September 9, 2024 • 14 mins
Hear the rest of Steve Sarkisian's Monday press conference as he answers questions about the wide receiver room, their success in the RedZone, how he felt about the team after watching film and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
And we're back to the Craigway Show.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Have a message for Craig, share it by using the
talkback feature on the Ihearts radio app here on this
Monday afternoon, a long Orange Monday presentation of The Craigway
Show here on sports Radio AM thirteen under his OWNE Craigway,
alongside the producer Cameron Parker. Let's here's some more from
(00:29):
long Orn's head coach, Steve Sarkisian. You can hear sarks
press conference live every Monday morning at eleven thirty as
part of our Long Orange Monday coverage. We actually begin
the coverage at eleven am from the UT campus, my cardball,
Harge and Cam joining me over there, and we bring
you that the coverage beginning at eleven and the press
(00:51):
conference live itself at eleven thirty every Monday. Then we
bring these highlights from the presser here on this program
later in the afternoon. So speaking highlights some more things.
He was asked about his wide receivers and getting the
ball to the different ones because we've seen pretty much
everybody getting in the act that sark was asked about
(01:14):
for his thoughts on the distribution so far.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Again, Yeah, I mean, I think that's why we have
the adage, you know, we not me, you know, and
we strive for team success. And with the team's success,
the individual accolades, awards, honors, draft picks happen as a
byproduct of the team doing well.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
And I get it.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Hey, you know, receivers are like shooters in basketball. They
want to get their shots up, they want to find
their rhythm. Some games it goes your way, and our
offense is some games. At games it might not, but
generally the ball finds you if you're doing things the
right way and you're playing hard. And Smitty was a
great example of that, just because he did everything. You know,
there was nothing that he wouldn't do to try to
(01:56):
help the team win. He was our emergency corner on defense.
He was our gunner on punt team. He was the
backup punt return when Jalen Waller got hurt, he went
and returned punts. But yet he played every snap on offense,
and he never complained about any of that. He just
worked at it and when practice was done, he would
go catch a one hundred and fifty balls on the
jugs machine, regardless of what day of the week it was.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
That's just the mentality he had.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
And I think, you know, there's some players that operate
in that light and there's others that operate in a
different light. But as a coach, it sure gives you
some confidence when you see players that play the game
the right way to know when when his numbers called,
he's going to be in the right spot.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
When he mentioned Spinty was talking about DeVante Smith, he
was asked about the different ones that he had, like
Jaylen Waddle at Alabama and then Xavier Worthy at Texas
and at Nai Mitchell as well. And in describing those guys,
we're talking about receivers of different sizes. He had some
bigger receivers and when he was at USC and in
the NFL with Julio Jones, and you know when he
(02:56):
was with the Atlanta Falcons, and then there's some some
smaller receivers and Alabama like a Wattle and Devontae Smiths
some guys like that, and then of course xavier' Worthy
at an I Mitchell not the biggest guys on the
planet at Texas, And he was asked if he's had
a philosophical change. I think it was Amar Richardson asked
this quite a good question about the differences in sizes
(03:18):
for these receivers and has he changed his philosophy on
how he recruits that.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I got into this idea that as the game started
to kind of spread itself out and we got out
of a little bit of the pro style one on one,
you know, two back ISO and then you know one
on one kind of plays on the perimeter. My big
thing was like, hey, I want guys that can catch
and run with the ball. We don't throw when you
(03:44):
really watch us, we don't throw many stationary throws where
guys are standing there catching the ball. We like to
catch the ball on the move and so that when
they can catch and continue to run.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
And that's why the quarterback accuracy is so important.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
And generally speaking, the faster you are on the move,
the tougher you are to a guard, and then b
get on the ground once you catch it. And so,
you know, it's just been something that we've tried to
identify in the recruiting process. It kind of started when
I was at Washington. We recruited a young man by
the name of John Ross, and when he got in
the program, you could feel the difference of what it
(04:18):
looked like I only had him for a year and
I took another job. He went on to be the
fastest guy ever at the NFL Combine until Xavier showed up.
