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Speaker 1 (00:03):
We're back. It's the Craig Way Show with Hall of
Fame broadcaster and voice of the Texas Longhearts Craig Way.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
About halfway through the day's program, Cameron Parker filling in
for Craig Way. Glad to have you with us here
on this Monday afternoon on AM thirteen hundred, this zone
less than forty eight hours away from Texas and Arizona
State kicking off at the Peach Bowl. And as we
continue to preview this game, we wanted to bring you
some sound from Texas offensive coordinator and offensive line coach
(00:34):
Kyle Flood from his media day press conference.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Sure on behalf of Coach Narcisian and our officer staff.
Appreciate you guys being on today, Appreciate the people at
the Peach Bowl, and we couldn't be more excited to
still be playing at the stage of the season. Should
be an exciting game and everything. I've never had the
opportunity to play in this game, but I've heard from
other coaches who have and I know everything's done first class.
(01:02):
So we're really look forward to getting Atlanta tomorrow and
being part of a great game.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
With that, all the questions all right, thanks coach Thomas,
go ahead and start us off.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Thank you, good affinute coach, thanks for joining us. You know,
could you explain the differences between playing left and right tackle,
and also, you know, with your Richard freshman Trevor Grousby,
what makes it a uncomfortable with him playing in in
his spott.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
I don't know that.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
There's necessarily a difference, you know, for the way we
play the game.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
We don't shame.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
We don't have plays that we run to the left
or to the right, or protections or things like that.
I think it's it's a matter of reps, you know.
Can you get enough reps in practice to get comfortable.
I think when a guy only plays one one position,
it generally takes like three to five days to kind
(01:54):
of flip that guy over and get them comfortable on
the other side. But sometimes for a guy who's a
depth player like Trevor's been for us, he's been playing
both sides the entire season, not always, not every week.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Some weeks he played one side.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Some makes my putty other some weeks, but he's had
the experience of doing it, so he's had to be
trained like that. So I think it's it's a testament
to him to be able to do it and to
play at the level that he did. So we're certainly
excited about him in his future. But I don't know
if there's necessarily a difference. I just think it's a
matter of can you find the reps over time to
(02:28):
get a guy to be comfortable to do it.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Would he have been able to do that week one?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I don't know that, but you know, we're pretty far
down the road this season, so he's had ample time
to do both sides.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Go cook, go ahead, Kyle.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
Speaking of Trevor, he was someone who wasn't super highly
ranked by some of the services, but you know, obviously
with his track and field exploit, showed some athleticism. But
what else during the recruiting process attracted y'all's program to
wanting to recruit him and bring him into your offensive
line room.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I would say, like, the first thing I would say
is he was pretty high in my mind. You know
that's for sure now. Early on in the process. He
was a guy who was really lean, and when you
have a guy like that, you're always trying to assess,
all right, hey, can this guy ultimately put on the
bulk to play in the SEC really really athletic guy.
(03:20):
I got a chance to watch him play basketball, really
really athletic on the basketball court. So all that stuff
was great, And I thought his coaching staff up at
Melissa did a really good job of keeping me up
to date with kind of his progress.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
So I thank them for that for sure.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
But as he went through his senior year, or I
should say I apologizes, as you went through the spring
before his senior year, you could really see him start
to put on the weight.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
And I think when he hopefully.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Officially visited in June before his senior year, I want
to say, we wait a minute, right around two seventy,
two seventy five, which for a guy with his frame
was was more than enough in my mind that we'd
be able to get him to where he wanted to
get to.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
And then I think he was two ninety when he
got here.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I think now he's now usually between three ten and
three fifteen, three seventeen, that's usually where he is. But
the athleticism was always there. I was always really excited
about his athleticism. And then ultimately, as soon as he
showed me that okay, this guy's going to have the
size to play in the sec To me, he was
a no brainer.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
He went right to the top of my list.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Danny Davis, go ahead, Kyle. Since he's talking to us,
I'm going to assume he's healthy. But Jake would be
in mind to set the career starts record at Texas
and he plays on Wednesday. Why has he been such
a consistent course for y'all since you got here and
inherited him from the previous staff.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah, center Jake has started every game of center for
me since I've been here. You know's that's pretty neat.
