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NFL Preseason Notes, Tennessee Football Preview, MLB Returns to Field of Dreams · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: We have reached the destination that is known as Friday
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  Speaker 1: and the advent of the weekend. Good afternoon, everybody, Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to the program here on Sports Radio AM thirteen under
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  Speaker 1: is Craig Way. Thank you very much for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: I say it as I do every Friday. If today
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  Speaker 1: is the traditional Friday work weekday for you and meaning
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  Speaker 1: you've got a couple of days off, good on you,
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  Speaker 1: Good for you. Hopefully you can enjoy the weekends to come.
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  Speaker 1: For those of you in the middle of the week.
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  Speaker 1: You did say this, Jay Carmon, our producer, that you
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  Speaker 1: know some guys that Friday is merely the middle part
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  Speaker 1: of their week. They're Wednesday through Sunday people. Is that
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  Speaker 1: to deal?
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  Speaker 2: Yep, They've got Monday, Tuesday is their weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, However it rolls for you on that.
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  Speaker 1: I hope it goes well for you there. And for
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  Speaker 1: those of you actually start the work week on Friday,
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  Speaker 1: there are some of those off days or Wednesday and Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: My brother and sister in law for many years were
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  Speaker 1: those types of people. They worked in the in the
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  Speaker 1: service industry, you might say. My sister in law was
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  Speaker 1: a a delt Baccar ride in the high limit room
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  Speaker 1: at the Venetian, where she encountered such people as Mike Ruyshewsky,
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  Speaker 1: Dennis Rodman, Tiger Woods, Paris Hilton, who lost control of
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  Speaker 1: her bladder there had had a fair amount to drink
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  Speaker 1: there and lost control. But that's an entirely different story. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: their uh, their their. Their work week was Friday through
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  Speaker 1: uh Tuesday, and then they were off on Wednesdays and Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: So if if you fall into that category, hopefully we
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of football to discuss on the program
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  Speaker 1: today and some baseball to get to as well. Now,
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  Speaker 1: on the football side of things, we are going to
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  Speaker 1: hear from Loghorns, We're gonna hear from Cowboys, We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: hear from Texans. So we're gonna we're going to hear
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  Speaker 1: some of that coming up. We're going to continue our
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  Speaker 1: SEC football previews here in just a few moments with
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  Speaker 1: the Tennessee Volunteers, and we're giving away copies of Dave
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  Speaker 1: Campbell's Texas Football magazine we have three more to give away.
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  Speaker 1: Like we said, we've been giving away three copies of
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  Speaker 1: and one more week next week, so we'll give you
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  Speaker 1: the trivia, you just had to be the first one
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  Speaker 1: with the correct response. We'll give away a magazine here
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  Speaker 1: in a few minutes. Start off with some long run sound. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of folks are very impressed. I count myself
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  Speaker 1: among those with Raheem Biles, the transfer linebacker from Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: and it is Raheem. I know you may have seen
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  Speaker 1: it with an S in there and it is spelled
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  Speaker 1: are a s h Eem like Rashim. But he said
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  Speaker 1: the way he described it, he said that was a
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  Speaker 1: mistake when he was born and that was what was
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  Speaker 1: spelled out on the birth certificate. It's Raheem Biles and
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  Speaker 1: has a foundation going to the Dream Foundation in Columbus,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio where he grew up. That was very impressive to
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  Speaker 1: hear about, and so a lot of other things as well.
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  Speaker 1: But when it comes down to football for Raheem Biles,
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  Speaker 1: he was asked how are the newcomers and he would
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  Speaker 1: classify be classified as a newcomer because he came through
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  Speaker 1: the transfer portal, But how are the newcomers coming together,
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  Speaker 1: whether it be freshmen or those through the portal and
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  Speaker 1: starting to build that all important communication.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's really just been like Sark, He's just
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  Speaker 3: been like the culture. We was doing clutch Wednesdays in
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  Speaker 3: the spring, so like that helped a lot. I feel
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  Speaker 3: like I feel like we was all getting to know
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  Speaker 3: each other, Like we were really opening up when we
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  Speaker 3: had on different meetings. Every time you have a different
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  Speaker 3: group or different people you with, so really just all
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  Speaker 3: of us just opening up and just hanging out for
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  Speaker 3: outside of football, Like just when we got done with work,
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  Speaker 3: I was just chilling playing a game with each other,
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  Speaker 3: like if you feel me, just doing a whole bunch
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  Speaker 3: of different stuff, taking trips together.
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  Speaker 4: In the spring time in the summertime.
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  Speaker 3: That helped a lot, like just to grow a connection
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  Speaker 3: and stuff with everybody on the team, just to make
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  Speaker 3: it like very much easier just to communicate with this guy.
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  Speaker 3: I know, this guy like just messed up this, but
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  Speaker 3: let me go look this his head out. I know
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  Speaker 3: he gonna get down for a little bit something like that.
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  Speaker 3: Just it really helped with the communication on the field.
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  Speaker 3: Just help us be a player let team for sure.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: One of the key things for incoming football players and
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  Speaker 1: incoming student athletes and for that matter, incoming students at
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  Speaker 1: the University of Texas is the art of parking. You
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  Speaker 1: went through that as a student, did you not.
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  Speaker 6: I escaped my time. I'm at UT with one parking ticket,
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  Speaker 6: just one. I only had the car there when I
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  Speaker 6: was an upperclassman, but just the one.
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  Speaker 1: So your first two years you didn't even have to
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  Speaker 1: have a vehicle, right, right, did you do?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: I did?
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 6: And but the junior year, I was joining some of
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  Speaker 6: my Texas student television uh cohort to send off the
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  Speaker 6: seniors at the Fountain and I parked like just past
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  Speaker 6: the fountain down close by the Macomb School of Business.
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  Speaker 2: Seventy five dollars ticket. I was there for like forty
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  Speaker 2: five minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, that'll happen. Ticket from one who has
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  Speaker 1: had his a ticket or two. Okay, Cameron Parker had
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  Speaker 1: had his car booted last year or year before during
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  Speaker 1: basketball scene. That's an entirely.
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  Speaker 8: Story on that.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, UH football players had to learn this, so
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  Speaker 1: Raheem Biles was as has he learned where to park
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  Speaker 1: on campus?
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I ain't. I ain't learned about the tickets
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  Speaker 4: no more.
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  Speaker 9: We've been good.
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  Speaker 4: I've been good with the tickets. I've been in a
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  Speaker 4: man and girl.
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  Speaker 5: I'm good now, Okay.
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  Speaker 1: In addition to that, how would even describe his strengths
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  Speaker 1: what I do well?
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, I tried to be a three level player,
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  Speaker 3: So like I feel like Muschchamp loved me and covered
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  Speaker 3: because you know.
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  Speaker 9: He obviously coach East coach DB's and stuff, so he.
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  Speaker 3: Loved me and coverage my coach, like when I blitzed
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  Speaker 3: and stuff. And then like I just been working working
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  Speaker 3: a lot of passwords, like I went to this dude
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  Speaker 3: named Dez Walker from Atlanta. He helped me with a
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  Speaker 3: lot of pass rush over like the summertime, like when
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  Speaker 3: we had downtime and stuff. So like I've just been
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. My strengths has probably just been relentless.
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  Speaker 3: Real for being relentless and men, like I say, a
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  Speaker 3: three level player like be able to do everything on
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  Speaker 3: the field and that's just like you play linebackers. You
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  Speaker 3: got to like especially with his new day and A's
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  Speaker 3: like my goal is just like to reset the market
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  Speaker 3: field for for linebackers, like I'm trying to. I'm trying
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  Speaker 3: to show everybody can cover, I can blitch, I can
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  Speaker 3: rush like play linebacker, obviously, fit the run and stuff,
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  Speaker 3: get off the boxers like that type of player I'm
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  Speaker 3: trying to be.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, well there's another thing. And then one
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  Speaker 1: other things he was asked about is because of this
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  Speaker 1: battle going on at the running back spot, what's his
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  Speaker 1: take of that so far?
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna start with Hollywood. Hollywood is more like A.
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  Speaker 4: He's more like A I would say, just like A.
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  Speaker 3: If he gets the ball and he sees a whole,
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  Speaker 3: he's hitting like his vision is great, like he got
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  Speaker 3: great vision.
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  Speaker 4: He got great speed, long speed like and he.
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  Speaker 3: Can make you miss too, obviously, and he could catch
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  Speaker 3: the ball and stuff, and he like very technical sound
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  Speaker 3: with releaek.
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  Speaker 4: That boy, he just man. He twitchy, like you got
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  Speaker 4: to be on your p's and q's.
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  Speaker 3: If you're trying to tackle him, because if not, he's
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  Speaker 3: gonna make you miss every time.
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  Speaker 4: He's explosive fast, and like I said, he twitches.
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  Speaker 3: So his routes is very crispy and like everything I
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  Speaker 3: feel like the Coop he's just like an all around
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  Speaker 3: back like he got like he got the he got
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  Speaker 3: the size, he got the speed, and he's just the
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  Speaker 3: way he's been coming along has been like great, Like
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  Speaker 3: you could really see the approvement. Like and I sit
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  Speaker 3: right next to him in the locker, so he always
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  Speaker 3: asking me like different.
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  Speaker 9: Questions like what's up with this? Like why you fit
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  Speaker 9: this way?
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  Speaker 3: And then and it's like he's been really working on
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  Speaker 3: his past blocking too. You could see, like we did
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  Speaker 3: one on ones a day while he really like you
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  Speaker 3: can see like the improvement he makes, like he always
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  Speaker 3: trying to go with the older guys, like so he
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  Speaker 3: can really get some real game time reps.
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  Speaker 9: And I appreciate that from him because he's trying to
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  Speaker 9: get work.
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  Speaker 4: We're all trying to get better.
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  Speaker 3: So like, yeah, Hollywood, he's like a like a striker,
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  Speaker 3: like you better get hands on even quicker.
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  Speaker 9: He's gone league.
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  Speaker 4: He real twitchy receiver, like real twitchy.
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  Speaker 3: And then the Coop he's just like a all around
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  Speaker 3: type of back, like he can he could do everything
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  Speaker 3: for real.
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  Speaker 1: Okay twitchy, that's a key word to keep in mind there.
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  Speaker 1: All right, U up next we're going to continue our
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  Speaker 1: SEC football previews. We'll take a look at the Tennessee Volunteers.
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  Speaker 1: That's next when we continue on Sports Radio AM thirteen
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  Speaker 1: under the zone of the radio app Why the time,
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  Speaker 1: I think it is written down somewhere that it's I'll
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  Speaker 1: be written down somewhere that it's at the very least
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  Speaker 1: an implied order, if not a direct order. Whenever a
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  Speaker 1: broadcaster has a play by play voice of another college on,
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  Speaker 1: they're supposed to either jump back with their fight song
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. Happens to me every time I'm
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  Speaker 1: on with Toby rolling Oklahoma, they come back with Texas
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  Speaker 1: Fight or the Eyes of Texas. So the producer Jake
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  Speaker 1: Herman thought it proved it. So as we continue our
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  Speaker 1: SEC football previews, it brings us to the Tennessee Volunteers.
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  Speaker 1: And that's Mike Keith, their play by play voice, who
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  Speaker 1: joins us now. Mike, I really appreciate the time. How
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  Speaker 1: are you this afternoon.
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  Speaker 5: I'm doing very well, Craig, thank you so much for
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  Speaker 5: having the interesting note. However, Rocky Top is not Tennessee's
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  Speaker 5: fight song, well, or not even one of their fight songs.
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  Speaker 5: There is strong discussion that after fifty years have been
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  Speaker 5: playing as if there were the fight song, that it
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  Speaker 5: should become an official fight song, but it is not,
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  Speaker 5: which is quite a quite a strange thing in the
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  Speaker 5: eyes of many even here.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, I remember hearing that when it went
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  Speaker 1: when I went up there to do I think a
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  Speaker 1: women's basketball game several years ago, or it was a
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  Speaker 1: men's either one that they said, well, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: I made a comment about boy, they you know, they
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  Speaker 1: play Rocky Top probably as often as Texas Fight gets
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  Speaker 1: played to Texas or Boomer Sooner or some of the others.
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  Speaker 1: And somebody said, well, you know, it's not a real
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  Speaker 1: fight song, and I'd forgotten about that. And you're a
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee grad, aren't you. Oh yeah, that's what I thought.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Well, you know, many folks for many years
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  Speaker 1: were so or so used to hearing you do such
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  Speaker 1: a fabulous job calling the Tennessee Titans. And what you
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  Speaker 1: and I met a couple of years ago, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: was that your first year back after Bob Kesling's retirement.