And so we, you know, we we started to try
to identify more guys like that in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
You know, we had.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Julio who was a little bit of a unicorn because
he had the size and the speed. But then we
drafted Calvin Ridley from Alabama and he kind of played
that same style and it made sense to what we
were trying to do. And then, like you said, got
Tobama and had those five guys and then have gotten
here and it's what we've tried to recreate.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And I think we've got a pretty good group.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Of guys now that that understand the style of play
in which we're trying to play the game.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
All Right, There's been a lot more success in the
red zone than the long Warns had early last year.
In fact, they've been in the red zone eleven times,
six score ten.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Touchdowns and had a field goal And was asked, is there.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
A difference on why they're more efficient in the red
zone in the early part of this season.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I think we've minimized the self inflicted wounds, you know.
And the reason I say that is of the eleven drives,
ten were touchdowns. The one drive we didn't score Saturday,
we have first and goal on the six. We get
a fall start penalty. Now we're first and goal on
the eleven. Second down play, we run a counterplay. We
don't block it properly. Third down or excuse me, that
(05:34):
was first down recreated. The second down play we run
a power play we felt like was really good. We
don't go block the safety, the safety makes the tackle
in the hole, and then third down is tough. When
you have third and goal from the ten, that's a
difficult scenario. But it goes back to the self inflicted wounds.
When we really evaluated last season, it was a penalties
and b execution. And so again, sometimes the execution is
(05:59):
on us as coaches that maybe we have too much
that they have to learn that they can't know the
finer details of those calls. And so we've tried to
really kind of get our red zone package pretty tight,
get really good repetitions so that our guys can execute
it at a high level. And the result is, hey,
we've got ten touchdowns. But it was easy for me
(06:20):
this morning to point out and go through that sequence
of plays with the team of hey, we had to
settle for three points, here's why. And so it goes
right back to okay, what do we need to do
better so that that doesn't happen next time?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Now, a couple of questions for Shark about self reflection
and self evaluation, like in watching film, what's he watching?
How quickly does he turn around? Does he turn around
pretty quickly? Do you watch film for evaluation?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Every game? It's the first thing I do after every game.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I watched the tape by myself, and that's the first
thing I do. And I try to evaluate the play
calls good, bad, are indifferent. I try to evaluate the
time management. I try to evaluate maybe the decisions to
run a trick or something on special teams. I try
to evaluate my messaging to the team throughout the week,
(07:15):
and my messaging to the team in the locker room
and or at halftime. I really I look at myself
first before I start to critique everybody else. And a
lot of times, what's funny is that there'll be games
what might score fifty points and I'll have more, you know,
kind of red marks written up about myself about play
calls and different things and other games they're tight games
and you really feel like, man, you made good calls.
(07:36):
But then they're they're a good team, and so sometimes
those plays just don't work.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Out the way that that you would like.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
But I definitely do that every ball game, That's the
first thing I do.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
So how would he say he graded himself after this week?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I felt pretty good.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I I was a little I was, you know, a
little bit frustrated kind of just overly in general there
in the second half. You know, I felt like we
were aggressive still. You know, we missed that deep shot
to Silas, you know, we had we had hit John
Tay and we got the holding penalty, and we just
kind of weren't hitting on the cylinders I would have liked.
And so for me, it's like, gosh, how can I
(08:15):
get us back quicker? And that was something I was
looking for. But I felt like we were in the right,
you know, mental space as a team to go compete
and play in the environment. Felt like we had a
good plan going into the game offensively, and I felt
like we managed the clock really well.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
You know that that drive at the end of the
first half.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
To score and not give them a possession again was
was really critical.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
So I felt pretty good. I give himself an a.
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Now now the question about trade more early he was
talking about just Trey in the ways developed. But here
was the question I was making reference to earlier, the
fact that here's Trey Moore who played at.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
UTSA up to this year.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Now he's going to play against UTSA and the start
feel like he has to say anything to Trey about
how he handles himself emotionally in this game.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah, I mean, I just think that's the world we
live in college football right now.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
You know, it's uh, it is what it is.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I don't know any other way than to describe it
as that, you know, And I'm sure we're not unique
to that. I'm sure other teams have that stuff going
on all over the place and rivals and so on
and so forth. I mean, we're gonna play Oklahoma here
like last year, and Brennan Thompson was here and he's
there like it just it is what it is, and
so I don't I guess I probably don't put as
(09:33):
much into that.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
For Tray himself.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
You know, as we get closer to the game, I'll
probably talk to him a little bit more about that,
but res of right now, I just want him to
prepare really well and focus on what he needs to
do to play really good football. He's he's not you know,
some guys might be more difficult to talk to that way.
