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Happy Wednesday, all welcome to the Inside Texas football YouTube channel, powered by InsideTexas.com. I'm Joe Cook, got Justin Wells, got Drew Kelson, may have some more join us later, but until then, go ahead and give us a like, subscribe to the channel, and thank you for joining us. And if you have not done so yet, as soon as you're done watching this video, heck double multitask. Go over there right now, head to InsideTexas.com, use the promo code IT1, get yourself two months of access for just $1. Thank y'all to our crew showing up. We love the sport, love doing this on Wednesday nights. Yeah, it's my week, we get to talk football, we get to talk about the Longhorns. It's kind of turned into a little bit of a extended hate week, as our guy sugar daddy told me the other day. Got some stud muffins on here, but it's turned into a little bit of an extended hate week. And we've talked a lot about the suitors. And you know, Drew, I looked up something because the SEC coaches have their weekly media teleconference today on Wednesday. And I know it's kind of a rarity to have this break before the bi week, or excuse me, this bi week before Texas, Oklahoma. And I looked it up just to see Oklahoma had theirs the week before the 2006 game. And I can't remember if during, you know, your time there, whether there was a buy for Texas the week before I did not look that up was there one. And even so, you know, what's the week before the week before kind of like anyway? By a week or not, you're always projecting this game. Like you're all it's always on the radar. And to be honest with you, in the big 12, it just depends on who you played early, but it was rare we had some tougher challenging games early. At the end of the day, though, I'll use on the radar. And every year is different. I think when I was there, teams were pretty evenly or equally matched, even though expectations may have been different. I mean, you knew the game could have gone either way. And I think those games played out in certain ways. It played out that way. Texas had to show up in a couple games and they had to show up and do their thing. I think my freshman year when we lost 12, 0 was the big year. But this scenario is just I mean, this is what you want, right? No excuses. A bi week for both teams. Everyone gets a chance to recalibrate. You know, both teams hold something back for this game every year. So we get to see a lot of, you know, what we haven't seen from both teams because this is, you know, say what you want. The OU game, Texas OU really sets the stage for the both teams for the rest of the season. Everything that happens before. Once you get to the Texas OU game, and I love that it's in the middle of the year. It's not the end of the year. It's not forced at the beginning of the year. There really are no excuses. You put enough on film to where you can prepare for them, but you've also kind of worked through kinks and everything else and you've held back some. So that's why this game is so explosive because there's always uncertainty. There's always unknowns, but then you have enough of the knowns going into it. Both teams have a game plan to have a scheme. So having a bi-week before this game for both teams, I can just send some excitement coming from you. Yeah, it's just it's one of those things. You get guys healed up. So injuries shouldn't be an issue. You get the schemes locked in, you get more than enough practice. We just get to them. There are no excuses. I think we're going to get a true assessment of where both teams are mid-year in this game, and there's no excuses about it. One of the things that I went on about this on the Monday show, we had Homer, we had Nino from Nino's Corner, we had Ian, and I kind of stole Ian's, I don't want to call it a diatribe, but a speech in that there is nothing like this game in the regular season. The closest thing that like might compare is the cocktail party with Georgia, Florida, but even that's different because it's it's not the gator bowl anymore. It's in the Jaguar stadium. There is literally nothing like the 50/50 split downfield or down the middle of the field and what that's like when you're going one direction and what that's like when you're going the other direction. I remember the story, I think our buddy, SRR 50 Steve Ross, just had his birthday a few days ago. He worked in the athletic department and one of the things was right after Bo Schimbacher, Bo, no this, I walked by Schimbekler Hall, Bo Schimbekler right after he retired started working for ABC. It's like Bo, what game do you want to call? It's like, look, I've coached Ohio State Michigan. I want to go watch and commentate on this game. He's like, there's nothing like it. So it's fun to get a lead up to talk about it. Drew, you talked about all the different things with stating stuff and I'm curious with the fact that Texas played a somewhat similar scheme, at least an offensive scheme on Saturday against Mississippi State. What do you kind of see as like an offensive and defensive game plan from the Longhorns for OU, especially as they do try to do the things like you mentioned, like unleash some stuff they haven't seen yet. Well, I think one, I think just starting with OU's offense, I'm sure there's something that we haven't seen. Michael Hawkins Jr. is still developing. There are things that they're going to layer in and we have a bi-week. There are things you can just throw in there and really make sure that he reps and gets comfortable with and say, these are the three key things that we think are going to exploit this Texas defense. We need you to master these. We don't know when in the game, what situation, what opportunities, we're going to have to take advantage of it. But we need you to be ready when we pull the trigger on this opportunity. So around him, you want to run the ball effectively. You want to get yard, you want to find easy plays, easy yards. When you have two weeks to prepare for this game, why can't they do at a minimum what we saw Mississippi State do? Just at a bare minimum, just from the standpoint of trying to control the clock and running the ball. I mean, it may not be how they want to play this game, but you play the win. So I do expect them to mirror some things we saw there from Mississippi State, especially in the run game. However, from a Texas defensive