September 11, 2024 • 14 mins
Andy Everett, "The Voice of the UTSA Roadrunners", and the host of the “Andy Everett Show” weekdays 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. and “The Ticket 760 Golf Show” Saturdays 8 a.m. to 9 a.m joined the program today to preview Saturday's game between the Texas Longhorns and UTSA Roadrunners.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We've been talking to obviously a lot about this game
Saturday between Texas and UTSA. Yesterday we had the opportunity
to visit with head coach Jeff.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Trailor, who's.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Regular weekly show comes up tonight and can be heard
in San Antonio on the Ticket seven sixty with our
good friend and the voice of the UTSA Roadrunners who
joins us right now on the hot line, and that
would be the one and only Andy ever who joins
us live if I'm if I'm correct on this from
the Chicken in Pickle?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Is that correct? And am using the iHeartRadio after comback?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
That's yeah, Now let's try that now, Yeah, all right,
So you're at the Chicken in Pickle, right, I am, okay,
all right, So I'll get to the football in a minute.
But you got to tell me about the Chicken in Pickle.
I mean, I know there's a location on Manchac there
in South Austin, but I know it's it's largely headquartered
(00:55):
there in San Antonio.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
What's good at the Chicken in Pickle? What do you
like to get?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I like their wings, but I like wings pretty much
everywhere I go. They do have a very good Hamburger.
I've never been a big fan of sweet potato fries,
but theirs are really good, and I like their rib
and chicken combo. And I don't play pickleball, but if
I did, there's about fifty courts here that I could
play pickleball.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
By the way, I was looking at the menu and
that struck me. To the chicken and two rib combo
struck me as well as the Southern fried pimento chicken.
So anyway, we're foodies around here, so we do yeah, yeah,
no doubt, all right, so let me let me get
your thoughts. I mentioned this. I told the story on
(01:41):
the air on Monday. After the Texas Michigan game on Saturday,
I get back in the rental car and I'm driving
from Ann Arbor back to the hotel, which was near
the Detroit airport. So it's about a twenty five minute
drive and I'm driving back over there, and the first
thing that went through my I was, Oh, let's check
(02:02):
in on the UTSA Texas State game. And and somebody
had put it on in the suite that was next
or maybe the broadcast booth that was next to ours.
Uh and during our post game, and I'd seen one
early score, but that was about all I'd seen, so
jumped in And when I jumped in the car and
I went to the iHeartRadio app to hear you, and
(02:24):
then I heard you say something along the lines of
certainly didn't expect this, or something along those lines, and
you gave the score at thirty five to three, and.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I was like, what what?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And I could only imagine that my shock and all
the surprise, you know, paled in comparison to what you
and Coach Trailer and those in the UTSA community must
have been feeling at that time. Was it was it
really kind of a stunning thing to have it happened
like that.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah. I think it's because we've been so used to
this offense being so good for so long that we
didn't expect this much of a drop off. You we
just thought we were gonna plug new guys in the offense,
was gonna be the offense, and it was gonna work,
and you know, new wide receivers, new offensive line, new quarterback,
same plays. But it is it's crazy how you think
(03:15):
it's gonna work and it doesn't until you actually play games.
And maybe we should have had a glimpse of that
from the Kinnesaw game. But they got off to such
a great start in that game. They played three drives,
three scores, twenty one and nothing, and then in the
fourth quarter it's twenty one to sixteen, and you're like,
what's going on? And Okay, they got it worked out,
they'll be fine against Texas State. Get a pick on
the first drive of the game, can't score, Texas State scores,
(03:38):
get a field, goalk at seven to three, where we're okay,
Texas State scorers, Texas State scorers. And all of a sudden,
you're down twenty eight to three and the offense can't
move the ball, and the Yes, defense is good and
Utsa's defense is good. But in this day and age,
if you don't score in the high twenties, low thirties
and keep up with the team that's scoring points, you
got no chance. And UTSA just couldn't keep paying Offensively.
