November 11, 2024 • 15 mins
Steve Sarkisian spoke with the media on Monday about the win over Florida, the injection of younger players, facing Utah State and Bobby Petrino as a player, and more...
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
We have that it's the Craig Way Show with hat
of vane broadcaster and voice of the Texas longhearns Craig Way.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Okay, so we're gonna hear some more from Long Wartns
head coach Steve Sarkisian from the weekly news conference. We
brought it to you live in its entirety this morning.
We always do it every Monday morning at eleven thirty.
Our coverage begins at eleven am from the UT campus
on Long Worns Monday here on the zone, and then
we bring you the news conference live at eleven thirty.
Then we bring you selected moments from that. So let's
(00:38):
go back to it. It's funny, there's lot there was
a lot of looking back, so to speak, for Sark
and for this Texas team playing Arkansas. Now, sark only
has that one experience against Arkansas. I was in twenty
twenty one. But and I credit the local media asking
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him this, who you remember who was that asked this
question about the Bobby Petrino thing when he was Eric Henry,
good old Eric Henry, Good for you, Eric. He he asked.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
That's right, because he did say Eric, he's addressing the question.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
He asked Sark if he had any recollection of the
game in ninety six when BYU, when he was quarterbacking
at BYU, when BYU was playing You Toss State and
Bobby Petrino was the offensive coordinator. Since he's going up
against a Bobby Petrino coach team, and so he was
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asked about that about Bobby Petrino, if he had any
recollection of that.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
You know what, I remember that game. This might take
a minute, but sorry, Eric asked a question. So in
that game, at the end of the first half, we
were in kind of one of those situations where how
much times on the clock there was might have been
fifteen or twenty seconds. We were out of timeout and
it was we took a time out. We were on
the sidelines and here's myself, here's Norm Chow, our offensive coordinator,
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Robbie Bosco. Everyone's trying to decide what to call and
there could be no agreeance of what was happening. And
Lavelle Edwards rarely would he step in on play calls.
You know, he's very CEO like. And he said, well, Sark,
what do you want to run? And I can't remember
what I said run. He goes, well, that's what we're running.
He walked off, and so the first time I got
to call play in my life. So but the value
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in that, what I do remember is like when you can,
when you can really start to trust your players and
the players feel your trust as a coach, you start
to get more out of them. We talked about the
fourth and one the other day from your own twenty
four yard line when I went for it, and that
was just trust in the players, and coach Edwards was
fantastic at that. So I don't know if I remember
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specifically Utah staid as much as I remember, man, the
impact that Lavell Edwards had on me.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
So there's one thing.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
The reminiscence of going up against Bobby Petrinov.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Now one thing.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
A lot of the young guys get a chance to play,
and got a chance to play a lot of the
second half snaps against Florida with the game well in hand.
So Sark was asked if he looks at the film
on those young guys, regardless of the situation where the
game was from that contest against Florida.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Yes, definitely, And we touched on that this morning too.
You know, we played thirty guys on offense. Saturday, we
played twelve offensive linemen. We played thirty four guys on defense.
And so just from that perspective, and we're not talking
about kicker, snapper, holder, punter, those types of things. So
to be able to play that many players in an
SEC game, that's pretty good. And so the ability to
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have to get to coach them this morning off of
that tape and where things were done well and where
we need to improve, I think is huge for them
to not continually watch someone else get coached, but get
coached themselves and then help them grow to because you know,
I keep harping on it, we're gonna need those guys.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Now, of course Texas has been good on the defense
at the back end of the defense, interceptions leading the
Southeastern Conference, And does he have something he particularly would
ascribe this to happening.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Yeah, I think it's a combination of things. I think
one it's we have a veteran secondary. A lot those
guys have played a lot of snaps of football. They
communicate at a really high level, and they're playing with
a lot of confidence, even not so much on the
interceptions but the contested catches, the PBUs. I mean, I
think Manny Muhammad had one or two the other night.
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You know, it's really closed on a curl route and
just those guys playing with real confidence back there. The
second part of that is, I think the multitude of
coverages that we're playing couple that with the pressure up front,
you know, and a lot of times, you know, we
always want to look at sacks as applying pressure on
a quarterback. But you know Alfred Call on both those interceptions,
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he gets his hands on those balls and tips them
and that really forces the interception.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
So it's not always the edge.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Rush, it's the internal rush, and it's those guys tying
that whole thing together. So I think it's a combination
of things. But again I think it starts with kind
of we have a veteran secondary that works really well
together and kind of works off of one another at
a really high level.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
This next responsive trey funny only because of the way
that the question was phrased. As you know, a Steve
Sarkisian coach offense is going to feature a number of
times during a game where they're going to take a
deep shot, especially with the type of receiving cortexas has.
