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How The Oklahoma Sooners Can Win vs Tulane | OU Football | Sooner Or Later Show (S2 E37) · Sooner or Later Sports

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  Speaker 1: I had to fix everything. Happy Wednesday, though, But you're
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  Speaker 1: an enemy territory. I'm glad that you're able to pull up.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't have to. Yeah, suffer too much down there.
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  Speaker 1: We got a lot to talk about. Man, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: dive into as y'all saw in the notes, We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: talk about what's next for our guy Ja, the defense,
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  Speaker 1: what it needs to do to carry us, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: kind of go from there. So Coop, as you know,
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  Speaker 1: the green wave is right in front of us. I'm
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  Speaker 1: pretty I'm pretty excited about this one. It's one of
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  Speaker 1: those that we need. How do you feel about us
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  Speaker 1: going up against Tulane? Let's start there, as we we've
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  Speaker 1: had a sorry modus combobulated because everything got messed up
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  Speaker 1: for some reason. The team is still trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: themselves out, figure out the offensive side of the ball,
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  Speaker 1: the defensive solid the offenses you figured out. How do you
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  Speaker 1: feel about it's going into Tulane this week?
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  Speaker 2: I mean you're starting to look around, and I mean
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  Speaker 2: the line on the game from ESPN has US favored,
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  Speaker 2: you know, against Tennessee next week, and so they think that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we we're gonna get some stuff figured out,
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  Speaker 2: and so against Tulane this week, which is the task
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  Speaker 2: at hand. I mean you got to be able to
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  Speaker 2: get back to what's on Sunday. You got to get
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  Speaker 2: back to your identity. Get Jackson in a flow. And
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  Speaker 2: whenever you get a chance to, you know, to prove yourself,
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  Speaker 2: that's when that's when you know, winners rise to the occasion.
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  Speaker 2: You know, maybe the mentality having you know what happened
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  Speaker 2: last week, maybe that gets some people a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more excited. Obviously health is going to help out. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know we we we asked for a dominant defense.
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  Speaker 2: We asked for a defense who is going to be
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  Speaker 2: able to go in and do stuff. Now we got it.
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  Speaker 2: Now we just need the offense to to to catch up.
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  Speaker 2: And so you know, at this point, I feel like
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  Speaker 2: we've got everything. You've still got everything in front of you, right,
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  Speaker 2: there's nobody nobody's going to look back if you go
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  Speaker 2: in your handular business, nobody's going to look back at
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  Speaker 2: that last game and say, yeah, but they only won
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  Speaker 2: by two points, especially with you know, you're seeing some
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  Speaker 2: parody across college football with Notre Dame losing in North End, Illinois.
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  Speaker 2: You know how Florida State started out. I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: all these other things. So I mean again, I mean
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  Speaker 2: would you rather win seventy five to nothing over Houston? Sure?
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  Speaker 2: But the last time Houston pulled up to the crib,
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  Speaker 2: you know, twenty sixteen, we down went down there with
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  Speaker 2: Bob stoops to the co which Baker may fill us
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback, and we lost to them. So we made
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  Speaker 2: this one happen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I totally agree with that. And I know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people in the comment section are already
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  Speaker 1: asking the question can we turn around this offense? And
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  Speaker 1: so let's jump into that. We'll talk about that, we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about the defense, and like I said, we'll jump
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  Speaker 1: into what we need to see from our guy, Jackson Arnold.
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  Speaker 1: And so Stephen Lonker asked this question with to Salar, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: boom high Boomer, what do you think about Ohu's offense?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think they can turn it around? And so Coop,
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  Speaker 1: I bring this to you immediately. Jackson Arnold's the main
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  Speaker 1: attention when it comes to what's going on with Oklahoma,
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  Speaker 1: especially offensively, and it's not because well, some people think
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  Speaker 1: that he's not playing very well. Others think that he
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  Speaker 1: needs to be benched. Me over here, just like yourself,
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  Speaker 1: we knew that as a young quarterback. It was gonna
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  Speaker 1: take some time. We need to give him a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more grace. And it's not that Seth Latrell's not
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  Speaker 1: calling the plays. It's that now Jackson Arnold's also running
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  Speaker 1: an offense with a whole bunch of new wide receivers,
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  Speaker 1: so things change. So to me, this is what I'm thinking, Coop,
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  Speaker 1: and I want you to tell me what you think
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  Speaker 1: and then give us, you know, what you think Jackson
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  Speaker 1: should do. But I feel like then this game is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be the most pivotal one for JA to if
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  Speaker 1: Nick in which right now it sounds like Nick Anderson
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  Speaker 1: is a possibility of playing same thing with Andrew Anthony,
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  Speaker 1: but nothing official. If it's him and the young guys,
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna have to guide them to where they need
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  Speaker 1: to be throughout the entire game. Like he's gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to almost borderline, get on one knee, draw out the
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  Speaker 1: play in the ground, you know, in the dirt, so
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  Speaker 1: that everybody can be in the right positions. Because he
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  Speaker 1: understands the play, He understands the formation, and the biggest
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  Speaker 1: thing I know he understands is how to read defenses.
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  Speaker 1: Not all wide receivers are good at that, especially young ones.
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  Speaker 1: It takes time to develop that skill. So Coop, do
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  Speaker 1: you feel like Ja should take more responsibility in helping
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  Speaker 1: his receivers end game because I know, in prepping for
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  Speaker 1: the game you can do only so much. You got
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  Speaker 1: to wait and see what the defense actually hands you.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that he needs to really step up
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  Speaker 1: and adjust the wide receivers as the game goes on.
