November 14, 2025 • 15 mins
Live from the Peach State, Craig Way joins the show to share some thoughts and background before Texas' top-ten matchup 'between the hedges' at Georgia.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
It's the Craig Wegg Show with the voice of the
Texas Longhorns and Hall of Fame broadcasters.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Craig it comes as up n see it's all right.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Well he's the voice of the Texas Longhorns and today
he was up before the sun traveling to Athens, Georgia.
He's Craig Way joining us now live from Georgia. And Craig,
I mean, I know you're used to early morning wake
ups for flights and travel, but this seemed a little extreme,
(00:45):
even by your standards today.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right, it was. It was quite
quite early. It was kind of necessitated by what we've
seen lately, Jake, with flights being laid canceled. I actually
have a later flight, as did Keith Morland, who will
step in for Roger Wallace on the broadcast to Mars.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Roger steps in for me on the men's basketball call.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
And Will Matthews, the three of us, we were actually
on the flight that was due to leave later. However,
there was going to be a connection on that airline
and there was concern about a possible cancelation or delay.
In fact, Will Matthews had a hard time getting back
from New York. He was forced to stay there like
(01:29):
an extra couple of days before he could get back
because of flight cancelations. Now hopefully the hows of the
shutdowns ended. The airlines are also of getting back on track.
But in any event, the radio network in the university
thought it might be prudent for me to try to
get on a non stop and get here as early
(01:49):
as I can. So can't get any earlier than the
first flight out of the day. So five point thirty
this morning we were wheels up and without any issues
and landed in Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Now drove about an hour from there to the.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Team hotel, which is kind of situated between Atlanta, from
between Atlanta and Athens, and so this is where the
team will headquarter and this evening and then get ready
for the game tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Well, hey, nothing wrong with an over abundance of caution.
We've got to get our precious cargo, our Longhorn radio
network crew there on time and well situated. It's another
new venue for you at Sanford Stadium with the Longhorns
joining the SEC and heading there for the first times
as members of the conference. Have you been to the
campus at all or seeing the surrounding area or is
(02:39):
this a complete new experience for you.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
No, I've been to the campus before.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I've done basketball right, both men's and women's basketball. And
I will also tell you this, Jake Texas was supposed
to play and this was a few years ago a
non conference baseball series in Athens, and I really love
their ballpark, the look at their I've had a chance
(03:03):
to see the ballpark, but having had a chance to
call a game there in Texas isn't playing there this
year in baseball eventually get around to it. But I
love the campus and have been through a couple of
the places around town and around Athenes. It is a
great college town. It's a fabulous college town. So and
I am looking forward to obviously getting between the hedges.
(03:26):
I had our engineer, Greg linger Smith had sent a
picture of what it looks like from the broadcast booth.
Looks like we're gonna have a go advantage point to
call the game. So yeah, it looks pretty cool and
I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
So I know you talked to Sark before the game
and he likes that interview. Kind of as he's finished
his lap around the field, we've discussed that what else
are you doing? Are you walking down on the field
and talking to folks before the game?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Is?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
What do you do when you go down there on
the field.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Well, my usual routine is to try to get to
the stadium in the three and a half to four
four hour range before kickoff. And so I says, why
it's the worthy, Well, there's there's a couple of different reasons.
First of all, inside of three hours and what is
it about two forty five prior to kick is when
Roger and I usually pop on with long Orange game
(04:17):
day to do one thing. So that's one thing, and
to set up my materials, my broadcast boards. I'm also
kind I also kind of self produce the broadcast now
since we lost our producer a few years ago, Bill Harwell.
We saw have an outstanding engineering Greg Kling Smithson. But
I pretty much handle the producing end of it in
(04:37):
terms of the formatting, and you know, Terry Kelly are
broadcast operations manager, puts together all the formats and the
drop ins, and then I organize it in a way
that works best for Roger and myself to do that.
So I do all of those things that they're in
the booth and then I go down on the field
about two and a half hours prior to kick and
(04:59):
a to get a feel for it and be Sark
walks on to the field. The team arrives in the
stadium two hours prior to kick, so I want to
be in place when he gets there.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
And then he does his lap. I talked about this yesterday.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
He does his lap around the field, and when he
gets about three quarters the way around or certainly past
halfway point, he stops and he calls his parents and
he visits with him. And then when he when he
completes his visit, he finishes the walk around the field
and comes over and records the pregame interview with me.
