Coach Sark Speaks With The Media, NBA Story Getting Deeper and Worse, Thursday Night Football

Mike "Hardball" Hardge and Mark Henry talk Coach Sark's recent comments to the media, the NBA betting story taking a turn for the worse, Thursday Night Football, and more! They also talk with Anthony Williams and Chipper Jones! It's all here on The Morning Kickoff!

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Speaker 1 (00:49):
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Speaker 3 (02:12):
All right, Mark, you know, the big.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Story in football, I mean in sports right now is
the NBA. But we're not gonna start there. We're gonna
save that for the second segment. There's just so much
to unravel when it comes to the NBA and what
the situation is, but it's football Friday.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Dog.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
We gotta talk football, and we gotta get.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
Right to it.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
The University of Texas football team is making that trip
to Starkville. Message Yeah, stark Vegas, and let me just
tell you this Texas had. By the time Texas plays
at home on November the first, they would have been
gone for forty two days.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
They did not play a.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Home game in the month of October. They were on
the road the last home game that they played. Somebody
asked me that today, I mean yesterday, they said, was
the last home game they played Sam Houston State, And
I'm like, yes, that's how long ago that was, Mark,
And now they go for that final road trip to Starkville.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
How crazy is that?

Speaker 4 (03:24):
You know what?

Speaker 2 (03:25):
I think that Bill's character, this team really needed some togetherness.
And it reminds me of that movie that where Steve
Carrell played Got played Noah and he had to build
arc and he was like Sam, does when God wants

(03:46):
you to have patience?

Speaker 4 (03:47):
Does he just give you patience?

Speaker 2 (03:50):
They give you trials so you can build up all
of those things that you need. And I think that
the Longhorns being away, they were out to build it
under the rests.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
And now that they've felt that fire.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
I think that they're going to be able to come
into the rest of the season pretty strong.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Well that's what we're hopeful for, and I know that's
what Sarka is looking forward to.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
But right now, I want you to hear.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
His opening statement for his media availability, final media availability
before UH Texas takes on Mississippi State on tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (04:27):
What a great opportunity for our team. You know, this
this group is a very resilient group and and they
have really grown together as a team. And so for
us for the fourth straight week to get on an airplane,
stay in a staying a uh not our team hotel,
I think one it's it's brought us closer UH than

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we were at the start of the season, and that's
what's going to be needed. You know, this is a
little bit unprecedented to go on the road for a
four straight week into a hostile environment, and we're going
to need to stay really well connected as a football team.
And I credit our guys for doing that because that's
what it's gonna take. This is gonna be a heck
of a game. This is a good football team. The

(05:09):
record could be much better than it is. They lost
two heartbreakers, so we know this is gonna be a
big challenge and we're gonna need all seventy four guys
that make this trip to contribute to our success.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
So here's the other part of this too.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
When you start to look at this team and the
expectations of what's going on, you look at CJ. Baxter
being a guy that is gonna be able to come back.
And so Sark was asked about CJ. Baxter and him
with the possibility of being back at practice, but how
many is he gonna be on a snap count?

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (05:42):
I thought he's good in practice, and I thought he's
gotten better and stronger as the week's gone on. You know,
the soft tissue injuries, that's, to your point, our tricky
because the player coming off of them, they're they're trying
to figure out can they really push it right?

Speaker 3 (05:55):
And say and I.

Speaker 5 (05:56):
Credit our our medical staff and the rehab process because
we pushed him really good over the last week and
a half before this week and to get him his
confidence right to where he felt like he could go.
And I felt like from Monday, Tuesday to Wednesday to today,
his comfort level of pushing that to a degree to

(06:19):
where he felt comfortable that he could really play at
a high level, which was important. You know, we're we're
obviously fortunate to have Trey to combo with with Cedric.
And then, like I said, Christian Clark's really been coming on.
And so again I don't envision C four walking out
of there with twenty something carries.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
Okay, but he could.

Speaker 5 (06:40):
But if he can play in this game and be
effective and be an integral part in some critical situations
on regular downs, but especially in some special situations, I
think that would be really beneficial for our team. I
think it would be beneficial for Trey to take some
of the load off of him and keep him fresh
for four quarters.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
But also from a leadership.

Speaker 5 (06:58):
Standpoint, you know, ced is a great leader and the
guys really respond to him. And so the fact that
he gets to put his uniform on this Saturday and
play with those guys I think is going to mean
a lot to him.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
That he's not going to be in street clothes on
the sidelines.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
And that's the interesting point for me, Mark, you know,
having him not being street clothes. He don't want to
be street clothes. He wants to be a guy that
is going to be able to contribute to tomorrow and
somebody that's gonna spell Trey Wisner, because Trey Wisner has
been carrying the workload for quite some time now.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Every time that I hear somebody saying street clothes, I
think about it. I think about you picking on Anthony Davis.
He's like, man, Anthony David has been in the street
clothes forty two games.

Speaker 4 (07:43):
I'm gonna call him.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
Street clothes, Yeah, no doubt, no doubt.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
Oh So here's the other thing too, because you look
at what he said about CJ. Baxter and his ability
to be on the field, being able to go out
there and help. He also bring a lot to the
table about this team and the close knitness. Coach was
talking about it opening. You brought it up on the

(08:08):
travel and here's what Coach said about the team being
so close knit when you have to go on the
road like this.

Speaker 5 (08:15):
I think a lot of that process begins in the summer, right.
We do a lot of that culture Wednesday work throughout
the summer. I think that process builds throughout training camp
and a little that is kind of the family tough
love because there's no opponent, so there's some friction there,
and then when the season begins, you start to grow
them back together again. And you know, part of the

(08:36):
things we do exercises every Friday before we go to
our team hotel or before we go on the road,
and we do culture activities and we do things that
should naturally pull them closer together, where they're writing note
cards of appreciation to somebody or inspirational note cards to.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Another guy on the team.

Speaker 5 (08:53):
We try to get out of ourselves and we try
to serve others in return.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
You get what you're suppose to get.

Speaker 5 (09:00):
You know, and we really preach, you know, through team's
successes when the individual accolades, awards and honors come from.
And so the better the team does, the more recognition
our guys get, you know, we win, there's more sec
Players of the week, we're doing well as a team.
Tray Moore is nominated for for the for the Campbell Award,
and so so on and so forth. It's like pour

(09:21):
into the team, you'll get what you want in the
back end. But but I do think some of the
exercises that we do throughout throughout the weeks as we go,
I think are helpful as well.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
And Yeah, that's awesome because you don't think about it
happening week to week. You always think, oh, you get
the award at the end of the season. You don't
think about collecting those skins on the wall every week
and what it takes to make everybody one unit. And

(09:54):
you know, you and I we we arguing for us
like brothers do. But at the end of the day,
we know the greater good is the team and right
in the show, and we're doing everything we can and
try to make this show what it is.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
Right, they're just done the same thing.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
They're not going to agree on everything, but when you
build coaching, when you do coachre building things to try
to bring everybody together, you will.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
Yeah. And that's the other part about this.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
When this team starts to really jail and get to
that point, everybody's like, man, were already in the week seven,
Week eight, this is we should be doing this by now,
and it's like, no, it's still a work in progress
and they're still working their way through this all. So
it's a it's gonna be interesting final road trip of

(10:45):
this gauntlet of a schedule for Texas, being gone for
forty two days by the time they get ready to
play against Vanderbilt.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
But it's a feel good football Friday.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Edition of The Morning Kickoff. We got so much to
get into. Coming up next, We've got to talk about
this NBA scandal, and of course you're gonna hear from
coach Sark because he was asked about college players and
we talked about this being able to bet. We will
talk right here on a field good Friday edition of

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hundred The Zone. Morning Kickoff, right here on Sports Radio
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Texas and across the landscape of football. And of course
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up with him and seeing what's going on out there.