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  Speaker 2: As the quarterback, I mean, you know, the leader of
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  Speaker 2: the defense is the quarterback of the defense. The leader
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  Speaker 2: of the offensive line is the quarterback of the offense line.
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  Speaker 2: So the quarterback himself needs to be that guy across
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  Speaker 2: the whole offense. Jackson Arnold was given the reins to
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  Speaker 2: this team and he needs to become that more vocal leader.
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  Speaker 2: And I think leadership comes in more, you know, all
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  Speaker 2: kinds of forms and fashions. Baker Mayfield was an extremely
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  Speaker 2: vocal leader where Covering was not that type of guy.
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  Speaker 2: So that means, I mean, whether you know you've got
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  Speaker 2: all the time in the world, you know, in between plays,
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  Speaker 2: I guess not all the time in the world, but
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  Speaker 2: I mean you can have those conversations, you can get
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  Speaker 2: out there and you know, and you know, really show
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  Speaker 2: them what you're seeing he needs to step up. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he absolutely, absolutely does, no excuses, get out there and
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  Speaker 2: make some of these things happen. And I think that
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  Speaker 2: with the chaos on the offensive line, the subpar blocking
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  Speaker 2: by some of the skill positions, uh, you know, having
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of you know, smaller guys out there, a
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  Speaker 2: wide receiver, you know, having some of the you know,
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  Speaker 2: new guys like zion reagents who's you know, kind of
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  Speaker 2: forced into action because of these injuries. He needs to
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  Speaker 2: control what he can't control, and that is you know,
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  Speaker 2: the chemistry between him and these wide receivers. So if
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  Speaker 2: you see a guy break inside and then you know
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  Speaker 2: you threw the ball outside, you need to after the
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  Speaker 2: play be you know, just be clear and concise. I
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  Speaker 2: need you to break outside on that one. I saw this,
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  Speaker 2: This is what I'm seeing, go to the sideline. Have
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  Speaker 2: those things because you need to get better every snap,
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  Speaker 2: every drive, every game, and so I think that those
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  Speaker 2: are the things. Is you. I mean, he absolutely has
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  Speaker 2: to take a bigger part of this, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I respect him by saying, you know, you know I
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  Speaker 2: can play better. I need to play better. But at
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  Speaker 2: the same time, like I used to have a sales
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  Speaker 2: guy on my team, and every single time we'd sit
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  Speaker 2: down with him, I would say, this is what I
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  Speaker 2: need you to do. This is what I need you
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  Speaker 2: to do. This is what I need you to do.
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  Speaker 2: And he would always give me that like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're right, I do need to do better. I got
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  Speaker 2: to be a better person at here. I got to
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  Speaker 2: do these things better. And then he would not go
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  Speaker 2: out and do it. And so he needs to actually
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  Speaker 2: go out and do it because I love hearing the
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  Speaker 2: vocal in the verbal, but now I need to see
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  Speaker 2: it in action for him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the the lip service is always great, right. I
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  Speaker 1: love the accountability up front, but show me your accountability too.
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  Speaker 1: That's the other thing that I've expected from Jackson Nordle.
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  Speaker 1: And it feels like he's at that point, right, He's
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  Speaker 1: at that point where he's gonna go out there. I've
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  Speaker 1: heard that he's been vocal in practices. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: think he's been vocal from the beginning. But if anything,
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  Speaker 1: he's choosing players out and get onto him like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I need this out of you. I need that out
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  Speaker 1: of you. And I promise if he gets that from them,
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  Speaker 1: we will see a better team. But we gotta get
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  Speaker 1: him to push. And let me clarify this for you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not putting everything on Jackson Nartle's shoulders, fully right,
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  Speaker 1: Renvinables was gonna do his part health the Trail's gonna
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  Speaker 1: do his part. But she still gotta have a leader
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  Speaker 1: at running back. And it was mentioned in here a
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  Speaker 1: minute ago by Chester Carter. It's a great point. DeMarco
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  Speaker 1: Murray was the leader of Landry Jones teams. It's a
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  Speaker 1: good point. Right. We need someone to come in there,
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  Speaker 1: walk into that locker room and say, hey, let's get
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  Speaker 1: our stuff together and let's make it happen offensively. I
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  Speaker 1: know we can do it. Now. This is the caveat
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  Speaker 1: and Coop, you're exactly right on the lip service and
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  Speaker 1: what we need to see actually happen. The fascinating thing
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  Speaker 1: with this is that going into spring and fall camp,
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  Speaker 1: we had all of our starting wide receivers. We had
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  Speaker 1: just lost Troy Everts. We brought in Brandson Hickman. So
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  Speaker 1: we need another center, right, We have to bring in
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  Speaker 1: an additional piece of depth to go with all the
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  Speaker 1: young freshmen we have. But we had all wide receivers
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  Speaker 1: ready to go, except for I think Julil Ferrouke was
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  Speaker 1: sitting out because of his foot. Nick was playing at
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of fall camp, but then came out and
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  Speaker 1: he's been out for what about five weeks. Now you
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  Speaker 1: had most of the experience on the field, but then
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  Speaker 1: he lost Jay and Gibson Andrew Anthony wasn't able to go.
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  Speaker 1: Jelil Ferruke comes back, breaks his foot and he's gone,
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  Speaker 1: so losing four, losing the players that you were gonna
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  Speaker 1: throw the ball to that you were throwing it too
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  Speaker 1: in spring camp. It kind of derails things. And it's
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  Speaker 1: not that the backup wide receivers aren't good, they just
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  Speaker 1: don't have the experience yet. That is where we're running
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  Speaker 1: into the uh shoot, we're learning things all over again.
