarterback when yours, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to hear from one of his receive another one
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  Speaker 1: of his receiving targets. You already heard from Matthew Golden.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to hear from Gunnar Helm when we continue
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  Speaker 1: here on AM thirteen under the zone