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Steve Sarkisian on Arkansas QB Taylen Green, Jerrick Gibson's fumbles, and more · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 2: Continuing here on a Monday afternoon here on Sports Radio
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  Speaker 2: AM thirteen hundred ZONEG Wade, joined by the producer Cameron Parker.
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  Speaker 2: It is official Jaxas soccer team in the NCAA Tournament.
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  Speaker 2: We knew they hey, we knew they were going to
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  Speaker 2: get in anyway, and b we knew for sure they
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  Speaker 2: were getting in because they got the automatic bid after
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  Speaker 2: winning the Southeastern Conference Championship yesterday winning the SEC Tournament
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  Speaker 2: final over South Carolina. Wanted nothing first Texas team to
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  Speaker 2: win an SEC championship. So the law Warrens will be
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  Speaker 2: at home to open NCAA tournament play like we thought
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  Speaker 2: would be the case, and they'll be at home six
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  Speaker 2: o'clock Friday night at Mike A. Myers Track at Soccer
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  Speaker 2: Stadium to host the Terriers of Boston University. So they
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  Speaker 2: are Texas, by the way, is the number four seed
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  Speaker 2: in their region. Duke the number one seed, the two
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  Speaker 2: seed is UCLA, the three is Iowa. The fourst Texas,
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  Speaker 2: Michigan State is five, Georgetown six Virginia Tech seven and
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  Speaker 2: Texas Tech, who owns a winterter Texas this season is
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  Speaker 2: the number eight seed. And the way they do it
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  Speaker 2: is just it got it split up into the four regions,
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  Speaker 2: but they don't name it like you're going to a
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  Speaker 2: specific site because you would go to the higher seated team.
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  Speaker 2: So if the Longhorns win, then the following weekend they
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  Speaker 2: would host the winner of the Michigan State Western Michigan game.
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  Speaker 2: If they were to get to the sweet sixteen into
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  Speaker 2: the quarterfinals, that would be probably at Duke if Duke
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  Speaker 2: maintainance hits number one seed. So anyway, there's the scene
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  Speaker 2: for Texas in the NCAA Soccer Tournament. They will play
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  Speaker 2: Friday evening at six o'clock at Mike A. Meyers Stadium
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  Speaker 2: against Boston University. So again, congratulations to the Longhorns and
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  Speaker 2: coach Angela Kelly and will be on with us tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: afternoon in the three o'clock hour in the program. All right,
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  Speaker 2: let's bring you some more conversation with long Worns head
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  Speaker 2: coach Steve Circusian from the news conference, and.
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  Speaker 3: He was asked.
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  Speaker 2: About if it was a blessing that a lot of
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  Speaker 2: his players are too young to remember that Texas and
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  Speaker 2: Arkansas was a rivalry, a big rivalry back in the
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  Speaker 2: days of the Southwest Conference. They played a few times
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  Speaker 2: in non conference. When he was asked, is that a blessing?
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  Speaker 2: Is that a good thing?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think you know, here for us especially, you know,
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  Speaker 4: history and tradition is very important here, and we always
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  Speaker 4: try to acknowledge our tradition. We always try to acknowledge
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  Speaker 4: the history, the great teams, the great coaches, the great players,
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  Speaker 4: the great rivalries, and this one has been one that
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  Speaker 4: was for a long long time the rivalry, and so
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  Speaker 4: the fact that we get to play it again, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we definitely respect it and honor it that way. But
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  Speaker 4: it kind of ends there for us. It wouldn't matter
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  Speaker 4: who the next opponent is. If we have to prepare
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  Speaker 4: better than we normally would prepare, then we probably weren't.
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  Speaker 1: Preparing good enough for the other games.
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  Speaker 4: And so our preparation now is back into getting anamory
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  Speaker 4: with what we need to do so that we can
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  Speaker 4: be the best version of ourselves Saturday. And I think,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Longhorn Nation deserves that. I think Arkansas deserves
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  Speaker 4: that because they didn't get the best version of us
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  Speaker 4: four years ago, and we need to make sure that
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  Speaker 4: we give them our best version this time around.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's a really good point there.
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  Speaker 2: If you're pouring all your energies and giving a much
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  Speaker 2: better maybe you.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't do it for some of the other games. It's
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  Speaker 3: important there. Back as we continued.
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  Speaker 2: In talking about Texas being on the road, they've been
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  Speaker 2: good on the road lately, going all the way back
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  Speaker 2: to the Oklahoma State game on the road the last time.
