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Previewing The UTSA Roadrunners and NFL Week 2 · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Yes, some of us have just completed another trip around
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  Speaker 1: the sun, but anytime it's a birthday, it's a.
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  Speaker 2: Good thing, right? So there we go.
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  Speaker 1: And thanks to everybody who has messaged me and Facebook
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  Speaker 1: messaged me and texted me and all that kind of
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  Speaker 1: stuff at the birthday party.
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  Speaker 2: Greetings.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, today is my birthday. Glad to have you with
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  Speaker 1: us this afternoon. Welcome to the program here on 1300
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  Speaker 1: The Zone. Let me say this right from the start.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Craig Way and the producer is Jay Kerman. What
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  Speaker 1: we are not going to do, what we are not
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  Speaker 1: going to do today is have every bump back return
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  Speaker 1: cut be birthday related. I was okay with this one, A,
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  Speaker 1: because I didn't know he was going to do it. B,
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  Speaker 1: that's okay. But this is a Yacht Rock Wednesday, so
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  Speaker 1: we're leaning into Yacht Rock like we always do, but
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate the sentiment and the greeting to start off
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  Speaker 1: today's show.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I hope you enjoyed the surprise, and Craig, we
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  Speaker 3: expected nothing less than a fully operational Yacht Rock Wednesday.
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  Speaker 3: It's like the Death Star. I'm afraid it'll be fully
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  Speaker 3: operational when Craig's birthday arrives.
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  Speaker 2: My friend, it will be completely... Yeah, what's the other
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  Speaker 2: line he has? He has.
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  Speaker 4: now witness the firepower of this fully operational battle station.
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  Speaker 2: Something like that, right?
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  Speaker 3: Soon your pathetic fleet will be crushed. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm old enough, obviously, to remember all of those
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  Speaker 2: lines going through.
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  Speaker 1: So, anyway, a lot to get to today on the program.
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  Speaker 1: First thing I want to tell you, this, of course, yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's a Yacht Rock Wednesday. It's also a day where
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  Speaker 1: we go over and we record Longhorn Weekly with Coach Sark.
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  Speaker 2: Which airs on Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow, I think, are we back to 5.30 airtime tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: with the Round Rock Express having the, you know, they're
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  Speaker 1: on their final homestand of the season. So we have
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  Speaker 1: an express game tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 3: Back to 5.30.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So it'll air tomorrow afternoon at 5.30. We're recording it
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  Speaker 1: this evening over on campus. And obviously, Head coach Steve
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  Speaker 1: Sarkeesian will review the win over Ohio State, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: start talking about getting ready for UTSA and all that
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  Speaker 1: sort of stuff. Our special guest is Jackson Jeffcoat, who
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  Speaker 1: is going into the Longhorn Hall of Honor.
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  Speaker 2: He'll be inducted.
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  Speaker 1: The banquet and ceremony induction is on Friday night, and Jackson,
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  Speaker 1: one of our all-time favorites, outstanding career at Texas, and one,
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  Speaker 1: I think two gray cups playing for the Winnipeg blue bombers.
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  Speaker 1: One time he brought the gray cup trophy with him
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  Speaker 1: over on campus. It was really cool to see. Um, so, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Jeffcoat will be our guest. Now, again, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to record that show, uh, as we always do, uh,
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  Speaker 1: this evening and it'll air tomorrow at five 30.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll visit with Jackson Jeffcoat on the program.
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  Speaker 1: And, um, we'll do a lot of the same normal
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  Speaker 1: things that we normally do. Now, speaking of UTSA and
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  Speaker 1: Sark will, and we'll talk about them. Yesterday, we had
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  Speaker 1: the head coach of the UTSA Roadrunners, Jeff Traylor, on
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  Speaker 1: the program.
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  Speaker 2: And I had a lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: Reach out to me through, again, through Facebook messages and
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  Speaker 1: texting and things like that and said, did you have
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Traylor on the show?
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  Speaker 2: And the answer is yes, we did. And It was
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  Speaker 2: in the four o'clock hour.
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  Speaker 1: So the way that I've discovered over the three years
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  Speaker 1: that I've been here, back here, you know, I was
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  Speaker 1: here for 19 years and then went across town and
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  Speaker 1: then came back after six and a half years. And
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  Speaker 1: so I've been back here for three years. And going
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  Speaker 1: into the two to five slot, what I have ultimately
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  Speaker 1: discovered is that I wouldn't say we have two different
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  Speaker 1: listening audiences, but there's kind of an overlap. There's some
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  Speaker 1: people who listen to us in the early to mid
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  Speaker 1: afternoon that then disengage, you know, for whatever their activities
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  Speaker 1: are or work or whatever. And then we have the
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  Speaker 1: second group that's in the office or at work until
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  Speaker 1: around four o'clock. And then they join us afterwards, like
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  Speaker 1: on their drive home or wherever they might be. So
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  Speaker 1: sometimes some of the programming that we do on, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, say in the two o'clock hour, the people
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  Speaker 1: in the four o'clock hour didn't get to hear it.
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  Speaker 1: So there are times that will re-air it. Now we always,
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  Speaker 1: you know, instruct you that you can go to our
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  Speaker 1: podcast page, um, at am13underthezone. com. You can go, you can
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  Speaker 1: go to that and, and listen to it. Um, But
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  Speaker 1: for those who don't and just want to hear it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we do it that way. Well, today is
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  Speaker 1: a day of the inverse. We aired that conversation with
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  Speaker 1: Coach Traylor in the 4 o'clock hour. That's when he
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  Speaker 1: joined us live yesterday in the 4 o'clock hour. And
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  Speaker 1: I had people ask me about it.
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  Speaker 5: So.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to play it, replay it for you, re-air
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  Speaker 1: it for you here coming up in a few minutes.
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  Speaker 1: So for those of you who normally listen to us
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  Speaker 1: in the 2 o'clock, maybe the 3 o'clock hour as well,
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  Speaker 1: and did not get a chance to hear the conversation,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe you just didn't get a chance to hear it, period,
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  Speaker 1: you'll get a chance to hear it.
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  Speaker 2: It's revealing stuff.
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  Speaker 1: We've been friends a long time, and like I said,
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  Speaker 1: I've called a state championship games that his teams have
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  Speaker 1: won and things like that. We've known each other a
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  Speaker 1: long time. But we will... get him to talk about
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  Speaker 1: his team, about the Longhorns, and also about kind of
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  Speaker 1: the state of college football and where they are as
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  Speaker 1: a G6 program.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll do that coming up in a few minutes.
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  Speaker 1: We will have Inconceivable this hour, so we will do that.
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  Speaker 1: And then we're going to hear from Justin Cryer of
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  Speaker 1: the Longhorns. We're going to hear from Brian Schottenheimer. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to hear from D'Amico Ryans as both of those
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  Speaker 1: head coaches of the two NFL teams based in the
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  Speaker 1: state of Texas try to flip the script and get
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  Speaker 1: turned back around this week. And so we'll hear from
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  Speaker 1: both of those head coaches as well. So we look
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  Speaker 1: forward to bringing you all of that. So stay with us.
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  Speaker 1: We've got some baseball notes we'll get to as well.
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  Speaker 1: But up next, we'll visit with Jeff Traylor, head coach
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  Speaker 1: of the UTSA Roadrunners, when we continue on Sports Radio
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  Speaker 1: AM 13 Under the Zone and where you can always
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  Speaker 1: listen to us for free on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 6: He's one of.
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  Speaker 3: The guys that folks say if you were doing the
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  Speaker 3: Mount Rushmore of individual.
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  Speaker 1: Events, Yacht rock artist. He might deserve a place on
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  Speaker 1: the mountain. That would be the great Gordon Lightfoot. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Michael McDonald's the godfather. We know that. Kenny Loggins definitely
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  Speaker 1: belongs on it. Christopher Cross. Those are three definites. You
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  Speaker 1: get beyond those three, it's open to debate. In discussion,
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  Speaker 1: I would say.
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  Speaker 3: And he's Canadian, right? Gordon Lightfoot?
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Because I think I remember, I've got, you know, an
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  Speaker 3: aunt and uncle that live in Toronto. I've got a
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  Speaker 3: lot of family up in Canada. And they're musicians. And
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  Speaker 3: he is very inspirational for them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. He was a great singer-songwriter. And, you know, when
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  Speaker 1: I was... When I went to see the Guess Who
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  Speaker 1: back in August, and, of course, they were from Saskatchewan.
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  Speaker 2: And they.
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  Speaker 1: they even were talking about it, that he was one
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  Speaker 1: of their influences. And we were talking about in between songs,
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  Speaker 1: Burton Cummings standing up there talking about what a great
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  Speaker 1: influence he was and that sort of thing. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and that's one of his standards there, a sundown for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Here on a Yacht Rock Wednesday on 1300 The Zone,
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  Speaker 1: we mentioned what a ball game it was in baseball.
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  Speaker 2: The Rangers are hanging tough.
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  Speaker 1: They're a game below 500, but they're only a game
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  Speaker 1: below the Astros.
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  Speaker 2: In the American League Central.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, this is going to go to the
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  Speaker 1: final week, and I'm telling you, it is not out
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  Speaker 1: of the realm of possibility that the winner of the
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  Speaker 1: American League West winds up with a sub-500 record.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the Astros got a Bronx cheer on big inning,
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  Speaker 3: which I just love, MLB big inning. Matt Yaloff said, oh,
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  Speaker 3: would you look at that? The division leaders are over
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  Speaker 3: 500 again, and that's the case for the Astros. How
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  Speaker 3: about the high wire act from Jacob Latz in that
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  Speaker 3: game from the Rangers? Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: You talk about leverage, bring him into a high leverage
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  Speaker 1: situation in the eighth inning. and ask him to perform,
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  Speaker 1: and he was able to do that. Milwaukee Brewers have
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  Speaker 1: clinched the National League Central. The Dodgers can clinch if
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  Speaker 1: they win the night over Cincinnati or if San Diego
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  Speaker 1: were to lose Again, to the Colorado Rockies. They got
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  Speaker 1: bludgeoned by the Rockies.
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  Speaker 3: And they get one. They get one, right? It was
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  Speaker 3: an eight-game win streak for the Padres. They had some
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  Speaker 3: big come-from-behind wins over the course of it. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the ball was jumping as it usually does at Coors
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  Speaker 3: Field last night. And the Padres... Couldn't get anybody out.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So the race is still continuing in a variety of areas.
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  Speaker 1: The American League wildcard thing very much up for grabs.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, the Guardians going into today having taken the
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  Speaker 1: first two from the White Sox within a half game
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  Speaker 1: going into it and 2-0 the score in the fourth inning.
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland up looking to move into first place in the
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  Speaker 1: Central if they wind up winning that game.
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  Speaker 2: So that's important.
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  Speaker 1: The other thing about the National League wildcard is is
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  Speaker 1: that the Diamondbacks let one get away last night in
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  Speaker 1: extra innings to the Marlins.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I didn't stay up for that. Yeah, they lost
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  Speaker 3: four to two.
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  Speaker 1: And so as a result, they remained two and a
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  Speaker 1: half back of San Diego.
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  Speaker 2: They had a lead pretty late. It looked like they.
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  Speaker 1: Were going to win, or it was tied, and they
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  Speaker 1: had the potential game-winning runs on base. Couldn't get it home.
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  Speaker 1: And the Diamondbacks end up winning the game four to two.
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  Speaker 3: Marlins, you mean?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, the Marlins ended up beating the Diamondbacks 4-2.
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  Speaker 1: So the Diamondbacks are two and a half back of
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  Speaker 1: the Padres now. Those, realistically, are the only two teams
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  Speaker 1: left fighting for a wild card spot. The Pirates are
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  Speaker 1: like seven back and the Cardinals seven out. They're not
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  Speaker 1: going to catch. There's not enough time left with like
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  Speaker 1: a dozen games or 11 games left.
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  Speaker 3: There's just not enough time. And the Pirates got missed yesterday.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, they did.
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  Speaker 2: They did. He did his thing.
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  Speaker 3: They're looking for their first winning season in, what is it,
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  Speaker 3: seven or eight years at Pittsburgh, and that's what they're
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  Speaker 3: playing for. But I think you're right, Craig. They are
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  Speaker 3: just probably not going to survive the weekend in terms
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  Speaker 3: of being alive.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's probably going to be like that. So anyway,
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  Speaker 1: that's where that is. And so San Diego and Arizona, realistically,
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  Speaker 1: are fighting for that last wildcard spot.
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  Speaker 2: Well, as chance would have it, the last.
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  Speaker 1: Weekend of the regular season is Arizona and San Diego
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  Speaker 1: for three games.
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  Speaker 7: So.
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  Speaker 2: That might factor into that.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see, unless Arizona continues to fall off and San
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  Speaker 1: Diego builds enough of a lead and a cushion where
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  Speaker 1: they can wrap it up even before they get to
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  Speaker 1: that regular season-ending three-game series at Petco Park.
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  Speaker 3: I think we have four Rays-Yankees games left.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we do.
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  Speaker 3: Midweek next week, the Yankees host the Rays for four.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's big. That's big.
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  Speaker 1: Yankees' last big push to try to catch Tampa Bay
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  Speaker 1: off of that. We'll talk some more baseball as we
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  Speaker 1: go forward. But as we mentioned, we had the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: yesterday to talk with Jeff Traylor, the head coach of
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  Speaker 1: the UTSA Roadrunners. Of course, they're the opponent for the
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  Speaker 1: Longhorns Saturday night at Darrow K. Royal Texas Memorial Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: Our coverage will begin at 3 o'clock. with the third
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  Speaker 1: and Longhorn podcast guys. They'll have their breakdown at three.
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  Speaker 1: Longhorn's game day from Bevo Boulevard. Have you gotten used
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  Speaker 1: to being out there at the Winship area there? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Even in the heated conditions? Well, look, at this point,
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  Speaker 3: I'm used to the heat because it is my, like
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  Speaker 3: I've said on the show a few times, my first
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  Speaker 3: full summer in Texas. And I can't believe we've got
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  Speaker 3: a few more weeks of this heat. I'm used to it,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm still incredulous that it's here.
