August 16, 2024 • 11 mins
Texas Longhorns safety Michael Taaffe spoke on the improvement in Quinn Ewers' leadership as he heads into year three. Plus, one story that is at the front of his mind from fall camp and the impact helmet communication will have for the defense.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Before we uh turn our attention back over to long
worn football. We had a question on the text line.
Someone said, good afternoon. My question for you is this,
when a Major League baseball game goes in extra innings,
there is a runner placed at second base. Now, if
the pitcher at the time gives up a base hitting
(00:22):
that runner at second scores, who's e r does that
run effect? Because the run is earned? But who is
it earned on? That's a good question. You know the
answer to it.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I don't think I do. I have a guess. I
don't think I do. Well, Yes, you might surprise yourself.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I don't think the it affects the pitcher unless they
give up more than one run.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
You're spot on.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
It is not the way the way that the rule
is written and the and the way that the way
that it is defined is that it is not an
earned run for the picture. Now, first of all, the
way that the rule is defined as well is not
(01:09):
only is it not an earn run for the picture,
it is a team er run, but it's not one
charge to the picture. Also, the automatic runner who scores,
the runner gets credit for a run scored, but he
does not get credit for a time on base He said,
(01:32):
what's the big deal with that? Remember that would boost
his OBP the on base percentage, and it does not.
It's not allowed on that. The batter who drives in
the runner is credited obviously go an RBI. So that's
the deal with a ghost runner.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I kind of like it.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I didn't think I would like it at all because
I'm very much a traditionist and a lot of a
lot of things with baseball. But it does make the
game go a little quicker. You got a shot to
finish the thing with just one extra ding. I saw
two games this week end up that way where the
game ended in the tenth inning. One was the Rangers game,
(02:15):
the one with the Red Sox that was a ten
ending game.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
So it could two of those.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, And I saw one in the National League as well.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
So it does keep the game moving along. There is
that as well.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
And by the way, with all of the talk about
picture injuries and pitchers getting hurt, that might help prevent
them by having a quicker ending to the game that way.
College football note, we've said quite a bit over the
last two weeks about Jim Harball in the Michigan program
(02:51):
and a show cause.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Penalty for Horrorball for.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Not being truthful with the investigative staff, and that there
could also be more punishment in place for Michigan as
a quote unquote repeat offender because of what happened with
improper contact and benefit for recruits during the pandemic. There
(03:17):
was that as well. But the other thing that's going
to be fascinating to see is what happens going forward
or what happens as a result of the whole.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Spygate.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Connor Stallion stealing the signals, being there in an opposing team,
coaching warm up attire on the sidelines. There's in there
a thing coming out on Netflix where he's going to
have his say.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
So, yeah, there's that.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
When outcomes were today, Connor Stallions is working again. He
is a defensive coordinator at Mumford High School. That's not
Mumford Texas, which is over in the Brass Valley and
does not have football. It's now Mumford Texas, Mumford Michigan
in Detroit, and William McMichael, the head coach, confirmed the
(04:09):
ESPN today that he hired Connor Stallions as the defensive
coordinator there. Stallions is working as a volunteer McMichael said,
get this, love this quote. He might be the most
hated man in college football, but the coaches and kids
at Mumford High School love him.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Is he the most hated. I don't know that he's
the most hated. I mean he's he's kind.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Of I still, he's kind of shade. Believe he acted
as a RhoD agent, as a rogue agent. No, No,
he had marching orders to do that.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
McMichael.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, he said Stallions had to go through a background check,
so he did. He cleared the background check, said quote,
what happened that Michigan had nothing to do with Mumford
High School.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
That's a Michigan thing. That's an NCAA thing.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Uh. Players call him five stars Stallions. So the kids
love him. He seemed like the perfect fit for us
and what we wanted to do. The defense we've been
running for a while mirrors Michigans. It gives an edge
to the guys who are looking to go to the
next level because they're learning college lingo and how you
go about being professional. By the way, they haven't had
(05:20):
a winning season the team Mumford, the Mumford Mustangs. They
haven't had a winning season in five years. They opened
the season August twenty ninth against Thurston High School. So anyway,
so there you are. Connor Stalliums has found some more.
