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DJC Law Injury Updates for Texas-Oklahoma · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: We're back.
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  Speaker 2: It's the Craigway Show with Hall of Fame broadcaster and
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  voice of the Texas Longhearts Craig Way.
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  Speaker 1: We had just started to get into talking about injured
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  guys and the injury report, which brings us, as it
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  does every Thursday at this time, to our DJC Law
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  Injury Update for you and brought to you by DJC Law.
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  So here it is the official Texas injury report. The
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  ones we knew that were definitely going to be out CJ.
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  Baxter and Christian Clark also Velton Gardner out and so
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  that's three running backs out. Colin Page the walk on
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  from Anderson remains questionable for this game. Tatea have backup
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  the safety listed as question well, and Michael Kern the
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  punter listed as questionable. He said, well, what happens, you know,
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  if the long Words have to punt, it would be
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  the sophomore walk on, Ian Ratliffe, who would then step
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  in the punt if that is the case. So we'll
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  find houtly long Wrns don't have to punt, you know,
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  that would be nice if it went that way. And
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  then of course the two big notes, quin Ewers and
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  Derrick Williams. As we mentioned last segment, both listed as
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  probable and Sark is expecting both guys to be able
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  to play tomorrow for Oklahoma. As we pointed out, all
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  of these guys were definitely out. Wide receivers Jaden Gibson,
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  Jealo Ferru, Nick Anderson, and Andrew Anthony all definitely out.
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  Also out defensive backs Gentry Williams and Kendall Dobie Adobe,
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  offensive lineman Jerian Hatchett, and then listed as questionable tight
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  end Kate McIntyre, and wide receiver Dion Burks. But as
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  we mentioned, Pete Damil of ESPN reported today that he
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  that he is learning that Burke's is going to be out.
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  So really, what you're talking about in terms of available receivers,
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  the senior who started off his collegiate career Missouri JJ
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  Hester would be really the most experienced of those. Then
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  you have Brendon Thompson, the former long worn is a
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  junior now, and then you would have the sophomore Jique's Peedaway,
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  and then you've got freshmen like Zion Kearney and Zion
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  Reagan's a couple of freshmen there. So they have been
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  hit pretty hard at the receiver position, which if you
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  take away some of the playmaking receiving guys and the
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  running game has been a struggle there. Rushing attack right
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  now is ranked one hundredth in the NCAA statistically. So
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  if if they are limiting guys like Javonte Barnes and
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  Taylor Tatum and Gavin Sawchuk and Sam Franklin those guys,
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  it does put more pressure on the freshman on the quarterback,
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  on Michael Hawkins, even though he is mobile, even though
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  he can be a danger in terms of trying to defend,
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  but if he has fewer weapons to work with, then
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  A you don't necessarily need to have anybody spy him,
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  and b they can kind of lock down on him
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  and try to go after him and enforce problems. So
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  that's that would be the biggest issues certainly for Oklahoma
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  as they try to get through the injury. But as
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  we mentioned the Texas injury report, nothing really shocking there,
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  and the most encouraging news out of all of that
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  is that when you Weers and Derek Williams are expected
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  to be available, and that's our DJC law injury update. Okay,
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  a couple other things to get to with regard to
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  college football, and we were talking about Michael Hawkins one
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  way or another, you know, just one way or another, good, bad, indifferent,
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  however however you choose to describe it. Michael Hawkins Junior
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  is going to make history this weekend. We heard Toby
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  Rowland talk about this that he will make history as Hawkins,
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  in just his second career start, will be the first
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  ever true freshman to start at quarterback in the Red
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  River rivalry. So now we've seen another guy. We saw
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  Caleb Williams step and he didn't start that game. Spencer
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  Ratler did, but and Caleb Williams obviously made a difference.
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  And that was before he ended up transferring to USC
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  and now he's playing his trade the NFL with the
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  Chicago Bears. But this will be the first time a
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  true freshman has ever started this. It's sort of interesting
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  because he's a Metroplex kid. He grew up in the
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  Dallas forward there and played at Friscoe Emerson, a team
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  that reached the Final four surprisingly a year ago. And
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  he's really good. But this is different. As we know,
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  this game is different. There's there's a lot that's different
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  about it and it could be unnerving to some. He's
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  he's always struck me when I saw his highlights and
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  followed his career into high school and the interviews we
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  had on the television show with coach Kendall Miller as
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  head coach, and when they've talked about him, is that
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  he's just been really calm and yet focused. And what
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  was it when we had Cale Gundhy on darning the
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  way Cale knew his dad recruited his father who played
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  at Oklahoma and said he was one of those really focused,
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  driven guys. And probably the apple is not rolled far
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  from the tree here, So gonna be interesting to see
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  how he how he operates in this environment. That that's
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  that's gonna be an awful lot of fun to see
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  how this, you know, how this all rolls down. Can
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  they can he be a factor in this to help
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  this Oklahoma offense get moving against this long horn defense.
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  And they've seen plenty of things and they know that
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  Texas comes in number one and how good the Longhorns are.
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  I did see some sound bites this weekend of Oklahoma
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  players like Danny Stutsman some of the other ones going
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  it doesn't matter what they rang, this is Texas O
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  you when we had the SoundBite from David Benda saying
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  it doesn't matter, that's the whatever fourteen and a half
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  point spreads this that whatever. I haven't checked the Lions.
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  It's still sitting on fourteen and a half at last year.
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  Speaker 2: Do not know, but I'm guessing it's got to be
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  pretty close.
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  Speaker 1: So but they've all said the same thing. It doesn't
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  really matter. It just it doesn't make a difference.
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  Speaker 2: Still, fourteen and a half has not changed at all.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of weird that there's been zero movement on that.
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of people just don't know what
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  to do here. They're thinking, Okay, it's it's a rivalry game.
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  It does not matter what the rankings are, what the
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  spread is. But then there's also some people are looking
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  at Oklahoma so banged up right now going into this game,
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  a true freshman quarterback versus the Texas team that's five
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  and zho and number one. So there's probably a little
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  bit of wagering on both sides here trying to figure
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  out what to do because all the analytics, I think
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  Texas is going to win this game by two touchdowns.
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  But then there's this, you've got a factor in that
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  none that actually matters when it's a game like this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's one. That's the one area of shortcoming in
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  the computer is the computer cannot gauge the emotional impact
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  on this game. I don't know. We've heard all the
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  phrases like what Rudy Tom Johnovan, never underestimate the heart
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  of a champion, you know that the whole bit, or
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  don't underestimate the emotion this game engenders. There was a
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  lot made of Danny Stutsman with the emotional address he
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  had to his teammates before the game about what had
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  happened the year before and forty nine and nothing and
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  that's not us and let's show what we can do.
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  Don't you think there'll be some Longhorns who have similar
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  things to say, especially the ones who are fourth year seniors,
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  fifth year senior, sixt year seniors. We were saying, don't
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  let this, don't let a loss be your last moment
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  to this group as a longhorn. So I imagine there's
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  going to be that did say on Long Worn Weekly
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  that we recorded last night and again you'll be able
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  here tonight at seven o'clock that he's been really proud
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  of the approach that his guys have taken throughout the
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  course of the week in practice, that they have not
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  allowed the outside noise and attention and excitement and all
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  of those things to permeate within their walls and affect
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  what they've had to do. He said, They've they've gone
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  about their business in a really good fashion, and that's
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  been pretty impressive for him to see. All Right, coming up,
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  we'll talk about one other. There's another kind of a
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  big deal college football game other than Texas o you
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  this weekend, So we'll get to that coming up and
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  more when we continue on this Thursday afternoon here on
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