September 23, 2024 • 11 mins
With Quinn Ewers still questionable for Saturday's SEC conference opener against Mississippi State, Arch Manning may get his second start of the season. Sark responded to questions about what a potential gameplan could look like plus how the defense under Johnny Nansen has looked.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
And we're back to the Craigway Show.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Have a message for Craig, Share it by using the
talkback feature on the Ihearts radio app.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
It's a long worne Monday.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Why are we here from head coach Steve Sarkisian from
the weekly news conference. We talk pro football as we
have done today, and we'll do some more in Major
League baseball, other college football as well.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
We'll go to all of that.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
We'll continue with all of that, but let's go back
to the Steve Sarkisian news conference, the presser, which we
brought to you live this morning on sports Radio AM
thirteen under the Zone. As always, there's always conversation about
the quarterbacks, especially in this town, with these two particular
quarterbacks with the team right now, and with Arch Panning
(01:01):
coming off his starting debut, which was as Steve said,
Sarkesian that it was was good, He said it was
not spectacular. There were growing areas for him, and so
he was asked about Arch's growth process and how much
he's wanting to continue to learn and push the envelope
(01:22):
on that. And sarak had mentioned earlier in the press
or that there can be something as too much information
and kind of cloud the brain a little bit. But
he was asked about the balance of how Arch goes
about the business of doing that.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Oh, I think you will, and that just comes with him.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
He's a really conscientious guy and he wants to do
it right, and sometimes some of the more simple things
he can overthink it a little. But that's just going
to come from playing and being loose and confident, and
that's really when he's at his best. I mean, I
could tell you when he's loose and confident and enjoying
being with his teammates and playing.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Ball, that's when he's at his best.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It's just that fine line of figuring that out and
that's why experience is so important at that position.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Next was that question about being SEC ready, because remember
when back in twenty twenty one, when this came down,
at the very least, there were multitudes asking the question,
will Texas be ready?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Will Oklahoma be ready? Will they be SEC ready?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
That's at the very least on the other end, where
people and there's no way this program is ready for that.
They won't be ready for that, so on and so forth,
and Sark was asked about the readiness for SEC play
now that they're about to embark on conference games in
the Southeastern Conference and what SEC ready means and were
they able to get to that point by what they
(02:44):
did in their final season the Big Twelve and their
first four ball games of this season.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You know, I felt like a year ago, we we
were you know, we kind of had built the team
the way we wanted to look. You know, we were big,
we were physical, we had great speed on the perimeter.
I just didn't know if we quite had the depth
of where we needed to be across the board.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
But we were a pretty good team.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Last year and I think that got validated some by
going to Tuscaloosa and beating Alabama there and they eventually
went on to be the SEC champs. But this year,
probably I think the element that I was questioning from
a year ago was the depth. And I think that
we do have the depth on this roster to withstand
(03:31):
the strain that the SEC can put on your roster
over that eight game that eight game season that you
play in conference. So that part is probably the most
encouraging for me now that we kind of feel more
of a complete team that way because of the depth
editions that we've had.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Okay, so there was a question.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
I think it was our colleague Roger Wallace and asked
him about the culture thing because a lot of the
guys I've noticed this on the postgame interviews as well
as the interviews that Will Matthews has garnered with long
warm players. We want to hear some more of those
conversations this week about, for one of a better term,
a no nonsense approach to things, how it's on to
the next opponent, getting ready for the Saturday night and
(04:10):
the post game. In fact, Johnny Baron was talking about
I think Will Matthews said, what what what will the
conversation be like with some of the other guys, with
some of the younger guys when you say, yeah, this
is fun tonight, but tomorrow we start looking at Tate
from Mississippi State, and Jahday's response, pretty plain, plainly spoken,
was well, I'm going home and looking at some of
(04:32):
their stuff tonight. Sark said that that's the side of
a mature football team. So that's all part of that
culture thing that Sark was asked about.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Well, I think they've you know, as as a team,
we've grown that way from a culture standpoint.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
You got to remember, now, everybody outside of.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I think there's like four or five guys we either
recruited or they've they don't know any different than being
part of our program. And so the belief in our culture,
the belief and the way we speak and the way
we talk and the way we act, I think is real.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
It's true to them.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
