Speaker 1: Very pleasant, good evening, everybody. Greetings from the original montgomery In,
Speaker 1: home of the world's greatest ribs. Welcome to the Scott
Speaker 1: Satderfield Radio Show. I'm Dan Horde, along with the head
Speaker 1: coach of the twenty first ranked tied for first place
Speaker 1: in the Big twelve uce Bearcats. Let's here for Scott Saderfield.
Speaker 1: As you can tell by the noise in the background,
Speaker 1: we have a tremendous crowd tonight here at the original
Speaker 1: montgomery In. We greatly appreciate it. Many of the people
Speaker 1: in attendance were in attendance on Sunday at Jim Kelly's
Speaker 1: visitation or at his funeral service yesterday. I told Jim's
Speaker 1: wife Sarah on Sunday that the crowd for his visitation
Speaker 1: was bigger than five of the bowl games that we
Speaker 1: did together. So that's how many people came out to
Speaker 1: pay tribute to Jim. The service yesterday was beautiful. Jim's sons,
Speaker 1: Kevin and Brian did a wonderful job of paying tribute
Speaker 1: to your to their dad and coach. I just want
Speaker 1: to thank you in the football program for the fantastic
Speaker 1: helmet sticker that you guys will wear for the rest
Speaker 1: of this year. For anybody that hasn't seen it yet,
Speaker 1: it's the number seven inside of a microphone. So Jim
Speaker 1: wore the number seven as a wide receiver at Cincinnati
Speaker 1: and obviously was behind the mic for more than three decades.
Speaker 1: So it was a really nice touch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I mean, you know what that's it's I
Speaker 2: mentioned this earlier.
Speaker 3: You know, Jeremiah Kelly.
Speaker 2: You know, we're wearing a remembrance for him as well,
Speaker 2: and our guys wanted to to wear the shirt. We're
Speaker 2: wearing his shirt every game day, and so our whole
Speaker 2: team puts that shirt on and remembrance of him and
Speaker 2: of course Jim number seven with the microphones a great tribute.
Speaker 3: To him, and I want to honor him the rest
Speaker 3: of the season.
Speaker 2: You know, he loved by everybody, and you know, like
Speaker 2: I said, I mean, he's a very through and through
Speaker 2: and I'm glad you know we're playing like we are
Speaker 2: right now. That's what I told his family on Sunday
Speaker 2: when I went by there too. And I know he's
Speaker 2: looking down as proud right.
Speaker 1: Now, no doubt about it. I suspected Jim Senior and
Speaker 1: Jim Junior talking about the Bearcats being twenty first in
Speaker 1: the country. Looking ahead to the upcoming of five games
Speaker 1: left in the regular season and the goal of getting
Speaker 1: to Dallas and playing for a Big twelve championship. Got
Speaker 1: a big game coming up on Saturday. It's homecoming in
Speaker 1: different stadium, a four o'clock kickoff against Baylor. I was
Speaker 1: on a Baylor show today and the host asked me,
Speaker 1: if you were Dave Randa, the Baylor coach, you know
Speaker 1: what weaknesses do the offense have that the defense should
Speaker 1: be exploiting. And I said, I really don't know, to
Speaker 1: tell you the truth. You have done a fantastic job
Speaker 1: of putting together an offense this year that can really
Speaker 1: attack just about any defense that you see.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we've been a very efficient offense.
Speaker 2: I mean the negative for us this year probably is
Speaker 2: just not having the ball. I mean, you know, we're
Speaker 2: toward the bottom of the really the country in time
Speaker 2: of possession and number of players that are run.
Speaker 3: But part of that is the fact that we are
Speaker 3: scoring fast.
Speaker 2: You know, we're moving the football and just like last game,
Speaker 2: we had the ball four possessions in the first half.
Speaker 2: That's not very many, but when you're scoring touchdowns and
Speaker 2: all four possesions. That's twenty eight points, so I mean,
Speaker 2: obviously we'll take that.
Speaker 3: You know. And I think, you know, I think we
Speaker 3: get sometimes.
Speaker 2: I think all of us get a little frustrated when
Speaker 2: we don't go score because we think we're going to
Speaker 2: go score. You know, it came out in a third
Speaker 2: quarter and we went three and nut, and I'm like, man,
Speaker 2: what the world's going on?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: You know, I think we get a little s falled.
Speaker 2: I think, you know, coaches and players too. But that
Speaker 2: is a good thing. I mean, we were very efficient.
Speaker 2: I was talking to someone today about how it's maybe
Speaker 2: my the first time that in my career that we've
Speaker 2: had so many players that we don't mind if any
Speaker 2: of them get the ball. You know, I think usually
Speaker 2: over over time you have there's always been you know,
Speaker 2: maybe one running back or a couple of wide receivers
Speaker 2: that hey, we really need to get the ball to
Speaker 2: these guys. We really haven't thought that way. We really
Speaker 2: really didn't care who gets the ball.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: One of the great examples was Cyrus Allen had one
Speaker 2: catch two weeks ago, and then he gets three touchdowns
Speaker 2: this week. I mean, you look up, Noah's catching the
Speaker 2: ball or Jeff Carwell's catching the ball, like it really
Speaker 2: doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: You got two running backs that are very effective when
Speaker 3: they're in the game. You know, our tight end room
Speaker 3: is an exceptional tight end room.
Speaker 2: I mean, Joe had I don't know, five catches I
Speaker 2: think in a touchdown, you know, in the game Saturday.
Speaker 2: So I mean, we just have so many weapons and
Speaker 2: then it all starts, and you guys know it starts
Speaker 2: up front. I mean, our offensive line is playing out
Speaker 2: standing this season. They're giving uh, you know, Brendan a
Speaker 2: lot of time to throw the football and they're opened
Speaker 2: up some great holes running it, so you know it's running.
Speaker 3: It's very efficient.
Speaker 1: I would say the offensive line gave up one sack
Speaker 1: this past week, doubling their season total. They have all
Speaker 1: two in seven games. Had the opportunity to visit with
Speaker 1: Joe Cotton earlier today, your left tackle, and he was like,
Speaker 1: in the huddle, they were just crestfalling. Ah, we gave
Speaker 1: up a sack, which is a wonderful thing when you're
Speaker 1: playing at such a high level that allowing one is
Speaker 1: considered heartbreaking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, and that was Brendan. I was on him.
Speaker 3: What he went on the old line.
Speaker 2: I mean, he'll he'll be the first to tell you
Speaker 2: we had a play call and he got stuck on one
Speaker 2: of the receivers, but the primary receiver. Actually it was
Speaker 2: the first touchdown pass to Cyrus Allen. It's basically the
Speaker 2: same play and Cyrus is opened again. You know, he
Speaker 2: just didn't come down quick enough. But that happens. I mean,
Speaker 2: Brenda's gotten us out of a lot of opportunities for
Speaker 2: sacks where he's throwing the ball away or you know,
Speaker 2: got rid of the football early or scrambled, you know,
Speaker 2: and so that but that particularly one, you know, we
Speaker 2: didn't overcome that, but I do think the next play
Speaker 2: we were able to get a first down. You know,
Speaker 2: even though we lost yards on that play, we got
Speaker 2: a first down. So we did overcome that sack and
Speaker 2: then ultimately went down and scored again. So they take
Speaker 2: a lot of pride in it. I remember in a
Speaker 2: game when it happened, Coach car Walls and somebody he said,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, a sack. You know, he was hurt bad,
Speaker 2: which you know, and so were the guys. I mean,
Speaker 2: they take a lot of pride in that because they
Speaker 2: want to be the best you know, and and right
Speaker 2: now they're getting talked about like they're one of the
Speaker 2: best offensive lines in the country, rightfully, so, so it
Speaker 2: really pains them when when they give up a play
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 1: I thought Joe Flacco threw some good passes on Thursday night,
Speaker 1: and then I saw the one that Sores be through
Speaker 1: to begin the fourth quarter on third down and sixteen.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen many throws better than that in my life.
