Longhorns Defeat Vanderbilt, Dodgers Cement their Dynasty

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From Daryl K.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Royal Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin for the first time
in forty two days.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
The Texas log.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Warns play a football game at home in Austin. The
log warns against the Vanderbilt Commodorees. First down and tim
from the twenty five yard line, which swing pass caught.
Mike Wingo turns it upfield thirty thirty five.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
We go forty he goes to bedfield.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Forget it, fuck, forget about it.

Speaker 4 (00:24):
Say good night to it seventy five yards on the
first play from scrintage.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Ryan, we go dust it again.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
First down in tien Vanderbilt from the Commodor thirty eight
yard line.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Back in the pistol set man and.

Speaker 5 (00:38):
Couple on the boss looks off the turn.

Speaker 6 (00:40):
Colin Simmons, Hey have it, he pulled the ball out
from Diego Papa. Colin Simmons of Pumblow recovery at the
common doors. Twenty nine first down in gold play action.
Manning rolls right looking, the throg still looking, still looking,
rolls right near the boundary, fires at the ends up
come touchdown. Texas c Jay back secret in his oone

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a six yard cats full of score inside the Texas
twenty six shotgunstaff Hobby the throats escapes pressure who cannot
escape the second man.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Tray Boll wraps him up from behind.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
He grabbed him at the lightest scrimmage nogate on the
play and it brings up or down first and go
from the poor tall swept waves cuts inside, tak online
touchdown Texas Quinn Travian Releister files it in from four
yards out and prey extends into a three score league
for Texas. Out of the shot gun on first half

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as the snap turns, Layax.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
What's the throw?

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Pressure coming?

Speaker 2 (01:36):
He's gonna go down running him down his Anthony Hill
boy has he been on a roll of lad hand
Hill with a second a loss of seven shotgun step
Manning hads it looks fires for the inside touch shots
down in at Basley arch Manning took a huge throw
when delivered does strike to Mosley his third touchdown.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Cats of the season are chops up happily and the
long Morne.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Turned back up three scores off the right hash Park
of the Texas nineteen. On third down at eight, diegle
Pavia from the shotgun pass the step back to prow
the ink Chase rolls to the right, rolls back to
the left, steps.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Up bit down. He goes eat think Bark.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
The SCC defensive lineman in the league, rops Diego Pabia
for a loss of eleven. Shotgun step back to Pabya
looking hit downy guys once again heat.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Then Bart coumps up with a sack, his second.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Of the long game, and Pobby has dropped back of
the two yard line a loss of nine. War Worn's
ready for the on side kick with thirty three seconds
remaining here the fourth quarter.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Here's the kick. It bounces and.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
It's loose on the turf.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
Mad scrambled for it and Vanderbilt may have recovered.

Speaker 5 (02:50):
I think it went out of bounds.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah it did, and that that will be the break
to the Longbarns need and that's gonna do it.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Final score this afternoon from Darrel.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Kay Royal Texas Memorial Stadium here in Austin, the Texas
Long WRNS thirty four, the Vanderbilt Commodorees thirty one.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Happy Monday to you. We begin a new week here.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Glad to have you with us on a Monday on
Sports Radio AM thirteen one hundred, The Zone good afternoon.
I'm Craig Waye, joined by the producer Jake Herman. Jake
put together that highlight montage of the Long Worne win
on Saturday afternoon of the Vanderbilt Commodores. They were up
thirty four to ten going into the fourth quarter and
a lot of squirrely things and some eyebrow raising officiating

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calls to help make that fourth quarter a lively one
is Vanderbilt score twenty one had answered, but the onside
kick recovery went out of bounds. Texas holds on Long
ORNs win at thirty four to thirty one. They're now
seven and two overall and four and one in the SEC.
Glad to have you with us here, and a lot
to get to on the program. We're going to hear

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from Longrtons head coach Steve Sarkisian today, of course, being Monday,
we have the press conference that we bring to you
on Monday mornings normally at eleven thirty. Was at eleven
am this morning because this is the open day week
for Texas, so we brought it to you live at
eleven am. But you'll hear the you will also hear

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the replay of it, so to speak. In sound bite fashion.
So we'll bring that to you and let you hear
from the head coach answers to the questions there in
the news conference. We have inconceivable coming up this hour.
We have NFL to get to. The Dallas Cowboys play tonight.

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You'll hear it on ninety eight point one FM Cavett
Texas ninety eight point one FM Texas all time country Favorites,
and the Cowboys played the Arizona Cardinals. Also yesterday, the
Houston Texans dropped a heartbreaker to the Denver Broncos. Will
hear from Demico Ryan's are head coach. And then there's

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the World Series. Maybe it was a good thing that
twenty six million people watched this on Saturday night. It
ranks as the most watched World Series game since twenty seventeen.

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Twenty six million viewers on Fox, Fox Deportis, and Fox
Sports streaming devices according to Nielsen Panel, only Fast Nationals
whatever that is, and Adobe Analytics that's how they, I
guess factor in all of the streaming viewing and things
like that.

Speaker 7 (05:45):
Jake, So a Canadian team didn't bring down the ratings
in America too much? I wonder imagine so those numbers
include north of the border, those worldwide numbers don't.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
I don't know that they did, because remember they're watched
on what sports net?

Speaker 5 (05:59):
Right, that's right?

Speaker 1 (06:01):
So in fact, let's let's hear a little bit of that.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
There there were some amazing moments in in this game seven.
Really even in Game six on Friday night, with Toronto
up three games to two, the Dodgers held a three
to one lead. Uh, there was there were There were
two major instances in that game of things that kept

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the Dodgers season alive. One was a fly ball? Was
it off the bat of Addison Barge? I'm trying to remember,
that's right? That that that lodged in between the padding
and and the the wall.

Speaker 5 (06:44):
It's never happened there.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
No, And justin Dean, the centerfielder went up and immediately
threw his hands up, which you're told to do. I
know there was some confusion some folks on social media.
Why didn't you try to pick it up? Because if
you try to pick it up, the ball is in play.
If you say you can't feel it stuck underneath, then
the runners are going to be stopped.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
And they were stopped at second and third one.

Speaker 5 (07:03):
That's an amazing play.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah, yeah, heads up, yeah it was.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
This was a guy, by the way, Justin Dean, who
played Division two college baseball at Leonore Ryane, North Carolina.
He played he was a teammate of a family friend
of mine, uh with family friends and their son played
at leonore Ryane. Yes, same college where Rick Barnes played.

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That's right, he played basketball was at Lenoir Ryan there
in Hickory, North Carolina, kind of the foothills of the
Blue Ridge Mounds. But anyway, there was that moment and
then with one out and the well they were runners

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at second and third, right, so you had the tying
tying runs in scoring position because the Dodgers were up
three one at the time, and there was a sinking
liner hit the left the Blue Jays and reading all
the quotes afterwards, to a man, felt as though it
was going to drop in for base hit and at
least one run was going to score, if not both.
But ink k k R Nanniz fielded it and then

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fired almost in one motion back to second base, where
Miguel Rojas had the leap in the air and come
down on the bag with it for a game ending
double play. So it tied the series at three games apiece,
since the Dodgers won that one three to one. So
then they go into Game seven on Saturday night, and
you've probably read and heard everything about it.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
What an epic game it was.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Max sures A looked good for nearly five innings on
the mound for Toronto. Shoey Otani started for the Dodgers,
gave up a three run homer to Bobaschett. The Dodgers
were down three to nothing at that point. Then it
was three to one. They chipped away with a run,
and then they chipped away with a second run and
got it to three to two. Then it got to

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four to two Toronto. Then Max Mountsey hit a home
run to cut it a four to four three and uh,
and then it got to the ninth inning.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
It was to the ninth inning and.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
He k Hernandez led off the ninth inning and uh
Hernandez struggled and uh and wound up making it out.
So there was one out and they were two outs away.

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Toronto was two outs away from winning the World Series.
So up to the plate comes Miguel Rojas. Now we're
at Rojas is a thirty six year old utility middle infielder,
and that's been his lot for the past few years
as a thirty five year older, thirty four year older,
thirty three going on back, he's been a utility middle infielder.

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He was in his second sent with stint with the
Dodgers and he came to the play in the number
nine body. He had not even played in the World
Series until Game six when he got the start, and
like I said, he made the catch to double off
Addison Barger too in Game six when he came down

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on the on the base. Afterwards, he hurt his rib
cage and was still in some pain. He took some
painkilling shots, some cortizone stuff, things like that to feel
little bit better where he could swing in where he
could play a little bit and play in Game seven,
but it was still kind of hurting him a little bit.
But he comes to bat in the ninth with one

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out in the ninth and Joe Davis is on the call.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Trail don't not field indeed, no way, but Joe ROAs
Dave Roberts played his gun.

Speaker 8 (11:03):
The guy hadn't had a head in a month.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
The game seven, if he's said a time run yeah,
uh And and it kind of hurt on the swing too,
he said, but he got it out.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
It tied the score four to four. They go to
the bottle of ninth.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
And the Jays have the winning run ninety feet away,
ninety feet away. And uh and by the way, you
heard Joe Davis say no way. The reason why Joe
said that is, ay, it was probably improbable in the
World Series for a number nine hitter to do that.
B Joe Davis is the regular television announced for the Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
I think he does ninety out of their games the year.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
So he probably more than most would know the unlikely
nature that Miguel Rojas, a thirty six year old light
hitting middle infielder who had not actually had any kind
of a hit in a calendar month, who had not
hit a home run since September nineteenth, would be able
to hit a game time home run.

Speaker 5 (12:06):
It was genuine yeah, no way, no way.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Couldn't believe it.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
And then here's Joe, because the Blue Jays, who had
the game winning run ninety feet away, were in position
to win it, but for a really wacky play on
a fly ball to.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
Left field, Hernandez on the run with pie has over
his head over makes the Cats SI's Game seven.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yeah, the two were all pretty much collided because Hernandez
had started in pretty shallow and he was in a
full run back looking over his shoulder. But Pie has
hangling over from center, leaps in the air. They kind
of collide, and yet Pie Haz holds the ball to
record the final out of the inning. If you want
the replay, you see k Nanny's just laying face down

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like he's hurt, and Pie has went over to Jeri Man.
The reason Hernandez was doing that he thought the ball
had missed both of them and that the series was over,
and he's like, yeah, you got the ballers, Yeah, all right,
let's go go into the dust.

