Speaker 1: It's in the background. Good evening, everybody. Greetings from the
Speaker 1: original Montgomery in home of the world's greatest rips. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Scott Saderfield Radio Show. I'm Dan Horde, along
Speaker 1: with the star of the show, the head coach of
Speaker 1: the number seventeen team in the country. It's here at
Speaker 1: Fort Scott Sadderfield. Had a big game coming up this week,
Speaker 1: a huge spotlight. The seventeenth rank Bearcats hitting the road
Speaker 1: to take on number twenty four Utah. ESPN's College Game
Speaker 1: Day is going to be there in Salt Lake City.
Speaker 1: It's a difficult game, but it's a fantastic opportunity.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely, yeah, it will be a difficult game.
Speaker 2: I think this is this team's probably one of the
Speaker 2: more complete teams that we have played so far this year.
Speaker 2: And you gotta fly all the way across the country,
Speaker 2: you know, and play at a late hour, you know,
Speaker 2: ten fifteen or ten twenty whatever it is at night Eastern,
Speaker 2: and you know, in a hostile environment. You know, I've
Speaker 2: never played a game there, but everything we were hearing
Speaker 2: is loud. It's you know, great environment, game day environment.
Speaker 2: So yeah, well we're looking forward toward our guys are
Speaker 2: eager and hungry and excited for another opportunity to go
Speaker 2: out and show what we're made of.
Speaker 1: We visited yesterday. I asked you about watching Utah's tape
Speaker 1: from their game last week against Colorado. It sounded like
Speaker 1: you were sick to your stomach watching how good they were.
Speaker 1: More than four hundred rushing yards in that game. At halftime,
Speaker 1: it was forty three to nothing, and the halftime yardedge
Speaker 1: was three ninety eight for Utah minus eighteen for Colorado.
Speaker 1: That was one of the more dominant performances I've seen.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I've ever seen that stat line
Speaker 2: at halftime where you have negative eighteen yards and almost
Speaker 2: four hundred yards. I mean, that is pure domination. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was ugly early.
Speaker 3: That was a game.
Speaker 2: It was on late, I guess Saturday night, and so
Speaker 2: I watched a little bit of it, and man, second play,
Speaker 2: I think you know, and they started a true freshman
Speaker 2: quarterback and second.
Speaker 3: Play goes sixty three yards for a touchdown.
Speaker 2: They started blitzing Colorado and they I don't think they
Speaker 2: stopped the whole game.
Speaker 3: I mean they were in the backfield.
Speaker 2: So very impressive performance's out of Utah and you know,
Speaker 2: we got a lot of respect for that their program.
Speaker 2: You know, Kyle Whittingham's been there thirty two years at
Speaker 2: one place that has unheard of, and twenty one years
Speaker 2: as a head coach now, and so you know, he's
Speaker 2: done a marvelous job there has you know, great culture
Speaker 2: year in and year out. They're good, their defense is
Speaker 2: always good. You know, last year for them was a
Speaker 2: down year offenially, we're not that good, and went out
Speaker 2: and hired a new coordinator and got a new quarterback
Speaker 2: and it really really vitalized the program.
Speaker 3: When they're playing really good right.
Speaker 1: Now, he's only had three losing seasons in twenty one.
Speaker 1: Well this is the twenty first, so in the previous
Speaker 1: twenty years, last year was one of them. And again
Speaker 1: moving into the Big twelve, it's difficult in year one
Speaker 1: for everybody that's tried to do it, and it was
Speaker 1: a challenge for Utah last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was, you know, but I think for them,
Speaker 2: they you know, they still were in so a lot
Speaker 2: of those games, had injuries at quarterback last year. You know,
Speaker 2: some kind of shuffled a lot of guys around. I
Speaker 2: think it was for them, and the off season was
Speaker 2: to go out. Let's go out and find an identity
Speaker 2: for offense. And so they hired the offensive coordinator, which
Speaker 2: brought his quarterback. I think it was New Mexico, correct
Speaker 2: where they were at, and they put up some big
Speaker 2: numbers there. You know, more of a running style offense.
Speaker 2: You're going to see the quarterback that's going to be
Speaker 2: running with a lot of Q runs, trying to split
Speaker 2: the defense in half and really you know, manipulate that
Speaker 2: and then they're going to play action you and take
Speaker 2: the take shots down the field. They're very efficient, you know,
Speaker 2: really quite honestly. I mean, they'd look a lot like
Speaker 2: us of what they do. They're efficient in the red zone,
Speaker 2: they take care of the football, they play good defense,
Speaker 2: they can run and throw, you know, so I think
Speaker 2: it very sound in the special team. So to me,
Speaker 2: the very similar type teams, and both teams I think
Speaker 2: are very physical, you know. I think they get their
Speaker 2: pride themselves and being a physical team and playing hard,
Speaker 2: and I think that's what we do as well.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about what your team did last week in
Speaker 1: the win over Baylor, a twenty one point win over
Speaker 1: a very good team, a team that was number one
Speaker 1: in passing yards in the country going in averaging more
Speaker 1: than three hundred and thirty passing yards a game, held
Speaker 1: him till one thirty seven. That was remarkable.
Speaker 3: How did you do that? That was a great job.
Speaker 2: Well, I think, you know, I think first of all,
Speaker 2: just coach Fighten his staffed did a great job, you know,
Speaker 2: going getting in on Sunday and really dissecting what they're
Speaker 2: trying to do offensively, uh, Sunday Monday, putting together a
Speaker 2: great game plan, and then I'll be implementing that game
Speaker 2: plan with our guys.
Speaker 3: Our guys. Man did a great job on you know,
Speaker 3: throughout the week of.
Speaker 2: Putting that game plan in, and a lot of it
Speaker 2: was not you know, listen, we got to tighten up coverage,
Speaker 2: we got to play some different things, we played some
Speaker 2: more man uh, and the coverage was a lot more tighter.
Speaker 3: I thought that in this game, you know.
Speaker 2: And then also, you know, this quarterback wasn't a running
Speaker 2: he was not a running quarterback, so that there's some
Speaker 2: differences there. So you can put some more guys, you know,
Speaker 2: into an under coverages and not have to worry about
Speaker 2: the Q run like we did.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: Basically the two previous games where the quarterbacks rushed for
Speaker 2: over one hundred yards, so it's a.
Speaker 3: Different type of game plan.
Speaker 2: But I thought they played out standing on defense and
Speaker 2: then you know, also creating two turnovers as well to
Speaker 2: really blow that game open in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: So UC's video department puts out incredible content every week.