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  Speaker 1: That is this your third year or more in uh
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  Speaker 1: in reassuming all the play by play duties there for
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  Speaker 1: volunteer football and men's basketball.
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  Speaker 5: It's your two for me, and I've been here for
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  Speaker 5: quite some time. I came immediately after the Titans season
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  Speaker 5: ended in twenty twenty four, so I was here in
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  Speaker 5: early January twenty twenty five. I've been here for going
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  Speaker 5: on two years, but this is only my second school
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  Speaker 5: year to be the announcer.
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  Speaker 1: How much of an adjustment was it for you?
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  Speaker 5: With all those years?
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  Speaker 1: And what I always call was the you know, the
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  Speaker 1: very set in stone and regimented routine of NFL teams,
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  Speaker 1: and for that matter, I guess broadcasts to jump in
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  Speaker 1: back into the college scene where there's football, owner's a
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  Speaker 1: basketball game here, and then there's some overlap and then
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  Speaker 1: there's another basketball game on down the road. How much
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  Speaker 1: of an adjustment was that for you?
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  Speaker 10: Massive adjustment, massive, massive adjustment, just understanding that, you know,
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  Speaker 10: the two seasons overlap. The thing about working for the
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  Speaker 10: Titans was unless I did a sort of a one
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  Speaker 10: off event somewhere, like.
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  Speaker 7: If I did a high.
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  Speaker 5: School state championship where the Titans sent me out to
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  Speaker 5: do some event of some sort, it was gonna be
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  Speaker 5: the same. You know, it was gonna be You're gonna
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  Speaker 5: play Indianapolis on Sunday at noon Central time. And you know,
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  Speaker 5: it's just one thing, and I knew this would be harder,
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  Speaker 5: but you know, I think at this point in my life,
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  Speaker 5: I wanted to see if I.
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  Speaker 7: Could do it.
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  Speaker 5: I had not called basketball on the radio in thirty
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  Speaker 5: three years, and I'd done TV games, but I had
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  Speaker 5: not done it on the radio in thirty three years,
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  Speaker 5: and I wanted to try it. You know, I wanted
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  Speaker 5: to see, you know, I wanted to see what it
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  Speaker 5: was like. I wanted to be part of the Southeastern Conference.
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  Speaker 5: The fact that Texas and Oklahoma were coming in appeal.
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  Speaker 7: To me greatly.
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  Speaker 5: The fact that it's it's a play that football is
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  Speaker 5: a playoff sport like the NFL appeal to me greatly.
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  Speaker 5: Sort of the new wave of it, which seems very
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  Speaker 5: much like the NFL when I got into it in
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  Speaker 5: nineteen ninety eight. It has a familiar feeling because when
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  Speaker 5: I started Craig in the National Football League, it was
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  Speaker 5: only the fourth year of free agency in the salarycap, true,
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  Speaker 5: and everybody, everybody was still I mean, they didn't call
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  Speaker 5: it the Wild West like they do with what we're
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  Speaker 5: getting right now, but everybody was still trying to bend
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  Speaker 5: the rules. They were trying to find the different ways
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  Speaker 5: to get into it. Make no mistake about it, though.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I was very honored and very happy to
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  Speaker 5: work for the Tennessee Titans. The Adams family was wonderful
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  Speaker 5: to my family, and it was the honor of a
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  Speaker 5: lifetime to be with them. And now to have this
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  Speaker 5: opportunity as another great honor as well well.
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  Speaker 1: And just a side note, you get to work with
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  Speaker 1: one of my favorite people on planet Earth, and that's
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  Speaker 1: Rick Barnes. I spent sixteen years with him, so it's
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  Speaker 1: and he's always kind enough to do a pregame interview
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  Speaker 1: with me every year of the Texas and Tennessee. He's
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  Speaker 1: a different sword, isn't.
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  Speaker 7: He the best?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: He was my He was my very favorite part of
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  Speaker 7: year one.
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  Speaker 5: To get to basically in bed with them, which is
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  Speaker 5: what you know. I told him I started going to
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  Speaker 5: basketball practice last summer and he's like, why are you here? Like, well,
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  Speaker 5: this is this is kind of what I do. I
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  Speaker 5: want to I want to watch it, I want to
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  Speaker 5: learn it, and I'm listen, I couldn't tell you what
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  Speaker 5: a football or a basketball play is, per se. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you know, if somebody kidnapped me and asked me to
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  Speaker 5: diagram the plays of Tennessee to give him an advantage.
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  Speaker 5: They would they would be very disappointed in me as
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  Speaker 5: a hostage, because I mean, I don't know now. I played,
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  Speaker 5: so I sort of know what the deal is. But
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  Speaker 5: what I'm watching for is who were who are the
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  Speaker 5: players in the lineup?
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  Speaker 7: What are they focused on?
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  Speaker 5: Just kind of understanding the overall philosophy and Coach Barnes
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  Speaker 5: is amazing And what's really amazing to me, and what
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  Speaker 5: is quite a thrill is he has totally embraced transfer
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  Speaker 5: Portland and il the majority of his peers have retired.
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  Speaker 5: They said, don't want any of this. He's just said, fine,
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  Speaker 5: I don't have to go sit in the gym for
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  Speaker 5: eight weeks all summer recruiting all high school kids. And
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  Speaker 5: Tennessee funds basketball very well. You know Adolph upset about
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  Speaker 5: Tennessee back in the nineteen fifties. He said, Tennessee is
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: a football school that takes its basketball very seriously. And
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: I think that's what Rick Barnes has found. He's found
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: a place that while it's known as a football school,
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: they very much loved their basketball and Here's the thing too, Craig.
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: They love him.
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: I love Rick bart.
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: He is beloved in this community and he can do
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: no wrong in terms of what he does as a person.
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: And being around both he and his staff and his players,
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: you know, he's got.
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: A certain standard.
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: As you know, not everybody can play for Rick Barnes. True,
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: and and to see these guys and to get to
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: know these guys, it was the highlight of year one
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: for me because I learned so much, no doubt, it's
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: really special.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Mike Keith is the play by Playboys of the Tennessee Volunteers,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: joining us for SEC preview. Okay, let's talk about your
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: football team. And one thing I always remember about Josh Hipel,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: other than the fact that he led Oklahoma to a
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: sixty three to fourteen win over Texas in two thousand
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: en route to winning the national title, was the was
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: the fact that he's looked at as being a real
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: offensive savan and offensive genius. And I would I would
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: submit that probably, And I don't know how coach Hypel
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: feels about this. Probably the greatest challenge for a real
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: offensive mind like coach Hypel is when he has to
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: break in another quarterback and now with the latest in
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: the quarterback derby being either the freshman Faison Brandon or
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: George McIntyre I guess, or the two that are looked
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: at most prominently. I'm sure he rolls up his sleeves
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: and dives right into it. But what's the vibe you
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: get on what he does with his offense and how
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: whoever is going to take the snaps at quarterback is
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: going to factor into this.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: Well, what Hypeul likes to tell you, which is so great,
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: his dad was a longtime coach, longtime football coach. His
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: dad's background is in defense, So a lot of the
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: things that he incorporates for his quarterback and for his
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: offense comes from understanding what a defense is bothered by
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: the most. His father is actually around and keeps an
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: eye on some things for him a little bit too,
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: which is really an interesting dynamic. But Josh has buried
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: so many things in his time at Tennessee. He came
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: in and his offense looked one way, and he's put
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: in more routes. He's expanded the route tree, he's expanded
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: the run game. He'll go under center. There's more motion now.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: I think the flexibility in him is what is most impressive.
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: And so whether it's Brandon or MacIntyre or both, I mean,
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: you know, we could certainly see that he'll announce a
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: starter at some point, but the starter he's gonna announce
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: is for the Furman game. It doesn't mean he's making
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: an announcement for the end of time, you know, right.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: But both of these guys can play. They've got some
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: experienced offensive linemen and skill players around them, but he's
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: not gonna baby them, Craig. He's gonna expect them to
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: be able to go out and execute the offense. Now,
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: can he run everything that he ran with twenty five
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: year old Joey Aguilar? Maybe maybe not, but it's still
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: going to be his offense. I think the difference in
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: his offense this year and the overall difference to his
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: football team is they're going to be much more physical.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: Tennessee felt like they got out physical down the stretch
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: a year ago, and Josh Haipel was not pleased with
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: any bit of that at all.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Interesting you mentioned that he's got some good pieces of
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: the court. Whoever is going to be the quarterback or
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: both have good offensive pieces around them at the skills spot.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Who do you think is really the standout. Might it
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: be a Braylyn Staley. Might it be you know, Mike Matthews.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Might it be Deshaun Bishop who really stands out to
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: you as the guy who, in addition to the quarterback play,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: has to kind of be a bit of a bell
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball.
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: I think the two receivers you mentioned first, Staley and
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: Matthews have to be at the top of the list.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: That's the best returning pair of receivers in terms of
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: productivity that Tennessee has.
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: Had in fifteen years.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: And so with that being the case, you know, those
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: guys have to come through. They played really well last year,
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: they put up good numbers, but they've got to be
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: guys that they can go to Ethan Davis at tight end,
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: Deshaun Braeme at tight end. They've got to find a
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: third wide receiver. Bishop, the running back, has a chance,
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: with a great year, to be Tennessee's all time leading rusher. Wow.
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: And I mean I think they're going to feature him.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: But Tennessee likes to play three backs, and Javen Gordon
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: is a transfer from two Lanes playoff team, has done
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: well in camp and then Dwayn Morris is a sophomore
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: running back who has tremendous speed. So all those guys
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: are going to be counted on. They're going to have
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: to come through this year if Tennessee is going to
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: take a step back to being a playoff contender.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Talking Tennessee Volunteers Football in our sec pviews with all
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: of the play by play voices we do every day
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: here during this three week span, and today it's Mike Keith,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: the voice of the Balls, who joins us now on
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: the defensive side. The layman might look at it, Mike
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: and say, hey, linebackers and secondary look better, look really
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: really good. If there's a question mark, maybe it's in
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: the down lineman. Do you see it similarly, or there's
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: some other things that come to your mind about the
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Tennessee defense.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: I think the down linemen are going to be fine.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: They just I mean two years ago, you know they
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: I don't know if you know this.
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: I shouldn't say it that way. I apologize.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: Two years ago they played sixteen down lineman. They rotated
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: sixteen defensive lineman, which is crazy. And five of the
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: players that they lost off last year's team are in
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: NFL camp so they have lost depth and talent. But
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: they have talent. Now the question becomes do they have depth.
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: Up front?
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: They brought in Xavier Gellim from Penn State, Jordan Norman
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: from Tulane to combine with Nathan Richardson and David Hobbs
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: and you know some other guys that were already here.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: So I think they're I think they're okay there. They
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: have a lot of linebackers. They absolutely have a lot
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: of linebackers that the LEO position. That edge rusher, We're
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: not sure who that is. And if they can't find
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: that consistent player, do they use some sort of hybrid?
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: Do they use extra linebackers, do they play an extra
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: defensive back? I think they're probably like everybody else, every
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: football team from you know wherever junior high school to
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: the best team in the NFL. They don't have enough corners.
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: Every coach in America is going to tell you he
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: doesn't have enough corners. And Tennessee, Tennessee is really fighting
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: to find corner depth, just like everybody else. But again,
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: I didn't have one year in the NFL where the
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: coach said, oh, we got plenty of corners. It's great, you.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Know embarrassment of Riches doesn't exactly.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, i'd like to I'd like to see I
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: would like I'd like to meet that grass cutter coach
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: who would be willing to tell you he has enough corners.
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: But you get it, I mean, you get it. With
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: all the receiver stuff that people do you need them?
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: You know who's going to play the nickel? And do
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: you play a safety at nickel or do you play
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: a corner at nickel or do you have a player
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: who just basically a nickel. You know, we've seen that.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: You know, the Tyron Matthews of the world come around
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: some too, so we'll see. Listen, Jim Knowles, the defensive coordinator,
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: is a heck of a defen defensive coach. He'll cook
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: something up. The biggest change in Tennessee was hiring Indiana
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: strength coach Derek Owings and the Ball's commitment to getting
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: back to physicality. They put they got pushed around down
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: the stretch and Josh Haipel after the Vanderbilt game, in
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: which the Commodore has won in Knoxville by twenty one points,
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: dominating the second half, his quote is I'm embarrassed, and
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: so he went out and got somebody and you know,
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: the best strength coach in the country. If you look
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: at what Indiana was last year, certainly the hottest strength
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: coach in the country because of what Indiana did. You know,
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: That's that's what he wanted and that's what he got.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Texas fans very well acquainted with Jim Knowles
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: from his time first at Oklahoma State, then last year
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: obviously at Ohio State. Mike, before I let you go,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: I want to ask you something I've asked all of
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: the other play by play guys who've been on and
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: the ones that'll be on next week during our week
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: of these previews, and that's about the whole nine game
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: conference schedule thing. That and some of the guys who've
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: been around calling it for a long time might have
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: a better perspective than you or I in terms of
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: the weekly grind of the SEC.
