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LSU Football Preview, Cowboys Practice with Rams, Play-by-Play Stories · The Craig Way Show

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Speaker 2: Is that right?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a long time coming, Craig.
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Speaker 2: At least temperature wise. I haven't been here here part,
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Speaker 2: so I don't know how cool it is. You know,
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Speaker 2: if you're going there and just look around, say this
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Speaker 2: is a pretty cool place to live. Not preferring that,
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Speaker 2: I'm just saying temperature wise.
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Speaker 4: You know, it's cool if you like sports memorabilia. I've
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Speaker 4: got a Bijon Robinson jersey framed and signed an amazing
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Speaker 4: gift for really an amazing gift from my girlfriend's family
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Speaker 4: right above the couch, and a couple of other got
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Speaker 4: a signed Alex Ovechkin plaque that I've had since my childhood.
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Speaker 4: And then a famous print of a Daniel Moore painting.
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Speaker 4: He does all the Alabama famous moments throughout their history.
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Speaker 3: That was a gift from my grandparents.
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Speaker 4: It's got the Rocky block with Terrence Cody's block against Tennessee,
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Speaker 4: the first college football game I remember attending.
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Speaker 2: Nice.
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So here's what we have coming up
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Speaker 1: on the program. The other thing that we have been
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Speaker 1: doing last week and this week and next week, in
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Speaker 1: addition to giving away those copies of Dave Campbell's Texas
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Speaker 1: Football magazine, is that we are previewing all fifteen other
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Speaker 1: schools in the Southeastern Conference for the coming football season.
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Speaker 1: They're sixteen, obviously including Texas, but the other fifteen schools,
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Speaker 1: you know, one per day, five per week for three weeks,
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Speaker 1: same simple math like we're doing for the magazine giveaway.
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Speaker 1: So last week we started off with the defending conference champions,
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Speaker 1: Georgia on Monday. And the other thing is we're visiting
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Speaker 1: with all the play by play voices of the Southeastern Conference.
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Speaker 1: So Monday we visit with Jeff Dantler, who's taking over
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Speaker 1: the football play by play these for Georgia this fall. Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: we looked at Arkansas and we visited with Chuck Barrett,
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Speaker 1: their play by play voice. Sean Kelly, the voice of
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Speaker 1: the Florida Gators, joined us on Wednesday to preview Florida.
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Speaker 1: On Thursday of last week, it was Kentucky and Tom
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Speaker 1: Leach their play by play voice, and last Friday, Neil Price,
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Speaker 1: the voice of the Mississippi State Bulldogs, joined us. This week,
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Speaker 1: we started off South Carolina. Todd Ellis, their play by
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Speaker 1: play voice, was on with us on Monday. Yesterday it
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Speaker 1: was the Missouri Tigers and we visited with Mike Kelly,
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Speaker 1: their radio play by play voice, and we keep it
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Speaker 1: on the Tiger motif.
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Speaker 2: Today we'll preview LSU.
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Speaker 1: And we'll visit with Chris Blair coming up here in
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Speaker 1: just a few minutes to play by play voice of
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Speaker 1: the LSU Tigers. So we're doing that throughout the course
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Speaker 1: of last week, this week, and next week. Give me
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Speaker 1: a preview of what to expect from each of these
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Speaker 1: schools around the SEC, So we'll do that coming up.
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Speaker 1: We do have Inconceivable this hour. We got a bizarre
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Speaker 1: inconceivable story and it has to do with high school football.
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Speaker 4: Actually really yep, hopefully I don't get as fired up
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Speaker 4: as yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you were a little worked up about that about
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Speaker 1: the Little League thing with Bernie and the Tulsa national
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Speaker 1: team which ended up getting tossed out. So Bernie's headed
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Speaker 1: to Williamsport and the Little League World Series. So we
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Speaker 1: have inconceivable And then we have a sound from both
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Speaker 1: what Dak Prescott and Brian Schotenheimer. Yep, after yesterday's joint
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Speaker 1: practice with the Rams, so we'll hear from them as well.
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Speaker 1: All right, Coming up next, we'll talk LSU football with
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Speaker 1: a play by play voice of the LSU Tigers, Chris Blair.
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Speaker 1: We continue right here on Sports Radio AM thirteen under
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Speaker 1: the Zone and where you always listen us for free
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Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. I Got Rock Wednesday here on
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Speaker 1: Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone. Doobie Brothers past
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Speaker 1: and present have some that fall into the category, and
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Speaker 1: that includes listen to music. The Doobies will be here
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Speaker 1: next week without Michael McDonald, so I imagine this will.
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Speaker 2: Be on the playlist for them when they do that.
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Speaker 2: We'll see.
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Speaker 1: It's time for us to continue our SEC football previews.
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Speaker 1: And whenever we have a guest, not necessarily just one
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Speaker 1: of the play by play voices of the Southeastern Conference
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Speaker 1: with us, as we're about to have, but whenever we
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Speaker 1: have a guest and it's on a yacht rock Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: feel compelled to ask the guest if they have any
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Speaker 1: interest or fandom whatsoever in yacht rock. Now, our guest
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Speaker 1: is considerably younger than me. Chris Blair is the play
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Speaker 1: by play voice of the LSU Tigers, So I don't
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Speaker 1: even know does yacht rock even have any appeal for
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Speaker 1: you whatsoever? And by the way, thanks for taking the
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Speaker 1: time to join us today.
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Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
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Speaker 5: No problem, Greig, thanks for having me, and you're being
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Speaker 5: awfully kinda not a lot younger than you more. But
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Speaker 5: in fact, yes, you will find actually two versions, yacht
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Speaker 5: rock and yacht Country. Oh yes, new format, so you'll
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Speaker 5: find that. In fact, I think if you turn my
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Speaker 5: vehicle on right now, it's probably on yacht Country.
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Speaker 2: So between them both, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Might be spinning through some islands in the sea or
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Speaker 1: something in the stream. Excuse me, you know Little Dolly
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Speaker 1: part and Kenny Rodgers that sort of thing.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely, I went on a heater last night, we had
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Speaker 5: Charlie Rich followed by Conway Twitty followed my uh pure
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Speaker 5: Prairie League, and then I think the original.
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Speaker 2: Rhythm with that.
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Speaker 1: I absolutely love that. That's great stuff. Okay, let let
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Speaker 1: me jump from one sort of entertainment to the other.
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Speaker 1: Because somebody asked me when I was at SEC media
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Speaker 1: days a couple of weeks ago about what what I
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Speaker 1: thought was the biggest or most what was going to
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Speaker 1: be the most talked about theme in the Southeastern Conference
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Speaker 1: this season?
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Speaker 2: I said, not only in the SEC, but it's.
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Speaker 1: Going to be, if not the most, it's gonna be
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Speaker 1: one of the most talk about things in all of
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Speaker 1: college football. Is the arrival of your new head coach,
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Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin taking taking the reins of the program a
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Speaker 1: because of the drama that surrounded the departure from moments
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Speaker 1: to begin with, but just going into a program that
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Speaker 1: has those galactic expectations like LSU does, just like Texas does,
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Speaker 1: and several other programs as well. So I guess the
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Speaker 1: first thing I wanted to ask is how's it been
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Speaker 1: so far and what's what's been your impressions? Even as
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Speaker 1: practice is just in its very early days, if you've
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Speaker 1: noticed difference has marked differences in how coach Kiffin and
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Speaker 1: his staff or attacking their new responsibilities.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Greg, I think you're one right, and it's a
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Speaker 5: little uncomfortable for me to agree with you because it
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Speaker 5: seems like, Okay, everything is centric to LSU. But and again,
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Speaker 5: obviously I'm I'm jaded when it comes to that. I
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Speaker 5: look through everything to purple and gold lenses. However, my
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Speaker 5: argument has been since then AU and the run up
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Speaker 5: through the college football playoffs, the Indiana becoming the national champion,
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Speaker 5: and I would argue on a national level, while all
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Speaker 5: of that is going on, if not the number one
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Speaker 5: story one A was Lane Kiffin an LSU and the
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Speaker 5: drama that you just described. So that's not just a
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Speaker 5: biased opinion. I think that was top of mind for everybody.
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Speaker 5: And I think the market difference that I have seen
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Speaker 5: is there was a lot of that. You know, you
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Speaker 5: could talk to coach Kiffin, you could talk to some
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Speaker 5: of the returning Tigers who have decided to stay here
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Speaker 5: and be part of this team. You can talk to
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Speaker 5: the administration and they're not backing away from it. They
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Speaker 5: had a plan, they went and enacted that plan, and
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Speaker 5: they got the guy they wanted. Is everybody happy about it?
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Speaker 5: Obviously not everybody, but here at LSU they are. And
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Speaker 5: I think the market difference that you refer to is
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Speaker 5: that from about December through January February maybe to the
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Speaker 5: start and run up of spring football, it was, you know,
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Speaker 5: LSU didn't back away from it is what it is.
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Speaker 5: When somebody asks somebody a question, here's what our answer is.
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Speaker 5: Once spring football started, it almost looked like the football
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Speaker 5: program and again taking the lead from the head coach,
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Speaker 5: went from an extroverted program to a little more introverted.
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Speaker 2: And I think that was by design.
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Speaker 5: It was like, Okay, we had our fun and games,
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Speaker 5: we got all the attention we possibly could couldn't even
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Speaker 5: pay for. Now we got to go do the job.
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Speaker 5: And I think that was kind of the the example
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Speaker 5: that Coach Kiffin said. And it's been fairly quiet, and
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Speaker 5: that's believe me, being here on campus, being around the
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Speaker 5: football operations building. That's not easy to do. But I
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Speaker 5: think they've done a concerted effort to do that because now,
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Speaker 5: whether they have a great season in twenty twenty six
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Speaker 5: or you know, everybody gets to sit back and you know,
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Speaker 5: poke fun at LSU there's no way they can do
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Speaker 5: this season in any subtle form or fashion.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's definitely going to be in the limelight,
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Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Chris, what would you say was
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Speaker 1: coach Kiffin's number one?
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Speaker 2: Roll up the sleeves? This is what we have to
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Speaker 2: address now. Obviously we've seen Sam Levitt come in as
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Speaker 2: his quarterback, and we'll talk about him in a moment,
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Speaker 2: but what really struck you about what he wanted to
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Speaker 2: do to get this program from being seven and six
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Speaker 2: a year ago to being at we're near the top
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Speaker 2: of the SEC, where they have quite often been down
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Speaker 2: through the years. I think it starts upfront.
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Speaker 5: And you know again, I think you could ask any
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Speaker 5: coach in the SEC this year, last year, five years ago,
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Speaker 5: eight years ago, they're going to say that's where the
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Speaker 5: battles are won and lost. But for LSU specifically, it
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Speaker 5: was a big, glaring need and of course coach Kiffin
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Speaker 5: is certainly intimately involved in the offense. Blake Baker remains
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Speaker 5: as the defensive coordinator, and I think he was that
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Speaker 5: was an excellent decision. I have a lot of faith
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Speaker 5: in coach Baker. I like the way he coaches. I
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Speaker 5: like his style, which is in a college football world
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Speaker 5: of dynamic and high flying offenses, you can't be reactive defensively.
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Speaker 5: You've got to be proactive. You've got to disrupt it.
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Speaker 5: You've got to throw a wrench in the gears. Do
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Speaker 5: they have the horses to be able to do that
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Speaker 5: week in and week out with the schedule they have.
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Speaker 2: We'll have to wait and see.
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Speaker 5: But I think coach Kiffin said, we've got to be bigger,
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Speaker 5: we've got to be stronger, we've got to be faster,
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Speaker 5: and we've got to be smarter up front on both
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Speaker 5: sides of the football. Because again we all remember, you know,
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Speaker 5: over the years, both at Alabama and then as a
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Speaker 5: head coach at Ole Miss, the plays that get all
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Speaker 5: the clicks are the ones where the snap is made,
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Speaker 5: you see the play start to roll and then inevitably
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Speaker 5: you see lane flip the clipboard up and you know
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Speaker 5: there's a touchdown. But it's really an offense that wants
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Speaker 5: to run the football so that they can get that
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Speaker 5: clipboard play. And that's something that LSU really has not
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Speaker 5: been able to do consistently to the standard that they
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Speaker 5: need to in this league since really guys the twenty
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Speaker 5: nineteen season, and that's you know, again, that was a
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Speaker 5: magical year and everybody loves it. But that's a long
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Speaker 5: time ago, no doubt. So I think that was the
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Speaker 5: first need that he said we gotta address because we're
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Speaker 5: not going to have those big, exciting plays if we
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Speaker 5: can't run the football consistently.
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Speaker 1: Well, since we're on that subject of running the football,
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Speaker 1: take us through a little bit what you've seen so
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Speaker 1: far with regards to the running back.
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Speaker 2: Harlan Berry, the sophomore.
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Speaker 1: Obviously, Katon Durham is a guy it's called a couple
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Speaker 1: of state championship games he played with for television when
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Speaker 1: he was at Duncanville there in the Dallas Fort Worth area.
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Speaker 1: How about your thoughts on what you've seen from the
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Speaker 1: running back spot.
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Speaker 5: You know, it's interesting because when you look at the
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Speaker 5: run game again on papers we get in deeper into
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Speaker 5: fall camp, you realize that of the twenty two what
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Speaker 5: I will say at this moment, are the starters or
16:38
Speaker 5: the depth chart number one on the depth chart, you know,
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Speaker 5: eleven of those guys are new and the majority of
16:43
Speaker 5: them are are the skill positions offensively. In fact, when
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Speaker 5: you look at the returning position groups. Maybe there's more
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Speaker 5: returning on the offensive line, but specifically to the running backs.
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Speaker 2: We have seen.
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Speaker 5: Flashes from both Harlan Berry and Kate Durham. I mean
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Speaker 5: CAD's freshman year. We really thought this might be the
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Speaker 5: next Clyde Edwards. He layer because of his skill set.
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Speaker 5: You know, he was going to be used more as
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Speaker 5: a scat back than just to line up Leonard and
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Speaker 5: Fournette style run you over, and he's done both again.
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Speaker 5: You know, the inability to run the football was not
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Speaker 5: necessarily always on the running backs. And I heard, you know,
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Speaker 5: a previous offensive coordinator. I heard our previous head coach
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Speaker 5: say there are times where it is on the running back.
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Speaker 5: They're only going to have a small sliver to get through,
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Speaker 5: and they got to get through it. And once they
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Speaker 5: get through it, then they can get up to speed,
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Speaker 5: they can make a cut, and then big plays happened,
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Speaker 5: Those chunk plays happened. So it was kind of both.
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Speaker 5: The offensive line wasn't giving them much of a sliver,
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Speaker 5: but yet the running backs weren't able to power through.
