September 5, 2024 • 13 mins
Hear the rest of Steve Sarkisian's thoughts as Texas prepares for Michigan on Saturday. Hear his comments on Ryan Wingo's performance, Ryan Niblett's double-duty, and the challenge of facing a QB that doesn't have a lot of game tape like Davis Warren.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's hear some more from Loghorn's head coach, Steve Sarkeesian,
and we've heard him talk about his wide receiver room,
quarterback play, the enormity of the game. Another question about
the receiving corps deals with freshman Ryan Wingo wound up
being leading pass catcher in the contest, and at what
(00:22):
point was it that sark saw that from Wingo that
he knew that he'd be ready for a stage this big.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well, I think the thing about Ryan, even throughout the
recruiting process and then early on when he got here,
there is a real sense of maturity about him. He's
a worker, he loves football, He's humble, he knows that
he is not a finished product, but yet he continues
to work every day, and as he gets incremental growth
and incremental success, he just continues to stack that on
(00:55):
top of the work that he's already put in. And so,
like I said, I value the humility, but I also
value the work ethic, and I also value the confidence
that he has in himself to go do the things
that he's doing. And so he's just got a great
he's got a great demeanor about him, and he goes
about his business the right way, and not only on
the field but off the field.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Speaking of putting in the work and work ethic, there's
another guy who's been grinding a way like that because
he's had to grind it more than one position of late,
and that's Ryan Niblett. Now nibble of the course as
a receiver, but Nibblett played a lot of running back
in high school. And with the shortage in the running
back room, there's that term again. It apparently that's that's
(01:35):
the new thing. Cam By the way, that's driving a
lot of folks on social media crazy is to use
terms like the quarterback room, the running back room. So
you know it's and there's a lot of did off
my lawn, older guys, what is what is the deal
like calling it the quarterback room, the wide receiver room.
(01:56):
What what's the necessity there? Somebody pointed this out, In fact,
it was Susanne Halibert used to be the beat writer
for long Win Football for the Austin American station, and
she pointed out it was in some social media conversation
that she first heard this term and I did as well,
first used by Longhorn's offensive coordinator Greg Davis back in
(02:20):
the heady days of that first decade of the two
thousands when Texas had the ten consecutive seasons of nine
or more wins, and I think it was nine consecutive
seasons of ten or more wins included in that going
in to the Rose Bowl, the most talked about Rose
Bowl against Michigan this week of January first of two
(02:42):
thousand and five, followed by the two thousand and five
National Championship season that ended in that January fourth, two
thousand and six Rose Bowl, and then three years later
back playing for the national championship in the BCS National
Championship Gameainst. Alabama. During that time when Greg Davis was
the offensive coordinator, there were times when if say, Keith
(03:05):
Warland and I and Keith was working with me on
the broadcast, and Roger Wats would come over as well.
He was on the sidelines for US back in those days,
and we sit in the office with Greg Davison look
at film and look at and talk about different quarterbacks
and stuff like that, and Greg would say he would say, well,
you know so and so, so and so and so
and so, and he'd say he's a lot of good
talent in that room. So he would say it in
(03:28):
that room. That's the first time I ever really heard
of it. And obviously what the visualization is is guys
sitting in the film room with their position coach or
coordinator looking at it, looking and thinks that's where it
came from. But I know some people kind of get
worn out on that, just like they get worn out
on saying the whole title National Football League and so
(03:50):
just NFL.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
That's happened in the past few years. It is what
it is.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
That's one of those things that there's lots of those phrases.
I guess it kind of drive folks nuts at one point.
But in talking about a guy who balances between the rooms,
Ryan Niblett, wide receiver, in the wide receiver room, but
also in the running back room because they used him,
especially when there were injuries in that running back room.
(04:20):
The transition and the adjustment to being in both rooms
or working with both units came on pretty quickly for
him down the stretch, and so Sark was asked, what
is a day of practice like for Ryan Niblett between
working with the receivers and with the running backs.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You know, I think the first thing is you have
to remember he has banked reps at the wide receiver
spot right from all of last year, all throughout springball,
all throughout summer, and so he is very comfortable and
confident at the receiver spot. I think right now we're
really just trying to continue to hone in on the
things at the running back position. And then when he
he isn't wide out, you know, it's easy for him
(05:02):
to fall back on the training that he's had, you know,
for the last you know, sixteen eighteen months whatever that is.