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  Speaker 1: And that's kind of why I've been trying to make
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  Speaker 1: sure I'm telling you all and why I'm pushing for
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  Speaker 1: the leadership of Jackson Arnold is he's borderline the most
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  Speaker 1: veteran dude when it comes to looking at this offense.
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  Speaker 1: Right when you bringing new people, Dion Burgs is out
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  Speaker 1: there just to go run and catch balls. Right, they
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  Speaker 1: have chemistry. I see that JJ Hester had a little chemistry,
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  Speaker 1: but he kept dropping past in the first game and
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  Speaker 1: so he got demoted. We need him back. We need
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  Speaker 1: the size to go along with the four to fourth
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  Speaker 1: speed to be more of a threat with Burke. So
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  Speaker 1: but let's talk about that running back room, Coop, what
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  Speaker 1: we need to do to get those running backs going,
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  Speaker 1: because that, to me is if there's anything worrisome Jackson
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  Speaker 1: normally is worrisome to me. I just need him to
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  Speaker 1: be the leader leader. Just he has to grow up
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  Speaker 1: faster than he wants. That running ck room. Man, it
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  Speaker 1: just doesn't feel like nobody fully wants it yet. What
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  Speaker 1: what's going on with that running back room? Can we
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  Speaker 1: get Salt, Chuck and Barnes going? Can Sam Franklin make
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  Speaker 1: something happen? Is Taylor Tatum actually ready? How do you
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  Speaker 1: feel about the room?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, right now, Javonte Barnes is the best running
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  Speaker 2: back on the team. I mean he is. He is
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  Speaker 2: the one who uh he is two years ago? Javonte
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  Speaker 2: he is that Florida State game. Javonte. He is back
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  Speaker 2: to normal. He is feeling himself. And so if I'm Javonte,
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  Speaker 2: I mean this is now my time to shine. I've
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  Speaker 2: got the opportunity. There's a gap here there's a spot
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  Speaker 2: to be taken, and we do need to see the
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  Speaker 2: running back room is going to get a lot of
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  Speaker 2: help if we can loosen up the field. Houston knew
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  Speaker 2: there was no chance that, I mean, after a few plays,
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  Speaker 2: there was not much of a chance that we were
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  Speaker 2: gonna be throwing the ball down. They saw game one,
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  Speaker 2: they crowded the box. Everything was in fifteen yards and
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  Speaker 2: you know last game we did open it up a
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  Speaker 2: tiny bit, but you know, we were missing on those things.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of Jackson was really really
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  Speaker 2: late on some stuff. So as we can continue to
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  Speaker 2: see more, you know, more side to side game, I
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  Speaker 2: think it does open it up. And you know, I
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  Speaker 2: think we've talked about this is you know, if I'm
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  Speaker 2: if i'm my if I get my way, I would say,
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  Speaker 2: let's let's pitch the RPOs because if there's not a
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  Speaker 2: threat of the pass, than that RPO doesn't really you know,
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  Speaker 2: function very well. And those guys are jam ing ough
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  Speaker 2: the wide receivers the ride off. But I mean there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of times to where the wide receivers have
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  Speaker 2: these seven eight yard cushions, turn the ball, throw it
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  Speaker 2: and then you know, let's be satisfied with, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a five or six yard game until you want to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, maybe have a stutter step and go deep.
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  Speaker 2: But with the running back specifically, you know, you saw
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  Speaker 2: Javonte runoff, runoff, tackle, run to the outside and it
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  Speaker 2: was successful. You gotta you gotta have the blocking. You
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  Speaker 2: gotta know what's going on. You know, I can promise
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  Speaker 2: you that that's something they've been practicing on. You also
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  Speaker 2: need to see, uh, some of the more running back
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  Speaker 2: the running back swing passes and the running back you
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  Speaker 2: know pass game that can only work if blocking on
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  Speaker 2: the outside is tied. Ye. And I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: we really ever got the opportunity to do that last
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  Speaker 2: week because you had Brandon Thompson, Dean Burn and Zion
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  Speaker 2: Ragings out there. All these guys are five eight and
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  Speaker 2: below and they were getting eaten up. And so you're
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  Speaker 2: not going to call that if you know that you
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  Speaker 2: did it one time and it's getting blown up. Bower
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  Speaker 2: Sharp same situation. If you're going to flex out a
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  Speaker 2: tight end, you need to be able to block the
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  Speaker 2: defensive back or the nickelback or you know, the smaller linebacker.
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  Speaker 2: In these early game cases, you have to it's not
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  Speaker 2: an option. You have to do this, and so if
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  Speaker 2: you cannot, then you know, I say, you throw Kid
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  Speaker 2: McIntyre out there, or you know, you flex out Jake
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  Speaker 2: Roberts and you let him take on some of those opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: But the linebackers have the running backs absolutely have to
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  Speaker 2: get out there and be able to to you know,
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  Speaker 2: go side to side, because if you cannot stretch the
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  Speaker 2: whole field and you're just jamming back up the middle
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  Speaker 2: and it's not working. I just don't know if you
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  Speaker 2: see that become an asset for them. I think that
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  Speaker 2: as you get you know, head away back. Uh. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he he dingmed himself up early last week. He couldn't practice,
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  Speaker 2: and so if you can't practice, you can't play. You know.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's a philosophy with this, with this coaching staff.
