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How will Steve Sarkisian and Texas prepare for Texas A&M? · The Craig Way Show

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Speaker 1: And we're back to the Craig Way Show.
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Speaker 3: All right, here we go again the It's the Big
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Speaker 3: Twelve conference. This was a something that was tweeted out
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Speaker 3: by a guy who covers BYU for the desertt News,
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Speaker 3: Jay Drew and said, here's his quote, The Big said that.
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Speaker 3: Head coach Kalani Sataki says, the Big Twelve is quote
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Speaker 3: unquote looking into end quote everything that happened last Saturday
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Speaker 3: against Arizona State, including the video that has been leaked
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Speaker 3: from BYU's locker room in halftime. So what was in
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Speaker 3: the video? Yeah, I mean like halftime instructions maybe or something.
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Speaker 3: The uh yeah.
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Speaker 2: Now if it's leaked, like is he talking about like
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Speaker 2: an aired on ESPN, Because even if it's leaked.
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Speaker 3: Like no, no, no, like that. What I drew from this
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Speaker 3: is what he's saying is that there was video from
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Speaker 3: some halftime instructions going on in the BYU locker room
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Speaker 3: that then got passed into the Arizona State locker room.
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Speaker 3: That's gonna be a pretty quick turnaround. I know. If
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Speaker 3: that's the case, I don't know. A lot of people
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Speaker 3: are saying it's the audio from BYU locker room. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 3: a lot of people saying it's a mess. Somebody else
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Speaker 3: tweeted out and said that the Big twelve is the
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Speaker 3: spirit airlines of conferences.
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Speaker 2: So okay, so BYU camptain Tyler Batty, Yeah, gave a
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Speaker 2: speech in the locker room at halftime. That audio was
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Speaker 2: leaked on social media. So they're trying to figure out
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Speaker 2: basic they get out who leaked Okay, So all right, okay, yeah,
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Speaker 2: so it's not I guess it wasn't like he was
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Speaker 2: given the Arizona state. I mean, yeah, what's the let's
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Speaker 2: see what the really the huge deal is unless you know,
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Speaker 2: it's just probably some ga or something like that recording
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Speaker 2: on his phone, you know, and send it to a
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Speaker 2: buddy who of course probably runs the barstool account for
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Speaker 2: BYU and then they post it, you know. So no,
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Speaker 2: I don't see anything here. Also, it's a big total
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Speaker 2: investigating it. Yeah, who knows what you're gonna get from that?
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Speaker 2: Satacky right?
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Speaker 3: Our friend Anwir Richardson from Orange Bloods as a photo
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Speaker 3: of es Chaytan Blue. Did you see Jay when he
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Speaker 3: was holding the football during his media session, so he's
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Speaker 3: keeping it high. Head coach Steve Sarkisan tried to knock
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Speaker 3: it out a few minutes ago when Blue held on.
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Speaker 3: So there's that, and and sark was asked about that,
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Speaker 3: you know, so let's hear some more from the Longworts
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Speaker 3: head coach from Steve Sarkisian his his uh from the
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Speaker 3: weekly news conference and move forward on it. He was
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Speaker 3: asked about how often does he go to a high
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Speaker 3: school football game and then see somebody else? He did,
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Speaker 3: He wasn't really intending to watch, but that guy ended
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Speaker 3: up impressing him more.
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Speaker 4: Pretty often, quite frankly, Yeah, you go to high school
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Speaker 4: games and you're there to see, like I said, a
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Speaker 4: particular player. A lot of times a player on the
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Speaker 4: opposing team or two players on the opposing team can
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Speaker 4: get your attention. For a younger player on the team
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Speaker 4: of the player that you're looking at gets your attention.
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Speaker 4: But very rarely do you go to a game just
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Speaker 4: to see one player. There's always I always got a
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Speaker 4: little bit of a list of targets to look at
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Speaker 4: to get an evaluation on. So but it's it's pretty
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Speaker 4: fairly common that you find more than just the one
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Speaker 4: guy that you're there to see.
