Sarkisian Sounds Off, Rodgers Gets Revenge, and Ryans Reacts to Texans Loss

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Speaker 4 (01:23):
From Darryl Kay Royal, Texas Memorial Stadium. It's the home
opener of the twenty twenty five Pallage football season, the
Texas Longhorns against the San Jose State spars on third
down shot film snaps, manning a pump, books going deep
up the left found there's got livings.

Speaker 5 (01:38):
In no per with a catch at forty putting a
field donas sidelines for forty foot by save then to
this one living study but cats and one and it
comes for an eighty three yards touchdown off the right
hash and on Perstman's in for the twenty five.

Speaker 6 (01:54):
He's being chased it as he throws.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
Ball's tent picked up by Taylor Gilball, Gillball all the
tip drill comes down with it at the San jose
A State thirty four yard line.

Speaker 6 (02:06):
Backs the remains the running back.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
He's all set on the right side of Arch Manning.
Ryan Wingo wide left. Here's the boundary on the right
is DeAndre More shifts in motion back to the left
and it's a handoff. No, it's Manny pulling him back
in a class the middle clock touchdown.

Speaker 6 (02:19):
Pucker Livingston again.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
Parker Livingston pass forward every Texas touchdown this season eighty
three yards and that one three yards from the left
catch at the sparking thirty six play action Yep. Manning
looking still looking, fires deep.

Speaker 6 (02:37):
Up of the middle, injuries the catch jack and raises
first Texas love ard touchdown for Hark Shanning. We had
plenty of time to throw Injuries in the slot.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
Light Offen with a catch a thirty six yards score,
a second down and eight from the twenty seven shot
gun Stamp looking still looking.

Speaker 6 (02:58):
He gets a dods one man and could not.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
Dodge the second he got away from Ethan Burke, he
could not escape Colin Simmons, who wraps him up for
a loss of five on the side. Second and goal
from the sixteen Manning with a snap Arch Wookie, still looking,
fires across the middle clock touchdown Jack Henrys. Two touchdown
catches for Parker Luvingston and now two for Jack Henry's

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is the log Horns cash in the San Jose State
turnover a forty seven yard field goal try for Mason Shipley,
his first fuel goal tries a long horn, good snap
and hold, the kick is on the way and the
kick is good. Mason Shipley for forty seven yards has
his first field goal as a Texas Loghorn. Balls on
the right hash mark of the San Jose State twenty

(03:43):
yard line. First down and ten shotgun step Manning with
some time looking still looking, scrambles left and Arch is
gonna run to the fifteen arcs to the ten.

Speaker 6 (03:53):
Arts, to the five arts to the goal line.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
Cutch down Texas Arch Manning just continue to dodge his
way past tacklers and takes it home for six. Santjose
State will let the clock run outs and this ball
game's over log. Horns get their first win of t
twenty five one in one game one of the three
game homestand goes the way of the burned Orange.

Speaker 6 (04:18):
Final score this afternoon for Daryl K.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
Royal Texas Memorial Stadium here in Austin, Texas Longhorns thirty
eight the San Jose State Spartans seven.

Speaker 6 (04:29):
So there it is game one in the books for Texas.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
In the win column, the home game game number one,
and the Longhorns are one and one for twenty twenty five.

Speaker 6 (04:42):
Good afternoon, everybody.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
Welcome to the program here on Sports Radio AM thirteen
under the Zone on the Longhorns Monday.

Speaker 6 (04:49):
My name is Craig Wait, thanks very much for joining us.
Glad to have you with us.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
The producer is Jay Herman, and we're glad to be
alongside you. We of course, began our Longhorns one day
coverage from the UT campus at eleven o'clock this morning.
Mark Mike Hardball Harts joined me, and then at eleven
thirty we brought you long worn head coach Steve Sarkesian's
weekly news conference live in case you missed it. No worries,

(05:14):
We're going to bring you the highlights of it with
comments from coach Sarks. We'll have that coming up on
the program this afternoon. A lot of other things to
get to the rest of the weekend in college football,
eyebrow raising results, the expected results, the updated polls will

(05:36):
get to all of that as well, and of course
week number one in the National Football League almost in
the books. There's one game tonight Bears versus Vikings, and
that'll close out week number one in the NFL. But
surprises in the NFL as well, So and we've got
and also from the category of the more things change,

(05:58):
the more they remain the same, meaning Aaron Rodgers up
to his old tricks. Well, we'll talk about all that
and more. Glad to have you with us. Since afternting
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(06:20):
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data rates may apply. As I mentioned, the producer of
the program is Jay Carman. How'd your weekend.

Speaker 7 (06:36):
Go.

Speaker 6 (06:36):
I know it was kind of busy. Did everything go
all right for you?

Speaker 5 (06:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (06:39):
I got started bright and early down on Bevo Boulevard
for the Longhorns game day pre game, which started at
eight in the morning. My day started at five thirty
in the morning. It was great to be back. I
was probably the first one down there, got into a
parking garage through a secret entrance.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
That's how early I was.

Speaker 6 (06:57):
Really. Yes see, I don't even know about this secret entry.
So that's good.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
It's going to stay that well, okay, all right, that's
your secret. Okay, I get you to understand. Okay, Well
it's good.

Speaker 6 (07:07):
I'm glad. I'm glad you were able to get in there.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
And uh so, obviously we had our long Orange Game
Day programming with Cameron Parker and Mike Hardball Harge and
Mark Henry down at the Windship Circle there in the
hook hang out there along Bevo Boulevard. So your first
Bevo Boulevard experience in a while, right, and my first

(07:30):
Mark Henry experience. Yeah, now, that is an experience that
that that's true. I didn't think about the fact that
we probably should have could have alerted you to that
and made you aware of, you know, what you'd be
dealing with with that.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
A lot of pictures, a lot of fun though.

Speaker 6 (07:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so good. All right, Well, glad to
hear that. All of that is good.

Speaker 4 (07:54):
And and then what did you do yesterday with your
with your Sunday? I was in Houston on Sunday. My
girlfriend lives there.

Speaker 8 (08:02):
We spent the day together, watched some NFL football, went
to a little Japanese festival in the morning at Herman Park.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
So you know, she picked the morning activities and I
picked the afternoon.

Speaker 6 (08:11):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
Now was Herman Park in any way, shape or form
related to you, Is it to any any of your
your relatives or anything of that nature.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
No, that'd be Herman with two ends.

Speaker 6 (08:22):
Oh, that's right, that's exactly right. That is Herman with
two ends.

Speaker 8 (08:25):
Okay, Mine, I wish sometime when I was at Texas,
sometimes I wish my name had a second end so
nobody would confuse me with the ball coach.

Speaker 6 (08:33):
I understand that. Well, the further we get away from
from that time, you know, the moral of that will
ease up. So that's good.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
That's good.

Speaker 6 (08:43):
THEU.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
And all right, so you did get to see did
you get to watch your team. Did you get watch
the Commanders a little bit?

Speaker 5 (08:49):
I did.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
I watched the Commanders.

Speaker 8 (08:51):
I've officially bought the hype, not that there was anything
I was selling, but I was worried about how the
defense would look. Would they be able to stop the
run unlike last year? Would they be able to generate
quarterback pressure unlike last year? Right? They checked both of
those boxes for me. During Week one, offense had a
little bit to clean up.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
But we'll see.

Speaker 8 (09:13):
We'll see if the Commander's defense has improved in a
legitimate way, or we'll see if the Giants offensive line
is a bit of a disaster.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Time will tell which way it reflects.

Speaker 6 (09:23):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (09:24):
In the meantime, the Commanders are tied for first place
with the Philadelphia Eagles, so there's that. And then, like
we said, we'll have more NFL to review as well.
And I watched I think almost every play of the
game involving my team as the Rams played the Texans,
and it was it was not a work of art

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for either side offensively, But going into the game, I
think most people thought the defenses.

Speaker 6 (09:52):
Would control that game, and that's exactly what happened.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
And a couple of turnovers made the difference in the
football game one, with the Rams leading fourteen, well with
the trailing nine to seven, Kobe Durant came up with
a big interception. Then the Rams come down. They get
to go ahead touchdown, and so they get they get

(10:16):
a touchdown to Austin Davis, so they get that, so
they go up fourteen to nine. They continue to stop
the Texans, who had led nine to seven at the half.
Then the Rams are driving for what looks to be
a put away touchdown with about three and a half
minutes to go, and Kobe Parkinson just flat out gets
hit and loses the ball. It's a fumble down inside

(10:39):
the twenty yard line. Texans recover and I thought, oh boy,
here it comes. And then sure enough they start moving
down the field and they're mixing the run in the
past very well, and CJ. Stroud looks good and the
running game looks good, and he's hit couple and then
and they're down the inside the thirty and they're on
the move. It looks like they're going to take it
in for a touchdown to win the game. And then

(11:04):
they they turned it over and moving Mawally hit the
ball in his hands.

Speaker 6 (11:08):
Landman for the Rams, No, not the motion picture variety,
not Tommy Lee Jones, but the.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
Real the landman for the Rams knocks the ball loose,
they recover, and then the Rams, in running out the clock,
actually threw the ball to put the coup to pick
up a first down, and that put it away.

Speaker 8 (11:30):
It was.

Speaker 4 (11:30):
It was a tough loss for the Texans, no doubt,
because their defense kept him in the game of the
chance to win, but the offense couldn't get it done enough.
And you could say the same thing. The Rams did
just enough offensively and did just enough defensively. Told on
for fourteen to nine wins.

Speaker 8 (11:45):
And Craig, after watching last night's game between the Ravens
and Bills, it makes me, you know, applaud Sean McVay
even more, gave him credit for that aggressive play call
to help seal the game late. We saw what happened
when the Ravens got perhaps a bit too conservative, able
to salt away the game in Buffalo.

Speaker 6 (12:01):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
And then of course the turnover makes the difference there
with Derek Henry's fumble there late in the ball game.
I'll tell this one thing real quickly before we have
a break, and I understand. I say this in advance.
I give you the advanced warning on this. Nobody really
cares that much about hearing other people's fantasy football stories.
I get it, I understand, but I think you might

(12:24):
just get a funny laugh about this. So I'm trailing
in the game, and because my opponent has Derrick Henry,
and so I had had the lead, and then Henry
puts him in the lead, and it looks like he's
going to have it wrapped up. I had picked up

(12:47):
Matt Crater on Saturday, in the middle of the Texas game,
made a roster move during the second quarter while calling
the game.

Speaker 8 (12:59):
What yeah, so everyone in your league would look at
their phone they can see that, right like they?

Speaker 3 (13:05):
In fact, I don't know what website. Yeah, I'm in
fact I.

Speaker 4 (13:09):
Got a text from the guy I was playing who
asked me, he goes, dude, did you just make a
roster move in the middle of calling the Texas game?