I don't over four years. I don't know if I've
ever had that before. So that's a that is certainly
a really really nice luxury for me to have somebody
who's been with me and thinks like me.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
But you're quite is like, what does that mean to us?
Or why? You know? Why is that a good thing?
I think because he loves everything about football.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
He is.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
He's a catalyst for the energy of the football team.
You know, if he to steal Coach Stark's expression, like
you're going to be a thermostat or a thermometer, Well,
he's a thermostat. He sets the temperature in the room.
He's not taking the temperature. He sets the temperature, and
he kind of sets the standard for us in that
offensive line room. And I think it does fill over
to the rest of the offense just because of his personality. So,
(05:29):
you know, I think it starts with his love for
everything about football. He loves practice, he loves the meetings,
he loves the rehab afterwards, he loves the training and
the weight weightlifting, and there's just nothing about it he
doesn't love. So that that's infectious on a football team,
and it's it's really really invaluable.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Josh New go ahead, yeah, Kyle, just to kind of
follow that up.
Speaker 8 (05:49):
You know, Jake and some of the other guys have
been you know, with you for a long time and
build me moving on. Of course, you're worried about here
and now in the Peach Bowl, But somewhere in the
back of your mind are you at all thinking about
what twenty twenty five could look like and just you know,
the need to ingratiate some new pieces.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
As a as a college coach especially, you're always like
coaching your current team and then there's always an eye
to the future of hey, you know, how are we
building this roster. How are we building this position group?
So you know we have to do that. That's just
good practice in terms of what you have to do
as a coach. It never never takes away from from
(06:27):
what you're doing right now. But I'm excited about my room.
I think we've got a deep room. I think we've
got a versatile room in terms of guys being able
to play different positions. And you know that'll be something
that'll all shake out in the offseason. But they're practicing
hard right now. You know, one of the advantages of
playing this long is we get to continue to practice.
So these practice weeks are really really valuable to these
(06:49):
young players. You know, the freshman in our group like
Nate Kibble and Danny Cruz It's and Brandon Baker. It's
like the guys who've only been here a year. Well
now not only do they practice with us through the
regular season, now we're we're kind of deep into the
postseason and it's it's just those practices are really valuable.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
So you know, we're always looking at it.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
And again, I like, I like the room that we have,
but you know that's the flaw shakeout in the offseason.
Right now, we're kind of focused with the team on
on getting a win in.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
This game that are cold and you're up.
Speaker 9 (07:21):
I think of the line was pretty healthy for the
most part, but when these injuries came, you know, with
Calvin and with Cam, how important was the cross training
that you did in the preseason just in case this happened.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
It's really important. I think it's really important.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I think my part of my obligation to coach Sark
and to the offense is to make sure we can
always get whatever combination of the best five players on
the field is. And that's why I tell people it's
not like, Okay, this guy's the backup right tackle, this
guy's the backup right guard, this guy's the backup center.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
That's not how it works. And it's it's not a
it's not.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
A negative to any player who didn't go in the
game when the injuries happened. It's just to me, I
got to make sure we've got the best combination of five.
So if that means Cole Hudson's got to play right
guard or left guard, well that's kind of how we
train him during the week. And if that means Trevor
Guzby's got to play right tackle or left tackle or
Hayden Connor's got to go to center so that we
can keep that best combination in there. You know that
that's really we start that very very early in the
(08:20):
year to make sure we're ready to do it when
we need it. And we were fortunate this year to
not need it for a while, but you know, now
we need it and we're gonna probably need it going forward.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Bron go ahead. Hey, hey, Kyle, are you interested in
being a head coach again? Right now?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I'm interested in winning the Peach Bowl, So I appreciate
that question. I think, you know, those kind of questions
are always a function of success, and generally when you're
an assistant coach, if you get an opportunity to be
a head coach is because you were really good at
the job you were doing and the team you were
with was successful. So you know, well, we'll entertain those
(09:01):
things down the road, you know, if and when they come,
and it's it's always flattering to be considered for those things,
But I don't ever like put my mind there because
right now we've got we've got enough of a challenge
trying to trying to play really well against a good
Arizona State team.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
David Ecker, Go.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Ahead, Kyle. I appreciate the time today. I was just
curious something interesting that came out of yesterday was a
couple of the players talked about coach p K and
I guess his his patience when it comes to making
late adjustments in the play clock pre snap. I'm just
curious from an offensive perspective, what kind of challenge does
(09:38):
that pose one of the defensive coordinators is willing to
do to that and kind of tweak things late before
the snap.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
You mean, like when the defense changes late in the year. Yeah,
oh yeah, no, that's certainly, that's certainly a challenge I think.
