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How far is Texas away from the "Standard"? · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: It's the Craig Way Show with the voice of the
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  Speaker 1: Texas Longhorns and Hall of Fame broadcaster Craig Way.
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  Speaker 2: All right, thanks again the Jeene Watson, our MLB insider,
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  Speaker 2: joining us here to talk about Game three of the
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  Speaker 2: World Series tonight between the Yankees and the Dodgers at
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  Speaker 2: Yankee Stadium in New York. Let's go back to hearing
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  Speaker 2: some more from longgrn's head coach Steve Sarkasian. We're talking
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  Speaker 2: about going into the bye week, and so when that happens,
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  Speaker 2: and I remember this happening wing in the first by
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  Speaker 2: week after the Mississippi State game, the or coming yeah
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  Speaker 2: into the Mississippi State game, I guess the conversation of
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  Speaker 2: what was going to happen throughout the course of the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the college football season and meaning one loss
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  Speaker 2: teams getting into the playoff, maybe even two lost teams
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  Speaker 2: getting into the playoff. And sark was asked for his
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  Speaker 2: his breakdown on that, but also to start off by
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  Speaker 2: talking about what he and his players describe as a standard.
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  Speaker 2: We've talked about this during the course of the season.
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  Speaker 2: When they say the standard is the standard, So.
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  Speaker 3: How far are they from their standard?
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  Speaker 2: And as a sidebar, does he think a two loss
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  Speaker 2: team can get in? Is that?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I'm I'm always like that the glass half
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  Speaker 4: full guy. But yet I can always see the half
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  Speaker 4: empty part, you know, And I think that's probably a
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  Speaker 4: healthy balance to have that I'm not just looking at
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  Speaker 4: things through a straw.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we're so close, Like this.
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  Speaker 4: Past game, if you would have said the game would
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  Speaker 4: have finished, you know, forty five to ten, it wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: have surprised me if you just watched the film and
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  Speaker 4: watch some of the execution that was happening. But yet
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  Speaker 4: we have things that are happening in game that are
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  Speaker 4: causing the game to remain a little closer than we
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  Speaker 4: would have liked.
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  Speaker 3: Whether it's holding.
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  Speaker 4: Penalties, whether it's tipball interceptions, whether it's a couple penalties
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  Speaker 4: on defense that swing the score. And so I'm always
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  Speaker 4: striving for what does perfection look like? And then I
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  Speaker 4: go in this morning with the team and I walk
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  Speaker 4: them through of, hey, this is the difference in forty
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  Speaker 4: two or forty five to ten as compared to twenty
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  Speaker 4: seven to twenty four, right, And we just talked about
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  Speaker 4: you know, I showed a twenty one play cut up
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  Speaker 4: to them this morning, But in reality, that was about
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  Speaker 4: six or seven plays that swung that game in that direction.
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  Speaker 3: And so that's what we strive for at some point.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if we're ever gonna have to play
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  Speaker 4: a perfect game, but we're gonna have to play cop
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  Speaker 4: closer to perfect to go achieve the things that we
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  Speaker 4: want to achieve. And there's nothing wrong with that as
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  Speaker 4: a competitor, right, We're not a finished product. I think
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  Speaker 4: our best football is ahead of us, and we're looking
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  Speaker 4: forward to that. As far as a one loss, two loss,
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  Speaker 4: three loss team, no, I don't, I don't know. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it's we're only at the halfway point. This is crazy
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  Speaker 4: to think of where college football is at, what our
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  Speaker 4: conference is about.
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  Speaker 3: And you watch all the games, and you know, I
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  Speaker 3: get it.
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  Speaker 4: We beat a top twenty five team by three on
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  Speaker 4: the road, you know, But that same team, you know,
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  Speaker 4: beat a top twenty five team at home and in
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  Speaker 4: his one other games. I've seen other teams lose games before.