Speaker 2: That was an incredible throw that play, because you're right,
Speaker 2: it was. That was the start of the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: So we had time so you know, TV timehouse last forever.
Speaker 2: So we're sitting there about four minutes and talking about,
Speaker 2: all right, what do we want to run on this
Speaker 2: third and long play.
Speaker 3: It's hard to pick up third and eighteen.
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of thoughts that were going through
Speaker 2: our heads.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: The play we had called was a was a three by.
Speaker 2: One play, was a dig route to the field, about
Speaker 2: a fifteen yard dig. We thought that could pick picked
Speaker 2: it up and they're like, well what if they play man, Well, well,
Speaker 2: just want to double move on the single side, which
Speaker 2: was Jeff Calwell, well, they came out and played cover two,
Speaker 2: which cover two normally you'd hit that dig route. Soresby
Speaker 2: just happened to look over there to callwell, he said,
Speaker 2: I saw some grass.
Speaker 3: There wasn't a whole lot of grass, quite honestly.
Speaker 2: There there was about four defenders and he kind of
Speaker 2: thread the needle right in between all four and Jeff
Speaker 2: being six to five, you know, did a great job
Speaker 2: of going up and getting that and getting a huge play.
Speaker 2: That was a point in the game too, where momentum
Speaker 2: was shifting. The crowd was into it, their players were
Speaker 2: on their side, it was into it, and that just
Speaker 2: hushed them once we got that, and then we ultimately
Speaker 2: went and scored again.
Speaker 1: Thirty eight yard gain on third down and sixteen and
Speaker 1: an absolutely gorgeous throw to Jeff Caldwell. We don't have
Speaker 1: to talk about not having any interceptions anymore. Matthew McDoom
Speaker 1: with a pick and a school record a one hundred
Speaker 1: yard a run back for a touchdown. The old school
Speaker 1: record was ninety six yards by Bob del Rosa in
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty eight. Oddly enough, also against Oklahoma State, which
Speaker 1: is pretty incredible. But we saw Matthew mczoom think that
Speaker 1: pick back one hundred yards.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was We've been talking about this all year.
Speaker 2: Can we get an interception, you know, and then challenging
Speaker 2: the guys every single week and also trying to get
Speaker 2: a touchdown outside of offense, you know, offensive touchdown, you know.
Speaker 2: So this is our first touchdown that we had by
Speaker 2: the defense and to our special team.
Speaker 3: So that was exciting as well.
Speaker 2: With the interception, great job our guys getting some blocks
Speaker 2: there and once he hit the.
Speaker 3: Sideline, we knew he was going. He's one of the
Speaker 3: faster players we have on our football team.
Speaker 2: And you know, hopefully that that just you know, that
Speaker 2: burst the bubble so we can get a lot more
Speaker 2: of these interceptions.
Speaker 1: All right. One negative, you gave up more than two
Speaker 1: hundred rushing yards for the first time this season. And
Speaker 1: I think it's either three straight or four straight games
Speaker 1: where you've given up one fifty plus. If there's something
Speaker 1: that you have to shore up on defense, that would
Speaker 1: seem to me to be at the top of the list.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, And we go went back and looked
Speaker 2: at the film. There's about four plays where they got
Speaker 2: loose on us. Then one of them went for forty
Speaker 2: one yards on they cracked the safety in our corners
Speaker 2: got a replace right there. We didn't replace fast enough
Speaker 2: and they hit the sideline on that one. There was
Speaker 2: a couple of up up the middle where we've got
Speaker 2: to spill it. You know, we played on the wrong
Speaker 2: side and they hit it up the middle. I mean
Speaker 2: that was just some bad fits. And yeah, we got
Speaker 2: to sure that up. I mean certainly. You know, even
Speaker 2: though we're playing a passing two this week, they want
Speaker 2: to run the football. They feel like they're you know,
Speaker 2: coach Randa came on this week and said, hey, we
Speaker 2: feel we're our best when we can run as well
Speaker 2: as throw, and so we have to make sure they
Speaker 2: have some good running backs. We have to make sure
Speaker 2: we can sure up the running game for sure. And
Speaker 2: it's all about fits and then where we're supposed to
Speaker 2: be and then getting a lot of hats to the football.
Speaker 1: Their quarterback, Sawyer Robertson, leads the nation in passing yards.
Speaker 1: He's typed for first and touchdown passes. What impresses you
Speaker 1: about him, Well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he's you know, he's a guy who
Speaker 2: came in transferred in i think for Mississippi State, and
Speaker 2: you know, didn't play right away, but then once he
Speaker 2: got the starting role, there really just took off and
Speaker 2: they won their last six games last year to finish
Speaker 2: the season, all conference games obviously, and did a nice job.
Speaker 2: And this year and they're scoring a lot of points.
Speaker 2: You know, the record I think is four and three,
Speaker 2: but they're scoring a lot of points. If the games
Speaker 2: they have lost or are really really close there, they're
Speaker 2: one possession games. He's a big kid, he's six or five.
Speaker 2: He's not a runner.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: The last two weeks, you guys know, we've played two
Speaker 2: running quarterbacks that can can go get extend plays, but
Speaker 2: he's really not that.
Speaker 3: He's more of a sit in the pocket and make
Speaker 3: the throws. He's got some dynamic.
Speaker 2: Weapons on the outside of number thirty four is a
Speaker 2: six three, two hundred and twenty pound wide receiver that
Speaker 2: can really run. They have one of the best catching
Speaker 2: tight ends in the country, number one, I think Michael
Speaker 2: Triggs his name, and he's a two hundred and forty pound.
Speaker 3: Guy that can run.
Speaker 2: And then they got a couple of little slot guys
Speaker 2: that can fly. So they're gonna put a lot of
Speaker 2: pressure on our defensive backs with the way they can
Speaker 2: throw the football. You know, we certainly have to do
Speaker 2: some things to try to slow that down, and you know,
Speaker 2: knock on them. This year they have turned the ball over,
Speaker 2: you know, so again we have to be able to
Speaker 2: you know, create turnovers and and or get stops on
Speaker 2: fourth down. I mean, I think that's gonna be critical
Speaker 2: as we play this team. They're gonna get some yards,
Speaker 2: They're gonna get some chunk plays. I mean, that's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: The big thing we have to try to do is
Speaker 2: keep them out of the end zone, you know. But again,
Speaker 2: they have scored a lot of points. I mean, one
Speaker 2: of the higher scoring teams in our league.
Speaker 1: So the Bearcats and Bears Saturday at four o'clock or
Speaker 1: pregame cover Gun Saturday will start at three o'clock. We're
Speaker 1: going to take a time out when we come back.