Speaker 3 (13:17):
It was during a timeout.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
It was, it was a timeout, it was and it
happened I think after the third or the fourth of
the Texas touchdowns and that four touchdown sequence there. Uh
during then, because I'd gotten a text alert that the
Bills had signed Prader.

Speaker 6 (13:33):
Because I'm forgetting the name of the regular kicker.

Speaker 4 (13:36):
Hylas Tyler Bass, who I drafted, was going to be
on IL. He's going to be on the injured list
for four or five weeks of I better do I
better do something about this.

Speaker 6 (13:47):
So I made this.

Speaker 4 (13:48):
Roster move and picked up Matt Prater, and then lo
and behold, he winds up kicking the field goal.

Speaker 6 (13:53):
Now I haven't won yet.

Speaker 4 (13:54):
I'm still down four points, but I've got Aaron Jones tonight,
and the other guy has played all his players, So
I have.

Speaker 8 (13:59):
A decent good shot, have a decent shot better than
I had. Oh yeah, I need eleven from Roma Doonza.

Speaker 6 (14:05):
Okay, well we'll see.

Speaker 4 (14:06):
Maybe maybe you know, eighty yards and a touchdown, eighty
yards receivement a touchdown might get you over the time,
something like that. So anyway, that's all I was going
to say about the fantasy because I know everybody's got
a fantasy football story in the first week. Everybody's got that.
I understand that, but I just thought people would get
a kick out of that. Here I'm in the middle
of calling Texas San Jose State we get to a
TV time out, Oh, I need to make a roster move.

Speaker 6 (14:26):
So did well?

Speaker 3 (14:28):
What did your league mate say? Like, are you kidding me?

Speaker 4 (14:30):
A only got The only guy who contacted me after
I did it was the guy was playing you want
to beat him at back?

Speaker 3 (14:37):
And he said, did you just make a I certainly
did during a time out? He did that. That's all.
Some guys have.

Speaker 6 (14:47):
Some guys down a soda. Some guys go to the restroom.
I make a roster move. You know, that's all that works.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
You're just trying to go one and out.

Speaker 4 (14:53):
That's it. And I'm not there yet. Oh here's the
other thing that's funny too. And I don't know how
your how does your league handle ties? Do you have
ties or do you break ties?

Speaker 8 (15:03):
Well, we go down to the decimal point, and even
for quarterbacks it goes so it usually goes to the
one hundredth Okay, we haven't had a tie since we
made that change.

Speaker 6 (15:12):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
Our tie breaking system is quite simply the total number
of points from your reserves.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
One against the other. Oh that affects how you build
your roster.

Speaker 6 (15:22):
Maybe a little bit.

Speaker 4 (15:23):
And it's kind of almost like penalty kicks and soccer
because you only get one point one bonus point for
your team game total if you have the edge on
the other. But it's enough to give you the win
well in the in the bonus or in the reserve points.
I had sixty two and the guy I'm playing sixty one,

(15:44):
so it would be by one point out of the
reserves that would give me the one point for the victory.
But you don't get the total like say sixty two
added to your total, because that would mess with the
whole league scoring and stuff like that. You only get
one point tie.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
Breaker if you're hanging on to Rashi Rice to win
any tie breakers.

Speaker 4 (16:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. So that's that's where that is.
So text of me last night. He said, so you
need five points to beat me. I was like, actually four,
you get tied. If we get tied, I've got the
edge there. He didn't respond back. He probably wasn't happy
about that. All right, enough about the fantasy game. We'll
talk about the real game. Coming up, we're gonna hear
from long worn head coach Steve Sarkisian this weekly news conference,

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which we brought you live in its entirety. You'll hear
the highlights of it coming up next here on sports
Radio AM thirteen under the Zone and the iHeartRadio app
here on a long Horns Monday on thirteen hunderd the Zone.
Craig Way, alongside the producer Jay Carmon, glad to have
you with us today. Earlier today, we brought it to
you live Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian's weekly news conference.

(16:48):
You can hear that live each and every Monday morning
at eleven thirty right here on the Zone. Our coverage
begins at eleven am. I Cardball hearts joining me for that,
and we bring it to you live each and every
Monday in its entirety from start to finish. When we
get to the program some you know, two and a
half hours later, we we bring in the highlights from it.

(17:12):
So let's let's hear from the head coach, starting with
his first words, his opening statement here of his weekly
news conference.

Speaker 7 (17:19):
As far as Saturday, just to reiterate, you know, thanks
to our fans. What an awesome turnout for eleven am
kick season opener to have over one hundred thousand people Saturday.
Our thought, our students were amazing, staying till the end
seeing the eyes of Texas that was that was awesome
and look forward to them to you know, being back
again this Saturday for an afternoon kick here against UTEP.

Speaker 9 (17:42):
As far as the game goes.

Speaker 7 (17:45):
Start positively, you know, I thought that things that we emphasized,
you know, we we got the rewards on you know,
we really went into last week talking about, you know,
attacking the ball on defense, and we created four turnovers.
But you can see the intent on those plays and
on other plays where we got our hands on the ball,

(18:05):
whether it was in the past game, whether it was
the second tackler in trying to get the ball out,
like they were very intentional attacking the ball, and the
result was we got the four turnovers and some other
opportunities I think presented themselves. We got to stay down
that path offensively, you know, we really made it a
point to try to be more explosive, and you know,

(18:26):
we found more explosive plays. I think we were about
twenty percent of our plays were explosives nine passes, five rushes,
and so finding our ability to be explosive on offense
is a huge component of that thought. We were a
lot more efficient in the red area. You know, we
had the one turnover that Like I said, I think
Archill will definitely learn from that experience of that, what

(18:48):
that felt like, what that looked like. But I think
more importantly was the ability to play complimentary football, which
I didn't think we did a great job of in
Week one. Got much better this week of When we
got the turnovers, we got the short fields, we turned
those into points, and so playing that style of game
was important for us. I think, you know, the couple

(19:08):
of things that were glaring, and the easy one to
look at that because it's very tangible, is the penalties.
And you have twelve penalties for one hundred and fifteen yards,
which means there's some major fouls in there, and they
were in all three phases. You know, on special teams,
we roughed the punter and we got a holding on
a punt return.

Speaker 9 (19:28):
On defense, you know, we.

Speaker 7 (19:29):
Had a couple off sides, we roughed the passer. Offensively,
you know, we have a holding by a wide receiver,
we have a holding by an interior offensive lineman, we
have a chop block, we have false starts, and so
it was kind of across the board, which which lent
myself to this idea that you know, where was our
mental intensity? Where was our mental focus Saturday? I know

(19:52):
human nature is what it is. And you come off
of a really big game on the road for your
season opener, and you know human nature is let's take
a deep breath and relax. We don't get to relax.
You know, our mental intensity needs to be as high
as it needs to be. We need to play with
the right type of discipline throughout the week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday. That discipline is what's going to lead

(20:14):
to the proper habits of how we practice, which ultimately
will lead to the consistency in our play, which will
lead to the growth that all of us need to make.

Speaker 9 (20:22):
And so all that starts with me.

Speaker 7 (20:24):
I don't point the finger at anybody else but myself.
We need to improve upon that which we will. You know,
I think that because of those penalties, we put ourselves
in some really difficult third downs. I think we had
twelve third downs Saturday. Six of those were third and
nine or larger. And that's not a winning formula for
success when you're trying to move the ball on a

(20:45):
consistent basis. And so we've got to improve upon that.
But I thought there were some nice highlights in the game.
Like I said, I thought Arch had a very good
football game. Again, he was not perfect. I don't expect
him to be. I expect him to learn from some
of the mistakes he had. Parker continues to do the
things that he's doing. I think he's the SEC Freshman
of the Week this week, which is great. Jack Andrees.

(21:06):
You know, Cedric Baxter got another fifteen touches, so his
growth continues to go. And like I said, defensively, Anthony Hill,
Jolana McDonald ty, Anthony Smith, I thought Marod Watson really
starting to show up, starting to find his groove on
the defensive front.

Speaker 9 (21:20):
And then then Trey Moore as well.

Speaker 7 (21:22):
So again that was good. And like I said, I
thought it was great for Mason Shipley. You know, his
first field goal attempts for forty seven yard or banged.
It looked very comfortable doing that. So all in all,
it's good to win. And you know, I've been down
in these other games. I got a chance by playing
at eleven am. I got to get home earlier and
watch some other teams kind of kind of slug the

(21:43):
ball around on the field. Too, you know in games
where everyone thinks you're just supposed to go out and
play perfect, and so part of that is the growth
of a team. But we need to improve and everybody
needs to improve individually, and I believe we'll do so
when we started to do that today.

Speaker 9 (21:58):
As far as this week.

Speaker 7 (21:59):
Goes, Scotti, Walden and Utep coming to town. Skuy's had
a nice careers, done a nice job, and his team
is drastically improved. A lot of transfers on both sides
of the ball. Obviously, Malachi Nelson at quarterback was a
very high level recruit.

Speaker 9 (22:13):
Guy we recruited here.

Speaker 7 (22:14):
Is throwing it all over the field, and I think defensively,
very attacking style defense. Through two games. I think they
have ten sacks through two games. They have twenty three TFLs.
Their third down conversion rate I think is like twenty
percent on defense, So they're attacking defense that the very active, very.

Speaker 9 (22:34):
Similar to what we played last week.

Speaker 7 (22:35):
I think we need to handle the movement much better
than we did last week at the line of scrimmage.
But all in all, to me, this week is about
us and what we need to do to improve as
a football team individually and collectively.

Speaker 4 (22:47):
Now, the questions a couple of questions here before we
get to the break, and the first one dealt with
the variety of looks and schemes that his team will
face in these three non conference games, both offensively and defensively,
what they're looking at and opposing offenses from San Jose

(23:07):
State to utep To to Sam Houston State, and on
the defensive side as well.

Speaker 6 (23:12):
And Sark had no problem with any of that.

Speaker 7 (23:15):
It's great for us, you know, I mean as because
we're going to get ready to go into SEC play
and we're going to get all of that then too,
you know, from the variety of offenses that you get,
to the style of quarterbacks that you play, to the
multitude of fronts that we get in the SEC uh
two teams stemming from one front to another front, you know,

(23:35):
right before the ball snap.

Speaker 9 (23:36):
So you know, we're fortunate that way.

Speaker 7 (23:40):
And it's and it's we're we have some growing pains
from a player's perspective, but there's some growing pains from
a staff perspective too of what do we really like,
what works, what doesn't, how we're coaching it, and so
we need to use these these experiences as valuable lessons
even when maybe things don't go exactly the way we
want are we are we be able to adjust it

(24:01):
in game and block it better later in game. There's
a prime example we called the run he was in
the early in the second quarter where their will linebacker
ran through and we had a TfL on Christian Clark,
And we came back to that same run later we
fixed it and Cole Hudson comes off on the will
linebacker running through. We had the ball to Christian Clark

(24:23):
and it's an explosive run for about sixteen yards. And so,
you know, I think our guys being coachable, being able
to make in game adjustments in these types of games
in particular, I think is going to serve us well
down the road.