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  Speaker 2: And so yeah, I mean, we got to have the
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  Speaker 2: blocking and so it is every single one of these guys,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter if it's running back, Jackson arun a wide
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  Speaker 2: receiver tied in. You have to fulfill your job and
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  Speaker 2: do it well. And you don't have to PFF at
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  Speaker 2: one hundred every single snap that you're on the field,
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  Speaker 2: but you sure as hell can't get blown up, and
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  Speaker 2: you sure as hell can't with on a guy. You know,
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  Speaker 2: because I coach, you know, my daughter's soccer team, and
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  Speaker 2: I say, listen, all you got to do is just
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  Speaker 2: touch the ball, because if you do not at least
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  Speaker 2: touch the ball, now you are out of the play
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  Speaker 2: and people running the other way because the ball is
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  Speaker 2: coming out the other way. It's the same thing with
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  Speaker 2: blocking is if you throw a running back swing router,
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  Speaker 2: if you throw or if you want to run out
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  Speaker 2: to the edge, but there's a you know, there's a
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  Speaker 2: block that's not made at all. It doesn't matter what
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  Speaker 2: the play call is. It's not set the trail situation.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a Jackson Artle situation. Then that's a blocking situation.
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  Speaker 2: So every single person needs to be able to look
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  Speaker 2: at themselves and go, hey, listen for this play. This
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  Speaker 2: is my job and I have to do it correctly.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. All right, So back to the running back room here,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at it seems like Sautchuck, he just can't
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  Speaker 1: can't get it going. Early. Barnes is running the hardest.
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  Speaker 1: You said you consider him the best back because he
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  Speaker 1: is running the hardest. It looks like he's trying to
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  Speaker 1: get himself back into that freshman year's shape period. When
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  Speaker 1: Franklin got in, he was making some nice cuts. It
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  Speaker 1: seemed like he was ready. And then Taylor Tatum when
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  Speaker 1: he got the runs, he was awesome. Some of his
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  Speaker 1: blocking was kind of questionable, right, and you gotta be
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: able to do both. To me, it feels like your
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: rotation has to be Barnes. It's probably gonna be Barnes, Franklin,
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Saltchuck Tatum because you kind of want Saltchuk going because
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: when Salchuk gets going, he's gonna dip for sixty seventy yards.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: He always gets yeah, big run. Is that crazy to
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: think that that would be a good rotation? Or do
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: you do we really want to pull Tatum up outside
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: of two back sets? I do want Tatum in for
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: the two back sets. But as far as like rotation goes,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: how does that sound to you?
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: That sounds good. But there's more than grabbing the ball
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: and running the ball from the running backs. And you
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: saw Tatum absolutely get Jackson blown up by by a
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: wrong assignment and DeMarco's not going to allow you to
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: be on the field and that and so for everybody
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: saying like, let's lift up you know, Taylor Tatum because
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: that sprint option touchdown at the end of the game
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: in week one, like that, there's so much more to
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: that running back game than that. Now, if you're in
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: the two back set and he doesn't have a blocking pattern,
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: you know, fine, that's great. But at the same time
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: is if you know that blocking is an issue for
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: him and you don't see him in on situations where
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: he can block, it's it's super telling. And if you
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: want to see the offense struggle more put a you know,
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: let everybody know what's going to happen. And so if
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: he comes out there and you know he's been whipping
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: on blocks, then the first time that they see that number,
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: you know, trot out there, that's going to be that's
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: going to be a situation. So and and you know
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: what if one of these guys can't get it happening,
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: you know, now we you know, maybe see a Caleb
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Picks come out because you know, he's still someone who
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: we haven't really seen yet and I don't know what
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: the story with him is. I mean, obviously everyone wants
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: to jump to a conclusion that that might be an
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: injury situation. But you've got explosive backs and we just
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: now have to see the cumulative you know, execution happen
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: all around.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I agree, and that's that's where I'm at. I just
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: need everybody to execute, and so to me some of
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: the ways that we can do that. We've seen it
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: here in the chat some folks and maybe mention never
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: thank you for pulling up. Appreciate it. I'm reading through
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: the chat, I'm looking through it at the same time,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: while while, while, while we're both talking, but adding some
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: screens Addison due. But I just want to dink and
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: dunk in this game. Get get Jackson Arnold's arm warmed done.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: We know he can launch it, and it seems like
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: he's been nervous about launching it. Get him a little
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: warmed up. But let's get I need to get the
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: running backs more involved. I want them in space. I
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: know that Barnes is dangerous in space. I know Salt Chuck.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Whenever you give him enough space, he's gonna outrun everybody.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: And that's what we're waiting on right I think Sam
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Franklin's as solid went out of space. Same thing with
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Taylor Tatum. We know that he can catch. He's really
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: good at catching, so launching him out is gonna be solid.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I think that's something to think about. So back to
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: the wide receivers, and before we jump right over to
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball, If Nick Anderson and
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Andre Anthony plays in this game, how do you feel
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: about the Sooner's chances of covering the spread?
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously it makes you feel better immediately. Now,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: what did we see out of Andre in Week one?
