Feels Good Friday: Longhorns Bye Week Moves, Seahawks Win, Cowboys vs Packers, Texas Baseball at Dell Diamond

Today is “Feels Good Friday,” and the Texas Longhorns football team has a bye week, but they’re still making big things happen. The Seattle Seahawks defeated the Arizona Cardinals with a game-winning field goal. The Dallas Cowboys have a big game against the Green Bay Packers with the return of Micah Parsons. The Longhorns’ baseball team plays the Texas Tech Red Raiders at the Dell Diamond this weekend. A special moment with Cal Raleigh’s 60th home run ball with the fans. “The World’s Strongest take!” Conversations with Sean Harderman of Ball Hard Basketball, Tommy Yarrish of DallasCowboys.com, and Texas Baseball Head Coach Jim Schlossnagle. You can hear it all here on “The Morning Kickoff Show!”

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Speaker 1 (02:03):
Y'all haven't been living good ones, so that's why you
haven't heard it.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
But we will continue the conversation.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
So get let's get right into it, Mark, because the
conversation needs to be had because Texas.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
Although is on a bye week.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
By the way, you can hear all Texas Longhorns football
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But and Craig Way is the voice of Texas football.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
But I want to make sure that we talk about
this because recruiting is at a major level right now
for all of us. I mean, every school believes that
they are the next best thing. They're going to get
the best players and they're going to continue to battle through.
But coach sarkd yesterday he went on the road and
not only well, let let me rephrase that. He didn't

(02:55):
go on the road. He traveled by air. And how
did he travel? Mark and a helicopter say what?

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yes, he did flexing at the highest level of Texas.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
Yeah, body popping up on the road in a.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
In a helicopter going to see some of their prize recruits.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Looking he looked like Laurence fishburning in the matrix. When
he got off and he had he was walking toward
the coaches.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
It was so thanks, man, I thought you was gonna
say he looked like Tom Selleck on Magnum pr jumping
across with that helicopter.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Okay, yeah, that's TC.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
That's TC man.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, but I'm telling you man, he like the matrix.
Everything goes back, everything goes back to the matrix. Yeah.
But because it was cool and listen when he got
off the helicopter and he started they landed on the
football field at the kids' school. Right. How live is
it for you as a player to have everybody in

(03:57):
your school go, wow, yup, they just landed a helicopter.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
On the practice field. Yeah, it's pretty cool for all
these kids.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
But you know, when you're recruiting a player, you want
to when you have those opportunities to be out and
about like this during the bye week, you got to
make sure that you go over there and handle your business.
And that's what Coach Sark and his crew has been
able to do moving around the state. He's going to
be in Georgia tomorrow or today excuse me for a

(04:29):
match up with Tyler Atkinson, one of the top recruits
out of the state of Georgia. He made his commitment
when we were in Atlanta actually for SEC media days.
Coach Sark is flying out there to go out there
and see him as well. So Texas football, Yeah, Texas.
Texas football is doing what we expected them to do,

(04:49):
and that is going out and seeing these players during
this time because as we said, this is a bye week.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
They have another one late in the year.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
But being able to get back on the road and
and check in with the recruits because mostly all of
the recruits have been coming to the University of Texas
for weekends. Because Texas had three three straight home games
where all these players could come in and get a
chance to see the facilities and witness game day.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, that that night game made a big impression on
a couple of those kids.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
That I mean, I read a couple of the reports
and kids.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Was like, man, I got a chance to go to
LSU for a night game, and I got to go
to Texas for a night game, and Texas was incredible.
Is what his caption was. You mean, Texas night game
rivaling LSU in the Death Valley. I thought that was

(05:45):
pretty cool. Harsh Man, he over there just flexing. What
do you what do you do when you talk about
going to the crowd.

Speaker 4 (05:52):
You're trying to get that pop.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
What he was trying to get he was asking for
the Yeah, he was trying to get the pop that
what it was popped to the Texas Yeah immediately, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Like hey it worked on me. It seemed like it
like it. But yeah, so this was a big weekend.
Although Texas obviously isn't playing this weekend, but there are
some huge games in the SEC that we have talked
about a little bit, but we want to dive a
little bit more into it because Mark, when you start
to look at what the SEC brings, it's the conversation

(06:25):
that keeps on giving. It's the conversation that you continue
to look at and you say, this weekend is the
best weekend of games.

Speaker 4 (06:34):
This weekend is the best.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
It seems like every weekend we talk about the best
games that are happening, and every single time, just like
this week, you start to look at the matchups of
all the games that are happening. You start to look
at who is playing who and why they are playing
each other. This early you start looking at all of
the teams and you look at a Notre Dame going

(06:57):
to Arkansas. That's a big time matchup for Arkansas and
they have to represent but it's a big game for
Notre Dame too.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
It is and you said the best game, I think
it's the most relevant games, and it's the most consequences
for a games. That's what really should be said. I
think one of the best games is going to be
Ohio State or in Washington. That's gonna be a game

(07:25):
that we're gonna talk about because it's gonna come down
to whoever had the ball, ass who don't make mistakes.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
It's gonna be a good, good game.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
The SEC. Every week there's at least five teams in
the SEC that's going to have a matchup that if
they lose that game, they have to almost run the
table just to stay relevant.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
So the consequences are more dire. And you look at
what games are we're talking about. At two point thirty
on ESPN, you have Auburn at Texas A and M.
At two thirty on ABC you have LSU and Ole Miss.
At six at four point fifteen, you got Tennessee and
Mississippi State. Then you look at the night games at

(08:12):
six thirty you have Alabama at Georgia. Is this the
crossroads for the Alabama football team? People had already shoveled
them into the ground, They had already put dirt on them.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
But game right, the conversation changes.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
Just two weeks ago, y'all were trying to rub Kaitlin
de Bar out of there.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
Yeah, now all of us, that lady.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
Said, if I win the power Ball, I'm buying out
his contract at seventy million, and I'm paying for the
athletic director to go to That's how serious it was
two weeks ago. Now he goes in there and his
team finds a way to get it done against Georgia.
Now everybody gonna be like, man.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Well he been put all his president win. I'm telling
she was serious about it too.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
Percent. She was serious about it.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
So and then you finish it off in the sec
with Kentucky, who is on Texas's scheduled this year. You
need to pay attention to that game. They will be
taking on South Carolina, who, at the beginning of the
season they had the quarterback Leonora Sellers who everybody was
looking at as the Heisman Trophy winner. He gets banged up,

(09:23):
and then all of a sudden you're looking and saying, oh,
is he gonna be Okay?

Speaker 4 (09:27):
Is this team where they need to be?

Speaker 1 (09:28):
They had a couple losses, but Kentucky's always a tough out.
You may beat them, but you're gonna get beat up
trying to beat them.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, Kentucky has always been a tough team. And you
know Stoops is not gonna ever have a team that
goes out that is not gonna meet the standard for
a Stoops coach, especially on the defensive side of the ball.
My wife, when Jacob was recruiting, she loved the coaches

(10:00):
at Kentucky and they liked Jacob, but Jacob wanted to
wrestle and they didn't have wrestling. But the identity of
those coaches ironic how that turned out, right, Yeah, it's ironic.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
How I don't like to think about it.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
I'm gonna stay up long, hunk fan, I've just just
hurt my soul even mentioned of the teams. But it's
the identity of the defensive side of the ball. In
the SEC I found that every one of those coaching
staffs were It's imperative that we have guys that are

(10:40):
willing to work hard because there's better talent out there,
but they may not work as hard to have the
temperament for the grind that's gonna happen. And Coach Sart
talks about it all the time, living where your feet are,
and being able to work.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
Hard despite how hard to work.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Kid right, everybody can't do it hard, Yep, the ego
won't handle it. They've been they've been treated with kid gloves.
They don't you know that some kids with trouble unfortunately,
and Texas is doing a good job of picking people
that fit that system.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
We also got some big games tonight too, as Florida
State will be.

Speaker 4 (11:21):
Taking on Virginia.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
That will be a six o'clock kickoff, and on Fox
tonight you have TCU at Arizona State TCUs undefeated, Arizona
State one excuse me, three and one and.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
One to zero in the Big Twelve.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
We're just getting started on a feel good football Friday
edition of The Morning Kickoff. When we come back, we're
gonna have a conversation about last night's in FC West matchup.