(11:58):
But Mark, the NBA has taking over the headlines in
a negative light. We talked a little bit about this yesterday,
but we didn't get a chance to dive into it
because you ended up having to go and miss the
second hour. But as we were ending, our Number one
news broke that not only was Terry Rozier one of

(12:20):
the people that was arrested yesterday for fixing games, let's
just call it what it was. And then Chauncey Billup's
name came across the ticker talking about being part of
organized gambling that was rigged. Damian Jones, an assistant coach
in the league, friends with Lebron.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
Lebron's name is always seems to.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
Be attached to some of these things that are going on.
Don't forget he was part of Diddy too. But you
start to look at that conversation and you realize that
it's tough, man. It's hard out here, especially when you
get involved with organized crime, the mob families, the mafia,

(13:07):
the ties that are involved in that. It's kind of
tough man. You you can't walk away from it.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
And I have little think that organized crime families are
gonna ask.

Speaker 4 (13:17):
You for favors.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
Of course, you know that's that's what they do, right
and hard.

Speaker 4 (13:25):
I'm gonna tell you right now.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
You always say man, you'll trade somebody real quick. You
know what I'll do quick in and trade somebody is
I will give you the death penalty. And you know
in sports is not really.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
Bad, like, man, you already.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
It's like you gotta go take your ball and don't
never come back like that is the only way to
deter people. Because the league started off the first two
games of the season.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
Started off like Game Buster.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yes, everybody was so blown away with the competition levels.
The talents were doing unbelievable things, and all of a sudden,
a dark cloud rose in three or four games, three
or four days later, and they they've took it from

(14:21):
such an all time high in the NBA to now
people are going, oh, man is fixed and it's going down.

Speaker 4 (14:29):
So you have to deter people from doing this.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
It's funny.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
The FBI is not going to come after you if
they don't already have evidence, ding ding ding ding. If
I know I know you did it, we've already got
all the information. We're just actually bringing it to light
now because we have.

Speaker 4 (14:49):
Enough evidence to actually not be have you try to
weasele your way out of it.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
Yeah, there's there's no weaseling on this one because the
evidence is there. They were using X ray glasses to
have marked cards so you could see exactly what cards
were being played.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
They were using.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
Shuffled decks that were It was just crazy when you
sit back and you think about it.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
And somebody said, you know.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
Who would be able to rig some cards and have
organized crime involved in it?

Speaker 3 (15:22):
The Mob.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
So those are the ones that understand what it looks like.
But the thing that really bothers me about this, and
Shaq talked about this last night. I had lunch with
a buddy of mine and former professional baseball player as well,
and he was talking about when we go to spring training,
they would give us all the information about staying away

(15:47):
from these kinds of situations we've had. I think it's
Donnie Brosco, the character remember the movie where he snitched
on the mob and went back and all that he
was undercover. That guy came in talked to us. He
came and spoke to us, and I saw him yesterday
doing an.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
Interview and I wish I would have pulled it, but.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
He came and talked to us and said, you're never
going to win if you get involved with us like ever,
because there's so much that is involved in it. Well,
then you start to go back and you start to
look at what Chauncey was doing. But the Terry Rozier
situation is the one that drives me nuts because the
NBA has still had this investigation and they said he

(16:29):
was okay, they let him play again. Mark, He's been
under investigation for two.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
Years and they knew it.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yes, yes, And that is why, going back to your point,
we can't even talk about the fact that SGA and
back to back games, went double overtime and scored fifty
five points last night. We can't talk about Gordon scoring
fifty points and going ten of eleven from the three
pointers from three point lamb. We can't talk about Steph

(17:00):
Curry having.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
Forty two last night.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
In the night before the first game of the season,
he hits a game winning shot in that. We can't
talk about nt scoring forty one in the first game
winby and Maxi scoring forty Yanni's thirty seven, sant Goon
thirty nine in the rookie Edgecombe from Baylor having thirty four,
with most points scored since Wilt Chamberlain in a debut

(17:27):
for the seventy six ers.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
That's being overshadowed.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
And now the conversation that we had yesterday, Mark, we
were talking about college athletics and the NCAA talking about
letting college players bet. So yesterday during the press conference,
Coach Sark was asked about that. RAMA Coach Sark was

(17:52):
asked about that, and this is what he had to say.
And I think everybody on the pre conference yesterday is
in one thousand agreeance with coach Sart.

Speaker 5 (18:06):
I didn't see all from the NBA perspective, So that's
a little bit difficult for me to answer.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
I can touch on our stuff.

Speaker 5 (18:12):
I totally disagree with the NCAA on this, and I've
I was.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
Very vocal about it.

Speaker 5 (18:18):
You know, here we are in an era where we
have revenue sharing, nil publicity rights, and so the players
now have money. So now let's give them the freedom
to take that money and gamble it away. That makes
no sense to me when we're when we're in a
space of educating young people, and part of educating young
people is what to do with their money. And to say, okay,

(18:39):
now you can gamble on pro sports, Like to me,
that does not make any sense, like from a logical standpoint,
And and again this isn't something that I've been shy about.
I've been I've been very supportive of the other side
of it. It was a lot easier before for us
when they couldn't gamble at all, because that was an
easy way for us to educate them. That was easy

(19:00):
way for us to penalize them and do the things
that we need to do.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
Now we do have to put guardrails up.

Speaker 5 (19:05):
Now, we do have to manage this from a from
a simple standpoint of well, I'm allowed to, so how
can you tell me I can't? And so now it's
more about education, uh, even more education than we were
doing before. But I'm disappointed uh in this ruling that
this is what we decided to do with with our
young people when they could be doing something really substantial

(19:30):
in their life, for their for their own life and
for their families' lives.

Speaker 4 (19:34):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (19:34):
And we're giving some, not all of them, we're gonna gamble. Okay,
so let's be clear about that. They're not all going
to gamble, but some are.

Speaker 4 (19:40):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (19:40):
And is that what we were trying to accomplish with this?
And I get it, it was probably hard to hard
to police before. I think they just just made it
even harder for all of us to police now that
well he's on DraftKings. Well what was he gambling on?
Well if they just can't be on draft kings at all,
then we don't have to worry about it. But now
it's now we have to dig deeper to figure out
what is somebody gambled on.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Who's the first guy harsh to say, you know what, man,
we should let them gamble that person they should out
that's the I'm that serious because they have ulterior motive, right,
And Shaquille.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
O'Neill said it best last night. He said, I don't
know why you're making qualifiers for.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
These guys when it's embarrassing to their families first, embarrassing
to themselves second, and thirdly, it's embarrassing to the league because,
just like you just said, all those wonderful things that
happened the first three games of the season, and it's

(20:47):
overshadowed now by negativity and people going, man, it's man,
they got it over.

Speaker 4 (20:55):
It's work. It's a hustle. Yeah, and you don't.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
Allow them to pass. That's how you fix it. No
more basketball for you ever again. Anybody else that does it,
you're gone too. Yeah, this is automatic. Get up out
of here. You don't have the right. You do not
pass go where they do that at because.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
It's not happening here anymore. When we continue, we're coming
up with a hard knocks life. We always will be
able to do something positive. But we're gonna also hear
from coach Sartin as they get ready to take on
Mississippi State that you can hear right here on sports
Radio AM thirteen hundred's all.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
My favorite part about.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
That intro and shout out to our guy, my guy
Patrick Davis who made that for me over at your
other station. It's kind of funny because you know, are
you dirty? Mic and the boys always think I always
love that, always think about that in the movie with
Will Ferrell and Marky mark That.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
It is just very funny to me. But I wanted to.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
Talk about this because a lot of people have been
questioning this Texas football team. I mean when I say
a lot of people, I mean all of us. There's
so much that goes into this football team, and there's
been some ups and downs, but the one thing that
has happened is there has been some victories along the way.