Speaker 7 (13:19):
Just what happens in the playoffs. Just what you expect
with key k a Hernandez over the of his career.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
Right.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
So in the meantime, Yoshinobol Yamamoto had come out of
the bullpen after he pitched throw ninety six pitches the
night before and got the win in Game six zero
rest for him, got out of that jam of the ninth,
then pitches the tenth. They go to the eleventh, and
they get to the top of the eleventh there's two outs,
nobody on. Will Smith is at the plate, and this

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is on the Dodgers Audio Network with their radio play
by play voice Stephen Nelson.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
The two old Smith with a smash in the air
to t plipfield this ballad.

Speaker 6 (14:02):
Smith lets it fly and breaks the tie in game seven,
as number sixteen stays cunch.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Ooh, this place has gotten silent all of a sudden,
Steven Nelson and have written Monday there on the Dodgers
Audio Network. They were stunned, and there was Will Smith
who hit that out, so he gave the Dodgers the
five fourth lead. They go to the bottom of the
eleventh inning and Yamamoto gets an out. Well, there's a

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leadoff double by Vladimir Guerrera Junior. And by the way,
and Yamamoto's getting a lot of love for doing this today.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
I thought I saw it at first when I look.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
He tipped his cap to Guerrero before he even threw
in the pitch. And he'll have just to say, hey,
much respect to you. And vlad responds by hitting a
double end of the corner. Then he gets bunny to
by Isaiah Kiner FILEFFA interesting decision. Yeah, so he's there
with one out. Now I should point out also the

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left out one play Kiner Phileffa in the ninth inning
was was standing at third base and there was one out,
so they only needed the Blue Jays had the bases loaded.
All they needed was a sacrifice fly to win the game.
And what happened was Alejandro Kirk hits a ground ball
to second who else but Miguel Rojas picks it up, stumbles,

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feels pain in his side, and still plants the foot
enough and fires a strike to the plate. Will Smith
had his foot actually come off the plate for a
moment is Kiner Phileffa was coming in, but Smith got
his foot back on the plate just nano seconds before
Kiner Phileffa slid in.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
It's a forest play. He's out.

Speaker 5 (15:55):
Great call on the field too, by the home plate.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
On absolutely and there was and there was a great
deal of speculation on social media. Did you know did
did he actually? Did Will Smith actually get his foot
back on the plate in time?

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Did he do it?

Speaker 2 (16:11):
And this was something I read today that was just
amazing about this, and the the right up on this
talked about bases loaded one out. Dalton Varshow hits a
grounder the Dodgers second baseman Miguel Rojas, and he's a
little off balance when he feels it. His throat to
the plate pulls catcher Will Smith's foot up for just

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an instant, but he regains contact with home plate a
micro second before Isaiah kinder Fileffa's slide crosses home. There's
some people, by the way who would note the irony
that this happened to a former Ranger player.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
I can't anyway.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
It said, we almost saw a World Series end on
an overturned call, but the call was right. Kinder Fileffa
was out. Now listen to this. Chris Kershner posted this
on where flef had started running from. He had a
seven point eight foot primary lead seven point eight feet
that ranked three hundred and fifty seventh out of three

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hundred and eighty one out of all primary leads in
the World Series.

Speaker 5 (17:13):
Now was was Muncie playing back at third.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
A little bit?

Speaker 2 (17:16):
But here's here's the other mystery behind it, and the
and the explanation. He also had an eight point nine
foot secondary lead that's not good. That ranked three hundred
and sixty sixth out of three hundred and seventy six
out of all secondary leads in the World Series. And
you say, well, why was that he had a twenty

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eight point two foot to sprint sprint speed that rank
sixty first out of six hundred eighty nine out of
all sprint speeds in the World Series.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
In other words, according.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
To the math given out close to play, was even
one extra foot of primary or secondary lead would have
made the difference. So then, folks, way will that idiot?
Why do you need to take a bigger secondary lead?
Mitch Bannon had the explanation. It wasn't his decision. He
was doing what the third base coach told him to do,
and it was consistent with how the Blue Jays had
played it all year, and it had worked more often

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than it hadn't, and they might have been feeling a
little ps you know, PTSD, thank you PTSD from last
night with a doubling off the end of the game.

Speaker 5 (18:23):
It's all it's like a great TV drama.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
So it's nano seconds from it ending with the Jays
winning the World Series. It's centimeters on the catch my
pa has in the collision from an ending the World
Series with the Blue Jays winning.

Speaker 7 (18:42):
Yeah, if you're thinking, how many plays are we going
to say this about.

Speaker 5 (18:44):
There was a lot. Paul Hembo had this.

Speaker 7 (18:47):
There were nine plays in this game that swung the
entire World Series by at least fifteen percent from win probability.
So that is the most that a game has had
that in Major League Baseball history. No other Game seven
has had more than seven such swings.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
So but wait, we're not.

Speaker 7 (19:07):
Done, Paul em says, the best baseball game ever.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
So we're still not done. Because Will Smith hits the
home run in the top of the eleven. Now, in
the bottom of the eleventh, lead off double by Vladimir
Gerrera Junior, He's bunted to third by Isaiah kinder Fleffa
sows a runner at third, one out. All it takes
is to sacrifice fly and again the Blue Jays would
win the World Series at that point. Then one more

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decision made from the dugout, and other than the intentional
walk to Guerrero followed up by the Bobaschev three run homer,
that's the only decision in Game seven that backfired against
Dave Roberts. Every other single time the button he pushed
was the right one, including don't give Addison Barger anything
close to hit, and he didn't, so Yamamota walks him.

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Now there's runners on the corners, one out, tying run
n feet away again. Joe Davis on the call with
Alejandro Kirk at the plate to the Blue Jays.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
Ground ball wins it for the Dodgers. Here's the O
two pitch bounces, Well knocked.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
Him about bets to the back, moving up pass Duck.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Beat the chap.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
You're gonna knock him out. The Dodgers stand tall.

Speaker 5 (20:22):
They went bucked up.

Speaker 3 (20:23):
Buck titles.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
Amazing. It's amazing, and we'll hear other calls of that
a little bit later on. But it took a broken
back ground ball to short Mookie Betts, who had what
proved to be the game when he hit in Game six.
Otherwise he had a miserable series at the plate, but
he steps on the bag fires the first game ends.
The Jays were that close to winning or there in

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the eleventh tye in the World Series, and they lose
five to four, And yeah, I'm a Dodger Van I
got excited when they went. But but my wife and
I still half an hour after they really win that
because it had those kinds of twist and terms, and
that's what makes baseball the great game that is that
can end on drama like that, and it was an

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epic World Series no matter who you were rooting for
or if you had no rooting interest at all. Okay,
coming up, we're gonna hear from long wrt's head coach
Steve Sarkishan. We switched back to football. We talk long
warton football, and we'll do that here on thirteen under
the Zone.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
Here on a Monday. Glad to have you with us.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Well more on the World Series a little later on,
but let's hear from long wort's head coach Teve Sarksian,
coming off the winter for Vanderbilt and getting ready to
enjoy an open date on the schedule.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
Here's the opening statement from Sorry, it was.

Speaker 9 (21:44):
A really good win for uce is we knew going
in Vanderbilt was a very good football team, a top
ten team in the country, and the biggest thing about
getting that win is to be four and one in
the SEC and to put ourselves in position to compete
for a conference championship here with three weeks ago, I
think is is huge for us. And so you know,

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when you just look at the game in general, I
think that there were some some really critical points to.

Speaker 10 (22:09):
Be made of how we played.

Speaker 9 (22:12):
You know, we really challenged the players on start and fast,
you know, of really coming out with an attack mindset. Uh,
And I think that we did that, you know, you know,
playing the first quarter up seventeen to nothing. We talked
a lot about how efficient Vanderbilt was as an offensive
football team and how could we get them off schedule,

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and you know, clearly we did that. I think we
had ten TFLs in the game, six sacks in the game.
And then conversely, offensively, how could we help the defense
that way?

Speaker 10 (22:43):
But also what what it was going to take.

Speaker 9 (22:46):
We knew going in it was going to be about
an eight to ten possession game, and so this wasn't
like Mississippi State, where I think we had sixteen possessions
in that game. And so, you we had to be
good early and we had to be efficient. Well, we
didn't give up any sacks and Vanderbilt I think he
had twenty one sacks coming into the game. We only
had one TfL in the game. Offensively, we were seven

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for eleven on third down, but we put ourselves in
manageable third downs. We've talked about this about you know what,
we who were we going to be in third and
one to six and in this game or third and
one to seven. I think in this game we were
six to seven in those scenarios, and so when you
put yourselves in those situations, then you have to convert
them and we were able to do that, which which

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was a huge.

Speaker 10 (23:28):
Component for us.

Speaker 9 (23:30):
And then coming out of halftime, it was the same
message to the team, how are we going to start,
how are we going to play the second half? And
to win the third quarter ten to nothing, I think
it was a huge component on that front. I thought
archs played a fantastic game, you know, going back and
really watching the tape now, numerous times he was very efficient.
I thought he threw the ball extremely accurately. It's one

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thing not to throw the ball down the field all
the time, but you got to put players in position
to make plays with the ball in their hands, and
I thought our receiver really did that. But the accuracy
in which he threw the ball on some of those throws,
going back to the very first pass to Ryan Wingo,
I mean Ryan doesn't have to break stride to catch
that ball to go break those tackles and there were

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numerous plays like that in the game. So he's playing
at a high level for us right there. And then
you know, again, the run game, I do think there's
more meat on the bone, even now, more so than
than after I watched the tape. So I think there's
room for improvement there for us. But to outrush that
team who leans into the run game I thought was big.

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And you know, at the end of the day, the
fourth quarter, there's there's definitely things that that we're gonna
have to improve upon on that front. We should be
better in those scenarios with the pass rush that we have,
but clearly we were. We were banged up in the
secondary and there was a moment in there where we
didn't have either starting corner, we didn't have either starting safety,

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and we were holding on.

Speaker 10 (24:57):
A little bit.

Speaker 9 (24:58):
And we've got to play more with mindset of of
going to win the game, not just holding on holding
on not to lose the game. So that will be
something that that we get to work on. But I
think this buy is coming at a great time. You know,
we we we we were able to survive that five
game stretch going four and one, and we found ways
to win games different differently week in and week out,

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and and now we can get healthy and we can
get fresh. And that's really the biggest point of emphasis
for this week. We got to get healthy. We've got
to get Michael Taff, Jelana McDonald, Ryan WINGO mean, there
there's a there's enough guys that are banged up, and
they should be banged up. We've been playing a lot
of football in our conference and it's November.

Speaker 10 (25:38):
So we got to get healthy.

Speaker 9 (25:39):
We've got to get fresh, and we've got to get
ready for a very good Georgia team here in a
couple of weeks. And so that's a good place to be.
It's good to be four and one in the conference.
We've got three big games to go here in November. Uh,
but none bigger than Georgia, which is which is staring
at us here in a couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Next, Stark was asked about an update on Ryan Wing,
going that thumb ine.

