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Cowboys Win in Philly, Texas Turns to Miss. St., HSFB Unbeatens on Collision Course · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Here it is on a Texan Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: Glad to have you with us here on Sports Radio
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  Speaker 2: AM 1300 The Zone.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully we can get you still climbing up that hill
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  Speaker 2: on what I used to think, used to think was
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  Speaker 2: the worst commuting day of the week. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: that anymore. I think it's Thursday now. Maybe people are just,
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  Speaker 2: you know, trying to get home, get out of town
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  Speaker 2: quicker on that. Tuesday's no picnic.
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  Speaker 1: Trust me.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it, is probably falling into the number
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  Speaker 2: two spot in my commuting days rankings. But it's up there.
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  Speaker 2: It's definitely difficult. We're glad to have you with us.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Craig Wade. Thanks very much for joining us.
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  Speaker 2: We're with you each and every weekday afternoon, Monday through
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  Speaker 2: Friday from 2 p.m. to 5 a.m. We includes the producer,
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  Speaker 2: Jay Kerman. I will ask you the question. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how many folks... do what those of us in
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: the sporting industry, so to speak, do. But I do
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  Speaker 2: know a lot of people who do this kind of stuff,
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  Speaker 2: constantly flipping channels one game or another. Then there are
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  Speaker 2: those who have the multiple screens in their house, or
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  Speaker 2: maybe sometimes if I'm watching one game on my big screen,
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  Speaker 2: I might have a game on my laptop or on
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  Speaker 2: my iPad, so I'm keeping tabs on it.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't do.
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  Speaker 2: That stuff last night, but I had a pretty quick
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  Speaker 2: thumb last night. at least for a while, between watching,
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  Speaker 2: I was watching earlier, the first one to start, Dallas
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  Speaker 2: Mavericks and Miami Heat. Pretty entertaining game. You saw probably
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  Speaker 2: the posterizing dunk of the early part of the season
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  Speaker 2: there from Giannis Antetokounmpo, but it was one of the
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  Speaker 2: few real highlights from them because they're now 0-4 because
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  Speaker 2: Cooper Flagg, who very nearly corralled his first NBA career triple-double,
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  Speaker 2: had a marvelous game. And the Mavericks won that. But
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  Speaker 2: I started off watching that. Get to 7 o'clock. World
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  Speaker 2: Series game three starts between the Brewers and the Rays.
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  Speaker 2: And then about 7.20, the Cowboys-Eagles game kicked off. So
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  Speaker 2: from that point on, around 7.20, I just start flipping
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  Speaker 2: back and forth. I'm doing a lot of things flipping
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  Speaker 2: back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: And then... The eight-run fifth inning changed it at that point.
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  Speaker 2: At that point, I didn't worry about following the action
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  Speaker 2: too closely because at that point, the Brewers were up 10-0,
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  Speaker 2: and it was pretty much a fait accompli. So I
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  Speaker 2: continued to watch the Cowboys by and large, not just
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  Speaker 2: because I had Dak Prescott and Brandon Aubrey and CeeDee
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  Speaker 2: Lamb on my fantasy team, but also just to see
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  Speaker 2: how the Cowboys were going to respond on the road,
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  Speaker 2: which they did. And got the win and saw the
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  Speaker 2: Mavericks finish off the Heat. So it was a pretty
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  Speaker 2: busy night. How did you spend your sports-watching evening? Because
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  Speaker 2: you were doing.
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  Speaker 1: That, weren't you?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I had the baseball in an AirPod.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Because I love baseball on the radio.
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: I just do. And so I had that going there.
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  Speaker 5: I had.
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  Speaker 2: That's Shambi still doing it, right?
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  Speaker 3: Well, and I had the Brewers crew.
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  Speaker 1: Brewers, you're listening to Jeff Levering and my old pal.
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  Speaker 5: Lane Grindle.
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  Speaker 6: Lane Grindle and Josh Maurer did the fifth. They've been
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  Speaker 6: calling him Maurer Magic in the postseason because he's been
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  Speaker 6: on the mic for a lot of the Brewers' big innings. But,
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  Speaker 6: you know, I'm trying to keep up with friends that
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  Speaker 6: are spread out across the country as well.
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  Speaker 1: I get a call.
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  Speaker 6: I'm catching up with one of my oldest home friends,
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  Speaker 6: the one who I visited up in New York back
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  Speaker 6: in October.
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  Speaker 3: We're catching up.
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  Speaker 6: Before I know it, you know, the 15 minutes we've
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  Speaker 6: spent on the phone, the game and the World Series
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  Speaker 6: have completely changed by.
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  Speaker 3: The time I catch up to where I was.
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  Speaker 6: So, you know, even the quickest of thumbs or in
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  Speaker 6: my case, ears can't keep up with everything going on
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  Speaker 6: around sports. I can't imagine trying to track a close
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  Speaker 6: fantasy matchup last night as well.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I was doing that, uh, you know, but, but
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  Speaker 2: it all worked out for me on there. So, um,
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  Speaker 2: but anyway, I, you know, I watching all this kind
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  Speaker 2: of stuff and, and, uh, Linda's watching along with me.
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  Speaker 1: She, she goes along there.
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  Speaker 2: I told you that, um, uh, uh, what's her man,
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  Speaker 2: Scott Hanson on Red Zone.
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  Speaker 1: He kind of makes her crazy a little bit.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, by the way, does anyone know it was tight
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  Speaker 6: ends day? I didn't hear it mentioned one time.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So, but she follows along really well. She's really going
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  Speaker 2: along well and she's a Mavericks fan too. Now, she
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  Speaker 2: lost a lot of her fandom when the Luka trade
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  Speaker 2: went down because she loved her some Luka. So she's
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  Speaker 2: got spiked up interest in the Lakers, but she is
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  Speaker 2: still a Mavericks fan and she was excited But then
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  Speaker 2: the win last night.
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  Speaker 1: So there was that. And she grew up in Dallas.
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  Speaker 1: So she grew up a Cowboys fan.
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  Speaker 2: Now, like many, like, you know, our man in the building,
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  Speaker 2: Cameron Parker, she'd gotten a little jaded about him.
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  Speaker 3: Tough start for Cameron's thunder, by the way.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And that's difficult, too, for him. So, and I kind
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  Speaker 2: of like what I did with the Dodgers. I kind
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  Speaker 2: of proselytized her a little bit to becoming somewhat of
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  Speaker 2: a Rams fan. But she still likes the Cowboys a lot.
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  Speaker 2: She liked your team when they went by Washington football team.
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  Speaker 2: She liked that name. When they went to commanders, she
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  Speaker 2: was like, eh, all right, I'm done.
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  Speaker 3: Now you're just another team.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, right.
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  Speaker 2: If you go back to being Washington football team, They
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  Speaker 2: might steal her from me in terms of fandom.
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  Speaker 6: I genuinely think if they were, you know, in a
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  Speaker 6: different city, they could pull off football team.
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  Speaker 3: But the fact that WFT is so close to WTF.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's true.
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  Speaker 3: Bit of a drawback.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point. Hadn't really thought about that.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe if it was, no, that wouldn't work either. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: so we spent an evening watching it. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: and you and I have never talked about this. And
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  Speaker 2: I'll give people a little bit of warning because we'll
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  Speaker 2: get into it next break. We did finish watching season
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  Speaker 2: four of Ted Lasso.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 3: I've got one left.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well, then I'm not going to say anything because
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  Speaker 2: you definitely need to watch the last episode.
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  Speaker 3: I'll finish it tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll put that off to another time. But anyway,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it was kind of an adventuresome evening. And
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  Speaker 2: so wrapped around all of that. is the things that
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  Speaker 2: went in my mind about the football game to come
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  Speaker 2: this weekend, because I also, of course, have a professional
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  Speaker 2: responsibility here on the program in this building, in the program,
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  Speaker 2: and also in the broadcast booth calling the Longhorn football games. Now,
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  Speaker 2: This is what I call overlap Roman numeral one. We
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  Speaker 2: get to the overlap time of year, football and men's
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  Speaker 2: and women's basketball. For example, after the show today, I'll
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  Speaker 2: go over on campus and emcee women's basketball.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back dinner tonight.
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  Speaker 2: And then tomorrow there'll be the recording tomorrow evening of
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  Speaker 2: Longhorn Weekly with Coach Sark. Thursday's women's basketball exhibition finale,
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  Speaker 2: free at Moody Center if you want to come out.
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  Speaker 1: And watch Texas play Eastern New Mexico. So there's those things.
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  Speaker 2: The men, of course, open the season next Monday against
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  Speaker 2: Chicago State, and the women open their regular season a
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  Speaker 2: week from tomorrow against Fairleigh Dickinson. So it's a busy
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  Speaker 2: time with all this stuff going on, but it's cool.
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  Speaker 2: I've always liked that. So I'm never very far away
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  Speaker 2: from the thought process of some preparation and some reading
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  Speaker 2: things and swapping texts with a good friend, Neil Price,
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  Speaker 2: play-by-play voice of the for a preview of the matchup
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  Speaker 2: between the two. And clearly, we'll be getting his thoughts
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  Speaker 2: on the fact that it was announced today that Kamario
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  Speaker 2: Taylor is done for the year. Their outstanding, talented quarterback
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  Speaker 2: who gave the Longhorns such a fit last year. But
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  Speaker 2: Taylor is out for the year. It's that toe issue.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to need surgery today. on that toe, is
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  Speaker 2: expected to make a full recovery according to a university release.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff Lebby, the head coach, said nobody wants to be
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  Speaker 2: on that field more than Camario. I know how much
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  Speaker 2: this team means to him and how much he means
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  Speaker 2: to this team.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be right there with him throughout the recovery.
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  Speaker 2: So he injured that toe back at the end of
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  Speaker 2: September against Missouri, tried to play against Alabama, tried to
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  Speaker 2: play against Oklahoma last week. He missed the game against
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  Speaker 2: LSU on the 17th. Clearly wasn't 100%. Either of those
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  Speaker 2: games left both early. So he's definitely going to be out.
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  Speaker 2: So that, you know, that was going through my mind,
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  Speaker 2: what was happening there. And then the Longhorns themselves and
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  Speaker 2: getting ready for this game. So in hearing from a
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  Speaker 2: couple of Longhorns, Michael Masunis.
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  Speaker 1: Remember him?
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  Speaker 2: He was the other tight end. Came in from Michigan State.
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  Speaker 2: Hadn't caught a pass until last Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: He caught three.
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  Speaker 1: So now he's kind of in the deal.
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  Speaker 2: He's kind of, and he was asked, you know, why
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  Speaker 2: does he think his snap count has gone up?
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  Speaker 7: I think it's just been a mix of everything.
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  Speaker 8: I think keeping my nose down, keep working hard through practice,
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  Speaker 8: getting my reps and executing them on the field. I
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  Speaker 8: think that was a big thing to show the confidence
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  Speaker 8: of the coaches that I'm executing them on the field
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  Speaker 8: and in practice and then in the games too.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 9: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Sartre mentioned yesterday in the press conference how The tangible
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  Speaker 2: measurement of the effort going up. Because he was asked
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  Speaker 2: this by reporters. And again, here's the delineation I think
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  Speaker 2: that's important distinction to be made here. People look at
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  Speaker 2: tweets from across the country and automatically assume that Sark
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  Speaker 2: is just gushing out these things about like the Arch
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  Speaker 2: Manning thing if his name was Joe Smith.
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  Speaker 1: He was answering a question.
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  Speaker 2: And it always comes down to him answering a question
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  Speaker 2: and folks thinking it's a declarative statement.
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  Speaker 1: When he is in fact asking a question.
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  Speaker 2: So he was asked last week about the uptick, what
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  Speaker 2: he had seen in practice and talked about, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the things that they can measure, the performance. And there
• 10:12
  Speaker 2: were some folks who were, you know, unhappy because of
• 10:14
  Speaker 2: the back-to-back losses. And I understand that. kind of rolling
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  Speaker 2: their eyes. It's more talk about practice. Let's see in
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  Speaker 2: the game. He's answering a question. Somebody's asking him the question.
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  Speaker 2: And for those who get tired of the questions, I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to hear anymore.
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  Speaker 1: That's cool. I totally get it. You are under no obligation.
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  Speaker 2: You are not required by state, federal, or local law
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  Speaker 2: to watch or listen to any.
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  Speaker 1: Of the media availabilities. However, the media wants.
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: The availabilities to help in their story prep and things
• 10:43
  Speaker 2: like that. And for getting sound bites for television and radio,
• 10:46
  Speaker 2: things of that nature. That's why those availabilities happen. That's
• 10:49
  Speaker 2: why there's a press conference on Monday morning. That's why
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: there is a Zoom media session on Thursday. That's why tomorrow,
• 10:56
  Speaker 2: and this only happens every few weeks, there's an SEC
• 10:59
  Speaker 2: what's called teleconference. It's done by Zoom. It's not by
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  Speaker 2: phone anymore. But he'll participate in one of those tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: because the athletic departments of these schools are asked to
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: make their head coaches available. You don't have to listen
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  Speaker 2: to them or watch them if you don't want to.
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  Speaker 2: And quite frankly, if some of it wearies you, I understand,
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  Speaker 2: and that's cool. But that's not going to stop them
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  Speaker 2: from happening because those things do happen, okay?
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: And folks are going to report it.
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  Speaker 2: Like I tweeted out yesterday about Sark talking about the
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  Speaker 2: relief syndrome. and that they avoid and somebody tweeted back
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  Speaker 2: at me and said why is he talking about that
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  Speaker 2: should be concentrating on how to get how to uh
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  Speaker 2: uh you know move past the losses and poor play
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  Speaker 2: and i said and i answered back i said exactly
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  Speaker 2: his point that they have to move beyond that to
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  Speaker 2: get to continued improvement to upgrade the level of play
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  Speaker 2: then to move farther away from the losses and to
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  Speaker 2: have a big second half of the season that's the
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  Speaker 2: point of all of that anyway um One of the
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  Speaker 2: things that he talked about was the deal about the
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  Speaker 2: practice came at 120% the way it was graded, and
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  Speaker 2: then it was 125 in the game. And so, in
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  Speaker 2: other words, carrying it to the field. And I think
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  Speaker 2: everybody wanted.