Even though he's listed as a volunteer, he has found
some more. A lot of work for the Longhorn football
(05:44):
team as they continue to get ready to have a
scrimmage coming up tomorrow morning, a close scrimmage inside of
dk R Texas Memorial Stadium and hearing from some of
the players, Michael Taff was asked the question that everybody
body has heard, and I'm talking about every long worn
(06:04):
football player the media. I talked about this yesterday, that
those media cover practices for whatever reason, they have latched
onto every single asking every single player about quinn Ewer's
leadership in the leadership role and how he's grown and
how he's grown as a leader. So, yeah, the question
(06:24):
was asked for Mookie Taff.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
I just think that his relationship basis with people with
our teammates has grown so much. I think he understands
as a leader. There's different leadership styles.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
You know.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Comparison is a thief of joy and so I'm not
going to compare him to anybody, but I know that
every leader is a leader by example, and that's what
Quinn does best.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
He leads by example.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
He's so positive to all his teammates. And just going
back on that relationship point, he is, he's got a
relationship with every person, whether it's a freshman walk on,
I was, I was at that point one time in
my life. He's he's talking to that freshman walk on
or its is you know, his starting center. He has
the same relationships and I think that's so cool, especially
(07:10):
knowing how you know, being in that position before, just
seeing how cool it is that you know Quinn takes
that approach.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Okay, all of that is really good, But did you
hear that one thing he said in in that comment
that was just gold. What did he say? Comparison is
a thief of joy? I believe it was play the
first part of this again, Cam, I think there's there's
(07:39):
a gem in there.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
I just think that his relationship basis with people with
our teammates has grown so much. I think he understands
as a leader, there's different leadership styles. You know, Comparison
is a thief of joy, and so I'm not going
to compare him to anybody, but is.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
A thief of joy. I hadn't heard that before. Have
you heard that before? You know I have not wise words.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
It makes a lot of sense, the wise Westlake defensive back.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
You know you're happy about saying but you're comparing yourself
to others. You know that I'm doing well. There's comparison
is a thief of joy.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
And all these questions because I mean, I love our
local media, I'm friends with pretty much all of them.
But the amount of leadership questions we have gotten this
fall camp has been ludicrous. I mean, we must be
at like thirty last year. Last year is about culture building, culture,
cultural culture Wednesdays. This year, the culture questions have been
(08:44):
replaced by leadership.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Question Yeah, leadership and offense leadership and defense leadership. And
the coaching is to have leadership. Yeah, a lot of that.
But I did like that comparison is a thief of joy.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
That's that's that's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
He was also asked to relay the story about Monday
practice during the off season.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
I would say, our practice on Monday, you know, and
fall camp it's really taxing at times. You know, you
want to there's only one team that wins. On January
twentieth and stands on the podium and it's holding a
national championship, and so every team is trying to you know,
(09:28):
achieve that, and most importantly in offseason, but really in August,
how can you, you know, abide by the rules but
also take advantage of every single little detail and stuff
like that. And so I think in the middle of
camp people can get loose sight of that and just
go through the motions. But Monday, we came out flying.
We're so competitive. I was telling Coach Sark. I was like,
(09:51):
this is the most fun practice I think I've ever
had here, And so it was just so cool to
see how competitive we can be as a team when
we've been going again with each other for what six
months now, So I'm definitely ready to play a new competition,
but it was so cool to see that we're so
competitive as a team.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah, really good stuff there from Oki Taff. We're gonna
hear more from him and from Kelvin Banks coming up.
I'm still liking that quote, the comparison is a thief
of joy because because you could apply that to so
many things, you know, was it Nick Saban always talked
(10:31):
about the success flew and all that sort of thing,
and the thing that told me pretty much everything I
needed to know about Nick Saban, about the kind of
person he was, not, not the coach.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
We know how great a coach is.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
When somebody asked him right after he won the national
championship and he was on the set there for the
ESPN College Game Day thing and all that, how long
he would enjoy it, and he said about forty five minutes.
Forty five minutes. Everything you pour your life, your heart,
your soul, your mind, your it into and you reach
the pinnacle. Ah, you enjoy it for forty five minutes,
(11:05):
then you just start getting miserable all over again.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I think Balichick when the last Super Bowl he was
asked about preparing for next seasons, like I'll start tomorrow
day or something ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Yeah, yeah, And I understand the argument where folks said,
that's how those guys win all those championships. They're doing that.
But how many times have we heard you got to
enjoy the ride too. It's about the journeying out the destination.