And if you know, whatever SEC network or ABC or
(05:33):
somebody else or national radio needs a quick interview with him,
you'll all of that gets you know, put into that
category in that window right then. So that's what I do.
But I like getting a feel for the stadium as well.
And I figured out that I.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Just want to go down and maybe take a picture
by one of the hedges, or you know, or touch
one of.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
The hedges or something like that. Say, hey finally made
it through a game here in Athens. To call a
football game between the hatches.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Hey, that's good, you get down there before the fans
start barking at you. Let's let's talk about the game
a little bit, because there's been a lot made about
Georgia's resiliency this year and how they're a team that
has a reputation for being hard to kill, hard to
put away in a ball game. In a way, Texas
has some of that too, with to come from behind
(06:26):
victories on the road in SEC play. So is that
something Texas has in the back of its mind coming
into this game. It's it's not as easy to come
from behind against Georgia because hey, they're so good when
they're down late.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Well, I think that.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Good tough football teams already know they're tough to kill.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
They know that inside.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Georgia clearly knows it, and I think this long warrning
team feels the same way given what they've gone through.
I mean, it's it's not easy to rally from down
seventeen on the road and with ten minutes to go
in an SEC venue and.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Find a way to win.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
And then they do that, and they've they've been on
this role lately, so I think they have that same feeling,
but you have to execut.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
You've got to you've got to know, you know what
you're dealing with, and I think this team knows what
they're dealing with. A. Sart made a really good point.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Uh we heard it in the media Zoom yesterday, but
he's been saying it throughout the week, and he said
it on Long Run Weekly last night, and you know
that that and he said it in that segment that
we did, the matchup segment, that this team has practiced
really hard and with a lot of ferocity. I'm talking
about Texas getting ready for this game. They understand the drill.
(07:43):
Nobody had to tell them, hey, you got fifth range
Georgia on the road this week. They've been kind of
living on that edge since the Florida game, understanding they
had to take it full tilt the rest of the way,
so regardless of the opponent. I think that mentality has
been there the past few weeks. Now, the fact that
(08:03):
it is on the road in Athens, Georgia, I think
just ramps up everything a little bit more.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
And Texas is coming into this game off of a
buy and we've talked on the show this week about
how that buy was really well timed because Texas comes
into this game with a completely clean student athlete availability report.
I know these things haven't been around that long, but Craig,
have you ever seen something like this this late in
the season.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Not from Texas that there's been a couple of I
saw last year. I noticed in the Long Orange first
year in the SEC, there were a couple of teams
on a couple of weeks that had what Texas had
this week, and those were the words none to report
or whatever. It was something like that. So it was
all like in lower case letters too, just like, you know,
(08:50):
really downplaying this thing's nothing to see here. Uh, that's
that's really good and and that's been a big part.