(22:33):
The Texas Longhorns go into this ball game against Mississippi
State with a five and two record. They become Bowl
eligible with the victory, and we're far cry from those
days of talking about being Bowl eligible.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
We expect it nowadays, and as we should.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
We went through some dark times here at the University
of Texas, but this team is doing everything they can
hen to get it right. But here's the other part
of this, there's an emotional aspect to all of this.
We all sit here and get invested in what's happening

(23:12):
with this football team.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
This football team has had.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
A lot of changes over the last year and a half,
over the last three years.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
Actually, you start.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
To look at everyone that has had an opportunity to
go to the next level. Twenty five players have gone
on to the NFL in the last two years.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
That's a lot of change. That's a lot of talent.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
But that's also a lot of talent that has left
the university as well. So there are some growing pains,
there are some situations that these guys are working their
way through. And it's also an adjustment period for a coach.
In coach Sark, who is an offensive minded guy, so
for him to be able to take a step back

(23:57):
look at his team and realize that at the offense
isn't where it needs to be. So I don't want
to put our team in harm's way, So I have
to adjust the.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
Way I call a game.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
And we'll hear a little bit more from coach Sark
on how he calls the game and the opening script
and all that. But Arch Manning last year got an
opportunity to play against Mississippi State. His numbers outstanding. But
it's a different football team. It's a different uh Mississippi
State team. But coach Sark and his team are looking

(24:33):
forward to it. And he was asked about what do
you take from last year's game with Arch being the
quarterback to this year's game.

Speaker 5 (24:41):
We'll we had a lot of different faces last year
as opposed to this year. You know, there's this different
it's a different group than just in general. You know,
a lot of a lot of like I said, a
lot of new faces. You know, I think I think
for them, they've evolved as a defense too.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
You know, from where they were a year ago.

Speaker 5 (24:58):
They're a much deeper defense that they're playing a lot
of players, especially.

Speaker 3 (25:01):
In the front.

Speaker 5 (25:03):
They've evolved schematically, they're they're They're not, you know, playing
the same exact style. They have some principles that remain
the same from a year ago, but they've evolved. They're
playing a lot more confidently, especially in the back end.
You know, their ability to attack the football on Mississippi
State definitely jumps off the tape. They create interceptions, they
attacked the ball, and so from from our end, I think,

(25:26):
you know, one of the things that stood out. I thought,
I thought, you know, the protection for Arch was really
what the guys did a great job a year ago.
We ran the ball effectively, and we're able to utilize
the passing game off of those two things. But I
also think Arch made a couple of critical plays. I mean,
there's a throw, we're an empty formation, they zero blitz
them and and he throws an absolute strike to DeAndre
more And so you can lean into some of those

(25:48):
connections from last year where he hits DeAndre on that
he is DeAndre on another touchdown earlier in the game
or later in the game. So there's some things to
lean into. There's some looks that we can we can
hold on too from a year. But then there's some newness, right,
we have new faces, we have new people up front,
and there's some newness to some of the schemes and
the personnel that they have on defense, especially on the front.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
So what I mean by that is there's room for growth.
There's room that this team can see and say, all right,
we might be able to take some shots down the
field because if we get this, look, we can make
this happen. Look, I get it. The numbers are what
they are. We had Rob babers on. He was giving
us the pressure rate that Arch is under, there's a

(26:32):
lot of duress. But last year in this ballgame, Arch
went twenty six for thirty one with three hundred and
twenty five yards and two touchdowns. If you don't think
he's gonna come in with the mentality to be able
to do that, you got things wrong. And here's the
other part of it. The running game. The running game.
We talk about Trey Wisner and what he was able

(26:54):
to do. And you brought this up the other day.
You said, hey man, he got up Trey Wider there
picked up a blitz. He hit a dude in a chest,
and it was something that you're like, oh, yeah, this
is what this is all about.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
Well, don't forget about Cedric Baxter.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
Cedric Baxter being back there is going to provide a
little bit more protection for arch Manning and coach Shark
was asked about having having CJ C.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
Four back there again to help pick up in protection.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
Four.

Speaker 5 (27:28):
Obviously he's got he's a very smart player, he's very cerebral,
but he's also very calming. I think he's actually calming
for Trey Weisner as well. Just he sees the game,
he understands the protections, he can talk through things, and
so whether it's he or Trey, I think there is
a there's a calming effect that he provides, you know.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
I think for the offensive.

Speaker 5 (27:50):
Line is is trust you know, you know, and not
writing the emotional you know, human nature is I had
one good play, Okay, I'm gonna have another good play
and a good play another good play. Football doesn't always
work like that. You know, we're gonna make some mistakes.
We'd all love to play a perfect game. You're gonna
make a mistake, Well, that doesn't mean you have to
make another mistake. And so the ability to move on

(28:12):
to the next play, be clear minded, focus on the
task at hand, I think is something for the offensive line.
But I think two, we got to get movement at
the line of scrimmage in the run game. You know,
I think those two things go hand in hand for us.
In particular, we got to have the ability to run
the ball. We got to move people at the line
of scrimmage. We've got to create running lanes that allows
us to utilize some of the play action pass because

(28:34):
now you know, the d linemen aren't pinning their ears back,
the linebackers aren't blitzing quite as hard because they know
they got to fit their runs. And then we need
to make people pay when they do do that. You know,
when we're getting some of these safety blitzeres and things,
we got to block them up and then we need
to make them pay with some explosive plays down the field.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
There you go, Mark, that seems like a recipe of success, right.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
Sounds like a recipe is success. But you know what, man,
one time I put too much salt in the gunbow.
Like sometimes you just gotta like not do too much.
Do what works?

Speaker 3 (29:06):
How you fix that? How you fixed us all of
the gunbo Hey.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
You just gotta throw it out. Don't don't try to
put more stock in it, you know, like you know,
let it cook down, just throw it out and start
all over. Well, you can't do that in football, though,
And football you have a basis of what your team
is and then you try to build on it.

Speaker 4 (29:32):
And Texas did that in a lot of ways.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
But on the offensive line, they didn't because they thought
they had enough in house to get the job done.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
Y'all.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
They gotta get that season in right because they going
out to Mississippi. Man, gotta put that foot that season.
Gotta put that foot in it. You know, I'm talking
about when we come back. When we come back, we're
gonna talk n FL. The Chargers played last night, and
it's time to get it done right here on the
morning kickoff on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.

(30:05):
Texas women's basketball does play here as they played last night,
hitting triple digits against Lubbock Christian in an exhibition.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
They won one o two to forty four.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
Justice Carlton led the way with twenty five points. She's
gonna play a major major role for this team. As
you start to understand who this team is going to.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
Be, it's gonna be led by Madison Booker.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
We understand that Elijah Crump, the freshman got a chance
to play last night. She tallied eight points in six rebounds.
Madison Booker had twelve rebounds. Rory Harmon, your girl, Mark
had eleven assists last night. They will play another They
will play another scrimmage exhibition excuse me, against Texas Women's

(30:54):
University on Monday.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
That game can be heard right here.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
On sports Radio AM thirteen hundre at the Zone, as
will the game tomorrow as the Texas Longhorns make their
way to stark Vegas Starkville, Mississippi. You can get all
that action right here on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred
to Zone and always free on the iHeartRadio app Mark.
Last night we had NFL action. The Chargers hosted the

(31:22):
Minnesota Vikings. They get the victory thirty seven to ten.
Carson Wentz, you talk about a fall from grace. I
mean it just I don't even know what to say
when it comes to Carson Wentz. But Justin Herbert, the
wonder Kid was eighteen of twenty five three touchdowns for
two hundred and twenty seven yards.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
You said that was such disdain. I mean, I just
like you. They overhype him.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
Don't trust me. I know, I know, he.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
Is considerably overhyped, and I don't see him as being
a back quarterback.

Speaker 4 (31:58):
Yeah, I mean he he's a good quarterback. But you're
overdoing it.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
Yeah, they're overcooking them grits. You know what I'm talking about.
But but you start to understand too. Let me tell
you how bad your boy was yesterday. So I make
a I make a transaction. We talk about this all
the time on our fantasy football right.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
So I go out and I have.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
To pay money because we have a little kiddy in
this one one one group one league. And I go
out and I get Arondez gassed in the second I
go get him. I needed him because he's he's been
hot so and he's Kate Town. So I went and
got him. I forgot to put him in the lineup

(32:47):
last night. Mark, Yes, I need some milk. Oh god,
oh god, I need some milk. Yeah, So I forget
to put my guy in the lineup. And all he
deal was get a touchdown. Think he got like twenty points.
And now I'm expected to lose that game because of

(33:10):
my ability or lack thereof to put my fantasy lineup together.
Knowing we talk about it. It's a Thursday night game.
How do I do that to myself? I have no idea,
And I know you over there trying to figure out
your lineup right now. You're like, oh, did I play
my guys the way I was supposed to?

