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Steve Sarkisian on what makes Georgia's defense so good · The Craig Way Show

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  We'll do that, but of course this is a long
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  Worns Monday, so we should hear from Long Horn's head
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  coach Steve Sarcasian from the weekly news conference, which we
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  brought you in its entirety live this morning here on
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  the Zone. And here's some other thoughts. We brought you
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  some of the comments last hour. But here's some more
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  from Sark. First of all, you know, we just had
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  the story about Kirby Smart talking about the shoving the
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  Mississippi State quarterback he's trying to get through to Coach Schuman,
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  his defensive coordinator, about they wasn't happy about how they
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  religned aligned. Having said all that, George's defense has played
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  largely very successfully, and Sark was asked, what makes that
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  Georgia defense successful?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think one, they've got a really good scheme,
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  you know. I mean, you know, Kirby Smart and Will
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  Musschamp Glenn Schuman all on the same defensive staff. Those
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  are probably three of the top defensive minds in college football.
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  And then and their sound and what they do. They
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  recruit really good players. You know, they're big and physical upfront,
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  They've got great length in the secondary. They always have
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  very smart, heady safeties to communicate you know, what they're
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  trying to do. Third down, they give you a ton
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  of exotic pressures and different fronts. And with all of that,
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  they end up playing a lot of almost two man coverage.
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  So now you're not only having to beat one guy
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  to get open, you have to beat two. But that's
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  that's the scheming part, you know, and they do a
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  heck of a job with that, and so I think
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  it's a combination of they got a great scheme and
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  a great staff to go along with you know, really
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  talented players that play hard, you know, and they're long
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  and physical, and so those two things combined can make
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  it difficult, you know. I think on the flip side,
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  for us, it's you know, like I touched on earlier,
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  always just trying to find somewhere where you can maybe
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  exploit something that's maybe not a strength and maybe you know,
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  but I don't know if they have too many weaknesses
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  that way, and so we just try to do our
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  best to find some plays they can get us another
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  first down and maybe get the ball in the end zone.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's one thing, and then one I think most
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  college football fans, especially the ones who really follow programs closely,
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  understand that home games. Home games for college football teams
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  are big recruiting weekends when potential future members of that
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  football program get a chance coming in and on a
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  recruiting weekend. So you can imagine if you were a
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  top blue chip recruit and Texas was after you was
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  interested in offering you a scholarship. You would probably very
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  easily be able to be at this football game this Saturday.
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  All you have to do is say, hey, I'd like
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  to take my visit during the Georgia game. And they
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  would and they would say sure, why not, Well, it
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  is a big recruiting weekend. So Sark was asked at
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  the news conference, you know, does anything alter or change
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  or the impact of a big game like this when
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  you do have these types of high level recruits coming.
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  Speaker 2: In Every season you go through and you know, we
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  invite a ton of recruits to games and different things,
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  but every year, naturally you have those one or two
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  games that recruits really want to come to and they
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  kind of circle it even in the summertime, and this
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  was one of those games. And so I think we're
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  fortunate that we got a night draw, that it's a
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  night game, and that allows a lot of those kids
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  that play Friday nights to drive in or fly in
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  on Saturday and be here for the ball game at night.
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  And obviously a great atmosphere and DKR and I'm sure
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  we'll have the smoke and the light show and the
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  drones and all the stuff CDC's got planned, you know,
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  for everybody, and I think the kids really appreciate that
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  to know that Longhorn Nation supports their team, but also
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  see a really high level of football and see us
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  compete against what again, like I said, what has been
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  the standard of college football here now for about half
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  a decade or so. And so great opportunity to showcase
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  what our program's about. Great opportunity to showcase what our
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  fan base is about. But also during the day, great
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  opportunity to showcase with the University of excessus about and
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  what the city of Austin has to offer.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so there's some more thoughts from coach
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  sark We're gonna hear more from Longhorn's head coach Steve
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  Sarkisian throughout this hour and next hour as well. But
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