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  Speaker 1: Be thankful that supposedly the high on Saturday will only
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  Speaker 1: be 98. It'll be below 100. It won't be 102
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  Speaker 1: like it's supposed to be today and some of the
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  Speaker 1: other stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know. Just be thankful for the small things.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I told the guys down there last week,
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  Speaker 3: I feel like Francis Tiafoe. I brought three shirts.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's probably a good idea. But, I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: grew up in the Washington, D.C. area where it wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: get 100 degrees, but it was so humid and muggy.
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  Speaker 1: I remember being up there a couple of times where
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  Speaker 1: it was just, you know, you just walk around dripping.
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  Speaker 3: But I think I sweat more here. I mean, because
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  Speaker 3: I was lucky enough to get to go into the
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  Speaker 3: stadium and watch the Texas-Ohio State game. I looked at
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  Speaker 3: myself in the mirror. My face, my entire face is
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  Speaker 3: dripping sweat.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's hot conditions, no doubt about it. And it'll be
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  Speaker 1: hot again, but again, the kickoff is even a half
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  Speaker 1: hour later this time at, or well, it's actually gonna
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  Speaker 1: be about between 10 and 15 minutes later because it
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  Speaker 1: wound up kicking off pretty close to 6.50 the other night,
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  Speaker 1: but it'll be just.
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  Speaker 2: Past seven o'clock when they play.
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  Speaker 1: And so Texas will play UTSA. Jeff Traylor, remember, was
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  Speaker 1: a former, at one time, Longhorn assistant. Charlie Strong hired him.
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  Speaker 1: He was after he'd won the state championships at Gilmer
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  Speaker 1: and was on that staff. And then he went to
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  Speaker 1: the Arkansas staff and then wound up getting the head
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  Speaker 1: coaching job at UTSA. Seven years there, he's done a
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  Speaker 1: heck of a job there. And you'll be able to
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  Speaker 1: tell from the conversation, we've kind of known each other
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  Speaker 1: a little while. So anyway, this was the conversation from
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  Speaker 1: yesterday in the four o'clock hour that we had with
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  Speaker 1: the head coach of the UTSA Roadrunners, Jeff Traylor. As
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  Speaker 1: we mentioned, you know, here's Texas getting ready to play UTSA.
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  Speaker 1: And it's always a privilege and a pleasure and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of fun to visit with a friend, a guy
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  Speaker 1: whose state championship games had the pleasure of calling back
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  Speaker 1: when he was tearing it up at Gilmer, of course,
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  Speaker 1: to Gilmer, Texas, native. And the head coach of the
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  Speaker 1: UTSA Roadrunners, Jeff Traylor, joins us. Now, I appreciate the
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  Speaker 1: time and you look rather serene this afternoon. Is everything
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  Speaker 1: at peace given the fact that you have a good
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  Speaker 1: football team and you're right in the belly of the
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  Speaker 1: beast in terms of your schedule and getting ready before
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  Speaker 1: you start American Conference play?
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  Speaker 8: If you just got through watching the horns rally in
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  Speaker 8: the fourth quarter like that at DKR, how serene would.
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  Speaker 7: You be, Craig?
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  Speaker 2: Listen, point taken.
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  Speaker 1: Let me get you to start with your team and
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  Speaker 1: that rally to win that game in San Marcos. I
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  Speaker 1: had it on a big laptop in the broadcast booth.
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  Speaker 1: And the two games, you know, starting and finishing were overlapping.
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  Speaker 1: But I couldn't help but continuing to sneak a peek
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  Speaker 1: and seeing how your guys rallied back. And I also
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  Speaker 1: understand this, and I think you've mentioned this once before,
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  Speaker 1: and I know some of the players have, that it
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  Speaker 1: means a lot in this matchup with Texas State, the
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  Speaker 1: I-35 rivalry. and all of that, and I know that
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  Speaker 1: all plays into it, but it was about also getting
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  Speaker 1: a football victory and getting a 2-0. How about your
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  Speaker 1: review overall of what you've seen of your guys in
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  Speaker 1: the first two weeks, and especially that turnaround and the comeback.
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  Speaker 2: And the win?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't know how good we are. I don't
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  Speaker 7: know if we're as talented as we have been.
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  Speaker 8: We were intentional this portal window to get guys that
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  Speaker 8: we knew very well, we had a relationship with. We
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  Speaker 8: didn't chase talent as much as we have in the past.
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  Speaker 8: We chased production on the field and character.
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  Speaker 7: So we're not as big. We're not as fast.
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  Speaker 8: But we have unbelievable team chemistry. I think we were
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  Speaker 8: just grittier Saturday. We just lasted longer. It felt like
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  Speaker 8: some of my older teams, I used to coach those
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  Speaker 8: first four years. We just hung in there. We were
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  Speaker 8: down 17 to Saturday halftime.
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  Speaker 7: No one blinked.
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  Speaker 8: All 78 that traveled were eyes on head coach. I
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  Speaker 8: know that seems silly. We had great body language. I
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  Speaker 8: told them we were getting the ball first. As long
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  Speaker 8: as it was fourth.
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  Speaker 3: And five, no matter where it was, we were going
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  Speaker 3: to go for it.
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  Speaker 7: I didn't care where it was. And wouldn't you.
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  Speaker 8: Know it would be fourth and six on about my
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  Speaker 8: minus 40 on the opening drive. And we went ahead
• 17:49
  Speaker 8: and went for it. And Owen made a clutch throw.
• 17:54
  Speaker 8: David Amador made a heck of a double pass. They
• 17:56
  Speaker 8: got the momentum going, and, you know, we outscored them
• 17:59
  Speaker 8: 24-9 that quarter and had a touchdown callback, so 31-9.
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: It was a good call on the callback, so 24-9.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: You have talked about, Bill, and we've talked about your
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: 210 and triangle of toughness and things of that nature.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: And it's in this day and age, in the ever-changing
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: landscape of college football, and I know you had some
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: of your best players that were kind of cherry-picked through
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: the portal and things of that nature. And it sounds
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: like you were able to go back and get some
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: other guys coming in. It sounds like commitment from the
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: administration and the athletic department and things of that nature.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: How important is it to have that type of commitment
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: that you've spoken of and others have spoken of in
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: the past in terms of not only building a roster,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: but in this day and age, maintaining a roster?
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: We all played against one of them, Devin McEwen, the
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: receiver that started on the other side of Smith. I
• 18:57
  Speaker 8: taught his mother at Jacksonville when I used to be
• 19:02
  Speaker 8: a teacher and a coach. That's painful, Rob, but I'm
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: thrilled for him. upped it, but it's not to the
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: level anywhere near where you guys are. Like I say
• 19:13
  Speaker 8: to everybody, everybody wants to talk about Texas and Georgia
• 19:16
  Speaker 8: and Ohio State. We can't even talk about that. We've
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: got to get in the level of Tulane. We've got
• 19:21
  Speaker 8: to get in the level of South Florida, Memphis. We've
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: got to conquer our league first as far as revenue sharing, fundraising.
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: We've got to get there first. If you can win
• 19:32
  Speaker 8: the AAC and get invited to the playoffs... Then you
• 19:35
  Speaker 8: can have the discussions about what's next, right? We're the
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: sixth largest city in the country. We've got a lot
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: of eyes on our football team. But winning is what
• 19:44
  Speaker 8: gets that going.
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: So I just.
• 19:47
  Speaker 8: I am grateful we have committed more, but we're far
• 19:51
  Speaker 8: from reaching Tulane, South Florida, Memphis, those guys, as far
• 19:55
  Speaker 8: as that. But I'm thrilled with my administration to move
• 19:59
  Speaker 8: me closer. It's a lot better than getting moved the
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: other way. We are moving in the right direction. We
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: knew when we got in the AAC, it moved the
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: goalposts on us quickly. But then when college football changed
• 20:13
  Speaker 8: so crazily, it really moved the goalposts on our administration
• 20:17
  Speaker 8: and me as well.
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: And we're just trying to keep up, Craig. We really are.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Well, and this is kind of along the lines of
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: the types of questions that I ask when we do
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: the panel discussion every year at coaching school.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: But does the fact... that.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Tulane and James Madison both got in, and there were
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: two G6s to get into the playoff. And I understand
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: the P4s get an automatic bid now, and maybe that
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: makes the quotient a little more difficult to manage, but
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: does the fact that it has happened serve as proof
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: that that can happen, that.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: The G6s can continue to state.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Their case, winning the proper amount of games and good
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: scheduling and all those kinds of things, to have a
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: shot to get into the playoff?
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: Well, it should here because we're the only team to
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: beat them. We beat them handily at home. What you
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: can do, you can jump up. But to be consistent
• 21:10
  Speaker 8: and play week in and week out, you need real depth,
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: which means you got to have a deeper understanding. financial
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: bucket to go to to get some backups. You just
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: can't have your starters. So yes, it should, and it is.
• 21:26
  Speaker 8: My administration knows that we're not as far away because
• 21:29
  Speaker 8: we've done it, but we've got to invest more, and
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: we know that. But But as far as comparing to
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: Texas and Ohio State, we're so far away from that.
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: When one of our kids gets to the portal and
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: he ends up, there's nothing we can do about that.
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: That number's just too large. We've got to fend off
• 21:48
  Speaker 8: the guys.
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: In our conference.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Jeff Traylor's with us right now. I've heard a lot
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: of coaches say this. Even Matt Brown, I remember, saying
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: this to me one time and saying it, that coaches
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: love every one of their teams.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: They love them.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: They don't necessarily like every one of their teams for
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: various and sundry reasons. The impression that I've always gotten
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: from you, going all the way back to Gilmer, but
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: certainly with UTSA, is that not only do you love
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: all your teams, you try to find something to really
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: like about your group. It's safe to say you have
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: that same feeling about this group. Not only that you
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: love them because you're around them and you work so
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: hard with them, but that there's genuine things to like
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: about this group.
• 22:34
  Speaker 8: Well, I've been a head coach 22 years, so the
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: way I look at it, I've had 22 children. What
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: I mean by that is I've got three personal children.
• 22:42
  Speaker 8: I've got Jordan, I've got Jake, I've got JC. I've
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: had 22 teams as a head coach. Each one of
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: my children.
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: They're very easy to love. Not all of them are
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: easy to like at times. One of my children is
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: easier to like. I won't name which one. One of
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: my other children is less easy to like. I won't
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: name which one. And one of my children is kind
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: of just right in the middle. They're all different. God
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: made each one of them uniquely different. It's no different
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: than your teams. I've had 22 of them. This team
• 23:16
  Speaker 8: is easy to like. We don't have as many great
• 23:19
  Speaker 8: players as we've had in the past. We're not as
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: talented as we've been. But man, all the details these
• 23:25
  Speaker 8: guys have handled, all the little bitty things these guys do.
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: Being down 17 to 7 on the road at your
• 23:32
  Speaker 8: rival in that heat is tremendous stress, pressure. Owen McCown
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: hadn't beaten them. They'd beaten us two years in a row.
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: The way they rallied. did not shock me because of
• 23:49
  Speaker 8: the people they've been since I started coaching.
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: Them in January.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: By the way, do your three biological children know which
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: one that you like more than the other and like
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: lesser or in the middle?
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Do they have an inkling even though you haven't told them?
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: Well, it's a moving target. They each move up and
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: down at times. And I'm the bad cop always, and
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: my wife's always the good cop. I just pray that
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: Jordan's in Minnesota right now, and Jake's in Washington, and
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: Jake's in Manhattan, and that none of them are listening
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: to Crayways.
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: Radio right now.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: I pray okay all right with that i'll move forward
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: then and ask you about oh i'm gonna come first
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: of all uh give me a little history lesson i
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: remember doing a uh i want to say it was
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: a state quarterfinal game i may be wrong about that
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: oh 1997 jacksonville texas city there was an amazing like
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: a 31 28 ball game and i think luke was
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: playing quarterback back then were you on danny longstaff at
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: that time.
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: That was actually Josh, Owen's father. That was 1997. I
• 24:53
  Speaker 8: was there from 93 to 2000. And it's the greatest
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: high school game I've ever been a part of. It's incredible.
• 24:59
  Speaker 8: And Josh played as good as I've ever seen him play.
• 25:02
  Speaker 8: And it was a joy to be on that team.
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: And I hate it for Danny because that was our
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: chance to win a state championship for Danny. Still one
• 25:09
  Speaker 8: of the best games I think he's ever coached. Rusty
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: Dowling beat us at Texas City. They went on to
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: win a state championship.
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: The next week. Yeah.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: The other thing that I remember about that, Jeff, is
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: that Texas City had a kicker kick, I believe, about
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: a 51 or 53-yard field goal in the game, and
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: he kicked it toward the south end zone. And Cooter Robertson,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: the old Southeast Texas radio legend who had done Huntsville's play-by-play,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: was doing color for me on the statewide broadcast.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: And he was dead.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Serious when he said that, man, he kicked that long
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: enough it almost went to the walls unit. Because apparently
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: the walls unit of the Texas State Prison is not
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: far beyond the fence of that north end zone up
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: that way.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: It was something else.
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: I'll give you another memory from that game. I was
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: the special teams coordinator. They got down and had a
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: chip shot field goal to win the game. We had
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: a block that we knew was going to get there.
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: Josh's cousin, Timothy Treywell, who's passed away since then, was
• 26:06
  Speaker 8: free right in front of the tee and was fixing
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: to block it. And that same great kicker He basically
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: hit like a sand wedge. He missed the ball, hit
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: the very bottom of the ball, and it went straight
• 26:18
  Speaker 8: up and just landed on the other side of the goalpost.
• 26:22
  Speaker 8: I was sure if he had hit it pure, Timothy
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: would have blocked that thing. So I'm going to get
• 26:26
  Speaker 8: over it one day, Craig.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Hey, listen, you play.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: I know you don't have much time to play a
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: lot of golf, but you play enough golf to know, obviously,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: you're hitting behind the ball in the bunker, hitting the sand.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Would that be the safe way to say this on
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: that field turf that they did it?
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: There's no doubt. And isn't it sad?
