Effort was better, but the OLine is atrocious

[00:00:00] Speaker A: All right, all right. Welcome to the Whole Hog Sports podcast. This is the Tuesday edition. Me and the A train, Anthony Hicks. I'm Chip Souza with the Whole Hog Sports Network and we bring it to you every Tuesday. Of course, Anthony. The pride of strong in Arkadelphia. Arkadelphia Badger. How are the. How the Badgers doing this year? [00:00:15] Speaker B: The Badgers are doing great. We're young this year. We're very young. We got a sophomore quarterback. We got a. We got. But we have some great kids that actually understand the system. We've gone our third coach now and we finally gave coach Geiser being a defensive coordinator ever since J.L. [00:00:31] Speaker A: eldredge was J.R. yeah. [00:00:33] Speaker B: Yeah. So every time we won the past three championships that we won, we won it with coach Kaiser, the defensive coordinator. So the team is a little bit different. [00:00:40] Speaker A: Give him his shot. [00:00:41] Speaker B: Yes. They're hard nose. They still, they still are here to vvr. But what they. One thing they do, one thing they're trying to figure out now is that they don't average the 35, 40 points a game that they used to. They're playing more hard nose balls. [00:00:53] Speaker A: Last I checked, a. If you got more numbers on your side than they got on their side, you win a game. [00:00:59] Speaker B: I went down for my hall of Fame induction this past. [00:01:01] Speaker A: There you go. There you go. Hall of Fame. I didn't know I was in a Hall of Famer. Okay. [00:01:06] Speaker B: And I got an opportunity to, you know, see the coaches and talk to them. [00:01:09] Speaker A: See, I just kind of dropped. I just went down from a Hall of Fame induction. [00:01:13] Speaker B: And what coach was talking about is, you know, one question was asked by another one of my former teammates is, are we going to be able to score those points? And they're getting there. They just, like I said, they're young, but you better still watch out for those badges. [00:01:25] Speaker A: If you outscore your opponent, you win. [00:01:28] Speaker B: It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. I'm proud of those kids and I can't wait to strong because strong plays eight man football and they won two state championships in the last five years. [00:01:37] Speaker A: So I grew up in Texas. They play six man football. Have you ever seen that? Ever since six man. [00:01:41] Speaker B: Yes, I have. [00:01:42] Speaker A: They're fun. [00:01:42] Speaker B: They're fun. [00:01:43] Speaker A: They're like, oh, they're fun. You see them 85, 82 games. You talk about some offense. [00:01:48] Speaker B: There's some offense going on. That is some offense going on. [00:01:52] Speaker A: All right, so, Anthony, last week we kind of hammered the boys for a lack of effort against Utah. I ain't backing off on. [00:01:59] Speaker B: Oh, no. [00:01:59] Speaker A: All right, now, I did see more effort against Georgia. I did. The play wasn't great, but again, when you are outmanned at most of the positions, that's the way it is. But remember, we talked about this. It takes zero talent to give effort, zero talent to play tough. And I thought they did give good effort. [00:02:19] Speaker B: Yeah. That game was about Jimmy's and Joe's, not X's and O's. I mean, there was nothing that we could do. They lined up and hopefully we took some notes from the. From the offense and line up with a fullback in the backfield and put our tackles, you know, get our tackles with their hand on the ground to try to show some opportunity to actually let them know, yeah, we're getting ready to run the ball, but can you stop us? [00:02:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:02:40] Speaker B: It's just going to have to be some. Some different things. But you. They learned a lot about themselves playing these teams. [00:02:45] Speaker A: You know, here's the thing. You've played at a high level. You know, the what. What pisses off an opponent more than anything is a guy who. On the other side, who won't quit. [00:02:57] Speaker B: Yes. Yes. [00:02:59] Speaker A: Come on, man. And somebody who doesn't quit, that frustrates a talent, frustrates opponents. If you just come on. They won't quit. [00:03:09] Speaker B: They won't quit. [00:03:10] Speaker A: So that's what we're looking for, man, is just. No, quit. Give effort, play tough, do the maximize. Whatever God bestowed in your body, whatever that is, play that to the best of your ability. I'm happy. [00:03:25] Speaker B: And you heard the sideline reporter talking about it during the game that Kamari Harris, after that first series, came out the field, and