But also on top of that, he's become a real
player for us on special teams and so that's a
whole other level of you know, where we're relying on
him as in the special teams aspect. And so I
love what Ryan's done. You know, He's really changed his
(05:22):
body composition. He's playing fast. He you know, I think
last Saturday he hit over twenty two miles an hour
in game speed, which is which is flying. And we
thought about we thought that about him out of high school.
I think he was like a ten to four ten
five hundred meter guy that is utilizing that speed now
and it's and it's been effective for him, not only
(05:43):
like I said on offense, but on special teams.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Can you ever clock yourself? I have not, but it's
definitely not twenty two miles per When I played baseball
during through my sophomore year in high school, I think
that's where it ended for me.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
After that, but I did, yeah, very quick. It ended
after my sophomore year.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
In part because my high school at the time didn't
have a baseball program. They developed one, but they didn't
have one, and I don't know. Maybe I would have
made the tim I didn't hit well enough to do it.
I was a singles hit or a slap hitter. I
wasn't I couldn't hit for power, but I was pretty
fast and I was an outfielder. I could get to
a lot of balls. And I remember when I was
(06:30):
a sophomore in high school, my dad timed me one
time and the fastest I got up to I don't
remember an actual quote unquote forty time or whatever, but
I got clocked one time at fifteen miles per hour.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
It's pretty good, so I.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Thought, oh, okay, this dude's twenty two miles per hour.
I was kind of happy and proud of myself to
getting up to fifteen miles per hour. And here's because
twenty two miles per hour, like Sark said, that's flying.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
That's that's really moving.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Okay, one more thing about receiving the football, whether you
talk about a receiver or whether you're talking about a
running back. What we're discussing and what Sark was asked
about was the screen game and it's importance to the offense.
How important is the screen game to Sark's offensive game
plan and does he look at any other specific coaches
(07:24):
to use offensive concepts from.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I don't think it's a secret. We like the screen game. Again,
you know, we have an adage on offense. The more
things we can do really well, we feel like, the
harder we are to defend.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
And so if we're a really good running team, we're.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Really good rpo team, really good drop back pass team
for really good play action pass team. And if really
we're a really good screen team, really good tempo team,
whatever that is. We're trying to do as many things
as we can really really well. And we do value
the screen game. And you know, every game is different.
Some games the screen game is a real factor. In
(08:00):
other games, maybe that's not something that we're as focused on,
but it is something that I think, can you know,
create value for yourself on offense, and I know we
spend time on it to be good at it. But
I also know from a defensive perspective, you know, you
have to practice that when you're getting ready to playoffs.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Speaking the defensive perspective from his own team's defensive perspective,
Sark was asked about looking at the two quarterbacks, Davis
Warren and Alex Orgy. Now Orgie actually through a touchdown
pass just as Davis Warren did. But you didn't have
to watch very much of that game last Saturday at
(08:38):
to see who's the passer and who's the run based quarterback.
Orgie is definitely more comfortable running the football and being
more mobile and being able to throw in the run.
Warren much more of your standard pocket passer type quarterback.
But Davis Warren's story in itself is quite impressive. A
young man who had not made a start since twenty nineteen,
(09:00):
who battled leukemia, whose very health and well being was
in the balance for a while, then came back that
Sark also mentioned there's another spoiler alert from last night
Long on Weekly, Sark mentioned that Davis Warren went to
high school or middle school with his daughter.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I think it was with Sark's daughter. I think he
mentioned last night, but.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Davis Warren has really turned his own fortunes around once
he got healthy and stayed with it. And Sark was asked,
how challenging is it to face a quarterback like Davis
Warren when you don't have much to go on. That
was his first start, as have mentioned since twenty nineteen
to look at on tape.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Well, I think the challenges is Davis's ability to operate
their offense. You know, there are so many things that
systematically they do that are on the quarterback at the
line of scrimmage, and I think that that's why he's definitely,
you know, got a good head on his shoulders and
can make those necessary checks and different things that the
line of scrimmage protection changes, so on and so forth.
(10:07):
I think naturally he's probably got to be a really
good competitor. You don't get to become the quarterback at
Michigan without having a real competitive spirit about you. And
and you know, I'm sure you know, you get a
game under your belt and you come out with a win,
you start to develop that confidence and a willingness to
trust your your ability to make some of those plays,
and so you know he'll do that, and and Orgy
(10:29):
is going to play, I think it's critical for us
to recognize, you know, when he is in the game.