(03:59):
I thought Jordan McLeod was really good. But TSA's offense
I thought was the story of day or lack of
an offense?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah, no doubt about all right.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
You mentioned a couple of different areas and kurch Trailer
was on with us yesterday and Jeff pointed it out,
and I wanted to get your thoughts, and he talked
about injuries and youth combined I guess or inexperience and
injuries combined with regard to what he had to the
hand that you were dealt with regard to the offensive line.
(04:28):
So how big a factor was that in terms of
the offense because he pointed out the inability to try
to get a running game going with Cavorian Barnes and
Robert Henry.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, I think to me it's been the biggest thing
is the running game isn't there, and that obviously goes
to the offensive line or the quarterback reads. I think
he told me yesterday there was six or seven times
we should have handed it off because that was the
read and they missed it. Either the running back didn't
keep the ball or the quarterback pulled it out too
soon and those could have been seven, eight, nine, ten
yard gashes. So that's something they're working on this week
(05:00):
in practice. But Josh Stephus was a four year starter
for UTSA. He's on the Jacksonville practice squad.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
JT.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Clark or Decory and Clark as some we'll see in
their game programs, hasn't played for two years after a
devastating injury. Zakari Franklin was huge here, hasn't been here
in two years. Tikey Ogle Kellogg was a great wide
receiver for UTSA gone, and while talent wise they think
that these guys are as good or better than what
they had, they just haven't played. So there was three
(05:28):
or four times where they're throwing an out route to
the south sideline and the wide receivers twenty yards downfield
looking for the fly pattern, and they just weren't in sync,
not on the same page. And I think that is
the youth and experience. I think the only big injury
was on the offensive line, where their left guard Ventley
Ttafu didn't play last week after getting in the Kinnesaw game.
I'm not sure what his status is yet for Texas.
(05:49):
We'll find out today or tomorrow. But that was a big,
big deal there because he's one of the top offensive
linement of the conference.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Visiting with the play by play voice of the UTSA Roadrunners,
he ever here on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred zone
tell me about Owen McCown that this is going to
make me feel old because.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I did games.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I did games when his dad was playing high school ball.
So obviously he's a native Texan for Brace, but transfering
of Colorado. How about your thoughts on what you've seen
from in the first two games.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Well, he got get some really good experience in those
four games at Colorado, and to my knowledge, he left
before Dion got there, So it wasn't Dion Jennison him away.
He'd already made up his mind he was coming home,
and he knew eventually Frank Harris was going to have
to run out of years and there'd be an opportunity here.
Jeff's dad and family and our Jeff knows the Owen's
(06:40):
dad and his family and taught some of them and
coached some of them, and it's been around that family
forever in East Texas. The one thing they like about him,
and this goes back to his dad's NFL pedigree. He
reads defenses usually pretty well, especially in the passing game.
They still have some work to do on the zone reads,
but they liked that he makes the right decisions usually
when it comes to the passing game, and that's probably
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the thing that made him a little bit better than
Eddie Lee Marberger this year. I think they were both
really good and it was probably a pretty even competition,
but they just feel comfortable with that NFL knowledge. He
has his pedigree that he can get out of some jams,
and he'll start Saturday. That's the plan for him to start.
My guess is they'll both play. Last year when we
were at Tennessee, Eddie Lee Marberger started, but he got
(07:25):
he just got. He got hurt, not necessarily hurt, but
he got beat up a lot with the the intensity
and pressure of the Tennessee line. So Owen played in
the second half, and unless the game is, you know,
unexpectedly really close, I would expect both to play on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
When when Jeff's offense is going right. When it's going right,
it does include what you just mentioned, zone read and
a lot of RPO, doesn't it absolutely?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
And Jeff mentioned to me on a on a hit
that we did with him yesterday, it should be run
pass option and lately has become pass run option. And
they want to get back to pounding the rock. That's
their deal. They want four five six yard carry, They
want to average three and a half to four and
a half. In the Kinnesaw game they averaged two and
in the Texas State game, they were under two. They're
(08:14):
averaging two yards to carry for the season so far,
and that's got to improve. And regardless of how well
the score is indicated in the Texas game and next
week with Houston Christian, that's the main thing. They've got
to get worked out on offense because conference plays three
weeks away, and that is where they're going to be judged.