Speaker 4 (24:36):
Next, he was asked about Ryan Wingo because I think
going into the weekend there had been an awful lot
of conversation about how Ryan Wingo was going even going
into the start of the season, how he was going

(24:56):
to be the number one target, he was going to
be explosive, all American capabilities, all those kinds of things,
and early on there's been some missfires, whether it's passes
not right on the mark, for manning or just drops
and then we're drops the other day, so uh uh
at Sark was asked about Wingo and his thoughts on

(25:17):
him trying to get back on track with Ryan.

Speaker 9 (25:19):
You know, I just think he's he's pressing a little bit,
you know.

Speaker 7 (25:23):
He Ryan is like the one of the if not
the most, one of the most conscientious kids on our roster.
He works really hard, Like nobody practices harder than this guy.
He wants to do right. He's in the right spots,
you know, he wants to make all his plays. Sometimes,
you know, not trying so hard is the best avenue

(25:45):
and just playing and relaxing and playing and and he'll
get there, you know. Again, you know, I think that
we all want him to get there sooner rather than later,
and I know he does too. But again I think
that you know, taking deep breath and letting the plays
come to him and not trying to go make it.
I think on that on that you know, glance throw

(26:08):
the other day, I think he was already thinking he
was making the safety miss, you know, like in his
mind because he's practiced it so many times and sometimes
this let's just catch the ball and go play. But
but again he's a fantastic player, is a great teammate
and we need him and I think he understands that.

Speaker 9 (26:25):
And his rapport with the arch is really good. And
so we'll we'll, we'll, we'll find his niche.

Speaker 7 (26:29):
It's great for him right now that Parker's doing what
he's doing, you know, because that's getting a little bit
of the attention off of him. And Parker's making his
plays when they're coming to him. So that's a good.

Speaker 6 (26:38):
Thing, all right. So we'll hear some more from sar
coming up.

Speaker 4 (26:42):
But up next, we bringing Inconceivable here on a Monday
afternoon right here on sports Radio AM thirteen under the
zone of the iHeartRadio app Craig Wade, joined by the
producer Jake Carman. Coming up in a few minutes, we'll
hear more from Long Horns head coach Steve sarkejan here
on our Longhorns Monday edition of the program. Every Monday,
we bring you sarks weekly news conference live. Our coverage

(27:05):
begins eleven am from the UT campus and Sark begins
at eleven thirty with the press conference. So we'll bring
that to you live, Mike Hardballharj and myself Every Monday.
Then when we get back here for this program from
two to five, we bring you the highlights from that,
and we will do that coming up in a few minutes.
First of all, this hour, NFL football reaches the end

(27:29):
of its first weekend of play tonight with the Bears
and Vikings, and of course it started on Thursday with
the Cowboys' loss to the Eagles. The Cowboys next opponent
will be the New York Giants. Now, Jay Carmon got

(27:50):
a chance to watch the Giants at length yesterday because
he was watching his beloved Washington Commander slowly death by
a thousand paper cuts dismantled them.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
Correct.

Speaker 8 (28:00):
Yeah, it was a lot of a lot of pickleball
for the Commander offense, a lot of seven to eight nine.
They didn't have a lot of explosive plays. Yeah, but
they got it done.

Speaker 6 (28:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
Yeah, Well, Commanders won twenty one to six. Giants did
not score touchdown. Simple water here and Brian Dabole had
his video conference this morning. He told reporters that there
never really was a serious decision to make about switching quarterback.

(28:34):
He's going to stick with Russell Wilson. When they played
the Cowboys this Sunday. I thought Russ was fine.

Speaker 8 (28:41):
He was nothing spectacular, wasn't the clearly with no touchdowns? Well,
there was a series in the first half. They got
two sets of downs on the goal line. They stalled
out on third and goal, went forward on fourth down,
got a new set with a penalty and then got
backed up so far they kicked the field goal after
all that.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
Okay, red zone was their problem.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
The other thing is, you know, now there are people,
you know, reporters asking Dave all about this, fans clamoring
for Jackson Dart after all he was you know, taken
in the first round, and Da Bill said, no, Russ
will be the starter. He was seventeen of thirty seven,
one hundred and sixty eight yards, no touchdowns, no interceptions.

(29:22):
But he only completed two of twelve passes for twenty
six yards with two sacks and two scrambles when he
was under pressure. So it didn't go well. And they
only had two hundred and thirty one yards total offense.
And as you mentioned, they stole twice in the red zone.

Speaker 8 (29:36):
And it's a commanders team that couldn't get pressure on
anybody last year, and they were dominating up front yesterday.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
So they played the Cowboys this Sunday in a game
that you can hear right here well in our sister
station ninety eight point one FM KVET. Both the Cowboys
and the Texans are zero to one. Now, Cowboy fans
probably took some heart in the fact that they played
the defending Super Bowl champion Eagles pretty tough.

Speaker 6 (30:05):
You know.

Speaker 4 (30:05):
They were there right there, hanging in the ball game
in the fourth quarter. Now, if you listen to Cam
on Friday, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
Yeah, I know how he's going to be about that.

Speaker 6 (30:12):
I understand.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
He said, don't fall for it.

Speaker 6 (30:14):
He said, don't fall for it. Don't fall for the facts.
They were competitive for the ball game and lost.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
My four points, don't off of that.

Speaker 4 (30:20):
Uh, we'll see. And then the Texans, who were described
as being going into the season good on defense with
other than c. J. Stroud, A lot of questions on offense,
changes on the offensive front, new offensive line, and still

(30:45):
with tang Dell out injured and rotating backs like they do,
you know, would it be enough offensive? It turned out
not to be that case. It turned out to be
the case that they would struggle. They kicked three field
goals in the first half, it's they It was one
of those deals where they moved great between the thirties.
They were back and forth between the thirties, but Drys

(31:07):
would stall. They settled for three first half field goals
a nine to seven lead. They were still sitting on
nine points with three and a half minutes to go
in the ball game, and in fact, could have been
put out of the game entirely but for the Rams
fumbling inside the Texans twenty yard line, and then stroud
rallied them and they got inside again to the thirty.
They got inside the thirty yard line of the Rams

(31:30):
with two minutes to go in the ball game, but
then turned it over on a Goomba Wally's fumble. So yeah,
it's easy to look at those things and there's no
mistaking the fact that those were factors.

Speaker 6 (31:43):
In the loss.

Speaker 4 (31:44):
Another factor in the loss was something you've heard Sark
talked quite a bit about, and long worn fans and
those recovering team penalties.

Speaker 6 (31:55):
Like the long Worns did.

Speaker 4 (31:58):
The Texans had double digit penalties for one hundred yards,
just like with the long words. Now, Texas obviously overcame
mits penalties in the win over San Jose State, but
the penalties really did hurt the Texans on two or
three occasions, and head coach Demiko Ryans said that was
not lost on him when he was discussing it in
the post game.

Speaker 10 (32:17):
Yeah, the penalties are it's uncalled for, right, It's all
controllable things we can control. And you know, you know,
if you stand up here, we're talking about negative plays,
king about going back or is this just not what
we talked about?

Speaker 9 (32:31):
Main thing offense?

Speaker 10 (32:32):
So we wanted to stay on track, right, and we
got some unfortunate penalties that put us behind the sticks
and just put us in some.

Speaker 9 (32:39):
Really long third downs that we weren't not able to manage.

Speaker 6 (32:43):
So we had to clean up the penalties. Yeah, I
think that was that was part of it.

Speaker 4 (32:50):
I think that was definitely a part of the penalties
there were they They had some lapses on the offense
or the offensive front. I think Stroud got sacked three
times in the game. Rams had a lot of pressure
on him.

Speaker 8 (33:01):
Yeah, forty one point two percent of Stroud's dropbacks for pressure.
That was the seventh highest in Week one according to
NFL's Next Gen Stats.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
Jared Vers had four him on his own. He was
all over him. He was all over him.

Speaker 4 (33:15):
But I will tell you this, even as a Rams fan,
I will tell you this, if your offensive line can
hold up against the Rams pass rush, you can shred
that secondary because even though Kobe Durant had the one
spectacular interception, they got beat pretty regularly on some down
field routes. That's why I said the Texans moved the ball,
especially through the air between the between the thirties, they

(33:38):
did really really even almost between the twenties, and then
the drives would stall and then and then of course
the other big thing to turn up there was the
interception throw by Stroud. And now it was a spectacular
played by Kobe Durant. He made to pull it down.

Speaker 6 (33:55):
He did do that.

Speaker 4 (33:56):
But the other thing was just a fumble ball got
punched out by Landman and recovered uh there by the Rams,
and that, for all intents and purposes, ended it for
the Texans. They did have the Rams in a third
down on that ensuing series, but the Rams completed a
pass to Puka Nakua, who had a big game catching
the football. Even though he did not score a touchdown,

(34:17):
he had a big game catching the football and that
got him the first down they needed so that fumble
was a big part of it. And Ryan's was asked
about that play. Darray veteran player for US captain. That's
one of those moments.

Speaker 6 (34:32):
What do you say.

Speaker 10 (34:32):
You don't have to say anything, Like everyone knows how
hurt he is. I know his pain, I know what
he's feeling. It's a tough moment. He's been one of
our most dependable guys. And the Rams the kid made
a nice play. Put his hat on the football, bang
bang play. Really nice play by them, right, So it's hell,
he'll bounce back, He'll continue to do He made a

(34:54):
nice play there to get us down and striking distance.
So that's the nature of the league, right. But no
one has more heard about that than.

Speaker 4 (35:02):
Dari Yeah, yeah, Dario Goumwally. So it was tough for
the fumble on that. Couple other NFL notes to.

Speaker 6 (35:14):
Mention.

Speaker 4 (35:15):
The Dolphins played the Colt yesterday and the Colts just
worked them. They beat him thirty three to eight. They
had some big moments in the game, and something like
this always comes up whenever a guy who used to

(35:39):
play on one team plays on the other team and
makes a play or two or his teammates make some
big plays, and he was asked about going up against
his former team.

Speaker 6 (35:48):
By the way, we're going to get to a real
celebrated moment of a guy playing against his former team
coming up a little later on this hour.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
We'll do that.

Speaker 4 (35:55):
But Xavieran Howard of the Colts corner and used to
it was a big part of the Dolphins in the past.
So he was asked about going up against the Dolphins
and in specific to a Tongue of Ioloa. Now this

(36:17):
is eighteen months after being released from the Dolphins, and
this is what Howard said about to a tongue of Ioloa.

Speaker 6 (36:26):
We knew the guy.