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  Speaker 2: And is there a particular reason that Sark can figure
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  Speaker 2: out why Texas has been so good on the road.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think that I think our culture, our connectivity,
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  Speaker 4: our love for one another has been a big piece
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  Speaker 4: of that puzzle. You know, our guys are very connected.
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  Speaker 4: When we go on the road. It's a smaller group,
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  Speaker 4: it's a smaller team on the road. There's less fans obviously,
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  Speaker 4: and we need each other. We have to lean into
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  Speaker 4: each other, we have to pour into one another. And
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  Speaker 4: to do that, you know, you can't just turn it
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  Speaker 4: on the week of the game. And I think that
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  Speaker 4: it speaks volumes to the connectivity that these guys have
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  Speaker 4: in that locker room that they can really lean into
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  Speaker 4: one another on the road. They can hold each other
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  Speaker 4: accountable on the road of what's acceptable and what's not
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  Speaker 4: and how we're going to perform and the mindset that
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  Speaker 4: we need to be in. I think it takes great
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  Speaker 4: poise and composure on the road, and I think that
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  Speaker 4: we've learned and grown into that aspect of.
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  Speaker 1: It as well as well.
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  Speaker 4: You know, one of the worst things that can happen
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  Speaker 4: on the road, especially in a rivalry games, you get emotional,
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  Speaker 4: and when you start to play the game emotional, that's
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  Speaker 4: when mistakes and selfless acts occur. We definitely want the emotion,
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  Speaker 4: but man, we need our poise and composure on the
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  Speaker 4: road and stay clear minded and focused on what we need.
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  Speaker 3: To do all right now.
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  Speaker 2: Last hour we heard Sark talk about when asked about
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  Speaker 2: the fumbling issue and Jared Gibson, and he said, Jerk,
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  Speaker 2: we'll be carrying a football all around the forty acres today. Now,
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  Speaker 2: there was a method to the madness. It's not just
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  Speaker 2: punishment that you might think. Now, you fumbled, so you
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  Speaker 2: got to carry the football with the area where Vince
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  Speaker 2: Lombardi did it back in the day with the Packers
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  Speaker 2: and stuff like that. So it's not just that there
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  Speaker 2: is a method to the madness, and he was asked
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  Speaker 2: about Yeah, I think it was our friend Jeff Jones
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  Speaker 2: and k you asked him, what are the rules about
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  Speaker 2: how he is to carry the football? Does he have
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  Speaker 2: to have it in class with him? Have to have
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  Speaker 2: it in the tank, you know, the Texas Athletic nutritions,
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  Speaker 2: into the dining hall. Does he have to have it
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  Speaker 2: with him? You know what? What are the rules governing this?
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  Speaker 1: What are the rules? It's all that And it's the
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  Speaker 1: form of it too.
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  Speaker 4: It's not just you know, carrying around like Walter Payton
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  Speaker 4: used to do it, you know, like a loaf of bread.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's tucked up in here as wrist
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  Speaker 4: above his elbows, tied to his rib cage, he's got
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  Speaker 4: he's got his claw on the ball. It's all those things.
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  Speaker 4: It's just trying to get some muscle memory. And it's
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  Speaker 4: also just a mindset of the value of the ball.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: It's the most important thing in our program, and a
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  Speaker 4: lot of times him having that ball reminds everybody else
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  Speaker 4: in the organization of how important that ball is to us.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So, I mean, like I said, a method to the
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  Speaker 2: madness where tight to the rib cage up there and
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  Speaker 2: cradled in nicely. Muscle memory is the reason for it.
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  Speaker 2: Plus he wants him to you know, not fumble, hold
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  Speaker 2: onto it all right. Uh, Trey Moore had a really
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  Speaker 2: good game set. Probably his best game is a long wruinn.
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  Speaker 2: He's played really well and he's done well throughout the season.
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  Speaker 2: So is there something specific that Trey Moore seems to
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  Speaker 2: do particularly well well?
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  Speaker 4: I think one a he garners attention, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 4: when any time that he's pass rushing, you know, is
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  Speaker 4: there is the slide going to him as a running
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  Speaker 4: back working to him. I think he does an excellent
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  Speaker 4: job running our games with our interior defensive lineman.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's a really versatile player.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Tray can play off the ball, he can
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  Speaker 4: play on the ball, he can play both sides into
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  Speaker 4: the boundary to the field, and he has a really
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  Speaker 4: high football like you and uh, the fact that now
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  Speaker 4: it's two games in a row, the ball has been
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  Speaker 4: on the ground and number eight is the one who's
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  Speaker 4: recovered those two fumbles. It's just his awareness level And
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  Speaker 4: I get it. We always want to look at the
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  Speaker 4: stats of sacks and that should determine how a guy's playing.