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: I can never remember to pick up my shoes or
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: where I put my keys or where I set my glass,
• 26:49
  Speaker 8: but I can remember a play from 1997 and the
• 26:52
  Speaker 8: details of that.
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: What is wrong with us? We have issues, Craig.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: I know we do.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: I know we do.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: All right, so.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Let me pull it back on track here while we've
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: got a few more minutes. I asked you about this,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: about Owen B and Josh, and Arch has been asked
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: about being from a quarterback family and all that.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: And you've coached that. You get that.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Is there an intrinsic added element to having a quarterback
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: son of a quarterback and a coach and all that
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: sort of stuff leading your offense?
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah. I mean, just silly things.
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: Like, for example, we had a playing team where he
• 27:31
  Speaker 8: got stepped on his toe, and he went hopping.
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: Like he was, you know, dead.
• 27:36
  Speaker 8: And I was watching him as his grandfather.
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: I know well, Pat.
• 27:40
  Speaker 8: I know all of his dad and his uncles and
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: his whole family. You know, limping is just not allowed
• 27:46
  Speaker 8: in the mechanics. But he's hobbling around like he's, you know, dead.
• 27:50
  Speaker 8: And I videoed it and I sent it to Josh
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: and his grandfather. And obviously I included Owen on there.
• 27:59
  Speaker 8: And it's just literally like, you know, be tough. I mean,
• 28:02
  Speaker 8: just good old fashioned. You know what they're getting told
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: at the house. You know what they're being told. You
• 28:09
  Speaker 8: know what they're, you know what I mean? Like, they're
• 28:11
  Speaker 8: being told, whatever the coach says, freaking do it. Be better.
• 28:15
  Speaker 8: Find a way to win the game. That's what the quarterbacks,
• 28:17
  Speaker 8: I mean, there's just none of this making us all
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: bad when you come from the genetics that, you know,
• 28:24
  Speaker 8: Arch has come from or Owen's come from.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: With regard to your running back spot, like I said,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: one of the recent state championship games was when Will
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Henderson was in that backfield there. But Brandon Hyatt, the
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: big run for you there, the 25-yard run as well.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: How about your running back stable and what you see
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: and what you like out of that group?
• 28:47
  Speaker 7: They're good kids.
• 28:48
  Speaker 8: They all support each other. Will goes first, and Brandon
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: comes in second. And then AP has a role on
• 28:54
  Speaker 8: our team as well. He had a touchdown in the
• 28:56
  Speaker 8: game as well. So they're very supportive. We're all about
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: the 2-1-0 triangle of toughness, our culture, our brand. And
• 29:05
  Speaker 8: I know Sarton does a great job of that as well.
• 29:07
  Speaker 8: But we made our own individual triangles this year. Each
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: kid has their own individual triangle. They're four H's, you know,
• 29:14
  Speaker 8: and I know Sarton does this too. The history, the hero,
• 29:16
  Speaker 8: the highlight, and the hardships. They have their why and
• 29:19
  Speaker 8: why they play, their Bible verse, their walk-up song, and
• 29:24
  Speaker 8: their response mechanism to when things go bad, all in
• 29:28
  Speaker 8: their triangle triangle. And all three of those kids are
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: really neat kids. And we allow each player to talk
• 29:34
  Speaker 8: to our team about their individual triangle.
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: Just a way for us to get to know each
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: other better and quicker.
• 29:38
  Speaker 8: Because the portal, you know, we had 40 this year
• 29:42
  Speaker 8: come to us in January, which is a very high number.
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: For us personally.
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: There are many schools at 90 and 85, so I'm
• 29:48
  Speaker 8: not complaining. I'm still 40 is high. And it's been
• 29:51
  Speaker 8: really cool. But Will and Brandon and APs, they did
• 29:55
  Speaker 8: three of the best triangles. They're three of the best
• 29:57
  Speaker 8: people on our team.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: I got to ask you this because it sounds like,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: you know, Sark likes to say, you know, the reason
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: the dinosaurs still aren't around is because they didn't adapt.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: And it sounds like you adapted because I know where
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: you came from. And you didn't have a walk-up song
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: when you were playing Gilmer.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: And when you.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Were coaching at Gilmer, I don't know how much of
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: that is, but it sounds like part of the adjustment
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: that you made as a coach was, Not only for
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: what you did in high school, but especially the college
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: level is adapting to the collegiate player environment.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Does that make sense?
• 30:33
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it just had to be faster. I give the
• 30:35
  Speaker 8: analogy like I'm from East Texas, right? So to barbecue
• 30:38
  Speaker 8: a brisket and ribs is like a real prideful thing
• 30:41
  Speaker 8: in East Texas. And, you know, a guy like me,
• 30:45
  Speaker 8: who's kind of a guy that I keep my staff
• 30:47
  Speaker 8: around for a long time. My players have never left me.
• 30:49
  Speaker 8: I've had the same coaches, same players my whole life.
• 30:52
  Speaker 8: And now so I was kind of a three day
• 30:54
  Speaker 8: brisket cooker. My barbecue, you know, was about three day process.
• 30:58
  Speaker 8: I was a slow cooker. And now I've got to
• 31:01
  Speaker 8: get my brisket to taste just as good, but I've
• 31:03
  Speaker 8: got to cook it in a microwave. So they're all
• 31:06
  Speaker 8: one-year teams now, Craig. So we've really expedited that process.
• 31:10
  Speaker 8: Everything we've done in August, we do in January now.
• 31:13
  Speaker 8: And the triangle is just a really good idea we
• 31:15
  Speaker 8: have for each player. And we take it with us.
• 31:18
  Speaker 8: It's in their lockers downstairs. It'll come with us to Austin.
• 31:21
  Speaker 8: We'll put the same triangle up in y'all's lockers down there.
• 31:23
  Speaker 7: It's just a way to expediate all of us getting
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: to know each other.
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: Really proud of our guys about how they've accepted that.
• 31:30
  Speaker 8: Not all 117 of them have bought into doing this
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: with a beautiful, beautiful smile on their face, but all
• 31:37
  Speaker 8: 117 of them do have their triangles done.
• 31:39
  Speaker 7: I know that.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: I realize this is a loaded question, but when you
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: look at the digital cut-ups, what really crosses your mind
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: when you look at Texas?
• 31:50
  Speaker 8: They've evaluated very well. They're really big. They're really strong.
• 31:56
  Speaker 8: They've went and got some really special pieces. Those tailbacks
• 31:59
  Speaker 8: and those receivers are just your tight ends, your line.
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: There's really nowhere I can say there's a weak spot. Obviously,
• 32:06
  Speaker 8: Arch has gotten better. So, Arch is going to play
• 32:07
  Speaker 8: callers in the country. Will has brought a level of toughness.
• 32:10
  Speaker 8: Jeff has done an always great job with the special
• 32:13
  Speaker 8: teams with you guys.
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: So, I have nothing but the utmost respect. I've worked there.
• 32:18
  Speaker 8: Twelve of my guys on my staff either played at
• 32:20
  Speaker 8: Texas or coach to Texas or graduate from Texas. I mean,
• 32:24
  Speaker 8: hear me, 12. So we've got a ton of respect.
• 32:27
  Speaker 8: We know about that place and what it's about. So
• 32:30
  Speaker 8: there's nothing I can say negative. And Sark and I
• 32:34
  Speaker 8: are good friends. I like Sark.
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: So I'm rooting for him except for this Saturday.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: The final thing I have for you here is also
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: the impression that I've got, and really just watching your
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: team and what you've described is– Whatever the environment is,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: they're not really allowing the moment to get too big
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: for them. So you have a lot of confidence that
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: they can walk into the stadium there on Saturday night
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: and there's 100,000 and all that other stuff going on
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: and still feel comfortable in the environment in the moment.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: And it's a matter of just going out and executing
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: at this point.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Is that right?
• 33:12
  Speaker 8: Well, Texas State had an unbelievable home field advantage, but
• 33:15
  Speaker 8: what Chris Del Conte has done.
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: At DKR is on another level.
• 33:18
  Speaker 8: I mean, to say the least, it was nowhere near
• 33:20
  Speaker 8: that way when I was there. And he is just,
• 33:24
  Speaker 8: it is the most amazing home crowd ever. when we
• 33:28
  Speaker 8: played some great ones now. We played against some really
• 33:30
  Speaker 8: great teams in the SEC. There's no place like what
• 33:33
  Speaker 8: y'all have done now. I don't know how you get
• 33:36
  Speaker 8: a team prepared for that. We're doing the best we can, obviously,
• 33:39
  Speaker 8: but it's y'all's music, when y'all play it, how loud
• 33:43
  Speaker 8: y'all play it, all the things y'all do to distract
• 33:45
  Speaker 8: the opponents.
• 33:46
  Speaker 7: It's really on another level.
• 33:48
  Speaker 8: So much, much respect to the administration of the University
• 33:51
  Speaker 8: of Texas and what they've done behind the scenes.
• 33:54
  Speaker 7: And I hope my team can handle this.
• 33:55
  Speaker 8: This is the most daunting task we will have because
• 33:58
  Speaker 8: of the quality of coaching, the quality of the players,
• 34:00
  Speaker 8: and the quality of the atmosphere.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Well, you're a quality individual.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: I always enjoy visiting with you wherever we are, whether
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: it's at coaching school or someplace else or obviously in
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: the stadium as well. And I'm indebted to you for
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: taking a few minutes to join us today.
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  Speaker 8: I appreciate it, Jeff. Craig, it's easy to be good
• 34:18
  Speaker 8: to you. You've been good to a lot of people
• 34:20
  Speaker 8: for many, many years. And you treated me the same many,
• 34:24
  Speaker 8: many years ago as you do this day. And I'm
• 34:26
  Speaker 8: grateful for our friendship, man. God bless and birds up.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Thank you. See you Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: That's Jeff Traylor, head coach of the UTSA Roadrunners. We'll
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: have more coming up when we continue on 13 Under
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: the Zones. Second hour of the program here on Sports
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Radio AM 1300 The Zone. Glad to be with you
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: here on the Yacht Rock Wednesday.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Craig Way alongside the producer, Jake Herman. We thank you
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: for joining us.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: By the way, I want to thank the people who
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: have texted in. And with the birthday greetings and stuff,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: it is a birthday. And for those of you who
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: have asked, I've never been shy about telling how old
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: I was. Because you're only, you know, it's a number.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: It's just however old. however you feel, and I'm in
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: good health, so other than a little bit of allergy
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: and upper respiratory stuff bother me, but that always happens
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: this time of year. So since we were quoting earlier
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Emperor Palpatine from the Star Wars canon and that saga,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: I feel it only to, when asked my age, to
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: simply reply by.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: Saying, execute order number 66.
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  Speaker 2: So there it is.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: I don't even need to go get a drop for that.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: We can just use that. That was perfect. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So anyway.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Palpatine's timeless. I think my friends and I probably quoted
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: him more than anybody else in high school.
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  Speaker 2: There's some great quotes.
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  Speaker 3: Tell us something about us.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Your lack of faith has been your undoing. You know,
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: that sort of stuff.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Do it.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: All of that stuff. So it's okay.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: You can plug in Palpatine on a lot of stuff
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: like that.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: And now... Skywalker, you will die. But he didn't. That's
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: the cool thing.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: So anyway, so thanks again to the people who have
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: wished to send the birthday greetings, messages and texts and
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: all that other kind of stuff.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Glad, I'm always happy to accept those. Thank you very much.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Just waiting for I am the Senate.
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: Yes, I am the Senate. I will make it legal.
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  Speaker 2: Some of that.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. That is Lane Kiffin. Yeah, absolutely.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Saying that to Prince William Mommy Ellen, you know, who
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: got served $ 550, 000. I have to say that I'm a
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: little dubious on the whole part of the business of
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: they're just wanting to LSU to account for the money
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: on something, something, you know, and not trying to get
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: it back from the players.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Come on. You wouldn't have served him if you didn't
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: want to get the money back from the player.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: So I think, you know, so anyway, I think that's
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: just how I feel about it anyway.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: So we'll see.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: The other thing that I wanted to get to is
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: hearing from Longhorn.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Justin Cryer, the Longhorns linebacker, had himself a ball game
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: on Saturday night, especially down the stretch. And it was
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: something I asked him in the postgame as well. He
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: got banged up a little bit. Was he down on
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: the field.
• 37:43
  Speaker 9: At one point?
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  Speaker 7: He was.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: And he came out for one play. I think no
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: more than two plays. I think only one play. And
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: then went back out there and made three big plays
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: for them. Tipped the passing complete and got two big
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: tackles as well. And he was like, hey, I felt okay.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Training staff's great. They told me I'm good to go
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: back in. I went in and boom, there it was.
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  Speaker 8: So.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: This week at the press conferences, Cryer was asked, first
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: of all, to describe his emotions that he was feeling.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Because we heard Sark talking about how fired up Cryer was.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: And maybe you saw the sideline shot where he hugged.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: He was hugging Justin right after the Eyes of Texas
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  Speaker 1: was playing. He said Cryer was jumping all up and down, excited.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: So he's asked to describe his emotions during that fourth
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: quarter comeback for Texas.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: From the jump, we always felt like we were in it.
• 38:29
  Speaker 9: Going into halftime, obviously not being in the position that
• 38:32
  Speaker 9: we wanted to be in. But I give a lot
• 38:34
  Speaker 9: of credit to our guys. At no point in the
• 38:36
  Speaker 9: locker room where we had our heads hanging down or
• 38:39
  Speaker 9: do we ever feel like we were out of it.
• 38:40
  Speaker 9: A lot of the mistakes that were made were on us.
• 38:43
  Speaker 9: And they obviously made some plays because they had really
• 38:44
  Speaker 9: good players. But a lot of the things we looked
• 38:46
  Speaker 9: at were like, man, we get these things fixed, man.
• 38:48
  Speaker 9: We're still in it. And I try to keep the
• 38:52
  Speaker 9: things off of the deep end separated as far as
• 38:54
  Speaker 9: not worrying too much about what the offense is going
• 38:55
  Speaker 9: to do. Like, I know how hard those guys work. Like,
• 38:57
  Speaker 9: I knew they were going to figure it out. So
• 38:59
  Speaker 9: my focus was just on the defensive side, like make
• 39:01
  Speaker 9: sure we're good, make sure we're straight. So we got
• 39:02
  Speaker 9: to that fourth quarter, and that was like, that's like,
• 39:05
  Speaker 9: I love that type of football. Like, we got a
• 39:07
  Speaker 9: three and out, we went down to score. Got another
• 39:09
  Speaker 9: three and out, we went down to score again, right?