Speaker 4 (36:27):
He gets the ball out pretty quick, and once we
take away his first read, I feel like it's panic
mode after that. And it showed yesterday we took away
his first read and he was trying to get rid
of the ball real quick, and tongue of Ioloa did
look like he was out of sequence and rushed and
stuff like that.

Speaker 6 (36:43):
He had two interceptions.

Speaker 4 (36:45):
He threw one to Laatu Latu, who kind of fooled
him by dropping in the zone coverage. This is a
defensive end who picked dolph a pass to also committed
a fumble when he got sacked by Kenny Moore on
a blitz and uh, Xavier and Howard said, you could
just tell with the big eyes and him getting flustered.

(37:07):
So yes, yes, I saw the stuff on social media.
Fans were clamoring for Quinn. You ors, they got Zach
Wilson for w gonna.

Speaker 6 (37:18):
Be Yeah, Zach Wilson was going to be the next
guy to get in there, which he did.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
But the Quinn's GPA was higher than two was QBR yesterday?

Speaker 6 (37:26):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. M Brian Callahan, coach of the Tights.

Speaker 4 (37:32):
If you were a Longhorn fan, uh, and you got
a chance to watch the Titans and Broncos, you would
have had to have had NFL Sunday could take it
to do it right because it wasn't on in this
market because CBS had the Rams and Texans.

Speaker 11 (37:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
I saw red zone clips in that one. Okay, yeah,
I did as well.

Speaker 4 (37:51):
If you were Longhorn fan, you would have been pleased
because I think there were like seven former Longhorns in
that game. In fact, Jahny Baron recovered the fumble too, uh,
pretty much snuff out the final hope in the game.
But there was a whole bunch of former Longhorns playing
in that football game. There was also a moment in
the game where there was a ruling made of an

(38:18):
incomplete pass that took away a twenty three yard catch
by rookie receiver l l al mom Io Manner. Yeah,
I from saying Io mannor yes uh huh, I was
trying to remember how to pronounce his name Iomnor, and
the pass was ruled incomplete. Now Iamanner got his elbow

(38:41):
in bounds when he came down making the catch, and.

Speaker 6 (38:47):
Callahan didn't challenge to play because.

Speaker 4 (38:50):
He didn't get a clean look at whether I am
man or got a foot down as well. After the game,
he said, an elbow doesn't equal to feet, so his
feet would have had to come down as well. That's
not true. According to the rule, a player must make
contact with the ground inbounds with both feet or anybody
part other than the hands, so the call should have

(39:13):
been challenged today. Yeahland admitted he incorrectly decided not to
challenge the rule, and he said, my interpretation of the
rule is wrong.

Speaker 6 (39:23):
I'll own it. I didn't do a good enough job
at that moment.

Speaker 4 (39:26):
I should have challenged it, and it probably would have
resulted in a potential explosive play would have been a
twenty three yard catch. So uh, there were others in place.
See here's the thing that happens with this stuff. You
ever watched a Major League Baseball game and you're wondering
where a manager is going to challenge a call on?

(39:48):
He goes hold on, hold on, and he holds the handout.
He's looking over his shoulder where there's some dude on
the phone. The guy on the phone in the dugout
is on the phone with some guy in the box,
going do we challenges They have a immediate look. They
roll it back every play right afterwards, and then the
wave Adam.

Speaker 6 (40:04):
Say no, no, I won't do it.

Speaker 4 (40:06):
Well, the NFL has that as well. Rob Reader is
the director of Game Management and Strategic Initiatives. He could
have told Calahan the challenge to play. So calam was asked,
did you get a directive from the Game management department
of challenge to play?

Speaker 3 (40:25):
He didn't.

Speaker 4 (40:26):
He didn't say, he just took full responsibility for he said,
I misspoke. I'm well aware of the rule, I understand
how it works, and the way that I articulated it
afterwards was incorrect.

Speaker 6 (40:37):
And I understand the rules of this game pretty well.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
Okay collins Worth, Yeah, if you.

Speaker 4 (40:46):
Did, yeah, exactly so, so that was I think it
was a booboo. I think it was a mistake there
that he didn't. I mean, I'm any times all of
us growing up. Now you're much younger, so I don't.

Speaker 6 (41:03):
I don't know how old were you The last time
you remember John and Adden doing again.

Speaker 8 (41:09):
Oh Man on the video game? Well, no, no, no,
I know, I don't. I don't remember hearing him do
a game in real life. The first time I heard
it was on the video game. It's a shame, because
what a great analysy was. He was the one who
introduced all of us to one knee equals two feet.
He was the one who also introduced it to one
elbow equals two feet.

Speaker 6 (41:29):
He used to say that.

Speaker 4 (41:29):
I was like, what, he goes, Yeah, one knee equals
two feet and bobba, you know, and it was just great.
I always remember on a in the old days, this
is before you were born, right after Fox got to
get Flrisis would have been early nineties, ninety three, ninety four,
and I was working in Dallas at the time. I
was doing the Cowboys pregame and postgame show on our station,

(41:50):
and we used to have one of those real big
satellite dishes, the one the big consumer ones that they
people used to have. They don't have those anymore because
they don't need it. You either get at the smaller
ones like what I have a Direct TV satellite or
some other ones. But the said those big ones looked
like a big old barbecue grill. Those were big ones.
And before they started encrypting things, you could watch anything

(42:16):
from around the world on satellites, and I mean anything. Well,
at the radio station, we had one of those big
dishes and we could get the NFL back hall feeds.
So you're watching the game, but and you're hearing the announcers,
but when it goes to break, you don't hear the commercials.

Speaker 6 (42:35):
You hear the communication between the truck and the announced team.

Speaker 4 (42:39):
Fascinating. Oh yeah, it was really good stuff. I'll never
forget that. There was a Packers Cowboys game. I think
it was a divisional playoff game, like in the early nineties,
and it was really cold that day at Texas Stadium.
The radio station where I was working at at the time, KRLD,
which is our Dallas fort Worth affiliate for long run
games was about two ales east of Texas Stadium on

(43:02):
carpet of freeway, just just down the road, not far.
And uh so I'm watching the game and I'm watching
it the back hall feed in the studio and they
get to a commercial break and it was very cold
that day at Texas Stadium.

Speaker 3 (43:17):
Like I said, I think it was a divisional playoff round.

Speaker 8 (43:20):
I always gets skeptical as a Marylander. But go on,
well it was in the fifty or higher. Oh no, no, no, no,
it was like low thirties. Okay, it was it was cold.

Speaker 3 (43:29):
That counts.

Speaker 6 (43:30):
Yeah it was.

Speaker 4 (43:31):
It was like it was like in the low thirties
and right around freezing or so. And Madden says, I
hear this down the back hall feed. He goes, man,
this is what I really like games like this cold hit.
Somebody WAPs snotting, boogers flying everywhere.

Speaker 6 (43:47):
You said, all kinds of stuff like this is great.
And he almost said that kind of stuff anyway on
the air, Uh he was. He was a guest out there.
So we used to do shows weekly shows out at
Tony Run was rib Joint and.

Speaker 4 (44:05):
Brad Sham of course was the host his voice the Cowboys,
and I was the producer of the show and he
had John Madden on with that because the Cowboys were
playing a Thanksgiving game that week and John was in
town and we would do the show on Tuesday night. Well,
he was in a couple of days early and Brad
asked him he wanted to come out, So he comes out,
He does the show, and he was just hilariously entertaining,
and he was talked about all the different things you

(44:25):
could eat. He talked about in these different burritos and
cal zones and strombull egos are sinkers, you know, they
just sink right down on But he was alleged. But
he's the one who taught us all about one knee
equals two feet and one elbow equals two feet and
Brian Callahan, I don't think I remembered that. All Right,
Coming up next, we're gonna hear more from Long Worn's

(44:45):
head coach Steve Sarkisia when we continue on thirteen under
the Zero. Well, it's time to hear some more from
long Warts head coach Steve Sarkisian from the weekly news
conference that we brought you in its entirety live this morning.

Speaker 6 (45:07):
As we do each Monday morning.

Speaker 4 (45:10):
More of the questions for Sark this one getting into
the punt return game because the long wards haven't really
had one per se certainly not one of any any
distance at all or Ryan Niblett. But it's been difficult
to get a gauge on how the return game would work.
As Sark explains, you know, we just haven't had a

(45:32):
lot of great ops.

Speaker 7 (45:33):
Unfortunately. You know, we've the first game the Higo State punter.
He was punting the ball about thirty yards and those
are tough to get returns on. They're tough on the returner,
they're tough on your corners who are trying to hold
up on the gunners. This past week, you know, we
really went in thinking we could get a block and
it's unfortunate we just didn't execute it. It's two weeks
in a row we had chances to we didn't execute

(45:55):
it very well. We've got to be better, more detailed there.
And two, we didn't block right and so I thought
all the decisions Ryan made were probably the right ones.
There may have been one late that he could have returned,
but it's tough when they're short kicks and there's not
a lot of you know that there's not a lot
of room, and so you know, we tried to get
one return and we were in the long leverage at corner.

(46:17):
So everybody's got to do their part to allow the
returner to get the return started. And so that's definitely
an area of improvement for us.

Speaker 4 (46:25):
Okay, next, this is something also that is going to
continue to be a discussion point.

Speaker 6 (46:35):
And this was a question about the change, and we
talked about this the other day.

Speaker 4 (46:40):
The NCAA approving or at least expected to approve a
change in the transfer portal period the window. Instead of
the two windows, one early and then one in the spring,
it would come down to just one and it would
come right after the quarter of finals of the College

(47:00):
Football Playoff. In essence, for practical purposes, it would really
only negatively effect in terms of having to deal with
it while preparing for a game. It would only apply
to four teams, the last four teams left standing in
the College Football Playoff who would be in the semifinals.

(47:21):
In Texas was one of those teams last year and
they were having to deal with But there was also
the spring window two. There would only be that one
and Sart was asked about his thoughts about that initiative
being pushed forward to change that window to just that
one window for a few days in January.

Speaker 9 (47:41):
Yeah, I was in favor of this, of this recommendation.
I just felt like.

Speaker 7 (47:50):
It's gotten really it was really difficult two years ago
when it was just December and you're in the playoffs.
And then I thought about us last year when we
were all the way into the Semis and the portal opened.
But then I also thought about that spring portal window
and what that felt like. And you're trying to assemble

(48:12):
the team as quickly as possible, to build the camaraderie
and so that you can grow, and so you can
know who you're working with, and so I feel like
to be fair to the players but also fair to
the schools. You know, if you're one of those four
teams that are left and the portal window opens for
those ten days and the players will still have their
five days after, you know, whenever you're done the national

(48:33):
Championship of the Semis, those are Champagne problems.

Speaker 6 (48:37):
You know.

