WEBVTT - 11-25-25 Scott Satterfield Show 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:08.640 It is showtime. It's a very pleasant, good evening. Everybody. 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:11.600 Greetings from the original montgomery In, home of the world's 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:15.480 greatest ribs. Welcome to the Scott Saderfield Radio Show. I'm 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:18.280 Dan Horde alongside the star of the show. Let's hear 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:20.320 it for UC head coach Scott Sadderfield. 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:24.680 All right. 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:27.840 We will get to the details of last week's game 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:30.120 against BYU throughout the course of the show, but I 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:34.800 want to start with this. The atmosphere was awesome and 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:36.559 many of the people who are with us tonight here 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:40.320 at the original montgomery In were undoubtedly there. Night games 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:43.000 at Nipper are as good as it gets, and in 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.760 this case, they had the drone show with the sea 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:50.199 Pass invented in the air above the stadium. It was 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:52.199 really cool and it's the type of thing that can 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:53.080 help you going forward. 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:54.520 Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah. 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:58.080 I think it's been our first true night game since 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:00.800 our Tins of Miami game the next year, I think, 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:02.360 and that was early in the season, you know, And 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:03.800 last year we. 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:05.880 Played TCU this week right here. 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:08.280 Which is Thanksgiving, students were going and it just wasn't 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:09.840 the same, But that that was incredible. 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:10.480 It was probably one of the. 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:13.840 Best college atmospheres I've coached in uh, you know, I've 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.480 been coaching twenty eight, twenty nine years. Whatever it is, 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:20.080 that was incredible. It was I had never seen. I 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:22.400 didn't know we were doing the drone thing and I yeah, 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:23.240 and I looked up and I. 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:24.039 Was like, what is that. 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:26.560 That's awesome whatever that was, you know, right above their 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:29.440 students on that side there, you know, took a glance 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:32.200 up on this side behind us, and it was incredible. 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:33.800 It was uh and it was loud. 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:35.679 That was the loudest I've heard Nipper And you know, 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.080 the other time it was I thought was around that time. 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:40.880 Loud was uh Oklahoma when they came here a couple 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:41.360 of years ago. 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:42.680 But this was louder. I mean it was. 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:46.640 It was an incredible atmosphere and it caused problems for them. 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:48.480 You know, they had a couple of false starts on 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:50.920 their offense, and you know, I just man that that 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.000 is what college football is all about. And it was 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:55.240 huge for our guys and the recruits that were there. 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:58.320 On hand, I will give credit to b YU. They're 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.720 twenty one and three over the last two years, so 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:04.200 they've obviously been terrific. And the thing about them is 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:08.400 they don't beat themselves, and you had some self inflicted 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:10.800 would so to speak, during the course of that game. 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.120 How do you get to the point of doing what 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:14.720 they're doing? 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:18.080 Yeah, yeah, I mean they're you know, you're right. I mean, 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.000 they're a good football team. They don't beat themselves. They 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.560 play really good defense, They take care of the ball 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.079 on offense. They don't take many chances on offense. I 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.520 don't think, you know, for them, they turn and handed 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:29.560 the ball to the big running back thirty two times, 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.200 throw it to him three times. We had thirty five touches. 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:35.520 The big quarterback ran it thirteen times. I mean, you know, 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:37.359 so you're not taking a ton of chances when you're 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:40.800 doing that offensively. And then the fact, you know, we 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:43.520 didn't make the field goals, so there's nine points right there. 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:45.840 So you know, you get behind a little bit instead 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:49.680 of keeping it even or ahead, and therefore you feel 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:51.480 like you gotta take a few chances. You know, it's 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.480 fourth and one, you got to go, and you know 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:56.400 we went forward three other fourth downs we ended up 0:02:56.440 --> 0:03:00.560 getting those, you know, and you end up trying to 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:02.200 do things that maybe you shouldn't have tried to do. 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:03.799 And I think you end up, you know, turn We 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:05.600 had a couple of turnovers. We had the turnover you know, 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:07.560 on the seventeen yard line going in, and we had 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:10.359 it on the fourth down on the four yard line, 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:12.800 and you know, and I think for us, it's just 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:15.960 been playing clean football. Obviously, we know the stretch that 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.040 we had in conference play at the beginning, the five 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:20.520 and zero we took, we played clean football. I think 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:22.840 we had maybe one turnover in those five games. And 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:26.160 then we also were getting some turnovers, you know, and 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:28.200 we were kind of flipping that script. Really were doing 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:31.280 what Byu was doing, you know, and you're playing a 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:33.760 team like that. There's so many games they've won over 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.560 the last two years just like that. It's it's crazy. 