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CFP Expansion Inches Closer, Sark Previews Florida, Guardians and Brewers Leading Series · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Can't you feel the weekend just descending upon us? Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's just around the far turn here before.
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  Speaker 2: Heading down the home stretch to the weekend. Good afternoon, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the program here on Sports Radio AM 13
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  Speaker 1: Under the Zone and where you can always, 100% of
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  Speaker 1: the time, listen to us for free on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Craig Weah. Thank you very much for
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  Speaker 1: joining us.
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  Speaker 2: The producer.
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  Speaker 1: Who I guess got the memo about wearing the burnt
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  Speaker 1: orange polo today is Jay Kerman. I just happened to, listen,
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  Speaker 1: when you see me wearing these a lot during the week,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time it's because, and I've had people
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  Speaker 1: ask me this, you know, how much long worn gear
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  Speaker 1: is in your wardrobe?
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh, conservative estimate.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: 65%.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot. Put it this way. The stuff that's
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  Speaker 1: clean in my closet. Put it that way, okay? So
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  Speaker 1: I had one on, but Jake had one on today.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, he's a graduate. So you would expect that
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  Speaker 2: as well as part of our local broadcast coverage of
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  Speaker 2: Longhorn football.
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  Speaker 1: And that will include this Saturday morning when the Longhorns
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  Speaker 1: will take on the Florida Gators. Our coverage will begin.
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  Speaker 2: At 7 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: Saturday with the third and Longhorn preview.
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  Speaker 2: From the third and Longhorn podcast crew. That's at 7.
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  Speaker 2: Then at 8.
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  Speaker 1: At 8 a.m., it'll be Longhorns game day from Bevo Boulevard.
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  Speaker 2: And that'll be down in the Winship area.
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  Speaker 1: And Jake will be down there along with Cameron Parker,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Hardball-Harge, and also Mark Henry and Eric Henry and
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the crew down there. You know, Cam
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  Speaker 1: will be back on that. Cam's got a football game tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Texas State Bobcats play tonight. Their first ever Pac-12 home game.
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  Speaker 1: home conference game. They'll play Colorado State. The question is,
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  Speaker 1: who's the defensive coordinator for Colorado State?
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  Speaker 2: Do we know? Remember the deal got fired? The dude
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  Speaker 2: got fired.
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  Speaker 1: He left the field at halftime of their game when
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  Speaker 1: they gave up a ton of points.
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  Speaker 2: Was it Fresno?
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember who it was, but they gave up,
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  Speaker 1: and Jim Moore Jr. said, you're not calling plays anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I'll call the defense. Guy's like, okay, turn around. He
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  Speaker 1: walked off the field. He had left, and he was fired.
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  Speaker 1: Moore stressed that he didn't fire him on the spot there.
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  Speaker 1: He just said, you're not calling plays. I'll call the defense.
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  Speaker 1: And the guy took it upon himself to leave.
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  Speaker 4: You're going to be calling a new DC. Kenny McClendon
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  Speaker 4: is taking over. Oh, he's taking over. After Tyson Summers
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  Speaker 4: left after getting the play calling taken away.
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  Speaker 2: That's the guy. Okay. So anyway, Bobcats playing at home tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Also tonight, game four of the National League Championship Series
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  Speaker 1: could be the final game of the National League Championship Series. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Brewers have been incredibly impressive.
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  Speaker 2: And they beat the Dodgers again last night. They're up
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  Speaker 2: three games to none.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the American League Championship Series, that may go for
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  Speaker 1: a bit for a number of reasons. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: the Guardians and the Tampa Bay Rays went into today's
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  Speaker 1: game three game in Cleveland at Progressive Field tied, the
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  Speaker 1: series tied 1-1. Right now, the Guardians lead 3-2 in
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  Speaker 1: the top of the seventh inning. And Chandler Simpson has
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  Speaker 1: brought home the only Tampa Bay runs on a two-run triple,
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  Speaker 1: which at the time had given Tampa.
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  Speaker 2: Bay a 2-1 lead.
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  Speaker 1: But Coming back was Cleveland. They picked up a couple
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  Speaker 1: more runs, and now they lead 3-2 in the games
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  Speaker 1: in the seventh inning. Coming up in the 3 o'clock hour,
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  Speaker 1: we'll have our weekly conversation with Gene Watson, our MLB
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  Speaker 1: insider from the Chicago White Sox front office. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: his thoughts on this Guardians team that put away the
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  Speaker 1: White Sox and also on the Milwaukee Brewers because it
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  Speaker 1: looks like whoever wins this ALCS, and it could go
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  Speaker 1: the distance, and this is also why I said it
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  Speaker 1: could take a while. not only because I think this
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  Speaker 1: thing could go six or seven games, they're expecting bad
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  Speaker 1: weather in Cleveland. They had to move the start time
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  Speaker 1: up to today, and they said today's the best day.
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  Speaker 1: It could be windy, rainy, cold. They're expecting a low
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  Speaker 1: of like 39 tonight there in Cleveland. It could be
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  Speaker 1: messy for games three, four, and five. And there will
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  Speaker 1: be three games there because they split the first two.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see how all of that works. But Gene
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  Speaker 1: Watson will visit with us in three o'clock hour. Coming
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  Speaker 1: up in a few minutes, Roger Wallace will join us
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  Speaker 1: to talk some Longhorn football, my broadcast partner on Longhorn games,
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  Speaker 1: and also a preview of the weekend in.
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  Speaker 2: High school football. So we'll do that.
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  Speaker 1: But today being Thursday, that means it's Sark Zoom day,
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  Speaker 1: meaning the final game or final media availability before the game.
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  Speaker 1: that Longhorn's head coach Steve Sarkeesian has with the media.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to take you through these responses that
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  Speaker 1: Sarke had, starting with his opening comments, getting ready for
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  Speaker 1: this one.
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  Speaker 5: One of the beauties of a football season is that
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  Speaker 5: you get another opportunity when maybe you don't put your
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  Speaker 5: best foot forward and you drop a game. And, you know,
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  Speaker 5: clearly there was a level of disappointment coming out of
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  Speaker 5: last Saturday. But the beauty of it is we're in
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  Speaker 5: the Southeastern Conference and you don't have time to sulk.
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  Speaker 5: You don't have time to feel sorry for yourselves. You
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  Speaker 5: got to get up off the mat. You got to compete.
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  Speaker 5: And I give our players a lot of credit. They
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  Speaker 5: practiced really well this week. I thought Wednesday might have
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  Speaker 5: been the best practice we've had that this team has
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  Speaker 5: had this season. So, Encouraged by that, encouraged by their
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  Speaker 5: attention to detail, their focus, their energy. And I know
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  Speaker 5: they're excited to be back in DKR playing in front
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  Speaker 5: of Longhorn Nation. So looking forward to the opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Then the question starting in the first one was.
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  Speaker 1: sarg being asked to assess the play of his defense
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  Speaker 1: and has he been happy with what they've shown i.
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  Speaker 5: Love the way we're playing defensively you know i think
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  Speaker 5: that um you know we've really done a good job
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  Speaker 5: of minimizing the explosive plays um we've created negative plays
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  Speaker 5: um and we've done a pretty good job of keeping
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  Speaker 5: people out of the end zone i think it ultimately
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  Speaker 5: defensively is how do we finish a little bit better
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  Speaker 5: um you know with you know we had the fourth
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  Speaker 5: quarter drive against tennessee we had the late drive there
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  Speaker 5: with oklahoma Um, so there's an area of a couple
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  Speaker 5: areas of criticism is one is that we've got to finish.
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  Speaker 5: We got to play all four quarters of the way
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  Speaker 5: we start. And then two, we've got to generate more
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  Speaker 5: turnovers and, uh, you know, we've had chances right off
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  Speaker 5: the bat. We had a sack fumble to start the game,
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  Speaker 5: which I don't know how we didn't recover it. You know,
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  Speaker 5: we've got two good players that to not recover those
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  Speaker 5: types of plays. And so, We've got to keep forcing
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  Speaker 5: the issue of trying to create the turnovers, and then
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  Speaker 5: we've got to make sure that we're playing all four quarters. But, man,
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  Speaker 5: we're playing at a high level at a very high clip.
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  Speaker 5: I'm really proud of those guys.
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  Speaker 2: All right, next.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I had Jake purposefully leave the question in from
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  Speaker 1: the reporter because the reporter is our colleague, Eric Henry,
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  Speaker 1: from Horns 24-7, who also works with us on our
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  Speaker 1: game day coverage.
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  Speaker 2: And Eric had done a little deep dive. You're going
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  Speaker 2: to hear him.
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  Speaker 1: Explained this to Sark, and it's a question about quarterback sacks.
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  Speaker 1: And he really did a deep dive because he did
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  Speaker 1: the research into how many times when he was the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback at BYU that Steve Sarkeesian himself was sacked.
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  Speaker 2: Listen to the exchange.
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  Speaker 1: Between the two and then Sark's overall answer about the
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  Speaker 1: kinship of quarterback toughness that Sark probably shares with Arch
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  Speaker 1: Manning because of the recent sacks that Arch has taken.
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  Speaker 6: Steve, one of the things with Arch you've raved about
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  Speaker 6: over his time as your starter is his toughness. I
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  Speaker 6: was just looking through the numbers, your time at BYU,
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  Speaker 6: I think you were sacked 83 times over those two years.
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  Speaker 6: I was just wondering, could you talk about, you know,
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  Speaker 6: not just the kinship of being fellow quarterbacks, but the
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  Speaker 6: kinship of the toughness and knowing what it takes to
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  Speaker 6: play that position, having lived it. Is there a kinship
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  Speaker 6: because you guys have both lived that? And does Arch
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  Speaker 6: get enough credit for his toughness? I was sacked 83 times, Eric.
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  Speaker 6: That's a lot of sacks, man. Are you sure that
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  Speaker 6: number's right?
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  Speaker 5: Steve, I hate to do this again, but that's per
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  Speaker 5: BYU's notes. That's a lot of sacks, man. But anyhow,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I do. I do have some, I think
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  Speaker 5: there is a connectivity to it all because, you know,
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  Speaker 5: it's the most important position in sports for a reason.
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  Speaker 5: And there's a variety of reasons for that. One of
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  Speaker 5: which is the physical toughness that you have to have
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  Speaker 5: when people are running at you, trying to literally knock
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  Speaker 5: you out, knock you over while you're standing there as
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  Speaker 5: a sitting target. That doesn't happen in very many sports
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  Speaker 5: that way. All the while, you're trying to process all
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  Speaker 5: that's happening from a defensive perspective, and you're trying to
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  Speaker 5: execute what your offense is attempting to do, whether it's
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  Speaker 5: a run, a pass, whatever that looks like. And so,
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  Speaker 5: you know, through the grind of a game and a
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  Speaker 5: grind of a season, I do have a lot of
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  Speaker 5: respect for quarterbacks, whether it's Arch or guys we've had previously,
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  Speaker 5: or even guys on other teams, because I respect the
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  Speaker 5: job that, that, that entails. And, um, like I said,
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  Speaker 5: I do think there is a connection with myself and
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  Speaker 5: quarterbacks because I can, I can empathize with what they're
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  Speaker 5: going through, whether it's physically, mentally, emotionally, um, and hopefully
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  Speaker 5: push the right buttons to where they can continue to
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  Speaker 5: strive forward to be the best. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So there is that, uh, kinship involved there. And, um,
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  Speaker 1: Another one for Sark, this had to do with the
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  Speaker 1: running game. And I think it was our friend Bob
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  Speaker 1: Lou who asked about this, that Sark had mentioned at
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  Speaker 1: one time that in a perfect world, you'd have a
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  Speaker 1: bell cow running back, the guy who's going to draw,
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  Speaker 1: you know, 20 to 25 touches, whether it's carry, or
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  Speaker 1: if not carries, screen passes, whatever, that it would be
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  Speaker 1: that kind of thing. And he had mentioned that in
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  Speaker 1: a perfect world that it would be like that.
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  Speaker 2: However, we know the world is not perfect.
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  Speaker 1: So with it being Hollywood Smothers and Raleigh Brown, and
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  Speaker 1: we're seeing a little bit of Derek Cooper in there,
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  Speaker 1: is there an adjustment phase that goes through by not
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  Speaker 1: having that quote-unquote bell cow running back?
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  Speaker 5: I think every game is a little bit different. Obviously,
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  Speaker 5: we had to do that against Tennessee, right? Just two
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  Speaker 5: games ago when we didn't have Hollywood and we really
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  Speaker 5: didn't have Derek. I also am of the understanding of
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  Speaker 5: we got a long season to play. And so just
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  Speaker 5: finding the right rhythm for these guys to get their carries,
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  Speaker 5: to have the change up runners when they can. And
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  Speaker 5: as the season goes on, you know, navigating our way
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  Speaker 5: through that. And so I'm not, I'm not nearly as
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  Speaker 5: concerned about it. Like I said, I thought we ran
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  Speaker 5: the ball pretty good the other night. I know we
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  Speaker 5: want more consistency, but there's not a lot of teams
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  Speaker 5: that are ripping off, you know, 150 yards against Oklahoma's
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  Speaker 5: defense running the ball. You know, I touched on Georgia last,
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  Speaker 5: Georgia had five carries that went for five yards or
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  Speaker 5: more in the entire game. And so we did some
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  Speaker 5: good things. Again, it makes our life easier running the ball.
