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Texas Scrimmage Notes, NFL Players Returning to College, Roschon Johnson · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Happy Monday too well, inasmuch as Monday has its moments,
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the program here on Sports Radio AM thirteen
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  Speaker 1: Craig Waite, Thanks very much for joining us, joined by
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  Speaker 1: the producer Jay Carman, and we go with you from
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  Speaker 1: two to five each and every weekday afternoon, Monday through Friday. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: first things first, a little bit of cleanup business. As
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  Speaker 1: you know, the prior three weeks we gave way copies
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  Speaker 1: of Dave Campbell's Texas Football magazine.
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  Speaker 1: and glad to do it again. Okay, things to get
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  Speaker 1: to on the program this afternoon. The Loghorns come off
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  Speaker 1: the Saturday scrimmage, which and we're going to let you
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  Speaker 1: hear kind of a mixed bag between what Steve Sarkisian
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  Speaker 1: said after the scrimmage on Saturday and some things he
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  Speaker 1: said in a media availability today, and we'll hear more
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  Speaker 1: of that tomorrow, that there was a mixed bag. There
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  Speaker 1: were some good things he saw, there were some things
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  Speaker 1: he did not like out of that as well. And
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  Speaker 1: having been at the scrimmage on Saturday, I can tell
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  Speaker 1: you I understand that there's things he likes and things
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  Speaker 1: that he didn't like. And so as they go down
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  Speaker 1: here inside of two weeks to kick off twelve days out,
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  Speaker 1: the emphasis is continue to be on sharpening and getting
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  Speaker 1: better in all of those things. So we'll hear from
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  Speaker 1: sark about that. We're gonna he from Brian Schottenneimer, the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys head coach. Cowboys came up with another pre season
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  Speaker 1: victory as they won in Arizona on Saturday, and now
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  Speaker 1: they're back in Frisco and their preseason finale is Friday
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  Speaker 1: night at Jerry World at AT and T Stadium, the
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  Speaker 1: host of New Orleans Saints. Hopefully the two sides will
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  Speaker 1: be a little more civil to one another than they
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  Speaker 1: were when they had the joint practice in LA a
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  Speaker 1: week ago and accrued their respective teams a one half
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  Speaker 1: million dollars fine. I've not seen I know Jerry Jones
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  Speaker 1: said they were planning to appeal that, but I've not
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  Speaker 1: seen anything any update on that on whether the NFL
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  Speaker 1: heard the appeal yet or did and said forget about it,
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  Speaker 1: fork over the five hundred grand, or if they said Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you only have to pay two hundred or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: If something comes down on that, we'll let you know.
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  Speaker 1: Also some other football topics that we'll get to and
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  Speaker 1: major League Baseball topics as well. We have special guests
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  Speaker 1: this afternoon, four o'clock hour Lifetime Loghorn and fourth going
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  Speaker 1: into his fourth year as an NFL pro Rochean Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: we'll join us to talk about how things are going
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  Speaker 1: in fall camp and getting ready. He had a great
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four season, had the injury problems of a
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  Speaker 1: year ago, and we'll be trying to bounce back with the.
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  Speaker 3: Bears this year.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll visit with a rochean to talk about that
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  Speaker 1: and talk about something that means an awful lot to him,
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  Speaker 1: an initiative that's kind of local here locally based as
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  Speaker 1: well here, So we'll do that coming up and that's
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  Speaker 1: in the four o'clock hour. How is your weekend, Jay Carmon,
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  Speaker 1: did you was this another sprint down the Houston weekend
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  Speaker 1: for you?
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  Speaker 4: It was further, Craig, it was a further sprint. It
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  Speaker 4: was at times a crawl down to port A, Ransas.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, for an engagement party a couple of my
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  Speaker 4: college friends, and it was my first time there. I
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  Speaker 4: did see a lot of Longhorn gear, which surprised me.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, it was a pretty beach. It was a
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  Speaker 4: fun place to spend a weekend and get together with
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  Speaker 4: some friends that aren't all together in the same place
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  Speaker 4: enough anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, a couple of things work at first.
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  Speaker 1: Of all, anywhere in the state of Texas, you should
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  Speaker 1: ever be surprised to see longhorn gear.
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  Speaker 2: I just hear.
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  Speaker 1: I got a text the other day from my friend
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  Speaker 1: Brett Dolan. He does a lot of national play by play.
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  Speaker 1: He was one of the Asteroids broadcasters for about five years.
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  Speaker 1: Does a lot of college football. So Brett Dolan text
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  Speaker 1: me the other day and he goes, saw a couple
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  Speaker 1: of people decked out of longhorn.
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  Speaker 2: Gear, and I was like, are you in Houston? He said, no, Maine.
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  Speaker 5: Oh hello, it.
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  Speaker 2: Was in Maine.
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  Speaker 3: So long.
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  Speaker 1: Wring fans are everywhere. That's one two. You said you
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  Speaker 1: went down there for a friend's engagement party. Yes, Allison,
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  Speaker 1: get any ideas or something got nudged and elbows and
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, you're paying attention here.
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  Speaker 4: At one point I handed her a ring shaped cookie.
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  Speaker 4: So don't get any ideas just yet.
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  Speaker 1: Look at you. Look at you trying to be a
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  Speaker 1: little bit beat the punch on the thing, or or
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  Speaker 1: at least uh trying to get out front of it.
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  Speaker 2: Good move.
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  Speaker 5: I gotta lead block for myself sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: I understand.
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  Speaker 5: Got to run the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I understand. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So one of the things that I want to get
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  Speaker 1: into is this story about a name that now all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, has become a household name, because until
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  Speaker 1: a few days ago, the only place you were really
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  Speaker 1: hearing the name Daikwon Wright was in the state of Mississippi,
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  Speaker 1: where he had played for Lane Kiven, and in the
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns training camp where he was trying to earn
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  Speaker 1: a roster spot.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't.
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  Speaker 1: He was released now for a lot of players, especially
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  Speaker 1: a tight end like Daiquon Wright. Uh the release of
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  Speaker 1: an NFL training camp, usually from an NFL training camp,
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  Speaker 1: usually signals one of two things. Either you could be
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  Speaker 1: invited back to the practice squad, or you could try
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  Speaker 1: to catch on with another team. That's what a lot
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  Speaker 1: of players do. The third option, the least attractive for
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  Speaker 1: a lot of those guys, is to say, you know,
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  Speaker 1: my time in football has been great, but it's done.
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  Speaker 1: Ud Guan Wright is trying a fourth option that has
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  Speaker 1: never before been attempted in football. He apparently has an
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  Speaker 1: agreement in place for the twenty twenty six season to
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  Speaker 1: play football at LSU. I think about this. He just
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  Speaker 1: got cut from the Cleveland Browns if he clears waivers.
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  Speaker 1: According to his agent Drew Rosenhouse and Kyle Lincoln, who
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  Speaker 1: told Adam Schefter this yesterday, mentioned it to him that
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  Speaker 1: he is going to be the first player to have
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  Speaker 1: an agreement to return to play in college after signing
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  Speaker 1: with the NFL as and here's the key word here,
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  Speaker 1: an undrafted free agent. He signed with the Eagles after
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  Speaker 1: the draft and then was cleaned on waivers by the
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  Speaker 1: Browns a couple of weeks ago. Now for those of
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  Speaker 1: you who are immediately.
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  Speaker 3: So, we can't do that.
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  Speaker 1: It's pro athlete. Now, he's getting money, he's in games.
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  Speaker 1: He can't can't do that, can't can't return. Well, here's
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  Speaker 1: the first thing. He did not appear in either of
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland's first two preseason games, so he's not set foot
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  Speaker 1: on the field in a game.
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  Speaker 5: It's like Bettioco in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he hasn't practiced in more than a week, but
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  Speaker 1: he did dress.
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  Speaker 2: He did.
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  Speaker 1: He got into uniform for the brown second preseason game
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  Speaker 1: against the Buffalo Bills on Saturday. Brown's head coach Todd
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  Speaker 1: Munkin said right was sideline because of an injury, and
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday of last week, he officially entered the transfer
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  Speaker 1: portal after he and a group of athletes who filed
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  Speaker 1: the lawsuit in Louisiana were granted a temporary restraining order
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  Speaker 1: to return to college for one more season. I know
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  Speaker 1: we've got you can probably pull it up that SoundBite
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  Speaker 1: with Todd Munkin talking about it's been all over Sports
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  Speaker 1: Center and everywhere else where. He's talking about, man, that's
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  Speaker 1: crazy and anywhere. He got the call from Lane Kiffin.
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  Speaker 5: I might have to clean that sound bite up before
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  Speaker 5: we can remember what he said, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there was one for us. Yeah, there was an
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  Speaker 2: S bomb in there.
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  Speaker 5: I have Lane Kiffin talking about it too, if.
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  Speaker 2: You yeah, yeah, yes absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Now, of course here's the rub, and this is why
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned the Old Miss thing right, played for Kiffin
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  Speaker 1: at Old Miss. Kiffin, of course has since moved on
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  Speaker 1: to LSU, and now Wright is trying to transfer to LSU.
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  Speaker 1: He had filed a lawsuit because he was not included
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  Speaker 1: in that ncaa new rule which is less than two
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  Speaker 1: months old, that grants most Division one athletes five years
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  Speaker 1: of eligibility over five years. It doesn't take effect until
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  Speaker 1: next season, and several other court injunctions have allowed players
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  Speaker 1: who had completed forty years of eligibility to be granted
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  Speaker 1: the fifth year to be able to go back. Cole
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  Speaker 1: Hudson's one of those guys with the with the Longhorns. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Cole was never drafted, was never in an NFL training camp,
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  Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, It wasn't picked up by anybody,
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  Speaker 1: and then and then went back obviously never appeared in
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  Speaker 1: a game or anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: So he went ahead. You have you have an update
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  Speaker 2: on it.
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  Speaker 4: He went to I remember seeing pictures of him in
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  Speaker 4: a Brown's uniform. That's because he went to a rookie
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  Speaker 4: mini camp. So he never had a contract, never had
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  Speaker 4: a contract. He was in a rookie mini camp, uh,
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  Speaker 4: but was never in actual training camp after.
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  Speaker 3: That, and didn't and and and didn't get a contract.
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  Speaker 1: So then he went back and he you know, filed
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  Speaker 1: and got the t RO and he's in a long
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  Speaker 1: worn uniform and he's been practicing. In fact, he got
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  Speaker 1: into fall camp maybe five days after the long warn started.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't long.
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  Speaker 1: It was like when inside of a week that he
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  Speaker 1: got there, because we were at SEC Football Media Days
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  Speaker 1: when Sark was being asked about it about you know,
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  Speaker 1: because at time at that time he had filed for
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  Speaker 1: the restraining order, it filed for the injunction, and it
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  Speaker 1: had not yet been granted at the time, and then
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  Speaker 1: it ultimately was granted. But the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals,
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  Speaker 1: and we mentioned this story last Friday, that the Tent
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  Speaker 1: Circuit Court of Appeals granted the NCAAA a stay on
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  Speaker 1: Friday morning in order to reverse the federal judge's decision
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  Speaker 1: that had opened the door for all athletes who started
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  Speaker 1: college in the twenty twenty two twenty twenty three academic
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  Speaker 1: year and played for four consecutive seasons to return for
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  Speaker 1: a fifth season. That's what the Louisiana judge had granted.
