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Craig Way chats with Jahdae Barron and Quinn Ewers · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Back to the Craigway Show.
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  Speaker 1: here on the Craig Way Show.
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  Speaker 2: Cameron Parker filling in for Craig Way, who's out in Atlanta, Georgia,
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  Speaker 2: preparing for Texas in Arizona State. Today is media Day
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  Speaker 2: at the College Football Hall of Fame, where Texas and
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  Speaker 2: Arizona State players and coaches able to visit with the media.
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  Speaker 2: That includes Craig Way, who's out on assignment. Maybe you
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  Speaker 2: might say you got to sit down with Texas offensive
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  Speaker 2: back Thorpe Winner and Flugerville native Jeanne Barrin earlier this afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: So has anybody.
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  Speaker 3: Brought up the subject that there's a finite number of
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  Speaker 3: games left for you, whether it's hopefully three? But does
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  Speaker 3: that cross your mind thinking, Hey, I want to make
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  Speaker 3: the most of every practice.
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  Speaker 1: You try to do that anyway with your effort.
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  Speaker 3: But do you, uh, you know, enjoy the moment even
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  Speaker 3: on the practice field as well as in the games.
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  Speaker 4: I mean most definitely. That's that's been one of another
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  Speaker 4: one of the goals, just to practice you know, better
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  Speaker 4: practice habits, and UH coach PK and Coach Joseph them
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  Speaker 4: just pushing me just just go out there and have
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  Speaker 4: that effort and that mentality. And then even coach Planks
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  Speaker 4: and coach Shark just pushing me on on a special
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  Speaker 4: team standpoint. So I think that that's always been the mindset.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, when you know, when you know things
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  Speaker 4: that limited. You know, for one, we're not promised anything.
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  Speaker 4: We're not promised today. I'm not promised the next second,
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  Speaker 4: the next hour, the next day. But ultimately you just
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  Speaker 4: got to enjoy, you know, enjoy the process, and then
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  Speaker 4: you know, don't be afraid of anything, you know, just
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  Speaker 4: just put your trust in God and then just go
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  Speaker 4: out there and have fun. So I think just going
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  Speaker 4: out there and having fun. Shoot today when I go
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  Speaker 4: to practice, you know, going out there having fun. I
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  Speaker 4: mean during these UH during these interviews and things like that.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's how you get the best experience and
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  Speaker 4: the most experience out of.
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  Speaker 1: Everything when it comes to UH. There was a state.
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  Speaker 3: One thing that's continually said about them is that they
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  Speaker 3: are non complicated, that that they it's nothing really weird
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  Speaker 3: about what they do. They come right at you, they
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  Speaker 3: go right there, justcatabe of the running back in the
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  Speaker 3: way they do what strikes you most about them.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, uh, I mean that too.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, they had two three weeks to prepare
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  Speaker 4: for you know, both teams either teams who have won,
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  Speaker 4: so just a preparation at the time they had in
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  Speaker 4: a period of time. You know, they most definitely installed
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  Speaker 4: some things, you know, you know.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of things.
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  Speaker 4: You know, this is a big game on a big stage,
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  Speaker 4: so they're gonna put their their best foot forward. Uh
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  Speaker 4: you know, I don't know what they will present until
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  Speaker 4: until the time comes, but I mean they have they
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  Speaker 4: have a great team, an amazing coach, so the opportunity
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  Speaker 4: is gonna be good.
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  Speaker 3: Has it also been kind of like a mini buy
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  Speaker 3: for you guys, being able to have a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of time after the Clemson game and then the Christmas
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  Speaker 3: break tucked in there.
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  Speaker 4: Most definitely, you know, we got enough time to get
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  Speaker 4: our bodies back and things like that. You know, you see,
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  Speaker 4: we got players back, so I know that's gonna help
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  Speaker 4: contribute to our success. But I think it's been a
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  Speaker 4: good amount of time for us as a collective group.
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  Speaker 4: You know, just to prepare a meeting standpoint and the
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  Speaker 4: body standpoint and practice.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, now about Quinn you weers.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, we played some sound from him earlier today
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  Speaker 2: addressing the Sam Levitt comments, and we have some other
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  Speaker 2: stuff too. But here's a little bit from Quinn you
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  Speaker 2: weers at today's media availability in Atlanta, Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: Your normandy of this game. Here you are, you're one
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  Speaker 1: last week and now here you are in the final.
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  Speaker 3: Teams the peach points. What's that mean to you?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, it means a lot to just still
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  Speaker 5: be playing football at the end of the day. You know,
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  Speaker 5: obviously we're blessed with the opportunity to still be playing
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  Speaker 5: and you know, couldn't be more excited.
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  Speaker 1: For all these guys and and the rest of the seasons.
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  Speaker 1: How about taking on the Ashue defense now they's in
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  Speaker 1: the state.
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  Speaker 2: What are you seeings so far and film?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I don't think they do a whole
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  Speaker 5: which means that they're really good at what they do,
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  Speaker 5: and you know, they know their assignments really well, especially
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  Speaker 5: in the upenfield first and second down.
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  Speaker 1: You know, obviously third downs a little different. But it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a fun matchup for sure? Where you were?
