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Steve Sarkisian's SEC Teleconference · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: On Wednesday. That means it's SEC teleconference time. So let's
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  Speaker 1: hear this is the reporters with long Worn's head coach
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  Speaker 1: Steve Sarkeesian. This has a more regional air than the
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  Speaker 1: Thursday media zoom or even the Monday press conference where
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty much all local media. But this is sark
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  Speaker 1: from the SEC teleconference earlier today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, great opportunity to go on the road to restore
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  Speaker 2: you know, historic rivalry here at the University of Texas,
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  Speaker 2: one that Texas and Arkansas have battled for a long
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  Speaker 2: long time, some great teams, some great games, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: for this, for this rivalry to be restored, I know
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  Speaker 2: so much is made in college football right now about realignment,
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  Speaker 2: conference realignment and teams losing rivalries.
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  Speaker 3: We we've picked up two great ones.
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  Speaker 4: Of this being the first year with Arkansas, so looking
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  Speaker 4: forward to the opportunity Saturday.
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  Speaker 5: First off, we had a Tom Rphy the Arkansas Democrat.
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  Speaker 6: Is that.
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  Speaker 7: Andy Steve, I'm wondering what your take is on the
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  Speaker 7: quarterback Taylor Green, what what dimensions he give to them?
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  Speaker 7: And also his backup monte Kai Singleton's gotten enough action
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  Speaker 7: that you probably could have a comment on him as well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think Taylor is a you know,
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  Speaker 4: fantastic talent. You know, he's got obviously, has the size,
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  Speaker 4: the arm strength, the ability to run the football and
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  Speaker 4: quarterback driven runs, the ability to buy time, make all
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  Speaker 4: the throws down the field.
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  Speaker 3: He covers a lot of ground.
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  Speaker 4: You know, a lot of times you watch the tape
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  Speaker 4: and you like, how did he cover so much ground?
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't look like he's moving that fast, but yet
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  Speaker 4: he is, you know, a sixty six.
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  Speaker 3: And thirty pounds, so really really good talent, you know. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the.
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  Speaker 2: Backup is a little bit different build, more of.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of that stocky running back style, but yet still
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  Speaker 4: has the.
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  Speaker 3: Ability to do what they do. I think coach Petrino
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  Speaker 3: has done a great job.
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  Speaker 4: With both of them and coach Pittman. I mean, anytime
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  Speaker 4: you're you're avaging nearly three hundred yards passing in two
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  Speaker 4: hundred yards rushing, that's that's a pretty good offensive football team.
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  Speaker 3: And in their system, it definitely starts with the quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: And last week or last.
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  Speaker 7: Game, Arkansas gave up a bunch of passing yards and
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  Speaker 7: the deep bow. I'm wondering just what your thoughts are
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  Speaker 7: on taking on this defense.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think they're there are talented defense.
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  Speaker 4: They've had two weeks to uh to kind of get
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  Speaker 4: some things, you know, shirt up and cleaned up. I
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  Speaker 4: know we're gonna get a great version of them defensively.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, they got really good coaches over there,
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  Speaker 4: So I don't think we can just assume that we're
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  Speaker 4: gonna have that same luxury. You know, we're gonna have
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  Speaker 4: to play really good football offensively. We're need to be balanced,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and that's that's a challenge because a very
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  Speaker 4: good upfront.
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  Speaker 3: Neanxsas steep multa disas.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, coach, hope you're doing well today, sir. I heard
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  Speaker 5: you earlier in the on Monday, I mentioned about that
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  Speaker 5: maybe not pivoting towards former players is talking because of
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  Speaker 5: the emotions that they have. How do you walk that
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  Speaker 5: line of who you want to talk to your team
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  Speaker 5: during the season, coach, Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I like to lean towards me.
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  Speaker 4: That's not to take anything away from from anybody else.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we've got some great people, some great speakers
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  Speaker 4: that we bring in throughout the summer, throughout training camp
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  Speaker 4: to speak to our team and do a fantastic job.
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  Speaker 4: But when the season rolls around. I think the consistent
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  Speaker 4: messaging throughout throughout the fall is important and that our
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  Speaker 4: that our players understand why we're talking about specific things
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  Speaker 4: on certain weeks. Uh So, generally I'm the one that
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  Speaker 4: talks to our team from a motivational standpoint. Now that
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  Speaker 4: the players talk as well, so I give them that credit.
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  Speaker 4: But I but I do think that that the messaging
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  Speaker 4: is important. But but again, we rely on a lot
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  Speaker 4: of those outside speakers throughout the summer and throughout training
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  Speaker 4: camp to get ourselves ready for the season.