Speaker 4 (11:47):
Is Kyler Murray the problem or is it Marvin Harrison Junior.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
We'll talk about it right here on the Morning Kickoff
on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred.

Speaker 4 (11:57):
The Zone coming up.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
In the next segment, we'll get a chance to talk
to our guy, Sean Hardiman of Ballhard as he talks
about a camp that he has going on. He's done
some great stuff in the community, so I wanted to
make sure that we got.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
A chance to talk to him.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
Also, coming up at eight o'clock, we'll talk to Tommy
Yarish of Dallascowboys dot Com talk about the debacle that
happened in Chicago and the one that may be happening
on Sunday Night football as Michael Parsons comes back to
Big D and decides that Hey, I'm gonna hurt that,

(12:32):
not intentionally, but every chance I get, I'm gonna lay
hands on them, and of course.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
At yeah, not in a good way.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
And in an hour from now, we will have coach
Jim Slosnagel, Texas baseball head coach, joining us to talk
about a big weekend that is happening in Williamson County
as the Texas Longhorn baseball team. We'll be taking on
the Texas Tech Red Raiders. So exciting times around the
forty Acres. May be a bye week, but it's never

(13:02):
really a bye week when it comes to Texas Athletics.
Last night, the NFL Week four kicked off as the
Seattle Seahawks and the Arizona Cardinals came down to the
fourth quarter and the Cardinals made a run.

Speaker 4 (13:20):
But guess what wasn't.

Speaker 5 (13:22):
Enough fifty two?

Speaker 2 (13:28):
The kick robbles what makes you through and the Seahawks
win it at the gun.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
And the unbelievable part about that is these two teams,
every time they play each other, it's a battle. It's
an NFC West battle. Arizona trying to get over that hump.
Kyler Murray did everything he could possibly do to bring
his team back to put them in a position to
try to force overtime. But the new rule in the

(14:02):
NFL mark is when you kick it off, you have
to land it in a certain area and if you
don't make it to that area, the team gets the
ball at the forty yard line, right, And that's exactly
what happened. You only have to complete one pass, get
one big play. And with the way the kicker, yeah,
the way the kickers kick now, they can just basically exactly.

(14:27):
You get a chance to flip and change the game
just that quickly. And that's exactly what we got a
chance to see last night.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yeah, I mean it was there was some sloppiness to
the game too.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Yeah, you were dozing off halfway through it how you know,
it was just that's normally what what we do.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Okay, so you don't bring it to you you shot
at me.

Speaker 4 (14:51):
Hey man, I'm an arcalyptic.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Man.

Speaker 4 (14:53):
That's that's that's a that's a disorder.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
Man.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
You can't be picking on people with disorders.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Hey man.

Speaker 4 (14:58):
If you're sitting over there in your head keep and
you're not trying to get apples, then we got a problem. Horrible.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
But I'm gonna tell you something that the stat lines
for both teams looked awful. The only person that had
a decent looking stat line was Sam Darnold. Oh yeah,
like to be able to have, you know, eighteen to
twenty six and two hundred and forty two yards and
a touchdown no interception is a pretty damn good stat
line for a quarterback. And that was a guy that

(15:30):
a lot of people didn't think was going to be
able to carry over what he did in Minnesota last
year to Seattle. I did, and he was one of
I didn't think that he was going to put up
the numbers because he don't have the offensive weapons that
he had in Minnesota. But Kyler Mary on the other side, man,

(15:51):
it just it looked like they didn't know what the
game plan was. Like, they came into it. Well, let's
let's try to throw it. We lost our hammer running back, yep,
so we're gonna run the ball. James Connor's out, Yeah,
James Connor being gone. We're gonna run the ball. But

(16:13):
it wasn't effective and it looked very disorganized, you know.
And Trey Benson, he actually did good job, I mean,
rushing for four point four yards to carry, but they
didn't stick to it. They ran him and Kyla Mary's
gotta stop running and throw the ball too. Like, it's

(16:36):
cool to watch him scramble. It's cool, it's exciting. Oh man,
this is great. Look at that. That's not gonna win
your game. It's not gonna win a game.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Well, not being able to catch the ball when he
throws it to you is not gonna help that.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
That's not gonna help either.

Speaker 4 (16:51):
I mean, Marvin Harrison Junior, I don't know what he
is going after. Hips.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
I told you the Monstars that's what got him. They
switched him. They switched him and Quinton Johnson. They switched it.
They switched them up. But the thing about it is,
you know, you talk about Kyler Murray but the one
thing is you got Trey McBride, he's one hell of
a football player, exactly you had James Connor, and that'll

(17:16):
puts you in a different type of mindset. Everybody went
out on the waiver wire to try to go pick
up Trey Benson. He couldn't move, he couldn't get loose
in that backfield. He had a twelve yard run, which
made his numbers look a lot better to go up
to four point four. But then you look on the
other side until your point. I was one of those

(17:37):
guys that I wasn't sure if Sam Darnold was gonna
be able to relive or rekindle what he saw in Minnesota.
But he's bringing Jackson Smith and Jigba along with them.
You look at the running game with Kenneth Walker the
third and Zach Sharberney.

Speaker 4 (17:56):
There are two headed monster in.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
That backfield that is able to continue to grind the
ball game. You know, you start looking at the time
of possession. Kyler Murray did everything he was supposed to do.
He got his team. One was the volleyball kind of
like what Dak did the other day. Hit him in
the hands and he dropped it and it went to
the other team. So one I can say yet, but

(18:20):
the other one, no, I'm putting that on the receiver.
I think the receivers need to have a YEP interception.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
If I'm Trey McBride, I go to my quarterback and
I say, hey, man, like I'm here for you, like
you need to use me as a safety blanket.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
He tried, but they started taking him away from him.
They were bracketing him because they knew nobody on the
house side was going.

Speaker 4 (18:42):
To be able to do what they needed to do.
Trey McBride.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
There was some plays that they had to knock the
ball out of his hands and Kyler was trying to
get it to him.

Speaker 4 (18:51):
Look at the total.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Offense yesterday, total yards they each ran sixty four plays.
Total yards for Arizona was two hundred in fifty three
yards for Seattle three hundred and eighty four. And Arizona
still almost won that game if they play a little
bit better, if they can control the time of possession.

(19:12):
Time of possession Seattle thirty two minutes, they had it
the Cardinals twenty seven.

Speaker 4 (19:20):
It's close, That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
So the balance of this game came down to a
play here and a play there, and at the end
it came down to a special team snap fuu by
not being able to kick the ball off properly, and
then you give them a short field because there wasn't
much time left.

Speaker 6 (19:36):
Well, the key is having somewhat of a running game.
The Cardinals have no running game at all. That's what
I'm saying when they lost. When they lost James Connor
last week, it changed it. But bringing in Trey Benson,
which I everybody.

Speaker 4 (19:51):
Think to get him, give them another week.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
To try to figure out the loss of Connor and
what they're gonna do with this offense.

Speaker 4 (19:58):
They didn't even attempt to run though.

Speaker 6 (20:00):
It's like it's like they ran I think they ran
the ball without without Colin Murray's five carris.

Speaker 4 (20:05):
They ran the ball like twelve times.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
Well, the thing about it is they they were behind,
so they had to try to move. They were down
fourteen to three going into halftime, and they were trying
to make up some ground in that particular. I think
next week too, and that's the other part. He was
dealing with a concussion, so he was out. Kyler only

(20:27):
ran it five times, and like you said, they ran
it twelve as a team, but the yards per carry
wasn't even it. He only threw for two hundred yards.
You know what I'm saying, Like they tried to do
those short intermediate routes because he only threw four point
nine yards per pass attempt. So you start to look
at this team and fools goal. I'm done with Arizona Cardinals.

(20:51):
They're not going to be the team that is going
to battle because if you look at the NFC West,
you look at Seattle, their defense shows up. That coach
nine or eight or nine road wins since he's taken
over as a head coach. Think about that. It's hard
to win on the road as an NFL team. The Cardinals,
I never even knew you was on the Cardinal badwagon.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
To be done with them, Well, when you.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
Look at the NFC WESTFC this is an open division.
I mean, this a talented division. You look at San Francisco,
they're undefeated. You look at what the Rams are. That's
my Super Bowl pick. I've already had them going the
entire time. And now you look at Seattle because it
looks like Sam Darnold is going to be that guy.
He looks like the guy that you were talking about

(21:36):
in Minnesota. Because he's taking care of the football. That's
the most important part. So as you start to see
all these things start to unfold, you say, all right,
what is.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
This going to look like?

