September 30, 2024 • 16 mins
Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian fielded questions about the team's practice schedule this week with an open date on the calendar. Sark also was asked about SEC officiating in lue of heavy penalties the last few weeks, the offensive line's play, and also the status of Quinn Ewers.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome back to the craig Way Show and the Voice
of the Longhorns.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Craig Way.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Follow Craig on social media.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
At Horn Voice.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Dramatic final day in the baseball regular season, for sure,
with that Mets eight seven win over Atlanta and their
second game of the doubleheader starts in almost exactly a
half an hour right at about three fifty hour time.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
That's Game two of that doubleheader.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
And again the stakes now with the Mets having one
game one, they're in they will either be the five
seed or the six seeds. San Diego is the four seed,
the Division champions Scores, the Dodgers of the one seed,
the Western Division champ, The Phillies are the two seed,
the Eastern Division champ, and the Brewers of the three seed,
the Central Division champ. San Diego will be the top
seeded wildcard team and we'll host a wildcard best of
(01:01):
three series.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
It begins tomorrow at Petco Park. They're the four seed.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Milwaukee as the three seed, will host a wildcard series
and it'll be against either the Mets or the Diamondbacks.
The Braves if they win Game two, get in and
they will be the five seed if they get in
because they hold the tiebreaker not only on the Diamondbacks
but also on the Mets, so they would go to
San Diego if they went. If, however, the Mets should
(01:28):
sweep this double header, that would eliminate the Braves, Atlanta
would be out and Arizona would be in. They would
be the six and would go to Milwaukee, just like
they did last year when they beat them. Then they
beat the Dodgers, then they beat the Phillies, went to
the World Series before the Rangers took them down. And
under that scenario, the Mets would be the five seed
and go to San Diego to take on the Padres.
(01:50):
So that's what's still at stake as the final game
of the baseball regular season still has mean. This is
you know the reason and Kam that they talked about
how important this was.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
To expand the playoffs, and a lot of curists.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Like waters down, Oh, it adds meaning to everything here,
it adds meaning to these to these races. I'm all
for it. I think it's I think it's good to
have it. I think it's good for the game.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
I think I just checked Twitter, and I mean Twitter's
just blowing up from people who don't even really watch
baseball because of how crazy this back and forth is.
It It's good for the sport, especially for baseball. I
think playoff baseball is up there with just about anything
in sports, and so it's great to see this type
of coverage in this excitement because man, those those last
(02:44):
two innings just what a way And the regular season.
I can't imagine being a Mets fan or a Braves
fan right now. The heart palpitations you just had today,
Holy goo, and one more game to be played. Yeah,
we'll still one more h you know?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
I had had a Brave fan text me during the
break and said, I know they won't do this, but
I wish the Braves would not start sail and and
and his reasoning was twofold one. He doesn't think that
the game will mean anything to the Mets now that
(03:20):
they're in and if you're the match, really and truly,
if you lose the game, it means you go to
Milwaukee instead of San Diego. That might be a better
better draw for you, only because the Podres are a
hotter team going into the playoffs than than the Brewers are.
But you can't really draw it out like that. So
he said they probably it probably won't matter to them
(03:41):
one two, and he is a long time Braves fan,
does not believe Atlanta can beat San Diego if Chris
Sale doesn't pitch, and if Sale pitches this game, he could,
he would not be able to pitch, you know, maybe
an inning or two the bullpen, but that would be
it in a decisive game three, but that would be it.
(04:05):
He's had enough arm trouping problems where they couldn't turn
him around very quickly anyway. So it's I mean, you say, okay, well,
if you lose and then everybody's going to say you
lost and you didn't pitch your best pitcher in a
must win game, you didn't pitch him. It's that you know,
that's definitely going to be the second guesser's paradise to
(04:27):
do that. But I think he makes a point, do
you really have a chance to beat San Diego if
you don't have your best pitcher to win two games
and three tries, all of which are on the road.
It's a quandary for sure, but it's probably gonna be
a mood point. Atlanta knows they they've got to win
to get in, so they'll turn and hand the ball
to sale in all probability. All right, let's and we'll
(04:48):
keep you update on that once they get started again.
That'll be ten minutes for the top of the hour.