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  Speaker 5: We can start to get leads and now we can
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  Speaker 5: compliment that with play action pass and doing those things.
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  Speaker 5: And we had an opportunity to do that in the
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  Speaker 5: last ball game in the third quarter and we didn't
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  Speaker 5: capitalize on it. That was probably my biggest disappointment coming
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  Speaker 5: out of the locker room up 17 to seven. And
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  Speaker 5: we didn't capitalize on that moment to really extend that
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  Speaker 5: lead to a three score game. And we let them
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  Speaker 5: hang around. And then everything got hard at that point.
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  Speaker 5: So we got to keep staying the course. I do
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  Speaker 5: think we got good players. I think we've got good schemes.
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  Speaker 5: And we got to make sure our confidence is right
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  Speaker 5: to go out there and do it at a really
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  Speaker 5: high level.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting how you talked about that. You can
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  Speaker 1: look back at it both in the Tennessee and Oklahoma games.
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  Speaker 1: Getting the ball to start the second half with momentum.
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  Speaker 1: And remember, if you go back to the end of
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  Speaker 1: the first half, the Longhorns were knocking at the door to.
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  Speaker 2: Get a touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: It would have put them up 21-7 getting the football.
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't get in the end zone. There was a penalty there,
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  Speaker 1: I think a false start. And then in addition to that,
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  Speaker 1: they just couldn't get enough traction there. Wound up settling
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  Speaker 1: for the field goal. So they're up 10, got points
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  Speaker 1: out of it, and they're getting the ball to start
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  Speaker 1: the second half. But they were kind of slogging through
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  Speaker 1: the goo, if you will. They just couldn't get it going.
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  Speaker 1: in that third quarter, three and out, three and out,
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  Speaker 1: three and out. I think there were four straight three
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  Speaker 1: and outs. And then Oklahoma found its traction and hopped
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  Speaker 1: right back into the football game, actually got it tied,
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  Speaker 1: and then took the lead on the pick six. It
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  Speaker 1: was then that you saw the response from the offense
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  Speaker 1: and Arch Manning leading that real sharp drive downfield, 75
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  Speaker 1: yards and seven plays, and he hits Jermaine Bishop with
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  Speaker 1: a game-tying touchdown. But then after they get the stop
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  Speaker 1: and they get the ball back, they get it down there,
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  Speaker 1: then you have that fourth and two and a half thing, and.
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  Speaker 2: They go for the field goal.
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  Speaker 1: I know there were a lot of Longhorn fans who
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  Speaker 1: were grumbling, you know, why not go for it on
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  Speaker 1: fourth down, remembering that Gianni Spetta could not miss the
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  Speaker 1: field goal the entire season, including from that range. He'd
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  Speaker 1: hit from 52, but he missed. Still in all, Texas
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  Speaker 1: still got the ball back. They got another stop and
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  Speaker 1: had an opportunity, and then that was the second Arch
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  Speaker 1: Manning interception. That set up along with the two great
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  Speaker 1: passes that John Mateer made to Isaiah Satania along the boundary,
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  Speaker 1: one side of the field and the other side of
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  Speaker 1: the field. And that got him the necessary yardage to
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  Speaker 1: set up the Tate-Sandell game-winning 47-yard walk-off field goal. We'll
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  Speaker 1: hear more from Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkeesian. Also, later
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  Speaker 1: in the show, it'll be in the 4 o'clock hour,
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  Speaker 1: we'll bring you a segment called of tonight's Longhorn Weekly Show.
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  Speaker 1: It airs at seven o'clock in its entirety. But as
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  Speaker 1: we do every week, we bring you a couple of segments,
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  Speaker 1: one on Thursday, one on Friday. And this segment will
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  Speaker 1: be with our special guest, none other than Michael Taff,
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  Speaker 1: who is with us.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll be with Mookie Taff. He'll be on with us.
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  Speaker 1: You'll hear a segment of that coming up in the
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  Speaker 1: four o'clock hour of the show in its entirety. airs
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  Speaker 1: at 7 o'clock tonight. You know the other thing we're
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  Speaker 1: going to do in the 3 o'clock hour? We're going
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  Speaker 1: to give away a pair of Longhorn tickets to the
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  Speaker 1: game on Saturday against Florida. We'll give away a pair
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  Speaker 1: of tickets. We're going to do that through the talkback microphone.
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  Speaker 1: We'll tell you more about that coming up. But up next,
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  Speaker 1: we talk football and other things with Roger Wallace, my
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  Speaker 1: broadcast partner in Longhorn football games, sports director at KXAN.
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  Speaker 1: All that and more when we continue on 13 Under
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  Speaker 1: the Zone and the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 7: Now in my line of work Now, it is incumbent
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  Speaker 7: upon us every week when we have Roger Wallace on
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  Speaker 7: to A, come out of the break, the return cut
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  Speaker 7: being a Jimmy Buffett tune.
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  Speaker 1: And B, for Roger to explain or give the historical
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  Speaker 1: significance of the particular selection that Jake Harmon comes up with.
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  Speaker 2: In this case, is this what, Florida A's? Florida A's.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 8: Man, Jake, you just hit a grand slam.
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  Speaker 2: Is this one of the later offerings that Buffett had?
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  Speaker 8: No, no, it's not. It's, I think, mid-80s.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 9: But one of my favorite lines, pale invaders and tan
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  Speaker 9: crusaders worshiping the sun. Man, that is so good.
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  Speaker 2: I see that every summer in North Carolina.
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  Speaker 6: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: It's there.
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  Speaker 1: It's definitely there. No doubt about it. And so it'll
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  Speaker 1: be Florida days, but I'll get to this in a moment.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk a little bit more about the Texas Florida
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  Speaker 1: matchup in a moment. But, and I'm sure that you
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  Speaker 1: saw the breaking news alert.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody's going to be shocked by this.
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  Speaker 1: It appears that the announcement is just around the corner
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  Speaker 1: that the college football playoff is close to a deal,
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  Speaker 1: according to Pete Thamel reporting from ESPN, to double the
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  Speaker 1: size to 2014's beginning next year. 2027. Of course, the
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  Speaker 1: CFP and ESPN have been negotiating a new deal for
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  Speaker 1: the network to be its continued broadcast partner, which will
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  Speaker 1: lead to this big move that you would go to 2014.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think anybody's surprised by this. Once that exclusive
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  Speaker 1: negotiating period was open for ESPN, you weren't surprised, were you?
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  Speaker 9: No, I mean, once that kind of that genie's out
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  Speaker 9: of the bottle. I will say I did have a
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  Speaker 9: healthy little discussion. I won't say as far as argument
• 17:07
  Speaker 9: with Noah Gross just minutes ago. about the news. He's
• 17:12
  Speaker 9: against it. I'm for it. Everybody's got their reasonings. Mine's
• 17:16
  Speaker 9: very selfish. I'd love the idea to call more, be
• 17:19
  Speaker 9: a part of more broadcasts in the college football playoff.
• 17:23
  Speaker 9: I don't know how you stand on that. So, but yeah,
• 17:27
  Speaker 9: I know there's a lot of people that, you know,
• 17:29
  Speaker 9: why do we need 24 in the regular season? I
• 17:33
  Speaker 9: disagree for a few reasons, but, yeah, I'm not surprised.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Well, first of all, Noah Gross is opposed to everything. Oh,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: that's great.
• 17:41
  Speaker 8: Well, right now he's grinding, Craig.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: I'm sure he is.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
• 17:47
  Speaker 9: The Guardians are on the doorstep, and he's got to work.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: I started to say he's against anything that doesn't involve
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: the Guardians or the Maryland Terrapins, right?
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: That's exactly right.
• 17:58
  Speaker 9: And now he's sitting here four outs away with the
• 18:01
  Speaker 9: time run at third.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is 3-2 Cleveland. We'll keep folks updated on that.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay at bat in the top half of the
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: eighth inning with a tying run. at third base and
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: a 3-2 lead for the Guardians. People who know me,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: and I've said this for a long time, I've been
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: a more is more guy. I didn't have any problem
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: with the NCAA basketball tournament going to 68. I really
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: don't have a problem with it going to 76 because
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: I always feel like the cream is going to rise
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: to the top anyway off of that. And I think
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: it's the same with football. If they asked me, and
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: no one did, But if they ask me for an
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: ideal number that I thought for the college playoff, I've
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: been saying 16 since about 2016. I mean, a long time.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: I thought it should be 16. Now, my vision of
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: it was a little more egalitarian. I wasn't so much
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: P4 interested. I was thinking at the time... There were 11,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I think there's 11, Division I FBS conferences. Give every
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: conference champion a bid, seated however, and then five at large.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: That's how I looked at it. We both know. That's
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: not what this is about. The P4s are going to
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: benefit the most out of this. I am kind of
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: curious to see with the expansion, with the doubling of
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: size to 24, how it will affect the G6 leagues,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: how it might affect a Texas State or a UTSA
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: or a North Texas or one of those schools in
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: addition to the second tier, third tier, and dare we
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: even think it, fourth tier you know, entries from, say,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: the SEC or the Big Ten?
• 19:51
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think that's where you're going to get the grumbling.
• 19:53
  Speaker 9: If it follows what we think is going to happen, 23,
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: one guaranteed group of four or group of six, then
• 20:04
  Speaker 9: obviously they're going to have a tough time getting multiple
• 20:07
  Speaker 9: because of, we know who runs college football.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: So I think that's where the.
• 20:10
  Speaker 9: Grumbling, if you have a three or a four loss
• 20:13
  Speaker 9: sec team that gets in over a one loss group
• 20:17
  Speaker 9: of six, then, then yeah. But yeah, I just like
• 20:21
  Speaker 9: it because I think there's still a lot to play for.
• 20:23
  Speaker 9: For instance, a first round by which means not only
• 20:26
  Speaker 9: don't you have to play the first round, you get
• 20:28
  Speaker 9: a home game in the second game.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 20:30
  Speaker 9: So you're you're playing a team that's coming off a
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: game and you're still playing at home. You're not going
• 20:35
  Speaker 9: to a neutral site. And that may be one of
• 20:37
  Speaker 9: the reasons if you look at all the teams with
• 20:39
  Speaker 9: a buy struggled except Indiana. Well, they also didn't benefit
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: from a home game.
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: True.
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: Like it's going to happen this time. So there's still
• 20:48
  Speaker 9: going to be, you know, top eight I think is
• 20:50
  Speaker 9: going to be hugely important. You know, and then you
• 20:53
  Speaker 9: go the next eight, getting home games to start with
• 20:57
  Speaker 9: and not having to go on the road. and win
• 20:59
  Speaker 9: a game and then go back on the road and
• 21:01
  Speaker 9: win a second game. So I think there's still going
• 21:03
  Speaker 9: to be a very intriguing regular season.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there'll be quite a bit of wailing
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: and gnashing of teeth about that. The ones that aren't
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: getting into it and all that kind of thing. The
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: New Year's Six Bowls still expected to host the quarterfinals
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: and the semifinals. The National Championship game would remain in January.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: So we know what this means. This is going to
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: mean that whoever reaches this year's SEC championship game, it's
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: the long kiss goodnight, isn't it?
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: This is going to be it for conference championship games.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 21:37
  Speaker 9: And I'm not totally opposed to that because, you know,
• 21:42
  Speaker 9: I don't, you get in on an imbalanced schedule and,
• 21:46
  Speaker 9: or you could have a rematch, which, you know, obviously
• 21:49
  Speaker 9: Texas had the rematch a couple of years ago. So yeah,
• 21:53
  Speaker 9: I don't know. I think I don't have a whole
• 21:56
  Speaker 9: lot of use for the the championship games, just like
• 21:59
  Speaker 9: I don't have a whole lot of use for championship
• 22:01
  Speaker 9: tournaments in college basketball to determine the automatic bid after,
• 22:05
  Speaker 9: you know, two and a half months of beating each
• 22:07
  Speaker 9: other's brains out.
• 22:08
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, I understand why the one-bid leagues do it,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: you know, for the national TV exposure and the money
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: that they can get for it if you're in the Southern.
• 22:17
  Speaker 9: And everybody's got a reason to keep playing, you know,
• 22:19
  Speaker 9: if they... Struggle out of the gates, I get that.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it makes sense on that. Roger Wallace with
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: us here. Before we jump to high school, I know
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: you had an opportunity to visit with Sark this morning
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: as I did last night for Longhorn Weekly, that'll air tonight. Then,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: of course, he had the media Zoom as well. This
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: is also from the Department of Not Being Surprised. Safe
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: to say you were not surprised by the fact that
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: there was not one question asked about Florida until the
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: next to last one when Terry Middleton asked. Not one
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: single question was asked about the Florida Gators until the next.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: To last of the session.
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: You know, and I think that's two things.
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: One, you know, Texas is coming off a loss, so
• 23:03
  Speaker 9: it's all about how can they fix things.
• 23:05
  Speaker 8: But I think that's kind of where.
• 23:06
  Speaker 9: We got and where it's so much just about this team.
