December 16, 2024 • 13 mins
Steve Sarkisian visited with the media on Monday and answered questions about the future of Quinn Ewers, the culture at Clemson under Dabo Swinney, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Back to the Craig Way Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
It's a Monday afternoon, which means it was a Long
Worns Monday, probably our final Long Worns Monday of the season,
because looking at the calendar, there will be more news
conferences if the Long Horns win on Saturday against Clemson,
but it might not be on Monday the way the
calendar has fall. So anyway, Longhorns Monday. And toward that end,
(00:41):
we brought it to you live this morning Long Wrns
head coach Steve Sarkesian's weekly news conference and we recap
it during this program. And so that brings us to
perhaps the most intriguing question of the day.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
And UH.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
When Terry Middleton of Horns Illustrated is asking the question,
it could be rather intriguing.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
UH and UH.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
His question had to deal with UH if you he
helped me out here, cam. He he started off by
talking about it being the holiday season, right, and.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
UH, gift giving, gift buying Christmas.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Gifts, buying Christmas gifts, and then he said, if you
were to gift your players to one NFL.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Team, Who would you give them to?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Where?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And why?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Your sparks response.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I don't know, you know, I've got a ton of
I got it a hell of question. By the way, Terry, Uh,
you always come with some doozies.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
So this is a this is a good one, you know,
I'll say this.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I've got a ton of respect for a lot of
coaches and gms in the NFL, and and there's very
few times where I sit and think, gosh, that's not
a great fit for him. You know, I see where
our guys are going off the last year's draft and
two years ago. I see sometimes when coaching changes get made,
like I was so excited for Beijon when Raheem became
(02:13):
the head coach of the Falcons.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Is I knew that would be a great fit for him.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Thought Xavier going with Andy Reid would be a great
fit for him, Jaywitt getting with Sean McVay would be
a great fit for him.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So but again, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
That's the beauty of the NFL, right, It's different than
college that they get chosen and they got to go,
you know, and it's like, you know, do you pack
a convertible to LA or do you pack a Parker
for Green Bay. You just don't know where they're gonna go,
and and their lives change in that instance from where
they're gonna go, and so, but I do think we
try to prepare our guys to go wherever's needed. But
(02:46):
I got so many good friends in that league that
I think do a fantastic job. Very rarely does a
guy get drafted off our team. I think, oh, that's
not a good fit, you know. I just think they
do enough research and enough homework, you know, from a uh,
from a personal standpoint, a player standpoint, that they're generally
not going to draft somebody who doesn't fit their organization.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah, that's good response to that, to like I said,
a unique question that Sart got there on it all
right now some other ones. He was asked about the
fact that Anthony Hill was not on the SEC first team.
Herea's leading the SEC and tackles I guess and said,
how do you do? How do you how do you
(03:28):
reconcile that in your mind about and Hill not being
on a SEC first team.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, both those blew my mind.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Alfred Collins another one, and I, I, uh, how I
rationalized it. They gave the buck Kiss Award to Jalen
Walker from Georgia, and I think deservedly so. Jalen Walker
Walker was on the second team All SEC team with
with Anthony Hill as well. So you know, maybe they
shouldn't have us coaches vote for who's on what teams
(03:56):
that they're that the guys are on. So I think
maybe they should keep letting you guys do that kind
of stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
It's one way, one way to go for there, because
remember that's a coaches vote.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Is the way that that worked?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
All right?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Next, he was asked about the fact that thinks this
is our colleague and friend Roger Wallace who asked this question.
It's not a it's a home playoff game for Texas,
so that makes it different as it's a playoff in
the season could end after this, but advances if they
do win. So does that bring about anything extra special
(04:31):
in terms the emotional element of it and the preparation
or is it business as usual?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Hopefully lean into what we've done the last two years,
you know, Roger, like we've last season we had to
go win every game to get into the Big Twelve
championship game, and we had to play Tech here on
a Friday night on a short week after Thanksgiving, and
so we were kind of in that arena, and I
thought we were mentally prepared to go do that, and
thought we played a good game.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
This season was no different in the SEC.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
When we lost to Georgia the first time, we had
to win every game to get into the SEC championship game,
all the way until at Kyle Field at night in
that environment, and I thought our guys handled that really well.