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But like all this question was phrased about how many
shot plays those deep balls.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
So these deep shots are baked into the game plan.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It's like it's coming out like a casse role or
a pie or something like that.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
How many shot plays are baked into that game plan.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
I would say this like when when you game plan.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Game plan is very game planning, and putting a game
plan together is very analytical, and I guess you could
call it, you know, mathematical and scientific in that way, right.
I like to think calling a game is a little
bit more of art, you know, that it's a little
bit more of a blank canvas. Because anybody, I could
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hand you guys the call sheet and I can tell
you it's third and six, and you look, there's five
or six calls at third and six, and just pick
one of them, right, and you could kind of follow
the script to some degree and.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
It might go, well, it might not. You know, you
don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
But one thing I've learned and just trying to study
the best guys that have done it, you know, historically,
is you have to have the willingness to adjust. You
have to you have to be willing to take calculated risks,
and you have to trust your players and and then
when you do that. Sometimes going into a game, you thought, hey,
we were going to take five or six shots in
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this game, but predicated on the way the defense is playing,
we have to scale that back and play a different style.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Some games you go into thinking, hey.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
We're not going to get a lot of shot opportunities,
and then how they're playing you and how your offense
is performing, you may take two or three more shots.
And so I think that's the blank canvas aspect of
calling it on a game as opposed to today when
we're sitting in there watching the tape and what do
the numbers say, and what are the percentages? And this
coverage is when and how and if we get this
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guy in this spot, we can get this and so
on and so forth, and so then you got to
blend the two together, and you've got to make sure
the players understand the whys you call certain things as
they go.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
All right. Next, he was asked Squitch about Cameron Williams.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Cam Williams, of course, starting right tackle, got banged up
on Saturday, came back in the game, was able to finish.
Cam Is, also in his first season as the starter,
got a chance to experience some really good things and
then the misfortune of some penalties.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
And some other things.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
So Sark was asked about Cam Williams development and the
fact that NFL scouts are very, very interested in the
types of things he has to do to continue to
garner that interest as he continues to learn the position
and how to work well within the unit.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Yeah, I think, you know, I think Cam's good.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
He was back at practice today, so again, feel feel
comfortable about that. You know, he has he has great measurables, right,
you know, he has unbelievable length, He has athleticism for
his size, he shows physicality, and I think as the
years going on, the experience is starting, he's starting to
get experience. You know that the biggest thing was he
didn't have the experience as he played and even in game,
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you know, you know, he and DJ on the right side.
You know, he gave up a sack there on the
first drive of the game on a little on a
little you know stunt that that Florida ran. Later in
the game, they ran the same stunt and those two
guys picked that picked that up and we actually throw
a touchdown to Matthew Golden on that exact same stunt
they ran versus those guys on the man side of
the protection. So the growth he's showing for us, I
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think is what's been encouraging. You know, It's not just
the physical ability that he has. I think there's been
a real sense of maturity shift in him this year,
but also the growth throughout the season and now growth
in game that he's able to make adjustments in game
in real time.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Start mentioned the other day he thought his team was.
He told the team that he felt like they were
about to go on a heater, as he called.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
It, you didn't really get on a roll. And so
he's asked about that heater stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
What you know, what was it that he noticed that
had him feeling that this team was going to go
that way?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Did he see it early? How did he feel about it?
Speaker 4 (09:35):
I didn't, you know, I felt like we were growing
as the season went on, but I felt like last
week there was real intent in the way they practiced.
There was a real sense of urgency. People ask me,
how do you know when your practices are going well?
And it's one thing to look at execution, but I
can when I hear US at practice, when I hear communication,
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when I hear guys really getting excited for the next
guy when he's making a play. When I hear guys
celebrating plays in practice with one another, that means they're
really engaged. That means they're they're being intentional of wanting
to get it right. And so I felt that going
in and Saturday proved me right, you know, in some degree,
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even when you just watch the way the guys played,
the way they were flying around, and then this morning
when I'm doing good, bad and ugly, the amount of
cheers to Anthony Smith got when I was talking about
his interception, the love they have for a true freshman
that's just trying to find his way playing, or when
I talk about, you know, the special Teams player of
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the week being Ryan Nibblett in the whole play, start
cheering for him.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
That they're all in it. You know, they're all engaged.