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: But I think we've both seen it.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: You know, we saw it last year what the regular
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: grind is of an eight game schedule with a nine
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: game conference schedule. There are those who really have some
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: trepidation about it. Now your non conference schedule and it's
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: a good challenge to go to Atlanta to play Georgia Tech.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: But the non conference schedule would seem to set up
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: well enough to where you get three games under belt
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: anyway before the Logorns roll In has tried the river
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: there on September twenty six. How about your thoughts on
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: the nine game conference schedule.
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: Well, I think it's the NFL. Yeah, I mean, I
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: think that's one hundred percent what it is. I've seen it.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: And what I mean by that is you're gonna I mean,
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: let's say you go play LSU and you go play
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: Oh Miss, and you beat them both, great, right, but
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: you're so beat up? Can will you have a chance
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: to beat Florida the next week? And that sounds crazy?
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: You're like, well, LSU's gonna be good, No Miss is
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: gonna be good, and Florida's gonna be much approved. And yeah,
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: guess what, everybody's got it now.
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: And I think that's.
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: Gonna be what the nine game grind is overall is
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: it's going to wear on you as a way, in
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: a way like professional football that Hey listen, when I
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: started following the SEC six games and when they went
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: to seven, they said, oh the world's ending, We're going
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: to seven. And then you go to eight it's like
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: age too many, we shouldn't And the coaches didn't want nine,
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: and I one hundred percent geft why they didn't want nine,
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: Because this conference and the challenge that it puts you through,
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: especially with just one by week this year, the grind
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: that it puts you through, it's gonna be very, very
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: tough now for us as broadcasters. It's fabulous. For fans,
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: it's fantastic. If you if you have enough to get
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: in the playoff, you're gonna be ready for anybody.
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: You know, I think you know.
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: If you're Tennessee, your goal to start with is to
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: get to the LSU game at home on November twenty first,
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: still in the hunt for the playoffs, and if you can,
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: if you can make it that far, that the Georgia
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: Tech thing is going to be a big deal, a
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: much bigger deal for Tennessee than probably what it looks
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: like on paper because they play Colorado to open and
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: so they will have already seen a quality opponent to
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: begin and they play them on a Thursday night, and
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: then Tennessee goes in there, and you know, this is
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: a real new Georgia Tech team, kind of a new
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: Tennessee team. They've got to find a way to win
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: that football game. There's a lot of pressure in that
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: football game. And then Kennesaw State. That's a team that
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: won their conference last year. And Tennessee fans here Kennesaw
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: State and they think back to Georgia State in twenty
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: nineteen when they came into Knoxville and beat Tennessee.
• 29:20
  Speaker 8: So, you know, I mean you some of those.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: Teams are you know, they're a lot more sort of
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: catchy than they were when Peyton Manning was here and
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: I was covering the team in the nineties. Tennessee would
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: start the season, Craig with eight wins. You knew they
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: had eight wins. It was going to be Georgia, Florida
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: and Alabama would be the other three games, and then
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: that would decide what kind of season you had. Today,
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: I think you start off with one, maybe two automatic wins. O.
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: There's some you you certainly think you can win. But
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: Tennessee knew they were winning eight games in that period.
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: They knew it, and today it's just not like that anymore.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: You're right, it is something else. Uh, Mike Agent, tell
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: how much I am looking forward to calling a football
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: game for the first time. For me at Neiland Stadium.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: I you know, I've obviously seen it on television and
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: heard everybody describing it. I'm I'm I'm looking forward to
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: UH to being in Knoxville there coming up to start
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: off SEC play. I appreciate you doing this and and
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: I would love to visit with you again game week
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: if that works for you.
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: Just saying Texas. UH had a chance to work with
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: coach Sarkisi and some when he was at Washington.
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: And a big fan of his.
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: Obviously, this is an historic matchup for both programs. And
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: you know, Greig, if you love college football like I
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: know you do, this is what you live for. You know,
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: you you live for moments like this where you're going
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: to get to see a first on campus meeting between
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: these programs, and that Saturday is going to be unreal
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: in Knoxville, Tennessee.
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: I can't wait for.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: It me either. Hey, Mike, thanks so much. I appreciate
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: you doing this. I'll look forward to visiting with you
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: the week of the ball game and look forward to
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: seeing you in Knoxville at the end of September.
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: Thank you for having me on the program. I appreciate it.
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: You bet.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: That's Mike Key, play by play voice of the Tennessee
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Volunteers Market on your calendar September twenty sixth, when the
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Logorrens and Tennessee likewise open SEC play against one of
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: both of these teams. By the way, Texas and Tennessee
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: played their three non conference games up front, and that
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: was the point I was driving home with Mike. At
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: least you get those non conference games, you know, underfoot,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: whereas some programs like Kentucky has to play Louisville and
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Georgie has to play Georgia Tech. We've talked about some
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: of those, got Florida, Florida State. Those teams that have
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: a third non conference game at the tail end of
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: the regular season only get a couple of weeks to
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: ramp it up and getting it South Carolina playing Clemson
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: at the end, that's another example of that. So Texas
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: and Tennessee both will have played their non conference slate
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: when they teed up to open SEC play on September
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: twenty sixth at Eland Stadium in Knoxville. All right, coming up,
• 32:13
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• 32:18
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• 32:19
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• 32:21
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• 32:24
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• 32:26
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• 32:28
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• 32:41
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• 32:43
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• 32:49
  Speaker 1: up Friday. We're fired up for the weekend as well.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: I know a lot of folks are really fired up
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: for the start of the NFL season. The full fledged
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: start of the preseason began last night. Coming up here
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: a little bit later on this hour, we're gonna hear
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: more from the Loghorns. We heard in the first hour
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: of the program from Raheem Biles, We're gonna hear in
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: this second hour from a couple of different Longhorn guys.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: And in addition to that, we'll also have a look
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: at some of the other things that are going on
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: this weekend in the NFL now speaking, and by the way,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: we'll give away another copy of Dave Campbell's Texas Football
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Magazine this hour. This hour, we're gonna do it with
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: a trivia question, and later on this hour and in
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: the four o'clock hour, we will go back to the
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: random entry method of giving away a copy of the magazine.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Also in the four o'clock hour, Geene Watson, our good
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: friend MLB insider, was at the Field of Dreams game
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: last night, which was really cool if you got to
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: see any of it. There in the cornfield, they've built
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: kind of a new ballpark that backs right into the cornfield,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: and so I think this thing is here to stay
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: now because they've made the ballpark larger. It's like double
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: a size, that kind of thing. Gene actually walked through
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: the cornfield, so we'll ask him if he saw any
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: ghost or if he heard He's his Bane or something
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: like that in the cornfield. If you build it, they
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: will come, that kind of thing anyway, he joins us.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Also in the four o'clock hour, let's jump to the
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: NFL Cowboys getting ready for their first preseason game, traveling
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: to Seattle today. They played tomorrow night against the Seahawks.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: We know who the starting quarterback is for the Cowboys.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: It's Dak Prescott. But Dak probably won't play or if
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: he does very little tomorrow, so it's going to be
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: a duel with the backup quarterbacks, and Brian Shottam has
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: to assess the situation of his backup quarterback right now.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: For us defensively, you have to be able to say
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: that he is.
• 35:07
  Speaker 11: And I think it's been a very highly competitive contest.
• 35:17
  Speaker 11: I think, you know, Joe's you know, talent and ability
• 35:20
  Speaker 11: to thrill the football and athleticism jumps off the practice
• 35:24
  Speaker 11: field when you see it. I think Sam's doing a
• 35:26
  Speaker 11: great job of moving the team. But at the end
• 35:29
  Speaker 11: of the day, the preseason games they're gonna play really
• 35:33
  Speaker 11: the entire preseason, and that's where the bulk of the
• 35:38
  Speaker 11: evaluation will be. But I would say it's a very
• 35:41
  Speaker 11: good back and forth.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, that's that's one way to start it off. Anyway,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: What has the film shown him from the scrimmage that
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: they have both with themselves and against the Los Angeles
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Rams marked a couple of notes.
• 35:57
  Speaker 11: I thought we were really good in the red zone offensively,
• 36:00
  Speaker 11: really nice job. Turp had a couple of touchdowns, CD
• 36:02
  Speaker 11: had a couple of touchdowns.
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: Really good physical physicality.
• 36:06
  Speaker 11: In the run game, you know, against you know what
• 36:07
  Speaker 11: I think is a very physical defense. You know, we
• 36:11
  Speaker 11: didn't block movement very well up front in the run game.
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: We got to get our eyes up.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: It's kind of.
• 36:15
  Speaker 11: Been a something consistent even through camp. You know, offensive
• 36:18
  Speaker 11: line blocking, you got to get their.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Eyes up anticipating movement.
• 36:21
  Speaker 11: On defense, I thought the play style was uh was felt,
• 36:26
  Speaker 11: the demeanor, the way these guys attacked it. I thought
• 36:28
  Speaker 11: the turnovers were great, and there was a couple, when
• 36:30
  Speaker 11: I say turnovers, a couple of fourth down stops as well,
• 36:33
  Speaker 11: areas we need to improve, you know, a little bit
• 36:36
  Speaker 11: soft in coverage a few times, it was a little
• 36:39
  Speaker 11: bit airy. I mean, this is a very tight match group,
• 36:41
  Speaker 11: but some mental layers and things like that provided too
• 36:44
  Speaker 11: much space that we haven't really done.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: So get to the bottom of that.
• 36:48
  Speaker 11: And on special teams, we were absolutely dominant on the
• 36:51
  Speaker 11: outside with the gunners and the vice work that we did.
• 36:54
  Speaker 11: It was really cool to see showed to the team
• 36:56
  Speaker 11: this morning. And areas we need to improve on teams protection,
• 37:01
  Speaker 11: you know from our splits oar alignment, you know how
• 37:04
  Speaker 11: we punch and strike. But overall, I thought it was
• 37:06
  Speaker 11: a very competitive deal. And you know, like I said,
• 37:08
  Speaker 11: the film, the film showed that our guys played the
• 37:11
  Speaker 11: right way.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Okay, Jaydon Blue went through a spell of Texas where
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: he struggled to secure the football, had some fun linger
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: and he had a fumble there in the scrimmage as well.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: So what was his message to Blue after that fumble?
• 37:24
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, ball can't go on the ground, but
• 37:26
  Speaker 11: one fumble doesn't make for camp. He's having a really
• 37:29
  Speaker 11: good camp, both he and Phil MafA. I thought he
• 37:32
  Speaker 11: rebounded from that, had some of his more physical runs, uh,
• 37:35
  Speaker 11: you know inside and the A and the B gaps
• 37:37
  Speaker 11: and uh, there's a cool crack replaced play where he
• 37:40
  Speaker 11: was up on the corner and put his shoulder down.
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: I thought that was really cool.
• 37:43
  Speaker 11: So you know, he knows he's got to protect the ball,
• 37:45
  Speaker 11: but not didn't.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Over coach it. Okay, didn't didn't over coach it. No
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: reason to uh to over coach it. Uh there the
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: uh Texans have already played, of course, the Cowboys played
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: tomorrow night in Seattle. The Texans lost to the Chargers
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: last night twenty seven to seven. And every time I
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: flipped over, I was kind of you know, watching Dodgers,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Brewers and a couple other things. But every time I
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: flipped over, the Texans were like back on their heels.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Not much was going right for them. But Demko Ryans,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: who wasn't real pleased with overall. Nevertheless, you know, had
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: to take a look at it and look at individual
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: players like Kad McDonald. His thoughts on McDonald's I had.
• 38:32
  Speaker 12: To look at the film to see it up close
• 38:34
  Speaker 12: and see how he did overall. You know, I thought
• 38:38
  Speaker 12: he we got some good valuable reps. He needs to
• 38:40
  Speaker 12: get as many reps as possible. I had to continue
• 38:42
  Speaker 12: to improve his game and improve you know, our style
• 38:46
  Speaker 12: of play.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Okay, what were the biggest things that stood out to
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Demico about the game?
• 38:52
  Speaker 12: I really want to go back and really dive into
• 38:54
  Speaker 12: the film to really get a great evaluation of all
• 38:57
  Speaker 12: the guys here. But I like, we had a lot
• 38:59
  Speaker 12: of different guys playing tonight, so we rolled a lot
• 39:02
  Speaker 12: of guys in a lot of guys got valuable playing time.