You know, offensively, you know, we try to be really
good at controlling the tempo to try to make the
play callers on the defense not have the ability to
know when the ball is going to be snapped. And
sometimes that you know, you saw us in the last game.
Sometimes we go faster and sometimes we don't go nearly
(10:08):
as fast. But no, it's an issue.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
It does. It does complicate things, you know.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
One of the harder things to deal with on offenses
that is when the picture changes, you know, because now
eleven guys got to got to make a change in
their mind in terms of what their assignment and technique
is going to be.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
We'll hear more from Kyle Flood throughout today's show. I
love this response back when asked about it if he's
pursuing head coaching jobs, and he said, I'm focused on
winning the Peach Bowl, and then from the Peach Bowl,
focus on winning the Cotton Bowling. From there, focus on
winning the national championship. But without a doubt, a function
of being successful program is you have other coaches on
(10:45):
your staff who are being looked at for other coaching positions.
I mean, we've seen Brendon Marion move on the UNLV
from receivers coach to to offensive coordinator. We've seen Johnny Nansen,
I'm sorry, Jeff Choke, the Linemacker's coach takeover at Nevada,
and there's gonna be other guys. I think Dashar Choice
is a big name that eventually get looked at to
(11:07):
be coming up. It's a coordinator at a D one program.
And I'm sure Kyle Flood and pk are being looked
at by other coaches by their schools as to be
their next head coach because the success that Texas has
had these last few years breeds that type of development
from coaching, from coordinator spots to head coaching positions. But
(11:29):
we will see and we will hear more from Kyle
Flood throughout today's show here up next to Craig Way,
able to sit down with Jade Baron, Thorpe Award winning
defensive back in Flugerville, Connelly native Jade Baron up next
as the Craig Way Show continues on this Monday afternoon
We're back. It's the Craig Way Show with Hall of
Fame broadcaster and voice of the Texas Longhearts Craig Way.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
About halfway through the day's program, Cameron Parker filling in
for Craig Way. Glad to have you with us here
on this Monday afternoon on AM thirteen hundred, this zone
less than forty eight hours away from Texas and Arizona
State kicking off at the Peach Bowl. And as we
continue to preview this game, we wanted to bring you
some sound from Texas offensive coordinator and offensive line coach
(00:34):
Kyle Flood from his media day press conference.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Sure on behalf of Coach Narcisian and our officer staff.
Appreciate you guys being on today, Appreciate the people at
the Peach Bowl, and we couldn't be more excited to
still be playing at the stage of the season. Should
be an exciting game and everything. I've never had the
opportunity to play in this game, but I've heard from
other coaches who have and I know everything's done first class.
(01:02):
So we're really look forward to getting Atlanta tomorrow and
being part of a great game.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
With that, all the questions all right, thanks coach Thomas,
go ahead and start us off.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Thank you, good affinute coach, thanks for joining us. You know,
could you explain the differences between playing left and right tackle,
and also, you know, with your Richard freshman Trevor Grousby,
what makes it a uncomfortable with him playing in in
his spott.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
I don't know that.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
There's necessarily a difference, you know, for the way we
play the game.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
We don't shame.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
We don't have plays that we run to the left
or to the right, or protections or things like that.
I think it's it's a matter of reps, you know.
Can you get enough reps in practice to get comfortable.