And so when we're.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Engaged like that, that's how momentum can build. And my
job is to kind of build on that momentum and
keep them in that moment that we're in right now.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Some of the guys not a lot, and circle tell
you just exactly how many we're on this Texas roster
that three year got lost at Arkansas decisively.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
And Sark was asked if the experience.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Back then to help those guys and this teams.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Of the preparation will go through this week.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
No, yeah, you know, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
I think there's eleven guys on our team that are
on our team today that were there in Fayetteville. Nine
of those guys are starters today that probably weren't starters
back then at that time. And so you know, we
can use little subtle video reminders and things of what
that moment was like, but at the end, it's going
to be their leadership, right because we may have some players,
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younger players that are looking like it's just another game,
And I know those guys are in that locker room
right now talking about that game and talking about that
environment and in owning that environment and why it's important
to own it and having the right poise and composure
staying enamored with what we need to do. But I
know all eleven of those guys probably got a pretty
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bad taste in their mouth and got.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
A chip on their shoulder from the last time we were.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
All right on to discussing this team and the feel
he has for this group. Remember when the Logrange went
for it on fourth down early in the ball game
and converted it, and he was asked about did going
forward on fourth down helped spark this team not only
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then but maybe going forward.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
I think it's helpful.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
I think they want to know I believe in them too, right,
and that I'm you know, we talk about being aggressive,
we talk about being an attack oriented football team in
all three phases, and so when I can back that
up with my actions. We say it all the time,
it's not what you say, it's what you do. And
when I can back that up with my own actions,
I think that gives them confidence knowing that.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
I believe in them. And we got the.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
First down and the very next play I called, you know,
the reverse to bond that. I think there was a
real sense and a feel for me that I was
going to be aggressive, that we were going to attack,
and I think that just gave him confidence to go
to go do with they're capable of doing.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Okay, all right, now about fumbling, you know, he.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
You know, Jayden Blue has been been really good and
he didn't fumble the other day. Jared Gibson did. He
had one hundred yards rushing. Remember, Jamean Blue had the
fumbling problem. So Sark was asked about the importance of
Jaden Blue within this attack. And by the way, how
does he manage the fumbling situation with a guy like
Jared Gibson.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
You know, I think Jayden when he's healthy, you know,
we do need him. You know, we're at our best
when all our guys are healthy. That that's you know,
that's kind of common sense, I understand. But when your
fast guys get to play fast, that's their strength, right
And Jayden's obviously got elite speed, you know, Isaiah Bond's
got elite speed, you know, Silas Bowl and elite speed,
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Ryan Wingo, Trey Wisner. And when those guys can play fast,
they can stress the defense in different ways. And you know,
I touched on it last week. You know, as much
as we like to to it, our runners are really
valuable to us catching the ball out of the backfield
as well, And both Trey and Jaden have have really
excelled catching the ball out of the backfield.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
It showed the other night Trey on the screen.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
You know, Jaden on that kind of option route to
get us down inside the five and then and then
score on the next one, and so those guys are
pivotal that way.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
I think Jeric was good for him to know.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
That we have a power running game in there with
him and he gets behind his pads and short yardage
and those those types of situations. So all of that
coupled into it. I was really excited about what those
guys were able to do today. Jered Gibson's got a
football all day on the forty acres.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
So you know, we just have to keep working at it.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
You know, that's that's all we can do as coaches
is you know, you get what you emphasize. We've got
to continue to emphasize it. I touched on the team
we wipe the slate clean and in the second half
of the season, I want to lead the country in
the turnover margin battle. And you know, we're plus two
after the first one. And so everybody's got a responsibility
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the football in the organization, myself included, and so we're
all here to help support Jerk or Jaden or Quinn
or whomever it.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Is that possessed the ball to ensure that.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
It is of the utmost importance because it's the number
one football, number one Staton football is a turnover margin
and we want to be the best out at here
the second half of the season.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
OK.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
If you're curious about what exactly encompasses carrying the football
around all day around campus, you'll find that out coming
up next hour as well. We got some NFL notes
to get to next here on Sports Radio AM thirteen
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We have that it's the Craig Way Show with hat
of vane broadcaster and voice of the Texas longhearns Craig Way.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Okay, so we're gonna hear some more from Long Wartns
head coach Steve Sarkisian from the weekly news conference. We
brought it to you live in its entirety this morning.