Speaker 9 (26:00):
Ryan, it's what we thought, you know, I mean, he's
it's you know again, I'm gonna limit him probably. I
don't know how much he's really gonna practice this week.
Quite frankly, I just want him to get as healthy
as we can get him. We don't think he's gonna
miss time, but I don't think he'll be one hundred
percent either, right, and so how close to one hundred
percent can we get him? You know, he's a receiver,

(26:22):
his hands are important, thumb is important. So we'll again,
you know, we'll minimize him a ton. Hope I do
walk throughs this week and then try to get him
ready for the ball game next week, which we think
he will be, which is a good sign, all right.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
And then he was asked about the fact that a
Cole Hudson back on the field but playing at left
guard and Connor Robertson remaining at center.

Speaker 10 (26:44):
I do think that move, you know.

Speaker 9 (26:47):
I don't know if Cole and Connor are the most
physically gifted offensive lineman we have in that room, but
what they do have is experience. What they do have
is they're smart, and what they do have is their
tough and those guys exude all three of those things,
especially when they're playing together. And I think there's some
confidence in there of for Connor. If there's any uncertainty,

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Cole knows the calls is good or better than anybody.
I think there's some confidence in there in Trevor where
he doesn't feel like he has to make every call
that the guard in there can make those calls. And
so I just think the continuity, which is something that
we've been fighting for and striving force at the beginning
of the season, is good for us. And again, I
don't know if that's the most physically gifted group of

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an offensive line that we can put out there, but
surely they play well together and that showed up Saturday.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
All Right, we'll hear more from start coming up next tour.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
Second hour of the program here on Sports Radio AM
thirteen hunderd The Zone here on a Monday, Craig Wade
joined by the producer Jay carman Ghy to have you
with us up until five o'clock is after noon. Texas
women's basketball has its season opener tonight. You can hear
it right here on thirteen under the Zone against the
Cardinals from the University of Incarnate Words six forty five

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against our pregame coverage Kathy Arstone join me for that one.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
To the Texas line.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
Somebody said, count chocola fruit brute and Frankenberry.

Speaker 5 (28:19):
No more forgotten breakfast.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yeah, but those are cereals back in the day for sure.
Booberry was another one too. Remember that Halloween team, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
There's some of them was a ghost.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
So when Texas was in the Big twelve and coach
by Mac Brown, oh you was Max Kryptonite.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Do you think now that Texas in the SEC.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
If Texas doesn't beat Georgia, it could get in the
psyche of the coaching players and would come there kryptonite. Well,
when you said Oklahoma was Max Kryptonite, he went seven
and nine against him, So it's not like you know,
he never beat them. He went seven to nine, including
beating them forty five to twelve in the National championship year.

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But he did lose or Texas lost five in a
row to Oklahoma during that time.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
So I understand your point on that.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
But this way to your question, if they if they
don't beat Georgia, they're owing three in a very short
time span. But they used to say the same thing
about Georgia against Alabama, and they used to say that
about Clemson Clemsoning. They used to say, though Clemsoning. Now
they're saying it again, by the way, about Clemson after
they had won their two national Championships. They're clemsoning again,

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finding ways to lose games.

Speaker 5 (29:33):
Miami is Miami ing again.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
Yeah, that's a tough deal and them when they were
just flying high and now after losing NC State, they're
pretty much out of the race to play in the
a SEC Championship game. Still got a chance to be
in the playoffs. They'd have to run the table and
get some help, but they could get in at two losses,
which will get us to the interesting question for Sark

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about the possibility of a three loss SEC team getting in.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
We'll we'll get to that.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Somebody else congratulating the Dodgers on winning the World Series.
The Dodgers uh fighting a way to win last night
or Saturday night. In Game seven, they trailed three to
nothing after five, three one, after six, three to two,
after let's see, four to two, after seven, four to three,

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after eight, got the game tied on the home run
by Rojas with one out in the ninth when they
had two outs left in their season, and then won
it in the eleventh will Smith with a home run
and they got through with it, and they had to
turn a double play to do it. Now, this was
the call from Dan Shulman. This is from the Blue
Jay side of it on sports Net there in Toronto.

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You've heard Dan Shulman a lot on ESPN. He's a
native Canadian and so he was calling the telecast on
sports Net and the picture.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
His shirt.

Speaker 10 (30:58):
Dodgers and what it is.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
The Dodgers have won the World Series.

Speaker 11 (31:05):
They have beaten the Blue Jays five to four here
in eleven innings. They have repeated as World Series champions,
and an incredible year for the Blue Jays ends with
heartbreak as they come as close as you can come

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to winning a World Series, but the Dodgers are the
team that find a way and beat them to.

Speaker 12 (31:33):
Take the title.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
Dan Trullman is a consummate professional, an outstanding broadcaster. Even
with that, you could probably hear the disappointment in his voice,
and understandably so, as the Blue Jays were carrying the
hopes of a nation with them as well as the
team and those on the other side. This is Stephen Nelson,
who's calling the radio call on the Dodgers Audio network.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yelmamoto's two coming to Kirk Broken Back Crumball.

Speaker 5 (31:58):
Bets has its steps on the bag.

Speaker 4 (32:00):
The first to the play from Backs against the wall
to back to back, the Dodgers cement their dynasty.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
They win Game seven and X trainings five for the funnel,
they move Yamamodle on the left side of the mound.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
Yeah, amazing into that. Let's hear from the managers in this.
Dave Roberts was asked, what was the mood like in
the top of the ninth. Remember there was one out
when when Miguel Rojas came to the plate, So what
was the mood like there in the dugout in the ninth?

Speaker 13 (32:38):
We were gonna play twenty seven outs and obviously it
doesn't look great, you know, in that moment, but you know,
I trust him to take the bat, and he got
a pitch that he could handle and hit the biggest
hit he's ever had in his life. And obviously at
that point in time, we felt real good about it
and we needed, you know, a next level performance from yama.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
And we got it.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
Yeah, he's asked about Yamamota. What is it about him
that allowed him to throw a complete game in Game two,
throw ninety six pitches in Game six and get the
win and come back on zero rest the very next night,
and pitch I guess two and two thirds to do
that that allows him.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
To do what he did.

Speaker 13 (33:22):
It's unheard of, and I think that there's a mind component,
there's a delivery which is a flawless delivery, and there's
just an unwavering will. I just haven't seen it. I
really haven't. And you know all that combined, and there's
certain players that want moments, and there's certain players that

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you know want it for the right reason. But you know,
Yoshi is a guy that I just completely implicitly trust
and he's made me a pretty dang good manager.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
There was a great piece written by Jeff Passon on
ESPN dot com about yamamoto mental approach. As you might
imagine being from Japan. It involves a lot of Eastern philosophy,
and he has a mentor who has been with him

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and his own mister Miyagi, if you will, and it's
a it's a great read on how he completely trust him.
He goes with that thing and issues some of the
modern training techniques and not only does it allow him
to go without great deal of injury, but also allow

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him to come back on zero rest and be able
to and be effective doing that as well. Roberts was
asked about this roller coaster of a season. But remember
it started in March in Tokyo. I remember watching some
of that game against.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
The Cubs.

Speaker 5 (34:54):
And Yamamoto was awesome.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah, and I'm watching it in the Admirals Club the
airport before leaving the fly somewhere to do NCAA or
or Big or SEC Men's tournament basketball.

Speaker 5 (35:09):
And now and now basketball season four you starts today.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
How about that?

Speaker 2 (35:13):
So Roberts was asked about this roller coaster of a season.
It started in March outside of the United States and
ended in November outside of the United States.

Speaker 13 (35:23):
Yeah, I mean, you can look back at the miles
that we've logged this year. I think Brene Brown comes
to mind. Grit, you know, the real definition of grit,
passion and perseverance for long term goal.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
And we never wavered. And it's a long season.

Speaker 13 (35:36):
We started, as you said, in Tokyo, and we kept
going and we persevered, and you know, we're the last
team standing.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
My wife really like the Brene Brown mentioned there. She's
a big fan of Brene Brown, who was spoken at
University of Texas, big longborn fan as well. John Schneider,
the Blue Jays manager, was asked how much does the
ending of the series impact the way that he will
remember this team.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
Yeah. I mean, anytime you come out on the other
side of a game like that, it's tough. But you
have to give them a lot of credit.

Speaker 14 (36:13):
They fought back all game. But it's just I just
think this this group has so much to be proud of,
even if it didn't go away.

Speaker 5 (36:23):
That was George Springer, I just played for you by accident.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
Oh about the I thought it sounded a little different.
That was how tough the ending was, right, Yeah, I
was going to ask you to play it now. John Sneyder,
how much does this ending impact the way he remembers
his ball club.

Speaker 15 (36:39):
It'll hurt for It'll hurt for a few days, a
few weeks when you're that close. You know, the positive
person in me will take some time to digest it
and and I'll go back to Bose Hoomer in Texas,
George's Canada Day, so many things I'll go back to

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and be proud of. But I think right now, you
just you just have to kind of, I don't know,
take in what happened, you know what I mean, But
going forward, you know the beauty of baseball is that
it goes on.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
You know, it'll it. They'll be spring training in February.

Speaker 15 (37:23):
So that being said, you take away the sacrifices the
guys made, the way they went about it, the performances
everyone had, and kind of just the cohesiveness of the team.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
Yeah, there's such an epic World Series and you get
the feeling they're going to be back. Man, they're gonna
be tough to deal. And finally, a roberts hass. What
is winning three World Series garnering three rings in six years?
People bring up that d Ward, that dynasty thing, and
it's beyond just the three World Series titles over six seasons.
It's five Nation League pennants in nine years. It is

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thirteen Strade trips to the playoffs and twelve Vision titles
in thirteen years. When you package all of that together,
does it spelled dynasty?