Speaker 1: Question from the audience here at the original Montgomery In
Speaker 1: home of the world's greatest Ribs. It's the Scott Sanderfield
Speaker 1: Radio Show on seven hundred WLW. Throw crossing route caught
Speaker 1: Cyrus Allen.
Speaker 5: Ten five touchdown Bearcats twenty six Cyrus Allen.
Speaker 1: That was the first of his three touchdowns and they
Speaker 1: were all different. That was on a crossing route. Then
Speaker 1: there was one on an option pitch where he came
Speaker 1: behind Brendan Soresby, caught the ball as a running back
Speaker 1: essentially and scored and then going in motion for a
Speaker 1: pass close to the line of scrimmage and running in
Speaker 1: for his third touchdown of the game. We are at
Speaker 1: the original Montgomery In home of the world's greatest ribs
Speaker 1: for the Scott Saderfield Radio Show. We'll be back here
Speaker 1: tomorrow night, by the way, for the first Wes Miller
Speaker 1: show of this season. So we talk about the Bearcats
Speaker 1: after that exciting victory over starting my thoughts exactly, we'll
Speaker 1: be talking about the exciting exhibition when they had over
Speaker 1: Michigan on Friday. All right, Brian, you're up first with
Speaker 1: a question for the coach.
Speaker 6: Coach, you've talked about the amount of weapons you have
Speaker 6: and how it's one guy one week, it's another guy
Speaker 6: next week. What does that do for the playbook knowing
Speaker 6: that you have so many different players that can do
Speaker 6: so many different things.
Speaker 3: On every play, Like, how big can the playbook get?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't want to get it too big, you know.
Speaker 2: I think the one thing about our guys right now
Speaker 2: are playing at a high level.
Speaker 3: They're playing fast, because it's not extensive.
Speaker 2: I think the plays that we have run the best
Speaker 2: are the plays that we run every week, you know,
Speaker 2: so there's a lot of similar plays that we run
Speaker 2: each and every week, and.
Speaker 3: We've had great success on those plays.
Speaker 2: You know, a lot of the stuff that we are
Speaker 2: doing now that's a little bit different than last year.
Speaker 2: Obviously we're going faster, no huddle, a little bit higher
Speaker 2: tempo and higher pace, but more of the run pass
Speaker 2: option plays, and so we can want to play and
Speaker 2: it may look completely different four straight times you run it.
Speaker 2: You know, one may be a handoff, one maybe a
Speaker 2: quarterback poll and he's running it, or there may be
Speaker 2: three receivers that we can hit in that same plate.
Speaker 2: So a lot of the plays are very very similar
Speaker 2: in the same that we're running. I think that's why
Speaker 2: we were playing at a very efficient level.
Speaker 7: Gary, Yeah, coach, you're talking about all the rushing.
Speaker 1: Yards of people are getting.
Speaker 3: Against us on the three five three.
Speaker 8: It seems like most teams I see to play that
Speaker 8: one of the five will become a fourth down or
Speaker 8: a rusher or whatever. But seems like we sit back
Speaker 8: and to me, it gives up three, four five yards
Speaker 8: before our guys were able to come up and get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, you're right.
Speaker 2: There's certain probably just our base defense where our guys
Speaker 2: are off probably seven or eight yards and by the
Speaker 2: time running back gets it, it's coming up. You know,
Speaker 2: now he's already got two or three yards on that,
Speaker 2: especially if we're in a especially if it's a first
Speaker 2: and tent where you know, you're maybe back at a
Speaker 2: normal position. Obviously, when it's a short yardage, everything gets
Speaker 2: tightened down, you know, and then now.
Speaker 3: You're you're right there to be able to stop that.
Speaker 3: You know. It's it's a.
Speaker 2: Fine line there between not wanting to give up a
Speaker 2: big play as opposed to you know, giving up a
Speaker 2: yard or two yards. I mean, and I think, you know,
Speaker 2: and then it's all all about what defense you're into,
Speaker 2: you know. So it's at times we got to switch
Speaker 2: it up and bring more guys. I think this year
Speaker 2: we have done more for down where we take a
Speaker 2: player and we walk him on the edge of the defense.
Speaker 2: We've done more of that than we did last year,
Speaker 2: and I think that's a good thing. I think we've
Speaker 2: got to be able to continue to do that and
Speaker 2: then and to mix up the coverages as well, because
Speaker 2: these teams nowadays with with the run pass option, you know,
Speaker 2: if you do bring them all up, there's an opportunity
Speaker 2: for that quarterback to pull it and throw it back
Speaker 2: behind you. And so that's just a balance that we're
Speaker 2: trying to trying to get better at.
Speaker 3: Obviously.
Speaker 9: Okay, hey, coach coach Shaven talks about the rat poison.
Speaker 9: If you start to get a little more notoriety, how
Speaker 9: real is that and how do you keep the guys grounded?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I just think it's human nature.
Speaker 2: Anytime you have success that you know, people are all
Speaker 2: patting on your back and and telling you.
Speaker 3: How good you are and all that.
Speaker 2: I mean, uh, we've got we've got a very mature team.
Speaker 2: You know, this team I feel like every time to
Speaker 2: go on the field is trying to prove something, prove
Speaker 2: that they belong.
Speaker 3: I think, you know, we're not too far removed from
Speaker 3: not having success.
Speaker 2: I think we got a lot of players that went
Speaker 2: through that that that is not forgotten and and like
Speaker 2: you know, for us, you know, just like last week
Speaker 2: going to going to Oklahoma State, I mean, there's a
Speaker 2: lot of guys on our team that went through that
Speaker 2: that game two years ago. It's a bad feeling, you know,
Speaker 2: and I think the guys that did that express that
Speaker 2: to the rest of the guys that.
Speaker 3: Were not here and made that clear. You know.
Speaker 2: And this team here, I mean I remember playing this
Speaker 2: these this team two years ago have been different and
Speaker 2: now we're playing them again, and you know, we got
Speaker 2: a different team, we got a different mindset, and you know.
Speaker 3: We were playing with a chip on our shoulder. And
Speaker 3: I don't think we're gonna lose that.
Speaker 2: I think these guys are trying to prove something every
Speaker 2: day and it was that way at practice today.
Speaker 10: Jeff Hey, sad Hey doing question for you. Well, by
Speaker 10: the way, congratulations and going bowling. Very excited about that.
Speaker 10: But how is the Godfather doing this? He gonna be
Speaker 10: able to go full full war here pretty soon or
Speaker 10: where's he at?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, he's still battling the injury. Obviously, he's
Speaker 2: good to get him back out there. He's but he's
Speaker 2: not one hundred percent yet. But I think he is
Speaker 2: getting better. You know, certainly Saturday night was not at
Speaker 2: his best. His presence is great, you know for our
Speaker 2: guys and then and to see him out there. I
Speaker 2: do think each and every day. He's gonna get better
Speaker 2: and better, and hopefully, you know, he's gonna be more
Speaker 2: closer to one hundred percent this weekend, you know, because
Speaker 2: when he is, he's hard to block, you know, and
Speaker 2: I think obviously he's a weapon for us, and you know,
Speaker 2: he's missed some games he hadn't been one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: So you know what the good thing about is right now,
Speaker 2: the other guys have had to step in and make plays,
Speaker 2: and I think we've been able to see that, which
Speaker 2: is getting them valuable experience. So that's a good thing.
Speaker 2: That's a positive, you know. But hopefully as we get
Speaker 2: to this stretch here, with these next five games, we'll
Speaker 2: get a lot better with Dante.