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  Speaker 1: The NCAA was no but the stay. That stay does
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  Speaker 1: not wipe out the dozens of athletes who have already
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  Speaker 1: successfully petion for restraining orders to play a fifth season
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  Speaker 1: in state courts around the country. So the Browns, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, activated starting defensive tackle Malik Collins from the
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  Speaker 1: physically unable to perform list and a corresponding move when
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  Speaker 1: Wright was waived.
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  Speaker 2: So we're gonna hear coming up here in a few
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  Speaker 2: minutes long.
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  Speaker 1: Worn's head coach Steve Sarkisian's thoughts on this, as well
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  Speaker 3: Why to have you with us?
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned this, you know this, this story about day
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  Speaker 1: Kwon Right and and how it's you know, taken on
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  Speaker 1: a life of its own. Really after the Cleveland Browns
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  Speaker 1: waived him a tight end who played at Ole miss
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  Speaker 1: and in twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five. Last year,
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  Speaker 1: he caught thirty nine passes for six hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 1: five yards in five touchdowns for the Rebels. He graduated
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  Speaker 1: from high school in twenty twenty two. His college eligibility
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  Speaker 1: ended last season. Had filed a lawsuit because he was
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  Speaker 1: not included in that new NCAA rule that grants most
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  Speaker 1: Division one athletes five years of eligibility over five years,
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  Speaker 1: but it doesn't take effect until next season, and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people have challenged that, saying, look, I played
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  Speaker 1: four years, I should get a fifth and retroactively. They've
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  Speaker 1: been granted that, Like I said, Cole Hudson one of
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  Speaker 1: those guys as well.
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  Speaker 2: So this is a different thing though, now where a.
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  Speaker 1: Guy actually winds up on an NFL training camp roster
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  Speaker 1: and as being paid in training camp, had not appeared
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  Speaker 1: in the game yet and now having been waived by Cleveland,
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  Speaker 1: is wanting to join LSU, where Lane Kiffen is now.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, here's some comments from Lane Kiffin about
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  Speaker 1: this whole thing.
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  Speaker 5: What comfortable are you with NFL players coming back to college.
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  Speaker 6: That's a good question. I think that situations are different,
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  Speaker 6: So you know, in general, should NFL players come back
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  Speaker 6: to college I believe it doesn't matter necessary what I
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  Speaker 6: believe that answer would be.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 6: I think there every circumstance should be looked at differently,
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  Speaker 6: that this is a very unique circumstance, again because I
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  Speaker 6: think there's not a lot of education on this how
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  Speaker 6: this all happened. The judge found that these players should
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  Speaker 6: have been told and should have known that they were
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  Speaker 6: going to be eligible for a fifth year, which every
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  Speaker 6: player moving forward, every athlete moving forward in all sports has,
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  Speaker 6: and so they should have known that in December when
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  Speaker 6: they were making decisions. Had they known that, they would
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  Speaker 6: have stayed, they had no eligibly.
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  Speaker 3: So this is not.
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  Speaker 6: Many other circumstances have been discussed over the years about
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  Speaker 6: professionals coming back.
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  Speaker 3: They did not know they had a year.
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  Speaker 6: Since then the judges said, you do have a year,
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  Speaker 6: and so because of that, this is a different situation
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  Speaker 6: in that where they're just going back to play, they're
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  Speaker 6: wanting to go back to play the year that they've
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  Speaker 6: been granted, not an individual case where one player went
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  Speaker 6: somewhere to try to win a case. This is a
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  Speaker 6: lot of athletes in these and a lot of these
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  Speaker 6: around the country that for my information isn't stopping. You
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  Speaker 6: know that there are cases right now that are going
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  Speaker 6: to come amount where there's other athletes in the same cases,
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  Speaker 6: and so you may end up having hundreds of athletes
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  Speaker 6: in this case that that are told they have.
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  Speaker 3: A fifth year.
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  Speaker 6: And so this is just a really unique circumstance. It
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  Speaker 6: isn't a traditional you know, just pros going back to college,
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  Speaker 6: you know, just because.
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  Speaker 3: They went in case.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, point may that by Lane Kiffen. Now we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: hear sound in fact where you're quite a bit of
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  Speaker 1: here coming up just in a moment from log Worn's
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  Speaker 1: head coach Steve Sarcasian from what do you have to
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  Speaker 1: say after the scrimmage on Saturday? But they're at another
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  Speaker 1: media availability this morning, sark was asked about this take.
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  Speaker 2: One right thing and what his thoughts on all of this.
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  Speaker 7: We are I don't even know you know this this
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  Speaker 7: stuff is we are like changing every day right now.
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  Speaker 7: It feels like almost every three hours, you know, there's
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  Speaker 7: a new message from Commissioner Sankie about something or something
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  Speaker 7: that somebody's reporting in the media that this is what
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  Speaker 7: might occur or what's occurring. I think it's important for
• 19:16
  Speaker 7: us here, especially like we have a really good team,
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: and focusing on our team, to me is paramount and
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: the most important thing right now. Anything auxiliary outside of that.
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: I'm not in so much of a rush to say, oh,
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: let's go do that now, or let's go do that now.
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: Like I like our team, if and or when, if
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: there's something that popped up to where we could upgrade it, great,
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: but we don't even know. Like today you can take them,
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: tomorrow you can't. I don't know what's going to happen,
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: and I don't even know if it's good or not.
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: I'll be honest with you, I don't know if it's
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: good because like for us, I know we've got a
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: locker room full of guys who have been working together
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: and their connectivity is so good for the last eight months.
• 19:59
  Speaker 8: Is it worth? Is it worth rocking that boat?
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: You know, by bringing somebody in that isn't familiar with
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: your program. Cole was a little different. He'd been with
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: our program for four years. He knows who we are,
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: he knows Coach Flood, he knows those guys in that room.
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: To bring in a true outsider and to think like
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: all of a sudden, he's gonna be our quarterback, like
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: I don't know how to do that. Like I wouldn't
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: know how to do that. And I get every situation
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: is a little bit different, and maybe there's better coaches
• 20:27
  Speaker 7: out there than us, you know, But I just think
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: it's a delicate situation. The powers that be are ultimately
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: going to get to a final decision, and then when
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: the final decisions made, then we're gonna have choices to make,
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: or maybe we will have no choices to make. I
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: don't know, you know, we'll have to find out.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: All right. So that's where that is.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: And like I said, this thing is is so new,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: so different. There's gonna be there's gonna be a lot
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: that's that's going to be different. And I think starting
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: makes a good point when he says, seems like every
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes something's happening. They're getting So with that in mind,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: we'll let it rest for the moment, and if we
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: even during the course of the program this afternoon, if
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: there's an update on that, because remember one of the
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: one of the things that's involved here is that the
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Southeastern Conference has a rule where you can't transfer inside
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: the league from one school to the other. And you know,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: while you can't transfer inside the league from one school
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: to the other. Off of that, the case that Daikwon
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Wrights agents and representatives are making is that he wasn't
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: planning to transfer at LSU. He's trying to go to
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the NFL and couldn't make it there, and so now, oh,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go went to the portal, and.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Now I go to LSU and play for my former coach.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: And for people that are confused thinking, wait, Parker Livingston
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: transfer from Texas to Oklahoma, it doesn't apply during the
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: main window.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: That's exactly right, in the transfer portal window. That's that's
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the key off of that. Yeah, all right, let's hear
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: from some regular football stuff from Sorry. This is the
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: wrap up of what he had to say about what
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: his thoughts were on the scrimmage.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: After the scrimmage on Saturday.
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: I thought a good and bad scrimmage. I know that
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: sounds kind of like, how's it good and bad? I
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: thought it was good. From the standpoint of this. We
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: ran I think one hundred and twenty plays today in
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: the scrimmage. It was one hundred and five degrees in
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: the field. On the field, it was just close to
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: one hundred and fifty degrees and so the fact that
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: our guys fought through those conditions and getting comfortable in
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: those conditions, I thought it was good for us. And
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: I thought that, uh, coming out of this scrimmage of
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: one hundred and twenty plays and having no no injuries,
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: that's a positive. When a lot of teams around the
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: country are having this scrimmage and and guys are going down.
• 23:10
  Speaker 7: So I think it speaks to the conditioning of the team. Uh,
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: the where the kind of where they're at. I thought
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: I'll start on defense. You know, I thought defensively, they
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: really showed up ready to go today. I would probably
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: argue that the last two days, you know you some
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: would argue the offense got the better of the defense.
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: I thought the defense came ready to go today. I
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: think they created four turnovers. I think they they created
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: plenty of third longs. I think they they they rushed
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: the passer, they were sticky and coverage. With that being said,
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: there were there were things that they need to improve
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: upon too. I thought offensively, it just was it was
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: too sloppy for my liking. I feel like we should
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: be better, more efficient from an offensive perspective. You know again,
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: you know that not to say that there weren't some
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: good things, you know, to think that all all three
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: starting wideouts caught touchdowns or at least two of them,
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: I know for sure.
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: I know Emmitt caught two.
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: Excuse me, Ryan Wingo caught one, and then and then
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: Jermaine Burton got one. So the fact that the ball
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: is getting spread around the way that we want to
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: was good. But again, just just too many errors occurring
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: on the offensive side of the ball today. That is
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: uncharacteristic for what we've put on tape in practice, and
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: so we've got to get back to that mentality, regardless
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: if it's a scrimmage format, a practice format, a game format,
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: because the game is going to be here in two weeks.
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: But but all in all, I like.
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: The intent of kind of for the most part of
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: what the majority of the guys brought. There's some guys
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: that need to be better, and that's that's not uncommon
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: to think that every guy is going to come out
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: and just have a great scrimmage every time and go out.
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: That's probably not fair, but it's our job as coaches
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: to get as close as we can to one hundred
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: percent of the guys performing at optimal level.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, we'll hear some more from sark and
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: we'll hear from Ryan Schottenheimer coming up.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Next hour as well.
• 25:03
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• 25:06
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• 25:38
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• 25:59
  Speaker 1: more from Longhorn's head coach Steve Sarkisian, and also from
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer, coming off the Texas scrimmage
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: of the weekend and the Cowboys preseason game. Now, a
• 26:11
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• 26:51
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• 26:56
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• 27:23
  Speaker 3: So I hope that answers that question.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Let's see, okay, question here, and I will preface this
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: by saying I know who this is, because this is
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: the same person who Texas quite often about their displeasure
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: with the Texas offense. I respect their opinion on that.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Don't agree with it, but I do respect it, and
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: therefore I'm more than willing to read their opinion he
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: said two weeks or he or she says two weeks
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: out from the start of the season. The following issues
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: are a little concerning to Texas fans. One players being
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: dismissed from the team due to contact. Is this an
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: example of underlying issues within the team? To the offense
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: continues to show signs of zero improvement from scrimmage to scrimmage?