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  Speaker 1: To see that.
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  Speaker 2: So Michael Masunis was asked, what does practice feel like
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  Speaker 2: at 120%?
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  Speaker 7: It's a lot more physical.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, it was emphasized as being more physical, being faster,
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  Speaker 8: and executing our assignments this week for sure. And we're
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  Speaker 8: just going to keep building on that. I think we're
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  Speaker 8: going to continue as a whole team to see how
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  Speaker 8: it was last week and then keep recreating it week
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  Speaker 8: by week.
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  Speaker 1: All right, one more from Asunas.
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  Speaker 2: The Longhorns, of course, had to deal with the frustration
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  Speaker 2: of and the heartbreak of Oklahoma coming back to win
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  Speaker 2: from down 10, from Florida coming back from down 14.
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  Speaker 2: to win and hand Texas a second straight loss. In
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  Speaker 2: this case, Texas was up 24-3, and Ole Miss came
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  Speaker 2: all the way back to tie it. They never took
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  Speaker 2: the lead. Longhorns came right back down the field and scored,
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  Speaker 2: upped the ante to 10.
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  Speaker 1: Ole Miss got a field goal to cut it to seven.
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  Speaker 2: They got the crazy bounces and recovered the onside kick,
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  Speaker 2: and they were throwing into the end zone at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the game.
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  Speaker 1: But Texas held on to win the game.
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  Speaker 2: And so Michael Masunis was asked to describe the difference
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  Speaker 2: between in answering an opponent's comeback bid versus the other
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  Speaker 2: two games that wound up in the loss column I
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  Speaker 2: think we.
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  Speaker 8: Just stayed together as a team and we finally we
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  Speaker 8: got back into it and it definitely helped with the
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  Speaker 8: crowd the crowd definitely helped us come to the fourth
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  Speaker 8: quarter when we were able to hear them getting the
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  Speaker 8: defense going we're like all right let's go we got
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  Speaker 8: to help our defense out we can't do this again
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  Speaker 8: this has happened twice we got to go out there
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  Speaker 8: and execute and help our guys.
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  Speaker 2: Out All right, we're going to hear from some other
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  Speaker 2: long ones throughout the course of the day. We're going
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: to hear from the center, Connor Robertson. We're going to
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: hear from Hiro Kanu. We're going to hear from Justin Cryer.
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  Speaker 2: We'll hear from those guys. But coming up, and tell
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: you some other things we have coming up. Obviously, we
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: have Inconceivable this hour. We do have a fast food,
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: junk food update, and some other incorrigible things, behavior from
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: some adults. So we'll get to that. In the 3
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: o'clock hour, Greg Tepper. the editor-in-chief of Dave Campbell's Texas
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: Football Magazine, normally joins us every Tuesday at 3.15. Hadn't
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: been able to do it the last couple of weeks
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: for various and sundry reasons. We had to move it
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: to Wednesday. But now he'll be back in his regular slot,
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: Tuesdays with Tepper. That's coming up in the 3 o'clock hour.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll have that. But coming up, got to talk
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: about the Cowboys winning last night over the Philadelphia Eagles.
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned at the start in terms of what we
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: were watching, but... Dallas got what many consider to be
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  Speaker 2: a must-win. Just don't tell head coach Brian Schottenheimer that,
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  Speaker 2: and don't tell his players.
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  Speaker 1: That either, about the must-win thing, okay? Makes it bristle
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  Speaker 1: a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: You'll hear it coming up on Sports Radio AM 13
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  Speaker 2: under the Zonity iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 5: Snap is back as time fires it left side of
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  Speaker 5: the end zone for Lamb over the shoulder.
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  Speaker 10: Touchdown! Didn't drop that one.
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  Speaker 1: Greek woman.
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  Speaker 11: Beaten.
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  Speaker 12: A little mint for your lamb chop right there.
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  Speaker 13: Welcome back to the Craig Way Show and the voice
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  Speaker 13: of the Longhorns, Craig Way.
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  Speaker 3: Follow Craig on social media at Horn Voice.
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  Speaker 5: Old minute he never tried to not his heart.
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  Speaker 10: Wasn't in it he just stole.
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  Speaker 13: A kiss as he rode away he never hung his
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  Speaker 13: hat up at kitty's place.
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  Speaker 3: I should have been a cowboy i.
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  Speaker 5: Should have learned to ride.
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  Speaker 9: I got a feeling that Eagles fans weren't singing this
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  Speaker 9: Toby Keith standard.
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  Speaker 1: Should have been a cowboy. Had to be very disappointed.
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  Speaker 2: It's the first time the Cowboys have won in Philadelphia
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  Speaker 2: in five years.
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  Speaker 1: Hadn't won there since 2021.
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  Speaker 3: I actually thought the Boo Birds were tame last night.
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  Speaker 1: They were. I think they were in shock. Really?
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  Speaker 3: They understand, though, that team is missing almost an entire team.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: Uh, really banged up.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: Uh, but the Cowboys did really get it together in
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: the second half and pull away from Philadelphia, uh, to
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: win 38 to 21.
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: The New York football giants are four, two, and one,
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: and they lead in the Cowboys are in second at
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: three and four. So the game and a half back, um,
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: I was in true point here. I've, I've been, I
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: watched the Manning cast last night cause I always like
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: to watch it.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: And, and it was pretty entertaining.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: Uh, um, I saw Jalen Brunson.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: Jalen Brunson was on, and he's an Eagles fan, which
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: made it pretty, you know, Eli was just crestfallen about that.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: And Wade Phillips. And it was pretty funny hearing from
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: him as well. They were saying, you know, at one point,
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: you know, with all the points being scored, Peyton asked him,
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: he said, what.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Do you think of this? He goes, well, not my
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: kind of game.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: He goes, and really and truly, he says, the defense,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: they're only having trouble stopping two plays.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: The run and the pass.
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: So.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: Oh, and you put it that way.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: So, anyway, Cowboys get to win, an important win. Some
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: would have said must win, however you want to describe it.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: First of all, there was the locker room excitement and celebrated,
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: led by their head coach, Brian Schottenheimer.
• 17:48
  Speaker 10: Hey, number one, outstanding mindset. No one's surprised by the
• 17:52
  Speaker 10: way we played tonight as a football team. No one. Okay,
• 17:54
  Speaker 10: that's a standard. Okay, hell of a job. Second half,
• 17:57
  Speaker 10: I thought was outstanding. Okay, by our whole football team.
• 18:00
  Speaker 10: That's what it comes down to. Now, hey, here we go.
• 18:05
  Speaker 10: We got to get the fuck out of here. We
• 18:07
  Speaker 10: got to get back to Dallas. We got a game in.
• 18:10
  Speaker 10: We got a game in like six days. Here we go.
• 18:13
  Speaker 14: Brandon Aubrey had a 55-yard field goal.
• 18:16
  Speaker 12: Brandon Aubrey had a 27-yard field goal. Brandon Aubrey had
• 18:19
  Speaker 12: a 24-yard field goal.
• 18:21
  Speaker 11: Hey, we had sacks.
• 18:22
  Speaker 10: Easy had a sack. Q had a sack. And maybe
• 18:26
  Speaker 10: the best pregame talk ever.
• 18:28
  Speaker 12: Hey, D-Mo had an interception.
• 18:33
  Speaker 10: All right, here we go. Here we go, here we go.
• 18:36
  Speaker 12: CD had a touchdown. Pickens had a touchdown. CD had
• 18:40
  Speaker 12: no touchdown. Javon did a rush touchdown. Dak Prescott threw one, two,
• 18:46
  Speaker 12: three touchdowns.
• 18:48
  Speaker 10: And he had a two-point conversion.
• 18:51
  Speaker 14: But maybe the best stat of the night, maybe.
• 18:54
  Speaker 12: The best stat of the night, Javante Williams went for 150.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Okay, Ola!
• 19:09
  Speaker 10: Okay, Ola! Okay, Ola!
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Okay, Ola!
• 19:15
  Speaker 10: Okay, Ola! Hey, here we go. Hey, listen up.
• 19:21
  Speaker 14: Hey, listen up.
• 19:24
  Speaker 10: Hey, at the end of the day, we talked about today.
• 19:27
  Speaker 10: They just kept poking us, man. They just kept poking us. Hey,
• 19:30
  Speaker 10: all of a sudden, we just took a big bite. Please,
• 19:33
  Speaker 10: let's do what we do.
• 19:35
  Speaker 14: He came back into a house he's been in a while,
• 19:38
  Speaker 14: and he did a great job leading the defense.
• 19:40
  Speaker 10: Christian Parker.
• 19:40
  Speaker 13: Hey, appreciate y'all boys, man. Let's keep on stacking them, man.
• 19:58
  Speaker 12: Good game, let's just keep stacking them.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Gang on me, gang on three, one, two, three.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Okay, such language from a guy who claims to be
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: so tight in his faith.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Shot him pretty excited about that. And then you might
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: have noticed a little bit of an edge.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: And I referred to this, a lot of people were
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: referring to Arch Manning's demeanor last week because, again, a
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: question for the head coach, not just blurting out stuff,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: but a question, how would he describe how Arch had
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: been during the week?
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: And Sark said edgy. He said he'd had an edge
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: to him. And so we all started talking about and
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: seeing edgy arch over the weekend. Well, this was edgy
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: shoddy because the rumblings and grumblings had increased and a
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: lot of speculation from the media. So keep that in mind.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Because you're going to hear every sound bite from the
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: press conference. And trust me, it's not going to take long.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: First of all, how desperate, there's a buzzword that coaches
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: don't like to hear, how desperate for a win was
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: he tonight?
• 21:12
  Speaker 15: We played really good tonight, second half. Had nothing to
• 21:15
  Speaker 15: do with desperation. Our guys just played good.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Have you noticed he's already, the demeanor has already gone
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: down quite a bit from what it was like in
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: the locker room.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: What do you think of his offense?
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: Very good. Solid.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Good balance. All of two seconds there.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Imagine if I did that to you to start a show.
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: How was your night?
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: It was good.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: It was good.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: It was okay.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Was a fan taunting you after the game because there
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: appeared to be some sort of fan exchange happening?
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: I didn't hear it.
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: No.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: I did that to other people. Yeah. I had headphones on.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Okay. His thoughts on the running game?
• 21:52
  Speaker 15: I'm going to start with the offensive line. They were outstanding.
• 21:56
  Speaker 15: Great run plan. But Javante, man, the power, the acceleration
• 22:01
  Speaker 15: was there tonight.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Looked great.
• 22:03
  Speaker 15: And then I'm going to talk about Goody as well.
• 22:04
  Speaker 15: I mean, great change of pace overall. I thought the
• 22:06
  Speaker 15: run game was really good. Receivers blocked well. It was
• 22:09
  Speaker 15: a good night.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Did the run game success they have felt like what
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: they had a lot of last year?
• 22:14
  Speaker 11: Felt good.
• 22:15
  Speaker 15: You know, I thought Dak played awesome. I thought we
• 22:17
  Speaker 15: were good on third down. You know, 204 yards rushing.
• 22:21
  Speaker 15: That's pretty good. So I thought it was good.
• 22:24
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: How about his defense?
• 22:27
  Speaker 15: Again, you know, we got to be a little bit
• 22:28
  Speaker 15: better against the run. You know, third down, we tightened
• 22:30
  Speaker 15: up a little bit in the second half. But all
• 22:33
  Speaker 15: in all, you hold the team to 21 points. That
• 22:36
  Speaker 15: gives us a chance.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Okay, now you heard that locker room celebration. We just
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: aired it for you. So Sean Ambrose asked, what was
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: it like in that locker room?
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Guys were excited.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been a couple weeks.
• 22:47
  Speaker 15: Coming but they were excited but uh we're ready for
• 22:49
  Speaker 15: arizona we play here in a couple days.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: It's a little bit different there right okay uh this
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: is the longest sound bite of the entire deal how
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: did he feel overall that they played uh outstanding any.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Area that stood out to you maybe more.
• 23:02
  Speaker 15: Than others uh yeah just the patience and poise in
• 23:05
  Speaker 15: the pocket i thought jumped off the film you know
• 23:07
  Speaker 15: anytime you you know score throw the three touchdowns like
• 23:10
  Speaker 15: that the two-point conversion was great uh he looked like
• 23:13
  Speaker 15: um you know um he was in control out there
• 23:15
  Speaker 15: all night Okay.
• 23:17
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: All of 17 seconds there. All right.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Uh, how good was it to get to Marvin over
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: shown back on the field? It was a great play.
• 23:23
  Speaker 15: Number one, uh, a lot like these last week, uh,
• 23:26
  Speaker 15: the catch was awesome. Put us into a four minute
• 23:29
  Speaker 15: situation and, uh, it was awesome to see him back
• 23:31
  Speaker 15: out there along with Kobe Durant and guys like that.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: George Pickens made a great catch in the corner of
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: the end zone. Certainly, uh, Jake was happy about cause
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: it helped his fantasy football team. Uh, what do you
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: think of Pickens performance? Solid, you know, again, uh, Spread
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: the ball around. We wanted to run it some more tonight.
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: We did that.
• 23:46
  Speaker 15: But any time those two guys get out, especially one-on-one,
• 23:50
  Speaker 15: I'm talking about CeeDee and.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: George, they're tough to defend.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: The oft-discussed green dot that goes on the helmet and
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: on the defense, it's almost always a linebacker or a safety.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: In this case, Shamar James, he started with the green
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: dot at linebacker.
• 24:04
  Speaker 15: Yeah, he's earned it. Great control of what we're doing.
• 24:07
  Speaker 15: Awesome job with the green dot. And just proud of
• 24:12
  Speaker 15: his command.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Think about what the Cowboys have coming up now. They
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: play the Cardinals this Sunday. Then I think they go
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: to Indianapolis. Then maybe it's... Is it the Commanders? And
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: then the 49ers?
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: I think San Fran is first.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: And.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll double-check that for you.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Well, Arizona's first this week.