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Speaker 5: That's going to have to change this year. And again,
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Speaker 5: the young players that are going to be on that
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Speaker 5: offensive line, I think two returners that I would expect
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Speaker 5: to be starting on September fifth against Clemson are going
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Speaker 5: to be asked to do their job much better than
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Speaker 5: they have done over the last five six seasons. But
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Speaker 5: I think we've seen enough from Harlan Berry from Cayden
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Speaker 5: Durham and frankly the transferred Dylon Jones who's coming in
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Speaker 5: from Wisconsin, who was banged up last year I think
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Speaker 5: played maybe seven games. I think those guys have the
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Speaker 5: ability to be outstanding running backs in the SEC. But again,
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Speaker 5: it would be unfair to say, Okay, it's all on
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Speaker 5: them if they can't eclipse one hundred yards per game,
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Speaker 5: it's all in the running backs. Most fans here at
18:24
Speaker 5: LSU they've seen enough of it to know that there's
18:28
Speaker 5: more involved than just those players individually.
18:31
Speaker 2: Chris players to play by Playboy. So the LSU Tigers
18:34
Speaker 2: joining us here for a few more minutes here on
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Speaker 2: AM thirteen hundred the Zone. Okay, wal Morn fans got
18:39
Speaker 2: to see Sam Levin up close and personal two years
18:41
Speaker 2: ago in that landmark effort he gave Arizona State and
18:44
Speaker 2: that peach Bull that went double overtime, and of course
18:47
Speaker 2: he built on that last year with the Sun Devils.
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Speaker 1: How about your impressions of him? What could be expected
18:56
Speaker 1: of him taking the reins at quarterback for LSU.
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Speaker 5: I think anybody again that has followed his career at
19:02
Speaker 5: the collegiate level is going to really circle that twenty
19:04
Speaker 5: twenty four season where you know, I think he was
19:06
Speaker 5: closing in on three thousand passing yards, had twenty nine touchdowns,
19:10
Speaker 5: and I think twenty four of those who are through
19:12
Speaker 5: the air close to about five hundred yards on the
19:16
Speaker 5: season rushing. But I mean he was a guy that,
19:18
Speaker 5: again going back to Lane Kiffen, wanting to be able
19:21
Speaker 5: to run the football. You know, if your quarterback is
19:24
Speaker 5: a part of that, which LSU the last two seasons,
19:26
Speaker 5: as we know, really did not have that mobile quarterback
19:29
Speaker 5: since Jaydon Daniels won the Heisman Trophy and went on
19:32
Speaker 5: to the NFL with Sam Levitt. If he's a one
19:35
Speaker 5: hundred percent healthy and he's the Sam Levitt we saw
19:37
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty four, then I think he's going to
19:40
Speaker 5: fit well into this offense, not only from a running standpoint,
19:43
Speaker 5: but the threat, the constant threat of his ability to
19:47
Speaker 5: tuck it down and run is going to be in
19:49
Speaker 5: the minds of defensive coordinators, which really the last two
19:52
Speaker 5: to three seasons, that just hasn't been the case, certainly
19:55
Speaker 5: the last two seasons. And I think more importantly his
19:59
Speaker 5: ability to stretch plays in the passing game, just his
20:03
Speaker 5: fact that the ability to improvise, you know, move the pocket,
20:08
Speaker 5: extend the play sideline to sideline and then be at
20:11
Speaker 5: the mercy of somebody being overly aggressive and then he
20:14
Speaker 5: can run and beat you or just wait for a
20:16
Speaker 5: guy to get open. As you know in this league,
20:18
Speaker 5: at this level, you know, five to six, seven, eight
20:21
Speaker 5: seconds of trying to go one on one with any
20:23
Speaker 5: of the receivers you face is a tall task. I
20:26
Speaker 5: think Levitt gives you the ability again, if healthy, and
20:28
Speaker 5: we have all indications that he is, that he's going
20:31
Speaker 5: to be able to give you that piece of weaponry
20:33
Speaker 5: that LSU has been without for the last two years.
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Speaker 1: Well, you mentioned my receivers getting open, and here's another
20:38
Speaker 1: guy long worn fans became in their eyes unfortunately acquainted
20:42
Speaker 1: with last year, Eugene Wilson with the ballgame he had
20:45
Speaker 1: against Texas in the game in Gainesville for Florida as well.
20:49
Speaker 1: Is he, along with Jackson Harris, the two guys that
20:52
Speaker 1: you expect to be the clean, the lead guys in
20:57
Speaker 1: the pass catching department for the Tigers.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, think so.
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Speaker 5: I think those are probably the first two on paper
21:02
Speaker 5: that everybody is excited about. I mean, this is the
21:04
Speaker 5: first time in a number of years, Craig, that you know,
21:07
Speaker 5: wide receivers have had a pretty good success here at
21:10
Speaker 5: LSU for a long time and then gone to to
21:13
Speaker 5: have great careers and make a lot of money. This
21:16
Speaker 5: is really the first year that we're coming in where
21:17
Speaker 5: it's all new guys, at least in in what we
21:20
Speaker 5: expect to be the first, you know, first string on
21:23
Speaker 5: the depth chart. And I think those two lead it
21:25
Speaker 5: with what they did at Florida where you know, as
21:28
Speaker 5: a quarterback, DJ Lagway had his great moments and then
21:31
Speaker 5: when he came to baton Rouge last year was a
21:32
Speaker 5: complete disaster, but you could easily tell where Wilson was
21:36
Speaker 5: the guy they wanted to go to, put it that way,
21:40
Speaker 5: and I think Harris will do the same thing with
21:42
Speaker 5: what he's done. I think the big part in the
21:44
Speaker 5: passing game that I'm most excited to see, and I
21:47
Speaker 5: would imagine Tiger fans are in general, is how does
21:51
Speaker 5: coach Kiffen and coach Weiss utilize trade as Green who
21:55
Speaker 5: is listed as a tight end, but he was a
21:57
Speaker 5: wide receiver nearby at the high schooll hear nearby and
22:00
Speaker 5: baton Rouge, and he's just kind of a hybrid tight
22:03
Speaker 5: end if you will. He's improved his tight end skills
22:06
Speaker 5: over the last two seasons. But make no mistake, we
22:10
Speaker 5: joke all the time that you get inside the ten
22:11
Speaker 5: yard line, it's gonna be a goal line fade.
22:14
Speaker 2: I know it.
22:15
Speaker 5: The opponent knows that, everybody in the stands knows it.
22:18
Speaker 5: The question is do you have somebody who can match
22:20
Speaker 5: up with a trade as Green? With his size is
22:22
Speaker 5: a leaping ability and his good hands. Can you stop it?
22:25
Speaker 5: You know it's coming, but can you stop it? So
22:28
Speaker 5: when you mentioned those three guys, those two guys, especially
22:31
Speaker 5: that transfer in with the returning trade as Green, suddenly
22:35
Speaker 5: you hope if you're LSU that you're gonna have to
22:38
Speaker 5: pick your poison. Are you gonna bracket coverage one of
22:40
Speaker 5: these guys that you don't want getting loose over the top.
22:43
Speaker 5: Are you gonna be able to account for a trade
22:45
Speaker 5: as Green, who more times than not is going to
22:48
Speaker 5: be outside is going to outsize whoever you put on him,
22:52
Speaker 5: whether it's a big time corner, whether it's one of
22:54
Speaker 5: your linebackers. That to me is where the passing game
22:57
Speaker 5: will have its strength, even though we don't don't have
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Speaker 5: the quote unquote big name returning that we've had since
23:04
Speaker 5: really twenty sixteen.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned Blake Baker. I wanted to get your thoughts
23:09
Speaker 1: on the defense, the things that strike you and if
23:12
Speaker 1: there is a question mark that if this pans out
23:16
Speaker 1: the way it has hoped and perhaps planned for, then
23:20
Speaker 1: the defense has a big season. What really strikes you
23:24
Speaker 1: about this defense of coach Bakers?
23:27
Speaker 5: Well, I mentioned the fact that there is eleven of
23:29
Speaker 5: twenty two of what I consider the first string as
23:32
Speaker 5: we sit here today are transfers.
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Speaker 2: The majority of the returners who.
23:36
Speaker 5: Have skins on the wall, big moments, certainly experience in
23:39
Speaker 5: hostile environments and big time games are on the back
23:42
Speaker 5: end of this defense. And if you look at really
23:45
Speaker 5: the last three seasons, the defense has been much maligned
23:49
Speaker 5: on teams just being able to gash them. Now they
23:51
Speaker 5: haven't been great against the run either, but big plays
23:54
Speaker 5: have just killed LSU on the back end, which is
23:56
Speaker 5: certainly not what is expected here.
23:59
Speaker 2: That's not the expectation. They call it DBU for a reason.
24:02
Speaker 5: They brought back Corey Raymond, who was kind of the
24:04
Speaker 5: architect of that went away for a couple of seasons
24:07
Speaker 5: at Florida.
24:07
Speaker 2: He's now returned.
24:08
Speaker 5: And the guys who are returning on the back end
24:10
Speaker 5: of this defense, really from linebacker on back, are the
24:14
Speaker 5: guys who have the most experienced and some of these,
24:16
Speaker 5: like DJ Pickett, who was a true freshman they threw
24:19
Speaker 5: him into the deep end early last year, had really
24:22
Speaker 5: some great moments. So we're all expecting to see a
24:25
Speaker 5: great improvement in the offseason under coach Raymonds tutelage. And
24:29
Speaker 5: then you bring in a guy like Ty Bennifield, who
24:32
Speaker 5: was an absolute monster at the back end of the
24:34
Speaker 5: defense at Boise State for a number of years, who
24:37
Speaker 5: has experience. Again, you've been able to your best returning
24:42
Speaker 5: players on the back end of your defense and the
24:45
Speaker 5: some of the key transfers that you've added.
24:48
Speaker 2: Even up front.
24:49
Speaker 5: And so the problem I think when you look at
24:51
Speaker 5: LSU's defense over the last two seasons was not necessarily boy,
24:55
Speaker 5: our back end was awful, really wasn't a whole lot
24:58
Speaker 5: of pressure coming on quarterbacks. They had all day to
25:01
Speaker 5: pick and choose where they would go with the football.
25:03
Speaker 5: I think some of the transfers that they've been able
25:05
Speaker 5: to bring in, a couple of them coming in DJ
25:07
Speaker 5: Dottary at linebacker to pair with Weeks, I think is
25:10
Speaker 5: a good tandem with lots of sec big game experience.
25:14
Speaker 2: And then I mentioned TJ. Pickett.
25:17
Speaker 5: You know, Spears had a great season last year at safety.
25:20
Speaker 5: These guys are coming back, and as I mentioned earlier,
25:23
Speaker 5: Blake Baker is a guy that feels like you have
25:25
Speaker 5: to disrupt these high powered offenses. I think he's got
25:28
Speaker 5: the pieces, and I think there's a big chance that
25:31
Speaker 5: LSU's defense. You know, there's a long way to go
25:35
Speaker 5: because the standard had dropped so low, but I think
25:38
Speaker 5: there's going to be major steps forward with this year's defense,
25:41
Speaker 5: and I think it's going to be ball hawking.
25:43
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be aggressive.
25:45
Speaker 5: I think they're confident for the first time in several
25:47
Speaker 5: years to leave guys on an island, one on one
25:50
Speaker 5: man demand and to be able to go for the
25:53
Speaker 5: football and not get beat as bad as they have
25:56
Speaker 5: seen over the last three years.
25:57
Speaker 2: Chris I got to ask you before I let you go.
25:59
Speaker 1: You know this will be the first time the Longhorns
26:01
Speaker 1: had played in Baton Rouge since nineteen fifty three. There
26:05
Speaker 1: was that incredible game in Austin that you brought up
26:08
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen that didn't get to go have the
26:10
Speaker 1: return game in Baton Rouge due to the pandemic in
26:13
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, So I know there's I was just talking
26:15
Speaker 1: with somebody today about the price of tickets. It's lining
26:20
Speaker 1: up there, kind of like the Texas Ohio State game
26:22
Speaker 1: will be here in Austin.
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Speaker 2: What should Longhorn fans expect? And before you answer the question,
26:28
Speaker 2: I will tell you.
26:28
Speaker 1: This every time, and you know this having been to
26:31
Speaker 1: Omaha as much as you've been with Tiger Baseball, that
26:35
Speaker 1: LSU fans are incredibly hospitable. I remember in Omaha being
26:40
Speaker 1: invited by people who were tailgating the parking lot telling
26:42
Speaker 1: us to come down and have some gumbo and crawfish.
26:46
Speaker 1: And that was at nine thirty in the morning. So
26:49
Speaker 1: I can only imagine what it'll be like when they
26:52
Speaker 1: go down to Death Valley for that Saturday night game
26:55
Speaker 1: on November fourteenth.
26:57
Speaker 5: Real quickly when that series was announced, years go, the
27:00
Speaker 5: home and home nineteen and twenty. I mean that that
27:03
Speaker 5: was an exciting That was what LSU fans and I
27:05
Speaker 5: think college football fans in general wanted.
27:07
Speaker 2: Let's play these type of games.
27:08
Speaker 5: Now you move the fact that Texas is in the SEC,
27:11
Speaker 5: I think it's a potential first of all, to get
27:14
Speaker 5: that game back and have it here at LSU.
27:16
Speaker 2: It's going to be a madhouse, there's no question about it.
27:18
Speaker 5: Where it falls in the schedule, to me, makes it
27:22
Speaker 5: the potential to be just a huge monumental matchup depending
27:25
Speaker 5: on where the Longhorns are, depending on where LSU is
27:28
Speaker 5: at that point of the year. So the excitement level
27:31
Speaker 5: of that game, I don't even know how to explain that.
27:35
Speaker 5: I think it even supersedes some of the long term
27:38
Speaker 5: rivalries that LSU has had. Obviously, there's going to be
27:41
Speaker 5: a big crowd for the Alabama game here at Tiger Stadium.
27:45
Speaker 2: It always is.
27:46
Speaker 5: But outside of that and the opener against Clemson, to me,
27:50
Speaker 5: that's the game where you know, they told us to
27:52
Speaker 5: prepare for maybe two hundred and two hundred and fifty
27:54
Speaker 5: thousand people in and around Tiger Stadium on September fifth,
27:57
Speaker 5: with one hundred and two plus jammed into the stadium.
28:01
Speaker 5: I think there's a potential for it to be that
28:03
Speaker 5: or even bigger by the time we get around to
28:06
Speaker 5: Texas and LSU. And that's how that's how big that
28:10
Speaker 5: game is. But it's going to be great to be here,
28:12
Speaker 5: and I think all fans, you know, when you look
28:14
Speaker 5: at the matchup Lane Kiffin against Texas defense and arch
28:17
Speaker 5: Manning against Blake Baker's D I mean to me, the
28:20
Speaker 5: storylines will be there. And the fact that you know,
28:23
Speaker 5: I don't know how often we'll play this as we
28:25
Speaker 5: shift these schedules around every year was you know, the
28:28
Speaker 5: new members, but the fact that at least every once
28:31
Speaker 5: in a while this this matchup will come around, either
28:33
Speaker 5: in Austin or Baton Rouge. It's great for both schools,
28:36
Speaker 5: great for both fan bases, and frankly, in this day
28:38
Speaker 5: and age.