And what I enjoy is being at dinner or being
on the bus going to going to the hotel, or
listening to our guys or watching their press conferences or
watching their interviews. I kind of I kind of get
goosebumps when I hear what I say to them and
I've been saying to them over three years come out
of their mouth and they're not thinking about it. It
just flows naturally for them. And so now it's not
(05:27):
coach talk, it's that's our team talk. That's that's the
way we we've kind of been structured and so and
that just means that not only have they bought into
what we're saying, they're living it in there. Like I said,
they've elevated our culture and the belief in what we
do to a point to where, like I said, I
think they live it. And then I think that they
start drilling it down and the younger players of why
(05:48):
it's important. And when we start answering the why, that's
when good things really start.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
To happen for us.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
There was another Arch related question for Sarka had to
do with game planning, you know, for last Saturday, I
went through it and getting ready for this Saturdays game
Againstssissippi State.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
No, it was definitely the plan going into that game.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
We felt like there we there were some things there
that we could take some shots at. And you know,
in a game plan for us, my call sheet has
got you know, it's got all sorts of different styles
of plays and throws.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
And then in the end, I was.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Sitting with coach Milwy and we were getting ready to
you know, kind of do our openers and must calls
and then our openers, and we looked up.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I mean, man, there's a lot of shots on here.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
And I think part of that is a byproduct of
we liked those plays going into the game.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Part of it was a byproductive.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I think Arch is a really good deep ball thrower
and and gives guys chances to go make plays on
those shots down the field and his willingness to go
do that, and so it's probably a byproduct of a
few of those things. But in the end, like I said,
Friday or Saturday night, you know, with a young quarterback,
I'm kind of kicking myself a little. I wish I
(06:55):
had a few other kind of freebie completions for him,
just so that there could have been a little bit
more balance and not you know, you, you know, getting
that completion percentage up, being efficient and moving the change.
But the explosive plays are great when you can hit
him down the field. You just got to know when
when to check the ball down and not not everyone
has to be that throw and so but that's again
(07:16):
learning experience for him and learning experience for me too,
working with him of what that looks like, you know,
with him in game.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
All right, So, the Texas defense limited Uelman Road to
one hundred and eleven yards total offense, fifty seven through
the air, fifty four on the ground. And this defense
continues to be aggressive, It continues to get takeaways, and
start continues to get questions about Johnny Nansen's effect on
(07:43):
this defense, his influence on this defense coming in from Arizona.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Again, the continuity of having p K.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Blake, Gideon Terry Joseph, you know here for three years,
excuse me, in year four now I think has been great.
I do think the addition of Johnnie Nansen has been
a good one of you know, they were playing really
good defense at Arizona last year, and his presence with
our team now, I think one from a schematic standpoint,
(08:11):
but two.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Just his style of coaching.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
You know, he's definitely you know, we've got to make
sure we keep him off the field during the game.
You know, he'll find his way out on the grass.
But he's high intensity, a lot of passion, and I
think the players really respond to him, and I think
that that works really well working with PK. Of PK's demeanor,
Johnny's demeanor to go along with the other guys, and
(08:35):
so you know, again he brought some schematic things to
us that I think have been helpful, but also I
think his presence not only on game day but throughout
the week at practice and then our building has been
helpful as well.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Which then led into what the pillars of their philosophy
are defensively and what they want to achieve.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Well, I think I think all of the every position
is a pillar over there. You know, you want to
be really stout on your interior defensive line.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
You know, we believe in stopping the run.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
If you if you don't stop the run, now a
team can do whatever they want to do. And that's
a long day. And so we wanted to be stout
on the interior defensive line. We wanted to make sure
that we could, uh, you know, we could have impact
pass rushers that can come off the edge and be
violent off the edge. We needed to make sure that
we had, you know, length and speed on the perimeter
to take care of all of the perimeter screens and
(09:25):
things that people get free yards on, and we wanted
to knock some of those things down. We needed versatile
players at star and at and at safety because those guys, again,
they have to blitz, they have to cover, they have
to play man demand, they have to do a lot
of different things, and you need their versatility.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
And then we want to really athletic linebackers, you know,
uh in this day and age of college football, Uh,
the way people spread the field. It's it's one thing
to be just a tough, hard nosed backer, but you
need the athleticism, uh to play at those positions as well.