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  Speaker 4: I think what it tells us is he's not playing
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  Speaker 4: a selfish brand of football where it's just about trying
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  Speaker 4: to sack the quarterback. He's playing a brand of football
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  Speaker 4: against the run and the pass. He's he's getting himself
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  Speaker 4: to the football. He's playing with good effort, and he's
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  Speaker 4: showing a lot of versatility. And so we're we're really
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  Speaker 4: fortunate that he's that he's joined us because he's playing
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  Speaker 4: good football right now.
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  Speaker 2: Our friend and colie, Roger Wallaston asked Sark about Taylor Green,
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  Speaker 2: the Arkansas quarterback. Big fella like six six and two
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  Speaker 2: fifty and he can get around, and he was asked
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  Speaker 2: about his ability his mobility and his abilities pose a problem.
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  Speaker 4: First of all, he's huge, I mean the guy that
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  Speaker 4: his size that can run the way that he runs,
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  Speaker 4: and sometimes you don't think he's covering as much ground
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  Speaker 4: as he is. But the stride length is so long
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  Speaker 4: that he's able to cover ground. And so the explosive
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  Speaker 4: plays that he uses with his legs, his ability to
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  Speaker 4: make all the throws down the field. Coach Petrino's, you know,
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  Speaker 4: an elite offensive play caller and offensive schemers, so they
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  Speaker 4: put him in really good positions when they're in the
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  Speaker 4: zone red game, the quarterback run game. They put him
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  Speaker 4: in really good positions for the shots down the field
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  Speaker 4: and the drop back pass game. So you have to
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  Speaker 4: defend a lot of offense, and then when you have
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  Speaker 4: a guy like him running it, it can be extremely challenging.
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  Speaker 2: He was also asked about the fact here's his team
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  Speaker 2: with one loss in SEC play. Texas hanging him has
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  Speaker 2: one loss in SEC play, Tennessee has one loss in
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  Speaker 2: SEC play. Those three are sitting at the top of
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  Speaker 2: the standings in terms of in the lost column.
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  Speaker 3: So it's hard. Asked you like your spot being there.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be sure to remind him, don't be mad at me.
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  Speaker 4: Might be mad at TKR, but anyway, I don't. We
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  Speaker 4: really can only control we can control, you know. And
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  Speaker 4: we stubbed our tow a few weeks ago, like I said,
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  Speaker 4: we have been in this position before where we feel
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  Speaker 4: like we go into every Saturday and now from here
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  Speaker 4: on out, like this is an SEC championship game and
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  Speaker 4: we don't want to leave it up to anybody else
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  Speaker 4: to win or lose, to to give us an opportunity
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  Speaker 4: to get into that game. We can control it ourselves
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  Speaker 4: right now, and that's a great place to be in.
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  Speaker 4: But we have to do it one game at a time,
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  Speaker 4: and we have to view Saturday against Arkansas as if
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  Speaker 4: it's an SEC championship game, and because in reality it is.
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  Speaker 1: If we want to get there, we got to win Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: Playing and simple, you got to keep doing it.
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  Speaker 2: He's also asked how did he treat the rivalries at
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  Speaker 2: other schools. Remember's have Washington and you dub at Oregon
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  Speaker 2: and Washington State for the Apple Cup USC at UCL, Like,
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  Speaker 2: how did he deal with that?
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  Speaker 3: And the players deal with that rivalries? It is other stops,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't I haven't ever done the ex player stuff.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like sometimes they get a little too emotional.
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  Speaker 4: I've been in rooms where the ex players have come in.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, holy cow, I mean this is this is
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  Speaker 4: really But in this day and age, I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if you need bulletin board material because of you guys
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  Speaker 4: and Twitter and everything else and media coverage and so
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  Speaker 4: our guys read enough see enough to know it's a
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  Speaker 4: big game.
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  Speaker 1: And my job as a coach.
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  Speaker 4: Is to keep them really clear minded and focused on
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  Speaker 4: the task at hand, one day at a time, so
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  Speaker 4: that they can put themselves in position to perform well Saturday.
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  Speaker 4: I think when you get too emotional, your mind gets
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  Speaker 4: cluttered and you miss details, and we're better when we're
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  Speaker 4: really detail oriented on.
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  Speaker 1: What we need to do Saturday at eleven AM.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we're going to hear a little more from
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