And I think it's going to be critical for us
to recognize if they leave both of them on the
field at the same time, and how we're going to
adjust to that, you know, if they're on the field
at the same time.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
So we have to be ready for things.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
That maybe they haven't put on tape yet, in one
of which being those two guys being on the field together.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
And one more.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
A bit of sound from Kurtzark. When you play seventy
seven guys, as he did last Saturday, and even if
you're not counting the ones who get in the second half,
the ones way down the depth chart, the walk ons,
things like that, even if you're just talking about you know,
you're too deep. You've got a lot of guys who
(11:14):
share snaps and reps. So Sark was asked how he
balances that out, he and his coaching staff with guys
who may have made a play, but they're they're coming
out after that play or two plays later. What if
somebody else is going in not because of something they
did right or wrong. It's just the rotation of how
it's going and what they want from a certain guy
(11:35):
in a certain down and distance or formationally however they
want to do it.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
And Sark was asked about that really simple. We just
reiterate to the players, don't count your reps. Make your
reps count. And it's a really simple formula that way.
You know, it's not how many times you're on the field,
it's what you do when you're on the field and
maximizing those opportunities when they come your way. Oddly enough,
you know Ryan Winger and and John tay Cook didn't
(12:01):
start in the game, but I think they they might
have had maybe the most yards and I think seven
catches between them, you know, as backups in essence, and
so we really don't look at him as backups.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
We look at him.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
We've got a great rotation at the receiver spot. Obviously,
you know Matt and and you know ib played really
well for us. And the one guy who started, DeAndre
More didn't have a catch, and so you just don't
know in our system, and so again we.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Just want to make our reps count.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
We don't we don't try to count our reps, and
we just tried to play to the best of our ability.
And and with this group now more than ever, we
tell them to empty the tank because the guy next
guy can go in. You can get you can you know,
you know, get your win back, and then we'll get
you back out on the field.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Like that phrase, don't count your reps, make your reps count.
That's a great coach speak thing to have there, all right,
Coming up next, Cameron and I take a look around
the NFL and make our preseason predictions on how it's
going to go in the National Football that's next on
Sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone of the i
R Radio app.
Let's hear some more from Loghorn's head coach, Steve Sarkeesian,
and we've heard him talk about his wide receiver room,
quarterback play, the enormity of the game. Another question about
the receiving corps deals with freshman Ryan Wingo wound up
being leading pass catcher in the contest, and at what
(00:22):
point was it that sark saw that from Wingo that
he knew that he'd be ready for a stage this big.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well, I think the thing about Ryan, even throughout the
recruiting process and then early on when he got here,
there is a real sense of maturity about him. He's
a worker, he loves football, He's humble, he knows that
he is not a finished product, but yet he continues
to work every day, and as he gets incremental growth
and incremental success, he just continues to stack that on
(00:55):
top of the work that he's already put in. And so,
like I said, I value the humility, but I also
value the work ethic, and I also value the confidence
that he has in himself to go do the things
that he's doing. And so he's just got a great
he's got a great demeanor about him, and he goes
about his business the right way, and not only on
the field but off the field.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Speaking of putting in the work and work ethic, there's
another guy who's been grinding a way like that because
he's had to grind it more than one position of late,
and that's Ryan Niblett. Now nibble of the course as
a receiver, but Nibblett played a lot of running back
in high school. And with the shortage in the running
back room, there's that term again. It apparently that's that's
(01:35):
the new thing. Cam By the way, that's driving a
lot of folks on social media crazy is to use
terms like the quarterback room, the running back room. So
you know it's and there's a lot of did off
my lawn, older guys, what is what is the deal
like calling it the quarterback room, the wide receiver room.