Can you win the American Conference and they're not American
(08:35):
Conference if they can't run the ball.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
In your estimation, the best or whatever, most talented or
most dangerous, maybe it's all the same guy, maybe it isn't.
But the best receiver right now for the Roadrunners is
which one Devin McEwan.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Devin was great last year as a freshman, so even
showed some signs before that in the twenty twenty three
spring game. Really like him. Great kids, another East Texas kid.
Jeff's known his family and his mom and dad forever,
and Devans is the best of the lot now. I
think Willie McCoy is really good. I don't know if JT.
(09:13):
Clark's coming back yet or not. He's trying to get
out there. He's trying to politic to play in this game.
He had a terrible knee injury at UAB two years ago.
They did a knee surgery. It didn't work, it was unsuccessful.
They had to do another one. They did it about
this time last year, and so it's been over two
almost two years since he's played a game. He was
an NFL prospect, probably a second or third round pick.
(09:36):
I don't know that he's that now until he goes
back out there and plays. But he really really wants
to play in this game. If he can be ninety
percent of what he used to be, he's one of
the best in the league. But I'm just not sure
where he's at right now and how much he'll get used,
if at all, this week.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Let me turn to the defense and get your thoughts.
But who has kind of stood out to you and
has been a force for you defensively.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Well, I think the best story on the defense all
year long is Joe Evans the defensive line. And Joe
played at LSU in his early years, transferred to UTSA
a couple of years ago. This is his senior year.
NFL scouts suggested a comeback for one more year that
his draft status would be higher, and in April last year.
Everybody was trying to nil him and get them to
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go to his school, and he turned out hundreds and
hundreds of thousands of dollars. Wasn't quite a million, but
it was in the neighborhood to stay at UTSA, and
everybody thought, man, you're crazy. Nobody would have blamed you
for taking the money. And he said, I've been building
something here. I'm not at UTSA for money. I'll get
to the NFL if the worst case, I'll get on
(10:42):
a practice squad. I'll make my money. This is my home,
this is where I want to be. I'm staying and
he is. I think he is the best defensive lineman
that UTSA has. They lost a great player in Trade
Moore that's now playing for Texas. You've seen him the first.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Couple of games.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yes, even a better person than he is a player. Unbelievable,
great kid. Fourteen sacks last year led the nation. I
really like Jamory Robinson who took his spot. Jamury last
year had four and a half sacks, but played in
half less than half the plays that Trade did. So
he'll line up on the edge and he's trying to
(11:19):
get a quarter. You get try to get sacks, and
he probably won't get fourteen like Trade did last year.
Only one other player in the nation did. But if
he can get five or six sacks on the year,
that would be great. From that position, I really like him.
And then I think in the secondary, Ken Robinson, the
strong safety, has just been fantastic. And he's another fabulous
kid as well that Jeff's had for a few years here.
(11:40):
He's a Metroplex area player. I think McKinney, you're up
in that area and just a really good talented safety
number four and in that defensive backfield for UTSA.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Okay, oh, I just pulled up the ruster.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I'm showing South Grand Prairie for Ken Robinson, the former
South Grand Prairie Warrior. Yeah, okay, all right, let me
get your thoughts on what the mindset of the group is. Obviously,
you want to you know, they want to shelve what
happened last week, move on, win or lose, and now
get ready for this challenge of coming to Austin and
playing Texas.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
And I asked Jeff about this yesterday.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
He said, we got a few guys that did play
in the game two years ago when the Roadrunners were
up seventeen to seven in the second quarter before it
got turned around. He said, well, we got a lot
more guys who didn't play in that game. But how
about your thoughts on the mindset of the guys this
week as they get ready to come up by thirty five.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Well, if this were twenty five thirty years ago and
it was a non power of fight school going into Texas,
they're just going to go in there and they're going
to lose sixty three or three and call it a day,
take their money and go home. And one thing I've noticed,
I'm only with football, but with basketball players now, and
with all the transfer and all the nil and all
the movement that's going on, every roster has players that
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have either wanted to play a place like Texas, or
did play early in their career at Texas and didn't
get enough playing time, or maybe Alabama or maybe Tennessee
or someplace like that where it's a huge deal on Saturdays.