Speaker 1: These Clifton cut switch is an inside look at the game,
Speaker 1: are just fantastic. I want to play a little snippet
Speaker 1: from the most recent one. This is audio of you
Speaker 1: speaking to the team on Friday night. Let's listen in.
Speaker 5: You gotta put your man in that phone booth.
Speaker 3: It's uncomfortable in there, all right, it's very uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: They don't want to play in the phone booth because
Speaker 2: in the phone booth and you gotta where to go.
Speaker 4: You put your man in the phone booth.
Speaker 3: You know. Back, I'll play wide receiver. If I'm a
Speaker 3: one has corner, he's in full booth.
Speaker 4: I'll put him in a phone booth.
Speaker 2: They want to be out here, free space, basketball on grass.
Speaker 1: Put him in a phone booth, all right, You put
Speaker 1: him in a phone booth. Successfully on Saturday. The question
Speaker 1: is to eighteen to twenty two year old kids know
Speaker 1: what a phone.
Speaker 3: Booth is, probably not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we will have a couple of players here at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour week and find.
Speaker 3: Out we need to ask them. Yeah, that's whole Dan.
Speaker 2: On Monday, I was like, you know, after I talked
Speaker 2: to the team about that, when I left the room,
Speaker 2: I was thinking to myself, I don't even know if
Speaker 2: they know what a phone booth is. That I hope
Speaker 2: they did. I hope they got the point. I think
Speaker 2: they got the point.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: The point is, you know, you're in a tight space
Speaker 2: and we're gonna physically whip you, and you got nowhere
Speaker 2: to go. You can't hide, you can't run away. We're
Speaker 2: gonna make you like it. And that's just really a
Speaker 2: mindset and an attitude. And I thought our guys did
Speaker 2: a great job with that. And you think about an
Speaker 2: offensive line, and we've been talking about our OH line
Speaker 2: a lot this year. Well, we implemented the wheel against
Speaker 2: that defensive line to rush for two hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: five yards. We had fifty carries in this game. We
Speaker 2: occupied the ball, we kept their offense off the field.
Speaker 2: You know, But I did I think the same thing
Speaker 2: with our defense. You know, we got after them up front,
Speaker 2: you know, they had one big run. Other than that
Speaker 2: they did they couldn't run the football. And then I
Speaker 2: thought our dbs did a great job of being physical
Speaker 2: and you know, roughing up their receivers and I think
Speaker 2: that was the key to the game.
Speaker 1: What bathroom stall were is that just too.
Speaker 2: That's a tight that's a tight you know tight, that's
Speaker 2: tight quarters. I phone boots is a lot tighter, I
Speaker 2: mean than a bathroom. But yeah, that would have worked.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for some reason, bathroom stall, it might be the
Speaker 1: wrong meaning.
Speaker 3: We'll skit that. So.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the rushing attack and it was balanced Brendan
Speaker 1: Soresby at eighty five yards, taw Wee Walker at eighty four,
Speaker 1: Evan Pryor had sixty six. Unfortunately, Evan limped off the
Speaker 1: field in the second half, and you said earlier today,
Speaker 1: at least at this stage of the week, you're going
Speaker 1: to list him as likely out with the hopes that
Speaker 1: maybe that will improve during the course of the week.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately he went out of the game there, you know,
Speaker 2: late in the game with a lower leg injury, and
Speaker 2: you know, again he'll be listed as out, you know,
Speaker 2: and obviously as we progress, we have a bye week
Speaker 2: next week, you know, and we'll see how things work out.
Speaker 2: But you certainly, but particularly at that position, you need
Speaker 2: to be one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: I mean that that position, at running back.
Speaker 2: I mean you have to be running full speed when
Speaker 2: these guys are chasing you.
Speaker 3: And he's a speed guy as it is.
Speaker 2: You know, but I think, uh, you know, we'll see
Speaker 2: and if you can't play, then we got some other guys.
Speaker 3: I think, you know, opportunities.
Speaker 2: You know, Manny Cove is a guy who's I think
Speaker 2: has played really well this year in our special teams.
Speaker 2: He's on all four units. He's our punk return guy,
Speaker 2: so he's been playing. You know, had a big punk
Speaker 2: return against Kansas, you know, they got called back.
Speaker 3: He scored I.
Speaker 2: Think against who was a Baylor we scored, or Central
Speaker 2: Florida he scored two weeks ago.
Speaker 3: No oh, Oklahoma State touchdown, Yeah, final touchdown there.
Speaker 2: So he's got some he's got some juice and I
Speaker 2: think he can do some great things for us. Of course,
Speaker 2: you know, Tywee's a guy who could you know, increase
Speaker 2: his carriages as well? You know, tywise two hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty pounds. We haven't I don't even know what the
Speaker 2: most we've allowed him to carry this year. But I
Speaker 2: mean he certainly could be a guy who could up
Speaker 2: his carries if need be. Uh, we got confidence in
Speaker 2: our in our guys that that will be playing as well.
Speaker 2: You know some of the other guys you got chance
Speaker 2: Williams Zion's and a true freshman.
Speaker 3: And I think, man, he's very talented.
Speaker 2: So so there are some other guys I think they
Speaker 2: could potentially play.
Speaker 1: All right, we've got a packed house of Bearcat fans.
Speaker 1: We want to open up questions to the Bearcat fans
Speaker 1: who are with us this evening, So we'll take a
Speaker 1: time out and come back with questions from the audience
Speaker 1: in just a moment. This is the Scott Saderfield Radio Show,
Speaker 1: live from the original Montgomery in on seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 1: Second and goal from the one source be hands it off.
Speaker 1: Tawie Walker boats is off a defender and goes into
Speaker 1: the end zone for a Bearcat touchdown, one of three
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns for Cincinnati last week and a twenty one
Speaker 1: point win over the Baylor bear cincinnati seventh consecutive victory.
Speaker 1: The Bearcats are tied for first in the Big Twelve
Speaker 1: with BYU and UC has climbed to number seventeen in
Speaker 1: the country. Our friend John Daniel is here with the
Speaker 1: wireless mike. It is time to take questions from the
Speaker 1: audience for coach sat Brian. You're up first, coach.
Speaker 6: I remember I think it was last was last year's
Speaker 6: lights first year or was it?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 6: So the defense progressed, you know, learning a news system,
Speaker 6: and you started to see the different says later in
Speaker 6: the year, and I feel like we kind of saw
Speaker 6: that against Baylor in the sense that you were pressing more,
Speaker 6: you weren't playing off.
Speaker 4: How much of that is.