He's not the most emotional guy. He's very he's got it.
(10:00):
He got a really good head on his shoulders. He's
focused on what he needs to do. He doesn't get
really caught too much up into the stuff going on
around him. If he were that way, I probably have
to talk to him earlier in the week. But I
know he's his serious nature of which he approaches the game,
and so I feel pretty comfortable with him right now.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Okay, all right, so there you are with trade more.
Now flip it to the other side of the ball.
He's had a four year starter at center in Jake Majors.
Just how good is that and an advantage like that
for a program.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Well, he's thirty eight years old.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
No, No, I mean, he's just he's played a ton
of football, you know, I mean, he's he's in you know,
he's in year four in our offense. He's in year
four working with the same old line coach in Kyle Flood,
and he played even the year before that some you know,
the year before we got here, So I think experience
is huge. I think comfort level in the offense. I
(10:52):
think rapport with Quinn is big. It's three straight year
of he and Quinn working together, and so a lot
of some of the protection calls and different things they're
on the same page with and they're very good friends,
and so that's helpful. I think the respect he garners
not only from the other four offensive lineman, but from
the team because of the way he goes about his business,
(11:13):
not only on the field, but off the field. So
I think all of that adds up to me. He's
a great leader on our team. He's a very good player.
He's savvy. You know, some of the mistakes maybe he
made a couple of years ago, he's not making now
because he's learned from maybe some of the failures along
the way.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
And so it we're fortunate. As much as we're fortunate
to have a third year starting quarterback, we're really fortunate
to have a fourth year starting center for us.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
And which leads into the football like Q question that
comes down and it goes to just you know how
importantly Brian Davis has this question, how important is it
to for a team to have and to continue to
develop a strong football like.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
You I show those blunders that go on around the
country that this isn't what we do. That's this is
not Longhorn football. But you need to see what else
is going on around the country and take pride in
the way we go about our business.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
And I'm not saying we're perfect.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I'm sure we'll make some mistakes along the way, but
if I can keep showing living examples of those things,
I do think it's helpful for our guys to say
what's acceptable and what's not in our program. And so
we do take a lot of pride in that.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And then finally, the depth in the running back room.
Because Jaden Blue, of course got banged up, came back in,
caught a pass and went in for a touchdown, but
he's probably a little bit hobbled. So the question is
how important will the depth be at running back when
the running back room continues to get a little bit
thin thinner after games?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yeah, I don't know if it'll affect the play calling itself.
I just think we definitely need to be mindful of
the runners, you know. I thought Trey Wisner really stepped
up in the game Saturday as Jaden was trying to
get himself back onto the field. And then clearly Jared Gibson,
you know, has done some really nice things for us
as a true freshman here, We're gonna have to really
start to you know that the transition is not the
(13:03):
transition where Ryan Niblett's got us start to step up
now at the running back spot to give us what
we need there as well. So we've got enough people
and bodies, but we just need to be mindful of
the amount of carries each guy's getting in the flow
of the game and what that looks like. And so,
you know what, we'll see how Jayden does as he
continues to go and get himself ready to play Saturday night.
(13:25):
But the good thing is we know what we have
in Trey and Jeric, like they've they've given me enough
confidence now in the last two games. Know those guys
can go play and play at a high level. We
need to get Ryan Nibblett, you know, kind of back,
you know, kind of stepping his game up even further now.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
All right, there it is comments from the news conference
heard live earlier today on the Zone Long Wrns head
coach Steve Sarkesan, and when we bring in the news
conference live and it's entirety every Monday morning at eleven thirty.
Our coverage actually begins from campus at eleven am on
our Long Horns Monday presentation every Monday here on the Zone.