The player on these teams twenty or thirty years ago
would have been intimidated by the setting. You step in
that's in that stadium and you see one hundred thousand
(13:17):
plus in your heart goes up in your throat, and
today's athletes relish the moment. They may not win, they
may know they're a thirty plus point underdog. They just
want to be in the moment, and if they lose,
they lose. They want to go play as hard as
they can show off for the scouts, as much as
they can maybe make a play against a defensive guy
for Texas that an NFL scout goes, Wow, if he
(13:38):
can do that against Texas, maybe he can do it
in the NFL. But they're not afraid.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Now.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
They may lose by ten or twenty or fifty, but
they're not afraid of the setting. And I think that's
the difference. And all the players. I talked to a
couple of players at practice this week, they expect that
they're going to someday play in the NFL in not
necessarily in front of this big of a crowd, because
NFL stadiums aren't that big, but in these big environment
and they relished the opportunity to do it, regardless of
(14:03):
how big of an underdog they are.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Couldn't agree more. I think they'll come in fearless.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
For sure, Andy Ever, play by play voice of the
UTSA Roadrunners, He'll be in the boot two boots down
from us on Saturday. I look forward to seeing you
on Saturday, and I appreciate you taking the time to
do this.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
All right, Sam, same to you. Thought to you guys later,
and have a good week.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You bet.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
That's Andy Everett live from the Chicken and Pickle there
in San Antonio.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
See. And I thought it was just all about pickle.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I didn't realize the whole pickle ball thing, which is
part of your repertoire.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Sounds like right up my alley. Yeah, chicken, pickle.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah, because you're a pickleball dude, So yeah, you could
eat some chicken in place some pickleball, or probably the
other way around. Play the pickleball first, they eat the chicken. Yeah, afterwards,
it probably makes more sense.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
All right.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
We're going to hear more from Sark coming up next
when we continue on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the
zone of the iHeartRadio app.
We've been talking to obviously a lot about this game
Saturday between Texas and UTSA. Yesterday we had the opportunity
to visit with head coach Jeff.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Trailor, who's.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Regular weekly show comes up tonight and can be heard
in San Antonio on the Ticket seven sixty with our
good friend and the voice of the UTSA Roadrunners who
joins us right now on the hot line, and that
would be the one and only Andy ever who joins
us live if I'm if I'm correct on this from
the Chicken in Pickle?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Is that correct? And am using the iHeartRadio after comback?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
That's yeah, Now let's try that now, Yeah, all right,
So you're at the Chicken in Pickle, right, I am, okay,
all right, So I'll get to the football in a minute.
But you got to tell me about the Chicken in Pickle.
I mean, I know there's a location on Manchac there
in South Austin, but I know it's it's largely headquartered
(00:55):
there in San Antonio.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
What's good at the Chicken in Pickle? What do you
like to get?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I like their wings, but I like wings pretty much
everywhere I go. They do have a very good Hamburger.
I've never been a big fan of sweet potato fries,
but theirs are really good, and I like their rib
and chicken combo. And I don't play pickleball, but if
I did, there's about fifty courts here that I could
play pickleball.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
By the way, I was looking at the menu and
that struck me. To the chicken and two rib combo
struck me as well as the Southern fried pimento chicken.
So anyway, we're foodies around here, so we do yeah, yeah,
no doubt, all right, so let me let me get
your thoughts. I mentioned this. I told the story on
(01:41):
the air on Monday. After the Texas Michigan game on Saturday,
I get back in the rental car and I'm driving
from Ann Arbor back to the hotel, which was near
the Detroit airport. So it's about a twenty five minute
drive and I'm driving back over there, and the first
thing that went through my I was, Oh, let's check
(02:02):
in on the UTSA Texas State game. And and somebody
had put it on in the suite that was next
or maybe the broadcast booth that was next to ours.