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Is this result of not.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Hiring an offensive Cornado Tour address the offensive woes of
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: last year.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Okay, let's go point by point.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: First of all, following issues are a little concerning to
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Texas fans. If you're speaking for others other than yourself,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: that's fine, and maybe there are other famis not denying that,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: by the way, but just saying this sounds I know
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: it's concerning to you. To the text or on this
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: players being the players would be incorrect. A player has
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: been dismissed from the team due to conduct, not players.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: A player has meant, so the use of the plural
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: players makes it sound like a collection of them going
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: one guy has been Is this an example of underlying
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: issues within the team? Apparently not from what the little
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: that I do know about it. This goes back to
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: some issues the player. Of course, we're talking about Sayah
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Anthony Smith, who was dismissed from the team. This goes
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: back to some unhappiness that he had expressed and also
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: had lost his starting job at the linebacker spot as well.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: So I think there was some history about it and
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: it led into him. But I do not think it's
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: an example of underlying issues within the team, because when
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: you hear from the other teammates they do the same thing.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: They say that this is a really good group and
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean that everybody is going to be happy. Unfortunately,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: it's going to be the way of the world on
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: that that some folks are going to be disappointed with
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: some of the guys with where they are. You know,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: one thing that Sark does talk about is they'll they
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: have the very real conversations and they sit down with
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: these players and tell them where they are and why
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: they are where they are, and what they need to
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: work on and how to be better in things of
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: that nature. So I think that's more the issue than
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: quote unquote underlying issues. And then the third thing you said,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: show signs of zero improvement from scrimage discriminat We just
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: heard Sark say that there were things he did like
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: about it, so that wouldn't be zero, But there were
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: other things that were sloppy this There was mistakes. I
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: was there, I saw it myself, and that is correct
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: that that's not improvement when those things do happen.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: And you're right, however, and you and I have been on.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Opposite sides of this fence where you say, is that
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: the result of not hiring an offensive coordinator to address
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: the offensive blows of last year? We're never going to
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: agree on that. I know you're a dog with a
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: bone on that deal. I know how you feel about it,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: and that's okay, but we're not going to agree on
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: that that element because I don't think you're going to
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: have a better person in position to call the places
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: on that than sorry, on this football team, as he does.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: But that's okay. That's why I read the text and
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: you're welcome the text any time. Okay, somebody else in
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: talking about this story that has really captured a great
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: deal of the the the imagination, if you will, and
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: certainly the headlines with regard in college football, and that
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: is the Daykuon Wright situation where Daikwon Wright played for
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: a couple of years at Ole Miss and played for
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffen at Old Miss, figured his eligibility was expired.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: We heard that Lane Kiffin SoundBite about that that you
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: know about the eligibility they these players were under the
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: impression that they had no more eligibility remaining, and that's
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: why their next option is going to be to go
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: to the NFL. Failing that not making a team that
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: they were going to have a chance to go back.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: So that's what this day Kalon Wright story has been
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: all about. And the Texter here says, if the definition
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: of a professional athlete is one who gets paid to
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: play a sport, then all Division one athletes are in
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: the minor leagues. Not that I agree, but that line keeps.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Getting more and more blurred, and.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: I agree that it can get blurred. I think it's
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: important to be sure we understand at least how it's
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: legally defined. When the texter says the definition of a
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: professional athlete is one who gets paid to play a sport,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: you're exactly right. The way that it is defined, however,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: is that the student athlete is not being paid to
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: play a sport. The student athlete is being paid for
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: use of their own personal name, image, and likeness. Hence
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: the acronym we got all familiar with nil, name, image,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: and likeness. Not that they're being paid to play football,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: but that are being paid for the use of their name,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: their image, their likeness, selling jerseys you know, at the
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: university shop or at the you know, at the co
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: op or wherever, going in finding a number sixteen manning
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: jersey at academy, name, image, likeness. Now, I totally understand
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: and do not disagree with you about the blurred lines.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: When you say one who gets paid to play a sport,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: then all D one athletes are in the minor leagues.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: It's a good way to describe it. I think it's
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: if it's going to be like that, that that would
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: be the definition of a pro athlete. But where the
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: NCAA has its demarcation comes down a name, image and likeness.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: You're being paid because the university is using your name
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: to put on a jersey, your face on whatever, a
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: T shirt or a cop or or something like that.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: That's where this thrust and parry goes on, if you will,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: with regard to whether they're being paid as a pro athlete.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Now I understand again the blurred lines, and we can
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: certainly discuss even probably not even have to debate, probably
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: be on the same side of the fence as this
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: on the fact that the aforementioned Parker Livingston pays certain
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: amount for his name, image, and likeness to play football
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: at the University of Texas. He came back after the
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: season and wanted a larger amount, to which the university
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: the football program agreed. Then he went to Oklahoma because
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: he was told they would give him more for that name,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: image likeness. They offered him more. He went back to
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: the university, went back to Texas, and they said, we
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: already offered you the rays that you requested. We have
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: allocated our money in other areas now. So he winds
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: up going to Oklahoma, his choice, his decision on that.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: But this is all supposedly done in the name of name,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: image and likeness. That that's what it's all about when
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: in reality we know and I'm not picking on part
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: of Livingston. I mean Texas player at cam Coleman is
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: now on campus. He got the name, image and likeness
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: offer that suited him to come to the University of Texas.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: We all know what that euphemistically means about. Like you said,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: if they're getting paid to play a sport, then it's
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: minor leagues, some would say. Some would argue, in the
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: case of the Cleveland Browns, maybe it's not to minor league.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: About coming back and playing.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: College football from the city that brought you major league
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: on the baseball side.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: And Deshaun Watson as their starting quarterback has was announced
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: this morning. Oh, brother, Deshaun Watson announced as the starting
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: quarterback at the Cleveland Browns.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: That was announced this morning.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: So and we've got people in this building giving up
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: on their own NFC East teams. Myself and the former
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: producer Cameron Parker included, imagine being a Browns fan.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: How difficult would that be? Look, we if and this
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: gets us off track from the daycon Riot thing, but
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: that's okay. I've said this before that if you are
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: an ardent fan of a pro sports team, well, we'll
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: come back to college in a moment. But if you're
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: an ardent fan of a pro sports team, you're probably no, no,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: not probably.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: There's no doubt.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: That you have experienced in your lifetime, especially if you're
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: beyond say thirty five or whatever. But it doesn't have
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: to be that way. I'm just saying, especially more anguish
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: than elation. As a sports fan. You can pick out,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: you can line item some examples. If you were a
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Patriots fan in the first decade of the twenty first century,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: you had very little to be displeased about. Really even
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: the first couple of decades, very little, but there were
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: still some years.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, I hear. I know.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: A good friend mind is John Rook, who is a
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: play by play voice of the Providence Friars. He's also
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: the public address announcer for the New England Patriots. John
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: is a graduate of the University of Texas, by the way,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: started off its broadcast career down here in the state
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: before he went back to his native New England. And
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: John said, you know, as thrilling as it's been to
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: be around the Patriots. And as we talked about this
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: at the Sportscaster Awards, one year, and he said, as
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: cool as it's been. He said, there were years when
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: there was a lot of English for Patriot fans. And
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about pre Belichick, Tom Brady. I mean
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: that has its own decades of misery.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: They never won an AFL title, got to one AFL
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Championship game and got blown out by the Chargers fifty
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: one to ten in nineteen sixty three. They were a
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: wild card team in eighty five and made it to
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and got blown out the Bears forty
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: six to ten in Super Bowl twenty. The fridge, yes,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Walter Payton, the whole bet, yes, Jim McMahon. Super Bowl
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: shuffled a little bit, then the Patriots made it, I
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: guess with Drew Bledsiel quarterback when the lost to the
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Packers and Brett Farv in the Super Bowl. So the
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: productive years were few and far between until the arrival
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: of Belichick and Brady and all that. But even in
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: that period, he said, there were years of anguish. The
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: thing that's always going to stick with them is that
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: two thousand and seven season when they're eighteen and oh
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: going into Super Bowl. I think it was forty two
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: going in the Super Bowl and Eli Manning and the Patriots,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: you know, and they beat him by Eli Manning and
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: the Giants beat the Patriots.
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: The old headline eighteen and no.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So that still sticks in the crawl of a
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: lot of Patriots fans, even with all the Super Bowl wins.
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: Sticks to the helmet, specifically.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: Ah David Tyree.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: But other than those examples, most people have experienced more
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: anguish than elation. If you're a pro sports fan, I mean,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm a fan of the Dodgers, and obviously I'm
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: enjoying the greatest period in their franchise history right now,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: two in a row, trying to go for three in
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: a row, and they may or may not get it
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: or whatever.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: But they didn't win a World Series.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: For thirty two years, from the time I was twenty
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: eight until the time I was sixty, they did not
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: win a World Series. So I have plenty of miserable
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: years and playoff shortcomings and things like that.
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: I'm sure these days people are like, yeah, yeah, Dodger
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: fan complaining, But you're like, no, I've I've got the
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: scars A bunch of receipts here.
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, two generations of waiting and.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: If you're a Braves fan. The Braves won it all
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: finally in ninety five in Atlanta. They won one world title.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: When they were the Boston Braves in nineteen fourteen, they
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: won one world title, and then there when they were
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Braves in nineteen fifty seven, and then they
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: didn't win another one until they were Atlanta Braised in
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one five, and then didn't win another one
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: until twenty twenty two.
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: Or twenty twenty one, twenty twenty one, so.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: They'd have lots of Yankee fans.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Yankees won more World Series than any other franchise twenty
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: seven and they've been sitting on twenty seven since two
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: thousand and nine, so it's been seventeen years since the
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Yankees have won.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: The World Series.
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: Yankee fans in my generation are frustrated.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, because they weren't around for a lot of
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: that stuff. They weren't around for the three Peete or
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: or that very little recollection of the three peat ninety nine,
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: ninety eight through two thousand, which followed by the loss
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: to the Diamondbacks in one and then they had a
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: loss to the Marlins and three you know, lost to
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: World Series that they were favored to win in So
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: my point is is that in all measure pro sports,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: there's going to be more anguish than the resolation. And
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: I will add that that goes through to a lot
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: of fans of college sports teams. When Texas won the
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: national title in football in two thousand and five, my
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: call at the end, I said, a championship thirty five
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: years in the waiting, eight years in the building under
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Bac Brown. It was thirty five years. It's been twenty
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: one since then. So yes, logrun fans are anxious about that.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: There's other programs that are anxious. Heck, Greg Sankie's probably
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: getting a little bit antsy there with three straight wins
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: by the Big Ten, right, that's happening.
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: Eight ten's talking a lot of smack this offseason.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: Hey, they have scoreboard right now.
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: AP voters not giving the SEC a lot of respect.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: Big ten has scoreboard. In fact, there was a piece
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: in the Athletica read this morning about if they did
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: kind of like how the the SEC and the ACC
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: would do that basketball challenge. What would happen if they
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: had that for football and they had two riders to
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: do a one?
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Had it ten to six big ten the other head
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: at nine to seven sec.
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: Very productive exercise, clearly.