Speaker 6: Just becoming more comfortable and how much of that is
Speaker 6: knowing that you might need to disrupt what that pass
Speaker 6: offense is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think probably just trying to disrupt their their rhythm,
Speaker 2: their pass offense. I think, you know, their quarterback, I thought,
Speaker 2: you know, obviously was you know, one of the better
Speaker 2: passing quarterbacks in the country, and they leaned on it
Speaker 2: a lot. You know, he was throwing it around fifty
Speaker 2: times a game, you know, and so we had.
Speaker 3: To show on some different looks.
Speaker 2: We had to you know, walk guys up and sometimes
Speaker 2: you know, I think, you know, you get a little handsy.
Speaker 2: We've got a few more PI calls against us in
Speaker 2: the secondary. But you know, but I thought we were aggressive,
Speaker 2: which I think was better for us in this game,
Speaker 2: you know, and then utilizing some different coverage techniques and
Speaker 2: it wasn't just the same coverages. I think we played
Speaker 2: a lot of different things covered, two, covered, three man, free,
Speaker 2: all the different type coverages.
Speaker 3: And obviously it.
Speaker 2: Rattled the quarterback a little, but he had some errant
Speaker 2: throws there and some tighter windows and not just the
Speaker 2: free access throws Claude.
Speaker 7: I just wondered on that pass interference in the end
Speaker 7: zone where it looked like it was so far out
Speaker 7: of bounds freem Abdul Jabbar couldn't have caught it. What
Speaker 7: was What was what the official say to you on that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you would think you'd use some common sense.
Speaker 2: You know, we talk about this every week. I think
Speaker 2: with that ball looked like it was way over everybody's
Speaker 2: head and out of bounds, and uh, you know what
Speaker 2: they say is that, well, you know, had he not
Speaker 2: the defender had not you know, been there to grab him,
Speaker 2: but he might could have jumped up and caught it,
Speaker 2: you know. So that's what they say, Yeah, that's what
Speaker 2: they say, and I'm thinking, man, I don't know what
Speaker 2: what y'all are looking at, but it's.
Speaker 3: It's it's it's uh.
Speaker 2: That's what they say, and that's a judgment call, and
Speaker 2: you know, I can argue it, but I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: win that argument unfortunately.
Speaker 1: Victor wembin Yama, by the way, is the current reference
Speaker 1: for a really tall person who couldn't possibly get to
Speaker 1: the throat. Keith Hi, Dan High coach.
Speaker 8: I didn't get to see any of Utah's destruction of Colorado,
Speaker 8: but the stats speak for themselves. Are they more of
Speaker 8: a team that's just gonna line it up and try
Speaker 8: to drive it right down your throat?
Speaker 1: Or they're gonna try to do some misdirection spreads?
Speaker 3: You out?
Speaker 8: What type of thing are you looking to defend this Saturday?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they certainly want to run the football,
Speaker 2: that that's their mo but they will throw it. I
Speaker 2: think they We have to look at the stats, but
Speaker 2: I think they have around the same number of pass
Speaker 2: attempts that we do. You know, so how many times
Speaker 2: we're throwing a game? That's kind of what they've been doing.
Speaker 2: So they will throw the football, you know, throwing you know,
Speaker 2: several double digit touchdown passes.
Speaker 3: But they want to try to manipulate you.
Speaker 2: They'll do they'll do some different spread you out, run
Speaker 2: some motions, pull guards and tackles, and just.
Speaker 3: Try to misdirection you in a running game.
Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, they're gonna pull it
Speaker 2: and throw it down the field when you're you know,
Speaker 2: bringing all your safeties up to stop the run. So
Speaker 2: it's just, well, does offense of what they do. You
Speaker 2: have to stop the run. Because you don't stop the run,
Speaker 2: it'll be a long day for you. And so we're
Speaker 2: gonna have to, you know, commit guys down close to
Speaker 2: the box to be able to stop that run and
Speaker 2: get them down fundamentally sound, have good eye control. I mean,
Speaker 2: all these different things, they're gonna present much different problems
Speaker 2: for our defense than say Baylor of last week fellas.
Speaker 9: Coach, other than the fact that we have to travel
Speaker 9: out to Utah. It's a ten to fifteen kickoff, which
Speaker 9: is better than a ten o'clock ten thirty kind of kickoff,
Speaker 9: and it's in a high altitude. Utah is ranked, and
Speaker 9: it's college game day. What excites you about this game
Speaker 9: for us?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, just another opportunity in the Big Twelve
Speaker 2: and you're playing a ranked team again. You know, we
Speaker 2: beat Alway State when they were ranked. You're playing another
Speaker 2: ranked team here. You know, our goal is to go
Speaker 2: you get to Dallas and play for a Big twelve championship,
Speaker 2: you know, and we've you know, we've done a really
Speaker 2: good job in the first five games, and now we
Speaker 2: have four lets up and this is the next one
Speaker 2: on the schedule. You know, we're excited about our guys
Speaker 2: are They've worked extremely hard to put themselves in this
Speaker 2: position at this time of year. You know, you're sitting
Speaker 2: here going into our ninth game and we're still in
Speaker 2: a great position to go play for a Big twelve championship.
Speaker 2: So that's that's what's exciting about this opportunity, and we're
Speaker 2: gonna take advantage of it.
Speaker 10: Wait, coach, you know Baylor came in with the number
Speaker 10: one rank passing offense in the country. Were you surprised
Speaker 10: that they came out We're gonna run against you. I mean,
Speaker 10: did they look at films on the Oklahoma State game
Speaker 10: and think, you know, we can just pound it well
Speaker 10: and in the second half we were up big. I
Speaker 10: thought him they're gonna came out slinging it and they
Speaker 10: come out and handed.
Speaker 3: It and run it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I think it was interesting throughout the week or
Speaker 2: early in the week at coach Horanda's press conference, they
Speaker 2: mentioned about we're at our best when we can run
Speaker 2: the football, and so I think they came in, listen,
Speaker 2: let's try to establish some sort of run, create a
Speaker 2: little bit of balance for ourselves on offense, you know.
Speaker 3: But I think our guys did a great job of.
Speaker 2: Really kind of shutting that down, and then they had
Speaker 2: to resort more to the pass. Like I said before,
Speaker 2: they broke off one run on a long run. We
Speaker 2: were getting ready to bring pressure from the field, they
Speaker 2: hit it in the boundary. That was about it really
Speaker 2: in the running game. There was nothing consistent in the
Speaker 2: running game.
Speaker 3: For them, you know.
Speaker 2: And I thought our guys guys did a really good job.