28:39
Speaker 2: Great for college football. Think about this, Chris.
28:41
Speaker 1: Under their formula, the SEC has said that every team
28:44
Speaker 1: will play every team at least once every couple of years,
28:48
Speaker 1: and that you would get to host a team once
28:50
Speaker 1: every four years. So if it's once every four years,
28:53
Speaker 1: it's like the Olympics. It's on that level, right, Yes,
28:56
Speaker 1: it is, and I think that's the type.
28:57
Speaker 5: Of atmosphere it will bring. And you know, it's funny
29:01
Speaker 5: because you mentioned the Omah story. I'm sure at nine
29:03
Speaker 5: am you were dressed, had to tow and burn orange,
29:05
Speaker 5: and you still were invited, probably to sumbo and probably
29:09
Speaker 5: a beverage, and you probably said, hey, it's nine in
29:11
Speaker 5: the morning. But I've always told people, having been here
29:14
Speaker 5: eleven seasons, that yes, there is a lot of uh oh,
29:18
Speaker 5: I don't know if I want to go to Tiger
29:19
Speaker 5: Stadium as a visiting fan. You know this, that and
29:21
Speaker 5: the other, and literally I had to learn it when
29:24
Speaker 5: I got here. You won't fight, you won't go hungry,
29:27
Speaker 5: you won't go thirsty, you will not die of thirst.
29:29
Speaker 5: If you're here all day, they will constantly be inviting
29:32
Speaker 5: you to, uh you.
29:33
Speaker 2: Know, partake of what they have.
29:35
Speaker 5: So the hospitality is great up until kickoff, and then
29:39
Speaker 5: at that point when I invite family and friends here
29:41
Speaker 5: or friends from other schools, all bets are off kickoff.
29:45
Speaker 5: But you could say the same thing in Austin. Absolutely,
29:47
Speaker 5: That's why we both are lucky to be at the
29:49
Speaker 5: places we are, without question, no.
29:51
Speaker 1: Doubt about it, and I'm looking forward to having opportunity
29:53
Speaker 1: to call my first game down at Tiger Stadium. Chris
29:56
Speaker 1: Player is play by play voice of those fighting Bengels
30:00
Speaker 1: from LSU. I really appreciate the time, Chris. I look
30:03
Speaker 1: forward to seeing you in November.
30:05
Speaker 5: Yes, absolutely looking forward to it. Craig, thanks for having
30:07
Speaker 5: me on, and I appreciate your friendship. Appreciate the great
30:11
Speaker 5: work that you do. Listen to you all the time,
30:13
Speaker 5: and a week or two ahead of time. If you're
30:15
Speaker 5: looking for a great spot. If I don't know what
30:18
Speaker 5: I know people that do, so hit me up.
30:20
Speaker 2: I'll do it. Thank you, sir, appreciate it.
30:23
Speaker 1: That's Chris Blair, play by play voice of the LSU Tigers.
30:26
Speaker 1: Outstanding play by play broadcast and then all around good dude,
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33:38
Speaker 1: to pro football. Cowboys and Rams had a combined practice yesterday,
33:45
Speaker 1: and you mentioned Puka Nakua left early out of that practice.
33:50
Speaker 1: He's said a little bit of trouble with the groin
33:53
Speaker 1: and left the practice early on that. We'll see how
33:57
Speaker 1: that ultimately pans out. Earlier this morning on the Dan
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Speaker 1: he had Ross Tucker, the NFL television radio analyst for
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Speaker 1: CBSTV and for radio with Westwood One.
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Speaker 2: He had him on.
34:16
Speaker 1: By the way, he talked about Ross Tucker moving up
34:21
Speaker 1: in the pecking order and he's gonna work with Iron Eagle.
34:25
Speaker 1: Iron Eagle had worked with JJ Watt. JJ Watt is
34:29
Speaker 1: being paired with Jim Nantz.
34:31
Speaker 6: Hello, friends, I mean, it sounds like even though all
34:37
Speaker 6: they've said about Tony Romo is just that he is
34:40
Speaker 6: on leave, but they didn't say he's been fired, But
34:43
Speaker 6: a lot of people think they're just using that as
34:45
Speaker 6: an opportunity to see about getting out of the contract
34:51
Speaker 6: with Romo.
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Speaker 2: So we'll see if that's Yeah, if.
34:56
Speaker 4: That is the case, I feel like people, at least
34:59
Speaker 4: in eye circles have kind of soured on Tony Romo
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Speaker 4: in the booth a little bit over the last couple
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Speaker 4: of years.
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Speaker 2: Still, I still think he adds a lot.
35:08
Speaker 4: Obviously obviously you know, troubling, troubling things in the offseason here.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I think they're looking for more information to
35:15
Speaker 4: see how that kind of shakes out before they come
35:17
Speaker 4: out with the final decision.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, is it just going to be suspended.
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Speaker 1: For a while and then and then even if it is,
35:25
Speaker 1: and if you do that, what does that mean if
35:29
Speaker 1: you decide to bring him back, or are you gonna again,
35:33
Speaker 1: uh shake up the broadcast cruise again? Are you gonna
35:38
Speaker 1: send Ross Tucker back down further? Are you gonna send
35:40
Speaker 1: JJ Watt back down to work with Iron Eagle again?
35:43
Speaker 3: I thought that was a good pairing last year.
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Speaker 2: It was.
35:45
Speaker 1: And let me say, by the way, I don't think
35:49
Speaker 1: in terms of working with a play by play guy,
35:53
Speaker 1: I don't think that's a demotion. In fact, I think
35:55
Speaker 1: it's a promotion if you had to work with Iron Eagle.
35:57
Speaker 1: I think he's as good a play by play guy
35:59
Speaker 1: as there is in the world when it comes to
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Speaker 1: football and basketball. He's tremendous. And his son's pretty good too.
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Speaker 3: But people ask me who has the belt?
36:10
Speaker 4: Who is you know at the top of the game,
36:11
Speaker 4: and I frequently mentioned I an Eagle.
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Speaker 2: I think he's the best. I really do. I think
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Speaker 2: he's I think he's the best in UH in football
36:21
Speaker 2: and basketball. I end up doing baseball, but but he's.
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Speaker 3: Could you imagine if he did, he'd.
36:25
Speaker 2: Be good at it. He could probably be good at it.
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Speaker 1: Steve rock him out, I had so many years ago,
36:33
Speaker 1: tell me and I wish I could have heard this
36:36
Speaker 1: when he was calling games for UH CBS on television
36:42
Speaker 1: and Westwood One on radio or with CBS Radio network
36:45
Speaker 1: at the time. Jack Buck, who's calling those football and
36:48
Speaker 1: of course the father of Joe.
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Speaker 2: Buck, who is you know on on ESPN Jeopardy.
36:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, he's on that too, Jack Buck, who
37:00
Speaker 1: could do just about anything. When he worked at he
37:04
Speaker 1: home based out of Saint Louis, as is the Cardinals
37:07
Speaker 1: announcer on the radio for decades and then work national TVs.
37:13
Speaker 1: He guess he did the play by play on Super
37:15
Speaker 1: Bowl four. I know that obviously. He did World Series
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Speaker 1: for several years for CBS.
37:22
Speaker 2: We will see you Tomorrow night.
37:24
Speaker 1: You know, Braves and Twins in ninety one on I
37:28
Speaker 1: think it was the Kirby Pucket home run when he
37:30
Speaker 1: said that Game six. And that's why when Joe Buck
37:33
Speaker 1: did it twenty years later in twenty eleven, David Freese,
37:39
Speaker 1: I thought it was pretty cool. Hey, yeah, I did.
37:42
Speaker 1: I really did think it was think it was. And
37:46
Speaker 1: Joe and I've.
37:48
Speaker 2: Had a chance to meet him and visit with him
37:49
Speaker 2: a little bit at the Sportscaster of the Year banquet
37:53
Speaker 2: in North Carolina a couple of years ago that he'll
37:56
Speaker 2: tell you it was one of those things that came
37:58
Speaker 2: to in the moment.
37:59
Speaker 1: He did not play to say that. How can you
38:01
Speaker 1: plan to say when you got to walk off home run?
38:03
Speaker 1: It came to him in the moment. And that's why
38:05
Speaker 1: I respected that, because when people would ask me about
38:08
Speaker 1: light the tower, orange or the other calls that I've made,
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Speaker 1: he came to me in the moment.
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Speaker 2: I can't plan to say the things that I play.
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Speaker 2: If I do, it's going to sound at the best
38:19
Speaker 2: plan and at the worst screwed up.
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Speaker 1: So I can't do that. I have to let it
38:24
Speaker 1: organically hit me in the moment. And that's what it
38:26
Speaker 1: did for Joe Buck when he did that, he repeated
38:29
Speaker 1: what his father said twenty years ago, almost to the
38:33
Speaker 1: night I think it was game six, just as it
38:36
Speaker 1: was Game six for Twins Braves when he said, and
38:39
Speaker 1: we'll see you tomorrow night.
38:41
Speaker 2: Off of that, but.
38:44
Speaker 1: You know, it does make me wonder that you know
38:47
Speaker 1: what's going to happen if you shake up the chemistry,
38:52
Speaker 1: You're going to shake it up again and do that
38:54
Speaker 1: if it comes down to that.
38:56
Speaker 2: I guess we'll find out on down the road.
38:58
Speaker 1: But I do think I an Eagles about it good
39:00
Speaker 1: as you can get in football baseball. I think Joe
39:04
Speaker 1: Davis does a really good job. And I listened to
39:07
Speaker 1: him night after night because of being a Dodger fan,
39:09
Speaker 1: and I listen to him do a lot. I think
39:10
Speaker 1: he does about ninety ninety five of the Dodger games,
39:14
Speaker 1: doesn't do them all, like he's not doing the series
39:16
Speaker 1: with Kansas City.
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Speaker 2: So Steven Nelson's doing it working with Oral Herdeizer.
39:23
Speaker 4: I think him and Jason Bennetti are my two favorites
39:25
Speaker 4: on baseball right now, and they're very different.
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Speaker 2: They are very different, and I do like them both.
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Speaker 2: I do.
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Speaker 1: I do think they're really really good. And then there's
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Speaker 1: other ones as well. And basketball.
39:37
Speaker 2: I think Mike Breen's about as good as he gets.
39:39
Speaker 2: I think he's really really good.
39:41
Speaker 1: And like I said, Iron Eagle is as well, and
39:43
Speaker 1: he does the nets when he's not busy with other
39:45
Speaker 1: assignments as well. So anyway, just some thoughts on that
39:50
Speaker 1: we need a break when we come back. We're here
39:51
Speaker 1: from Brian Schottenheimer, the Cowboys head coach, and we are
39:55
Speaker 1: also going to hear from Dak Prescott, the Cowboys quarterback.
39:59
Speaker 1: We'll do that here on a Yacht Rock Wednesday afternoon
40:03
Speaker 1: on sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone of the
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Speaker 2: David Sanborne on the saxophone Betune. Anything you want a song.
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Speaker 1: That was composed right and written by none other than
40:23
Speaker 1: the Godfather Michael McDonald.
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Speaker 4: YEP, David Sandborn Michael McDonald co writing composing credits on
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Speaker 4: this track from nineteen eighty.
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Speaker 2: Right in the wheelhouse of yacht Rocke and this one,
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Speaker 2: you know, you just had to know we would never
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Speaker 2: stray too far from Michael McDonald, even on days when
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Speaker 2: we might not necessarily bump back with a song from the.
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Speaker 1: Godfather from Michael McDonald. But he did collaborate on this
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Speaker 1: with David Sanborn. As we continue here on a yacht
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Speaker 1: Rock Wednesday, and let's talk some Dallas Cowboys for we
41:02
Speaker 1: told you earlier in the program. In fact, in the
41:05
Speaker 1: Inconceivable Oh before we get to that, I didn't, as
41:08
Speaker 1: they would say, pay off the teas I was talking
41:10
Speaker 1: about Jack Buck during the break because we mentioned you know,
41:14
Speaker 1: if if you could imagine envision Iron Eagle calling baseball,
41:18
Speaker 1: and he'd probably be really good.
41:19
Speaker 2: You get pretty good impersonation of the types of.
41:23
Speaker 1: High notes that he would hit, and the note and
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Speaker 1: the comments of exclamation he might offer in a big moment.
41:30
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's something like that now.
41:36
Speaker 1: Jack Buck, as I mentioned, was known for doing football
41:39
Speaker 1: and baseball, great football broadcaster called super Bowl four on television,
41:45
Speaker 1: a lot of Super Bowls playoff games and on what
41:49
Speaker 1: was then CBS Radio now Westwood One. And in fact
41:54
Speaker 1: I used to work with the late Hank Strand, the
41:57
Speaker 1: former Chiefs coach for years, you know. And he would say, well, Henry,
42:02
Speaker 1: they're not doing well tonight, and and Hanks Tram will
42:06
Speaker 1: come back say, well, it's like throwing popcorn at a battleship.
42:08
Speaker 1: Jack can't get past the defense. You'd have stuff like that,
42:11
Speaker 1: great chemistry in the air. And there was a there
42:16
Speaker 1: was a moment in a Monday night game years ago. Uh,
42:21
Speaker 1: the Raiders are playing the Dolphins, and Jack, like Brent
42:28
Speaker 1: Musburger and like some other broadcasters, was known to occasionally
42:31
Speaker 1: lay down a wager or two on a game.
42:34
Speaker 2: So'd be on the phone with a book, you know,
42:36
Speaker 2: for the game. And that night.
42:40
Speaker 1: The Raiders were that the game was in Miami, and
42:43
Speaker 1: the Raiders were like a three point underdog, supposed to
42:46
Speaker 1: be really good game at the old Orange Bowl in Miami.
42:50
Speaker 2: And so.
42:51
Speaker 1: And the reason why I know the story is because
42:53
Speaker 1: the man who produced that broadcast I got to know
42:58
Speaker 1: was later my executive producer in the studio when I
43:00
Speaker 1: was the anchor studio anchor in the old Southwest Conference
43:03
Speaker 1: radio network in the late eighties, and he told me
43:05
Speaker 1: the story that that you know, Jack occasionally would have
43:11
Speaker 1: have a wager, not none of a large mat he said,
43:13
Speaker 1: what a big bet or something like. But he would
43:14
Speaker 1: ocasionally drop a wager. And he was on the phone
43:17
Speaker 1: with a bookie.
43:19
Speaker 2: For the game. That's right, give me the Raiders and
43:21
Speaker 2: the points. I'll take the Raiders. It was that kind
43:23
Speaker 2: of thing. Well, that night, the Raider stunk it up
43:27
Speaker 2: and the Dolphins beat him something like thirty to six.