Speaker 1 (21:48):
Well, it looks like Arizona's going to be at the
bottom of it because Cornor's gone for the year. So
there's nothing you're going to be able to bring in
for that.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
But you know what, there's a lot of teams that
lost people for the year already.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
But they don't have the they don't have the depth
at it. Other teams have depth. This team Arizona doesn't
have depth. They never had.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
And if I didn't check the cap or they strapped,
will you go out and try to find somebody who you.

Speaker 4 (22:15):
Gonna get who's giving up something? You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
If Marvin Harrison Junior decided to be what we saw
in college, it may change the way this team is viewed.
But right now he's not doing he's not holding up
his end of the bargain. Yes, he made that touchdown, Lewis,
whoever that is, I know what you're talking about. When
we come back, we'll talk some basketball, local basketball with

(22:41):
our guy Sean Harriman a ball Hard right here on
the morning Kickoff on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.
Welcome back to the morning kickoff right here on Sports
Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Mike Harballhard's World's Strongest
Man w w EE Hall of Famer Mark Henry holding
it down, and we want to make sure that you
get over to our AM thirteen hundred The Zone page

(23:06):
on Twitter x whatever you want to call it, because
we posed a question on our social media page right
now on the covert Huddle Plays of the Week. We
have a lot to dive into, but one of the
things I want you to get over there in Castro
vote about all of the plays of the week. Cal

(23:28):
the Big Dumper with his home runs he's up to sixty.
We also wanted to vote on show Hail Tani getting
to fifty four time his own record that he had
set last year, Aaron Judge, and of course Arch Manning
with his ability to have a big, big weekend last weekend.

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But right now we're going to be joined by our guys,
Sean Hardiman of ball Hard. He has been working in
the community for quite some time. As you know Mark,
he does great work with basketball. He's worked out with
your son daughter, He's worked out with my son Sean.
How you doing, buddy, amazing man, How are y'all? We're

(24:09):
doing great, We're doing great. We wanted to ask the
question because you've been bringing in some coaches and you
got this event that you have going on one in
sam Marcus and of course right here in Austin, Texas.
But it's a little bit more than that. Tell everybody
your background and what you've been doing for this community
for quite some time now.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
Well.

Speaker 7 (24:31):
Balhart Player Development has been around as a company officially
since two thousand and eight. What we've done is that we've, honestly,
we've interwoven our fabric, our culture into the fabric of
Austin basketball. We've been relevant, honestly since the day we

(24:51):
you know that we came out, even with Mark Henry,
we went out to Salesby where he's from, and we
went and saw with show and you know the camps
out there. You've done clinics in camps all over the country.
The main thing we want to do, honestly, is that
if a kid wants to play basketball at a high
level or just learn the game at a higher level.

(25:14):
We've always wanted to have that that venue. We're not
necessarily for everybody, but at the same time, we have
something for everybody.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
Well, I'm gonna tell you right now, Sean and I
go way back, and you talked about doing my camp
in salesby Sean. Sean, you know how we met. Sean
met rge we met. We met on the court. We
were both going to ACC and I would go play
and Sean would Sean picked me because I was, you know,

(25:45):
the last guy and in that also the biggest guy. Well,
but nobody wanted to pick me because I was a
big guy, and they thought that I was not gonna
be able to play. And in that game, I looked
at the rim and Sean was like what and he
threw me the ball. He threw me alive. I dunked
on people at ACC.

Speaker 5 (26:04):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (26:04):
Yeah, the big fella could get right up. Thanks for
once again for bragging about it.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
My hand, my hand is sore from myself on the back.

Speaker 4 (26:15):
I'm surprised that.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
In your head it's your shoulder trying to reach back
there to do it again.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
Flexible.

Speaker 4 (26:21):
Look, hey, guys, look at that Oh my god line.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
You see what I deal with every single day, Sean,
this is what I deal with.

Speaker 4 (26:31):
It always goes back to when I did this.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
When I did this, people want to hear man about
the exploits of the world Strongest Man.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
Okay, put it in your World Strongest tape. Okay, Hey, Sean,
you got a coach that's coming in uh this weekend
that has spent some time in the NBA. Now he's
in the G League and he's helping some guys out
in development. Talk a little bit about your clinic and
how folks can get out there.

Speaker 8 (27:00):
Charlo Mo actually played NBA.

Speaker 4 (27:08):
Oh no, he froze up.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
We've had some we've had some technical technical difficulties this week.
My goodness, I got I got e. He froze in yesterday.
Coach coach Vic and now coach Sean, listen, because you
took the time to talk about yourself.

Speaker 4 (27:29):
No, don't blame it. No, No, that's not blaming it. No,
I'm not going to accept none of that. I'm blaming
it on it.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Sean. Sean is a is a very good coach, and
he said that he's not for everybody, and he's not
for everybody. Sean is a tough coach. He reminds me
a lot of Joe Sigler, the coach that I played for.
He's very like, listen, it's discipline oriented. I need you
to listen to me. I need you to focus. Like
basketball is a game of knowledge and understanding, and Sean

(27:58):
is a good teacher of that. He's not gonna take
no lanes and Sean, let let him let him know
about m again.

Speaker 8 (28:06):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 7 (28:07):
So Charlo actually, uh, he played the NBA and now
he's a coach for the g League for the Lakers.
The Lakers organization, their G league and their NBA team
actually practiced in the same facility, so they're one of
three teams that actually do that. And so he's actually
you know, he's in there with Brownie, but he's also

(28:29):
in there with He's like, hey man, you gotta come down.

Speaker 8 (28:32):
And see the transformation.

Speaker 7 (28:33):
Lucas making like he's like those in our pictures, Like
he actually looks like this, this and that.

Speaker 9 (28:38):
So it's just the culture that he's coming from is NBA,
current NBA, and honestly, Austin, Texas, Central Texas, we've never
had access to things of that nature.

Speaker 8 (28:51):
So what I'm doing is this, I know Mo personally
because I trained his daughter.

Speaker 7 (28:57):
Right, So he's like, yo, like I've never been the Texas.
I'm like, so I'm here's what I'm doing, Guys. I
am horrible about using my network. I don't lean on people.
I know Mark Henry.

Speaker 4 (29:11):
I know Mark, Like.

Speaker 8 (29:17):
No, but I know Mark Henry.

Speaker 7 (29:18):
And it's like, I don't you know, because it's just
these are my guys, like I don't. But you know,
from a business perspective, marketing perspective, I got.

Speaker 8 (29:27):
To do better.

Speaker 4 (29:27):
But Moe is a current g LE.

Speaker 8 (29:31):
Coach that's coming to Texas, coming to Austin.

Speaker 7 (29:34):
He gets on a plane at six o'clove today, He's
gonna come down here. He does the player development as
well for the G League. So it's not like a
meet and greet. He's coming in here like work.

Speaker 8 (29:48):
So and that's the thing I want to do, is that.

Speaker 7 (29:51):
And because everything is about segregation right now, public school honestly,
with with the way things are going, you know, people,
it's gonna be hard pressed for you to find a
public school to go to that actually gives you an opportunity, like,
you know, get to the next level of basketball.

Speaker 8 (30:11):
It's just everybody the landscape is changing, and what I
want him to do is I want him to come down.

Speaker 7 (30:16):
Here and talk about the current state of basketball from
the highest level and then what he sees.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
So so tell everybody how to how to sign up
and where they need to go to get all the information.

Speaker 8 (30:28):
Okay, you just go to a vall dashhard dot com.
Look at the camps and clinics.

Speaker 7 (30:33):
Sabh Mo's event is going to be right there, and
what we're gonna do is that we're gonna give the key.
The people are saying, Marcus, who are do not get anything?

Speaker 8 (30:42):
And the only reason.

Speaker 7 (30:43):
I'm going out there is because I know my good
friend Charles Austin has a gym out there, and I'm like,
you know what, I let me go find.

Speaker 8 (30:52):
Underserved community, sat Marcus. There's nobody coming out there, and
I'm I leave it at that.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
What we can do.