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  Speaker 4: I had to remind our players is you know, Georgia
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  Speaker 4: came into our game with a loss already, right, And
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  Speaker 4: so things happen. It's hard to go undefeated and this
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  Speaker 4: conference is hard to go undefeated in college football. The
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  Speaker 4: point being is can you just continue to grow and
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  Speaker 4: get better and then the chips.
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  Speaker 3: Fall where they may?
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  Speaker 4: You know, so, I don't know how many losses it's
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  Speaker 4: gonna take to get in or not get in.
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  Speaker 3: Our first mission.
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  Speaker 4: Our first goal is to try to win an SEC championship,
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  Speaker 4: and then we'll recalibrate after that kind of for the
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  Speaker 4: second season.
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  Speaker 3: If we're able to get in now.
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  Speaker 2: Next he was asked about I guess the best way
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  Speaker 2: to describe it is downfield passing, about so many of
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  Speaker 2: the passes being short and in the screen.
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  Speaker 3: Git, wasn't this your buddy?
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  Speaker 2: C J.
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  Speaker 3: Vogel asked this question? He did.
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  Speaker 2: He was asking about that about how do you deal
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  Speaker 2: with that when there's so many of the passes have
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  Speaker 2: been in the short game and sark had already response is.
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  Speaker 4: Tell him to move up, then we'll throw it over.
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  Speaker 4: They played man to man on one snap that wasn't
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  Speaker 4: in the red area. We threw a touchdown pass over
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  Speaker 4: their head.
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  Speaker 3: Tell them to move up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and and CJ t his credit. He posted that
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  Speaker 2: the tweet, and I think he was just trying to do,
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  Speaker 2: you know, his due diligence as a journalist, and he
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  Speaker 2: went on and showed some other video and stuff that
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  Speaker 2: wasn't really on Sork of the passing game downfield with
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  Speaker 2: the way coverages were there. He was there was nothing
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  Speaker 2: wrong with it, he said, And you heard the chuckling there.
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  Speaker 2: So it's kind of done half jogging telling them move
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  Speaker 2: up because everybody's playing back.
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  Speaker 3: But when you read something.
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  Speaker 2: On social media, it could come across looking or sounding
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  Speaker 2: or harsh or insensitive or whatever. And there were some
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  Speaker 2: people that were wanted to take stark to task for that.
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  Speaker 2: So how you just being snarky, Bob? Now you heard
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  Speaker 2: the joking. He was just kind of saying it tongue
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  Speaker 2: in cheek, tell him to move up? What else? What
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  Speaker 2: else you're gonna do? You're gonna throw downfield into coverage
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  Speaker 2: like that? And he talked about it. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if we put the cut yet. Ever, it's coming up
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  Speaker 2: about how defenses are playing, like where we throw it
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  Speaker 2: deep all the time and we don't. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: you call plays on how the defense is set up, right,
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  Speaker 2: I mean? And CJ I would have let him to
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  Speaker 2: that asking that question. Was this morning he tweeted out
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  Speaker 2: that I think eighteen of yours thirty seven pass attempts
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  Speaker 2: traveled with five ear yards or less down the field.
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  Speaker 3: That's correct, and that's by design.
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  Speaker 1: Right now. I'm sure there's some routes where Texas has
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  Speaker 1: a receiver who's running a fader going deep in the field.
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  Speaker 1: But when you have a two high look or a
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  Speaker 1: three high look, you throw the underneath route because the
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  Speaker 1: likelihood is running back receivers wide open and there's a
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  Speaker 1: chance they're going to give it a big chunk of
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  Speaker 1: yardist you know. That's and Start pointed out the one
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  Speaker 1: touchdown where Vanderbilt played man covers led to a Geandre
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  Speaker 1: More touchdown.
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  Speaker 3: Right listen.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly, nothing wrong with CJ asking that question. Very fair
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  Speaker 2: question ask and I thought Sark cancered it pretty plain
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  Speaker 2: and simply like that. It's just sometimes you can get
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  Speaker 2: misconstrued when folks look at it on social media. There
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  Speaker 2: was nothing wrong with the way the question was asked.