(01:56):
What what's the necessity there? Somebody pointed this out, In fact,
it was Susanne Halibert used to be the beat writer
for long Win Football for the Austin American station, and
she pointed out it was in some social media conversation
that she first heard this term and I did as well,
first used by Longhorn's offensive coordinator Greg Davis back in
(02:20):
the heady days of that first decade of the two
thousands when Texas had the ten consecutive seasons of nine
or more wins, and I think it was nine consecutive
seasons of ten or more wins included in that going
in to the Rose Bowl, the most talked about Rose
Bowl against Michigan this week of January first of two
(02:42):
thousand and five, followed by the two thousand and five
National Championship season that ended in that January fourth, two
thousand and six Rose Bowl, and then three years later
back playing for the national championship in the BCS National
Championship Gameainst. Alabama. During that time when Greg Davis was
the offensive coordinator, there were times when if say, Keith
(03:05):
Warland and I and Keith was working with me on
the broadcast, and Roger Wats would come over as well.
He was on the sidelines for US back in those days,
and we sit in the office with Greg Davison look
at film and look at and talk about different quarterbacks
and stuff like that, and Greg would say he would say, well,
you know so and so, so and so and so
and so, and he'd say he's a lot of good
talent in that room. So he would say it in
(03:28):
that room. That's the first time I ever really heard
of it. And obviously what the visualization is is guys
sitting in the film room with their position coach or
coordinator looking at it, looking and thinks that's where it
came from. But I know some people kind of get
worn out on that, just like they get worn out
on saying the whole title National Football League and so
(03:50):
just NFL.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
That's happened in the past few years. It is what
it is.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
That's one of those things that there's lots of those phrases.
I guess it kind of drive folks nuts at one point.
But in talking about a guy who balances between the rooms,
Ryan Niblett, wide receiver, in the wide receiver room, but
also in the running back room because they used him,
especially when there were injuries in that running back room.
(04:20):
The transition and the adjustment to being in both rooms
or working with both units came on pretty quickly for
him down the stretch, and so Sark was asked, what
is a day of practice like for Ryan Niblett between
working with the receivers and with the running backs.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You know, I think the first thing is you have
to remember he has banked reps at the wide receiver
spot right from all of last year, all throughout springball,
all throughout summer, and so he is very comfortable and
confident at the receiver spot. I think right now we're
really just trying to continue to hone in on the
things at the running back position. And then when he
he isn't wide out, you know, it's easy for him
(05:02):
to fall back on the training that he's had, you know,
for the last you know, sixteen eighteen months whatever that is.
But also on top of that, he's become a real
player for us on special teams and so that's a
whole other level of you know, where we're relying on
him as in the special teams aspect. And so I
love what Ryan's done. You know, He's really changed his
(05:22):
body composition. He's playing fast. He you know, I think
last Saturday he hit over twenty two miles an hour
in game speed, which is which is flying. And we
thought about we thought that about him out of high school.
I think he was like a ten to four ten
five hundred meter guy that is utilizing that speed now
and it's and it's been effective for him, not only
(05:43):
like I said on offense, but on special teams.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Can you ever clock yourself? I have not, but it's
definitely not twenty two miles per When I played baseball
during through my sophomore year in high school, I think
that's where it ended for me.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
After that, but I did, yeah, very quick. It ended
after my sophomore year.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
In part because my high school at the time didn't
have a baseball program. They developed one, but they didn't
have one, and I don't know. Maybe I would have
made the tim I didn't hit well enough to do it.
I was a singles hit or a slap hitter. I
wasn't I couldn't hit for power, but I was pretty
fast and I was an outfielder. I could get to
a lot of balls. And I remember when I was
(06:30):
a sophomore in high school, my dad timed me one
time and the fastest I got up to I don't
remember an actual quote unquote forty time or whatever, but
I got clocked one time at fifteen miles per hour.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
It's pretty good, so I.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Thought, oh, okay, this dude's twenty two miles per hour.
I was kind of happy and proud of myself to
getting up to fifteen miles per hour. And here's because
twenty two miles per hour, like Sark said, that's flying.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
That's that's really moving.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Okay, one more thing about receiving the football, whether you
talk about a receiver or whether you're talking about a
running back. What we're discussing and what Sark was asked
about was the screen game and it's importance to the offense.
How important is the screen game to Sark's offensive game
plan and does he look at any other specific coaches
(07:24):
to use offensive concepts from.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I don't think it's a secret. We like the screen game. Again,
you know, we have an adage on offense. The more
things we can do really well, we feel like, the
harder we are to defend.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
And so if we're a really good running team, we're.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Really good rpo team, really good drop back pass team
for really good play action pass team. And if really
we're a really good screen team, really good tempo team,
whatever that is. We're trying to do as many things
as we can really really well. And we do value
the screen game. And you know, every game is different.
