Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And there's been a lot of fun this
Speaker 1: week about to Marco when he's carriage. Have you had
Speaker 1: a chase to talk to him at all? Um? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I talked to him every day. Um. But
Speaker 1: you know, I think it's part of it. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, I've known DeMarco for a long time, and
Speaker 1: I think you know, he's, um, you know, a competitor
Speaker 1: in every sense of the work. And you know, I
Speaker 1: think he wants to be on the field. He wants
Speaker 1: to feel like he's contributing. He wants to touch the ball,
Speaker 1: and so you know, I think when that doesn't happen,
Speaker 1: he gets disappointed. But you know, at the same time,
Speaker 1: he's a great teammate and uh, you know, he was
Speaker 1: happy on Sunday that we won, and I think obviously
Speaker 1: he was just a little bit frustrated in his own
Speaker 1: performance running one of these checks that did it kid?
Speaker 1: You know one of the theories about kids lack of
Speaker 1: except last except is here way you guys said by Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I really don't know. I've never played running back.
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure with college. Yeah, um right, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. You know, I think you
Speaker 1: would have to ask him. I'm sure that he'd be
Speaker 1: able to tell you a little bit more in depth
Speaker 1: on what I could. You know, I know it's different,
Speaker 1: you know, I think, you know, there's probably an adjustment
Speaker 1: period and you know he might be still going through that.
Speaker 1: What's up? Um? You know from every conversation I've had
Speaker 1: with him, UM, you know, he hasn't said anything otherwise.
Speaker 1: But like I said, you'd have to ask him and
Speaker 1: he would have to answer that for you. Are you
Speaker 1: surprised the number of what they were? Like, I think
Speaker 1: we have to set your way a crazy year, not
Speaker 1: closer to that. Um. You know, I think it's hard
Speaker 1: to compare year to year. You know, it's a different team,
Speaker 1: it's a different situation. His role is different in this
Speaker 1: offense than it was last year. Um. Obviously that year
Speaker 1: he had a great year. You know, he's still a
Speaker 1: great player even though his numbers aren't the same. But
Speaker 1: I think it's really difficult. I think you're kind of
Speaker 1: comparing apples to oranges when you look at those two
Speaker 1: different sets of numbers. How do you keep this becoming
Speaker 1: a distraction? Is a distraction? Um, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: pay attention to it. I think there's a lot of
Speaker 1: guys in that locker room who don't pay attention to it.
Speaker 1: You know, he came in today, you know, it's his
Speaker 1: typical self, had a great practice, worked hard. You know,
Speaker 1: there was nothing said at practice, There's nothing that's been
Speaker 1: said in our meetings. You know, it really hasn't been
Speaker 1: an issue for us so far. See what does it
Speaker 1: you even through your injuries this year, that you still
Speaker 1: have a chance to win this division and it's right
Speaker 1: there in front of be the opportunity this last month. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I touched on a little bit after the
Speaker 1: game on Sunday, But obviously we would like our record
Speaker 1: to be much better than it is right now. But
Speaker 1: you know, given where we are in the season, you know,
Speaker 1: to be tied for the lead in the division, you know,
Speaker 1: and to real control our own destiny these last four weeks,
Speaker 1: I think that's all you can ask for the ling
Speaker 1: game now. You know last week you had the location
Speaker 1: three guys, Now what do you know running? Um? You know,
Speaker 1: I think the great thing about that is, you know
Speaker 1: we've got four guys we feel really comfortable hand on
Speaker 1: the ball too, and it keeps those guys fresh. You know,
Speaker 1: if we can play the way we want to play,
Speaker 1: which is up tempo, and get our play count, you know,
Speaker 1: upper seventies into the eighties, and keep those guys fresh,
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully in the third and fourth quarter, you know,
Speaker 1: when they're starting to wear down. You know, we're continuing
Speaker 1: to put those guys in and they're coming in and
Speaker 1: running hard and you know, staying a little bit fresher
Speaker 1: because you were starting to see that, I mean before
Speaker 1: you got hurted, before Ryan got hurt right now, but
Speaker 1: um yeah, I mean four is better than two, right
Speaker 1: you shoulder do anything? Um yeah, we're in a little
Speaker 1: bit extra padding on that left shoulder right now. Joke.