• 39:04
  Speaker 12: So for me, I have to really go and watch
• 39:06
  Speaker 12: it to you know, see who I can single out
• 39:09
  Speaker 12: from them.
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: Doing a really good job.
• 39:11
  Speaker 12: So overall, again it was it was some positive things.
• 39:15
  Speaker 12: But anytime you I tell our guys, anytime you suit
• 39:18
  Speaker 12: up and you're competing, you want to win the football game.
• 39:21
  Speaker 12: No matter who's out there, you want to compete to win.
• 39:23
  Speaker 12: So it didn't go our way, but it's still a
• 39:25
  Speaker 12: lot for us to learn and grow from.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: One of the things that Devinko Rimes like should talk
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: about is playing football Houston Texan's style. So was there
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: a part of Texans style that he just did not
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: see the.
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: Style of played it.
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: I wanted to see.
• 39:38
  Speaker 12: I wanted to see us play physical, right, and I
• 39:40
  Speaker 12: did not see that the entire game. There were some
• 39:43
  Speaker 12: glimpses of us playing physical, but the Chargers day out
• 39:47
  Speaker 12: physical to us the entire game, right, So it was
• 39:51
  Speaker 12: not our brand of football. When I speak of playing
• 39:54
  Speaker 12: our style, that's a physical brand of football and that
• 39:57
  Speaker 12: was not up to par tonight.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: CJ Strod did it not play? It was Davis Mills
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: doing the play. He was asked about the value of
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: having Mills there as a backup.
• 40:05
  Speaker 12: The backup quarterback is true, very valuable position. At Davis
• 40:09
  Speaker 12: has done a good job of just always being ready
• 40:11
  Speaker 12: whenever his number is called. He's ready to step up
• 40:14
  Speaker 12: and not just step.
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: Up and just to be out there.
• 40:17
  Speaker 12: He's out there and he can make positive play as
• 40:19
  Speaker 12: far as we saw him do right through this past
• 40:22
  Speaker 12: season where we were able to get on a winning
• 40:24
  Speaker 12: streak there. Davis was the guy who sparked us. So
• 40:28
  Speaker 12: he's very valuable to have around. We're happy to have him.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: All right. And then he wants to have physical corners
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: in the run defense to be able to come up
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: and run support and do the job, and he talked
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: about that for.
• 40:41
  Speaker 12: Us defensively, you have to be able to set the
• 40:43
  Speaker 12: eds and it's not just defensive ends who set the eds.
• 40:46
  Speaker 12: Our corners are going to get challenged a lot because
• 40:49
  Speaker 12: our defensive end are getting a lot of attention right
• 40:52
  Speaker 12: from opposing offenses. So when that ball pops on the outside,
• 40:56
  Speaker 12: corners have to step up and be physical and you
• 40:59
  Speaker 12: have to tackle defense because you're gonna get a ton
• 41:02
  Speaker 12: of opportunities.
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: Probably different than other.
• 41:04
  Speaker 12: Schemes, but in our scheme, corners are going to get
• 41:06
  Speaker 12: challenge as tackling and also get.
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: Challenge down the field.
• 41:10
  Speaker 12: So you have to have that mental fortitude as a
• 41:13
  Speaker 12: corner to be able to cover, but also physical enough
• 41:16
  Speaker 12: to step up and tackle whoever has the football. And
• 41:19
  Speaker 12: Jay Rock did a really nice job there on their
• 41:21
  Speaker 12: sideline of making a physical hit.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, we'll hear more from both Brian Schottenheimer
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: and additionally Demiko. Ryan's coming up next time. What do
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: you think about Sam Howell?
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: Sam Howell as a commander, Well, I guess as a
• 41:37
  Speaker 6: member of the Washington football team at the time. I
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: saw in Sam Howell a quarterback who wasn't afraid to
• 41:45
  Speaker 6: kind of step in and sling the ball into harm's way.
• 41:48
  Speaker 6: But at times I thought his eyes were bigger than
• 41:51
  Speaker 6: his stomach on what he saw. And so I'm hoping
• 41:53
  Speaker 6: with experience right that Howell was able to take care
• 41:56
  Speaker 6: of the ball better, because if he does that, I
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: think you'll have a future a good NFL backup.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, my wife still wishes they were called Washington football team.
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, I've got a shirt that well, I probably
• 42:08
  Speaker 6: wouldn't fit her. But while my Washington football team t
• 42:10
  Speaker 6: shirts getting a little old and raggedy because obviously it's
• 42:13
  Speaker 6: five six years old at this point, but it's a
• 42:15
  Speaker 6: it's a fun artifact I want to show my kids
• 42:17
  Speaker 6: one day.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: I actually ordered for her online from I think from
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: NFL shop dot com whatever. I ordered her a long
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: sleeve back when they were Washington Football team long sleeve
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: T shirt where it said like Washington football team and
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: you know in the burgundy on the sleeves and a
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: gray shirt T shirt of it. She likes the long
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: sleeve t shirts and she really liked that one.
• 42:41
  Speaker 9: Well.
• 42:41
  Speaker 6: The big reveal in Washington today is that, you know,
• 42:43
  Speaker 6: in the end zone, the font is more similar to
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: what it used to look like before all the name changes.
• 42:48
  Speaker 6: The burgundy stripes are gone, the spear logo which we
• 42:51
  Speaker 6: knew was coming back. Yeah, they are trying to rebrand
• 42:55
  Speaker 6: with the colors and uniforms as close to the redskins
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: as possible while keeping the commander's name.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Interesting. All right, up next we'll talk some long
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: war and football, and we're here from a couple of players.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: When we continue on thirteen hunderd the Zone in the
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: iHeart Radio app.
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: I'm kicking with that given because I'm working for the.
• 43:12
  Speaker 8: Aren't we all doing that?
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: As we roll into a weekend here on the fire
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: Me Up Friday on thirteen hundred of the Zone, Craig Way,
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: alongside the producer Jay Herman, Hugh Lewis, Huey Lewis, and
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: the News a very entertaining act in the eighties into
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: the nineties. Remember when I was telling me about that
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: we did that We Are the World thing. The other
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: day we were bumping back with Willie Nelson on the
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: textan Tuesday and his part of We Are the World. Ye,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: Huey Lewis got a solo line in the song. Now,
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: when you're thinking about, you know, all these mega stars
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: like Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and Bruce Springsteen and
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: all these mega stars, how does Huey Lewis rate? He
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: was popular at the time about how would he eight
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: getting a solo line of time? What was because Prince
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: refused to show up?
• 44:05
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was supposed to come over after the American
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Music Awards earlier but decided not to. And there were
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: two theories. One because he just didn't like being around
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: lots of people, there was one thing. Two although he's
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: been on other award shows uh and two Uh. Lionel
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Ritchie beat him out for like six different categories. And
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: they said he might have been up in his feelings
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: a little bit.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: You think he he cared about that kind of thing.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: Well, they said he did. Yeah, And and Sheila e
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: was there. It had been you know, an entertainment actor
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: and had been a companion of his, and they had
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: a lot of interviews with her, and she said ultimately
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: had dawned on her that the whole reason she was
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: invited into that deal was to bring Prince, was to
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: get him.
• 44:58
  Speaker 6: To go, yeah, this is the little I won't think
• 45:01
  Speaker 6: it's too far off track with this.
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: Do you play the word?
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: I don't, but I know many who do.
• 45:06
  Speaker 6: There's a music and banned version of that that's come
• 45:09
  Speaker 6: out recently.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: I think you get a kick out.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I might have to do that. Then.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: So Huey Lewis got Prince's line and it was and
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: it was like right after Steve Perry's line, which was
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: right after Willie's line, which was right after we've probably
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: heard Morwick. So yeah, when you played it the other day,
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: we heard Huey Lewis's line on the tail end of
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: the verse when we did that. Let's hear from Loghorn's
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: defensive endaedge rusher Lance Jackson, the sophomore coming off that
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: outstanding freshman campaign, was asked what is he looking forward
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: to when they get on the field tomorrow in the scrimmage.
• 45:48
  Speaker 13: Pad's definitely been really good, because I mean you don't
• 45:51
  Speaker 13: really get true good looks until you're getting full pads.
• 45:53
  Speaker 13: So being able to tie up to the ground stuff
• 45:56
  Speaker 13: just makes it field like a game. And then the
• 45:58
  Speaker 13: scrimmage is Saturday, just really people flying around making the plays.
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: Not really focused.
• 46:05
  Speaker 13: I mean, also obviously focused on technique and stuff, but
• 46:08
  Speaker 13: it's trying to make plays fly around stuff like that.
• 46:10
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Since he's talking about focus, how much focus has there
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: been on stopping the run even from the edge.
• 46:15
  Speaker 13: Yeah, definitely focus on the run a lot right now.
• 46:19
  Speaker 13: Champ wants us to focus on the run a lot
• 46:21
  Speaker 13: right now. So really our whole edge room, we really
• 46:23
  Speaker 13: have even gotten to our full bag with pass rush.
• 46:26
  Speaker 13: We're just focused on stopping the run right now, and
• 46:29
  Speaker 13: then when we get that down we're gonna start focusing
• 46:31
  Speaker 13: on our pass rush more and trying to get into that.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right. Also, he's coming off a really good
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: freshman year, so he was asked, where's he going for improvement?
• 46:41
  Speaker 13: I really say not, just like being out there, I
• 46:44
  Speaker 13: feel like I know more what's going on. I can
• 46:47
  Speaker 13: scan the offense and kind of get an idea of
• 46:49
  Speaker 13: what's going on. Like last year as a freshman, kind
• 46:52
  Speaker 13: of just playing hard. I know what to do obviously,
• 46:55
  Speaker 13: but now I know what to do and then I
• 46:56
  Speaker 13: can also look at the offense and maybe see what's
• 46:58
  Speaker 13: coming in.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right. Next, he was asked about, you know,
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: what are what are the biggest things that he's really
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: been working on in the offseason.
• 47:07
  Speaker 13: So mainly for me is just I was focused on
• 47:10
  Speaker 13: getting bigger focus, just focusing more on the IQ of
• 47:15
  Speaker 13: the game, like I was saying, just trying to be
• 47:17
  Speaker 13: more smart, knowing what's going on, not just being out there.
• 47:20
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: One of the things that can definitely help you is
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: when you're going up against a veteran player. Now he's
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: new to the Loghorns. However, Melvinciani, who started his collegiate
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: career Temple and was good last year at Wake Forest,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: seemed to have locked into that starting offensive right tackle spot.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: So what about Jackson going up against Siani in practice?
• 47:40
  Speaker 13: Oh, yeah, that's been really good. I mean, he's a
• 47:42
  Speaker 13: hard worker. He's never gonna stop working. Anybody will tell you.
• 47:47
  Speaker 13: There's a bunch of clips on film just going at
• 47:49
  Speaker 13: it with him. Yeah, So he's a worker, and I
• 47:52
  Speaker 13: mean he's never gonna back down from the front.
• 47:54
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Jackson's only a sophomorres I mentioned, but he played a
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: lot last year, so does he feel like a veteran?
• 47:58
  Speaker 13: Oh yeah, I do feel older. Taking people under my wing.
• 48:02
  Speaker 13: Richard Wesley, that's my dog. He's gonna be a really
• 48:05
  Speaker 13: good pass rusher this year. How he's gonna get to
• 48:08
  Speaker 13: play a lot. So yeah, just taking the younger guys
• 48:10
  Speaker 13: under my wing, trying to help them as much as
• 48:12
  Speaker 13: I can.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: Okay. Additionally, he was talked about areas of concentration for
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: himself and for the d.
• 48:18
  Speaker 13: I definitely want to be able to stop the run.
• 48:19
  Speaker 13: I mean, I feel like I got bigger for a reason.
• 48:21
  Speaker 13: That's the main reason I got bigger. So mainly just
• 48:24
  Speaker 13: focus on stopping the run, being a force, getting TFLs.
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: But then I also want to get my sacks.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: Obviously, all right, so you know, in being able to
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: do that and making a difference in that concentration. And
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: he's asked about the differences for the defense from just
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: a year ago.
• 48:41
  Speaker 13: I really just feel like, in your face, getting after it, blitzing,
• 48:46
  Speaker 13: we're going. I mean, I feel like for a lot
• 48:48
  Speaker 13: of teams it's gonna be hard to pick up all
• 48:51
  Speaker 13: of our people.
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: Somebody's gonna be open all the time, all right.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: Our friend Kirk Bowles from the Houston Chronicle formerly Austin
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: American Statesment is a stickler for details, especially it comes
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: to playing weight. So it was Bowls asking him about
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: the weight.