I think when a guy only plays one one position,
it generally takes like three to five days to kind
(01:54):
of flip that guy over and get them comfortable on
the other side. But sometimes for a guy who's a
depth player like Trevor's been for us, he's been playing
both sides the entire season, not always, not every week.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Some weeks he played one side.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Some makes my putty other some weeks, but he's had
the experience of doing it, so he's had to be
trained like that. So I think it's it's a testament
to him to be able to do it and to
play at the level that he did. So we're certainly
excited about him in his future. But I don't know
if there's necessarily a difference. I just think it's a
matter of can you find the reps over time to
(02:28):
get a guy to be comfortable to do it.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Would he have been able to do that week one?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I don't know that, but you know, we're pretty far
down the road this season, so he's had ample time
to do both sides.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Go cook, go ahead, Kyle.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
Speaking of Trevor, he was someone who wasn't super highly
ranked by some of the services, but you know, obviously
with his track and field exploit, showed some athleticism. But
what else during the recruiting process attracted y'all's program to
wanting to recruit him and bring him into your offensive
line room.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I would say, like, the first thing I would say
is he was pretty high in my mind. You know
that's for sure now. Early on in the process. He
was a guy who was really lean, and when you
have a guy like that, you're always trying to assess,
all right, hey, can this guy ultimately put on the
bulk to play in the SEC really really athletic guy.
(03:20):
I got a chance to watch him play basketball, really
really athletic on the basketball court. So all that stuff
was great, And I thought his coaching staff up at
Melissa did a really good job of keeping me up
to date with kind of his progress.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
So I thank them for that for sure.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
But as he went through his senior year, or I
should say I apologizes, as you went through the spring
before his senior year, you could really see him start
to put on the weight.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
And I think when he hopefully.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Officially visited in June before his senior year, I want
to say, we wait a minute, right around two seventy,
two seventy five, which for a guy with his frame
was was more than enough in my mind that we'd
be able to get him to where he wanted to
get to.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
And then I think he was two ninety when he
got here.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I think now he's now usually between three ten and
three fifteen, three seventeen, that's usually where he is. But
the athleticism was always there. I was always really excited
about his athleticism. And then ultimately, as soon as he
showed me that okay, this guy's going to have the
size to play in the sec To me, he was
a no brainer.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
He went right to the top of my list.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Danny Davis, go ahead, Kyle. Since he's talking to us,
I'm going to assume he's healthy. But Jake would be
in mind to set the career starts record at Texas
and he plays on Wednesday. Why has he been such
a consistent course for y'all since you got here and
inherited him from the previous staff.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah, center Jake has started every game of center for
me since I've been here. You know's that's pretty neat.
I don't over four years. I don't know if I've
ever had that before. So that's a that is certainly
a really really nice luxury for me to have somebody
who's been with me and thinks like me.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
But you're quite is like, what does that mean to us?
Or why? You know? Why is that a good thing?
I think because he loves everything about football.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
He is.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
He's a catalyst for the energy of the football team.
You know, if he to steal Coach Stark's expression, like
you're going to be a thermostat or a thermometer, Well,
he's a thermostat. He sets the temperature in the room.
He's not taking the temperature. He sets the temperature, and
he kind of sets the standard for us in that
offensive line room. And I think it does fill over
to the rest of the offense just because of his personality. So,
(05:29):
you know, I think it starts with his love for
everything about football. He loves practice, he loves the meetings,
he loves the rehab afterwards, he loves the training and
the weight weightlifting, and there's just nothing about it he
doesn't love. So that that's infectious on a football team,
and it's it's really really invaluable.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Josh New go ahead, yeah, Kyle, just to kind of
follow that up.
Speaker 8 (05:49):
You know, Jake and some of the other guys have
been you know, with you for a long time and
build me moving on. Of course, you're worried about here
and now in the Peach Bowl, But somewhere in the
back of your mind are you at all thinking about
what twenty twenty five could look like and just you know,
the need to ingratiate some new pieces.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
As a as a college coach especially, you're always like
coaching your current team and then there's always an eye
to the future of hey, you know, how are we
building this roster. How are we building this position group?
So you know we have to do that. That's just
good practice in terms of what you have to do
as a coach. It never never takes away from from
(06:27):
what you're doing right now. But I'm excited about my room.
I think we've got a deep room. I think we've
got a versatile room in terms of guys being able
to play different positions. And you know that'll be something
that'll all shake out in the offseason. But they're practicing
hard right now. You know, one of the advantages of
playing this long is we get to continue to practice.
So these practice weeks are really really valuable to these
(06:49):
young players. You know, the freshman in our group like
Nate Kibble and Danny Cruz It's and Brandon Baker. It's
like the guys who've only been here a year. Well
now not only do they practice with us through the
regular season, now we're we're kind of deep into the
postseason and it's it's just those practices are really valuable.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
So you know, we're always looking at it.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
And again, I like, I like the room that we have,
but you know that's the flaw shakeout in the offseason.