Let's hear some more from Long Worn's head coach Steve Sarkis,
And we heard his opening statement last hour. First question
that came up, somebody asked him about how he approaches
the bye week in terms of the logistical part of it,
the scheduling of the physical uh, you know, on the field,
(05:08):
the practices as opposed to the other things.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Yeah, So today we did our typical Monday meetings to
recap the game, position meetings, team meeting, offense, defensive meetings, goals,
players of the games, things of that nature, and then
they just lifted.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Today. We did not we did not practice, we didn't
walk through.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
We'll practice tomorrow, which would be more of our typical
Monday practice, will introduce ou, we'll get into the scouting report,
some initial thoughts and game plan, and then we'll practice.
Our normal Tuesday would be a Wednesday, and our normal
Wednesday will be Thursday. So we'll get the meat and
potatoes of the game plan kind of in this week,
(05:48):
and then the guys will have a lyft Friday morning,
and then they'll be off. We won't practice Friday, Saturday
or Sunday. I want them to go be with their families.
I want them to kind of get refreshed mentally, physically, emotionally,
and and we'll come back. We'll come back Monday, and
we'll get back to it and have a normal work
week to get ready for the ball game.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
All right.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Then they had something that doesn't usually happen in a
Sark press conference on Mondays, me asking a question. I
don't normally ask questions at the Monday press conference.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
And here's why this.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
For many of the media who are there, is there
one shot really to get a question to Sark. There
is the Thursday availabillion. There's a SEC teleconference, but the
SEC teleconference is with a vast array of reporters from
across the country, so it might be difficult even if
you're in the queue to get a question in. And
(06:44):
it's only a little less difficult on Thursdays because you
have the local media. It's their last opportunity visit with
Sark during the weekend, so they ask, you know, they
ask questions. Then also, I have a show where I
get to ask all the questions. And that's long worn
weekly with Sark on Wednesday nights. You know, it's his show.
(07:06):
I host the show, but I'm the only one asking
to it. Now, what I will do is I will
ask the questions that are submitted by fans that are
written down on cards.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I'll do that.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Plus I have some questions on my own, So I
have my opportunity to ask questions then and in the
pregame interview about an hour and a half before kick
we visit, or two hours before kickoff, we visit, and
I have the pregame conversation with Sark then, So I
have my opportunity to visit with Sark regularly on a
(07:38):
game week. This is not a game week, and this
is the only media availability the entire week for Sark.
So I did step away from the table and take
all the headset and walk over and raise my.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Hand and they handed me a microphone. So the question
I have for Sark.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Has to do with the mental as well as the physical,
because Sark does say that he really does study the
mental side of the game and the importance of the
mental outlook of the game as well as the physical.
So I asked Sark two questions. It wasn't a two
part question. By the way, I learned that a long
time ago. There's such a thing as a two part
(08:17):
question and two question. You'll hear that in news conference. Hey,
I have a two part question, how's your running game?
Blah blah blah, and the second part, can you update
the injury sent No, that's two different questions.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
That's not a two part question. So I had two questions.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
One, the physical part of an open date week a
bye week. Is it a little bit altered because it's
a bye week, like they didn't practice this morning, even
though they'll have like kind of a Monday practice tomorrow.
Does the direction and the physicality change when you have
(08:53):
a bye week set of practices from the physical perspective?
And do you zero in more on the mental side this?
And then the other question I asked Sark was does
he notice any real appreciable difference in the officiating from
the Big twelve to the SEC in terms of how
they look at holding? Like Sark had mentioned he thought
(09:14):
they they've had too many holding penalties of late, So
do SEC officials.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Look for it more or are there other.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Ways that they call it? That's different from how he
saw it in the Big twelve. So those were the
two questions that I had for Sark, and here were
his answers.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
The first one, we were talking about the mental side
of it, right, I do think like I'm I'm as
concerned as anybody for the duration of this season. You know,
the fact that we started a week earlier for training camp,
the fact that we played our first game in August
and we're hoping to play January twentieth. That's a long
haul for a for a student athlete, you know, who's
(09:53):
going to school, who's you know, eighteen nineteen years old,
and the toll that it can take. And I think
that we need to keep it fresh for them because
I do think the mental intensity we have to have
week in and week out is going to be really important.
And so you know, it's going to be kind of
an intensified mental approach to what we're trying to do schematically,
(10:13):
but then it's back off them and let them relax
a little bit. And I think that that's going to
be important so that when we come back next week,
we can really go you know, the officiating, I don't
I don't necessarily know that I see some dramatic difference.