Speaker 1: All Right, phillisays her hand up, John gets her the mic.
Speaker 11: Coach, What was the most pleasantly surprising.
Speaker 3: To you besides the win for this past week? Yes, oh, man,
Speaker 3: pleasantly surprised.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I'm surprised about anything this weekend. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know the fact that we only had the ball
Speaker 2: four times, but we scored you know, four touchdowns. That
Speaker 2: was that was really good. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 2: if I've been a part of that. Usually if you
Speaker 2: only get the ball four times. Usually you're playing an
Speaker 2: option team, you know, who occupies the ball. You don't
Speaker 2: get you get eight possessions in a game to only
Speaker 2: have it four times. But the fact that we are
Speaker 2: scoring touchdowns with, you know, with the limited opportunities, I
Speaker 2: think that's certainly.
Speaker 3: A good thing.
Speaker 2: I keep waiting for one of these games where we
Speaker 2: do have a lot of a lot of time possession,
Speaker 2: we do have a lot more opportunities, you know, as
Speaker 2: we continue to move along, you know, that's something that
Speaker 2: that will be. That would be a pleasant surprise if
Speaker 2: we could get that.
Speaker 3: For sure.
Speaker 1: I thought the most pleasant surprise might have been the
Speaker 1: first time you'd ever seen a banana conga line.
Speaker 3: You did take a little glance up there and saw
Speaker 3: that during the game. That's pretty interesting, all.
Speaker 1: Right, Next question, coach.
Speaker 12: Something that is cool about college football and the changing
Speaker 12: landscape is obviously the pageantry and passion of college football fans.
Speaker 12: The Big Twelve has a ton of awesome fans. There's
Speaker 12: always a little bit of conflict that goes on. We
Speaker 12: want to know what your thoughts are on the tortillas
Speaker 12: being banned at Texas Tech.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm in favor of that haven't played there
Speaker 2: last year, and uh, you know, several of them are
Speaker 2: almost hitting you on the field.
Speaker 3: They're hitting the referees, they're hitting our players.
Speaker 2: I realized it's a great It was a tradition for them,
Speaker 2: and they were having some fun with it. But obviously
Speaker 2: they took it a little bit too far, I think,
Speaker 2: And uh, you know, it's everybody's got their little thing
Speaker 2: they do, but I think when you're throwing things and
Speaker 2: actually hitting people that that is taking a little bit
Speaker 2: too far.
Speaker 3: So I'm actually glad they're bannon it quite honestly, Bob.
Speaker 1: See.
Speaker 4: I think I saw on the internet that someone in
Speaker 4: this room is on the Coach Bear Bryant Coach of
Speaker 4: the Year watch list.
Speaker 1: Congratulations.
Speaker 4: But I was I was pleased with the play of
Speaker 4: our secondary because I think some of those sacks and
Speaker 4: some of the problems are actually caused by our coverage
Speaker 4: being so tight.
Speaker 1: And I'm loving that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, I think you know, certainly as we
Speaker 2: go along, these guys have gotten better at it, you know,
Speaker 2: and and some big opportunities and big plays when we
Speaker 2: need those big plays, and and this certainly this weekend
Speaker 2: is going to be a huge challenge for our guys
Speaker 2: on the back end, as I mentioned earlier, with these
Speaker 2: talented receivers they have, and you know, one of the
Speaker 2: best passing team in the country you're coming in here.
Speaker 2: So it's we're looking forward to the challenge and the
Speaker 2: opportunity to play a team like this, and we're very
Speaker 2: excited about it.
Speaker 1: All right, any more audience questions? Okay, Amy, I.
Speaker 6: Just noticed every third quarter we're like a sleep What.
Speaker 11: Can you do to wake us up?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 13: Man?
Speaker 2: We ask ourselves that every day in the office. You know,
Speaker 2: I don't I don't get it, don't understand, but I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, like I said, we scored four straight possessions
Speaker 2: in the first half.
Speaker 3: We come out in the second half and we go
Speaker 3: three and out, Like what in the world happened right there?
Speaker 2: You know, sometimes the defense wins, you know, and they did.
Speaker 2: I mean, we had I thought we had some good
Speaker 2: calls in there, and they came out with a little
Speaker 2: bit of a different defense and they just didn't match
Speaker 2: up and it didn't work.
Speaker 3: Against those particular calls.
Speaker 2: That's unfortunate at times, but you know, we're able to
Speaker 2: bounce back and go out there and score some more
Speaker 2: and move the ball.
Speaker 3: But that's the cat and mouse game that goes on.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Obviously you love to score every time you get the
Speaker 2: ball and be able to move it. It just doesn't
Speaker 2: happen that way. There's good coaches on the other sideline.
Speaker 2: They've had good, good players as well. Uh, you know,
Speaker 2: and then you're just playing that little cat and mouse game,
Speaker 2: and then ultimately you have to execute, you know, and
Speaker 2: and so that's a challenge.
Speaker 3: But you're right, I mean, the third quarter has been.
Speaker 2: A little I thought this time would be a little
Speaker 2: different because the last two weeks they got the ball
Speaker 2: first coming out, so this time we got the balls.
Speaker 2: All right, Yes, we're gonna get the ball and come
Speaker 2: out and do some great stuff. And we go three
Speaker 2: and out really quickly.
Speaker 3: So that was not that that didn't work out like
Speaker 3: we wanted it, all.
Speaker 1: Right, any more audience questions, Okay on this side, John
Speaker 1: John Daniel getting an excellent workout tonight.
Speaker 14: Former high school coach, just asking about special team.
Speaker 1: Seems to be a little better this year, yea, in
Speaker 1: terms of where I plays in the talk about a
Speaker 1: little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's been i'll say a lot better.
Speaker 2: Quite honestly and went in the field of position battles.
Speaker 2: You know, Max, our punter is done an unbelievable job.
Speaker 2: I don't have the stats in front of me, but
Speaker 2: how many I mean probably a little over half of
Speaker 2: his balls. He's kicked an inside the twenty yard line,
Speaker 2: which is pinning these teams back, which is incredible.
Speaker 3: They have to drive the whole field.
Speaker 2: You know, Steven's knocked down all our field goals, which
Speaker 2: is unbelievable, which is huge man in this and then
Speaker 2: in the way the margins are so tight in this league.
Speaker 2: I mean that is absolutely essential to get knocked down
Speaker 2: those field goals. And our guys are covering like I mean,
Speaker 2: Kwava made a tackle I think on a twelve yard
Speaker 2: line or inside the fifteen yard line covering the kickoff
Speaker 2: in this game last game.
Speaker 3: You know, our guys were taking a lot of pride
Speaker 3: in it. I think it were really close.
Speaker 2: In a punt return, I mean many Covey had the
Speaker 2: punt return against Kansas, they call it back. I think
Speaker 2: we're really close to breaking one of those. We've had
Speaker 2: some really good kickoff returns Logan Wilson, some of those
Speaker 2: guys getting some good blocks We've got a couple of
Speaker 2: tight ends here tonight that were on that kickoff return team,
Speaker 2: so you get the guys to get to talk to them.
Speaker 3: But really excited about our teams.
Speaker 2: I still think we can get better with the special teams,
Speaker 2: and I think as we continue to move on through this,
Speaker 2: this last of these last five games, we have to
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 1: All right, let's squeeze in one more question.