Speaker 7 (31:02):
We're doing a two hour clinic just for you guys alone.
Then Saturday, we're coming in from four to six and
we're giving away two hours free for anybody that register.
I found two hours in pocket and I was like,
instead of trying to make a couple of dollars off
of it, I'm just gonna give that that time away

(31:22):
free Sunday, we're gonna do everything in North Austin. Elementary
and middle school guys, you want to get in and work,
it's gonna be from twelve to three. And for your
high school and your elite players, it's gonna be from
four to seven. But and by the way, anybody registers
for Sam Marcus or for the Austin on Saturday from

(31:43):
four to six, you're getting two hours free for one
hundred bucks.

Speaker 4 (31:48):
Love it, love it.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
There he is my guy, Sean Hardman, Shawn as always, man,
we appreciate you taking the time. I've been around you
for a very long time and you've done a great
job in the community and you canntinue to give back,
so we appreciate you.

Speaker 7 (32:03):
Hey, I got one more thing to get to say. Yeah,
the dream is so separately. I mean, I'm sorry, the
dream is free. The hustle is so separately.

Speaker 4 (32:12):
Come on, man, go to work. That's right, man, appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
Doc.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
There he is Sean Harriman. We'll talk soon, brother. When
we come back. We're gonna continue these conversations because there
is a lot that is going on this weekend in Austin, Texas.
But The question is, is Micah really gonna get some love.

Speaker 4 (32:32):
That he deserves by going to Dallas.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
We'll talk about it right here on the morning kickoff
on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred design. If Mark doesn't
hurt hisself patting himself on the back, hold on second,
let me stretch. Welcome back to the morning kickoff right
here on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred design. Coming up
at eight o'clock, we will have Tommy Yarsh of Dallascowboys
dot Com at age seventeen. We will have coach Jim

(32:58):
Slasnagel of Texas Bay Ball giving us an update on
the upcoming season. But more importantly, they got a match
up tomorrow at the Dell Diamond as they will take
on the Texas Tech Red Raiders. Speaking of the Dallas
Cowboys and what's going on in Dallas, well, MICHAEH.

Speaker 4 (33:18):
Parsons, the man, the myth, the legend, the.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
Guy that is going to give us a arttach by
watching them this weekend is not gonna make it fun.
We'll be returning to Dallas as Dallas Cowboys will take
on the Packers seven o'clock Sunday night. Sunday Night Football
and America gets to see that, Oh God.

Speaker 4 (33:42):
I can't. I cannot believe it.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
But as Micah returns, he's kind of wondering what that
response is going to be, and I think he's gonna
be received well.

Speaker 4 (33:53):
But here's Micah talking about it.

Speaker 10 (33:54):
You know, I think Dallas loves me, you know, I
think they're gonna give me a good.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Ride of applause.

Speaker 10 (34:00):
You know, there's no hard feelings there, at least for me,
And I think it's gonna be, like I said, it's gonna.

Speaker 4 (34:05):
Be a great atmosphere.

Speaker 10 (34:06):
I think, you know, this is some of the best
football you're gonna get in Dallas when it's Sunday night against.

Speaker 4 (34:11):
You know, a rivalry opponent.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Yeah, Michah, we love the way you're just talking about
that and making it like it's no big deal. But
Jerry was asked about Micah in the video tribute. Jared
didn't believe in it, and Michael was asked about it
as well.

Speaker 4 (34:27):
Well, No, you know, there's a.

Speaker 10 (34:31):
Lot of things I can consider disrespectful, like this process,
but I wouldn't say the tribute is.

Speaker 5 (34:36):
One of them.

Speaker 10 (34:37):
I would say, you know, you know, I just think,
you know, there's hard feelings maybe there for.

Speaker 8 (34:43):
Them, but you know, for me, I'm happy where I'm
at and.

Speaker 10 (34:47):
We got a really good football team, So I guess
I can love you, my tribute and a woman, I
hope Jerry.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
The Packers defense since adding Michael Parsons, and that's just
this season, they have fifty one pressures on the quarterback,
that's number one in the NFL. They have eight sacks
that is second in the NFL, and they lead the
league in yards per play allowed at three point seven.

Speaker 6 (35:32):
Y'all gonna be doing a lot of drinking. Start drinking,
dam man, it's just too much.

Speaker 4 (35:38):
Man.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
I gave up sniff and glue, so just go have
to join that brown figure out what is going on
with this squad. And as you look at the Dallas
Cowboys in this weekend, and we'll talk to we'll talk to.

Speaker 4 (35:53):
Our guy Tommy Yards in just the moment.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
But this could be one of the worst Sunday night
football game behind whoopings. This could be the true meaning
of belt too behind. Yes, whatever you want to call it,
I'm over under.

Speaker 4 (36:17):
Let's do it, over under, Let's do it.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
How many sacks does Parsons have? I say three? Do
you think it'll be over or under three.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Well, the key for this to answer your question, I
believe it's going to be under. And the reason why
I think it's going to be under is because Dak
is going to do everything he possibly can to get
the ball out of his hands because, well, here's why
there's no deep threat with CD lamb out, there's nobody

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that could really stretch the field.

Speaker 4 (36:53):
He wanted to go.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
Deep last week, he couldn't want CD got out.

Speaker 4 (36:57):
There was no way that that was going to happen.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
So now he's trying to get the ball out of
his hand as quick as possible. Why do you think
Ferguson had twelve catches last week? He's gonna have to
try to get those screens out, slow down that rush as.

Speaker 4 (37:13):
Best as he can.

Speaker 1 (37:14):
You know, you're talking about you think it's gonna be
three or more sacks in this game just by Micah? Yeah,
Oh my gosh, Hey, can you get that? Can you
get that? Michael?

Speaker 2 (37:29):
It's gonna be bad. It's gonna be consequences and repercussions.

Speaker 4 (37:34):
How many How bad do you think this game is
gonna be?

Speaker 2 (37:37):
I'm thinking like thirty four, ten, thirty four, seventeen.

Speaker 4 (37:42):
Well, if the Bears did that to him.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
Then thirty one to fourteen, they're gonna score though, Cowboys.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
Got maybe.

Speaker 4 (37:53):
This may be a field goal fast for Aubrey. So
pick him up this week.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
Yeah, pick Aubrey if.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
You go pick up anybody, pick up anybody does.

Speaker 4 (38:03):
If you call teams. Because because this.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
As a Cowboy fan, it's hard to look at some positives.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
We believe that we're talking about our team as being
this inept.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
The running game looks good. They're gonna have to control
the clock. That's gonna be the biggest thing. But I
just told you they are number one in the league
at three point seven yards per play, alout the fewest
in the league. They have changed the way that people
view the Green Bay Packers as a defensive squad. Jordan

(38:42):
Love is going to try to put up any kind
of number that he possibly can. You start looking at
the running game and the success that they have had
running the football too. Josh Jacobs killed the Cowboys when
he was with the Raiders before.

Speaker 4 (38:57):
So he already is licking his chops. And they know
that they're playing on Sunday Night football.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
And they know that the Cowboys have digs, and they
know that the cat and you think that, you think
that Ozon how you say his name on the way
at Chicago the wide receiver, yeh, Golden ran a four
two forty.

Speaker 4 (39:21):
Oh and Golden is coming back.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
Goldan is bad.

Speaker 4 (39:25):
Yeah, y'all.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
They don't have no money fast enough to cover him.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
Take Green Bay, folks, that's our for entertainment purposes.

Speaker 4 (39:32):
Only make sure you do that.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
When we come back, we'll talk to Tommy Yards and see
if there's any light at that end of the trunnel,
and if there is, is it a freight train getting
ready to run us over? Right here on the Morning
Kickoff on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Welcome
back to the feel good Friday Football Friday edition of
The Morning Kickoff right here on sports Radio AM thirteen

(39:55):
hundred to Zone an hour number one. We talked about
Texas having a bye week, but there's a lot of
sec implications that are going on out there.

Speaker 4 (40:04):
We also talked about the game from last night.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
We talked about Michaeh Parsons coming back to Dallas, and
we're gonna get into that.

Speaker 4 (40:13):
Conversation in just a second.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
But don't forget at eight seventeen, we'll have Texas baseball
coach Jim Slosnagel joining us. But right now we have
our guy, Tommy Yarsh of Dallas Cowboys dot Com. Tommy,
Cowboys look terrible last week and now they get Michael
Parsons coming back in Can.