Speaker 2: We did a little bit more of the four man
Speaker 2: front this game, walking up our linebacker on the edge
Speaker 2: to have four guys right there to help with stop
Speaker 2: that run. But again, I thought it was a good
Speaker 2: plan by our guys, our defensive staff and man obviously
Speaker 2: did a great job with that.
Speaker 1: Who's next, I got a question for you as far
Speaker 1: as traveling is concerned.
Speaker 11: When you're playing at a ten to fifteen game, when
Speaker 11: do you go out there and when do you come home?
Speaker 11: I mean do Yeah, you know, the game's not over
Speaker 11: till late, so you spend the night there.
Speaker 2: No, we don't, so we're you know, it's interesting you
Speaker 2: bring this up there. There's there's there's been some obviously
Speaker 2: some studies because now ACC is having to have these
Speaker 2: same games, the big ten are having these same type
Speaker 2: games where you're traveling east coast to west coast and
Speaker 2: the west coast to east coast, and so this year
Speaker 2: I've seen more teams actually go out a day early.
Speaker 2: They've gone out on Thursday to try to get acclimated
Speaker 2: to the time change.
Speaker 3: We're going out on Friday.
Speaker 2: We're pushing it back leaven later on Friday, you know,
Speaker 2: trying to push that thing back on Friday. Once we
Speaker 2: get there, stay up a little bit later Saturday. We're
Speaker 2: gonna sleep in a little bit longer, so you know,
Speaker 2: try to sleep in till you know, nine thirty or
Speaker 2: ten on Saturday, since it is going to be a
Speaker 2: late kickoff. And you know, it's like, all right, what
Speaker 2: do you do all day. Well, you know, we eat
Speaker 2: a lot. You know, well there's three big meals and
Speaker 2: some snacks. I mean, I'm like, I look at our schedules,
Speaker 2: like every two and a half hours. I mean, my gosh,
Speaker 2: I can't eat this much. But but we gotta make
Speaker 2: sure we're eating. We eat a lot of food and hydrate.
Speaker 2: But also we'll do some walk throughs. I think it's
Speaker 2: about three walked through we'll get them off their feet,
Speaker 2: you know. But once it gets to about four hours
Speaker 2: before kickoff, it's the same routine we do for every game.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter. Yeah, pregame meal, we have another walk through,
Speaker 3: and then.
Speaker 2: We go on the bus and we head to the
Speaker 2: stadium about two hours and fifteen minutes prior to kick Well,
Speaker 2: after the game, we were always get back home, so
Speaker 2: you know, no matter when, whenever this game is over,
Speaker 2: we'll pack up. Takes about an hour, hour and a half.
Speaker 2: We'll get on that plane and we'll head back. I
Speaker 2: think we're supposed to arrive, you know, between six and
Speaker 2: six thirty on Sunday morning. Yeah, so it's it's yes,
Speaker 2: what time we'll get home, so we'll maybe you know,
Speaker 2: it's a long day, fortunately, for us. We have a
Speaker 2: bye week the Fall League, so we'll we'll probably take
Speaker 2: a Sunday off, We'll rest on Sunday and then you know,
Speaker 2: get back in on Monday for the bye week practices.
Speaker 2: But it's a difficult trip. But I do think it's
Speaker 2: more difficult on.
Speaker 3: The back end.
Speaker 2: You know, if we had another game the very next week,
Speaker 2: that that would be hard because you're gonna feel that effect.
Speaker 2: But since we have a bye week, I think that's
Speaker 2: that's certainly gonna have benefit us.
Speaker 11: I like to make a comment to Dingle, was I
Speaker 11: thought he played tremendously.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought he played really well. You know, Dingle,
Speaker 2: we had him all over the field. He was one
Speaker 2: of the guys I was talking about. We walked up
Speaker 2: on the line of scrimmage. You know, he's able to
Speaker 2: call some problems there in the backfield, and I thought
Speaker 2: he had an excellent game, one of his better games,
Speaker 2: you know, of the season.
Speaker 9: Just a curious question, So how did Brendan handle being called.
Speaker 10: Sorely in a sudden.
Speaker 1: For those who don't get the reference, Nick Saban did
Speaker 1: a feature on Brendan Soresby on College Game Day last
Speaker 1: week and repeatedly referred to him as sorely.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was funny. I was actually watching it.
Speaker 2: I was like, you know what he's saying, and and
Speaker 2: mcphiel or Pat McAfee and uh and Curt Heirstbry are
Speaker 2: both looking and kind of laughing there.
Speaker 3: Like over there giggling, you know.
Speaker 2: And and then Matt and Pat and made a comment
Speaker 2: about it right after he did that.
Speaker 3: But uh, I mean he took it all in stride.
Speaker 3: I mean it was he thought it was funny.
Speaker 2: We were joking with him too, you know, like, you know,
Speaker 2: you're gonna come out here and play like Soorsby or McSorley.
Speaker 3: How are you gonna play here? You know he's but
Speaker 3: he took it a strike.
Speaker 2: We still joke about it today and hopefully somebody gives
Speaker 2: coach Saban.
Speaker 3: The heads up of how to pronounce it this week.
Speaker 1: Rick Saban is an excellent coach. Any any more questions
Speaker 1: for Coach Saderfield, Yes, we've got some over here.
Speaker 12: There's there's something to be said about the culture and
Speaker 12: leadership of his team. I know, coming in here in
Speaker 12: a shift and change and it takes time to do that.
Speaker 1: Can you just kind of speak a little bit to.
Speaker 12: That journey to you know where that has come from,
Speaker 12: because it just feels like it's just different. You know,
Speaker 12: this year, these guys have just really bonded. You have
Speaker 12: great leadership, you know, on and off the field.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, we probably don't have enough
Speaker 2: time for for all that. I mean, you know, for
Speaker 2: what happened when we first got here to where we
Speaker 2: are right now.
Speaker 3: It's night and day, I mean quite honestly.
Speaker 2: And you know, anytime you make a coach and change,
Speaker 2: and we're seeing a lot of those, that's gonna happen
Speaker 2: this year. I mean, what is it ten or eleven?
Speaker 2: Are we not even November yet? Man, I don't know
Speaker 2: what's happening. But anytime that happens, you know, especially now
Speaker 2: with this portal, I mean, guys are leaving it. You know,
Speaker 2: you don't even know who's on your team, who's not
Speaker 2: on your team. There's so much unknown with the players
Speaker 2: and like who's gonna be the coach and all this
Speaker 2: and that, Well you know that happened here, you know,
Speaker 2: and when I first got here, and so you're trying
Speaker 2: to figure all that out. You're trying to recruit and
Speaker 2: almost that year is like a zero year. Because you
Speaker 2: just get here so late. It's hard to get the
Speaker 2: players in here, and now you've got to get some
Speaker 2: portal guys in here. You're late on that. Well, then
Speaker 2: you go play your first season. We played our first.