Speaker 15: Jim Kelly's family here and this is the niece's nephew brother,
Speaker 15: and I'm a sister in law. If Jim were here,
Speaker 15: what would be a one liner he'd use for this
Speaker 15: Baylor upcoming game?
Speaker 3: What would you say?
Speaker 15: Or maybe whatbody screamed during the game?
Speaker 1: Well, you know he was fond of the word yes,
Speaker 1: with multiple exclamation points stated multiple times. Meg Ryan's style
Speaker 1: from when Harry met Sally, So that might it might
Speaker 1: be it. There might be some yes, yes, yes. After
Speaker 1: a few Brendan soarsby touchdown passes. All right, we'll take
Speaker 1: a time out. We will meet a far of Bearcat
Speaker 1: when we come back. This is the Scott Saderfield Radio Show,
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Speaker 1: one left in the half, Cincinnati looking to add to
Speaker 1: a four point lead. Fourteen to ten is the score,
Speaker 1: Sores being the gun sends three receivers out to the
Speaker 1: wide side. Right quick pass caught by Royer makes the
Speaker 1: first man miss.
Speaker 5: He's at the ten for five touchdown. Bearcats unappropriate highlight
Speaker 5: to feature coming out of the commercial break because we
Speaker 5: have two Bearcat tight ends joining us on the Scott
Speaker 5: Saderfield Show tonight, and I'm delighted to introduce.
Speaker 1: Them to you. We'll start with the person directly to
Speaker 1: my right. He is a sophomore from Lewis Center, Ohio
Speaker 1: that is near Columbus. He wears the number eighty seven,
Speaker 1: let's hear it for Bearcat tight end Gavin Grover. And
Speaker 1: next to Gavin, we have a red shirt freshman from Berea,
Speaker 1: Ohio that is near Cleveland. He wears the number eighty three,
Speaker 1: Devon Zaharski. We just heard at Joe Royer highlight. Dudes
Speaker 1: having a phenomenal year. He's obviously going to be an
Speaker 1: NFL player. What have you guys learned from being in
Speaker 1: a room and practicing with Joe Royer? Gavin, you go first.
Speaker 16: I have just learned how to carry myself better. You know,
Speaker 16: he's a good dude. He's cool with everybody around the facility.
Speaker 16: I mean he works hard, whether it's the weight room
Speaker 16: or the field. So it's been cool to see how
Speaker 16: he carries himself at elite level, almostly a pro, and
Speaker 16: kind of like try to follow in his footsteps, Devin.
Speaker 17: I mean, Joe's a really good player, man. I mean
Speaker 17: you said it here yourself. Things he does off the field,
Speaker 17: like him being a leader, him him showing us us
Speaker 17: young guys like what to do. I mean, that's a
Speaker 17: huge part for us.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and you guys have added another veteran to
Speaker 1: the room this year, and Patrick gurd who was part
Speaker 1: of a national championship team last year at Ohio State.
Speaker 1: Obviously he's primarily used it as a blocker at UC.
Speaker 1: But how about what you've learned from observing him, Devian,
Speaker 1: you can start first this.
Speaker 17: I mean as a blocker myself. I mean, he knows
Speaker 17: his stuff. He's very smarter on the playbook. He knows
Speaker 17: where to block, how to block, how to position block,
Speaker 17: and all this. So just taking stuff that he shows
Speaker 17: and using it for myself is just I mean, it's
Speaker 17: really important me personally.
Speaker 16: He's talked to me a lot about like mindset, like
Speaker 16: not getting down on myself after like a bad play
Speaker 16: because I'm strutting with like mentally like having a bad play,
Speaker 16: getting upset, But like he's really helped me like see,
Speaker 16: like it's not the end of the world. You just
Speaker 16: got to move on to the next plan and keep going.
Speaker 16: And having that those both those guys as a mature
Speaker 16: veteran presence has really been helpful for.
Speaker 13: Us going into our second years.
Speaker 1: I mentioned you got you're both Ohio kids. Explain how
Speaker 1: you wound up at Cincinnati, Gavin, you go first.
Speaker 13: Honestly, I've always wanted to be close home. Big family guy.
Speaker 16: I have a big family of two brothers and a sister,
Speaker 16: So I've always wanted to be near them and their
Speaker 16: families now as they've gotten older, and Cincinnati was one
Speaker 16: of the places didn't really think of. Like I was
Speaker 16: a Columbus kid, like Ohio State was everything when I
Speaker 16: was growing up. And then I saw since I making
Speaker 16: the run to the college ball playofform, I was like
Speaker 16: I had to see it, and my first ever college
Speaker 16: football visit was here to Cincinnati at like the old
Speaker 16: bubble in the old facility.
Speaker 13: And it's really cool to see them working.
Speaker 16: And I've talked to some other schools throughout the process,
Speaker 16: but since I was always home from the very start.
Speaker 17: Devin, A big thing for me was when I was
Speaker 17: getting recruited, was you know, the relationships you build with coaches,
Speaker 17: and I mean coach step was always you know, on me,
Speaker 17: on me, asking how I'm doing. And you know, as
Speaker 17: I've gotten here and I've been here for a while,
Speaker 17: it's still the same old coach. Like you know, he's
Speaker 17: always checking on you, He's always taking care of was.
Speaker 17: He treats us like his own and I mean, I
Speaker 17: think that was really what sold it for me, was
Speaker 17: I mean him being a great recruiter.
Speaker 1: He's an interesting guy because he was an excellent quarterback
Speaker 1: as a player and now he is doing a tremendous
Speaker 1: job as a tight end coach. Do you think his
Speaker 1: experience from playing quarterback has helped him, you know, teach
Speaker 1: the tight end position in some way, Kevin.
Speaker 16: It definitely has. I mean, being quarterback, you got to
Speaker 16: know the whole offense and know everything.
Speaker 13: You know, knowing.
Speaker 16: What the tight end does and like you have to
Speaker 16: know what he does based on what other guys are doing.
Speaker 16: So I think having the knowledge of his quarterback and like,
Speaker 16: I feel like it helps.
Speaker 17: You know the game so well. Yeah, being a quarterback,
Speaker 17: you know, you know everything. But also him just being
Speaker 17: a people person. I think he could teach anybody on
Speaker 17: the on the field at all times. I mean, he
Speaker 17: knows his stuff, He knows the playbook like the back
Speaker 17: of his hand.
Speaker 13: And as I said.
Speaker 17: He's just really good with people. I mean, everybody loves
Speaker 17: coach Up.
Speaker 1: So you two guys are part of the same recruiting class.
Speaker 1: Did you get to know each other in the recruiting
Speaker 1: process early on?
Speaker 16: We had we had a remember we had a visit
Speaker 16: pit together Pittsburgh and we talked for like an hour
Speaker 16: on that visit.
Speaker 13: We were talking about since then I came up for
Speaker 13: both of us.
Speaker 16: Oh yeah I really like Cincinnatiyeah, me too, stuff like that.
Speaker 16: So yeah, we've like known each other through that. I
Speaker 16: think we took a visit to Cincinnati together and like
Speaker 16: the the Winner the January when the coaching staff first
Speaker 16: got there with coach step coach Tyurfield, all that, and
Speaker 16: we've done to know each other a little bit now
Speaker 16: our roommates.
