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Quinn Ewers and Jahdae Barron react to double-overtime win over Arizona State · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: and this Texas team, and he was asked about the
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  Speaker 1: bend but never break mentality that we've seen from the
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  Speaker 1: long Corns over the past two seasons.
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  Speaker 3: I think one thing that happens is you know, as
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  Speaker 3: a team, you grow through adversity as long as you
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  Speaker 3: handle adversity the right way. And you know, I said
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  Speaker 3: to these guys, you know, a year ago today there
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  Speaker 3: was there was a lot of a lot of tears
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of frustration because we weren't able to
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  Speaker 3: close out the semi final to get to the national
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  Speaker 3: championship game. And that started it. And I think the
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  Speaker 3: way they responded to that, to all the things that
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  Speaker 3: we went through this offseason, the summer into fall camp,
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  Speaker 3: losing losing a critical piece to this team and Cedric Baxter,
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  Speaker 3: one of our team leaders, to Quinn getting injured earlier
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  Speaker 3: in the season, to losing Calvin Banks, to losing a
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  Speaker 3: lot of different players right along the way, Isaiah Bond,
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  Speaker 3: and so on and so forth. But the next guy
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  Speaker 3: steps up, you know, and the moment doesn't ever feel
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  Speaker 3: too big for our guys. Is critical as a moment
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  Speaker 3: might be as maybe we're not playing our best football.
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  Speaker 3: The one thing I know, the resolve is that they
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  Speaker 3: know how to really lock in and get focused and
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  Speaker 3: be at their best when their best is needed.
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  Speaker 1: It won't count as a one score victory because taxes
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  Speaker 1: will win. Actually I'm sorry, well eight points, so they
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  Speaker 1: have not had many one score victories this season. Their
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  Speaker 1: closest win before the game came against Vanderbilt, that three
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  Speaker 1: point victory twenty seven to twenty four. But looking at
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  Speaker 1: one score games coming in, I think they were just
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  Speaker 1: one in one, So not a lot to look at
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  Speaker 1: to know whether or not this team how they perform
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  Speaker 1: in one score games, especially if it came down to
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  Speaker 1: the final quarter or quarters. And we saw Texas against
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  Speaker 1: Georgia lose that game in overtime in the SEC Championship.
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  Speaker 1: But I think a little bit of a confidence boost
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  Speaker 1: for this team to be able to, you know, losing
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  Speaker 1: elite is one thing, but to be able to come
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  Speaker 1: back and then pull out the win. You really saw
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  Speaker 1: that bend but not break mentality the fourth down throw.
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  Speaker 1: Mentioned it with Craig Way. There's been some huge fourth
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  Speaker 1: down plays in Texas history, offense and defense. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: everyone thinks about fourth and five. How about the fourth
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  Speaker 1: and seventeen the year before Kansas. In fact, we've kind
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  Speaker 1: of heard people talk about it that there is no
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  Speaker 1: Texas National Championship without Finn Chunk converting that fourth and
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  Speaker 1: seventeen in Lawrence, Kansas the year before that, in which,
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  Speaker 1: as Craig describes it, and he took three long strides
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  Speaker 1: and boom got the first down. Texas would win that game.