So we're gonna just kind of lean into our experience
on that of how we get prepared to play in
these types of games that it's kind of winner go home,
(05:18):
and we've it's gone pretty well for us in the past.
So I'm it's kind of like grandma's cookies, you know.
I'm not really going to kind of change the ingredients
on this one. I'm going to kind of follow suit
with what we've done.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
By the way, kirk Boll said the next question, and
he asked what flavor were those cookies, and Sar quickly
said oatmeal. He really likes oatmeal cookies and his grandmother
made really good ones. That's a fact that actually is
the case. So all right, continuing with some of Sark's
(05:50):
fielding of the questions. And it was Kirk Bowles who
followed up the flavor of the cookies by asking. He said,
point blank, as Quinn, you weres told you he is
going pro, And then he asked, have you figured out
the cause of your offense being in a bit of
a funk of the past couple of games?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Don't I don't ask any player on our team are
you turning pro or not?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Because I just I tell them all.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Even that A couple of guys I met with last
week was focus on what we're doing right now. And
I do that with someone because the guys, because they
want to know and they're hearing from agents and all stuff.
The best thing they can do for their future, whether
they decide to stay or leave, is to play really
good in the college football playoff because those would be
the games that will get evaluated by the NFL anyway.
And so I haven't had that discussion with Quinn, but
(06:36):
I haven't had it with Kelvin or anybody quite frankly.
It's just been focus on what you need to do
right now, and we'll have that discussion.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
When when the season's done.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
You know, I think The biggest thing for us offensively
that stands out is one. You know, the turnovers have
been a problem. And that doesn't mean we can't fix it,
you know, but that's been an issue. And it's not
been one guy or two guys, but it's just been
a little bit of a rash. Each year, you have
your issues, and so we spend more time.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
It's I always say, you guys heard me say at
numerous times. You get what you emphasize, and so we're
we've been hammering home the football here for the past
few weeks and you know, we've seen some benefits of that.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
We've seen some times where it hasn't been so good.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
But we're gonna need to take care of the ball
better if we're going to try to make a run
in these playoffs than we have, and we're gonna need
to have a balanced offensive attack. That's when we're at
our best. And I'm not saying it's we got to,
you know, throw for three hundred and rush for two
hundred every game, but we've got to we've got to
make sure that we have balance so that our opponents
have to defend all of our offense when we become
(07:37):
one dimensional. Like any offense, you're just easier to defend,
you know, Like we strive to make offenses one dimensional.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
That's what we're trying to do every week.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
But we have to ensure that that we keep and
maintain our balance and that the ball is getting spread
to our playmakers so that they go make.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Their plays all right.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Next UH for Sark asked about the UH this Clemson
team and what Daboshweeney has done throughout the course of
the year and what what he's done with this program
has them back in the playoffs. Uh, even with Dabo's
perspective being what it is on the portal and not
(08:14):
wanting to take transfer. How about what does it say
about Dabo here is back in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I think it speaks volumes to who he is as
a coach.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I've always said.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
It took me all the way to getting to this
job to really know who I was and what I
believed in and in the foundation of our program.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
And I learned that a ton of that from.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Coach Saban, And obviously I had to go back and
reflect on my time with with Pete Carroll and what
that looked like.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
And I think dabos.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Knows who he is and knows what his program stands for,
and he stands on that, and the players that choose
to go to Clemson believe in that. And so when
you when you, when you do that, you don't have
to vary too much. I think the programs that can
get themselves in trouble, it's one day or this the
next or that Clemson knows who they are and and
(09:02):
they and they play to their strengths and they and they,
and that's a byproduct of Dabbo knows who he is.