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:40.160 You know, they're an older team, mature team, and you know, 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.400 but you just can't make mistakes against teams like that, 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:45.120 eleventh rank in the country and they're used to winning. 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:48.120 Your team is among the best in the country this 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:51.040 year at converting on fourth down. You're something like fifteen 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:55.200 for eighteen or something really impressive along those lines. On 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:57.920 the one where you got stopped. The other night, you 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:01.160 did a wildcat play, you snapped you direct to Tywee Walker, 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:04.640 what was it about b Yu or whatever that that 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:05.600 led you in that direction? 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.640 Yeah, I mean it was we also put an extra 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:10.840 lineman in the game in the backfield with the tight end, 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:13.000 and we ran a split flow, so the lines going 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:14.840 to the right, and are those two big guys are 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:17.280 going to the left. The thought is, you know, hit 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:20.400 it right off that side, and you know, Tyee kind 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:22.320 of went right up the middle there where that you know, 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:24.640 had a linebacker. But you know, you gotta feel like 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:26.640 we got a lot of beef in there, Tyweise, two 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:27.599 hundred and twenty pounds. 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:29.240 We'll get a yard. 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:31.200 You know, a little bit of penetration on that on 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:33.960 that particular play got knocked back a little bit. We 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:35.920 they meet us at the line of scrimmage. Obvious he's 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:37.279 trying to fight, but he didn't get it. You know, 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:39.680 Hans twenty twenty, we had there was another play we're 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:43.600 gonna you know, we're gonna call quarterback follow which we've 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:47.800 run many times with Soresby in those scenarios. You know, 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:50.960 had that call switched to this, I mean, obviously stick 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:54.159 with the first thought, I think, you know, and yeah, 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.239 what what that does enabled to play eleven on eleven, 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.320 which that's why we like it on short yard of 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:01.279 situations and goal line situations where now they had to 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:03.520 defend a quarterback in that situation. Man, you're you know, 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:05.640 Soorsby on that one is just running out to the left. 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:07.640 They didn't they didn't run out with them. Yeah, you know, 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.600 the extra guys in the box there. So yeah, I mean, 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:12.719 you know, Hindsight's twenty twenty is a play that you know, 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.000 we felt good about but obviously did not work. 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:17.960 Steven Rusnak missed three field goals. One was on a 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:21.000 bad hold. He's human, I mean, he's had a tremendous year. 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:24.320 He'd only missed one all year. So physical mistakes happened. 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:27.520 That's you know, that's it's unfortunate it happened. In this game, 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.360 you get more upset, I would think when there were 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:32.960 mental errors, and one of the costly ones was being 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.800 off side on the punt fourth and three. It looked 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.440 like you were going for the block in that situation. 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:40.560 Was that the case we were, you know, we'd worked 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:41.160 on it all week. 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:43.600 We were shifting our front, you know, so you line 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:45.400 up on one side and make them make their calls. 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:47.440 Shift over quickly right. 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.200 Before they're going to snap it and then get the 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:51.080 pressure and try to get one extra guy in the 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.880 gap to try to create something right there. As we 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:57.479 shifted over the you know, one of our guys shifted 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:00.000 over and his head was leaning slightly into the neutral 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.040 on and obviously you know it's an all sides. Well, 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:05.640 it happened to be under fourth and five, you know, 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:07.800 it's fourth and three or four, and so that's an 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.200 automatic first down, which is a great job of our 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:11.960 defense and that in that series to get off the 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.440 field and now we're putting them right back on their offense. 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:16.159 Obviously very unfortunate. 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:17.960 I think they ended up getting a field goal right there, 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:21.320 so that that's like a turnover, you know, when when 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:23.440 you allow them to get that first down there. So, 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.520 you know, been been very solid in the teams and 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:29.840 haven't had plays like that, and obviously that hurt us tremendously. 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.560 Didn't have a lot of lock on the replay reviews. 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:35.839 No oh for five over five over five. 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:38.919 You know, the biggest disappointment was the when you know 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:42.320 they called Cyrus down it. You know, looked like his 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.000 shin was on the ground before the ball came out, 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.600 so they ruled it down. That's why it took so long. 