• 39:10
  Speaker 9: And then obviously a little trouble on that back, that
• 39:12
  Speaker 9: last drive, but we were able to get the stop,
• 39:16
  Speaker 9: and then we were able to force a missed field goal,
• 39:17
  Speaker 9: and we went down there and scored to put the
• 39:19
  Speaker 9: game away. But like, that's what I like to see.
• 39:20
  Speaker 9: That's the type of football, like, I feel like we
• 39:22
  Speaker 9: can do that from the jump, and we can do
• 39:24
  Speaker 9: that just consistently, There's nobody in the country that can
• 39:26
  Speaker 9: really mess with us. So I feel like that fourth quarter,
• 39:28
  Speaker 9: Brandon Fullwell that we had, that was good to watch.
• 39:31
  Speaker 9: And it felt like we had it there all along.
• 39:34
  Speaker 9: But to see it in action, to see it on full,
• 39:36
  Speaker 9: that was a good watch.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Next, he was asked about how he celebrated the win.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: And how long did he allow himself to enjoy it?
• 39:46
  Speaker 9: My brother came to town, actually, so he was able
• 39:47
  Speaker 9: to fly in. I'm so appreciative of him just for
• 39:51
  Speaker 9: his support. Obviously, he has his own things going on,
• 39:53
  Speaker 9: but for him to be able to make the journey.
• 39:56
  Speaker 9: So I spent the last night with him. We were
• 39:57
  Speaker 9: just talking and just talking about the experience because he
• 40:00
  Speaker 9: was able to come to my biggest game last year
• 40:02
  Speaker 9: and be able to make the biggest one this year. Yeah,
• 40:05
  Speaker 9: I was spending time with him, spending time with my family.
• 40:08
  Speaker 9: We got yesterday and got to enjoy it, and then
• 40:10
  Speaker 9: today we got in the office and there were a
• 40:12
  Speaker 9: lot of things that needed to be corrected. So we
• 40:14
  Speaker 9: got brought back down to earth, especially when we got
• 40:16
  Speaker 9: Coach Muschamp in there.
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  Speaker 2: He let us know.
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  Speaker 9: But we got to know we have to correct him.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, that's one thing.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and speaking of Muschamp, as celebratory as everything was, how.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: Was the halftime what was that like.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah i mean it was it's the same thing i
• 40:37
  Speaker 9: said earlier like we we always knew we were in
• 40:38
  Speaker 9: it and a lot of it he said it was
• 40:39
  Speaker 9: just on us like it wasn't the um you know
• 40:43
  Speaker 9: they made some plays again but he was telling me
• 40:45
  Speaker 9: if we could just clean up what we got going
• 40:46
  Speaker 9: on like we'll be all right you know i mean
• 40:48
  Speaker 9: so we come out the halftime we knew they were
• 40:49
  Speaker 9: going to run the ball they were going to try
• 40:51
  Speaker 9: and control the clock um so it was on us
• 40:53
  Speaker 9: like we knew what they were going to come out
• 40:54
  Speaker 9: there and do so uh we we knew uh what
• 40:56
  Speaker 9: time it was so and again like again he said
• 40:58
  Speaker 9: don't worry about offense that they're going to figure it
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  Speaker 9: out but we had to focus on ourselves and We
• 41:01
  Speaker 9: just go out there and just play hard.
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  Speaker 1: Cryer, of course, was a, you know, a player at
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Florida State. He transferred in from Florida State. So he's
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: played in some big games. And so was this like
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: any other games he'd been a part of?
• 41:17
  Speaker 9: I've been a part of some pretty back-and-forth games. I
• 41:19
  Speaker 9: never think I've been a part of anything like that drastic. But, again,
• 41:23
  Speaker 9: I think our poise and composure probably will let it
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  Speaker 9: live the way for us. And I think Coach said
• 41:29
  Speaker 9: it best, like a lot of teams that without– composure
• 41:31
  Speaker 9: and poise probably melted during that time so um i
• 41:34
  Speaker 9: think the guys did a good job of just like
• 41:35
  Speaker 9: holding together not really like letting um letting the the
• 41:40
  Speaker 9: the moment get to us you know i mean because
• 41:41
  Speaker 9: if you look at the score i think i said
• 41:43
  Speaker 9: in my interview after the game if you look at
• 41:44
  Speaker 9: the score we're down 20 to half time like it
• 41:45
  Speaker 9: looks pretty daunting like if you try and think of
• 41:47
  Speaker 9: it like man we have to come back all the
• 41:48
  Speaker 9: way from 20 points so uh coach started said before
• 41:50
  Speaker 9: we went back out there man just one play at
• 41:51
  Speaker 9: a time and it's pretty cliche everyone in the country
• 41:53
  Speaker 9: says it but like that's honestly how you have to
• 41:55
  Speaker 9: look at these things because You can't make it all.
• 41:57
  Speaker 9: You can't get one play that gets you back in
• 41:59
  Speaker 9: the game like that. So, again, it was just an
• 42:01
  Speaker 9: operation of getting it back one play at a time. Because,
• 42:03
  Speaker 9: you know, with the schedule that we got going on,
• 42:04
  Speaker 9: there's going to be a lot of games where we're
• 42:06
  Speaker 9: going to be in a dogfight. And, you know, I mean,
• 42:08
  Speaker 9: we have to be prepared for that. So I think
• 42:09
  Speaker 9: it was a good opportunity for us to show our
• 42:11
  Speaker 9: resolve and for us to go out there and just
• 42:13
  Speaker 9: stay committed to the cause. And we were able to
• 42:15
  Speaker 9: pull out the win.
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  Speaker 1: We'll hear some more from Justin Cryer coming up next hour.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: But we're going to shift our focus to the Nationals.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: Football League, in specific, the two teams from the state
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: of Texas who are trying to pick up the pieces
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: and get back to work, both suffering disheartening losses in
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: different styles. Obviously, the Texans were standing toe-to-toe. They were
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: down two scores. They were up in the ballgame, down again,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: driving for.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: The winning score, and then they got away from them.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: And then, of course, the Cowboys dug themselves a hole,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: got back to it. You know, managed to get it even,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: then gave up the touchdown before the half, and then
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: only had two possessions, one in the third quarter and
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: one in the fourth quarter. So we're going to hear
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: from Brian Schottenheimer, and we're going to hear from D'Amico Ryans.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: That's up next when we continue on 13 Under the
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: Zone on the iHeartRadio app.
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: Gotta love the... use of cowbell in this song, right?
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: This was nowhere in our cowbell contest last year.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it should have been. It really should have been.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: Because it's very present. You're Out to Lose by Pablo
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: Cruz on a Yacht Rock Wednesday, which brings us to
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys and Texans. I know that sounds a little cheeky.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: Let me first start off by saying there's some highlight
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: games in week number two of the season. Starting tomorrow night,
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Lions and Bills, I think. You know, could be a
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: real corker for those two. Buffalo dedicating, I guess, christening
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: their brand new stadium. Even though hearing Josh Allen talk
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: about it, he said, yeah, we practice in it.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: We've been in it.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: So it's not like it's completely, you know, brand new
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: and unheard of to us.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: We've been in it. We have some familiarity with the facility.
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: Well, unheard of in today's NFL, though, to build a
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: new stadium outdoors. I mean, if you look at what
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: Washington's looking at doing, now what the Chiefs are looking
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: at doing, Vegas moving indoors. It's sweeping across the league now,
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: and I know people that feel different ways about it.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would just say the further north you go
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: and the further south you go, right?
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: It would be like that.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: The Dolphins don't have a dome stadium, but they have that.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: Covered thing at Hard Rock.
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: I guess it is.
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: You just don't want it to become so sterile to
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: where weather's not a factor, but you also know that
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: it's a better product when you only have a few
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: snow games rather than so many.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Other games that I'd taken note of would be Vikings
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: and Bears.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: Both of those teams starting 1-0.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: The Patriots 0-1-1, and they've got the Steelers at home,
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: the surprising Steelers who got past the Falcons there. Is
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: it possible Aaron Rodgers could go 2-0 in his final season?
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: I'll save you some time there.
• 45:15
  Speaker 8: No.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: Okay. You're expecting the Patriots to bounce back.
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I am.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: Okay. Packers and Jets. Who would have thought the Packers
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: would be 0-1 and the Jets 1-0?
• 45:24
  Speaker 7: Right?
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: I heard something this morning on a different program. The
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: Packers are basically 500 in games where they have a
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: fourth quarter lead. Over the last year or so. The
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: rest of the league is winning those games at about 90%.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: Unbelievable.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Here's another one. Would you believe Raiders 1-0, Chargers 0-1? Yeah,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have believed that.
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: Especially knowing that the Chargers played the Arizona Cardinals with
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: a win total at a cool 3.5 last week.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: And, of course, the Monday night game. Well, also Colts 0-1,
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: Chiefs 1-0. And then the Monday night game. Who would
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: have believed Giants 1-0, Rams 0-1?
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, look, that Australia game, I'm throwing it away.
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: If there's any team I'm giving a week one pass to,
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: it's the Rams.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: Well, they certainly threw it away. Anyway, but that's another
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: story there.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: All right, let's say we know the Cowboys are playing
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: Jake's Commanders.
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, big one.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: Both teams 0-1.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you heard, Craig, teams that start 0-2.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: So it's three teams, three teams. That have done it
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: all time. Can you name the three teams that have
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: done it? That have started 0-2 and won a Super Bowl?
• 46:32
  Speaker 8: Yep.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: It's only happened three times. And it's all, they were
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: all in 16 game seasons. So that's something to keep
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: in mind. This is a 17 game season.
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: I don't think I can name them.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: Well, I can tell you two off the top of
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: my head. I'm trying to remember the other one. Two
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: of them, the 93 Cowboys, when Emmitt Smith was holding out. Erwin, too,
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: and then Jimmy Johnson getting into Jerry's kitchen and saying,
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: you got to get him in here. Got him in here,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: and then they turned it on from there, and they
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: went on, and they won their second of the back-to-back
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: Super Bowls. Giants, I believe, in 07, when the Patriots
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: were 18-0, or, well, yeah, they were going for 19-0.
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: As the New York Post famously said, 18 and no.
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: And no. And then the third one. I'm trying to
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: remember who the third one was.
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: You're warm already.
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: Would that have been the, let's see. Was it the
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: Patriots one year? No, or the Giants in 11. It
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: was the Patriots one year.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: And the year was?
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: I don't remember.
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: You should be able to remember it, though. It's based
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: on a specific kind of event in Patriot history. It's
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: in the 2000s. So that narrows it down for you.
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: Uh Gosh Oh When they beat the Rams In the
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl Yeah And before The one season When they
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: started 0-2 With Bledsoe Yeah Yeah Right Yeah And then
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: of course Tom Brady Steps in and the rest is history.
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: Thanks for that reminder.
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: I'm glad you blocked it out, though. Yeah.
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: Happy birthday.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: I had moved on. Yeah. That might just be age
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: doing that. Some natural blocking going on there. But as
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: far as the Cowboys are concerned, trying to turn it around,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: one thing they're having to deal with is injuries again.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: And you just hate it for DeMarvian Overshawn. the hamstring thing,
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: and he's just struggling to stay healthy. And Brian Schottenheimer
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: was asked, what are his options to replace D-Mo?
• 48:35
  Speaker 6: We got to move these guys around a little bit.
• 48:37
  Speaker 6: You know, D-Winter's obviously most experienced of the group. You know,
• 48:41
  Speaker 6: Jay Sean got some valuable play time yesterday, did some
• 48:46
  Speaker 6: good things, did some things that he needs to improve on.
• 48:48
  Speaker 6: You know, Shamar James is a valued member of our
• 48:51
  Speaker 6: football team, very smart, very bright. And then, you know,
• 48:55
  Speaker 6: obviously we've got some guys on practice squad that we've
• 48:58
  Speaker 6: got elevations. You know, Curtis Robinson is a veteran. He's
• 49:01
  Speaker 6: played a lot of football in this league as well.
• 49:02
  Speaker 6: And then Justin Barron's a guy we have a lot
• 49:04
  Speaker 6: of high expectations for.
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: Okay. And I should point out, Jay Sean Barham did
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: show some things in there. He had a couple of
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: learning things too, but he also showed that aggressiveness they
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: were looking for there.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: Here's a fair question.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: I think, even though Shottie might not have thought it
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: was fair, based on what happened last year.
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: And this was also based on a Stephen Jones comment
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: as we're setting this question up here.
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: Were the defensive expectations of this team unrealistic?
• 49:35
  Speaker 6: What I would say is, you know, look, our standard,
• 49:38
  Speaker 6: our expectations, Clarence, is high. You stand up here and
• 49:41
  Speaker 6: you talk about winning Super Bowls and it doesn't change
• 49:44
  Speaker 6: because we lost the game. That's what our goals are.
• 49:47
  Speaker 6: There's some youth on defense. There's some inexperience on defense.
• 49:52
  Speaker 6: Christian Parker, I remember my first game or second game
• 49:55
  Speaker 6: actually as a coordinator. It's kind of an interesting story,
• 49:58
  Speaker 6: but we were playing New England. I was with the
• 50:01
  Speaker 6: Jets and Bill Belichick, defense, 3-4, they were kicking our
• 50:08
  Speaker 6: butts in the first half.
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: I mean, just kicking our butts.
• 50:10
  Speaker 6: And I went in halftime, I made some of the
• 50:12
  Speaker 6: greatest changes you've ever seen.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: I really did.