• 23:09
  Speaker 9: Whether they're winning, you find the things that they aren't
• 23:11
  Speaker 9: doing well when they're winning. And obviously when they're losing,
• 23:15
  Speaker 9: it's even magnified more. And so everyone who wants to
• 23:18
  Speaker 9: get those questions in, basically it's a reflection of what
• 23:21
  Speaker 9: they think is wrong. You know, for the most part,
• 23:23
  Speaker 9: they ask the question because they think, okay, this is
• 23:26
  Speaker 9: what I see. And then all of a sudden you
• 23:27
  Speaker 9: look up and you've got nothing on Florida and potentially
• 23:32
  Speaker 9: Aaron Philo's situation. And, you know, the, the fact that
• 23:36
  Speaker 9: their defense has really struggled, but you know, they had
• 23:39
  Speaker 9: a great win a few weeks ago and now they're,
• 23:41
  Speaker 9: you know, on the other end of it. So yeah, it's,
• 23:44
  Speaker 9: it's interesting. And you always think maybe Thursday, the zoom
• 23:46
  Speaker 9: would be more about the opponent and it lately, lately it's,
• 23:50
  Speaker 9: it's all about Texas and fixing things.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Well, and I don't mean this in a snarky way,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: even though it may come out that way.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: I don't mean it this way.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: But many of the questions that are being asked in
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: that specific availability, and to a lesser extent on the
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Monday press conference, but that's bigger and longer and more broad-based.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: But in that Thursday Zoom, a lot of the questions generally,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: almost weekly, come from the reporters who are writing for
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: the fan sites who they already kind of have their
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: story and narrative written about the angle they want to take.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Don't mean that in a bad way, just that they
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: have the slant that they want to take.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: For example, Chip Brown asked about.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: interior backup offensive lineman, because clearly he's writing about the
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: interior offensive lineman for good, bad, or whatever.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: And Sark gave him a.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Three-second answer and said, well, the guys, those backups need
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: to do a better job in practice, that kind of thing.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: But a lot of those guys who are writing those stories,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: they have a specific storyline idea in mind, I would think,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: and are trying to get a quote and some verification
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: on it, wouldn't you think?
• 25:06
  Speaker 9: No doubt. And they want Friday off.
• 25:11
  Speaker 8: You remember when Tom Herman.
• 25:12
  Speaker 9: Used to do a Thursday evening availability after practice. And
• 25:17
  Speaker 9: I know there was a lot of grumbling there because
• 25:19
  Speaker 9: to your point, everybody kind of had their preview story
• 25:22
  Speaker 9: or their Friday story or Saturday morning story. by then
• 25:26
  Speaker 9: in the can, but you feel compelled. You've got to
• 25:28
  Speaker 9: be there to see what he says. And so I
• 25:31
  Speaker 9: think part of that is some practicality of, all right,
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: we need Friday off to get ready for the weekend.
• 25:38
  Speaker 9: And you got to start and do it all over
• 25:40
  Speaker 9: again on Monday. But yeah, I think there's something said
• 25:44
  Speaker 9: about that. Now, the other thing, there was nothing mentioned
• 25:48
  Speaker 9: about any of the availability report as far as, again,
• 25:51
  Speaker 9: I go back to Florida. You know, Philo's questionable. That's not...
• 25:55
  Speaker 9: You know, it's one thing if he's probable, but there
• 25:57
  Speaker 9: was no question about, hey, what if it's Philo? What
• 25:59
  Speaker 9: if it's Jones? Or things like that. But yeah, I
• 26:03
  Speaker 9: think everybody kind of gets caught up in their own
• 26:05
  Speaker 9: thoughts on what needs to be fixed. And then the opponent.
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: Steve Bowman gets left out.
• 26:11
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Remember when Mac used to do like a late Sunday
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: afternoon dial-in conference call? Remember that deal? We'd just seen
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: him the night before after a game. And then, oh,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: by the way, 5 o'clock, Mac with an update for you.
• 26:27
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and you feel like, okay, why don't we go
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: into postgame?
• 26:30
  Speaker 9: We're going to get them the next day.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 26:32
  Speaker 9: Yeah, so I think it's about everybody's particular thoughts on
• 26:39
  Speaker 9: where things can improve and how they're going to fix everything.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Roger Wallace with us a couple more minutes. Let's jump
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: to high school.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: You've got Vista Ridge and Eastview tonight on your game
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: of the week. And this is, we are now officially,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: wouldn't you say, it's week eight of of the high
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: school season, seventh game for a lot of schools, counting
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: the open date on there. But we're now to the
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: point where a lot of the attention, and I think
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: tonight's game kind of falls into the category for you,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: doesn't it? Falls on teams jostling for and trying to
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: land a playoff spot in the third or fourth round,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: not just, you know, who's on top of district races here.
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: Yeah, desperation would come to mind in our game tonight
• 27:22
  Speaker 9: out at Georgetown. I think of the two, first of all,
• 27:27
  Speaker 9: Vista Ridge, this is game eight for them, so they
• 27:29
  Speaker 9: don't have many chances, and they've got to play Cedar
• 27:32
  Speaker 9: Park in two weeks, so that's going to be difficult.
• 27:35
  Speaker 9: But Eastview, on the other hand, yes, I know they
• 27:39
  Speaker 9: don't have a win, but they get Vista Ridge, they
• 27:40
  Speaker 9: get Leander. And then suddenly that Rouse game could mean
• 27:44
  Speaker 9: something in the final week. And it was funny because
• 27:47
  Speaker 9: Bill Robertson, their head coach, when we corresponded, he was saying,
• 27:52
  Speaker 9: I sure hope we look better than the fiasco you
• 27:56
  Speaker 9: saw in week one. Now, That was a game that only,
• 27:59
  Speaker 9: they only played a half against a Cedar Ridge. And
• 28:01
  Speaker 9: then it was called because of, of lightning, but you know,
• 28:04
  Speaker 9: they were down a couple of touchdowns, but yeah, it'll
• 28:07
  Speaker 9: be interesting to see how they look. And then Mr. Ridge,
• 28:10
  Speaker 9: obviously desperation, but you know, they've, they've got some kids
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: and they got one of the toughest players out there. And,
• 28:16
  Speaker 9: and Sysotowski, they're running back. He's, he'll be ready to
• 28:19
  Speaker 9: roll no matter what's on the line. So hopefully we will,
• 28:22
  Speaker 9: we'll have a good one here tonight.
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Final thing here, does it seem kind of weird to
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: not be calling the Shoal Creek Showdown tomorrow? I know
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: you guys will have it. You'll have the stream coming in, right,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: on KXM Plus?
• 28:37
  Speaker 8: Yeah, we'll have it on KXM Plus.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Okay, but it'd be a little weird not actually calling
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: it for the first time.
• 28:42
  Speaker 10: In a while?
• 28:43
  Speaker 9: It is, and it's weird because it was such a
• 28:47
  Speaker 9: cool way to kick off the season. On that Thursday
• 28:50
  Speaker 9: night at House Park and you go out to training
• 28:55
  Speaker 9: camps and both sides say, yeah, this is what really
• 28:58
  Speaker 9: gets us through the practices leading up is now we're
• 29:02
  Speaker 9: going to play our rivals, kids that we grew up with.
• 29:05
  Speaker 9: and things like that. And now, you know, McCallum, obviously
• 29:10
  Speaker 9: their record's not bad, but they have struggled. And Anderson,
• 29:14
  Speaker 9: I think is pretty good. So yeah, I think McCallum's
• 29:17
  Speaker 9: got their work cut out for him to kind of
• 29:19
  Speaker 9: stay in this ball game. But yeah, it is weird.
• 29:22
  Speaker 9: And that, you know, that goes to the realignment. Once
• 29:25
  Speaker 9: that happened, we knew that wasn't going to be our
• 29:28
  Speaker 9: kickoff game to the season.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: No doubt about it.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: You can catch that tonight on KBVO at 7 o'clock.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: It'll be Eastview hosting Vista Ridge in Georgetown on that,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: and then the full variety of games available.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Tomorrow on KXAM +. Thanks for the time, Rod.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: See you at the stadium bright and early on Saturday morning.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Bright and early.
• 29:46
  Speaker 9: You got it. Thanks again for that one, Jake. That
• 29:48
  Speaker 9: was awesome. No problem, Roger.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: That's Roger Wallace there, and he'll join me for the
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: call of the Longhorns game on Saturday morning, but you
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: can catch him and Keith Moreland tonight. on kbvo's telecast
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: of of the vista ridge at eastview game up next
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: inconceivable here on a thursday afternoon on sports radio am
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: 13 under the zone and er radio app second hour
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: of the program here on sports radio am 13 under
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: the zone here on a thursday afternoon glad to have
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: you with us craig way alongside the producer jay karma
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: we're with you up till five o'clock coming up in
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: a few minutes we'll visit with gene watson our mlb
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: insider to talk about the American League Championship Series, which
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: now stands two games to one in favor of the
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Cleveland Guardians, who won today over Tampa Bay, three to two,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: and the National League Championship Series, where the Milwaukee Brewers
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: stand one win away from going to the World Series
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: for the first time since 1982. Brewers are up three
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: games to none on the two-time defending champion Dodgers, and
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: they can close out that series with a win tonight.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: That'll be coming up in a few minutes. Later on
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: this hour, We'll hear from Brian Schottenheimer, the Cowboys head coach,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: D'Amico Ryans, the Texans head coach, as they get ready
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: for their respective games. Cowboys and Packers, Sunday night, you'll
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: hear it on our sister station, 98.1 FM KVAD. That
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: comes your way Sunday night, beginning at 6 o'clock with
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: the coverage. And the Texans play Sunday morning in London
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: against the Jacksonville Jaguars. who made London their home away
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: from home. They won their last Sunday against the Eagles,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: and so they just hung out in the old country
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: for another week, hung out there in the British Isles.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: So they'll play. We'll see. Jacksonville's getting used to that,
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: I think.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: Feels a lot different for them after a highly improbable
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: win they pulled out against the Eagles there last Sunday morning.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: And by the way, it looks like the Eagles are
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: not going to have Jalen Hurts for the game this week.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: No Hertz, no Devante Smith, no Smitty. Yeah.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: It's going to be an uphill battle for them against Carolina.
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: Does anybody want to win the NFC East?
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: I thought we were only supposed to ascribe that to
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: the NFC South, but maybe, maybe not.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Maybe just the East off of that. Who knows? All right.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: So anyway, uh, we'll, we'll talk more about that.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Also later this hour, we'll give away a pair of
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: tickets to Saturday's game between Texas and Florida.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: So we'll do that.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Um, Before we get to the Sark comments, in case
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: you didn't hear it, news came down today. It does
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: indeed look like the college football playoff is going to
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: expand and double in size to 2014, starting next year, 2027.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: The deal is expected to come together in the near future,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: pending final approval. Sources were telling that to Pete Thamel
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: of ESPN. Of course, ESPN and the college football playoff,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: the CFP. have been negotiating a new deal for the
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: network to be its continued broadcast partner, leading to this
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: seismic move for the postseason. It's also expected to eliminate
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: that lucrative power for conference championship weekend and start.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: The season a week early.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: We already knew the season's going to start a week
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: earlier because there is, you know, they've already said no
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: more zero week. They're just going to start straight off.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: And so anyway, that's where that is. And they have
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: final details yet to be announced. But discussions about the
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: 2014 field have included 19 at-large bids. The four power
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: conference champions, as determined by each league, in the highest
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: ranked G6 teams. There's still only one guaranteed spot for
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: the group of six. There'd be 19 at-large bids. The
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: six New Year's bowls, the Rose, Fiesta, Sugar, Peach, Orange,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: and Cotton, still expected to host the quarterfinals and semifinals
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: with the national championship game remaining in January. So that's
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: where that is. We'll see how it develops and how
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: it goes far from there.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Now on to Longhorn's head coach, Steve Sarkeesian. from this
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: morning's media Zoom. It's the last media opportunity that they
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: have with Sark before the game itself on Saturday. He
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: was asked about his offense, which has had some struggles
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: of late. Is there a confidence issue at hand here?
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: And was he asked, and I think it was Kurt
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Bowles who asked him, does he need more short passes
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: to to have Cam Coleman more involved in the passing game?
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: First of all, no, I don't think it's a confidence thing.
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: I think that these guys believe we're good and are
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: going to play really good. And we've gone up against three,
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: in my opinion, really good defenses. And I think that'll
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: shake out by the end of the year of who
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: Ohio State, Tennessee, and Oklahoma are. And we've done some
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: good things in all those games. Again, To me, it's
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: more about consistency. It's not really about our ability to
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: be good. It's the consistency of playing good. You know,
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: there's every game, like I say, every style in which
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: you play, you're finding ways and you're finding the right
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: rhythm of the flow of the game and what you're
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: trying to do to move the football effectively. The short
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: passes have been good to us historically. I'm sure they
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: will be this year too. How much we go to them,
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: I think somewhat depends on the style of defenses that
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: we're getting. And for Cam, it's kind of not so
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: uncommon at this stage as a transfer coming in to
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: not have 40 catches in our offense. Now, can that
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: start to elevate? I think we saw that with A.D. Mitchell.
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: I think we saw that with Matt Golden in their
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: transformation of their first year in the system and then
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: how it really started to take off in the second
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: half of the season. I think Cam's playing good for us.