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Right, So they're like Ohio State against Georgia, at Texas
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: against Oregon. Both of them had Ohio State winning. Both
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: of them had Oregon winning beating Texas. So in other words,
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: they've got scoreboard right now. So they're going to do
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: they have the right to chirp. I suppose with regard
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: to that, all right, coming up more to hear from
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: Sark and from Brian chotmammer when we continue on thirteen
• 43:33
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• 43:53
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• 43:56
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• 43:59
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• 44:03
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• 44:14
  Speaker 9: Hey, Greg, I understand a great complainity with what you're
• 44:17
  Speaker 9: saying about the NIL money. But the nimail money was
• 44:21
  Speaker 9: there before the university started getting this twenty million dollars
• 44:26
  Speaker 9: per team money too. And that's not for nil, now,
• 44:29
  Speaker 9: is it. I mean, if you could clarify that, I surely.
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: Would appreciate it.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: Sure that had no Yeah, that had to do with
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: a house settlement there on the money that was being
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: So that's you know, what that's turned out to be
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: is more of a guidepost really for athletic programs. There
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: are many many college programs spending a lot more than
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: that with regard to NIL.
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: And that's what folks are calling for more strict regulation
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: of in part with this Save or Protect College Sports
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: Act that keeps you know, spinning its wheels on Capitol Hill.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Right right, And that's where it is right now. Here's
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: some more from Sark. First of all, was asked about
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: the symmetry and maybe this goes a little bit to
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: what the text was asked about with regard to the
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: offense and the struggle and the scrimmage on Saturday. Sark
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: here on the symmetry of the offensive line and the
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: concerns that he has over the continuity that they as
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: a unit on the offensive line have I.
• 45:26
  Speaker 7: Mean, I would I would agree with you on that
• 45:29
  Speaker 7: that it's always great when you have that continuity for
• 45:33
  Speaker 7: an entirety of training camp. But I also know that
• 45:38
  Speaker 7: like Andre Kojo's getting some invaluable reps at left tackle
• 45:42
  Speaker 7: right now, and if he goes into the season, which
• 45:45
  Speaker 7: it's looking like as our third tackle, the fact that
• 45:48
  Speaker 7: he's getting.
• 45:48
  Speaker 8: These quality reps right now with the ones.
• 45:53
  Speaker 7: And having a block you know, calling and Lance and
• 45:56
  Speaker 7: Xena and these guys and you know, Rahem and Bile's
• 45:59
  Speaker 7: coming off the edge, I think those are those are
• 46:00
  Speaker 7: great opportunities for him. You know, naturally at left guard,
• 46:05
  Speaker 7: you know, it's been a pretty healthy competition. So the
• 46:08
  Speaker 7: idea that you know, Dylan and Jackson are getting you know,
• 46:11
  Speaker 7: one reps there at left guard.
• 46:13
  Speaker 8: Lawrence will be back Monday, and we.
• 46:16
  Speaker 7: Could we have had him back and and and and
• 46:19
  Speaker 7: kind of held him some. Sure, but my idea was
• 46:22
  Speaker 7: let's just rest him completely, Let's get him, let's get
• 46:24
  Speaker 7: him rehab and then get him back full steam on Monday.
• 46:28
  Speaker 7: And Trevor, I think is making really good progress. So
• 46:30
  Speaker 7: I do think we're going to get the left side back,
• 46:33
  Speaker 7: But on the same token, I do think these reps
• 46:36
  Speaker 7: are good for these guys because knock on wood, I
• 46:38
  Speaker 7: don't know if, when, what, how when injuries might occur
• 46:41
  Speaker 7: in season, and the fact that these guys are getting
• 46:44
  Speaker 7: some reps with our ones against high level defenders, I
• 46:47
  Speaker 7: think is good for them preparing them for the season.
• 46:51
  Speaker 8: So again, I'm not naive.
• 46:52
  Speaker 7: I would love to have, you know, continuity, five guys
• 46:55
  Speaker 7: all training camp long.
• 46:57
  Speaker 8: I don't know how realistic that is.
• 46:58
  Speaker 7: That guys aren't going to be down on some but
• 47:01
  Speaker 7: at some point we're gonna want them all back and
• 47:03
  Speaker 7: we're gonna want them all working well together. And I
• 47:06
  Speaker 7: think part of that will start Monday, when when we
• 47:08
  Speaker 7: get Lawrence back on Monday, and then we'll see what
• 47:10
  Speaker 7: when we can get Trevor back.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Next, ask to elaborate on ty Anthony
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: Smith's departure from the team or or you know, at
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: this point being dismissed from the team.
• 47:22
  Speaker 7: He was dismissed conduct detrimental of the team, and that
• 47:26
  Speaker 7: that's just what it is. I did. I didn't like it.
• 47:29
  Speaker 7: It's not it's an unfortunate situation, you know, for him individually,
• 47:34
  Speaker 7: I again, I hate that for us as a team.
• 47:38
  Speaker 7: I hate that he's a quality player. But but I
• 47:41
  Speaker 7: have to think about the team first from from the
• 47:44
  Speaker 7: linebacker perspective. You know, when you when you really think
• 47:46
  Speaker 7: about it and you think about the amount of nickel
• 47:49
  Speaker 7: you really play in season and what that looks like,
• 47:54
  Speaker 7: you know, you're thinking about two backers the majority of
• 47:56
  Speaker 7: time on the field. You want as many healthy, good
• 47:59
  Speaker 7: players as you can have at every position, right, But
• 48:02
  Speaker 7: but part of this is, you know, we recruit some
• 48:05
  Speaker 7: high level people too, and how fast can we get
• 48:08
  Speaker 7: them ready to go? And we've got three really good
• 48:10
  Speaker 7: young players and Cozy Ak Paula had a great interception
• 48:13
  Speaker 7: today that probably returned.
• 48:14
  Speaker 8: For a touchdown. So those guys are coming.
• 48:17
  Speaker 7: But but we also know we've got great experience and
• 48:20
  Speaker 7: in Crier and Biles and and Brad Spence is an
• 48:23
  Speaker 7: experienced guy who gives us a position flex and versatility.
• 48:28
  Speaker 8: But guys are going to have to grow into into.
• 48:30
  Speaker 7: Certain roles and then you know, I think, I think,
• 48:33
  Speaker 7: you know, when we do want to go into our
• 48:34
  Speaker 7: base package, that we've got the right people on the field,
• 48:37
  Speaker 7: whether how many how many snaps of game that really
• 48:40
  Speaker 7: is depending on the opponent.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: Next, he was asked about another guy, and this is
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: part of the reason ultimately, with the departure of ty
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: Anthony Smith is the guy who kind of supplanted him
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: as the starter at that linebacker spot, and that's the
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: Florida State trans for Justin Cryer, and Stargar's very happy
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: with the progress he should.
• 49:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I think one thing, you know, every player,
• 49:04
  Speaker 7: you know, when they come into our program, whether they're
• 49:07
  Speaker 7: transfers or freshmen, whatever, that looks like everybody's kind of
• 49:12
  Speaker 7: path and journey is always a little bit different than others.
• 49:16
  Speaker 7: I will say this about Justin Kryer. This guy is
• 49:19
  Speaker 7: doing everything in his power to maximize this opportunity this
• 49:24
  Speaker 7: season for his personal growth and success, but also to
• 49:29
  Speaker 7: be part of a championship caliber team. And you can
• 49:32
  Speaker 7: feel it in the way that he walks into the
• 49:35
  Speaker 7: building every single day, his intent and meetings, his intent
• 49:39
  Speaker 7: and culture Wednesdays, his intent and walkthroughs, his ability to
• 49:43
  Speaker 7: communicate coach muss Champs defense, the way he practices, the
• 49:51
  Speaker 7: level of intensity that he plays at. And I think
• 49:55
  Speaker 7: that's why his teammates raise so much about him. This
• 49:59
  Speaker 7: guy has squeezed seeing every ounce of juice that he
• 50:02
  Speaker 7: can out of this opportunity to be at Texas. Uh,
• 50:05
  Speaker 7: and it's it's greatly appreciated, and I think it serves
• 50:08
  Speaker 7: as a great model for a lot of the other transfers.
• 50:11
  Speaker 7: Like this guy didn't wait and feel it, feel it
• 50:14
  Speaker 7: out to like where do I fit in. He's gone
• 50:16
  Speaker 7: for it, and I think he's reaping the benefits of it.
• 50:19
  Speaker 7: He's playing at a high level for.
• 50:21
  Speaker 8: Us right now.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: Next, Stark was asked about arch banning as he is
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: after every practice and and uh, the the growth that
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: he has shown, not only you know, through the scrimmages,
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: but also throughout the course of the spring, end of
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: the summer, in the fall camp.
• 50:35
  Speaker 7: I thought he had a really good week of practice.
• 50:37
  Speaker 7: I mean there was you know, especially yesterday Friday. We
• 50:42
  Speaker 7: did a bunch of situational stuff, move the field. I
• 50:44
  Speaker 7: thought he was I thought he played very efficiently. I
• 50:48
  Speaker 7: felt like today, similar to last week, at the start,
• 50:52
  Speaker 7: a little bit ineffishent you know, I feel like he
• 50:55
  Speaker 7: could be he could be better, But I love the
• 50:57
  Speaker 7: way that he finished. I mean to to touchdown was
• 51:00
  Speaker 7: there at the end in a highly competitive situation. Touchdown
• 51:04
  Speaker 7: to wingo touchdown to Mosley, and so you know, I
• 51:07
  Speaker 7: think he played I don't know, fifty or so fifty
• 51:10
  Speaker 7: some odd snaps today close to if not more, you know,
• 51:15
  Speaker 7: and had a few touchdown passes. You know, I think
• 51:18
  Speaker 7: there's some opportunities in there when he watches a tape,
• 51:20
  Speaker 7: scrimmage is always hard, where maybe he can use his
• 51:22
  Speaker 7: legs more. And I think we all know the value
• 51:25
  Speaker 7: of him using those legs, especially in some of those
• 51:27
  Speaker 7: third down scenarios, fourth down even for that matter. But again,
• 51:33
  Speaker 7: I was kind of thinking about this walking up to
• 51:36
  Speaker 7: the press conference, and Arch is no different than the
• 51:38
  Speaker 7: wide outs of the lineman or the dbs, the linebackers.
• 51:41
  Speaker 8: I always have to remind myself that, you.
• 51:44
  Speaker 7: Know, we're nearly three weeks into camp and we're we're
• 51:48
  Speaker 7: a little fatigued. I'll be I'll be quite frank. You
• 51:50
  Speaker 7: know that we're working hard, and those guys are working hard,
• 51:53
  Speaker 7: and you could feel a little a little physical fatigue
• 51:57
  Speaker 7: and maybe a little mental fatigue. You know, I felt
• 51:59
  Speaker 7: a little bit from Arch today, and that's that's not
• 52:02
  Speaker 7: that's not uncommon, and that's you know, we're working hard,
• 52:05
  Speaker 7: we're in the heat, we're pushing ourselves. We'll obviously switch
• 52:08
  Speaker 7: gears this coming week to more of a mock week.
• 52:12
  Speaker 7: School starts Monday. We'll be exclusively practicing in the morning.