I don't know anyway, that's just me, all right, we'll
hear more from those guys coming up when we continue
on sports radio AM thirteen under the zone
Before we uh turn our attention back over to long
worn football. We had a question on the text line.
Someone said, good afternoon. My question for you is this,
when a Major League baseball game goes in extra innings,
there is a runner placed at second base. Now, if
the pitcher at the time gives up a base hitting
(00:22):
that runner at second scores, who's e r does that
run effect? Because the run is earned? But who is
it earned on? That's a good question. You know the
answer to it.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I don't think I do. I have a guess. I
don't think I do. Well, Yes, you might surprise yourself.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I don't think the it affects the pitcher unless they
give up more than one run.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
You're spot on.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
It is not the way the way that the rule
is written and the and the way that the way
that it is defined is that it is not an
earned run for the picture. Now, first of all, the
way that the rule is defined as well is not
(01:09):
only is it not an earn run for the picture,
it is a team er run, but it's not one
charge to the picture. Also, the automatic runner who scores,
the runner gets credit for a run scored, but he
does not get credit for a time on base He said,
(01:32):
what's the big deal with that? Remember that would boost
his OBP the on base percentage, and it does not.
It's not allowed on that. The batter who drives in
the runner is credited obviously go an RBI. So that's
the deal with a ghost runner.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I kind of like it.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I didn't think I would like it at all because
I'm very much a traditionist and a lot of a
lot of things with baseball. But it does make the
game go a little quicker. You got a shot to
finish the thing with just one extra ding. I saw
two games this week end up that way where the
game ended in the tenth inning. One was the Rangers game,
(02:15):
the one with the Red Sox that was a ten
ending game.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
So it could two of those.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, And I saw one in the National League as well.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
So it does keep the game moving along. There is
that as well.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
And by the way, with all of the talk about
picture injuries and pitchers getting hurt, that might help prevent
them by having a quicker ending to the game that way.
College football note, we've said quite a bit over the
last two weeks about Jim Harball in the Michigan program
(02:51):
and a show cause.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Penalty for Horrorball for.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Not being truthful with the investigative staff, and that there
could also be more punishment in place for Michigan as
a quote unquote repeat offender because of what happened with
improper contact and benefit for recruits during the pandemic. There
(03:17):
was that as well. But the other thing that's going
to be fascinating to see is what happens going forward
or what happens as a result of the whole.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Spygate.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Connor Stallion stealing the signals, being there in an opposing team,
coaching warm up attire on the sidelines. There's in there
a thing coming out on Netflix where he's going to
have his say.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
So, yeah, there's that.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
When outcomes were today, Connor Stallions is working again. He
is a defensive coordinator at Mumford High School. That's not
Mumford Texas, which is over in the Brass Valley and
does not have football. It's now Mumford Texas, Mumford Michigan
in Detroit, and William McMichael, the head coach, confirmed the
(04:09):
ESPN today that he hired Connor Stallions as the defensive
coordinator there. Stallions is working as a volunteer McMichael said,
get this, love this quote. He might be the most
hated man in college football, but the coaches and kids
at Mumford High School love him.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Is he the most hated. I don't know that he's
the most hated. I mean he's he's kind.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Of I still, he's kind of shade. Believe he acted
as a RhoD agent, as a rogue agent. No, No,
he had marching orders to do that.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
McMichael.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, he said Stallions had to go through a background check,
so he did. He cleared the background check, said quote,
what happened that Michigan had nothing to do with Mumford
High School.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
That's a Michigan thing. That's an NCAA thing.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Uh. Players call him five stars Stallions. So the kids
love him. He seemed like the perfect fit for us
and what we wanted to do. The defense we've been
running for a while mirrors Michigans. It gives an edge
to the guys who are looking to go to the
next level because they're learning college lingo and how you
go about being professional. By the way, they haven't had
(05:20):
a winning season the team Mumford, the Mumford Mustangs. They
haven't had a winning season in five years. They opened
the season August twenty ninth against Thurston High School. So anyway,
so there you are. Connor Stalliums has found some more.