Quite frankly, you know, I think they call it fairly,
you know, as fairly as it can be.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
You know.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
I don't know if I've had really any calls that
have just been so egregious that I felt like, man,
we got to turn that in. We've turned a few
things in to get explanations on, but for the most part,
it's been totally fine for me.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
All right, So those are the questions I had.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Now back to the all the rest of the media
asking questions, someone who's asked about the commonalities that he
has seen coming out of the first week and then
going through the bye week.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
I couldn't tell you I don't even know those ten
games if you don't know the truth, I just, honestly,
one of the keys to me is you have to
assess your team right, and where's your team and what
do you need and then address the needs right. If
we were through five games and I'm looking at it
(11:22):
here and we're ravaging eighty yards of game rushing and
we're giving up two hundred a game on the ground,
we're probably gonna have a really physical bye week, and
we got to get our fundamentals, our techniques, our physicality right,
and the run games. So it's where are we And
you got to do a real self audit of where
are we as a team? And then okay, where are
we putting our emphasis on where we're trying to get better,
(11:43):
but also where do we think we need to be
for the next couple of games, you know, schematically, and
what are we trying to work on or what are
we trying to improve upon. Even schematics that maybe we
put in in training camp didn't go the way we
wanted to, maybe we can revisit this week as well.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
So that's kind of the mindset that I have.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
And then and then you assess your players and I
look at like, again, I'm a believer in sports science.
I look at different players numbers and and maybe who's
on a little bit of a decline and who needs
to get refreshed, or maybe who's working their way back
that needs to get pushed more, or who just needs
time off right, and who's breaking down a little bit.
So we try to analyze the individual players on top
of the.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Okay, so anyway, the talk about the ANA analysis of
players coming out of playing five games both last year
and this year, next was about the offensive line and
what what he has seen from that and the time
that that he has taken to give snaps to the
(12:47):
backups and and spreading it all around the depth he
has on the O line.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Well, yeah, I've never really I've never really tracked it
like that to say you had X amount of time.
We use the term cooking steaks back there, right, those
of you that that that grill out. And the one
that the one that stood out the most to me
was the second touchdown pass to DeAndre more in the
back of the end zone.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Uh, it was tremendous protection and it.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Allowed ours to really step into that throw because he
had to he had to make a heck of a throw.
It was one thing to get it over the dB,
but it was another not to throw it out of
the back of the end zone, you know. And and
to do that you want to, you know, you want
to have a clean pocket to make that throw. But
even on some other plays, like you know, the first
touchdown to DeAndre, they brought one more guy that we
(13:35):
could block, but the line those five guys blocked their
five so well that Arch knew who the one free
hitter was gonna be. And and he showed a lot
of contact courage to make that throw.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
But I think there being assignment sound uh.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
In protection, they're doing a good job of finishing kind
of in the pocket to where he has a clean
pocket and not letting it get leaky. But again, you
know that that's a veteran group and they take a
lot of pride in it, whether it's Quinn, whether it's
Arch and take a lot of tough pride in protecting
the quarterback.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Okay, all right, there's that, and then next Sarkars has
for an update on Quinn Eewers, his progress toward possibly
being able to return for Oklahoma and how much film
study is going for the team right now into getting
ready for OU.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yeah. I mean he's just rehabbened as has been.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
I think he's been making steady progress, you know, one
day to the next, which is a good sign. You know,
we haven't had any setbacks. It's it's been steady progress.
I think he's getting stronger and more comfortable and more confident,
and so we'll just kind of stay the course with
that OU's defense. I think, you know a couple of
things stand out to me is their ability to get
(14:45):
to the quarterback and we just talked about past protection,
but they're one of the one of the country's leaders,
nations leaders. And sacking the quarterback then they do a
great job at creating turnovers. And then those are both
things that are kind of staples of Brent Venable's defenses. Right,
very attacking, really schematic. You know, they got all the schematics,
and he's not afraid to call it and do it
(15:06):
different from one week to the next. And so I
think that attacking style of getting to the quarterback creating
turnovers is there's the two main things that really jump
out to me.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
All Right, we'll hear more from Start coming up later
as well updates. We were talking about whether it would
make a difference whether the Chris Sales started for game
two for Atlanta, spending him instead of saving him hoping
that you win this game and then have him for
game one available for San Diego or even game two. Well,
(15:38):
those who were hoping for that have gotten their wish
awards come down. Chris Sale has been scratched from starting
Game two back spasms, so he's not going to pitch
Game two. So the Brave's gonna have to do it
the hard way and win a must game that they
have to have to get into the postseason without the race,
But if they do, it's probable he'll be recovered enough
(16:00):
to start in San Diego. If not, tomorrow is certainly
for Game two off of that, so we'll see how
that goes, all right. We'll have more coming up when
we continue on sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone
of the iHeart Radio app.