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  Speaker 2: There was nothing wrong with the way the question was
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  Speaker 2: answered as well. It kind of is what it is,
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  Speaker 2: but folks sometimes through their own frame of reference, will
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  Speaker 2: see it, read it and think about it differently, especially
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  Speaker 2: if they didn't hear it live.
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  Speaker 3: In the moment, all right.
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  Speaker 2: So next up, I was talking about Jaylen Gilbo. He'd
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  Speaker 2: been banged up, was he all right? And also the
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  Speaker 2: work they have on trying to development the developmental process
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  Speaker 2: of the young players.
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  Speaker 4: No, Gilbo's totally fine. I'll go I'll work backwards. And
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  Speaker 4: I think for all those other guys, you know, there's
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  Speaker 4: this you know, they're all.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of in a different stage.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't want to talk on every guy in particular,
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  Speaker 4: but I think at the end of the day, as competitors,
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  Speaker 4: they all want to play more, and they all want
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  Speaker 4: more opportunities to play. Sometimes it's difficult, and Jared Gibson's case,
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  Speaker 4: you're when you're the third running back and how a game,
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  Speaker 4: in the flow of a game goes sometimes that you
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  Speaker 4: just don't get those carries that you would like. I
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  Speaker 4: think we have a ton of trust in Jeric and
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  Speaker 4: I think that he's a guy that will continue to
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  Speaker 4: grow in our program. John Tay same thing. I think
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  Speaker 4: getting him back rolling again is going to be good
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  Speaker 4: for him and good for us.
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  Speaker 3: So we're looking forward to that.
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  Speaker 4: And ultimately the two defensive lineman, that's just about consistency.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we're playing such good defensive football right now,
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  Speaker 4: and guys are so doing their jobs at a high level,
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  Speaker 4: and we're seeing the growth in these players that are
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  Speaker 4: at the second half of their careers. The younger players,
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  Speaker 4: the sooner they can understand that consistency factor, the easier
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  Speaker 4: it is to get them out there and account on to.
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  Speaker 3: Do those things.
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  Speaker 4: And if you recall all early on in my time here,
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  Speaker 4: I was saying the same things about an Alfred Collins,
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  Speaker 4: you know about Hey, what's going to be the difference
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  Speaker 4: for him? It's consistency And a lot of times that's
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  Speaker 4: fundamentals and techniques, that's assignment, that's that's effort, that's conditioning,
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  Speaker 4: it's all those things. And so you know, Dre and
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  Speaker 4: Seder are very talented players, but finding that level of
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  Speaker 4: consistency day in and day out is going to be
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  Speaker 4: the deciding factor in you know, trusting them in a
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  Speaker 4: critical moment in a ballgame, you know, especially in the
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  Speaker 4: Southeastern Conference.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was going into Chip Brown's question about Jerre
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  Speaker 2: Bledsoe and Sadir Mitchell and their development as well as
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  Speaker 2: say a John Tay Cook on the offensive side. Now,
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  Speaker 2: he was also asked about what he's seeing that's impressing
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  Speaker 2: him about trading Moore and Colin Simmons.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I feel like Trey actually had a
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  Speaker 4: heck of a game this weekend. You know, we're we're
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  Speaker 4: asking a lot of variety out of him. You know,
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  Speaker 4: he's playing some outside landbacker, he's playing some defensive end.
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  Speaker 4: We're moving them around in kind of our flex front,
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  Speaker 4: you know, over guards and asking things. He's playing the
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  Speaker 4: run really well. I did thought he pressured the quarterback
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  Speaker 4: in this game, had a couple opportunities to affect the
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  Speaker 4: quarterback and move him off the spot. So have been
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  Speaker 4: impressed with him. Colin has had a good year so far. Again,
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  Speaker 4: this game was unique because this was not a drop
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  Speaker 4: back game, you know when I mean it was third
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  Speaker 4: and eight and they gotten thirty personnel and cone formation
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  Speaker 4: ran a bootleg wheel route, you know, which is like
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  Speaker 4: uncommon stuff. You know, it was a lot of sprintouts.