standpoint, when we have a quarterback that we know is mobile and we know can run, we generally, I mean, we do fine. Yeah. We've done fine. We did great against Jaylen Milro. I mean, we've done well against quarterbacks. We know our running and know can run. Think where we have struggled is when a quarterback, we just assume he won't run or we go into the game plan on expecting it and we get shocked. And that that tale goes, I mean, you know, you ask all you fans, they think we still have nightmares about Kayla Williams. But at the end of the day, any mobile quarterback going back to last year, I mean, their quarterback last year, I mean, doing Gabriel is, he gave us a yard. Yeah. So, so that that's something that if we go into this game and the quarterback run game or the quarterback converting the passing game to a run is an issue for us to where we lose or we have an issue, like a true issue where it's a difference maker in the game, that will be disappointing. But I do think if we can corral this young quarterback with our really talented experienced defense, if we can stop the run and win on first and second downs, I love what we can do on third downs. Third downs is the most exciting down for Texas football right now. You get so loud. It's just when third down defense, third and long, there's nothing like it. So, I am excited about that matchup. And then offensively, we got to see, we got, we got to see what they do over four quarters. They have really good players, but we'll have to see what the depth of their talent does over four quarters, because we can stress them in different ways. There's a reason Peyton Thorne looked like a Heisman quarterback early, and they control, often control the game. So, I'm just, until I see different from OU, I will not assume that what I have seen is enough to beat us this week. I do think with Quinn coming back, we can exploit so many different things, and we would have been able to do it with arch anyway. But I think if we can establish the run, or we can just, if we can just get those, get effective yardage on RPOs, either one, I'll take, I don't know how they outscore us, if nothing else. Justin, we've seen our buddies over at sooner scoop. I think Eddie Rodosovich has mentioned now that Michael Hawkins and even Brett Vinnables today kind of alluded to the fact that I asked him about it. Like, how do you prepare a true freshman for this football game? We've seen, I think in the past 10 years, Sam Ellinger started this game, Shane Buchel started this game as a true freshman. I think Gerard Herd was a red shirt freshman at the time. Colt was a red shirt freshman, all the different stuff, but a true freshman starting this game for Oklahoma has not happened. I'm pretty sure going by off of what our buddy Eddie said. So like, what type of dynamic does that create for the Texas defense knowing that a talented, very good, you know, does what he does right, freshman quarterback is playing in this game for the first time in program history and starting this game? It's substantial because he doesn't know what he doesn't know. It's different if they're an experienced guy and they've been in this game and they understand the magnitude. But sometimes freshman, as much as you tell them how important this game is, don't really understand it until they're starting to run and jog through the tunnel. Then it hits them. And so with Hawkins, I almost feel like him being naive is a plus for them because he doesn't know what to expect. Granted, he's from Allen. He's seen these games before. And he's going to use that motivation. Texas is the higher ranked team. Texas is a double digit, you know, in the double digit favorite. Yeah, favorite. They know all those things. But Hawkins, man, I'm telling you, he's going to play with his hair on fire and he's going to play probably, you know, is mistake-free as he can because he just doesn't, he won't understand that magnitude yet. And that's why PK is going to have to dial up some new stuff. And I swear to you, I think Salk went conservative against Mississippi State just so he didn't reveal anything from the defensive standpoint to Oklahoma and or Georgia. And so, and I think we saw some of that. And so it's going to be big. I mean, look, Mikey Hawkins is playing with house money. If he loses, he's expected to lose. They're double, double digit dogs. They're, you know, it's his first Texas OU game he's expected to. So he's going to probably play with not a lot of worry similar to how Gerard heard played in his first game, I believe it was 2015. And so that's significant. It should, you know, as good as Texas defense is, it should be a good tell that, hey, you get this kid shook up, you get him rattled. That's, that's the key to it. And understand, they fully understand this kid's going to stop and run. Like, they're going to take passes. We're going to see some tricky stuff. But his game is running similar to what Gerard Herds was. It's running. If they can spy him, contain him, keep him in there. Dude, I think it could be a long day. But at the same time, a true freshman, they don't know what they don't know. Ryan Wingo went into Ann Arbor and he should have been intimidated. National champions, 110,000. He wasn't because he didn't know any better. I feel like that's actually a plus for Oklahoma. Or we keep going going to get to a lot of comments. 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They get going. I mean, this guy since day one has been shown up and has shown up in practice and been a staple and been I mean, his work has already earned the right to to be on the field. But sometimes the the opportunities don't present themselves. And then when you get them, you have to create them. But still, I hope this is a game for him. This is a huge stage. While NFL scouts will look at his film, regardless of the stage, this is one where I mean, you want your name to shine because if your name shines this week, everyone's going to be looking for your name the next week, you know, who we play the following week. So hopefully he gets he gets some shine this week. He finds the plays and gets the quarterback. I think we don't have a lot of chances to do that. So do you do you think this is a case where we've watched him be assignment sound? That's great. But we haven't seen the wild plays and now it's kind of like we're asking, okay, where are those we've been