Welcome back to the craig Way Show and the Voice
of the Longhorns.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Craig Way.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Follow Craig on social media.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
At Horn Voice.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Dramatic final day in the baseball regular season, for sure,
with that Mets eight seven win over Atlanta and their
second game of the doubleheader starts in almost exactly a
half an hour right at about three fifty hour time.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
That's Game two of that doubleheader.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
And again the stakes now with the Mets having one
game one, they're in they will either be the five
seed or the six seeds. San Diego is the four seed,
the Division champions Scores, the Dodgers of the one seed,
the Western Division champ, The Phillies are the two seed,
the Eastern Division champ, and the Brewers of the three seed,
the Central Division champ. San Diego will be the top
seeded wildcard team and we'll host a wildcard best of
(01:01):
three series.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
It begins tomorrow at Petco Park. They're the four seed.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Milwaukee as the three seed, will host a wildcard series
and it'll be against either the Mets or the Diamondbacks.
The Braves if they win Game two, get in and
they will be the five seed if they get in
because they hold the tiebreaker not only on the Diamondbacks
but also on the Mets, so they would go to
San Diego if they went. If, however, the Mets should
(01:28):
sweep this double header, that would eliminate the Braves, Atlanta
would be out and Arizona would be in. They would
be the six and would go to Milwaukee, just like
they did last year when they beat them. Then they
beat the Dodgers, then they beat the Phillies, went to
the World Series before the Rangers took them down. And
under that scenario, the Mets would be the five seed
and go to San Diego to take on the Padres.
(01:50):
So that's what's still at stake as the final game
of the baseball regular season still has mean. This is
you know the reason and Kam that they talked about
how important this was.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
To expand the playoffs, and a lot of curists.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Like waters down, Oh, it adds meaning to everything here,
it adds meaning to these to these races. I'm all
for it. I think it's I think it's good to
have it. I think it's good for the game.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
I think I just checked Twitter, and I mean Twitter's
just blowing up from people who don't even really watch
baseball because of how crazy this back and forth is.
It It's good for the sport, especially for baseball. I
think playoff baseball is up there with just about anything
in sports, and so it's great to see this type
of coverage in this excitement because man, those those last
(02:44):
two innings just what a way And the regular season.
I can't imagine being a Mets fan or a Braves
fan right now. The heart palpitations you just had today,
Holy goo, and one more game to be played. Yeah,
we'll still one more h you know?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
I had had a Brave fan text me during the
break and said, I know they won't do this, but
I wish the Braves would not start sail and and
and his reasoning was twofold one. He doesn't think that
the game will mean anything to the Mets now that
(03:20):
they're in and if you're the match, really and truly,
if you lose the game, it means you go to
Milwaukee instead of San Diego. That might be a better
better draw for you, only because the Podres are a
hotter team going into the playoffs than than the Brewers are.
But you can't really draw it out like that. So
he said they probably it probably won't matter to them
(03:41):
one two, and he is a long time Braves fan,
does not believe Atlanta can beat San Diego if Chris
Sale doesn't pitch, and if Sale pitches this game, he could,
he would not be able to pitch, you know, maybe
an inning or two the bullpen, but that would be
it in a decisive game three, but that would be it.
(04:05):
He's had enough arm trouping problems where they couldn't turn
him around very quickly anyway. So it's I mean, you say, okay, well,
if you lose and then everybody's going to say you
lost and you didn't pitch your best pitcher in a
must win game, you didn't pitch him. It's that you know,
that's definitely going to be the second guesser's paradise to
(04:27):
do that. But I think he makes a point, do
you really have a chance to beat San Diego if
you don't have your best pitcher to win two games
and three tries, all of which are on the road.
It's a quandary for sure, but it's probably gonna be
a mood point. Atlanta knows they they've got to win
to get in, so they'll turn and hand the ball
to sale in all probability. All right, let's and we'll
(04:48):
keep you update on that once they get started again.
That'll be ten minutes for the top of the hour.
Let's hear some more from Long Worn's head coach Steve Sarkis,
And we heard his opening statement last hour. First question
that came up, somebody asked him about how he approaches
the bye week in terms of the logistical part of it,
the scheduling of the physical uh, you know, on the field,
(05:08):
the practices as opposed to the other things.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Yeah, So today we did our typical Monday meetings to
recap the game, position meetings, team meeting, offense, defensive meetings, goals,
players of the games, things of that nature, and then
they just lifted.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Today. We did not we did not practice, we didn't
walk through.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
We'll practice tomorrow, which would be more of our typical
Monday practice, will introduce ou, we'll get into the scouting report,
some initial thoughts and game plan, and then we'll practice.