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  Speaker 4: There was a lot of things that were a little
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  Speaker 4: bit different. And clearly we've got a pretty good pass
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  Speaker 4: rush and they didn't want to just drop back and
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  Speaker 4: let us rush. But that's the challenge for a younger
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  Speaker 4: players to not get frustrated with that and then when
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  Speaker 4: your opportunity comes is to try to make your plays
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  Speaker 4: when they present themselves. So looking forward to those guys
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  Speaker 4: the second half of the season, that they're going to
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  Speaker 4: be very impactful players for us.
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  Speaker 2: And one final thing from sarcast about could he fall
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  Speaker 2: back on lean on his knowledge of working in the
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  Speaker 2: National Football League to help the team go through a
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  Speaker 2: sixteen game seasons of Prince Brian Davis has this question
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  Speaker 2: because you mentioned earlier they're really kind of at the
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  Speaker 2: numeracle halfway point if they were to go all the
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  Speaker 2: way through and into the playoff and up to the
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  Speaker 2: National Championship since they played eight games, and how he
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  Speaker 2: helps his guys be mentally tough.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I do think, you know, it was beneficial to
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  Speaker 4: have played, you know, sixteen game season plus four preseason
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  Speaker 4: games plus the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: There's there's layers to that.
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  Speaker 4: And you know the other thing this offseason, I just
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  Speaker 4: tried to tap into the guys that do it the best,
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  Speaker 4: you know. I tapped into Bill Belichick, Andy Reid, Sean McVay,
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  Speaker 4: guys who you know, year in and year out are
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  Speaker 4: accustomed to being in the playoffs and then kind of
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  Speaker 4: what that looks like in the length of a season
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  Speaker 4: and how you get your teams ready and what do
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  Speaker 4: your bye weeks look like in the NFL if you
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  Speaker 4: have an in season by or if you get a
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  Speaker 4: first round by in the playoffs, and how they attack that.
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  Speaker 4: But I said this all along. You know, especially in
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  Speaker 4: the Southeastern Conference, you know there's a it's taxing physically,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the physical nature of play is tack but
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  Speaker 4: I also think it is mentally taxing. And the idea
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  Speaker 4: that you have to you know, maintain that level of
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  Speaker 4: mental intensity and focus in your preparation week in week out.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's critical.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I don't think anybody thought when our schedule
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  Speaker 4: came out that when we went to Vanderbilt that would
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  Speaker 4: be a top twenty five matchup right against a five
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  Speaker 4: and two football team. And and so you just don't
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  Speaker 4: know in this conference of when teams kind of get
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  Speaker 4: hot and when they start playing better, start playing differently,
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  Speaker 4: and you think, oh, they're gonna get that game, and
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  Speaker 4: then to buy well, when we found out they're a
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  Speaker 4: pretty good football team, you know, they lost I think
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  Speaker 4: three games by combined ten points now or something, maybe
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  Speaker 4: less than that. And so the point is every week
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  Speaker 4: in our conference you have to yes, be physically prepared
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  Speaker 4: to play, but also mentally prepared to play.
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  Speaker 3: And that's probably the biggest challenge.
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  Speaker 4: And so, like I talked about to the guys this week,
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  Speaker 4: we got to get reconnected even off the field. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we're doing things outside of football with one another as
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  Speaker 4: much as it is doing things on the field together.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that's part of our secret sauce a
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  Speaker 4: little bit. But it's also a chance to kind of
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  Speaker 4: let our hair down and relax a little bit with
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  Speaker 4: one another and enjoy each other's company, because that's.
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  Speaker 3: What it's gonna take.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna we're gonna need everybody, you know, before this
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  Speaker 4: season is done. And the best way to to feel
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  Speaker 4: part of is to actually be part of. And we've
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  Speaker 4: got to include everybody in this thing again, not just
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  Speaker 4: in practice, but outside of the facility.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, important stuff there from Sorry, we've got to wrap
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  Speaker 2: up today's edition of the program on Sports Radio AM
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