So I think we've kind of touched on all those
things as we've own as a program, and you can
kind of look at the body types of our guys
(10:04):
at the varying positions now give you a pretty good
idea of what we're looking for at those spots as
we go, as we go to try to identify.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Okay, and then one more quarterback related question. Now, this
one had to do with QB. One that would be
Quinn viewers, and as he has continued to try to
work to bounce back and rehab off of the abdomen
oblique injury, there's that trust factor between head coach and
(10:33):
quarterback about the relationship. But when he's good to go,
how effective can he be? And he was asked about
all that.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, No, I think the beauty of it for Quinn
and I is our time together, him having to come
back from injuries previously, him knowing that, you know, him
being honest with me as in his best interest and
our best interests and things of that nature, that I'll
you know, do everything in my power to put him
in the best position to be successful if he plays
(11:02):
and if he doesn't, Okay, what does that look like
moving forward? But that I think our history together is
probably the most beneficial thing that we have going for
us this week.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
All right.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
So there it is Long Oorts head coach Steve Sarcisian
with the weekly news conference, and of course we bring
it to you each and every Monday live here on
the Zone, and we do that beginning at eleven am.
Is when our coverage begins at eleven am, and then
with our Long Worns Monday coverage. Speaking of Longhorns, ESPN
(11:35):
has its brand new college football Power rankings out.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
We'll talk about those.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
No mystery is to who's number one, but there's a
lot of other shuffling and mixing going on with that.
We'll get to that and some other topics when we
continue on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone and
the iHeartRadio app.
And we're back to the Craigway Show.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Have a message for Craig, Share it by using the
talkback feature on the Ihearts radio app.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
It's a long worne Monday.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Why are we here from head coach Steve Sarkisian from
the weekly news conference. We talk pro football as we
have done today, and we'll do some more in Major
League baseball, other college football as well.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
We'll go to all of that.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
We'll continue with all of that, but let's go back
to the Steve Sarkisian news conference, the presser, which we
brought to you live this morning on sports Radio AM
thirteen under the Zone. As always, there's always conversation about
the quarterbacks, especially in this town, with these two particular
quarterbacks with the team right now, and with Arch Panning
(01:01):
coming off his starting debut, which was as Steve said,
Sarkesian that it was was good, He said it was
not spectacular. There were growing areas for him, and so
he was asked about Arch's growth process and how much
he's wanting to continue to learn and push the envelope
(01:22):
on that. And sarak had mentioned earlier in the press
or that there can be something as too much information
and kind of cloud the brain a little bit. But
he was asked about the balance of how Arch goes
about the business of doing that.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Oh, I think you will, and that just comes with him.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
He's a really conscientious guy and he wants to do
it right, and sometimes some of the more simple things
he can overthink it a little. But that's just going
to come from playing and being loose and confident, and
that's really when he's at his best. I mean, I
could tell you when he's loose and confident and enjoying
being with his teammates and playing.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Ball, that's when he's at his best.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It's just that fine line of figuring that out and
that's why experience is so important at that position.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Next was that question about being SEC ready, because remember
when back in twenty twenty one, when this came down,
at the very least, there were multitudes asking the question,
will Texas be ready?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Will Oklahoma be ready? Will they be SEC ready?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
That's at the very least on the other end, where
people and there's no way this program is ready for that.