Speaker 2 (33:31):
And you said that, and I instantly looked at my
phone to see if I if I put players in.

Speaker 4 (33:38):
I'm looking right now, Deebo. Sam's still on my feat.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
Yeah it's a little bit different. Yeah, he scored.

Speaker 4 (33:47):
Thank you for bringing that to my attention.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
Well, that's what friends are for.

Speaker 4 (33:50):
Man.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
You gotta make sure you stay on top of your
fantasy football league because I already told you if I
could quit right now, I would, And that's the reason why.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
That's the reason why.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
Right there, I'm supposed to I was supposed to win
my game big time because it's a big time matchup.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
What happened.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
Nope, your boy forgot to put his lineup together. So folks,
just remember put your lineup together because the matchups are
there for you. And they let you know. He had
sixteen point two points game last night. Mark sixteen needed
that I'm gonna end up needing that. There's a lot
of games that will be going on this weekend, as

(34:30):
we talked about the Cowboys take on the Denver Broncos.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
You already heard.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
My Sean Peyton take yesterday. Not a fan of Sean Payton.
I despised that man actually, to be quite honest with you, Wow,
And I hope that the Cowboys go out there and
beat the snot out of them because that's my that's
my goal for Saturday. Sorry, Kenny, you my boy and all,
but I don't like your coach. They take that. That

(34:57):
is a three.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
Twenty five kickoff.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
You can hear that game on ninety eight point one FM.
You also have the Houston Texans, who they got to
figure something out, but they take on the forty nine ers.
You can hear that game right here on Sports Radio
AM thirteen hundred The Zone as we are the home
of the Cowboys and the Texans. But that game kicks

(35:20):
off at twelve o'clock. They will be taking on the
forty nine ers. Christian McCaffrey, let everybody know, y'all must.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
Have forgot like Roy Jones Jr.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
And came back and showed everybody the knockout punch the
Bears and the Ravens. I don't know what is going
to happen with the Ravens. Mark, this has gotta be
the most disappointing team in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (35:41):
They are sitting at one in five.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
Jets, No, No, the Jets.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
We already know who they are. That's just who they are.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
I think the Dolphins are worse than the Jets, and
the Dolphins actually have a win. I think the Dolphins
situation is far the worst because you can't get rid
of to her and you keep letting Mike McDaniel talk
to the media, Like both of those guys should be
put on punishment to where they can't talk to the
media at all because the words that they give is

(36:15):
mumble jumbo. They put them in the pot like gumbo
with extra salt of course, and then you got to
get that figured out. But yeah, those are the teams
that I would say is disappointing. But Baltimore Ravens are
the most disappointing team because the expectations coming into the
season was something that they were looking to be in

(36:37):
the Super Bowl. They are one in five. Mark the
Baltimore Ravens with Derrick Henry. I know Lamar has been hurt,
but John Harbaugh is one of the best coaches in
the league and he can't figure it out.

Speaker 3 (36:52):
That's a bad look.

Speaker 4 (36:54):
You know, Like you got Derrick Henry.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Sometimes you just got to say, you know what, man,
we're gonna We're gonna go downhill with these guys. Yep,
I want Derek, I need three yards hold on to
it with two hands, like we're gonna grind them. We're
gonna make this an ugly game, and we're just gonna
try to move the ball.

Speaker 4 (37:15):
They haven't done that yet.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
You have Lamar Jackson out, why wouldn't you say, Okay,
we're just gonna lean heavy into there.

Speaker 4 (37:24):
They are still trying to run that normal.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
Offense and not realizing that Lamar Jackson is an anomaly.
Like you you have to play everybody within ten to
twelve yards of the line of scrimmage.

Speaker 4 (37:38):
Oh, he's gonna torch you.

Speaker 1 (37:40):
Yeah, and now you you they're they're just coming to
the line of scrimmage. And now you're playing with Cooper Rush.
Remember what I told you. Everybody kept talking about him
and I'm like, no.

Speaker 3 (37:51):
He is not it.

Speaker 1 (37:52):
Well now you're like, now everybody's starting to say he
is not it.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
Our number one is in.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
The bucks coming up in just the moment, we will
talk to Anthony Williams as he talks about the Texas
football team and Texas high school football, and we will
have Chipper Jones previewing the World Series at eight seventeen.
Our number two is just around the corner right here
on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Welcome back

(38:20):
to our number two of the morning kickoff right here
on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Mike Harballhard's
World's Strongest man in WWE Hall of Famer, the Mark
Henry and our number one. We talked a lot about
the Texas Longhorns. We talked about the NBA betting scandal
and everything else connected to this big time matchup this weekend.

(38:43):
But we always want to talk Friday night lights and
football in the state of Texas and across the country
for that matter. So why not go and talk to
our guy, Anthony Williams, the president of Connected Athletics.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
He is a man that has been.

Speaker 1 (38:59):
I saw last night at a high school football game
actually in Flugerville. So my man is making his moves
all over the place.

Speaker 6 (39:08):
Good morning that Hey, what's going on, family?

Speaker 2 (39:10):
Man? You can't be telling people where you saw man,
that's stitching.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
No when it's come to football, because they saw him
on the sideline.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
He wasn't sitting in the stands.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
He was walking on the sideline, so he was trying
to hide.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
He was hiding and playing sight.

Speaker 4 (39:25):
I'm all that.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
After see you, we've.

Speaker 4 (39:28):
Been I'm going good.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
Brother, Talk to us.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
A little bit about this high school football action around
this area because we had your son Aaron Williams on
with us last weekend at the pregame show. And Aaron
obviously is proud of the five to one two and
he mentioned he said, back in the day, it was
just me. Now it's a lot more people from this

(39:53):
area that are getting the opportunity to showcase their talents.

Speaker 6 (39:58):
Well, I think, Mike, first things, have me on the
show man. It's great talking with you guys, always about
football and trying to help these student athletes and be successful.
I would say this year, we've got a more than
a handful of really good teams that will make good
deep runs in the playoffs this year, and usually it's
only one or two. You talk about a West like
you talk about a Lake Travis. You ad Vantagrissa now,

(40:19):
but you've got a team out in Fligerville. Flickerville, Wis.
Is very talented. First year coach coach Malcolm is doing
a great job out there. I went and seen them
a few times. They've got talent all over the place
and look for them to make a deep run. Huddle
is another school with another first year coach, coach ed
from North Crawley, doing a good job out there. You've
got the Drip my friends out at Dripping Springs. You know,

(40:43):
we've got probably six to eight teams that you could
see run pretty deep, which is will normally what you
see out of the Houston area or the Dallas area.
So I'm very proud of the development of five to
one to two football and I'm looking forward to seeing
how they do this year. But yeah, it's not a
one or two man race this year. We got our
normal guys with Lake Travis with coach Carter and uh
and coach Mike out at Westlake. I'll be at that

(41:04):
battle of late to night uh. But yeah, we've got
we've got a handful of teams that probably this area
and the little make some noise with posits.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
Yere, Mark man, I'm I'm blown away right now. You know,
we we saw Vandergriff. You know what they were able
to do last year? Uh, be one of those newer teams,
or not a new team, but a team that's newer
to the big stage.

Speaker 4 (41:28):
Uh. And now you say that there's there's eight.

Speaker 6 (41:31):
Now.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
I remember watching driveny Stream Springs play last year and
thank you man. They got a lot of young guys,
and I guess those guys.

Speaker 4 (41:40):
Are returning this year and performing.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
Is that something that's going on around You said that
eight teams?