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: We saw some rust. You know, Nick's been out for
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: five weeks now, and you know, four or five weeks,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: and so you know, maybe there's going to be some rusts.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: I don't think that dude's going to walk in and
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: throw up an eight catch, hundred and eighty five yard
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: game with three touchdowns or anything like that. But you know,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: I just I just absolutely think that you bring him
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: out there. You know, Jackson has some familiarity and some
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: confidence with him. I think that when you put another
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: proven threat, even before he's walked out there, it loosens
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: up the field for Dion Burks. You get a chance.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: I mean nine catches for fifty some one yards. I mean,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: that's not what Dion Burks came here to do you
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: know he came to do the spring game stuff where
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: he's you know where he's flying deep. Uh, you know
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: we saw it in fall practice. You know, he's going deep.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: And so yeah, I mean I think that if Jackson
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: is in the wide receivers, production is going to I'm
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: gonna be strictly tied to Jackson. But the same time,
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: wide receivers, you know, Dian Burk's on that post route,
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: he did not run the correct route. I mean he
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: he he floated it and it left Jackson out to dry.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Now was he not expecting the ball? You know, you
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: got to expect the ball as a wide receiver to
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: hit your hands every single time. So yeah, there's a
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: lot of accountability on every single one of these position groups.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: But wide receivers blockwell, run your correct route and then
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: be I'll always be ready. So Jackson's going to have
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: to be able to take a check down. He's going
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: to have to be able to see one two and
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: then do something with the ball instead of running around
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: and you know, swallowing it. So but I mean, if
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: if andrel Anthony and Nick six come back, it immediately
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: puts more threats out there on the field versus guys
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: who are you know, playing their first or second college game.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll say it was an ab R. Always be.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Ready, receiving, always be received. You always be ready. I mean,
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: whatever you want to do, whatever acronym.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: ABR because us ABC always be closing. As salespeople, we
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: you know, you're always be closing. I think the wipe
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: teaers should always be closing their hands on the ball
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: and bring it in. But I think we'll be fine
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: long term. I don't think that this is something as
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: a concern because we're going to talk about the side
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: of the ball that's cooking it, which is the defensive side.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: So we'll jump into that. Thank y'all for pulling up
• 22:25
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• 22:28
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• 22:31
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• 22:38
  Speaker 1: going into spring ball, I said this at that time,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: and I didn't say this as like hyperbole or trying
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: to deflect about anything.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: No.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I said that we were gonna ride this defense. The
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: defense was gonna be the most critical component of what
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: we do on this team. And Coop, it looks like
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: That's exactly what it is. As we're you know, navigating
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: injury bug around. On the offensive side, the defense has
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: as we would say, competitive depth where they have roughly
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: almost three deep linebacker, we're three deep. Secondary, we're too deep.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: As much as I love the freshman, they can be
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: lured into making those mistakes. Defensive line, we're at least
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: two deep, maybe three we maybe three deep there as
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: well of talent that can play. But it was a
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: questioning here, Mike, what's going on? Mike. I'm glad that
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: you pulled up of a sooner legends. He asked about
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: our guy Dasson McCullough. When will we get to see him?
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna be honest, I don't expect to see
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: him until maybe Tennessee, right, I always get maybe Auburn.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: I know he's getting over that foot injury. But at
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: the same time, though I think he made he could
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: play this weekend. If we actually bring out our defense, right,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: if we bring out the actual defensive sets we want
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: to do, where we go with like the odd you know,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: we going to like the three three five looks, or
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: we bring out the additional linebacker, there's a chance you
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: could see some design mccullor, especially if he's healthy, they
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: may go ahead and play them. It's no guarantee, but
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: there's a chance. Cool when you're looking at this defensive line, man,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: what do you want to see out of them in
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: this game against Tulane? Because me personally, I need to
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: see I need to see more pressure on Mensa. I
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: need you to make him make more mistakes.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: You want to see the continuation of the interior line.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Last week, I mean they ran twelve firstonnel. I mean,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that I said this a few times
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: that they run around to personnel and they're runna max
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: protect and that's exactly what happened. And they wanted to
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: deconduct the ball down the field, which they did. You know,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: we we probably are not seeing that this week because
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: that's not a base concept that they're going to try
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: to run at us. But I think starting first and foremost,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: you get right up the middle. You continue that pressure
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: with DJ Terry, with Jaden Jackson, you know, Don Williams,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Grayson Halton, those guys have started making a living in
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: the backfield, and you want to see more of that.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: You want to see the edges. The edges have not
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: had the opportunities, yet they have not. And it's and
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: it's not because of anything that it's their fault. It's
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: so if you said, like, hey, listen, I'm annoyed, I'm
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: not seeing anything on these edge room and gel chaves
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: can't develop players like bump the brakes, that's not the case.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: There has not been a situation. There haven't been five
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: step drops. There have not been many three step drops.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: It has been stand up, throw the ball. It has
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: been sprint out, you know, and throw the ball. And
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: so you want to see the edges continue to when
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: it's time to set the edge and to make sure
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: that you keep integrity on your laying and your assignment
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: continue that. So I think that that's what I want
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: to see out of the defense because when you do that,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: that allows this linebacker corps, which is one of the
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: best in the country, to continue to do what they're doing.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Right. That's exactly what's I'm seeing too. The edges are
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: our get is what it is. The edges are collapsing
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: the pocket and the defensive tackles are taking the sect yeah,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: or they're dumping it right, They're getting rid of the
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: ball as quickly as possible. Which I mean, to their
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: credit is smart. That's what you're supposed to do. Take
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: what they're giving you in that scenario.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, as far as the safety's defensive backs, those guys
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: just need to continue to do what they've been doing
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: is always be ready, always have your you know, have
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: your eye, your eye discipline. The only you know, really
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: the touchdown that we gave up was Kobe McKenzie, you know,
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: or I guess the only big play was Cobe McKenzie
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: in Week one. This past week was situation to where
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: r SJ. You know, he he admitted that you know,
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: he got his eye his eye discipline went went sideways.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: But again, I will say this, and I'll pause on
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: this one, Jay, because how many offensive players have we
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: made look stellar to where ou fans were like, that
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: guy's going to be good, he's an NFL player and
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: he's going to be really, really good. And then the
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: next week they show up and they do absolutely zero.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Like that does not has not happened yet, And that
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: is a staple of our defense over the past five
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: to ten years, is making somebody somebody had a field
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: day against our defense. We haven't seen that yet, and
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: I don't think that you're going to see this even
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: running out of the base defense. So the defensive backs
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: just need to continue to do what they're doing. Is
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: you know they're not going to They're not going to
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: give up these big plays. Will they give up a
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: six yard rout or seven yard route? Sure? But I
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: think we were talking about on the spaces the other day.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: The only thing that I really really want to see
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: is the continuation of people swarming to the ball. Is
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: when you see peak Clemson defense and peak Alabama defense,
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: it looks like they're blitzing on almost every single play
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: because the swarming to the ball is just out of control.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: And you got five, six, seven guys you know, within
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: screenshot of the ball on the TV broadcast, And so
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: I want to continue to see that. I want to
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: see these guys intensity wrap up to where you want
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: to almost act like it is running in practice. And
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: last one, you know, is the is the rotten a
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: or whatever like? Continue that swarming piece because that is
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: going to be something that I want to continue to see.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: I'm totally here with you then, And there was a
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: question in here that I thought was a very good question,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Uh where are you.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Give?