Our normal Tuesday would be a Wednesday, and our normal
Wednesday will be Thursday. So we'll get the meat and
potatoes of the game plan kind of in this week,
(05:48):
and then the guys will have a lyft Friday morning,
and then they'll be off. We won't practice Friday, Saturday
or Sunday. I want them to go be with their families.
I want them to kind of get refreshed mentally, physically, emotionally,
and and we'll come back. We'll come back Monday, and
we'll get back to it and have a normal work
week to get ready for the ball game.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
All right.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Then they had something that doesn't usually happen in a
Sark press conference on Mondays, me asking a question. I
don't normally ask questions at the Monday press conference.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
And here's why this.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
For many of the media who are there, is there
one shot really to get a question to Sark. There
is the Thursday availabillion. There's a SEC teleconference, but the
SEC teleconference is with a vast array of reporters from
across the country, so it might be difficult even if
you're in the queue to get a question in. And
(06:44):
it's only a little less difficult on Thursdays because you
have the local media. It's their last opportunity visit with
Sark during the weekend, so they ask, you know, they
ask questions. Then also, I have a show where I
get to ask all the questions. And that's long worn
weekly with Sark on Wednesday nights. You know, it's his show.
(07:06):
I host the show, but I'm the only one asking
to it. Now, what I will do is I will
ask the questions that are submitted by fans that are
written down on cards.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I'll do that.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Plus I have some questions on my own, So I
have my opportunity to ask questions then and in the
pregame interview about an hour and a half before kick
we visit, or two hours before kickoff, we visit, and
I have the pregame conversation with Sark then, So I
have my opportunity to visit with Sark regularly on a
(07:38):
game week. This is not a game week, and this
is the only media availability the entire week for Sark.
So I did step away from the table and take
all the headset and walk over and raise my.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Hand and they handed me a microphone. So the question
I have for Sark.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Has to do with the mental as well as the physical,
because Sark does say that he really does study the
mental side of the game and the importance of the
mental outlook of the game as well as the physical.
So I asked Sark two questions. It wasn't a two
part question. By the way, I learned that a long
time ago. There's such a thing as a two part
(08:17):
question and two question. You'll hear that in news conference. Hey,
I have a two part question, how's your running game?
Blah blah blah, and the second part, can you update
the injury sent No, that's two different questions.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
That's not a two part question. So I had two questions.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
One, the physical part of an open date week a
bye week. Is it a little bit altered because it's
a bye week, like they didn't practice this morning, even
though they'll have like kind of a Monday practice tomorrow.
Does the direction and the physicality change when you have
(08:53):
a bye week set of practices from the physical perspective?
And do you zero in more on the mental side this?
And then the other question I asked Sark was does
he notice any real appreciable difference in the officiating from
the Big twelve to the SEC in terms of how
they look at holding? Like Sark had mentioned he thought
(09:14):
they they've had too many holding penalties of late, So
do SEC officials.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Look for it more or are there other.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Ways that they call it? That's different from how he
saw it in the Big twelve. So those were the
two questions that I had for Sark, and here were
his answers.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
The first one, we were talking about the mental side
of it, right, I do think like I'm I'm as
concerned as anybody for the duration of this season. You know,
the fact that we started a week earlier for training camp,
the fact that we played our first game in August
and we're hoping to play January twentieth. That's a long
haul for a for a student athlete, you know, who's
(09:53):
going to school, who's you know, eighteen nineteen years old,
and the toll that it can take. And I think
that we need to keep it fresh for them because
I do think the mental intensity we have to have
week in and week out is going to be really important.
And so you know, it's going to be kind of
an intensified mental approach to what we're trying to do schematically,
(10:13):
but then it's back off them and let them relax
a little bit. And I think that that's going to
be important so that when we come back next week,
we can really go you know, the officiating, I don't
I don't necessarily know that I see some dramatic difference.