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  Speaker 1: They would end up qualifying for the Rolls Bowl, they
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  Speaker 1: would beat Michigan and then going to the next season
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  Speaker 1: as a top ranked team, and of course we all
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  Speaker 1: know what happened. Well, Quinn yours had his own fourth
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  Speaker 1: down moment yesterday, first overtime trilling by a touchdown season
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  Speaker 1: on the line. Quinn you were stepped up and delivered
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  Speaker 1: a strike to Matthew Golden to tie the game up,
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  Speaker 1: and then would come back and deliver another strike to
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  Speaker 1: Gunner Helm to end up winning the football game. So
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  Speaker 1: Sark was asked about that throw Quinn made him fourth down.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I thought there was a couple of
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  Speaker 3: things that were impressive. One, I thought it was a
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  Speaker 3: great job of preparation by our coaches and relaying that
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  Speaker 3: to our players. You know, we actually practiced that play
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  Speaker 3: versus that exact defense during the week and there was
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  Speaker 3: some moving parts to that to where Quinn had to
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  Speaker 3: change the protection on the play, and he did. He
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  Speaker 3: got us to a max protection. But even at that
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  Speaker 3: there were some intricacies to handle the pressure of the
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  Speaker 3: way it was coming inside, and so the protection him
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  Speaker 3: changed it to them getting the protection and then matt
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  Speaker 3: understanding why that route was going to be there predicated
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  Speaker 3: on the coverage, and I thought Queen's ability to stand
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  Speaker 3: in the pocket and deliver the deliver the ball the
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  Speaker 3: way that he did it was a real strike. So
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  Speaker 3: there was layers to the whole thing. We guessed a
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  Speaker 3: little what the call, thinking they might come after us,
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  Speaker 3: and we guessed right, and he did a great job
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  Speaker 3: of getting the protection right and making the play.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Matthew goldenknew ran that fake to the outside and
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  Speaker 1: then cut inside on the Arizona State safety put him
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  Speaker 1: in the blender. He knew the safety was not going
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  Speaker 1: to be back there. So a fantastic decision by Quinn
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  Speaker 1: Yours to the check in the max protect, deliver the throw.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of things that I don't think quin
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  Speaker 1: Yours gets credit for. We for multiple times this season
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  Speaker 1: about Quinn's ability at the line of scrimmage to check
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  Speaker 1: in the plays or to audible and they end up
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  Speaker 1: leading into huge plays. Was the Jayden Blue touchdown run?
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  Speaker 1: Was that one that Quinn Ewers checked into right. So
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  Speaker 1: now there's decisions like the interception throw that are not good. Right,
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  Speaker 1: he has his moments. There's good and bad, but he's
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of good during his time at Texas
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  Speaker 1: and now is back to back college football play if
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  Speaker 1: semi final appearances. Now, let's hear from Quinn yours on
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  Speaker 1: the comeback, his thoughts on it, what he was thinking
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  Speaker 1: all of that.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think just first off, that's just the testament
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  Speaker 4: to how mature this team is and just taking advantage
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  Speaker 4: of every single opportunity that we have, whether it be
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  Speaker 4: four and fifteen or you know, first and ten, whatever
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  Speaker 4: the situation is, just taking full advantage of the opportunity
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  Speaker 4: that's throwing our way. And I'm just so proud of
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  Speaker 4: the way that the entire team stayed poised and composed
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  Speaker 4: through the entire game, especially through overtime. And no, it
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  Speaker 4: definitely feels a lot better to be on this end
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  Speaker 4: of the of the win in overtime at the same
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  Speaker 4: spot for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt about that one.
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  Speaker 2: Quinn.
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  Speaker 1: How about the ability's ability, his ability and the team's
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  Speaker 1: ability to stay calm in the big moments.
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  Speaker 4: I think that we all stay calm and for all
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  Speaker 4: for all of us to stay calm. It kind of
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  Speaker 4: starts with me and I just try to be that
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  Speaker 4: calm within the storm for all the guys. And I
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  Speaker 4: think that my relationship with with Jesus has helped me
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  Speaker 4: in that specific way of knowing that no matter what happens,
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  Speaker 4: that He's going to be there for me, He's still
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  Speaker 4: gonna love me. And the reality of it is is
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  Speaker 4: that that's the reality of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think outside the Georgia game, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: haven't really seen Quinn well, hold on, let me back
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  Speaker 1: up last two years, outside that Georgia game, have not
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  Speaker 1: really seen Quinn get ratted right now. His freshman year
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  Speaker 1: at Texas Oklahoma State, Yeah, there were some moments the
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  Speaker 1: last two years. I think he's been very common big moments.
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  Speaker 1: I think back to Alabama at Brian Denny Stadium, Right,
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  Speaker 1: he was very calm in that huge win over a
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  Speaker 1: top ranked Alabama team. I think even against Washington in
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  Speaker 1: that comeback. Right, Texas came up short in that game,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean he brought Texas all the way down
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  Speaker 1: to the red zone to almost win that game, right,
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  Speaker 1: if not for two fumbles from the Texas running backs.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows what happens in that season in this season.
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  Speaker 1: Right in that game, you know, he led Texas down
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  Speaker 1: twice twice the regulation and unfortunately Brett Auburn continues to
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  Speaker 1: struggle kicking the football, but you know, he put Texas
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  Speaker 1: in a spot to win that game twice and then
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  Speaker 1: ultimately did it with his arm in double overtime. He
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  Speaker 1: was asked what was set in between the overtime possessions,
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  Speaker 1: you know, after the strike to Matthew Golden to tie
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  Speaker 1: it up and then his touchdown passed to Gunnerhilm on
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  Speaker 1: the very next play that put Texas in front for good.