We always do it every Monday morning at eleven thirty.
Our coverage begins at eleven am from the UT campus
on Long Worns Monday here on the zone, and then
we bring you the news conference live at eleven thirty.
Then we bring you selected moments from that. So let's
(00:38):
go back to it. It's funny, there's lot there was
a lot of looking back, so to speak, for Sark
and for this Texas team playing Arkansas. Now, sark only
has that one experience against Arkansas. I was in twenty
twenty one. But and I credit the local media asking
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him this, who you remember who was that asked this
question about the Bobby Petrino thing when he was Eric Henry,
good old Eric Henry, Good for you, Eric. He he asked.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
That's right, because he did say Eric, he's addressing the question.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
He asked Sark if he had any recollection of the
game in ninety six when BYU, when he was quarterbacking
at BYU, when BYU was playing You Toss State and
Bobby Petrino was the offensive coordinator. Since he's going up
against a Bobby Petrino coach team, and so he was
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asked about that about Bobby Petrino, if he had any
recollection of that.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
You know what, I remember that game. This might take
a minute, but sorry, Eric asked a question. So in
that game, at the end of the first half, we
were in kind of one of those situations where how
much times on the clock there was might have been
fifteen or twenty seconds. We were out of timeout and
it was we took a time out. We were on
the sidelines and here's myself, here's Norm Chow, our offensive coordinator,
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Robbie Bosco. Everyone's trying to decide what to call and
there could be no agreeance of what was happening. And
Lavelle Edwards rarely would he step in on play calls.
You know, he's very CEO like. And he said, well, Sark,
what do you want to run? And I can't remember
what I said run. He goes, well, that's what we're running.
He walked off, and so the first time I got
to call play in my life. So but the value
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in that, what I do remember is like when you can,
when you can really start to trust your players and
the players feel your trust as a coach, you start
to get more out of them. We talked about the
fourth and one the other day from your own twenty
four yard line when I went for it, and that
was just trust in the players, and coach Edwards was
fantastic at that. So I don't know if I remember
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specifically Utah staid as much as I remember, man, the
impact that Lavell Edwards had on me.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
So there's one thing.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
The reminiscence of going up against Bobby Petrinov.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Now one thing.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
A lot of the young guys get a chance to play,
and got a chance to play a lot of the
second half snaps against Florida with the game well in hand.
So Sark was asked if he looks at the film
on those young guys, regardless of the situation where the
game was from that contest against Florida.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Yes, definitely, And we touched on that this morning too.
You know, we played thirty guys on offense. Saturday, we
played twelve offensive linemen. We played thirty four guys on defense.
And so just from that perspective, and we're not talking
about kicker, snapper, holder, punter, those types of things. So
to be able to play that many players in an
SEC game, that's pretty good. And so the ability to
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have to get to coach them this morning off of
that tape and where things were done well and where
we need to improve, I think is huge for them
to not continually watch someone else get coached, but get
coached themselves and then help them grow to because you know,
I keep harping on it, we're gonna need those guys.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Now, of course Texas has been good on the defense
at the back end of the defense, interceptions leading the
Southeastern Conference, And does he have something he particularly would
ascribe this to happening.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Yeah, I think it's a combination of things. I think
one it's we have a veteran secondary. A lot those
guys have played a lot of snaps of football. They
communicate at a really high level, and they're playing with
a lot of confidence, even not so much on the
interceptions but the contested catches, the PBUs. I mean, I
think Manny Muhammad had one or two the other night.
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You know, it's really closed on a curl route and
just those guys playing with real confidence back there. The
second part of that is, I think the multitude of
coverages that we're playing couple that with the pressure up front,
you know, and a lot of times, you know, we
always want to look at sacks as applying pressure on
a quarterback. But you know Alfred Call on both those interceptions,
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he gets his hands on those balls and tips them
and that really forces the interception.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
So it's not always the edge.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Rush, it's the internal rush, and it's those guys tying
that whole thing together. So I think it's a combination
of things. But again I think it starts with kind
of we have a veteran secondary that works really well
together and kind of works off of one another at
a really high level.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
This next responsive trey funny only because of the way
that the question was phrased. As you know, a Steve
Sarkisian coach offense is going to feature a number of
times during a game where they're going to take a
deep shot, especially with the type of receiving cortexas has.