Speaker 7 (48:37):
That means you've got a pretty good team, you're in
the semi finals. But I think for the betterment of
the sport. That's the right window for teams, for the
players to have a chance to go in and then
decide where they want to go, so they can roll
in their next institution for spring and be there for
spring ball and then into summer. It's fair for the
school so they can build their rosters predicated on who

(48:58):
leaves and what they're.

Speaker 9 (48:59):
Trying to do.

Speaker 7 (49:00):
And like I said, and if you're if you are
one of the four, you figure it out. You know,
we've all hired you know big enough, you know personnel departments,
and you know on our team, Brandon Harris does a
great job with all the people there, John Michael Jones,
everybody involved.

Speaker 9 (49:14):
And so they they've they've.

Speaker 7 (49:15):
Got to do their leg work and they've got to
be ahead of the game a little bit. But in
the end, it's sure a lot better knowing here your
team is. You know, as you go into spring, then
what's happening now in June and now you've got guys leaving,
then you've got new faces coming again. So I just
think for the betterment of the sport and the teams,
this is the right way to go, all right.

Speaker 4 (49:34):
So now here it comes the exchange now there's the question,
uh that the reporter starts with, Jake, do we hear
the que the first question in this exchange?

Speaker 6 (49:46):
I think we do.

Speaker 4 (49:46):
Okay, all right, you'll hear sarks response and the way
it goes and now Sart responds to it and the
counter response there and talking about the facial expression of
arch Manning on that one television close up camera.

Speaker 7 (50:04):
Shot, arch Manning seemed to be having some throwing pains
by the arch arch said that to you, no, oh,
according to who it just looked like he was, he
doesn't have any that is there an explanation to why
he was it looked like that.

Speaker 9 (50:19):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (50:21):
I've never filmed I've never filmed any of you guys
when you're using the bathroom, so I don't know what
faces you make when you're doing that.

Speaker 4 (50:29):
And everybody had a good laugh about And I've noticed
in the way that online services can present this, it
was it was listed on the Espnis Sartuh Sarcasian snap set.
Reporter eviscerats come one who said, what, no, I'm gonna

(50:49):
take pictures of you guys here your face, your bathroom.
We all looked at each other. That's probably a good thing. Uh,
it was actually a lighter moment and need he said,
I come back to you later, right, So.

Speaker 6 (51:02):
Then he was asked.

Speaker 4 (51:04):
About the talent that is spread across the country and
certainly in the SEC these days.

Speaker 7 (51:15):
Yeah, it's challenging, you know because a lot of players,
like these guys have a linebacker that was playing at
the FCS level last year that one hundred and fifty
five tackles and now he's starting at linebacker for UTEP.
And so players get better in college and they may
not all have the three and four and five stars,

(51:35):
but we've seen these stories.

Speaker 9 (51:37):
Time and time again.

Speaker 7 (51:38):
It'd be like Michael taff if he ended up not
walking on here and going somewhere else and then transferred
to school, how good of a player would he be?
And so I think what the portal has done, it's
allowed avenues for good players to move up or move
to different spots. Maybe they weren't getting all the playing
time that they would have wanted to other places.

Speaker 9 (51:56):
And the challenging part for us is you don't really
know them all right.

Speaker 7 (51:59):
You going the opening early games of a season and
you're looking at like these guys, there's a ton of
transfers on UTEP's team, and you're trying to do your
research on this guy playing over here, and this guy's
playing over here, and how good was he and what
are his strengths and so a lot of work goes
into it and you just don't know until you start
playing the games of Okay, this guy's got a little

(52:20):
more juice than we thought, or this quarterback's a little
more mobile than we thought. On top of that, if
they've got new coaches, what are the schemes and so
all these things add up to These are really tricky games,
especially in the front end of the season when you
don't have a lot of evidence on the teams and
then the specific players on those teams all right.

Speaker 4 (52:39):
Next up, Sark was asked about the explosive plays versus
the long drives and the benefits to both. Whether you
can getting the explosive plays coming out of the passing
game as opposed to long drives.

Speaker 6 (52:56):
I think there is.

Speaker 7 (52:57):
I think there's definite balance. I just think think the
numbers bear out. You know, it's really hard to score
the more plays.

Speaker 9 (53:07):
You run in a drive. It's just that's the analytics
of our sport.

Speaker 4 (53:12):
You know.

Speaker 7 (53:14):
The reason people don't bun as much in baseball, you know,
I mean, you're trying to get extra base hits. You're
trying to get people around the bases faster, and so
football is not a lot different than that. Now, there's
a time and a place when you're trying to ball control.
There's a time and a place to be efficient. But
the numbers just don't bear out the fact of like

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if you're going to go on ten and twelve fourteen
play drives over time, your success rate of scoring touchdowns
dramatically goes down. And so you got to find a
way to create explosive plays. And then you've got to
trust the decision making of your quarterback of when to
take those shots and maybe when to check it down,
because you don't have to throw the ball thirty yards

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downfield to get an explosive play. You can throw it
to a running back in the flat, you can throw
it to a tight end over in the middle. They
can break a tackle and create an explosive play. So
you got to work within the confines of the offense,
and then you got to be strategic of when there's
a time and a place really to take those shots
down the field.

Speaker 4 (54:11):
All Right next, he was asked about Colin Simmons. Now,
Simmons is coming off for freshman All American season. Colin
is also a preseason All American, but he's had some
struggles early on, especially in staying away from penalties, and
picked up a couple more the other day. So Sark

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was asked about the penalties and the consequences that go
into those.

Speaker 7 (54:36):
I think he's leading the country penalties right now with five.
As a matter of fact, you know, I didn't think.
I don't think he thought after two games that would
be what he'd be leading the country in. So you know,
again another guy who thinks just trying a little too hard,
you know, is trying to jump the snap count, and
he's he's got to.

Speaker 9 (54:50):
Be more mindful. At the end of the day, you
have to point him out.

Speaker 7 (54:54):
I think in game what happens is when you get
a penalty, there's a consequence the team suffers, right, you
go back five yards, you go back fifteen yards, the
opponent gets to continue to possess the ball because you're
rough a punter' there's consequences to penalties.

Speaker 4 (55:11):
Well, we need to have consequences in practice too. Yeah,
all right, So then he was asked, is there some
tough love going on here? In terms Kirk Bowles asked
this question. Kirk was really interested in what exactly the
punishment would be.

Speaker 8 (55:25):
That was a little later. This is Cedric Golden's question
about tough love, about the tough.

Speaker 4 (55:29):
Love and so because and it does go into the
when the players came in after Sark, they were all
asked about the penalties and the consequences and is there
more running and all that other kind of stuff.

Speaker 6 (55:43):
But yes, Cedric Golden's question about tough love.

Speaker 9 (55:45):
No, I mean there was tough love Saturday. You know,
we took him out.

Speaker 7 (55:48):
He didn't start the second half, you know, I mean,
and I think we got his attention, you know, I
think he had the three penalties were in the first half.
He didn't have any in the second half, and he
got half a sack.

Speaker 4 (55:57):
You know.

Speaker 9 (55:57):
So you know, I just think that you settling down.

Speaker 7 (56:00):
You know, you don't get ten sacks in one play,
you know, and you play within the confines of the defense.
You play within the confines of the other defensive linemen
of you know, when your rush attempts are there, and
how to play, and you apply the game plan like
in for instance, in this game, I thought we missed
three sacks, you know, and he had one. I think

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Brad Spence had another one, and I can't recall the third.
But our whole rush plan, if you were an edge
rusher was to rush to the upfield shoulder of the quarterback.

Speaker 9 (56:31):
His all over the tape.

Speaker 7 (56:32):
When he got pressure, he scrambled around, he never went
up in the pocket. Well, we didn't do that, and
we came flat and he ran around us three times.
And so we have to apply the things that we
work on in practice. That's that's a snapshot of one
thing in the game, but there was other things that
I think we need to be better at as a
team of applying what we're teaching you to do throughout

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the week.

Speaker 9 (56:54):
In game when the moment comes.

Speaker 4 (56:56):
All right, So there's some more from sark Well, you're
more from I'm Steve Sarkisian coming up a little later on.
Up next Aaron Rodgers and what his world is like
after beating his old team yesterday and he played well
in it as well. That's up next on thirteen Under
the Zone.

Speaker 6 (57:20):
We're back.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
It's the Craig Ways Show with Hall of Fame broadcaster
and voice of the Texas Longhorns, Craig.

Speaker 6 (57:27):
Way, Week number one of the NFL. In the books
and how your team do well.

Speaker 4 (57:39):
If you were a fan of the Cowboys are Texans,
you probably came away a little bit dissatisfied, understanding that
what stood out you about well last night's game was
was definitely the top of the forty one forty win
for the Bills over the Ravens was just something else
that was high drama. There was other dramas well. Steelers

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and Packers played excuse me, Jets, and the Steelers played
the game. Packers look good in their win of the Lions.
And did anybody notice that Michael Parsons did pretty well yesterday?

Speaker 6 (58:14):
Did you notice that?

Speaker 9 (58:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (58:16):
You see the stat Jared Goff got rid of the
ball two seconds faster on average the snaps. Parsons play
game wrecker.

Speaker 4 (58:24):
Yeah, he only played thirty snaps, had a sack, had
a pressure and as was pretty much disrupted.

Speaker 3 (58:32):
Jared Goff a lot.

Speaker 4 (58:33):
And apparently he's not no and doesn't and doesn't have
the whole playbook, I mean doesn't isn't totally immersed yet
in the Packers' defensive system.

Speaker 3 (58:43):
He will be though, keep an.

Speaker 6 (58:44):
Eye on him. Meanwhile, Jets and Steelers.

Speaker 4 (58:48):
It was pretty interesting in that you had the reunion
slash revenge game thing motif going.

Speaker 8 (58:56):
On with Jim said, who's getting revenge on who? Yeah,
they were both bad with their old teams.

Speaker 4 (59:02):
Yeah, and they both played well yesterday. Justin Field's played
well and so did Aaron Rodgers, who had the four
touchdown passes in the game.

Speaker 6 (59:09):
And you knew, you just knew.

Speaker 3 (59:11):
You knew.

Speaker 4 (59:13):
That when the Steelers escaped with that thirty two to
thirty one victory, that he was going to be asked
about any degree of satisfaction he might have a crude
in defeating his whole team, especially his old team, especially

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given the fact that Aaron Glenn, the new head coach,
had made it pretty clear to Rogers right out of
the gate that there really wasn't room for a place
for him there, that.

Speaker 6 (59:42):
They were going to go a different direction.

Speaker 9 (59:44):
You spoke about the meeting with Aaron Glenn. I'm not
fift few months ago.

Speaker 3 (59:48):
Beating him is your significance in that sense. He basically
told you to your face that he didn't think you
were right for that team.

Speaker 11 (59:56):
Yes, that's what he did, so there's significance in beating him.
I was happy to beat everybody associated with the Jets.