• 50:16
  Speaker 6: I mean, I had all the three, four runs. I
• 50:18
  Speaker 6: was ready to go. And sure enough, what did Bill
• 50:20
  Speaker 6: Belichick do? He played 4-3. And they shoved it up our,
• 50:24
  Speaker 6: I swore last night, so I'm not going to swear
• 50:25
  Speaker 6: again today. But, you know, it's part of the learning curve,
• 50:30
  Speaker 6: you know. And we have to get better, but we're
• 50:33
  Speaker 6: going to make mistakes. You know, I see this defense
• 50:37
  Speaker 6: every day, and we did not perform well enough as
• 50:40
  Speaker 6: a football team last night coaching and playing. It's certainly
• 50:42
  Speaker 6: not the standard, but I'm also not ready to say
• 50:45
  Speaker 6: the expectations for where we think we're going to get
• 50:48
  Speaker 6: to as a defense and as a football team are
• 50:52
  Speaker 6: not accurate.
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: So along those lines about whether those expectations were unrealistic,
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: Does it now? And I've never been a big fan
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: of reporters asking a coach, do you second guess dot, dot, dot?
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: Because that's in the category of when did you stop
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: beating your wife? You know, that question. You know, it's
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: a no-win scenario. It's a no-win answer. Do you second guess? Nevertheless,
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: shot he was asked. Is he second guessing his lack
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: of preseason time that he had his first team defense
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: out there?
• 51:33
  Speaker 5: Not really.
• 51:33
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's a philosophy and it's a catch 22, man.
• 51:36
  Speaker 6: You know, if you put a player out there and
• 51:38
  Speaker 6: all of a sudden someone comes and they get dinged
• 51:40
  Speaker 6: up and they're out for the year, you know, you're
• 51:42
  Speaker 6: damned if you do, you're damned if you don't. I
• 51:44
  Speaker 6: felt really, really good about our work in training camp.
• 51:48
  Speaker 6: I felt really good about the work in the two joints.
• 51:50
  Speaker 6: There was plenty of padded work. We just, you know,
• 51:54
  Speaker 6: we did not, you know, perform to the level that
• 51:56
  Speaker 6: we should perform to last night.
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: And we own that.
• 52:00
  Speaker 6: I'm always going to be, you know, first one off
• 52:02
  Speaker 6: the bus and taking responsibility and accountability for that. But
• 52:06
  Speaker 6: we'll get back to work. And we got the right
• 52:08
  Speaker 6: guys in this locker room to fix it.
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: Next up, in continuing with talking about the defense, he
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: was asked if the third down struggles that they've had
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: can be primarily attributed to the youth.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: Of this team.
• 52:24
  Speaker 6: Couple different things i think it's you know a little
• 52:26
  Speaker 6: bit of they made them some plays you know you
• 52:29
  Speaker 6: got to give likely i mean you know here's a
• 52:31
  Speaker 6: guy that i followed a little bit when he's in
• 52:32
  Speaker 6: baltimore but i mean wow what a great player what
• 52:35
  Speaker 6: a nice addition to their deal he hits a deep
• 52:37
  Speaker 6: cross against pj lock um you know made some some
• 52:41
  Speaker 6: really good plays but you know i think it's just
• 52:43
  Speaker 6: us finishing you know and if it's a pass rush
• 52:46
  Speaker 6: we forced a third nine uh we forced us we
• 52:49
  Speaker 6: had a second and 16 in that four minute drive
• 52:51
  Speaker 6: we're trying to get the ball back and they popped
• 52:52
  Speaker 6: an explosive run It's a bad time for that to happen.
• 52:55
  Speaker 6: But at the end of the day, I think it
• 52:56
  Speaker 6: just comes down to team defense and being able to
• 52:59
  Speaker 6: get off the field.
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: And that's sometimes they make plays too.
• 53:02
  Speaker 6: But we certainly felt like there were some ops where
• 53:04
  Speaker 6: we had a chance to get off the field and
• 53:06
  Speaker 6: we didn't.
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: And with the defense having to deal with Jackson Dart,
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: being able to extend plays and on rollouts and being
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: able to do that. And is there a concern about that,
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: having to deal with Jayden Daniels this week on that?
• 53:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that's probably the biggest thing I'm, you know,
• 53:23
  Speaker 6: disappointed in looking back at the film you know it's
• 53:25
  Speaker 6: always easier for me to talk about the game you
• 53:27
  Speaker 6: know today Todd when I've seen it and watched it
• 53:30
  Speaker 6: and sat with the coaches and but to lose contain
• 53:33
  Speaker 6: on a guy like Jackson that's that it's that athletic
• 53:36
  Speaker 6: you know and it was multiple guys at multiple times
• 53:38
  Speaker 6: heck one was just a fake toss naked where they
• 53:41
  Speaker 6: were trying to run a tight end on a shallow
• 53:43
  Speaker 6: cross and the end closed and he just went taking
• 53:46
  Speaker 6: off running and um you know we got Jaden this
• 53:50
  Speaker 6: week and then you guys maybe have heard of Lamar
• 53:52
  Speaker 6: Jackson coming in a couple weeks so we certainly have
• 53:56
  Speaker 6: to get better with our discipline the other thing that
• 53:58
  Speaker 6: I will say that you know looking at the game
• 54:01
  Speaker 6: that we need to be better in is our communication
• 54:03
  Speaker 6: on defense communication is something that you know we pride
• 54:07
  Speaker 6: ourselves in and started day one communication is two parts
• 54:11
  Speaker 6: it's the person that gives it and the person that
• 54:14
  Speaker 6: receives it has to acknowledge it and so Some of
• 54:17
  Speaker 6: the things that we did in the red zone, they're late,
• 54:19
  Speaker 6: you know, where we didn't have anybody accounting for Singleton,
• 54:22
  Speaker 6: who's a pretty dynamic player.
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: Those were communication issues.
• 54:25
  Speaker 6: And, you know, that can't happen because those are self-inflicted
• 54:29
  Speaker 6: wounds that get you beat. And those are self-inflicted wounds
• 54:31
  Speaker 6: that we have to be better at coaching them and
• 54:34
  Speaker 6: then communicating on the field with the players.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: And one more thing about the penalties. Penalties had been
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: an issue. So how does Schottenheimer and his staff make
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: sure that the penalties of last week are not repeated
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: this week?
• 54:50
  Speaker 6: The overshown thing is a full speed decision that he's
• 54:53
  Speaker 6: got to make. You know, we certainly talk about, you know, that. But,
• 54:56
  Speaker 6: you know, Javante knows better. I mean, here's a guy
• 54:58
  Speaker 6: that is maybe the, you know, most professional guy in
• 55:04
  Speaker 6: the world. And it's very uncharacteristic for him to do that.
• 55:07
  Speaker 6: And you got to understand, we don't ever want those.
• 55:10
  Speaker 6: But you certainly don't want those in a one score game.
• 55:13
  Speaker 6: And we get a chance, we're going for two. I mean,
• 55:15
  Speaker 6: we're gonna go make it a six-point game with whatever
• 55:17
  Speaker 6: five and a half minutes left. But no one's more
• 55:20
  Speaker 6: sick about that than Javante. He was beating himself about
• 55:24
  Speaker 6: it last night. And at the end of the day,
• 55:27
  Speaker 6: as I look back in this game, the game should
• 55:29
  Speaker 6: have been seven to seven at the end of the
• 55:30
  Speaker 6: first half.
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: It was a slugfest. Dak's gotta throw the ball away.
• 55:34
  Speaker 6: There's some play calls there I could have had that
• 55:36
  Speaker 6: would have been better in that situation.
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: They take it, they score.
• 55:40
  Speaker 6: Make it 14-7, and then we battle back just like
• 55:43
  Speaker 6: you do in most NFL games.
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: And we make it a one-score game with five minutes
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: to go.
• 55:47
  Speaker 6: And, you know, I bet on our defense being able
• 55:50
  Speaker 6: to give us the ball back and give us a chance.
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: So the Cowboys have the Washington Commanders on Sunday afternoon.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: So meanwhile, the Texans trying to bounce back. They have
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals. Not an easy thing to deal with there.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: And D'Amico Ryans was asked, How does his team prevent
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: the types of explosive plays that Buffalo was able to
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: execute in getting their win over Houston?
• 56:16
  Speaker 10: To eliminate explosive plays, it starts by simply guys doing
• 56:19
  Speaker 10: their job, being where they're supposed to be, whether it's
• 56:23
  Speaker 10: coverage leverage or being outside, being inside, being on top,
• 56:27
  Speaker 10: where we're supposed to be, how we're rushing, our rush plan,
• 56:30
  Speaker 10: also all that ties in together. And We gave up,
• 56:35
  Speaker 10: I think it was 11 or 12 explosive plays. And
• 56:39
  Speaker 10: when you give up that many plays, you're going to
• 56:42
  Speaker 10: give up points. So we got to do a much
• 56:45
  Speaker 10: better job of just being where we're supposed to be,
• 56:48
  Speaker 10: finishing how we're supposed to finish.
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: If there's one thing you always hear coaches talk about,
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: and D'Amico Ryan's is right there with so many others,
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: it's those three words. I know they sound cliched and
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: coaches will say to you, I know this sounds like
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: a cliche, but we tell them to, and here's the
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: three words, trust the process, the process of trying to
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: get better and not expecting the instant gratification or the
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: instant result, but to trust the process of what they're
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: being coached and told to do and execute. So fair
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: question asked to Miko, were the guys not trusting the process?
• 57:25
  Speaker 10: You definitely have to trust the process when it just comes.
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: To doing what we're supposed to do.
• 57:32
  Speaker 10: Granted, the Bills, they made some plays and made some
• 57:35
  Speaker 10: good catches, but we're not where we're supposed to be.
• 57:38
  Speaker 10: We're going to make it look even better. So it
• 57:41
  Speaker 10: always starts with us about just doing the things that
• 57:44
  Speaker 10: you're supposed to do to help you win the game.
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: Like finishing the tackling process, and there was some poor
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: tackling or lack of tackling that really hurt them against Buffalo.
• 57:53
  Speaker 10: Tackling, it all starts with the mindset, right? How are
• 57:56
  Speaker 10: you showing up with a physical mindset to put your
• 57:59
  Speaker 10: pads on the guy, wrap, squeeze, and bring the guy
• 58:02
  Speaker 10: down to the ground. So it starts there. We were
• 58:06
  Speaker 10: in position, just got to finish him.
• 58:08
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: All right. And then D'Amico Ryans was asked about questions
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: about scheme. Because if there's one thing that's a very
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: complimentary thing about Ryans is, is how His defensive schemes
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: are drawn up. After all, they're supposedly as good, if
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: not better, than any defense in the league, although last
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: Sunday didn't necessarily show up with the explosive plays and
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: things like that. But by and large, they're difficult. for
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: opposing offenses to plan for. Same thing with the Texans trying,
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: when they go up against good defense, to pick up
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: the schemes. And D'Amico was asked about this whole process.
• 58:47
  Speaker 10: When it comes to our defense and how we play,
• 58:50
  Speaker 10: whoever is in the scheme, whether it's rookies or veterans
• 58:53
  Speaker 10: coming into our scheme, it's nothing new that we're doing
• 58:57
  Speaker 10: for us. Things we've been doing since OTAs and training camp.
• 59:01
  Speaker 10: So guys just have to do their job. There's no
• 59:04
  Speaker 10: magical elixir that it takes to play defense for us.
• 59:08
  Speaker 10: It's just guys being accountable, being where they're supposed to be,
• 59:11
  Speaker 10: communicating the proper way, and just being on the same page.
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: Makes sense.
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: Makes a lot of sense there. So they'll try to
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: turn that around. And it's tough.
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: You think about the Texans having to open back-to-back games
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: for against two teams that are either picked to win
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: their division or to compete in their division.
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: I think you picked Baltimore to win the AFC North,
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: didn't you?
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: Yes, I did.
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: And I went with the Bengals.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: And both of those teams, the— The Ravens and the
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: Bengals were winners last week.
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: Both look good. I was impressed with the Bengals D
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: and obviously Baltimore rolled Indianapolis.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: And you were asking the question that you asked me
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: was what about that Bengals offensive line?
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: Remember, I think Baltimore to win the Superbowl. So I'm
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: really high on that.
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: And I picked Buffalo to win it. But, uh, uh,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: What were your impressions of Cincinnati's offensive line? He seemed
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: to get Burrow enough time to get what he had
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: to get done done.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and they played complimentary football. I mean, they kept
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: the Bucs out of obvious pass rushing situations because their
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: defense created the early turnover. So I'm going to give
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: the Bengals O-line an A, but also an incomplete because
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: we haven't seen them under a lot of strain yet.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see how they operate against this Texans defense
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: this week. And the Texans know this is an important game.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: You definitely don't want to go 0-2, not only because
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: of that old saw that we were just talking about,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: about teams 0-2 not winning the Super Bowl. And I
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: don't think it completely applies now because it's a 17-game schedule,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: not a 16-game schedule.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: So I think that's important to keep in mind.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: Still in all, you dropped 0-2 in your division last
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: you could be in for a very difficult time, even
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: though the Titans look pretty feckless. They might have put together,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: think about it, other, I'm trying to think, who had
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: a worse.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: Opening game than the Titans? The Rams were pretty stinko.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: That's against the 49ers.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: That was against the 49ers, not the Jets. And then
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: you factor in all the travel and all that kind
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: of stuff. Falcons were ineffective offensively against the Steelers. Panthers
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: scored some points and just gave up a boatload of them.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: Well, you know how many offensive explosive plays the Titans
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: had last week?
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: Zero.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 7: Exactly.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: And the Packers had a lead, but it just kind
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: of slipped away from them.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: The Bucs weren't real impressive.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: Right. No, but they rallied. I mean, look, Baker put
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: the ball on the ground four times and they lost
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: by one score. So, I mean, if they take care
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: of it better, they'll be okay. Falcons are real bad.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: The Browns are the tonic for trying to get okay,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: and the Bucs have the Browns this week. Falcons, and
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know that I was expecting that, obviously. Their
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: problem is quarterback right now because they just don't have
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: healthy quarterbacks and they just can't execute against NFL caliber defense.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: I think the Falcons are going to pick in the
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: top five. I'm really, really low on them this season.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: They have the Panthers, who I think both of us
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: thought would probably win the NFC South, didn't we?
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: Did you pick it?