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  Speaker 4: It was pretty sure and simple, you know, just let's
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  Speaker 4: go do it again. And coach Shark called a great
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  Speaker 4: play that we run pretty often gets our own defense
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  Speaker 4: and it hit kind of similar. So it's funny how
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  Speaker 4: things work.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we talked about the beginning of the show that
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  Speaker 1: it was a look a play that Texas had practiced before,
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  Speaker 1: and they had practiced it against that same exact defensive
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  Speaker 1: look that that six man blitz from Arizona State and
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  Speaker 1: Texas Quinn, Matthew Golden, the protection, everybody executed it per
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  Speaker 1: for Klee to tie that game up. Now about now
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  Speaker 1: the team's confidence in Quinn. This is a response from
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  Speaker 1: from Steve Sarkusian and Shanny Barn. I think you think
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  Speaker 1: about two guys in this Texas team that, no matter
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  Speaker 1: what do the ups and downs, have backed up their quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: It's been Steve Sarkusian and Seanny Barn.
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  Speaker 3: Quinn's a g man. He is like, like I know,
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  Speaker 3: he doesn't always exude that like in his body language
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  Speaker 3: and his demeanor, because I say it about all him
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  Speaker 3: about this all the time. It's like he's a steady seed.
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  Speaker 3: He never gets really high. There's flashes of that emotion,
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  Speaker 3: he never gets too low. Sure, there's moments of frustration
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  Speaker 3: that we all have, but the guy recalibrates so quickly
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  Speaker 3: and he's so calm that it allows me to lean
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  Speaker 3: on him, you know, in the most critical moments, especially tonight, Man,
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  Speaker 3: the run game was tough, and we didn't want to
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  Speaker 3: get behind the sticks, and we went into overtime thinking
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  Speaker 3: we gotta throw it to win, you know. And as
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  Speaker 3: much as I wanted to run to win, as these guys,
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you, I was telling them what last night
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  Speaker 3: I felt like in that moment. We had to throw
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  Speaker 3: it to win, and we had to get the ball
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  Speaker 3: in the end zone. You know, I just didn't want
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  Speaker 3: to settle for another field, but we had to go score.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Quinn's the leader. I mean he's been leading.
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  Speaker 2: He's been leading us this whole time. I mean, shoot,
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  Speaker 2: me and Quinn used to be rumors. He used to
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  Speaker 2: bully me, tell me, don't they got the trash like
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  Speaker 2: scream an you go to sleep. But I mean, just Quinn,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he just strives to be perfect, but he
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  Speaker 2: wants everybody else to be perfect. But again, who knows.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord is his creator and he can give everything
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  Speaker 2: to him. He just go play fast. You just literally
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  Speaker 2: go out there and just play fast. We're all blessed
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  Speaker 2: to be here, We're all blessed to play a game
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  Speaker 2: that we love. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: you can't make a mistake in Guy's eyes.
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  Speaker 1: I think one of the biggest players on Taxas offense
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  Speaker 1: this season has been the Houston transfer Matthew Golden. He's
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  Speaker 1: had a fantastic season. Had a fantastic game one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and forty nine yards against Arizona State, seven receptions, one touchdown,
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  Speaker 1: including the game tying touchdown in overtime, nine hundred and
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  Speaker 1: thirty six receiving yards this season fifty six a good
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  Speaker 1: chance to get over a thousand and yards this year
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  Speaker 1: against Ohio State next week. Obviously, him and Quinn have
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  Speaker 1: developed a rapport over the past couple of weeks, especially
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  Speaker 1: this season, but also Golden has had some big moments
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  Speaker 1: in some big games this season. So Quinn, yours are sorry,
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  Speaker 1: Steve's Orchisan rather. Was asked about Matthew Golden's ability to
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  Speaker 1: step up and deliver in the big moments.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think that's probably a credit to
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  Speaker 3: Matthew and to Quinn. You know, as a as a quarterback,
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  Speaker 3: you're always trying to find rapport and trust in a receiver,
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  Speaker 3: and as a play caller you are too, and you
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  Speaker 3: know you you earn trust right with with consistency and time.