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: Two seventy five right now.
• 49:05
  Speaker 13: It's fluctuating since its fall camp, but it's around two
• 49:08
  Speaker 13: seventy five. Did you gave I was finished around like
• 49:11
  Speaker 13: two fifty five, I think last year.
• 49:13
  Speaker 11: So would you eat?
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: I just ate a lot.
• 49:17
  Speaker 13: Last interview that told about the Chick fil A. Watch
• 49:19
  Speaker 13: Chick fil A eating tank a lot. Really just eating
• 49:23
  Speaker 13: a lot and then trying to eat clean too. Someone
• 49:25
  Speaker 13: just getting fat.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, important stuff there, he said, eating in the tank.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: That's the Texas Athlete is a nutrition center where you
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: get some really good meals in there. Also asked about
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: Will musch Champ. Might he slide Jackson inside?
• 49:39
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I'll definitely be a pass rushing from inside, but
• 49:41
  Speaker 13: I'll also be on the edge too. I rushed from
• 49:44
  Speaker 13: the three for five to nine, so I definitely be
• 49:48
  Speaker 13: rushing from the inside, but also be on outside too.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: And when you're really going at it, Lance Jackson says,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: you know there's there's gonna be some really good battles
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: between the offensive line and the defensive line.
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: I mean, I really just say we get after it.
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: I mean, sides of the ball, just nasty mentality.
• 50:03
  Speaker 13: I feel like in the offseason, Worth, we just work
• 50:05
  Speaker 13: just on focused on just being strong at the line
• 50:10
  Speaker 13: of scrimmage.
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: So it's really just what the us going at it.
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: He mentioned Melvintai earlier. Is he stood out in those
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: O line battles, I.
• 50:16
  Speaker 13: Really say all of them. I mean, Baker is also
• 50:18
  Speaker 13: really good inside. I feel like that was a really
• 50:21
  Speaker 13: good move for him. It's hard to pass rush against him.
• 50:23
  Speaker 13: He's he's super athletic, good feet, but he's also strong,
• 50:28
  Speaker 13: so I feel like he's a really good battle obviously, Trevor.
• 50:32
  Speaker 13: Really the whole line has been really good this season.
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: All right, how about some of the younger guys that
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: might wind up surprising some folks, Well.
• 50:39
  Speaker 13: I fine, like most of our young players are already
• 50:41
  Speaker 13: talked about a lot. But like I said, on the defense,
• 50:46
  Speaker 13: back Rocky looks really good.
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: He's obviously making plays Cozy. I think he's going to
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: be really good. He's not really talked about enough. He's
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: gonna have to play a lot.
• 50:56
  Speaker 13: He's not to step up special teams too, and then
• 50:58
  Speaker 13: obviously Richard Westley in our room gonna be a dog
• 51:01
  Speaker 13: for us in the future.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right. Additionally, the system that will Muschamp is
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: installing for the guys, how much of that system enables
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: guys like Jackson or Colin Simmons or any of the
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: down linemen to create havoc.
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  Speaker 13: I thought, just finding ways to get me open, had
• 51:24
  Speaker 13: me move in a lot because I'm big, but I'm
• 51:28
  Speaker 13: also athletic, so move me inside, getting go against bigger
• 51:31
  Speaker 13: people is gonna be really good for me, and then
• 51:32
  Speaker 13: slanting a lot, so yeah, I think it's gonna be
• 51:34
  Speaker 13: really good.
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: For me, all right. His position also allows him and
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: requires him sometimes to keep track of what's going on
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: at the tight end spot, whether it's Nick Townson down
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: there or the Michigan State transfer, Michael Massonis, Amari Winston, Spencer, Shannon,
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: all of those guys.
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the tight ends.
• 51:51
  Speaker 13: I think Banks has definitely really gotten them to focus
• 51:55
  Speaker 13: a lot more this year because the tight end has
• 51:57
  Speaker 13: looked very good this year in the run game. Nick, Mike, Spencer,
• 52:01
  Speaker 13: Shan and all of them have been really good in
• 52:04
  Speaker 13: the running game.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: All right, is there a leader of the defense?
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: I thought, we don't really have just one leader.
• 52:10
  Speaker 13: I feel like our whole defense has a bunch of
• 52:12
  Speaker 13: different leaders. I mean, obviously he Colin Grayson on the
• 52:16
  Speaker 13: back end to bo, I mean, really our whole I
• 52:20
  Speaker 13: guess our defense doesn't just have one leader. Everybody's leader
• 52:23
  Speaker 13: out there. Everybody's talking out there, but there's not one
• 52:27
  Speaker 13: that's just it's there's not one that anybody that stands
• 52:31
  Speaker 13: over nobody.
• 52:31
  Speaker 4: It's just everybody leading.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right. We heard some talk yesterday about Justice
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: Terry and the progress he's made on the defensive front.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: So it's natural that Lance Jackson would be asked about
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: Justice Terry's progress.
• 52:45
  Speaker 13: Uh, Justice has been creating havoc a lot. He's just
• 52:50
  Speaker 13: getting in the playbook. He's moving fast. Like when Justice
• 52:55
  Speaker 13: is out there, he doesn't really care what's going on.
• 52:57
  Speaker 13: He's just gonna go hard.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: That thing about the leadership of the team, what does
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: it say about this defense if they do indeed have
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: multiple leaders?
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like definitely a lot.
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  Speaker 13: That helped us a lot with our culture this summer,
• 53:10
  Speaker 13: just kind of being a player led team and all
• 53:13
  Speaker 13: and not just having certain leaders Like in our leadership committee,
• 53:18
  Speaker 13: it's not just one or two guys, we have like
• 53:19
  Speaker 13: sixteen guys in there.
• 53:21
  Speaker 4: Coach Beckson just trying to get us all the lead.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: Okay, given the fact that Colin Simmons is a preseason
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: All American and pretty much consensus, he's gonna draw a
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: lot of attention. So with Jackson on the opposite side,
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: what does that mean about his importance?
• 53:35
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I think it's just definitely important for us because
• 53:37
  Speaker 13: it's just it makes us happy win out one on one.
• 53:40
  Speaker 13: I mean, if they're gonna put everybody on call and
• 53:42
  Speaker 13: then we got to win on one on one.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: A lot of conversation about improving the run defense, what
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: does that look like on a day by day basis.
• 53:49
  Speaker 13: Really just focusing on technique, throwing your hands across the line.
• 53:53
  Speaker 13: I mean, that's really a lot to coming up for me. Mostly,
• 53:55
  Speaker 13: I think it's just a mentality at the end of
• 53:57
  Speaker 13: the day.
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: Is there a major difference between the Peak with Kowski
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: defense and the Will Muscham defense.
• 54:04
  Speaker 13: Oh, Like I said earlier, we're gonna be going blitzing
• 54:07
  Speaker 13: up in your face, like it's religous.
• 54:09
  Speaker 4: Biggest difference were kind.
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: Of and one more from Lance Jackson was asked for
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: a piece of advice if there was one coming from
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: the family of athletes.
• 54:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel really like just my brother. It's just
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: a mentality all the time.
• 54:21
  Speaker 13: Like I mean, if you have a bad day, you
• 54:23
  Speaker 13: can't let it move on to the next day.
• 54:25
  Speaker 4: You just got to go to day by day and
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: then just keep working.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's played in a great program at pleasang or
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: of Hya and Texa or Cana, and he is capable
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: of having a really big season. That's the sophomore Lance
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: Jackson up next. We'll flip to the offensive side. We'll
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: here from Brandon Baker when we continue on thirteen under
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: the Zone.
• 54:45
  Speaker 9: Thank God, it's time.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: Love the baking sports right here. Thank God it's time. Ah, Yeah,
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: it is Friday. Glad to be with you here on
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: thirteen under his own, let's give away another copy of
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine before we hear from Brandon Baker.
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: This will be a trivia question. I've noticed over the
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: past several months. Then long worn fans, long worn die hard.
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: Long worn football fans. Probably a lot of long worn
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: fans are pretty proud of the fact that Oklahoma has
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: not scored a touchdown against Texas in going on three years.
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: The last time they did was twenty twenty three, which
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: was incidentally the last time Oklahoma won and won that
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: contest thirty four to thirty. So they didn't score touchdown
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four and they didn't score touchdown in
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. So I want to What I want
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: to know is put on your math hat here. I
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: want to know the combined total of points Oklahoma has
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: scored against Texas the last two seasons combined. Okay, the
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: last two seasons twenty twenty four. Make sure you understand
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: the question. The total number of points they scored against
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: Texas in twenty twenty four and the total number of
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: points they scored against Texas in twenty twenty five. At
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: them up. What's the total number of points Oklahoma has
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: scored against Texas in these last two seasons combined.
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  Speaker 6: I won't give away the answer, but I'll tell you
• 56:15
  Speaker 6: this what you could add their points from twenty twenty
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  Speaker 6: two also and also be correct.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: Well that's true too, you could. You could so be
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: the first with the correct answer. And what you do
• 56:30
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• 56:34
  Speaker 1: thirteen under the zone. It'll pop straight up. Then you'll
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: see the red button with a white microphone. You push
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: that button and you tell us the combined total of
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: points that Oklahoma scored against Texas in the last two years.
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: And as Jake said, you can throw in twenty twenty two,
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: is you want, because that's when the long Wune won
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: forty nine nothing, so it won't increase the total.
• 56:56
  Speaker 5: So what is the total?
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: It's that number of combined points twenty twenty four and
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. All right, speaking of the long Horns,
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: Brandon Baker moving inside? Now? Is Baker moving inside from
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: tackle to guard?
• 57:12
  Speaker 14: Uh?
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: And uh?
• 57:13
  Speaker 5: Sure?
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: Do you ever present question from our friend Kirk Bowls
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: about the weight and his growth plates and all that
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: other kind of stuff for Brandon Baker?
• 57:21
  Speaker 14: So, my weight in the springtime is actually at three
• 57:24
  Speaker 14: or five I'm currently around three fifteen three eighteen range.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: I know, do you do that because you're moving lived
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: into guard a little bit?
• 57:31
  Speaker 5: Or just yes?
• 57:32
  Speaker 9: Naturally? I'm also natural most so naturally.
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, how about the biggest adjustment he has
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: to make moving from outside on the edge as a
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: tackle The inside as a guard.
• 57:42
  Speaker 9: I would just.
• 57:42
  Speaker 14: Say the body types going against Ian every day. Oh,
• 57:47
  Speaker 14: it's been a grind for sure, but I know facing
• 57:50
  Speaker 14: guys like that is only going to make me.
• 57:51
  Speaker 9: Better, So it's been great.
• 57:52
  Speaker 14: He's got a different bodies yeah, yeah, compared to Colin
• 57:55
  Speaker 14: Simmons or Lash Jackson.
• 57:57
  Speaker 9: Completely different.
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'd say Art is really really big. We talked
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: about him yesterday. He weighed in earlier in the spring
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: at sixty five and three hundred eighty seven pounds too
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: far as now he's dropped some weight the Arkansas transfer.
• 58:13
  Speaker 6: Wow, he's he's still So he's dropped from from from
• 58:16
  Speaker 6: maybe three j Kermans closer to too.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's something like that. He has a large human Okay,
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: why is this move good for Brandon Baker from tackle
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: to guard?
• 58:27
  Speaker 9: That's a good question in my opinion.
• 58:31
  Speaker 14: I don't really like to say I'm a guard or
• 58:33
  Speaker 14: taboo center. From me, I play offense line, and so
• 58:37
  Speaker 14: wherever I'm at on the field, I feel like I'm
• 58:39
  Speaker 14: able to play on my strengths rather be on my hands,
• 58:42
  Speaker 14: my feet and just being able to stay in front
• 58:45
  Speaker 14: of guys. I feel like he's been a great, great
• 58:47
  Speaker 14: strength inside compared to tackle last year.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: Okay, so does that mean he has to do things
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: differently to deal with these bigger bodies.
• 58:58
  Speaker 14: Yeah, absolutely, making sure I'm playing with levers again under
• 59:02
  Speaker 14: these guys, Like I mentioned in if I stand straight up,
• 59:06
  Speaker 14: he's gonna give me every time. So knowing that and
• 59:09
  Speaker 14: knowing that I have to get under him every time,
• 59:12
  Speaker 14: I feel confident.
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: I want to talk about eliminating or greatly reducing the
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: number of penalties for this team from compared to last year,
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: and he discussed that learning experience of all those penalties
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: that were called a year ago, a.
• 59:27
  Speaker 9: Huge learning experience for me.