Even though he's listed as a volunteer, he has found
some more. A lot of work for the Longhorn football
(05:44):
team as they continue to get ready to have a
scrimmage coming up tomorrow morning, a close scrimmage inside of
dk R Texas Memorial Stadium and hearing from some of
the players, Michael Taff was asked the question that everybody
body has heard, and I'm talking about every long worn
(06:04):
football player the media. I talked about this yesterday, that
those media cover practices for whatever reason, they have latched
onto every single asking every single player about quinn Ewer's
leadership in the leadership role and how he's grown and
how he's grown as a leader. So, yeah, the question
(06:24):
was asked for Mookie Taff.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
I just think that his relationship basis with people with
our teammates has grown so much. I think he understands
as a leader. There's different leadership styles.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
You know.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Comparison is a thief of joy and so I'm not
going to compare him to anybody, but I know that
every leader is a leader by example, and that's what
Quinn does best.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
He leads by example.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
He's so positive to all his teammates. And just going
back on that relationship point, he is, he's got a
relationship with every person, whether it's a freshman walk on,
I was, I was at that point one time in
my life. He's he's talking to that freshman walk on
or its is you know, his starting center. He has
the same relationships and I think that's so cool, especially
(07:10):
knowing how you know, being in that position before, just
seeing how cool it is that you know Quinn takes
that approach.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Okay, all of that is really good, But did you
hear that one thing he said in in that comment
that was just gold. What did he say? Comparison is
a thief of joy? I believe it was play the
first part of this again, Cam, I think there's there's
(07:39):
a gem in there.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
I just think that his relationship basis with people with
our teammates has grown so much. I think he understands
as a leader, there's different leadership styles. You know, Comparison
is a thief of joy, and so I'm not going
to compare him to anybody, but is.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
A thief of joy. I hadn't heard that before. Have
you heard that before? You know I have not wise words.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
It makes a lot of sense, the wise Westlake defensive back.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
You know you're happy about saying but you're comparing yourself
to others. You know that I'm doing well. There's comparison
is a thief of joy.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
And all these questions because I mean, I love our
local media, I'm friends with pretty much all of them.
But the amount of leadership questions we have gotten this
fall camp has been ludicrous. I mean, we must be
at like thirty last year. Last year is about culture building, culture,
cultural culture Wednesdays. This year, the culture questions have been
(08:44):
replaced by leadership.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Question Yeah, leadership and offense leadership and defense leadership. And
the coaching is to have leadership. Yeah, a lot of that.
But I did like that comparison is a thief of joy.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
That's that's that's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
He was also asked to relay the story about Monday
practice during the off season.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
I would say, our practice on Monday, you know, and
fall camp it's really taxing at times. You know, you
want to there's only one team that wins. On January
twentieth and stands on the podium and it's holding a
national championship, and so every team is trying to you know,
(09:28):
achieve that, and most importantly in offseason, but really in August,
how can you, you know, abide by the rules but
also take advantage of every single little detail and stuff
like that. And so I think in the middle of
camp people can get loose sight of that and just
go through the motions. But Monday, we came out flying.
We're so competitive. I was telling Coach Sark. I was like,
(09:51):
this is the most fun practice I think I've ever
had here, And so it was just so cool to
see how competitive we can be as a team when
we've been going again with each other for what six
months now, So I'm definitely ready to play a new competition,
but it was so cool to see that we're so
competitive as a team.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah, really good stuff there from Oki Taff. We're gonna
hear more from him and from Kelvin Banks coming up.
I'm still liking that quote, the comparison is a thief
of joy because because you could apply that to so
many things, you know, was it Nick Saban always talked
(10:31):
about the success flew and all that sort of thing,
and the thing that told me pretty much everything I
needed to know about Nick Saban, about the kind of
person he was, not, not the coach.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
We know how great a coach is.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
When somebody asked him right after he won the national
championship and he was on the set there for the
ESPN College Game Day thing and all that, how long
he would enjoy it, and he said about forty five minutes.
Forty five minutes. Everything you pour your life, your heart,
your soul, your mind, your it into and you reach
the pinnacle. Ah, you enjoy it for forty five minutes,
(11:05):
then you just start getting miserable all over again.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I think Balichick when the last Super Bowl he was
asked about preparing for next seasons, like I'll start tomorrow
day or something ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Yeah, yeah, And I understand the argument where folks said,
that's how those guys win all those championships. They're doing that.
But how many times have we heard you got to
enjoy the ride too. It's about the journeying out the destination.
I don't know anyway, that's just me, all right, we'll
hear more from those guys coming up when we continue
on sports radio AM thirteen under the zone
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