Speaker 13 (38:05):
I mean, we've put together something pretty special. I do
know that I'm proud of, you know, the players, for
the fans, scouting, player development, all this stuff. To do
what we've done in this you know, span of time
is pretty remarkable. And I guess I'll let it let
the you know, pundits and all the fans talk about
if it's a dynasty or not, but I'm pretty happy

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with what we're at.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
Yeah, yeah, call it what you want up there. And
this franchise, which is one of the historic and long
and story franchises, the first time they've ever done back
to back ever have done back to back. And nine
titles ties them for third all time for most World championships,

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and they're two back of the Cardinals who have eleven.
For a second, we know the Yankees have twenty seven.
They're way out there. But of course the Yankee we
haven't won one since two thousand and nine. It's been
sixteen years since they won one. But anyway, it's we'll
see outs and we'll see how baseball's you know, we
heard a lot about you know, if the Dodgers win this,

(39:13):
it shows how big money is this and this right
and so on and so forth, and maybe it affects it.
Let me tell you some this World Series to me,
did not come down to a lot of big money things. Yamamoto. Yeah,
that's big money, and what he did was incredible even
for anybody who would make big money.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
But this came down to other things.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
It came down to three rookie pitchers for the Dodgers,
Justin Robleski, we'll clunk, yeah yeah, and Emmett Sheen. Three
guys Sheen still technically classified as a rookie because of
his injuries pitching significant innings in this World Series, including Klein,

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who had only thrown a total of thirty pitches, no
more than thirty in the any one game and was
sitting at home in Arizona a couple of weeks ago,
and the only reason he got added to the roster
was because of the family emergency that Alex Vesia had,
And he threw seventy two pitches and three to two
thirds innings of scoreless baseball in that eighteen inning game.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
So there's that.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
It's also about a thirty six year old utility infielder
middle infielder who had hit fifty seven career home runs
total in his lifetime of the bats and hits one
out to tie in the ninth inning of Game seven.
I think of those things as much. Key k Hernandez

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and Andy pie Has was mired in a horrific slump.
He was benched after Game five, did not play in
Game six, and would not have gotten into Game seven
except that they needed him again.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
Another one of those.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
Buttons that Dave Roberts pushed in the middle of the
ninth when they had a mound conversation. That's when he
made the substitution with one out and sent pie Has
out the center.

Speaker 5 (41:10):
Yeah, Edmond's not catching that.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
No, no, he wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
So it's about those things more than in his eyes,
just big money, because a lot of the big money
guys were hot and cold at best. Yes, Freddie Freeman
had hit the walk off home run to end the
eighteen inning game. The rest of the World Series not
so much. Mookie Betts had an awful World Series in
the play other than the one RBI single, the two

(41:35):
run single that he had in Game six, it proved
to be the game win.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
He runs, but that was it. He didn't do much offensively.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
A shoe Atani was up and down, had a couple
of bright moments, a lot of strikeouts.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
And you know, and then and he gave up some hits.
And he didn't pitch well in either of his two outings.
So there was that.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
Blake Snell did not pitch well in either of his
two starts where he took the law, but did give
them some support there in Game seven, and I think
it's the only World series that went seven games where
all four of one team's starting pitchers in the series
all appeared in Game seven.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
That's never happened before. There were all kinds of I
read a.

Speaker 2 (42:18):
Big list of all the weird things that had never
happened before in a World series that happened in this
in a seven game series. And Toronto had its more
than its share as well. Ernie Clement thirty hits in
the postseason. That's a record.

Speaker 1 (42:35):
They had.

Speaker 2 (42:35):
All kinds of things happened, So that's what made it memorable.
That's what made it real interesting. As much as anything else.

Speaker 5 (42:42):
It was awesome. It was awesome as a neutral fan.

Speaker 7 (42:45):
I don't come away from that feeling nearly as pessimistic
as I thought I would if you told.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
Me the result before it started. Yeah, yeah, because of
what we watched, right exactly. We'll see how it is
going forward, all right. Up next, we'll hear more from
long worn, staid football court. Steve Sarkisian on thirteen under
the zone down to me, you don't want to figure,
I want to hear the song was that when The

(43:13):
Stones toured in nineteen eighty one, and I was putting
myself through college. I worked some of their shows, including
in the Superdome, but I word the cop Bowl in
Dallas of driving rain, selling merch t shirt. They opened
with under my thumb and his long runway stage out
and then boat out in the side and he was
going down there and you know, a rooster squatting like

(43:34):
he does strutting, and then that whole thing, what pouring rain,
going up and down saying.

Speaker 1 (43:41):
She's under my thumb and craping crazy.

Speaker 5 (43:45):
That's a great opener.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
I always think about that from nineteen eighty one.

Speaker 5 (43:50):
I was thinking about Ryan Wingo, Michael.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
Taff Well, yeah, I hope to get those thumbs healed,
that's for sure, and having the open data on the schedule.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
Hell.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
Hear some more from long orange Head coach Steve Sarkish.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
He was asked about that You've heard Mike hardboll Harde
talk about this, Mark Henry talk about this, and you've
heard me talk about this. The human super beats broadwood,
which are good for heart health and blood pressure and
things like that, and was developed on the UT campus
by UT scientists, and how this is really good. But

(44:23):
sark was asked about it because he referred to it
as a cheat code for helping athletes. So a reporter
asked him, do you do you even take their products?
Do they have an impact?

Speaker 9 (44:35):
I do take I do take their product, thanks to John,
I do take their product. I just think there's a
lot of benefits to it, and there's a lot of
science behind it, whether it's heart related, and clearly I
have some some heart issues in my past. And when
you think about just being overall healthy, so ironic you

(44:58):
bring this up.

Speaker 10 (44:58):
You know, I was talking to the staff.

Speaker 9 (45:00):
You know that we're we've got get get healthy and
and get fresh on the minds of our players. We
need it as a staff too, you know, And this
is you know, seasons can be a grind, and so
we've got to make sure that we're doing the right
things from a staff perspective of being healthy, getting ourselves
fresh for this month of November, along with we've got

(45:21):
to recruit this week and we've got different things coming.
I think their products are proven and and they're proven
from a scientific standpoint, they're good for you, and so yes,
I do take humans products.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
Next, Sark was asked how does he design opening plays?
You know he has like his list of fifteen or
twenty plays that are set to open, but when does
he do that during the week? And what made that
opening play that Ryan Wingo so explosive?

Speaker 10 (45:48):
You know one thing that I usually do those like
Wednesday night.

Speaker 9 (45:53):
You have a pretty good idea of the stuff that
you know, we've we've we've installed our plan, our base
game plan kind of on Monday. We've practiced it Tuesday
and Wednesday mornings, and by Wednesday afternoon and evening, I
got a pretty good idea of the plays I like,
I really like in the plan, and then the plays
that I would want to start in our openers with.

Speaker 10 (46:15):
And then it's trying to organize that.

Speaker 9 (46:17):
And then it's then you look at what are people
doing to us at the start of games, and what
is their tendencies, you know, looking at their film of
what they what they do, and you know that that
style of play is a good play. One to find
rhythm for your quarterback. You anybody likes to throw a
swing pass. But two, can you take advantage of some

(46:39):
situations that might present themselves, Like we've been getting some
field pressure, some nickels star pressures to start games. You know,
people are moving their fronts on an inexperienced offensive line.

Speaker 10 (46:49):
And that's what happened Saturday.

Speaker 9 (46:51):
You know, Vanderbilt had a pressure called they brought their
mic Star pressure. It allowed us to get good angles
on blocks on the perimeter, and it allowed Ryan to
be in space with a Will linebacker chasing him from behind.
And you I think we'd all take that, you know,
And again there's there's educated guess work going on there
of what you think you might get. But if that
wasn't look, it's really an RPO. It's really what we

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would call an advantage throw. It's not truly a read.
It's do we have advantages in numbers? So we had
a run built in on the backside, which we've had,
you know, is different formation, but same idea, different run scheme,
same idea with a run with an advantage throw that
I thought Arch both times made good decisions on, but
more importantly I thought was really accurate two weeks in

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a row.

Speaker 10 (47:35):
That allowed Ryan to make those catches.

Speaker 9 (47:37):
But all a ton of credit to you know, to
DeAndre Moore on the perimeter of getting that play started.
And then you know, Ryan trusting his speed and his
athleticism to make an exposive play.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
Nick Sark was asked about the competition at corner and
there's rotation at the corner where guy's getting banged up,
and you know how all of that is shaping up,
And is it a matter of opening up some kind
petitioner just keeping guys fresh.

Speaker 10 (48:01):
I think it's probably a combination of both.

Speaker 9 (48:04):
You know, we've been exhausted defensively, you know, I think
we played one hundred and seventy two snaps, you know,
in the last two games with Kentucky and Mississippi State combined.

Speaker 10 (48:14):
That's a lot of football. It's a lot of running.

Speaker 9 (48:18):
I felt like we were a little fatigued on defense,
and that's why we adjusted a little bit of what
we did practice wise. The plan was to play more people,
and then we kind of got forced into play more people.
Manny got banged up. I liked what Cad Phillips was doing,
so we kind of left him in.

Speaker 14 (48:36):
There, you know.

Speaker 9 (48:37):
But again, experience is a great thing to have, and
if we can generate a little more experience for Warren,
for Kobe, for for Caid to go along with Manny
and Jalen, I just think it's gonna help us at
some point. You never know when injuries rear their ugly head.
And if there was opportunities to play those guys and

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they didn't play perfect, Don't don't get me wrong, there's
a lot of valuable lessons learned in that game for them.

Speaker 10 (49:04):
But they are talented people. But we've got it.

Speaker 9 (49:07):
We've got to got to get them more opportunities so
that when their numbers called, they're they're a little bit
more comfortable in the arena, you know, when they're out
there now.

Speaker 1 (49:14):
An interesting question, of course.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
The first College Football Playoff rankings come out tomorrow evening.
I think it's gonna air at seven o'clock. The Texas
game tips off at seven forty five on ESPN, and
it'll follow that the Texas to basketball season opener. Uh.
But the first CFP rankings are at and Sark was
asked if he will be watching that and what is

(49:40):
he hoping for, what the committee might think of the SEC.

Speaker 9 (49:44):
I'll probably watch it because I'm gonna buy You know,
if I was game planning for an opponent, I probably
wouldn't watch it. But I've got a little more time
on my hands this week, so I'll probably watch it.
It was interesting to see, you know, and there's you know,
I say this, I say this wholeheartedly. There's a reason
I don't vote in the coach's poll. I can't see everybody.

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I can't watch everybody. All I can base it on
of what we do and who we are and how
we play, and so I think, you know, and that's
no different. I don't know how AP voters watch every game,
you know, because if you just look at scores, you
probably look at the score of our game saying, hey,
that must have been a pretty close game, when all reality,
we kind of dominated Saturday, and I get the fourth quarter,

(50:25):
it didn't go the way we wanted to go, but
we really dominated the game.

Speaker 10 (50:29):
So how do people really vote is and to.