• 52:15
  Speaker 7: We'll treat it like a game week, and so we'll
• 52:17
  Speaker 7: find that rhythm and routine of you know, base install,
• 52:21
  Speaker 7: third down, install, red area, two minutes, so on and
• 52:23
  Speaker 7: so forth throughout the week while the mock game Saturday,
• 52:26
  Speaker 7: then we'll do it again.
• 52:26
  Speaker 8: Texas State Week.
• 52:27
  Speaker 7: So I think it's important for us as a staff
• 52:30
  Speaker 7: this week to get legs back, get guys a little
• 52:33
  Speaker 7: bit more fresh physically, a little bit more fresh mentally.
• 52:37
  Speaker 8: And I'm I know I'm answering a question.
• 52:38
  Speaker 7: About arch but I think arch Is is a great
• 52:40
  Speaker 7: kind of microcosm of the team that you could feel
• 52:44
  Speaker 7: a little bit of that today to where you know,
• 52:46
  Speaker 7: I think that that we can be a little more energized,
• 52:48
  Speaker 7: a little more sharp. I think he can too, and
• 52:52
  Speaker 7: that that'll that'll lend itself to a little bit more
• 52:54
  Speaker 7: of a complete positive performance. There was a lot of
• 52:57
  Speaker 7: positive things today, but we're always strying having for a
• 53:00
  Speaker 7: complete positive performance.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: Sark was also asked about the types of practice the
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: running and would he like to see the NFL style
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: joint practices like what the Cowboys did with the Saints
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: minus the fisticov uh and uh or even preseason games.
• 53:16
  Speaker 7: I surely real don't want joint practices because I think
• 53:19
  Speaker 7: it's disgusting when I turn on ESPN every night and
• 53:22
  Speaker 7: I watch fights from every joint practice. You know, it's
• 53:24
  Speaker 7: like the players know if we get in a fight,
• 53:26
  Speaker 7: they'll stop practice and so we get to go home.
• 53:28
  Speaker 8: That's what it looks like in the NFL to me.
• 53:30
  Speaker 8: So that's my soapbox on that one.
• 53:32
  Speaker 7: You guys can write that however you want. Is there
• 53:36
  Speaker 7: is there room for a exhibition or preseason game?
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: Uh?
• 53:41
  Speaker 7: Maybe you know with officials and do the whole thing.
• 53:43
  Speaker 7: And I think the majority of us in those types
• 53:47
  Speaker 7: of games probably would hold a lot of our elite
• 53:51
  Speaker 7: type players, but it would be a serve as a
• 53:54
  Speaker 7: great opportunity for a lot of the younger guys to
• 53:56
  Speaker 7: be in more game like settings. We try to create
• 53:59
  Speaker 7: those in scrimmage forms, but it wouldn't be bad to
• 54:01
  Speaker 7: be able to create some of those settings for your
• 54:03
  Speaker 7: younger players just to get used to what a game
• 54:06
  Speaker 7: feels like rather than just relying on that first ball
• 54:10
  Speaker 7: game when you when you run out of the tunnel,
• 54:12
  Speaker 7: and here we go. We got to go play in
• 54:13
  Speaker 7: front of one hundred and five thousand people, and you
• 54:16
  Speaker 7: hope the guy lines upright and hope he gets the
• 54:18
  Speaker 7: right check on defense, and we don't blow coverages and
• 54:21
  Speaker 7: we run the right routes right, And so I do
• 54:23
  Speaker 7: think there may be something to that.
• 54:25
  Speaker 8: I would say this, though, we got a.
• 54:27
  Speaker 7: Hell of a lot more issues in college football going
• 54:29
  Speaker 7: on right now than that, So I think we should
• 54:31
  Speaker 7: focus on what's right in front of us. Then you know,
• 54:34
  Speaker 7: our scrimmages are okay for right now, We'll be.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, all right. We're gonna hear more from
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: sar coming up next hour. Well, here's some from Ryan
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: Shannamber next on thirteen under the Zone, Jake Carmin the
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: prouser getting nearly chump on yacht rock here. Well, maybe
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: come back from the player that's right in the wheelhouse
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: at right.
• 54:57
  Speaker 5: Hey, how about the.
• 54:59
  Speaker 4: Sentiment though, I mean players coming back to schools all
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: across the country.
• 55:04
  Speaker 5: You got more and more guys say they're going to
• 55:06
  Speaker 5: go back.
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: To college, no doubt about it.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: Not so with those Dallas Cowboys getting ready for the
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: coming season. Coming off the Saturday night win over the
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals, Brian shot Memmer was asked about how important
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: is it for guys to be playing in preseason and
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: winning in preseason?
• 55:24
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I think, you know, the wins are great. I've
• 55:28
  Speaker 10: always thought, because my dad said it, the preseason record
• 55:32
  Speaker 10: is never remembered. But I think what we've show in
• 55:35
  Speaker 10: the last two games is there's a play style about
• 55:37
  Speaker 10: this team, whoever's in the game, and that's one of physicality, effort,
• 55:42
  Speaker 10: playing together.
• 55:43
  Speaker 11: And I do think that we played that.
• 55:45
  Speaker 10: Way tonight for really four quarters, and I'm proud of
• 55:49
  Speaker 10: guys for that.
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good.
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: I mentioned the other day when the Texans had the
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: big lead, then the Raiders came back and won the game.
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: That was your classic preseason had another one last night.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: By the way, if anybody saw the Seahawks and Titans,
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: Seahawks pretty much controlled the first half and then the
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: Titans backups were better than the sea Hawks backups in
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: won the game.
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: So anyway that happens all that.
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: How about his thoughts on the quarterback situation? Now, it
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: looked like those of us who were watching on Saturday,
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: it looked like Joe Milton took command of the race
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: for the backup spot behind Dak Prescott, ahead of Sam Howe.
• 56:29
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, you know again, I think you know,
• 56:32
  Speaker 10: Joe's put together two really really good halfs. You know,
• 56:36
  Speaker 10: Sam really made one mistake, you know, down in the
• 56:38
  Speaker 10: red zone. You know, kind of got fooled on one
• 56:40
  Speaker 10: and turned it over. That can't happen. But you know
• 56:42
  Speaker 10: this is long from over and uh, you know, going
• 56:45
  Speaker 10: back to Frisco thankfully and get a chance to be
• 56:48
  Speaker 10: home and put some more training camp days in. But uh,
• 56:53
  Speaker 10: got to give Joe's credit, he's played really well the
• 56:55
  Speaker 10: last two games. But we have a lot of conferences
• 56:57
  Speaker 10: Sam as well.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Milton also in a long past that there's that
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: man again, Camden Brown.
• 57:02
  Speaker 10: And how about the shot these thoughts on that, Yeah,
• 57:05
  Speaker 10: I think you know, it's funny because we you know,
• 57:07
  Speaker 10: we threw the double move to Mingo off of a
• 57:10
  Speaker 10: timeout and that was kind of the last reminder that
• 57:12
  Speaker 10: Steve Shimko gave him as Hey, you know, put good
• 57:14
  Speaker 10: air on it.
• 57:15
  Speaker 11: And Joe's been doing that.
• 57:16
  Speaker 10: I mean, he's just you know, the fade to cam
• 57:18
  Speaker 10: Brown last game, you know, under duress. You know, this
• 57:22
  Speaker 10: game is about, you know, control of the RPMs of
• 57:24
  Speaker 10: you of the football and throw it with different speeds
• 57:27
  Speaker 10: and touches, and he's done that at a really high level.
• 57:30
  Speaker 10: But I thought the scramble to his left to Cam
• 57:33
  Speaker 10: was a was a big play as well.
• 57:34
  Speaker 11: And then you know, was able to get in with
• 57:35
  Speaker 11: his legs.
• 57:36
  Speaker 10: So the touchdown to the lak, you know, stepped up
• 57:37
  Speaker 10: in the pocket, you know, run into his left just
• 57:39
  Speaker 10: kind of just from me to you a little bit,
• 57:41
  Speaker 10: you know, and he just kind of, you know, took
• 57:43
  Speaker 10: a little.
• 57:43
  Speaker 11: Something off and gave him a leak a chance to
• 57:44
  Speaker 11: catch him and go.
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: So really proud of him. Okay, all right. Then there's
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: that battle for that backup running back spot, and that
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: includes Jayden Blue, who had kind of a little bit
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: of a Sports Center move there when he hurtled one
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: would be tackler there.
• 57:58
  Speaker 10: But his thoughts on Blue, Yeah, we wanted to see him.
• 58:01
  Speaker 10: He always been banged up a little bit. He had
• 58:02
  Speaker 10: a shoulder, and we wanted to see how you would do.
• 58:05
  Speaker 10: But I thought, again, I want to see the film,
• 58:06
  Speaker 10: but I thought he ran hard and we wanted to
• 58:08
  Speaker 10: lean on him early in the third quarter and see
• 58:10
  Speaker 10: how he did. But you know, all in all, I
• 58:12
  Speaker 10: thought he ran well, had some really nice runs, a
• 58:14
  Speaker 10: couple eleven twelve yards. I thought they were really good.
• 58:17
  Speaker 10: But he ran physically, which I think is important.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: Which is important when you're trying to bounce back from
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: injury and dealing with the competition that Blues involved with.
• 58:27
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I think I think he feels the competition. I
• 58:30
  Speaker 10: think he feels the fact that this is a deep room.
• 58:33
  Speaker 10: I mean, you know, I can't step up to a
• 58:36
  Speaker 10: podium and answer a question about the running back room
• 58:38
  Speaker 10: without mentioning Izzy.
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: I mean.
• 58:39
  Speaker 10: And then film Offa has a touchdown and Malik is
• 58:42
  Speaker 10: what he is and Jaden you know, so these guys
• 58:44
  Speaker 10: got to go. I mean, you know, and it's a
• 58:48
  Speaker 10: it's been fun for us to watch him, you know,
• 58:49
  Speaker 10: in past protection. But yeah, you don't practice. It's hard
• 58:53
  Speaker 10: to go in there and perform the way he did.
• 58:55
  Speaker 10: So that's progression for him and something that he should
• 58:58
  Speaker 10: take a lot of pride in.
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, and then Jonathan Bingo caught a big
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: touchdown pass.
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: He had another one of those young cowboy receivers.
• 59:07
  Speaker 10: Yeah, he's playing with so much confidence. You know, Calvin
• 59:10
  Speaker 10: and each week in and out, you know, beating man
• 59:14
  Speaker 10: to man. The double move was awesome. But the confidence
• 59:17
  Speaker 10: is real and he knows he belongs and he knows
• 59:20
  Speaker 10: that he can, you know, make plays. But you know,
• 59:24
  Speaker 10: he's back returning kicks, he's making tackles on special teams.
• 59:27
  Speaker 11: Like he's a football player.
• 59:29
  Speaker 10: And I don't think I could have said that about
• 59:30
  Speaker 10: him when we got him, you know, two years ago
• 59:32
  Speaker 10: or whatever it was.
• 59:33
  Speaker 11: But he made no mistakes. He is a damn good
• 59:35
  Speaker 11: football player.