Speaker 4 (40:31):
We do we have any chance?

Speaker 11 (40:35):
Yeah? Not a very fun stretch, guys. I don't think
it's one that they were looking forward to. You know,
when you look at the schedule at the start of
the year, you think, all right, you know, those Week
two and three games are probably the ones that you
feel pretty good about. And you know, going to Week
four with two and one record and hope that you
can avenge your loss to the Packers, and then they

(40:57):
trade their best player to the Packers, and I mean
Green Bay looks like the best team in football right
now in my opinion. You know, Michael Parsons just does
so much, not just for himself but for his teammates.
And that's what the Cowboys were so excited about with
him this year, is so much attention goes his way
that it's going to open the door for all these

(41:18):
other pass rushers. And now you're kind of seeing what
the Cowboys have in their pass rush department when they
don't have somebody like that, because they just don't have
a guy who generates a lot of attention and so
it's a lot more difficult for these guys to get
to the quarterback. So no, I'm not very confident that
the Cowboys win this game. They have a road to
victory in this game, just like any game really, it

(41:39):
doesn't matter who you're playing, but it is it's going
to be very, very, very difficult for Dallas got away
with the winning this one.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
In my opinion, Well, time hit is with three varies
and I don't even think that defensively is the thing
that we should be worried about.

Speaker 4 (41:55):
I'm thinking about the offensive.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
Threat that Green Bay poses to the Cowboys defense. And Golden,
who is a University of Texas long horn. Well, I
don't know to graduate but a long horn, and they
have nobody's been able to The Cowboys defense hasn't been
able to stop anybody yet at wide receiver. Nevertheless, a

(42:21):
guy that runs a four to two forty who is gonna
pick up the job of trying to cover Golden on Sunday.

Speaker 11 (42:31):
Well, the good news for Dallas is defensively, it looks
like they're trending towards having Trayvon Diggs and doroan Bland
back and healthy on the field together. Is it is,
It is really hard. It's been very hard for them
recently to have both of them on the field at
the same time. You know, both of them have kind
of been in an alleyed injuries and it feels like

(42:52):
when one goes down, the other is healthy and vice versa.
So you know, in terms of trying to stop those
guys and Matthew Golden and Jayden Reid and the array
of receivers that they've got there in Green Bay, you know,
at least the Cowboys are going to have some healthy
pieces in the secondary. Now their secondary hasn't played well whatsoever.

(43:14):
They're giving up big plays, and you cannot win games
if you give up a lot of big plays in
the NFL, and the Packers certainly have that ability to
generate those big plays. And you have a guy like Golden,
Josh Jacobs in the backfield and Jordan Love at quarterback.
So if Dallas wants to find success defensively, they've got
to prevent those big plays and really get after the

(43:36):
quarterback because Jordan Love struggles when he's kind of off
schedule or outside of the pocket under pressure, so they've
got to force them into some bad throws.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
We're talking to Tommy Yars of Dallas Cowboys dot Com.
You can follow him that Tommy Underscore Yars and Tommy
obviously we talked about the MVP, Brandon Aubrey and what
he's been able to do. But the other part of
it is Dak Prescott has has looked sharp at times,
and now without the deep play threat of CD Lamb,
he's kind of in an impeculiar, peculiar situation, especially when

(44:10):
you start to look at him going short this past
week and throwing a lot of passes. To ferguson what's
the next big move that the Cowboys need to do
to be able to stretch the field.

Speaker 11 (44:23):
Well, the good news is yeah, I think they kind
of struggled offensively because so much of the game plan
was involving CD, and once you lose him, you have
to adjust on the fly, and that's difficult to do.
You know, they had a lot of time to do
it because he got hurt in the first quarter, but
you know, then their defense doesn't get any stop, so
they're kind of forced to go through the air and

(44:43):
change things up. So really they kind of got put
in a blender in terms of what they had to
do play calling wise. You know, I thought they should
have run the ball more in the second half because
they were having so much success with it. But then again,
if you're playing the clock game, you're down a couple
of possessions, you've got to go and score. And Brian
Shotenheimers out at the end of the day. Where the
Cowboys benefit now in terms of having CD out, Obviously

(45:06):
you want CD on the field every every game. I'm
not arguing that whatsoever. But in this case where he
was hurting, how unlike last year that you've got George
Pickens as your primary wide receiver option instead of Jalen Tolbert,
And that is a that's a big upgrade, right like that,
That's that's exactly what you know you want. That's a
high end receiver who has been a wide receiver won

(45:27):
in an offense before and has been in these positions before.
So you feel a little bit better knowing that you've
got that. I feel like George Pickens has played pretty
well through his first three games. I still think Dak
is playing very well.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
I don't.

Speaker 11 (45:39):
I don't think he'd categorized last week as his best game,
but he still had some really nice throws and you know,
I thought managed the game well. But yeah, I want
to be shocked if you saw a lot of those
checkdowns to Jake Ferguson too, because they're going to take
what they can get and with this pass rush, man,
you've got to get the ball out quick, and Jake
Ferguson is kind of his safety blanket when he wants

(45:59):
to get the ball out quick up the seam. So
I feel like he's in for a big game if
the Cowboys want to have offensive success on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
I want to know what a weekend training camp or
a weekend practice, how does clowning look?

Speaker 11 (46:16):
So we don't get to see too much of practice,
but yeah, Cloudey, he certainly looks the part. I mean,
he's massive. I was talking to Stephen Jones before they
signed him, and I was like, man, he still looks
like he could be the number one pick at thirty
two and he kind of truggled and said, yeah, he
does so as far as physically, you know, he looks

(46:37):
the part. And now it's just a matter of all right.
He says he's got a lot left in the tank.
You know, he says he feels like he can help
this defense a lot. Now it's just a matter of
going out and doing it. Because right now, this pass
rushing unit can get all the help that they can get,
and they need all the help they can get. So
Jdevion Clowney really I think is a better run defender
than he is a pass rusher. But if he, you know,

(47:00):
helps remotely in the pass rush, that's that's already gonna
make a difference. Because the Cowboys are the second lowest
team in the league in sacks or bottom five I
think is their number, with four this year, so they
need all the help they can get. Genevian Cliner is
a veteran guy who can not only hopefully help you
in that department, but also you know, mentor some of

(47:21):
these younger pass rushers like Donovan Aza Roker, they feel
like is really really close to finally putting everything together.
Sam Williams, who has struggled to start the year, and
all those guys around him, you know, Dante Fowler is
the only veteran in the room.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
Now you've got another in Genevion Yeah, and that's something
that the Cowboys really need to try to find a
way to get to the quarterback. But one thing we
have not mentioned is everybody's talking about Micah Parsons in
him coming to Dallas. Well, Clark is going up against
his old team as well, and he seems to be

(47:55):
really motivated by this ball game because he too has
thought about sacking Jordan Love. How has he been in
the locker room and more importantly been with this team.

Speaker 11 (48:07):
Yeah, I think Kenny Clark has should him perfectly. I
mean he is every thing that Dallas thought he would
be and then some you know, this is a guy
who had a lot of respects from everybody in Bay
that was not a you know, if it wasn't for
a player like Michael Parsons, Kenny Clark would have stayed
in Green Bay his entire career. There's no way they

(48:28):
would have moved on from him. I mean, they loved
him up there, still do. And you know, it's just
one of those things where when an offer like that
comes up, you can't pass on him. You do whatever
you can to get a player of Mike's caliber. And
as far as what he's done in Dallas, yeah, he's
could doing very well. I think he has helped the
defensive line so much. They're playing worlds better against the

(48:50):
run if we're comparing the years pass and a lot
of that has to do with with Kenny coming in
and playing well. I think Solomon Thomas too. A lot
of people aren't talking about how well he's playing against
the run. He's been incredible, but no, and you know,
in all of this, at least from the from the
media's perspective, he's kind of the forgotten man, right because
this is the this is the Micaeh Parsons trade, not

(49:12):
the Kenny Clark trade, and so you know he's gonna
He told us yesterday that, yeah, you know, it's you know,
it's just another game. Obviously, it's it's it's gonna be
weird and things like that. But I think deep down,
as a competitor, you know what everybody's gonna tell you, guys,
if you're a real competitor, you want this one a
little bit more. Jerry Jones said it on the radio

(49:35):
the other day, he wanted this one a little bit more.
So I think that that goes for Mike, and that
goes for Kenny, that goes for everybody involved to be quiet.