Speaker 3: Season not in the American we're into Big twelve.
Speaker 2: You were playing a lot of different teams in that
Speaker 2: Big twelve conference, and we learned a lot, which was
Speaker 2: great for us, and then we were able to keep
Speaker 2: a lot of those guys and then, you know, we
Speaker 2: brought in a whole new crew the following year, and
Speaker 2: our team got better.
Speaker 3: They certainly got better, the culture got better.
Speaker 2: And then we were able to do that one more
Speaker 2: time and were able to keep a lot of those
Speaker 2: same guys again that had went through all those things
Speaker 2: that first year. They none of those guys had forgotten
Speaker 2: the last time we went to Oklahoma State, you know,
Speaker 2: the last time you know, Baylor came played us here.
Speaker 2: Like those guys still remember and they've told all these
Speaker 2: guys that are here what we went through. And I
Speaker 2: think it's just built up to where we are right now.
Speaker 2: We have a bunch of great young people in that building,
Speaker 2: but we have great staff and we're all on the
Speaker 2: same page.
Speaker 3: I think that that is critical.
Speaker 2: We all you know hurt the same, we all you
Speaker 2: know are excited the same.
Speaker 3: It's just we're all together.
Speaker 2: I think anytime you're all together like that, no matter
Speaker 2: what happens, negative or positive, you're able to stick together
Speaker 2: and you're gonna come out on the other side.
Speaker 3: So it's been good.
Speaker 1: Squeeze in one more quick question. I just want to say,
Speaker 1: go bear Cats. Yeah, all right, I like it. All right,
Speaker 1: we need to take a commercial break. We will go
Speaker 1: and do it. On that note. This is the Scott
Speaker 1: Sanderfield Radio Show. We are alive at the original Montgomery
Speaker 1: In home of the world's greatest rips, and we will
Speaker 1: meet two bear Cat players when we come back. On
Speaker 1: seven hundred wlb first and goal from the six. Soresby
Speaker 1: fakes the handoff, throws.
Speaker 13: Upside of the end zone, touchdown Cyrus Allen touchdown pass
Speaker 13: number nineteen for Brendan Soresby, and later in the game
Speaker 13: he threw touchdown pass number twenty. This year twenty touchdown passes,
Speaker 13: only one pick for the Bearcat quarterback. Cincinnati with a
Speaker 13: seven game winning streak heading into a big game on
Speaker 13: Saturday night against number twenty four Utah.
Speaker 1: All right, it's part of the show. We love an
Speaker 1: opportunity to get to know two members of the Bearcat
Speaker 1: football team. Allow me to introduce you to this week's guest.
Speaker 1: Immediately to my right is a red shirt junior from
Speaker 1: Cincinnati attended Indian Hill High School. He is the son
Speaker 1: of one of the greatest Bearcats ever who happens to
Speaker 1: be here tonight. Our guest is number forty six, let's
Speaker 1: hear it for Antwine Peak Junior. Oh and really nice
Speaker 1: to see in the house. And our other guest is
Speaker 1: a sophomore who played high school football in Phoenix City, Alabama,
Speaker 1: at Central High School. Went a very few true freshmen
Speaker 1: in Bearcat history to start a season opener, which he
Speaker 1: did last year in his first game as a college player.
Speaker 1: He wears the number nine Chikwan Sanks. All right, we've
Speaker 1: got the master of forcing fumbles and the master of
Speaker 1: recovering fumbles at the same table tonight. So, Antoine, you
Speaker 1: forced two this year for last year. That six forced
Speaker 1: fumbles in the last year and a half. And Jaquan
Speaker 1: you have recovered two fumbles in the last three weeks.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with recovering what's it like at the
Speaker 1: bottom of a pile.
Speaker 14: You see the ball and you just get on it,
Speaker 14: like get the ball really, just like feel a lot
Speaker 14: of people just jumping on toffee.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anything nasty going down there to you know, try
Speaker 1: to rip it away when you get your hands on.
Speaker 4: It, trying to take it from you at the bottom of.
Speaker 1: That you haven't been nobody's tried to bite you or
Speaker 1: you know, kick you where it hurts the most.
Speaker 3: I got that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I hope I won't get that.
Speaker 1: I hope you don't get that. And Antoine, let's talk
Speaker 1: about forcing them. Your dad was the all time master
Speaker 1: of that as a bear cap. But you are following
Speaker 1: nicely in his footsteps. Six in a year and a half.
Speaker 1: How how have you done it? How do you force
Speaker 1: that many?
Speaker 5: I mean I'm just running to the ball for real.
Speaker 5: I mean my dad, I mean she isn't going in
Speaker 5: the garage, you know, doing boxing drills, all that stuff,
Speaker 5: but just doing all those things. Is growing up, always
Speaker 5: running to the ball, and you know he always told me,
Speaker 5: just trying to get the ball out.
Speaker 4: So I mean this is what I do.
Speaker 1: Father taught you. Well, he's working out very well and
Speaker 1: in fact, congratulations are in a order to you because
Speaker 1: they're today. You were named a semi finalist for the
Speaker 1: Jim Thorpe Award, which goes every year.
Speaker 4: That I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it goes every year to the best defensive back
Speaker 1: in college football. Kobe Bryant of Cincinnati won the award
Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty one. Nice to see Kobe back
Speaker 1: on campus at the game last week for homecoming. But
Speaker 1: that means you're one of fifteen semi finalists for this award.
Speaker 1: What was your reaction when they let you know.
Speaker 5: Well, I kind of just found out on the way
Speaker 5: to the facility actually, just getting ready to go eat
Speaker 5: some watch and I just saw my phone like Antoine peak,
Speaker 5: you know, a semi finals.
Speaker 4: I'm like, that's pretty cool, you know.
Speaker 5: I was just kind of speechless, but yeah, I mean
Speaker 5: it's really cool. But you know, we still got four
Speaker 5: games left, so just really just focused on that and
Speaker 5: trying to keep all that in the back of my
Speaker 5: mind is right now and just focus on these last
Speaker 5: four games.
Speaker 1: It's gotta be more than four.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: Chakwan, What was your reaction when you heard that one
Speaker 1: of your brother was nominated for such a prestigious award.