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 10: I did.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: I did, too. Well, the NFC South, in classic fashion,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: everybody started 0-1.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: The NFC South... is the American League West.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: For baseball. It's right there.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 3: I thought Bryce Young looked great, and I think this
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: is the year, like I said in our NFL season preview,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: that he gets some respect. I think he turned a
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: corner late last year.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: We have more coming up.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: Stay with us here on a Yacht Rock Wednesday on
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio AM 13 Under the Zone and the iHeartRadio app.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 4: What you after?
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 3: Can't find it in my head. I'm gonna do things.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: This is our last chance to touch each other's hearts.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 7: Because anything lasts forever.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: Another one of those guys who said definitely, he's a
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: definite that he would be on the Mount Rushmore of
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: Yacht Rock for individual artists. If Michael McDonald is the godfather.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 4: Kenny Loggins is his godfather.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: He's the number two.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 3: Two very unique but very Yacht Rock voices. Yeah.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: And they've worked together so often. This is it. Where
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: they combine on that. Which was for us OG since
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: this is a birthday for me. I can tell you
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: the old OG things. Late 70s, early 80s. NBC when
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: they had the college basketball package and in the NCAA tournament,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: instead of like the NCAA tournament stuff, theme stuff you
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: hear from CBS and the CBS family, you were hearing
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: Kenny Loggins, this is it.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: That was it. So they have a lot of that.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: I wanted to get to a couple other pro football
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: notes as well since we were talking with some pro football.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: First of all, a little jurisprudence.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: Keenan Allen, speaking of guys long in the tooth, at
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: least in terms of player, he's 34, the wide receiver
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: of the Colts, formally charged this week with two misdemeanor
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: offenses stemming from that drunk driving arrest in downtown Indianapolis
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: last month. What is it about getting drunk in downtown Indianapolis,
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: Mark Sanchez? Oh, boy.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: And he's pleading, what, no contest on that?
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: And Keenan Allen arrested by Indianapolis police. on August 30th,
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: was preliminarily charged. And then yesterday, prosecutors officially filed charges
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: of operating a vehicle with alcohol concentration equivalent to 0.15
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: or more and operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 3: According to, to get this, according to a.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: Probable cause affidavit obtained by ESPN, Allen's blood alcohol level
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: was tested at.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 3: 224. That's really high.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah. That's why it triggered a more serious Class A
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  Speaker 1: misdemeanor charge per Indiana law. Operating while intoxicated is considered
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  Speaker 1: a Class C misdemeanor. According to the affidavit, an Indianapolis
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  Speaker 1: police sergeant encountered Allen at 1 a.m. after conducting a
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  Speaker 1: traffic investigation at the same intersection. Allen, according to the report,
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  Speaker 1: parked in a no-parking zone, prompting the officer to come
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  Speaker 1: up to him. Hey, you know, you're parked in a
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  Speaker 1: no-parking zone. The officer stated when he went to speak
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  Speaker 1: with Allen and after Allen exited the vehicle, smelled a
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  Speaker 1: strong odor of alcohol.
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  Speaker 2: You think so?
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  Speaker 3: 0.224?
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  Speaker 1: So then a lieutenant retrieved a portable breath test device
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  Speaker 1: after Allen agreed to be tested. They said he was
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  Speaker 1: initially short-winded and they were unable to get a reading
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  Speaker 1: of And then at 1.22 a.m., they got the. 224.
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  Speaker 1: It was about to break the meter at that. Taken
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  Speaker 1: into custody, transported to the Indianapolis Criminal Justice Center. Further
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  Speaker 1: investigation done. A field sobriety test was conducted. Boy, you
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't like to have seen that. According to officers, Allen
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  Speaker 1: displayed multiple indications of intoxication. Missed multiple steps. When asked
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  Speaker 1: to walk, heel to toe. That's hard enough to do sober.
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 1: Blood draw then happened, and they found very little blood
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of alcohol.
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean, just, man, that's a mess.
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  Speaker 3: And he played last week.
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  Speaker 2: And he played. So, we'll see what happens on that.
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  Speaker 1: We were talking about the Falcons quarterback situation.
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  Speaker 2: Cooper Rush ended up having to play.
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  Speaker 6: And....
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  Speaker 1: So, you know, as it stands, Kevin Stefanski said the
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  Speaker 1: team is not sure who will be the quarterback on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday against the Panthers, but he's not ruling anybody out,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: whether it's to a tongue of Iowa, listed day-to-day, so
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  Speaker 1: still unsure about that. All right, we will be back
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  Speaker 1: to wrap up hour number two on 13 Under the Zone.
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  Speaker 10: It's the Craig Way Show with the voice of the
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  Speaker 10: Texas Longhorns and Hall of Fame broadcaster, Craig Way.
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  Speaker 1: Third and final hour here on the Yacht Rock Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: on Sports Radio AM 13 Under the Zone. Dragway alongside
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  Speaker 1: the producer, Jay Kerman. Again, thank you to all of
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: you who have texted in and those who have also
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: messaged me and texted me to wish me a happy birthday.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. I know a lot of people get
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: their birthday off. I don't get weekends off, so why
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: should I get my birthday off, right?
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  Speaker 3: On brand.
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  Speaker 2: We have work to do. We have work to do.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll be recording Longhorn Weekly with Coach Sark tonight.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: Jackson Jeffcoat will be our special guest. He's going into
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: the Longhorn Hall of Honor this weekend. And so we'll
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  Speaker 1: visit with Jackson to talk about that and his time
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  Speaker 1: as a Longhorn and so much more coming up. Coming
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: up in a few minutes, we'll visit with Andy Everett,
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  Speaker 1: play-by-play voice of the UTSA Roadrunners.
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  Speaker 3: Get his thoughts. on this matchup between Texas and UTSA.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: Before we get to that, from the Texas side of things,
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  Speaker 1: let's hear some more from Longhorn's transfer linebacker, Justin Cryer,
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: who played so well for Texas in the win on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday night against Ohio State. So, Sark talked about that
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  Speaker 1: there's still so many areas to clean up on the
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  Speaker 1: defensive side, most notably third down defense, because Longhorn's have
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: been not good on third downs. In fact, last in
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: the SEC to start with. So, Cryer was asking, what
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  Speaker 1: is the top priority for this defense right now?
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  Speaker 9: Just cleaning things up. I really like how we play
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  Speaker 9: in the low red. I feel like we did a
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  Speaker 9: good job, especially with the sudden changes that were going on. Obviously,
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  Speaker 9: you can't dictate what the offense does, so we were
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  Speaker 9: able to go out there and play really good low-ranges
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  Speaker 9: on defense. For me, personally, this is my personal thing,
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  Speaker 9: we have to get off the field on third down.
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  Speaker 9: We have to do a better job of that. Some
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  Speaker 9: of it, they made a good play. Some of it
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  Speaker 9: was on us, so My biggest thing going into this
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  Speaker 9: week is, man, let's improve in that area. Let's be
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  Speaker 9: all around just a better defense. Obviously, we never want
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  Speaker 9: to give the other team anything. If they're going to
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  Speaker 9: make explosive plays, let them make it on their own.
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  Speaker 9: You don't want to give them any just free-access throws
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  Speaker 9: or have busts on our part that leads to big plays.
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  Speaker 9: So my thing, especially, and Coach must let us know
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  Speaker 9: in the meeting today, that we have to better on
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  Speaker 9: third down, and we're going to tighten up the ship
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  Speaker 9: a little more.
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  Speaker 1: Cryer was then asked about the momentum and teams talk
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  Speaker 1: about how they can feel that momentum start to shift
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  Speaker 1: and how it makes a real big difference. So did
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  Speaker 1: he feel it? Did the defense feel it? And when
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  Speaker 1: did they feel the momentum shift in this game?
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  Speaker 9: That second three and out that we got, I think
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  Speaker 9: it was Grayson's. I'm not entirely sure if it was
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  Speaker 9: Grayson's PB on the sideline, but I felt it, especially
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  Speaker 9: because after we scored that first time, all right, we're good, right?
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  Speaker 9: We brought back 23-10. I was like, all right, we're good. Like,
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  Speaker 9: we felt it. Like, man, all right, offense got it
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  Speaker 9: going on, right? Let's go out here and get another one.
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  Speaker 9: And when we got that another one, I was like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 9: this is it. I knew we were going to get
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  Speaker 9: another score again. Like, I felt it. go on seeing
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  Speaker 9: it look on arch's face and seeing what the guys
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  Speaker 9: had going on when they were getting ready to go
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  Speaker 9: out there on offense like i knew they're gonna go
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  Speaker 9: there and um handle their business so my my thing
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  Speaker 9: with the defense i mean let's give them the ball
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  Speaker 9: back right they're hot right now you know what i
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 9: mean so uh we got the ball back and the
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  Speaker 9: big thing too was the clock right we it was
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  Speaker 9: the fourth quarter so we we didn't have that much
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  Speaker 9: time to to just let them get down the field
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  Speaker 9: and waste time so uh that was a big part
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  Speaker 9: too like man i was telling my man keep the
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  Speaker 9: eyes on the clock let's get off the field early
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  Speaker 9: right so we give the offense the as much time
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  Speaker 9: as possible to go out there and uh pull it
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  Speaker 9: pull it within a one score game so Probably that
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  Speaker 9: second one, I feel like, man, like, all right, we're
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  Speaker 9: feeling it now.
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  Speaker 1: So if there's one thing to have momentum shift, there's
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  Speaker 1: another thing to really get an infusion of energy, like
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  Speaker 1: when the field goal was missed for Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: And what was that feeling like on the sidelines?
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  Speaker 9: Once we got the missed field goal, I was, because again, we,
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 9: a fortunate play, doing a great play, getting the ball
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  Speaker 9: on the plus territory. So once I got in the
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  Speaker 9: field and ran down, I was like, all right, well,
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  Speaker 9: we got to get one, we got to get a stop.
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  Speaker 9: And two, when I kick this field goal, we got
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 9: to block it, right? So anything, that was in my mind.
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  Speaker 9: So when we got the, I think it was Lance,
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  Speaker 9: got his hands up and just made it tough on
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  Speaker 9: the kicker. So once the wide left, like I was like,
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  Speaker 9: all right, man, like it's all the, I mean, the
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  Speaker 9: adversity we went through and the drive that we came
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  Speaker 9: back to get to that point. Like I just felt
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  Speaker 9: it all like come to least because I knew we
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 9: were going to score the ball. There was no doubt
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  Speaker 9: in my mind that we weren't going to score it. So,
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  Speaker 9: once we got that stop, I was like, man, like,
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  Speaker 9: we got it, right? And, again, like, I knew they
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  Speaker 9: were going to do what they were going to do. So,
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  Speaker 9: at that point, it shifted to, like, okay, how much
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  Speaker 9: time will be on the clock left when we score?
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  Speaker 9: All right, and what do we have to do to
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  Speaker 9: go get it? So, after we got excited and got
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  Speaker 9: off the field, like, it turned to, okay, so, they had, what,
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  Speaker 9: four minutes left on the clock when they took the
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  Speaker 9: drive off or something like that? So I thought, okay,
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  Speaker 9: we score within, if they have a minute to two
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  Speaker 9: minutes left, like, all right, what do we have to
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  Speaker 9: do to make sure that we can hold this lead
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  Speaker 9: to make sure that we can win this game? And again,
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  Speaker 9: I think they did a good job, too, maybe unintentionally
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 9: or not, but when Moseley got stopped at the one-yard line,
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 9: they just bled more clock in. Ultimately, we were able
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  Speaker 9: to get them in a spot where they didn't have
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  Speaker 9: any more timeout. So again, it was that final sequence
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  Speaker 9: of three, four drives left was something that was really
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 9: remarkable to see.
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  Speaker 1: So what was different for the defense? What made that
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: work differently in the second half?
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  Speaker 9: I think it was more so Coach Champ trusted us.
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  Speaker 9: He gave us a lot of opportunities and bad coverage.
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  Speaker 9: Versus a team like that, that takes a lot of
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  Speaker 9: trust for... to go against those guys over there. So
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 9: he turned up the heat a little bit. We got
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 9: off to the quarterback a little more. And he put
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 9: the responsibility on the corners and then the DBs to
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 9: go out there and make plays, right? And Bo did
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 9: an amazing job of being in the right spot, especially
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 9: on the third down.
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  Speaker 2: It was like a third and short.
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  Speaker 9: So we had to turn up the pressure a little more,
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 9: which then puts the responsibility on the DBs to go
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  Speaker 9: out there and make plays. And they did a great job.
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  Speaker 9: So it was all around just– We tightened it down
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  Speaker 9: a little more. We turned it up a little bit
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  Speaker 9: and we was able to play together.
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  Speaker 1: And then the whole thing about the mental preparation for
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  Speaker 1: UTSA and what is it going to take coming off that,
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it, mountaintop experience, that kind
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: of thing, with a come from behind win over Ohio
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: State and now getting ready for a UTSA team that
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: has offensive weapons. And we're going to find out a
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: little more about them coming up in a few minutes
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: here with Andy Everett. But the offensive weaponry, that the
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: Roadrunners possess, and the challenge that they pose for this
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: Texas defense.
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  Speaker 9: I think it's human nature a little bit to kind
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 9: of take a deep breath after these games like this,
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  Speaker 9: where you want to, after you have come off such
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  Speaker 9: a high, where you want to be like, okay, you
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 9: don't want to look at the next opponent like they're
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 9: not as good as the other team. So I think
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  Speaker 9: for us, the challenge is going to be to stay
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  Speaker 9: mentally locked in and focus on what we have to
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  Speaker 9: do this week, because They have playmakers. Their receiver, actually.
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  Speaker 9: I grew up playing against him, David Amador. He's a
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 9: close friend of mine. He's a baller. I've seen him
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  Speaker 9: make plays countless times. He can run it. He can
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 9: throw it. He can do everything at the receiver's spot.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 9: They have dangerous weapons over there. So I think the
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  Speaker 9: challenge for us is going to be to make sure
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  Speaker 9: that we can, A, lock in on what we have
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  Speaker 9: to do this week, and, B, make sure we execute.