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Well, here's some more from Shotty next hour,
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: and and that you know, also being packaged with the
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: fact that we're going to visit with Roshawn Johnson next
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: hour as well, who, of course now is getting ready
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: to start his fourth season with the Chicago Bears after
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: you know, his time at the University of Texas. All right,
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: coming up next, we'll be back to wrap up our
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: number two of the program here on sports Radio AM
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: thirteen under the Zone of the iHeartRadio app third and
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: final hour of the program here on Sports Radio AM
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: thirteen under the Zone with you on a Monday afternoon. Hey,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: if you've done it five, you're on the home stretch.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: Even if you've done at six, at least you're on
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: the backside of the first day of the work week.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: Glad to have you with us here. We're gonna hear
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: some more here coming up in just a moment from
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: Long One's head coach Steve Sarkasian.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: We'll do that.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: Also some more from Ryan Schottenheimer, the Cowboys head coach Dallas,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: coming off the win against the Arizona Cardinals. Do you know,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: Jay Carmon, the last time the Cowboys started a preseason
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: with a two and oh mark? Even though you didn't
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: grow up a Cowboys fan, which would you happen to
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: know that? A little historical tidbit, No, it is. It
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: can't be that long ago.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: Years.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: Wow, it's been nineteen years since they started two and
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: oh in the preseason. The last time it happened was
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: two thousand and seven. And what happened that year? I
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: think they started eight and oh. They started off it.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: They were being coached by Wade Phillips, won the NFC
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: East and then got upset late in the game by
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: Eli Manning and the Giants, who went on to win
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and ruined the Patriots. Unbeaten start that's
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: the last time the Cowboys started too, and oh in
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: the preseason, how about that?
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: So maybe it's good things.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: Everything that I'm hearing from Cowboys camp is that there's
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: a different feel, there's a different mindset, all that other
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: kind of stuff.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: There's that.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: We'll get back to that a little bit later.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: Let's cut the Longhorns, because coming up in a few minutes,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: we're gonna visit with a lifetime long horn, Rosehawn Johnson,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: the former Law one running back who is getting ready
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: to start his four season with the Chicago Bears, and
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: Row will be with us and we'll ask him about
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: going into the into his fourth season. We'll ask him also,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: you're gonna you're gonna hear a SoundBite from sark here
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: where he invokes the name Roshan Johnson. We'll ask him
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: a little bit about that and about the initiative that
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: he really backs and believes in as well. If you
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: haven't heard about this brain vault, I think we'll we'll
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: let you hear and let him explain what that's all
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: about as well. All right, as I mentioned the long Worns,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: of course, come off the scrimmage on Saturday, and we've
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: already heard some things from Sark about the scrimmage, what
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: he liked, what he didn't like, and as they get
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: ready and heading down the home stretch of fall camp.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: But one of the guys who is starting to earn
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: some trust with Sark and this team on that offensive
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: front of Andre Kojo, Yeah.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 8: I think, I think, I don't.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 7: I don't want to say people forget, but you know,
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 7: just as a reminder, you know, a year ago, this
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 7: guy's competing to be our starting right tackle with Brandon
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 7: Baker and and and he was, and he was, and
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 7: he's doing well, and you know, then he gets injured,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 7: which was unfortunate, and you know, it's a long road
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 7: back from that injury. And so the fact that you
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 7: know he worked the way that he worked, he you know,
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 7: he's got his weight to where you know, he's a
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 7: big man, but he he's lying on his.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 8: Feet, he can move, he's explosive.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 7: I think now the biggest thing that he learned coming
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 7: out of today is the mental and physical conditioning you
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 7: have to have to do it for fifty sixty seventy
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 7: snaps consistently, especially against high caliber, high level players that
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 7: that you know he's having to go against and block,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 7: you know, every single play, and so again I think
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 7: he's making you know, incremental progress each day.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 8: I thought he's had a good week of practice.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 7: You know, I would I would argue there was two
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 7: or three days this week you didn't notice that it
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 7: was him at left tackle, And that's a great thing
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 7: as an offensive lineman. When you're not noticing who it is,
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 7: that just means that guy's doing his job really well. So, hey,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 7: he's got still got room to grow and still can
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 7: can continue to improve. But I have been I have
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 7: been pleased with his ability to step in at that position,
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 7: and I think it gives us confidence for the future
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 7: if something were to occur that he could step in
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 7: and play well for us.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: One of the other things that Sark was talking about
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: was the intensity that he wants to see for practice.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: This was something he said this morning after media availability
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: about the importance of what he's looking for out of
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: his guys from say the examples that were set from
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: players who were here before they were.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I will say this, We've been practicing
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 7: really hard, Cedric Like, it's been physical, it's been tough.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 7: They these guys like to practice and so you can
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 7: get a real sense and a feel of real speed,
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 7: what real speed looks like. Because we're practicing fast, we're
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 7: practicing hard, we're practicing physical. And when you don't right now,
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 7: you stand out. You know, it used to be the
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 7: other way around here we first got started. You know,
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 7: when demarga An Overshown or Roshawn Johnson practiced really hard,
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 7: they stood out because maybe not everybody else was. Now
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 7: everybody else goes really hard, and so when you're not,
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 7: you stand out the other way.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 8: And so it's easy, it's easy to fix, it's easy
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 8: to rectify.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 7: But I don't know necessarily that it's as difficult to
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 7: evaluate because of just the way these guys work in practice.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: Which then brings us back to something that Sark was
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: talking about after the scrimmage on Saturday, about how important
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: it is for his players to prepare properly, not only
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: when they're on the practice field, but to prepare properly
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: for each practice.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 7: I think the most practical thing is right their body, Okay,
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 7: and so you think about how are they fueling their
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 7: body right? What food are they putting in their body
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 7: for for this type of these types of conditions, what
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 7: type of what type of you know, electrolytes and water,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 7: and how are they fueling their body from a hydration standpoint?
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 8: What does their sleep look like?
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 7: Right, And so you're trying to educate them on taking
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 7: care of their body from food, hydration, sleep.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 8: I think that's the first part.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 7: And if they do that, then they then they've kind
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 7: of fueled their body up with the right things to
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 7: then make sure they got a full tank of gas.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 7: And that full take a gas isn't only physical, it's mental.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 7: And when you when you when you feel fresh, when
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 7: you feel like you're hydrated, you've got you got the
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 7: right type of food in your system. You walk in
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 7: the building with a little different energy. And I think
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 7: that's what these elements require. They take an energy about
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 7: you individually and collectively to where you use the heat
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 7: to your advantage.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 8: The heat should be our friend. We're used to it.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 7: It's a it's an advantage to us if we use
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 7: it the right way.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 8: How do you use it the right way?
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 7: You got to You got to prepare for it, and
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 7: you've got to prepare for it physically and mentally so
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 7: that we can absorb that heat and use it in
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 7: a way that is a positive for us.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: So coming out of the scrimmage, out of the things
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: that he liked and he didn't like, what did Sarta say?
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: It was the number one thing coming out of the
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: scrimmage that he wanted to see cleaned up from his team.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: Just one.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 7: Let me get one, oh man, the ball. It's always
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 7: the ball. Like I can't I can't impress upon everybody enough.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 7: And I know everybody wants some you know, intricate answer
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 7: about something. But I'll tell you it doesn't matter what
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 7: eleven guys are out there on offense. It doesn't matter
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 7: well eleven guys are out there on defense. If we
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 7: can possess the ball and if we can create turnovers,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 7: we give ourselves an enormous chance to win the game.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 8: The numbers just tell us.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: So.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 7: I think in the SEC last year, if you won
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 7: the turnover battle, eighty percent of the time, you won
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 7: the game. Like, just think about that stat alone. If
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 7: you win the turnover battle in our conference eighty percent
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 7: of that you have an eighty percent chance to win
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 7: the game. I think the last time we lost a
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 7: game where we won the turnover battle was the alimable. Like,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 7: just just put that into perspective. It's like, that's how
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 7: valuable the ball is. That's how valuable turnovers are. And
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 7: so walking out of today with four turnovers, I love
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 7: it from a defensive perspective. I hate it from an
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 7: offensive perspective, right, And that's that's this, Like you know,
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 7: tug of war you have as a head coach, because
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 7: I want us to continue to attack the ball and
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 7: put pressure on our offense to take care of it.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 8: But I also know, man, we have got to protect
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 8: that ball with our life.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 7: It's it's two of the last three national champions. We're
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 7: number one in the country in turnover margin. To put
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 7: that into perspective too, So I'm just giving you some
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 7: sheer numbers that when you start talking about the value
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 7: of the ball and what it means to winning and
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 7: losing games. That's what's on my mind, probably more than
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 7: anything is is making sure that we take care of
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 7: it offensively and that we keep finding ways to generate
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 7: turnovers on defense.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: And then there's one other thing I want to I
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: wanted to reiterate.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: This is something we brought to you in a two
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: o'clock hour, and it was something that came from this
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: morning's media availability. By now you've you've you've probably especially
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: if you you know, watch Sports Center and seeing this
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: whole thing about Daiklon Wright being released by the Cleveland Browns.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: Daikwon White, right, played for Lane kiffinet Ole Miss and
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: now his intent is to transfer to LSU. Now, there's
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: a lot of things in play here. First of all,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: there is an SEC rule that prohibits players from inferring
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: intra conference in from one to the other. But this
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: is looked at, at least from their perspective de Kwon
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: Wright's camp and his agent, and I'm sure Lane given
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: as well differently, because he went to try out in
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: the NFL, didn't work out, was released. Therefore, he should
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: be able to return to college for his senior year.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: So that's where the debate is and where this ultimately
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: winds up down the road. We'll find out soon enough
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: from the SEC and from others as well. In the meantime,
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: Sark was asked today for his thoughts on this. Is
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: it continuing what many have referred to as wild wild
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: West approach by schools? Is it a good thing? Is
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: it a bad thing for college football? Sark was asked
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: about that after today's practice.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 7: I don't even know you know this stuff is we
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 7: are like changing every day right now. It feels like
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 7: almost every three hours, you know, there's a new message
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  Speaker 7: from Commissioner Sankie about something or something that somebody's reporting
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  Speaker 7: in the media that this is what might occur or
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  Speaker 7: what's occurring. I think it's important for us here, especially
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  Speaker 7: like we have a really good team, and focusing on
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  Speaker 7: our team to me is paramount and the most important
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 7: thing right now. Anything auxiliary outside of that. I'm not
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 7: in so much of a rush to say, oh, let's
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 7: go do that now, or let's go do that now.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 7: Like I like our team, if and or when, if
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 7: there's something that popped up to where we could upgrade it, great,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 7: but we don't even know. Like today you can take
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 7: them tomorrow you can't. I don't know what's gonna happen.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 7: And I don't even know if it's good or not.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 7: I'll be honest with you, I don't know if it's
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 7: good because like for us, I know, we've got a
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  Speaker 7: locker room full of guys who have been working together
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 7: and their connectivity is so good for the last eight months.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 7: Is it worth Is it worth rocking that boat? You know,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 7: by bringing somebody in that is it from me? With
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 7: your program, Cole was a little different. He's been with
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 7: our program for four years. He knows who we are,
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 7: he knows coach Flood, he knows.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 8: Those guys in that room.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 7: To bring in a true outsider and to think like
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 7: all of a sudden, he's gonna be our quarterback, like
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 7: I don't know how to do that, Like I wouldn't
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 7: know how to do that. And I get every situation
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 7: is a little bit different, and maybe there's better coaches
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 7: out there than us, you know, But I just think
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 7: it's a delicate situation. The powers that be are are
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 7: ultimately going to get to a final decision, and then
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 7: when the final decisions made, then we're gonna have choices
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 7: to make, or maybe we will have no choices to make.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 7: I don't know, you know what we'll have to find out.