Speaker 1: I think you joke. You don't even know who you're
Speaker 1: getting you off. Yeah. They also they just doing different
Speaker 1: heights and different coming at you. I really that's irrelevant
Speaker 1: to you. I mean it is a little bit different obviously.
Speaker 1: DeMarco and Sprowls are a little bit different size. Um.
Speaker 1: I think I do notice before the boy who I'm
Speaker 1: handing the ball too. Um but I think you know,
Speaker 1: it did take me a while when I first got here,
Speaker 1: because you know, Sproles comes in there and you really
Speaker 1: kind of have to lower the mesh point. But uh no,
Speaker 1: that's a fun play with all those guys when they
Speaker 1: rotate like that kind of challenges just buffo. Um. You
Speaker 1: know it's a big test for us this week. You know,
Speaker 1: they're really good defense. You know. I think one of
Speaker 1: the biggest things is, you know, we've got to be
Speaker 1: able to keep ourselves ahead of the chains. You know,
Speaker 1: we can't have penalties. You know, we can't have negative
Speaker 1: ways and put ourselves behind the chains because you know,
Speaker 1: I think once you get into third and long, I
Speaker 1: mean they're going to come after you. It's heavy, heavy pressure,
Speaker 1: you know, force you to get the ball out and
Speaker 1: then they try to rally and tackle before the sticks.
Speaker 1: So um, you know we've got to control their front,
Speaker 1: got to be on top of their blitzes. When they
Speaker 1: do decide to pressure us, you know we've got to
Speaker 1: beat that and try to get them out of it.
Speaker 1: Three days when those numbers. For you, what's what's the different, um?
Speaker 1: You know, I think just getting more comfortable, not forcing things, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, going through my progressions, you know, not sticking
Speaker 1: on one or two, you know, checking the ball down
Speaker 1: if I have to, you know, and just trying not
Speaker 1: to put our team in bad positions, says you were
Speaker 1: your numbers. You worried at it taking the ball over
Speaker 1: a while. Yeah, you had some early Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it was something that I was trying to figure out
Speaker 1: because I've never been someone to throw a lot of
Speaker 1: interceptions and so that was new to me. And you know,
Speaker 1: I think it was a variety of things. You know,
Speaker 1: I missed some throws that you know ended up being picked.
Speaker 1: You know, I made some bad decisions, um yeah, and
Speaker 1: there were a few miss I mean it was all
Speaker 1: over the place. So um, you know, hopefully you know,
Speaker 1: we can continue to eliminate those Is this I mean,
Speaker 1: well you put the last couple of games before you
Speaker 1: got her last week. Is this is a guy who
Speaker 1: here comes the fourth for you? Um? I hope. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I felt like, before you know,
Speaker 1: the injury a couple of years ago, I was playing
Speaker 1: really well, and you know, I feel like before the
Speaker 1: injury this year I was kind of coming back into
Speaker 1: that form. And so hopefully I can you know, continue
Speaker 1: to build on that bit off topic, but you might
Speaker 1: have a highs and trophy build. Who's your foot? I
Speaker 1: actually I voted for Baker Mayfield. Um yeah, yeah, he's
Speaker 1: a fellow suit or you got to vote for the Sooners.
Speaker 1: And you know, I thought he had a great year
Speaker 1: this year, and you know, I thought he was deserving.
Speaker 1: I think it's a little bit unfortunate that he didn't
Speaker 1: get invited to New York. Um. It's actually it was
Speaker 1: at my parents' house for a while, and I think
Speaker 1: now it's in my office at my house. Everything the
Speaker 1: stories you tell about happy um My mom used it
Speaker 1: as kind of like a centerpiece on the dining room
Speaker 1: table for a long time because she didn't have anywhere
Speaker 1: else to put it, and so it stayed there for
Speaker 1: a while, and then I think there were like kind
Speaker 1: of decorations around it. But then she finally got tired
Speaker 1: of it and took it brought it to my house.
Speaker 1: It's in Oklahoma, I know, I know, I know, a
Speaker 1: little bit unfortunate. Hopefully we can get a Sooner in
Speaker 1: there next year. YEA, thank you guys. Zero