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  Speaker 9: So that's the biggest thing on this week because you
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 9: don't want everyone to overlook, especially when you have SEC
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 9: play coming up, especially our first real game. You don't
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 9: want to ever overlook the schedule just because you don't
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 9: think you're playing a team that's the same nature as
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 9: the team last week. So stay sharp, stay mentally locked in,
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  Speaker 9: and stay focused.
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  Speaker 2: That was Justin Cryer there.
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  Speaker 1: And again, we'll hear some more about this UTSA team
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  Speaker 1: coming up in a few minutes here with Andy Everett. Hey,
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: just an update to let you know that yesterday, the
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: Protect College Sports Act that's drawn so much attention of
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: late and Senator Ted Cruz was on game day talking
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: about that on Saturday. It's moving closer to a final
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: vote in the Senate, that bill that fix what they
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: say are some of the biggest problems in college sports,
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: like the spiraling spending, the constant lawsuits, and the transfer
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: portal just being what it is. It did clear a
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: major hurdle yesterday. The Senate voted 74 to 24 to
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: halt debate and move the measure one step closer to
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: a final up or down vote. So this Protect College
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: Sports Act sponsored by Senator Cruz, called a bipartisan solution
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: designed to bring order to the chaos, easily cleared the
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: 60-vote threshold it needed to stop the filibuster. So there
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: is a block of opposition. Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat,
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: said what this bill does at its core is to
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: protect a system of exploitation. So they don't like it,
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: and so it's still going to go back and forth,
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: but at least it's going to get to a vote
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: coming up. All right, up next, Back to talking some
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: college football as we visit with Andy Everett, play-by-play voice
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: of the UTSA Roadrunners when we continue on the Shot
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  Speaker 1: Rock Wednesday on Sports Radio AM 13 Under the Zone
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  Speaker 1: and the iHeartRadio app. It is a Yacht Rock Wednesday
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: here on Sports Radio AM 1300, The Zone. If we're
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: talking about, as we were earlier, about your Mount Rushmore
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: of individual Yacht Rock artists with Michael McDonald and Christopher
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: Cross and Kenny Loggins and all those, Toto certainly would
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: be up there in terms of a band's Mount Rushmore.
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: I say this only because I'm old enough to know this.
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  Speaker 1: And our next guest has a wisdom, I would imagine,
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: also about Yacht Rock. He's Andy Everett from The Ticket
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: in San Antonio and, of course, the voice of the
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: UTSA Roadrunners who joins us. I hope I'm not discrediting
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  Speaker 1: you by saying you've got the wisdom of knowing a
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: bit or two about Yacht Rock.
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  Speaker 11: Well, my musical selection is very eclectic and others have
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 11: different adjectives for it.
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  Speaker 5: I'll go with Toto since you mentioned that one.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. All right.
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  Speaker 2: That'll work. That'll work. Absolutely. I'm glad you're able to
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: join me.
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  Speaker 1: We've had a chance to see each other the past
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: couple years when they played. These two teams have played
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: on the even-numbered years. And Coach Traylor's been a longtime
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: friend of mine. He hopped on the show yesterday, and
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: we were talking about a lot of things about G6
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: programs and trying to make the step forward. And I
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: want to start with that and get your thoughts because
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: you're close, obviously, to the athletic department.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: And you know what the challenge is.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: In today's day and age of college football, what it
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: means to be a G6 program, to be competitive, the
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: fact that there were two G6 programs in the playoff
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: last year. And I asked Jeff yesterday if it's a
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: step forward, even though now the four Power Four Conference
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: winners are guaranteed a slot, which they weren't last year.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: And you can ask Duke about that.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: But he likes the progress, not only that the university
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: and the athletic department is making there and the commitments
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: that they've made, but also G6 programs as well. How
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: do you feel about all this as you've watched it
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: develop over time?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think the G6... schools now have a chance.
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  Speaker 11: If we would have gone back in a time machine
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 11: five or ten years ago, nobody would have thought Indiana
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 11: was going to be any good. In fact, if you
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 11: look at the last 15 years plus the two games
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 11: that UTSA has played in its history, their record is
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 11: better than Indiana's. including their undefeated season last year.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: True.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 11: So what that tells me is if UTSA can find
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 11: a Mark Cuban and donate $ 40 million to NIL, Jeff
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 11: Traylor can build a similar roster. And so now all
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 11: the Power Six schools have just as good a chance
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 11: as the schools that were in the Power Four conferences
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 11: that were, you know, Indiana was considered the worst team
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 11: in the last hundred years in football until Kurt Sinetti
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 11: got there and the paychecks started rolling in. So I
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 11: think that's what's cool about the college football playoff and
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 11: the group of six is that while it's still unbalanced
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 11: in terms of what UTSA is paying its players compared
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 11: to what Texas is, the opportunity exists if and when
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 11: they can find that big donor.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: Was it also a boost, as I mentioned, that two
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: G6 schools got into the playoff last year? And again,
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: I know the P4 schools are now the conference champions
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: are guaranteed to play, but especially if, and it looks
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: like we're headed this way, Andy, that this thing is
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: going to double in size, if not next year, certainly
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: the year after, but probably next year, I'm thinking, to
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: get to 24, that that only opens up more of
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: an avenue for G6 schools.
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  Speaker 2: Do you agree with that?
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 5: Absolutely. And the G6 schools... are going to need.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 11: Some help usually if they're going to go on the
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 11: road in December and play a team that's between 5
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 11: and 12 in the nation. Even SMU a couple years
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 11: ago when they got it, and they're now a P4 school,
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 11: they're moving their way back into that P4 category after
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 11: years of not being there. So to me, you've got
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 11: to give those schools the opportunity and the chance. Now,
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 11: it may be an easy game for whoever they play,
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 11: But it's something that we got to go forward and
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 11: maybe with the Save Congress Act, the Save College Football Act,
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 11: and we get some regulations on spending. the G6 schools
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 11: can at least get closer to what the P4 schools
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 11: are spending.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: Do you see, as we heard Jeff talk about, do
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: you see the commitment from UTSA, from administration, from athletics,
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: being to get there? I mean, even set aside, like
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: you said, if you could find a Mark Cuban to
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: plunk down $ 40 million would be wonderful. But even that
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: set aside, Have you seen a renewed commitment from the
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: athletic department on what they're doing to help raise the
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: profile and the hopes for UTSA football?
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I have.
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  Speaker 11: And especially since Jeff has been there, it's gotten progressively
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 11: better each and every year. And he continues to educate
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 11: those on what is necessary in order to be amongst
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 11: the elites in the group of six. The fact that
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 11: I thought UTSA was more prepared to go on the
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 11: road and play Texas State than Texas State was last year.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 11: They had the cooling benches. They had the misters. Texas
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 11: State was sitting on metal bleacher seats. And not that
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 11: they didn't think about doing it. And Jeff mentioned pretty
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 11: much everybody on his staff that had a role in
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 11: making sure that UTSA was uber prepared for that game
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 11: last week.
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 5: And it paid off at the end.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 11: I thought near the end of the game, UTSA was
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 11: the more stronger team and more conditioned team.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: How important was that? A, to get the 2-0, and B,
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: you can tell me better than I can how much
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: quote-unquote rivalry there is in that I-35 series, but just
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: the mere fact to get some forward momentum before you
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: even get up to Austin this week.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 11: Well, from the rivalry standpoint, I think football has rekindled
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 11: it because we haven't been in a conference with each
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 11: other since 2013. So the basketball game is only one
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 11: a year, and we go back and forth on the site. Baseball,
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 11: they play two, and they go back and forth, and
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 11: there's some animosity there. But the basketball rivalry kind of
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 11: died down a little bit when we.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 5: Left our conferences.
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 11: The football rivalry is now a rivalry because Texas State
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 11: won the two before last Saturday. And that really, because
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 11: before that, UTSA was 5-0. But from a terms of importance,
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 11: if UTSA is going to be considered for the CFP,
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 11: they've got to beat everybody but Texas.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 5: And so if they don't, then at some point.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 11: They've got to think about winning the conference, getting a
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 11: conference championship. And that's the ultimate goal for every Power
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 11: 6 team is win your league. And then let the
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 11: guys that are voting for you figure out where you're
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 11: going to end up, whether it's a big bowl game
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 11: against a Power 4 school, a regular bowl game, or
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 11: if you're going to make the CFP. But it was important,
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 11: I think, to snap the two-game losing streak against Texas
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 11: State and to give yourself confidence because other than the
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 11: Texas game, UTSA will be pick-em or favored in every
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 11: game they play the rest of the year.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 5: And to have that success against Texas State on the road.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 11: And the schedule is really, I think, favorable. Now, it's hard,
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 11: but the three toughest teams they play once we get
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 11: to conference are all at home.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 5: It's Navy, North Texas, and USF, South Florida.
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  Speaker 1: And.
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  Speaker 11: Not that I want to throw shade at any of
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 11: these schools because they can now compete and be good,
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 11: but projected in the bottom half of the conference are Rice, Ford, Atlantic,
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 11: and Tulsa, and those three teams are on the road.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 11: So the situation is there if UTSA plays as well
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 11: as against Texas State, and now that they have played
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 11: that well against Texas State, I think they have confidence
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 11: they can play that well against anybody.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: Visiting with Andy Everett, play-by-play voice of the UTSA Roadrunners
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: here on 13 Under the Zone. Okay, let me get
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: your thoughts on this particular team and what you've seen
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: so far in the 2-0 start.
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 2: What has really stood out to you? What do you
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 2: like about this group?
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 11: Well, first of all, they haven't turned it over, so
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 11: that's the most important thing. Two games, no turnovers. The
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 11: defense has created five takeaways.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 5: That's huge.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 11: The defensive coordinator, Jess Lepp, and I talk every week
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 11: for a segment in our pregame show and We always
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 11: talk about takeaways. They got two against UTRGV and three
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 11: last week. So that's always a good thing. Offensively, I
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 11: think Will Henderson has an NFL chance, especially he's probably
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 11: one if not the fastest players in the country, and.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 5: He could have gone anywhere. Jeff always talks about his players.
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 11: If you see anybody out there performing, they're playing for
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 11: a third of what they could get someplace else. And
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 11: so UTSA roster probably could get more someplace else. But
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 11: Will Henderson's not only a really good football player but
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 11: a really good person.
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 5: And they've got depth at running back.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 11: So far, what they've been able to do and do
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 11: very well is move the ball with their.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 5: Running backs and their short passing attack.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 11: We've seen a few shots taken, but other than the
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 11: silly penalties, the procedure penalties, they've played pretty clean on offense. Defensively,
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 11: we didn't know what to expect. We had a lot
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 11: of guys coming back that had played, but had never
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 11: played necessarily together on the same unit. So you had
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 11: some second-teamers that made first team, and you had some
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 11: third-teamers that made second team. And he went in the portal,
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 11: and he got some guys that were coming back from
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 11: P4 or moving up from FCS. I think the defense
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 11: is going to be pretty good for most of the year.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 11: The only thing they have done wrong is they've had
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 11: a couple of unsportsmanlike conduct penalties that have given the
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 11: other team opportunities. But they did have a little bit
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 11: of an issue against the run against Texas State. Texas
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 11: State was pretty effective with that. But I think they're
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 11: going to fix that. They know why they messed up,
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 11: and they've been working on that this week.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: It seems like both teams, both Texas and UTSA, got
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: a little emotional boost from being able to prove they
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: can rally back and win a football game in the
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: fourth quarter when they're down. And for the ebb and
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: flow of the game you had, which was different, obviously,
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: the Texas-Ohio State game was just a huge mountain to
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: climb in the fourth quarter. But you had a lot
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: of ebb and flow back and forth in that ball
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: game coming down to the wire, didn't you?
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 11: Yeah, and the four-minute drive that UTSA had at the
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 11: end of the game to win it.
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 5: Two fourth-down conversions. They had third and 21.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 11: They hit a curl route and get 13 or 14,
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 11: and then they get Owen on a RPO.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 5: And he was able to run for seven and pick
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 5: up the first down.
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 11: So those kind of things let them know, hey, we're
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 11: still in this. They didn't want to give the ball away.
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 11: Jeff has been notorious in the past. If he doesn't
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 11: think the other team's offense can be stopped, he'll go
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 11: for it on fourth down. UTSA went for it on
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 11: fourth down six times in the Texas State game. So
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 11: they were five of six on fourth down. And so
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 11: I remember a few years ago when we were playing
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 11: a shootout against Western Kentucky.
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 5: I'm not funny. If we don't make it, our defense
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 5: has got.
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 11: Just as good a chance to stop them from the
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 11: 40 as they do from the 10.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 5: So we're going to see.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 11: He's not afraid to keep that offense on the field
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 11: if he thinks that he can do it. I don't know,
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 11: other than Will Henderson, if there's– I think Owen McCown's terrific.
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 11: But from an NFL perspective, other than Will Henderson– I
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 11: don't know that there's anybody that's, you know, a transfer
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 11: like Devin McEwen was last year to where he could
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 11: go start for Ohio State next year, but they got
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 11: a lot of really good football players.
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: I was going to ask you about McCown, and then
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: the other guy I was going to ask about, a
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: guy that, well, in addition to Will Henderson, calling a
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: state championship game that he played in that I did,
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: another one was David Amador, who is, he was kind
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: of an all-everything-everywhere kind of guy when he was at
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: Galena Park North Shore, and I think He strikes me
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: as that kind of guy for the Roadrunners as well.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he can get open easily. They can run him
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 5: on jet sweeps.
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 11: They can get the ball to him on a flare-out
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 11: pass to the boundary. He returns punts. He is the
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 11: jack-of-all-trades guy. And I don't think he's had a pass
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 11: because UTSA has run some double passes with him over
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 11: the years.
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 5: And I think he's perfect so far. I think he's
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 5: had an incomplete.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 11: And the quarterback rating for however they figured this out
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 11: against Texas State when they scored was 799. So we
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 11: talked to him a lot about how good of a
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 11: passer he is. They want him to play wide receiver
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 11: and kick return, obviously. That's where he, or punt return,
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 11: that's where his strengths are. But he's a delightful person.