Speaker 1: So now there we go. So I'm gonna ask you
Speaker 1: guys to talk about each other. So Gavin, you go first.
Speaker 1: What you like and respect about Gavin.
Speaker 17: Gavin is a very very smart football player. He's fast,
Speaker 17: you know, he could run routes very well, and he's
Speaker 17: just a big target. And he's also just you know,
Speaker 17: like a good kid. And I've always gotten along with him.
Speaker 1: And yeah, and the same question for you about Devin.
Speaker 13: Well, first, I was a good roommate.
Speaker 16: No, I wasn't sure about it at first, but but well,
Speaker 16: I've enjoyed this company over time. I mean I've been
Speaker 16: lived with him since since I got here in January
Speaker 16: twenty twenty four. So he's been good. He's great on
Speaker 16: the field. You know, he played d line in high
Speaker 16: school and you could see it the physicality takes to
Speaker 16: the offensive side of the field. So I think he
Speaker 16: does a great job with that. And he's developed. He
Speaker 16: he's pretty quick too. I would say he's quicker than me.
Speaker 16: So he's definitely worked on speed and he's a pretty
Speaker 16: pretty strong guy.
Speaker 1: All right, So there's been one big highlight that you
Speaker 1: guys have provided so far this year. Gavin you were
Speaker 1: the person that provided it. It was the Kansas game. You
Speaker 1: caught a pass about thirty four yards away and ran
Speaker 1: thirty three yards in eleven inches. I mean it looked
Speaker 1: like a touchdown. You came down with the ball over
Speaker 1: the goal line, but I guess your knee touchdown just short.
Speaker 1: Did you think you were in?
Speaker 16: I was really close. I was really hoping we'd get
Speaker 16: a review. But I don't think Kansas wanted that to happen,
Speaker 16: so it didn't.
Speaker 1: But it was.
Speaker 16: It was a good experience for sure, first career reception.
Speaker 16: So I was kind of just I was going going
Speaker 16: as fast as I could to that goal line.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Good. And and Devin, you were ready to charge
Speaker 1: out there for the PA tea.
Speaker 17: I was running in there, and I was so happy
Speaker 17: for him, and I was like, ah, come on, like
Speaker 17: I thought he was in. I was halfway on the
Speaker 17: field when he called it.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about this season to date. You guys
Speaker 1: have won six straight, You've climbed at number twenty one
Speaker 1: in the country. You're focused on Baylor this week and
Speaker 1: trying to keep this rolling. Has it exceeded your expectations
Speaker 1: so far this year? Or is this really what you
Speaker 1: guys expected to do, Devin, you go first.
Speaker 17: I mean I think I could agree with everybody. I mean,
Speaker 17: I think this is what we expected to do. I
Speaker 17: mean most of us probably think we should be seven
Speaker 17: and zero. I mean that first one was tough. I
Speaker 17: just think they had a better day than us that day.
Speaker 17: But if we played him back, it wouldn't even be close.
Speaker 17: And I think we just need to keep it rolling.
Speaker 17: I mean, the offense looks great, our defense looks solid.
Speaker 17: We're going and it's a good team. But I think
Speaker 17: we got in the bag. How do you can tell
Speaker 17: from this offseason?
Speaker 16: You know, the new pieces we had and brought in
Speaker 16: those transfer guys that really fit the culture. Like they
Speaker 16: don't just go recruit, but they want guys that fit
Speaker 16: the mold that coach Syerfield and coach Niko have set.
Speaker 16: And I think they did a great job with that.
Speaker 16: And this offseting was transformational and it changes and I
Speaker 16: think we all knew that something special was coming this season,
Speaker 16: and now we see it coming to Fruish and its
Speaker 16: giving us even more confidence to keep this thing going.
Speaker 1: Cincinnati has a great legacy of tight ends that have
Speaker 1: gone on to play in the NFL. Obviously, most notably
Speaker 1: Travis Kelcey is gonna go down as one of the
Speaker 1: all time greats, but there are a bunch that have
Speaker 1: made it. Is that a thing in the tight end
Speaker 1: room trying to continue this legacy, Gavin, I'd.
Speaker 16: Say, yeah, I mean we've all chasing success. I mean
Speaker 16: we see the Josh Wiley, Travis Kelcey, Josiah Daguara like,
Speaker 16: those guys have precedent that we got to be elite
Speaker 16: and the elite tight ends come from this school. So
Speaker 16: I mean, I definitely say we're chasing those guys every
Speaker 16: single day.
Speaker 1: Yep, definitely.
Speaker 17: I mean it's a hard position to play and you
Speaker 17: have to be elite at it, and we've had a
Speaker 17: bunch of elite guys do it, so I mean that
Speaker 17: just sets the tone for us to keep being great
Speaker 17: like those guys were, and I think we're gonna get there.
Speaker 1: It is a unique position to play. You guys have
Speaker 1: to be able to do a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1: You block, you catch, You've got all sorts of assignments
Speaker 1: on any given play. The Bengals tight end coach James
Speaker 1: Casey says all the time, if I was gonna hire
Speaker 1: somebody i'd hire a tight end because they have to
Speaker 1: do everything. How much do you enjoy all of the
Speaker 1: responsibilities that come with the position, Gavin.
Speaker 13: I enjoy it all.
Speaker 16: I mean I enjoy casting, passing down on them, but
Speaker 16: you also enjoy getting your nose in there and getting
Speaker 16: the dirty work with those on alignment, because I mean,
Speaker 16: they do a great job, and I try to replicate
Speaker 16: that as much. Obviously weren't as big as they are.
Speaker 16: But I like stick of my nose in there and
Speaker 16: getting something that's good. You get a little angry one
Speaker 16: day a can stick your nose in there and hit somebody.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I mean it's nice catching balls, it's nice. It's
Speaker 17: nice blocking. I like blocking a lot more than catching balls.
Speaker 17: But I mean that's just me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, We're gonna take a time out when
Speaker 1: we come back. Questions from the audience for Gavin and Devin.
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Speaker 1: Time for questions from the audience for our Bearcat tight ends,
Speaker 1: Gavin and Devin take it away.
Speaker 17: We got Callen with a question, what's the biggest difference
Speaker 17: between high school and college?
Speaker 1: Devin go, first, biggest difference between high school in college?
Speaker 17: I mean, I would say the biggest difference is talent.
Speaker 17: There's a lot of difference in talent. And I mean
Speaker 17: the schedules are a lot different. I mean you wake
Speaker 17: up so much earlier, you lift more, you have practice
Speaker 17: a lot more. It's just like a totally different ball game.
Speaker 16: I would say that like at the high school level,
Speaker 16: like most of the guys who are playing on these
Speaker 16: college teams were the best or one of the best
Speaker 16: players on their high school team. And then now you
Speaker 16: go on to the team and everybody's the best player
Speaker 16: on their.
Speaker 13: High school team.
Speaker 16: So you got to compete with those those older guys
Speaker 16: who were the best in their team, and now they're
Speaker 16: getting the better on this team and so on and
Speaker 16: so forth.
Speaker 1: All right, very good question, Jeff.
Speaker 10: All right, so you said you were a defensive alignment
Speaker 10: of high school.
Speaker 3: Was that correct?
Speaker 17: Correct?
Speaker 10: So what was a transition like to go from defense
Speaker 10: to offense and how hard was it and did they
Speaker 10: have to talk you into it or did you always
Speaker 10: want to be a tight end?