And so a ton of credit to him of getting
their team into the playoffs and uh, fighting through some
of the adversity early on in the season and and
earning this opportunity and uh, like I said, it's it's
gonna be a heck of a challenge for us, but
a lot of credit to to he and his staff
and their players to earn this opportunity.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Next, he was asked, with this schedule being like it is,
with all the extra games that will be put in,
could play as many as four more games here in
the postseason, do you pretty much stick with what you
have or do you have more time to install a
couple of things you.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Know, naturally, as the season goes on, you start to
gravitate to the things that you think you're doing well.
And but at the same token, we know we're going
to need some other aspects of our game that we
need to keep working at and and hopefully they start
to come to life for us.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
And some of those things have held true to us.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
And and then we're always trying to find something new
that that can that can help what we're what the
other things that we're trying to do. And so I
wouldn't say that, you know, we're not trying to reinvent
the wheel here, but we're always gonna have some new
wrinkles and twists and things to to what we're doing.
And and that's again I think a credit to the
(10:19):
staff and the players of being open to those things.
From a player's standpoint. That's really what we did last week.
You know, I brought them in Monday morning to review
the game, and then we really did no football with
them on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
After that. They did some stretching strides, they lifted.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
On Wednesday, but I wanted them to get away from
football for a few days, and then we brought them back,
and we hit it pretty good Thursday and Friday, and
we got into the game plan and the coaches were
dialed and ready to go on that. And then I
gave them this Saturday and Sunday off. They needed the
buye right and that we earned a bye essentially, and
then we'll get back to it again this week.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
And so I do think there's.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
A balance act that is needed as you as you
navigate your way through this.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
You know, this has been a long.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Season, and if we want to go do what I
think we're capable of doing, and and and that's be
playing January twentieth, trying to compete for a national championship,
that'll be our seventeenth game, and that our first game
was July thirty first, And so this has been a
long journey and one that I think we've done a
nice job of navigating of where I don't feel like
(11:27):
our players are burnt out. I do feel like we've
got a ton of energy. I do feel like they're hungry,
you know, I want them looking for more food. I
want them you know, I don't want to be force
feeding them, and they definitely are feeling that way. You know,
our guys are around the building. They're they're, they're, they're,
they're bumping around, and we didn't overload them with information
last week. We've saved some information intentionally for today and
(11:49):
for this week so that we can continue to build
towards Saturday.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
All right, And then one more from coach Shark to
wrap up the press conference. He was asked, what makes
Quinn yours as well suited as he is to have
the ball in his hands as much as he does
in these big games.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I think he's comfortable in that environment. I think it
doesn't never feel too big on him. I think in
a perfect world, I would not like that to be
the case. You know, Oklahoma State was a little bit
of a different dynamic of what the game plan was.
You know, the first game here, you know, excuse me,
go back to the Washington game last year. We fell
(12:29):
behind and especially you know, we were running the ball
really well in the first half of that game. We
had two turnovers, two fumbles I think in our first
nine plays of the second half, and it became a
two score game where we kind of had to throw
to maximize our time to get back into it. The
Georgia game here, naturally, you know, we fell behind twenty
three to nothing at halftime, and so now you have
(12:49):
to adjust to what you do in the second half.
And then this past one with Georgia, part of the
plan early on was to throw it, but then we
just couldn't get the run game going into a place
to where it felt comfortable. You know, I want to
run the ball on first down, but I definitely I
don't want it to be second and eleven either, you know,
And so sometimes you try to find a ball controlled
(13:12):
passing game to augment or to offset a lack of
having the ability to run it. So ideally, you know,
fifty times is probably too many. Mid thirties maybe to
forties probably more realistic in these types of games, because
I think he's more than capable of handling that.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
All right, there it is long Worn's head coach Steve
Sarksian from the news conference, We've got some more things
coming up next on sports Radio AM thirteen Under the Zone.