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  Speaker 5: And something Sam mentioned earlier in the teleconference, Coach, was
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  Speaker 5: the energy in the building there in twenty one. Now,
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  Speaker 5: I know you were on the short end of the stick,
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  Speaker 5: but I just in terms of that rivalry in the building,
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  Speaker 5: did you feel that intensity as well back in twenty
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  Speaker 5: one in failible Coach?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not sure if there was even a stick
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  Speaker 4: for us to get a short end of that night.
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  Speaker 4: We got our ass whips, so hopefully we play better Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Coach Texas. Bob Hok. The Arkstil Democrat is.
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  Speaker 8: A Hey, Steve, I don't know if I ever heard
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  Speaker 8: that saying before that that's that's a good one. Hey, Lucas,
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  Speaker 8: you know Arkansas's tight end. I think Texas offered him.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know if you remember recruiting, and I know
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  Speaker 8: you guys recruit a lot of big time players, but
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  Speaker 8: number nine for our saw tight end.
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  Speaker 3: Just wonder what your take is on him.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, he's a guy that definitely, you know,
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  Speaker 4: he gets a lot of targets. You know that they
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  Speaker 4: you know, I think again coach Petrino does a great
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  Speaker 4: job of scheming and working to get people isolated one
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  Speaker 4: on one and opening zones and and he's a huge
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  Speaker 4: you know product of that. You know, it leads him
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  Speaker 4: in touchdown receptions and he's a guy that has a
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  Speaker 4: tight end. They move around and they create, you know,
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  Speaker 4: he's really the primary on a lot of things that
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  Speaker 4: they do.
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  Speaker 8: And then now I know you're not all the way
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  Speaker 8: through the SEC schedule, yeah, but you're you're a good
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  Speaker 8: way through, and just wondering what what the grind has
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  Speaker 8: been like compared to what's the reality that's been like,
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  Speaker 8: compared to me, what the expectation was, how that's been
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  Speaker 8: for y'all.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, I think that that we had a
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  Speaker 4: pretty good understanding coming in that there was going to
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  Speaker 4: be a physical component to this right and and how
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  Speaker 4: physical uh the game is and the SEC at the
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  Speaker 4: line of scrimmage, and then this week's no different.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Arkansas is very good at the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 4: They have big people, they're they're built like a lot
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  Speaker 4: of the rest of the SEC is built. I think
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  Speaker 4: one of the one of the bigger challenges in this
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  Speaker 4: conference is is the metal intensity that you have to
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  Speaker 4: have week to week. There are no layups in this league.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you have to come ready to play week
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  Speaker 4: in and week out. Uh, and the moment, the moment
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  Speaker 4: you don't, you get beat. And there's been some really
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  Speaker 4: good teams in our league that have probably lost games
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  Speaker 4: that they're looking back and they're kicking themselves that maybe
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  Speaker 4: they weren't quite as ready to play. And so I
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  Speaker 4: think that's probably the bigger challenge is getting that getting
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  Speaker 4: our players every Monday in the right frame of mind
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  Speaker 4: to prepare the right way, uh for the for the
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  Speaker 4: task at hand, which part of which is again that
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  Speaker 4: physical nature at the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks Yep, Nexus, Kurt Bowles.
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  Speaker 6: At least the Chronicle, Steve, because Taylor and Green's so big.
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  Speaker 6: Are you're bringing in Vince Young to run the scout team?
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  Speaker 3: I'd love to.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, you why is kind of busy right now,
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  Speaker 4: but yeah, very similar the you.
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  Speaker 6: Know, because he's such a threat to run. I have
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  Speaker 6: a lot of Arkansas opponents, you know, run zone cover
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  Speaker 6: to you know, keep their eyes in the backfield so
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  Speaker 6: they're you know, not in man demand running down the
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  Speaker 6: field away from him.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think, you know, I think everybody's you know,
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  Speaker 4: tried different things, some successful, some not so successful. Right,
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  Speaker 4: they don't average, you know, five hundred yards a game offensively,
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  Speaker 4: you know, if people are shutting him down. And so
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  Speaker 4: I think, like anything, when to play good defense is
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  Speaker 4: one you try to develop a plan that you know,
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  Speaker 4: you has a solid foundation and that you have the
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  Speaker 4: auxiliary calls off of that off of that plan so
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  Speaker 4: that you're not just a sit and duck, you know,
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  Speaker 4: sit and target, you know, because you know, again they've
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  Speaker 4: got great experience on that on their on their coaching
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  Speaker 4: staff with coach Pittman and coach Petrino, and so you know,
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  Speaker 4: I think I think varying looks is going to be key.
