August 30, 2024 • 8 mins
Craig and Cam close out Friday shows with the last of Steve Sarkisian's media availability from Thursday as he talks about defending Colorado State's Tory Horton, the importance of Quinn Ewers establishing chemistry with wideouts early on, and what is on his mind heading into Saturday.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
As we draw closer to this, So if we're talking
long Worns football, why not here some more from head
coach Steve Sarkisian. Yesterday we heard some sound from him
talking about Derek Williams and how his fall camp had gone.
What about the secondary overall? Yes, much was made to
the fact that the log Worns had their struggles in
the past game at times pass defense game, especially when
(00:23):
it came to giving up big plays more than anything else.
So sark was asked if he got the vibe from
his guys in the secondary that they are looking to
make a statement this season starting tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Well, I think so, But I think part of that
is we still got to be a great run defense.
You know. I think one of the misnomers about our
pass defense numbers is how many pass attempts we faced
last year. I think we were top of the country,
if I'm not mistaken. So because you couldn't run it
on us, you threw it, and inevitably you're going to
find yards somewhere in the passing game. Our key to
the drill in the secondary is we got to eliminate
(00:56):
the explosive plays.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah, no doubt about it. That's important to do that
to try to keep those things down to a minimum. So,
continuing on that secondary theme, Jehanni Baron, as we know
throughout his six seasons at the University of Texas, has
been an everyman. He's a guy who can play wherever
you need him, whenever you need him. In the secondary,
(01:21):
he has played both corner positions, both the boundary corner
and the field corner. He has played the boundary safety,
in the field safety. He has played the star back.
So he's played and he pretty much quarterbacks a lot
of what goes on in the secondary. So with a
dangerous receiver like Tory Horton over eleven hundred receiving yards
(01:41):
last year for Colorado States, offering the biggest not only
deep threat, but overall receiving threat for the Rams. Going
into this game, the question was asked of Sark, might
you move your most experienced defensive back, Jade barn to wherever,
whatever side of the field Tory Horton shades, whether it's boundary,
(02:04):
whether it's you know X, whether it's Z, whether he's
in the slot, would start continued just using Joanny Baron
almost like a spy if he will, but just locking
him down on Tory Horton overall, instead of just relying
on the entirety of the secondary and matchups.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I don't think we have to necessarily do that. There
could be moments, you know, specific situations when that arises,
but we're comfortable with the guys that we have back there,
and I think there a lot of them are interchangeable.
I think that's one of the beauties of John A.
Baron because he can play three positions here Saturday. You know,
he can play corner, star and safety and so and
(02:44):
then the versatility to disguise coverages is helpful for us
that way too. So again, if he's just locked on
one guy the whole time, that that kind of minimizes
our ability to disguise some of the things we're trying
to do.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, and remember the other guys who are back there
in that secondary. Sarkas pointed out that Jalen Gilbo has
had a tremendous fall camp, so you can look for
Gilbot to really contribute, probably in that star position as well.
Manny Muhammad at one corner spot and has been at
(03:18):
times capable of shutting a guy down. Gavin Holmes had
a really solid fall camp as well, and then of
course your field safeties and your boundary safeties. I mean,
you know Michael Taff, and Taff had to go through
quite a bit of the fall camp workouts with a
small cast on his hand, but he's ready to go.
(03:41):
We talked about Derek Williams and what he can do
there at the safety spot, and then at the other
safety spot, seeing and Andrew mccooba there and a Jelani McDonald,
each of whom have had really good fall camps. And
then you have other guys like Kobe Black, Gavin Holmes.
There's there's guys who can definitely contribute on that. It's
(04:03):
not necessarily down to just plain and simple only having
them put one guy on the best receiver and then
you know, rely on your best hopes in the other
matchups there. And that's one thing that Start was talking about,
boy making sure to be able to disguise some things
as well overall overall in terms of his offense, in
(04:24):
terms of his defense, in terms of the matchup, in
terms of the opponent. What is start focusing on the
most heading into this opener.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
The multitude of defenses that they could call that are
nowhere on tape, and then what are we going to
call to adjust to that? And that's for myself and
the offensive staff. That's not I try not to put
all that on the players. I just want to make
sure that you know, if they got it, they can
play anything, and to make sure that whatever they come
out in and we are able to identify that in
(04:54):
the first series or two that we're putting our players
in a good position to be successful.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah, it makes perfect sense there. And you heard that
in the first hour of the program when we had
that Colorado State matchup segment from last night's edition of
Long One Weekly with coach sart and where he talked
about how and I even asked him as a follow
up about Colorado State potentially doing what Rice did last year,
(05:23):
and that was to come out to open the game
with something completely different, something the long word to not
seen defensively, and you know, you probably don't have a
great many unheard of wild things that you would show
on the offensive side of the football. It's it's kind
(05:44):
of tough to game plan that. But on the defensive side,
you can shake up some things, you can change up
some things, especially with personnel groupings. So that's why Sark
was talking about that that's what happened with the game
with Rice last year, and he's fully expecting possibility to
be there for this game tomorrow afternoon. And then one
(06:05):
other thing to talk about. And it's almost like all
roads lead back to Quinn, viewers. In a lot of ways,
all roads lead back to Quinn, because throughout the course
of the Vaul camp, what have we heard Sark talk about,
or more correctly, to be fair to Sark, what have
we heard him be asked the most about. Well, it's
(06:28):
been Quinn viewers, his development, his improvements, his physicality, and yes,
the l word, the leadership thing, we heard that quite
a bit. So he was asked repeatedly about where Quinn
had developed as a leader, how he had developed it.