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  Speaker 1: You all, we're here, it's the championship game here in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 4: Back in the pageball, we're here in Atlanta, hopefully be
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  Speaker 4: back here in Atlanta for the Natives.
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  Speaker 1: Poble kind of liked you all trying to make the
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  Speaker 1: second resident. Yeah that's right, Yeah for sure.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, like you said, we're here for sec and
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  Speaker 5: we just it feels like we just always were.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna keep trying.
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  Speaker 5: To get back here.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, for sure. Quinn, how unique has it been
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  Speaker 3: depred for new format?
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  Speaker 4: Right? Played at home for your first college football playoff experience,
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  Speaker 4: now on the road again for a quarterfinals?
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  Speaker 1: What's that week of preparation been like, free Flos, You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's been good. Excited to be in Atlanta for sure.
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  Speaker 5: Again, just ecided for the opportunity to get to play,
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  Speaker 5: you know, a good team like Arizona State and well
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  Speaker 5: see what happens.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we heard a lot of things about how
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  Speaker 3: the different things were with the playoff time frame and
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  Speaker 3: all that sort of stuff. We kind of come off
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  Speaker 3: a mini bi a little bit. Did it help in
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  Speaker 3: terms of grass preparation all of that kind of stuff
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  Speaker 3: In the mental it.
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  Speaker 5: Does but yeah, you know, it's definitely nice to get
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  Speaker 5: some time off, not only for for your mental side,
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  Speaker 5: but you know for your body as well. It's cool
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  Speaker 5: you said it like I say, it's like a mini
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  Speaker 5: buite for sure.
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  Speaker 1: It definitely nice.
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  Speaker 3: How long did you get for Christmas with the family?
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  Speaker 5: We got two days, so Christmas Eve and then Christmas
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  Speaker 5: Day we were back to twenty six So it was nice.
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  Speaker 3: That's nice to going on thing like a week, right, Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it was really nice with the big.
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  Speaker 1: You all first year, and yes, to see come from
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  Speaker 1: the Big twelve. You all a happy success that you're
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  Speaker 1: adding your first year. What's some of the things that
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  Speaker 1: you've learned transitioning from.
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  Speaker 3: The Big twelve to the some of the some of
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  Speaker 3: the different things that you've learned.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean.
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  Speaker 3: I think away games.
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  Speaker 5: Are a little little a little harder.
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  Speaker 3: For sure, but.
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  Speaker 5: I think we did a really good job of just
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  Speaker 5: focusing on us and not all this stuffs going around
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  Speaker 5: us and really just focus on the opinions inside of
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  Speaker 5: our four walls and just staying a Namer with us
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  Speaker 5: and overall that's that's what helped us, you know, win
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  Speaker 5: all these games.
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  Speaker 1: When you guys come in as two touchdown favorites in
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  Speaker 1: this game.
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  Speaker 2: Lust on cuff a little bit there, So sorry about that,
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  Speaker 2: and sorry about the Texas fight song playing in the background.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on at media day.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of asked Craig about that, but enjoy that
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  Speaker 2: sound from from quinn Ewers as Texas prepares for Arizona
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  Speaker 2: State and taking the high road. When asked about sam
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  Speaker 2: Levitt's comments, does not mean that quinn Ewers is not
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  Speaker 2: a confident quarterback. Sam Levitt, Kim Skataboo like to maybe
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  Speaker 2: express their confidence, you know, through their words. But I
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  Speaker 2: think some players like to express their confidence by the
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  Speaker 2: way they play football, the way they carry themselves on
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  Speaker 2: the football field. And I can't speak to Quinn's level
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  Speaker 2: of confidence because I don't know what it is at
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  Speaker 2: but I think at times we do see it on
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  Speaker 2: the football field and the way he does celebrate with
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  Speaker 2: his players. I do think he's a confident quarterback. I
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  Speaker 2: think he played well against Clemson. I think he played
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  Speaker 2: well against Georgia, and I think Texas needs them to
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  Speaker 2: play well against Arizona State. And they do have a
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  Speaker 2: pass defense that I think is very susceptible to getting
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  Speaker 2: thrown on. Looking at their EPA in terms of defensive
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  Speaker 2: success rate on dropbacks one hundred and first in the country,
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  Speaker 2: it tells him that Texas will be able to move
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  Speaker 2: the ball against the Arizona State secondary and I think
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  Speaker 2: they'll be able to do it against the rush as well.
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  Speaker 2: They're fortieth in terms of EPA and defensive success rate
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  Speaker 2: depending rush plays. That's not that great. That's outside the
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  Speaker 2: top twenty five. They's seventieth overall, the number that I
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  Speaker 2: think Texas can take advantage of, and we're going to
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  Speaker 2: see this on Wednesday. I do not think Texas will
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  Speaker 2: have any trouble with the Arizona State defensive line or
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  Speaker 2: the offensive line. You win football games in the trenches.
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  Speaker 2: We saw it against Clemson, and I fully expect to
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  Speaker 2: see it on Wednesday against Arizona State. More than come
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  Speaker 2: here on The Craigway Show, going to wrap up our
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  Speaker 2: number two and hear more from Kyle Flood, from Steve Starkesian,
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  Speaker 2: Michael Taff, Anthony Hill, and more as The Craigway Show
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  Speaker 2: continues on this Monday afternoon