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Speaker 3: All right. He was also asked about how long did
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Speaker 3: it take him to appreciate what this rival was, given
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Speaker 3: the fact that when he came in, they weren't playing
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Speaker 3: each other, and then, of course it became obvious when
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Speaker 3: they learned that later that some of they'd be back
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Speaker 3: in the same conference. So how long did it take
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Speaker 3: him to have a better understanding of what this rivalry
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Speaker 3: has been and what it continues to be all about?
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Speaker 3: Not long?
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Speaker 1: Not long.
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Speaker 4: Didn't take long, you know, But you got to remember,
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Speaker 4: as a kid growing up, I watched this game on Thanksgiving.
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Speaker 4: I mean it was like, that's that's how I fell
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Speaker 4: in love with Texas from the very beginning.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 4: It was the uniforms, the helmets. And then I knew
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Speaker 4: that the rivalry was what it was, you know, because
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Speaker 4: what did you do as a kid, You watch football,
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Speaker 4: you know, and that's and that's that's what I did.
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Speaker 4: And then getting here and knowing the rivalry and what
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Speaker 4: it was about it getting presented and some of the
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Speaker 4: really cool recruiting battles we've been in with them, and
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Speaker 4: you win some, you lose some, and so we know
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Speaker 4: a lot of their players pretty well. They know a
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Speaker 4: lot of our players pretty well that you quickly find
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Speaker 4: out households are divided and the states divided.
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Speaker 1: And but that's the fun part.
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Speaker 4: That's what that's what this last game of the regular
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Speaker 4: season is supposed to feel like.
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Speaker 1: And I've been a part.
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Speaker 4: Of some great ones, and I'm just I'm really grateful
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Speaker 4: and thankful that this one is revived and humbled and
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Speaker 4: honored that I get to be part of it. Really,
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Speaker 4: I've been I've been watching this game since since I
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Speaker 4: was this big, you know, so it's pretty cool.
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Speaker 3: All right. Then he was asked about his players being
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Speaker 3: obsessed with the details of winning and how they get
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Speaker 3: one another involved in that.
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Speaker 4: You know, the one thing that I feel like our
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Speaker 4: players an example of it would be we do a
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Speaker 4: situational Masters meeting every Friday morning for twenty minutes, and
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Speaker 4: it's it's really living examples of a lot of the
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Speaker 4: things that we worked on in training camp and in
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Speaker 4: the summer of small details, two minute drills on side kicks,
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Speaker 4: hail Mary's, you know, all the little stuff that sometimes
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Speaker 4: players can take for granted.
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Speaker 1: Of you know, why don't We're gonna.
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Speaker 4: Work on this again. You know, why is the running
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Speaker 4: back have to run and fall down before he scores
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Speaker 4: a touchdown?
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Speaker 1: Like? Why do we call that?
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Speaker 3: No? Moss?
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Speaker 1: Like what?
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Speaker 4: And then as the season goes, I start showing exams
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Speaker 4: samples of why it's supportant why it's support, and why
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Speaker 4: it's important. What I love what I see now is
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Speaker 4: our players are talking about that stuff and they'll they'll
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Speaker 4: come to me, coach, did you see that playing the
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Speaker 4: game last night? We got to show that in Situational
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Speaker 4: Masters meeting. So the buy into raising the football IQ
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Speaker 4: and the little things that matter to winning and losing,
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Speaker 4: to me is where I notice it. You know, things
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Speaker 4: have definitely come up in game, and off the top
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Speaker 4: of my head, I can't I can't think of all
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Speaker 4: of those those those little things. But what I do
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Speaker 4: know is we're talking about football, and we're talking about
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Speaker 4: not just the guy making the one hand and catch
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Speaker 4: last night, but hey, did you see them you know,
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Speaker 4: screw the clock up at the end of the game
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Speaker 4: and they didn't get the field goal off and what
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Speaker 4: could they have done different? So that's the conversations that
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Speaker 4: I like hearing. That tell me we've got a team
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Speaker 4: that's thinking about winning and they're trying to figure out
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Speaker 4: the best ways to put themselves in position to win.