he lived in. Everybody on that. [00:03:33] Speaker A: Love it. [00:03:33] Speaker B: And that's what I'm talking. That's the only thing that I'm talking about. Yeah. Show some passion. [00:03:37] Speaker A: Yes. [00:03:38] Speaker B: Show some fight. Show that you're not going to get going on. I mean, you're not going to just turn tail and, you know, turn yellow on me and just run. Run down, just run away. But these guys showed a little bit. [00:03:48] Speaker A: They did. [00:03:48] Speaker B: They fought. They fought. So I'm proud of them from that perspective. But now it's time to win the games you're supposed to win. [00:03:53] Speaker A: Now I'm gonna throw some flowers out. [00:03:55] Speaker B: Gotcha. [00:03:55] Speaker A: Throw some flowers out. All right. Jacobian Smith. [00:03:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, God. [00:03:59] Speaker A: Okay. [00:03:59] Speaker B: Amen. Amen. That kid right there comes downhill. Yeah. And I don't know if a lot of people understand what downhill means. The first step of any linebacker should not be lateral. It should not Be back. Okay. Your first step should be plaque side with that at a, you know, 45 degree angle downhill. Now if you striking, striking. And there's always going to be somebody there to block you. [00:04:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:04:21] Speaker B: Football is a game of numbers. Football is a game of numbers. [00:04:24] Speaker A: You just don't use one. [00:04:25] Speaker B: You don't use one. You're going to have to hit somebody in front of you because there's always somebody in the numbers game there to there to block you. So if you don't go, hit that guy first, control him, hats and hands and get off the block. That's our issue right now. [00:04:40] Speaker A: Right. [00:04:41] Speaker B: We are. Had we been having issue the last couple of weeks, maybe it was a talent issue or whatever. But I just want to see more hand play. I want to see these guys come downhill. Hit this guard in the mouth, hit that pulling guard in the mouth, hit that pulling center or that tackle in the mouth and actually control him with your hands and eliminate him from. Eliminate him first. Because if you eliminate him first, that they running zone blocking and they're looking for an open hole. [00:05:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:07] Speaker B: So if you play sound defense and do exactly what you're supposed to do on defense, it's supposed to bounce itself out or either turn itself back into that single person that's supposed to be available to get their play. But you have to go take care of what's in front of you first. Once you take care of that guard, that center, that tackle, hats and hands, shed him, get off the block. But we need to use our hands more and we have to get off blocks. These guys are sitting there slow dancing with these people. These kids don't slow dance no more. I can't guarantee you can't find a kid over there. [00:05:36] Speaker A: They don't know about the temptation. They don't know nothing about that. [00:05:39] Speaker B: They don't know nothing about Jodeci or none of all the good stuff. Slow dance and keep sweating. So I just want these guys to get off the blocks, use your hands and actually get to the ball. You saw a little fatigue in the end that, you know, they was running long plays again. [00:05:53] Speaker A: Again, we tightened down the depth chart a little bit. You know, the top guys going to play more. It was a hot game again, 101, but it was hot, of course. Yeah. So understandable. [00:06:05] Speaker B: Yes, they did. They did. They did about as well as I can expect. Like I said, it's Jimmy's and Joe's on X's and O's, but iron, sharpers, iron. You cannot go into a season or go into anywhere else and play people at your caliber until you get to a certain period in the schedule. The SEC is hard just enough. I looked at what, what Fayetteville is doing, what Brian is doing. Brian didn't play anybody except for Benton. Benton beat them on a fluke. They went in a halftime at 42 to 12 and the four quarter and then lost. So iron Sharper's iron. So this team is battle tested. Okay. You have been hit in the mouth. Okay, you know what to do now. You fought against the best. You fought against arguably that could be the, you know, national champion very well can be. Hey, I don't know of anybody that could probably stop those that I don't know. [00:06:55] Speaker A: There's more complete team than. [00:06:56] Speaker B: Oh my God, they are complete. And how many passes they throw in [00:07:01] Speaker A: Utah lot the Jefferson's they moving on [00:07:04] Speaker B: and they're going to. And they're going to