I've been asked by a lot of people about, you know,
why is this team better over the past four weeks?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Start with health. Health is a big part of it.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
And we saw when all four starting regular defensive backs,
the two corners Malie Mohaved and Jalen Gilblo, as well
as Michael taff and Jelani McDonald.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
All out during that fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
At least for chunks of it against Vanderbilt when the
Commodore's made their run.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Makes a difference.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
It does, and they don't make excuses about it, but
it does test your depth, and it's been tested, and
they understand that staying healthy is a big, big part
of it on both sides of the football, and it'll
be a big key to tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
You know, the defense has had some in season bumps
and bruises. They battled through from injuries. Like you said,
they're getting healthier now. They've been really good when they're
all out there together. The offense had a little bit
of a different story. They had a lot of preseason injuries,
right guys that were held out and so reps that
were missed. Is that maybe a reason now we're seeing
(10:04):
a big learning curve and a big improvement for Archie
Manning and these receivers in the last four weeks.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah, start first of all with the offensive line. Cole
Hudson was out for a time. During that time, Connor
Robertson moved into the starting spot. There was a learning
curve there for Connor, even though he had started a
couple of games in the past.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
And then when Hudson returned.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
They had enough inconsistent play at left guard to say
let's slide him in here. And he has done well
at that left guard spot. So that's the look that
they're going to have tomorrow night. Emmitt Moseley, who couldn't
practice a lot of the fall camp and certainly couldn't
appear the game until the midway mark of the season,
(10:44):
not only is back and is healthy, but the Stanford
transfers made an impact with three touchdown catches, including that
huge win in overtime in Startgilt.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I think all of that matters. DeAndre Moore has been clutched.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
They want to get more out of the running game,
don't think there's any doubt about that. With Trey Wisner
and CJ. Baxter have been banged up. They both score
touchdowns in the winter for Vanderbilt.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
They want to get.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
More out of the ground game, however, and I think
Arch Manning has made his own personal strides through this.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
He's taken the easier throw, the layup as.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Sark calls it, instead of trying to force an issue
sometimes where it doesn't need to be forced. So yeah,
on the offensive side, Yeah, health plays a big factor
in it, but growth plays a big factor in it,
and this is going to be the biggest growth test
of Arch Manning's career Tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Night absolutely agree with you and Craig.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
If you were to pinpoint an offensive key for Texas
outside of the play of Arch Manning, I think you
and I would both agree that's the running game. And
Georgia has been stingy against the run all season long.
Texas can get the running game going in this game.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
If what goes right for the Longhorns.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Well, I think I'm not one of those people who
necessarily believes you pass to set up the run. I mean,
I'm a little more old school about running to set
up the pass. But if you need hit some quick
hitters like what they give a Ryan wing Goes.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Start mentioned the other night they didn't expect to hit
that play for seventy five yards in a touchdown against Vanderbilt.
Remember they just hit the play against Mississippi State for
a touchdown and then another big gainer late. But they
got the same look and said let's go for it,
and it hit again.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I'm not expecting to see Georgia throw out that same look.
They're gonna have to find some other ways to attack
through the air, and then yeah, they're gonna have to
run the ball. I mean This is a team that
is fourth in the SEC and twelfth in the nation
against the run. They're a little less so against the pass.
There are fifty eighth in pass defense.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
But they may have to hit some passes early and
have the mobility of Arch manning himself with his legs
to help open the run game. And then when it
gets over and they got to compliment one another, whether
you know Weisner and Baxter primarily those two guys, to
compliment what else they're doing. If they can do those things,
then they stand a chance to keep the Georgia defense
(13:11):
off balance.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
And they stand a chance to combat Georgia's kind of
time of possession advantage that they like to hold on
their SEC opponents. Okay, last one for you, Craig, And
you know, a lot gets talked about in terms of
Sark versus Kirby. Right, two former Saban assistants and Kirby
Smarts teams had the upper hand in the two matchups
last year. All week long, we've heard both coaches kind
(13:34):
of downplay the significance of those matchups are last year.
But you've been around this Texas team and a lot
of Texas teams in the past. How much of this
clean slate is just coach speak, and how much of
that is is valid from these guys perspective.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
You know why they downplay because they're good friends and
they and they don't. They both say very similar things
that the other coach does a fabulous job with the.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Program, and they kind of leave it at that. They
don't they don't.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Get into the whole deal about matching the wits and
all that other kind of stuff. Yeah, Kirby nose defense
Stark noose offense, and there is that meeting of the mind,
so to speak. There is that matchup, there is that
chess game, that sort of thing. But in the final analysis,
can players execute plays? Play calling is important, don't get
me wrong. It is on both sides of the football.
(14:25):
But you still have to execute even the best play calls.
And the pass can't be dropped or overthrown, or the
running back hitting the hole has got to hit the
right gap. The offensive lineman can't miss his block. There
are execution elements that are paramount in order for the
play calling work on whatever side of the football you're discussing.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
That's Craig Way, the voice of the Longhorns, and you
can follow him at Horn Voice if you want to
see that picture of our guy between the hedges. Craig,
have an amazing call and an amazing time in Athens.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Hey, thanks, have a good call tonight for those bast Bears.
Good luck against Burbank and we'll see where it goes
from there.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Speaking of high school football, we'll talk about some of
the scores from last night and what's coming up in
the by district games still to come. It's gold Ball
season here on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred Zone.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Much more coming up.