Uh and during our post game, and I'd seen one
early score, but that was about all I'd seen, so
jumped in And when I jumped in the car and
I went to the iHeartRadio app to hear you, and
(02:24):
then I heard you say something along the lines of
certainly didn't expect this, or something along those lines, and
you gave the score at thirty five to three, and.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I was like, what what?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And I could only imagine that my shock and all
the surprise, you know, paled in comparison to what you
and Coach Trailer and those in the UTSA community must
have been feeling at that time. Was it was it
really kind of a stunning thing to have it happened
like that.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah. I think it's because we've been so used to
this offense being so good for so long that we
didn't expect this much of a drop off. You we
just thought we were gonna plug new guys in the offense,
was gonna be the offense, and it was gonna work,
and you know, new wide receivers, new offensive line, new quarterback,
same plays. But it is it's crazy how you think
(03:15):
it's gonna work and it doesn't until you actually play games.
And maybe we should have had a glimpse of that
from the Kinnesaw game. But they got off to such
a great start in that game. They played three drives,
three scores, twenty one and nothing, and then in the
fourth quarter it's twenty one to sixteen, and you're like,
what's going on? And Okay, they got it worked out,
they'll be fine against Texas State. Get a pick on
the first drive of the game, can't score, Texas State scores,
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get a field, goalk at seven to three, where we're okay,
Texas State scorers, Texas State scorers. And all of a sudden,
you're down twenty eight to three and the offense can't
move the ball, and the Yes, defense is good and
Utsa's defense is good. But in this day and age,
if you don't score in the high twenties, low thirties
and keep up with the team that's scoring points, you
got no chance. And UTSA just couldn't keep paying Offensively.
(03:59):
I thought Jordan McLeod was really good. But TSA's offense
I thought was the story of day or lack of
an offense?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah, no doubt about all right.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
You mentioned a couple of different areas and kurch Trailer
was on with us yesterday and Jeff pointed it out,
and I wanted to get your thoughts, and he talked
about injuries and youth combined I guess or inexperience and
injuries combined with regard to what he had to the
hand that you were dealt with regard to the offensive line.
(04:28):
So how big a factor was that in terms of
the offense because he pointed out the inability to try
to get a running game going with Cavorian Barnes and
Robert Henry.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, I think to me it's been the biggest thing
is the running game isn't there, and that obviously goes
to the offensive line or the quarterback reads. I think
he told me yesterday there was six or seven times
we should have handed it off because that was the
read and they missed it. Either the running back didn't
keep the ball or the quarterback pulled it out too
soon and those could have been seven, eight, nine, ten
yard gashes. So that's something they're working on this week
(05:00):
in practice. But Josh Stephus was a four year starter
for UTSA. He's on the Jacksonville practice squad.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
JT.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Clark or Decory and Clark as some we'll see in
their game programs, hasn't played for two years after a
devastating injury. Zakari Franklin was huge here, hasn't been here
in two years. Tikey Ogle Kellogg was a great wide
receiver for UTSA gone, and while talent wise they think
that these guys are as good or better than what
they had, they just haven't played. So there was three
(05:28):
or four times where they're throwing an out route to
the south sideline and the wide receivers twenty yards downfield
looking for the fly pattern, and they just weren't in sync,
not on the same page. And I think that is
the youth and experience. I think the only big injury
was on the offensive line, where their left guard Ventley
Ttafu didn't play last week after getting in the Kinnesaw game.
I'm not sure what his status is yet for Texas.
(05:49):
We'll find out today or tomorrow. But that was a big,
big deal there because he's one of the top offensive
linement of the conference.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Visiting with the play by play voice of the UTSA Roadrunners,
he ever here on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred zone
tell me about Owen McCown that this is going to
make me feel old because.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I did games.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I did games when his dad was playing high school ball.
So obviously he's a native Texan for Brace, but transfering
of Colorado. How about your thoughts on what you've seen
from in the first two games.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Well, he got get some really good experience in those
four games at Colorado, and to my knowledge, he left
before Dion got there, So it wasn't Dion Jennison him away.