Speaker 3 (01:00:05):
Feel any extra sign significance to beating.

Speaker 9 (01:00:08):
The team that let you go.

Speaker 11 (01:00:11):
I love beating everybody, so it doesn't matter who it is.
I really only played eighteen games here, so I was
actually talking to Briest about that pre game.

Speaker 6 (01:00:21):
He said, how's it feel?

Speaker 11 (01:00:22):
I said, honestly, I was here for two years, but
it doesn't it would It doesn't come close to how
it's gonna feel playing Green Bay because that was, you know,
eighteen years of my career. So it was nice to win, especially,
you know, hearing some of the cat calls out there

(01:00:42):
and the boobirds. You know, I don't I'm not sensitive
about that. I expected that, you know, I kind of
liked that, But there were probably people in the organization
I didn't think I could play anymore.

Speaker 6 (01:00:54):
So it was nice to remind those people that I
still can.

Speaker 8 (01:00:57):
I say, you're here on the eighteen games a year
percent that hall the external chatter and everything about this
was sort of overblown in a way, like the chatter
about you coming back to Dead Life.

Speaker 6 (01:01:06):
And playing the JAB wasn't overblown.

Speaker 11 (01:01:08):
I mean the excitement that we had back in nine
to eleven twenty three running out in the field. I mean,
the energy definitely felt different week one today. I think
anybody who was there can feel that there was a
major difference. And then to have the season taken away
like that, then a battle back and have a rough
season last year. You know, like I said this last week,

(01:01:32):
you know, I gave as much as I could to
the team and it didn't work out. I didn't have
any hard feelings about it not working out.

Speaker 7 (01:01:40):
Now.

Speaker 11 (01:01:40):
I didn't maybe appreciate the way that it went down
in the end, but that's in the past, and we're
want to know.

Speaker 12 (01:01:49):
Well, four super Bowls, You've won everyone for a Super Bowl,
You've won a lot of games in your heart of
hearts after doing all of that, did you feel like
you want to prove something here today?

Speaker 6 (01:02:02):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:02:02):
I just want to have fun today.

Speaker 11 (01:02:03):
I mean I was dreaming about the opportunity to step
back on the field in the off season and wondering
how I would feel and with the juices flow and
wouldn't hit my competitive spirit. And there were a lot
of moments that I was on the sideline just to myself,
thanking you, know my wife and my friends for encouraging

(01:02:27):
me to to take time with my decision and that
this would be the right decision. So happy to be
a Steeler and happy things went the way they did
to all right. Yeah, by the way, you can market
on your calendar. The Steelers do host the Packers on
Sunday Night football in October twenty sixth, so.

Speaker 3 (01:02:50):
Be ready for that. So not the return to Lambeau
and everybody would have wanted.

Speaker 6 (01:02:54):
No, it'll it'll be at Hide or whatever they're calling it. Now,
what's it?

Speaker 4 (01:02:58):
Oh shoot, I don't think that's the name either. No, No,
there's a Yeah, it's a long name. I'll pull it
up here. Meanwhile, there's something else what he gets to
before the break. I don't know if you saw this story.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has refused four

(01:03:21):
trademark applications filed by Bill Belichick and his companion Jordan
Hudson oh No, saying the phrases they attempted to trademark
would cause a and I quote likelihood of confusion end
quote with previous filed ones. Likelihood of confusion is a
band that'll be at acl festus. No that the New

(01:03:46):
England Patriots, the fore employer for Belichick, hold the rights
on the trademarks that Belichick and Hudson were seeking. In April,
TCE Rights Management, with Hudson listed at it's manager file
to secure several trademarks, including these four do your Job

(01:04:06):
Bill's version, ignore the Noise Bill's version, the bellustrator Bill's version,
and no days Off Bill's version.

Speaker 8 (01:04:18):
Well, so the bellustrator, I get you've got you know
j billis the billustrator.

Speaker 4 (01:04:22):
Yeah, but the bellustrator was trademarked in two thousand and
nine by the Patriots.

Speaker 3 (01:04:26):
Oh I'm too young for that.

Speaker 4 (01:04:27):
Then do your Job was trademarked in twenty thirteen. No
days Off and ignore the Noise were trademarked in twenty seven.

Speaker 3 (01:04:35):
I see the battles go on.

Speaker 4 (01:04:37):
So what Belichick wanted was all of those phrases except
to add the words parenthetically Bill's version.

Speaker 3 (01:04:46):
Think, who do you think he is? Taylor Swift?

Speaker 6 (01:04:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:04:48):
Right, So they said there's a likelihood of confusion there,
So yeah, it's not it's not gonna happen all right,
will if you act to wrap up power number two
and thirteen under the zone, our coverage will begin at noon,
Is that right?

Speaker 6 (01:05:06):
Noon?

Speaker 9 (01:05:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:05:07):
None, Saturday here on thirteen under the zone with long
Orange Game Day from BEV Boulevard.

Speaker 6 (01:05:15):
There the windship circle in the hook of Hangout Ivink.

Speaker 4 (01:05:20):
Cameron Parker mentioned when we when Roger Wallace and I
hopped on at eight fifteen on Saturday morning. This was
eight fifteen Saturday morning, that the world's Strongest band, Mark Henry,
had already indulged in a juicy lucy. Oh yeah right,
you had the big that big double cheeseburger thing working.

Speaker 8 (01:05:40):
Those came in right as the show went on the air,
really at eight o'clock and Mark eyeing it down just
like a like a skilled offensive coordinator one one point
of the finger.

Speaker 3 (01:05:55):
They were set down right behind him. Wow, I mean
you were down the green engineering, right.

Speaker 8 (01:06:01):
That's right, okay, And part of that was engineering the
handoff of the juicy Lucy's see you could.

Speaker 6 (01:06:07):
Well, no, I guess you couldn't. It was Mark Henry.
We're dealing with that. They need to take care of
you on that deal.

Speaker 4 (01:06:12):
Too, you know they I wouldn't complain, Yeah, I wouldn't complain, Okay,
all right, So I'll try one next week.

Speaker 6 (01:06:19):
There you go. So and it'll be at noon, so
it'll be in the lunch hour.

Speaker 4 (01:06:23):
Noon is when they'll take care with long Orange Game
Day with Cam Parker and Mike Hardball, Harge and Mark
Henry with Jay Carman there engineering on site, our man
Cole Dixon producing back here in the studio. So that'll
be Saturday at noon and then the network pregame at two.

(01:06:44):
The kickoff will probably be around three twenty from what
I ever said. It's listed as three fifteen, but because
it says SEC network, it'll probably be three twenty. So
just just so you know, planning to make a full
day of it. It's going to be warm Saturday, the
warmest part of the day. Yeah, you know, there was

(01:07:04):
all this forecasts of the warm stuff, and then as
it got close toward the end of the week, said
there might be some rain here and there was a little,
what little brief sprinkle shower I think last Saturday, just
a little bit, not much, but it did that in
the cloud cover keep the temperature down.

Speaker 6 (01:07:18):
It was like in the mid eighties, I believe.

Speaker 3 (01:07:20):
And we had a good crowd watching us outside in
WinChip Circle.

Speaker 6 (01:07:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:07:24):
Yeah, and so we invite you to drop by and
see the Fellows on Saturday the kickoff, Like I said
around three twenty Texas against UTEP, game number two of
the three game homestead on the text line, you know,
in response to the story about Bill Belichick and his
companion Jordan Hudson seeking trademarks for all of those trademark

(01:07:49):
phrases that the Patriots are trademark like the bellustrator and
do your job.

Speaker 3 (01:07:55):
And stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (01:07:56):
They just wanted they wanted to trademark the exact same
phrases with the print with a parenthetical explanation. Bill's version
in the Trademark and Patent Office went, Yeah, that's a
little too close to so our man, Carrie said, dang,
I guess I'll cancel, might just do it parentheses Carrie's

(01:08:18):
version trademark application shaking my head. So anyway, there's there's
some of that. All right, Let's hear some more from
Longhorn's head coach Steve Sarkisian. Here we'll pick up with
talking about some of the young guys who flashed that

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that really caught his attention and Saturday's win over the Spartans.

Speaker 7 (01:08:43):
Saw I thought Zena and Lance Jackson both I thought
did some things again I think I mentioned Marod Watson.
I thought he got going once the game started moving,
you know, clearly ty Anthony of what he's.

Speaker 9 (01:08:56):
Doing on the defensive side of the ball.

Speaker 7 (01:08:58):
I thought Xavier fills me a little smaller sample size,
but I thought he played really well, and that was
intentional to play him more to see what that would
look like. I thought clik Lockett had a couple of catches.

Speaker 9 (01:09:12):
It was great for him.

Speaker 7 (01:09:13):
I know it probably goes unnoticed to everybody else, but
that fourth down was a big deal to me. What
is how's this guy get how they play you know,
with Matt Caldwell and and Khalik on a fourth down
and executing that play same play we threw with with
Ryan Winga on arch manning right, and so you kind
of a little different results and so the act that
he could go in there and do that, you know,

(01:09:33):
I think there was a lot of learning for Christian Clark,
you know, his first real carries, you know, the idea
of you know, the intent of runs and where they're
supposed to hit. Not every run is meant to bounce
and try to run around people. We got to hit
runs a certain way, and so a lot of that
type of stuff in game. You know, Kate Phillips got
in there, got his hands on a ball. I think

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next time he probably picks it, you know. So a
lot of guys got opportunities. Now we got to grow
and learn from those opportunities.

Speaker 6 (01:10:00):
Okay, all right, so there's that.

Speaker 4 (01:10:03):
Then next Sark was asked about The Good, the Bad
and the Ugly. There is one thing Sartin does this
every Monday morning. There's a collection of digital cut ups
and it's usually in the twenty to twenty five play range,
which he calls the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

(01:10:25):
Not to be confused with the old Western Clint Eastwood
Western of the same name from the early seventies with
Clint Eastwood. I think le Van.

Speaker 3 (01:10:33):
Cleef was in that and some other ones in there.

Speaker 4 (01:10:37):
But and you know what, in the music for The Good,
the Bad, and the Ugly, uh, Jake, we'll bump back
from the next break with you. Because it's a very
recognizable theme song from folks who've never heard it before
or don't know that that's the one that it is,
they'll recognize it. But anyway, he does this and when

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he joined us on the post game show Saturday, Sark said, well,
I'm gonna have a lot to say on the good,
the bad, and the ugly on Monday morning. So I said,
would the over under be twenty five because it might
be twenty eight plays. I'll ask him on Wednesday, when
we record Long Worn weekly, what the final count on
the good, the bad and the ugly was on Monday.

(01:11:20):
But he did talk about the good, the bad, and
the ugly of his offensive team, his team's offensive performance
on Saturday, I.