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think they get the Niners before the Commanders. Which,
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: by the way, if you like Eagles football, you can
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: see them in primetime again next week against Washington.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's right. Is that the Sunday night game?
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: It is, and I guess it's too early in the
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: season to flex. Because they would flex out of that
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: if they could. Yeah, they would flex harder than Mark
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: Henry on that.
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: Oh, boy.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: So anyway, the Cowboys have a pretty manageable time with
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: the schedule. coming up they have that is that's the
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: point of this if the cardinals they have what the commanders.
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: Cardinals cowboy i mean excuse me cardinals colts niners yeah
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: titans which is even easier than the commanders okay then
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: the eagles again they don't see the commanders again until
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: the end of the year.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Okay all right so titans instead uh okay so it's
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: all very uh very manageable other than maybe that san
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: francisco game so how important is it to get this
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: run started with arizona.
• 25:29
  Speaker 15: Think about this one tonight really important you know want
• 25:32
  Speaker 15: to play well again next week and be a good
• 25:34
  Speaker 15: arizona team.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: All right he was also asked is the performance he
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: got from quinn and williams what he expected.
• 25:42
  Speaker 15: He's been great all week you know he was fired
• 25:44
  Speaker 15: up about this op and uh did a tremendous job
• 25:47
  Speaker 15: just you know wreaking havoc.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Inside okay all right and then uh the the tail
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: end of the press conference by now the media is
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: kind of puzzled about all these short answers you see.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: The little short I'm not as exuberant as.
• 26:00
  Speaker 10: You've been in the past.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: No.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: I'm great. Excited for our guys.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Thanks. That's it. Valid question.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's usually, you know, gushing when they win.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Total thing went about four minutes about that. Okay.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: I want to jump to Jerry Jones, who was on 105.3
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: The Fan this morning. He was asked, first of all,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: in the Thoughts, about his offense and how much he
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: was pleased with that.
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: You saw some great play by our outside folks, our receivers.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: They blocked well as well. But, boy, I am proud
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: of that offensive line. When you can move them out
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: like that, and you're right, they've got an outstanding defensive line.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: When you can move them out, when you get running
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: room like that, you've got a running.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: Back that knows how to find those soft spots, which
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: is his forte. He does. He just has a lean.
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: It reminds me the way that he can find soft
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: spot and power through tackles, make things happen. Reminds me
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: of the strength and power that Emmitt Smith showed. And
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: you always get in trouble when you start making these comparisons.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: But that was a great night for him, a great
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: night for us.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the problem with that with regard to Saquon Barkley,
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: you know, that kind of, he had a, you know,
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: He had a back issue and a hamstring issue and
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff. So talking about Javante Williams, yeah,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: you might be getting yourself into trouble if you compare
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: him to Emmitt Smith. But he had a great game,
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: no doubt about it. We're going to hear more from Jerry,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: including his thoughts on that Troy Aikman, ESPN, Joe Buck
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: kerfuffle thing.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: We'll do that coming up.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: We're also going to hear from Dak Prescott a little
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: bit later on.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: But coming up next.
• 27:46
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• 27:49
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• 28:00
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• 28:02
  Speaker 2: 13 Under the Zone. Craig Way alongside the producer, Jake Herman.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: We're with you up until 5 o'clock.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Coming up in a few minutes, we'll visit with Greg Tepper, editor-in-chief,
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Dave Campbell's texas football magazine and we go uh back
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: to some sound and bring that to you uh hearing
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: from longhorn players and uh as as they prepare for
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: this matchup with mississippi state in case you did not
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: hear it camario taylor the uh quarterback for mississippi state
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: it has been ruled out and is going to miss
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: the rest of the regular season is to have to
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: have surgery on that toe that's Kept him hobbling in
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: and out of the lineup. So, tough situation for him.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: But the Longhorns, nevertheless, are preparing for an opponent. And
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Michael Masunis, the Longhorns' tight end, was asked about... You know,
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: he was asked multiple questions about getting the lead and
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: then the lead getting away and them responding.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: And all this.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: So the question was, what has to change to hold
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: those leads that they go into the third quarter holding?
• 29:14
  Speaker 8: I think we just got to do our 111th. If
• 29:17
  Speaker 8: one thing goes wrong, you can see what happens out there.
• 29:20
  Speaker 8: And I think we just got to stay ahead of
• 29:22
  Speaker 8: the chains because when we are able to get good
• 29:24
  Speaker 8: chunk yards on first and second down, it gets us
• 29:26
  Speaker 8: out of third and long, and that definitely.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Helps us out a lot.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Sark in his press conference yesterday talked about that relief
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: syndrome thing. That can also be described as going into
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: this week about a mental hangover.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: So how does this team avoid.
• 29:41
  Speaker 8: That i think it just comes down to her flushing
• 29:44
  Speaker 8: it like flush what's happened the good or the bad
• 29:47
  Speaker 8: and then just go on to your next week well while.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: That's hard to do i think it's something that we're learning.
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: To do as a team Okay.
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: There was there.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: And, of course, remember, this is a guy who transferred
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: in from Michigan State. So he's asked about what the
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: home game experience has been like for him.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Was it everything he hoped it might be?
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 30:09
  Speaker 8: I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. The fans are awesome.
• 30:11
  Speaker 8: They're so energetic. It definitely is getting me going more
• 30:15
  Speaker 8: as I'm out there on the field. I'm loving everyone's energy,
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: and it's just awesome.
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: To be here.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Longhorns center Connor Robertson. was talking about the competition in
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: the SEC and how that's gone the grind going up
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: against those defensive linemen that come down in conference play.
• 30:30
  Speaker 16: Yeah, man, I mean, I think the best, the linemen
• 30:32
  Speaker 16: in the country play in this conference week in and
• 30:36
  Speaker 16: week out.
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: And there's no bad teams in this conference. Like every
• 30:40
  Speaker 7: week you.
• 30:40
  Speaker 16: Got to be 100% prepared and focused.
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: So, yeah, I mean, it's a cool opportunity to be
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: able to play in it.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: All right, and then here's another one of those when
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: did you stop beating your wife questions. In other words,
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: almost no answer you can give if you answered the
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: question directly as it was phrased would be favorable to you.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: The question was, is it human nature to have a
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: letdown versus Mississippi State?
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: No, I don't look at it like that, man. I
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: think they're a really good football team.
• 31:13
  Speaker 16: If you look at it like that, like Hero said,
• 31:15
  Speaker 16: in this conference you're going to going to get beat.
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: So you can't look at it like that. And they're
• 31:21
  Speaker 7: a very good football team.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Speaking of Hiro, Hiro Kanu was asked about the SEC
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: competition going up against the SEC offensive linemen.
• 31:30
  Speaker 11: Every week, you know, it's a great back. It's a
• 31:32
  Speaker 11: great quarterback.
• 31:34
  Speaker 17: Always a big O-line, good O-line, you know, fast receivers.
• 31:37
  Speaker 17: And this is an any given Saturday league, you know,
• 31:40
  Speaker 17: like if you don't show up and show out, you're
• 31:43
  Speaker 17: going to lose.
• 31:44
  Speaker 11: So you're going to come prepared every single week.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was also asked to execute the defensive game
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: plan well.
• 31:51
  Speaker 11: We're close. I would say nobody's perfect. Nobody's game is perfect.
• 31:54
  Speaker 11: There were still a couple sprinkles that we got to
• 31:57
  Speaker 11: tighten up. But I think overall, we did a good
• 31:59
  Speaker 11: job executing the game plan.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Okay, and then one more.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: He was asked about this whole Mamba mentality thing that
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: came up and was repeated throughout the course of the
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: press conference, first with Sark and then with players.
• 32:10
  Speaker 17: What does that mean to him? I mean, he's not
• 32:11
  Speaker 17: getting complacent, you know. You know, you can't be complacent. Just,
• 32:16
  Speaker 17: you know, what to call it, like rest now. You know,
• 32:20
  Speaker 17: it's still go time. It can't be, oh, all happy.
• 32:23
  Speaker 17: We just won the last game. The last game is over.
• 32:25
  Speaker 17: We're already talking about the next one. So that's really
• 32:28
  Speaker 17: what it is.
• 32:29
  Speaker 11: Moving on.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: You know, Alex January had a big block. I got
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: a hand on that field goal attempt that would have,
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: at the time, Cut it to 31-27. So he was asked,
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: how did the defensive line feed off of that block
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: from January?
• 32:42
  Speaker 11: We're all super hyped. We're really tight as a unit,
• 32:45
  Speaker 11: including the edges.
• 32:47
  Speaker 17: So we went out there and, you know, he just
• 32:48
  Speaker 17: told me like, hey, I'm getting skinny through the hole
• 32:50
  Speaker 17: right there.
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: I'm like, okay, bet.
• 32:52
  Speaker 17: And we watched, you know, the teen clip today, and
• 32:55
  Speaker 17: that was like the white copy. You see me like jumping,
• 32:57
  Speaker 17: high-stepping through the frame after Alex blocked it. Just super
• 33:01
  Speaker 17: happy for him because he was ready when the moment
• 33:04
  Speaker 17: was called for him, you know. We asked him to
• 33:05
  Speaker 17: block it, and he did it. Everybody on the sideline
• 33:08
  Speaker 17: was engaged, was happy for him.
• 33:10
  Speaker 11: It was amazing.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: And then, you know, Justin Cryer was asked about what
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: his relationship was has been like since transferring him from
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Florida State?
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: What has the relationship with his head coach been like?
• 33:23
  Speaker 18: You know, he's just given me, like, just a once-in-a-lifetime
• 33:26
  Speaker 18: opportunity to be here, and, you know, I never want
• 33:29
  Speaker 18: to take that for granted, and, you know, for him
• 33:31
  Speaker 18: to trust me as much as he does, and obviously,
• 33:33
  Speaker 18: you know, I have to earn my way around here, and,
• 33:35
  Speaker 18: you know, just constantly put in work and earn respect
• 33:39
  Speaker 18: to my teammates, but, you know, he gave me an
• 33:40
  Speaker 18: opportunity here, and that's all I can really ask for,
• 33:42
  Speaker 18: so I'm always super appreciative of him, and, you know,
• 33:45
  Speaker 18: I'm you know being able to do that that moment
• 33:49
  Speaker 18: those moments with him after the games I'm saying the
• 33:51
  Speaker 18: fine song kind of being able to be in that
• 33:52
  Speaker 18: moment with him you know I'm just super appreciative of
• 33:55
  Speaker 18: it I'm super grateful for him and you know that's
• 33:57
  Speaker 18: my guy.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: All right another one of his guys is guys right
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: beside him in the linebacking corps Raheem Biles.
• 34:03
  Speaker 18: We were put together pretty early when we got here
• 34:06
  Speaker 18: from being in the weight room at the same rack
• 34:09
  Speaker 18: to being in the same rotation zone when we do
• 34:12
  Speaker 18: walkthroughs in the winter like everything we were always put
• 34:14
  Speaker 18: together so We just spent a lot of time with
• 34:16
  Speaker 18: each other. And through that process, through the spring, whenever
• 34:19
  Speaker 18: we started playing spring ball, we were always in together.
• 34:21
  Speaker 18: We kind of just built the natural chemistry. And just
• 34:25
  Speaker 18: through that process, we've been able to kind of feed
• 34:28
  Speaker 18: off each other. And a lot of times during game planning,
• 34:30
  Speaker 18: like today, on Mondays, we go and sit down in
• 34:32
  Speaker 18: the linebacker room.
• 34:34
  Speaker 11: We'll talk over some things that we see.
• 34:35
  Speaker 18: And we were talking about last week, like this meeting
• 34:37
  Speaker 18: we had last week, we were saying, like, there are
• 34:40
  Speaker 18: certain concepts that we felt we could jump. And we
• 34:41
  Speaker 18: were talking about it, like, One of us is going
• 34:43
  Speaker 18: to get an interception in this game. We're both going
• 34:45
  Speaker 18: to get it. But we were saying, like, one of
• 34:46
  Speaker 18: us is going to get it. We don't know who
• 34:47
  Speaker 18: it's going to be or where on the field at.
• 34:49
  Speaker 18: But because we knew what we were going to get
• 34:51
  Speaker 18: in certain formations, we kind of felt like one of
• 34:53
  Speaker 18: us was going to jump it. And before that play,
• 34:55
  Speaker 18: we kind of shared a look that we kind of
• 34:56
  Speaker 18: knew what we were going to get out of it.
• 34:58
  Speaker 18: And it ended up being me. But he was also there, too.
• 35:00
  Speaker 18: He could have picked it off himself. So he already
• 35:02
  Speaker 18: took a pick from me this year. So I'm glad
• 35:03
  Speaker 18: I got it this time.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: And then since.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: He got an interception and Biles got an interception, does
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: that put pressure on the secondary to make sure that
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: they're holding up their end of the deal?
• 35:18
  Speaker 11: We may have.
• 35:18
  Speaker 18: Something to say to them a little bit, but they
• 35:21
  Speaker 18: did a good job this past weekend being in coverage. Actually,
• 35:26
  Speaker 18: when I tipped, that bow was for sure going to
• 35:28
  Speaker 18: pick off.
• 35:28
  Speaker 10: He read the route perfectly.
• 35:30
  Speaker 11: He broke on it.
• 35:32
  Speaker 18: I got my hands on it, and the ball sailed
• 35:34
  Speaker 18: over his head, but I didn't touch that ball, but
• 35:35
  Speaker 18: I was going to pick it off. So as much
• 35:36
  Speaker 18: as we like to mess with them a little bit,
• 35:38
  Speaker 18: they played a phenomenal game as well, and we're going
• 35:40
  Speaker 18: to keep playing for us.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: All right, we'll hear from him coming up next hour.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Up next, we visit with Greg Chepard, the editor-in-chief of
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine. Our weekly conversation are Tuesdays
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: with Chepard. Coming up on Sports Radio AM 13 Under
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: the Zone and the iHeartRadio app. Well, you got my
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: curiosity piqued here, Jake. I know we bump back in
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: the 3 o'clock hour with... Willie Nelson, the mere fact
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: that he's doing a hymn, will a circle be unbroken?