• 59:30
  Speaker 14: And some of those penalties rather be holding or offsides,
• 59:34
  Speaker 14: We're just I wouldn't even say pregame jitters, just more
• 59:37
  Speaker 14: so anticipating in a snap count.
• 59:39
  Speaker 9: But now moving inside, I'm able to drift the ball
• 59:42
  Speaker 9: a lot, a lot easier.
• 59:43
  Speaker 14: So that's been a huge emphasis this offseason, being able
• 59:46
  Speaker 14: to get off the ball when the ball is snapped.
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: All right, Cole Hudson got his fifth year of eligibility.
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: He's getting ramped up back into the rotations the offensive line.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: What does it mean to Brandon Baker to have Cole
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: Hudson back in the mix.
• 59:57
  Speaker 14: That was an interesting topic. But I heard the news
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 14: that he was returning, it was great. Cole has always
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 14: been a great locker room guy along with a great
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 14: leader on this team. He's somebody that coming in my
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 14: freshmany I was able to learn a ton from and
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 14: so having him back has been great and he's looked
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 14: great so far.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: All right. So with Hudson back and everybody melding into
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: their spots, how has the offensive line come together to
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: disappoint as a whole?
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 14: I feel like we're turning up and up all the
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 14: right right direction. And so for me knowing that and
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 14: really believing that, I feel like it's been great for
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 14: us collectively because I know I'm not the only guy
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 14: that feels that. I feel like we're all turning up
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 14: individually but also collectively.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 9: So that's been a lot of fun.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: So Baker is moving the right guard. That opens up
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: the spot at left guard there on that offensive front.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: Lawrence Seymour, one of the long worn transfers, is a
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: guy who is a candidate for that starting spot as well.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: Seymour was All Conference at Western Kentucky, and so Baker
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: was asked about Seymour and how he's coming along great.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 14: Laurn Simour is doing great, phenomenal, phenomenal player, great hand,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 14: super strong, quick feet.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 9: He's gonna do great for us this year.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: One of the biggest topics of conversation in this summer
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: leading up is the recently pass five for five yearl
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: which allows you, once you are once you were on campus,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: you got five years to play. He played five years,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: you have five years. That's it. No more red shirts
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: things like that, it's five for five. What about Brandon
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: Baker's spots?
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 14: Never really put much thought into it, but I find
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 14: it's a good opportunity for younger guys, but also also
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 14: older guys. Someone mentioned Cole Hudson's situation, so being able
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 14: to have him back for a fifth year has been great,
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 14: But also younger guys coming in knowing that they're not
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 14: gonna have to compete against the twenty five year old senior,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 14: seventh eighth year senior. I find that would be a great,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 14: great transition for college football moving forward.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: All right, new faces in the backfield, obviously at the
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: running back spot, most notably those being really Brown and
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: Hollywood smothers. How about his thoughts and what the running
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: backs are bringing.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 14: Electric, So Raheem he was actually after talking, I was
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 14: able to hear him a little bit. But everything that
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 14: he said about Hollywood, Rayleie, and Derek Cooper, I agree
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 14: with him with everything that he said, all electric. All
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 14: of them had different sets of skills. So I feel
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 14: like they'll be great for us this year, and so
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 14: we'll have a lot of fun flogging for him, that's
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 14: for sure.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: In Brandon Baker, you have the only married player on
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: the football team. You used to get one or two,
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: sometimes three on a team. He's the only one this year.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: Does he have any advice?
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 9: Actually, not that often. I tell guys all the time,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 9: I'm an open resource.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 14: So whenever they're going through some things, I letting him
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 14: know that I'm open, and when that opportunity does present itself,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 14: I'm more than welcome to helping guys.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 9: I guess you could say it.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: You're a marriage counselor. I guess you could say that
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: he's ready to talk. Certainly about we heard from Raheem
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: Biles and how special he is, and Baker agrees.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 9: Just his feel for the game.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 14: He has a great feel for what's going on around him.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 9: He mentioned his strings. He's a great blitzer.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 14: He's a phenomenal pass rusher, really good hands, and he's
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 14: just I'm not gonna say shorter guy, but he's not
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 14: six four sixty five, so he has great leverage already
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 14: natural leverage. And so for a guy like that, you
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 14: have to know where he is on the field at
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 14: all times, because if you don't, you'll miss him.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: He would tell you a similar thing about the other
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: guy we just heard from Lance Jackson.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 14: I would just say his feel for the game as
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 14: well being able to understand what's going on yesterday, actually
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 14: two days ago, I actually had a pull play and
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 14: I was pulling a block him and he was there
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 14: right now. So he's he's feeling these things, what's going
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 14: on around him. So I feel like for him, just
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 14: just taking the next step helped him a lot.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 9: In the gamer say you got last year?
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: Okay? All right? Then there is from Brandon Baker moving
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: inside from tackle to guard. We'll be back to wrap
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: up Hower number two here on thirteen Under the Zone,
• 1:04:16
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• 1:04:19
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• 1:04:24
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• 1:04:26
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• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: some baseball with Gene Watson, our MLB insider. I know
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: we visited with him at the start of the week,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: but he had an experience last night you have to
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: hear about if you saw a Field of Dreams game
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: telecase did you even? Did you see it?
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: I can't watch Netflix on my TV.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, they it's odd.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 6: It's a real account sharing crackdown happening. So okay, yeah,
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 6: I didn't watch any baseball on my phone last night.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: I did see a highlight or too.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was something else. It was quite the
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: sight to see, you know, the Hall of famers walking
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: out of the cornfield and and all that kind of stuff.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: And I want to get his description on all that.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: And we have some other baseball questions to ask him,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: but we have him coming up in a few minutes.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: We are going to give away a third and final
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: copy of Dave Campbell's Texas Football magazine for the week,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: so we'll have that. Stay tuned for that. So we'll
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: have that coming up in a little bit as well.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: It'll be a random giveaway here in this third and
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: final hour. Do that Okay to the NFL preseason before
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: we get the break. Texans, as you know, were rather
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: unimpressive in their loss in their preseason opener, and it
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: is important memory it's just a preseason opener and you're
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: not playing your regular guys for the balance of the game. Still,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: in all, Demko Ryans was pleased overall, how when he
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: was asked about those rookies that got in and in
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: his overall perspective.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 12: For our rookies, think a few guys that are really
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 12: good outings just from being there on the sideline watching it.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 12: Starting first off with Marlon Klein. He really shining today.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 12: Everybody saw the pass that he caught. It's where I
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 12: see him where he can excel for our offense and
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 12: just open the offense up for us. It's his catch
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 12: radius is just tough to guard him right, and then
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 12: he definitely has to speed as well to run away
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 12: from guys. So he stood out to me, not only
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 12: just to catch him, but watching him in.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 4: Line blocking in the running game.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 12: I saw him finishing some blocks there exactly how we
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 12: wanted done. So a ton of positives there for him
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 12: anytime take the football away. I think Kamari Ramsey did
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 12: a good job of getting an interception there. Should have
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 12: had a few more that we let go through our hands.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 12: But you know, I thought the backs ran well. Noah
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 12: Whittison did a good job running the football, Lewis Bond
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 12: getting him back.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 4: Doing some punt returning.
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  Speaker 12: I thought that was a lot of positives there for him,
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  Speaker 12: something we can definitely continue to work more and he
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 12: can improve on. So just starting as we started the
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 12: game with our first first unit in our offensive line,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 12: thought they did a really nice job that first drive,
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 12: just having a positive drive, driving down and getting the score.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 12: Jerry Wayne showed up making a lot of good plays.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 12: Davis made some good decisions there. So overall it was
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 12: some positive things there early on. Just collectively, it's not
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 12: our style of play and so a lot for us
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 12: to improve upon.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan's also was asked if this is what he expected
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: from Klein. You know, there was a lot of talk
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: about him going coming out of the draft and what
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: he could do. So he was asked, is this what
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: he expected to see from him?
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  Speaker 12: And we expect that and even he has more as well.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 12: I think this is just a start of Marlon Klein
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 12: as he continues to grow and learn how we're doing things.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 12: Like he's a really good athlete, right, and he's strong
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 12: and physical at the line of scrimmings. So that's what
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 12: we saw from the Michigan tape and that's what he's
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 12: been showing on training camp.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so there's something from Devinko Ranz. Now
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys and they get ready for their preseason opener
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: tomorrow night in Seattle against the Seahawks. Bryan shot I'm
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: or the head coach, was it was asked about a
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: variety of things we've heard from him earlier, but Shotty
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: was asked to expand on the specifics of this player
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: led council they have.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I think you know, at the end of the day,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 11: it's their council. It's not mine. We kind of created
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 11: it as a coaching staff and you know, selecting the guys,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 11: but like I'm not, you know, very involved with it.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: Todd.
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  Speaker 5: You know, they're going to meet about every two weeks.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 5: They'll report back to me.
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  Speaker 11: A couple of them will come to me, not all
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 11: of them, not all eleven and hit me with issues, ideas, suggestions,
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 11: things like that. But it's really just about giving them
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 11: a voice and like we talked about the other day,
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 11: I didn't have conditioning planned and they decide they want
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 11: to run.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: What's that tell you?
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 11: It tells you that they realize and they believe that
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 11: what we're telling them about the science of you know,
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 11: conditioning matters. And there's a lot of strong leaders in
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 11: that locker room, and it's not just the eleven in
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 11: the leadership council.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: Next, talk about the offense. Now we know about Schottenheimer's
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: influence on the offense, but of course Clayton Adams is
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator for this team, or at least sharing
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: in the play calling duty. So where shot he was asked?
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: Has Clayton adams influence shown on the offense the most
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: great question?
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  Speaker 11: I actually, I don't think it's anything you know, schematically.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 11: I think it's his command in the meetings. You know,
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 11: I don't install passes anymore. You know, he'll do a
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 11: lot of the passes, does a great job with the passes.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 11: It's kind of good for me to listen because it,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 11: you know, makes my creative juices get going. Curiosity, how
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 11: you can compliment things and stuff like that. But just
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 11: his command of the entire system, not just the run game.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 11: He's way more than just the run game coordinator. He's
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 11: truly an offensive coordinator now. And that's why I've allowed
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 11: him to call some plays throughout training camp. He called
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 11: the two minute and the one call it period we
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 11: had against the Rams, and you know, might let him
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 11: call some in the preseason. I'll probably do most of it,
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 11: but you know, probably let him call some because he's
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 11: earned the right to do that.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: And now that the Cowboys are in pads and they've
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: had tackling going on as they get ready for this
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: preseason opener tomorrow night in Seattle, the question for Shopenheimer
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: was how much more does he know or how much
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: more does he learn on a day in, day out
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: basis based on the practicing. Now that there is actual
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: tackling involved in these practices, I'm excited.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 11: I'm excited about the running back room that we've built.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 11: You know, I think, you know, Javonte probably won't get
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 11: a whole lot of run this preseason, so Jaden and
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 11: Fiel are gonna get a bunch of work. They're in
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 11: a tight battle for the backup running back spot. Emlie
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 11: Davis I've talked about is he I mean, is he's
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 11: a guy that keeps showing out. He had a good
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 11: scrimmage against the Rams the other day. He's explosive speed guy,
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 11: he's got good size. And then you know Jay Sean
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 11: Corbin that we brought in. I mean, he picked right
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 11: up where he left off. He caught up to those
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 11: five or six installs that he was behind. And you know,
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 11: we'll roll those guys through pretty well.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: So there's some thoughts from Brian Schottenheimer, the Cowboys head coach,
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: as well as hearing from Demico Ryans. We heard from
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: them earlier in the program, But some more thoughts on
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: that Cowboys and Seahawks tomorrow. In fact, the Cowboys play
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: two of their three preseason games on the road. The
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: only one they have at home is the last one
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: against New Orleans, but two of the three are on
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: the road for Dallas, and the first one is tomorrow night.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: Of course, Texans aid their first one last night. We
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: talked about it earlier. You know, some impressions, Fernanda Mendoza
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: looking impressive his first go around. Drew Aller also, so
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: you know, it is, after all, the first weekend of
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: the of the preseason, so you can only draw so
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: much from it. But at least it's the start of that. Okay,
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: we do want to give away another copy of Dave
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: Campbell's Texas Football Magazine. Like I said, this hour is
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: going to be a random drawl. And what we mean
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: by the random draw is, you know, when as people
• 1:12:04
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• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: we take a random number in the queue for who
• 1:12:14
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• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: number for this hour. The random number is going to
• 1:12:21
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• 1:12:25
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• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: continue to repeat it that. What you need to do,
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: if you haven't already done so, is to download the
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• 1:12:47
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• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: Right, And what was the complicated piece there?