waiting on them? Is that kind of how you've approached Moore's game? Well, I mean, first, I didn't assume and maybe I'm different than everyone else. I didn't assume Moore would bring the wild plays to us. We saw wild plays of him or with him at UTSA. We knew he would be a solid player. We knew he would be a contributor. We knew he would be solid for us. He's actually already exceeded what I thought. I make no assumptions when the player comes from a G5 league and comes to Texas, especially when they're one of their biggest games, you know, they had force acts or something and they just wore out certain, you know, the stats always, I mean, his best stat games were games where, I mean, well, there were games against opponents that I mean, he got multiple sacks. So it's not just about the stats. It's about what he does on film. And so even last year, the stats had one thing. He still was a solid all around player on film. This year, he's a solid all around player on film. If you didn't have any sacks, the first half, the second half of the season or where you want them, because it gets, okay, when anybody says the rest of the season is going to be, it's going to be a run. So this is time to make your money. Does anybody not see the stats? The leading sack guys are the backups because they're teeing off in the second half. Trey Moore isn't in his ears back in the second half. We've got some viewers in here with some comments about Trey Moore, this ain't UTSA, and Trey Moore doesn't have sack totals expected. Is he coming back? Are you kidding me? Trey Moore is an incredible teammate. Trey, go ahead, Joe. Well, I think I agree with you on the sack thing, but I don't think it's unreasonable to think he comes back another year. But I think what you're saying should continue to say is true. I mean, the dude, unless he has a breakout year and gets drafted, there's no reason to go anywhere else. I think the program loves him, and he's a veteran guy. He's good for the locker room. Give him another year in his locker room. It'll be like David Bendah in there. Trey Moore does a lot of stuff off the field that we don't see. And like Drew said, you can't look at the box score and measure what he does. As fans, you want those sacks because that's what he brought. He brought 55 tackles for losses or something into here, some ridiculous debt. It's coming. But there was one reason he had so many at UTSA. He wasn't playing opposite Ethan Burke and Baron Sorrell and Colin Simmons and Colton Vosic. There's an order here at Texas. And all these sacks, if you notice, come in the second half. When Texas is pulling away, they're bending their ears back and they're just letting Colin Simmons be a freak and Ethan Burke be a shot blocker. So for Trey Moore, I just relax on him, pump the brakes on that boy. He does so many things in this program. I think people don't understand. He was big in the spring. He was big in the summer, and he's going to continue to be big this fall. You're right, Justin. If we can get up early and force them to have to throw the ball a bit more, no. One thing that Texas has done very well, and they probably did worst all year against Mississippi State, is dictate the terms of the game. They dictated the terms of the game against Colorado State. They didn't want to block Texas defensive line. Well, tough. Texas got up real fast, and then I think Colorado State realized what was ahead of them and ran the ball. Like, when people look at Colorado State's rushing total and say, "Oh, they rushed for 100 yards." That's all they did. They wanted to get back to four Collins as fast as they could. Once Michigan was down 17-3, and I think that was when you saw the trick play, the Flee Flicker, that was indicative, and that Flee Flicker did not result in seven points. I think it ended in a field goal drive. That, you know, Michigan does not play well from behind. Similar applied to ULM, similar applied to UTSA, and it took literally until ARCH hit the Andre Moore on that touchdown right before halftime for Texas to be able to dictate the terms. So that's something they've done well, and being able to dictate terms is something great teams do. It's why Michigan won the National Championship last year. So I think that's one of the big keys for this game, and if Texas is able to do that, it'll go a long way, and Trey Moore will be an integral part of doing that. I've got another one for you. You know, with Sark, think about the guys before him. Mac Brown, Charlie Strong, Tom Herman, they had good days against OU. They had their bad. Sark hasn't really had a bad day against Oklahoma yet. He's lost a couple of games, but they're close. Every game he's been in has been close, and last year it came down to two guys not being sound in their gaps. It's the only reason they lost that football game. Even playing as poorly as they did in his playing Oklahoma, playing as well as they did. And so I think that's another thing to factor in. They left that game last year thinking we just left out. That's a loss we cannot, that was not right. There's no way you can come back to that. Sark understands you want to stay at Texas, you have to meet Oklahoma. I think that's the coolest thing about Sark right now. Every game has been competitive. Every game has been close or been good. And I think that is what puts them over the edge this year because they remember last year. Sark's got two losses against Oklahoma where if one play goes here and another goes there, this dude's undefeated against the Sooners. Sark understands how important it is. I think that's the coolest thing that took Mac Brown about four or five years to get to. It took, I don't know if Charlie ever got to that. I'm not sure Herman ever did either. Like this one. Going to go through some more comments. We're going to see Quinn at his best with a lot of time to repair. I think that's a safe assumption. Might be his performance. Best, I'm guessing his best performance so far as a Longhorn. I look this up. When Quinn Ewers comes back from injury, he's done it twice. And the fact that he's had to do it twice is a problem. But here we are. Anyway, and it's going to be three times now. But when Quinn Ewers comes back from injury, they've played Oklahoma in 2022. We know how that went. 49-0. In case anybody who's watching forgot, they defeated TCU last year in Fort Worth. And in those two games and the