keep moving. Yeah, because I don't know of another team in the Big 12 to play that brand of football. [00:07:10] Speaker A: Well, I wish they would play Texas Tech because they would be Texas. [00:07:14] Speaker B: Oh my God. They would beat everybody in the Big 12 to me because they play hard nose football. They depends on the run. They depend on the run. But Arkansas Racebacks have to play with their hands and get off blocks on the defense and we have to learn how to run the ball on offense. We have to do something. [00:07:32] Speaker A: More flowers. So Jaquavan Smith has some nice tackles to loss. Quincy Rhodes. [00:07:35] Speaker B: Oh, cute. He stepped out. [00:07:37] Speaker A: He did. [00:07:38] Speaker B: I think somebody had a talk with him. [00:07:39] Speaker A: You know what man? Is it he's stepping up because they were playing Georgia or what? Because maybe, you know, maybe he's like, you know, man, I'm gonna, I'm gonna [00:07:45] Speaker B: be honest with you. I don't care. I don't care. He. He's been injured. Let's give. Let's give him. Let's give him his due. He's been injured. He's been nursing an injury. Okay, but you can't get up he. Hell yeah, he got up for Georgia but get up for everything now you are the. The heir parent. You are the. You're the leader. You playing for. Yeah. You paying for your on a slot too. So what better way to get film? Yeah, he's first round like I said to get film than to play a great game against Georgia. There you go. So the scouts and everybody that was there was looking and he did a good job. [00:08:18] Speaker A: Charlie Collins had to have some nice place. [00:08:20] Speaker B: He hustled his butt off. Like I said. Another Arkansas boy. You See us, you name two Arkansas boys. I just want these guys to have some pride, okay? Show what you can do. And the best way you can do it, besides screaming and hollering at these guys, do your job. [00:08:35] Speaker A: Now, the quarterback gashed us. Gunner Stockton gashed us on some. Okay, let's kind of break those down. He had about three plays there. I think he had. Those were 20, 25, 30 at 162 yard run. All right. Why did he have that much space? Were we not containing the edge? I mean, explain to me why he had so much room to run. Where did we break down? Because the secondary did its job. Apparently they were doing their jobs because there was no open receiver. But that left him a ton of room to run. Were we not staying at home? [00:09:08] Speaker B: No. The D line was sitting there ballroom dancing with the O line. If you can't get off the block, you're not going to be able to fill any lanes or any holes. So most people that get off the block literally pushes that quarterback to make his eyes come down. Every quarterback in the league is not trying to look. They trying to look over the line or trying to get their vision, but if they get enough pressure, their eyes come down so they can't see what's open out there. And that's why everybody looks at it. They looking at it from the television because they can see a right screen. But you're like, oh, that guy was open. You didn't see that D lineman running at him. And his eyes came down to look at him, to get himself in a position to make a good throw. But you have to put some more pressure on. On those people. But they're getting hung up because they're not getting off their blocks. So it's just creating just tremendous lanes. And there's not a secondary, that's not a linebacker corps in the nation that can sit there and hold somebody for five seconds. If you're not going to get pressure with them with four or five, you got to get some more pressure on these guys because if you don't, they gonna just sit back there and play 707 or a quarterback, especially an athletic quarterback, he's going to kill us. [00:10:19] Speaker A: So props for more effort. I still need more, but it was better effort. The effort meter wasn't on zero. It was. It was pegging and seeing some good effort. So things that I can find positivity in moving forward now, shuffling quarterbacks. Anthony, is that. Is that a recipe? I'm saying a recipe for disaster. I mean, we've, we. We've lost two games, so I shouldn't say that. But is that something you can succeed with? [00:10:48] Speaker B: You can succeed with? Because they know. They know better than we do. And I'm just being honest with you. I have to tell the fans the truth. They know better than we do because we're now at practice. Okay, so since we're not at practice, there might be some things that KJ does, and it might be some things AJ Anthony does that that's a little bit better than one another. So they're trying to utilize those opportunities. I just don't want the offensive