He'd already made up his mind he was coming home,
and he knew eventually Frank Harris was going to have
to run out of years and there'd be an opportunity here.
Jeff's dad and family and our Jeff knows the Owen's
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dad and his family and taught some of them and
coached some of them, and it's been around that family
forever in East Texas. The one thing they like about him,
and this goes back to his dad's NFL pedigree. He
reads defenses usually pretty well, especially in the passing game.
They still have some work to do on the zone reads,
but they liked that he makes the right decisions usually
when it comes to the passing game, and that's probably
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the thing that made him a little bit better than
Eddie Lee Marberger this year. I think they were both
really good and it was probably a pretty even competition,
but they just feel comfortable with that NFL knowledge. He
has his pedigree that he can get out of some jams,
and he'll start Saturday. That's the plan for him to start.
My guess is they'll both play. Last year when we
were at Tennessee, Eddie Lee Marberger started, but he got
(07:25):
he just got. He got hurt, not necessarily hurt, but
he got beat up a lot with the the intensity
and pressure of the Tennessee line. So Owen played in
the second half, and unless the game is, you know,
unexpectedly really close, I would expect both to play on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
When when Jeff's offense is going right. When it's going right,
it does include what you just mentioned, zone read and
a lot of RPO, doesn't it absolutely?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
And Jeff mentioned to me on a on a hit
that we did with him yesterday, it should be run
pass option and lately has become pass run option. And
they want to get back to pounding the rock. That's
their deal. They want four five six yard carry, They
want to average three and a half to four and
a half. In the Kinnesaw game they averaged two and
in the Texas State game, they were under two. They're
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averaging two yards to carry for the season so far,
and that's got to improve. And regardless of how well
the score is indicated in the Texas game and next
week with Houston Christian, that's the main thing. They've got
to get worked out on offense because conference plays three
weeks away, and that is where they're going to be judged.
Can you win the American Conference and they're not American
(08:35):
Conference if they can't run the ball.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
In your estimation, the best or whatever, most talented or
most dangerous, maybe it's all the same guy, maybe it isn't.
But the best receiver right now for the Roadrunners is
which one Devin McEwan.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Devin was great last year as a freshman, so even
showed some signs before that in the twenty twenty three
spring game. Really like him. Great kids, another East Texas kid.
Jeff's known his family and his mom and dad forever,
and Devans is the best of the lot now. I
think Willie McCoy is really good. I don't know if JT.
(09:13):
Clark's coming back yet or not. He's trying to get
out there. He's trying to politic to play in this game.
He had a terrible knee injury at UAB two years ago.
They did a knee surgery. It didn't work, it was unsuccessful.
They had to do another one. They did it about
this time last year, and so it's been over two
almost two years since he's played a game. He was
an NFL prospect, probably a second or third round pick.
(09:36):
I don't know that he's that now until he goes
back out there and plays. But he really really wants
to play in this game. If he can be ninety
percent of what he used to be, he's one of
the best in the league. But I'm just not sure
where he's at right now and how much he'll get used,
if at all, this week.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Let me turn to the defense and get your thoughts.
But who has kind of stood out to you and
has been a force for you defensively.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Well, I think the best story on the defense all
year long is Joe Evans the defensive line. And Joe
played at LSU in his early years, transferred to UTSA
a couple of years ago. This is his senior year.
NFL scouts suggested a comeback for one more year that
his draft status would be higher, and in April last year.