Speaker 17: So I put my senior year of high school, I
Speaker 17: played defensive end and tight end. I played just a
Speaker 17: lot more defensive end because we kind of only let
Speaker 17: people play one side of the ball. So the transition
Speaker 17: wasn't incredibly hard, but it was. It was different. I mean,
Speaker 17: you know, going from one position of the ball to
Speaker 17: the other side, like it's a little confusing. You gotta
Speaker 17: have your head around things. But once you once you
Speaker 17: get it, you get it.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. Did you play any defense, Kevin?
Speaker 16: I played defensive end as well in high school. I
Speaker 16: enjoyed defense because I don't know, you didn't really have
Speaker 16: to think as much as just going.
Speaker 17: Go get the ball, Go hit that guys, go ahead, exactly,
Speaker 17: go for the ball.
Speaker 1: All right, Gary, I played defensive and in middle school,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you terrorized the middle school kids.
Speaker 7: John Daniel Okay, guys, you're both Ohio guys. One Mid Ohio,
Speaker 7: one Northern Ohio. Let's go back a couple few years.
Speaker 7: Was always a big discussion in Ohio. Southwest Ohio is
Speaker 7: the best high school football?
Speaker 1: Is that true? Devin? Do you care to start?
Speaker 17: I mean, I'd have to disagree with that. I think
Speaker 17: North we got a lot of good got a lot
Speaker 17: of good teams, and I just, I just I just
Speaker 17: don't agree with you on that one.
Speaker 1: Respect Do you want to course, do you want to
Speaker 1: speak up for the Columbus area.
Speaker 16: I always hear about Cincinnati and Northeast Ohio, whatever, But
Speaker 16: I think I think Columbus got some of the most
Speaker 16: competitive football in the state of Ohio. You know, we
Speaker 16: got we got some good, good ball players come out
Speaker 16: of Columbus.
Speaker 13: Not the name many.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good respectful answers. You're both wrong, but but that's okay, Dave.
Speaker 9: Question for both of you, what's been your coolest moment
Speaker 9: here as a bear Cat in the last couple of years.
Speaker 16: I'd say just right now, honestly going through this now,
Speaker 16: you know last year wasn't didn't come out with wi Wan.
Speaker 16: You know, we wanted to have some more success but
Speaker 16: I think this year were really putting it together and
Speaker 16: it's been excited to watch.
Speaker 13: You know, it's good good to get on the field.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 16: We're both figuring out our roles in this offense and
Speaker 16: trying to help the team best we can, whether it's
Speaker 16: offense or special team. So, I mean, I'm having a
Speaker 16: great time right now and I'm enjoying this team.
Speaker 17: I would definitely say getting my first catch in that
Speaker 17: game last year, I mean that was awesome. I Mean
Speaker 17: I don't think you could replicate a moment like that.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, what.
Speaker 1: Game was that for? Refresh our memory? Houston?
Speaker 6: All right, Brian, So you guys are both kind of
Speaker 6: like you're the next wave.
Speaker 3: You're the guys.
Speaker 6: Going to be who we're talking about the way we're
Speaker 6: talking about Joe Royer in a couple of years. So
Speaker 6: you're not having as many snaps yet, but you have
Speaker 6: roles that are important. How do you keep yourself mentally
Speaker 6: focused when you don't have as many opportunities but you
Speaker 6: have important opportunities.
Speaker 17: Yeah, So we we're always still in the playbook. We
Speaker 17: always still have to know what we're doing because we
Speaker 17: still get a ton of reps in practice. So you
Speaker 17: have to know what you're doing, and I mean being
Speaker 17: a we're both four core guys, like we're on every
Speaker 17: special teams unit, and I mean that's seriously a huge role.
Speaker 17: I mean you somebody here said of themselves, the special
Speaker 17: teams looks a lot better. I think we're taking a
Speaker 17: huge step and just you know, doing that as best
Speaker 17: as we can and being the best at that in
Speaker 17: the country.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 16: One of my old coach from back home told me, like,
Speaker 16: just prepare every week like you're a starter, And I
Speaker 16: think that's it's definitely what we should be doing because
Speaker 16: I mean, be prepared whenever someone gets to bumps or
Speaker 16: bruise or like you have to go in and play
Speaker 16: a little more just because some of the other guys
Speaker 16: are tired.
Speaker 13: I mean, it's always ready to be prepared.
Speaker 16: And like he said, like figuring out specially special teams
Speaker 16: is a huge.
Speaker 13: Part of the game.
Speaker 16: And you know, with with our new special teams coordinator,
Speaker 16: and it's working out really well and our guys are
Speaker 16: really buying into what he's teaching us. And I think
Speaker 16: that is a huge role that this team is kind
Speaker 16: of taking on and gotten better at.
Speaker 1: We saw it in the Kansas game. Too. Joe Royer
Speaker 1: went into concussion protocol and you get thrown in there
Speaker 1: in a very close game going back and forth. You know,
Speaker 1: neither team ever led by more than one score, and
Speaker 1: Cincinnati didn't skip a beat. I mean you came right
Speaker 1: in and came through a big plays.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I just had to be ready to know Joe.
Speaker 16: Joe's a big playmaker on offense with the big shoes
Speaker 16: to fill. So I just did the best I could.
Speaker 16: You know, I prepared myself that week like I would
Speaker 16: have been the starter, even though Joe's obviously the starter.
Speaker 16: But I've been playing the best I could, and I
Speaker 16: like to said, I think made a good impact on them.
Speaker 3: Doubt absolutely, all right, Bob.
Speaker 4: So, I've heard a number of players described this past
Speaker 4: offseason as the toughest, most challenging offseason that they've ever faced.
Speaker 4: Is that baked into the culture now because we see
Speaker 4: when you go through that, that toughness, when you when
Speaker 4: you're confronted with that, what the payoff is on the field.
Speaker 4: So expected to be tough next offseason.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 17: So when I first got in here, I wasn't early
Speaker 17: enroll lye. So I came from you know, waking up
Speaker 17: at noon, eating bad breakfast and going to school for
Speaker 17: a couple of minutes, waking up at five thirty in
Speaker 17: the morning, lifting as much weight as I've ever have,
Speaker 17: and you know, and then running and all that. So
Speaker 17: that was when I first got here a lot. And
Speaker 17: then this season, this offseason was even worse than that.
Speaker 17: I mean, I don't even know, I know, Nico, Coach
Speaker 17: Nico's gonna find some way to make it even worse
Speaker 17: than that. So I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 13: Coach.
Speaker 16: Oh, yeah, Coach Nico is a great guy and he
Speaker 16: really knows how give us a good workout. Just safe
Speaker 16: to say that, Yeah, definitely, the off season has been
Speaker 16: a huge infinis emphasis for those guys. Coach sat gives
Speaker 16: Nicos the rain, Nico the rains, and let's lets some
Speaker 16: work with us, and he does.
Speaker 13: He does a great job.
Speaker 1: I fear that the first description that you provided there, Devin,
Speaker 1: was my son's college experience, right, University of Colorado.
Speaker 11: All right, Phyllis, So you mentioned that you both went
Speaker 11: to pitt for a visit and Cincinnati then for a visit.
Speaker 11: Besides the fact that the Bengals beat Pittsburgh, which.
Speaker 1: Is awesome, Yes, it was glorious.