Speaker 2 (49:45):
Just who's that Jerry Jones?

Speaker 4 (49:46):
Please don't say nothing else.

Speaker 11 (49:49):
Hey man, that's my boss. You're gonna get me in trouble.

Speaker 4 (49:52):
Don't say nothing to your boss then, please.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
Before we let you go, what what is your true
thoughts about this weekend?

Speaker 11 (50:02):
Yeah, you know, I really think that that Dallas is
going to kind of have their hands full. I think
that again, there is there is a path to victory.
It is multi layered, and you know it starts with
fighting a pass rush and getting that that. I mean,
you've got to find that first that there's been no

(50:24):
signs of that. You've got to take Mike out of
the game. And not only has to take Mike out
of the game, you got to take for Shaun Gary
out of the game too, because he leaves the league
in sacks. And you can't help but think that Michael
Parsons has a part to do with that because so
much attentions going his way. And Gary is a heck
of a player too. They've got one of the best
young linebackers and Drin Cooper in the league just just

(50:46):
love how he plays and a lot of people were
really high on him in the draft process. It's a
tall pass, guys, it really is. And I'm not very confident.
I think my official score prediction was thirty five to
ten Green Bay. I think you know you don't have
Ceede Lamb. You don't have two of your starting interior
offensive linemen. So if green May gets creative and stunts

(51:08):
Micah or stunts for Sean Gary inside and attacks those
two guys, it might be a long day for for
everybody involved.

Speaker 4 (51:15):
No doubt there.

Speaker 1 (51:16):
He is my guy, Tommy Yarsh of Dallascowboys dot com.
You can get his work over at Dallas Cowboys dot
com and of course you can follow him on social
media at Tommy Underscore Yards. Well, I don't want you
to get in trouble, but I hope that the Cowboys
is at least making a game in the first half
before I fall asleep.

Speaker 2 (51:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (51:37):
No, I'm always hoping for a good game. That would
be that would be wonderful. And uh yeah, hopefully, uh
hopefully Mark doesn't get me fired. Mark. Hey, uh, I
understand the question. But man, that's uh, that's all good.
That's definitely good.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
Hey Man, Just don't listen to me, that's all. You
Just don't say nothing to him. That's right.

Speaker 11 (51:59):
You're you're a Hall of Famer. I always listen to
you and what you've got.

Speaker 4 (52:03):
To say, so appreciate you, Tommy.

Speaker 11 (52:07):
All right, guys, have a good one.

Speaker 4 (52:08):
All right.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
Coming up next, we've got our guy coach Jim Slasnagel
of Texas Baseball as he talks about a big weekend
at the Dell Diamond and gives us an update on
what his team looks like so far. Right here on
the morning kickoff on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.

Speaker 4 (52:24):
It's that time.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
I know a lot of folks don't understand, but baseball
season never stops. Whether it's recruiting, whether it's playing the game,
or if you're playing in the fall, Baseball season is
still going on. And right now, I really am thankful
to have the head baseball coach of your University of
Texas Longhorns, Jim Slasnagele, joining us on the call. He's

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on the move, he's on his way to practice. He's
about to make some things happen.

Speaker 4 (52:53):
Coach.

Speaker 12 (52:53):
How you doing, buddy, I'm doing great, guys. Good morning, man.
Good to be on with you.

Speaker 1 (52:58):
Appreciate you having coming on. It does because I know
that this is a busy.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
Time for you.

Speaker 1 (53:03):
It's fall season, but you got fall baseball tomorrow at
dk R, I mean dk R at the Dhal Diamond
up in Round Rock. And it's big because a lot
of times you don't get a chance to play these
types of teams this early in the fall.

Speaker 5 (53:20):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 12 (53:20):
They the NCAA passed the rules several years ago that
allows us to play two outside competition games in the fall,
so it's kind of like a controlled scrimmage in football.
Coach Tadlock and I have been friends for a long
time and super thankful for him to bring his team
to Round Rock, and uh, we're gonna play twelve innings,

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and who knows what that's gonna look like.

Speaker 5 (53:43):
We're only about two weeks in the fall practice.

Speaker 12 (53:46):
But it just gives you a chance to play somebody
else and and test your team and and really see
how especially the new players can handle a crowd and
getting their heart.

Speaker 5 (53:58):
Rate up a little bit.

Speaker 12 (53:59):
So it's any expensive experience that you know, that's what
we call it. And uh, we we don't get spring
training games, so these are super valuable.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
Coach, are you are you curious to see how the
new players are going to mesh together, and uh, what
what is the number one game situation thing that you
want to work on with all of the new players.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
Uh?

Speaker 12 (54:22):
I mean yeah, I'm certainly excited to see how they
play together in terms of game situations. Really just interested
to see our young our young pitchers. We have some
really talented high school, high school pitchers that are now
freshmen in college, and I just want to see them
command the strike zone the way they have you know,
in practice or in their bullpens, you know, and different

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things that way. And and then you know, we have
some super talented transfers that come from schools where they
were super successful, but then they're played in front of
in front of significant crowd and uh so that'll be
a great opportunity for them.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
That's funny that you bring that up, because we got
a chance to talk to Aiden Robbins the other day
and he was so excited about the fan base and
having that opportunity, and somebody asked him it might have
been Kirk Bowles asked him, what's the most fans that
you've ever played in front of? He said, friends and family.
So it was because he was playing up in the Northeast,

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so he didn't have a lot of folks in front
of him, but his energy seemed to be infectious.

Speaker 4 (55:28):
And he seems like a guy that really loves the
game of baseball.

Speaker 5 (55:33):
Yeah, he loves it.

Speaker 12 (55:34):
You know, he had a great summer in the Cape
Cod League. I think he was I think he won
the batting title, maybe finished second in the MVP, or
maybe he was the MVP.

Speaker 5 (55:42):
Much, you know, I'm sure. I just know he had
a great summer.

Speaker 12 (55:45):
So he's ready, you know, It's it's a natural progression
for a guy like that to eventually, at least in
today's college baseball, to get to the SEC and and
see what he can do leading to into professional baseball.
So the great thing about Aiden, he's he's already super talented,
but there's a lot.

Speaker 5 (56:06):
Of room for growth. I mean a lot of room.

Speaker 12 (56:08):
This guy can get better, and he's gonna he's gonna
get better, and uh, it'll be interesting to see what
he looks like this weekend versus what he looks like
in the season.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
Coach, you you you brought in some guys, and when
we say brought in some guys, there's some some really
good guys. You brought in. Is there any of the
guys that you brought in that they've exceeded what you
saw when you recruited them.

Speaker 12 (56:32):
Yeah, transfer infielder from Stanford name Timo.

Speaker 5 (56:37):
That's sata like that.

Speaker 4 (56:41):
I liked it.

Speaker 5 (56:41):
Yeah, I rolled, I rolled that.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (56:44):
Now Timo's a he's an awesome story. It's from Fresno area.

Speaker 2 (56:48):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (56:49):
First, you know, first person in his family to not
just go to college, but how about that graduate from Stanford.
So he's just an elite human and uh, he's really
he's one of these guys. Uh, Mike, you played with
plenty of guys that look like freaking Babe Ruth and
and batting practice and and then there and then there're

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no nowhere to.

Speaker 5 (57:11):
Be found in the games.

Speaker 2 (57:12):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (57:13):
And then Patimo's the opposite of that. He shows you
some good things in practice, but when the game comes on,
the fact that he has so many at bats under
his belt at a place like Stanford, man, he can
really do some things on a field and you can
really trust him. So I'm excited for him. You know,
he's gonna play some shortstop this weekend. Uh, but he
also could find his way to third base.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (57:35):
At some point.

Speaker 1 (57:36):
Coach, we gotta we're talking to coach Jim slasniegel As.
The Texas baseball team will be taking on Texas Tech
tomorrow at in Round Rock. Exciting time and coach, we
got a chance to talk to Carson Tinney and when
he came around the corner, it was my first time
to lay eyes on him. That's a that's a big
old catcher back there for you. And and he just

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seems to be one of those guys that is really humble.
He said he had to work his behind off to
get to where he is right now, and he just
seems like the grind is not a problem for him.