stats are about split evenly, 43 for 64, 67%, 606 total yards, five touchdowns, two interceptions. One of those interceptions was inconsequential against the Sooners. The other interception was the Xavier Worthy, Jordan Winnington, chase down play. So he was a deep shot. He still threw it. It was still picked off. Yeah, but it didn't hurt Longhorns and it didn't either time. So we've seen really good Quinn Ewers. There's no reason to think Quinn's not going to pick up where he left off guys. There's a reason he was in the hospital. There's a reason he's probably going to be the first quarterback selected in 2025's draft. There is no reason to think he's not going to pick up where he left off. The only thing I would think of is a little bit of rust. That's it. And the way he's been practicing in the last two weeks, I know the game is a lot different, but he's been in this game. I think Quinn's going to be Quinn knows. Growing up as a Longhorn fan his whole life, Quinn understands how big OU is. OU and A&M and his household are the two biggest enemies in the world. Quinn knows. If there's one guy you want dialed in ready in two weeks at State Fair, it's Quinn Ewers, and that's kind of his tendency. He'll be ready. Justin, talk to me Drew. This is where Quinn's about to make some money, man. And the reason why you could say what you want about OU's offense and struggles and everything else, OU's defense is a money-making type opponent. And then the rest of this league we have is a money-making type opponent. I was initially looking at OU Auburn game. I was like, man, Peyton Thorne looks like he didn't take him out of the bus. When you take him out of the RPO game and he doesn't have to make a decision, it's like, wow, he's just finding the guys hit. When he had enough time, he was getting the receivers of all. And early, he was beating them over the top. So I remember watching them last week, and of course, this is before we knew for certain Quinn would be back. I figured he would, but I was like, man, you know what, worst case scenario, arch can beat these guys over the top. But Quinn can do both. Quinn can nickel and dime you and lower you to sleep and make you feel like this guy's overrated. They're not doing much. They're just getting six yards, seven yards. He's just dumping underneath, then beats you on the corner, beats you on a post, beats you on a slot fade, beats you on just he can beat you in different ways. So Quinn having this time, not just from an injury perspective, but to get fresh. And the last thing about Quinn, I'll say this, did you see how pissed he was when he got hurt? He wasn't crying as I'm injured forever. It's not as it wasn't one of those out forever. It's one of those injuries like, are you kidding me? You just got saved. The world just got saved. The way I'm grooving right now, the way I'm feeling right now, the way I'm dowed in right now. Y'all just got lucky. When Quinn gets back on the field, the way he was seeing the game prior, the way he's prepared for these blitzes. I mean, Quinn has been exploited by these blitzes. I think people forget Quinn bawled last year. After those two years, the last two years, look at the turnovers in this game last year. They were early. The defenses who let us down, and we just couldn't figure it out. We from DB is to just stopping or running quarterback. Quinn will be prepared. Quinn and Sark will be prepared to win this game. I have no doubt about it. Quinn is going to come back hungry. I'm trying to find it the way they always do, but Quinn has always been a difference maker in this one. Let me see if I can find this. It's a PDF because they don't have the original form of it, but it is Quinn yours passing chart from that game. I think I got a good version of it here. There we go. It really tells the tale of what yours was doing in that contest. I can get this just right. Yeah, close enough. Here we go. I think this is what's going to illustrate how much Quinn has succeeded against Oklahoma and what we're expecting to see from him this year. Here we go. You see at the top, 31 to 37, 84 percent, 346 yards, one touchdown, and those two interceptions. One was, I'm trying to think, first one was, second pass, Adnan Mitchell, let his DB get leverage on him, let him cross his face, and so when he threw that slant, the DB was ready. He had the leverage. Then the other one was Billy Bowman making a play. That's what Billy Bowman has to do. But here, if you go down after that interception, he finishes 28 of 31. He was on fire in that game. They didn't get the yard when it counted, and that sucks. Didn't get the yards at the end. That sucks, and it is what it is. But Quinn Eures has played extremely good football against Oklahoma, and I don't think there's any reason to doubt that he's going to do it again. But his challenge may be greater than it ever has, at least in the Cotton Bowl, just because of how quality that defense is this year over in Norman. Need Texas in the tunnel against Michigan vibes? Drew, I think you're the only person of this trio who has been in the tunnel. You saw the video of the Michigan one, granted that's our own turf, but Texas made it seem like it was their turf. What's the tunnel like for anybody who has never really understood it? All due respect to Michigan. There's no player I expect on the OU side who doesn't match Texas's energy in that tunnel. That was a good, good video pick of just watching Texas players like me ready and pumped up for a game. OU players are going to be there too. Michigan, maybe that was just a little different for them. Our players are going to have that energy they had in the Michigan game, but you need to expect OU players to have that same energy. It's just it won't you will not get that type of now, depending on how the first half goes. And you check you catch a video of them coming in at halftime. Maybe you get some different energy there, but pregame. Yeah, I mean, locker rooms are closer. You're right there and you know these people. I mean, you know these guys too. You know these dudes. There's not some stranger from Michigan or from the Midwest. Nah, you know these guys. So it is different. It is different by this time, especially with upperclassmen. They hate us. These guys hate us. Bowman hates us, Stutzman hates us. I mean, you look at once you've been in the program and been in these games, you hate Texas. Texas players hate OU. All the leaders for both teams will make sure the mentalities are right for this game. So in that tunnel. Yeah, there won't be some sign of, especially at the beginning of the game, there won't be some sign of one team is more mentally ready than another. Both teams come out of that tunnel. We'll leave. We'll leave believing like it's going down. So before we keep on going, got to figure out what the sponsor is. Give some love to our sponsor. I believe for tonight's show, in addition to our friends over at Pride, that is come on. Got to make sure we give the right people the love. 