All right, more coming up neck when we continue on
(14:01):
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And we're back to the Craigway Show.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Have a message for Craig, share it by using the
talkback feature on the Ihearts radio app here on this
Monday afternoon, a long Orange Monday presentation of The Craigway
Show here on sports Radio AM thirteen under his OWNE Craigway,
alongside the producer Cameron Parker. Let's here's some more from
(00:29):
long Orn's head coach, Steve Sarkisian. You can hear sarks
press conference live every Monday morning at eleven thirty as
part of our Long Orange Monday coverage. We actually begin
the coverage at eleven am from the UT campus, my cardball,
Harge and Cam joining me over there, and we bring
you that the coverage beginning at eleven and the press
(00:51):
conference live itself at eleven thirty every Monday. Then we
bring these highlights from the presser here on this program
later in the afternoon. So speaking highlights some more things.
He was asked about his wide receivers and getting the
ball to the different ones because we've seen pretty much
everybody getting in the act that sark was asked about
(01:14):
for his thoughts on the distribution so far.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Again, Yeah, I mean, I think that's why we have
the adage, you know, we not me, you know, and
we strive for team success. And with the team's success,
the individual accolades, awards, honors, draft picks happen as a
byproduct of the team doing well.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
And I get it.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Hey, you know, receivers are like shooters in basketball. They
want to get their shots up, they want to find
their rhythm. Some games it goes your way, and our
offense is some games. At games it might not, but
generally the ball finds you if you're doing things the
right way and you're playing hard. And Smitty was a
great example of that, just because he did everything. You know,
there was nothing that he wouldn't do to try to
(01:56):
help the team win. He was our emergency corner on defense.
He was our gunner on punt team. He was the
backup punt return when Jalen Waller got hurt, he went
and returned punts. But yet he played every snap on offense,
and he never complained about any of that. He just
worked at it and when practice was done, he would
go catch a one hundred and fifty balls on the
jugs machine, regardless of what day of the week it was.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
That's just the mentality he had.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
And I think, you know, there's some players that operate
in that light and there's others that operate in a
different light. But as a coach, it sure gives you
some confidence when you see players that play the game
the right way to know when when his numbers called,
he's going to be in the right spot.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
When he mentioned Spinty was talking about DeVante Smith, he
was asked about the different ones that he had, like
Jaylen Waddle at Alabama and then Xavier Worthy at Texas
and at Nai Mitchell as well. And in describing those guys,
we're talking about receivers of different sizes. He had some
bigger receivers and when he was at USC and in
the NFL with Julio Jones, and you know when he
(02:56):
was with the Atlanta Falcons, and then there's some some
smaller receivers and Alabama like a Wattle and Devontae Smiths
some guys like that, and then of course xavier' Worthy
at an I Mitchell not the biggest guys on the
planet at Texas, And he was asked if he's had
a philosophical change. I think it was Amar Richardson asked
this quite a good question about the differences in sizes
(03:18):
for these receivers and has he changed his philosophy on
how he recruits that.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I got into this idea that as the game started
to kind of spread itself out and we got out
of a little bit of the pro style one on one,
you know, two back ISO and then you know one
on one kind of plays on the perimeter. My big
thing was like, hey, I want guys that can catch
and run with the ball. We don't throw when you
(03:44):
really watch us, we don't throw many stationary throws where
guys are standing there catching the ball. We like to
catch the ball on the move and so that when
they can catch and continue to run.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
And that's why the quarterback accuracy is so important.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
And generally speaking, the faster you are on the move,
the tougher you are to a guard, and then b
get on the ground once you catch it. And so,
you know, it's just been something that we've tried to
identify in the recruiting process. It kind of started when
I was at Washington. We recruited a young man by
the name of John Ross, and when he got in
the program, you could feel the difference of what it
(04:18):
looked like I only had him for a year and
I took another job. He went on to be the
fastest guy ever at the NFL Combine until Xavier showed up.