line to get complacent and start making mental mistakes by, you know, different hand. Hand signals or different snap counts. Different snap counts or something. But regardless of whatever it is, the quarterback, they're functionable. They are game managers. But if we can't run the ball, I don't care what we do. So hopefully these guys learn the offense a little bit better to make checks, because some of these checks that they're. Some of these hits that they're taking, they can make better line checks to put them in a better position. But I don't know if they know the offense that well yet. [00:11:41] Speaker A: Well. All right, so I think KJ played. He started, played first two series. AJ came in, played the next two series, and then KJ ended up getting most of the reps. But it was not 50, 50. It was more like, I don't know, maybe 65, 35% KJ versus AJ now, do you see Arkansas continuing to play that rotation? Because what's telling me is no one quarterback has separated himself, really, from the other quarterback. And that's been the theme through the spring and the summer. There was no huge dig, big gulf of separation. So is that something you think we'll continue to see? [00:12:20] Speaker B: Yes, I think we're going to see it until they get some better protection. So we can actually see what these guys can. [00:12:26] Speaker A: Actually, that's a whole different. [00:12:27] Speaker B: I mean, I don't know what else have we actually been able to see exactly what these kids can do. Not even North Alabama. They've not had the opportunity to sit there in the pocket and do what they need to do. And if you give them a chance, you saw kj, if you give him a chance. If you give him a chance, they'll make good plays if they got protection. [00:12:48] Speaker A: So here's what these eyes see when I'm watching the game, this is what I see when KJ has the three, four, I would say five, but I don't know. He's getting five seconds. Let's say four max. [00:12:59] Speaker B: Four. [00:13:00] Speaker A: When he gets. When he gets enough time to set his feet and throw. He throws a nice ball. Yeah, he throws a nice. He throws a better ball than AJ Does. Okay, now that's great. That's asking the offensive line to hold, you know, for that time to give receivers time to separate, which we don't always. Not great at that. But it does give him a little bit of time maybe to get a little separation. So that's a positive. Okay. We can't run the football. So. [00:13:28] Speaker B: And that's not. That's not Arkansas race. No. [00:13:30] Speaker A: So AJ to, in these eyes is a better dual threat as far as the running part of the quarterback is concerned. Okay? Now we can't clone them together and make one dual threat that runs and passes well. So we have two quarterbacks that do something different, better than the other quarterback with us having trouble running the ball with our running backs due to an atrocious offensive line. And I cannot say it any different than that. Okay. Their play has been bad. Does AJ on design runs give us a better chance to run the ball and at least establish some kind of a running game? [00:14:13] Speaker B: Maybe. And you might be right because I think that is an option. But my deal is see it better, see it quicker and see it better. Some of these design blitzes that you've seen and some of these defensive coordinators, like Utah's defensive coordinator was there is their head coach now. So they know Georgia, they just got. They got about five, six first round draft picks on that team. I mean, they're just there. You have to see it better. [00:14:40] Speaker A: He didn't run it well against North Alabama. [00:14:43] Speaker B: We haven't ran the ball, period. Okay? And I'm just being honest with you. There is no reason why, with the type of talent that we have with Cam settles with Sutton, with the kid from Benton, why we should not have Braylon Russell, Braylon Russell, why we shouldn't have better running game. And the deal is that's won't to. Ok? And that's just like tackling. When you don't tackle, you don't want to. Okay? Because that takes an opportunity to give your body up and literally take that extra step and tackle. Running the ball is the same way you have to come off the ball, but you got these. Your offensive tackles are almost standing straight up. They got tight. They got tight hips. Their hips are tight. They don't have any push. And like I said, I wish we could teach the old dead T or bring Quinn back to Teach him the old flexbone because that is to be able to control the clock, to give our defense enough time to get some rest and to be able to play field position football. And I don't know if we got the capabilities