43:29
Speaker 1: They crushed him. Mark Wilson was the quarterback for the
43:31
Speaker 1: Raiders and he just couldn't get anything going. And they
43:34
Speaker 1: got to a deal, but we got first down, they
43:36
Speaker 1: got nothing. They got second down, they got nothing. And
43:39
Speaker 1: they comes to the line of scrimmage and he's frustrated.
43:43
Speaker 1: This is like early fourth quarter, and they get trump.
43:47
Speaker 1: Jack is obviously seeing his wager go down the tubes,
43:49
Speaker 1: and Mark Wilson walks to the line of scrimmage and
43:54
Speaker 1: and and doesn't like what he sees and he calls
43:57
Speaker 1: time out. That's going it goes and Jack Buck, because
44:01
Speaker 1: the producers waving the car to pitch a break at him, says, well, well,
44:06
Speaker 1: Henry to Hankstram, Well, Henry, the Raiders have proven the
44:09
Speaker 1: night they can't run, they can't pass, but they can
44:13
Speaker 1: call time out.
44:14
Speaker 2: Back in a moment.
44:16
Speaker 1: So in our business, in uh In, in play by
44:22
Speaker 1: play land, we have a term, and I say we,
44:27
Speaker 1: I mean several guys I know Bill Schoning.
44:29
Speaker 2: Is one of them.
44:30
Speaker 1: When we were working together, several others that we would
44:34
Speaker 1: call a jack buck. And what that would mean is
44:39
Speaker 1: we had to get in another break and make good
44:41
Speaker 1: or something like that. And it does occasionally happen like that.
44:45
Speaker 1: Say what they didn't call a time out? There wasn't
44:49
Speaker 1: an official timeout for a long time, saying a quarter
44:53
Speaker 1: of a long one game, and then we would get
44:56
Speaker 1: to a break, but we're behind a break and we
44:58
Speaker 1: need to get another one in, and it was going
45:01
Speaker 1: to be one of those TV breaks it's like three
45:03
Speaker 1: minutes and fifteen seconds, and our breaks were like ninety seconds.
45:07
Speaker 1: So we knew I had enough time, So I pitched
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Speaker 1: the break. The commercials running, and I tell the studio
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Speaker 1: producer on the line, I'm going to give you a
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Speaker 1: jack buck here, and he knew what I meant, and
45:17
Speaker 1: so blah blah blah, and you'd hear the spot, the
45:18
Speaker 1: spot would end, and then it'd come right back to
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Speaker 1: me and say.
45:21
Speaker 2: Three forty three to go third quarter.
45:23
Speaker 1: Log worn's up by fifteen back in a moment, a
45:25
Speaker 1: long horn football continues in a moment, just a real
45:27
Speaker 1: quick pitch. We would call that a Jack Buck because
45:30
Speaker 1: you're getting to a break very very quickly.
45:32
Speaker 3: Okay, I give it something.
45:33
Speaker 1: He did it for an entirely different reason, right, he
45:36
Speaker 1: was thoroughly.
45:37
Speaker 2: Disgusted without the game was going.
45:38
Speaker 1: But what I was going to say about Jack Buck
45:40
Speaker 1: was he was very, very talented, even though we did,
45:44
Speaker 1: you know, football and baseball. I heard that he had
45:48
Speaker 1: been like an MC for ballroom dancing and several other
45:52
Speaker 1: events as well. And then the other thing I heard
45:55
Speaker 1: was that he substituted once for the great one of
45:58
Speaker 1: the greatest hockey broadcasts of all time. Dan Kelly did
46:01
Speaker 1: the Sing Louis Blues for years, and his son did
46:03
Speaker 1: the Blue John for years, and they were all out
46:07
Speaker 1: of km O X and Saint Louis and Dan Kelly
46:10
Speaker 1: called in sick or couldn't make it or whatever.
46:12
Speaker 2: Jack runs down and he does the hockey game.
46:14
Speaker 1: And supposedly he was pretty good at calling a hockey game.
46:18
Speaker 1: That would It made me think about that when you
46:19
Speaker 1: mentioned I an eagle, the possibility to prospect of him
46:23
Speaker 1: calling baseball. Let's hear from Brian Schottenneimer, the Cowboys head coach.
46:28
Speaker 1: They had that joint practice with the Rams yesterday, so
46:33
Speaker 1: he's asked for some overall thoughts on the practice they
46:37
Speaker 1: had with Los Angeles.
46:39
Speaker 4: Yeah.
46:39
Speaker 7: Well, first of all, I'm always appreciative of Sean and
46:41
Speaker 7: the entire RAMS organization. We shull have a great relationship.
46:44
Speaker 7: We work well with him. Their first class all the way.
46:47
Speaker 7: Probably helps a litt bit that I was in the
46:49
Speaker 7: Rams organization many many moons ago. But really good work,
46:54
Speaker 7: chippy at times between two very competitive football teams. So
46:58
Speaker 7: I love the work. We'll go back to see the film.
47:01
Speaker 7: I know Justin Barron had a great day, you know,
47:03
Speaker 7: but overall I thought it was very pleased with the work.
47:06
Speaker 1: Okay, and toward that end, from what he was able
47:10
Speaker 1: to observe, what did he make of his offense?
47:12
Speaker 2: Again, you know, we're pretty talented.
47:14
Speaker 7: I thought, again, we spread the ball around pretty well.
47:16
Speaker 7: They're a very good coverage unit. There's a lot of
47:18
Speaker 7: similarities with what they do defensively to what we do.
47:21
Speaker 7: But I thought we spread the ball around pretty good.
47:23
Speaker 7: I thought George had a really good day and overall,
47:26
Speaker 7: I was pleased with.
47:26
Speaker 2: The way we move the line scrimmage, no question about that.
47:31
Speaker 1: The the other thing to get to from Brian Schottenheimer
47:36
Speaker 1: and describing his team's work, how big is the improvement
47:43
Speaker 1: at least that he's been able to tell so far
47:46
Speaker 1: with his defensive unit after all the struggles they had
47:48
Speaker 1: a year ago.
47:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we're a different We're a different defense.
47:51
Speaker 2: You guys know that.
47:52
Speaker 7: I mean that's you can look at us on paper
47:54
Speaker 7: and see we're a different defense. Having practs against us
47:56
Speaker 7: every day. The mentality and the mindset of the defense
48:00
Speaker 7: is different. So I think that's great. They challenge you
48:03
Speaker 7: a lot of different ways. They're a very, very physical
48:05
Speaker 7: run team. They run the hell out of the duo
48:07
Speaker 7: play where they just gap things down and the ball
48:09
Speaker 7: usually bounces to corners and Kyrien Williams and those guys
48:12
Speaker 7: are very physical. Matthew Stafford's got an unbelievable ability to
48:16
Speaker 7: get the ball out of his hand fast, so they're
48:17
Speaker 7: hard to get home on.
48:18
Speaker 2: But a few guys jumped out today.
48:20
Speaker 7: Quinn Williams, I think we probably should keep that contract.
48:23
Speaker 7: I think that was a good contract for us. Thrilled
48:26
Speaker 7: about him. What he's brought to this team from a
48:28
Speaker 7: leadership standpoint is can't be talked about enough. He wanted
48:32
Speaker 7: to be here. It was all part of the grand scheme.
48:34
Speaker 7: We had the big trade to try to figure out
48:37
Speaker 7: something like that and couldn't be happy enough for them.
48:39
Speaker 7: But I thought it was a battle. You know, they
48:41
Speaker 7: had their plays, we had our plays. It's what a
48:43
Speaker 7: joint practice should look like.
48:44
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, they worked on two fields yesterday and
48:49
Speaker 1: Sean he was kind of bouncing between back and forth.
48:51
Speaker 2: So how did he make that work?
48:52
Speaker 7: You know, I just I wanted to kind of see
48:54
Speaker 7: these guys, all of them compete. I wanted to see
48:56
Speaker 7: us play fourth down defense. I wanted to see us
48:58
Speaker 7: play third down offense. I want to see us in
48:59
Speaker 7: the reds and I want to see a said red
49:01
Speaker 7: zone defense, And so I let the coordinators call it. Clayton,
49:04
Speaker 7: I thought did a really good job of spreading the
49:05
Speaker 7: ball around. A ton of respect for you know, Coach Shula.
49:09
Speaker 7: You know, Nat sure Lee's gonna be a credible offensive
49:11
Speaker 7: coordinator for Sewing and his guys.
49:13
Speaker 2: But all in all, I got my steps into day.
49:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, I bet he did. There was one other moment.
49:18
Speaker 1: I guess when they were a bit of a kerfuffle.
49:20
Speaker 1: Is that what the deal with?
49:21
Speaker 4: This was not so much a kerfuffle, just a little
49:24
Speaker 4: celebration after a chippy route or something.
49:27
Speaker 3: I think I showed this to you yesterday late in
49:30
Speaker 3: the show.
49:31
Speaker 2: Told me about it. I didn't. I didn't even know
49:33
Speaker 2: if I saw it. Well, but maybe I just told you.
49:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it involved George Pickens, it did he? Yeah,
49:37
Speaker 1: he kicked the pylon. Oh, he kicked the pylon? Okay,
49:41
Speaker 1: all right, all right, when I saw pilon, I thought
49:44
Speaker 1: you meant he was piling on or something.
49:46
Speaker 3: Oh no, luckily, not that big of a scrap.
49:48
Speaker 1: All right, So yours with Shotty and the exchange that
49:51
Speaker 1: happened in discussing it, I did not, but that doesn't
49:54
Speaker 1: surprise me.
49:54
Speaker 2: How far did he kick it?
49:56
Speaker 5: Good?
49:56
Speaker 2: Should he be the backup to Aubrey? Okay, well we'll
49:59
Speaker 2: take a look at that. Did they throw a flag?
50:01
Speaker 2: I'm not sure?
50:03
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, we'll probably yeah a little bit more, Okay,
50:06
Speaker 7: any other Sam I worry about his toes. I worry
50:08
Speaker 7: about him Jamin his toes. There's sandbags in there. But
50:10
Speaker 7: our guys have fun out here, and like I said,
50:12
Speaker 7: I want him to do that. When you're playing real games,
50:14
Speaker 7: we can't do that. We can't shoot ourselves in the foot. Yeah, no,
50:17
Speaker 7: don't find it there. But I'm not surprised by that.
50:19
Speaker 7: And I like how he played along with Okay, we'll
50:21
Speaker 7: take a look at him as a backup to Aubrey
50:23
Speaker 7: Brandon Aubrey as well.
50:25
Speaker 1: We'll hear some more from a Shotty coming up next
50:28
Speaker 1: hour to the text line where they're one of that.
50:33
Speaker 1: Seapal said, you know Jack Buck had that deeper, clear voice.
50:36
Speaker 2: He did.
50:38
Speaker 1: He would you know one thing that you could tell
50:40
Speaker 1: when Jack was getting later in his career. Jack would
50:44
Speaker 1: follow some basic tenets of play by play.
50:50
Speaker 2: And here's what I mean by that.
50:53
Speaker 1: If you call, if you're describing a play and it's
50:58
Speaker 1: a pass play and the quarterback hits a receiver downfield
51:04
Speaker 1: and then he's caught, the most important thing is what,
51:07
Speaker 1: Jay Herman, what's the most important thing when you encounter
51:11
Speaker 1: a play like that as a play by play.
51:12
Speaker 2: Guy, remind me of what the play is. It's a
51:14
Speaker 2: deep past.
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Speaker 1: Year Let's say it's a deep crossing over the middle
51:18
Speaker 1: about thirty yards downfield, something like that. What's the most
51:20
Speaker 1: important thing is a play by play guy to describe.
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Speaker 3: In that and you're calling it on TV right.
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Speaker 1: Uh no, radio radio. What's the most important thing?
51:30
Speaker 3: Well, you want to identify who made the catch.
51:33
Speaker 1: That's the second most important. Where the yard line is
51:35
Speaker 1: that's the third most important thing. The most important thing
51:38
Speaker 1: to describe is that he made the cash. Sure, So
51:41
Speaker 1: a thing would be something like shotgun stamp back to
51:44
Speaker 1: manning play action, looking.
51:46
Speaker 2: Deep down over the middle. He's got Wingo open and
51:48
Speaker 2: he caught it Wingo with a catch down.
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Speaker 1: To the twenty five yard line. That's a pick up
51:52
Speaker 1: of thirty two yards. You know something like that. Sure, Yeah,
51:55
Speaker 1: I guess that would be number one.
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Speaker 3: On radio. They can't see that.
51:57
Speaker 2: It's cast exactly.
51:58
Speaker 1: That's why I said that, first, what happened, Then the
52:01
Speaker 1: description of you know where it is, you know, and
52:04
Speaker 1: then you can throw in the other stuff like that,
52:05
Speaker 1: the you know whatever, and then the analyst comes in.
52:08
Speaker 2: The reason why I bring this up is because Jack Buck.
52:13
Speaker 1: Would describe in that order, first the pass that would
52:18
Speaker 1: be caught. Then he would try to get to who
52:23
Speaker 1: caught it, and sometimes it would take a little longer
52:26
Speaker 1: on that maybe his spotter wasn't that good. Maybe he
52:28
Speaker 1: couldn't see that well from the angle, whatever, But I
52:31
Speaker 1: remember I used to hear this from time to time.
52:33
Speaker 2: And I remember one time in the Cowboy game. They're
52:36
Speaker 2: playing the Cardinals and he says, third and ten the
52:39
Speaker 2: Cowboys at the Saint at the Arizona forty four shot
52:42
Speaker 2: gun snap back, takeman Apeman looking deep, he's throwing deep.
52:46
Speaker 2: That ball is caught. It's caught. It's caught down at
52:50
Speaker 2: the twenty two and tackle there at the twenty two.
52:53
Speaker 2: The caught. The catch was made by Irvin. Michael Irvin.
52:58
Speaker 2: We exaggerated the thing that say it is caught. It's
53:01
Speaker 2: caught by a member of the Cowboys in a white jersey.
53:04
Speaker 2: He's got an eight on his jersey. He's got eighty eight.
53:07
Speaker 2: That's Michael Irvin. It wasn't quite that to that extreme,
53:11
Speaker 2: but he would.
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Speaker 1: He would make sure that you knew that the pass
53:15
Speaker 1: was caught. That's the first thing. Then where is the
53:18
Speaker 1: ball or he caught it? Then you can get into
53:21
Speaker 1: identifying unless you can see the guy wide open. You know,
53:24
Speaker 1: you'll hear me sometimes say, you know, whatever, manning the
53:27
Speaker 1: throw deep downfield, he's got wingo wide.
53:29
Speaker 2: Open and then Ryan makes.
53:32
Speaker 1: The catch and he's down to the twenty to the
53:33
Speaker 1: fifteen run out of bounds at the twelve yard line.
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Speaker 1: That the description comes in afterwards, But you're identifying that
53:38
Speaker 1: the pass has caught.
53:39
Speaker 2: You're identifying where the guy is and who the guy is.
53:42
Speaker 4: If I play one oh, one, eh, there's some of that.