And so we, you know, we we started to try
to identify more guys like that in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
You know, we had.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Julio who was a little bit of a unicorn because
he had the size and the speed. But then we
drafted Calvin Ridley from Alabama and he kind of played
that same style and it made sense to what we
were trying to do. And then, like you said, got
Tobama and had those five guys and then have gotten
here and it's what we've tried to recreate.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And I think we've got a pretty good group.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Of guys now that that understand the style of play
in which we're trying to play the game.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
All Right, There's been a lot more success in the
red zone than the long Warns had early last year.
In fact, they've been in the red zone eleven times,
six score ten.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Touchdowns and had a field goal And was asked, is there.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
A difference on why they're more efficient in the red
zone in the early part of this season.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I think we've minimized the self inflicted wounds, you know.
And the reason I say that is of the eleven drives,
ten were touchdowns. The one drive we didn't score Saturday,
we have first and goal on the six. We get
a fall start penalty. Now we're first and goal on
the eleven. Second down play, we run a counterplay. We
don't block it properly. Third down or excuse me, that
(05:34):
was first down recreated. The second down play we run
a power play we felt like was really good. We
don't go block the safety, the safety makes the tackle
in the hole, and then third down is tough. When
you have third and goal from the ten, that's a
difficult scenario. But it goes back to the self inflicted wounds.
When we really evaluated last season, it was a penalties
and b execution. And so again, sometimes the execution is
(05:59):
on us as coaches that maybe we have too much
that they have to learn that they can't know the
finer details of those calls. And so we've tried to
really kind of get our red zone package pretty tight,
get really good repetitions so that our guys can execute
it at a high level. And the result is, hey,
we've got ten touchdowns. But it was easy for me
(06:20):
this morning to point out and go through that sequence
of plays with the team of hey, we had to
settle for three points, here's why. And so it goes
right back to okay, what do we need to do
better so that that doesn't happen next time?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Now, a couple of questions for Shark about self reflection
and self evaluation, like in watching film, what's he watching?
How quickly does he turn around? Does he turn around
pretty quickly? Do you watch film for evaluation?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Every game? It's the first thing I do after every game.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I watched the tape by myself, and that's the first
thing I do. And I try to evaluate the play
calls good, bad, are indifferent. I try to evaluate the
time management. I try to evaluate maybe the decisions to
run a trick or something on special teams. I try
to evaluate my messaging to the team throughout the week,
(07:15):
and my messaging to the team in the locker room
and or at halftime. I really I look at myself
first before I start to critique everybody else. And a
lot of times, what's funny is that there'll be games
what might score fifty points and I'll have more, you know,
kind of red marks written up about myself about play
calls and different things and other games they're tight games
and you really feel like, man, you made good calls.
(07:36):
But then they're they're a good team, and so sometimes
those plays just don't work.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Out the way that that you would like.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
But I definitely do that every ball game, That's the
first thing I do.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
So how would he say he graded himself after this week?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I felt pretty good.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I I was a little I was, you know, a
little bit frustrated kind of just overly in general there
in the second half. You know, I felt like we
were aggressive still. You know, we missed that deep shot
to Silas, you know, we had we had hit John
Tay and we got the holding penalty, and we just
kind of weren't hitting on the cylinders I would have liked.
And so for me, it's like, gosh, how can I
(08:15):
get us back quicker? And that was something I was
looking for. But I felt like we were in the right,
you know, mental space as a team to go compete
and play in the environment. Felt like we had a
good plan going into the game offensively, and I felt
like we managed the clock really well.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
You know that that drive at the end of the
first half.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
To score and not give them a possession again was
was really critical.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
So I felt pretty good. I give himself an a.
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Now now the question about trade more early he was
talking about just Trey in the ways developed. But here
was the question I was making reference to earlier, the
fact that here's Trey Moore who played at.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
UTSA up to this year.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Now he's going to play against UTSA and the start
feel like he has to say anything to Trey about
how he handles himself emotionally in this game.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah, I mean, I just think that's the world we
live in college football right now.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
You know, it's uh, it is what it is.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I don't know any other way than to describe it
as that, you know, And I'm sure we're not unique
to that. I'm sure other teams have that stuff going
on all over the place and rivals and so on
and so forth. I mean, we're gonna play Oklahoma here
like last year, and Brennan Thompson was here and he's
there like it just it is what it is, and
so I don't I guess I probably don't put as
(09:33):
much into that.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
For Tray himself.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
You know, as we get closer to the game, I'll
probably talk to him a little bit more about that,
but res of right now, I just want him to
prepare really well and focus on what he needs to
do to play really good football. He's he's not you know,
some guys might be more difficult to talk to that way.