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: I think obviously he got nicked up there. The one
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: game he has one catch. He bruised his tailbone and
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: the opportunities just weren't quite there. But I think what's
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: important is if people are trying to take him away,
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: that Ryan comes out and has five or six, seven catches,
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: that Emmitt has the fourth quarter he has against Ohio State,
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: that The ball is spread out that we're not just
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: forcing it to one guy because those other guys are
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: plenty capable of making plays for us as well.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Okay. All right. So there's that.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: And then he was asked with regard to the running game,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: he was asked, will he be looking to air it
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: out more given the struggles that they've had with the
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: running game?
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: Never a big one-dimensional guy. I know that you've got
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: to run the ball in our conference to be effective. And,
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: you know, the games that we play in, it's not
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: where you just go out and you just outscore people
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: by 30 points. I mean, we're playing real teams. You know,
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: we haven't had the luxury of some of these other
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: teams' schedules. So, we got to manage games to try
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: to win the game and knowing the offenses that we're
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: playing against and the teams that we're playing against. And
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: so we want to be as complete of an offense
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: as we can be. Again, our run game, it's more
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: about consistency. I think we're actually closer than maybe we're
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: getting credit for. Like I said, I think running the
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: ball against OU is tough. I think We're finding out
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: run the ball against Tennessee is pretty tough. We'll find
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: out by the end as this season goes on. Are
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: we able to find that consistency and be a little
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: better running the ball? Because if we're averaging over 150
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: a game with our passing game, that's going to be
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: a really good formula for success for us. Now we've
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: got to get there and that's a challenge to make
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: that happen.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: I mentioned this when we had Roger Wallace on with
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: us last hour that sometimes on some of these questions,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: and I'm not saying this in it, like I said,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: a negative or snarky way, but there are questions that
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: come from the media who are preparing pieces, be it
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: for fan sites or newspapers or whatever. And it's on
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: a certain theme. So the question that is asked goes
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: along their narrative. Such was the case when Sark was asked, um,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Was he happy with the interior of his offensive line?
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: And then the leading question was, is he prepared to
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: get some of the backups in along the offensive front?
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: Those other guys need to practice better if they want
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: to play more.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: It's as simple as that. That's what he said there.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Now, with regard to the running game, how about the
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: quarterback running the ball? You know, Arch Manning hasn't run
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: the ball quite as much this year. So he was asked,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: is that what he wants? Or would he like to
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: see Arch run the ball more?
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: I would like him to run it a little bit more.
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: I think that that's always the fine line. I feel
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: like when we were at our best last year as
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: an offense, he was utilizing his legs, whether it was
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: on designed runs or scrambles when things broke down or
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: even in the red area of understanding the run option
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: element that he has at his disposal. So no, I'm
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: with you. I would like to see his legs become
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: more of a factor than they've been so far.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: All right, and then one more from Sark.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Asked about his defensive backs and how they're being coached
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: to balance being aggressive with caution with specific reference to
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: the pass interference call made against Kansas City. Phillips last
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Saturday there late in there in the fourth quarter against Oklahoma.
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: That's it's tough you know because like I said you
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: know I I of bows two weeks ago, I argued
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: on one of the two. Um, and on Cades, I'd
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: argue that that one, you know, was not a restrictive
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: play and that, that he made a play on the ball.
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: So it's tough because when your guys are in good
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: position and they're playing tight coverage and they're getting a
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: PBU and you don't get the call, those are tough.
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: And I, I, on the flip side, what's tough is
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: that when you're not getting pass interferences called the other way. Um,
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: and so you know, where we're not getting them on
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: our end. And so we got to continue to stay aggressive.
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: I'm proud of Cade. I think he has really matured
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: as a player this year for us and he's playing
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: good football. And I thought he made a good play
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: on the ball on last Saturday, you know, and he's
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: going to have to make more tough plays like that.
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: That's a bang, bang play. And it got called, you know.
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: So I don't know what else to say because I
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: think he was in good position and made a good
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: play on the ball.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: We'll hear more from Sarg coming up next hour. Up next,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: we talk baseball. Gene Watson, our MLB insider, joins us
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: on 13 Under the Zone.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Lead man on to the Guardians. He's the tying run, Bailey.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: And a swing and a drive deep into right center.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: And there it goes.
• 40:49
  Speaker 11: Petey Halpin flips that bat to the sky. He's got
• 40:54
  Speaker 11: a two-run home run, and he's got the Guardians back
• 40:58
  Speaker 11: in front.
• 40:59
  Speaker 12: It's the Craig Way Show with the voice of the
• 41:02
  Speaker 12: Texas Longhorns and Hall of Fame broadcaster, Craig Way.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: As a good friend in Georgetown, Texas, home Brian Anderson
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: on the call there, Petey Halpin with a two-run homer.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: As the Cleveland Guardians take game three this afternoon. Three
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: to two over the Tampa Bay Rays. As B.A., as
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: we call them. Brian Anderson called that on CBS for that.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: And so now Cleveland has a two to one lead
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: in the best of seven series. In the National League,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Brewers are up three games to none on
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Dodgers.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: They go for the sweep tonight in L.A.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Joining us as he does each week to talk baseball.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Now down to the final four level, our good friend.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Gene Watson from the front office of the Chicago White Sox. Gino,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: I appreciate the time. Let me start with the American
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: League because you just got through watching this Guardians team
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: with that incredible comeback to take out your ball club,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: the White Sox, in that final fifth game. And they
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: appear to have picked up where they left off, split
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: the two games in St. Pete, and they get a
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: win today to go up two games to one. So
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: how about your thoughts on what you've seen so far
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: in the AL?
• 42:10
  Speaker 10: Well, we talked about last week how we were up
• 42:13
  Speaker 10: 2-0 in the series versus Cleveland, but how one star
• 42:17
  Speaker 10: player can kind of swing the momentum of the entire
• 42:21
  Speaker 10: series and in turn pick up the entire team. And
• 42:24
  Speaker 10: you saw Jose Ramirez in games three and four in
• 42:28
  Speaker 10: Chicago just show the entire Cleveland dugout on the biggest stage,
• 42:34
  Speaker 10: this is what the stars do. And then he hits
• 42:37
  Speaker 10: a ball basically twice a quarter of an inch off
• 42:40
  Speaker 10: the ground to win the game in game five in Cleveland.
• 42:43
  Speaker 10: But what those moments allow the rest of the guys
• 42:48
  Speaker 10: to do is when you have that star player that says,
• 42:51
  Speaker 10: I got your back, boys, it allows the rest of
• 42:54
  Speaker 10: the Chase DeLotters and the Petey Halpins and the Joe
• 42:57
  Speaker 10: Adels to, one, sit back and observe and watch greatness
• 43:02
  Speaker 10: of that magnitude, But two, kind of take a deep
• 43:05
  Speaker 10: breath and say, you know what? I don't have to
• 43:07
  Speaker 10: be the guy in this game, but my time's coming.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: And that's what you've seen.
• 43:12
  Speaker 10: And it's funny how you can go from an 0-2
• 43:15
  Speaker 10: deficit going on the road for two games to now
• 43:18
  Speaker 10: being in the driver's seat in the American League Championship
• 43:20
  Speaker 10: Series just like that.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: How rubber-armed in this day and age of the way
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: teams use pitchers is Gavin Williams?
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: Oh, very much so. You know, Gavin Williams was.
• 43:33
  Speaker 10: Arguably the best pitcher in the draft in 2021 out
• 43:37
  Speaker 10: of Eastern Carolina in a year that had rocker and lighter.
• 43:41
  Speaker 10: And so that tells you what kind of talent he was.
• 43:44
  Speaker 10: And Cleveland just does such a great job of identifying
• 43:47
  Speaker 10: pitchers that move down the mound well, that they feel
• 43:52
  Speaker 10: like they can create more velocity. I mean, Gavin Williams
• 43:55
  Speaker 10: was a 94, 95 mile an hour fastball guy that
• 43:56
  Speaker 10: now is 99 to 101 with incredible vert to the plate.
• 44:03
  Speaker 10: and on top having a top-of-the-scale breaking ball and cutter.
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: So they've just done a tremendous job.
• 44:10
  Speaker 10: Carl Willis and his pitching plan in Cleveland, they just
• 44:13
  Speaker 10: continue to churn out incredible pitchers. And Gavin Williams, if
• 44:17
  Speaker 10: he can stay healthy, is going to be one of
• 44:20
  Speaker 10: the best pitchers in baseball for the next five to
• 44:22
  Speaker 10: ten years.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: You know, we've been talking about, and we brought this
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: up last week, Somebody mentioned that the most complete team,
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: it's been mentioned a lot, and I know you've mentioned
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: it as well. Probably the most complete team in baseball
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: is the Milwaukee Brewers. The way they go about it,
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: the way they approach the game, the way they play.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: the game, that sort of thing. And that Tampa Bay
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: is very much in a similar vein. As I said,
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: some referred to them as Milwaukee-like, which to me sounds
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: like a beer and not a ball club, but they
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: referred to Tampa Bay in much the same fashion. So
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you're going to be quick to add that
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: don't count the Rays out yet.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: They do have home field.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: Even though Cleveland swung it for the moment by winning
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: game three to that. What about what you see from
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: the Rays and what they would have to do if
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: they were to turn this around and what they need
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: to do to even this up tomorrow. Again, whether notwithstanding
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: or whatever, and with the series going forward from there.
• 45:27
  Speaker 10: Well, I would say that both of them have great managers,
• 45:31
  Speaker 10: but with Tampa Bay, their identity is a little bit different.
• 45:35
  Speaker 10: They can beat you many ways. They've got very good pitching,
• 45:38
  Speaker 10: and their bullpen is strong. What Tampa Bay needs is
• 45:42
  Speaker 10: is for Cleveland to come back to earth offensively.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: Because Cleveland's pitching is not going to go anywhere. They've
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: got arguably one of the best closers in the game
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: in Kate Smith. Gaddis is one of the best setup
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: guys in the game.
• 45:54
  Speaker 10: And so when those starting pitchers can get five, six
• 45:58
  Speaker 10: innings deep, they become a more dangerous team if they hit.
• 46:03
  Speaker 10: So what Tampa's got to do really well to get
• 46:05
  Speaker 10: back into the series is pitch well, which I expect
• 46:09
  Speaker 10: them to do, but continue their offensive identity of putting
• 46:13
  Speaker 10: a game in motion and making contact and just generating
• 46:17
  Speaker 10: havoc on the base paths.
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: And by no means is this series over, and.
• 46:21
  Speaker 10: I would expect it to go at least six and
• 46:24
  Speaker 10: probably seven games, and it's going to come down to
• 46:27
  Speaker 10: whether Tampa Bay can control and get Cleveland's offense back
• 46:31
  Speaker 10: to where it was going into game three of the ALDS.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: Gene, I'm looking at, I've got on my iPad, TBS's
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: postgame coverage, and the field is already covered.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: In Cleveland.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: It was said that today was going to be the
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: best day weather-wise to even move the game forward because
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: of the anticipation of inclement weather and that it might
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: hit tonight and then into tomorrow. And we don't know
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: what it's going to be like over the next couple
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: of days. If a game is postponed due to rain,
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: say they can't play tomorrow or they can't play on Saturday,
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: that sort of thing. Does it benefit either side, depending
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: on how long the delay is and how much postponement
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: is involved?
• 47:16
  Speaker 10: 100% it benefits the Cleveland Indians. When you talk about
• 47:21
  Speaker 10: Gavin Williams and Parker Messick being able to come back
• 47:25
  Speaker 10: in earlier leverage, whether it's on their side days out
• 47:28
  Speaker 10: of the bullpen, like I've said before, instead of throwing
• 47:31
  Speaker 10: their sides in the bullpen, if they need them for
• 47:34
  Speaker 10: 15 to 20 pitches in leverage, much like what you
• 47:37
  Speaker 10: saw in game four, with Gavin Williams in Chicago, it
• 47:41
  Speaker 10: definitely swings to Cleveland's favor because those are two of
• 47:45
  Speaker 10: the more potent starting pitchers in the game of baseball.
• 47:49
  Speaker 10: And Gavin Williams in any type of leverage is really,
• 47:52
  Speaker 10: really tough to beat. But I got to tell you, Craig,
• 47:55
  Speaker 10: there aren't many places more depressing to be in the
• 47:58
  Speaker 10: world than Cleveland.
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: And Cleveland during a rainout, I can't even wrap my
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: arms around.
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: That right now.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Or maybe, you know, one of my broadcast mentors, you
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: remember him, the late great Bill Mercer, who was with
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: us until a couple of years ago.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: He lived to be 99.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: You know, did the world-class championship wrestling, was the Cowboys
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: play-by-play broadcaster when they won their first Super Bowl. He
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: was the Texas Rangers' first broadcaster, worked the White Sox
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: with Harry Carey. And he used to tell me about
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: when he was doing cowboy games in the late 60s,
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: and the late great columnist Blackie Sherrod was his analyst,
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: even before Vern Lundquist joined him.
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: In the late 60s.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: And they'd have games at the old municipal stadium in Cleveland,
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: which you've been to many, many times, the old mistake
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: by the lake. And you'd have a December game between
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: Dallas and Cleveland. And he said, and they were kind
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: of in an open air, hanging out crow's nest, broadcast
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: position and he said that was no fun when that
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: wind would come whipping out there so I guess I
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: guess the uh the late uh fall and into winter
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: is even more punitive than the earlier autumn but it
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: does I mean it it can affect managerial decisions even
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: if you're having to play through those kinds of elements
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: doesn't it.