Everybody was trying to nil him and get them to
(10:22):
go to his school, and he turned out hundreds and
hundreds of thousands of dollars. Wasn't quite a million, but
it was in the neighborhood to stay at UTSA, and
everybody thought, man, you're crazy. Nobody would have blamed you
for taking the money. And he said, I've been building
something here. I'm not at UTSA for money. I'll get
to the NFL if the worst case, I'll get on
(10:42):
a practice squad. I'll make my money. This is my home,
this is where I want to be. I'm staying and
he is. I think he is the best defensive lineman
that UTSA has. They lost a great player in Trade
Moore that's now playing for Texas. You've seen him the first.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Couple of games.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yes, even a better person than he is a player. Unbelievable,
great kid. Fourteen sacks last year led the nation. I
really like Jamory Robinson who took his spot. Jamury last
year had four and a half sacks, but played in
half less than half the plays that Trade did. So
he'll line up on the edge and he's trying to
(11:19):
get a quarter. You get try to get sacks, and
he probably won't get fourteen like Trade did last year.
Only one other player in the nation did. But if
he can get five or six sacks on the year,
that would be great. From that position, I really like him.
And then I think in the secondary, Ken Robinson, the
strong safety, has just been fantastic. And he's another fabulous
kid as well that Jeff's had for a few years here.
(11:40):
He's a Metroplex area player. I think McKinney, you're up
in that area and just a really good talented safety
number four and in that defensive backfield for UTSA.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Okay, oh, I just pulled up the ruster.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I'm showing South Grand Prairie for Ken Robinson, the former
South Grand Prairie Warrior. Yeah, okay, all right, let me
get your thoughts on what the mindset of the group is. Obviously,
you want to you know, they want to shelve what
happened last week, move on, win or lose, and now
get ready for this challenge of coming to Austin and
playing Texas.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
And I asked Jeff about this yesterday.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
He said, we got a few guys that did play
in the game two years ago when the Roadrunners were
up seventeen to seven in the second quarter before it
got turned around. He said, well, we got a lot
more guys who didn't play in that game. But how
about your thoughts on the mindset of the guys this
week as they get ready to come up by thirty five.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Well, if this were twenty five thirty years ago and
it was a non power of fight school going into Texas,
they're just going to go in there and they're going
to lose sixty three or three and call it a day,
take their money and go home. And one thing I've noticed,
I'm only with football, but with basketball players now, and
with all the transfer and all the nil and all
the movement that's going on, every roster has players that
(12:56):
have either wanted to play a place like Texas, or
did play early in their career at Texas and didn't
get enough playing time, or maybe Alabama or maybe Tennessee
or someplace like that where it's a huge deal on Saturdays.
The player on these teams twenty or thirty years ago
would have been intimidated by the setting. You step in
that's in that stadium and you see one hundred thousand
(13:17):
plus in your heart goes up in your throat, and
today's athletes relish the moment. They may not win, they
may know they're a thirty plus point underdog. They just
want to be in the moment, and if they lose,
they lose. They want to go play as hard as
they can show off for the scouts, as much as
they can maybe make a play against a defensive guy
for Texas that an NFL scout goes, Wow, if he
(13:38):
can do that against Texas, maybe he can do it
in the NFL. But they're not afraid.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Now.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
They may lose by ten or twenty or fifty, but
they're not afraid of the setting. And I think that's
the difference. And all the players. I talked to a
couple of players at practice this week, they expect that
they're going to someday play in the NFL in not
necessarily in front of this big of a crowd, because
NFL stadiums aren't that big, but in these big environment
and they relished the opportunity to do it, regardless of
(14:03):
how big of an underdog they are.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Couldn't agree more. I think they'll come in fearless.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
For sure, Andy Ever, play by play voice of the
UTSA Roadrunners, He'll be in the boot two boots down
from us on Saturday. I look forward to seeing you
on Saturday, and I appreciate you taking the time to
do this.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
All right, Sam, same to you. Thought to you guys later,
and have a good week.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You bet.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
That's Andy Everett live from the Chicken and Pickle there
in San Antonio.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
See. And I thought it was just all about pickle.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I didn't realize the whole pickle ball thing, which is
part of your repertoire.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Sounds like right up my alley. Yeah, chicken, pickle.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah, because you're a pickleball dude, So yeah, you could
eat some chicken in place some pickleball, or probably the
other way around. Play the pickleball first, they eat the chicken. Yeah, afterwards,
it probably makes more sense.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
All right.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
We're going to hear more from Sark coming up next
when we continue on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the
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