53:44
Speaker 4: Here's some of that in Joe too. He'll get his son.
53:47
Speaker 2: Who will passes caught? God?
53:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and what did you say with Bay said,
53:52
Speaker 1: that's a drive and then the left field or whatever
53:55
Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, yeah, But it's different on TV.
54:00
Speaker 2: It's different because, in the immortal words of.
54:03
Speaker 1: My broadcast partner on Longhorn Baseball, Keith Morland, we've got pictures.
54:07
Speaker 1: We've got pictures, so you can see a lot of that,
54:10
Speaker 1: so you can let it trail. And the analyst takes
54:13
Speaker 1: a more prominent role on a telecast as supposed to
54:16
Speaker 1: the radio, when the most important thing is telling people
54:19
Speaker 1: what happened, then who did it? And where the ball
54:23
Speaker 1: is or what? And then where the ball is and
54:25
Speaker 1: who and who did it? That's those are the important
54:28
Speaker 1: tenets to let people know what's going on. As I say,
54:31
Speaker 1: transmit the message make sure that what's coming out of
54:34
Speaker 1: the box is easy enough for folks to understand. All right,
54:38
Speaker 1: we got more coming up. We're gonna hear from Dak
54:39
Speaker 1: Prescott next. I'm thirteen under the Zone.
54:45
Speaker 2: You know this.
54:47
Speaker 1: This tune was actually I believe, recorded in nineteen seventy
54:51
Speaker 1: six by holding Sarah Smile. So you might say, maybe
54:56
Speaker 1: it's just a little bit ahead of a bump of
54:58
Speaker 1: where supposedly the his historical demarcation begins for yacht rock.
55:03
Speaker 1: But the style, like I said, you can't you can't
55:05
Speaker 1: really pin it down to an exact year, because there's
55:08
Speaker 1: some tunes, some early Steelee Dan or some other stuff
55:11
Speaker 1: that falls into the category. And then there's something in
55:15
Speaker 1: late as shot a nineteen ninety you know, Smooth Operator.
55:19
Speaker 2: That's a yacht rock too, you know it. Just so
55:22
Speaker 2: I just.
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Speaker 4: Pick out some stuff from today that sounds probably similar
55:25
Speaker 4: to this.
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Speaker 1: Probably something, and so the great Hall and oates there
55:30
Speaker 1: with Sarah Smile.
55:32
Speaker 2: It's one of my favorites. There.
55:35
Speaker 1: Let's hear from Dak Prescotty Cowboys quarterback again. They had
55:38
Speaker 1: the practice, the joint practice with the Rams yesterday, and
55:41
Speaker 1: he was asked about his thoughts on his offensive unit, first.
55:45
Speaker 8: Time going against you know, an another jersey, another team.
55:48
Speaker 2: I thought it was good. I thought it was good.
55:50
Speaker 2: Is it quite where we wanted to be?
55:51
Speaker 8: No, not necessarily, but started off, you know, obviously hitting
55:55
Speaker 8: the run, so some things are physical. It's hard to
55:57
Speaker 8: tell exactly what a game is, you know what guys
55:58
Speaker 8: aren't going to the ground. But then as it developed,
56:01
Speaker 8: getting into the red zone, even the two minute there,
56:03
Speaker 8: you know, getting called down where it looked like.
56:04
Speaker 2: He's right at the sticks.
56:05
Speaker 8: Just part of practice, but ultimately felt good about it.
56:09
Speaker 1: Other than him kicking the pylon, was there anything about
56:12
Speaker 1: George Pickens that stood out to Dack?
56:14
Speaker 2: And George is being George.
56:16
Speaker 8: That's that's what I expect from him, what he expects
56:18
Speaker 8: from myself. There's still probably a ball, you know, a
56:21
Speaker 8: ball or two that we want to you know, correct
56:23
Speaker 8: one thing or another, make it a completion. We had
56:25
Speaker 8: the one interception and throwing it to George there, which
56:28
Speaker 8: can get cleaned up very simply. So, yes, what I
56:30
Speaker 8: expect from George. He just does great things. And today
56:32
Speaker 8: was another showing event.
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Speaker 2: All right.
56:34
Speaker 1: As I mentioned, they were working on two different fields,
56:35
Speaker 1: the Cowboys offense against the Rams defense on one field
56:39
Speaker 1: and the Rams offense against the Cowboys defense on the
56:42
Speaker 1: other field. And you know, that was one thing Ward
56:47
Speaker 1: filtered back to Dac, that the defense had some success
56:50
Speaker 1: against that Rams offense.
56:52
Speaker 2: So is that a confidence builder? Yeah?
56:54
Speaker 8: Great, I'm looking forward to watching it. I know I
56:55
Speaker 8: heard the cheers and the holler and could tell those
56:57
Speaker 8: our guys obviously they've been doing it, you know, throughout
57:00
Speaker 8: camp and getting after so it's cool to see just
57:02
Speaker 8: that that energy, that identity continue and I know they're
57:06
Speaker 8: pumped about it, but I know they're not satisfied to
57:08
Speaker 8: what they've done. They're going to go back and same
57:10
Speaker 8: as we are, and look at it, be hard on
57:11
Speaker 8: ourselves and see where we can get better.
57:13
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, So that's some from the Cowboys.
57:17
Speaker 1: We'll hear some more from both Brian Schottenheimer and Dak
57:21
Speaker 1: Prescott coming up next hour. I was asked somebody if
57:24
Speaker 1: somebody asked me about this, I got an email and
57:28
Speaker 1: and this all was about the giveaway for the Dave
57:32
Speaker 1: Campbells Texas Football magazine, and and somebody said, I hear
57:37
Speaker 1: you say all levels of college football, and he said,
57:42
Speaker 1: can you give some examples because all you know, I've
57:44
Speaker 1: kind of zipped through it. And I said, you know,
57:47
Speaker 1: division one and I'm happy to do that, and and
57:50
Speaker 1: and the person emailing said, especially the lower divisions.
57:54
Speaker 2: So just so you'll know.
57:57
Speaker 1: In addition, obviously everybody's going to know about the the
58:00
Speaker 1: schools in the in the Power four conferences. They're going
58:04
Speaker 1: to know about Texas and Texas A and M and
58:09
Speaker 1: Baylor and TCU in Texas Tech and Houston and s
58:14
Speaker 1: m U all in the in the Power conferences.
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Speaker 2: There they're gonna hear from the leave out of.
58:19
Speaker 1: Power Conference school Texas State and Texas State and U
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Speaker 1: T s A.
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Speaker 2: Uh well though they're not in the Power four Conference
58:27
Speaker 2: power are you right? Okay? Yeah, I was. I was
58:30
Speaker 2: messing up my cadence here, Jake. I'm going I'm going
58:32
Speaker 2: into I'm thinking back to the FBS exert. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
58:36
Speaker 1: So those were all the ones I mentioned, you know, Texas,
58:41
Speaker 1: Texas A and M, T, c U, s m U, Baylor,
58:44
Speaker 1: Texas Tech, the schools that are in uh Power four conferences,
58:49
Speaker 1: s m U being in the A c C, TCU, Baylor,
58:53
Speaker 1: Texas Tech all in the Big twelve, and of course
58:57
Speaker 1: Texas and Texas A and M and the SEC Houston
58:59
Speaker 1: all so in the Big twelve. So all of those
59:03
Speaker 1: in the Power four conferences. Then there's Division one FBS
59:07
Speaker 1: schools like North Texas, UTSA, UTEP in Texas State that
59:13
Speaker 1: are in G six conferent Now, now we'll see over time,
59:17
Speaker 1: time will tell if the PAC twelve can get back
59:19
Speaker 1: to power status, going back to we used to say
59:23
Speaker 1: Power five all the time.
59:24
Speaker 2: It's Power four right now.
59:25
Speaker 1: But the PAC twelve is just now regenerating this year,
59:30
Speaker 1: and the schools that are you know, going to be
59:33
Speaker 1: in the PAC twelve this year are schools that were
59:37
Speaker 1: not in the PAC twelve and we're therefore we're not
59:41
Speaker 1: power conference teams for you know, some back in their
59:47
Speaker 1: earlier incarnation. So the schools other than other than Washington
59:52
Speaker 1: State and Oregon State, they were they were in what
59:55
Speaker 1: was a power conference. But right now the PAC twelve
59:59
Speaker 1: consists of Boise State, Fresno State, San Diego State, Texas State,
1:00:05
Speaker 1: Washington State, Utah State, Colorado State, and Oregon State. So
1:00:10
Speaker 1: it's the state conference. But anyway, all of those are
1:00:15
Speaker 1: in there. By the way, when they get the basketball,
1:00:17
Speaker 1: gonzag is in there and they've become a much stronger
1:00:20
Speaker 1: basketball league as well. But in the PAC twelve right now,
1:00:23
Speaker 1: those are the teams. None of those teams other in
1:00:26
Speaker 1: Oregon State and Washington State were in a power conference
1:00:32
Speaker 1: in the earlier incarnation of the PAC twelve. And then,
1:00:36
Speaker 1: for being completely honest, those schools weren't annually tenders. Oregon
1:00:40
Speaker 1: State would have a big year every now and then
1:00:42
Speaker 1: they went to a Fiesta Bowl not that long ago,
1:00:44
Speaker 1: and Washington State had a couple of good years, but
1:00:46
Speaker 1: not a year and year out every year thing like
1:00:48
Speaker 1: an Oregon or a Washington or a USC, even UCLA,
1:00:52
Speaker 1: those Cal Stanford you know those programs callen Stanford moving
1:00:57
Speaker 1: to the ACC. Oregon, Washington, USC, Ucla going into the
1:01:02
Speaker 1: Big ten, Colorado and why and Utah and Arizona and
1:01:06
Speaker 1: Arizona State all going into the Big twelve. So time
1:01:10
Speaker 1: will tell if this PAC twelve can play to that
1:01:15
Speaker 1: standard and get to the standard of that, But for now,
1:01:19
Speaker 1: it's you'd be accurate to say, yeah, we were talking
1:01:22
Speaker 1: about schools that are in G six. Group of six
1:01:25
Speaker 1: used to be a group of five forever and now
1:01:27
Speaker 1: it's G six conferences. Let's see if I can rattle
1:01:30
Speaker 1: them off the top of my head, Jake, you got
1:01:32
Speaker 1: the American, you got the Sun Belt, You've got PAC twelve,
1:01:36
Speaker 1: You've got Mountain West, You've got the MAC and we hold.
1:01:43
Speaker 2: On, hold on.
1:01:45
Speaker 1: I said, that's in Mountain West. I said PAC twelve.
1:01:49
Speaker 1: I said American. I said Conference USA.
1:01:51
Speaker 2: Yep. Okay.
1:01:52
Speaker 1: So those the schools from the state of Texas that
1:01:59
Speaker 1: are in some of the G six leagues like Texas
1:02:02
Speaker 1: State being in the PAC twelve, North Texas UTSA Rice
1:02:10
Speaker 1: in the American Athletic Conference, Sam Houston in Conference USA,
1:02:16
Speaker 1: as we've pointed out, So those schools that are in
1:02:22
Speaker 1: those leagues also profiled in there. Then there's fcs from
1:02:26
Speaker 1: the Southland Conference, and I'd mentioned those schools that are
1:02:29
Speaker 1: in the Southland Conference like Abilene Christian and Charlton and
1:02:34
Speaker 1: ut Rio Grand Valley, by the way, who is looked
1:02:38
Speaker 1: at as being a real threat a second year program,
1:02:43
Speaker 1: and Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine picks the Vacaro second
1:02:48
Speaker 1: behind Stephen F. Austin with Southeastern Louisiana Labar incarnate word McNeese, Nichols, Houston, Christian,
1:02:54
Speaker 1: East Texas A and M. It's therefore, I believe their
1:02:58
Speaker 1: fourth season in FCS and north Western State, so there's
1:03:04
Speaker 1: that those schools are profiled. Then the lower divisions that
1:03:08
Speaker 1: the person emailing me asked about, we have. The Loan
1:03:12
Speaker 1: Store Conference has Division two, Angelo State, Midwestern State, Saul,
1:03:17
Speaker 1: Ross State, Texas A and M Kingsville UT Permian Base
1:03:21
Speaker 1: in West Texas A and M. Those are all schools
1:03:24
Speaker 1: from the state of Texas, along with schools like Eastern
1:03:27
Speaker 1: New Mexico, Western New Mexico, and then you get into
1:03:32
Speaker 1: Central Washington and Western Oregon.
1:03:35
Speaker 2: They're actually in the Lone Star Conference realignment. Trickling down,
1:03:40
Speaker 2: it is.
1:03:40
Speaker 1: In Division three in the American Southwest Conference, schools like
1:03:45
Speaker 1: East Texas, Baptist, Hardin Simmons, Howard Paint Mary Harden, Baylor, McMurray,
1:03:51
Speaker 1: Shriner College there, and then you get into other Division
1:03:54
Speaker 1: three conference like Southwestern University just up the road from
1:03:57
Speaker 1: US in Georgetown is in the Southern Intercollegiate Letic Association
1:04:01
Speaker 1: Texas Lutheran Trinity and Austin College or other Division three
1:04:05
Speaker 1: programs moving down the classification ladder in AIA in the
1:04:10
Speaker 1: Sooner Athletic Conference Texas College that's in Tyler, Texas, Wesley
1:04:15
Speaker 1: and in Fort Worth, Wayland Baptist and they're in the
1:04:18
Speaker 1: South Plains and Nelson University. If you don't know Nelson University,
1:04:25
Speaker 1: there's it's a small college in Waksahatchie that used to
1:04:28
Speaker 1: be known as Southwestern Assemblies of God College.
1:04:32
Speaker 2: That was what it was known. Now it's Nelson University.
1:04:34
Speaker 3: Wait, would that be Swag?
1:04:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much Swag has Swag you right college. And
1:04:41
Speaker 1: then they even get into the junior colleges the Southwest
1:04:44
Speaker 1: Junior College Football Conference with Tyler, Trinity, Valley, Navarro, Kilgore,
1:04:49
Speaker 1: Cisco and Blynn. So yes, all of those college football
1:04:54
Speaker 1: programs are profiled in the magazine as well. We'll be
1:04:58
Speaker 1: back to wrap up our number two one thirteen on
1:05:00
Speaker 1: The Zone, third and final hour of the program here
1:05:10
Speaker 1: on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Glad to
1:05:13
Speaker 1: have you with us here on this yacht rock Wednesday afternoon,
1:05:16
Speaker 1: Craig Way joined by the producer Jay Carman. Glad to
1:05:19
Speaker 1: have you aboard, as well as always say help you
1:05:24
Speaker 1: get over the hump there some folks. Wednesdays the end
1:05:27
Speaker 1: of the work week, Good on you, good for you.
1:05:29
Speaker 1: Enjoy those next couple of days off and then are
1:05:31
Speaker 1: some people whose work week actually begins on Wednesday.
1:05:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got a news producer friend that's the case for.