Speaker 9 (50:32):
Me, the committee, are they really looking at the resumes
of the team, Are they really watching people play? Are
they really watching head to head matchups and what happened
when people played each other and how did games go?
And so to me, it's interesting, it's an interesting process
that the College Football Committee has to go through. I
think we got a pretty good team. We got two

(50:52):
top ten you know, beating two top ten ranked teams
so far this year. We play in the toughest conference
in America. You know where we you know or other
you know, we've lost on the road in a difficult environment,
lost in the roading. It's an on one team in
the country to start the game in a one score game,
and it'll start the season a one score game. So
but I do think we're we're playing better football now
than we have all year, and we need to continue

(51:14):
to do that.

Speaker 10 (51:15):
And there's a lot of football left to we played.

Speaker 9 (51:17):
I always laugh at these initial CFP rankings and then
what does it really look like in the end?

Speaker 10 (51:23):
Right and where where?

Speaker 9 (51:24):
Where is it in the end, because I think the
first year, you know, when when we got in and
played Washington, I don't even know if we're in the
initial rankings, we might be here where I don't think
we're in the very high But you got to play.

Speaker 10 (51:40):
Yourself into it.

Speaker 9 (51:40):
And there's a lot of football left to be played,
and we got some quality opponents in front of us
that we need to be prepared for. But as a fan,
I'll watch it because it can you know, I got
a little more time on my hands this week.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
He was asked then about this second bye week of
the season, will he approach it the same way he
did the first or a little bit different about wanting
to get better individually.

Speaker 9 (51:59):
We've got to dig deep into who we are right now.
We've got to dig into the things that are causing
us issues in all three phases right now. We got
to look at how people are attacking us in all
three phases right now, and and and and we've got
to we've got to be forward thinkers, right and and
and what are people going to do when they look
at our tape?

Speaker 10 (52:19):
And how are they going to try to attack us?

Speaker 9 (52:21):
And we've got to make sure that we've got enough,
you know, tools in our toolbox to combat that stuff.
And so as much as it is I had, like
I want to get a head start on Georgia, we
got to look at ourselves first. And we've got to
make sure that we're buttoned up in all three phases
as much as it is getting ready.

Speaker 10 (52:37):
For our for our future opponents.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
All right, Uh so, uh, there's some stuff from Sark
coming up. We're gonna hear from Dimico. Ryan's the Texans
head coach when we continue on thirteen outd of the zone.

(53:09):
Would have been nice if I could have made it
over there to the stage for the postgame concerts.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
We have an hour long postgame show and everything.

Speaker 2 (53:17):
Then it was raining and everything, so I didn't get
a chance to catch the Beach Boys as they performed
after the game Saturday.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
Did you guys go over there?

Speaker 7 (53:25):
We thought about it, but the rain and our rumbling
stomachs changed the plans.

Speaker 1 (53:30):
Hit some We're good for post came.

Speaker 11 (53:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (53:34):
We went up to Tyson's Soft Airport, get out of
the traffic and delicious tacos.

Speaker 1 (53:38):
There you go, all right?

Speaker 2 (53:40):
The Texans lost that heartbreaker yesterday eighteen fifteen to the
Denver Broncos.

Speaker 7 (53:45):
C J.

Speaker 1 (53:46):
Stroud is in the concussion protocol. Today. They say he's
feeling a little bit better.

Speaker 2 (53:51):
He dropped back and then Chris Abrams drain came in
and just plowed right into his chest.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
His head hits the ground. He has to come out.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
Davis came in, completed seventeen or thirty four hundred and
thirty seven yards, no touchdowns, no interceptions, but he was
just seven of sixteen for fifty three yards in the
second half. They had twelve second half points but no touchdowns.
They kept getting close but couldn't finish it off. And
it was very, very difficult for that. So Demiko Ryan's
head coach of the Texans, his faults on this.

Speaker 10 (54:21):
To start for us, it wasn't good enough.

Speaker 16 (54:23):
We were in the red zone multiple times as an
offense there at the one yard line, had multiple opportunities
to get it in. That's just about you know, his
sheer willpower to me, it's like the one yard line,
we got to find a way to you know, displace
guys at the line of scrimmage and punched the football in,
all right, and that that's what it takes in that situation.
We didn't get it done. Multiple other opportunities in the

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red zonee we came up short. We made it in
the red zone three times. Like to see us convert
and get in the end zone versus a really good
Denver team. You know, credit to those guys. They did
a outstanding job defensively. They did a good job of
getting stops they needed to get stops. We didn't play
well in the red zone. We didn't play well on
third down. So if you don't win in those situational,

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critical moments of the game, it's gonna be hard to
win it.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
Next, he was asked for his thoughts on the hit
on CJ. Stroud that led to the concussion. Yeah, CJ. Scramble.

Speaker 10 (55:18):
Of course, he tried to.

Speaker 16 (55:20):
He slid and the guy you know, came up and
hit him as I see as unnecessary roughness, and he
hit the quarterback when he's sliding and giving himself up.
If I'm incorrect on the rules. I've seen that happen
multiple times and.

Speaker 10 (55:33):
With our guys, and we get the penalty.

Speaker 16 (55:36):
But for some reason, it's just didn't didn't happen there,
So we'll look at the film and see, you know,
what actually happened there. At the end of the day,
we lost our We lost our starting quarterback all right
because of the play. And you know, anytime you lose
your starting quarterback, it's always tough. THEO David's battle tried

(55:57):
to do a good job Therey battle. It just didn't
do well offensively once we lost CJ.

Speaker 2 (56:03):
He was then asked about what was the plan for
the offense late in the game on that failed two
minute drill when they were backed up deep in their
own end of the field.

Speaker 16 (56:12):
Had the thought there, we wanted to get some quick
passes to get us get us moving. We're trying to
drive down and of course, you know, try to get
in field goal range, but to have a couple quick incompletions.
It was not the plan at all for us.

Speaker 5 (56:25):
Now, that was a disaster for the Texans at the
end of the game.

Speaker 1 (56:28):
There, Yeah, it didn't work it well.

Speaker 2 (56:30):
And then was asked about Bo Nickson, that big scrambling
ad that helped set up the game winning field go
for the Broncos.

Speaker 16 (56:37):
Yeah, I mean Bo made a great play there. I
think we held him in check for most of the
game and in a critical moment there it is there,
got stepped up and he made a play. That's what
the NFL is about. He made a play, he scrambled,
got out on us. We knew that was the case.
But our game plan this week was about remaining a
discipline for four quarters. Right, That's how we rushed the quarterback,

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how we operate in coverage being we're supposed to be.
And in the fourth quarter, right, we had a lack
of discipline there and some other times throughout the game.
Lack of discipline allowed them to get in scoring position
and also scored.

Speaker 1 (57:09):
A couple of times on us. Okay, all right, And.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
Then finally he was asked to evaluate how his offense
went without Stroud and what he felt was missing.

Speaker 16 (57:19):
Every offense is going to miss their starting quarterback. I mean, yeah,
we won our starting quarterback in the game. At any
given time, we want them in the game. That's why
he's the starting quarterback. But it's no excuses. A lot
of teams in won games with backup quarterbacks before, and
we had our opportunity, We had our chance.

Speaker 1 (57:37):
The Broncos did a great job. Coach Payton did a
great job.

Speaker 16 (57:40):
Those guys made play advance, did a great job defensively.
Theres a well coached team. Those guys did a great job.
Their young quarterback stepped up, made a play when he
needed to make a play. We had our opportunities there
in the fourth quarter. We didn't make the play. That's
NFL football right there. We got to be on the
other side of that. Make a play, get the ball out,
get a drive going there to get us in field

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goal range. And we're standing here looking a little different.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
No doubt about it.

Speaker 2 (58:06):
A tough way for that tend for of the Texans,
and he you know he is Dimiko Ryans continue to said,
we just get it five hundred.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
I think we can get on a roll and get
over that.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
But they two steps forward, one step back, or one
step forward and one step back and down. The three
and five Cowboys are in the same situation at three
point one going into their game tonight with the Cardinals.
Bow teams really in desperate need wll when the Cardinals
course in the crowded NFC West and as the Seahawks
and Rams tied for first and forty nine ers just

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a game back, so there's it's a big uphill climb
for both of those teams going into it.

Speaker 7 (58:42):
Hey, Stafford looked great, obviously. Hope the Pooka Nakua injury
is minor.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
That was a weird one.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
You know, he was coming off the one injury, the
ankle thing, and that's another fall for me on a
fantasy football team. I didn't trust that he was back.
Should have started him to get picked up fifteen points before.
He had a weird chest injury, fell on the football
on a deal being tackled. I don't think it's serious.
He came back, it was on the sidelines, but I
don't he did not return to the game. So yeah,

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I mean, when the Rams and Seahawks get together, it's
gonna be pretty interesting. To see how that goes from there.

Speaker 7 (59:16):
But Seahawks look great against the almost entirely made up
of backups now Washington defense who lost another starter for
the year last night, and Marshawn Lattimore not like he
had been playing great football anyway.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
Yeah, and we'll see how it is going forward with
Jaydon Daniels too. I mean, at least no broken bones
in the X rays, but they get to the MRI
see if there's a tear of that sort of thing.

Speaker 1 (59:40):
It doesn't look good though.

Speaker 5 (59:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (59:41):
Maybe I'll pour one out, so to speak, for the
Commander's season on the show tomorrow, because it is it
is time to stick a fork and the Commanders in
twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (59:50):
And if the Cowboys lose the night, it may be
time to stick a fork in them too. Even though
Green Bay loses, right, the Lions lose, I mean you
you have some lead contenders lose.

Speaker 5 (01:00:02):
So Vikings and Bears wins were bad for Dallas, so.

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
Yeah, didn't help. All right, We'll be back to wrap
a power number two and thirteen under the zone final
loss of nine Walhorts ready for the onside kick with
thirty three seconds remaining here on the fourth quarter.

Speaker 4 (01:00:15):
Here's the kick. It bounces and it's loose on the turf.
Matt scrambled for it and Vanderbilt may have recovered.

Speaker 5 (01:00:24):
I think it went out of bounce.

Speaker 1 (01:00:25):
Yeah it did, and that will be the break to
the log Oorns need. That's gonna do it. Final score
this afternoon from Daryl K.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
Royal Texas Memorial Stadium here in Austin, the Texas Longhorts
thirty four the Vanderbilt Commodores thirty one. And that's how
you take the record of four and one in the
SEC and seven and two overall and now into an
open date for the log warns. Good afternoon, everybody, welcome
to the program here on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred

(01:00:56):
The Zone. My name is Craig Way. Glad to have
you with us. The producer who expertly crafted that game
montage from the Longhorns thirty four to thirty one win
over Vanderbilt is Jay Carmon. You got to experience going
to a game again, which we hadn't done since you
were a student.