Right now, we're kind of focused with the team on
on getting a win in.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
This game that are cold and you're up.
Speaker 9 (07:21):
I think of the line was pretty healthy for the
most part, but when these injuries came, you know, with
Calvin and with Cam, how important was the cross training
that you did in the preseason just in case this happened.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
It's really important. I think it's really important.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I think my part of my obligation to coach Sark
and to the offense is to make sure we can
always get whatever combination of the best five players on
the field is. And that's why I tell people it's
not like, Okay, this guy's the backup right tackle, this
guy's the backup right guard, this guy's the backup center.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
That's not how it works. And it's it's not a
it's not.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
A negative to any player who didn't go in the
game when the injuries happened. It's just to me, I
got to make sure we've got the best combination of five.
So if that means Cole Hudson's got to play right
guard or left guard, well that's kind of how we
train him during the week. And if that means Trevor
Guzby's got to play right tackle or left tackle or
Hayden Connor's got to go to center so that we
can keep that best combination in there. You know that
that's really we start that very very early in the
(08:20):
year to make sure we're ready to do it when
we need it. And we were fortunate this year to
not need it for a while, but you know, now
we need it and we're gonna probably need it going forward.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Bron go ahead. Hey, hey, Kyle, are you interested in
being a head coach again? Right now?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I'm interested in winning the Peach Bowl, So I appreciate
that question. I think, you know, those kind of questions
are always a function of success, and generally when you're
an assistant coach, if you get an opportunity to be
a head coach is because you were really good at
the job you were doing and the team you were
with was successful. So you know, well, we'll entertain those
(09:01):
things down the road, you know, if and when they come,
and it's it's always flattering to be considered for those things,
But I don't ever like put my mind there because
right now we've got we've got enough of a challenge
trying to trying to play really well against a good
Arizona State team.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
David Ecker, Go.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Ahead, Kyle. I appreciate the time today. I was just
curious something interesting that came out of yesterday was a
couple of the players talked about coach p K and
I guess his his patience when it comes to making
late adjustments in the play clock pre snap. I'm just
curious from an offensive perspective, what kind of challenge does
(09:38):
that pose one of the defensive coordinators is willing to
do to that and kind of tweak things late before
the snap.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
You mean, like when the defense changes late in the year. Yeah,
oh yeah, no, that's certainly, that's certainly a challenge I think.
You know, offensively, you know, we try to be really
good at controlling the tempo to try to make the
play callers on the defense not have the ability to
know when the ball is going to be snapped. And
sometimes that you know, you saw us in the last game.
Sometimes we go faster and sometimes we don't go nearly
(10:08):
as fast. But no, it's an issue.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
It does. It does complicate things, you know.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
One of the harder things to deal with on offenses
that is when the picture changes, you know, because now
eleven guys got to got to make a change in
their mind in terms of what their assignment and technique
is going to be.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
We'll hear more from Kyle Flood throughout today's show. I
love this response back when asked about it if he's
pursuing head coaching jobs, and he said, I'm focused on
winning the Peach Bowl, and then from the Peach Bowl,
focus on winning the Cotton Bowling. From there, focus on
winning the national championship. But without a doubt, a function
of being successful program is you have other coaches on
(10:45):
your staff who are being looked at for other coaching positions.
I mean, we've seen Brendon Marion move on the UNLV
from receivers coach to to offensive coordinator. We've seen Johnny Nansen,
I'm sorry, Jeff Choke, the Linemacker's coach takeover at Nevada,
and there's gonna be other guys. I think Dashar Choice
is a big name that eventually get looked at to
(11:07):
be coming up. It's a coordinator at a D one program.
And I'm sure Kyle Flood and pk are being looked
at by other coaches by their schools as to be
their next head coach because the success that Texas has
had these last few years breeds that type of development
from coaching, from coordinator spots to head coaching positions. But
(11:29):
we will see and we will hear more from Kyle
Flood throughout today's show here up next to Craig Way,
able to sit down with Jade Baron, Thorpe Award winning
defensive back in Flugerville, Connelly native Jade Baron up next
as the Craig Way Show continues on this Monday afternoon
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!