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:49.520 You know, that review was five or six minutes. Yeah, 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:51.679 you know, we went to a four minute commercial break, 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:54.560 came back and they're still under the hood looking at it. 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:56.919 And that's not what reviews, folks. If you can't. 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:58.720 Decide what it is, you stick with what the call is. 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:01.640 And we've you know, as coaches, we know that usually 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.160 they will not overturn that. Of course they did. They 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:05.960 overturned it. Gave them the ball right there, and you know, 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:08.880 we're on a seventeen yard line with an opportunity to 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:10.920 get some points on the board. And now again that 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:15.320 was a huge play that ultimately, you know, causes one 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:16.360 of the reasons why we didn't win. 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:19.040 And his knee does not have to beat down this 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:20.200 shin counts. 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:21.000 It doesn't need. 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:23.320 Yeah, right where the ankle starts there, you know, So 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.560 and that's really what happened, is his leg got caught 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:29.120 underneath the defender and right there where his ankle is 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:30.840 is starting to hit the ground is when the ball's 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.240 coming out. So it you know, it's obviously hard to tell. 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.440 If you can't tell, then they run it down. Unfortunate play. 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.320 I mean, Cyrus is a good football player for us. 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.760 I mean, you know what does he have? Eleven touchdown catches? 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:44.000 Number one of the big twelve, you know, closing in 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:45.800 on a record as you see, threw off the school 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:47.480 right act two off the school record. He's had an 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:51.680 outstanding year. You know, it's unfortunate there for that to 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:52.280 happen for him. 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:54.720 All right, we're gonna take a time out. We appreciate 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:56.600 the Bearcat fans who are with us here tonight. We'll 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:58.560 get to your questions and just a bet, we've also 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.120 got stuff to give away. Have to be here in 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:03.920 order to win. This is the Scott Saderfield Radio Show, 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.640 Live from the original Montgomery In, home of the world's 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:13.440 Greatest Ribs. I'm seven hundred WLW. We are back at 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.080 the original Montgomery In home of the world's greatest Ribs 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.320 and the Scott Saderfield Radio Show. Thank you to the 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:20.760 Bearcat fans who are with us here tonight, Cincinnati, with 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:23.360 one game left in the regular season. It's coming up 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:27.240 on Saturday, a three point thirty kickoff against TCU in 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:30.120 Fort Worth, Texas, very close to the hometown of your 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.480 quarterback Brendan Soresby. He told me today expects to have 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:36.760 more than one hundred people in attendance for the game 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:37.800 at TCU. 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.560 Yeah, I mean, his hometown's right up the road there, 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:42.440 so I'm sure he's gonna have a lot of family 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:44.719 friends and you know, you've also mentioned LP people you 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.480 don't even know that that is coming, and they'll they'll 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:49.040 bother their own tickets, but I'm sure he's gonna have 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.160 to get a lot of tickets for those people. So 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:53.319 obviously exciting for him to go back and play right 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:54.200 there at this hometown. 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.960 All right, you've got seven wins, you can still finish 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:59.560 the year with nine. These guys put a lot of 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.640 focus on trying to get to Dallas for the Big 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:05.960 Twelve championship game. Unfortunately that possibility ended with one game 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:09.480 left in the regular season. So what's the focus now, Yeah. 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:11.160 I mean, it's just finishing the season strong, you know, 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:13.720 an opportunity to go down and get get our eighth win, 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:16.400 you know, in our third year in the Big Twelve 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:18.280 and a solid year. 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:20.600 Obviously we didn't make our goal with what we wanted. 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.480 We want to play for a Big Twelve championship, you know, 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:25.240 and so obviously got work to do there. 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.559 But but for these guys, in these twenty two seniors, 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:29.840 you know, and in this day and age, you never 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:31.520 know who's gonna be on the team next year either, 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:33.320 And so we talked about that. Listen, this is the 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:35.240 last time this team was going to be playing together 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.319 in the regular season. We've got to have great energy 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:39.400 this week in practice. We got to be excited for it. 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.200 And it was in a spirited practice today because I 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:44.480 think the mindset of guys, particularly when you get to 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:46.400 the season at the end of the season like this, 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.560 you know, it's it's a long season, you know, mentally strained, 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:52.320 you know, drained, physically drained. 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:54.120 A lot lot of you guys are beat up. 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:56.640 You know, the team that really wants it, the team 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:58.719 that really is excited about continuing to play, I think 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:01.640 has a great opportunity to chance go win. Now this 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.160 this is interesting because they're the same record as we have. 