September 19, 2024 • 8 mins
Steve Sarkisian spoke with the media on Thursday and discussed the week for Quinn Ewers, his health, and what his role will be on Saturday against ULM.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
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Speaker 3 (00:19):
All right, Thanks again to Mike Hammick play by play
voice the Warhawks of ULM for joining us here as
we gets ready for the Texas matchup against U El
Monroe coming up on Saturday evening at seven o'clock. Like
I said, it's still gonna be still gonna be warm,
(00:40):
it's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Kind of hot, so just dress appropriate.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I know, folks were really upset when it was announced
that the Colorado State game is gonna be a two
thirty kick and I was sitting there thinking to myself, Yeah, okay,
it's actually gonna get hot.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
There's the day goes on.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
We all got lucky because it was only a ninety
that day because that cooler system had moved through. Now you,
my friend, you and Hardball Harge and Mark Henry, you
guys were broiling last Saturday, weren't you.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I mentioned the kind of the similarity between me and
Afre Collins and down the football field, not in size,
just how much we sweat and how much Mark Henry's
poncho Polo. He was warring with a different shade of
burn orange after the show started and ended, because it
was just it was just so hot. But you know,
(01:36):
it's a lot of fun. It's part of the game
day experience, right, It's just sweating it now, maybe one
of the more things you don't enjoy, but it is
a part of it. And you know, we get a
night game on Saturday, which I guess technically it was
a night game, but because we start a little bit earlier,
bout four to six, we'll.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Be okay, yeah, and then by the time it kicks
off their at seven o'clock, it'll cool off and continue
to cool during the evening there, so won't.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Be quite so bad.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
So we tell everybody hydrate, hydrate, hydrate, then avail yourself
a big beer though, right because Big Bertha is right
near you guys, right.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
It's directly across from us. We have Big Beer Tha,
and we have the food trucks, and it was great.
The nice thing about having Mark Henry and Hardballhards is
because they know everyone down there. They know all the
owners of the food trucks, so they were bringing us
hamburger examples samples hamburgers and an outfit from South Padre.
(02:32):
I forget what they were doing, but they brought like
a platter like pineapple and shrimp and fruit and agua frescas.
You know, they took care of us well, which is nice.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
So when you got into the boot to spot for
me and I said, hey, go down the hall and
get something to eat, I was sitting there thinking you
had to have been one hundred, not so much.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
That's why. I don't know if you noticed. I saved
something until halftime. Okay, had for dinner. Good idea, good idea.
All right, let's hear some more from Sark.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
We were talking about his announcement that arch Manning would start,
and the progress of quinn Ewers and Jayden Blue and
Trey Wiser in terms of the injuries on the offensive
side and the progress those guys were making.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Let's flip it to the defensive side.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
And he was asked about defensive schemes and how those
have kind of changed over the years. You know for
three uh three three stacked three three five four two five?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
What was the question?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
And I apologized, we weren't able to get to your Q.
You had a question for sark last night they got
rid of the card and we did I Philly forgot
about Well, we didn't have time to get to it
because we had to get uh, we had to get
to Adrian Phillis.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
But what was your question was about defense?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, it's about how in the NFL we've seen too
high luck defensively. I think he was sixty percent in
week one and then fifty eight percent in week two.
It's the highest ever NFL history. It's jumped up from
I think it was like thirty percent a few years ago,
now up to sixty percent. So my question on the
Plucker's card you filled out, you give to the.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
DJ or the Indale Dale the Tom Herman used to
call the hype man the hype man, just you know,
you'll check it, make sure there's no like.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
It's not a weird question or a derogatory question.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It's you know, it is a family show that My
question was, well, you know, what is what is sarka?
Has he seen that that's same two high look a
lot so far in the first three games. And as
a coach, how would he want to counteract at And
so this question that brought the play kind of kind
of similar, kind of similar.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, yeah, that that sort of deal about have defensive
schemes changed over the years.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
There's more split safety defenses, right, is that they're saying
in the NFL, now I can't play cover two anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I didn't understand that, but anyhow, you know, I.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Mean, I think, I think naturally you're seeing more nickel
defense than ever. And what I mean by that is
regardless of the front, whether it's three down or four
down front, but people are playing with five dbs even
versus even versus some of the twelve personnel stuff. They're
they're more willing to do that because people are now
more in tuned to having that the second tight end
(05:01):
being a really kind of a highbrid wide receiver tight
end athletic type guy, and they're breaking formations and things.
So that's probably been to me, one of the bigger
changes is the the willingness from majority of defenses just
to play nickel defense and kind of we've we've evolved
out of the base defense stuff, and so that's probably
(05:21):
the biggest thing.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
The fronts are the fronts.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
You know, people are still blitzing, they're finding different ways
to pressure and all the coverages are still there, you know,
and then we get them all. But I think that's
probably the biggest thing, is just the willingness to play
Nickel even versus some of the bigger personnel groupings.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Okay, all right, that's one thing. Back to the offense.