They won't be ready for that, so on and so forth,
and Sark was asked about the readiness for SEC play
now that they're about to embark on conference games in
the Southeastern Conference and what SEC ready means and were
they able to get to that point by what they
(02:44):
did in their final season the Big Twelve and their
first four ball games of this season.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You know, I felt like a year ago, we we
were you know, we kind of had built the team
the way we wanted to look. You know, we were big,
we were physical, we had great speed on the perimeter.
I just didn't know if we quite had the depth
of where we needed to be across the board.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
But we were a pretty good team.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Last year and I think that got validated some by
going to Tuscaloosa and beating Alabama there and they eventually
went on to be the SEC champs. But this year,
probably I think the element that I was questioning from
a year ago was the depth. And I think that
we do have the depth on this roster to withstand
(03:31):
the strain that the SEC can put on your roster
over that eight game that eight game season that you
play in conference. So that part is probably the most
encouraging for me now that we kind of feel more
of a complete team that way because of the depth
editions that we've had.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Okay, so there was a question.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
I think it was our colleague Roger Wallace and asked
him about the culture thing because a lot of the
guys I've noticed this on the postgame interviews as well
as the interviews that Will Matthews has garnered with long
warm players. We want to hear some more of those
conversations this week about, for one of a better term,
a no nonsense approach to things, how it's on to
the next opponent, getting ready for the Saturday night and
(04:10):
the post game. In fact, Johnny Baron was talking about
I think Will Matthews said, what what what will the
conversation be like with some of the other guys, with
some of the younger guys when you say, yeah, this
is fun tonight, but tomorrow we start looking at Tate
from Mississippi State, and Jahday's response, pretty plain, plainly spoken,
was well, I'm going home and looking at some of
(04:32):
their stuff tonight. Sark said that that's the side of
a mature football team. So that's all part of that
culture thing that Sark was asked about.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Well, I think they've you know, as as a team,
we've grown that way from a culture standpoint.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
You got to remember, now, everybody outside of.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I think there's like four or five guys we either
recruited or they've they don't know any different than being
part of our program. And so the belief in our culture,
the belief and the way we speak and the way
we talk and the way we act, I think is real.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
It's true to them.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
And what I enjoy is being at dinner or being
on the bus going to going to the hotel, or
listening to our guys or watching their press conferences or
watching their interviews. I kind of I kind of get
goosebumps when I hear what I say to them and
I've been saying to them over three years come out
of their mouth and they're not thinking about it. It
just flows naturally for them. And so now it's not
(05:27):
coach talk, it's that's our team talk. That's that's the
way we we've kind of been structured and so and
that just means that not only have they bought into
what we're saying, they're living it in there. Like I said,
they've elevated our culture and the belief in what we
do to a point to where, like I said, I
think they live it. And then I think that they
start drilling it down and the younger players of why
(05:48):
it's important. And when we start answering the why, that's
when good things really start.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
To happen for us.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
There was another Arch related question for Sarka had to
do with game planning, you know, for last Saturday, I
went through it and getting ready for this Saturdays game
Againstssissippi State.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
No, it was definitely the plan going into that game.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
We felt like there we there were some things there
that we could take some shots at. And you know,
in a game plan for us, my call sheet has
got you know, it's got all sorts of different styles
of plays and throws.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
And then in the end, I was.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Sitting with coach Milwy and we were getting ready to
you know, kind of do our openers and must calls
and then our openers, and we looked up.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I mean, man, there's a lot of shots on here.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
And I think part of that is a byproduct of
we liked those plays going into the game.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Part of it was a byproductive.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I think Arch is a really good deep ball thrower
and and gives guys chances to go make plays on
those shots down the field and his willingness to go
do that, and so it's probably a byproduct of a
few of those things. But in the end, like I said,
Friday or Saturday night, you know, with a young quarterback,
I'm kind of kicking myself a little. I wish I
(06:55):
had a few other kind of freebie completions for him,
just so that there could have been a little bit
more balance and not you know, you, you know, getting
that completion percentage up, being efficient and moving the change.