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We all see Sart going full, all gas this game, if you can. I've kind of thought for a while that Sart he gave himself a great marketing tool when he said that at his introductory Zoom press conference. He wants to win every game. I think he gives every effort that way, but you play the game and you play the game in the right way to win it. Sometimes it looks like taking the ball, the air out of the ball, like it is at Michigan, but I don't think there just and there should be any questioning that Sart wants to win this game because he understands his record against suitors. Look, Sart has a very, very good idea of what he's got. He knows what toys are in that basket. He knows exactly how to use them, and I think he's used his first five, six weeks of the season to get to this point where, hey, OU is going to have to guard seven different receivers from around the field. OU is going to have to pay attention to three or four different running backs. If something happens to Quinn, OU is going to have to deal with a really, really good backup quarterback. Sart is going to be so gas. There'll be more gas. It's going to be like Sweet Lady propane in Ireland because it's all gas. Honestly, I could see Texas beating Oklahoma, but then maybe a letdown with Georgia because it takes so much. You use so much. It spends so much energy in this game. It means so much to the program. Sometimes there can be an emotional letdown. The fact that they have two weeks to prepare for this makes me think it's going to be even more gassed up. There won't be any breaks. There's no governor on this car. When you're driving a Quinn Ewers, you drive him fast. When you've got the tools and toys that you've got in this offense, you go fast, and honestly, Oklahoma strength is their defense. If you can find mismatches, if you can find three or four plays that will set up two or three plays in the second half, man, throw out the record. Sarc is going to go balls to the wall. It's going to be it's going to be like Hank Hill, slinging at propane, man. Lady Bird sugar father never never fails. Here's a good one from intro techs. Expect a lot of gimmicky plays from OU double passes in reverse. This is what one thing I noticed when I was watching, when I was watching Bama in Georgia game, because SCC defense is right, but there were a lot of explosive plays in that game. The whole game was a lot of explosive, big chunk plays, and we have yet to give up those types of plays. Just one, one, right? Like what I mean, it's like they're just not routine in games we play, whether. So one thing, you know, when you were talking there, Justin, I was like, dude, how will this OU and Georgia game play out? When it comes down to it for me, as long as our defense prevents explosive plays, like short drives where they just answer quick, seven points real quick on the spot under three minutes. The way our offense both uses the clock, drives the feel and takes opportune explosive plays, I just, I can't help but think regardless of the intensity of these next, you know, three weeks, you know, you're saying a let down game for Georgia, like as long as we don't give up, what does a let down look like, right? A let down looks like not tackling well, not, you know, penalties, not doing your assignments, but explosive plays are the real, real big thing that comes down to let downs. And I just feel like we just have too much competition at every position, too much competition at every position for there to be an issue with guys just not being dialed in. But two, I just don't see us randomly all of a sudden having explosive plays all over the board in those games, because it's just not in the DNA now. That's correct me wrong. It's just not in the DNA of the defense. It's just not there. So this isn't oh, use Lincoln Riley, where he had explosive plays on either side of the field. This team is built around defense. And I think you're talking about it's in this defense's DNA. It's in this defensive coordinators DNA, like one of the big goals for Pete Kuchowski. And we saw that play out across 60 minutes of game time with Mississippi State. Don't give up the explosive. You know, you've got the guys who are going to pursue from the secondary who can break off blocks on the D line who are going to get that guy down. They believe that they have the defensive backs to stay with guys. Don't let anybody get behind. You can track guys down. You can bunch up in the red zone. Like it had his Pete Kuchowski two 18. Like people have, I think criticized them on our board on YouTube probably in everywhere that he's too passive. Well, he doesn't want to give up the big play. Like that's his thing. Because giving up big plays, you know, flipping fields often is a determinant of results. And if you, you know, you have to go and be successful nine times in a row if you want to just drive the ball down the field. If you give up one big play, that number shrinks drastically. So that's why Pete Kuchowski tries to force defenses. Of course, he tries to steal yards as well with sacks and tackles for loss. Joe, I'm going to need you to call toadvine at the end of this, at the end of this video and say exactly what you just said to us. Well, you have five people to call that information. And it's mad. It's frustrating, especially when it fails like it did in 2021. But it can be effective too. And I think that's what we see. Pete Kuchowski try to do. Here's a fun fact. Would OU put in Casey Thompson, and a fun question I should say, would OU put in Casey Thompson if hockey struggled? I don't think so. I mean, they won't, they won't. Jackson Arnold already registered. And so it's not like you need to. Casey would have to go last or two years ago. Casey would have to go in. It