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  Speaker 4: I think putting ourselves in position to guard them because
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  Speaker 4: they have plenty of weapons to throw the ball to.
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  Speaker 4: But yet you know, making sure that that we try
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  Speaker 4: to try to contain him against not only the designed runs,
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  Speaker 4: but again the off schedule runs, and so, like I said,
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  Speaker 4: it's a heck of challenge.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, thanksus and more.
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  Speaker 9: Richardson of Orange Bloods, good afternoon, coach.
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  Speaker 3: I was Kocha.
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  Speaker 10: Quinn has played in a lot of obviously big games
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  Speaker 10: on the road with you guys throughout his career. Talk
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  Speaker 10: about from your perspective what you've seen from him when
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  Speaker 10: he goes in on the road. It seems like he's
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  Speaker 10: pretty unflappable. And is there a road game that kind
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  Speaker 10: of sticks out to you the most that you're really
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  Speaker 10: impressed with, whether it's for preparation or how he played well?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think again, I think his general demeanor is
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  Speaker 4: helpful when you go on the road. You know, Quinn
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  Speaker 4: is a very calm, cool customer. You know, he doesn't
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  Speaker 4: he doesn't get too emotional, too high, too low. It's
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  Speaker 4: pretty even keel, and I think that's important when you're
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  Speaker 4: on the road. I think that's important for us as
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  Speaker 4: a team. I think poise and composure is always critical
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  Speaker 4: when you're on the road, and he exemplifies that, and
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  Speaker 4: so that's helpful. I think probably the best one that
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  Speaker 4: I can recall is going into Tuscaloosa a year ago.
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  Speaker 4: I felt like he was really dialed in and he
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  Speaker 4: was he was really just in a great frame of mind,
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  Speaker 4: and I think that that permeated throughout the entire offense
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  Speaker 4: that day. That night, you know, we had no pre
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  Speaker 4: snat penalties in a very tough environment, which tells me
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  Speaker 4: we were poised, we were composed, but we were focused,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the right type of mental intensity needed in
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  Speaker 4: that environment.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what it's going to take here Saturday as well. Texas.
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  Speaker 3: Chip Brown of course, twenty four to seven. Hey, Steve,
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  Speaker 3: I know you mentioned you, you.
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  Speaker 9: Know, wanted to get the outside zone going, and uh,
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  Speaker 9: what what do you think it is?
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  Speaker 3: It's sort of held it back. We're just we're just
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  Speaker 3: not in sync, you know.
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  Speaker 4: And and like any style of running game that you have,
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  Speaker 4: timing and being in sync is is really important, and
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  Speaker 4: confidence is really important.
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  Speaker 3: And so whether it's angles on blocks, whether it's.
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  Speaker 4: Run timing with the running back and the offensive line,
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  Speaker 4: whether it's vision by the runners, whether it's you know,
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  Speaker 4: our combination of blocks on the front side, our combination
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  Speaker 4: of blocks on the backside, it just it just hasn't
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  Speaker 4: quite been in sync. And so you know, it's, like anything,
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  Speaker 4: we've got to emphasize it more. We've got to put
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  Speaker 4: in the time and the effort, which I think that
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  Speaker 4: we're doing, and then we got to start to find
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  Speaker 4: our rhythm there again.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I talked a lot about.
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  Speaker 4: Going into last week's game about finding our mojo as
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  Speaker 4: an office, which I think that we did. And this
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  Speaker 4: week it's been about, Okay, how do we how do
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  Speaker 4: we get back to our timing and execution of our outside.
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  Speaker 9: Zone because at some point, obviously you're going to need
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  Speaker 9: to run it against seven and eight man boxes and
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  Speaker 9: you've had the rotation at running back, and it's it's
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  Speaker 9: it's been a lot, a little little different this.
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  Speaker 3: Year than in years past. I'm not sure what you're
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  Speaker 3: asking me.
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  Speaker 9: Well, just I mean, that's how difficult has it been
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  Speaker 9: to have the rotation and running back and trying to
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  Speaker 9: sync everything up and knowing that you know, to kill
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  Speaker 9: the clock late in the game, you're gonna have to
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  Speaker 9: run it against seven and eight man boxes.
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  Speaker 4: Or we can throw it. I still don't know what
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  Speaker 4: you're asking me. But next question, just all your time.
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  Speaker 4: So thank you today, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's what we call in the business. And and
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  Speaker 1: Ender ended his time. It was the last one anyway,
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  Speaker 1: there So all right, as Logboard's head coach Steve Sarksian
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  Speaker 1: from the SEC teleconference and up next, and by the way,
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk some more Texas Arkansas in the three o'clock
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