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:06.120 You know, they're both we're both seven wins, We're both 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.720 fighting to get eight wins. Also talked about, hey, you know, 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.040 you go win this game, better Bowl opportunity. 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:12.240 You know, there's obviously there's. 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.480 Levels to the bowl games and the different places that 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:15.600 you go and you're able to go. 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:17.120 So so there's a lot to play for. 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:19.120 And you know, our guys who had a great practice 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:20.920 today and you know, hopefully we'll finish that out and 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:23.600 go get a road win in the Big twelve. 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:24.440 That's huge for us. 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.360 TCU played by U two weeks ago and it did 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:29.480 not go well, and they bounced back with a nice 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:31.720 win last week on the road of Houston. Houston was 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:34.080 still in contention for making it to the Big twelve 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:37.320 Championship game at the time, so TCU showed me something 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:38.559 with the way they played one. 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:40.040 Yeah, you're you're right. 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.120 Houston last week was eight and two going into that 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:45.280 game ranked twenty fourth to twenty fifth, still playing for 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.240 an opportunity to go play in the Big twelve Championship 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.160 as well. And then you know, tc goes in there 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:53.240 and and still gets to win. Interesting enough, TCU had 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.520 four turnovers and still won the game. I mean that 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:57.640 tells you, I think how well they'll played, you know, 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:00.800 even though they had the turnovers, they still won, you know, 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:03.040 and yeah, they could have packed it in too, you know, 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:05.480 and when they got their what fourth conference loss the 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.439 week before, so it shows they're still fighting and now 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.280 for them, it's going to be senior day for them, 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:11.960 it's going to be the last record season at home. 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.679 So yeah, it's gonna be a It'll be an exciting 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.880 game and a great opportunity for, you know, for us 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:18.679 to go down and get a win. 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:22.240 You beat the number one passing team at least in 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:24.640 terms of yardage in the Big Twelve earlier this year 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:26.760 when Baylor came to town. Now you'll be facing the 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:30.199 number two team in the conference in terms of passing yards. 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:33.880 They've got a great quarterback, Josh Hoover, third year starting quarterback. 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:37.840 How does TCUs passing attack compare to the one you 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:39.800 handled earlier this year against Baylor. 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:42.480 Yeah, I mean I think it's very similar. They really 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:43.360 lean on the pass. 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:45.600 You know, last year Hoover broke the school record for 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.680 passing yards and close to thirty nine hundred. This year 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.000 has thirty one sixty six. So they still throwing the 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:54.640 ball a lot. Got a transfer receiver, number one aut 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:56.720 standing receiver. I think you may lead the Big Twelve 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.120 in receiving yards over a thousand. Yeah, he's a really 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.520 good player. He you know, they didn't play good against BYU, 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:04.440 but he had over one hundred yards in that game receiving. 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.320 You know, so they have some weapons that obviously that 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:10.240 we have to be aware of. They but they're not 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:12.400 gonna They're not gonna like b Yu just turn it, 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:13.000 handle the ball off. 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:14.560 They're gonna catch it drop back. 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:16.680 I mean that's gonna be a big difference and do 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:18.600 a lot of the different things that a team like 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.320 Baylor tried to do. You know, so again what we 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:25.360 did at Baylor, mixed up coverages. You know, still stop 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:27.480 the run even though you're playing for the past. I 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:30.079 think that's critical as well. So if we can stop 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.240 the run while we're defending the pass, that'll be huge 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:32.840 for our defense. 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:36.560 The wide receiver you mentioned, Eric McAllister, had two hundred 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.400 and fifty four yards in one game earlier this year 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:43.360 against SMU and SMUs in contention in the ACC they're 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:45.800 a good team. Do you think he is the most 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:47.760 talented receiver you faced? Todate? 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:50.280 He may be, you know, obviously we haven't seen him 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:52.000 in person, but I think so. I mean, he's a 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.080 you know, he's got nine touchdowns, he's averaging eighteen yards 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:55.520 a catch. 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:56.800 That that is a lot for a. 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:59.679 Guy who's got fifty six catches almost at one hundred 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:03.000 yards per game, So teams know that they're trying to 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:04.560 get him the ball and he still is able to 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:07.200 perform at that level. That says a lot about that kid. 