Back to the Craig Way Show.
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
It's a Monday afternoon, which means it was a Long
Worns Monday, probably our final Long Worns Monday of the season,
because looking at the calendar, there will be more news
conferences if the Long Horns win on Saturday against Clemson,
but it might not be on Monday the way the
calendar has fall. So anyway, Longhorns Monday. And toward that end,
(00:41):
we brought it to you live this morning Long Wrns
head coach Steve Sarkesian's weekly news conference and we recap
it during this program. And so that brings us to
perhaps the most intriguing question of the day.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
And UH.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
When Terry Middleton of Horns Illustrated is asking the question,
it could be rather intriguing.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
UH and UH.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
His question had to deal with UH if you he
helped me out here, cam. He he started off by
talking about it being the holiday season, right, and.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
UH, gift giving, gift buying Christmas.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Gifts, buying Christmas gifts, and then he said, if you
were to gift your players to one NFL.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Team, Who would you give them to?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Where?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And why?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Your sparks response.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I don't know, you know, I've got a ton of
I got it a hell of question. By the way, Terry, Uh,
you always come with some doozies.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
So this is a this is a good one, you know,
I'll say this.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I've got a ton of respect for a lot of
coaches and gms in the NFL, and and there's very
few times where I sit and think, gosh, that's not
a great fit for him. You know, I see where
our guys are going off the last year's draft and
two years ago. I see sometimes when coaching changes get made,
like I was so excited for Beijon when Raheem became
(02:13):
the head coach of the Falcons.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Is I knew that would be a great fit for him.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Thought Xavier going with Andy Reid would be a great
fit for him, Jaywitt getting with Sean McVay would be
a great fit for him.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So but again, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
That's the beauty of the NFL, right, It's different than
college that they get chosen and they got to go,
you know, and it's like, you know, do you pack
a convertible to LA or do you pack a Parker
for Green Bay. You just don't know where they're gonna go,
and and their lives change in that instance from where
they're gonna go, and so, but I do think we
try to prepare our guys to go wherever's needed. But
(02:46):
I got so many good friends in that league that
I think do a fantastic job. Very rarely does a
guy get drafted off our team. I think, oh, that's
not a good fit, you know. I just think they
do enough research and enough homework, you know, from a uh,
from a personal standpoint, a player standpoint, that they're generally
not going to draft somebody who doesn't fit their organization.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah, that's good response to that, to like I said,
a unique question that Sart got there on it all
right now some other ones. He was asked about the
fact that Anthony Hill was not on the SEC first team.
Herea's leading the SEC and tackles I guess and said,
how do you do? How do you how do you
(03:28):
reconcile that in your mind about and Hill not being
on a SEC first team.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, both those blew my mind.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Alfred Collins another one, and I, I, uh, how I
rationalized it. They gave the buck Kiss Award to Jalen
Walker from Georgia, and I think deservedly so. Jalen Walker
Walker was on the second team All SEC team with
with Anthony Hill as well. So you know, maybe they
shouldn't have us coaches vote for who's on what teams
(03:56):
that they're that the guys are on. So I think
maybe they should keep letting you guys do that kind
of stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
It's one way, one way to go for there, because
remember that's a coaches vote.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Is the way that that worked?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
All right?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Next, he was asked about the fact that thinks this
is our colleague and friend Roger Wallace who asked this question.
It's not a it's a home playoff game for Texas,
so that makes it different as it's a playoff in
the season could end after this, but advances if they
do win. So does that bring about anything extra special
(04:31):
in terms the emotional element of it and the preparation
or is it business as usual?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Hopefully lean into what we've done the last two years,
you know, Roger, like we've last season we had to
go win every game to get into the Big Twelve
championship game, and we had to play Tech here on
a Friday night on a short week after Thanksgiving, and
so we were kind of in that arena, and I
thought we were mentally prepared to go do that, and
thought we played a good game.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
This season was no different in the SEC.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
When we lost to Georgia the first time, we had
to win every game to get into the SEC championship game,
all the way until at Kyle Field at night in
that environment, and I thought our guys handled that really well.