Quite frankly, you know, I think they call it fairly,
you know, as fairly as it can be.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
You know.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
I don't know if I've had really any calls that
have just been so egregious that I felt like, man,
we got to turn that in. We've turned a few
things in to get explanations on, but for the most part,
it's been totally fine for me.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
All right, So those are the questions I had.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Now back to the all the rest of the media
asking questions, someone who's asked about the commonalities that he
has seen coming out of the first week and then
going through the bye week.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
I couldn't tell you I don't even know those ten
games if you don't know the truth, I just, honestly,
one of the keys to me is you have to
assess your team right, and where's your team and what
do you need and then address the needs right. If
we were through five games and I'm looking at it
(11:22):
here and we're ravaging eighty yards of game rushing and
we're giving up two hundred a game on the ground,
we're probably gonna have a really physical bye week, and
we got to get our fundamentals, our techniques, our physicality right,
and the run games. So it's where are we And
you got to do a real self audit of where
are we as a team? And then okay, where are
we putting our emphasis on where we're trying to get better,
(11:43):
but also where do we think we need to be
for the next couple of games, you know, schematically, and
what are we trying to work on or what are
we trying to improve upon. Even schematics that maybe we
put in in training camp didn't go the way we
wanted to, maybe we can revisit this week as well.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
So that's kind of the mindset that I have.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
And then and then you assess your players and I
look at like, again, I'm a believer in sports science.
I look at different players numbers and and maybe who's
on a little bit of a decline and who needs
to get refreshed, or maybe who's working their way back
that needs to get pushed more, or who just needs
time off right, and who's breaking down a little bit.
So we try to analyze the individual players on top
of the.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Okay, so anyway, the talk about the ANA analysis of
players coming out of playing five games both last year
and this year, next was about the offensive line and
what what he has seen from that and the time
that that he has taken to give snaps to the
(12:47):
backups and and spreading it all around the depth he
has on the O line.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Well, yeah, I've never really I've never really tracked it
like that to say you had X amount of time.
We use the term cooking steaks back there, right, those
of you that that that grill out. And the one
that the one that stood out the most to me
was the second touchdown pass to DeAndre more in the
back of the end zone.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Uh, it was tremendous protection and it.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Allowed ours to really step into that throw because he
had to he had to make a heck of a throw.
It was one thing to get it over the dB,
but it was another not to throw it out of
the back of the end zone, you know. And and
to do that you want to, you know, you want
to have a clean pocket to make that throw. But
even on some other plays, like you know, the first
touchdown to DeAndre, they brought one more guy that we
(13:35):
could block, but the line those five guys blocked their
five so well that Arch knew who the one free
hitter was gonna be. And and he showed a lot
of contact courage to make that throw.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
But I think there being assignment sound uh.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
In protection, they're doing a good job of finishing kind
of in the pocket to where he has a clean
pocket and not letting it get leaky. But again, you
know that that's a veteran group and they take a
lot of pride in it, whether it's Quinn, whether it's
Arch and take a lot of tough pride in protecting
the quarterback.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Okay, all right, there's that, and then next Sarkars has
for an update on Quinn Eewers, his progress toward possibly
being able to return for Oklahoma and how much film
study is going for the team right now into getting
ready for OU.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yeah. I mean he's just rehabbened as has been.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
I think he's been making steady progress, you know, one
day to the next, which is a good sign. You know,
we haven't had any setbacks. It's it's been steady progress.
I think he's getting stronger and more comfortable and more confident,
and so we'll just kind of stay the course with
that OU's defense. I think, you know a couple of
things stand out to me is their ability to get
(14:45):
to the quarterback and we just talked about past protection,
but they're one of the one of the country's leaders,
nations leaders. And sacking the quarterback then they do a
great job at creating turnovers. And then those are both
things that are kind of staples of Brent Venable's defenses. Right,
very attacking, really schematic. You know, they got all the schematics,
and he's not afraid to call it and do it
(15:06):
different from one week to the next. And so I
think that attacking style of getting to the quarterback creating
turnovers is there's the two main things that really jump
out to me.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
All Right, we'll hear more from Start coming up later
as well updates. We were talking about whether it would
make a difference whether the Chris Sales started for game
two for Atlanta, spending him instead of saving him hoping
that you win this game and then have him for
game one available for San Diego or even game two. Well,
(15:38):
those who were hoping for that have gotten their wish
awards come down. Chris Sale has been scratched from starting
Game two back spasms, so he's not going to pitch
Game two. So the Brave's gonna have to do it
the hard way and win a must game that they
have to have to get into the postseason without the race,
But if they do, it's probable he'll be recovered enough
(16:00):
to start in San Diego. If not, tomorrow is certainly
for Game two off of that, so we'll see how
that goes, all right. We'll have more coming up when
we continue on sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone
of the iHeart Radio app.
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Special Summer Offer: Exclusively on Apple Podcasts, try our Dateline Premium subscription completely free for one month! With Dateline Premium, you get every episode ad-free plus exclusive bonus content.