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But like all this question was phrased about how many
shot plays those deep balls.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
So these deep shots are baked into the game plan.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It's like it's coming out like a casse role or
a pie or something like that.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
How many shot plays are baked into that game plan.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
I would say this like when when you game plan.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Game plan is very game planning, and putting a game
plan together is very analytical, and I guess you could
call it, you know, mathematical and scientific in that way, right.
I like to think calling a game is a little
bit more of art, you know, that it's a little
bit more of a blank canvas. Because anybody, I could
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hand you guys the call sheet and I can tell
you it's third and six, and you look, there's five
or six calls at third and six, and just pick
one of them, right, and you could kind of follow
the script to some degree and.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
It might go, well, it might not. You know, you
don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
But one thing I've learned and just trying to study
the best guys that have done it, you know, historically,
is you have to have the willingness to adjust. You
have to you have to be willing to take calculated risks,
and you have to trust your players and and then
when you do that. Sometimes going into a game, you thought, hey,
we were going to take five or six shots in
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this game, but predicated on the way the defense is playing,
we have to scale that back and play a different style.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Some games you go into thinking, hey.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
We're not going to get a lot of shot opportunities,
and then how they're playing you and how your offense
is performing, you may take two or three more shots.
And so I think that's the blank canvas aspect of
calling it on a game as opposed to today when
we're sitting in there watching the tape and what do
the numbers say, and what are the percentages? And this
coverage is when and how and if we get this
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guy in this spot, we can get this and so
on and so forth, and so then you got to
blend the two together, and you've got to make sure
the players understand the whys you call certain things as
they go.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
All right. Next, he was asked Squitch about Cameron Williams.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Cam Williams, of course, starting right tackle, got banged up
on Saturday, came back in the game, was able to finish.
Cam Is, also in his first season as the starter,
got a chance to experience some really good things and
then the misfortune of some penalties.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
And some other things.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
So Sark was asked about Cam Williams development and the
fact that NFL scouts are very, very interested in the
types of things he has to do to continue to
garner that interest as he continues to learn the position
and how to work well within the unit.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Yeah, I think, you know, I think Cam's good.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
He was back at practice today, so again, feel feel
comfortable about that. You know, he has he has great measurables, right,
you know, he has unbelievable length, He has athleticism for
his size, he shows physicality, and I think as the
years going on, the experience is starting, he's starting to
get experience. You know that the biggest thing was he
didn't have the experience as he played and even in game,
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you know, you know, he and DJ on the right side.
You know, he gave up a sack there on the
first drive of the game on a little on a
little you know stunt that that Florida ran. Later in
the game, they ran the same stunt and those two
guys picked that picked that up and we actually throw
a touchdown to Matthew Golden on that exact same stunt
they ran versus those guys on the man side of
the protection. So the growth he's showing for us, I
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think is what's been encouraging. You know, It's not just
the physical ability that he has. I think there's been
a real sense of maturity shift in him this year,
but also the growth throughout the season and now growth
in game that he's able to make adjustments in game
in real time.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Start mentioned the other day he thought his team was.
He told the team that he felt like they were
about to go on a heater, as he called.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
It, you didn't really get on a roll. And so
he's asked about that heater stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
What you know, what was it that he noticed that
had him feeling that this team was going to go
that way?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Did he see it early? How did he feel about it?
Speaker 4 (09:35):
I didn't, you know, I felt like we were growing
as the season went on, but I felt like last
week there was real intent in the way they practiced.
There was a real sense of urgency. People ask me,
how do you know when your practices are going well?
And it's one thing to look at execution, but I
can when I hear US at practice, when I hear communication,
(09:57):
when I hear guys really getting excited for the next
guy when he's making a play. When I hear guys
celebrating plays in practice with one another, that means they're
really engaged. That means they're they're being intentional of wanting
to get it right. And so I felt that going
in and Saturday proved me right, you know, in some degree,
(10:17):
even when you just watch the way the guys played,
the way they were flying around, and then this morning
when I'm doing good, bad and ugly, the amount of
cheers to Anthony Smith got when I was talking about
his interception, the love they have for a true freshman
that's just trying to find his way playing, or when
I talk about, you know, the special Teams player of
(10:38):
the week being Ryan Nibblett in the whole play, start
cheering for him.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
That they're all in it. You know, they're all engaged.