So we're gonna just kind of lean into our experience
on that of how we get prepared to play in
these types of games that it's kind of winner go home,
(05:18):
and we've it's gone pretty well for us in the past.
So I'm it's kind of like grandma's cookies, you know.
I'm not really going to kind of change the ingredients
on this one. I'm going to kind of follow suit
with what we've done.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
By the way, kirk Boll said the next question, and
he asked what flavor were those cookies, and Sar quickly
said oatmeal. He really likes oatmeal cookies and his grandmother
made really good ones. That's a fact that actually is
the case. So all right, continuing with some of Sark's
(05:50):
fielding of the questions. And it was Kirk Bowles who
followed up the flavor of the cookies by asking. He said,
point blank, as Quinn, you weres told you he is
going pro, And then he asked, have you figured out
the cause of your offense being in a bit of
a funk of the past couple of games?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Don't I don't ask any player on our team are
you turning pro or not?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Because I just I tell them all.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Even that A couple of guys I met with last
week was focus on what we're doing right now. And
I do that with someone because the guys, because they
want to know and they're hearing from agents and all stuff.
The best thing they can do for their future, whether
they decide to stay or leave, is to play really
good in the college football playoff because those would be
the games that will get evaluated by the NFL anyway.
And so I haven't had that discussion with Quinn, but
(06:36):
I haven't had it with Kelvin or anybody quite frankly.
It's just been focus on what you need to do
right now, and we'll have that discussion.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
When when the season's done.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
You know, I think The biggest thing for us offensively
that stands out is one. You know, the turnovers have
been a problem. And that doesn't mean we can't fix it,
you know, but that's been an issue. And it's not
been one guy or two guys, but it's just been
a little bit of a rash. Each year, you have
your issues, and so we spend more time.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
It's I always say, you guys heard me say at
numerous times. You get what you emphasize, and so we're
we've been hammering home the football here for the past
few weeks and you know, we've seen some benefits of that.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
We've seen some times where it hasn't been so good.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
But we're gonna need to take care of the ball
better if we're going to try to make a run
in these playoffs than we have, and we're gonna need
to have a balanced offensive attack. That's when we're at
our best. And I'm not saying it's we got to,
you know, throw for three hundred and rush for two
hundred every game, but we've got to we've got to
make sure that we have balance so that our opponents
have to defend all of our offense when we become
(07:37):
one dimensional. Like any offense, you're just easier to defend,
you know, Like we strive to make offenses one dimensional.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
That's what we're trying to do every week.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
But we have to ensure that that we keep and
maintain our balance and that the ball is getting spread
to our playmakers so that they go make.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Their plays all right.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Next UH for Sark asked about the UH this Clemson
team and what Daboshweeney has done throughout the course of
the year and what what he's done with this program
has them back in the playoffs. Uh, even with Dabo's
perspective being what it is on the portal and not
(08:14):
wanting to take transfer. How about what does it say
about Dabo here is back in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I think it speaks volumes to who he is as
a coach.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I've always said.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
It took me all the way to getting to this
job to really know who I was and what I
believed in and in the foundation of our program.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
And I learned that a ton of that from.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Coach Saban, And obviously I had to go back and
reflect on my time with with Pete Carroll and what
that looked like.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
And I think dabos.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Knows who he is and knows what his program stands for,
and he stands on that, and the players that choose
to go to Clemson believe in that. And so when
you when you, when you do that, you don't have
to vary too much. I think the programs that can
get themselves in trouble, it's one day or this the
next or that Clemson knows who they are and and
(09:02):
they and they play to their strengths and they and they,
and that's a byproduct of Dabbo knows who he is.