Speaker 11: What was the difference between the two schools that really
Speaker 11: just helped you both individually make a decision to come here,
Speaker 11: besides the fact that you're besties.
Speaker 17: Now oh yeah, oh yeah, I would think just you know,
Speaker 17: my relationship with coach sat was was huge, and my
Speaker 17: relationship with Coach step I don't think I've ever been
Speaker 17: as close to a position coach or coach in general
Speaker 17: than Coach Step and Coach Set, So I think that
Speaker 17: was just a huge thing for me, is why I
Speaker 17: came here.
Speaker 16: I'd say definitely Coach step in this coaching staff. I mean,
Speaker 16: it really felt like a family as soon as he
Speaker 16: came in here. And I know it's easy to say
Speaker 16: that with everything, but it really means that, Like he
Speaker 16: he checks up on it's like where his son. It's
Speaker 16: like he's a girl that and has four dollars. I
Speaker 16: feel like we're part of that family as well. I
Speaker 16: mean we've gone to eat at the other Montgomery in
Speaker 16: with that family like it's been. They've kept us really close,
Speaker 16: and I mean it feels good, like I feel you
Speaker 16: feel at home when you're here, And I think that
Speaker 16: was the biggest difference between here and Pitt fellas.
Speaker 1: You refer to them as besties, just so you know.
Speaker 1: They have different entrees that they've ordered tonight and they're splitting.
Speaker 1: It's my wife and I do you have two different
Speaker 1: things and split it? So I get the pork chops exactly,
Speaker 1: one pork chops, one rib. Split it up. You get
Speaker 1: to try up both, which is great. Oh yeah, all right.
Speaker 14: Next question, Hey guys, you've been obviously to a lot
Speaker 14: of stadiums. How do you feel about playing Knippert versus
Speaker 14: the other stadiums. Obviously I'm feeling it.
Speaker 1: Nipper's unique.
Speaker 14: I like to get your input on that.
Speaker 16: I think Nippert is something I've never experienced before before
Speaker 16: I stepped foot in Nippert. I think I went to
Speaker 16: the Indiana game as a recruit, but I mean from Columbus.
Speaker 16: I have playing the shoe holds like one hundred thousand,
Speaker 16: but there's nothing like that's place packed out with forty
Speaker 16: thousand people. It's rocking, Like you hear players talk about
Speaker 16: all the time, like how when they go and then
Speaker 16: they're like, I think if you guys from Oklahoma were
Speaker 16: talking like they were surprised when you step in foot
Speaker 16: Nippert because it's really loud, and the fans get you guys.
Speaker 16: You guys do a great job at the games on Saturdays.
Speaker 16: I mean I get juiced up.
Speaker 3: Just run out the.
Speaker 13: Tunnel at the beginning of the game. I'm ready to go.
Speaker 16: So it's it's unique. I think it's it's my favorite statem.
Speaker 16: I know, obviously we're biased, but it's my favorite stateum
Speaker 16: to playing. Just for the fans and the atmosphere Nippert Stadium.
Speaker 16: I love it there, man. I mean, the fans are insane.
Speaker 3: They're loud.
Speaker 17: I mean, you get out there and your hype just
Speaker 17: because like it's going crazy. We're starting that new striping
Speaker 17: thing that looks insane. The student sections wild. I mean,
Speaker 17: the storming of the field was amazing. I mean I've
Speaker 17: never been a part of something like that, but it
Speaker 17: was awesome and it was it was amazing.
Speaker 1: You know, did you linger when they stormed the field
Speaker 1: or did you get to the locker room quickly?
Speaker 17: I was out there and uh my dad actually found
Speaker 17: me and so did my mom, and I'm like, what
Speaker 17: are you guys doing out here?
Speaker 1: They charged the field.
Speaker 17: I I love it. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: How about you, gap?
Speaker 16: I I enjoyed the field storm as well. I was
Speaker 16: out there in the middle. It was a pretty warm
Speaker 16: day and this student's rushing. I was like a fella
Speaker 16: that's have a panic attack out there.
Speaker 13: There's a lot, there's people coming from everyone's way.
Speaker 16: You like grabbing, you like tug at your holl Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 16: oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 17: Sorry.
Speaker 10: I got one more talking about Nipper City. Have you
Speaker 10: guys had a chance to enjoy nip at Night, because
Speaker 10: I think that is the greatest college atmosphere ever. I'll
Speaker 10: put that against anybody in the SEC anything. Nippet Knight
Speaker 10: is awesome.
Speaker 1: Have you guys got a chance to do that yet?
Speaker 16: So I went to the Miami Ohio game a few
Speaker 16: years ago. We don't want to talk about that anymore,
Speaker 16: flushed it, but I went to that as NIP and
Speaker 16: I is a cool atmosphere. I say, I enjoyed it
Speaker 16: a lot, but it kind of got deflated near the
Speaker 16: end of that game.
Speaker 13: I won't to speak about that.
Speaker 16: But we had the TCO game last year, but the
Speaker 16: student section really wasn't fully there. So we really want
Speaker 16: We're hoping the end of the year something comes through
Speaker 16: and we can get a nip at Knight this year.
Speaker 13: We need.
Speaker 1: It could be college game day if both teams continue winning.
Speaker 1: Any other audience questions, We've got a couple of minutes
Speaker 1: to go. If anybody else wants to put up their hand, otherwise,
Speaker 1: it looks like we've got one over here, John, real quick.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite part of the you indoor facility? I
Speaker 1: know it's beautiful. What what do you like best about it?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 17: The training room. The weight room's cool. The training room
Speaker 17: is top notch. I mean we got cold tubs, hot tubs,
Speaker 17: a cryo therapy chamber that I sit in all the time.
Speaker 17: That's amazing, steam sauna, sauna, I mean, you got everything,
Speaker 17: float tank, red bed therapy. I mean, I could go on.
Speaker 17: There's so much stuff in there. I really like, though,
Speaker 17: the transition from the weight room to where you could
Speaker 17: lift really quick and then you're on the field, Like
Speaker 17: we have a garage that opens up, then it connects
Speaker 17: to it so you could lift and then when we
Speaker 17: run in the summer, it's just a lift right to
Speaker 17: it and it's just like a really easy transition.
Speaker 13: It's literally perfect.
Speaker 16: Like there's not many things in this world that are perfect,
Speaker 16: but that facility is with the field, the weight room
Speaker 16: those are obviously nice, but the recovery modalities they've given
Speaker 16: us and that that facility are fantastic with as hot
Speaker 16: cold tub, there's an underwater treadmill for like rehab guys
Speaker 16: to get back. I mean, it's truly truly amazing. They
Speaker 16: have red light beds too. Those are super cool for
Speaker 16: covery that There's been a lot of re searched on that.
Speaker 16: That's a huge help for our guys.
Speaker 1: All right, we are just about out of time, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: enjoy your rib pork chop split. Oh yeah, thank you
Speaker 1: for being here tonight. Congratulation has been a great season today.
Speaker 1: We look forward to doing this again years to go.
Speaker 1: All right, Gavin Grober and Devin z A Hirski Again,
Speaker 1: it's the Bearcats and Baylor Saturday at four o'clock. Our
Speaker 1: pregame coverage on the radio will start at three. We've
Speaker 1: got a lot of stuff to give away for the
Speaker 1: folks who are with us here at the original Montgomery
Speaker 1: and tonight, but for the radio audience, we'll wrap it
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