• 49:12
  Speaker 10: Well if there was one thing that I thought was
• 49:14
  Speaker 10: going to motivate our ball club not to have to
• 49:17
  Speaker 10: go to game five it was to have to go
• 49:18
  Speaker 10: back to Cleveland and we ended up having to do it.
• 49:22
  Speaker 10: They ended up taking care of business there. It's an
• 49:24
  Speaker 10: incredible ballpark, great fans. They've got a lot of passion
• 49:29
  Speaker 10: for the game, but yeah, you know, the weather off
• 49:31
  Speaker 10: that lake, especially this time of year, can be a
• 49:34
  Speaker 10: little bit tricky, but again, that lends to the strengths
• 49:38
  Speaker 10: of pitching and being able to roll Gavin Williams and
• 49:42
  Speaker 10: Parker Messick back around would be a huge advantage for
• 49:45
  Speaker 10: for Cleveland, and when you say Bill Mercer, all I
• 49:48
  Speaker 10: think about is him interviewing the Great Kabuki every Saturday
• 49:51
  Speaker 10: night on Channel 11 at Dallas.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: The Great Kabuki, or working with the Von Eriks, or
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: the fabulous Freebirds, all that kind of stuff. Talking baseball, really,
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: and truly, with Gene Watson here with us. Gene, let's
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: jump to the National League. You've said the most complete team...
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: all the way through was Milwaukee. They've looked every bit
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: the part. You said until, until the King is dead,
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: you got to kill him. You got to, the Dodgers
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: would be like vampires until you, until you finally come.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: But, but the Brewers, it looks like has found the
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: way to do it.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: And, and it looks like clutch hitting and incredible bullpen
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: work has been the difference in this series.
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: Don't you think?
• 50:31
  Speaker 10: There's two stories to this series. One is, and I
• 50:35
  Speaker 10: lived it in 2014 and, and 2015 with the Royals.
• 50:38
  Speaker 10: Because really in 2013, you know, Justin Maxwell hit a
• 50:43
  Speaker 10: walk-off grand slam off of Joaquin Soria on the final
• 50:48
  Speaker 10: home game of the season. And we go to Seattle
• 50:51
  Speaker 10: three out with seven to play and really feeling like
• 50:54
  Speaker 10: we had.
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: A chance and we fell short.
• 50:57
  Speaker 10: And then you go into 14 and you get to
• 50:59
  Speaker 10: the wild card game and you're down four in the
• 51:00
  Speaker 10: eighth to John Lester and you come back and win
• 51:03
  Speaker 10: what was an incredible season One of the most incredible
• 51:06
  Speaker 10: games you could ever watch. And we win eight in
• 51:08
  Speaker 10: a row to lose to game seven to Madison Bumgarner
• 51:12
  Speaker 10: in the 2014 World Series. And then you retool and
• 51:15
  Speaker 10: you reload and you go to 2015 and you win
• 51:19
  Speaker 10: the World Series and you reach that mountaintop. And then
• 51:22
  Speaker 10: you show up in 16 and you're going to push again.
• 51:24
  Speaker 10: And it's it's really not. two years of winning, it's
• 51:29
  Speaker 10: the push before and the push after where players.
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: Really get tired.
• 51:34
  Speaker 10: And you're talking about extra months on a season where
• 51:37
  Speaker 10: exhaustion can really play a big part in a player's mindset.
• 51:42
  Speaker 10: And so you take that with the Dodgers, they're exhausted.
• 51:46
  Speaker 10: They're up against the ropes right now and they know it.
• 51:48
  Speaker 10: And I would tell you as crazy as this sounds,
• 51:52
  Speaker 10: down 3-0, they're still not out of this series because
• 51:55
  Speaker 10: now they're going to use all those leverage arms, as
• 51:58
  Speaker 10: I said earlier, in key points of the game to
• 52:00
  Speaker 10: try to keep them in the game. But you can't
• 52:02
  Speaker 10: hit 2-12 as a team.
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: You just can't do it.
• 52:05
  Speaker 10: And Will Smith can't hit under 100, and you expect
• 52:09
  Speaker 10: to be successful. And Shohei Otani can't hit for no
• 52:13
  Speaker 10: power and no extra base, and you expect for your
• 52:16
  Speaker 10: team to win. So all of those things are going
• 52:18
  Speaker 10: to have to change quickly. for the Dodgers to even
• 52:22
  Speaker 10: inch back in this series. But then you flip it
• 52:24
  Speaker 10: to the Brewers and you look at like, this has
• 52:27
  Speaker 10: been a five-year process for them. They had the Dodgers
• 52:31
  Speaker 10: on the ropes in the divisional series years ago when
• 52:33
  Speaker 10: they went Wade Miley opener, Wade Miley opener, Shasin as openers,
• 52:39
  Speaker 10: three straight starts in a row. And they've been building
• 52:42
  Speaker 10: ever since then to try to build a team that
• 52:46
  Speaker 10: could beat the monster. And they've done it with a
• 52:49
  Speaker 10: great manager in Pat Murphy, They've done it with incredible
• 52:52
  Speaker 10: young players that they've traded for. They've signed for in
• 52:55
  Speaker 10: the international department and they've just created a culture that is.
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: Second to none.
• 53:01
  Speaker 10: And you know, they're one game away from being in
• 53:03
  Speaker 10: their worst first world series since 1982. And they know
• 53:08
  Speaker 10: Pat Murphy is not going to let them let up
• 53:11
  Speaker 10: one ounce. They're going to be foot on the neck
• 53:13
  Speaker 10: the rest of the way, but just a super fun
• 53:16
  Speaker 10: team to watch. And I would say, If you can
• 53:19
  Speaker 10: get Milwaukee and if you can get Tampa, you've probably
• 53:23
  Speaker 10: got two of the best baseball teams playing in the
• 53:27
  Speaker 10: World Series and, quite frankly, two teams that don't have
• 53:30
  Speaker 10: high payroll and have done it the right way when
• 53:33
  Speaker 10: it comes to player development, scouting, international signings, perfectly timed trades,
• 53:38
  Speaker 10: with great managers that know how to lead a 26-man roster.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: Which, by the way, Gino, wouldn't that— and I say this
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: tongue-in-cheek— But wouldn't that kind of do damage to those
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: who are arguing that teams like the Dodgers are ruining
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: baseball with their payroll and all this when you have
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: two smaller budget, smaller market teams actually reach the World Series?
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: And one of them, if it's Milwaukee and Tampa Bay,
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: one of them is going to win a world championship
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: for the first time in franchise history. It would.
• 54:07
  Speaker 10: And I would tell you, like the 14 and 15 teams,
• 54:11
  Speaker 10: we were, you know, in the bottom 10th of payroll overall.
• 54:14
  Speaker 10: The 2003 Marlins, I think we were like maybe 85,
• 54:18
  Speaker 10: maybe 85 million. So it can be done. It can
• 54:21
  Speaker 10: be done anyway. And I've said before, throwing money at
• 54:27
  Speaker 10: something doesn't necessarily equate to culture and success.
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: And it doesn't.
• 54:31
  Speaker 10: And there's a hundred examples of that in Major League Baseball.
• 54:34
  Speaker 10: And there's quite a few examples of that in college
• 54:36
  Speaker 10: football right now. So I just think that when you
• 54:40
  Speaker 10: have great leadership and your player acquisition processes are good
• 54:45
  Speaker 10: and you create a great culture with a great manager
• 54:48
  Speaker 10: in your clubhouse, you've got a chance to win. And
• 54:50
  Speaker 10: we're proof of that in Chicago this year, and certainly
• 54:53
  Speaker 10: the four teams remaining are all proof of that now.
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: He's Gene Watson, joins us each week here. Geno, I
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: take it the Irish are going to handle their business
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: in Provo against a good BYU team on Saturday?
• 55:05
  Speaker 10: I will be at Kelly's in Austin watching it, but
• 55:07
  Speaker 10: I'm also bringing Brian Anderson's brother, Mike, to the game
• 55:10
  Speaker 10: Saturday in Austin. So we're looking forward to coming to
• 55:13
  Speaker 10: see the Horns on Saturday.
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: Excellent.
• 55:15
  Speaker 12: All right.
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Gene. I appreciate it.
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: Okay. Take care.
• 55:18
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: That's Gene Watson from the Chicago White Sox front office,
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: personnel director, and our MLB insider joins us each week
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: to talk baseball. We're going to hear more from Coach
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: Sark coming up, but here's my question. You want to
• 55:33
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• 55:36
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• 55:39
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• 55:43
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• 56:02
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• 56:04
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• 56:06
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• 56:10
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• 56:12
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• 56:14
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• 56:18
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• 56:21
  Speaker 1: at the most. You won't need 30 seconds. You just
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: got to be the first one with the correct answer
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: to this question. So the Longhorns are playing the Florida Gators.
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: they played two games in the state of Florida last year.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: They lost to the Gators in Gainesville. They won the
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: Cheez-Its Citrus Bowl over Michigan. What's the name of the
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: stadium where the Cheez-Its Citrus Bowl was played? It's not Cheez-Its.
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: And it's not the Citrus Bowl either. It's not our
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: goldfish from Inconceivable either.
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: No, it's not.
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: Be the first one on the talkback line with the
• 56:55
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• 57:04
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• 57:06
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• 57:10
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• 57:17
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• 57:20
  Speaker 1: stadium where the Longhorns won the cheese at Citrus Bowl
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: over the Michigan Wolverines? Be the first one with the
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: correct answer. You'll get a pair of tickets to Saturday's
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: Texas-Florida game from AM 13 under the zone. I start
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: to say, is this a deep cut you're hitting us
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: back with here?
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: Not quite. Not as deep as Rebel Rebel, apparently. Yeah, yeah,
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: that's true. I've heard that one. Which yellow cut is this?
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: This is the last train to London.
• 57:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: I was trying to remember that. I knew it off
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: of which... Is it... It's not off Out of the Blue,
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: is it?
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: Nope.
• 57:54
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: Which I... That was a great double album. Is it
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: off of... Which album is it off of?
• 57:59
  Speaker 5: Discovery.
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 58:02
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: Last Train to London.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: They did play this when they did their last concert
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: here in Austin a couple of years ago.
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: I'd hope so.
• 58:09
  Speaker 5: I love that little bass line.
• 58:10
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was good.
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 58:12
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: We're going to go back to hearing some more. Oh,
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: by the way, we have a winner. We figured we would.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: I kind of lobbed a softball on that, but we
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: wanted to make sure we had a winner for a
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: pair of tickets for Texas and Florida on the talkback line.
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: We had many of you. We actually, Jake, had one
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: or two incorrect answers before the correct one. Is that correct?
• 58:33
  Speaker 4: Well, somebody gave us the city, and then somebody was
• 58:36
  Speaker 4: answering a different question.
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: I think everyone that took a shot at it got
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: it right. We had a lot of correct answers, but
• 58:41
  Speaker 4: somebody had to be first.
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: Yep, and here it was. Yo, what up, Craig?
• 58:46
  Speaker 9: The Citrus Bowl is played in the Camping World Stadium.
• 58:50
  Speaker 13: Pick them horns.
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And that is the winner's name? Reagan Kohler. Congratulations. Reagan, congrats.
• 58:55
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: Camping World Stadium. It was actually called the Camping World
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: Bowl for a little bit.
• 59:03
  Speaker 11: Well, no.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: Not that game. Not the Citrus Bowl. The one that
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: is currently known as the Pop-Tarts Bowl was the Camping
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: World Stadium.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: World Bowl, briefly. I like Pop-Tarts Bowl better. Yeah, me too.
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: But the Cheese Citrus Bowl played in the same stadium. Yes,
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: somebody said in Orlando they were correct, but that's not
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: what I asked. I asked what stadium, what's the name
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: of the stadium? And the stadium is Camping World Stadium
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: on that. Longhorn's hoping not to be there this year.
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: They want to be, of course, back in the playoff.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: Head coach Steve Sarkeesian from the weekly news conference talked
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: about how important it was to get guys involved and
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: did it and said they're going to have to make
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: sure that they have the right protections in order and
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: that they were ready to go with that.