of doing that right now. [00:15:45] Speaker A: All I've ever heard my whole life was offensive lineman, love to run, love run plays more than pass blocking plays because that allows him to get off the ball fast, stay low and drive and win that one on one battle. [00:15:59] Speaker B: That was then, this is now. I don't know if you remember that old book back in the day. That was then, this is now. Okay, all right. I mean, you just don't have it. There's something about running the ball. There is a consensus that has to go along with everybody on the offensive line so you can actually make the right play call. I remember when they came up and they. Everybody lined up in every one of the holes. Everybody lined up in the A gap, the B gap, and they had somebody there the whole time. And the left guard was sitting there and he had a guy sitting right on his left eye. And I was like, okay. God. They got everybody blocked up good. They got everybody blocked up great. They had a guy sitting in, sitting in his right side on the left of the center. The guy slid from the guard position over to the center, over to the center nose guard and literally left that guy wide open up the middle. You have to see it. You have to. And I'm gonna make. I'm not making excuses. New system, new quarterbacks, four career starts. Four career starts. You know, you're trying to learn the system and also till you're playing against the best. I mean, I'm gonna make this prediction and I don't know if people are gonna. But Georgia and Utah will be in the college football player. [00:17:17] Speaker A: They will. And Georgia don't play for a national champion. [00:17:19] Speaker B: Georgia is going to play for national championship and. And Utah is going to be in the college football. Going to be in the playoffs. Iron sharpens iron. [00:17:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:27] Speaker B: So they have been beat up. They have been hit in the mouth. Now it's time for you to beat up some on somebody else that you're supposed to beat up on. So let's see what they do. [00:17:34] Speaker A: Okay. The offensive line. [00:17:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:17:38] Speaker A: Atrocious. It's been bad, man. It's been bad. Maybe atrocious is a strong word, but they've not been good. They have not been good. And we talked about this before the podcast started. People have been saying, why don't we run the screen game more why don't we use screens more to maybe loosen things up, get the ball out quicker, that kind of thing. One play, One play in Saturday's game tells us why we have trouble with this against better teams. We get the play that we want to get and we get the matchup that we want. We get a big lineman out on a DB for Georgia. We throw the ball to Sutton Smith and our lineman completely. It looked like I was in Mexico at a bullfight. The only thing missing was a cape. We o. Laid the defensive back. He came in absolutely obliterated Sutton, obliterated him. And the play was, I mean, just got crushed right there. [00:18:35] Speaker B: The way that that scheme was called, it was, you know, you had like you say, you had Kobe coming out there on the DB perfect. But then you had that other db, that safety or that corner coming in from the inside and you know, the tight end completely olayed it. I mean, he just did not touch it. And it was a blow up and we had it blocked personally. Like Joker Johnson. Joker, Joker Johnson. He said it best. By looking at the film, you can see a lot of people, all 10 or nine people doing their jobs, but you got that one or two that, just that, that. Lose, focus, that. And you cannot win. Okay. When the play fails, you got to win with 11. You cannot win with 10 or 9. You have to win with 11. So I'm just looking for these guys to literally just make some, some additions, make some commitments, make some personnel changes. [00:19:27] Speaker A: We have rushed for about 250 yards in three. Three games combined, 75 yards a game, 2.3 yards. [00:19:34] Speaker B: I need, I need you to do me a favor. I need you to go back and go back in history and figure out when was the last time we've had 200 yards, 200 yards in three games of Russia at the University of Arkansas. Okay. I just, I want someone to go and find that out because you have to go back. [00:19:54] Speaker A: You'd have to go back to maybe, maybe Chad Morris. [00:19:59] Speaker B: Chad Morris. [00:20:00] Speaker A: But. But I mean, chad brought in K.J. jefferson, who could run for that much by himself. [00:20:07] Speaker B: So I don't know, like I said, I don't know when was the last time we've had what you say, 200. What, like 262 sick. 260 yards in three