Speaker 7 (01:11:28):
Would say, offensively, you know, varying game plans. What I
like about our offense right now, I think these guys
are coachable when when we make an emphasis on things
to improve upon, whether it's individual players or as a unit,
they've responded. You know, we obviously challenged Arch from one

(01:11:48):
week to the next. I think he responded, and there's
growing pain still.

Speaker 4 (01:11:51):
In there.

Speaker 7 (01:11:54):
When we challenged him on you know, creating more explosive plays,
breaking more tackles. I think our guys have responded to that.
Now we need to be more consistent. We need to
take practice to the game. You know, I think the
details in our offense need to improve. And so but
again we've got some I hate saying young players we

(01:12:15):
have some new faces and there's some gonna be some
growing pains. I wasn't naive to that to think we
were just gonna be a well oiled machine the first
month of the season. But I want to see incremental growth.
And there were some airs Saturday that need to improve.
Our third down pass protection needs to improve, not from
a physical standpoint, but schematically of understanding the stresses on

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our protections and then who's responsible for those things when
they when they arrive. And we've had a couple of
breakdowns now through two weeks that we need to improve upon.
So all in all, you know, from from this morning
it was all encompassing to me as a team. I
feel a little bit like you know, they know we

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have good coaches and and our players know we are
going to scheme people up, and we're going to scheme
up free blitzers. We're gonna scheme up coverages to disguise
and and and get hands on balls. We're going to
scheme up plays to get people open down the field.
I don't want our players relying on the scheme. I
want our players relying on their fundamentals, their techniques, their details,

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and their effort that coupled with scheme, that's when we
become really dangerous. And so as coaches, maybe we we
pull back a little bit on scheme and we get
back to fundamentals, technique, effort, details of how we execute plays.
Then we can put those two things back together, and
I think that's when it will be at our best

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as a team.

Speaker 6 (01:13:41):
Okay, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:13:42):
Beyond that, he was asked about his offensive line and
uh is he seeing the maturation process continue with his
O line?

Speaker 7 (01:13:51):
I thought in week one, you know, we played pretty
good against that group. You know, two very different style
of defenses. You know, we're Ohios was a big, physical,
traditional you know, it's mono and mono, and you got
to block really good people right.

Speaker 9 (01:14:07):
In front of you.

Speaker 7 (01:14:07):
San Jose State was smaller, they were quicker, they were
moving every snap. We totally lost our fundamentals. We got
on our toes. We were falling over ourselves. We give
up way too much penetration.

Speaker 9 (01:14:21):
And that we have to know what we're.

Speaker 7 (01:14:24):
Playing against and then you have to take it to practice.
Every opponent's different. It's like you got to wipe the
slate clean on a Monday morning. Here we go, here's
the scouting report. Here's what they're good at. Here's maybe
what they're not so good at. Here's how we're going
to try to exploit them. Here's the guy that I'm
lining up across the majority of the game. Here's his strengths,
here's his weaknesses. How am I going to play him?

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I didn't think we carried enough information into the game
and applied it upfront, and so to me, I think
that showed a little bit of our immaturity up front
Saturday that it wasn't the same game.

Speaker 9 (01:14:56):
It was a different game.

Speaker 7 (01:14:57):
You can't play it the same and so you know,
that's something where I think we need to grow this
week and learn and understand of who's my opponent, what
are they trying to do to me? How are they
trying to beat me? And then how am I going
to combat that within the ball.

Speaker 4 (01:15:11):
Game well, which now affects things like the role of
the tight end, which has always been a big part
of sarks offense and with a cal transfer to Jack
Hendrys catching a couple of touchdown passes obviously could be
a key player in the offense.

Speaker 6 (01:15:27):
And Sark was asked about the role of the tight
end in his system.

Speaker 9 (01:15:31):
You know, our tight end.

Speaker 7 (01:15:33):
I've said this all along, probably after the quarterback, might
be the most important position in our offense. It's definitely
the most taxing when you think about the multitude of formations,
personnel groupings, motions, shifts that they're responsible and part of,
and then what we ask of.

Speaker 9 (01:15:52):
Them we're not. We don't.

Speaker 7 (01:15:54):
We don't use the tight end in a one dimensional role.
He has to run, block, he has to pass, protect,
has to catch routs, he has to block on the perimeter.

Speaker 9 (01:16:03):
All that doing it in a way that is a
lot of movement, a lot of motion.

Speaker 7 (01:16:08):
And so to Jack's credit, I think his experience at
CAL has been very helpful for him. He looks very
comfortable when he plays. There's there's some things in his
game that we want him to do better, like all
the players. But again I have to remind youse Off,
this is his second game in our offense, and he
wasn't a guy who was here in springball with us.
He got here in the summertime, and so he just

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doesn't have as much volume of running our plays. But
he's a very quick study, he's a quick learner, he
works at his craft, he's very bright, and he's picked
our stuff up really well.

Speaker 4 (01:16:39):
All right, there's some from sark We're gonna hear more
from long Oorne head coach Steve Sarkashan coming up here
on thirteen under the zone. You were one of those, right, Jake,
once you heard it there, that's right. That is the
theme from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Hugo
Montenegro was the man who composed that theme for the
Old Western involving Nut Clint Eastwood.

Speaker 7 (01:17:04):
There.

Speaker 4 (01:17:04):
Hey, update, Remember we were telling that story and inconceiva
about the fan. It whacked the side of the helmet
there of DeAndre Hopkins's helmet and then also did the
same thing to Lamar Jackson. Then Jackson turned around and
shoved him. Yeah, the fan has been suspended indefinitely from

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all NFL stadiums for doing that.

Speaker 6 (01:17:31):
Yeah, they announced the fan suspension today.

Speaker 4 (01:17:35):
He was ejected after he shoved the side of Hopkins' helmet,
and then Jackson and Hawkins walked past the stands and
then the fan reached over the front row and he
shoved the side of hopkins helmet. Then he hit the
front of Jackson's helmet forcefully, and Jackson retaliated by pushing
the fan in the chest with both hands. Ryan Fitzpatrick,

(01:17:58):
we know who he is, right, former Buffalo quarterback. He's
an Amazon Prime video.

Speaker 3 (01:18:03):
Analyst on their games and podcaster now too.

Speaker 4 (01:18:06):
Yeah, well, his quote was, look, he's a Bills fan.
He's part of the Bills mafia. But that's inexcusable. It's
one thing if somebody does a Lambeau leap that's not
a packer and you're in there, you got to sort
of catch them and push them back in.

Speaker 3 (01:18:20):
I get it.

Speaker 4 (01:18:21):
But he reached across, did it to multiple players, de
Hop and Lamar Completely inexcusable, And with things like that,
you have to be able to set the example. Yeah,
and Lamar Jackson may be fine for just shove them
the guy he might be.

Speaker 6 (01:18:35):
He might be.

Speaker 4 (01:18:39):
I don't think he'll be obviously suspended, but it's possible
that it could be done. Somebody in the text line said,
where'dy'all get the juicy Lucy Burgers? I grew up on
Matt's in Minneapolis. If there's a juicy Lucy Burger in Austin,
I need to know, it's better find out better, find

(01:19:01):
out where they came from.

Speaker 6 (01:19:03):
Yeah, brought them over.

Speaker 8 (01:19:04):
I've got to go right to the source, because they
couldn't have come from from too far away. I don't
know if there was a food truck down there or
if it's a brick and mortar. I got you, all right, Well,
I'm telling you these these burgers just appeared. Wow, I
got to get to the bottom of it. You know,
I'm just saying, don't mess up the show. Don't mess
up the show.

Speaker 4 (01:19:21):
Yeah, yeah, you were. You were trying to concentrate on
the job at hand. And by the way, isn't that
the isn't that the best way to get a hamburger
burgers from heaven where it's just kind of all of
a sudden, they just appear. Burgers just appear. That's just
greatness when hamburgers appear, especially a juicy lucy when they appear. Well,
we'll try to find out what that's all about. All right,

(01:19:43):
let's hear some more from Long Worns head coach Steve Sarkis.
It's pretty interesting. It was eleven am kick as we know,
eleven or seven to be exact. So the game got
done pretty early, which means you have the rest of
the day in the evening. So sark was asked, you know,
did you watch some other games. What games did you watch?

Speaker 6 (01:20:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:20:03):
I was holding my son. It was kind of fun.

Speaker 7 (01:20:05):
He and I first Saturday watching college football together, So
that was that was kind of neat.

Speaker 4 (01:20:09):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (01:20:09):
I was jumping around, you know.

Speaker 7 (01:20:11):
Some of these channels mean you can get like four
games going on on one on one screen.

Speaker 9 (01:20:15):
So I was watching a lot of stuff. And I
was watching Clemson in a dog fight with Troy.

Speaker 7 (01:20:20):
I was watching Georgia and and rain delays against Austin
p I watched OU and Michigan have.

Speaker 9 (01:20:25):
A great game. There was a There was a lot
of a lot of great games on and you learned
a lot, you know, and you think, then is this
just us man? Are we are?

Speaker 7 (01:20:34):
We?

Speaker 9 (01:20:34):
Are we screwed up?

Speaker 7 (01:20:35):
Or well, there's some pretty good teams that were struggling
around Saturday a little bit too. And there were some
other teams that looked really good, you know, and and
maybe they're a little ahead of the curve.

Speaker 9 (01:20:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (01:20:45):
I just trust in our process of getting our guys
ready to go. But it was great to have an
opportunity to do that, you know, the eleven AM kicks.
I know it's not everybody's favorites, but when you have
eleven am kick for a home game, and and your
home and the sun's still out and you get to
watch a little call football, it's kind of fun for me.

Speaker 4 (01:21:02):
Yeah, it made me think when he was talking to
these some other guy other teams are having struggles. He
didn't mention any by name that were struggling, but I
think everybody was thinking of Florida at the time. He said,
Florida losing to South Florida. Did you hear how they
lost to South Florida? First of all, was a tight
game and at sixteen fifteen Florida late in the contest.

(01:21:27):
They also went the Baltimore Ravens route and we're conservative
trying to run off the clock, didn't pick up the
first down I had to punt. South Florida was deep
in their end of the field. But there were two
huge penalties against the Gators. One was a pass interference
and one was unsportsmanlike for a player spitting. What is

(01:21:48):
to deal with the spitting and the shoe throwing? I
think that was lsu in Gainesville. It never was, so
it sets them up game winning walk off field goal,
game winning field goal.

Speaker 6 (01:22:00):
South Florida wins and so naturally this stuff makes the
rounds and I got this.

Speaker 4 (01:22:07):
It was a screenshot of Swamp two four seven their
fan site, The Florida fan Gators twenty four fifteen is
the guy's name. His actual quote, my wife got deported
two months ago, and I'm more upset with Billy than Ice.

Speaker 3 (01:22:25):
Oh no, like that is so wrong.

Speaker 8 (01:22:28):
People are saying, I've got a good a good X
account for you message board geniuses.