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: Now, we mentioned that the Cowboys... And also, the Texans
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: are in action this week. Cowboys in action on Sunday
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: night as they'll take on the Green Bay Packers. And
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: that's going to be at Lambeau Field.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: And Brian Schottenheimer, the Cowboys head coach, was asked a
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: couple of things. First of all, an update on DeMarvion Overshone.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: also Jake Charm, Barham, and some other injury updates.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 14: I think, you know, as we're working through the injury,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 14: you know, the bug that we're dealing with right now,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 14: I mean, you'd love to see all your players get
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 14: out there and get healthy, but we're not going to
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 14: rush them back. They're working tremendously hard to come back.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 14: I'll hit some of the injury updates for you guys
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 14: to get that out of the way. Elijah Clark, hamstring,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 14: hoping to get him to do some stuff today in practice.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 14: Drew Shelton will be in rehab, speed and revel. you know,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 14: with the knee, hopefully get them back. And then Kobe Durant,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 14: maybe get him doing some DB drills today. And then
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 14: we'll see what what Demo is able to do with
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 14: the hamstring.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 7: OK.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: He was also asked about Christian Parker's scheme. You know,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: Mike Patton's coming in and Parker's going to go up
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: to the booth. But he was asked that the scheme
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: had been hurt by not having healthy personnel.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 14: Yeah, I think that's a big part of it. You know,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 14: and like I said, we're never going to make excuses.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 14: But I mean, we're beat up in certain positions you
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 14: don't want to be beat up in. To lose five
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 14: safeties at one time and to have a corner that
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 14: you're building some stuff around going into a short week,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 14: and then he's not able to play because he's sick,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 14: that's all unfortunate. But again, it has not changed Christian
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 14: and his work ethic and the way he's preparing. So
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 14: injuries are part of the game, and we're certainly dealing
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 14: with our fair share of them.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: All right, about that decision, not only bringing in Mike Patton,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: but he's moving Christian Parker up to the booth.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 14: And where will Patton be during these games? None of
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 14: those decisions have been finalized. We've had great conversations. you know,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 14: throughout this whole process. You guys know last weekend was
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 14: a busy weekend for us. And, of course, you know,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 14: spent hours with CP talking about different things and options
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 14: and with Jerry and Steven going over the game and
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 14: things we need to do in all three phases, quite honestly,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 14: to get better. So as we work through the week,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 14: we'll figure out what's best. And we're going to do
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 14: whatever we think gives us the best chance to win.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: To D'Amico Ryans, they play the 4-1 Jaguars in London.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: And he was asked, what's led to the Jags' good start?
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 12: I think the thing that sticks out to me about
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 12: the Jaguars is their play style. It jumps off the tape. Defensively,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 12: they're flying around. They're causing havoc. They do multiple things,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 12: moving their front well, pressuring. They do a good job
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 12: of just mixing it up. And then offensively, they're winning
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 12: on third downs. And that's been the key for them.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 12: They stay on the field. They sustain drives because they
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 12: keep the third downs at a manageable pace. area in
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 12: that short window and they're able to have their whole
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 12: playbook at their disposal so they're doing a good job
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 12: liam has done a great job of leading that team
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 12: for the second year in a row and they're they're
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 12: off to a great start all.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: Right uh what about cj stroud's growth and handling the
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: pressures that have been coming in.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 12: The growth i've seen for cj is just he's confident
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 12: when he's standing there he gains that confidence by the
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 12: pocket that he's able to have with our o-line and
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 12: doing a good job of protecting him allowing him to
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 12: make those good decisions allow him to dish the football
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 12: out to a lot of different guys.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: Texans made the deal to bring in Marvin Harrison Jr.,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: the trade with the Cardinals, and he was asked about
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: getting Harrison Jr. up to speed so that he could
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: be ready for the action this weekend.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 12: Getting the player caught up, it isn't hard when the
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 12: player is attentive and he's locked in on getting the
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 12: details down. So Marvin's first night here, he was with
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 12: our assistant wide receiver coach, Coach Taequann, and they were grinding.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: They were working late at night.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 12: They were in the playbook, grinding, and that allowed him
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 12: to get a day ahead, and now he was able
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 12: to go out there today and just fit right in seamlessly.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 12: So when you put the work in and you're dialed in,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 12: you can make it work.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, got to be impressed with his work ethic. It
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: fits right in.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 12: With everything I heard about him, he's a hard worker,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 12: hard worker.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: That's what that was.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 12: The message that kept reverberating as we asked different people
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 12: about him and it showed today at practice he's lining
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 12: up he's not he's locked in on what we asked
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 12: him to do getting the call getting the line very
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 12: easy so i'm excited to see how his uh his
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 12: week continues to progress and see how much he can
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 12: handle all.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: Right uh there it is from the two head coach
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: course the texans play sunday morning in london that is
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: an 8 30 kickoff against the jaguars you know if
• 1:04:41
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• 1:04:45
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• 1:04:48
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• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: on 13 Under the Zone. It'll be Sunday morning at 8.30
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: as the Jags will take on the Texans. We'll be
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: back to wrap up hour number two here on 13
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: Under the Zone. Third and final hour of the program
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: here on Sports Radio AM 1300 The Zone here on
• 1:05:06
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• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: we're with you up until 5 o'clock. Don't forget, it's
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: 7 o'clock tonight. Longhorn Weekly with Coach Sark. I'll look
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: back at the Oklahoma game. Yes, I'll look back and
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: look ahead to the matchup with Florida and... We're going
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: to give you a little sneak preview of it by
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: playing you some of one of the segments of it
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: coming up in a little bit later on this hour.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: Because we have a special guest, a former Longhorn player
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: every week. And how about Michael Taff, who came to
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: Texas as a walk-on, earned a scholarship, earned a starting job,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: became the Burlesworth Trophy Award winner, and also was an All-American,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: a second-team All-American, fifth-round draft choice of the Miami Dolphins,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: and a starter in the Dolphins secondary. Amazing path for
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: the former Westlake Chaparral, Michael Taft, and we'll visit with him,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: and you'll hear that a little bit later on.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: I want to jump back to the NFL, and.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: Jump back to the Cowboys and the Texans. For the Cowboys,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: in getting ready for this Sunday night matchup with the
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers, Brian Schottenheimer was asked, since it is
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: Green Bay that they're playing, you know, how difficult is
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: it trying to get things going with their defense. And
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: he was asked, when you talk about it, the production
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: that they're having to replace, no longer having Micah Parsons, who,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: of course, was traded to Green Bay.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 14: And why has it been so difficult? I mean, like
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 14: I said, Micah's no longer here. We have to play
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 14: better all across the boards. I think he's a terrific player.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 14: I'm looking forward to seeing him. But I like the
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 14: picks that we got.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: For Micah.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 14: I think we've done some really great things getting those picks,
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 14: and I hope that when it's all said and done,
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 14: it goes to show that that made a big difference,
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 14: because I do feel that way when you look at
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 14: the guys who were able to.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: Add to our roster. Been a lot of talk about this.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: The players had a players-only meeting afterwards, and there was
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: a time, believe it or not, those of us who
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: are a little older remember this, when players-only meetings were
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: viewed as That's a good thing, kind of in the
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: prism of, hey, you know, they're taking accountability. In recent years,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: you almost get the feeling like the players-only meeting has
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: brought about a collective eye roll from media and the
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: public in general, especially fan bases.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, gosh, that's the first sign that things are crumbling,
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: that sort of thing.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: Well, the Cowboy players, the defensive players, had a players-only meeting.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: And Chadi was asked about that players only beating on
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: the defensive side.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 14: I've said from the very beginning, the best teams I've
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 14: ever been around are led by the locker room. And,
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 14: you know, my information that I've received from some of
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 14: those guys that called that meeting, it was very productive.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: It was.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 14: Very open and honest. And the pride of that unit
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 14: is strong. There's some really, really prideful men in that room,
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 14: and we're going to get it fixed. I have no
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 14: question about that, but it doesn't bother me at all.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 14: It means everyone's rowing in the same direction trying to
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 14: get this thing fixed.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: Next, he was asked about Mike Pettin being able to
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: help out and help out his protege, Christian Parker, and
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: what Mike Pettin be able to take off of Parker's
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: plate during this week, and leading up to the game
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: on Sunday night.
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  Speaker 14: It's not taking anything off of Christian Parker. It's giving
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 14: him another sounding board, someone else to bounce ideas off of. Again,
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 14: this has never been about, hey, we got to take
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 14: this off of Christian Parker. You know, like I said,
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 14: my support for Christian Parker is still incredibly strong. But
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 14: we had an opportunity to add a guy that not
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 14: only is a very good football coach, but he's also
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 14: a trusted friend and advisor to Christian Parker in life
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 14: and in football. And so why would you not take
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 14: that advantage to do that? And I think that's what
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 14: I'm so excited about, about having Pet in the building
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 14: is that relationship that the two of them have, but also,
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 14: you know, I know the type of football coach he is.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: And one more, speaking of Petten, one more from Shottie.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: Will Petten continue to work with the front seven in practice,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: or is he going to rotate with regard to the secondary?
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 14: You know, you say front seven, and I think that's
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 14: where the natural, you know, fit would be.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: But again, I want him, you know, putting his eyes
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: on everything.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 14: I think, you know, looking at everything, looking at, you know,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 14: Some of the drills we're doing, some of the personnel usage,
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 14: some of the ways we're communicating. I mean, there's really,
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 14: you're adding just an expert in a lot of things.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 14: And so I'm not going to say, hey, you can
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 14: only do this or that. I want him to be himself,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 14: and I want him to be that sounding board that
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 14: he's going to be for Christian and the entire defensive
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 14: staff under CP's leadership. And I have no question in
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 14: my mind that Pet will do a great job with
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 14: all those tasks.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: Cowboys, of course, Sunday night against the Packers. You can
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: hear it on 98.1 FM KVET. And that will come
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: your way beginning at 6 o'clock to kick off right
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: around 720.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: All right. Houston Texans, opposite direction.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: Over and leaving for England and getting ready for the
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: matchup on Sunday with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Whose second home,
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: by the way, is England for whatever reason. It's just
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: worked out that way.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: But.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: Texans are coming off their first win of the season.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: They made the deal to get Marvin Harrison Jr. from
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals, teaming up with his old and former
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: Ohio State teammate, quarterback C.J.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: Stroud.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: And D'Amico Ryans was asked, what is the advantage of
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: having Harrison.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: With their number one target, Nico Collins, available?
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 12: And to have two receivers looking at both of them today,
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 12: I'm like.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: Man, those are... Two tough guys to cover. You got big,
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: tall receivers.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 12: You talk about the thing that separates those guys is
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 12: their catch radius. Being tall, long guys, when you put
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 12: the ball up, they have that ability, no matter where
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 12: it is, to kind of out-jump a DB or really
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 12: find a way to come down with those tough, contested
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 12: catches because of their size. So they can utilize their
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 12: size to body guys and get open and just play physical.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 12: So I'm excited to see both guys out there on
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 12: the field together.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: Next up, D'Amico was asked about the getting ready for
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: this trip to London and in the preparation for all
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: that goes into an overseas trip.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: Who does he lean on in such fashion?
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 12: The person I leaned on is a person here in
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 12: our building, our assistant head coach, Danny Barrett. He was
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 12: here when the Texans won in 2019. So went through
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 12: that schedule of what they were able to do, how
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 12: he felt about, you know, the flow of everything and
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 12: how it works. So I've been leaning on coach Barrett.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 12: He's been And a great mentor for me and God.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 12: I can lean on and ask any questions. So we're
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 12: dialed in. We're ready to roll.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: He was next to ask about the fact that what
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: I just mentioned earlier, that the Jaguars are already over there.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: They had that.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: Emotional win on the walk-off field goal over the Eagles.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: So they've been able to stay over there for the
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: entire week. and for Houston, they have to go over there.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: So is there an advantage to the Jags already having
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: been there and having played there and having headquartered there,
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: especially with things like body clock and stuff like that?
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 12: I don't know what that advantage is or if there
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 12: is an advantage. My mindset and everything I'm telling our
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 12: guys is when the ball is kicked off, everybody wants
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 12: to talk about the difference with the travel, the difference
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 12: with the timing and schedule.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: I want to talk about when the ball is kicked off,
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: what are we doing?
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 5: And that's what matters most to me.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand that. And most coaches say that.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: And then when they get back, they talk about how
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: there was an adjustment that had to be made and
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: all that other kind of stuff.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: And one more.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: And since you want to talk about once the game
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: is kicked off, who you got to stop? Parker Washington,
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: who had such a big game for the Jags against
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: the Eagles, is one guy who definitely has the attention
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: of D'Amico Ryans.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 5: Parker has been very dynamic.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 12: He literally jumps off the tape with, I mean, playing explosive,
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 12: fast guy we knew. the type of returner he was,
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 12: but now he's showing that skill set as a receiver,
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 12: and they're featuring him more. He's more of the first
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 12: guy in the progression, and he's able to get open.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 12: He's playing fast. It looks like he plays whatever speed
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 12: he runs. He runs that speed every time he gets
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 12: a route. So he's a guy who's made some tough catches.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 12: He's a tough player, kind of a late-around guy who's
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 12: really made a name for himself just by I see
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 12: a guy who really works at his craft, and he's
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 12: gotten better at playing receiver. He's a dynamic returner, as
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 12: we all know, and that's the primary guy for us
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 12: defensively that we have to try to stop.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: So there it is, the Texans getting ready for the
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: matchup on Sunday morning.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: That's an 8.30 a.m.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: Our time kickoff, the Texans against the Jacksonville Jaguars. You
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: can hear that game. Here on Sports Radio AM 1300.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: Do we... We don't even have to have a living
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: body in here to make that work on Sunday morning,
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: do we?
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 11: Nope.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: That's good. It just fires automatically. That's good. Because you
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: imagine getting somebody to be like... Morning drive, really. Hey,
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: you know, Ronald Savage Jr.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: we need you to come in. Or Jake Herman, we
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: need you to come in. Or, you know, Cole Dixon,
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: we need somebody to come in and run this Texans
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: game that's counting their pregame is probably going to be
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: like 8 o'clock in the morning or 7.30 in the morning,
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: something like that.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: So that's a good thing.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: We'll have the early start Saturday, though. That's for sure. Yeah.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah. And we expect that, obviously, Texas. 7 a.m.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: Is the airtime for coverage of the Longhorns game against
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: the Florida Gators, starting with the third and Longhorn preview
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: coming from the third and Longhorn podcast. Guys, that's at
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: 7 a.m. 8 a.m. from the Winship area. I feel
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: funny still calling it Winship Area, you know, because like
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: you said, you've seen it. It's not really so much
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: a circle anymore, is it? It's just kind of like
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: a staging area where a lot of things are set up, correct?