It's the Craig Wegg Show with the voice of the
Texas Longhorns and Hall of Fame broadcasters.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Craig it comes as up n see it's all right.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Well he's the voice of the Texas Longhorns and today
he was up before the sun traveling to Athens, Georgia.
He's Craig Way joining us now live from Georgia. And Craig,
I mean, I know you're used to early morning wake
ups for flights and travel, but this seemed a little extreme,
(00:45):
even by your standards today.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right, it was. It was quite
quite early. It was kind of necessitated by what we've
seen lately, Jake, with flights being laid canceled. I actually
have a later flight, as did Keith Morland, who will
step in for Roger Wallace on the broadcast to Mars.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Roger steps in for me on the men's basketball call.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
And Will Matthews, the three of us, we were actually
on the flight that was due to leave later. However,
there was going to be a connection on that airline
and there was concern about a possible cancelation or delay.
In fact, Will Matthews had a hard time getting back
from New York. He was forced to stay there like
(01:29):
an extra couple of days before he could get back
because of flight cancelations. Now hopefully the hows of the
shutdowns ended. The airlines are also of getting back on track.
But in any event, the radio network in the university
thought it might be prudent for me to try to
get on a non stop and get here as early
(01:49):
as I can. So can't get any earlier than the
first flight out of the day. So five point thirty
this morning we were wheels up and without any issues
and landed in Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Now drove about an hour from there to the.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Team hotel, which is kind of situated between Atlanta, from
between Atlanta and Athens, and so this is where the
team will headquarter and this evening and then get ready
for the game tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Well, hey, nothing wrong with an over abundance of caution.
We've got to get our precious cargo, our Longhorn radio
network crew there on time and well situated. It's another
new venue for you at Sanford Stadium with the Longhorns
joining the SEC and heading there for the first times
as members of the conference. Have you been to the
campus at all or seeing the surrounding area or is
(02:39):
this a complete new experience for you.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
No, I've been to the campus before.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I've done basketball right, both men's and women's basketball. And
I will also tell you this, Jake Texas was supposed
to play and this was a few years ago a
non conference baseball series in Athens, and I really love
their ballpark, the look at their I've had a chance
(03:03):
to see the ballpark, but having had a chance to
call a game there in Texas isn't playing there this
year in baseball eventually get around to it. But I
love the campus and have been through a couple of
the places around town and around Athenes. It is a
great college town. It's a fabulous college town. So and
I am looking forward to obviously getting between the hedges.
(03:26):
I had our engineer, Greg linger Smith had sent a
picture of what it looks like from the broadcast booth.
Looks like we're gonna have a go advantage point to
call the game. So yeah, it looks pretty cool and
I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
So I know you talked to Sark before the game
and he likes that interview. Kind of as he's finished
his lap around the field, we've discussed that what else
are you doing? Are you walking down on the field
and talking to folks before the game?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Is?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
What do you do when you go down there on
the field.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Well, my usual routine is to try to get to
the stadium in the three and a half to four
four hour range before kickoff. And so I says, why
it's the worthy, Well, there's there's a couple of different reasons.
First of all, inside of three hours and what is
it about two forty five prior to kick is when
Roger and I usually pop on with long Orange game
(04:17):
day to do one thing. So that's one thing, and
to set up my materials, my broadcast boards. I'm also
kind I also kind of self produce the broadcast now
since we lost our producer a few years ago, Bill Harwell.
We saw have an outstanding engineering Greg Kling Smithson. But
I pretty much handle the producing end of it in
(04:37):
terms of the formatting, and you know, Terry Kelly are
broadcast operations manager, puts together all the formats and the
drop ins, and then I organize it in a way
that works best for Roger and myself to do that.
So I do all of those things that they're in
the booth and then I go down on the field
about two and a half hours prior to kick and
(04:59):
a to get a feel for it and be Sark
walks on to the field. The team arrives in the
stadium two hours prior to kick, so I want to
be in place when he gets there.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
And then he does his lap. I talked about this yesterday.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
He does his lap around the field, and when he
gets about three quarters the way around or certainly past
halfway point, he stops and he calls his parents and
he visits with him. And then when he when he
completes his visit, he finishes the walk around the field
and comes over and records the pregame interview with me.