1:05:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, it happens.
1:05:39
Speaker 1: So, however your work week may be transpiring, be it
1:05:44
Speaker 1: the beginning, middle of the end. Hopefully we can help
1:05:47
Speaker 1: you along in that. I asked the trivia question before
1:05:52
Speaker 1: the top of the hour. Like I said, it wouldn't
1:05:53
Speaker 1: be difficult, and it wasn't. You had to, although we
1:05:56
Speaker 1: did have some incorrect answers do we not on the
1:06:00
Speaker 1: on the talkback microphone.
1:06:01
Speaker 2: I saw one person missed it. Another person just gave
1:06:04
Speaker 2: us his name. We need the answer. It didn't give
1:06:07
Speaker 2: us the answer.
1:06:08
Speaker 1: Off of that, the question was Texas and LSU, of course,
1:06:15
Speaker 1: last played in twenty nineteen, and that was here in Austin.
1:06:19
Speaker 2: In LSU one they gave forty five thirty eight.
1:06:22
Speaker 1: The last time they had met before that was in
1:06:25
Speaker 1: the Cotton Bowl. In fact, they played in a couple
1:06:27
Speaker 1: of Cotton Bowls in nineteen sixty three and then then
1:06:31
Speaker 1: forty years later January first, two thousand and three, and
1:06:36
Speaker 1: Texas under background won the ball game thirty five to twenty.
1:06:39
Speaker 1: Chris Sims had a really fine day his final game
1:06:42
Speaker 1: as a collegiate, Roy Williams in a round long run
1:06:45
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. Long runs played really well that day,
1:06:47
Speaker 1: actually spotted LSU attend to nothing lead and then turned
1:06:50
Speaker 1: around and one thirty five to twenty. But my question
1:06:53
Speaker 1: was who's the coach for LSU. And while we definitely
1:06:59
Speaker 1: have one incorrect dame answer and maybe some others wondering
1:07:01
Speaker 1: about it, right out of the gate, I said the
1:07:03
Speaker 1: first correct answer, and this was the first correct answer,
1:07:07
Speaker 1: and it was the first submission right out of the
1:07:09
Speaker 1: gate on the answer to the question.
1:07:12
Speaker 2: The answer is Nick Saban. Give me that magazine? Okay,
1:07:17
Speaker 2: who was that?
1:07:18
Speaker 4: By the way, that's Riley p You know Riley, you
1:07:20
Speaker 4: could ask a little nicer me that man.
1:07:24
Speaker 2: Luckily as a winner, you are a winner, Riley, So
1:07:27
Speaker 2: congratulations and we'll be in touch on how you can
1:07:29
Speaker 2: pick up your copy of Dave Campbells Texas Football Magazine.
1:07:32
Speaker 2: Nick Saban was the coach.
1:07:33
Speaker 1: It was the next year, the three season when LSU
1:07:37
Speaker 1: won the national title under Nick Saban beat Oklahoma in
1:07:41
Speaker 1: that National championship game, and then of course Saban tried
1:07:43
Speaker 1: his hand at the NFL.
1:07:46
Speaker 2: Not so much. Didn't go so well.
1:07:48
Speaker 3: Had that go I quit asking.
1:07:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was the coach of the Dolphins, then of
1:07:53
Speaker 2: course returned to Alabama and then turned on the real
1:07:57
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame career from there. So that was the
1:08:01
Speaker 2: answer to the trivia question. Nick Sateman was the coach
1:08:04
Speaker 2: of that l s U team, and you said, somebody
1:08:06
Speaker 2: gets less miles.
1:08:07
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, we had less miles guests in there, a
1:08:10
Speaker 4: little little too early for less.
1:08:11
Speaker 1: You have the less miles turkey sandwich dropped there. Always
1:08:14
Speaker 1: always like the less miles turkey sandwich.
1:08:17
Speaker 2: We were talking about that the other day because it
1:08:21
Speaker 2: was just great at Thanksgiving when he was talking about
1:08:25
Speaker 2: the leftover turkey sandwy, here comes. Yeah.
1:08:29
Speaker 9: I am the easiest man to please when it comes
1:08:32
Speaker 9: to food. I have to be honest. I think you'd say,
1:08:37
Speaker 9: I think it's definitely the turkey with a warm gravy.
1:08:42
Speaker 9: Maybe it's the last score or fork of food on
1:08:48
Speaker 9: the plate, you know, that has a little bit of salt,
1:08:50
Speaker 9: pepper and maybe a little bit of the turkey and
1:08:53
Speaker 9: gravy and some of the stuffing that would be there.
1:08:57
Speaker 9: Maybe just a smidge in that cranberry stuff, right, not
1:09:01
Speaker 9: like a big kind of overwhelmed the last bike.
1:09:04
Speaker 2: But that right, there.
1:09:06
Speaker 9: Oh, my goodness, right at last place worth a lot.
1:09:10
Speaker 9: I might add that the turkey sandwich with mayonnaise, mustard,
1:09:14
Speaker 9: onions and a little salad, a little little less kind
1:09:18
Speaker 9: of makes it makes for good eating labor too done it?
1:09:22
Speaker 2: Oh wait, you left out the best the the line.
1:09:25
Speaker 2: Uh too it.
1:09:26
Speaker 9: Makes makes for good eating labor too right. Wish you
1:09:30
Speaker 9: hadn't mentioned that. I haven't have a lunch yet.
1:09:33
Speaker 3: There we go.
1:09:35
Speaker 2: We get to the part we got it.
1:09:36
Speaker 1: We we actually had it trimmed down for years where
1:09:39
Speaker 1: it just starts off with less going. I might add
1:09:42
Speaker 1: that the turkey sandwich the leftover thing. It's funny, but
1:09:47
Speaker 1: he got me thinking about that with with less miles.
1:09:53
Speaker 1: I don't know if anybody's noticed. And we've been following
1:09:56
Speaker 1: the Major League baseball obviously. We have Geene Watson on
1:10:00
Speaker 1: every week with us to talk Major League Baseball, and
1:10:04
Speaker 1: things are getting pretty interesting with a lot of the
1:10:08
Speaker 1: races in the nash League West. The San Diego Potters
1:10:10
Speaker 1: have really picked up the tempo. They've taken the first
1:10:13
Speaker 1: two games from the Milwaukee Brewers, who still have the
1:10:17
Speaker 1: best record in all of baseball. They've won the first
1:10:19
Speaker 1: two games in San Diego. Right now, the Brewers are
1:10:21
Speaker 1: up to one in the top of the four. Dustin
1:10:23
Speaker 1: May pitching for the Brewers in that contest. But the
1:10:31
Speaker 1: Dodgers have to really struggling. They lost seven in a
1:10:34
Speaker 1: row and eight out of nine. Have taken the first
1:10:36
Speaker 1: two games from the Kansas City Royals. Blake's noew came
1:10:39
Speaker 1: back last night, looked really good over the course of
1:10:42
Speaker 1: six innings.
1:10:43
Speaker 2: Sola's not coming back soon too. Yeah, they've had him
1:10:45
Speaker 2: on the rehab thing, so we'll see. They're hoping to
1:10:48
Speaker 2: get him back.
1:10:49
Speaker 1: They're hoping to have shoeos Hoti pitch in September.
1:10:54
Speaker 4: They could basically make two rotations right now. The Dodgers
1:10:57
Speaker 4: practically could.
1:10:58
Speaker 1: So we'll see Matt Matt lower Erkler no, and I'm
1:11:04
Speaker 1: sure Eric's.
1:11:04
Speaker 2: Glad of that. Eric Lawer is the is pitching for
1:11:12
Speaker 2: the Dodgers in the rotation as well, and he's going
1:11:15
Speaker 2: to night.
1:11:15
Speaker 1: But anyway, this is all going on. And then, of course,
1:11:20
Speaker 1: for the last month, really and truly we've been talking
1:11:24
Speaker 1: about the Boston Red Sox and how red hot that
1:11:27
Speaker 1: they had been. They'd won twenty seven out of thirty,
1:11:30
Speaker 1: really climbed up and you may remember before they started
1:11:36
Speaker 1: that big push which happened right before the All Star Game,
1:11:39
Speaker 1: and they swept the Yankees right before that, and then
1:11:41
Speaker 1: they just ripped it in high gear. After the All
1:11:43
Speaker 1: Star Game, we had the rant from the Red Sox
1:11:45
Speaker 1: fan and Jake did a really good job of cleaning
1:11:48
Speaker 1: it up when he was asked about opposing team's fans
1:11:52
Speaker 1: coming to Fenway Park, and we figured that the guy
1:11:55
Speaker 1: had to be quiet and that kind of had to
1:11:56
Speaker 1: shut shut his rant down a little bit because the
1:12:01
Speaker 1: Red Sox had gotten on this thunderous role which had
1:12:04
Speaker 1: taken them into the thick of the wild card hunt
1:12:06
Speaker 1: and really had them also in contention to perhaps catch
1:12:10
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay to win the American League.
1:12:12
Speaker 2: Geese, I don't know if.
1:12:13
Speaker 1: You've noticed lately, the Red Sox have lost four straight games,
1:12:16
Speaker 1: so they struggled, So the guy's probably back out. They're
1:12:20
Speaker 1: doing the rent right back on the stick.
1:12:23
Speaker 2: What are your.
1:12:23
Speaker 8: Thoughts on more opponent fans than home fans here at Fenway.
1:12:28
Speaker 10: Part I have to go back to the same, you know,
1:12:31
Speaker 10: can you want off fing fans to come here and
1:12:34
Speaker 10: support this and team. You're got to keep your promise
1:12:38
Speaker 10: when you tell the fucking fans. You're gonna go out
1:12:40
Speaker 10: and support the team and you can get some bats
1:12:44
Speaker 10: for the fucking team, and you don't do it, and
1:12:46
Speaker 10: you go on and get pitching instead. You know, fans
1:12:50
Speaker 10: ain't gonna buy the tickets. You know what's gonna happen.
1:12:54
Speaker 10: And buff Atlanta is gonna come in, Baltimore is gonna
1:12:58
Speaker 10: come in. Yankees are gonna come in. They're gonna buy
1:13:01
Speaker 10: out the tickets. You know what's gonna happen after that?
1:13:05
Speaker 10: The team's gonna lose here at home? What's our record
1:13:08
Speaker 10: here at home?
1:13:10
Speaker 2: Suck that sucks?
1:13:13
Speaker 10: Can record here and sucks at home?
1:13:16
Speaker 2: And get out there.
1:13:17
Speaker 10: Get rid of that man, a general manager. If you
1:13:20
Speaker 10: watch that piece of you got there. The guy doesn't
1:13:24
Speaker 10: know how to make a trade. You know you went
1:13:26
Speaker 10: out there to get Peter on Onzo this year. Right,
1:13:30
Speaker 10: You got fucking sheep on the bed. Uncle's going to
1:13:33
Speaker 10: the game tonight, and nah, that's all I got to say.
1:13:40
Speaker 2: So the guy's probably back on the rant again since
1:13:42
Speaker 2: red Sock dropped four straight.
1:13:44
Speaker 4: And they had just climbed up near the five hundred
1:13:47
Speaker 4: mark at home. Before that, they were they were twelve
1:13:49
Speaker 4: or thirteen under at home when that rent happened.
1:13:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, because Toronto's beating them in Boston.
1:13:54
Speaker 3: Yeah.
1:13:55
Speaker 4: So now now they're back to two under at home,
1:13:57
Speaker 4: eleven over five hundred on the road.
1:13:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a tough deal. Yeah.
1:14:02
Speaker 3: And there it wasn't close ball games too.
1:14:03
Speaker 4: I mean they won like what was that the game
1:14:06
Speaker 4: of the year against the White Sox at twelve or
1:14:08
Speaker 4: thirteen inning thriller last Thursday. And since then you mentioned
1:14:13
Speaker 4: they've lost those four in a row, a four run game,
1:14:15
Speaker 4: a one run game, a one run game, and a
1:14:17
Speaker 4: two run game. So it was a bound to turn
1:14:18
Speaker 4: at some point after the stretch they had.
1:14:20
Speaker 9: Yeah.
1:14:20
Speaker 1: In the second of those one run games was the
1:14:22
Speaker 1: one with the goofy weird rule thing interpretation where there
1:14:27
Speaker 1: was a guy that hit a line shot into the
1:14:30
Speaker 1: glove of one of the Red Sox he excuse me,
1:14:35
Speaker 1: one of the Blue Jays, and a lot of people
1:14:38
Speaker 1: thought it was a double play when he threw to second,
1:14:41
Speaker 1: but it wasn't. It was only one out recorded, so
1:14:43
Speaker 1: there was only one out, and they had it wrong
1:14:45
Speaker 1: on the scoreboard as well that there was only one out.
1:14:48
Speaker 1: Then when it was two outs, a guy for the
1:14:52
Speaker 1: Blue Jays catches and when there was only one out
1:14:56
Speaker 1: and the Red Sox were moving thinking there was two
1:14:59
Speaker 1: outs in the play. So then the Blue Jays come
1:15:01
Speaker 1: in and they're like, hey, we're going to have an
1:15:03
Speaker 1: appeal play. But several of their own players were confused
1:15:07
Speaker 1: about it. They left the field, and so the rule
1:15:11
Speaker 1: was they lost the opportunity. Time expired for the Blue
1:15:16
Speaker 1: Jays to have an appeal, because he said, they're players.
1:15:20
Speaker 1: Once you leave, you know, they always talk about, you know,
1:15:23
Speaker 1: don't cross the lines. Once you cross the line in
1:15:26
Speaker 1: the field of play. And at the Red Sox, the
1:15:29
Speaker 1: Blue Jays had crossed the lines headed for the dugout,
1:15:33
Speaker 1: and John Schneider, their manager, said, I like him, tay
1:15:35
Speaker 1: a look at that. There's no way, he said, you
1:15:37
Speaker 1: ever seen Vlad Guerrero get off. There's no way. He
1:15:40
Speaker 1: was back in the dugout by then. But you can't
1:15:42
Speaker 1: cross that line. If you've ever seen the movie Field
1:15:46
Speaker 1: of Dreams, you know you can't cross over the line.
1:15:47
Speaker 2: You become old again.
1:15:48
Speaker 1: That's what happened to the Moonlight Graham, right, you know, that's
1:15:51
Speaker 1: what happened when Burt Lancaster was a young guy, and
1:15:53
Speaker 1: then once he stepped across the line. He became doctor
1:15:57
Speaker 1: Moonlight Graham, but he saved the life of Kevin Costner's
1:16:02
Speaker 1: little girl. So anyway, so uh that that was weird
1:16:09
Speaker 1: and that was all part of the Red Sox latest skit.
1:16:12
Speaker 4: Craig, what is the weirdest rule discrepancy or oddity that
1:16:18
Speaker 4: was it took place in a baseball game that that
1:16:21
Speaker 4: you that you've called.
1:16:22
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to think about that. We've had.
