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AUDIO: Oklahoma HC Brent Venables Post Michigan Press Conference · Sooner or Later Sports

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  Speaker 1: Well, a great win for our guys, our coaches, our players,
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  Speaker 1: Sooner Nation men. They were they were awesome. They really
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  Speaker 1: showed up tonight and affected the game. That was a
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  Speaker 1: lot of fun to be a part of the passion,
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  Speaker 1: the energy in the stadium, in our locker room, hard
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  Speaker 1: fought victory, didn't play our best game and still won
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  Speaker 1: by a couple of scores, So we'll take that. Really
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  Speaker 1: felt like we there's a lot of the game we
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  Speaker 1: played really really well and at times had an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to really pull away. Had some self inflicted issues that
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  Speaker 1: kept things a little closer. But like a you know,
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  Speaker 1: a championship style of program that Michigan represents. Man, they
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  Speaker 1: kept throwing haymakers as well. But we're super proud of
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  Speaker 1: our players and coaches, you know, figuring out finding a
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  Speaker 1: way to win on a really good, tough game where
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  Speaker 1: again a lot of the statistical things I know, we
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  Speaker 1: we won. We were minus in the turnover margin, fantastic
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  Speaker 1: in the red zone. Was a huge difference in the game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, playing some elite level defense. Just the mindset,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the mindset, mindset, you know sets, the you know,
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  Speaker 1: tempo for everything, and I'm really proud of the toughness
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  Speaker 1: that our guys played with on defense. You know, time
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  Speaker 1: and time again turned them back and either held them
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  Speaker 1: to no points or a field goal got off the
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  Speaker 1: field there at the end. Again offensively, really felt like
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  Speaker 1: they controlled the tempo of the day. There's a they're
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  Speaker 1: here playing a really good defense, very well coached. They
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  Speaker 1: got a great roster, an elite roster, you know, four
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  Speaker 1: oh eight to two eighty eight. You know, we gave
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  Speaker 1: up the seventy five yard run, put them in a
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  Speaker 1: bad call. You know, we got to play it better.
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  Speaker 1: We have to adjust it better and do some things
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  Speaker 1: fundamentally better. But him in a bad call right out
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  Speaker 1: the gate and took the air out of the out
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  Speaker 1: of the stadium. But they didn't let them. It didn't
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  Speaker 1: deter them. Again. I thought our guys were really disruptive,
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  Speaker 1: tight and a lot of covers. They made a competitive
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  Speaker 1: play down the middle of the field. You know, you'd
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  Speaker 1: love to make that play and pull the ball out,
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  Speaker 1: and but held them to thirty eight percent conversion or
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  Speaker 1: completion percentage. It's hard to do, you know, in this
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  Speaker 1: day and age. And again third down, I think they
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  Speaker 1: were third and fourth down, three out of fifteen, we
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  Speaker 1: were over fifty percent. That's a winning formula. Grayson Miller,
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  Speaker 1: how about how about Grayson Miller from UCO? And I
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  Speaker 1: know nobody can play from UCO and you know nobody
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  Speaker 1: can play from Purdue, and we can go down that list.
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  Speaker 1: But these guys figured out Owen Heineke led the team
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  Speaker 1: in tackles, walk on a bunch of miss but the
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  Speaker 1: old line was really good, you know, started off giving
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  Speaker 1: a game ball to Bill beating bow and the offensive
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  Speaker 1: line group. Really proud of those guys, everything that they've
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  Speaker 1: battled through. And you know, the pain, as I told
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  Speaker 1: the team is one of the world's greatest adhesives. And
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  Speaker 1: what you go through and somebody that's gone through hell
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  Speaker 1: like a lot of us have, you don't walk the same.
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  Speaker 1: But our destination isn't to be two and ozero and
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  Speaker 1: beat Michigan. It's we feel like we have a heck
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  Speaker 1: of a team and have an opportunity with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of big time challenges in front of us, to have
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  Speaker 1: a really good season. And so I'm really excited about
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  Speaker 1: what this team can become. Proud of John again, he's
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  Speaker 1: made some amazing plays. You know, in the first half
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  Speaker 1: where he broke some tackles and through some lasers. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if that was fun to watch, it sure
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  Speaker 1: was for me. Uh you know, Barnes ran with conviction. Blaylock,
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  Speaker 1: you know, battled through some uh you know, just kind
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  Speaker 1: of being banged up and did great. John you know,
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  Speaker 1: showed his acumen as a runner as well. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what good players can do. You know, at the quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: that are playing at the highest level, they can throw it,
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  Speaker 1: and they can run it and design and and have
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  Speaker 1: the ability to improvise and make plays, extend plays and
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  Speaker 1: you know, throw the ball down the field. I thought
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  Speaker 1: our guys did a great job competing in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of those situations. We work the scrambled drill every week.
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  Speaker 1: Dion Burk's a guy that was overlooked in the state
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  Speaker 1: of Michigan. There's a lot of guys in the state
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  Speaker 1: of Michigan. But it was personal for him and he
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  Speaker 1: had over one hundred yards. That was awesome. Garon Cannick
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  Speaker 1: and I know he wishes as he could get that
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  Speaker 1: what would have been a touchdown back, but man was
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  Speaker 1: he tough for what just makes plays, catches it and
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  Speaker 1: in traffic and falls forward a lot, and then again
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  Speaker 1: John had three hundred and just South three hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty yards of total offense. So really excited for the guys,
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  Speaker 1: thankful again for the coaches and again all their hard work.
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  Speaker 1: And I look forward to, you know, going to Philadelphia
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  Speaker 1: here this week. Was this maybe the most physical game
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  Speaker 1: you guys have played in your four years here, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. It was a very physical game, I think,
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know,