And so a ton of credit to him of getting
their team into the playoffs and uh, fighting through some
of the adversity early on in the season and and
earning this opportunity and uh, like I said, it's it's
gonna be a heck of a challenge for us, but
a lot of credit to to he and his staff
and their players to earn this opportunity.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Next, he was asked, with this schedule being like it is,
with all the extra games that will be put in,
could play as many as four more games here in
the postseason, do you pretty much stick with what you
have or do you have more time to install a
couple of things you.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Know, naturally, as the season goes on, you start to
gravitate to the things that you think you're doing well.
And but at the same token, we know we're going
to need some other aspects of our game that we
need to keep working at and and hopefully they start
to come to life for us.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
And some of those things have held true to us.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
And and then we're always trying to find something new
that that can that can help what we're what the
other things that we're trying to do. And so I
wouldn't say that, you know, we're not trying to reinvent
the wheel here, but we're always gonna have some new
wrinkles and twists and things to to what we're doing.
And and that's again I think a credit to the
(10:19):
staff and the players of being open to those things.
From a player's standpoint. That's really what we did last week.
You know, I brought them in Monday morning to review
the game, and then we really did no football with
them on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
After that. They did some stretching strides, they lifted.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
On Wednesday, but I wanted them to get away from
football for a few days, and then we brought them back,
and we hit it pretty good Thursday and Friday, and
we got into the game plan and the coaches were
dialed and ready to go on that. And then I
gave them this Saturday and Sunday off. They needed the
buye right and that we earned a bye essentially, and
then we'll get back to it again this week.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
And so I do think there's.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
A balance act that is needed as you as you
navigate your way through this.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
You know, this has been a long.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Season, and if we want to go do what I
think we're capable of doing, and and and that's be
playing January twentieth, trying to compete for a national championship,
that'll be our seventeenth game, and that our first game
was July thirty first, And so this has been a
long journey and one that I think we've done a
nice job of navigating of where I don't feel like
(11:27):
our players are burnt out. I do feel like we've
got a ton of energy. I do feel like they're hungry,
you know, I want them looking for more food. I
want them you know, I don't want to be force
feeding them, and they definitely are feeling that way. You know,
our guys are around the building. They're they're, they're, they're,
they're bumping around, and we didn't overload them with information
last week. We've saved some information intentionally for today and
(11:49):
for this week so that we can continue to build
towards Saturday.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
All right, And then one more from coach Shark to
wrap up the press conference. He was asked, what makes
Quinn yours as well suited as he is to have
the ball in his hands as much as he does
in these big games.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I think he's comfortable in that environment. I think it
doesn't never feel too big on him. I think in
a perfect world, I would not like that to be
the case. You know, Oklahoma State was a little bit
of a different dynamic of what the game plan was.
You know, the first game here, you know, excuse me,
go back to the Washington game last year. We fell
(12:29):
behind and especially you know, we were running the ball
really well in the first half of that game. We
had two turnovers, two fumbles I think in our first
nine plays of the second half, and it became a
two score game where we kind of had to throw
to maximize our time to get back into it. The
Georgia game here, naturally, you know, we fell behind twenty
three to nothing at halftime, and so now you have
(12:49):
to adjust to what you do in the second half.
And then this past one with Georgia, part of the
plan early on was to throw it, but then we
just couldn't get the run game going into a place
to where it felt comfortable. You know, I want to
run the ball on first down, but I definitely I
don't want it to be second and eleven either, you know,
And so sometimes you try to find a ball controlled
(13:12):
passing game to augment or to offset a lack of
having the ability to run it. So ideally, you know,
fifty times is probably too many. Mid thirties maybe to
forties probably more realistic in these types of games, because
I think he's more than capable of handling that.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
All right, there it is long Worn's head coach Steve
Sarksian from the news conference, We've got some more things
coming up next on sports Radio AM thirteen Under the Zone.
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