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 11: We're getting ready for our coaching show tonight. He's going
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 11: to be one of our guests, and we'll talk about
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 11: that with him. He's a terrific guy and a terrific player.
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: I asked Jeff about this yesterday, and I think you'll
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: agree with what he said, but I'm curious to get
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: your thoughts on this.
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 3: I said that the impression.
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: That I got was that in a rivalry game on
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: the road like what you had last week, that the
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: vibe I got, especially from the way the game started,
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: was that was that your guys did not seem, the
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: experience or at least the moment was not too big
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: for them walking into the environment.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 2: And he agreed with that.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: And then he said, now, obviously, it's different going into
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: DKR where you have over 100,000 fans. And he went
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: on to praise Chris Tocanti and the game op staff
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: for everything, the game day environment. He said it was
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: nothing different. was like this when i was there and
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: he's right back in 15 but from these guys as
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: you've gotten to know these guys you get the feeling
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: also they'll welcome this environment and then and uh they
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: don't mind walking into somebody's house that big and and
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: uh feeling like the moment is not too big for
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: them that they can compete in an environment like this
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: let alone the team they're going up against i think.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 11: These smaller schools even uh we played utr gv two
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 11: weeks ago that team had more talent than UTSA's team
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 11: did in 2011 when we started the program. And we
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 11: were considered FCS moving to FBS right away. They're going
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 11: to stay FCS for a while. And you look at
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 11: UTRGV's rosters, there's guys on that team that can play
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 11: at the next level. And what I get by that is,
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 11: they're not really afraid of anything. They may be 30-point underdogs.
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 11: The prognosticators may say you've got no chance. And that
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 11: may end up being what happens. But it's not because
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 11: they were afraid of the moment. And I see this
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 11: with basketball players. We had a basketball game eight or
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 11: nine years ago, who turned out to be the leading
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 11: scorer in UTSA basketball history. And we're playing at Nebraska.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 11: And he said, one of the coaches asked him, he said,
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 11: are you nervous? He goes, no, man, this is my house.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 11: I want to be here. I can't wait to play.
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 11: And he went out and scored 30 that night. Now
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 11: they lost by seven or eight, but he went out
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 11: and played great. And so even though the mountain may
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 11: be a big one to climb for UTSA this weekend,
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 11: it's not because they're afraid of the place like teams
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 11: may have been 15 or 20 years ago.
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 5: It's just because there's more better players on the other team.
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: Given that we've already seen what can happen with, Oklahoma
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: State what they did to Oregon and other big surprising
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: things I'm sure that the guys feel like look if
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: we stick to our guns we play the way we're
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: capable of playing we can be there in the fourth
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: quarter what would those elements in your mind be in
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: addition obviously not turning over the ball but what what
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: what else would you feel as being important elements that
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: could make this the kind of fourth quarter game they
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: wanted to.
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 11: Be well number one you have to do something that
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 11: Texas is really good at and and that is make
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 11: them turn it over You're going to have to have
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 11: multiple takeaways, multiple red zone stops. And Jeff made this
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 11: comment on Monday in his presser. You turn your head
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 11: for two seconds the other way or 0.2 seconds and boom,
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 11: it's a touchdown. And he was talking about reviewing the
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 11: Texas State film against Texas is that they were sound
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 11: in there where they were set lined up.
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 5: They were sound in there, all their moves.
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 11: But then all of a sudden, one guy just flinched
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 11: for a second and boom, the other guy's behind him
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 11: and it's a touchdown. You can't have any of that.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 11: You can't have unsupportive conduct penalties. You have to play,
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 11: if there is such a thing, a perfect game and
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 11: then hope the other team helps you. And whether it's
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 11: Western Michigan and Michigan going down to the wire a
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 11: few weeks ago, or it's the Appalachian State upsets of
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 11: Texas A & M and Michigan in the past, I
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 11: think most of the time when that happens, it's because
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 11: the other team played down to that level instead.
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 7: Of the other.
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 11: And then the team that wins it or gets close
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 11: is playing as perfectly as they can.
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 5: And so that's why you play the games. It's possible.
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 11: I go back to the 2022 game, our first trip
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 11: up there. I think it was nine or 10 points
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 11: going into the fourth quarter. And then I think we
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 11: had a turnover that led into a Texas touchdown. And
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 11: then we had to putt and Texas scored again to
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 11: make it a three and a half score game. So
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 11: if you can put yourself in a position to be
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 11: there when you get to the fourth and then you
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 11: hope something weird happens, then that's how you have to
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 11: look at it.
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: He's Andy Everett, play-by-play voice of the UTSA Roadrunners. He'll
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: be calling the game on the ticket, 760 in San
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: Antonio and UTSA's network as well. Hey, Andy, I appreciate
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: your time. We'll help you adjust as best as possible
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: to the new broadcasting digs.
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 2: I'll put it that way.
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 11: I've seen the pictures, and I'll do what I can,
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 11: but I'm looking forward to the challenge.
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 7: Thanks, Andy.
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: Appreciate it. That's Andy Everett, play-by-play voice of the UTSA Roadrunners.
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: We have more coming up when we continue on 13
• 1:33:30
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  Speaker 3: Turn out right How to tell you, girl I want.
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  Speaker 4: To build my world around you Tell you.
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: That it's true I want to make you understand You know,
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: when you do flip the calendar on another birthday, especially
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: when you've had as many birthdays as I've had, it
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: does make you a little more susceptible to reminiscing a
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: little bit.
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 2: A little bit of that, reminiscing.
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: You know, the win for Texas over Ohio State, a
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: lot of Longhorn fans, I've heard from so many of them,
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: reminiscing about the great wins of the Buckeyes in the past.
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 2: And some even.
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: Comparing it with, you know, the win over USC in
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  Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl, these great games and all that other
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff. But reminiscing there from Little River Band
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  Speaker 1: is part of a Yacht Rock Wednesday. I couldn't let
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  Speaker 1: this go because it comes out every Wednesday. It's one
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  Speaker 1: of my favorite things to read online, and that's the
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  Speaker 1: college football bottom 10. Our friend Marty McGee puts that
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  Speaker 1: together from ESPN. I say friend, and I got a
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  Speaker 1: chance to meet with him and sit next to him. at, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the sports cash through the year bank for the first
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  Speaker 1: time that I won the award back in 2016. And
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  Speaker 1: we were at the same table in 2017. Um, and
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  Speaker 1: I had taken my mom with me to that at
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  Speaker 1: the time I was widowed in it. And, uh, and
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  Speaker 1: it had not, uh, you know, uh, Linda and I
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  Speaker 1: not yet gotten together and all that. So I had,
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  Speaker 1: I had my mom with me, which God rest her soul.
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  Speaker 2: It's wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: And it also gives you the cringy feeling, too, when
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  Speaker 1: you take your mom and she's sitting at a table
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  Speaker 1: and she's bragging on her son to people like John Anderson,
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  Speaker 1: an anchor at ESPN.
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  Speaker 3: You know, my son, I'm like, Mom, Mom, please. And
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  Speaker 3: Marty McGee, they got a big.
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  Speaker 1: kick out of it. Ryan McGee, rather, excuse me, and
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  Speaker 1: Marty Smith. But Ryan, he got a kick out of it.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, he pins the bottom 10. And as we've explained,
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  Speaker 1: if you hadn't heard, the bottom 10, and this was
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  Speaker 1: a syndicated column.
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  Speaker 3: I'm telling you, it was back in the 80s. I
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  Speaker 3: used to read it when I was in college.
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  Speaker 1: And they would take Ten of the worst teams in
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  Speaker 1: college football, but not necessarily the ten worst teams. It
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  Speaker 1: could be a team that much is expected of, and
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  Speaker 1: they fell flat on their face, easy for you to say.
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  Speaker 1: So it could be a team like that. We're looking
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  Speaker 1: at you, Oregon, you know, that kind of thing. And
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  Speaker 1: they were the ones that came up with the cute
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  Speaker 1: nicknames like UTEP would be in it. Um, and I
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  Speaker 1: think Marty is referred to, or Ryan McGee is referred
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  Speaker 1: to them as you tepid. Uh, I think back then
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  Speaker 1: they were called university of Texas of L intercepted Paso.
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  Speaker 2: I think was the way it was described back then.
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  Speaker 1: So they put all the cute nicknames on and describe
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  Speaker 1: why they're in the bottom 10. So with that, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the bottom 10 this week, going from 10 down to one, um, is,
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  Speaker 1: number 10 is, Sam Houston, we have a problem.
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  Speaker 2: Sam Houston is 0-2, and I always like how Ryan
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  Speaker 2: does this.
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  Speaker 1: He writes it with every word that has a C
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  Speaker 1: or a K or a K sound has the letter K,
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  Speaker 1: because the Bearcats spell their name with a K, as
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  Speaker 1: we know. So here's the Bearcats couldn't, with a K, climb,
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  Speaker 1: with a K, into the win column, with a K,
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  Speaker 1: losing to Tulsa, a.k.a.
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  Speaker 2: UT, actually they're TU at Tulsa. It's Tulsa University.
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  Speaker 1: After kicking off their calendar with a K, with a
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  Speaker 1: loss to Troy, aka TU, this week's clash with a
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  Speaker 1: K is with Nichols with a K, sorry. Nichols, N-I-C-H-O-L-L-S,
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  Speaker 1: which doesn't include K-A-T in its name. But next week's contest, Kay,
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  Speaker 1: is with Texas Tech, a.k.a.
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  Speaker 2: TTU.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, on the waiting list, UTEP it, I mentioned.
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  Speaker 1: Western Kentucky Hillstoppers, Baller.
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  Speaker 2: State, CMU, Woohoo, Mexico State.
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  Speaker 1: And politics oh okay all right that's number 10 number
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  Speaker 1: nine state of kent he always says kent state The
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  Speaker 1: Golden Flash has pocketed $ 1. 3 million for their week one
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  Speaker 1: loss at South Carolina, and will receive another $ 1. 9 million
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  Speaker 1: to travel to Ohio State this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: That's a tough week to face the Buckeyes.
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  Speaker 1: How much they paid Wofford to come to Kent in
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: between has not been disclosed, but for some reason I
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  Speaker 1: have a flash here. the golden Eagle as Leo DiCaprio
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  Speaker 1: fun coupons, Jeff in my head.
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  Speaker 3: I don't get that reference.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't either. All right. Number eight, Missouri state is
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  Speaker 2: Missouri state.
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  Speaker 1: Um, The Show Me State Bears face Marshall in what
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  Speaker 1: felt like it might be the pillow fight of the week,
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  Speaker 1: but the blundering Hearn messed all of that up when
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  Speaker 1: they won over muddled Tennessee in another game that felt
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  Speaker 1: like it could have been a PFOW before MTSU won.
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  Speaker 1: Pillow fight of the week is PFOW. Before MTSU won
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: in week one of a Murray State. It's enough to
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  Speaker 1: make us scream into our pillows for a week. Number one,
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  Speaker 1: San Diego. Sacramento State, and SAC has the K in it, S-A-C-K,
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  Speaker 1: like you're getting your quarterback, SAC.
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  Speaker 2: Sacramento State.
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  Speaker 1: The SACs, who used to be in the FCS, lost
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  Speaker 1: their opener at Eastern Michigan in what is now a
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: MAAC conference game. Last weekend, they lost to Fresno State,
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  Speaker 1: which is no longer in the Mountain West, but is
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  Speaker 1: in the Pac-12. This weekend, they'll host North Dakota State,
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  Speaker 1: which is also no longer in the FCS, but is
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  Speaker 1: in the Mountain West. Did I miss something? Is Christopher
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: Nolan making a college football movie? Number six, ULM pronounced, um,
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  Speaker 1: it's Louisiana Monroe. Um, the Hawks had a chance entering the, um,
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter this past week before falling to the, um,
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: UAB Blazers 2620. Now they host the, um, Southeast Louisiana Lions,
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  Speaker 1: a one and two FCS team, according to, um, ESPN Athletics.
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  Speaker 1: ULM has a 59% chance of snapping its 10-game losing streak.
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  Speaker 2: All right, here's what I was talking about, the difference.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't necessarily have to be the worst teams, but
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  Speaker 1: number five is Oregon.
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  Speaker 2: So it's Oregon.
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  Speaker 1: He goes, I was in Kentucky last weekend when I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was a little suspicious when I saw some
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: of the Jurassic Park scientists with Barbasol cans sneaking around
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  Speaker 1: behind Wildcats coach Will Stide to snatch hair off his head.
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  Speaker 1: Now I realize they've been sent by Dan Lanning to
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: see if he could steal back some offensive DNA from
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  Speaker 1: his old OC and sneak out of the coveted fifth spot.
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  Speaker 2: That's for losing to Oklahoma State. Number four, in a rut, Gers.
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  Speaker 1: The Scarlet Blights were stunned by UMass to open the season,
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  Speaker 1: then lost to Boston College. Fresh out of Massachusetts schools
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: to play. They will now participate in one of those
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  Speaker 1: classic regional rivalries that has powered the Big Ten for
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  Speaker 1: 30 years, Rutgers at USC.
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  Speaker 2: That's the one.
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  Speaker 1: Number two, Northern Ill-Ug-Noise, 0-2. The other Huskies lost to
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  Speaker 1: FCS team Illinois State at home, 28-24, leading many around
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  Speaker 1: Husky Stadium.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, the few around Husky Stadium.
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  Speaker 2: No wonder allowed.
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  Speaker 1: When does Maction start? Then they realize NIU is now
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  Speaker 1: in the Mountain West.
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  Speaker 3: I forgot about that, too.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And number one.
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  Speaker 1: Charlotte owen tours because you know their team name is
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: the 49ers yep the charlotte owen tours the tours or
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: uh sorry niners spent last week in old miss losing
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  Speaker 1: 41 to 9 now they travel to appalachian state where
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: according to the mystically correct espn analytics machine they have
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: only a 14 chance of winning the good news is
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: is that if there were ever two college towns where
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: someone could find a drink to ease their pain, they're
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: Oxford and Boone.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, beautiful Boone, North Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: All right, there's your bottom 10 of the week. We'll
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  Speaker 1: be back to wrap up today's edition of the program
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  Speaker 1: on 13 Under the Zone.