Speaker 7 (01:01:17):
Right, That's exactly right, Craig. And what a game for
me to return to the seats for unreal.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
Yeah, I mean well, and it looked, and Sark talked
about this in the press conference that we carried live
earlier this morning here on thirteen. Under his own it
looked like it was going to be a cruise. When
it was thirty four to ten going into the fourth quarter,
things changed and there were some kind of wonky looking

(01:01:44):
judgments on the part of the officials that helped give
Vanderbilt some impetus. And then the Commodore's give him credit
for not giving up. Struck downfield and scored three times
and pulled within three. But then the long Orange recovered
the on sidekick to get the win. So and now

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where were your seats? Where were you and your group seated?

Speaker 5 (01:02:08):
We were in section seven.

Speaker 7 (01:02:10):
Amazing view for a lot of the action, a lot
of the early offense for Texas which came that way,
and also a great look at the Texas sideline seeing
both well a lot of unfortunate injuries that happened during
the game, but also seeing how fired up Sark was throughout,
both towards his own team and towards the officials once
it got late.

Speaker 1 (01:02:30):
Yeah, that's his deal.

Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
You know, he'll definitely do that, and he get explained
and again he go hear it in the recap of
the press conference about how he's trying to and would
prefer to limit his complaining during the course of the game,
because he said, I've got much more on my mind
and other things to deal with. But he was working
pretty good when what really should have been called a

(01:02:54):
pass interference in the end zone, they said no catch,
no touchdown. For him, it mostly that the ball came
loose with the ball came loose because of the pass
interference call when it came in, and that would have
made it forty one sixteen at that point, and it
probably would have then kept things very much at arm's length,
but it didn't. They wound up as a result of

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that not scoring at that point, and it was thirty
four to sixteen. Vanderbilt comes down to get a one
place strike to Eli Stowers for sixty seven yards at touchdown.
Then they get a two point conversion. It didn't look
like a two point conversion.

Speaker 5 (01:03:29):
No, And on the touchdown there was a major hold
on the left tack.

Speaker 1 (01:03:34):
Yep, yep. That didn't get called.

Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
So then it's thirty four to twenty four, and then
they get the ball back and they have one last
Franatic drive and they get down there, and I give
them credit for that and the long run defense, and
Sarki explained it as well. He said, yeah, you'd like
that Michael Taffan Jelani McDonald on the field at that point.

Speaker 1 (01:03:49):
At one point they didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
They had two of their three regular safeties, including the
starback off the field and both starting corners off the field.

Speaker 7 (01:04:00):
Alright, I'm looking at the bench, I'm thinking, why is
Manny Mohabban not out there? Something had to have happened,
and it did and he was banged up. But anyway,
the Longhorns did persevere, they did survive, they did get
the win. So Texas is now four and one in
the SEC. So that old thing about all of their
goals still being in front of them.

Speaker 1 (01:04:18):
They are.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
They have an open day week to try to get
guys healthy and then they get ready for the Georgia Bulldogs,
who go to play the other Bulldogs this week in
the SEC. They go to Startville to play Missisippi State.
So that'll be next week and that'll be all the
conversation for next week. And the two losses Texas had
last year to Georgia here in Austin then in overtime

(01:04:41):
in the SEC Championship game, so there'll be plenty of
time to talk about that as well. But we're gonna
hear from head coach Steve sarkisian recap of the weekly
news conference. We usually bring that to you every Monday
morning at eleven thirty. Because this was going into an
open date, they moved it up by half an hour
to eleven am, so we'll have that for That's the
only media availability of this week for Sark other than

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the SEC teleconference because he will participate in that on Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (01:05:09):
But no media zoom on Thursday.

Speaker 2 (01:05:12):
No Longhorn Weekly this week with coach Sark, but there's
plenty of other things to get into. Both the Texas
men's and women's basketball teams open their seasons within the
next thirty six hours. The women tonight at Moody Center
against the University of the Incarnate Word. They'll play UIW

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at Moody Center at seven o'clock. You can hear it
right here on thirteen under the Zone beginning at six
forty five. Kathy Harnston will join me for the call
of that one. So there will be that and then
tomorrow night in Charlotte, North Carolina, inside of Spectrum Center.
The Longhorn Men will open their season playing sixth ranked

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Duke pretty much in the Blue Devil's backyard, I mean
Duke's and Durham. It's a couple two and a half
hours away, but still huge alumni base for Duke and Charlotte,
just as it is for North Carolina. I spent a
little over three hours yesterday with the men's basketball team,
just watching and visiting with coach Miller and talking about

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all the things that they have, So we'll talk a
little bit about that as well.

Speaker 1 (01:06:16):
There's pro football to discuss.

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
The Houston Texans an excruciating home loss to the Denver
Broncos after beating the forty nine Ers last week and
seeing the Broncos beat up on the Cowboys. The Texans
had their chances, could not capitalize and end up losing
on a walk off field goal. We'll hear from Deminko Ryans,
the head coach of the Texans. The Cowboys played tonight

(01:06:38):
and they play the Arizona Cardinals in a game you
can hear on ninety eight point one FMK Vets.

Speaker 1 (01:06:43):
We'll have a preview of that and then there's the
World Series, and.

Speaker 2 (01:06:50):
The ending of it was as dramatic as about any
other World series in history. I always said this in
a seven game series, and I'm not just saying this.
People know me as a Dodger fan of even wearing
a Dodger polo shirt today. Anytime you have a seven
game series, regardless of the teams involved, regardless of the

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rooting interest. I was talking to Jeff Howe I used
to do a show with, and of course and he's
on Texas football, and Jeff said, you know, he goes,
I really enjoyed it because I didn't have a dog
in the hunt. I was just, you know, he said,
I was just sitting back and enjoying it. And I
think that was probably the case for a lot of folks.
Didn't you say that you were with a group of
people Saturday night watching that Game seven who probably had

(01:07:38):
no real investment in baseball, but were nevertheless intrigued by it.

Speaker 7 (01:07:45):
This was a hockey minded crowd. It didn't mean they
were rooting for Toronto. But in college I both broadcasted
for the ut club hockey team and just became friends
with a bunch of them. I lived with a member
of the hockey team got to know them, so it
was good to see them for the first time in
a while since I moved back to Austin. They were
hooked and I know for a fact that they're not
watching baseball and their typical Thursday Friday nights and they

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were all in edge of the seat stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:08:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:08:09):
I will also say this too, I've learned this about
certain hockey constituencies over the years, and I was kind
of surprised to hear this. But then the more I
thought about it, thought, Okay, Toronto, the Maple Leafs are
one of the original six in the NHL. The Montreal Canadians,
the Boston Bruins, the New York Rangers, the Detroit Red Wings,

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and the Chicago Blackhawks are the other teams. They had
just six teams in the NHL all the way in
nineteen sixty seven. They did not expand in Ay doubled
the league size in the for the sixty seven sixty
eight season when they added the Saint Louis Blues, the
Minnesota North Stars, to Pittsburgh Penguins, the the Oakland Seals

(01:08:52):
or a team that Los Angeles Kings and Philadelphia Flyers.
So they added they added six teams. Oakland Seals went
through a couple of different incarnations and are now what
would be the New Jersey Devils, but they had those
original six. And my point about all this was is
that I've found out over the years that the Toronto

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Maple Leiefs the Montreal Canadians, are much more like the
New York Yankees, and that they were the standard bear
for decades and decades, and they've won more Stanley Cups
than any other NHL franchise.

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
However, what I have discovered over.

Speaker 2 (01:09:27):
The years is that in terms of rooting for or
against ardently four or ardently against a franchise in the NHL,
the Toronto may Beliefs are probably the most polarizing of
all of those. People either love them or they absolutely
hate them. And that goes mainly for people north of

(01:09:48):
the border, but you know people down in South as well.
And the Maple Leafs have one a Cups since nineteen
sixty seven, so you know, for whatever that's worth. But so,
like you said, guys that were in there watching it
and not necessar sally rooting for Toronto made me think,
I'm wonder if there are also people who don't like
the Maple Leafs.

Speaker 5 (01:10:04):
Yeah, and there were people who didn't like the Dodgers either.

Speaker 1 (01:10:06):
Yeah, sure, absolutely like the Yankees.

Speaker 2 (01:10:09):
The Dodgers, the Cubs have kind of gotten this way
because when you have large fan bases that extend beyond
the borders of their cities, that's going to engender antipathy
across the country. You know, the same thing with the
Red Sox. You know, people don't like, you know, in
Arlington or in Houston, a bunch of Red Sox fans

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that are making noise or Dodger fans or Cub fans
or Yankee fans, they don't like that. And and I
don't I don't blame them, but they but those those
teams carry those fan groups. They're they're based all across
those country. They're Dodger fans all across I'm one of those.
I grew up North Carolina.

Speaker 1 (01:10:47):
I was a Dodger fan.

Speaker 2 (01:10:48):
But uh it, you know, but uh I have learned
that some folks get really really excited about, you know,
about these teams and whether they you know, like them
or don't like them. So anyway, we've been talking about
the past couple hours on the program, and there's more

(01:11:10):
to discuss as well, but you know, we wanted to
make sure everybody enjoyed the montage the second time around.

Speaker 1 (01:11:18):
Here for the four o'clock hour.

Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
All right, coming up more from Long Horn's head coach
Steve Sarcasian from the press conference. We brought some of
it to you in the first two hours of the show,
but we have more coming up right here on sports
Radio AM thirteen under the zone of the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 1 (01:11:32):
I don't know, well, a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:11:34):
Of smiles from Long Worn fans after the win on
Saturday afternoon of a Vanderbilt to take the team to
seven and two overall and four and one in the
Southeastern Conference open date. We did find out the game
with Georgia will be a six thirty kickoff.

Speaker 1 (01:11:51):
Six thirty will be.

Speaker 5 (01:11:52):
The kickoff for that night game in Athens, yep.

Speaker 1 (01:11:55):
Be between the hedges there at a times.

Speaker 5 (01:11:57):
Potentially College game Day could be, could.

Speaker 2 (01:12:00):
Be they're in Lubbock this week, yeah, for Tech and
b YU number eight and number nine in the country
and that and then of course the new college football well,
the first release of the college football Playoff rankings come
out tomorrow evening. It's going to be I think it's
seven o'clock, right about the time we take air here
on the zone and on ninety eight point one FMKVET

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for Long Horn men's basketball the season opener for Texas
in Charlotte.

Speaker 1 (01:12:25):
Against the Duke Blue Devils. But the we'll have it up.