Speaker 14: That was crazy, Like for him to be somebody like
Speaker 14: that I look up to and like to follow his
Speaker 14: steps when I've seen that, like as a defensive bat
Speaker 14: that's an award you want, like.
Speaker 4: Especially like that's no doubt him do that, yes, sir so.
Speaker 1: Over the last couple of years, Cincinnati has played a
Speaker 1: three three five defense with three safeties. The middle safety
Speaker 1: is known as the star position. Both of you guys
Speaker 1: spend a lot of time playing that position, and it's
Speaker 1: a challenging one because it's really like safety slash linebacker. Right,
Speaker 1: You've got a lot of responsibilities. Jaikwan, Let's start with
Speaker 1: you describe what goes into playing the star position at Cincinnati.
Speaker 4: You gotta be a dB in the linebacker.
Speaker 14: You gotta not fitting the runs, playing coverage, read the defense.
Speaker 14: Like I want to say the quarterback of the defense,
Speaker 14: but it's up yeah, yeah, it's in self position in
Speaker 14: the place.
Speaker 1: So Antoine, same thing for you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, pretty much the same thing he just said.
Speaker 5: You know, we're I mean, don't really want to say
Speaker 5: quarterback of the defense, but I mean we kind of
Speaker 5: are in the way, you know, we're kind of just
Speaker 5: telling everyone just like just telling them like the signal
Speaker 5: or whatever, and you know, we gotta do a little
Speaker 5: bit of everything. We gotta fit the run, we gotta
Speaker 5: be able to cover. And you know, it's a really
Speaker 5: good mixture of both being able to tackle people, hit
Speaker 5: people and being able to cover.
Speaker 4: You know, get.
Speaker 5: Bbu's you know, that's that's quands thing right there. But yeah,
Speaker 5: just being able to do a little bit of everything.
Speaker 5: You know, the last line of defense, so we got
Speaker 5: to get the last person down.
Speaker 1: So Antoine is a semi finalist for the Jim Thorpe Award.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they have an award for best
Speaker 1: podcaster among CODs football players, but you have entered the
Speaker 1: podcast space along with Kaye Stokes. Are you enjoying the
Speaker 1: Four Claps podcast.
Speaker 14: I'm enjoying it. It's fun, Like I feel like a
Speaker 14: little youtubeer. Just sit right there, ask my team learn
Speaker 14: more about that.
Speaker 1: You're doing a heck of a job. Now. I've got
Speaker 1: a son in college, so I need to hold onto
Speaker 1: my job for a while longer, So good for a while.
Speaker 1: We love it when we have players join us on
Speaker 1: this show to have each of you talk about the other.
Speaker 1: Because I've found over the years that sometimes it's hard
Speaker 1: to talk about yourself, but you're happy to share thoughts
Speaker 1: about the guys that you become so close with. His teammates,
Speaker 1: So and Twine, you start first share some thoughts on Jakwan.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think he's an amazing player, you know,
Speaker 5: just like seeing the things that he's been doing since
Speaker 5: he first got here, you know, it's like it almost
Speaker 5: like inspires me in a way, just like his work ethic,
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's the first true freshman in.
Speaker 5: A while to you know, started uh open season or
Speaker 5: and he's doing a lot of good things right now,
Speaker 5: and for sure, without a doubt in my mind, he's
Speaker 5: going to go into the league. So just seeing the
Speaker 5: things that he's doing right now and the things that
Speaker 5: he's going to continue to do, you know, I'm just
Speaker 5: excited for the things that he's going to do in
Speaker 5: the future.
Speaker 1: Triquat your thoughts on Antwine, I can't even I don't
Speaker 1: even know how to start.
Speaker 14: If she's like he like just saying like when I
Speaker 14: first came in, seeing how he's working, like like I'm
Speaker 14: surprised he's just not getting the reconitione again, like you
Speaker 14: see Pete practice like you would think it's the first
Speaker 14: round of going into like just saying how you practice.
Speaker 14: So like with him getting the gym Thorpe, I don't
Speaker 14: see me finance. It's not a surprised or nothing, but
Speaker 14: that seen every day sending the work that he put in.
Speaker 14: So like if you're a young guy coming in like
Speaker 14: he's somebody most definite want to look up to, just
Speaker 14: seeing how he attacked the ball, get the ball back,
Speaker 14: his love for the game, and how he just make
Speaker 14: it look so easy. Like just with me watching him
Speaker 14: at like watching film and seeing what he do helped
Speaker 14: my game out.
Speaker 1: How did you wind up at Cincinnati having played high
Speaker 1: school football now Alabama?
Speaker 14: The coaches like it's just consistent, Like the coaches made
Speaker 14: it feel like family. I wanted to go somewhere like
Speaker 14: it's far from home, so it's still felt like home
Speaker 14: though that far from being that far away from months,
Speaker 14: like an eight hour drive.
Speaker 1: So and in your case and Twine, I think we know, uh,
Speaker 1: why you wind up at Dad's in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: You're from the area, and how do you feel about
Speaker 1: how things have worked out for you playing for your
Speaker 1: hometown school.
Speaker 5: I feel like it's definitely worked out pretty good, you know.
Speaker 5: To be honest, I kind of got my phone call
Speaker 5: to come here a little late, you know, I I
Speaker 5: got this, Uh, I got the call. It was like
Speaker 5: April of twenty twenty two, you know, so it's kind
Speaker 5: of late. But in the meantime, I didn't really know
Speaker 5: what I was gonna do up until I got that
Speaker 5: that call from UH Coach Fickle when he was here
Speaker 5: and gave me the preferred walking on spot. And you know,
Speaker 5: I took that pretty much immediately. And then and you know,
Speaker 5: a year later, you know, Coach that came in. You know,
Speaker 5: he saw the things that I've done, and I really
Speaker 5: appreciate him for the things that he's been doing for me,
Speaker 5: and you know it's still doing for the whole team
Speaker 5: in general. You know, it's just it has been really
Speaker 5: grateful far.
Speaker 1: I think he appreciates you. Trust me, all Right, We're
Speaker 1: gonna take a time out when we come back. Questions
Speaker 1: from the audience for our special guest to Antwine Peak
Speaker 1: Junior and Jaquan Sanks. This is the Scott Centerfield Radio Show.
Speaker 1: We're live at the original Montgomery In home of the
Speaker 1: world's greatest rips on seven hundred WLW Soresby waiting for
Speaker 1: the shotgun snap. Soresby fakes a handoff, running to the
Speaker 1: ten for five and high steps.
Speaker 13: His way into the end zone for a bear Cat touchdown.
Speaker 1: Let's hope that Brendan Soresby is doing that again frequently.