Speaker 4 (41:47):
Like, what what do you owe that to? Like? It
seemed like it just wouldn't happen overnight.

Speaker 6 (41:53):
I think the growth in this area with all the
new kids coming in from different areas, you're seeing the
level go up. And obviously when you have transfers coming in,
you're bound to get one or two we call the
Eagles that just dropping and go, oh my god, I
got the six to two hundred ninety times receivers that
can run four six four five that that completely changed
our offense.

Speaker 4 (42:11):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (42:11):
And then you've got some program that just have consistent
success like a West like like at Lake Travis and
I'll call it my guys out are Driven Springs that
was at their first game of the season when they
beat vandergriff You know, I we sure you say champions.
And they've got guys. They've got good play at the
old line, defensive line, they've got good quarterback play, really
good running back. Kind of reminds me a douce Fo,
a little guy but just tough as nails and just

(42:32):
eats up yards. And they've got really good receivers. So
you're seeing them over place. You know. I've got to
mention Fluville High School, my buddy coach Taylor out there.
They're they're making a nice run. So your fligable schools
are looking good. Like I said, you can count seven
eight nineteen. Anderson's another one. I mean, Anderson is is
afeeding right now. Been a couple of their games, and
once again you're seeing consistent play Atlanta scrimmage in the

(42:54):
skill position and quarterback play in solid defenses. So yeah,
I think a lot of that has to do with the
growth in area mark that we're starting to see some
kids come in. You're starting to see kids who are
who really bought into the system when they're underclassed now
get their time to shine and they're playing really well
at a high level.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
We're talking to Anthony Williams of Connected Athletics, and he'll
give you some information about that a little bit later.
But one of the things that I wanted to talk
to you about, Anthony, and you and I we text
a lot during these football games, and the frustration boils
over sometimes a little too much where we got to
get it off our chests. But you know, we sit

(43:29):
here and we looked at this Texas offense for quite
some time now. And yes, there are some guys that
went to the league, some special players that have moved on.
But the one thing that we've always talked about is
the model of consistency.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
And you have to be able to be consistent.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
You haven't changed your coaches, and that's something that I've
taken a lot of pride in. When I talk about
it is like the consistency of the voices are the same,
but you also have to adapt to the personnel and
trying to figure out what is going to be our strength.
What are some of the things that you see on
this football team on the offensive side of the ball.
We'll get the defense at a minute that you see
that needs to be cleaned up.

Speaker 6 (44:06):
Well, I think, first and foremost it starts with a
lot of scrimmage. I mean the offensive line. We actually
so size is an issue. I mean, anybody that understands
this game that could look at the text offense line
and size is not an issue. But when I start
to break down film, and there's a lot of great
all twenty two podcasts on you on YouTube, the problem

(44:27):
is right now they're not playing as a unit. If
you looked at the last couple of years, they had
guys that played together, that knew each other, and right
now you're just not seeing it. It's not that we're
getting so much that we're getting physically beat up at
the line. It says that sometimes the left guard is
thinking we're pulling right, and the right the left tackles
and we're pulling left and literally kind of ranto each

(44:47):
other sometimes or let a god just.

Speaker 4 (44:48):
Kind of walk through.

Speaker 6 (44:49):
It'd be one thing is they're just getting put on
skates and people living around backfield. But right now, from
what I see in the film, once again, I'm just
going not from a family respect as a former coach perspective,
I don't see them playing as a unit right now.
I don't see a lot of communication going on right now.
Guys just literally like, Okay, I'm the right guard, there's
a three technique taple over me. I'm just gonna let

(45:11):
him go and go get the linebacker, thinking that oh,
somebody's gonna give, there's gonna be somebody pull, and there's not,
and now Artiers is running for his life. And so
there just seems to be some issues with play. Knowledge
of all five guys knowing, hey, we're all you know,
we're zone blocking right or zone blocking left. And there's
one I always noticed this one guy who's like, oh,
I thought we were going left where I thought I

(45:31):
was pulling or booting, and it's not happening. So the
first thing I see is just the office line play
as a unit needs to get better. They need to
definitely understand. I don't know the blocking scheme. I don't
I'm not out on the inside. I don't know all that,
but I just know that right now there seems to
be some confusion obviously in key parts of the game.
Not that they're not doing a bad job overall, but
there's key times when some guy missed a block or

(45:52):
The other thing I talked about with the old line
is discipline. We can't we got to stop going from
third and three to third and eight. We've got way
too many critical and usually they're on third down, Mic
and Market. It's just like we all know, if anybody
to understands football, third and four is a different play
for SAR third nine is completely and then third and thirteen.

Speaker 4 (46:10):
It's just that's got to stop.

Speaker 6 (46:12):
So I think if they just fix those two things,
because it all starts up front, people talking about play
calling and arch and I'll get to that, but right now,
if you don't win up front, you don't win. It's
it's really that simple. And you see on the defensive
side defense lines winning. But the offensive line, right now,
they've got some room for improvement, just making sure they
understand what's the play, what's the run blocking scheme, and

(46:33):
who are going to get And now let's just go
out attack people, because right now there's the saying Market
you know this, will talk to your said about it.
You're either the hammer or you're the nail. And right
now the offense line, they're nails. Right now they're getting hammered.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
After that, put your coach hat on real quick when
you see it. One of the things the last three
weeks has been done against Texas offensive line is.

Speaker 4 (46:54):
Team shift right before play.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
At some point, are or one of the offensive linemen
are gonna have to at least go hold on And
then you make a line call. When at what point
do you do you establish that and who do.

Speaker 4 (47:13):
You have do it?

Speaker 2 (47:15):
Do you have one of the offensivelignemen do it on
the before the snap, or do you have the quarterback
do it?

Speaker 6 (47:22):
It's it's definitely gonna be the center. The center is
the quarterback of the offensive line. And you're noticing that
because everybody saw what Georgia and Kirby Smart did to
our O line last year with these I mean literally
right before the snap, they're shifting, uh from an odd
front to an even front, or they're shifting over one gap.
I mean, it isn't anything new. Football's got new, that's
been going on forever. Usually do that, try and get

(47:42):
them the jump, which has been working as we talked about.
But really the center has to make that call that, Hey,
we may been blocking you know, zone right, but now
we're gonna go left or or whatever right now. It's
got to be the center. I don't think Archer is
ready to do that right now. At the end of
the day, the center is one that makes that call,
so that that's going to happen, and it really should be. Hey,
if they come out in this front and they shift

(48:04):
to this, guys, we're just gonna switch from from this
blocking scheme to this blocking scheme. Basic stuff, and like
to your point, it's not happy right now. So that's
another level of play knowledge and what kind of blocking
scheam we're going to have. If they're here, we do this.
If they're here, then we're going to do this. But
it shouldn't be trying to figure it out during the
play or after the play is over.

Speaker 4 (48:22):
It's not a new content.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
And yeah, before we let you go, I want you
to talk about the Arch Manning situation. You you you've
followed these quarterbacks, you've seen it, you've broken them all down.
What would you do to help Arch be a little
bit more comfortable?