Some games the screen game is a real factor. In
(08:00):
other games, maybe that's not something that we're as focused on,
but it is something that I think, can you know,
create value for yourself on offense, and I know we
spend time on it to be good at it. But
I also know from a defensive perspective, you know, you
have to practice that when you're getting ready to playoffs.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Speaking the defensive perspective from his own team's defensive perspective,
Sark was asked about looking at the two quarterbacks, Davis
Warren and Alex Orgy. Now Orgie actually through a touchdown
pass just as Davis Warren did. But you didn't have
to watch very much of that game last Saturday at
(08:38):
to see who's the passer and who's the run based quarterback.
Orgie is definitely more comfortable running the football and being
more mobile and being able to throw in the run.
Warren much more of your standard pocket passer type quarterback.
But Davis Warren's story in itself is quite impressive. A
young man who had not made a start since twenty nineteen,
(09:00):
who battled leukemia, whose very health and well being was
in the balance for a while, then came back that
Sark also mentioned there's another spoiler alert from last night
Long on Weekly, Sark mentioned that Davis Warren went to
high school or middle school with his daughter.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I think it was with Sark's daughter. I think he
mentioned last night, but.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Davis Warren has really turned his own fortunes around once
he got healthy and stayed with it. And Sark was asked,
how challenging is it to face a quarterback like Davis
Warren when you don't have much to go on. That
was his first start, as have mentioned since twenty nineteen
to look at on tape.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Well, I think the challenges is Davis's ability to operate
their offense. You know, there are so many things that
systematically they do that are on the quarterback at the
line of scrimmage, and I think that that's why he's definitely,
you know, got a good head on his shoulders and
can make those necessary checks and different things that the
line of scrimmage protection changes, so on and so forth.
(10:07):
I think naturally he's probably got to be a really
good competitor. You don't get to become the quarterback at
Michigan without having a real competitive spirit about you. And
and you know, I'm sure you know, you get a
game under your belt and you come out with a win,
you start to develop that confidence and a willingness to
trust your your ability to make some of those plays,
and so you know he'll do that, and and Orgy
(10:29):
is going to play, I think it's critical for us
to recognize, you know, when he is in the game.
And I think it's going to be critical for us
to recognize if they leave both of them on the
field at the same time, and how we're going to
adjust to that, you know, if they're on the field
at the same time.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
So we have to be ready for things.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
That maybe they haven't put on tape yet, in one
of which being those two guys being on the field together.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
And one more.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
A bit of sound from Kurtzark. When you play seventy
seven guys, as he did last Saturday, and even if
you're not counting the ones who get in the second half,
the ones way down the depth chart, the walk ons,
things like that, even if you're just talking about you know,
you're too deep. You've got a lot of guys who
(11:14):
share snaps and reps. So Sark was asked how he
balances that out, he and his coaching staff with guys
who may have made a play, but they're they're coming
out after that play or two plays later. What if
somebody else is going in not because of something they
did right or wrong. It's just the rotation of how
it's going and what they want from a certain guy
(11:35):
in a certain down and distance or formationally however they
want to do it.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
And Sark was asked about that really simple. We just
reiterate to the players, don't count your reps. Make your
reps count. And it's a really simple formula that way.
You know, it's not how many times you're on the field,
it's what you do when you're on the field and
maximizing those opportunities when they come your way. Oddly enough,
you know Ryan Winger and and John tay Cook didn't
(12:01):
start in the game, but I think they they might
have had maybe the most yards and I think seven
catches between them, you know, as backups in essence, and
so we really don't look at him as backups.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
We look at him.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
We've got a great rotation at the receiver spot. Obviously,
you know Matt and and you know ib played really
well for us. And the one guy who started, DeAndre
More didn't have a catch, and so you just don't
know in our system, and so again we.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Just want to make our reps count.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
We don't we don't try to count our reps, and
we just tried to play to the best of our ability.
And and with this group now more than ever, we
tell them to empty the tank because the guy next
guy can go in. You can get you can you know,
you know, get your win back, and then we'll get
you back out on the field.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Like that phrase, don't count your reps, make your reps count.
That's a great coach speak thing to have there, all right,
Coming up next, Cameron and I take a look around
the NFL and make our preseason predictions on how it's
going to go in the National Football that's next on
Sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone of the i
R Radio app.
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