Speaker 12 (58:12):
Yeah, he's a very talented guy from Denver, great family.
Under recruited. I think he Notre Dame may have been
one of his few offers. He went up there, tore
up his knee a little bit, so he got had
to come persevere through that and then had an All

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American type season last year.

Speaker 5 (58:34):
So he can really catch.

Speaker 12 (58:35):
I mean, for a guy that big, got great hands,
he can really manipulate the ball. So uh, you know
he's got big shoots the field and Ryland Galvan and
so uh, no one is going to replace you know Galvan's.

Speaker 5 (58:52):
Texas moxie is what I would call it.

Speaker 12 (58:56):
Yeah, he's uh Ryland played with such elite flair, but
but Tinny is super he's super confident, and he's obviously
a great player. And our guys just they attract themselves
to him. So we're excited he's on our team.

Speaker 1 (59:12):
Before we let you go, I wanted to ask you,
is there a player that we should to know about?
Obviously everybody on the team is expected to do well,
but is there a player young player, high school recruit
that has stood out so far with the way that
he's gone about his business since he's got on the forty.

Speaker 12 (59:30):
Yeah, on the position player side, young man named Anthony
Pack from Long Beach. What a super awesome young man
and just getting better every day. Made some swing adjustments
early as soon as he got here, very coachable, and
he's one of those guys kind of like Jonah, that

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be careful what you tell them because they're actually able
to do it. So, you know, some guys you had
to tell them and show them in video and all
these other things. And he has such good you know,
mind body awareness that he can make adjustments very quickly
and he's never been in the weight room, so uh,
he's already gained fifteen pounds. And once we get through

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these next two or three weeks of fall practice, we're
gonna get these guys in the weight room four days
a week. And I mean, I can see this guy
having a real impact. Whether he does it his freshman
year in the SEC or not remains to be seen,
but we value him highly.

Speaker 5 (01:00:26):
He's gonna be a great Longhorn for a long time.

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
I love it. I love it as always. What's the
time for tomorrow? One o'clock?

Speaker 12 (01:00:33):
Yeah, one o'clock, twelve innings, So a lot of good baseball.
Hopefully you have a great crowd, and thankful to the
Express for hosting us.

Speaker 1 (01:00:41):
Yeah, I can't wait because I'll be out there checking
out these young players and seeing what you guys look
like on the.

Speaker 4 (01:00:47):
Early part of it because favorable.

Speaker 1 (01:00:50):
I'm definitely looking forward to seeing Tinny because he seems
to be one of those guys that you can't keep
your eyes off of.

Speaker 5 (01:00:57):
Yeah. I can coach great players. I'm good at that.

Speaker 4 (01:01:03):
That's why you gotta make those moves.

Speaker 12 (01:01:05):
Coach hey man like Nick Saban. I heard him one time,
Coach Saban. I'm a big fan. I heard him say,
even I can't coach the bad players.

Speaker 1 (01:01:16):
As always, and thank you for taking the time in
and we'll see tomorrow. Best of luck tomorrow and the
upcoming season. We'll sure to have you on even more
so when it gets closer.

Speaker 5 (01:01:25):
All right, fellas, you guys have a great weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:01:27):
Hook him all right, I'll see you soon.

Speaker 1 (01:01:29):
There he is coach Jim Slosnagle as his team gets
ready for a battle against Texas Tech twelve innings at
the Dell Diamond. The great folks over at the Round
Rock Express put on a great event and both teams
are ready. But you need to get ready because the
world's strongest man is getting ready to bring you his
world's strongest take right here on the morning kickoff on

(01:01:50):
sports Radio. Hey, I'm thirteen hundred's all. You know what
time it is when that music hits WWE Hall of
Famer and the World's Strongest Men, Mark Hevery brings you
his world's strongest take.

Speaker 4 (01:02:04):
Take it away, big fellas. Alright, Yes, you know what
time it is? Well, talmas, it's.

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
Time for the world's strongest take by the world's strongest man.
My because back then they didn't know me. Now I'm hot.
They're all on me, guys. I'm jumped right into it.
And there's been a lot of debate about this race
that we're having leading into who's going to be the

(01:02:33):
Major League Baseball MVP. After last night's game with Seattle, Uh,
there was a point where Kyle Riley hit his sixty
home run sixty, count them sixty home runs, and but

(01:02:57):
that's not that's not why my take is what it is.

Speaker 4 (01:03:00):
Today.

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
We don't have a lot of positive takes. A lot
of our takes are based off something negative or something
that we had a beef with. Well, today is positive.
During that game, after that home run and a guy
in the crowd caught that ball, he handed the guy

(01:03:24):
handed the ball to a kid that was standing next
to him and his dad. So, you know, of course
Orange thinks that maybe he didn't realize the significance of
this ball, that this ball was the sixtieth home run
from cay Raven.

Speaker 11 (01:03:46):
I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:03:46):
I don't think that's the case.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
I think that he just said, you know what, man,
I want this kid to have this experience. They're gonna come,
They're gonna take him down. He's gonna they're gonna give
him the option of hey, can we trade balls, I'll
sign one for you, I'll sign a bat or whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:04:04):
You know, they do a lot. They try to do
the most for people.

Speaker 2 (01:04:07):
When they switched these balls, fortunately they took all of them.
They took the dad in the in, the young man
his son, and they took the guy that caught the
ball down to the field. Kyle signed the bat for
the little kid, invited them to come to a bat

(01:04:28):
and practice whenever they wanted to come. And I'm sure
they're going to get a few other perks, but the kids,
dad said, he told his son, son, this is the
kind of thing that you always remember because one day

(01:04:48):
I want you to be able to do the same thing,
give back to somebody selflessly. And my like when I
when I read the story, like my eyes started to
wheller up because we don't get people like that guy
that gave that kid that ball very often. Now, I'm

(01:05:09):
not gonna throw Marcus under the bus, but I'm gonna
throw hards under the bus.

Speaker 4 (01:05:14):
Heart said, no.

Speaker 2 (01:05:16):
No, I don't man them kids can go eat cake.

Speaker 4 (01:05:21):
He can't have my ball.

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
Hart said, no, I'm keeping that ball. Like you know
that significance.

Speaker 4 (01:05:29):
I said, yes, I know the significant that was like
my kids, let me give the ball to my kids.

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
What a selfless act, though, heart, do you think that
we need more of these stories told in sports? We
need more of these stories told period in the news.
But my take is this is I think that I

(01:05:58):
think that col should be the MVP because of the
first that he had. What say, you, first off, throw
me under the bus. I didn't what you said. I'm
with the bus and backed up twice.

Speaker 4 (01:06:16):
Like what you're talking about?

Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
I did say that, and I said with my chest
I was not giving that kid the ball because it's
his significance of what was happening.

Speaker 4 (01:06:27):
I needed to be there. I need to be in
that dugout taking the purchers. What if he wins the MVP?

Speaker 1 (01:06:32):
Now, no, it's it's a great story and I'm glad
you brought it up because we also had the fan
in the stands that was the Karen, as they said,
and took the ball from the dad who gave it
to his kid. Because once the ball goes into the bleachers,
it's it's free fall. Yeah, and so there are some
some moments where things get a little bit.

Speaker 4 (01:06:55):
Bush League got there.

Speaker 1 (01:06:56):
But the story that you gave significance to is something
that is a good part. And to answer your question
about do we need to hear more stories about that,
absolutely we need to hear more stories because there's so
much negativity that is out there. But Mark is not
going to produce anything. It's not gonna produce great radio,
it's not gonna produce all these different things that we

(01:07:19):
look forward to every single day. And because people are bad,
people want to do. People want to talk about the
evil instead of the goodness that people are doing, and
it won't move things. And you brought this up yourself
multiple times. You want to be you want to get
a statue. You want to get all these great things.

(01:07:40):
You ain't got your statue because when you made your
most money, what were you?

Speaker 4 (01:07:44):
You was a villain. So you can't have it both ways,
Mark Henry.

Speaker 1 (01:07:49):
You can't go out there and be a great guy
in the streets.

Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
You're still mad that I made a post that said
that I moved out of the way when you splash
me in that picture that we posted.

Speaker 4 (01:08:03):
I am mad at that. I am mad at that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
Just like the other day you posted something, posted a
picture and then you go in there and say who
you think one?

Speaker 4 (01:08:13):
Who do you think one?