1:16:25
Speaker 1: We've had some weird things in fact that we had
1:16:29
Speaker 1: something like that happen this year as well.
1:16:32
Speaker 2: I know this.
1:16:33
Speaker 1: There's also been confusion this happened I think a couple
1:16:35
Speaker 1: of times when Texas played Stanford. There's a lot of
1:16:39
Speaker 1: confusion on that whole pitcher slash d h thing that
1:16:41
Speaker 1: Shoe a Otani does when he plays for Los Angeles,
1:16:45
Speaker 1: and a lot of people are not.
1:16:46
Speaker 2: Familiar with the rule.
1:16:48
Speaker 1: But the rule clearly, it's in the book and it
1:16:51
Speaker 1: is stated that one player can be designated for two positions,
1:16:59
Speaker 1: but the only only way it can be designated is
1:17:02
Speaker 1: that one of the designations has to be designated hitter. Well,
1:17:08
Speaker 1: if you're already the first baseman, but you're only but
1:17:12
Speaker 1: you're also listed as the designated hitter. Then the first
1:17:15
Speaker 1: baseman camp bat, so the pitcher would have to bat,
1:17:18
Speaker 1: So you surrender the DH anytime you pinch hit for
1:17:22
Speaker 1: the DH. That's a that's a generalized rule. Everybody knows that.
1:17:26
Speaker 1: But the pitcher can be listed as the DH. And
1:17:29
Speaker 1: the reason for that rule is to give and I'll
1:17:33
Speaker 1: use show Aotani as an example. Let's say he starts
1:17:36
Speaker 1: a game and he goes six innings, he's already hit
1:17:38
Speaker 1: a home run in the ballgame as well in his
1:17:41
Speaker 1: spot as the DH, but then they go to the
1:17:44
Speaker 1: bullpen in the seventh, so he leaves the matter as
1:17:47
Speaker 1: the pitcher, but remains in the game as the designated hitter.
1:17:51
Speaker 1: That's the only substitute where they can where they can
1:17:55
Speaker 1: allow for that where the pitcher doesn't have to bat.
1:17:59
Speaker 1: So if you pinch hit for the DH, then when
1:18:04
Speaker 1: that spot comes around again, the pitcher is going to
1:18:06
Speaker 1: have to bat for himself.
1:18:07
Speaker 2: Sometimes you see the DH pinchip of, but it's usually.
1:18:10
Speaker 1: A late game like ninth inning, two out deal or
1:18:14
Speaker 1: something like that, where the spot is not likely to
1:18:16
Speaker 1: come back around unless it goes well in the extra innings.
1:18:19
Speaker 1: Happened two or three times with Texas games has past
1:18:21
Speaker 1: year that whoever was dh was lifted for a pinch
1:18:26
Speaker 1: hit or it was usually a right handed bat or
1:18:28
Speaker 1: a left handed bat against a right hand or a
1:18:30
Speaker 1: right handed bat. It's a situational substitution. But that's probably
1:18:33
Speaker 1: about as bizarre as he gets. But I'll tell you this,
1:18:38
Speaker 1: where can we Keith Morland? If there's something that's kind
1:18:42
Speaker 1: of obscure about the rule or about scoring and play,
1:18:47
Speaker 1: he'll know it. He'll know it for sure, all right,
1:18:51
Speaker 1: coming up back to the Cowboys. More from Brian Shott
1:18:53
Speaker 1: and ever more from Dak Prescott as well, and we'll
1:18:57
Speaker 1: continue on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone of
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1:19:10
Speaker 11: Just this is that other Donald Fagan offering.
1:19:20
Speaker 2: It's funny line right here. I'll tell you why it
1:19:23
Speaker 2: is lots of beer.
1:19:31
Speaker 1: We've got provisions and lots of beer. The keyword is survival.
1:19:35
Speaker 1: In the New Frontier, this song the New Frontier takes place.
1:19:45
Speaker 1: It's on the album that the Nightfly album.
1:19:50
Speaker 2: I g Y. The song we play stands for International
1:19:54
Speaker 2: Geophysical Year, which was nineteen fifty seven.
1:19:57
Speaker 1: I supposed to be looking forward to the future. This
1:19:59
Speaker 1: song it's kind of retro because it's about when the
1:20:04
Speaker 1: Russians push the button and we have.
1:20:09
Speaker 2: The war to end all wars, a nuclear war, which
1:20:12
Speaker 2: was the all the red scar in the nuclear scares
1:20:15
Speaker 2: of the late fifties and early sixties. This song is
1:20:17
Speaker 2: about my dad's got an old underground dug out of bombshelter.
1:20:21
Speaker 1: We can go down there. He's using it as also
1:20:23
Speaker 1: to hit on a young lady, an attractive blonde.
1:20:27
Speaker 2: He says, got a touch of Tuesday Weld, the actress.
1:20:30
Speaker 2: We can google her.
1:20:31
Speaker 3: That priority is in a nuclear winter, and do you.
1:20:35
Speaker 2: Have a steady boyfriend? As everybody, he's talking to her
1:20:38
Speaker 2: about all of this kind of stuff and he's got
1:20:39
Speaker 2: this underground thing that he's going to do well. A
1:20:42
Speaker 2: lot of creditive musicians on this.
1:20:44
Speaker 4: It looks like there were like twenty musicians involved in this.
1:20:47
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely so he had and of course Deely Dan
1:20:54
Speaker 1: had that as well, as you know when with Donald
1:20:57
Speaker 1: Fagan in that group, he would they would have all
1:20:59
Speaker 1: kinds a great session in studio musicians that worked with
1:21:03
Speaker 1: them on their albums as well. But that was good
1:21:06
Speaker 1: and you got a chance to see some of the video.
1:21:07
Speaker 1: I always remember that music video. I was in college
1:21:09
Speaker 1: at the time. It always it was a really funky
1:21:12
Speaker 1: video that mixed the live action with animation.
1:21:16
Speaker 2: And it was pretty cool on that.
1:21:19
Speaker 1: Before we get to hearing more in the NFL or
1:21:21
Speaker 1: something else I wanted to get to and it was
1:21:22
Speaker 1: a piece, as we point out from time to time,
1:21:27
Speaker 1: especially when it comes to college football, and with all
1:21:33
Speaker 1: the different publications that I consult daily, the online stuff.
1:21:39
Speaker 1: First of all, the newspapers Austin American Statesman, Dallas Morning News,
1:21:43
Speaker 1: Washington Post, New York Times, read those things.
1:21:48
Speaker 2: I also look at.
1:21:50
Speaker 1: All of the sports things online, the Athletic Sports Illustrated,
1:21:55
Speaker 1: ESPN dot com. There's several different ones that'd be for
1:21:58
Speaker 1: a variety of topics to discuss on the program.
1:22:01
Speaker 2: There was a piece.
1:22:03
Speaker 1: On the ESPN dot com today written by Dave Wilson
1:22:08
Speaker 1: about college football, and it was specifically about quarterbacks getting
1:22:15
Speaker 1: big Swoll cut all of those things. In fact, the
1:22:21
Speaker 1: headline is swole swli swoll ballgame? Should quarterbacks be jacked?
1:22:28
Speaker 1: In the ESPN investigation And he starts off from a
1:22:32
Speaker 1: conversation he had with Cooper Manning, Arch's dad brother middle
1:22:38
Speaker 1: brother of Peyton and Eli and he said Cooper Manning
1:22:42
Speaker 1: has unique insight into the mind and psyche of quarterbacks.
1:22:45
Speaker 1: He's the son of a legend Archie, brother of two superstars,
1:22:48
Speaker 1: Peyton and Eli, and he's the father of Arch the
1:22:51
Speaker 1: Texas Longhorn starter, a wide receiver by trade. Cooper has
1:22:55
Speaker 1: dealt with these guys his entire life, and every summer
1:22:59
Speaker 1: at the Passing Academy at Thibodeau, Louisiana, he acts as
1:23:03
Speaker 1: the MC, offering live play by play during the College
1:23:06
Speaker 1: QB Skills competition on Friday Night, bestowing some nicknames and
1:23:10
Speaker 1: checking some egos. This year, nobody drew more attention at
1:23:14
Speaker 1: the Manning camp than Oklahoma quarterback John Matteir. Most weren't
1:23:20
Speaker 1: focused on the hand injury from last season, which caused
1:23:23
Speaker 1: him to miss a few weeks, nor were they talking
1:23:25
Speaker 1: about his throwing motion, which he says he worked on
1:23:27
Speaker 1: this offseason. Instead, the chatter was about his physique. Matier's
1:23:32
Speaker 1: listed at six one, two hundred and twenty four pounds
1:23:34
Speaker 1: in the Oklahoma bio, but they said he was jacked.
1:23:37
Speaker 1: He was yoked an image of Mateir in a sleeveless
1:23:40
Speaker 1: shirt and wrap around shades at night. No less under
1:23:43
Speaker 1: the watchful eye of Peyton Manning caused the eyeball emojis
1:23:47
Speaker 1: to pop up across social media. Cooper said, my boy
1:23:51
Speaker 1: Matier had cut off the sleeves before we got the
1:23:53
Speaker 1: shirts out of the box. Mattier was so ripped that
1:23:57
Speaker 1: some believed the picture was digitally in hints by AI.
1:24:02
Speaker 1: So that's a sad sign of the times. But it's
1:24:03
Speaker 1: also a sign of how unusual it is to see
1:24:05
Speaker 1: a quarterback who looks like a linebacker. So the Sooners
1:24:08
Speaker 1: responded with a video Materr hitting the smelling sauce salts
1:24:12
Speaker 1: and front squatting.
1:24:14
Speaker 2: Not a I.
1:24:15
Speaker 1: The poster red, he's holding some smelling salts in his hands.
1:24:18
Speaker 1: He's right there at the deal. So anyway, this goes on.
1:24:24
Speaker 1: Former Oklahoma linebacker Danny Stutsman of the Saints said Materi
1:24:28
Speaker 1: was on a legendary shirtless run. Trinidad chaandlists, the old
1:24:32
Speaker 1: miss quarterback replied the Materi needed to chill all of
1:24:35
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. So there's guys that were big,
1:24:40
Speaker 1: and it was that Colin Kleine, the new Kansas state
1:24:43
Speaker 1: head coach. He was tough to bring down. He was
1:24:46
Speaker 1: six two hundred and twenty five when he was a quarterback,
1:24:49
Speaker 1: finished third in the Heisman voting in twenty twelve. He
1:24:51
Speaker 1: said he was a meadhead who loved the weight room,
1:24:53
Speaker 1: and now he wishes he knew more about physiology than
1:24:57
Speaker 1: he did when he was playing. Can you be too
1:25:00
Speaker 1: swoll Cleine said yes, one percent. I was muscle bound.
1:25:04
Speaker 1: Everybody's body's different. Though Tiba wasn't muscle bound, he was
1:25:08
Speaker 1: a flexible athlete. Klein said there's so much more to
1:25:10
Speaker 1: learn about biomechanics now than he was aware of. And
1:25:15
Speaker 1: he said, I got the bench record for quarterbacks. It's
1:25:18
Speaker 1: three ninety five still up there. We might put lights
1:25:20
Speaker 1: on that. So anyway, so Matears said, I'm aware and
1:25:24
Speaker 1: I know how I can feel when I'm about to
1:25:26
Speaker 1: get tight. I have to stretch my lat and my
1:25:29
Speaker 1: terrace major and my infras spinatus. I think every day,
1:25:35
Speaker 1: So he said, it's just the nature of the way
1:25:36
Speaker 1: I throw and what I use when I throw. So anyway,
1:25:41
Speaker 1: West Virginia coach Ridge Rodriguez said it's important for his
1:25:44
Speaker 1: got to be in shape and to be able to
1:25:45
Speaker 1: withstand up beating over a season. He said, I want
1:25:47
Speaker 1: him to be a skinny little guy, but hold on
1:25:49
Speaker 1: a second. Rodriguez then remembers one of the all time
1:25:53
Speaker 1: legends who came up under his watch, Pat White, the
1:25:55
Speaker 1: one who said ncaa record for rushing yards by a
1:25:58
Speaker 1: quarterback with forty four and eighty with forty seven rushing touchdowns.
1:26:02
Speaker 1: He said White could not get over one hundred and
1:26:05
Speaker 1: eighty pounds. I was like, at some point, Pat, in
1:26:08
Speaker 1: your career, you're going to at least get to two hundred.
1:26:10
Speaker 1: He never did, but he never got slow either, so
1:26:12
Speaker 1: I don't know so.
1:26:16
Speaker 2: Anyway.
1:26:17
Speaker 1: Brady Quinn, who was on the Dan Patrick Show back
1:26:19
Speaker 1: several years ago, said in twenty thirteen, John Gruden told
1:26:22
Speaker 1: him during pre draft meetings he was too jacked to
1:26:25
Speaker 1: play quarterback and he didn't want a shredded quarterback. Eric Morris,
1:26:31
Speaker 1: who had been at North Texas, who had been incarnate
1:26:34
Speaker 1: word now at Oklahoma State, those MATERI very well.
1:26:37
Speaker 2: He was.
1:26:38
Speaker 1: He identified matier quarterback at Little Elm when he was
1:26:42
Speaker 1: Washington States offensive coordinator, and of course Morris found cam
1:26:46
Speaker 1: Ward as a zero star recruit, helped Chandler Morris revive
1:26:48
Speaker 1: his career in North Texas and now has drew messimaker,
1:26:51
Speaker 1: and he said, I've definitely been around quarterbacks. They get
1:26:53
Speaker 1: too big in the chest and shoulder areas, and it
1:26:57
Speaker 1: changes their mechanics and makes them tight. We want elongated muscles.
1:27:03
Speaker 1: But he said that doesn't necessarily apply to a tear
1:27:06
Speaker 1: who has the flexibility and the ability to throw from
1:27:09
Speaker 1: a variety of angles. Partially from his history as a
1:27:12
Speaker 1: baseball player, he has said his physique fits the way
1:27:16
Speaker 1: he plays. So it's something to keep an eye on
1:27:19
Speaker 1: this year when you're watching. You see now he said, Man,
1:27:21
Speaker 1: that quarterback is huge, or he's cut, he's ripped. You know, nobody,
1:27:27
Speaker 1: nobody disputes the late Jared Lorenz. And you know there's
1:27:30
Speaker 1: a big old quarterback when he played at Kentucky a
1:27:34
Speaker 1: huge dude as well, but he weighed off a lot.
1:27:37
Speaker 1: He was like two hundred and eighty pounds at one points.
1:27:40
Speaker 4: At how big was Vince Young when he's playing in Texas?
1:27:42
Speaker 4: Vince was six five and two fifty when he played, Well,
1:27:48
Speaker 4: that's a big frame. That can big frame, taller didn't
1:27:51
Speaker 4: affect his speed.
1:27:53
Speaker 2: It was good. It fit him well. He did very
1:27:55
Speaker 2: well with them. Anyway.