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Is this because we're getting ready to talk to Greg
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Tepper about the Baylor job or about Texas Tech?
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Is that what this is all about here? Is that
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: what you're saying?
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: You know, I thought of your comment yesterday about kind
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: of the circle of parody in the SEC. Maybe that
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: was an inspiration, but you guys can choose to take
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: it that direction.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: Okay, just double checking on that. It is time for
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: our weekly conversation with Greg Tepper, the editor-in-chief of Dave
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: Campbell's Texas Football Magazine. First of all, and this is
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: apropos of nothing of football, I want to get your
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: thoughts on this. You're a parent of two boys. Do
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: both of them play sports?
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: Yes. Max is playing T-ball this year for the first time.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: I read a story last hour about two parents down
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: in Sugar Land. who got into it in a select
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: girls 12-year-old softball game that led to blows and one
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: guy hitting another guy with a metal drinking container. And
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: that guy got hospitalized, and the guy who swung the
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: container got sent to jail. So did the mom, who
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: is an assistant principal at... Lamar Junior High School in
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District. So I told Jake,
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: if the projections from Jerry Forrest are correct and Bastrop
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: winds up playing Lamar Consolidated in the bi-district round, he
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: better be on his toes. But I was going to
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: ask you, you haven't encountered any parental.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Issues in any of those youth games, have you?
• 37:37
  Speaker 10: No, no.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: And my kids are, they're seven and four.
• 37:41
  Speaker 19: And so it's still relatively low stakes, although not as
• 37:45
  Speaker 19: low as you'd think.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: And we haven't encountered that. The biggest issue.
• 37:49
  Speaker 19: Has been snack time afterwards, as far as, oh, wait,
• 37:54
  Speaker 19: my son wanted the blue sports drink instead of.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: The green one or something like that. That's been the
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: most we've come up with it.
• 38:03
  Speaker 19: But yeah, now I will say before in a past life,
• 38:07
  Speaker 19: when I was in high school, my job.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: I was a YMCA referee.
• 38:12
  Speaker 19: And I was a softball umpire for the local softball group.
• 38:17
  Speaker 19: And so I have immense respect for officials because I
• 38:19
  Speaker 19: have been there. I've been on the business end of
• 38:22
  Speaker 19: officials officiating there. YMCA basketball was, you know, it was okay,
• 38:27
  Speaker 19: especially like five and six-year-olds. That was easy money. At
• 38:31
  Speaker 19: the time, I was getting paid $ 10 a game, which was...
• 38:35
  Speaker 19: I was rolling it Saturdays. But then softball, yeah. Especially
• 38:41
  Speaker 19: when things got a little bit more competitive, the girls
• 38:43
  Speaker 19: got to be like 11 or 12. Then like, you know,
• 38:45
  Speaker 19: I had to be on my P's and Q's, but
• 38:47
  Speaker 19: I think it taught me important leadership lessons.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: By one of our regular texters, our man CPAL said,
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: select ball is dangerous at times.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: How would you like to teach their kids in school? Yeah, well,
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: it's a good question.
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: Oh, man.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Speaking of dangerous, all right. We'll get back to Baylor
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: in a moment. Let me start with Texas Tech. Not
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: only the loss, which of course stunned some people, but
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: it opened up Pandora's box of all the comments with
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: super booster donor Cody Campbell, chairman of the Board of Regents,
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: who had a few months earlier in expressing frustration of
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: the whole Brennan Soresby thing, said that, I think to
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: paraphrase him, when we're up 40 this fall and throwing
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: into the end zone in the fourth quarter, you'll know
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: we're not letting up or something like that. So then
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: they lose, and then he gets a lot of grief
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: from a lot of people about this, including a young
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: producer who I kind of almost likened to Jake a
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: little bit, about the same age, working at the flagship station,
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: They're a double T-97-3, just as Jake works here at
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: the flagship for the Horns.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: And his name is Brennan Riker.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: And on Saturday, after Cody Campbell had posted this tweet,
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: there is no excuse or reason to lose a game
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: like this.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: We have to be better. That was his text.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: Riker said, for the sake of the program and fan base,
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: just stop talking.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Please stop tweeting. Now, think about that. That's a mid-20s guy.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: Working as a producer at the flagship telling this multi-billionaire
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: booster to knock it off. So Campbell then responds with, yesterday,
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: how about for the sake of the program, everybody at
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: Texas Tech stops talking and doing interviews with Double T 97.3.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Robert Gio, let's discuss.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Robert Giovinetti, he used to be part of the radio network,
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: works in the in the administration office.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: So this thing looks.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: Like a little bit of a brush fire out on
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: the South Plains.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: What? Like, what are we doing here?
• 40:53
  Speaker 11: Like, this is so.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: Like, Cody Campbell.
• 41:00
  Speaker 19: is at a point now where I wonder if somebody
• 41:03
  Speaker 19: needs to consider taking away his phone. I don't mean
• 41:08
  Speaker 19: any disrespect to the young man who started this, but
• 41:13
  Speaker 19: this guy's got 250 followers. It's not like Michael Irvin
• 41:18
  Speaker 19: is tweeting about you or someone with a.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Huge reach.
• 41:22
  Speaker 19: This is a producer at a local radio show. Like,
• 41:25
  Speaker 19: we do not have to fight every battle. And especially,
• 41:29
  Speaker 19: by the way, respectfully, I think he's got a point.
• 41:32
  Speaker 19: And we talked about this whenever the Brendan Swordsby thing
• 41:35
  Speaker 19: was going on about how we felt like Texas Tech's
• 41:39
  Speaker 19: message discipline problem was one of the reasons that they
• 41:43
  Speaker 19: got into that, that the brand sort of thing became
• 41:46
  Speaker 19: as big.
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: As it was.
• 41:47
  Speaker 19: And if everybody would have just cooled off and taken
• 41:49
  Speaker 19: a step back, then everything kind of, it would have
• 41:52
  Speaker 19: been a simmer, but it wouldn't have been this boiling
• 41:54
  Speaker 19: over that it was. And it appears that no lessons
• 41:58
  Speaker 19: were learned. Or if there were lessons, the wrong.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: Lessons were learned. I just don't understand. Is he bored?
• 42:08
  Speaker 19: That's the kind of thing that sometimes when I was
• 42:11
  Speaker 19: in my younger days.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: And I would be on Twitter, I'd be like, you
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: know what?
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: I'm bored.
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: I'll go start a fight. I'll go tweet something just
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: to get a rise out of people.
• 42:21
  Speaker 19: And now it's like, I don't know, then I turned
• 42:26
  Speaker 19: 30 and decided.
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: That that was the time to put away childish things.
• 42:30
  Speaker 11: I don't know.
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: It is a bizarre situation.
• 42:32
  Speaker 19: And I think it also kind of speaks to maybe
• 42:36
  Speaker 19: some of the underlying wobbliness underneath Texas Tech's program that
• 42:41
  Speaker 19: we put on the cover of the magazine about how
• 42:42
  Speaker 19: this is the way the modern college football machine operates.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: Well, okay, whatever.
• 42:47
  Speaker 19: If you pull back the curtain, is it just the
• 42:50
  Speaker 19: great Oz back there? What's going on there that if
• 42:53
  Speaker 19: one loss is going to suddenly send this program into turmoil,
• 42:58
  Speaker 19: then was your program that strong to begin with?
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: And I don't know.
• 43:03
  Speaker 19: It's one of the things where that's one of the
• 43:05
  Speaker 19: dangers of having an outspoken booster program. who nobody can
• 43:10
  Speaker 19: really say no to, kind of in a prominent position
• 43:14
  Speaker 19: within the program. It's a bizarre situation that I can't
• 43:20
  Speaker 19: necessarily say is a master class in communications management.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so maybe what you're suggesting is that Cody Campbell
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: should paraphrase the great and powerful Oz by saying, I'm
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: a good man, I'm a very bad wizard.
• 43:36
  Speaker 19: Let me use a more modern phrase for that. If
• 43:41
  Speaker 19: that movie from the 30s is too dated, go touch
• 43:44
  Speaker 19: some grass. Just chill out a little bit. It's a
• 43:49
  Speaker 19: very bizarre story.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: Herm Edwards, don't hit send. Don't press send. Something like that.
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: Take a breath.
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: And by the way, to Brennan Riker's credit, he had,
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: when he first tweeted this out, I think 167 followers.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Now he's up to 250.
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: Hey, okay.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: That's exponential growth.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Okay, all of that goofiness aside, that
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: was a damaging loss, obviously, for the Red Raiders. They
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: got Arizona this week. It's at home, but, I mean, it's.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: Still a tough— one would imagine at this point they may
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: have to not only reach the Big 12 championship, but
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: perhaps just win the auto bid at this point.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: Do you think that?
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 44:28
  Speaker 19: Yeah, they're in an interesting spot because basically now you
• 44:31
  Speaker 19: have to consider where the Big 12 stand as far
• 44:37
  Speaker 19: as the rankings are concerned and kind of national profile.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: Basically, are they going to get an at-large bid? is
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: the question. You know what I mean?
• 44:46
  Speaker 19: Now, I think the conference is strong enough to deserve
• 44:50
  Speaker 19: and warrant a bid, right? I mean, look up and
• 44:53
  Speaker 19: down the ranked teams. Utah is ranked. BYU is ranked.
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: Arizona is ranked.
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: Tech is ranked.
• 44:59
  Speaker 19: Oklahoma State is ranked. Houston, I believe, is still ranked, right?
• 45:03
  Speaker 19: It's a good conference. But much like it's one of
• 45:08
  Speaker 19: the things we talked about as a real value in
• 45:10
  Speaker 19: the offseason, that Texas Tech schedule was lacking some of
• 45:14
  Speaker 19: the real heavy hitters. Well, now maybe you wish those
• 45:19
  Speaker 19: heavy hitters were on there because if you get to
• 45:21
  Speaker 19: the end of the year and you don't necessarily have
• 45:22
  Speaker 19: the resume that you were hoping for, and you're hoping
• 45:25
  Speaker 19: for an out large bid that may not be there
• 45:27
  Speaker 19: for you because you didn't go through and play some
• 45:30
  Speaker 19: of the teams that, that were at the, at the
• 45:31
  Speaker 19: top of the conference, right?
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: You didn't go up there and you didn't go and
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: beat BYU. You didn't go beat Utah.
• 45:36
  Speaker 19: Uh, now, you know, if they do it in the
• 45:39
  Speaker 19: big 12 championship, obviously that'll take care of itself. But for,
• 45:41
  Speaker 19: for Texas tech, at the very least, the thing that
• 45:43
  Speaker 19: you would say is that the margin of error has
• 45:45
  Speaker 19: now dissipated with what is a disappointing loss, uh, at Cincinnati,
• 45:49
  Speaker 19: where it just felt like the offense could not get
• 45:52
  Speaker 19: out of its own way.
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: Uh, visiting with Greg Tepper, editor in chief, Dave Campbell's
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: Texas football magazine. Um, So curious to get your thoughts now,
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: because if we're talking about Texas Tech and looking at
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: the rest of the schedule after Arizona this week, they
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: have West Virginia at home. Possible, as some folks are saying,
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: trap game in Stillwater at Oklahoma State.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: Then they're going to be in Waco.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: And what, you know, is Baylor going with Dave Aranda
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: having been relieved of his duties there? And you mentioned
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: at the start of the year, you said it was
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: kind of on the job watch for Aranda. They got
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: off to a 4-1 start.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: They looked pretty good. They were on the rise.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: They were on the rise in the Dave Campbell's Texas
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: Football Power Poll as well. What has happened to Baylor,
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: and now where do they go?
• 46:38
  Speaker 19: Yeah, it's disappointing, I think, overall, that essentially the offense
• 46:43
  Speaker 19: never came around in a good enough way that would
• 46:48
  Speaker 19: allow them to.
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: Save Dave Aranda's job.
• 46:52
  Speaker 19: They basically talked about how DJ Lagway was gonna have
• 46:54
  Speaker 19: to come in and kind of save Dave Aranda's job.
• 46:57
  Speaker 19: And I don't think it's all on, that's an unfair
• 46:59
  Speaker 19: thing to put on a young man. But, you know,
• 47:01
  Speaker 19: plain and simple that the offense wasn't good enough. You know,
• 47:05
  Speaker 19: you saw that, I think, on display last week in
• 47:06
  Speaker 19: their loss to Kansas. It was not consistent enough. And
• 47:11
  Speaker 19: I think that what you do is you look at the,
• 47:13
  Speaker 19: I think you've got to look at the sum of
• 47:15
  Speaker 19: the last two weeks. Losing at home TCU in a
• 47:18
  Speaker 19: game that was very winnable. and then losing to Kansas
• 47:22
  Speaker 19: for the first time in what? I thought it was
• 47:24
  Speaker 19: like a 20-game winning streak against Kansas or something. That's
• 47:29
  Speaker 19: going to do you in. And for Baylor, they've had enough.
• 47:32
  Speaker 19: Dave Aranda finishes 40-40 as head coach at Baylor, which
• 47:36
  Speaker 19: I think is pretty remarkable considering how it started and
• 47:40
  Speaker 19: considering how Baylor was on top of the world for
• 47:43
  Speaker 19: a hot minute there at the beginning of the Dave
• 47:45
  Speaker 19: Aranda era. But it all kind of fell apart the
• 47:48
  Speaker 19: past couple of years. And I think that I think
• 47:51
  Speaker 19: that the legacy of Dave Aranda is going to be
• 47:54
  Speaker 19: that he was brought in as this defensive ace.
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: He was brought in as this guy who was.