He's not the most emotional guy. He's very he's got it.
(10:00):
He got a really good head on his shoulders. He's
focused on what he needs to do. He doesn't get
really caught too much up into the stuff going on
around him. If he were that way, I probably have
to talk to him earlier in the week. But I
know he's his serious nature of which he approaches the game,
and so I feel pretty comfortable with him right now.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Okay, all right, so there you are with trade more.
Now flip it to the other side of the ball.
He's had a four year starter at center in Jake Majors.
Just how good is that and an advantage like that
for a program.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Well, he's thirty eight years old.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
No, No, I mean, he's just he's played a ton
of football, you know, I mean, he's he's in you know,
he's in year four in our offense. He's in year
four working with the same old line coach in Kyle Flood,
and he played even the year before that some you know,
the year before we got here, So I think experience
is huge. I think comfort level in the offense. I
(10:52):
think rapport with Quinn is big. It's three straight year
of he and Quinn working together, and so a lot
of some of the protection calls and different things they're
on the same page with and they're very good friends,
and so that's helpful. I think the respect he garners
not only from the other four offensive lineman, but from
the team because of the way he goes about his business,
(11:13):
not only on the field, but off the field. So
I think all of that adds up to me. He's
a great leader on our team. He's a very good player.
He's savvy. You know, some of the mistakes maybe he
made a couple of years ago, he's not making now
because he's learned from maybe some of the failures along
the way.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
And so it we're fortunate. As much as we're fortunate
to have a third year starting quarterback, we're really fortunate
to have a fourth year starting center for us.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
And which leads into the football like Q question that
comes down and it goes to just you know how
importantly Brian Davis has this question, how important is it
to for a team to have and to continue to
develop a strong football like.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
You I show those blunders that go on around the
country that this isn't what we do. That's this is
not Longhorn football. But you need to see what else
is going on around the country and take pride in
the way we go about our business.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
And I'm not saying we're perfect.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I'm sure we'll make some mistakes along the way, but
if I can keep showing living examples of those things,
I do think it's helpful for our guys to say
what's acceptable and what's not in our program. And so
we do take a lot of pride in that.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And then finally, the depth in the running back room.
Because Jaden Blue, of course got banged up, came back in,
caught a pass and went in for a touchdown, but
he's probably a little bit hobbled. So the question is
how important will the depth be at running back when
the running back room continues to get a little bit
thin thinner after games?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yeah, I don't know if it'll affect the play calling itself.
I just think we definitely need to be mindful of
the runners, you know. I thought Trey Wisner really stepped
up in the game Saturday as Jaden was trying to
get himself back onto the field. And then clearly Jared Gibson,
you know, has done some really nice things for us
as a true freshman here, We're gonna have to really
start to you know that the transition is not the
(13:03):
transition where Ryan Niblett's got us start to step up
now at the running back spot to give us what
we need there as well. So we've got enough people
and bodies, but we just need to be mindful of
the amount of carries each guy's getting in the flow
of the game and what that looks like. And so,
you know what, we'll see how Jayden does as he
continues to go and get himself ready to play Saturday night.
(13:25):
But the good thing is we know what we have
in Trey and Jeric, like they've they've given me enough
confidence now in the last two games. Know those guys
can go play and play at a high level. We
need to get Ryan Nibblett, you know, kind of back,
you know, kind of stepping his game up even further now.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
All right, there it is comments from the news conference
heard live earlier today on the Zone Long Wrns head
coach Steve Sarkesan, and when we bring in the news
conference live and it's entirety every Monday morning at eleven thirty.
Our coverage actually begins from campus at eleven am on
our Long Horns Monday presentation every Monday here on the Zone.
All right, more coming up neck when we continue on
(14:01):
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