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:08.600 I think they do a lot of things to move 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:11.280 him around. I mean, you know, he's primarily an outside receiver, 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:13.560 but they can move him in the slot, motion him around, 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:15.280 try to find ways to get him to the football. 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:18.520 He's got great size and speed, which is a hardcover, 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:19.960 you know, and we just got to do a great 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:21.839 job of stand on top of him and not give 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:22.600 up the big plays. 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.320 Last couple of weeks, you faced the top two teams 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:28.160 of the Big twelve in terms of interceptions on defense, 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.000 and TCU is up there. Yeah, they don't have as 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.520 many as BYU or Arizona, but they're up there. And 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:35.920 they've got a guy in their secondary Bud Clark, who's 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:39.880 got fifteen in his career, which is more than anybody's 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.600 ever had UC history. Tell us a little bit about 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:43.120 their defense. 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:45.600 Yeah, you know, and Bud didn't play last week, so 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.000 I hadn't seen the report this week, but he's an 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:48.839 outstanding player. 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.199 He played against us last year. They actually have a 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:52.160 lot of guys. 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.480 Back on their defense from last year when they came 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.480 to Nipper last year in their last game, a really 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:01.240 good front. The front four guys, linebackers are really good. 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:05.000 I think this is a good defense. You know, ironically, 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.520 we've played the last last four weeks really good defenses. 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:11.720 The three previous weeks they have I think twelve interceptions, 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.880 whereas BYU and Arizona had fourteen, so they're not far off. 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:16.520 I mean they've done a good job with that. They 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:19.080 just they got they played tight coverage. We gotta do 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.200 a great job of mixing it up. Final ways to 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:22.960 run the ball. We didn't run it great last week. 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:24.480 We got to run the ball better this week. I 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.080 do think we threw the ball better last week. So 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:29.080 we got to continue that. Our receivers have to make 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.600 plays and they're gonna have to make contested catches against 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:33.360 these guys, so we're gonna have to make some plays. 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:35.600 And then obviously the bottom line is getting in the zone. 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:37.160 We gotta find ways to get in the end zone 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:40.040 when we have opportunities, and getting down that red zone, 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.280 which has been really good all year, and finding ways 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:43.080 to getting in the en zone. 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:43.880 Score touchdowns. 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:47.720 Brendan Zursby's only got five interceptions all year, which is great, 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:49.960 but four have come in the last three games. 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:50.480 Now. 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:53.080 He threw in last week that was really like a punt. 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.160 It was third and ten, it was forty one yards 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.240 down the field, so you kind of more or less 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:58.720 had what you would have had on a punt. But 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:01.040 assess his player over the last three games. 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.120 Yeah, I mean, obviously, I think we struggled throwing the 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.040 football at Utah. Not great against Arizona, but I think, 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:07.760 you know, we had four or five drops in that game. 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:09.600 I thought he played better against them, And then last 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:11.120 week I thought he played a really good game. 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:13.560 You know, you mentioned the one interception. I mean he 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:14.560 was throwing it down the field. 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:16.480 It ended up being like a punt, as a forty 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:19.840 two yard basically punt. Other than that, I thought he 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:21.600 played outstanding. I thought, you know, he was a guy 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:23.280 who was beat up from the from the game before 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:25.880 and and came out and played really really good. 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:28.680 And you know, I thought the receivers played better as well. 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:29.320 Last week. 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.000 You know, for us it was just you know, knocking 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.320 down some kicks and then obviously the fourth down and 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:35.800 the turnover in the red zone. When you get in 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:37.800 the red zone, I think that is critical to get 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.520 points out of that. You cannot turn the ball over 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:44.560 on downs and or fumbles or interceptions, and so we've 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:45.960 done a good job with that. We got to do 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:48.160 that this week. Find ways of getting the end zone, 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:51.560 you know, and then you know, obviously defensively, getting off 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.040 the field. I think that's that's been our nemesis all years. 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:55.840 Letting teams drive. We got to find a way to 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:59.160 get off the field, especially on those third and fourth downs. 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:00.400 I mean, that's gonna be a huge for us. 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:04.160 Joe Cotton, your left tackle, met with the Cincinnati media 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:07.320 earlier today. There was a part of his conversation that 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.479 I found really interesting. He said that in the offensive 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.680 line meeting room, O line coach Nick Cardwell asked the guys, 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.000