• 47:58
  Speaker 19: The name to know at LSU's defensive coordinator spot. And now,
• 48:06
  Speaker 19: the defense was always okay at times. They had some
• 48:09
  Speaker 19: times where they were really good, especially in the beginning,
• 48:10
  Speaker 19: they were pretty good. But the offense just never really,
• 48:13
  Speaker 19: after that, kind of caught up. And I think that
• 48:15
  Speaker 19: that Ended up being his undoing, and obviously it's disappointing
• 48:20
  Speaker 19: for Baylor. They'll play off the string with an interim
• 48:22
  Speaker 19: coach and then go into the— although I'm sure the
• 48:24
  Speaker 19: job search is already hard at work there, so they're
• 48:27
  Speaker 19: trying to figure out who's going to be the next
• 48:28
  Speaker 19: guy at the helm in Waco.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: How difficult is it going to be for SMU to
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: reach the playoff, short of winning the auto bid, winning
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: the ACC?
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not getting any easier.
• 48:40
  Speaker 19: I think the fact that the— I think the fact
• 48:45
  Speaker 19: that SMU and the ACC has been a little bit,
• 48:49
  Speaker 19: you know, it's top-heavy at the very top. there with Miami.
• 48:54
  Speaker 19: But past that, there's just not a ton of depth there.
• 48:58
  Speaker 19: But that loss they had a couple of weeks ago,
• 49:02
  Speaker 19: I think, is really going to hurt them down the
• 49:04
  Speaker 19: stretch against Louisville. Now, look, what they really need is
• 49:09
  Speaker 19: they really need Wake Forest and Notre Dame to keep winning.
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: That's what they need.
• 49:14
  Speaker 19: Because that back-to-back game, those back-to-back games right before Thanksgiving
• 49:18
  Speaker 19: are going to be ultimately their big showcase opportunity to
• 49:21
  Speaker 19: do that. If you go and you, if you beat
• 49:23
  Speaker 19: Wake Forest at home and they're still nationally ranked, and
• 49:27
  Speaker 19: then you go on the road and beat Notre Dame
• 49:29
  Speaker 19: in back-to-back weeks, you're.
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: They'll be in. They'll find a way in.
• 49:32
  Speaker 19: At that point, I think that a one-loss team or
• 49:35
  Speaker 19: even a two-loss team with a loss in the conference
• 49:38
  Speaker 19: championship game would make it in there. But barring that,
• 49:43
  Speaker 19: it's hard to see. I think they cannot lose another game.
• 49:46
  Speaker 19: They have to win out at this point to have
• 49:47
  Speaker 19: a chance. If they win out in the regular season
• 49:49
  Speaker 19: and lose to Miami in a close one in the
• 49:51
  Speaker 19: conference championship game, yeah, okay, maybe we can talk about
• 49:54
  Speaker 19: what that looks like.
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: But I think that right now, if you're SMU, you've
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: got to be thinking, we've got to go out there.
• 49:57
  Speaker 7: And win out.
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: And otherwise, it's going to be curtains for them.
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: Greg Tepper, editor-in-chief of Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine, was
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: with us. We talked college football. Let's jump to high
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: school football as well. And you've got a pretty important
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: matchup going on over in East Texas for your telecast
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: Friday night.
• 50:17
  Speaker 19: Yeah, we're heading to Upshur County for Gilmer and Carthage.
• 50:21
  Speaker 19: And they're at Jeff Traylor Stadium, speaking of potentially tied
• 50:23
  Speaker 19: to Baylor. But that is obviously big doings there. And
• 50:28
  Speaker 19: whenever they get together. It's a knockdown, dragout. Two really
• 50:33
  Speaker 19: high-powered offenses have been really, really good. I love what
• 50:38
  Speaker 19: Gilmer has been able to do with Kipton Neighbors has
• 50:42
  Speaker 19: been a real dynamo for them. Their quarterback as well
• 50:46
  Speaker 19: is all 5'5, Zade Taylor, but he is a dynamo.
• 50:51
  Speaker 19: running the ball and then if you guys didn't know
• 50:53
  Speaker 19: this they are using ismail kamara the big frenchman the
• 50:57
  Speaker 19: texas commit uh who all 330 pounds of them they've
• 51:00
  Speaker 19: got him at tight end right yeah how about that
• 51:02
  Speaker 19: they're lining them up they're lining up at fullback we
• 51:04
  Speaker 19: talked with alan metal about an hour ago he said
• 51:06
  Speaker 19: we'll split him out we threw him a pass last
• 51:08
  Speaker 19: week and he got 18 yards on it um so
• 51:12
  Speaker 19: it's a wild offense defense is going to be challenged
• 51:14
  Speaker 19: this week against jacob dixon and a high-powered carthage attack
• 51:18
  Speaker 19: i mean it's carthage it's scott serrat calling the plays
• 51:20
  Speaker 19: they're going to be really good but even though they
• 51:22
  Speaker 19: graduated so heavy they have figured things out with jacob
• 51:25
  Speaker 19: dixon uh they've got they kind of they kind of
• 51:27
  Speaker 19: cobbled together or they don't have a kj edwards like
• 51:30
  Speaker 19: they did last year but they've got three guys back
• 51:32
  Speaker 19: there that kind of make up the running game and
• 51:35
  Speaker 19: more importantly for them i think that they've got the
• 51:37
  Speaker 19: the best receiver core they may have ever had at
• 51:38
  Speaker 19: Carthage with J.D. Edwards and Bryson Price, and then a
• 51:41
  Speaker 19: defense that is playing really well right now that actually
• 51:44
  Speaker 19: had shut out Pleasant Grove into the third quarter last year,
• 51:47
  Speaker 19: late in the third quarter last week. And so I
• 51:49
  Speaker 19: think that we're in for a really good one. I'm
• 51:51
  Speaker 19: excited to head out to Uptree County and see some
• 51:54
  Speaker 19: good ball that I think has an opportunity to be pretty,
• 51:58
  Speaker 19: perhaps poincy, perhaps an exciting one. as these two teams
• 52:02
  Speaker 19: tend to play.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: Folks can watch that for free if they have a subscription, texasfootball.com
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: for all the subscription info on that.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: I was perusing the list of top flight games. And there's,
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: as you know, there's a pass of them this week.
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: And I came to the conclusion that, that the best game,
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: in fact, I even said this to Jeff Jones, the
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: local sports director at KVU. They do a different game.
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: They call their game of the week. They go out
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: and cover it intensely and do stuff after. And I said,
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: what's your game of the week? And they said, well,
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: it's obvious choice.
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: I said, is it?
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: They said, yeah, it's Cedar Ridge at Westlake. I said,
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: it's not my obvious choice. They said, good game, good game,
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: good game. They said, which one is your obvious choice?
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: I said, 8-0 Thorndale, 9-0 Rosebud-Lott. And they're like, yes. Who? What?
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: And I think Corey Mosher works there and said, Thorndale,
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: is that in our coverage area?
• 53:05
  Speaker 11: I said, yes, it is.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: Thorndale is. Now, Rosebud-Lott's in the super syntax, but that's
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: a big-time matchup this week, isn't it?
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: Hey.
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: Craig, this is why we're friends. This is why we're friends,
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: because you're exactly right.
• 53:15
  Speaker 19: I think this is, if this is not the game
• 53:16
  Speaker 19: of the week, it is on the extreme short list
• 53:19
  Speaker 19: of game of the week in the state of Texas.
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: 13-2A Division I title is up for grabs.
• 53:25
  Speaker 19: Battle of Unbeatens, there's only five Battles of Unbeatens here
• 53:27
  Speaker 19: in Week 9.
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: This is one of them.
• 53:29
  Speaker 19: Rosebud Law is looking to close out its first regular
• 53:32
  Speaker 19: season undefeated since 1995. Price were a broker. Their quarterback
• 53:37
  Speaker 19: has been excellent. 27 touchdowns against just one interception. And
• 53:41
  Speaker 19: then there's Thorndale. Thorndale is a team... The word I
• 53:45
  Speaker 19: keep coming back to is workmanlike. They've got a grinding
• 53:48
  Speaker 19: running game with Hudson, Thigpen. Their defense just thumps you
• 53:52
  Speaker 19: with shanker foot. They just kind of smother you. I'm
• 53:56
  Speaker 19: fascinated by this game. I mean, this is one of
• 53:58
  Speaker 19: those games... We had expectations for Thorndale, but maybe not
• 54:02
  Speaker 19: this high.
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: Rosebud Law is a real surprise.
• 54:04
  Speaker 19: Rosebud Law is a team that I think is kind
• 54:07
  Speaker 19: of coming, not necessarily coming out of nowhere, but certainly
• 54:10
  Speaker 19: exceeding expectations.
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: Fascinated by this game. I like Thorndale at home, but.
• 54:14
  Speaker 19: I think this is a coin flip type game. And yeah,
• 54:18
  Speaker 19: one of the only five matchups of unbeatens in Texas.
• 54:21
  Speaker 19: You can't do, in week nine, like you've got nine
• 54:24
  Speaker 19: over eight now. That just does, I mean, the next
• 54:27
  Speaker 19: time we'll have something like this, there might.
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: Be one, I don't want to speak out of school,
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: I haven't done the research.
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: There might be one next week, but the next time
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: we're going to get one of these is like Thanksgiving.
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean? So this is the good
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: stuff right here.
• 54:39
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 54:40
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: I purposely left it out of the three games because
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: I knew you had a feel for it like I
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: did as well. So I left that one out. But
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: I will give you three games. And in the meanest
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: thing we do to one another, you pick one game.
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: If you couldn't be in Upshur County, you got to
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: be at one of these three games. And they are
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: as follows. Richmond Randall against Angleton. Ah, there's another battle
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: of unbeatens there.
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: Richmond Randall hosting Angleton. That's in 5A Division I. How
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: about 4AD2? No, not your matchup. 7-1 Brock, 8-0 Graham.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: There's one.
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: And then the other one, we got a 7-0 against
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: a 6-1. We drop down to 2AD2. Unbeaten Wheeler against
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: those Wellington Skyrockets who are 6-1.
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: If you guys couldn't tell, if listeners couldn't tell, it's
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: a great week.
• 55:28
  Speaker 19: It's a really nice week, and it's especially a great
• 55:31
  Speaker 19: week at the small school level. Wellington Wheeler is a
• 55:35
  Speaker 19: certified banger. That is going to be a ton of fun.
• 55:38
  Speaker 19: I'm really excited to see how that goes. Brock and
• 55:41
  Speaker 19: Graham is one of the very best... quarterback matchups in
• 55:46
  Speaker 19: the state. Brock, quarterback, Holt Frazier has been fantastic. I
• 55:49
  Speaker 19: think it's Corley Cooper there for Graham.
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: They've been excellent.
• 55:52
  Speaker 19: Graham has kind of flown under the radar. This is,
• 55:55
  Speaker 19: I think, their big level up in competition. My pick,
• 55:58
  Speaker 19: I'm going to be big school snob.
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go to Houston. I'm going to go
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: to Rosenberg for Randall and Angleton.
• 56:04
  Speaker 19: I'll tell you this, Randall, this is really the moment
• 56:09
  Speaker 19: that Randall arrives the 5A D1 program because they had
• 56:13
  Speaker 19: two great non-district wins, close wins, but non-district wins over
• 56:17
  Speaker 19: South Oak Cliff. And then you remember they won that
• 56:19
  Speaker 19: 3-0 game against Spring Westfield, which is 6-18, impressive, but
• 56:23
  Speaker 19: 3-0 nonetheless. After that, since then they got into district play,
• 56:27
  Speaker 19: their margin of victory in their district play so far
• 56:30
  Speaker 19: has been 63.5 points on average.
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: They have been crushing people.
• 56:35
  Speaker 19: And of course, Lennon Williams Callis, who has a shot
• 56:37
  Speaker 19: at becoming the state's all-time leading rusher in the Texas commit,
• 56:40
  Speaker 19: he's a straw that stirs a drink.
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: But the defense for them has been excellent. Cameron Hippolite
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: leading the way, the number 10 scoring defense in all
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: of Texas. This is their.
• 56:48
  Speaker 19: test, though, because now they take on an Angleton team
• 56:50
  Speaker 19: that is undefeated, and a spectacular running game led by
• 56:54
  Speaker 19: Jaden Moore. They've got an average of more than 10
• 56:56
  Speaker 19: yards to carry. Their defense is smothering. They got Quentin
• 57:00
  Speaker 19: Jammer's kid on there, Cason Jammer, who is making big
• 57:04
  Speaker 19: noise for them, John David Britton.
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: They've forced 18 turnovers in eight games.
• 57:08
  Speaker 19: This is an absolute slugfest and will tell us a
• 57:11
  Speaker 19: ton about, especially from the Randall perspective, who is a
• 57:14
  Speaker 19: team that I think people, a very highly ranked team
• 57:16
  Speaker 19: that we think can make it to AT & T Stadium.
• 57:19
  Speaker 19: This is the type of game they're going to have
• 57:20
  Speaker 19: to win throughout the course of their playoff run.
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: And this is kind of a level up from the, with.
• 57:26
  Speaker 19: All due respect, the Iowa Colonies who's having a tough year,
• 57:31
  Speaker 19: teams like that. This is a level up in competition
• 57:33
  Speaker 19: and we will find out a ton more about what
• 57:35
  Speaker 19: Randall looks like. And for Angleton, an opportunity to get
• 57:38
  Speaker 19: a real feather in their cap heading into the playoffs.
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: And I left out these all deserving of honorable mention.
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: 8-0 Pearland against 7-1 Shadow Creek.
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: Amazing. Lake Travis and Round Rock. Here's your weird number
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: about that.
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: Depending on what happens with Westlake and Cedar Ridge, there's
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: the very real possibility. If Round Rock wins that game,
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: you could be talking about Lake Travis being the four
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: seed coming out of that district there. There's that possibility.
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: How about Anna at Salina? There's an 8-0 and 7-1.
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: And an 8-0 Tyvee at a 5-2 Canyon Lake. I mean,
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: those are all really, like you said, a really good
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: weekend for these.
• 58:19
  Speaker 19: Great slate of games. And then I'll give you a
• 58:20
  Speaker 19: couple more. The other unbeaten match of unbeatens, which might
• 58:23
  Speaker 19: be flying on people's radar. Price Carlisle plays Frankston in Price, Texas,
• 58:28
  Speaker 19: which is a really, really fun game. One of the games,
• 58:31
  Speaker 19: the game that Matt Stepp is calling the biggest game
• 58:33
  Speaker 19: in Fort Worth ISD in at least a decade, unbeaten
• 58:36
  Speaker 19: Fort Worth Arlington Heights versus unbeaten Fort Worth Wyatt. Wyatt's
• 58:39
  Speaker 19: an unbelievable story.