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  Speaker 1: I know for sure we're gonna hear more about all
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: this in the coming days, and we'll hear more from
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: start tomorrow on the program as well. Let me jump
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: to the Cowboys real quick. Coming off the win of
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals after the game and seeing several different guys
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: really step up at the wide receiver spot. Clearly they're
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: making the decision for Schottenheimer and for his offensive staff
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: more difficult to decide how many wide receivers, he thinks,
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: so keep yeah.
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  Speaker 10: You know, we'll start playing those numbers games here in
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 10: a couple of weeks. And uh, but it's talented room,
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  Speaker 10: you know. And uh, you know, it's like I said,
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 10: I'm proud of of the Joneses and Jerry and Steven
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 10: and Will McClay and the personnel group. I mean, we're
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 10: a much better football team on paper. But the play
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 10: style is right and that's what these guys will even know.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 10: And it's cool when you're when you're young guys or
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 10: the guys that are battling do that. It puts a
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 10: lot of fun pressure on the vets because they got
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 10: to step up and do the same thing, which I
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 10: know they will.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: And one other from Shotti, Uh, one thing that's been
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: described differently. I mentioned in the Cowboys is a different field.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: But the other thing is the depth thing, whether you're
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: talking about a running back or in the defense and
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: the overall depth and shot members ask how much different
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: does the depth of this football team feel when compared
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: to last season's team.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean I think, you know, we can all
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 10: do the do the assignment and put the two depth
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 10: charts down next to each other last year this time
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 10: and and today this time, and you know, taking nothing
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 10: away from our football team last year. You know, we're
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 10: more talented on paper, and I'm really excited about the
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 10: defense and the way they're playing. And you know, you
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 10: sit twenty nine guys and you're still able to do
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 10: what we're able to do.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 11: You're getting those.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 10: Guys invaluable reps to help us make these these decisions.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 10: It will be very tough decisions.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: So there's Brian shot Hiber will hear more from Cowboys
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: and Texans throughout the course of this week as they
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: head toward their final preseason games. Coming up next, we
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: visit with Roe Shawn Johnson, the former Longborn and now
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: Chicago Bear. When we continue on this Monday afternoon on
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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone, and.
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  Speaker 12: Welcome back to the Craig Way Show and the voice
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 12: of the Longhorns. Craig Way. Follow Craig on social media
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 12: and boys, we.
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  Speaker 5: Want to be back to the program this afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: It's not often that we come back from a break
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: here on The Craigway Show with Texas fight. Even though
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: we are the flagship station of the long Horns, even
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: though I am the play by play voice of the
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: long Horns, we don't do it that often, but we
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: do it.
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  Speaker 2: On special occasion.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: We do have special location there because we're visiting with
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: a lifetime Longhorn, a guy who not only is the
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: pride of Port Arthur, Texas and certainly a big pride
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: of the Texas Longhorns, but making a lot of people
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: proud of what he's doing with the Chicago Bears in
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: the NFL. Roshawn Johnson joins us now row, I appreciate
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: the time, and especially as training camp is winding down
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: and you guys are getting ready for the start of
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: the season.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: How you holding up through all this?
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, man, thanks for having me on. Craig feeling good man.
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  Speaker 13: I'm just you know, glad to be up and healthy
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 13: and you know, back playing ball again and looking to
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 13: make some noise this season.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm just glad to be back.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: I want you to hear a sound by This is
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: from from your head coach down here. Steve Sarkisi said
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: it just this morning at practice when he was asked
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: a question about intensity of practice in fall camp and
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: getting ready for the season, and how there have been
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: examples went from when he first got here on how
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: to do it right.
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  Speaker 7: We're practicing fast, we're practicing hard, we're practicing physical, and
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 7: when you don't right now, you stand out. You know,
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 7: it used to be the other way around here we
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 7: first got started. You know, when demarve On Overshowing or
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 7: Roshawn Johnson practiced really hard, they stood out because maybe
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 7: not everybody else was. Now everybody else goes really hard,
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 7: and so when you're not, you stand out the other way.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: See, you you and Demo were setting an example back
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: in the day, I imagine for hard practice.
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  Speaker 12: How did that?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: And then we talked about it after games in the
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: past when he played at Texas about how hard and
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: and you and de Marvi and and Bijean and and
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: several of other guys who worked so hard in practice,
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: how did that become habit for you? And how has
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: that helped you now that you've taken the next step
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: and you're getting ready to enter your fourth year in
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: the NFL.
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  Speaker 13: Right, Yeah, I think we had some great competition down
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 13: there on the forty acres. Like you said, I mean,
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 13: he's going against the Marvion oversawan like you better bring
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 13: it because he's gonna bring it every day. So there
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 13: was a lot of iron shopping and iron down there
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 13: on that campus while I was down there. And yeah,
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 13: I feel like we just had a mentality that we,
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 13: for one, we took from the guys before us. I mean,
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 13: I think Sam Elliger did a great job of just
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 13: playing that to me, as long as guys like Malcolm Rose,
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 13: Steven Duberne, you know, the list goes on. But yeah,
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 13: I think it was really really just a mindset and
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 13: us just wanting to win, us just wanting to like
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 13: change change the culture while I was there and finding
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 13: a way to do that.
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  Speaker 3: And I mean the only way that I really knew
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 3: was you know, hard work, so uh, day in and
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 3: day out, whether that was you know, competing with Demo.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 13: Or competing with the guys on the offensive side of
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 13: the ball, Like, uh, my motto was like I'm gonna
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 13: try to be the hardest worker.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 3: On the team.
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  Speaker 13: So I feel like we we definitely as time went on,
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 13: invited that mindset and uh, you know, we would have
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 13: surely liked to have went one more games than you know,
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 13: we won. While while I was there, But I think
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 13: we definitely instilled a culture that uh is uh you know, prolonging,
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 13: prolonging today.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's one of the things that Sarks talked that
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: Sark has talked about, is the culture that was established
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: by you guys. And we bring up these names, We
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: bring up Demo, and we bring up Bjeon and we
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: and we bring up some of the other guys you managed,
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: Malcolm wrote several of the other guys as well. Several
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: of the guys that you just talked about are uh
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: playing in the NFL now some are household names obviously
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: in the NFL. Uh here you are getting ready to
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: start your your fourth season with the Bears. How much
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: do you keep in contact with those guys other than
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: you know, we always see the shots after a game.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: When when college teammates get together, maybe there's a jersey
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: swap or maybe just a hug and well wished and
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: all that. How how would you describe what it's like
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: when you're not seeing them every day as you did
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: as college teammates, but you know that they're in the
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: league and they know you're in the league.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: Do you get a chance to keep in touch with
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: these guys?
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 13: You know, it's obviously not as often, you know, as
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 13: guys you know, go to different teams and you know,
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 13: lives start to change, and you know the expectancy of
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 13: the league is very demanding, so obviously the relationship is
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 13: kind of altered.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 3: But we all have the same respect.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 13: From time to time, we tap back in and you know,
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 13: text each other and uh, you know, just kind of
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 13: keep in touch.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 3: Definitely not as often you know as college.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 13: But yeah, I mean, for sure, when we see each other,
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 13: it's all love and we you know, when we get
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 13: the opportunity to to you know, reunite, it's just like
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 13: old times. So yeah, but you know, as guys grow up,
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 13: guys start to have families, and it's definitely cool to
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 13: see as you guys you grow up and as it
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 13: just you know, I guess game more experience within the
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 13: league just to see people's lives change for the better.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 13: So yeah, but it's all of once once we see
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 13: each other and can get the opportunity to talk again.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: We're visiting with Rochean, John said here on sports Radio
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: AM thirteen hundred of the Zone. Rochean, one thing that
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: you established in addition to that, toughness was how you
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: were willing to contribute and by whatever means, whether it
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: was running the football, catching the football, blocking, and then
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: on special teams as well. And you carried that mindset
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: on to the NFL. You know, the amount of hits.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: We always hear there's a finite amount of hits and
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: it can take its toll. And obviously you've had to
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: battle some injuries as well. How has that mindset for
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: you been able to stay aggressive, to stay physical even
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: in a sport where over time those kinds of hits
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: and things like that can take its toll.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 13: We play a barbaric sport, you know, in football, So
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 13: I try my best to be proactive towards.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 3: Any type of injuries, you know.
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 13: So I think for me, the most proactive measures that
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 13: I can take is, for one, knowing what my assignment
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 13: is and how to do it the best that I
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 13: can do it in the smartest and most effective way.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 13: And you know that that that a lot goes into that,
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 13: you know, not just from the things that I wear,
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 13: but how I.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 3: Play as well.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 13: So, uh, yeah, I feel like I've taken a lot
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 13: of preventive measures as it pertains to you know, injury,
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 13: whether it be you know, bodily injury or uh, you know,
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 13: head injuries, any type of injuries.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 3: I feel like I've taken a lot of preventive measures,
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 3: uh by.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 13: My diet, my workouts, and even the esssiies that I
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 13: were on the field as well. I mean you might
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 13: see me, uh I wear the Guardian cap along with
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 13: a Q collar and a brain bowl mouthpiece.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 3: That helps me, you know, be as proactive to injuries
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 3: as as I can.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: Roachean brings this up in our conversation with Rochan is
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: brought to you by a brain vault, and you brought
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: it up, so I want to give you a chance
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: to talk about it. This is something that's a mouthguard
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: that has scientifically proven to significantly increase next strength, a
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: key factor in helping reduce the risk of head related injuries.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: This is backed by published science and research, and it's
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: been in the league for like sixteen years. You go
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: back with this a little bit, don't you, And how
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: did you get involved with in it and explain to
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: folks what it does to help make the game safer
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: for you?
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 13: Yeah, So as a pertains to the brain ball mouth guard, essentially,
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 13: what it does it aligns your jaw in such a
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 13: way that is the pressure is evenly distributed within your
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 13: mouth and which allows your neck to stabilize better. So
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 13: it essentially acts as a sea boat for your brain
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 13: within these many cos legends that you may take on
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 13: when you play the game of football. So yeah, I
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 13: feel like it does a great job and stabilizing my
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 13: jaw and helping me brace my neck for impact, and
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 13: you know, it helps me dish out the impact as
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 13: well without taking as much of a toll on my body.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like it's it's done.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 13: Great for me thus far, and it's definitely just another
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 13: tool that I feel like, Uh, it's something that you
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 13: can add to your toolbox to prolong you prolong your
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 13: career and just keep you on the field. So yes,
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 13: it's been great, and it's been something that I've I've
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 13: worn throughout the latter years of my career thus far.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: And I've heard the other former long Horns also been
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: Michael taff It has been one of those guys and
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: and several of the other guys. One of the things
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: I like about it is that they they say to
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: get locked in because of what brain Vault can do
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: for you. I mean, like you said, kind of lotch
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: in place so that you can brace for impact by
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: having that mouthpiece in there, right.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 13: Yes, it essentially disperses the pressure in which you on
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 13: your bite force bites down. It disperses it evenly in
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 13: order for your neck to stabilize better, so on impact,
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 13: you're you're able to utilize all those muscles, little tiny
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 13: muscles within your neck in order to reduce, you know,
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 13: your head from rattling and ultimately reducing the chances of
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 13: a concussion.