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  Speaker 1: You'd be surprised that the number of people who who
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: are a little bit put off by the word download
• 1:13:03
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• 1:13:28
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• 1:13:34
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• 1:13:36
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• 1:13:38
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• 1:13:45
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• 1:13:48
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• 1:13:51
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• 1:13:54
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• 1:13:59
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• 1:14:01
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• 1:14:03
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• 1:14:08
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• 1:14:14
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• 1:14:17
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• 1:14:34
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  Speaker 1: Up next, we talked baseball with Geene Watson from the
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: Chicago White Sox front office. When we continue on sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio AM thirteen under the zone of the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 5: Normally.
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  Speaker 1: On the program we take the opportunity once a week
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  Speaker 1: to visit with our good friend MLB insider and front
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: office genius for the Chicago White Sox. That's Gene Watson
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: and Gino did visit with us earlier in the week. However,
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: we thought it prudent to have another conversation with Gino
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: today for a couple of reasons. One, he's getting ready
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: to head off to the Pacific Rim and we'll talk
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: more about that a little bit, and we hope to
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: hook up when he's in Japan next week. But the
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  Speaker 1: other reason is you talk about your polarity change. Yeah,
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: he'll be in Japan next week. He was in the
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: cornfield last night in Dyersville, Iowa, for the Field of
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: Dreams game. Phillies beat the Twins, but that played secondary
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: to all the other pomp and circumstance that happened last
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: night there in Iowa, and Gino joins us right now.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: Have you come down from Cloud nine? That was a
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: fun experience, wasn't it.
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  Speaker 5: It was unbelievable and I really have not I mean,
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 5: I've had goosebumps for about twelve hours now just thinking
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 5: about all of the players and the connections to your childhood.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 5: And you know, driving over with Jim, you know we're
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 5: gonna go into this tent and then they're gonna walk
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 5: us out on the field, and then you walk in
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 5: the tent and there's Tony LaRussa and Joe Torre and
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 5: Mike Schmidt, CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner, Jeff Kent, Bert Blylevin
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 5: Catfish Hunt. It was just it was unbelievable the guys
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 5: that I was able to interact with last night. And
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 5: the coolest part of it was seeing the young Hall
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 5: of Famers that were so excited to see Steve Carlton
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 5: and guys like that Andre Dawson.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 8: It was it was really something to be.
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  Speaker 5: A part of last night.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: It looked like it looked like Larry Walker was also
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: kind of filming it on on his iPhone as he
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: walked out of the cornfield with the guys.
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  Speaker 5: The real cool part was as they came back to
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 5: the tent after the event, just the it was like
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 5: a rock star after a concert. The adrenaline was high,
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 5: the arts were beating, and you know, these guys are
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 5: competitors and I don't think they had felt that for
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 5: a long time.
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  Speaker 8: But it was something special.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 5: And the really cool part about it was was to
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 5: see that the honor and respect that each Hall of
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 5: Famer has for each other, and how within the group
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 5: of Hall of Famers and they were only twenty three
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 5: there last night, how the interworking's work of seniority and respect,
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 5: and it was really something I'll never get another chance
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 5: to do something like that again.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: It was something else. Gene Watson joining us here. Okay,
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: I want to ask you some specifics about all that.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: First of all, you said you actually you got to
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: walk out from the cornfield like the Hall of Famers.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: Did you get to walk out through that or did
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: you get to walk through the cornfield?
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 5: I got to walk through through the cornfield at the
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 5: movie site. Yep. Rick Eckstein, who was one of our
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 5: coaches for the All American Game, we actually did videos
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 5: at the movie site.
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  Speaker 7: The day before.
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  Speaker 5: So I've actually got a video going into the corn
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 5: and then another video coming out of the corn saying
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 5: is this Heaven? It was really something in the movie site.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 5: If you haven't been, it is worth every mile to
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 5: get there. And just the setting as the sun sets
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 5: and the sun hits the corn certain ways, it's magical.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 5: It's not anything I got goosebumps. Again, It's not anything
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 5: you can ever describe unless you experience it firsthand.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Geno. One of the most oft asked questions
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: that I hear about that whole deal of the cornfield
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: when the fly ball goes in there for a home run,
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: or when the guys are walking out, is what's out there?
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  Speaker 1: What's in the cornfield? Are there ghosts orre this? I
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: imagine it's just rows of corn and stuff like that,
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: but it probably gives you that little bit of a
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: surreal feeling walking through the actual very tall stalks of corn,
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: just like in the movie where James Earl Jones and
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: Radiot and all those guys are disappearing into it.
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  Speaker 5: It's a little unnerving. I mean, the corn this time
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 5: of year is so high, it's it's well above your
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 5: head and I'm only five foot eight, but it gets
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 5: a little unnerving the deeper you get back there. And
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 5: and they had gotten tons of rain in the days
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 5: leading up to all the events, so it was a
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 5: little soft. But you know that wind gets blowing and
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 5: the corn gets to chucking each.
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  Speaker 8: Other and it can get a little unnerving.
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  Speaker 5: But you know, I had never seen that much corn
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  Speaker 5: before in my life. Even the miles and miles and
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 5: miles leading up to the stadium.
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  Speaker 8: It's just it's more corn than you can.
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  Speaker 5: Ever imagine in your life. And it's such you know,
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 5: you imagine Iowa being this flat land, it's beautiful rolling
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 5: hills and and and inside the stadium. For them to
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 5: be able to grow the corn in between the stands
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 5: and the plane surface, the meticulous work that it takes to.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 8: Do that, I mean, they they did not miss a detail.
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  Speaker 5: In making this venue one of the most incredible things
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 5: you've ever seen in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, all right, I have some questions just about you know,
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: first of all, the guy who played in the game
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: looked like they really enjoyed themselves. Kyle Schwarber, who had
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: two home runs and it, had some really nice things
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: to say about you know, and maybe taking his son
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: back there some days, I may never get this opportunity
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  Speaker 1: again in the history of it, and all of those
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: kinds of things off of that. And they hadn't had
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: it there I guess what in about four years, and
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: some of that had to do. You correct me if
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  Speaker 1: I'm wrong, Geno. They had the old smaller field where
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: by the movie set thing, and they hadn't really committed
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: to the way that the state and the property and
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: the community have committed to it now where I think
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: I read there's three thousand permanent seats. But they enlarged
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: it by the temporary bleachers brought in to get it
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: to eight thousand seats, and it was jam packed last night.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: So I'm envisioning and imagining this is something that Major
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: League Baseball would like to do every year.
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 8: It is a full blown double A stadium.
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 5: Now, the infrastructure, the concrete, the suite, the media, sidelines.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 5: It's incredible and there's gonna be games at this ballpark
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 5: for a long time, Minor league games, Tobe college tournaments.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 5: The only real issue is the hotels. The closest hotels
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 5: probably thirty five to forty minutes away. But this is
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 5: going to turn into one of the top venues in
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 5: the country in no time.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: Well, and on that score, this is the other I
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: wanted to get your perspective on this. Over the past,
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: really even the past six seven years, we've seen Major
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: League Baseball put games, especially as we've gotten in July
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: and into the dog days of August, into some alternate sites,
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: which I thought was a fabulous idea. Obviously, they the
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: game in Williamsport during the Little League World Series. Apparently
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: that's here to stay. I thought this game in Dyersville
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: was here to stay, and then it went away for
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: a few years, but now looks like, like you said,
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: with their commitment to the ballpark being larger, that it'll
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: probably be around. They played at the historic Rickwood Field
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: in Birmingham. Before where where the Birmingham Black parents of
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: the old Negro Baseball League played they played? They played
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: at Fort Bragg on the Army base in North Carolina,
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: So they played in some different spots over the year years.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: Is this something you could see MLB doing not just
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: in Iowa, not just obviously in Williamsport, but in some
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  Speaker 1: other places when we're talking about a one hundred and
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: sixty two game schedule where there's maybe some flexibility to
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: play some of these games a handful of them, much
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: like what the NFL is doing in Mexico and Europe.
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  Speaker 5: In South America, I think there is. I've been a
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 5: part of the Little League Game in twenty twenty one
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 5: with the Angels and then last night the Philip Dreams Game.
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  Speaker 5: I think a really cool game would be the Rockies
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 5: and the Diamondbacks playing in Farmington, New Mexico at the
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 5: Konniemac World Series, which is essentially the High School Omaha.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 5: But you've seen the Big League game in Omaha now
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 5: sent around the College World Series in an effort to
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 5: kind of merge college and professional baseball a little bit closer.
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  Speaker 5: But no, anytime you can do these games, they're very
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  Speaker 5: special in special venues. Travels certainly is a big deal.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 5: Even yesterday, you know, we're worried about both teams getting
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 5: in with heavy rain.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 7: Who is going to be.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 5: Able to stay for the game today if it hadn't
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 5: been rained out from a Hall of Famers standpoint, So
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 5: you've got to schedule that off day in there, and
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 5: then you gotta have teams that it's easy to get to.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 5: The Phillies were in Saint Louis, Minnesota was going back
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 5: with this series, and so it just worked out. But certainly,
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 5: anytime they can find these special venues to have these games,
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 5: it's it's special for everyone involved.
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  Speaker 1: So what you're telling me, Gino, is that the odds
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: of the Dodgers and Yankees playing in it, playing against
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: one another, might be limited a little bit because of
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: travel and nothing else.
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  Speaker 5: I really think that the way they do the schedule
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 5: now is kind of electronically, and then when they had
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 5: the schedule set, they look at the date and they say, okay,
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 5: who can get to Dodgersville, and that's really what it's
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 5: going to be moving.
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  Speaker 1: Forward, no doubt about it. Gene Watson joining us here.
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  Speaker 1: Do you don't want to ask you about a couple
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: other things. First of all, you know pitching very well.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: You were a pitcher, your son was a pitcher, And
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: I want to get your thoughts on this. Last night
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: Dodgers and Brewers play, and you mentioned it's gonna be
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: a big series coming up. It looked like the Dodgers
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: had it in the bag. I got a big three
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: run pinch hit home run for Max Munsey in the sixth.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 5: They're up four to two.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: They go to the ninth inning, Edwin Diaz comes out
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: of the bullpen and he doesn't have it. He winds
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: up taking the loss because he and the Brewers did
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: it in.
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  Speaker 5: Classic Milwaukee fashion.
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  Speaker 1: As you know, Geno, they had no extra base hits
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: in the game, so they bang out some single wrapped
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: around a couple of walks. Next thing you know, three
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: runs across the plate, and the Brewers get out of
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: there with a five to four victory. So Diaz now
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: has blown three consecutive saves, three in his last four attempts,
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: and and four overall this season. He only blew three
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: total saves last year in pitching for the Mets. Now,
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: he says he's sound physically coming off of the elbow surgery.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: Uh there, but he just hasn't been consistent of He
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: had the slider looking really good a couple of times
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: and other times not so much. And and it looks
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: like the fastball is not what it was before. So
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: as a guy who knows pitching, and when you look
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: at a guy like that, who is a premier closer
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: who's going through the struggles, and we've seen it with
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: other relievers as well. You've seen it with other relievers
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: as well. What kind of conversation goes on, say between
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: Mark pryor the pitching coach and Edwin Diaz, or if
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: Dave Roberts gets involved, or other major league teams when
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: the closure all of a sudden can't find it or
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: can't find the strike zone consistently without giving up a
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: big hit, what are those conversations.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 7: Like, can't believe you're asking me this.
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  Speaker 5: We had this conversation at the All American Game, the
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 5: high school All American Game on Wednesday. Really, it takes
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 5: a special, special guy.
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  Speaker 7: To get the last three outs.
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 5: Of a ball game, and it's not necessarily about stuff,
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 5: and it's not necessarily about command, and just the closers
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 5: that I've been a part of in my career, Jeff Russell,
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 5: Billy Wagner, John Smoltz, Fugus being a Wade Davis, got
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 5: just special makeups and guys that can go out and
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 5: blow a game and.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 8: Have the willwithal to come back the.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 5: Very next day and say give me the ball. It's
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 5: a special trait and not everybody can do it. And
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 5: in today's game, where everything is kind of matchup base
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 5: and finding that window for a reliever to be successful,
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 5: we're putting guys in situations that psychologically and mentally they're
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 5: not capable of holding up with it. And so I
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 5: think that since one thing that's kind of been lost
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  Speaker 5: in today's game is we just look at all three
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 5: ounces the same. It tooks a really special guy to
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 5: get the last three outs of a game like that,
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 5: and then there's leverage for a team out of the playoffs,
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 5: and there's leverage for a team in a championship setting,
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 5: and that's too completely levels of pressure, and so I
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 5: think you just try to make him comfortable if you
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 5: don't have the alternative to put somebody else in that spot.