1:27:56
Speaker 1: I thought it was a pretty interesting article there and
1:27:58
Speaker 1: it goes in a lot greater to tail. But those
1:28:00
Speaker 1: were just a couple of highlights that all right up
1:28:02
Speaker 1: next we will bring you that cowboy sound and we
1:28:05
Speaker 1: continue on thirteen hundred zone.
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Speaker 12: And all that you mister, I want to spread news
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Speaker 12: that if the build is good getting used boy, you
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Speaker 12: just keep on you letting me.
1:28:29
Speaker 4: Do you use me?
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Speaker 2: Uh, the late great Bill Withers. I like just about
1:28:36
Speaker 2: all of this stuff that he did. This This is
1:28:38
Speaker 2: actually one of my favorites. Use me from my early seventies.
1:28:45
Speaker 1: There also fits into the yacht rock genre hitting happens
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Speaker 1: early seventies stuff will go in there.
1:28:53
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not sure there's been a Wednesday that I've
1:28:55
Speaker 4: filled in for you here on the show without using
1:28:58
Speaker 4: Bill Withers on yacht Rocket.
1:28:59
Speaker 1: At some point, right yeah, list so because he fits
1:29:06
Speaker 1: certainly his style was great on that more fun the
1:29:09
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. And let me do this too before I
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Speaker 1: don't want the time to get completely the way. We
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Speaker 1: do have to give away one more copy of Dave
1:29:19
Speaker 1: Campbell's Texas Football magazine.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna do this right now with the.
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Speaker 1: Let's go with number twelve, Number twelve, the twelfth person.
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Speaker 2: say the words I want the magazine and leave your name.
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Speaker 1: If you're the twelfth person in the queue, in the
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Speaker 1: line to do that, you win a copy of the magazine.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
1:30:08
Speaker 1: Brian Schottennheimber, the Cowboys head coach, was happy, as you
1:30:14
Speaker 1: might imagine on Monday when they found out that Quentin
1:30:17
Speaker 1: Williams got that new one hundred and five point nine
1:30:20
Speaker 1: million dollar deal done the extension. So it was asked,
1:30:23
Speaker 1: did you bring up the contract of the team.
1:30:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, we just.
1:30:25
Speaker 7: Celebrate when when guys do cool things, Todd, we celebrate,
1:30:28
Speaker 7: you know, whether it's having a baby, whether it's getting engaged,
1:30:31
Speaker 7: whether it's a new contract. Why not the money, The
1:30:34
Speaker 7: money doesn't matter. It's about being part of our team.
1:30:36
Speaker 7: He's part of our family for a long time to
1:30:37
Speaker 7: come and very very well deserved. And you know, I
1:30:41
Speaker 7: think there'd be more contracts to come.
1:30:42
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Yeah, setting happy about that. Todd.
1:30:46
Speaker 1: By the ways, Todd Archer is one of the guys
1:30:47
Speaker 1: that covers the Cowboys there. This was a thing, or
1:30:53
Speaker 1: at least it came up when practice ended yesterday. And
1:30:56
Speaker 1: again it's a joint practice between the Cowboys and the Rams.
1:30:59
Speaker 1: When practice ended, you saw the Cowboys running some sprints afterwards,
1:31:04
Speaker 1: up and down, and it was not at the behest
1:31:11
Speaker 1: of the coaches. The players decided to do it, and
1:31:14
Speaker 1: supposedly some of the Rams players were heard to say.
1:31:16
Speaker 2: Y'all doing that stuff.
1:31:17
Speaker 1: We ain't for that, running over sprints after practice like that,
1:31:22
Speaker 1: but they did choose to do it. It was a
1:31:24
Speaker 1: player led thing, and so shot he was asked about
1:31:27
Speaker 1: the players doing a little extra conditioning after practice.
1:31:30
Speaker 7: That was not my decision. That was led by the players.
1:31:32
Speaker 4: Yeah.
1:31:33
Speaker 7: I was over there saying goodbye to a few of
1:31:34
Speaker 7: the coaches and the guys that I have relationships with,
1:31:37
Speaker 7: and I was alerted by our strength staff if the
1:31:40
Speaker 7: guys wanted to run twenties, and I think it shows
1:31:42
Speaker 7: you that they bought into the fact that conditioning is
1:31:44
Speaker 7: going to make a difference for this football team in
1:31:45
Speaker 7: the twenty twenty sixth season.
1:31:47
Speaker 2: Okay.
1:31:47
Speaker 1: He was also asked about the joint practice, the benefits
1:31:50
Speaker 1: that come from it, and that goes into the whole
1:31:53
Speaker 1: thing about what it takes to compete against top caliber
1:31:57
Speaker 1: teams in the league.
1:31:58
Speaker 2: I think so.
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Speaker 7: I think that's what we're all finding out this year.
1:32:00
Speaker 2: We're doing too.
1:32:01
Speaker 7: You know, we're gonna do this one and then a
1:32:03
Speaker 7: week from now we're gonna play against the Saints, and
1:32:07
Speaker 7: you know, you get great work. You know this, This
1:32:09
Speaker 7: relationship with Sean is really easy. Uh, he and his
1:32:13
Speaker 7: coordinators and operationally is awesome. It was our time to
1:32:16
Speaker 7: come here to be with them. I actually wanted the heat.
1:32:19
Speaker 7: I never wear shorts. Actually, a couple of our guys said,
1:32:21
Speaker 7: shot of you.
1:32:21
Speaker 2: Okay.
1:32:21
Speaker 7: I said, yeah, why, I said, you got shorts on.
1:32:24
Speaker 7: I never really show off my legs. I got good
1:32:25
Speaker 7: legs too, but yeah, I never show them off. But
1:32:28
Speaker 7: it was it was hot, and we need that getting
1:32:30
Speaker 7: ready to go back to Texas here in.
1:32:32
Speaker 2: A couple of weeks. I got good legs, but I'm
1:32:34
Speaker 2: not showing them off. He was also asked about how
1:32:39
Speaker 2: his offensive line did against that really impressive Rams defensive front. Yeah, again,
1:32:44
Speaker 2: really good front.
1:32:46
Speaker 7: It was nice to see Miles Garrett on the side.
1:32:48
Speaker 7: That's a good thing for us. We had a plan
1:32:50
Speaker 7: for him in case he went such an elite player,
1:32:52
Speaker 7: but I thought Young was terrific. And you know, they
1:32:54
Speaker 7: always challenge us. But we need that work because what
1:32:57
Speaker 7: I think is so important is our guys get a
1:32:59
Speaker 7: feel for the matchup that they're used to going with
1:33:02
Speaker 7: in practice against their teammate, whether it's for Shaun Gary
1:33:05
Speaker 7: as a Roku Malachai Lawrence, whoever it is. It's good
1:33:08
Speaker 7: to see guys that have different pass rush moves, encounters.
1:33:11
Speaker 7: So I think that work is priceless for both sides.
1:33:14
Speaker 1: By the way, Sean McVay said some very similar things.
1:33:17
Speaker 1: He thought it was good for his defense to work
1:33:19
Speaker 1: against a really good offensive line. He brought that up
1:33:23
Speaker 1: as well from the Rams side of thing. And the
1:33:25
Speaker 1: Rams are expected, obviously to be a deep playoff contender.
1:33:30
Speaker 1: I think I saw this morning, maybe it was Lewis Riddick,
1:33:33
Speaker 1: the two best teams in the NFL right now, he said,
1:33:35
Speaker 1: are in the same division, the defending Super Bowl champions
1:33:38
Speaker 1: Seahawks and the Rams. And he said, I'll keep the
1:33:40
Speaker 1: Seahawks ahead of them right now. They've earned that and
1:33:43
Speaker 1: they did good in the offseason. Rams did pretty good
1:33:45
Speaker 1: in the offseason too.
1:33:46
Speaker 2: I'm confused, Craig. I didn't think Washington was in that division.
1:33:50
Speaker 2: Unfortunately they're not. They're not. Maybe they can contend in
1:33:53
Speaker 2: the NFC East.
1:33:55
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott asked about being out there and being pumped
1:34:01
Speaker 1: even when Miles Garrett wasn't out there was he was.
1:34:06
Speaker 2: He pumped up not to see Garrett on the other side, it.
1:34:09
Speaker 8: Was on the field. He was definitely on the field.
1:34:12
Speaker 8: I mean, Miles is a hell of a player. You know,
1:34:14
Speaker 8: we'll see him when we see him. Obviously, we had
1:34:16
Speaker 8: some protections in here, as we do any elite rusher
1:34:19
Speaker 8: to do, you know, to go to him and then
1:34:20
Speaker 8: when you hear he's not in there, you just kind
1:34:22
Speaker 8: of take that out.
1:34:22
Speaker 2: And so yeah, I mean, I.
1:34:24
Speaker 8: Know Miles was looking forward just to the season, so
1:34:27
Speaker 8: it's no big deal that he's not playing no practice.
1:34:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, he said, we'll seem when we see they are
1:34:31
Speaker 1: on the schedule the Cowboys will play at so far,
1:34:34
Speaker 1: I think it's in December when they play the Rams.
1:34:36
Speaker 1: Off of that, this thing about the players running after practice,
1:34:40
Speaker 1: and then it was the player's idea why.
1:34:44
Speaker 8: Well, yeah, I mean conditions something that he put on
1:34:46
Speaker 8: us at the beginning of the year, you know, said
1:34:48
Speaker 8: the why while we're gonna do it, we want to
1:34:49
Speaker 8: be the best conditioned team, then the most conditioned team.
1:34:51
Speaker 8: Then guys are taking pride in it. And you know,
1:34:54
Speaker 8: it was a simple demo. Came up to me and
1:34:55
Speaker 8: asked me, you know, the coach said, it's on us.
1:34:57
Speaker 2: Do you want to run?
1:34:57
Speaker 8: I'm like, yeah, if y'all want to run out and
1:34:59
Speaker 8: you know, see y'all field and what it was doing.
1:35:00
Speaker 8: But I know we've got it on us over here,
1:35:02
Speaker 8: and so yeah, it was just like a normal practice
1:35:04
Speaker 8: that's going and get our runs in and get better.
1:35:06
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, it's impressive for them to go ahead and
1:35:09
Speaker 1: get out there and do some running. And then finally
1:35:12
Speaker 1: more on this Quinn Williams contract, because it was going
1:35:15
Speaker 1: on for a while and there was a lot of conversation.
1:35:17
Speaker 2: About it for a while about you know, you know,
1:35:21
Speaker 2: was it going to get done.
1:35:22
Speaker 1: And I did find it interesting that Brian Schottknebber did
1:35:25
Speaker 1: say say when we had the sound from him a
1:35:30
Speaker 1: moment ago a few moments ago when he said there's
1:35:32
Speaker 1: going to be more getting done. So that's you know,
1:35:38
Speaker 1: that's the optimistic view of the way they're taking it.
1:35:41
Speaker 1: But the mere fact that the Quinn Williams deal is
1:35:45
Speaker 1: now done, completely done now brings up the point about
1:35:51
Speaker 1: the impact that it might have on this football team
1:35:53
Speaker 1: that it was done before the season began, and Dak
1:35:58
Speaker 1: Prescott was asked about what kind of impact might that
1:36:00
Speaker 1: have going into the season for the Cowboys.
1:36:04
Speaker 8: Super blessed, super thankful, hell of a teammate, one of
1:36:06
Speaker 8: the best I've been around, obviously between the lines, when
1:36:10
Speaker 8: you watch him on the field, just what he's able
1:36:11
Speaker 8: to do. You know, we're always talking about the halo
1:36:14
Speaker 8: rule and the guy just is always in the halo.
1:36:15
Speaker 8: And I don't think he can help it. He just,
1:36:17
Speaker 8: you know, he just gets there and he gets there
1:36:18
Speaker 8: so fast. That's what he knows is getting to the quarterback.
1:36:20
Speaker 8: So it makes practice fun. But at the same time,
1:36:23
Speaker 8: he's exactly the leader that you want, exactly the leader
1:36:25
Speaker 8: that you know when he speaks, it's heard, but he
1:36:27
Speaker 8: doesn't even have to say anything, and he's leading every
1:36:29
Speaker 8: moment that he steps into the building. By the way,
1:36:31
Speaker 8: that he carries himself and just being a pros pro,
1:36:33
Speaker 8: and so to get him locked in for excuse me,
1:36:36
Speaker 8: for an extended time is everything that's been since a
1:36:39
Speaker 8: message only the team, but the young guys and people
1:36:41
Speaker 8: you know, wanting to stay here.
1:36:42
Speaker 2: So super happy about that. Okay, all right?
1:36:45
Speaker 1: So yeah, with the contract being done for Quinn Williams,
1:36:51
Speaker 1: the Cowboys play Saturday night their preseason opener in Seattle
1:36:57
Speaker 1: against the defending Super Bowl champions. Will take on the
1:37:00
Speaker 1: Seahawks on Saturday night, and then they'll play another road
1:37:06
Speaker 1: preseason game the following Saturday in Glendale, will take on
1:37:10
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals. And then you heard Brian shot Namber
1:37:15
Speaker 1: talking about the Saints and they'll have some shared practice,
1:37:17
Speaker 1: and then they'll conclude the preseason on Friday, the twenty eighth,
1:37:21
Speaker 1: when they host the New Orleans Saints, the only preseason
1:37:24
Speaker 1: game that will be going on at Jerry World. And
1:37:28
Speaker 1: then they open their season with back to back Division
1:37:31
Speaker 1: games at the Giants on a Sunday night and then
1:37:36
Speaker 1: at home against the Washington Commanders three twenty five pm kickoff.
1:37:41
Speaker 1: Any thoughts about you zipping up by thirty five to
1:37:44
Speaker 1: catch your team the commanders in action against the Cowboys.
1:37:46
Speaker 2: I would love to.
1:37:48
Speaker 4: I think, you know, there have been too many visiting
1:37:50
Speaker 4: fans in Northwest Stadium in DC my entire life, So
1:37:54
Speaker 4: I might as well put the shoe on the other
1:37:55
Speaker 4: foot one of these times, and that might be my
1:37:57
Speaker 4: only chance to catch them this year.
1:37:59
Speaker 1: Well, those are two division games, and then the next
1:38:02
Speaker 1: two games really kind of intrigued me. They play Baltimore
1:38:04
Speaker 1: at home on Sunday afternoon the third week, and the
1:38:07
Speaker 1: fourth week.
1:38:08
Speaker 2: They play at the Texans. And in addition to just being.
1:38:13
Speaker 1: More than whatever governor's rivalry, whatever you want to call it,
1:38:16
Speaker 1: that sort of thing, just a mere fact to see
1:38:18
Speaker 1: how the Cowboy offense executes against that Texans defense and
1:38:23
Speaker 1: vice versa, the Cowboys can be able to contain the
1:38:26
Speaker 1: Texans offense as well.
1:38:27
Speaker 2: All Right, we'll be back to wrap up today's edition
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Speaker 2: of the program. I'm thirteen under the Zone.