And so when we're.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Engaged like that, that's how momentum can build. And my
job is to kind of build on that momentum and
keep them in that moment that we're in right now.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Some of the guys not a lot, and circle tell
you just exactly how many we're on this Texas roster
that three year got lost at Arkansas decisively.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
And Sark was asked if the experience.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Back then to help those guys and this teams.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Of the preparation will go through this week.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
No, yeah, you know, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
I think there's eleven guys on our team that are
on our team today that were there in Fayetteville. Nine
of those guys are starters today that probably weren't starters
back then at that time. And so you know, we
can use little subtle video reminders and things of what
that moment was like, but at the end, it's going
to be their leadership, right because we may have some players,
(11:37):
younger players that are looking like it's just another game,
And I know those guys are in that locker room
right now talking about that game and talking about that
environment and in owning that environment and why it's important
to own it and having the right poise and composure
staying enamored with what we need to do. But I
know all eleven of those guys probably got a pretty
(11:57):
bad taste in their mouth and got.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
A chip on their shoulder from the last time we were.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
All right on to discussing this team and the feel
he has for this group. Remember when the Logrange went
for it on fourth down early in the ball game
and converted it, and he was asked about did going
forward on fourth down helped spark this team not only
(12:20):
then but maybe going forward.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
I think it's helpful.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
I think they want to know I believe in them too, right,
and that I'm you know, we talk about being aggressive,
we talk about being an attack oriented football team in
all three phases, and so when I can back that
up with my actions. We say it all the time,
it's not what you say, it's what you do. And
when I can back that up with my own actions,
I think that gives them confidence knowing that.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
I believe in them. And we got the.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
First down and the very next play I called, you know,
the reverse to bond that. I think there was a
real sense and a feel for me that I was
going to be aggressive, that we were going to attack,
and I think that just gave him confidence to go
to go do with they're capable of doing.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Okay, all right, now about fumbling, you know, he.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
You know, Jayden Blue has been been really good and
he didn't fumble the other day. Jared Gibson did. He
had one hundred yards rushing. Remember, Jamean Blue had the
fumbling problem. So Sark was asked about the importance of
Jaden Blue within this attack. And by the way, how
does he manage the fumbling situation with a guy like
Jared Gibson.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
You know, I think Jayden when he's healthy, you know,
we do need him. You know, we're at our best
when all our guys are healthy. That that's you know,
that's kind of common sense, I understand. But when your
fast guys get to play fast, that's their strength, right
And Jayden's obviously got elite speed, you know, Isaiah Bond's
got elite speed, you know, Silas Bowl and elite speed,
(13:50):
Ryan Wingo, Trey Wisner. And when those guys can play fast,
they can stress the defense in different ways. And you know,
I touched on it last week. You know, as much
as we like to to it, our runners are really
valuable to us catching the ball out of the backfield
as well, And both Trey and Jaden have have really
excelled catching the ball out of the backfield.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
It showed the other night Trey on the screen.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
You know, Jaden on that kind of option route to
get us down inside the five and then and then
score on the next one, and so those guys are
pivotal that way.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
I think Jeric was good for him to know.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
That we have a power running game in there with
him and he gets behind his pads and short yardage
and those those types of situations. So all of that
coupled into it. I was really excited about what those
guys were able to do today. Jered Gibson's got a
football all day on the forty acres.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
So you know, we just have to keep working at it.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
You know, that's that's all we can do as coaches
is you know, you get what you emphasize. We've got
to continue to emphasize it. I touched on the team
we wipe the slate clean and in the second half
of the season, I want to lead the country in
the turnover margin battle. And you know, we're plus two
after the first one. And so everybody's got a responsibility
(15:02):
the football in the organization, myself included, and so we're
all here to help support Jerk or Jaden or Quinn
or whomever it.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Is that possessed the ball to ensure that.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
It is of the utmost importance because it's the number
one football, number one Staton football is a turnover margin
and we want to be the best out at here
the second half of the season.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
OK.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
If you're curious about what exactly encompasses carrying the football
around all day around campus, you'll find that out coming
up next hour as well. We got some NFL notes
to get to next here on Sports Radio AM thirteen
under the Zone.
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