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Speaker 3: All right. Next, I was asked about Jane Blue about
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Speaker 3: the thing about the fumble, and uh, you know, and
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Speaker 3: that's and and uh we were just talking about them.
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Speaker 3: He was holding the football out in that And then
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Speaker 3: you'll hear uh Sark asked about this. You know, how
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Speaker 3: do you deal with the physical side of the running
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Speaker 3: style of Jayden Blue versus the mental side with the fumbles.
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Speaker 4: Well, I think it's there's muscle memory and repetition there,
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Speaker 4: and I think it's okay, why did the fumbles occur?
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Speaker 3: You know what?
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Speaker 1: What what happened?
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Speaker 4: From a technical standpoint, How can we fix that? And
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Speaker 4: then how do we emphasize that moving forward throughout the
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Speaker 4: week and work on a few things and then through success. Right,
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Speaker 4: It's like anything anybody who's struggling a batter in baseball,
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Speaker 4: a pitcher in baseball, a three point shooter.
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Speaker 1: We've talked all about that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 4: It's the physical ability is there, the confidence to execute
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Speaker 4: it is what our jobs as coaches is to make
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Speaker 4: sure that they're in the right frame of mind to
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Speaker 4: get that done. And so but that's why they calls
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Speaker 4: coach right, and that that's our job to get that done.
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Speaker 3: Now. Somebody when I was tweeting out these quotes and
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Speaker 3: I tweeted out that quote a Twitter guy, guy on
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Speaker 3: the next name is his Twitter handle? Is that spilled whiskey?
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Speaker 3: But he says, good answer from Sart, But at some
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Speaker 3: point it is what it is. I love the vision
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Speaker 3: and hard running a blue, but he can't be trusted
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Speaker 3: any longer in critical situations. The ball is too precious
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Speaker 3: to keep letting it go as he does. I hear
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Speaker 3: what you're saying, Cuter. I appreciate your appreciate your perspective,
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Speaker 3: but you don't make that call. The coach does, and
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Speaker 3: the coach thinks he's going to be okay. So I
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Speaker 3: guess we're all just, you know, we're going to listen
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Speaker 3: to what the coach says of it. He's he believes
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Speaker 3: and Jade and Blue has done an awful lot for
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Speaker 3: this football team. But he has lost some fumbles. And
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Speaker 3: I agree with you, Couter, I understand where you are
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Speaker 3: in terms of the dangerous nature of what can happen.
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Speaker 3: Sart appreciates it every bit as much all of us,
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Speaker 3: if not more so. But he believes in Blue and
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Speaker 3: he believes that Jay and Blue can get it done
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Speaker 3: without fumbling. We'll see, you know, But that's that's going
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Speaker 3: to be his decision to make those kind of calls
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Speaker 3: on that. Another thing, what does it mean to be
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Speaker 3: in the same company of dk R mac Brown's Our
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Speaker 3: friend Brian Davis asked this question back to back ten
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Speaker 3: win seasons. Mac had nine consecutive seasons of ten and
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Speaker 3: more wins, ten straight of nine or more wins, and
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Speaker 3: nine straight of ten and more wins. They included eight
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Speaker 3: and nine. The only other coach to do it, Dearrel Royal,
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Speaker 3: had the back to back ten win seasons in sixty
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Speaker 3: nine and seventy, and he was asked if he knew
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Speaker 3: that and what the importance of that is.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think.
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Speaker 4: In my opening press conference, I said, hey, I want
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Speaker 4: to I came to the University of Texas to win
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Speaker 4: ten games, you know.
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Speaker 1: We came here to win championships, you know, And that's that's.