reminds me of that time when, what was it? I guess I can't remember what year it was in Mac. It said something to case McCoy about, Hey, you need to go in, go in. And he's like, no, I'm not going in. I can see Casey Thompson sitting over there with his juice box and his tablet acting like he's going through plays and with the headphones on. But he didn't listen to that. He's listening to new meek mill or something, probably listening to Diddy. There's no way Casey Thompson goes back, goes out on that field. There's no freaking way. Our buddy, Sandman and said he might be hurt. So that's a case. I'll be hurt this week conveniently. How you hurt? Wait, who's hurt? Or Brendan? Probably, probably both. They asked Brendan to do the wrong things. Like they're asking the football. It should be running track, Joe. I think it was Casey he was talking about. Okay. So Casey's hurt. Oh, man. Well, either way, Casey's execute Casey gets to execute. He wants to live in Oklahoma. He's moving back to to Soonerville. He gets a network and do all these things this year as a backup and he'll be where he wants to be the rest of his life. Like that's the game playing for Casey. It's not anything beyond that. So he's right where he needs to be. If you call them and ask them to go into a game. Good luck. Hey, the shade of orange he used to wear was a lot better than the shade of orange his dad wore. I have no transition for that one. This is a game where a true freshman punter worries me as silly as that may seem. The only I agree with that. But only in two quarters when they if Texas is putting from its own side of the field, that's about the only time it kind of concerns me. I'm more concerned about our punt returner than our true freshman. He feels a little careless drew a little bit. It just, I mean, I don't know. They have to have metrics for this, right? They have to have metrics where since Silas Bolden has showed up because he didn't show up in the spring, but they've seen, let's just say, I don't know, 500 punts he's caught. They're comfortable with it. Like, there has to be a number where you just say, you know what? We've seen it do it. We've seen him do it enough that we're comfortable. But the way he does it, you know what? He has not failed us yet. This is just not the game, dude. Yes. And one of the things is like, I understand if you see a bouncing ball to hop on it, so it doesn't keep bouncing and get 15 more yards. But at the same time, like you, you have to make sure you got it. And I think we kind of had that sense with Xavier worthy. I don't have a Reggie hip hill maps this. You have to know where the 10 yard line is. I'm with you. It's getting backed up in that game. It's not, it's not the right place. But to UT parking's point, honestly, he's been fine. He hadn't been spectacular. He hadn't been Michael Dixon. He hadn't been dicker. But I mean, I'm only concerned if he gets backed up in that OU side. Here's a take that I don't agree with. I want fans to switch sides every year. Do you all have any thoughts on? Has it switched in y'all's lifetime? I mean, my question is just why? Yeah. It does. Does the tunnel matter that much? I like, I like having a good sense of where we're going to sit and everything else. I get, I mean, for me, I like running. I remember liking running out of the tunnel on the OU side, but I get to sprint towards my fans. Because honestly, at home, that's what you do. You run out and you run to the other end zone. So it's just natural to sprint towards the van time. I mean, unless he has a reason for why, I'd love to hear why. It's one of those things that I think sometimes we're in a society where we want to tinker with stuff too much. We want to mess with stuff that already works just because, hey, we didn't try it this way. Why didn't we think of this? Well, that's one of these things. There's no reason to mess with it. It is what it is. Let the tradition be what it is. I love how the Texas players describe it. You're running out to a smatter of booze. I mean, just deafening. But each step you take is a little lighter and a little bit lighter. And then once you get closer, it's that uproar. And what I've told, I've had Texas players tell me it's intoxicating. Let's not mess with it. I don't think Oklahoma wants to change either. I think they love knowing they can run out and not have to run through the Texas side. I think they prefer that. But just from what Drew said, let the guy just keep it the way it is. There's no need to change. I don't know what the story has been switching sides, but keep it the way it is. Justin, I think he may have met him before. Derek Ochoa. I think he's the director of creative media. Basically, if you see anything cool on the Texas football social media platform, it's from him. It's usually him or his team. He has a video of them following Quinn out, I think in 22. And it illustrates what that feeling is like. And I'm bringing this comment up. And it kind of reflects some other ones. And I'll bring up one from Chris Bennett. It feels like OU always owns the stadium. And it also kind of brings up this 11 wins in 2010. There's been some people who are like, oh, they always bring the intensity. OU does more than Texas. Look, we've got to have a real conversation here. OU's been one of the top five programs in college football this century. Thank you. It's not like they don't want it more. That's the dumbest term in football. And if our buddy from another site is listening, he would believe me. That's a scandalous cost speech. They don't want it more. I don't think in most cases, they don't bring more intensity. They don't own the stadium. They've been really freaking good at football. And if they know they can screw up Texas Chances at a national championship this year, that's exactly what they're going to act like. Right. So out of hand, that's the intensity Oklahoma's going to bring in. That's why they are the rival. I remember the Oklahoma sooner scoop when they were doing the coaching search, they're like, we've never done this because they are good at this. They don't have to go through coaches and find the replacement for Mac Brown and find a replacement for Charlie Strong and find a replacement for Tom Herman. At some point, you've got to play football and Oklahoma has been good at it. So a lot of these cliches, and I understand where they're coming from. I'm not like totally