In fact, yours teammates are all asked how have they
seen Quinn differently as a leader, and they've asked Youers himself,
(06:50):
they asked Quinn, how are you different in terms of
the leadership thing? So that was all going to be
part of it as well. But it's about more than
just leadership, especially when you're out there on the field
and the snaps start going, and so the question was
asked up Stark, how important is it for Quinn you
was to establish chemistry with the receivers. Obviously, there's no
(07:11):
more Xavier Worthy, there's no more ad Mitchell there, there's
no more JT. Sanders there. But there are very very
talented guys who have stepped in either through the portal
or through their own growth in the program. So the
question how important is it for Quinn to establish chemistry
with his wide outs early on in this.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Well, again, I think the beauty of the way we
practice and how competitive our practices are put in. We
put them in a lot of situations to where rapport
and chemistry is going to matter, and I think that
that has shown up in a lot of our scrimmages
in our team settings, and we feel comfortable with that rapport. Naturally,
(07:50):
I'm sure we'll have some growing pains there, but because
of the way we work in the time and the
effort that those guys put in in the summer on
their own and then what we do in training camp,
I feel confident that Quinn's got good rapport with all
these guys. But like I said, I'm sure there'll be
some growing pains that will have to work.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Through, all right, So there is some more conversation with
Long orange Head coach Steve Sarkeisha. When we come back,
we'll set the stage for the weekend. We'll be ready
to wrap up the week's worth of programming and get
you ready for week number one of the college football season,
especially as it relates to the Texas Longhorn. So we'll
(08:30):
do all that when we come back here on a
Friday afternoon on sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone
and where you always listen to us for free right
here on the iHeartRadio app.
As we draw closer to this, So if we're talking
long Worns football, why not here some more from head
coach Steve Sarkisian. Yesterday we heard some sound from him
talking about Derek Williams and how his fall camp had gone.
What about the secondary overall? Yes, much was made to
the fact that the log Worns had their struggles in
the past game at times pass defense game, especially when
(00:23):
it came to giving up big plays more than anything else.
So sark was asked if he got the vibe from
his guys in the secondary that they are looking to
make a statement this season starting tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Well, I think so, But I think part of that
is we still got to be a great run defense.
You know. I think one of the misnomers about our
pass defense numbers is how many pass attempts we faced
last year. I think we were top of the country,
if I'm not mistaken. So because you couldn't run it
on us, you threw it, and inevitably you're going to
find yards somewhere in the passing game. Our key to
the drill in the secondary is we got to eliminate
(00:56):
the explosive plays.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah, no doubt about it. That's important to do that
to try to keep those things down to a minimum. So,
continuing on that secondary theme, Jehanni Baron, as we know
throughout his six seasons at the University of Texas, has
been an everyman. He's a guy who can play wherever
you need him, whenever you need him. In the secondary,
(01:21):
he has played both corner positions, both the boundary corner
and the field corner. He has played the boundary safety,
in the field safety. He has played the star back.
So he's played and he pretty much quarterbacks a lot
of what goes on in the secondary. So with a
dangerous receiver like Tory Horton over eleven hundred receiving yards
(01:41):
last year for Colorado States, offering the biggest not only
deep threat, but overall receiving threat for the Rams. Going
into this game, the question was asked of Sark, might
you move your most experienced defensive back, Jade barn to wherever,
whatever side of the field Tory Horton shades, whether it's boundary,
(02:04):
whether it's you know X, whether it's Z, whether he's
in the slot, would start continued just using Joanny Baron
almost like a spy if he will, but just locking
him down on Tory Horton overall, instead of just relying
on the entirety of the secondary and matchups.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I don't think we have to necessarily do that. There
could be moments, you know, specific situations when that arises,
but we're comfortable with the guys that we have back there,
and I think there a lot of them are interchangeable.
I think that's one of the beauties of John A.