Speaker 1 (01:08:14):
You gotta always put something into the post to patch
yourself again. Let it be sometimes and let's see what
the people say. You don't remember that post, Oh yeah,
I pull it up for you. I keep hey, I
keep receipt. But the truth being told to your take

(01:08:34):
and what you said, I mean it is it is
good to see that people are still good things like
that and letting these these young people live out their dreams,
because who's to say that that's not the parents and
that kid's one game that they have been to all
year because mom and dad had to save up money
to get into those seats to be able to get there,

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and this is how he was rewarded.

Speaker 4 (01:08:59):
Dad.

Speaker 1 (01:08:59):
This is a first game that you ever taken me to. Yes,
sn now look at it now. Don't expect it every time,
because we are gonna be able to come in here
unless Kyle Riley gonna put us on his pass list,
and then we'll be back in here.

Speaker 2 (01:09:11):
I want to give that back exactly exactly I'm asking for.

Speaker 1 (01:09:16):
I would have I would have held at hostage for
a little while just to see what.

Speaker 4 (01:09:19):
I could have got out of. No, I'm just kidding.
I would have gave it, would you know?

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
And I have. I've had a change of course on
what I believe in Aaron Judge and the MVP too.
We'll talk about it when we get back and close
out the show and send you to Dan Patrick. We
got big games that are happening this weekend and we
will talk about those as well right here on the
morning kickoff on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred the Zone.

Speaker 4 (01:09:46):
What a great week of shows.

Speaker 1 (01:09:48):
It might be a bye week for the Texas Longhorns,
as we are your home for Texas football, baseball, basketball
and thirteen hundred to zone and always free on that
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You'll also be able to hear the Houston Texans as

(01:10:11):
they play. You can hear it right here on Sports
Radio AM thirteen hundred.

Speaker 4 (01:10:15):
In the Zone. Mark what you got going on this weekend?

Speaker 5 (01:10:18):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
Man. Tomorrow, I'm going down to San Antonio, n W
a Texas Paradox show. I'm going to be doing to
meet and greet and I'm going to be the special
guest host of the show. It's that bigs Burger Joint
to show it at Burger Jointe where they have like

(01:10:41):
a little arena. Oh okay, you know at the you
know burger place. But it's yeah, nonetheless, yeah, why do
you say it like that?

Speaker 1 (01:10:50):
Because I mean, well, because it has something to do
with food. So I figured that's why you and me
not being there, and that's why I figured you would go.
You were like, yes, sign me up.

Speaker 2 (01:11:01):
To be honest, I think I did say, am I
gonna be able to get a burger in the deal?

Speaker 4 (01:11:07):
And they were like, yeah, Mark, of course you get
whatever you want. Of course, Mark, you're gonna go there.
I want to double might get cheese on it, grill onion.

Speaker 1 (01:11:18):
Oh my god, man, listen, it's still early, okay. A
lot of people ain't getting up to go eat no
burger right now unless you're not putting Sunday in afternoon.

Speaker 2 (01:11:26):
Oh oh, because the show starts at six o'clock and
I'll be doing a meat greeting. That's gonna be a
charitable element to it. There's gonna be ten fans that
are going to get to get in the ring and
take a picture with me at in the mission so
uh and it's all kids nice.

Speaker 4 (01:11:45):
I'm looking forward to that. That's awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:11:47):
Also this weekend, there's a bunch of big matchups that
are gonna be happening in college football, particularly in the SEC.
Start your Saturday off with Notre Dame at Arkansas. You
can see that at eleven am on ABC. You got
Auburn in Texas A and M at Texas A and

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M on ESPN at three at two point thirty. You
also got LSU at Ole miss at two thirty. That
is the game that we're going to be paying attention to.
Tennessee will be taking on Mississippi State at three fifteen.
Mississippi State a team that is undefeated and on the
Texas schedule, so you might want to check that one out. Also,

(01:12:30):
you have a big matchup between Alabama at Georgia seven
or excuse me, six point thirty kickoff on ABC, and
you round out the night with Kentucky at South Carolina.
Big matchup for all the teams that are involved. But
on the national scene, I know, Mark, you were talking

(01:12:50):
about the matchup between Oregon and Ohio State. I mean,
excuse me, not Oregon in Ohio, Oregon Washington, Oregon in Washington.
That is going to be a big time matchup. No,
it's it's Ohio. Washington and Oregon and Penn State are
playing Saturday night as well, so there's gonna be a

(01:13:12):
lot of good games on Saturday, especially when you think
about Oregon going to Happy Valley. Penn State is a
team that James Franklin doesn't win these types of games.
It's been real rough for him over the years. Dan
Lanning and that Oregon team. Dan Lanning is a guy

(01:13:32):
that comes with plenty of energy every single time. So
this is going to be a big time matchup for
all that is involved. Penn State is a three and
a half point favor the over under his fifty three
and a half and the money line is the play
to go if you're gonna take Oregon because it's plus
one fifty. As as for your cousin as what my

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Kim funks telling, Yeah, I'm just doing entertainment purposes. Only
forget that this weekend also will be the first weekend
without Oklahoma State having Mike Gundy. This will be a
big move for them. They will be taking on Baylor.
Let's see what ends up happening with the Baylor Bears
and if they can go out there and finish that
deal off. There's just a lot of good football and

(01:14:19):
it starts tonight six o'clock. You have Florida State at
Virginia and Florida State good running game. They moved the
ball well and Virginia is a team that loves to
play in these types of matchups, so we'll see if
they'll be able to hold it down. You know, I
was telling you the other day about this game in

(01:14:42):
Flugerville tonight. I'm excited to go to a high school
football game for the first time in a long time
where it's got me this energized to go and see it.
And tonight at Flugerville at the field, it is Hendrickson
High School playing Aga wwis Weiss has a ton of talent,

(01:15:04):
as does Flugerville, but I mean as of Hendrickson, but
most of the stuff has kind of spread out throughout
the ISD. But this is a rivalry game. It is
going to be a packed house. I will be out
there tonight. If you see me, come say hi, check
in and say hello, because this is a game that
everybody has been talking about for long.

Speaker 2 (01:15:26):
They have security out there for what I mean, I
like to come and watch the game, but like you know,
it's hard for me to just walk up and just sit.
I want to come, man, but I need you to
reach out to your people and do you tell them?

Speaker 4 (01:15:46):
Hold up? Man, here we go again. Put myself back again.

Speaker 2 (01:15:52):
I'm not I'm not apologizing for being me, dammit, I'm
not apologizing.

Speaker 4 (01:15:58):
But do we have to let everybody know all the time?

Speaker 2 (01:16:01):
Oh so you want me to just tell you in
the break? Yeah, okay, well we'll talk later.

Speaker 4 (01:16:07):
Yeah, tell us do it to break.

Speaker 2 (01:16:08):
Man, it just came out. I'm talking to you man
on the radio, but we're just happen to be on
the radio air.

Speaker 4 (01:16:15):
I don't even want to talk to you no more.

Speaker 2 (01:16:18):
Marcus, Marcus, did you hear him?

Speaker 1 (01:16:20):
Hey, y'all got security out there. I'm like, what we
could have talked about that later. Who does Oklahoma have
this week off? This week they off this weekend. They
resting up. They don't have nobody playing this weekend. They
can't Yeah until they rested. Wow, they rested up. They're

(01:16:45):
not playing nobody this weekend, So we'll see what that
score is gonna look like. But they are breaking in
a new quarterback, Michael Hawkins has to play as jeometerears
getting he had his surgery, it seemed to be successful.

Speaker 4 (01:16:58):
Folks will believe that he is going.

Speaker 1 (01:17:01):
To try to push himself to see if he can
play against Texas. I don't think that's something that he
should do, but that will give him three weeks to.

Speaker 4 (01:17:09):
Be ready to play Texas. That game will be at
two thirty. Make sure you pay attention to what we
have going on.

Speaker 1 (01:17:14):
Texas ou weekend is going to be fun. The bye
week will be over next week. We'll be focused on
the Florida Gators as they are on a bye week
as well. For Mark Henry from Marcus, I'm Hardball Harsh.
Make sure you get over to our podcast page and
go back and listen to all of the podcasts. Get

(01:17:35):
out to the Dal Diamond as Texas Baseball will be
taking the field at one o'clock. And just remember this, Folks,
don't believe everything you see, because even salt looks like sugar.

Speaker 5 (01:17:47):
Peace