discounting that. But like a lot of it boils down to the fact that Oklahoma has been good at football. And there have been stretches within the past 15 years, probably maybe it's Drew's fault for leading campus. I don't know. I don't see what OU is in their Charlie Strong phase. I think we finally got here. They're in their Charlie Strong phase. They're going to play young quarterback. No matter what they do next year, it shouldn't matter. They've just got to figure some things out. Because at the end of the day, when is this game not been a quarterback game? Exactly. Peter Gardier is not that good. No, he's a legend because he went 4-0. Like go look at Peter Gardier's stats. Like pretty hard. Especially in an era when quarterbacks didn't do much. But he was the starter who went 4-0. And so everybody, rightfully so to a degree, reveres Peter, Peter the Great. His name is Peter the Great. Quentin, sorry I missed this super chat. Justin, I'll throw this your way. Who's defense is better at Michigan or Oklahoma. Ask me at 6 o'clock on Saturday evening. Ask me. Come back on the show and ask us that. My gut tells me Michigan because of how good they are up front. Oklahoma may be better on the back end. I know they have better safeties. But overall, I think it's Michigan because Warren, they're all experienced. There's not a lot of young like young phenoms. They're all juniors and seniors that are going to be playing on Sundays. So my gut, just because that's who I've seen the most is Michigan. But I'm going to reserve that answer until 6 o'clock on Saturday. Chris Bennett brought it up. But now this kind of continues here, right? Like we give OU way too much credit because we've lost 11 games since 22. It's tough for our fans. It's tough for us to just see the game for what it is. Look at our roster. Look at how they've played. Look at how their offense has failed to execute. Look at how many points we score even on our worst days. And tell me this is going to somehow be different. Jeff Levy is gone. Michael Hawkins, Jr. is a great young talent. But they haven't been dynamic with him. He has had dynamic moments, but they have not been dynamic. We got to stop overthinking this. And I'm not saying go ramp up all your trash talk on Twitter. But see this for what it is and be proud of it. We have Quinn coming back. We have a defense that's versatile. So much smarter and communicating. So well, at the DB position, I do think at linebacker, we'll be tested, you know, in two weeks. But at the end of the day, this is a game we should expect to win. Let's just call it is the game we should expect to win. I know we have a lot of time to think about this, but let's not overthink it. Let's not stress out. Let's make sure our team is more focused on packaging together the next three games and executing game plans and focus on the process and focus on execution and focus on playing clean games. Because the rest of the schedule is a winnable schedule. It has nothing to do with our talent. And we hope we're good enough. We are good enough. We need to stop though. We hope we're good enough because we're giving way too much credit to OU. Right now, our challenge just in general is just can we show up healthy, executing, doubt in, to focus to win week over week over week over week. We have the talent. If they win this game, it's because not just they showed up with a game plan, but we just failed multiple times and multiple fronts. There's no reason we should lose this game. There's no reason we should lose this game. If we do, that's a completely different conversation, but we're in position to do that amongst so many other things coming off of our week. This should be the least nervous any of you guys are in any game. That's spoken like somebody who's been inside a confident football program. Amen. Meanwhile, I'm over here thinking about like Casey McCoy throwing for three touchdowns against the Oklahoma team and in first game. He made three throws in that entire game. Three. That was it. They were great. They were perfect. Mark Davis, Marcus Johnson, they were perfect. But while Drew, I know where you're coming from with that and I can't find any fault with it, but I'm approaching this from just what we've seen and that it's when people talk about it, being in anything can happen game. That's what you're trying to. That's what you're telling Texas, if you're a Steve Sarkeesian, to avoid. You're telling your team all the stuff that you just said and rightfully so, but then they still have to avoid it. And that's I guess that's just coaching. But like what you've said is the most, oh, that guy played college football at Texas in this game thing that I think you said, maybe on this show. Go ahead. No, it's just it's one of those things like the same things that matter for this game matter for every game. Right with the ball, we play Mississippi State and turn over the ball. And it looks like a different game. So that's not an OU anomaly. That's just the intensity of OU makes it look like it's such an intense thing. Right. Right over the Mississippi State, no different than the turnovers in OU. I'm not saying the games are equal. What I'm saying is it gets amplified. We have to protect the football. We have to block well. Every penalty, everything gets amplified in this game. It means so much to us that we forget who we are and who we've been. We may have some penalties this game against OU. I don't expect turnovers. I don't expect fumbles because that's not who we've been. That's not that hasn't been the DNA. We've gotten turnovers on defense. We perform well on defense. So I expect us to show up and be who we are. But the intensity of this game makes us just think of OU at their best. What was OU their best this year? Oh, damn. Where was Texas at their worst this year? Oh, damn. That's how it's going to play out. And that's not how it ever plays out. So I'm with you. Stand strong, people. We got another week to wax poetic on this stuff, fellas. And I'm ready. It's fun, man. YouTube parking. This is the first game where I truly worry about our running back room. We need a hammer. Hopefully Gibson's fully healthy because he would be needed. Justin, he's not been on the injury report. I think it's just a bringing and even as much as a situation asks for more from the freshmen, it's a case of bringing your freshmen along. It is. It is. And I think we got