Speaker 1: On Saturday night in Salt Lake City, when the Bearcats
Speaker 1: look to knock off the twenty fourth rank Utah Utes,
Speaker 1: we are at the original Montgomery in with our special
Speaker 1: guests Antwine Peaks Junior, and Jaquan Sanks. We have some
Speaker 1: time for questions from the audience. Take it away.
Speaker 15: I was just wondering if like there was a certain
Speaker 15: way you guys prepared for environment like Utah, like zarre Away,
Speaker 15: you guys set up and like prepare for that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean kind of today in the indoor facility,
Speaker 5: you know, they guy speakers all around the facility, so
Speaker 5: they were just playing a whole bunch of crowd noises
Speaker 5: in you know, it's a pretty tight space, I guess,
Speaker 5: but it just kind of echoes around, so you know,
Speaker 5: it gets pretty loud in there. So I guess that's
Speaker 5: that's how we were preparing for him.
Speaker 4: Right now.
Speaker 1: Your season opener was a Narrowhead Stadium against Nebraska. It
Speaker 1: was basically filled with Nebraska fans. Jakwan. Do you feel
Speaker 1: like that prepared you for any amount of noise that
Speaker 1: you could hear on Saturday?
Speaker 14: For sure, especially been in the NFL stadium we went
Speaker 14: in at the warm ups, I was I was looking
Speaker 14: at the crowd. I'm like, all right, it made lack
Speaker 14: of the NFL preseason game. It's not would be too bad.
Speaker 14: We came out, we came out of the tunnel like
Speaker 14: getting ready.
Speaker 4: To play in like it was field. My heart dropped.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been to a lot of NFL preseason games
Speaker 1: that was not like that. Yeah, you're right, You're right.
Speaker 1: In fact, as I've said before on this show, I've
Speaker 1: done playoff games in Kansas City. That game was louder.
Speaker 1: The UC Nebraska game was louder than Bengals Chiefs Bob Hey, guys.
Speaker 16: So we got this a new IPF and locker rooms
Speaker 16: and you know, conditioning and recovery. Has it made a
Speaker 16: difference in how you recover after the game? And what's
Speaker 16: your most favorite room?
Speaker 14: My favorite room, I say probably the steaming sauna. Like
Speaker 14: it just clean you, like it clean your body, make
Speaker 14: you feel better, like I say that for sure, Like yes,
Speaker 14: sir and Twine.
Speaker 4: It used to be the hot tub.
Speaker 5: Coach that would always come in the you come from
Speaker 5: out the steam room and like you gots soft in
Speaker 5: this hot tug, you gotta get steam room.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I used to be soft, I guess.
Speaker 5: But now I've been getting in the steading room a
Speaker 5: little bit and you know, get all the little sickness
Speaker 5: out of you.
Speaker 4: I guess.
Speaker 5: But yeah, it used to be hot to and now
Speaker 5: it's to see him.
Speaker 1: Nobody answers the cold top mm hmm.
Speaker 3: We can't do that one.
Speaker 4: It's a little too cold to Brian.
Speaker 6: I expected Dan to ask you about this. Do you
Speaker 6: guys know what a phone booth is? And how do
Speaker 6: you keep a wide receiver in a phone booth?
Speaker 3: How does that?
Speaker 4: How does that work?
Speaker 14: So when Coach Sat said it, like I knew what
Speaker 14: he meant by but they was telling me about a
Speaker 14: phone booth, I ain't know it's that small, like so
Speaker 14: I didn't know it was that small. And to keep
Speaker 14: wire receiving the phone booth, it's like making them uncomfortable
Speaker 14: a game, you know, down they don't like they like
Speaker 14: being comfortable doing all that running for you gotta make
Speaker 14: them uncomfortable, best of them a little bit.
Speaker 1: Gary, Yeah, that's just for both of you.
Speaker 17: Earlier in the year, it seemed like our defense was
Speaker 17: more of a laid back, prevent maybe type of defense.
Speaker 17: Especially this last Saturday, you played a lot more up
Speaker 17: going downhill press, doing a lot more blitzing. Do you
Speaker 17: guys like that better than the laid back or is
Speaker 17: that just one day and trying.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you know, I feel like it's definitely
Speaker 5: different every week. You know, we gotta get a new
Speaker 5: game plan every single week, so it just kind of varies.
Speaker 5: But I definitely do like the blitz a little bit.
Speaker 5: I definitely say that. So just getting more pressure on
Speaker 5: the quarterback definitely helps with you know, the secondary and
Speaker 5: getting more stops, you know, turning the ball over.
Speaker 4: Just little things like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you want to weigh in on that.
Speaker 14: I'm not to group come down here, been in the
Speaker 14: din't know to play free, but our coach do do
Speaker 14: a good job, like as a go week by week
Speaker 14: as game planning too, like the offense that we're going against,
Speaker 14: So just a pants but I kind of like being
Speaker 14: lower and more.
Speaker 1: Aggressive, yes, sir, all right, any more questions from the audience.
Speaker 1: If so, raise your hand. John will find you. Otherwise
Speaker 1: I will, I will reach into my bag of tricks.
Speaker 1: Anybody else? All right? Apparently not, It's up to me.
Speaker 1: That's fine. Let's talk about Utah's quarterback situation. Damn Pierre,
Speaker 1: their starter, missed last week with an ankle injury. Bird
Speaker 1: Fickland stepped in and was outstanding. It sounds like Damn
Speaker 1: Pierre is going to come back and play this week.
Speaker 1: Does the Utah offense change much or are you basically
Speaker 1: preparing for what they do offensively regardless of which guy's
Speaker 1: playing quarterback.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I kind of say we kind of preparing just
Speaker 5: like in general kind of they both kind of do
Speaker 5: the same thing. You know, they definitely have a little
Speaker 5: bit of their differences, but they both can for sure
Speaker 5: run the ball, so we're definitely preparing for that. Yeah,
Speaker 5: But I mean, I mean, they don't really know yea, yeah.
Speaker 14: They probably like they're the same type of quarterbacks. So
Speaker 14: we have to prepare for everything overall. So we're going
Speaker 14: into the game preparing and watching both of them expect
Speaker 14: to get the same thing.
Speaker 1: Tarn Tayle spoke with reporters earlier today, and he made
Speaker 1: the point of saying both teams are blue collar teams,
Speaker 1: and he meant it as a like a nod of
Speaker 1: respect to Utah. The way they play, how hard they
Speaker 1: play similar to Cincinnati. Do you guys feel the same way,
Speaker 1: Jakwan you son.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel the same way. Like when you watch a.