I want to know how Quinn yours has handled the week.
He's been, as we know, you know, trying to recover
from the oblique injury, and so he's probably not going
to play at all on Saturday, Arch banding is going
to start.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
So Sarkos ask how Quinn has handled the week.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Anytime you initially come out of a ball game, there's
a level of frustration. But I think as the week
has gone on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Uh, he's
in really good spirits. I think, you know, one thing
I tried to impress upon Quinn. You know, all the
goals he had and that we've had for him coming
into the season are all still there for him.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
You know.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
I think we have a national championship caliber team and
he's the quarterback of that team, and I think we
still have that in front of us to go do that.
I think with with some of the games that we
have coming up down the road. Uh, this guy is
going to be in New York for the Heisman and
whether he wins it or not, but he has the
ability to do that, and I think he has ability
to be a top five NFL draft pick. So all
(06:35):
the things that I think he's capable of are still
out there for him. And this this Saturday, him not
playing in this game this Saturday is not going to
impact those three things that that I know are our
goals that that we've set for him, and that uh.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
He's working towards.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
And so I think his psyche has come back in
a really positive frame.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
You know. Naturally, everybody's always a little you.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
You're a little down when you get when you when
you don't get to do what you love to do,
and he loves to play football. But I think his
understanding of he's getting healthy and he's getting healthy quickly
and that and that all the goals and things are
are still out there in front of him to go
achieve this season has really kind of inspired him to
to get back and to feel good and when his
numbers called be ready to play.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
See I don't know how closely folks paid attention to
what Sarg just said there. But for those of you
out there who think that Quinn yours has never seen
the field again, that thing where he's talking about Quinn,
he still expects to see him in New York, the
Heights been all that kind of stuff. You don't get
there unless you have a really good season, and you
don't have a really good seas unless you're playing.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
So anyway, that's that's that.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I want to meet the people who are hammering the
arch manning Heisman odds because he has the same odds
right now as Quinn.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
You are. That's Heman's. It's utterly ridiculous. And Arch would
tell you it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I think so, I would tell you the same thing.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah, he would. We'll hear some more from Sark coming
up next hour. We'll be back to wrap up our
number two of the program here on sports Radio AM
thirteen under the zone of the iHeartRadio app.
That to the Craig Wait Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Connect with Craig through the text line by text Team
Texas to eight one five three zero followed by your message.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Standard message and data rates may apply.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
All right, Thanks again to Mike Hammick play by play
voice the Warhawks of ULM for joining us here as
we gets ready for the Texas matchup against U El
Monroe coming up on Saturday evening at seven o'clock. Like
I said, it's still gonna be still gonna be warm,
(00:40):
it's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Kind of hot, so just dress appropriate.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I know, folks were really upset when it was announced
that the Colorado State game is gonna be a two
thirty kick and I was sitting there thinking to myself, Yeah, okay,
it's actually gonna get hot.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
There's the day goes on.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
We all got lucky because it was only a ninety
that day because that cooler system had moved through. Now you,
my friend, you and Hardball Harge and Mark Henry, you
guys were broiling last Saturday, weren't you.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I mentioned the kind of the similarity between me and
Afre Collins and down the football field, not in size,
just how much we sweat and how much Mark Henry's
poncho Polo. He was warring with a different shade of
burn orange after the show started and ended, because it
was just it was just so hot. But you know,
(01:36):
it's a lot of fun. It's part of the game
day experience, right, It's just sweating it now, maybe one
of the more things you don't enjoy, but it is
a part of it. And you know, we get a
night game on Saturday, which I guess technically it was
a night game, but because we start a little bit earlier,
bout four to six, we'll.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Be okay, yeah, and then by the time it kicks
off their at seven o'clock, it'll cool off and continue
to cool during the evening there, so won't.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Be quite so bad.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
So we tell everybody hydrate, hydrate, hydrate, then avail yourself
a big beer though, right because Big Bertha is right
near you guys, right.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
It's directly across from us. We have Big Beer Tha,
and we have the food trucks, and it was great.
The nice thing about having Mark Henry and Hardballhards is
because they know everyone down there. They know all the
owners of the food trucks, so they were bringing us
hamburger examples samples hamburgers and an outfit from South Padre.
(02:32):
I forget what they were doing, but they brought like
a platter like pineapple and shrimp and fruit and agua frescas.
You know, they took care of us well, which is nice.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
So when you got into the boot to spot for
me and I said, hey, go down the hall and
get something to eat, I was sitting there thinking you
had to have been one hundred, not so much.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
That's why. I don't know if you noticed. I saved
something until halftime. Okay, had for dinner. Good idea, good idea.