But the explosive plays are great when you can hit
him down the field. You just got to know when
when to check the ball down and not not everyone
has to be that throw and so but that's again
(07:16):
learning experience for him and learning experience for me too,
working with him of what that looks like, you know,
with him in game.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
All right, So, the Texas defense limited Uelman Road to
one hundred and eleven yards total offense, fifty seven through
the air, fifty four on the ground. And this defense
continues to be aggressive, It continues to get takeaways, and
start continues to get questions about Johnny Nansen's effect on
(07:43):
this defense, his influence on this defense coming in from Arizona.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Again, the continuity of having p K.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Blake, Gideon Terry Joseph, you know here for three years,
excuse me, in year four now I think has been great.
I do think the addition of Johnnie Nansen has been
a good one of you know, they were playing really
good defense at Arizona last year, and his presence with
our team now, I think one from a schematic standpoint,
(08:11):
but two.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Just his style of coaching.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
You know, he's definitely you know, we've got to make
sure we keep him off the field during the game.
You know, he'll find his way out on the grass.
But he's high intensity, a lot of passion, and I
think the players really respond to him, and I think
that that works really well working with PK. Of PK's demeanor,
Johnny's demeanor to go along with the other guys, and
(08:35):
so you know, again he brought some schematic things to
us that I think have been helpful, but also I
think his presence not only on game day but throughout
the week at practice and then our building has been
helpful as well.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Which then led into what the pillars of their philosophy
are defensively and what they want to achieve.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Well, I think I think all of the every position
is a pillar over there. You know, you want to
be really stout on your interior defensive line.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
You know, we believe in stopping the run.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
If you if you don't stop the run, now a
team can do whatever they want to do. And that's
a long day. And so we wanted to be stout
on the interior defensive line. We wanted to make sure
that we could, uh, you know, we could have impact
pass rushers that can come off the edge and be
violent off the edge. We needed to make sure that
we had, you know, length and speed on the perimeter
to take care of all of the perimeter screens and
(09:25):
things that people get free yards on, and we wanted
to knock some of those things down. We needed versatile
players at star and at and at safety because those guys, again,
they have to blitz, they have to cover, they have
to play man demand, they have to do a lot
of different things, and you need their versatility.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
And then we want to really athletic linebackers, you know,
uh in this day and age of college football, Uh,
the way people spread the field. It's it's one thing
to be just a tough, hard nosed backer, but you
need the athleticism, uh to play at those positions as well.
So I think we've kind of touched on all those
things as we've own as a program, and you can
kind of look at the body types of our guys
(10:04):
at the varying positions now give you a pretty good
idea of what we're looking for at those spots as
we go, as we go to try to identify.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Okay, and then one more quarterback related question. Now, this
one had to do with QB. One that would be
Quinn viewers, and as he has continued to try to
work to bounce back and rehab off of the abdomen
oblique injury, there's that trust factor between head coach and
(10:33):
quarterback about the relationship. But when he's good to go,
how effective can he be? And he was asked about
all that.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, No, I think the beauty of it for Quinn
and I is our time together, him having to come
back from injuries previously, him knowing that, you know, him
being honest with me as in his best interest and
our best interests and things of that nature, that I'll
you know, do everything in my power to put him
in the best position to be successful if he plays
(11:02):
and if he doesn't, Okay, what does that look like
moving forward? But that I think our history together is
probably the most beneficial thing that we have going for
us this week.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
All right.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
So there it is Long Oorts head coach Steve Sarcisian
with the weekly news conference, and of course we bring
it to you each and every Monday live here on
the Zone, and we do that beginning at eleven am.
Is when our coverage begins at eleven am, and then
with our Long Worns Monday coverage. Speaking of Longhorns, ESPN
(11:35):
has its brand new college football Power rankings out.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
We'll talk about those.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
No mystery is to who's number one, but there's a
lot of other shuffling and mixing going on with that.
We'll get to that and some other topics when we
continue on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone and
the iHeartRadio app.
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