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: Aiden over the first time in program history.
• 58:43
  Speaker 19: Their coach, Zachary Chris, is the son of the legendary coach,
• 58:46
  Speaker 19: Willie Chris, who coached there forever and ever.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: And then the other one.
• 58:50
  Speaker 19: White Deer hosting Boys Ranch in six-man football. Boys Ranch,
• 58:54
  Speaker 19: one of the great stories in Texas high school football,
• 58:57
  Speaker 19: undefeated under Lewis Kelly, who had never coached six-man football
• 59:00
  Speaker 19: before and now has them 8-0 with an opportunity to
• 59:03
  Speaker 19: go win a district championship on the road in White Deer, America.
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: So if you're anywhere near White Deer, make it to
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: Buff Stadium. on Friday night.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: Catch you a quick Southwest flight up to Amarillo. Get
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: your rental car and zip up there. No problem at
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: all with that.
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: He's Greg Tepper, editor-in-chief of Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine.
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: Have fun with the call on Friday night. We'll visit
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: again soon.
• 59:24
  Speaker 4: Sure will.
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: Sure will. Talk to you guys later.
• 59:25
  Speaker 7: You bet. All right.
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: That's Tuesdays with Tepper. We have more coming up. How
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: about Tuesdays with Dak? We'll hear from Dak Prescott coming
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: up on 13 Under the Zone. Is that a Waylon
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: and Willie.
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: Collaboration there?
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we've got all the highwaymen.
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: On this one. Now that's Waylon there.
• 59:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Waylon, Johnny Cash, Chris Christopherson on this as well.
• 59:55
  Speaker 6: The last cowboy song.
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, there you go.
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: Well, the Cowboys hope they're off and running now after
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: getting the win over the Eagles last night.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: Dak Prescott threw three touchdown passes.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: He was asked about what was the importance of having
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: that balanced offense because they ran the ball well, they
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: threw the ball well to get the win.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 20: You said the only thing that matters is getting a win.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 20: Huge to do that.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: Obviously.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 20: And what we've done in the last couple of weeks
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 20: to put that behind us and come out and get
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 20: a division win on the road in a hostile environment
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 20: right before we get to go home for a couple
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 20: of weeks, I think it was massive and just a
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 20: great complimentary win right back and forth in the first half.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 20: Defense settles in in the second half, one touchdown, and
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 20: we're able to pretty much score on most of the drives,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 20: I think, right there, two of the three in the
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 20: fourth quarter.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 4: And so very balanced attack.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 7: We've got to stick to it.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: Okay, which brings to mind the stabilizing performance of the
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: offensive line.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 7: Linemen lead the way.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 20: Q did a great message to the team before the game,
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 20: just talking about the O-line and the D-line, going and
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 20: controlling the game. On offense, that's exactly what it was.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 20: We knew we had to create some balance. We had
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 20: to stick to the run, even if some were negative
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 20: or not as efficient as we want. We were able
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 20: to do that, and you saw they got better as
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 20: the game went on. Those two-yard runs turned to six
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 20: yard runs from six to 12. And, uh, from there,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 20: you know, we're able to stay balanced and then pass
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 20: off of that. And so, um, that that's kind of
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 20: the attack we have to continue.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: So why did Dak think this was the most complete
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: offensive performance this season?
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 20: I mean, the numbers would say so, uh, you go
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 20: 200 and 200. Um, obviously that shows balance.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 7: Uh, George scores a touchdown. CD scores a couple.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: Um, Javante was dominant.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 20: Uh, Goodson came, came in and had a great, uh,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 20: great day in his reps and sparing Javante. Um, yeah,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 20: I would say the numbers would say so, but This
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 20: is one game. We've got to build on this. We've
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 20: got to show that we can continue to do this.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 20: So we're not going to be, you know, complacent and
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 20: say this is it. We've got to go get better
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 20: this week and do it again next week.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: So was this indeed a must win and how come?
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 20: I mean, I don't know if it's much more than
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 20: we've lost two games. We say the division's right in
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 20: front of us. It is as long as we win. And,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 20: you know, if you lose another game, then you're probably
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 20: checking to see what New York's doing. You're probably watching,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 20: you know, the other teams more than we should.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 5: So.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, got to win division games.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 20: Like I said, how big of a game this was,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 20: understanding how much they're hurt on their offensive side. Yeah,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 20: huge road win for us. And as I said, create
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 20: momentum for us to go back home for the next
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 20: couple of weeks.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: The media taking note of Shottie's demeanor in the post-game
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: press conference prompted a couple of questions.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: One of those, did he do anything differently this week?
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 4: No, no, not at all.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 20: I mean, I alluded to that after last game. throughout
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 20: the week it's not about our process through the week
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 20: um we do things right we prepare the right way
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  Speaker 20: we got great attitudes great brotherhood shows we just got
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  Speaker 20: to come out and earn it and win it on
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  Speaker 20: sunday nobody's gonna give it to us nobody's gonna uh
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  Speaker 20: say yeah you're the better team you've got it that's
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  Speaker 20: what's so great about the nfl and so we've got
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  Speaker 20: to come out and earn it each and every week
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  Speaker 20: and there's gonna be no difference come next next sunday.
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  Speaker 2: All right and then finally uh and this involved an
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  Speaker 2: exchange with our friend chill clarence hill uh there covers
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  Speaker 2: the cowboy show closely um he was asking why he.
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  Speaker 1: Still looks so focused after the game, walking to the
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  Speaker 1: locker room.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, it wasn't still in the game.
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  Speaker 4: The game was over with.
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  Speaker 7: I just expect that.
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  Speaker 20: Obviously, I've been in the league 11 years now, and
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 20: understanding where this team is, what we need to do,
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  Speaker 20: the importance, and, yeah, when you expect to do something, yeah,
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  Speaker 20: you should celebrate it.
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  Speaker 7: Don't get me wrong.
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  Speaker 20: The work that we put in, and it's not like
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  Speaker 20: I didn't celebrate with my guys in the locker room.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not happy about it.
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  Speaker 20: Like, that's... Yeah, but yeah, I don't know if you
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  Speaker 20: wanted me to be happy or the same one who
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  Speaker 20: said we're the happiest two and three team when we
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  Speaker 20: were that. So I don't, you know, I don't really
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  Speaker 20: know what you want from us.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. I think Clarence would say, no, I just, you
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  Speaker 1: still look focused, you know, on all that. Cowboys are
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  Speaker 1: a little chippy. A little chippy.
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  Speaker 3: They've been reading.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Reading what's been written in the past.
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  Speaker 1: And hearing some things and stuff like that. A little chippy.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be back to wrap up our number two on
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  Speaker 1: 13 Under the Zone.
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  Speaker 2: Third and final hour of the program here on a
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  Speaker 2: Texan Tuesday. Sports Radio AM 13 under the zone. Craig
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  Speaker 2: Wade joined by the producer, Jake Herman. Glad to have
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  Speaker 2: you with us. Good to hear from some more Longhorns
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: and Cowboys coming up as we have throughout the program
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  Speaker 2: this afternoon as we turn the page toward... critical weekends
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: coming in college football, high school football, and yes, even
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: There's plenty to get to on that.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to have more on the Cowboys coming up
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: in a few minutes, but let's jump right back into
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: the Longhorns.
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  Speaker 1: And here's some more.
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  Speaker 2: Michael Masunis, the Longhorns tight end, caught his first three
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: passes as a Longhorn. So how good did it feel
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: to be involved as a receiver?
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  Speaker 11: It felt good.
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  Speaker 8: You know, getting my first catches here at Texas, you know,
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  Speaker 8: I've been dreaming of that a long time and finally
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 8: for it to come to fruition and It felt nice
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 8: to be out there catching the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Remember, he's a transfer from Michigan State, and he's in
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: a group with talented tight ends. Nick Townsend, who's been
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: in the program a couple of years. Amari Winston, same
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: story as well. A couple of sophomores. Spencer Shannon is
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: a senior now on the program. So given the situation
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  Speaker 2: of what he is looking at there, how does he
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: view his role as a receiver amidst this very talented
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: tight end room?
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  Speaker 8: It's definitely there, but I always like to emphasize blocking first.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 8: You block well, the defense is going to soften up
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  Speaker 8: a little bit, and then you're going to be able
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  Speaker 8: to get some passing opportunities underneath.
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  Speaker 2: He got some of those opportunities the other night, and
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: he's largely been in as a blocker before. So how
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  Speaker 2: does he view his role right now in the fact
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  Speaker 2: that Sark showed some confidence in him for the matchup
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  Speaker 2: against Ole Miss?
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  Speaker 7: I think we just got into a groove on offense.
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  Speaker 8: Once we get into a groove, Sark likes to keep
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  Speaker 8: things rolling and it was working, so we just kept going.
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  Speaker 2: With regard to the offensive line, obviously with the expectation
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  Speaker 2: that we'll get the news that it's going to be
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: a difficult situation for them on the left side of
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  Speaker 2: the offensive line and not being able to have one
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  Speaker 2: of the keys to to their offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: And not only that, not only not having.
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  Speaker 2: Goosby on the offensive front, not having Trevor on the
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  Speaker 2: offensive front, but how all of it is affected by
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  Speaker 2: the anchor, if you will. I mean, Connor Robertson is
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: the center and he makes the calls of that on
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  Speaker 2: the offensive front. But still in all, we are talking
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  Speaker 2: about not having one of your key guys there.
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  Speaker 1: So Andre Kojo.
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  Speaker 2: has been the guy that they've called upon to step
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  Speaker 2: up and be able to play.
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  Speaker 7: And he did.
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  Speaker 2: He kind of got thrown into the fire. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there was the obvious play that stands out where he
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  Speaker 2: gets blown past and it causes the strip sack fumble
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  Speaker 2: in the touchdown for Ole Miss in the third quarter. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 2: Connor Robertson, who makes the calls on that offensive front,
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  Speaker 2: the fifth-year senior in the center, said there's enough to
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: be pleased and impressed with by watching Andre Kojo in practice.
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  Speaker 16: Andre is a guy who's been in the program for
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  Speaker 16: a long time. Excited for him to get his opportunity
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  Speaker 16: here and run with it. I think he's a good player.
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  Speaker 16: Definitely knows what's going on. And like I said, been
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  Speaker 16: in the program for long enough now. So I'm fired
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  Speaker 16: up for him and think he's got a good mentality.
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  Speaker 2: Robertson was asked if Kojo is one of those vocal
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: kind of guys. And how is this offensive line room
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  Speaker 2: adjusting today? without Trevor Goosby's voice in there since he's
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  Speaker 2: out and having Kojo having to take the role I.
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  Speaker 16: Think Andre's vocal um you know he's not afraid to
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  Speaker 16: not afraid to talk or anything but um I mean
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  Speaker 16: look it's you know I feel really bad for Trevor
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  Speaker 16: um obviously really unfortunate but um you know I talked
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  Speaker 16: to him yesterday and it's just you know part of
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  Speaker 16: the game um but good thing for us is Andre's
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  Speaker 16: you know a guy that we all trust and and
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  Speaker 16: knows he's going.
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  Speaker 7: To step up so you know, I feel good about him.
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  Speaker 2: So with the help of his teammates, how does Kojo
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  Speaker 2: not become overwhelmed by all of this?
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  Speaker 16: I'm not him, but I've been in that situation before
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  Speaker 16: and a couple years ago and it's tough, you know,
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  Speaker 16: but like you just got to lean back on your
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 16: preparation and Andre prepares really well.
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  Speaker 7: Like Hiro said, practice.
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  Speaker 16: Is really hard and, you know, has seen has seen
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  Speaker 16: a lot of stuff thrown at him over the years.
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  Speaker 16: So it's not like it was his first time playing football.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: You heard Robertson make reference to Hirokanu and what he
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: had to say. We're talking about a defensive lineman, talking
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: about an offensive lineman, but he certainly has his impressions
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: of Kojo.
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  Speaker 11: I'm glad Kojo got this opportunity.
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  Speaker 17: Unfortunately, it wasn't the cost of somebody else going down,
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  Speaker 17: but I knew he was ready. He's been practicing his
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 17: butt off all, honestly, spring, summer, winter. I know, like,
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  Speaker 17: he's a tremendous athlete. A lot of people don't see
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 17: it maybe like that. But he's fast. Like, he's really athletic.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 17: Long arms and he can play fast.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and on to Mississippi State now and getting ready
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: for that. And what does Connie remember about that Bulldog
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: offense from a season ago?
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, they were going fast, not only like from the
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 17: speed from play to play, but also like the speed
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 17: that they had on the perimeter and the receivers and everything.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 17: I know a lot of spread formations, you know, dags
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 17: or just open formations, vertical routes because they had guys
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 17: that run like a 10-2.
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  Speaker 11: That's fast. I mean, it's true, you know.
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  Speaker 10: I don't run.
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  Speaker 17: It that fast, but that's what I've seen from last year.
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  Speaker 17: We're going to see similar things this year. A little
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 17: bit of different personnel, but really talented guys.
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  Speaker 1: So that's from one member of the defensive side.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: Justin Cryer, of course, the Longhorns linebacker, another member, and
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: he talked about that green dot that has drawn so
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: much conversation, the conversations that that go on and what
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: he's hearing from defensive coordinator Will Muschamp as he prepares
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: to relay the defensive instructions to his teammates.
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  Speaker 18: I got to talk to him before the season started.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 18: He kind of asked what made me most comfortable. Would
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 18: I want him to be more talking? I like him
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 18: more whatever. He gives me the call and lets me
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 18: work with it. It's kind of hard to talk and
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 18: listen at the same time. So I can't do my
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 18: job if he's in my area yelling at me. I
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 18: don't know how he gets. We have a good relationship
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 18: and understanding about before the play starts. If he has
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 18: something to say, he'll let it come out before we
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 18: get set. And he'll let me rock out from that point.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 18: So again, that's just trusting the system and him trusting
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 18: me to be able to go out there and just
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 18: be an extension of him.