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 10: Correct.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 4: They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: Oh, there you go. Thank you very much. And some
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: good food trucks.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: And by the way, my wife, you'd bring a smile
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: to her face with a Joni Mitchell reference there.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: So 8 a.m.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: For Longhorns game day, Of course, Jake will be there
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: along with Cameron Parker and Mike Hardball-Harge and Mark Henry
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: and Eric Henry and the crew. They'll all be over there.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: So look forward to bringing you the coverage at 8 a.m.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: Steve reminded me now, I have to be ready to
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: go at 8.15, you know, with the live hit from
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: the broadcast. I'm usually there four hours out, so it's okay.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: It should work out.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: But 10 a.m.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: With the network pregame and the kickoff at 11.07 a.m.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: Is when I'm told.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 4: Okay, not too bad of a slide. What time is
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 4: your alarm going off on Saturday? Fans at home want
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 4: to know that.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: Probably 6, and then I'm out the door by 6.30.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: So I can get down there in the 7 to 7.15 range,
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: right in there.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, 6 a.m. I'll give myself the luxury of
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: sleeping till 6. There you go. If we can call
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: it that. I got in Tennessee, remember, it was 11 a.m. game.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: We were staying very close. The hotel was very close.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: Still had to drive around to the parking garage, but
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: it was still close. And it was, we went 6.30 a.m.,
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: wake up, 7 a.m. departure, but it was five minutes
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: over to the stadium and parking and getting in after that.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: But you know what? That was 6.30 Eastern. That's right,
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: because it was a noon Eastern kick.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, I did pull it back because I didn't
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: know how long it was going to take, you know,
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: in a queue to get in the line, into the
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: parking garage.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: We got lucky.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: We knew the parking garage because Roger and I had
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: parked in there when we were there for baseball back
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: in May.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: Same exact parking garage.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: Well, further walk from there, to Neyland Stadium than it
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: was to Lindsay Nelson Stadium there for baseball. It's almost
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: a stride, the baseball field, but not that bad. It's
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: about a 10-minute walk, maybe. So, yeah, probably 6 a.m.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: wake up, 6.30 departure, get down to the stadium just
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: past 7, get parked and get inside and be ready
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: to go.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: So we'll look forward to that on Saturday morning.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: Speaking of Saturday morning's game, coming up, more from Longhorn's
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: head coach, Steve Sarkeesian, when we continue on Sports Radio
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: AM 13 Under the Zone.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: And where you always listen to us for free on
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 7: So this is what you're.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: Suggesting that the university has done with the Winship Circle area.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: Is that what you're suggesting?
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 4: Well, it's a work in progress, but it's all flat now.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 4: So we'll see what it looks like now that it's
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 4: been a couple weeks since I've been down there.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: I'm curious to see the progress.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: And you don't have to take a big yellow taxi
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: to get there. You've got a parking pass.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 4: Just Just a big black and orange van.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: One of my wife's all-time musical heroes, Joni Mitchell. We
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: had a great time. We went to see her in concert.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: I think it was three years ago we went. And
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: she was at the Hollywood Bowl. It was tremendous.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: And I've talked about that show where she brought out
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: Sir Elton John and had Annie Lennox from Eurythmics. She
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 2: brought a special guest out. It was a great show.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: Let's get back to hearing from Longhorn's head coach, Steve Sarkeesian,
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: from this morning's media Zoom. And he was asked, you know,
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: this is kind of had a layer to it in
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: terms of the questions. How much of some of these
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: tough matchups that the Longhorns have and that other teams
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: have in the SEC get lost in the broader picture
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: of struggles by the offense?
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 5: I think what's hard is, you know, we all love stats, right?
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 5: And everybody can look at these guys are averaging these
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 5: many points and against these, you know, nobody really talks about, well,
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 5: who did you play? And what does it look like?
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 5: I always say we should only keep stats for Southeastern
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 5: Conference games because who people play in the non-conference, it's
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 5: not apples to apples. Same with why do we compare
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 5: stats with teams from the ACC or the Big Ten
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 5: or any other conferences when I don't know who they're playing.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: And so.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 5: For us, the biggest stat is winning and losing. Are
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 5: we doing the things necessary to try to win? And
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 5: are we improving and are we getting better to a
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 5: point to where we can beat the elite teams, knowing
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 5: that that's who you have to beat if you want
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 5: to have a really good record at the end of
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 5: the year? So I don't get really too much hung
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 5: up on that. I look more at our execution, our
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 5: level of consistency, knowing the quality of player and the
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 5: quality of coaches and the environments that we play in.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: Nextark was asked about his outside cornerbacks, how they've not
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: been thrown at that much. You haven't seen an awful
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: lot of those guys having to make some major plays there.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: And what does all that mean?
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 5: Well, we try to take away free access throws, you know,
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 5: and that was something that I felt like we could
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 5: be better at than we were in years past. We
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 5: play a lot more press coverage. We're a lot more
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 5: in your face. We try to take away those free
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 5: access throws to allow our pass rush to rush. So
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 5: I think that's part of it too. I think that
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 5: they're pretty good players. And so they're competing at the
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 5: top of routes and they're making, you know, route combinations
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 5: a little bit muddy. So I think there's all of that.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 5: And then with Coach Muschamp's ability to change up coverages
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 5: and to roll safeties over the top, to throw some
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 5: double coverage in there, to play some cloud coverage, I
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 5: just think all those things adding up into that's why
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 5: you're seeing a few less targets than maybe we've had
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 5: historically around here.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: He was then asked, you know, when there's always chatter
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: and there's always buzz around the program, you know, how
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: much attention do people pay to it? In fact, I
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: even asked Sark a similar question with regard to the
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: players on Longhorn Weekly, which you'll hear coming up. at
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: seven o'clock tonight about the players being able to block
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: out that sound. I know what the coach is going
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: to say, and it was predictable as well. What Sark
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: was going to say when asked the question about the
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: outside comments, uh, and, and, you know, does that get
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: into his mind when he's considering any changes he might
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: have to make?
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 5: I don't really pay any attention to it. I'll be
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 5: quite frankly with you. Like I don't, The opinions of
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 5: others does not dictate the way I think or the
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 5: way we operate or the way we perform. We look
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 5: at everything internally, and we try to do the best
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 5: job that we can do to put our players in
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 5: the best position to be successful.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: He was next to ask about Colin Simmons. With everything
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: he's done off the edge, is there some consideration of
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: moving him around?
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 5: Again, there's always a plan, right, from week to week of,
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 5: you know, how we're trying to attack our opponents. um
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 5: based on their personnel based on the schemes that they
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 5: like to use um and then it's situational football right
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 5: um it's a lot easier to move calling around as
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 5: you start getting to the third medium and third longs
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 5: and doing more of that than if they're in third
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 5: and shorts or it's first and second down football um
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 5: But again, that varies from week to week. And then
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 5: we try to do things, like I said, predicated on
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 5: the scheme, the team we're playing, to put him in
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 5: those different positions to be effective and have an impact
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 5: on the game.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 2: Sark was then asked about this whole sack thing. You
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 2: heard it earlier.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: It was kind of humorous about Sark taking 83 sacks
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: in his collegiate career. The sack numbers have spiked up
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: a little bit against Arch Manning. And it is on
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: a track Where we could see Manning sacked more times
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: this season than he was last year. So what's led
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: in Sark's mind to Arch taking more sacks? Is it
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: Arch holding the ball too long? Is it the offensive
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: line not doing the job? Is it great coverage sacks?
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: What is it?
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  Speaker 5: I think it's probably a combination of all. Um, there's,
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 5: there's some things to where we haven't blocked some things. Well,
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 5: I can point back to the Tennessee game. I didn't,
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 5: I didn't think we protected well from a schematic standpoint
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 5: and an execution standpoint. I think there's some other opportunities
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 5: where maybe he could have tucked it and ran, um,
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 5: and used his legs as we were touching on earlier to,
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 5: to get positive yards and not have to take that sack. Um,
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  Speaker 5: And then thirdly, I think it's him maybe getting to
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 5: some outlet throws, you know, where he spits the ball
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 5: on the perimeter or checks it down to a running
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 5: back and they can create big plays for him. So
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 5: I think there's layers to all this. But again, that's
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 5: our job as coaches is how do we block it better?
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 5: How do we run plays that we can execute at
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 5: a really high level? And how can we make sure
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 5: that he is using all of his strengths to make
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 5: it difficult to create negative plays? Because the negative plays,
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 5: I think, then lend itself to Third longs, three and outs,
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 5: all the other stuff we'd like to talk about on here.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 5: So we got to stay ahead of the chains. And
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 5: how do we do that? We minimize the negative plays.
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  Speaker 1: Next, Sark was asked about the challenges that the Florida
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: Gators present for the game plan and how it could
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: be difficult for based on what you saw earlier in
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: the season for Florida as opposed to what you've seen
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think, one, they've got really good players. And
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 5: so that's the first part. When you look at their roster,
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 5: the depth they have, the physicality that they play with
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 5: on both sides of the line of scrimmage, the size
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 5: they have. They've got a big running back. They've got
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 5: big linebackers. They're a big, good-looking football team. And then
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 5: they've got really good schemes. They've got really good coordinators
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 5: on both sides of the ball. And so the challenge
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 5: is like we have to make sure that we're playing
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 5: the game at a really physical high level. But on
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 5: the same breath, the same token, we got to utilize
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 5: one of our strengths is our speed on the perimeter.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 5: And how do we do that, whether it's on defense
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 5: and running and getting ourselves to the football so that
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 5: we're getting multiple white hats in and around the ball?
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 5: And then how do we get our playmakers in space
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 5: to create explosive plays and not just try to play
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 5: the game in a phone booth?
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: And then one more from Steve Sarkeesian. He was asked
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: about the 10 personnel. Now, again, I've been impressed.
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  Speaker 2: Let me just put it this way.
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: It is impressive to have the understanding that fans, by
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: and large, have the understanding of what numbered personnel means.
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: But Longhorn fans, I think, have become very, very accustomed
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: to it and understand it when we say things like
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: 13 personnel, meaning one back, three tight ends.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 2: The running back is always the one first.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: And by the way, on the Manning cast on Monday night,
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: they have portions in the telecast where they go Manning-splaining.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: and they'll use some football terminology. And one of them
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: was 13 personnel. And it's written out the area where
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: there's the first number refers to how many are in
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: the backfield. The second number refers to how many receivers
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: are tight ends. And so they were talking about 13
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: personnel at the time with one back and three tight
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: ends because the Rams use that, you know, from time
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: to time. Well, lately, the Longhorns have been using more
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: and more 10 personnel, one back, and no tight ends
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: and it's wide receivers because of Jermaine Bishop and what
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: he can bring to the party. In fact, it was
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: something I asked Sark about on the show last night
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: as well, 10 personnel, how there's been more of a
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: comfort level. And my point is, is that a lot
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: of Longhorn fans have gotten to where they understand 12 personnel,
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: one back, two tight ends, 21 that'll line up if
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: they line up, especially down in short yardage or goal
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: line situations where they have two backs, may line up
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: in a straight eye with Amari Winston or one of
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: the tight ends lining up as a full back off
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: of that, and then one tight end up on the line.
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 8: So....
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 2: You know, you might have that. So Sark was asked.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: About what are the benefits and for that matter, what
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: would the drawbacks be of having 10 personnel, you know,
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: one back and then all wide receivers out there?
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: On third down situations?
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 5: Well, you're limited protection rise, right? We just talked about
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 5: 83 sacks I took. So, like, at that point, you
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 5: have five, maximum six pass protectors.
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 9: Well.
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  Speaker 5: really good defensive coordinators like the ones we play against,
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 5: if they know that that's all you're going to do,
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 5: I promise you we're going to get schemed up. And
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 5: so you have to be able to change gears, switch gears,
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 5: do different things, or we can stand back there in
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 5: five and six man protection and guys are going to
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 5: be running free in Archer's face. So we've got to
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 5: continually change those things. Don't get me wrong. Our 10
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 5: personnel is really good to us and it's grown a
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 5: as the season's gone on and it's been effective. But
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 5: you have layers to that. Your run game can get limited.
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 5: Your pass protections can get limited. So you have to
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 5: have other things to offset that if people are trying
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 5: to attack that aspect.
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 2: Of your game.
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: So in the final analysis, as they started to get
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: teams ready for this, you know, one thing that comes
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: into mind is how healthy are you? In examining the
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: press conference, that John Summerill had during the week. He
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: said that they were going to roll back, if you will,
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: some of the practice times, meaning go a little bit later,
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: try to get their guys a little more rested because
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: they're kind of banged up. If you look at the
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: SEC student-athlete availability report, we were talking about Duke Clark. Well,
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: he's been listed as out now for the game. Vernell
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: Brown III, outstanding receiver. listed as questionable. Bailey Stockton, wide receiver,
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: listed as questionable. Aaron Filo, the quarterback, listed as questionable
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: with that shoulder thing. They'll probably update it as it
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: goes forward. And if Filo can't play on Saturday, then
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: you're looking at the backup quarterback for the Gators having
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: to come in and do the job.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 2: And we'll see.