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: There was one in here that I felt like was
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: a critical one for us to talk about. Where did
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: it go there? It is from Lance. I thought I started,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: but I did not started. Thank you. How many of
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: you players got game time against Houston? Eighteen offensive guys played,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: twenty seven defensive guys played in that game. That's what
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: forty five players. That's two full rosters basically for the
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: most part, especially defensively. We played a lot of people
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: on the defense side of the ball. I think what
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: was the game one? We had? Eighties? How many players
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: we played in a game? Eighty four players played in
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Game one? Right, So let me put it this way.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: And I don't want you to shoot the messenger. I
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: just want you to hear me out when I say this, right, Coop,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: don't give my ideas. Hear me when I say this.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: A lot of you have said that you want to
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: see young players play, right. A lot of you has said,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: give some of the young pups a chance. Let them
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: go out there. They go out there and they make
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: a mistake, then you want them out the game. If
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: you want the young players to play, be prepared for
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: them to make mistakes, because that's how you gain experience. Right.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: And like you said, wandering defense is always about the
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: wandering eye. That was the one thing I had said
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: to our guy Tie over there around the table sports
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: on Caleb Downs. Caleb Down's best safety in the game.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: He was baited the first like four or five games
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: of the season by the defenses. They just kept trying,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: they just kept They're catching those eyes. Because what happens
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: with young guys is they want to go out there
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: and they want to make a play. Yeah, and sometimes
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: they abandon the screen. The abandoned the scheme, and that's
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: where the problem goes.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Texas worked Caleb Downs. I mean they made a living
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: off of working tech Caleb Downs last year early in
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: the season, and so I mean that's uh, you know
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: with some of these young kids, I mean we were
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: already starting to see it. I mean you got you
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: know already. Lewis Carter, Uh, he's out there as one
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: of the rotating guys at linebackers. So he's in there
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: and making making his deal. Uh. Samuel Masigo is a
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: guy who hasn't had a ton of playing time. He
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: made some really really great reads and tackles for loss
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: last week. You know, Eli Bowen has been banged up
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: a little bit but I think that he should be
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: ready to to get in to get some time. You're
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: you're you're seeing Jacoba Johnson out there, and if there's
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: been a cornerback that has had any mistakes, it's been him.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: But he is learning on the on the fly. I
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: think this defense is good enough to uh now, with
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: the the the cumulative team uh disciplining concept and understanding
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: of what Zach Allien Brad Venables were trying to run,
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: you've got the capability to roll in something and to
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: give somebody uh more opportunities. So you know, I don't
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: mind young guys going in there and getting a few pieces,
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: getting them some screen time, because these guys are earning it.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: They're not getting thrown out there because they were a
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: four star recruit. They are earning it because they're going
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: out in practice and they're they're they're playing and they're
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: proving that they deserve an opportunity. So I'm fine with that.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: But I mean, on defense, I can say like nobody
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: has earned the spot to to. I mean, nobody has
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: lost their job on defense at this point in the season.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Everybody has played to the spot. You know you're going
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: to have a failure here, you're going to have a
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: failure there. You know, you saw it, even Georgia Clemson.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: There were guys giving up, you know, bombs along the
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: sideline and Clemson couldn't capitalize it. And I think that's
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: the number one thing about this defense right now has
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: been Jay. When we make an error, we don't make
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: another one and then another one and another one. We
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: don't allow that a land an avalanche like we've seen
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: in the past.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: That is the funny thing is that we've done a
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: really good job about that. We're not allowing that one
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: problem to continue to fester over us as much now.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: It does happen occasionally. One thing that we did see
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: was the rs Jay, you know, the deep pass the
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: kind of went on him and he pointed out because
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: what it was. Brin Vennibles mentioned that they didn't get
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: to play out to him fast enough and it was
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: because it was after the past. Interference was called ol
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Woody Washington's interception, which s he'll.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Just that was interceptions. That was an interception, big twelve refs.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: I've heard. I've heard experts from across the country say
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: that's an I mean, that's an interception, that's perfect ball.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: You know, I heard Gave and Teddy say it. I've
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: heard several other people say that was great. I mean,
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: that was great. And you know, of course these coaching
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: staff they can't say anything. They don't want to get fine,
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: they don't want to piss other people off. But again,
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: we know what that is. That's big twelve reps.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, they get us every time. And so all right,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: so defensively over there was a question asking here which
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: was good bye our god dominic, thank you for pulling
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: up per the norm. Who's our biggest threat. Who's the
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: biggest to Lane's biggest threat to us? And it's two.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be Mario Williams because he's their best wide receiver.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Team catches two and fifty two yards. We talked about that,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: but it's Mensa that that their quarterback. The good thing
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: about Mensa is Mensa's gonna go out there and make
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: some mistakes.
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  Speaker 2: Ye.