early glimpses. You saw him in, it's Michigan and you're like, okay, there's your red zone guy right there. There's your goal line back. Look, here's the coolest thing about Jared Gibson. He's only true north. He's only, he owns a compass and has no clue what the other three directions are. All he does is go north. He doesn't understand south. East and west don't register. It's always true north. And I love that about a young back because even in your worst play call in the defenses there, you're going forward a couple yards. I think Gibson's with another week of this, they're going to open up his ability a little bit more because look, Jayden Blue, they're going to keep, they're going to keep Jayden Blue in the mix. You're not going to win a title this year without him. But I think Weisner, I wouldn't be shocked if Weisner didn't get the start. I wouldn't be shocked if Weisner got more carries. When you get the red zone, you get down there in the goal line. I think that's when we will see Jared Gibson more and man, what a great, give us some Cody Johnson vibes. Because and when when he came on the field, you knew exactly what was going to happen. He was going to go forward. And that's the best thing about Jared Gibson. Give the man a compass because he has no idea of three other directions. It's always north with him. If it's a if it's blocked for zero, he can get three. And if it's blocked for three, he can get more than three. It's a big boy. He's got a big caboose. The only thing, and I think Paul Waddlington as noted this, if you go to inside Texas, he's had a lot of great analysis. He's running a lot of gap schemes. Like he's not running a ton of zone quite yet. And past blocking is not a strength of his quite yet. So you may not see a ton of Jared Gibson on third down. But maybe, maybe you see him on first and second, right at about 55 minutes. I think we got time for one more good question from a longtime watcher that's Helio Castillo. This is a good question. Do you guys feel Johnny Nansen will have an impact on all Texas defense Oklahoma? Since he was on the Arizona team that beat them in the bowl game has a lot of dynamics here with quarterback and talent and players, but you got to know that he's got some stored knowledge Justin based off that experience in that game prep with the he has to not just him, but also Bill Norton on the defensive line. He's got an idea too. Now granted, they went against Jackson Arnold. So this is going to be a little bit of a different obviously concepts and scheme, but it's still the same team. It's still the same vibe. It's actually a worse offensive line. It's actually a worse skilled team than they faced last year. But if that's not one of the reasons Johnny Nansen was hired, then then somebody failed because what they did to Oklahoma was was incredible in that bowl game. And obviously that's some of that's going to carry over. There's going to be tendencies that they're going to pick up that Nansen already knows about. And again, that's why I love that there's a bi-week between this game because I really do think it allows these these coaches to be masters of their craft. Drew, you got anything? I mean, who was their OC in the bowl game last year? Levy. Oh, did he leave already? It may have been switched to No, Joe John Finley and what's his name? And they did the whole like let's keep the incumbent deal going. But what's his name? They hate him up there. What's his name? Beth Latrell. Yeah, so he was the OC. Okay. I think there are fans of him and Norman. And that timeline makes sense because I don't think Levy was waiting around until the Alamo bowl. No, he wasn't. You're right. It was Latrell. Because then they pick him up as like an analyst. That's what he originally was after he got axed at North Texas. Right. I think I heard a story that he could have had the Kansas state job, but Kansas state tried to tell him that you need to hire these assistants. It's like, well, I'm not doing that. And I'm staying at North Texas. And maybe he should have dude, nor tech. If you talk to any more Texas cats, they said that man, he was he was there way too long. Yeah. Oh, you was gonna. They're probably gonna hate their OC after our game. I think they already do. They got build out. No, let's just call it like it is. Like, if you were on Twitter, if you were on any social media, while they were playing Auburn, there were jobs being called. We got it. And students by thanks for coming over. Yeah, man. Thank you for telling it like it is. We love the back and forth. That's what makes this game so freaking cool. There was a bunch of bob stoops figured out that he needed a ton of different offensive coordinators to revitalize his program at various times. Lincoln Riley's got to figure that out or else he may not be long for Norman, but he might not be long for Norman. Anyway, looking at what the way that drew has looked at it, right? I'm just, you know, at the end of the day, you need a quarterback and you need an offense. Last year, they had both. I think this year, if they had the offense, they could have found the quarterback. And this year, they have neither. They let Gabriel go, because they thought Jackson was ready. That's gonna backfire. They don't realize like for a quarter game with all the plays on film and you have weeks to prepare, there's only so much this young man can do. You know, maybe if Nick Anderson comes back, if they get some receivers back and they can just make some plays, maybe that's different, but this this is a different game. But as long as OU fans believe, I'm excited because this this is the kind of game where you want them to have faith and confidence that they're going to do something. So aren't they ranked 15th in the country? Yeah. So that that's why I tell that Sandman has to understand the reason thing even worse. I don't know if it was Sandman or our sugar daddy earlier, but at the end of the day, the reason why we hype up OU is because we want them to feel good about themselves. You feel like we're giving them a lot of attaboys? It's because we need them to feel really good. I feel another e in apology video coming up. I would watch that all the time and I just double check my number last time last week, we checked the availability report. Texas and Oklahoma doesn't have one this week since they're not playing. 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