Speaker 6 (48:36):
So keeping it one hundred, I've been following Arch is
using eighth grade. I'm inviting him to the Adida's FRESHMANUT
America game with FU and been watching this kid. He's
got all the talent in the world. Right now, I
hate to say this, but I'm saying this way. He's
broken and what I mean by that is his mechanics
have gotten away from got a strong arm, super athletic,

(48:57):
got good size. But when you lose a little bit
of trust in your old line, when you know I've
got to hold the ball, I'm waiting for that receiver
tighten to finish the top of this route, I'm gonna sit.
I'm gonna trust the pocket, and if it's not there
right away, Art just taking off because he knows over
the last six games, I got to make something happen now.
And so that lack of patience comes from lack of

(49:18):
I just don't trust the line right now, and some
of the players that start calls, I won't see the
long developing. But sometimes at the top of the route,
you just got to wait that one extra tenth of
a second. Oh, now that titan is gonna clear, and
then Art's gonna have his feet and the shoulder set up,
and then to hold the safety with my eyes and
then I'm gonna deliver the past that ain't happening right now.
So some of what you're seeing with Arch is more

(49:38):
trust in his line, which will come as they play
better at the line of scrimmage. And number two is
he's got to be more patient in the pocket. He's
got to stage. I know he can run and get
out of the pocket, but he's got to trust that
pocket and move like we term will use the old school,
like he's in a phone, move and just kind of
slightly move left, let my tight end clear, and then
deliver the ball. You're seeing inaccuracies and his throws right
now because one is foot work is really good, and

(50:01):
number two, he's just not trusting the lining. He doesn't
yet the extra tip to a second. If we fix
that over the next couple of weeks, you'll start to
see the old arch we've seen even the last year
of him delivering the ball be more accurate because he's
got zip. I mean, he's got touch, but we're not
seeing it because he's his mechanics is feet are buried.
His releases are are wrong. And so to me what
I would suggest, And you know, I'm not wanting to

(50:21):
go call my buddies on the staff, but if you
know we're not blocking good in three five seven step
drops right now and the pocket's collapsing, let's start moving
the pocket.

Speaker 4 (50:30):
It's old school.

Speaker 6 (50:31):
Let's roll right, let's roll left, let's boot let's let's
let's play to our quarterback is struggling the pocket. So
as a coach, you adjust and you have to roll
move the pocket and it's easier for lying. But like, hey,
they're shifting. It doesn't matter. We're all rolling right. So
I'm just gonna wield off this guy and are it's
gonna gonna roll out. And now you give him an
RPO that if it's not there, I've got a short,
intermediate long throws out there. Now, use your legs right now,

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he's throwing the pockets so he'll get him out of
the pocket. Let him do what he does well, use
his legs.

Speaker 4 (50:56):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (50:57):
He actually throws better on the run than he does
the hawk right now. So as a coach, you guys
see that and go, hey, I got a call. Plays
that are strengths to my quarterback right now until we
can figure out the other stuff.

Speaker 4 (51:07):
It's really pretty simple. I love you there.

Speaker 3 (51:10):
He is our guy, Anthony.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
Hey, and we're up against it, buddy, but as always,
we appreciate you taking the time.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
Make sure you get over to.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
Connected Athletics dot org, Connected dot athletics dot org and
you can follow him at a williams us A as
always brother.

Speaker 3 (51:31):
Thank you. We'll talk again soon.

Speaker 6 (51:32):
Hey, I appreciate you, y'all.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
Be blessed, Be blessed. There he is coming up next.
We're gonna be talking to Hall of Famer Chipper Jones
as he breaks down the World Series right here on
the Morning Kickoff on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.

Speaker 3 (51:46):
Welcome back to the.

Speaker 1 (51:47):
Morning kickoff right here on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred
The Zone. He's a Major League Hall of Famer, he's
a World Series champion, and he was also named MVP.
He is the one and only Larry Wayne Jones, but
you know him as Chipper Chip of Jones's.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
Walk out music right there, Baby, He's just what I
used to have to listen to all the time when
I was playing left field, Sanders was playing center.

Speaker 4 (52:20):
Jones, I love it, I love it.

Speaker 3 (52:26):
Chip.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
How you doing, man? I know you you've been busy.
There's a lot going on in Atlanta. They're trying to
make some moves. Is Chipper Jones ready to announce that
he is going to be the manager of the Atlanta Braves.

Speaker 4 (52:40):
Now, I don't know where that came from.

Speaker 7 (52:45):
I think that's just uh, you know, some fans maybe
uh maybe pie in the sky dreams, but now it's uh,
it's too much of a commitment for me personally.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (52:58):
And to be honest with you, to put to put
the organization or to put the pressure on a general
manager to hire me to a fireable position.

Speaker 4 (53:10):
Uh, it is. I don't really think it's a smart.

Speaker 7 (53:15):
Move, you know, to be honest with you, it'd be like, okay,
not to say that I'm in Hank Aaron's league, but
let's just say you hired Hank Aaron to be the
manager in a couple of years in things didn't work
out and you possibly had to go a different direction.
That's not a good that's not a good pr move,

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you know, to be honest with you. So you know,
I've got my foot in the door about as much
as I want to right now with still with three
kids here at the house. So I'm good, you know,
I would. I'm very interested to see who gets interviewed.
I'm very interested to see who is in the running
for the bravest managerial spot. But I can I can

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promise you it's just a neckt from Central Florida, ain't
one of them?

Speaker 2 (54:02):
What about a consulting basis, like where you can pick
your times and pick your s thoughts to work with.

Speaker 7 (54:10):
That's pretty much my my title now. I am, for
lack of a better term, major league hitting consultant. I'm
a third set of eyes for for the guys in
the room. I don't go down there. I'm not gonna
be looking over the shoulder of the current hitting coaches,
you know, day in and day out.

Speaker 4 (54:31):
But you know, in.

Speaker 7 (54:32):
Certain instances, like with Michael Harris this past season, sometimes
with with uh Olie and and Riley, I'll go down
and if guys are struggling, maybe just give a little outside.

Speaker 4 (54:46):
View of what I see and be gone again, you know.
For lack of a better term.

Speaker 1 (54:52):
Yeah, that that right there is something that I know
that you enjoy because obviously you're you're still connected in
the Atlanta area. You one of the only players to
play his entire career with the Atlanta Braves, so that's
good that they have you coming in and obviously you
you understand the game. You don't play as long as
you did, and being a Hall of Famer that sometimes

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the simplification of the conversation changes the approach for the hitter.

Speaker 4 (55:20):
Yeah, I think, especially.

Speaker 7 (55:24):
In this day and age, we get caught up in
a little too much intake of the analytics and the
numbers as opposed to, hey man, uh, let let's just
worry about center and the baseball like that's where that's
where it all, you know, starts and ultimately ends.

Speaker 4 (55:44):
Is just is just you know, trying to center the baseball.

Speaker 7 (55:47):
And you know, sometimes a little adjustment with your hands
is in the case of Michael Harris this year, you
know working, you know, getting his hands up, you know,
he's starting them down around it's just getting them up
around his ear and swinging you know.

Speaker 4 (56:02):
Top to bottom.

Speaker 7 (56:04):
You know, works and it gets you on plane more
and it keeps you from looping and all these things.
And you saw him really take off after after the
guy's made that, you know, made that adjustment. So sometimes
it's just a little things. It's a little suggestion here
and there, and all of a sudden, you know, players take.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
Off trip you You made a couple of comments read
just now in that last sentence where you said you
don't want to be over there looking over people's shoulder,
and you also said.

Speaker 4 (56:37):
That you didn't want to uh be there in the
building all the time.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
Because both of those things say that sometimes people get
a little antsy when somebody else comes in.

Speaker 4 (56:51):
Is that is that?

Speaker 2 (56:52):
Is that your reasoning for that? Or have you heard
something from somebody?

Speaker 4 (56:57):
No, I am, I am. They want me in the
building as much as possible. But I understand, you know,
I grew up the coach of a you know, high
school baseball team for thirty years.

Speaker 7 (57:14):
He was a graduate assistant at Stetsy University for ten years.

Speaker 4 (57:20):
I understand the pecking order and how things work.

Speaker 7 (57:24):
And I've seen other situations where maybe you know, guys
come in and maybe the hitting coach or the pitching
coach feels a little uncomfortable. The last thing I want
to do is step on anybody's toes. Normally, when I
come in.

Speaker 4 (57:41):
It's just a visit.

Speaker 7 (57:42):
It's to say hello, is to talk to the guys,
not necessarily in the biding cage, but in the locker room.
I don't want anybody to feel like I'm overstepping my boundaries,
like I'm stepping on anybody's toes.

Speaker 4 (57:56):
I understand how the pecking order works.

Speaker 7 (57:58):
When I'm asked to come down and say, you know,
you know, the hitting coach calls me, a specific player
calls me and asked me to come down. I'll come
in and and do my thing then, but not any
other times.