All right, let's hear some more from Sark.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
We were talking about his announcement that arch Manning would start,
and the progress of quinn Ewers and Jayden Blue and
Trey Wiser in terms of the injuries on the offensive
side and the progress those guys were making.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Let's flip it to the defensive side.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
And he was asked about defensive schemes and how those
have kind of changed over the years. You know for
three uh three three stacked three three five four two five?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
What was the question?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
And I apologized, we weren't able to get to your Q.
You had a question for sark last night they got
rid of the card and we did I Philly forgot
about Well, we didn't have time to get to it
because we had to get uh, we had to get
to Adrian Phillis.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
But what was your question was about defense?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, it's about how in the NFL we've seen too
high luck defensively. I think he was sixty percent in
week one and then fifty eight percent in week two.
It's the highest ever NFL history. It's jumped up from
I think it was like thirty percent a few years ago,
now up to sixty percent. So my question on the
Plucker's card you filled out, you give to the.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
DJ or the Indale Dale the Tom Herman used to
call the hype man the hype man, just you know,
you'll check it, make sure there's no like.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
It's not a weird question or a derogatory question.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It's you know, it is a family show that My
question was, well, you know, what is what is sarka?
Has he seen that that's same two high look a
lot so far in the first three games. And as
a coach, how would he want to counteract at And
so this question that brought the play kind of kind
of similar, kind of similar.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, yeah, that that sort of deal about have defensive
schemes changed over the years.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
There's more split safety defenses, right, is that they're saying
in the NFL, now I can't play cover two anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I didn't understand that, but anyhow, you know, I.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Mean, I think, I think naturally you're seeing more nickel
defense than ever. And what I mean by that is
regardless of the front, whether it's three down or four
down front, but people are playing with five dbs even
versus even versus some of the twelve personnel stuff. They're
they're more willing to do that because people are now
more in tuned to having that the second tight end
(05:01):
being a really kind of a highbrid wide receiver tight
end athletic type guy, and they're breaking formations and things.
So that's probably been to me, one of the bigger
changes is the the willingness from majority of defenses just
to play nickel defense and kind of we've we've evolved
out of the base defense stuff, and so that's probably
(05:21):
the biggest thing.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
The fronts are the fronts.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
You know, people are still blitzing, they're finding different ways
to pressure and all the coverages are still there, you know,
and then we get them all. But I think that's
probably the biggest thing, is just the willingness to play
Nickel even versus some of the bigger personnel groupings.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Okay, all right, that's one thing. Back to the offense.
I want to know how Quinn yours has handled the week.
He's been, as we know, you know, trying to recover
from the oblique injury, and so he's probably not going
to play at all on Saturday, Arch banding is going
to start.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
So Sarkos ask how Quinn has handled the week.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Anytime you initially come out of a ball game, there's
a level of frustration. But I think as the week
has gone on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Uh, he's
in really good spirits. I think, you know, one thing
I tried to impress upon Quinn. You know, all the
goals he had and that we've had for him coming
into the season are all still there for him.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
You know.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
I think we have a national championship caliber team and
he's the quarterback of that team, and I think we
still have that in front of us to go do that.
I think with with some of the games that we
have coming up down the road. Uh, this guy is
going to be in New York for the Heisman and
whether he wins it or not, but he has the
ability to do that, and I think he has ability
to be a top five NFL draft pick. So all
(06:35):
the things that I think he's capable of are still
out there for him. And this this Saturday, him not
playing in this game this Saturday is not going to
impact those three things that that I know are our
goals that that we've set for him, and that uh.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
He's working towards.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
And so I think his psyche has come back in
a really positive frame.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
You know. Naturally, everybody's always a little you.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
You're a little down when you get when you when
you don't get to do what you love to do,
and he loves to play football. But I think his
understanding of he's getting healthy and he's getting healthy quickly
and that and that all the goals and things are
are still out there in front of him to go
achieve this season has really kind of inspired him to
to get back and to feel good and when his
numbers called be ready to play.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
See I don't know how closely folks paid attention to
what Sarg just said there. But for those of you
out there who think that Quinn yours has never seen
the field again, that thing where he's talking about Quinn,
he still expects to see him in New York, the
Heights been all that kind of stuff. You don't get
there unless you have a really good season, and you
don't have a really good seas unless you're playing.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
So anyway, that's that's that.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I want to meet the people who are hammering the
arch manning Heisman odds because he has the same odds
right now as Quinn.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
You are. That's Heman's. It's utterly ridiculous. And Arch would
tell you it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I think so, I would tell you the same thing.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah, he would. We'll hear some more from Sark coming
up next hour. We'll be back to wrap up our
number two of the program here on sports Radio AM
thirteen under the zone of the iHeartRadio app.
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