And if you know, whatever SEC network or ABC or
(05:33):
somebody else or national radio needs a quick interview with him,
you'll all of that gets you know, put into that
category in that window right then. So that's what I do.
But I like getting a feel for the stadium as well.
And I figured out that I.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Just want to go down and maybe take a picture
by one of the hedges, or you know, or touch
one of.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
The hedges or something like that. Say, hey finally made
it through a game here in Athens. To call a
football game between the hatches.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Hey, that's good, you get down there before the fans
start barking at you. Let's let's talk about the game
a little bit, because there's been a lot made about
Georgia's resiliency this year and how they're a team that
has a reputation for being hard to kill, hard to
put away in a ball game. In a way, Texas
has some of that too, with to come from behind
(06:26):
victories on the road in SEC play. So is that
something Texas has in the back of its mind coming
into this game. It's it's not as easy to come
from behind against Georgia because hey, they're so good when
they're down late.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Well, I think that.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Good tough football teams already know they're tough to kill.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
They know that inside.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Georgia clearly knows it, and I think this long warrning
team feels the same way given what they've gone through.
I mean, it's it's not easy to rally from down
seventeen on the road and with ten minutes to go
in an SEC venue and.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Find a way to win.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
And then they do that, and they've they've been on
this role lately, so I think they have that same feeling,
but you have to execut.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
You've got to you've got to know, you know what
you're dealing with, and I think this team knows what
they're dealing with. A. Sart made a really good point.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Uh we heard it in the media Zoom yesterday, but
he's been saying it throughout the week, and he said
it on Long Run Weekly last night, and you know
that that and he said it in that segment that
we did, the matchup segment, that this team has practiced
really hard and with a lot of ferocity. I'm talking
about Texas getting ready for this game. They understand the drill.
(07:43):
Nobody had to tell them, hey, you got fifth range
Georgia on the road this week. They've been kind of
living on that edge since the Florida game, understanding they
had to take it full tilt the rest of the way,
so regardless of the opponent. I think that mentality has
been there the past few weeks. Now, the fact that
(08:03):
it is on the road in Athens, Georgia, I think
just ramps up everything a little bit more.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
And Texas is coming into this game off of a
buy and we've talked on the show this week about
how that buy was really well timed because Texas comes
into this game with a completely clean student athlete availability report.
I know these things haven't been around that long, but Craig,
have you ever seen something like this this late in
the season.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Not from Texas that there's been a couple of I
saw last year. I noticed in the Long Orange first
year in the SEC, there were a couple of teams
on a couple of weeks that had what Texas had
this week, and those were the words none to report
or whatever. It was something like that. So it was
all like in lower case letters too, just like, you know,
(08:50):
really downplaying this thing's nothing to see here. Uh, that's
that's really good and and that's been a big part.
I've been asked by a lot of people about, you know,
why is this team better over the past four weeks?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Start with health. Health is a big part of it.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
And we saw when all four starting regular defensive backs,
the two corners Malie Mohaved and Jalen Gilblo, as well
as Michael taff and Jelani McDonald.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
All out during that fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
At least for chunks of it against Vanderbilt when the
Commodore's made their run.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Makes a difference.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
It does, and they don't make excuses about it, but
it does test your depth, and it's been tested, and
they understand that staying healthy is a big, big part
of it on both sides of the football, and it'll
be a big key to tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
You know, the defense has had some in season bumps
and bruises. They battled through from injuries. Like you said,
they're getting healthier now. They've been really good when they're
all out there together. The offense had a little bit
of a different story. They had a lot of preseason injuries,
right guys that were held out and so reps that
were missed. Is that maybe a reason now we're seeing
(10:04):
a big learning curve and a big improvement for Archie
Manning and these receivers in the last four weeks.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah, start first of all with the offensive line. Cole
Hudson was out for a time. During that time, Connor
Robertson moved into the starting spot. There was a learning
curve there for Connor, even though he had started a
couple of games in the past.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
And then when Hudson returned.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
They had enough inconsistent play at left guard to say
let's slide him in here. And he has done well
at that left guard spot. So that's the look that
they're going to have tomorrow night. Emmitt Moseley, who couldn't
practice a lot of the fall camp and certainly couldn't
appear the game until the midway mark of the season,
(10:44):
not only is back and is healthy, but the Stanford
transfers made an impact with three touchdown catches, including that
huge win in overtime in Startgilt.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I think all of that matters. DeAndre Moore has been clutched.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
They want to get more out of the running game,
don't think there's any doubt about that. With Trey Wisner
and CJ. Baxter have been banged up. They both score
touchdowns in the winter for Vanderbilt.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
They want to get.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
More out of the ground game, however, and I think
Arch Manning has made his own personal strides through this.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
He's taken the easier throw, the layup as.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Sark calls it, instead of trying to force an issue
sometimes where it doesn't need to be forced. So yeah,
on the offensive side, Yeah, health plays a big factor
in it, but growth plays a big factor in it,
and this is going to be the biggest growth test
of Arch Manning's career Tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Night absolutely agree with you and Craig.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
If you were to pinpoint an offensive key for Texas
outside of the play of Arch Manning, I think you
and I would both agree that's the running game. And
Georgia has been stingy against the run all season long.