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  Speaker 1: Now, this is the game where we're gonna see the
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: test and I got truth up in here. He's right,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: this is where we're gonna get that work. This is
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: going to be the game where Tulane's going to try
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: to bend us. And if our secondary shows out in
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: this game against Christmas, We've got a defense that we need.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: This is the one because Mins is gonna try to launch,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: He's gonna try to pass it all over us. They're
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: gonna even try deep. I'm ready to see if our
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: DB's are ready for those deep passes. Mario Williams is fast,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: but if you bracken him properly, you have a safety
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: high ready for that. I think Robert Spears genies can
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: do it. Man, how do you feel about us going
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: up against that explosive, tulaning passing game.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, these you know, you've got several of these
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: guys who have played played against Mario Williams. They've seen him,
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: they've seen what his tendencies are, so they've got familiarity
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: with Mario and I I mean, I just I just
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: have to say that, like this is a situation where
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: if things go our way and go the way that
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: like we've been practicing and this defense when they are tested, you,
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, you've got three safeties that you're very very
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: confident in, very confident in. So I think it's less
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: about I think it's less about the defensive backs and
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: the safeties this week as it is about the linebacker
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: drops is you have to have the appropriate linebacker drops
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: because if these corners can and these can these corners
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: Kendle Doby on a sego when he's out there, if
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: these guys can rely and understand and believe that the
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: linebackers is gonna have the appropriate drops, they worry about
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: the deep. And then if the defensive backs are worried
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: about the deep, then you also know that you're going
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: to have Peyton Bowen, RSJ. Billy Bowman back at the
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: you know, behind you, so you never feel like you're
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: truly in a one on one situation. So I think
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: that I think that's it is. The linebackers can do
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: a lot in this game to give the defensive backs
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: to freedom to play how they want to play. Now,
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: if you don't get the correct drops, and you're getting
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: a lot of these denks and these eight yard outs
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: and these uh, these middle plays to where the linebackers, uh,
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: you know, you don't drop and then they can drop
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: in you know, the mensa can just drop back over
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: the top of the linebacker. Now the defensive back has
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: a lot more of the field to play. And so
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: I want to see that because I think that's going
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: to help out.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Agree, and they're gonna be probably leveraging that tidy end.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Uh tofer in here point this out, which is a
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: very good I want to point out, Alex Bauman, they're
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: tight end now, granted, looking at their room. Hold a second,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: let me see if I got this bad boy here. Yeah,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: let's go ahead and pull the stuffware for the people
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: to look at. These are the numbers for them right now.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Right looks a little small. Let me zoom that in
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: for you out right said they've they've only got dudes.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: You got Mario, you got Dante Fleming. Right, These are
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: the averages as far as the numbers go. But most
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: of their touchdowns are scored by that tight end Alex Bauman.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: That is who MENSA likes to go to. Mensa Statistically
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: their run game, though Makai Hughes not a bad outing,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: thirty five carries one hundred and eighty seven yards. Then
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: they got a couple of other guys that come in
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: and also put up some numbers, but they're Mensa even
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: though shockingly mensus ain't got ten carries to five yards.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: So he doesn't actually quote unquote scramble, well, he didn't
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: quote unquote run. He just scrambles a lot like he
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: moves around the hocket. And the great point here is
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: that Mins is gonna be great prep before we face Nico.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Because the thing with Nico is like I like Iam
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: and Lava, like I think Nico's gonna be a beast
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: in this college football game. It was him and Jackson
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Arnold were my favorite quarterbacks in that class period, right
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: And if y'all know me, if you've been around long enough,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: you know Tennessee was always so always my SEC school.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Now that we're in the SEC, they're now gotta be
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: second tier underneath because it's Oklahoma plays Tennessee. Oklahoma's my squad.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: But anybody else that Tennessee plays, I'm rooting for the balls.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: That's always been since I was a kid. But Hypel
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: is the one that we've got to really be paying
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: attention to, right, Hypool's their quarterback right now. Nothing against Nico.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Hypel's making that bad boy easy for the man. And
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: we know that's the system, right, that's what's you're supposed
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: to do, especially for a young dude. If you go
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: look at Nico's numbers, they're okay thinking about Tennessee and
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about them next week. Dog Their defense good,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Like I'm a little nervous about that defense. That defense
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: IOD is good andivis is good. So I'm excited to
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: see what that's gonna look like and how we're gonna
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: be able to respond against them. But going back to Tulane,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: I was surprised that Mensa actually won the job. He's
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: completing seventy percent of his passes right now, right averaging
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: thirteen yards of play. He's got a sixty four yard
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: touch sixty eight yard pass to Mario Mario Williams woun't
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: a touchdown, but sixty eight yards. He's put up some numbers.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: He's been sacked five times, yeah, but he's still putting
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: up some really good numbers of seventy percent completion. To me,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: we've got to be prepared for the gauntlet. They're gonna
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: some are all is gonna be creative against us. And
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: when I say creative, cretive. But I don't know that
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: very shoot's gonna be interesting. It's gonna be inter when
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: we get to Tennessee. But I think when it comes
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: to Tulane, nokup. If we can get if we can
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: keep the pressure on mensa, he's gonna make the mistakes
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: we need.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: And you know I've watched the mensa. You know film,
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: you want to watch the Kansas State game. I mean
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: that first game. You know, he pretty much did what
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: he wanted to do. But I mean, he will hold
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: the ball and he will wait, and he'll wait too long,
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: you know, with those five sacks. That's the one thing
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: is you know, he knows what his bread and butter is,
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: the Yankee style of offense where he is going to uh,
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: you know, he doesn't care if he strikes out and
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: gets a sack, you know, because he'll get it straight
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: back up, so it doesn't matter. I think that you're
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: going to have to be ready as the defensive backs
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: to to be ready to cover deep on first down,
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: on second down, on third down, and on fourth and short.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: You've got to be ready to do that. And if
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: you're not ready for those things, then you haven't been
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: paying attention to film. But the great thing for this
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: defensive line is this might be the first time that
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: you get a chance to see you know, these edges
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: get to rush up field and you continue to push
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: it up. I said this multiple times, but when we
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: dominated Texas, tech during the Mike Lee cheers, the Kingsbury years,
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: all of those things when we did very very well,
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: it came from pressure up the middle. That is the
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: first thing that blows up that very very quick offense.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: And so continue to do that up fright to the
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: proper linebacker drops, and then these defensive backs need to
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: be ready to play the ball deep every single down.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Yep. Interesting, you just have them to pop up on
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: the timeline. We'll talk about this probably on Sunday after
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: the game, but I got red Dirt Sports posted a
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: agenda piece for the Border Regents for renovations to Gaylord
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: Family Oklahomorria Stadium's master plans update. Sound like they're looking
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: at doing some actual renovations there. We'll talk about that
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: once we get more details. We'll wait on the good
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: reporters to actually report the details for us, because at
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: their reporters, we're fans. We're here talking ball because that's
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: what we do best. He's hitting noodle horns. He needed
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: to get a sandwich, all right, Coop, what's your bowl
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: prediction for this game? Boat of stuff?