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: Again, he's listed as questionable, so we'll see how that
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  Speaker 1: all works.
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 2: But That'll be on Saturday.
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: Now, meanwhile, the Longhorns have been largely, probably the healthiest
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: they've been throughout the course of the entire season coming in,
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: I would say. There's a good chance of it anyway
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: being about as healthy as they've been. On the injury
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: report for Texas, the only one that's listed definitely out
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: is Jayden Chapman. Kalik Lockett's list is doubtful. Jordan Coleman's
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 1: list is questionable.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 2: And Justice Terry now upgraded to probable. And that is
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 2: a good sign.
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: And you compare that to things like for Mississippi State,
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: where they've got four guys out, one doubtful, two questionable,
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: including their quarterback, Kamario Taylor, as they get ready for LSU.
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: LSU has five guys out and one guy questionable. Alabama
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: has six guys out, one questionable, one probable.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 2: Tennessee. Post-Georgia bump. I'm telling you.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: And Tennessee has six guys out, and Faison Brandon's listed
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: as questionable.
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 4: They're going to sit Faison Brandon anyway if he's available.
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 2: Right, exactly.
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: Auburn with three guys out. Georgia with five out.
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 2: K.J. Bolden is questionable. Marcus Harrison is probable.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: And then Missouri, it's unbelievable what they've got. They've got
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: five guys out, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: 11 guys questionable, and eight guys, including quarterback Austin Simmons,
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: listed as probable. Ole Miss, nine guys out, three questionable,
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: two probable. Arkansas, two out, one doubtful, two questionable.
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 2: Vanderbilt.
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: Seven guys out, one doubtful, three questionable, one probable. Kentucky,
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: four guys out, four out, one doubtful, four questionable, including C.J.
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 2: Baxter, and two probable.
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: And then Oklahoma, for this matchup with them, has five
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: guys out, one, two, three, four, five, six guys, including
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: Eli Bowen and Parker Livingston, listed as questionable and two
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: listed as probable.
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 2: So that's a lot there on that.
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: All right, we're going to hear an excerpt from last
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: night's edition of Longhorn Weekly with our special guest, Michael Taft.
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: That's coming up next when we continue on Sports Radio
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: AM 13 Under the Zone and the iHeartRadio app. It's
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: pretty interesting how you can philosophically as well as musically.
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 2: Move from Joni Mitchell.
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: And Big Yellow Taxi to Billy Joel with 2017, Miami 2017,
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: seeing the lights going on Broadway. But I understand where
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: you're going with this because the Miami Dolphins is where
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: Lifetime Longhorn, Michael Taft now toils. And maybe it's a
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: futuristic difficult situation down there since they're all in five
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: right now. That song by Billy Joel is about a
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: futuristic viewpoint of the world, how New York City was
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: pretty much abandoned and blown up and.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 2: All this stuff.
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: And all the old timers who settled down in the
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: Miami area. And the year he picked was 2017. He
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: did this like in 1975. So that's pretty funny hearing
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: about that. But here in the year 2026, Michael Taft
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: is playing for the Miami Dolphins. And he was our
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: special guest. The Dolphins had an open date on the schedule.
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: So he was in town. He's been going to practice.
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: He'll be at the game on Saturday. And it started
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: off with us talking about a touchdown pass that the
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: Longhorns had to Cam Coleman to open up the segment.
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 2: Manning on first down, play action. Arch looking to throw,
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 2: steps up to the pocket, scrams his left, fires.
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 11: Deep downfield, he's got Coleman open.
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 2: Here with a flip down, touchdown Texas. Cam Coleman got
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 2: behind the defense. Arch with a great rollout and fired
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 2: a 41-yard touchdown strike.
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  Speaker 1: We welcome you back to Longhorn Weekly. Our special guest
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: is Michael Tapp. I want to go back to that.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: That was the first of the three touchdown passes that
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: Arch threw in the ballgame.
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 2: I thought you made a good point of this on Monday.
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: Folks, naturally, understandably, are going to fixate on those last
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: two throws. But before that, he really played pretty well
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: in a lot of the areas of the game, including
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: that touchdown.
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 5: Again, you know me. I give credit where credit's due.
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 5: OU's got a really good defense football team. I think
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 5: Georgia had 303 yards of offense against them total. The
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 5: score was a little lopsided because of the turnovers by
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 5: their offense.
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 2: Well, they fixed that.
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 5: They didn't turn the ball over. And, but at the
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 5: end of the day, I think we had nearly almost
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 5: 400 yards of offense and weren't even still great, but
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 5: I mean, I felt Arch, the touchdown to Cam, the
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 5: touchdown to Ryan down the middle, the drive, the response.
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 5: After the pick six, that next drive to drive down,
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 5: he hits Jermaine Bishop for the touchdown to tie the
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 5: game back up. So there was a lot of good
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 5: in there. Nobody feels worse than he does. You know, quarterbacks,
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 5: you know, when you throw an interception, nobody loves it.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 5: But do you have the mental fortitude to get back
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 5: on the horse and ride again? and if there's one
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 5: thing I know about Arch Manning, he's going to get
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 5: back on the horse, he's going to ride, and he'll
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 5: be ready to play Saturday.
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: And I would imagine, Michael, not just in the case
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: of your quarterback, but any high-profile teammate who has a
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: disappointing result, you and other teammates are always working to
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: pick somebody up that might need it, whether they're tough
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: enough or not.
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, obviously me and Arch are very close here,
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 13: and still are very close, and Every time either we
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 13: got an interception or maybe he threw an interception, it
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 13: was always back and forth. Hey, we got your back.
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 13: We got your back. I always tell people, who's a leader?
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 13: I'll show you a leader. What happens when they just
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 13: threw an interception?
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 2: What are they going to do right after it?
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 13: It didn't seem like, obviously I wasn't there, but it
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 13: didn't seem like he wavered on the sideline. He went
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 13: to go, had a heck of a drive, that next drive,
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 13: and throws a touchdown, poised composure. Me and Arch always
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 13: share conversations, but It's, it's not the ever the one
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 13: to like, why are you going to get mad at
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 13: somebody for trying to win a game?
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 2: It's not like he's trying to throw a bad pass.
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 13: He, he throws one over the middle and cover to
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 13: where the Mike linebacker doesn't carry and he's supposed to
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 13: carry the through route and he sees and he throws
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 13: a dime to Ryan Wingo and it's like.
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 2: Why can't we talk about that play?
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 13: Because that, as you know, a tricky two where they're
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 13: disguising one high and then they're bringing a simulated two,
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 13: that's really hard.
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 2: That's one of my favorite coverages.
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 13: And to see that they're showing man, then busting out
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 13: to cover two, and the mic doesn't... doesn't take the
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 13: through out and you rip it when that's probably not
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 13: even the first read it's like that's a pretty impressive
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 13: play so uh i don't think it's ever anybody i
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 13: know from my experience i'm never wanting to miss a
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 13: tackle or bust the coverage it's it's if i'm not
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 13: playing hard okay get on my butt but if i'm
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 13: you know i miss the tackle okay pick me up
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 13: you know and so that's what teammates are for to
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 13: pick you up and encourage and.
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: Coaches are here to coach you hard um Mookie. They
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: were calling it that in high school, if I remember.
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: Where'd it come from? Yeah, well, it was a childhood nickname.
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 13: My favorite baseball player was outfitter Melky Cabrera back in
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 13: the day. I couldn't say Melky when I was younger.
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 13: So I said Mookie Cabrera. And Miss Ellinger, Sam's mother,
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 13: she was standing around Coach Dodge. And so Coach Dodge
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 13: loved it.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 4: And I guess.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 2: it got up to you in the booth.
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 13: So then you started calling me that, and obviously Coach
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 13: Stark heard it around here, so now it's stuck down
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 13: in Texas, and we'll see if it travels all the
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 13: way to Miami.
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see. And that was something.
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 1: I know coaches love it when you have that kind
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  Speaker 1: of player connection that may or may not include nicknames,
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  Speaker 1: but if it does, all the better, right?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 15: Well, yeah, I'm a big nickname guy to begin with.
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  Speaker 15: I just, I'm not great with names in general. So
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  Speaker 15: when I can name you something myself, I always feel good.
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  Speaker 15: But I love a good nickname, man. So Mookie said,
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  Speaker 15: but I didn't know who the heck they were talking about.
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  Speaker 5: Mookie got a pick. I'm like, who the hell is Mookie?
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  Speaker 1: Biggest difference between playing college football and playing in the NFL?
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, a lot of people ask me that. Obviously the urgency.
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  Speaker 13: In Indy, it's not get out of your break and
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  Speaker 13: jog and catch the ball. It's everybody is, everything is filmed.
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  Speaker 13: Everything is watched. Everything is being evaluated at all times
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  Speaker 13: because all you get as a fifth round draft pick
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  Speaker 13: is your signing bonus. And that's the only thing guaranteed.
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  Speaker 13: So tomorrow I could get a call and now I'm jobless.
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  Speaker 13: And so everything's urgent. You're always being watched. But to
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  Speaker 13: be honest, like, you know, me and coach Stark talked
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  Speaker 13: about this before I was going out, like everybody wants
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  Speaker 13: to do these new workouts and have this new routine.
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  Speaker 13: And now that they don't have school, all of a
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  Speaker 13: sudden they're a really, really hard worker. But if you're
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  Speaker 13: just doing what you've been doing from freshman year, when
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  Speaker 13: you were a walk-on to get you to this point,
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  Speaker 13: you just keep doing that and you just do it
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  Speaker 13: at a higher level, then everything's going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: How you want it to happen.
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  Speaker 13: So, The hashes are a little tighter. The numbers are
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  Speaker 13: a little wider. The balls are not going to be
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  Speaker 13: at 15 yards on the dig. It might be at 20,
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  Speaker 13: and it's going to be right over the hook player's head.
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  Speaker 13: it's still the same football, and the platform is that
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  Speaker 13: you love football, and that you're having a lot of fun,
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  Speaker 13: and the X's and O's will come after, because if
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  Speaker 13: you set the standard of, I'm going to play really hard,
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  Speaker 13: and I'm going to give a lot of effort, I'm
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  Speaker 13: going to be a good leader and a good teammate,
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  Speaker 13: everything else follows, so like our conversation, I'm just doing
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  Speaker 13: what I've been doing, and know what I believe in,
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  Speaker 13: and you know, everything that they taught me here, Coach Sark,
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  Speaker 13: and Coach Piquet, and Coach Gideon, and uh, all the
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  Speaker 13: guys that coach Beckton, I'm just following that and trying
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  Speaker 13: to bring the Texas culture to Miami and see what happens.
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  Speaker 5: What do you, what do you miss the most?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you, you, you born and raised in Austin.
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  Speaker 8: Now you're living in Miami.
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  Speaker 5: You're playing for the dolphins.
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  Speaker 2: What do you miss?
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  Speaker 10: Man?
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  Speaker 2: Um, as like you're back.
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  Speaker 5: Now for four or five days.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, literally.
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  Speaker 13: Well, we're for sure going to go to Matt's old ranch. Um,
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  Speaker 13: but inside the locker room, like, Um, just going downstairs
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  Speaker 13: and smelling the snacks right before your afternoon meetings and
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  Speaker 13: going to the afternoon meetings and fooling around before your
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 13: coach comes in there and ripping your butt, um, victory Mondays,
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  Speaker 13: you get the ice cream in your, in your office. Um,
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  Speaker 13: like all that stuff, the camaraderie, because it is a
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  Speaker 13: business in the NFL, as you know, you coached it. And, um,
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  Speaker 13: you know, people have families and everybody says that, but like,
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  Speaker 13: what does that mean?
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  Speaker 2: You just go home and.
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  Speaker 13: You're watching film or you're watching a show and You're
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  Speaker 13: not going to Arch's house and eating dinner or doing
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  Speaker 13: something with the DBs on a Wednesday night.
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  Speaker 2: And so I miss that a lot.
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  Speaker 13: I think we have a good culture in Miami, but
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  Speaker 13: I think the player-to-teammate aspect is a little bit different
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  Speaker 13: in the NFL. The closest guy to me is 29
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  Speaker 13: years old, so it's just.
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  Speaker 2: A little different.
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  Speaker 13: But I'm having a lot of fun, but I do
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  Speaker 13: miss the camaraderie down here and 40 Acres for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Have you gotten to the point where you can actually–
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  Speaker 1: call a 29 year old an old head or another
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  Speaker 1: guy an old head.
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  Speaker 13: No they joke with me somehow when i'm talking to
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  Speaker 13: him and i say his age somehow it just keeps
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  Speaker 13: getting older and older so they like to make fun
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  Speaker 13: of me but uh man i'm loving it i'm soaking
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  Speaker 13: it up and just trying to learn as much we
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  Speaker 13: appreciate you dropping by thanks appreciate y'all always great to
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 13: visit with michael taft and uh if you see him
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  Speaker 13: standing on the sidelines that'll be the reason why.
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  Speaker 2: Dolphins with an open date on the schedule we'll
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  Speaker 1: Be back to wrap up today's edition of the program
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  Speaker 1: on 13 under the zone