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  Speaker 3: And I think there's a level of consistency in Matthew's
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  Speaker 3: game that that he's earned a lot of trust in
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  Speaker 3: myself and learned a lot of trust in Quinn that
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  Speaker 3: in a lot of the critical moments, it's it's easy
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  Speaker 3: to try to find him, you know, because you know
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  Speaker 3: he's going to be in the right spot. You know
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  Speaker 3: he's going to be competitively tough h and make those plays.
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  Speaker 3: And I think over time I've learned at least that
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  Speaker 3: the moment doesn't ever get too big for him either.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he remains very poised and composed in some
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  Speaker 3: of the bigger moments that he had.
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  Speaker 1: Taxes will need him against Ohio State next week without
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  Speaker 1: a doubt. In fact, in the last three games Georgia, Clemson,
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  Speaker 1: Arizona State, Matthew Golden has had two one hundred yard
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  Speaker 1: performances one sixty two in the loss to Georgia and
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  Speaker 1: the SEC championship game, eight catches and then seven receptions
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  Speaker 1: against Arizona State yesterday, including a touchdown. He has been
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  Speaker 1: a huge weapon for Quinn Yours in the Longhorns. In
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  Speaker 1: this spite Isaiah Bond returning yesterday leave what one target
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  Speaker 1: maybe two targets in that game. Looking at the stat line,
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  Speaker 1: he did not have a catch and does not show
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  Speaker 1: how many targets he had. But of course the one
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  Speaker 1: I do remember is that interception late in the fourth
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  Speaker 1: quarter in which Arizona State would score a touchdown off
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  Speaker 1: of and tie the game. Texas can find a way,
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  Speaker 1: and I mean with Isaiah Bond's injury. This may just
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  Speaker 1: go back to the fact that you know, he has
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  Speaker 1: not been able to practice as much, so quin Yours
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  Speaker 1: just does not have that chemistry with him. But you'd
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  Speaker 1: like to see Isaiah Bond kind of get involved more
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  Speaker 1: in the offense going forward. And even Gunner Helm was
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  Speaker 1: not used as much as we thought he would against
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  Speaker 1: Arizona State until late in that game. Three catches fifty
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  Speaker 1: six yards as long as the day that twenty five
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  Speaker 1: yard reception I think he had. The last two catches
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  Speaker 1: also came in the second half before that. Texas, if
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  Speaker 1: they can find a way to get Helm in Bond
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  Speaker 1: involved along with Matthew Golden, it can make the offense
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more dangerous. But of course a lot
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  Speaker 1: has to do with how they're able to run the football.
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  Speaker 1: And Steve Sarkisan was asked about Texas not being able
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  Speaker 1: to run the football against Arizona State. Fifty three total
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  Speaker 1: yards averaging one point eight yards per carry.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I think one kind of limited ops.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we played four quarters and two overtimes and
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  Speaker 3: only ran sixty plays tonight. And that's part of the
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  Speaker 3: run game is finding a rhythm and we just couldn't
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  Speaker 3: quite get the rhythm and the flow of the game
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  Speaker 3: the way we wanted it to go. I thought they
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  Speaker 3: did a good job with some of the movement. I
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  Speaker 3: thought they did a nice job kind of on the
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  Speaker 3: back side of things when we were ready to make
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  Speaker 3: some cuts and then you feel like it's maybe a
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  Speaker 3: gain of six, seven eight yards. We were getting three,
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  Speaker 3: and it was kind of a little frustrating. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think ultimately we got to find a way to
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  Speaker 3: be a little bit more efficient on first down. Four
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  Speaker 3: yard runs are good for us, that's okay. I just
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  Speaker 3: felt like we just didn't have enough ops and that
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  Speaker 3: was probably the most frustrating thing to where we could
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  Speaker 3: really get going, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm looking at.
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  Speaker 3: Jane Blue only had four carries and Trey had eighteen.
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  Speaker 3: But we need to be better, and we got to
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  Speaker 3: analyze that. They were a quick, athletic front that did
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  Speaker 3: a nice job. As I said, you know, the safeties
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  Speaker 3: were aggressive and they got us on the ground. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I give them a lot of credit. They didn't play
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  Speaker 3: for over twenty days, and I thought they tackled pretty
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  Speaker 3: good tonight. They got us on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: We'll hear more from Steve sar Ekesion and other Texas
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  Speaker 1: players throughout the third hour, as we'll be back to
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  Speaker 1: wrap up Hour number two here on The Craigway Show.