Baron because he can play three positions here Saturday. You know,
he can play corner, star and safety and so and
(02:44):
then the versatility to disguise coverages is helpful for us
that way too. So again, if he's just locked on
one guy the whole time, that that kind of minimizes
our ability to disguise some of the things we're trying
to do.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, and remember the other guys who are back there
in that secondary. Sarkas pointed out that Jalen Gilbo has
had a tremendous fall camp, so you can look for
Gilbot to really contribute, probably in that star position as well.
Manny Muhammad at one corner spot and has been at
(03:18):
times capable of shutting a guy down. Gavin Holmes had
a really solid fall camp as well, and then of
course your field safeties and your boundary safeties. I mean,
you know Michael Taff, and Taff had to go through
quite a bit of the fall camp workouts with a
small cast on his hand, but he's ready to go.
(03:41):
We talked about Derek Williams and what he can do
there at the safety spot, and then at the other
safety spot, seeing and Andrew mccooba there and a Jelani McDonald,
each of whom have had really good fall camps. And
then you have other guys like Kobe Black, Gavin Holmes.
There's there's guys who can definitely contribute on that. It's
(04:03):
not necessarily down to just plain and simple only having
them put one guy on the best receiver and then
you know, rely on your best hopes in the other
matchups there. And that's one thing that Start was talking about,
boy making sure to be able to disguise some things
as well overall overall in terms of his offense, in
(04:24):
terms of his defense, in terms of the matchup, in
terms of the opponent. What is start focusing on the
most heading into this opener.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
The multitude of defenses that they could call that are
nowhere on tape, and then what are we going to
call to adjust to that? And that's for myself and
the offensive staff. That's not I try not to put
all that on the players. I just want to make
sure that you know, if they got it, they can
play anything, and to make sure that whatever they come
out in and we are able to identify that in
(04:54):
the first series or two that we're putting our players
in a good position to be successful.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah, it makes perfect sense there. And you heard that
in the first hour of the program when we had
that Colorado State matchup segment from last night's edition of
Long One Weekly with coach sart and where he talked
about how and I even asked him as a follow
up about Colorado State potentially doing what Rice did last year,
(05:23):
and that was to come out to open the game
with something completely different, something the long word to not
seen defensively, and you know, you probably don't have a
great many unheard of wild things that you would show
on the offensive side of the football. It's it's kind
(05:44):
of tough to game plan that. But on the defensive side,
you can shake up some things, you can change up
some things, especially with personnel groupings. So that's why Sark
was talking about that that's what happened with the game
with Rice last year, and he's fully expecting possibility to
be there for this game tomorrow afternoon. And then one
(06:05):
other thing to talk about. And it's almost like all
roads lead back to Quinn, viewers. In a lot of ways,
all roads lead back to Quinn, because throughout the course
of the Vaul camp, what have we heard Sark talk about,
or more correctly, to be fair to Sark, what have
we heard him be asked the most about. Well, it's
(06:28):
been Quinn viewers, his development, his improvements, his physicality, and yes,
the l word, the leadership thing, we heard that quite
a bit. So he was asked repeatedly about where Quinn
had developed as a leader, how he had developed it.
In fact, yours teammates are all asked how have they
seen Quinn differently as a leader, and they've asked Youers himself,
(06:50):
they asked Quinn, how are you different in terms of
the leadership thing? So that was all going to be
part of it as well. But it's about more than
just leadership, especially when you're out there on the field
and the snaps start going, and so the question was
asked up Stark, how important is it for Quinn you
was to establish chemistry with the receivers. Obviously, there's no
(07:11):
more Xavier Worthy, there's no more ad Mitchell there, there's
no more JT. Sanders there. But there are very very
talented guys who have stepped in either through the portal
or through their own growth in the program. So the
question how important is it for Quinn to establish chemistry
with his wide outs early on in this.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Well, again, I think the beauty of the way we
practice and how competitive our practices are put in. We
put them in a lot of situations to where rapport
and chemistry is going to matter, and I think that
that has shown up in a lot of our scrimmages
in our team settings, and we feel comfortable with that rapport. Naturally,
(07:50):
I'm sure we'll have some growing pains there, but because
of the way we work in the time and the
effort that those guys put in in the summer on
their own and then what we do in training camp,
I feel confident that Quinn's got good rapport with all
these guys. But like I said, I'm sure there'll be
some growing pains that will have to work.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Through, all right, So there is some more conversation with
Long orange Head coach Steve Sarkeisha. When we come back,
we'll set the stage for the weekend. We'll be ready
to wrap up the week's worth of programming and get
you ready for week number one of the college football season,
especially as it relates to the Texas Longhorn. So we'll
(08:30):
do all that when we come back here on a
Friday afternoon on sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone
and where you always listen to us for free right
here on the iHeartRadio app.
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