Speaker 14: Film, they show up their physical, fast effort like us.
Speaker 14: They look a lot like us with the physical.
Speaker 4: Effort, just flying around, playing hard and ty Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, just like what Kwan said, they're really physical.
Speaker 5: What was gonna come down to is, you know who's
Speaker 5: going to be more physical longer? You know, the more
Speaker 5: physical and the more violent. Uh, team is gonna win
Speaker 5: at the end of the day. So we've got to
Speaker 5: be more physical and more violent than they are.
Speaker 1: College game Day is going to be there. Some ESPN
Speaker 1: cameraman types were walking around the building today, so it's
Speaker 1: some nice publicity for the program.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, you guys earned that. How does it feel
Speaker 1: to have continued to climb in the rankings and to
Speaker 1: have been, you know, good enough to this point of
Speaker 1: the season that ESPN wants Cincinnati and Utah to be
Speaker 1: the college game day game?
Speaker 5: Antwine Yeah, it definitely feels good, you know, coming from
Speaker 5: when coach that first guy here, you know, not the greatest, uh,
Speaker 5: and then the next year, you know, we improved a lot,
Speaker 5: got a new a lot of new players, and then
Speaker 5: to this year, you know, being even better. You know,
Speaker 5: it's definitely been pretty good so far. And yeah, a
Speaker 5: question out that that's all right.
Speaker 14: Yeah, like what Pete said, really like, uh, we're not
Speaker 14: really surprised. It feels good though, Like last year wasn't
Speaker 14: that far off. Like a lot of the games who
Speaker 14: lost was close series games, just one play that could
Speaker 14: turn the game around. So it was just little things
Speaker 14: that we had to fix. This year we turned around.
Speaker 5: Yeah, kind of add on to that, we just gotta
Speaker 5: we just can't at this point, you know, we're feeling good,
Speaker 5: but we can't let that just let us slow us down.
Speaker 5: We just gotta keep going. We gotta keep fighting and
Speaker 5: just finish off the season strong.
Speaker 1: How did you guys hold Baylor to one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty seven passing yards last week?
Speaker 14: I mean, at first, I want to say shout out
Speaker 14: of coach, right, he like the game plan we had
Speaker 14: and just the rest of the defensive staff and like
Speaker 14: they did the game plan they had for us going
Speaker 14: to the game. It wasn't like a pass up like
Speaker 14: playback let them. Was just our guys, beeny guys, and
Speaker 14: we're finished. We're gonna play play the game plan and
Speaker 14: we execute it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean exactly what he just said. And add
Speaker 5: a little bit more to that. You know, we knew
Speaker 5: we had to be more physical than they are. We
Speaker 5: knew that they were a pretty physical team.
Speaker 4: We knew that.
Speaker 5: They might throw a little couple of cheap shots in,
Speaker 5: but we had to keep our composure. So yeah, I
Speaker 5: just say we were more aggressive and more physical than
Speaker 5: they were. And you know, we had a really good
Speaker 5: game plan and it allowed us to be physical.
Speaker 1: Let's see if Cincinnati's all time leader in sacks, tackles
Speaker 1: for loss, blocked field goals, forced fumbles happens to have
Speaker 1: a question and Twine.
Speaker 18: Okay, this question is from mom. What is your favorite
Speaker 18: football moment up to this moment?
Speaker 1: Hm, hm Antoine, your first.
Speaker 5: I'd probably say Kansas, Uh, you know, the fourth quarter
Speaker 5: stop force fumble that I had. Uh, that would probably
Speaker 5: be my favorite moment that I've had so far.
Speaker 1: Yeah, forcing a fumble at the one yard line that was,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure Antoine's mom would be interested to know
Speaker 1: your answer to the same question. Jaquan, your favorite moment
Speaker 1: is a bearcat so.
Speaker 14: Far, I'm might have to say were like, we want
Speaker 14: to be our states starting the field That was too Finn.
Speaker 1: You gotta do that, You gotta do that good? The
Speaker 1: field storming was good. Did you guys stay out there
Speaker 1: and linger and take it all in?
Speaker 3: For sure?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 18: And last question, with the success that you guys are
Speaker 18: having thus far this season, what are your goals for
Speaker 18: the remainder of the season.
Speaker 14: I stay taking it on one week at a time
Speaker 14: and don't want to know each week, like taking it
Speaker 14: each day at a time. Continue to grow as a team,
Speaker 14: getting better every day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just got a stack daze.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: That's something that we've been talking about pretty much every
Speaker 5: single days, second days, and just being consistent in our
Speaker 5: routine and everything that we do. So as long as
Speaker 5: we do those things, I think that we will be good.
Speaker 4: Well, my goal for you guys to make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a very realistic goal. You know. It's interesting
Speaker 1: because I've been on some shows as a guest where
Speaker 1: they're asking me about the matchup this week, and they
Speaker 1: make it sound like Cincinnati hasn't been good for ages.
Speaker 1: Cincinnati was in the fourteen playoffs four years ago. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is not ancient history. And you guys have a
Speaker 1: realistic chance. The playoff is twelve teams now. The number
Speaker 1: one goal is to get to Dallas and play for
Speaker 1: the Big twelve Championship. And if you can get there,
Speaker 1: if you win it, you definitely go. And even if
Speaker 1: you lose it, you could conceivably have a chance to
Speaker 1: go to the twelve team playoff. But that that goal
Speaker 1: of making it to Dallas. Going back to spring football,
Speaker 1: guys were saying it openly. I mean, you guys really
Speaker 1: embrace that is something that that was the target to
Speaker 1: shoot for, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So yeah, we were definitely you know, all off season,
Speaker 5: you know, we were breaking it down on Dallas, and
Speaker 5: then as he got closer to the season, you know,
Speaker 5: we kind of realized like, yeah, we want to get
Speaker 5: to Dallas, but we can't get to Dallas without week one.
Speaker 5: So yeah, we just we just really just kind of
Speaker 5: toned in on that and just realized, like we gotta
Speaker 5: you know, this week is the most important week, So
Speaker 5: we got to be worried about this week first, and
Speaker 5: we got to beat them first in order to get
Speaker 5: it to Dallas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you got to take care of business
Speaker 1: every week in order to reach that ultimate goal.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 14: I said the same with Pete sand like every we
Speaker 14: we're looking at looking at it like everything we play
Speaker 14: is in the way of us get into Dallas. So
Speaker 14: this week you turn away with us get in Dallas.
Speaker 14: We gotta handle out all right.
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Speaker 1: you are stars legitimately. And congratulations on a great season today,
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