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Anthony Hill on the challenge of facing Cam Skattebo
the game. It's the Craig way show with a voice of the Texas Longhorns and Hall of Fame broadcaster. Craig way. All right. Continue the preview Texas Arizona. Stays we get ready for our coverage on Wednesday reminder. Long corn. Team day begins at 9 a.m. My self. Mike Hardball. Hard. And Mark can rely from Taco deli off a burn it road. Special guests and insiders help us preview this game. Keys to the game predictions. All of that good stuff. Come out, grab some breakfast tacos before going back home and watching the big game. Real quick what we've heard from Quinn Ears in Texas and Steve Sarkeesian. Let's hear from Anthony Hill. C prepares for Arizona State and Cam Skatibu on Wednesday. And here's you guys going back to a place where you just played a couple weeks ago. The emotion of that. Do you let yourself feel the sting of that loss in this same place where you're going to play again now. I'm of course we're going to kind of feel that fit that little bit but we kind of want to move on and just get ready for Arizona State. I mean they're a good football team and we kind of don't want to just think about that game all over again. We want to move on and just get ready to go. >> And you've heard the quote from PK at the end of the year where you talk about you want to grow as a linebacker not just as a good football player. I just want to ask you, can you maybe think of one or two things that PK has taught you specifically about blind backing that maybe you didn't know or didn't conceptualize in high school. >> I kind of want to talk across my coast cause Nancy's I probably want to talk about just developing seeing stuff before the play and kind of working on my food work just not crossing over and kind of understanding the pictures and tight splits and are they going to run the overrout or are they the linemen on their heels that they pull it and just little stuff like that where you kind of don't think about a high school to just help me develop. >> Anthony, so there's certain people in life and transcend life itself. They love what they do so much that they attract fans to them. You're one of those people. I'm just curious, where does that come from? Is that for your mom, your dad, your aunt? And why do you love this game so much? In the follow on to that, would you ever consider being mic'd up on the field for a game? >> I'm going to talk about the mic up. I don't want to be mic'd up. I don't think that's going to be a good option for me and just kind of with a level football, just came from my mom, my dad and a little bit of my little brother and me and I've been a football fan in my whole life. I've been watching the Seahawks. I grew up with Cam Chancellor Bobby Wagner. I'm a big gamer. So like Derek Johnson always tells me how I know all these people because I was on I was on Ultimate Team when I was a little kid playing with Derek Johnson and Tom Bali and different guys. I was just understanding football at a different level, kind of from just playing video games and playing with my friends and watching football with my dad when I was a kid. >> Hey, I'm a Christmas Anthony. Hey, Michael Taff said after the Clemson game that, you know, he learned some lessons from the success that Club Nick and the offense had. What did you learn playing that Clemson offense that'll help you moving forward? >> What I learned is kind of helped me just find some things in zone coverage. I mean, it was a couple of little busses and we'll all say that we take accountability for those busses. Kind of understanding that when the down gets longer, just plaster and zone drops and just different landmarks that you want to stay in during the longer and then down. >> And P K just told us how Collins hash probability is elite. He won that freshman of the year award recently. His ball get off. The first step or two is incredible. Is that just God given or what does he do to make that so special? >> That's just God giving. I mean, I love like, of course, when I was in, I was in freshman last year, I kind of loved you seeing freshman making plays. I mean, next year, hopefully a guy comes in and does what we did like the next couple years, but his kind of his get off his understanding of football has kind of been different. He kind of been helping me a little bit. Just we in competition every week. Are you going to give more sex? Who going to get more sex? I mean, he got me right now, but hopefully next week I can come get him back. But I kind of love playing with him and what kind of kind of like each other. It's kind of great playing with him and it's been pretty fun. And I just wondered, what is your impression of the way AC and Vernon have played this season holding the point of attack. >> Yeah. >> And what does it do for a defense when you guys have these goal line stands at A&M, the one that gets Clemson? What does that do for y'all mentally? >> First of all, I just kind of say with AC and Vernon, I kind of love how they've been playing the whole year. I mean, they play fast and physical and it just kind of helps the linebackers. When they're playing fast, we can play fast. The back end can play fast. So it's kind of all tied to a string. If we're all playing fast, then we can all play fast together. And them goal line stands kind of just just test a point of how we practice and how we execute in the offseason. I mean, some of these plays is mean. We went out on the field before that after that point and we kind of said we're going to get a stop in the fact that we did it was amazing. And we just kind of love that we make those plays and it just helps to boost the defense. >> Hey, Anthony, is there a how simple or how complicated is PK style of defense? Is there a phrase he always uses that you go to sleep and you can hear his voice in your head? >> You know, learning a place when you first get here, I kind of hard, but once you get here and a month go by, years go by, it's kind of you kind of realize how simple it really is. I mean, he kind of breaks down. We do a good job of getting younger guys and means so they understand what's going on. So I feel like he does a great job of getting us going and putting young guys in position and make plays. So we kind of like when we first got here, of course, they kind of had me at a smaller role. We kind of do that with some of the freshmen so they can kind of play fast and comprehend what's going on. >> Anthony, we just had PK on here and he said in the offseason, you all moved to that post defense middle of the field close. How does that help your position when you have, you know, maybe either Drew or Taft dropping down and helping out? >> It kind of helps us play faster. I mean, we kind of kind of run a little bit more covered through this helps us play faster, having an extra guy in the box. I mean, we feel like we've been stopping and running pretty well this so far this year and we got a big challenge this week. So we kind of understand that playing some of this cover through kind of helps with some of the posts and some of the curve rocks that team's been attacking us with last year, so it's been pretty useful for us. >> Hey, Camp Skatibu said he's the best running back in the country, 1,500 yards rushing, 1,000 after contact, he's a 500 yard receiver. What do you see from this guy on film and what is he different from anything you faced this year? >> I've been watching the tape and I mean, he deserved to say that. I mean, he put up 1,500. I've been watching the tape. He's running guys over and he's catching balls at the backfield. So I feel like he deserved to say that. But at the end of the day, we have a challenge and we're in a league defense. So I just can't wait to play against him and see who's really the best. >> Do you want to ask, you talk about that challenge to follow up on that question. How much does it excite the defense? You know, going into a game where you know they're going to try to run the ball on y'all, and y'all's front seven loves when teams try to do that. And so how much is that exciting for y'all? >> It's really exciting. I mean, we're seeing him running guys over on tape. We're seeing him do all this different stuff. So we kind of see it as a challenge, you know, we want to we want to be the best and we try to be the best. So we want to play against the best. >> All right, that's some sound from Anthony Hill. Appreciate him for that as Texas takes on the Arizona State. All right, real quick. We got Mark Henry. >> That's right. >> We got Mike Harbaugh Harge with the studio. >> Real quick. >> You want to hang around for a little bit? >> No, man. >> One second. >> One second? >> Was a little bit. >> About five minutes, about five minutes. >> All right, all right, all right. Don't go anywhere, guys. 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