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  Speaker 2: The other big thing that happened in the press conferences yesterday,
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: And it all really stemmed from things that Sark talked
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: about in his thing about having gotten a chance to
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: get to know Kobe and being impressed by him and
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: the Mamba mentality. And I mentioned this yesterday. You know,
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: my good friend and former co-host, Rod Babers, used to
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: call it the competitive sickness mentality. He said Kobe had it.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: He said Michael Jordan had it. There's some people that
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: have that competitive sickness.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: But anyway, that sort of thing.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: Where you don't allow that mentality to creep in, that
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: relief syndrome that Sark talked about, that you just try
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: to stay focused on the task at hand. So Cryer
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: was asked how much he knew about Kobe and this
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: Mamba mentality that Kobe Bryant had when he was alive
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: and on the earth and playing.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 3: My brother's a Kobe guy.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 11: Uh, my, um, you know, we, we know what it means.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 18: And, um, that, that ability to, to not let your
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 18: past performances and really more of your past success, um,
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 18: kind of dictate how you move and how you think
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 18: going forward.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 18: Like everyone knows like the clip he had, I think
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 18: it was like an old non-finals where he, they're up
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 18: too low and he had a look on his face.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 7: He's like, job's not finished.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 18: Um, that, that mindset to, to have success while still
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 18: understanding that we still have more room to grow. Um,
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 18: It's important, because everyone knows what relief syndrome is, right?
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 18: Everyone knows what that means. You want to come in here,
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 18: and you want to take a deep breath, and be like,
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 18: all right, Finally, we snapped the skid that we had,
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 18: but that mindset will get you beat. You can't overlook
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 18: this team just because of what they might not have
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 18: or recent performances.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 11: They were undefeated early in the year for a reason.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 7: This is a good team.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 18: Going into this week, I feel like as much as
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 18: we can replicate that last week of practice that we had,
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 18: because I feel like last week we were flying around
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 18: having fun. We didn't let the last two weeks dictate
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 18: how we went out there and performed. So again, like
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 18: having another good week of practice, preparing and getting ready
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 18: for this week.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: So there's some Longhorn information there.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: And of course, Texas gets ready to take on the
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: Mississippi State team. It was announced this morning that Kamario
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: Taylor will not be in action. And, you know, it's
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: a very difficult break for Mississippi State not to have
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: him in there. Jeff Levy said, you know, he's the
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: ultimate teammate competitor. You see it in the work he's
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: put in and the way the players and coaches work.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: believe in him the way they do. So he had
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: really pushed hard to play even with that turf toe
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: and the bad toe injury to get into the game.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: And then he appeared to aggravate the toe in the
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: first quarter of the game against Oklahoma.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: He had to go to the injury tent. He didn't return.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: He had a statement today where he said, quote, over
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: the last few weeks, I've worked every day with our
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: medical staff and done everything possible to be out there
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: with my teammates. Missing the rest of this season is
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: hard to accept, but I know God has a plan.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: My role will look different these next few weeks, but
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: my commitment to this team won't change. I'll do whatever
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: I can to help my brothers down the stretch. I'm
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: a guy who's a true sophomore, and he did give
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: the Longhorns a lot of trouble last year when they
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: played in the overtime game in Starkville. So a difficult
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: thing for Mississippi State. We'll see how the Bulldogs respond
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: and what they roll out against Texas on Saturday night.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: All right, up next, we'll take a look at the
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: Cowboys more, the Cowboys win. Here's some more from Jerry Jones,
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: who's always just.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: Quite entertaining. And it had to be, wouldn't.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: You want to be a fly on the wall or
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: sitting there in the suite with with him and Stephen A.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: Smith last night. How much fun must that have been?
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 3: To find fun.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 3: You got Michael Irvin there in the mix, too.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and him doing that, too.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: So anyway, we'll hear some more from the Cowboys coming
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: up when we continue here on this Texan Tuesday on
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: Sports Radio AM 13 Under the Zone and the iHeartRadio app.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: I hope you caught it.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: Well, in the case of the Cowboys, it was a
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: plane ride back to Dallas.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: But we hear.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: From the King, George Strait and the Four O'Clockers. Is
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: that why you selected this particular George Strait track?
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 6: Yeah, playing back to Dallas and the way the Cowboys
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 6: ran it last night.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they did.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: And we did this in the two o'clock hour. I
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: want to go through it again, let you hear this again, because,
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: you know, I thought of it in the same way
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: a lot of folks referred to Arch Manning's demeanor last
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: week as edgy Arch.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: It was kind of edgy, shoddy in a pretty brief.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: Press conference he got a lot of conversations and speculation
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: even some criticism from some folks on how he handled
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: the press conference but here it is first of all
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: ask how desperate was he for a win and what's
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: his team for a win tonight.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 15: Now we played really good tonight second half had nothing
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 15: to do with desperation our guys just played good.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: Okay so maybe that started them all so then they
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: asked him what do you think of his offense they're
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: good Solid.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: Good balance.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: There was a fan apparently taunting him after the game.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: Did he notice that?
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 4: I didn't hear it. I did that to other people.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 4: I had headphones on.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: How about his thoughts on the running game?
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 15: I'm going to start with the offensive line. They were outstanding.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 15: Great run plan. But Javante, man, the power, the acceleration
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 15: was there tonight.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 4: Looked great.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 15: And then I'm going to talk about Goody as well.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 15: I mean, great change of pace overall. I thought the
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 15: run game was really good. Receivers blocked well.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 4: It was a good night.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: Did the run game success feel like what he had
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: from his team last year?
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: Felt good.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 15: You know, I thought Dak played awesome. I thought we
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 15: were good on third down. You know, 204 yards rushing.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 15: That's pretty good.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 4: So I thought it was good.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: How about his defense?
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 15: Again, you know, we got to be a little bit
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 15: better against the run. You know, third down, we tightened
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 15: up a little bit in the second half.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 4: But all in all, you hold the team to 21 points.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 4: That gives us a chance.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: Okay, before we get more shoddy, again, if you didn't
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: hear the locker room conversation that Schottenheimer had with his
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: team as he was reviewing the good things, if you
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: didn't hear it in the press conference, you can hear
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: the excitement in Shoddy's voice.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 10: Hey, number one, outstanding mindset. No one's surprised by the
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 10: way we played tonight as a football team.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: No one.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 10: Okay, that's a standard. Okay, hell of a job. Second half,
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 10: I thought was outstanding. Okay, by our whole football team.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 10: That's what it comes down to. Now, hey, here we go.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 14: We got to get the fuck out of here. We
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 14: got to get back to Dallas. We got a game in.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 14: We got a game in like six days.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 10: Here we go. Brandon Aubrey had a 55-yard field goal.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 10: Brandon Aubrey had a 27-yard field goal. Brandon Aubrey had
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 10: a 24-yard field goal. Hey, we had sacks. Easy had
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 10: a sack. Q had a sack. And maybe the best
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 10: pregame talk ever.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: Hey, Demo had an interception.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 10: All right, here we go. Here we go, here we go.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 12: CD had a touchdown. Pickens had a touchdown. CD had
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 12: no touchdown. Javadi had a rush touchdown. Dak Prescott threw one, two,
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 12: three touchdowns.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 10: And he had a two-point conversion.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 14: But maybe the best stat of the night, maybe the
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 14: best stat of the night.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 10: Javante Williams went for 150.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 17: Okay.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 18: Okay.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 3: Okay, Ola! Okay, Ola!
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 8: Okay, Ola!
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 10: Okay, Ola!
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 7: Okay, Ola!
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 10: Hey, here we go. Hey, listen up.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 14: Hey, listen up.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 10: Hey, at the end of the day, we talked about today.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 17: They just kept poking us, man.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 10: They just kept poking us. Hey, all of a sudden,
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 10: we just took a big bite. Please, let's do what
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 10: we do. He came back into a house he's been
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 10: in a while, and he did a great job leading
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 10: the defense.
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 13: Hey, appreciate y'all boys. Let's keep on stacking them, man.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 10: We're just getting started. Hey, good game.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 11: Let's just keep stacking them.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 3: Gang on me.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 10: Gang on 3-1-2-3.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: So coming out of that then, what.
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: Was it like in the locker room, he was asked,
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: in the press conference?
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 15: Guys were excited. It's been a couple weeks coming, but
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 15: they were excited. But we're ready for Arizona. We play
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 15: here in a couple days.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: A lot of media. Dog with a bone. I'm going
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: to ask this question. Was this a must win?
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 15: No, I thought it was the next championship opportunity. But again,
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 15: I think it gets us right back into the hunt
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 15: in the NFC East.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: Okay, this, make note of, is going to be the
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: longest sound bite of the entire press conference afterwards. The
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: question was, how did he feel overall like the team played?
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: Outstanding.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 3: Any area that stood out to you maybe more than others?
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 15: Yeah, just the patience and poise in the pocket I
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 15: thought jumped off the film. You know, any time you,
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 15: you know, Score, throw the three touchdowns like that. The
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 15: two-point conversion was great. He looked like, you know, he
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 15: was in control out there all night.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: At 17 seconds, that was the longest sound bite from there.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: How about having DeMarvion overshown back on the field and
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: that big interception he got?
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 15: It was a great play, number one. A lot like
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 15: Dee's last week, the catch was awesome. Put us into
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 15: a four-minute situation, and it was awesome seeing him back
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 15: out there, along with Kobe Durant and guys like that.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: And on the offensive side, clutch touchdown catch by George Pickens.
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 4: Solid, you know, again... Spread the ball around. We wanted
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 4: to run it some more tonight.
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 7: We did that.
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 15: But anytime, you know, those two guys get ops, especially one-on-one,
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 15: talking about CeeDee and George, they're.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 4: Tough to defend.
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: All right. Lots of conversation about the green dot.
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: The players, when we were talking about that, you know,
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: with Justin Cryer for the Longhorn.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: Shamar James was the guy who got to start with that.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's earned it.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 15: Great control of what we're doing. Awesome job with the
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 15: green dot. And just proud of his command.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 2: So a lot of folks look at this and say
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: maybe this is the start where they can really build
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: some momentum.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: They have Arizona coming up. They have Indianapolis. They have Washington.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: They do have the 49ers in there. But then they
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: have Tennessee.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: They have a chance maybe to win four out of
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: five before Thanksgiving. So how important is it to start
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: the run this coming Sunday against Arizona?
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 15: Think about this one tonight. It's really important. You know,
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 15: want to play well again next week and beat a
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 15: good Arizona team.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: And then about Quinnen Williams and his performance?
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 4: He's been great all week.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 15: He was fired up about this op and did a
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 15: tremendous job just wreaking havoc inside.
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: So clearly the media noticed a different demeanor and edginess
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: to him.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: So that brought Todd Archer to ask the question.
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 15: You seem a little short, not as exuberant as you've
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 15: been in the past.
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 4: Are you okay? I'm great. Excited for our guys. Thanks.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: Total thing, about four minutes. Jerry Jones is never short
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 2: for words. He was asked on 105.3 The Fan, his
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: weekly conversation on the Cowboys flagship this morning, about what
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: is his answer, even as the Cowboys won, to the
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 2: ongoing defensive struggles.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 5: Play like we played on the offensive side of the ball.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 5: That is our answer. The defense is really not where
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 5: we expected it to be. But we can win and
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 5: we can get where we want to go with that
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 5: offensive side.
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: Of the ball.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 5: And that's where we've got a real emphasis on proven
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 5: players that can do things that we know how to do.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 5: We also have an outstanding offensive play caller in our
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 5: head coach. And that's our strength. If you look at
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 5: what went down to it, you got Dak, you got
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 5: the receivers.
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: You see that.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 5: We've got a very good running back group. And we
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 5: have one of the best offensive lines in my mind.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 5: I'm looking at personnel, and it's strong. And the most
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 5: disappointed you'll see me is when that side of the
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 5: ball isn't clicking. Over on the other side, it is
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 5: a bobbing ball. Probably we all were too ambitious to
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 5: think that you could have the kind of better results
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 5: than what you're talking about. But that's what we are.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 5: We can get better. We have the potential to get better.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 5: We've got players over there that are talented, as good
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 5: an overall group talent-wise as we've had in several years.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 5: So our challenge here is to maintain, don't let that
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 5: game get in a situation where we can't run that
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 5: ball anymore. And you do that if you get several
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 5: scores down.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: But that's our team this year.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 5: And we can, in my mind, we can win it
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 5: with this combination and a significant but not unattainable defensive progress.
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: And one more from Jerry.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 2: This is from his Tuesday weekly radio installment that he
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 2: does in the morning on 105.3 The Fan. There's been
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: an awful lot said and written about this Joe Buck-Troy
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: Aikman feud thing. And in some ways, it's a bridge
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 2: too far for me in terms of this feud thing.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: In case you don't know it, here's the breakdown on it.
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: Joe Buck and Troy Aikman started working together at Fox
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 2: in 2002, maybe.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: I think it was.
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 2: And they were really, really good. I mean, it was
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 2: shortly after Aikman retired. And clearly he proved he was
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 2: not one of those former athletes that didn't do his homework,
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 2: expected to just throw on a headset and hop into
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 2: the booth.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: Because I've worked with some guys like that.
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 2: You know, doing high school games and some other games
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 2: and things like that. I've worked with some people like that,
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 2: former athletes, and that former athlete syndrome thinking, well, I
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: played the game, so I know what I'm talking about.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 2: And they didn't prepare and it showed. That's never been
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: the case with Troy Aikman. He's always shown that he
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 2: was ready for the challenge and did really, really well
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 2: with Joe Buck. Now, I'm going to be different than
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 2: some of the rank and files. I like Joe Buck.