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Speaker 4: Been our goal. That's been the standard, and that's what
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Speaker 4: we keep striving for. And that's the end result, right
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Speaker 4: and so we always put that the end and then
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Speaker 4: are we doing championship work every day?
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Speaker 3: Right?
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Speaker 4: Are we championship coaches? Do we have championship schemes? Do
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Speaker 4: we have a championship weight program? Do we have a
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Speaker 4: championship nutrition program? Do we have a championship study hall?
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Speaker 4: Do we have a championship work ethic? Do we have
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Speaker 4: a championship culture? Do we have a championship locker room?
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Speaker 1: Right? That's like, yes, that's what we're.
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Speaker 4: Striving for and we're chasing that every day, but we
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Speaker 4: got to make sure the way we're chasing it every
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Speaker 4: day is at a championship level.
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Speaker 3: Okay, all right? Next, and by the way, when he
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Speaker 3: started off that answer, they said about DKR winning ten rodigoes.
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Speaker 3: I didn't think they even played ten games back then.
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Speaker 3: They actually were. This is really weird. In nineteen sixty
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Speaker 3: nine they played, if I remember correctly, they played ten
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Speaker 3: games in the regular season and then won the Cotton Bowl.
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Speaker 3: They finished eleven to zero. In nineteen seventy they won
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Speaker 3: ten straight. See, that wouldn't make that wouldn't make it. Right,
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Speaker 3: there won twenty in a row. I know with James
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Speaker 3: Street is starting quarterback. So anyway, the point is there
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Speaker 3: was back to back ten win seasons before they lost
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Speaker 3: to Notre Dame in the seventy win Cotton Bowl after
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Speaker 3: they'd already been crowned UPI National champions. On that that
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Speaker 3: was the back to back national titles and that was
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Speaker 3: the coaches fault. Okay, ze friend ed Clements asked his question.
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Speaker 3: He named off a bunch of historical facts about Texas
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Speaker 3: and Texas A and M. He talked about the Aggie's
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Speaker 3: eating Bevo by the way, that story, which is true,
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Speaker 3: but it wasn't them eating Bevo by themselves. Viva was
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Speaker 3: served as the main course of a dinner between the
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Speaker 3: two sides. It's like nineteen thirteen, I believe it is.
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Speaker 3: It wasn't the actual Bevo, right, it was. Yeah, he
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Speaker 3: was the first one. They just bought him. Well, they'd
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Speaker 3: had him and they served Yeah he was, he was.
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Speaker 3: They had a they had a really big cookout afterwards.
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Speaker 3: It was kind of a team dinner for both sides
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Speaker 3: to get together. It was the early twentieth century. They
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Speaker 3: did stuff like that back then. Yeah. Now you do
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Speaker 3: that and you have pita up your ey. Well, well,
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Speaker 3: not only that, think about this, think about the sanitation
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Speaker 3: element of it. I mean, this is right around the
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Speaker 3: time that Upton Sinclair wrote his you know, his incredible
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Speaker 3: book The Jungle right about the meat packing industry there.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, but he mentioned that, and then that also
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Speaker 3: mentioned things like the Aggi's watering down the field in
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Speaker 3: sixty three and it was a quagmire. And then there's
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Speaker 3: the long runs have captured kidnapped reavily before Vivo was
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Speaker 3: kidnapped again in sixty three, and then they swapped out
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Speaker 3: and so on and so forth. So he had all
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Speaker 3: of these things, and on top of it, it was only
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Speaker 3: ninety ninety five miles away. So how is start planning
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Speaker 3: to deal with all of that? With the logistics, We'll be.
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Speaker 4: D I'm gonna leave it at that. We'll be ready. Yeah, no, No,
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Speaker 4: pretty standard for us. You know, I'm not a big
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Speaker 4: get out of routine guy. So our normal routine will
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Speaker 4: be our routine will get in there Friday and we'll
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Speaker 4: be ready to play Saturday.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. So there it is all right. And in case
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Speaker 3: you're wondering, yes, they are busting over. They are staying
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Speaker 3: at a hotel in College Station, which I don't think
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Speaker 3: a long team Quarrant team has done since nineteen ninety nine.