Speaker 3 (01:22:33):
Oh, I've seen it. I've seen it. I've seen that one.

Speaker 8 (01:22:36):
Yeah, you're right, they belong right. It's a pipeline for inconceivable.
You're about to tap into a whole other market there. Yeah, yeah,
it's it's it's Yeah, that's pretty interesting. My favorite one
is the super seventy sports dude. Oh yeah, that's that's hilarious.
But but yeah, that's there.

Speaker 3 (01:22:50):
All right.

Speaker 4 (01:22:51):
Some more from Sark, rolling back to the penalty thing,
and again this was the Kirk Bowls thing right where
he's asking about consequences, you know, and what specific consequences
are there in store for long worn players who commit
the penalties.

Speaker 7 (01:23:10):
I might not give up all the things that we do,
but yeah, there's consequence to your point. And I think
there's a variety of ways to enforce those things. I
think one thing about penalties, that's important. When you get
a penalty in the game, Yeah, you have the you
have the public humility, humiliation of getting your number announced

(01:23:31):
on national television and in front of one hundred thousand people,
so you got to hear your name number called out.
But really, who suffers when you get a penalty? All
of us, the team suffers. It's not the individual got
the you got the penalty, but we all serve the
consequences for that. So I think it's a little easier
when you when a guy gets a penalty, it's not
so much about the punishment of the one player. It's

(01:23:55):
the punishment of the team because we all feel the
effects of those penalties when they occur.

Speaker 6 (01:24:00):
All right, how about an injury update on Trey Wiser.

Speaker 7 (01:24:03):
Trey Uh, I'd probably say today is doubtful. I'm not
ruling him out, but I'd say it's doubtful.

Speaker 9 (01:24:08):
Again, I'm at this juncture of the season.

Speaker 7 (01:24:13):
I'm just not in a rush to push guys back
out there if they're not as close to one hundred
percent or even closer like I just I just know
how long this thing goes, you know, and I know
what it's going to look like in October and November
and December and hopefully January, Like.

Speaker 9 (01:24:34):
Is the juice?

Speaker 7 (01:24:36):
Is the juice worth the squeeze right now for Saturday? Now,
we're rehabbing them. We're trying to get him ready to go,
and then we'll make a decision as we get closer
to the ballgame of what that looks like.

Speaker 6 (01:24:45):
Yeah, all right, Uh, then this was a pretty interesting comment.

Speaker 4 (01:24:49):
I thought he was asked about in this day and
age of the portal, and it can be kind of
fascinating to see the evolution of the college football player
when one considers playing at one school and then another
school and then another school. Like for example, was it

(01:25:09):
Chandler Morris? I saw it's playing for Virginia now a quarterback.
Chandler Morris was from Highland Park. Chandler Morris I believe
started at Oklahoma, did not play for them, transferred to TCU,
lost his starting job TCU, transferred to North Texas, played

(01:25:33):
in North Texas. Now he's at Virginia. I think they
said he's one of three quarterbacks in college football to
be on his fourth school. So this has become commonplace
where guys go to different than Larry Turner. Gooden, who
had played at Texas, was playing for Santase State last Saturday,
and to see how guys evolve, not just the ones

(01:25:56):
who go through the portal, but other ones in general.
And Sark was asked about that.

Speaker 7 (01:26:00):
As far as guys you recruit, I'm always intrigued. You know,
we recruit a lot of players, and so they start
stacking on top of each other, and you remember some
of them more vividly than others, and you know, some
of them evolve, some of them are kind of who
they were. I don't think there's one way that they
all go about their way, you know. I think about

(01:26:23):
like Jayden Daniels, for example, when he was at in
high school coming out, and then who he was at
Arizona State. He was really more of a runner, and
by the time he finished at LSU, he was a
prolific passer, right, And so guys can grow and evolve
throughout their time, and now he's doing both in the NFL,

(01:26:44):
and so I just I was always intrigued by watching them.
You know, when you get your chances and when you
get an opportunity to play against them and see them.
I think they're all different, Some remain the same, some
evolve into different players.

Speaker 4 (01:26:56):
All right, And then one more from start before the
break here, somebody asked him about the preparedness for SEC
play and those that are ranked, and here's the response
on that.

Speaker 7 (01:27:10):
See teams are the top twenty five this week. Eleven
eleven teams in the SEC are in the top twenty
five this week. And so our conference is real. It
is hands down the most challenging conference in college football
because it's week in and week out.

Speaker 9 (01:27:29):
There are no breaks, there are no gimmes.

Speaker 7 (01:27:31):
You better show up every Saturday ready to play physically
and mentally.

Speaker 4 (01:27:36):
Yeah, eleven out of the sixteen in the top twenty five.
All right, we'll hear some more from longwarns head coach
Steve Sarcasian when we contin you right here on thirteen
under the zone. Look at you rolling back here with
some Maxine Nightingale.

Speaker 8 (01:27:54):
Right. You mentioned the seventies Craig and a song that
played after every Capital's win at my last job, the
radio station, after the win, before the handoff from the
crew in the booth to the crew posting the post game.

Speaker 3 (01:28:08):
Really, yep, Maxie Nightingale.

Speaker 6 (01:28:12):
I wonder what Alex Ovechkin thought of that.

Speaker 3 (01:28:15):
Very good song. It's very good. We know we did
not be sucked today.

Speaker 6 (01:28:20):
That's good. That's good.

Speaker 4 (01:28:23):
All right, let's hear some more from log Warts head
coach Steve Sarkisian. So here's something from start talking about
the backup quarterback, because we always know a point of
fascination for long WRN fans and media is the backup quarterback.
It was I do believe Donovan Forbes himself, a former

(01:28:43):
backup quarterback and a starter at one point, who in
the late eighties uttered the famous words the most popular
guy on.

Speaker 6 (01:28:50):
Campus is the backup quarterback in Texas. But that's not
the case.

Speaker 3 (01:28:55):
Really.

Speaker 4 (01:28:56):
Here arches the quarterback. But Matthew Caldwell did get in
the ball game. Of course he's uh the transfer in
from Troy. En Sart was asked about Caldwell and when
he balances when to put him and other backups in
to get reps.

Speaker 9 (01:29:14):
You just make the call.

Speaker 7 (01:29:15):
You know, you're having some discussions as you're going through it.
You're you're kind of looking at the clock, like I
just got done telling the guys today. I know we
have a lot of guys on our team that wish
they played more Saturday. Well, and I know their their
buddies on their team wishes they played more Saturday. We'll
play better earlier in the game and then those guys
can get in the game sooner. Okay, So everybody's got

(01:29:35):
to do their part. Okay, if if we want guys
to get more opportunities to play well, the guys maybe
in front of you to play a little better earlier,
and then that serves and gives opportunities for the other
guys to get into the game, to have more opportunities
to grow and get better.

Speaker 9 (01:29:49):
So we all, we all got to help each other out.

Speaker 4 (01:29:51):
Yeah, it's simple enough formula there. Uh, the whole of
honor ceremonies are coming up this week. Roder Kriik was
part of that and Rod Rde a big part of
that two thousand and five national championship team. I always
remember the big the big man running down field with
a fumble return for the touchdown in the Cotton Bowl
against Oklahoma in that game, and he was asked about

(01:30:14):
his thoughts. Of course, Sark was on the USC staff
in that game that Texas won. In that memorable rose
Ball what he was asked about Rod Righty in the
Hole of Honor and his thoughts on that two thousand
and five team.

Speaker 9 (01:30:26):
Oh, they were really good.

Speaker 4 (01:30:27):
You know.

Speaker 7 (01:30:27):
That's what it reminds me of, is like how many
great players were on that team and how many great
players win that era? You know, that decade of Texas
football was really incredible. Probably extremely hard to you know,
replicate the amount of players that performed at such a
high level while they were here. And I know a

(01:30:48):
lot of times we always want to look to we
judge a team of quality of players of how they
performed in the NFL. I tend to look at how
did they play when they were in college. You know,
the NFL sometimes is a different game. But those guys
were really good, very talented.

Speaker 6 (01:31:04):
You know.

Speaker 7 (01:31:05):
I was thinking about that five team the other day.
I had I had Jamal Charles on my radio show
a couple of weeks ago. That was a true freshman,
you know, and he was playing in the shoe against
Ohio State. Had some critical plays as a true freshman
in that game and on that team that season. So
you just think back to man, that there's a reason
they won a lot of games that really good players
had really good coaches. Uh, they had a lot of

(01:31:27):
confidence and belief in who they were as a program.
Coach Brown did a great job. And that's what we're
continuing to strive for, you know. And and they were
able to get to the pinnacle, and naturally that's a
goal of ours, is to is to get to the
pinnacle of our sport. And it takes a you know,
it takes all those ingredients, right, good coaches, really good players, chemistry,
but then it takes being really good at critical moments.

(01:31:50):
And they were that night in that game against US
fourth and two, they got the stop fourth and three
or fourth and for whatever was v y scores like,
at the most critical moments of that game and the
biggest game of the season and maybe of some decades,
they were better than we were. And that's where we're
trying to get to, is to you know, assemble a staff,
assemble players, assemble chemistry and culture, but also be at

(01:32:13):
our best when our best is needed.

Speaker 4 (01:32:14):
Great points. And by the way, it was fourth and
five there at the USC eight. Some of us remember
that play.

Speaker 3 (01:32:20):
Apparently Sark does too, Yeah, he.

Speaker 6 (01:32:22):
Does, he does. He said fourth and three or fourth
part is fourth and five is what it was. But yes,
absolutely with regard of.

Speaker 4 (01:32:31):
With regard to keeping the confidence building on the rise,
Sark was asked how much just playing at home last week,
this week, next week help in continuing to build that confidence.

Speaker 9 (01:32:45):
It was awesome. There's nothing like being back home.

Speaker 7 (01:32:47):
And this year in particular is a little unique that
you know, we only have six home games and we
got three right now in September, and then we're not
going to be home for six weeks and then we
come back. So we got to cherish these moments when
we get them. And like I said, I thought it
was awesome atmosphere for an eleven am kick, and I

(01:33:08):
thought it was awesome that all of our students stayed
for the eyes.

Speaker 9 (01:33:11):
You know that that means a lot to us.

Speaker 6 (01:33:13):
Okay, With regard to the there's that sliding scale of.

Speaker 4 (01:33:22):
Wanting to continue to have the roster development, wanting to
have not just the roster, but in specific the guys
who were on the field, the ones who are playing
the two and three deep depending on the position, and
continuing to improve as a team while measured against the

(01:33:43):
standard of what Sark expects and demands of his program.

Speaker 6 (01:33:48):
He was asked about the counterbalance of that.

Speaker 7 (01:33:50):
Yeah, you know, I think, like I said, you know
the I told the team this morning my final my
final comment to them was our standard is the only
scoreboard that matters.

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