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 5: You better make the guy comfortable and make him feel
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 5: like you believe in him so he can go out
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 5: there and get the job done.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting stuff. Geene Watson, join us here to talk baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the team we haven't talked that much about. We
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: mentioned him a time or two, but I want to
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: get your thoughts on this. Tampa Bay's won nine in
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: a row. They won nine of their last ten. They
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: by percentage now have the best record in baseball, even
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: better than to walk Milwaukee is one more win, but
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: they've got a couple more losses. Tampa Bay is up
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: six and a half on the Gankees, are up nine
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: and a half on the Red Sox, who finally snapped
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: their five game losing street yesterday. Here's my question. Are
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: the Rays equipped to run away and hide in this division?
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: Right now? Here we are in early August. They're up
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: six and a half on New York.
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 5: They are, and they are truly the model organization right now.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 5: They've taken some injuries with McLanahan and Rats Mudsen, which
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 5: they need to try to get those guys right. I
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 5: don't know that McLanahan will be before the playoffs. They're
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 5: just so very good at They've got Kevin Cash is
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 5: one of the best managers, if not the best manager
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 5: in the game of baseball. They know who they are
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 5: as an organization. They're very good at game planning. They've
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 5: got an incredible culture around that twenty six man roster.
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 5: They've got one of the best minor league systems in
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 5: all of baseball, and so they just know who they are.
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 5: They don't apologize for it, just like Cleveland, and this
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 5: is their opportunity right now to make that next step.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 5: Maybe could they have gone a little bit more at
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 5: the deadline got me out of Schoogle. They certainly had
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 5: the players to do it. But this is a club
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 5: that has a window to win now and for the
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 5: next four or five years. And when you couple that, well,
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 5: what they've done the last five years, it truly makes
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 5: them one of the more exceptional organizations in baseball. They
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 5: just don't have that World championship yet.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, here's the other thing, the other side
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: of this. We'll flip it over. You mentioned Cleveland. I
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: want to ask you about your division. Your ball club's
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: up two and a half on Detroit, which all of
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: a sudden has come to life again even after the
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: trades with Mace and school Ball leaving. They've won seven
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: of their last ten. They're two and a half back,
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: the Twins are three and a half back after last
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: night's loss, and the Guardians, who have fallen off.
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  Speaker 5: Are four back.
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  Speaker 1: But still we're talking about four teams within four games
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: of first place. If I asked you now here on
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: August the fifteenth or fourteenth, if I asked you today,
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: if you thought this is going to go down to
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: at the very least the final week, if not the
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: final day of the regular season, would you agree.
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 5: You know, us beating Cleveland two out of three, we
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 5: actually even if they sweep us, when we play them
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 5: three more, we own the tiebreaker over them. We got
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 5: three big games against the Tigers this weekend in Detroit.
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 5: They're gonna come to us for a four game series
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 5: in September. The last seven games of the season, we
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 5: have Kansas City and Colorado, and you would think that
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 5: that could lend to us a little bit, but baseball's baseball. Uh,
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 5: you know, hopefully they'll start shutting down some of their
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 5: good starters by then. But Now this thing is going
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 5: to the final week of the season, and kudos to
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 5: the Tigers for just understanding where they are. The philosophy
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 5: is to win a world championship. You don't think you're
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 5: gonna be able to sign Scooba.
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 8: Long term, Go get the players for him.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 5: You got Jackson job coming back. We're still gonna have
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 5: a chance to compete. And aj Hinch again one of
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 5: the best managers in baseball. He believes in his team
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 5: and he's got them ready to go.
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 8: So it's going to be a great.
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 5: Race down to the final week and looking forward to it.
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: Is it a sign of maturity for your ball club
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: that you get on a roll, then there's a hiccup
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: or two, a bump in the road, and all of
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: a sudden it gets tied a little bit and then
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: you kind of write the ship a little bit that
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: you know, and it's kind of been tread and water,
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: I guess over the last week. But you played a
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: red hot Red Sox team at one point before they
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: cooled off a little bit. Is it a sign of
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: maturity of your ball club? Uh, that they've been able
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: to weather that storm and still be standing in first
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: place in mid August.
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  Speaker 5: No question, Craig. And you know we've talked about this
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 5: as an organization a lot this week. You know, when
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 5: we won the Wednesday night game against the Yankees and
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 5: comeback fashion that Thursday day game, I walked into the
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 5: clubhouse about two hours for first pitch, and every coach,
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 5: every support staff member, every player was in the clubhouse,
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 5: and the energy and the enthusiasm surrounding each other told
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 5: this old front office guy, you know, belonging here right now.
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 5: And I turned around and walked out. And whenever you
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 5: have that type of synergy around your team, you got
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 5: to let it go. You don't interfere, you staddle away.
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 5: And then we go to Boston and play arguably the
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 5: best team in baseball at the time, three very tough
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 5: games in front of a sold out crowd, and that
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 5: really was like, Okay, we can do this. Are we
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 5: there yet? No, we got a little bit to go,
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 5: and then unfortunately we lose the series versus the Reds
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 5: two out of three in three very close games. So
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 5: you know, we're teakering right on.
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 7: The edge of being great.
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 5: We have a good team. It's a young team.
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 8: The core is going to be together forever.
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 5: But you know, going into Detroit this weekend's not going
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 5: to be easy and it's going to be a dogfight
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 5: to the end.
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: Speaking of fights, you brought up that game with the
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: Reds yesterday when you have one of those deals somebody
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: gets hit by a pitch and the temper is starting
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: to flare. How much of that is Do you think
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: that that that there's just on the team where the
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: batter is getting hit, where it's more about anger of
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: loss of control by the picture versus intent or is
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: there enough history? And I wouldn't think there would be
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: a lot of history there with White Sox and Reds
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: to bring out intent involved with that. What's your take
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: on that type of scenario.
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 5: I wish you could heard the conversations with Roley Fingers
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 5: and Bart Blylevin and Steve Carlton and those guys last night,
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 5: because that's what people were talking about and it was
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 5: really awesome to hear their perspective versus Andre Dawson and
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 5: Jim Tomy and Mike Schmidt. I mean, that was that inning.
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 5: Those at match were the talk of the.
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 7: Tent last night.
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 5: And you know, certainly anytime you go around the head
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 5: area it can be dangerous Davis Martin is one of
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 5: the nicest, greatest guys in the world, and there was
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 5: not any intent And if you watch the pitches leading
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 5: up to it, you can see him rubbing his fingers
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 5: against his jersey because he had a big blister, and
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 5: you could watch in the delivery that he wasn't finishing
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 5: uh with this with his follow.
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 8: Through, And so none of it was intentional.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 7: I understand.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 5: You get frustrated and then Soarez gets hit by McDougall,
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 5: and oftentimes there's recourse to that, and the recourse comes
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 5: in next spring or next season when we play them.
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 5: But uh, there was certainly not intentional on Davis Martin's park.
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: All right, Uh, Gene Watson back home from Iowa, and now,
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: what in the world is taking you to the Pacific
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: Rim next week? What in the world has you going
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: to Japan?
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 5: Time you signed me to Takim Orkamy, you got to
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 5: play off of and try to double down. So Chris
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 5: gets our general manager, Carlos Rodriguez, Dave Keller and myself,
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 5: We're gonna go over to Japan on sign it kind
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 5: of a good wheel tour. We're actually gonna have one
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 5: of the major Japanese television markets following us around while
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 5: we're there, literally from the minute we land till the
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 5: time we leave, and so it's a it's a good
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 5: will trip. We're gonna be able to evaluate a lot
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 5: of the top players over there. It's a very good
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 5: class of players that could be coming over here. And
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 5: you know, we're gonna try to piggyback on mirror coming
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 5: and go over there and spread the brand of the
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 5: Chicago White Sox and just just let it known that
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 5: there were we're going to be competing for the next
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 5: few years.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: I hope you plan to wear that big cowboy hat
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: that's ever present with you.
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 5: It is not going with me on the trip.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 7: It's a.
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 5: I've gone back.
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 7: I can't take my boots. I'm just taking the cowboy out.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 8: But we're a lot of fun anyway.
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 1: All right, Hey, I appreciate the time safe travels across
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: the Pacific. We will try to hook up with you
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: next week and find a time when we can visit
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: with you from Japan and find how find out how
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: all of that is going. I appreciate the time, save
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: travels my friend.
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 7: All right, Craig, thanks so much.
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: That is Gene Watson from the Chicago White Sox uh Dyersville, Iowa,
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: last night Japan. Next week, we have more coming up
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: as we continue here on Sports Radio AM thirteen under
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: the Zone. Okay, here on a fire me up Friday.
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: I have to say that I just can't hear this
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: song without thinking of the late Chris Farley and that
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: epic Saturday Night Live skit with him and the late
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: Patrick Swayzee where they're trying out as chippendale dancers. And
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: to see Farley shaking that large body of his around
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: is it's just classic. I don't know if you've ever
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: seen it, but you need you need to YouTube that one.
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 5: If you haven't seen it, Yep, I will.
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 2: I've got some weekend homework now.
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, that's that's great. By the way, speaking
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: of weekend homework, have you seen episode two of season
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: four of Ted last night?
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 6: No, that's on the list as well. It's on the
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 6: list as well. I'm looking forward to that as well.
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: Yep, yep, watched that last night, and you know, there's
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: a little more integration of his time in England now
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: that Ted, so it was back ining on. I'll just
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: leave it at that. But but you know, Linna and
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: I were talking about this because I know you were
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: a little I don't know, you tell me disappointed, not unenthused,
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: maybe from the first episode that you watched of season four.
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: Would that be fair to say it.
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 6: Just felt like something was missing and some of that
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 6: was based on what I thought already, and that is.
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 2: Like it or not, they ended the show. They ended
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 2: the show. So it felt like.
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: You're convinced of that that they ended the show because.
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 5: I saw an interview.
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  Speaker 1: I saw an interview with Jason Sedeikas right after season
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  Speaker 1: three and they said, is that the end of the show?
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  Speaker 1: And he said, who knows?
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  Speaker 2: But what cliffhangers were left? What do we still need
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  Speaker 2: to see?
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  Speaker 6: This is fine, It's just it's the reboot of a
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  Speaker 6: completely different ted Lasso story from what I can tell,
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  Speaker 6: and I'm.
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  Speaker 5: Going to give it a chance, all right.
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  Speaker 1: And therein by the way, lies I think the key,
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: as Sark would say, the key to the drill, it's
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  Speaker 1: not so much the story, and and I would I
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  Speaker 1: would caution you not to spare too much mental and
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  Speaker 1: emotional energy trying to find a connective tissue between season
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  Speaker 1: three and season four. I would say, as many of
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  Speaker 1: us have and what really made this show I thought
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  Speaker 1: really good. The characterization get lost in the characters that
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: ensemble cast any great show, whether it's a sitcom or
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: a drama or I've been watching Downton Abbey with with
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: with Linda. I never saw it the first time around.
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  Speaker 1: My late wife Laurie watched it, but I didn't see
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: it the first time through. And one night I came
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: up is when I got back from Tampa from SEC Media,
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: she was watching like one of the episodes in one
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  Speaker 1: of the middle seasons of it, and I kind of
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: took a little in it, and she said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you'd probably liked that because we did watch The Gilded
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  Speaker 1: Age and liked that. So I said, all right, I'll
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: tell you what, I'll give it a shot. So a
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago we started. We're in the fourth
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: We're in the fourth season now, yeah, I think, or
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: fifth season now, fourth season, I believe, but we're well
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: into it right now. But it's the ensemble cast that's
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: what makes that show. That's what makes a lot of
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: the stuff that we watch in the streaming services work
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: ensemble cast.
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  Speaker 6: So what I would kind of come back with on
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 6: ted Lasso is we're kind of cleaning the slate on
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  Speaker 6: a lot of the ensemble here with the new season,
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  Speaker 6: from what I understand, at least in terms of the players.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, Jamie Tart's not going to be in
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  Speaker 6: the new season either. I thought his arc was really
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 6: really fun to follow. I don't know how much Roy
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 6: Kent we're getting. That's still a mystery to me. You've
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 6: seen a fair bit of him the other ones. Not
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 6: what you're seeing is an entirely different cast the women
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  Speaker 6: on the team, which is and this character that you're
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 6: going to be introduced to that's going to be like
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 6: an assistant coach, is a truly unique character, like so
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  Speaker 6: many of them are. Okay, so I think you'll like that.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be back to wrap up today's edition of the
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: program on thirteen under the Zone.