Speaker 2 (01:12:29):
I'll have it up on my iPad or something there
at the broadcast location watching it. Which brings us back
to head coach Steve Sarcashan from the weekly news conference.
We brought you sound in each of the first two
hours of the program today, and here we'll wrap it
up with a few more comments from him, starting with
and this was a question that Kirk Bowles and the
Austin America well formerly the Austin American States but now

(01:12:50):
with the Houston Chronicle asked him. Said, last year there
was a nine and three SEC team that did not
get into the playoff, a few of them. Yeah, there's
the possibility you could have some other nine in threes
that don't reach the SEC championship game. And he asks
sark is he concerned about how the College Football Playoff
Committee will handle a nine and three SEC team.

Speaker 9 (01:13:14):
I don't know, you know, I know our conference is tough.
It really is man, and it feels like a playoff
game every week. And I don't know if it feels
that way in all the other conferences. I just know
in our our league, surely it does, you know. And
I'm I got a chance with it being eleven am
kick Saturday, you know, I gotta. I got a chance
to watch Florida Georgia. I got a chance to watch

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old Miss South Carolina. I got a chance to watch
Oklahoma Tennessee. And this is some high level football and
from teams that maybe we'll have great records, but man,
these teams are good. And I knew it was gonna
be that way. And so I don't know what's gonna happen,
you know, with the CFP and who gets in and
who doesn't and when.

Speaker 10 (01:13:53):
They really look at this thing. I just know in
our league it's really hard.

Speaker 9 (01:13:57):
It's really hard, and it's it's a credit to people
who find a way to win every Saturday. We're just
trying to win the next one, you know, and and
see what happens. As I said before, we've been in
this situation before, unfortunately but fortunately.

Speaker 10 (01:14:13):
Where we've had to play this way.

Speaker 9 (01:14:15):
I've always been a believer of you know, you know,
handle your business, control what you can control, and try
to take it out of the hands of others. And
we learned that lesson, you know, our second last year
in the Big Twelve, where you know, I think we
beat Baylor here and we needed we needed Kansas to
beat Kansas State to get into the Big Twelve championship game,

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and and but and they didn't. But but we we
could have controlled some of that on our own earlier.
We handled our business better the last two years of
what that looked like. And so for us, what what
can we control? How the committee handles it, I don't know,
but but I know we got Georgia here in two
weeks and on the road, and it's gonna be a
tough game. So that's where our focus is right now.

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And what the Committee does with the teams in our conference,
we'll see. But I know our conference is really deep,
it's really good, probably deserving more than three teams, I
know that much. I think the SEC only got three
teams in last year, which is kind of laughable, quite frankly.

Speaker 10 (01:15:13):
But we'll see what happens this year.

Speaker 2 (01:15:15):
Sark was then asked about does he have concerns about
the officiating in the league. Like I said, there were
several things that Sark was asked about the concerns he
might have of officiating officiating.

Speaker 3 (01:15:28):
I don't.

Speaker 10 (01:15:28):
I can't speak to everybody I know.

Speaker 9 (01:15:29):
We've we've obviously turned in or turning in a handful
of plays some Saturday to get some clarification on on
just how things are getting officiated, because I don't like,
I'll be honest with you, I got enough.

Speaker 10 (01:15:41):
On my plate on Saturday.

Speaker 9 (01:15:43):
I don't like spending time complaining about officiating during the
game because I got bigger things to worry about with
our team.

Speaker 10 (01:15:51):
But I felt like I needed to Saturday.

Speaker 9 (01:15:54):
But again, if I get understanding and clarification on how
things are getting officiated, that might reduce reduce some of
my complaining. And I'm sure other coaches probably feel the
same way.

Speaker 2 (01:16:04):
Next up, there's that difficult question of having to coach
in Athens, and Sark did spend time on the Alabama step.
But remember Alabama and Georgia didn't rarely play in the
regular season. Now, this is all going to change over
time in the rotation of this but they of course
have played multiple times in the SEC Championship round. But

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he was asked about the difficulty of coaching, and Eddie
had that experience in Athens before.

Speaker 10 (01:16:30):
I've never coached a game there.

Speaker 9 (01:16:32):
I know they're like thirty seven and one in their
last thirty eight home games, so I'm sure it's tough.
I'm sure it's hard. I will say this about Georgia.
I've got a chance to watch a few of their games.
You know, I got a chance to watch them against
Alabama this year. I got a chance to watch some
of their old miss game and then go obviously got
a chance to watch the second half this past weekend

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against Florida, and Kirby said it after the game. They're
hard to kill. You know they're gonna play and it
feels that way, even more so at home. Even though
they didn't win the Bama game, that surely wouldn't go away.
And so you're gonna have to play sixty minutes whether
wherever you play them. Could be here, could be an Athens,
could be in Atlanta. But surely he's the mindset of

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their team is they're hard to kill, and so you've
got to play all sixty when you play them.

Speaker 2 (01:17:23):
Then it was time for Sart have a little soapbox time,
and he even characterized it as such because he was
asked to comment on all of these high profile coach firings.
The latest over the weekend Hugh Freeze at Auburn. So
that's four sec coaching vacancies there. And he was asked,
are these deals, with these huge buyouts for coaches the

(01:17:45):
way the marketplace seems to be headed this way when
coaching changes are made.

Speaker 9 (01:17:51):
That's just surely mean yes, right, because who wants to
take a job without any you know the fact that
the amount of pressure that coaches are under, the amount
of scrutiny, they're under, the amount of you know, one
week you're hero, the next week year zero mentality that
that fan bases and people want to have. Surely coaches
want some security to what they sign up to go do.

(01:18:13):
We work really hard, and I get it. We all
want to win and we're all busting our tails to
try to win, and sometimes things don't go your way,
especially in our conference.

Speaker 1 (01:18:22):
It's tough.

Speaker 9 (01:18:23):
And so the idea that he, you know, coaches you know,
don't want, don't want some security and the jobs that
they take that doesn't that doesn't quite make sense to me,
you know, it should be like many somewhere in here,
somebody has got to be willing to say, hey, let's
see if this can work itself out. Not every year,

(01:18:44):
not all sixteen teams in the SEC are going to
go to the playoffs. It's just not reality. We're talking
about trying to get four or five teams in this year.
Last year we got three? Should we got three teams?
And what do we have three or four in the
top ten in the country right now? And so it's
really difficult, and everybody's fighting for it, and I know
we all want to go to the playoffs, but you know,

(01:19:05):
I just think it's really hard to think that a
coach is going to bust his tail.

Speaker 10 (01:19:10):
And it's not just about the coach. It's the staff
and it's the players. And I get it.

Speaker 9 (01:19:14):
We're this is a lucrative industry that we're part of,
and the TV deals and the college Football playoff and
there's a lot going into it. Well, sometimes you got
to pay the guy that's the one leading the ship
and driving the ship. And again I would have said
that if I was an assistant coach right now.

Speaker 1 (01:19:31):
It just is what it is.

Speaker 10 (01:19:32):
As you guys know, I'm a fan of college football.

Speaker 9 (01:19:33):
I watch what goes into every one of these games
and the exposure and College Game Day and big new
kick and all the things that go into it. Well,
the coach is doing a lot of that work to
get that done, and he's recruiting well, and we're trying
to do all these things, and so hey, that's the
price you pay if you hired a coach and you

(01:19:55):
don't think that he's the right coach for you, that's
part of it.

Speaker 10 (01:19:57):
You got to pay him.

Speaker 9 (01:19:58):
That's just the way it works, unfortunately. But that's the
industry that we're in. And so if you're not willing
to pay a coach of what his contract is, well
maybe you're probably not gonna get one of the coaches
you thought you might get. I always find it interesting.
I'm gonna go on a little bit of a soapbox here.
Everybody wants to fire their coach. Who are you gonna hire?

(01:20:20):
There's all these jobs out there right now. Who's everybody
going to hire?

Speaker 3 (01:20:25):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (01:20:25):
We'll find out. We're gonna somebody's got to be the
head coach. Well, let's find out.

Speaker 10 (01:20:29):
Who they're going to hire.

Speaker 3 (01:20:30):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:20:32):
The Logorns played really well. In terms of their time
at the line of scrimmage. You know, Vanderbilt was one
of those teams. And the reason why the Commodorees were
able to fashion a seven and one record to start
SEC play because or to seven and one going into
the game last Saturday, was because of what they do

(01:20:53):
with the line of scrimmage, very very tough. They pride
themselves on being a tough, aggressive offensive front and tough
against the run defense. But the long runs out gained
Vanderbilt by forty yards on the ground, and they had
six quarterback sacks and when the game was at it's
most in the balance through the first three quarters plus,

(01:21:15):
they were.

Speaker 1 (01:21:16):
Dominating the line of scrimmage.

Speaker 2 (01:21:17):
So Sark was asked, was he pretty pumped up to
see his team win the line of scrimmage game with Vanderbilt.

Speaker 10 (01:21:24):
Yeah, I'm I'm excited because I think we're getting better.
I really do. I think we're getting better as a team.

Speaker 9 (01:21:29):
And again, so I didn't think the score was kind
of indicative of how the game. We got to play
better in the fourth quarter. Don't get me wrong, but
we're playing better football right now. We're taking care of
the ball. We've had one turnover in four games. We're
taking care of the ball better, we're creating turnovers, we're
stopping the run. We're starting to run the ball better.
We need to run it better. We're converting third downs,

(01:21:50):
We're doing a lot of things really well. We're playing
better at the line of scrimmage now on both sides
of the ball.

Speaker 10 (01:21:55):
So we're getting better.

Speaker 9 (01:21:58):
And so, yeah, to your point, I am excited that
we were able to play a team in that style
of game and minimize their strengths and make it a
strength of ours. And so there was a lot of
things to point to in that game where it's like, Okay,
we're starting to we're starting to hit our stride a
little bit more, and there's some things to clean up.
We're not a finished product, but we're getting better. And

(01:22:20):
that's a credit to our players of working at their craft.
That's a credit to the coaches of trying to put
players in the right position to be successful, whether it's
schematically or or personnel grouping wise. But I think there's
a there's a level of confidence right now with our
team of man we're getting better. We got to stay
the course because we're going to need to be better
over the next three weeks for.

Speaker 2 (01:22:39):
Sure, And finally one other piece of sound from Long
Orange head coach Steve Sarkashan. He was asked about turning
things around after the loss of Florida, where Long Orange
are pretty much backed into a corner at h to
one in the SEC, with the Oklahoma game coming up
the next week and the.

Speaker 1 (01:23:00):
Road games still to come.

Speaker 2 (01:23:03):
Did he still believe did he still feel as though
the team could get to this point after that loss
on the road at Florida to get to where they
are now still in contention in the SEC.

Speaker 9 (01:23:16):
Well, I was definitely disappointed by the way we played
in Gainesville, you know, and that I felt like we
were better than we played in that game. But I
also knew Florida was better than people probably gave him
credit for and they probably still don't give him credit
for it.