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Speaker 3: That was another thing that Ed pointed out was that
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Speaker 3: there was no breakfast for them when they got up
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Speaker 3: the next morning. That was that weird year. That's you know,
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Speaker 3: the tragedy of the bonfire and all that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 3: It all happened. Phone calls went to the player's rooms
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Speaker 3: all night long at the at the fashionable Ramada Inn
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Speaker 3: on Texas Avenue. I think. But anyway, yeah, they'll be
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Speaker 3: over there on Friday night and they'll go in. I'll
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Speaker 3: play on Saturday. He was also asked about having played
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Speaker 3: in a couple of those Holy Wars BYU against Utah.
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Speaker 3: One of them was in a blizzard, and how do
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Speaker 3: you prepare for a game Saturday where the temperatures are
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Speaker 3: going to be much more palatable.
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Speaker 1: It's funny.
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Speaker 4: I was talking to somebody about that this morning, that
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Speaker 4: second one, oddly enough, and I remember that game vividly,
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Speaker 4: and we talk about Rogers question about we not me
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Speaker 4: and playing for the next guy.
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Speaker 1: In that game, it was a blizzard.
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Speaker 4: I mean it was as white as you could see
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Speaker 4: any in any direction. And I was thrown for a
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Speaker 4: lot of yards that year, and in that game, I
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Speaker 4: was seven for twelve I think for like eighty yards
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Speaker 4: and we won thirty something to ten, and I was
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Speaker 4: probably more happy than anybody because the year before I'd
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Speaker 4: thrown four interceptions in the Holy Warm and we lost.
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Speaker 4: And so you know, again, you get in games like this,
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Speaker 4: what do I need to do to help the team win?
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Speaker 1: And I think when.
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Speaker 4: You go in with that mentality, you go in as
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Speaker 4: a as a group really together, composed and helping one
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Speaker 4: another and picking each other up, you put yourself in
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Speaker 4: the best position to perform of whatever task is asked
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Speaker 4: of you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay. And then finally he was asked by Marcel
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Speaker 3: read the Texas A and M quarterback, how he can
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Speaker 3: cause problems?
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Speaker 1: Legitimate dual threat quarterback.
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Speaker 4: You know, they they do a nice job schematically, you know,
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Speaker 4: call and Cline coming from Kansas State going there now
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Speaker 4: the very detailed, you know, offensive system. They've got all
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Speaker 4: the normal run game, They've got all the zone read
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Speaker 4: run game that we've seen in years past quarterback runs,
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Speaker 4: they've got the passing game. But this guy is electric
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Speaker 4: quickness and speed and a real weapon.
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Speaker 1: I think that's why their red.
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Speaker 4: Zone numbers are so good, is because when they get
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Speaker 4: down there, you have to defend him running the ball
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Speaker 4: as well as throwing the ball. And I think they've
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Speaker 4: tailored an offense around him to his skill set that
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Speaker 4: make them and make him in particular, difficult to defend.
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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, so there you are with that. By
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Speaker 3: the way, on the x LI and C pal's talking
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Speaker 3: about Miami, he thinks they're gonna lose again, says their
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Speaker 3: defense is suspect to be polite. That may be true,
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Speaker 3: but their offense with cam Ward, one of the best
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Speaker 3: quarterbacks in the country, is incredibly explosive, and that they
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Speaker 3: have who I think is the best receiver in the country,
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Speaker 3: Xavier Estrepo. I think he's the best. So you're gonna
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Speaker 3: have to outscore him really to beat him. And it
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Speaker 3: could be done. And we'll see what SMU has for
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Speaker 3: them if they played him in the ACC Championship. More
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Speaker 3: coming up here in Sports Radio AM thirteen Under the Zone.