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: You know, I think that this is a game that,
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: based off of what we've seen this far, I expect
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: this first half to to be something where we see
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: some good execution on offense. So I think that we're
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: going to have ourselves a good first half. I think
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: that we're going to have it on both sides of
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: the ball, offense and defense. I think that some adjustments
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: will be made to what we're doing in the second half,
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: and it may not be a big runaway game, but
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: this is a game to where I want to say
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: that if you can win this game, you know, fifteen
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: to twenty points, that's nothing to you know, shake your
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: head at. And I know that's not what anybody wants
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: to hear, but you need to absolutely see this game
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: is one to where you want to see success is happening,
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: you know throughout the game. You know, is it a
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: fact that we can can we hold the ball for
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: seven or eight minutes on a drive and maybe attempt
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: a field goal. That's not that's not a loss. This
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: team is going to be one on offense that you've
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: got to continue to make improvements week to week. I
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: don't see a jump from you know, the score that
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: we had last week to you know, throwing up seventy
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: five points this week. I don't see that happening, So
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go with, you know, you want your defense,
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: can you do what you're doing. I think two line
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: has a little bit more capability to take advantage of
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: a short field if our offense does not, does not
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: you know, continue to to you know, to improve in
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: certain situations. So I mean, if we see something like
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: a you know, a thirty seven to seventeen or something
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: like that, like that's that's a great win in this situation, right.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: I don't see us scoring a bunch. My score prediction
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: is still around twenty eight to ten, maybe twenty seven
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: to ten. I like this one from Garrett. I'm around there,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: twenties seven, twenty eight to ten. I think it's gonna
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: be lower scoring, but I think that we I think
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: I have two bold predictions here, well three. One. I
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: think that we lead the time of possession because we
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: actually get a running game going and we established something
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: we control the ball. I think we get a defensive touchdown.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: And I think that our running we get a one
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: hundred yard rusher for the first time this season. I
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: don't know who, though, I just think one of them.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: If I had to pick somebody, I think it's gonna
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: be Barnes. I feel like he's running the hardest. I
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: think that he wants it the most, and you can
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: tell that he's trying to bounce back hard from last year,
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: like last year's injury that mess with his head. He
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: even said it in an interview. Very I think he's
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: trying to bounce that back. I think he really wants
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: to bounce that back.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say this is I think that we see,
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: you know, a five plus sack game this week, So
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: not by an individual obviously, but like I think that
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: we see five or more sacks. I think that they're
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: going to if Tulane comes out and plays the game
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: that they've been playing, that that I think that's an
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: easy stat I think if Tulane comes out and tries
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: to do more what Houston has done and what Temple
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: has done, maybe that number is harder to get. But
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: I don't know if they've got the discipline to continue
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: to do that. Uh And here here here's my I
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: think we put the clams on Mario Williams. I don't
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: think that this staff. I don't think that these players
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: who have the familiarity with him want to see him
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: come back in and do something you know, and and
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: and make a name for himself or prove a point.
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: And that's nothing against the kid. You know, he he followed,
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: and he was a young kid who decided to follow
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: the coach that he committed to. Like I got, I
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: had nothing against him for that part. But I think
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: that the staff wants to uh, this staff and these
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: players want to prove a point.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is this is a game. This is a
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: statement game. And as our guy truth in here points out,
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: this is the game where we show what our secondary
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: looks like. And I need the secondary to show up,
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: show out and hit some folks offensive line. I know
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: that we're gonna hear more this week. Bb'll probably talk
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: about what to expect with that. I anticipate that coming
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: down the line in the next day or two. Hopefully
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: we get some depth, charred information. That stuff is still
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: kept under wraps, unfortunately, but we should find out. The
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: good thing for us too is, you know, we got
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: this game. We'll get Tennessee, we get Auburn, we get
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: a break, we get some rest, and we get to
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: really recoop and figure out what the heck is gonna
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: go for the rest of the season. But we're gonna
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: wrap this bad boy up and a bowl on it.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: Let Coop get back to relaxing there as he's traveling
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: and doing important people stuff, making money and doing the
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: big things exactly look at him, look at me, looking
• 47:00
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• 47:04
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• 47:12
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