Speaker 1 (58:12):
We're talking to Hall of Famer Chipper Jones as he
is enjoying an off day after he hit the golf
ball yesterday. Made a little strange money right there. I
like that about you. Dog, made a little money yesterday.

Speaker 4 (58:25):
I gotta I gotta pay for seven kids.

Speaker 3 (58:27):
Man.

Speaker 4 (58:29):
I'll take that money.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
Anyway, no doubt. Just don't do it the Chauncey billups way.
We'll go kick that away from that.

Speaker 4 (58:35):
We have to go there.

Speaker 1 (58:37):
Hey, but I do want to ask you this, because
you were talking about squaring up the baseball. Two guys
that have not had a problem squaring up the baseball
is show. Hey o Tani for the Dodgers and Vladimir
Guerrero Junior of the Toronto Blue Jays. This is a
big time matchup with two teams that seemed to be
Obviously you're peaking at the right time if you make

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it to the World Series.

Speaker 3 (59:00):
Talk about what show.

Speaker 1 (59:02):
Has been able to do, not only at the plate,
but delivering to the plate by being able to stretch
out a little bit. In what you've seen from Vladimir
Guerrero in that squad.

Speaker 4 (59:14):
Well, I'll started with Lad.

Speaker 7 (59:16):
I mean, he's just a guy who's really coming into
his own right now. You're really starting to see superstar
type quality uh and bats and play for Vlad.

Speaker 4 (59:29):
You know, a lot of a lot of his dad
in that swing.

Speaker 7 (59:33):
But you know, the organization showed a ton of respect
for him and admiration for his game by paying him
this past year and allowing him.

Speaker 4 (59:45):
To be comfortable, and he is showing out.

Speaker 7 (59:49):
It's nice to see those middle of the lineup guys
really start to hit their stride come to postseason and
bigot bats and and quality at bats. And you know,
as a guy who was hit in the middle of
the lineup, a lot of the offensive revolves around those
middle of the lineup type guys and list showing out

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as far as show Hey man, I don't think we're
running out at this guy, you know, I mean, he
he goes I think he's one for eighteen with ten
strikeouts in the Division Series and then you know, comes
out not necessarily doing much in the in the LCS either,

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and just shows up to the ballpark one day and
has the greatest day that any of us have ever seen.
That's that's that stuff that we used to do when
we were like twelve years old in Lily, you know, throw,
throw six hitting shut piece, hit three homers, you know,
and go grab some half full of bubble gum.

Speaker 4 (01:00:53):
For a player of the game after, you know, after
us all over this.

Speaker 7 (01:00:56):
And but he's doing it at baseball's highest level, you know.
And that's the most incredible thing. I think when you
see and here guys like Mookie Betts and Freddy Freeman
and two pretty good players in and of themselves MVPs.
You know, they've had their moments in postseason. They're in

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all of this guy. You know, they can't believe some
of the things that he's doing. He's gonna make his
presence felt in this series. There's there's no doubt one
way or the other. He's gonna hit it a couple
of big homers, he's gonna throw. You know, he's gonna
have a big start or two.

Speaker 2 (01:01:36):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:01:36):
So I'm really looking.

Speaker 7 (01:01:38):
Forward to watching show Hey, showcase his talent on the
biggest stage possible that you know that the sport can provide.

Speaker 1 (01:01:48):
As somebody who has won a World Series and been
to a couple other as you look at this game
and you start to break it down, Uh does it
go seven? Are we looking at gentleman's sweep? Or is
this gonna be one of those series that will go
down as one of the best because of the talent
on both of the team. And before you answer it,

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would you put Bobashet in the lineup after being out
for as long as.

Speaker 4 (01:02:14):
He has That's that's a tough one. He's one of
your studs. Yep, he is a top of the lineup.

Speaker 7 (01:02:25):
Guy, but he has been he has not been facing
quality pitching for the last month. And I can I
can promise you when you've not seen the type of
pitching that he's gonna see, you know, for the next month,
or you know, for the last month, you get rusty
and it takes some time for you to get back

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into it.

Speaker 4 (01:02:47):
This team is playing so well right now as is
that I.

Speaker 7 (01:02:51):
Would have a hard time putting him in there unless
I was completely convinced that he would see in ninety
five mile an hour pitching for the last couple of
weeks that that he was moving around good enough a shortstop.

Speaker 4 (01:03:09):
I mean, like I said, this is this is one
of your guys. Man, You gotta ride, ride or die
with him.

Speaker 7 (01:03:14):
But as far as the the series itself, I think
these first two games are huge. I think, uh, I
think you know, if if if LA sweeps the first two,
it could be Katie bar Theador. You know, I just
don't see him getting out of out of you know,
back to back to Toronto from Los Angeles if they split.

(01:03:39):
I like, I like a six game series because the kid,
Yester is gonna pitch a couple of times that I
think he's the wild card, really do, because the Dodgers
have not seen him yet.

Speaker 4 (01:03:54):
They've seen everybody else.

Speaker 7 (01:03:55):
They've seen the Gosslin's and the Suresers and whoever else
they got, you know, starting there in Toronto, but they
have not seen this kid. Talk to Smalcy the other day,
who's doing the games. It was doing the American League
Championship series, and he this guy is love Jet, you know,
so kind of pulling for you know, Toronto to come

(01:04:19):
out of the gate quick. So you know, maybe we
can at least maybe think about getting it back to
Toronto and having a you know, a good six or
seven game series. But I like the Dodgers and five
or six games somewhere in there, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
I ain't gonna hold you to that. I'm not gonna
mark you muted your muted mark. I'm not gonna hold
you to that.

Speaker 4 (01:04:38):
Do you think that?

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
Do you think that's good for the league to have
a team that's as dominant as the as the Dodgers are?
Can't you shoul the league try to diversify this and
not allow one team that's willing to spend all the
money to do that.

Speaker 4 (01:04:55):
Man, that's a good question.

Speaker 7 (01:04:56):
I expected that question from arm Man, but no, great
question right there. It's it's tough for me to as
a professional athlete to look at quote unquote super teams
with a with a ton of respect. But the fact
of the matter is this, we are you know, the

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Dodgers are a sum of what you know we have
created from a UH Players Association type situation. We refuse
to have a salary cap. The players before us didn't
succumb to a salary cap. We didn't succumb to a

(01:05:40):
salary cap. Nor will the players now. And that's why
you're probably going to see a work stop which coming up.

Speaker 4 (01:05:46):
But the fact of the matter is is the rich
are gonna get Richard.

Speaker 7 (01:05:50):
You know, I mean, being in l A and having
a lot of Japanese talent coming over from the Japanese leagues.

Speaker 4 (01:05:59):
Where do you want to play? You don't want to
play in the.

Speaker 7 (01:06:02):
On the East coach, won't play on the West coast,
you know. And the Dodgers have the money to pay.
You're gonna see the teams in the big markets LA,
New York Chicago continue to flourish because quite frankly, they
have more money to spend than anybody else. And that's
why you know a number of the next championships are

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going to come from those cities.

Speaker 1 (01:06:27):
Well, it's funny that you say that before we let
you go, because Mark is a Yankees fan, so therefore
he understands what the evil empire and he's mad his
team is not participating with all the money they spent.

Speaker 4 (01:06:41):
Hey, I'm coming with it. If you think that good
is evil, then I mean, yeah, you're right about that.
And that's the thing, you know. I mean, look, there's
only two teams that can play for.

Speaker 7 (01:06:55):
It every year, and Toronto just kind of hit the
sky this year, or else we'd have another New York LA.

Speaker 4 (01:07:03):
World Series again.

Speaker 7 (01:07:04):
And to be honest with you, you know, Harts and
I We text all the time.

Speaker 4 (01:07:07):
He has my picks, you know.

Speaker 7 (01:07:09):
A while back and I was like, man, part of
me wants, you know, kind of San Diego Detroit, you know,
kind of a redo of nineteen eighty four World Series.
And then I texted it back about five minutes later,
I said, I'm just kidding, man, Layah.