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 2: He is a consummate professional. He does prepare very, very well.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 2: I liked him even before I met him. And I
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 2: met him when he presented me with the Texas Sportscaster
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 2: of the Year Award a couple of years ago.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: In Greensboro.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 2: But I'd heard good things about him. And I'd heard
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 2: him on with my friends, George Dunham and Craig Miller
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 2: on the ticket. And I liked the way that he
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 2: prepared to do a broadcast. Now, having said all of that,
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: I understand, I understand where his style and demeanor would
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 2: rub some viewers the wrong way. I had somebody describe
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 2: once that he's a really good broadcaster. He just comes
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 2: across as a smarmy a-hole. That was what somebody had
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 2: said about him. That never really bothered Joe Buck. He's
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 2: just gone about his business. And one thing that did
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 2: bother me, somebody said, I read a thing in some
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 2: comments about the story about them, these two guys.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: That, oh yeah, just like his dad. His dad is a.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: Hall of Famer and one of the greatest sports play-by-play
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 2: and overall broadcasters the industry's ever seen. Jack Buck did
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 2: about everything. and was incredibly good. Of course, he was
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 2: mainly the play-by-play voice of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team,
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 2: but he did the NFL on CBS. He did Major
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 2: League Baseball on television. He actually did hockey. He did
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 2: that in St. Louis a little bit. He did Monday
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 2: Night Football on radio for decades, did Major League Baseball
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 2: playoffs on radio as well as on television for decades, Great,
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 2: great consummate professional and a really nice guy, too. So
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 2: I didn't understand why somebody said that. But, you know, again,
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 2: that's somebody's own individual taste. Like I said, and Joe,
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 2: Jack's on-air demeanor was a lot different than Joe's. His
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 2: was more settled in and that sort of thing. Whereas Joe, yeah,
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 2: Joe rubbed some people the wrong way. Troy Aikman rubbed
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 2: some people the wrong way because he could be really,
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 2: really blunt about what he felt about a football team
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 2: or how it was coached or individual players, officiating, whatever.
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 2: And I think it was one of the things that
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 2: has made Troy Aikman a really good broadcaster through the years.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 2: It doesn't always sit well with a lot of people,
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 2: especially Cowboy fans, because he has not held back. I
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 2: don't think he's gone overboard to criticize the Cowboys. By
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 2: the same token, I don't think he's held back if
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 2: he thought that things weren't right and that something needed
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 2: to be said. I just think that was his way
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 2: of doing it. So, the two of them paired together
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 2: has worked well starting in 2002, so it's over 20 years,
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 2: started with Fox. Then they made the move to ESPN
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 2: for Monday Night Football. What was that, seven years ago,
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 2: I think it was? Eight years ago, was it 2018 maybe?
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 2: Something like that, when they went over?
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 3: I think it was 2018. That sounds about right.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 6: There was kind of that revolving door in the Monday
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 6: Night Football booth before they arrived, after Mike Tirico had gone.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe 2020, something like that. I don't remember exactly,
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 2: but it was right in that area. And that's not
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 2: that important because they've been together all this time. Here's
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 2: the important part. ESPN was unhappy with its analyst, primarily
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 2: on Monday Night Football. So they went hard after Troy Aikman.
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 2: And Aikman's response was to say, yeah, I'm interested. Maybe
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 2: you should talk to Joe Buck as well. So then
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 2: they kind of negotiated a deal together as a team.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 2: 18 million bucks each, I think it was. So they
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 2: got a lot of money. And so they've been together
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 2: all this time. For whatever reason, and I've heard a
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 2: lot of speculation as to what the reasons were, ESPN
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 2: over the last year or two has kind of become
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 2: disenchanted with Troy Aikman. Things like his unwillingness to go
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 2: on Dancing with the Stars, okay? His unwillingness to be
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 2: involved in some game show stuff, kind of like what
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 2: we've seen Joe Buck did with the Jeopardy thing, right?
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I really enjoyed his work on Sports Jeopardy.
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 2: But Troy was, he's a little more no-nonsense. So he
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 2: wasn't as willing to do some of that stuff. So
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 2: apparently ESPN had kind of become disenchanted with him. So
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 2: they go to Joe Buck and said they want to
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 2: negotiate a new deal.
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: Joe's contract was going to be up. He does that.
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 2: Negotiates, I think, a six-year, $ 108 million deal. Troy Aikman
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 2: was not part of the negotiating thing. And that's where
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 2: this thing has really kind of ballooned and mushroomed in
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 2: that there are those who feel that Joe did the
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 2: selfish thing after Troy spoke out for him, not including,
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 2: maybe Joe was told we're not interested in Troy.
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: Who knows?
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 2: I think Troy felt blindsided by the deal. And what
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 2: is going to happen is this. He's going to, as
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 2: they say in the old days, play out his option.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: They're going to finish the season together.
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 2: And then there's been people on Twitter, and I think
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 2: this is silly, trying to cherry pick their chemistry. They're
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 2: still professionals. And they did fine last night when I
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 2: wasn't watching the Manning cast. I flipped over and watched
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 2: some of that.
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I had friends texting. Are you listening? They totally
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 3: hate each other. And I'm like, how? Based on what?
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 2: So based on what people are reading. Anyway, that's kind
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 2: of where that's gone. And so now people are looking
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 2: for this, and this is going to be unfortunate. And
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 2: CBS has settled on J.J. Watt taking Tony Romo's place
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 2: as the number one analyst working with Jim Nance. And NBC,
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 2: of course, has Collinsworth with Mike Tirico.
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: No sign that he's going to slow down.
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 2: So Aikman may not have a shot as a number one,
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 2: but Troy is also, and he's done this a few
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 2: times over the years, expressed the possibility of being interested
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 2: in being in the front office of a football team,
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 2: whether it's a GM or an assistant or whatever it
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 2: might be. So, which brings us back to Jerry Jones
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 2: this morning. And the question was asked of him, was
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 2: it RJ and Chan, I guess, that do the show, right?
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 2: Asked him, would he consider bringing Troy Aikman into the
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 2: front office, into a front office role?
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 5: Yes, I could and would. And so it's that simple
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 5: because I do think that much of him with his
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 5: basic command and understanding and knowledge of NFL football. And
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 5: so he certainly is qualified to do any of the
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 5: things that have been mentioned. And I think he's outstanding
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 5: at what he focuses on right now, and that's giving
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 5: the story and the narration of the football games.
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: Of all teams.
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 5: So let me make it real clear. Troy Eggman is,
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 5: first of all, just getting started in his life. I
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 5: don't know of anyone that's played or any part of
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 5: football that has had any more success off the field
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 5: than Troy. He is a successful guy because he is
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 5: one of the hardest working, most focused people that I've
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 5: ever been around. Now, when you're around each other, a
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 5: part of that makeup can make it where you can
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 5: have your ups and downs. But I think the world
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 5: of him, I've seen his image and had it in
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 5: my eyes since I walked in the NFL.
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 3: So he's outstanding. And the answer is.
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 5: The answer is not that necessarily we're going to do
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  Speaker 5: something more direct with the team at this time. But
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  Speaker 5: don't rule it out. It's very possible.
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  Speaker 1: So there's Jerry's answer, be it as it is.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see how it goes.
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  Speaker 2: The two of them are going to finish the season together,
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  Speaker 2: including the Super Bowl. ESPN's going to have a Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl for the first time. And those two will call it.
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  Speaker 6: Will we know of Troy Aikman's potential new destination by then?
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  Speaker 1: We don't know. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see. I'm
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  Speaker 1: betting no. I'm betting we're not going to hear anything
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  Speaker 1: until after the season.
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  Speaker 6: Especially if he's waiting on some NFL front offices.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm referring to.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we have more coming up here on a
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  Speaker 2: Texan Tuesday on Sports Radio AM 13 Under the Zone
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  Speaker 2: and where you can always listen to us for free
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  Speaker 2: right here on the iHeartRadio app. Here on a Texan Tuesday,
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  Speaker 2: continuing a little more NFL coming off the Cowboys win.
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  Speaker 2: The latest NFL power rankings have been released. NFL.com, Nick
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  Speaker 2: Shook puts these together every week. ESPN does their own
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  Speaker 2: as well. but I do always like to look into
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  Speaker 2: the NFL ones as well. If I were to have
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  Speaker 2: you guess, who's number 32?
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  Speaker 3: Miami, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: Miami is a win, so, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, that's right. That's right.
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  Speaker 6: They beat the Jets, and that'll get them out.
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  Speaker 3: Of the cellar. I would probably venture to guess Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: How about the winless Los Angeles Chargers?
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  Speaker 11: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess.
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  Speaker 6: I'd still rather have Justin Herber and be winless than
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  Speaker 6: be in the Titans situation, but I get it.
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  Speaker 3: It's a power ranking.
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  Speaker 2: He's looked terrible, but then again, Cam Ward hasn't been
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  Speaker 2: anything to write home about either, to your point.
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  Speaker 3: What happened to Mike McDaniel? He was supposed to fix
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  Speaker 3: that off.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it says the Chargers were idle in week seven,
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  Speaker 2: which was a gift to everyone who's grown tired of
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  Speaker 2: watching their inept brand of football. We'll see if the
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  Speaker 2: week off produces any improvement. Number 31 is the Colts.
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  Speaker 2: At two and five. Number 30 is the Cardinals at
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  Speaker 2: two and five. The Jets are two and five at
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  Speaker 2: number 29.
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  Speaker 1: The Eagles. How about the Eagles? 28th at two and five.
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  Speaker 3: Season from hell is now almost complete.
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  Speaker 2: Even ranked below the Titans and the Dolphins. The Titans
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  Speaker 2: are 27. They're one in six. Said the Titans played hard.
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  Speaker 2: They battled with the Browns. They also blew a 14-0
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  Speaker 2: lead before halftime.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I was going to put them in the
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  Speaker 3: last spot.
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  Speaker 2: But at least they won a game. Miami's also won
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  Speaker 2: a game. They're 1-5. The Dolphins won a game. Malik
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  Speaker 2: Willis posted a passer rating north of 130. Number 25
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  Speaker 2: is the Raiders at 3-4. Number 24, your Washington Commanders
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  Speaker 2: in their one 4-1 record.
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  Speaker 6: All year they have to stare at that record with
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  Speaker 6: that tie and think about how it happened.
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  Speaker 1: No movement for Washington. They stayed at 24.
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  Speaker 2: A team that likely welcomed last week's bye must make
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  Speaker 2: the most of the extra preparation time.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a key NFC East rematch.
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  Speaker 2: Awaits with Philadelphia, and the Commanders will hope to, again,
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  Speaker 2: rely on the stylings of quarterback Jaden Daniels, who must
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  Speaker 2: find new avenues after losing Terry McLaurin to a season-ending injury.
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  Speaker 1: It's a must-win.
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  Speaker 2: Number 23, the Saints at 2-5. Number 22, the Cowboys
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  Speaker 2: at 3-4. While it's certainly not perfect, it appears the
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys' offense is back. Dallas racked up 416 yards against
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  Speaker 2: the Eagles' defense, which is supposed to be Philadelphia's strength
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  Speaker 2: on Monday night. and received some welcome contributions from its
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  Speaker 2: own defense in the second half. Capped by DeMarvian Overshoon's
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  Speaker 2: diving interception, Javante Williams cleared 150 yards on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: The CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens connections with Dak Prescott
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  Speaker 2: were reestablished, and Dallas proved itself as the better team
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  Speaker 2: in the NFC East rivalry. Does this mean that the
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys are totally back on track? No, but it's encouraging progress.
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  Speaker 2: Number 21 is the Rams, three and four. Some might
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  Speaker 2: say this is too low for the Rams. I don't,
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  Speaker 2: but I'd like to remind everyone of where they stood
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  Speaker 2: after week six loss to the Cardinals. The coach openly
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  Speaker 2: admitted they lacked an identity as they were coming off
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  Speaker 2: an indefensible defeat.
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  Speaker 1: That included a barrage of new injuries.
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  Speaker 2: Contrasting that image with what the Rams produced Sunday proves
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  Speaker 2: how much of a week-to-week league the NFL truly is.
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  Speaker 2: They talked about how they took apart the Ravens.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the Raiders.
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  Speaker 6: Curious how much they'll move up, though, in these next
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  Speaker 6: few weeks, the Rams, because they can get right against
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  Speaker 6: some of these teams.
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  Speaker 2: They have some winnable games coming up. Number 20, the
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  Speaker 2: Carolina Panthers, 3-3. All the good vibes that follow the
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  Speaker 2: Panthers from their road win over the Eagles evaporated by
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  Speaker 2: halftime against the Buccaneers.
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  Speaker 3: That was terrible.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was bad.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of the Bucs, they're number 19 at 2-5. Don't
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  Speaker 2: look now, but the Buccaneers are starting to become a
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  Speaker 2: competent football team. so it goes on to list some
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  Speaker 2: things there. Texans at 2-5, number 18. Another tough loss
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  Speaker 2: has landed on the Texans' ledger, reducing the room for
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  Speaker 2: error going forward. It's fair to say this defense is
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  Speaker 2: no longer deserving of its respected reputation, especially when reflecting
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  Speaker 2: on how Devin Singletary ran right through the heart of
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  Speaker 2: the unit to a game-winning touchdown. That was against the Giants,
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  Speaker 2: who are number 17. Ravens are 16. Packers, 15. Steelers
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  Speaker 2: at five and two are 14. The Falcons at three
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  Speaker 2: and four are 13.
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  Speaker 1: He says, look, I'm with you. I don't know who
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  Speaker 1: the Falcons are either, but they talk about how inspired
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  Speaker 1: they played.
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  Speaker 2: The Browns at five and two, number 12. Number 11,
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  Speaker 2: the Lions at four and two. Into the top 10
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  Speaker 2: with the Patriots at number 10. The Bears at number nine.
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  Speaker 2: The Broncos eight. The Chiefs at seven. the Jaguars at six,
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  Speaker 2: the Bengals at five, Seahawks at four, 49ers at three,
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  Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills number two, and the number one team, the
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  Speaker 2: undefeated Minnesota Vikings, who neither Jake nor I picked to
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  Speaker 2: even be in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: And they're unbeaten.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we'll be back to wrap up today's edition
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  Speaker 2: of the program here on Sports Radio AM 13 Under
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  Speaker 2: the Zone.