Speaker 10 (01:23:30):
But Florida's got real players.

Speaker 9 (01:23:33):
So whoever gets that job is going to get a
pretty good roster and hopefully they got enough money to
keep it if you want to know the truth, Okay,
but that is that's a good football team. But I
also felt like we could have played better. Now we
had areas and holes on our team at that time
that I knew we needed to improve upon, and like
I said, a credit to the players and the staff

(01:23:54):
for improving those areas and improving on those things, and
very specific players have gotten better since then. I think
collectively we've gotten better as a team. But I don't
think there was ever a sense of panic. It was
just let's go try to find a way to win
the next game, and then after that game, let's go
try to find a way.

Speaker 10 (01:24:13):
To win the next game and the next game and
the next game.

Speaker 9 (01:24:15):
And we've done that, and I think that's again a
credit to the culture that we have and the leadership
that we have in that locker room, that these guys
do a tremendous job of focusing on the task at hand,
and that's just the next game, and it's focusing on
the next game, and that's their preparation. I credit our
guys a ton for their ability to manage last week

(01:24:37):
of getting their rest and doing their recovery, owning into
the game plan, and playing that game the way we
wanted to play it.

Speaker 10 (01:24:44):
And so this next game is going to be no different.
And so I never hit the panic button. And again,
I don't think anybody in an organization did.

Speaker 9 (01:24:52):
I felt like we could be better than we were
in our SEC opener, and we have been and we're improving.

Speaker 2 (01:24:59):
So there long Worn's head coach Steve Stark, he's in
the weekly news conference. And again it was started thirty
minutes earlier this morning at eleven am. That's because of
the open date to come on the schedule, you know,
the last by week that Texas had, they started like
that earlier. They treated Monday kind of like a Sunday,

(01:25:21):
more of a treatment. They gave players off, and that's
what they did again this time around, giving the players
off and then had some film study and things like that.
But they will treat Tomorrow much more like a regular
Monday game week, and then Wednesday and Thursday more like
their Tuesday and Wednesday practice days, and then light stuff
in the morning on Friday, and then released them for
the weekend, and then they'll come back on Sunday and

(01:25:43):
start to get ready for Georgia. But we already heard
talk about the fact that they it was less about
opponent input like it was the last open date, and
more about as he said earlier that you heard in
the press come reference about them fixing the things they know,

(01:26:04):
need fixing, being better in the areas where they have
not been as good as they want to be.

Speaker 1 (01:26:10):
That's what this week is going to be all about.

Speaker 2 (01:26:12):
We'll put some things in for Georgia, Yeah, they'll they'll
be some prep for that, especially later in the week,
but the heavy load in days of this week, which
will kind of start with a lighter physical side of
it tomorrow but more of a mental side of it,
an academic side of it for Foot Baltimore, and then

(01:26:33):
Wednesday and Thursday will be the heavy load in days
of practice in the week.

Speaker 1 (01:26:38):
That's going to be more about fixer upper.

Speaker 2 (01:26:41):
That's going to be more about the self evaluation and
correcting the things that are correctable for them before they
even begin the heavy duty preparation for the Georgia Bulldogs
and what.

Speaker 7 (01:26:55):
A game that's going to be, and obviously some of
those things you look to correct, like Sark mentioned, the secondary,
but also great timing for the buy to get healthy.
They're gonna need all hands on deck to go down
to Athens and win.

Speaker 2 (01:27:08):
Yeah, and I think Michael Taff will be back. I
feel pretty confident Ryan Wingo will be back. He you know,
had the thumb injury. But they feel pretty good about that.
But like Sark said earlier in the press conference, they're
not going to do much with Wingo during the course
of this week. Very little with him and Jelani McDonald. Well,

(01:27:31):
that's going to be protocol, so they'll see on protocol
for that. But he's got two weeks to get ready
on that, so that helps as well. But there's other
guys banged up, he said, even the running backs, even
Wisterer and Backster, are not one hundred percent and so
as well as they both played on Saturday, they both
need time to heal up to rest up. And that's
the case with several of the interior alignment on both sides.

Speaker 1 (01:27:51):
Of the line as well. So there's a lot of
that's still to come.

Speaker 2 (01:27:53):
All right, We have more coming up here on this
Monday afternoon on Sports RADIOAM thirteen hundred zone in the iHeartRadio.

Speaker 10 (01:27:59):
A side.

Speaker 12 (01:28:08):
Side flood happened sunny side all the time like the
other perfect.

Speaker 4 (01:28:21):
I'm not.

Speaker 2 (01:28:26):
Just for the record, even though I'm a big Dodger
fan and the Rams fans too, and the two were
completely different reasons. It had nothing to do with LA.
I'm not a real big fan of the city. And
I'm not a real big fan of this song.

Speaker 10 (01:28:40):
That's okay, but you.

Speaker 2 (01:28:42):
Know, part of it is because I kind of got
worn out on it during the year. Like I said,
I watched conservative estimate of the regular season one hundred
and twenty five of the Dodgers one hundred and sixty
two games.

Speaker 5 (01:28:54):
Good for you was your schedule watching that?

Speaker 2 (01:28:56):
Well, I get the break because a lot of those
games on the West Coast a time, so at least
I'm back home, you know, during the spring and the
summertime and all of that stuff into the fall. So
I heard that song a lot, you know, played a
lot at Dodgers Stadium after wins.

Speaker 1 (01:29:14):
So it's okay. And I'm only a.

Speaker 2 (01:29:18):
A casual fan of Randy Newman, not a real big
fan of his anyway. He's okay, but I'm not, you know,
I don't like, you know, listen to him like I
would Steely Dan or you know, or the Doobie Brothers
or you know, something like that. So but anyway, I
love what they did, the Dodgers getting went, and I
talked about it earlier in the program. Amazing, But let's

(01:29:40):
hear from a couple of people. There was and I
always do this whether any of my teams are playing
in the championship or not. I always watch as much
of the post game UH coverage as possible NBA Finals,
the matter of the teams, and I watch all as
much of the coverage as I can, Super Bowl, you know,

(01:30:01):
even Stanley Cup and college football, college basketball, I'll watch
as much of that post game coverage as a can.
Obviously I do in baseball, and as a fan of
the Dodgers and a subscriber on the MLB season ticket package,
the Extra Innings Package, I guess it's called the Extra
Innings Package. The channel that is the home television network

(01:30:26):
for the Sports Net LA, which is owned by Spectrum.
They do postgame shows, pregame and postgame shows all throughout
the postseason, much like they've done with Rangers TV and
Astros and stuff like that. So I watched a whole
lot of that out of the studio with a world
Hirscheiser and no More Garcia Para, Jerry Harriston Junior, all.

Speaker 1 (01:30:49):
Of those guys.

Speaker 2 (01:30:50):
So I watched an awful lot of that, and that
meant you saw an awful lot from the locker rooms.
I mean, I saw four champagne celebrations, after they won
the division, after they won the wild card. I guess
it was five after they won the division, after they
won the NLCS, and after the World Shore.

Speaker 1 (01:31:10):
So so five.

Speaker 2 (01:31:11):
It reminds me what Augie Garrido used to say when
he was the coach. We're in the season of five championships.
He used to say, there's the regular season championship, there's
the big twelfth Tournament championship, there is the regional Championship,
the Super Regional Championship, and then the national Championship. He
even expanded it once. I'm saying to six champion because

(01:31:32):
he said, you gotta win your bracket in Omah, the
bracket championship to get the file.

Speaker 1 (01:31:36):
But I usually just say the five.

Speaker 2 (01:31:39):
So I saw all these celebrations and things like that,
and after each celebration, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, you know,
thanked the guys and told him to keep the edge.
He kept saying that all enjoy this one tonight, then
keep the edge, and then there'd be champagne and beer
flying and all that stuff, and then they'd go back
to work. So here's what he had to say. But
he yielded the floor to Clayton Kershaw. Because Kershaw has

(01:32:01):
completed his career Hall of Fame career, he'll be in
and uh and and uh was was really big in
the eighteen inning game and got they got the final
outs on the twelfth, one big out that he had
to get in the twelfth. He's one appearance there in
the World Series. So this is from Dave Roberts. You'll
hear him and and H Clayton Kershaw talking about the

(01:32:23):
team leading into the Champagne celebration.

Speaker 8 (01:32:26):
I can honestly say, Uh, what you guys accomplished this
year is unprecedented, starting in Tokyo, all the stuff that
we had to go through, the guys that guys that
weren't here that came later and pitched huge innings, played
huge innings.

Speaker 12 (01:32:45):
Uh, no one ever waited.

Speaker 8 (01:32:47):
And we asked each other to believe in each other,
and you guys made it easy for me to believe
in And you can go through the whole postseason and
every single person in this and stepped up and had
their moment. And so it's just not about right now.
I want you guys to take this with you because
this is about life. And I coach because I love
you guys, but I want you guys to take this message.

(01:33:09):
What we accomplish going forward, but what you guys did
it is so special. Hey, and I want to give
the stage right now to one person and we all
know who it is. And so last point is this
guy is the first ballot Hall of Famer. Why not
because of the town, because every little thing matters, being

(01:33:30):
a great team, and how he works, how he's not
afraid to compete.

Speaker 12 (01:33:34):
And like today, Miguel, Hey, what I said, Hey, when
I said, is the game.

Speaker 10 (01:33:48):
That honors you today?

Speaker 8 (01:33:50):
The game honored Magio did will never be done again.

Speaker 12 (01:34:04):
Okay, Hey, this is this guy's last guy, love you perfect,
This is this last This is this guy's last time
in a clubhouse that's an active play.

Speaker 10 (01:34:14):
And so the floor is yours, Clayton.

Speaker 1 (01:34:16):
Thanks, Doctor. Is an absolute honor to be in this clubhouse.

Speaker 12 (01:34:20):
With you, guys.

Speaker 1 (01:34:21):
I love every single one of you.

Speaker 8 (01:34:23):
I can't imagine a better way to go out than
the pops with this.

Speaker 2 (01:34:33):
And there was uh yeah, you heard him say the
game honors you. That also reminds me of things Augi
Gradio used to say.

Speaker 3 (01:34:40):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:34:40):
Aggie used to say, the game knows when it's not
being respected. In other words, if you leave too many
runners on base, or if you make too many defensive mistakes,
like the game itself is a living, breathing entity, that
kind of thing.

Speaker 5 (01:34:54):
I love that.

Speaker 1 (01:34:55):
Yeah, great stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:34:56):
All right, we'll be back to wrap it up here
on sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone of the
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