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 2: And then the other thing role.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: I think it's important to point out here what I've
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: heard about it is it's comfortable. A lot of people think, boy,
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: if you're taking preventative measures and you're doing certain things, uh,
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: it's gonna it's gonna take out of your comfort zone
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: and make it. Make it where you're not comfortable, where
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: your head's not comforta where your mouth isn'tcomfortable. That didn't
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: like this with this brain ball piece, is it?
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 10: No?
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 3: No, No, not not at all. It's definitely something that's very.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 13: Very easy, very easy to use, barely noticeable if any
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 13: When you wear it, you're able to talk, you're able
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 13: to move around. It's not something that's s bulky or
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 13: something that gets in the way. I think of it
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 13: almost like an visil line in a sense. But yeah,
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 13: I mean it's not not a house at all, I
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 13: would say.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: And and this is the thing also in hearing from
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: from other guys that while it's been approved and in
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: league used for the past sixteen years, and then going
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: all the way back to Sam Bradford was one of
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: the first to do it, is that, uh, there's still
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: there's still an education process, isn't there? Just a little
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: word getting out And imagine you've probably had some teammates asking, hey,
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: what is it you're doing? You know that that sort
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: of thing, And and at that point that bit of
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: curiosity on their their part gives you the opportunity and
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: the platform to educate them on it a little, doesn't
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  Speaker 1: it right?
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, yes, sir, I belay that's the most important thing,
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  Speaker 13: just kind of knowing what does what and seeing if
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  Speaker 13: it makes sense. Especially with a lot of guys in
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  Speaker 13: the league, I feel like long ngevity is really really key.
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  Speaker 13: I mean, guys want to play for as long as
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  Speaker 13: they can, so I feel like guys are very receptive
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  Speaker 13: to that information, and not just with guys in the league,
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  Speaker 13: but you know kids at the youth level as well.
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  Speaker 13: I mean, you want to do anything you can to
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  Speaker 13: protect your loved ones and make sure you know they
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  Speaker 13: don't have any type of injuries in any regard, but
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  Speaker 5: Roachan.
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  Speaker 1: Before I'll let you go, I want to ask you
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  Speaker 1: about this Bears teamt you guys come off getting into
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: the playoffs cause the big win over Green Bay and
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: had the heartbreaking loss to the Rams. But I know
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  Speaker 1: you guys feel pretty excited about what you have going
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  Speaker 1: into this twenty twenty six NFL season.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, sir, Yeah, most definitely.
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  Speaker 13: I think last year was definitely a foundational step in
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  Speaker 13: the right direction for this organization. I feel like we
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  Speaker 13: learned a lot from that season and what to do
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  Speaker 13: and how to handle things and how not to handle things.
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  Speaker 13: You know, we had a lot a lot of thriller
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  Speaker 13: games that we felt like we we deserve to win,
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  Speaker 13: and then you know, a lot of games that we
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  Speaker 13: did we felt like we didn't have to make so close.
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  Speaker 3: So there's a lot of things we can learn from
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  Speaker 3: from that season. But at the same time, I think
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  Speaker 3: Ben has done a great job.
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  Speaker 13: Of instilling within this team that like that was last year,
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  Speaker 13: this is a whole new year and we can't really
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 13: get complacent with how that result went went for the team.
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  Speaker 13: We know the city has a lot of you know,
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 13: expectation coming in in this year, But in the same sense,
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  Speaker 13: I don't think anybody anybody's expectations trump ours. So yeah,
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  Speaker 13: I feel like we're taken the right steps in the
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  Speaker 13: right directions and we'll we'll capitalize on it this season.
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  Speaker 1: A final thing here, I always hear about this from
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  Speaker 1: players in whatever work.
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  Speaker 2: If you have Texas players.
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  Speaker 1: Former Longhorns, former Oklahoma suitters, former Aggies on the same
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  Speaker 1: team that you guys kind of even if you don't
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  Speaker 1: have the friendly wager with one another way, you have
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: to wear a jersey or something like that. You guys
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: do kind of give each other a little bit of
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: Greek good natured grief in business.
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  Speaker 2: Will that be the be the same with some of
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  Speaker 2: your teammates.
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  Speaker 1: I know Kayla Williams also played USC clearly, but merely
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  Speaker 1: the fact that he was an Oklahma suiter. And you've
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  Speaker 1: got guys from other teams that you went up against
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: when you're in college. You guys still give each other
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: a lot of good nature grief about that.
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  Speaker 13: Oh, yeah, for sure. Yeah, Kayla is one of the
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  Speaker 13: main ones. He always likes her of that one particular
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 13: game that he had versus US. But yeah, we always
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 13: have some you know, friendly banner back and forth as
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 13: we go throughout the years, and as you know, college
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 13: football ramps up, and then you know, everybody's obsessed with Texas.
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  Speaker 13: Whether you hate him or you love them, everybody always
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 13: has something to say about Texas, So we tend to
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  Speaker 13: garner a lot of attention.
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  Speaker 3: So, I mean, I love it.
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  Speaker 13: I mean I'm always hard repping the school every every
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 13: Saturday that I get while I'm up there in Chicago.
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  Speaker 13: So uh and even you know, I'm it's always cool
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 13: for me to see from this perspective because I mean
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 13: the In the off season, I go back down to
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 13: Austin and you know, run with the team sometime and
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 13: uh work out down there at the facility. So I
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 13: get to see, you know, certain young guys play and uh,
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 13: you know, it's just cool to see from the outside
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 13: looking in now you know guys, young guys coming in
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 13: and working hard, working their way up and having.
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  Speaker 3: Success on on Saturdays. So yeah, it's it's always fun.
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  Speaker 1: That's terrific. Hey, ro I appreciate you doing this. Like
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  Speaker 1: I said, I know you're getting near the start of
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: the season. It's great to visit with you. Wish you
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: continued health and happiness and uh, and we look forward
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: to seeing what you and the Bears do uh this season.
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: I know you'll be looking in on the long runs
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  Speaker 1: as well. Thanks so much for joining us. Again, I really.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate it, Yes, sir, appreciate you. Correct.
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  Speaker 11: All right.
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  Speaker 8: Street Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: I had a lot of fun visiting with Roshawn Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: the Chicago Bear.
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  Speaker 2: From his days is a Texason is this the Blues
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  Speaker 2: Brother's version.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it was Oh, that sounded like the
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: late John Belushi there along with dan Ackroy was tweenyed
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: Home Chicago. If you've ever seen the movie, you know
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: this is the big number that they're doing. They're doing
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: this number when they make their escape down through the stage.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever seen the movie?
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 4: No, I need to, because we've brought it up on
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 4: this show multiple times and Alison's family loves it well.
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  Speaker 1: Among the things that the footnotes that came from that movie,
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: it's one of the most expensive movies ever made. And
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: when you've seen what happens in the movie, you'll understand
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: why it's one of the most expensive movies ever made.
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: The scores of crashed and wrecked Chicago police cars to
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: a mall, a shopping mall that we all found out
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: later was targeted for closure. You think about this, that's
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine. I think when they did this movie, Uh,
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: seventy nine or eighty was right around that time, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty Yeah, and some malls were already being targeted
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  Speaker 1: for closure. Now we know the shopping malls are are
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: a dying breed. Now there aren't as many of them
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: as as there used to be used to be the
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: thing to do when I was a teenager, I think
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: were going up to the mall.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 5: I had some of that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: My daughters when they would go up to Lake Line
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: monitors and I used to refer to them as mall rats.
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  Speaker 5: They didn't like that, you know, they like to hang out.
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 5: They're mall rats. Mall rats.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they didn't never leave the mall.
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: They're just in the They're in the they're in the stores,
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: they're everywhere, you know, that kind of thing, and that
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  Speaker 1: it's been in more recent years of as shopping malls
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: have died a slow death. You know, Highland Mall was
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: a really really nice mall here for many years. That's
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: where the ACC campus is, Austin Community College Campus ACC
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: Highland Campus.
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  Speaker 2: There was a big shopping mall there.
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: They had a card collecting shop in there, and I
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: bought fools still in the package sets of Pokemon cards
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: for my two oldest kids back in the day. They
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: probably be worth something today. And last night on the
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: ESPN telecast from Williamsport, Pennsylvania, at the Little League World
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: Series the Braves Brewers game, they had Chris saalong with him,
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: and he was talking about one of his big things
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: and visiting with Jacob Mizerowski and the Brewers about his
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: collecting Pokemon cards and that he has like a ten scale.
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 4: Blah blah blah charizard and all that other kind of stuff.
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 4: So we keep learning more and more about the miss
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 4: There's a lot to unpack. He is a card to
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  Speaker 4: be played with.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. That's absolutely true. So anyway that.
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  Speaker 1: All of that to say that shopping malls are kind
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: of dying a slow death now. But this one particular
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: mall of was targeted for closure. They just tear it
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: to pieces in cars driving in the mall.
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  Speaker 4: There's some malls that I've seen in well, in Bismarck
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  Speaker 4: in particular. Not to put it on blast, I really
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 4: enjoyed my time there, but there were some malls that
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 4: had clearly seen better days that might have been you know,
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 4: maybe you could have shot some things there and worked
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 4: it up in post production to save everybody some time
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 4: on that.
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  Speaker 2: It's funny you bring that up.
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: There was a game several years ago, this is twenty fifteen,
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. Right around that time, Texas women were in
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: ames to play Iowa State. And I believe it was
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: a late tip time that now, like eight o'clock and
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: Karen Ashton was the coach of Texas, and they had
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: their shooting but they had to have their shoot around earlier.
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: They couldn't have it later in the day, so they
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 1: had to have the shoot around earlier. It's the only
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: time they could be inside Hilton Coliseum. So they do it,
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: and so they got all this time to kill. So
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: they take the team to this mall and tell them
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: they've got like an hour, hour and a half or
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: whatever if they want to walk around in the mall.
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: And so I happen to be with them on the bus.
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: So I get off and I start walking around, and
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: I'm walking in this mall. I'm looking and I'm going,
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: there's nothing here. There's not anything good here. Reminded in
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: recent years and reminded of that that iHeart podcast promo
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: that runs on this station. The other one is about
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: the about the prisoners that they let go shopping them
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: all and one dude doesn't come back and he's still
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: on the lamb. He's still at large even today all
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: these years later, or something like that. They turn them
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: loose into shopping mall. And when I first heard that,
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: the first thing that went my mind was, Oh, I
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: wonder if it was the shopping mall in Aimes. How
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: it was, I don't know, Maybe maybe it was, I
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: don't know. All right, we'll be back. We've got a
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: couple of things to wrap up before we get done
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