Speaker 4 (01:07:26):
You know.

Speaker 7 (01:07:26):
So, yeah, Toronto is a bit of a surprise. And
I'm sure I can say you this pretty positively. Outside
of Los Angeles. I'm pretty sure everybody's root for for
Toronto to win this series.

Speaker 4 (01:07:44):
I could promise you that one.

Speaker 1 (01:07:46):
There he is the man to mid the legend Hall
of Famer Chipper Jones bringing us the analysis.

Speaker 3 (01:07:53):
Thanks buddy, appreciate you my pleasure. Guys love y'all appreciate it.
There he is our guy, Chipper Jones. Coming up next.

Speaker 1 (01:07:59):
We got a quick, quick, and when I say quick,
I mean quick, World's Strongest take right here on the
morning kickoff on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.
This is gonna be a quick, quick segment because we
went along with our guy Chipper Jones, which is outstanding stuff,
great stuff by Chipper.

Speaker 3 (01:08:18):
We'll do the world's Strongest.

Speaker 1 (01:08:20):
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Speaker 3 (01:09:15):
All you heard it be dropped, so you know exactly
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Speaker 1 (01:09:20):
We got to get into it quick because we gotta
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he's here to bring you his world's strongest take. Take
it away, big fellow. All right, what's up man? What
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Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
It's time for the world's strongest take by the world's
strongest man, Ronald.

Speaker 4 (01:09:43):
Back then they didn't know me. Now I'm hot, they
all on me.

Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
Guys, there's gonna be a re insurgence in scoring in
the NBA this year, and the reason for that is
the real changes.

Speaker 4 (01:09:59):
We've all already seen.

Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
Players that have really not been great scorers, like Gordon
being able to score fifty points, and we've seen guys
that are great scorers throw up numbers that you just
go holy.

Speaker 4 (01:10:15):
Cow, like.

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
The league is allowing guys to really get into their
bag now.

Speaker 4 (01:10:21):
And the number one rule is the high five rule.

Speaker 2 (01:10:26):
Now, before guys were able to shoot their shot and
as long as you hit their hand on the release
of their shot, it was not called the foul. Well
that's no longer. If you hit the hand, you're gonna
get a foul call. Thus, guys not challenging shots as much,
so you're gonna get an advancement in the scoring department.

(01:10:48):
The other one is the contact rule, being able to
if I swing my If I swing the ball through
and you have your hand out and as I come.

Speaker 4 (01:10:57):
Up with my shot, I hit your arm out.

Speaker 2 (01:11:01):
You notice that there's more fouls called this year than
any other years prior the lastly the flopping rule.

Speaker 4 (01:11:10):
You're actually able to attack people.

Speaker 2 (01:11:13):
More and get more fouls called because of the flop rule.
If you flop this year, you automatically get two free
throws on the call, and it's gonna be like getting
the flavorant foul. Teams are going to get the ball back,
so they they're they're they're getting more scoring. This is

(01:11:34):
the reason that the league has blossomed as far as scoring.
If your team has a dominant scorer on it, it's
very likely.

Speaker 1 (01:11:45):
That you're gonna have a good season. Hards will say, well,
you can. You can attest that to the fact that
last night Shay Gil Chris Alexander, the foul Merchant as
the kids like to call him. Right now, he's shout
twenty five free throws last night. Yeah, and the night

(01:12:05):
before that he had eighteen. So he's been already to
the free throw line more than some teams have taken
regular shots in a game. So yeah, I do believe
in the fact that those those things are going to happen.
I don't know if that's the reason why the scoring
is gonna be up, because the rip through and you
getting your hand out there, that's been happening for quite

(01:12:27):
some time. I think the biggest rule that needs to
be enforced even more is when they close out and
they're getting that close to you and you basically land
on their foot. So those are the things that have
been really tumultuous to me because you can't you can't
expect people in this game. You want to be physical,

(01:12:48):
you want to enhance the game, but you don't want
them being able to call tiki tak fouls. And you've
already heard of all the conspiracies that are happening as well.
So these these references have got to do a better
job and take their job a little bit more serious
when they're when they're calling these basketball games hardly.

Speaker 2 (01:13:08):
I think the rule that needs to be called more
is the pushing off as you get into your move, because.

Speaker 4 (01:13:15):
There's no player in the league that pushes.

Speaker 2 (01:13:18):
Off more than Shake Gils example. I mean, I'm not
a hater, I'm.

Speaker 4 (01:13:24):
Just saying he takes advantage of the.

Speaker 2 (01:13:25):
Fact that they don't call it right right, So that
makes him a smart guy.

Speaker 1 (01:13:31):
Yeah, yeah, But I do understand what you're saying, though,
because it does get kind of annoying, especially with the
way that these guys are are playing nowadays. But I
think Shay earned the right when you become the MVV
and they start telling you, and you're gonna get that call.

Speaker 3 (01:13:47):
Anthony. Anthony Edwards pushed off the other night.

Speaker 2 (01:13:50):
Yes, I was just been saying, and man, he pushes
off every time he dribbles to his right and then
he stops and goes left.

Speaker 4 (01:14:01):
He pushes off with that offhand gas. It's cheating.

Speaker 3 (01:14:09):
Sometimes you got to create separation. Mark.

Speaker 4 (01:14:12):
You know who I like.

Speaker 2 (01:14:13):
To see handle the ball and get their shot off
without touching is Steph Curry.

Speaker 4 (01:14:18):
Step Curry dribbles his way out. He dribbles his way.

Speaker 2 (01:14:22):
Around screens, and he gives a shot off because it's
so fast, not because he pushes off.

Speaker 4 (01:14:29):
You.

Speaker 2 (01:14:30):
I got you, And I just think that's the period
of basketball.

Speaker 4 (01:14:35):
And if you want to make your bullyball, then go
ahead and just do that.

Speaker 3 (01:14:40):
Yeah, go ahead and.

Speaker 2 (01:14:42):
Say no, you know, however, you get your shot off.
That's the best way you can get it off.

Speaker 4 (01:14:47):
It's gonna have to.

Speaker 2 (01:14:48):
Really be a nineteen eighty eight foul for us to
call a foul.

Speaker 1 (01:14:52):
Well, there's the world's strongest man bringing you his world's
strongest take. NBA season in full effect. Texas Longhorn women
play back basketball last night. They will play again on
Monday as they will play an exhibition that can be
heard right here on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.
But tomorrow we are going to talk all things Texas Longhorns.
As Texas Longhorns game day will be at Cover three

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Anderson Lane. We will be starting our pregame show starting
at twelve o'clock run till two.

Speaker 3 (01:15:21):
Then we'll turn you over to.

Speaker 1 (01:15:23):
The network with Craig Way, Roger Wallace and Will Matthews
as they bring you kickoff at three point fifteen from Starkville, Mississippi.
But all of that can be heard right here on
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(01:15:43):
at noon, Cover three Anderson Lane. Come out, hang out,
have a good time watch the game there as well. Obviously,
we're excited about the matchup because Texas gets another opportunity
to go onto the road and one more road trip
before they get the I'm home and play Vandy on
November the first. I want to thank Anthony Williams for

(01:16:06):
coming on and talking all things high school and giving
us a breakdown on this Texas offense. Also want to
thank the Man, the Myth, the legend, Hall of Famer
Chipper Jones with his insight to the World Series.

Speaker 3 (01:16:19):
He believes that the.

Speaker 1 (01:16:20):
Blue Jays, well the Dodgers are going to win, but
he's hoping that the Blue Jays does that. Hey, Mark,
make sure you check that refrigerator and see if it's
plugged in. Appreciate you dog, have safe travels back to
Austin and we'll see you tomorrow. For Ronalds for sitting
in with us, for our guy Mark, Henry hommy boy
Harball Hart, and just remember this, don't believe everything you see,

(01:16:42):
because even salt looks like sugar. Make sure you tune
into the Craig Wait Show today at two o'clock right
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Speaker 3 (01:16:52):
Peace