Texas can get the running game going in this game.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
If what goes right for the Longhorns.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Well, I think I'm not one of those people who
necessarily believes you pass to set up the run. I mean,
I'm a little more old school about running to set
up the pass. But if you need hit some quick
hitters like what they give a Ryan wing Goes.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Start mentioned the other night they didn't expect to hit
that play for seventy five yards in a touchdown against Vanderbilt.
Remember they just hit the play against Mississippi State for
a touchdown and then another big gainer late. But they
got the same look and said let's go for it,
and it hit again.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I'm not expecting to see Georgia throw out that same look.
They're gonna have to find some other ways to attack
through the air, and then yeah, they're gonna have to
run the ball. I mean This is a team that
is fourth in the SEC and twelfth in the nation
against the run. They're a little less so against the pass.
There are fifty eighth in pass defense.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
But they may have to hit some passes early and
have the mobility of Arch manning himself with his legs
to help open the run game. And then when it
gets over and they got to compliment one another, whether
you know Weisner and Baxter primarily those two guys, to
compliment what else they're doing. If they can do those things,
then they stand a chance to keep the Georgia defense
(13:11):
off balance.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
And they stand a chance to combat Georgia's kind of
time of possession advantage that they like to hold on
their SEC opponents. Okay, last one for you, Craig, And
you know, a lot gets talked about in terms of
Sark versus Kirby. Right, two former Saban assistants and Kirby
Smarts teams had the upper hand in the two matchups
last year. All week long, we've heard both coaches kind
(13:34):
of downplay the significance of those matchups are last year.
But you've been around this Texas team and a lot
of Texas teams in the past. How much of this
clean slate is just coach speak, and how much of
that is is valid from these guys perspective.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
You know why they downplay because they're good friends and
they and they don't. They both say very similar things
that the other coach does a fabulous job with the.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Program, and they kind of leave it at that. They
don't they don't.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Get into the whole deal about matching the wits and
all that other kind of stuff. Yeah, Kirby nose defense
Stark noose offense, and there is that meeting of the mind,
so to speak. There is that matchup, there is that
chess game, that sort of thing. But in the final analysis,
can players execute plays? Play calling is important, don't get
me wrong. It is on both sides of the football.
(14:25):
But you still have to execute even the best play calls.
And the pass can't be dropped or overthrown, or the
running back hitting the hole has got to hit the
right gap. The offensive lineman can't miss his block. There
are execution elements that are paramount in order for the
play calling work on whatever side of the football you're discussing.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
That's Craig Way, the voice of the Longhorns, and you
can follow him at Horn Voice if you want to
see that picture of our guy between the hedges. Craig,
have an amazing call and an amazing time in Athens.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Hey, thanks, have a good call tonight for those bast Bears.
Good luck against Burbank and we'll see where it goes
from there.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Speaking of high school football, we'll talk about some of
the scores from last night and what's coming up in
the by district games still to come. It's gold Ball
season here on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred Zone.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Much more coming up.
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