games. [00:20:16] Speaker A: Total. Total, yeah. [00:20:17] Speaker B: Rushing the ball total. [00:20:19] Speaker A: They should have had that. [00:20:20] Speaker B: And I don't know if that's. If that's. Does that include the sacks too? [00:20:25] Speaker A: I mean, yeah, I mean, that's, that's total yards. I mean, sacks Are counting take off the rush. So what can they do to fix that? Now? Does Tulsa give them a chance this Saturday to get some confidence at run game? Because right now we can't. We're not getting anything between either side of the center. Maybe we'd get nothing. We're getting. The only positive run I remember Saturday is KJ Keep on a design on the design quarterback draw. He got seven yards in the first series and I don't think we had another run that long the whole game. [00:21:03] Speaker B: Man. I'm going to be honest with you. Tulsa's salivating right now. I mean, you saw North Alabama did to us on the old line. They saw Georgia, they saw Utah. I mean, I saw Georgia saw Utah. They're going to bring it. They're going to bring it. They think that they can come in here and beat an SEC team, somebody that spent probably twice as much money in nil than they spent. They are feeling some type of way because they know that this is a place where they should have been. [00:21:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:28] Speaker B: And if this guy's going to get all this money and these guys, they got. They got something to play for. [00:21:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:33] Speaker B: Okay. More importantly, we have something to play for. We're supposed to beat this team. [00:21:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:38] Speaker B: Okay. I don't care what they say or whatever, we're supposed to beat this team. We both to beat this team. Every facet of the game. So let's see what they do, because this is more equivalent to the, you know, Northern Alabamas, but they. They different. [00:21:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:52] Speaker B: They beat Oklahoma State. Okay. They beat Oklahoma State at home. They had a tough game against Sam Houston. That's what. That's the film we need to watch. So, guys, if you want to go back and see what Tulsa can do or how we can possibly explore them, go watch the Sam Houston tape or go watch some of the highlights and you can see some of the things that Sam Houston did, because Sam Houston gave them all that they wanted. They barely beat him 24 to 17. So they are three and. Oh, but we should beat them. [00:22:17] Speaker A: I want our offensive line to go back and watch tape of Brandon Bursworth, Sean Andrews, Jason Peters. You know, those dudes. We had dudes, you know, let's go watch some of that film. [00:22:28] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. But watching and doing well, it's two different things. Those guys right there were dogs, man. Those. I don't know these kids. I don't know these kids, and I wish them the best and I want to give them every opportunity I can to succeed. I know they're working on New things. [00:22:45] Speaker A: I'm challenging them. I'm challenging them. [00:22:48] Speaker B: I don't need to challenge them. They need to challenge themselves. The team needs to challenge itself. That's all it is. The coach is still fighting hard, and he's trying to be positive, but they should not enjoy any practice this week. This should be hard. I mean, the best weather we've had in what, two months? [00:23:05] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. We got some 80s, some eight. We have some eights in there this week. [00:23:09] Speaker B: We got some eights this week, so. [00:23:10] Speaker A: The best. [00:23:11] Speaker B: Yeah, Put them outside and let them go edit. [00:23:14] Speaker A: Well, so I saw. I watched a good podcast. Sean was on Andrew's on a good podcast this week, and he said this. In this podcast. I'm like, man, I like that. He said, it is hard to coach guys to be dogs. Either you got that in you or you don't. That's not something I can put in you, right? I can't put that in you, can I? I can't. [00:23:40] Speaker B: No, no. [00:23:40] Speaker A: You either got it or you don't. [00:23:42] Speaker B: You either got it or you don't. And I'm gonna be honest with you. I think these guys got it, but they're behind the eight ball, and I want to see it. Every kid got it in them. Every kid has incentives to play so many different ways. Our incentives were so many, so much lesser than theirs. But that's the way of the world now, the way the game is played. But you still have an incentive to win. You still want to win. And everybody has a job to do, so everybody got to do their job. [00:24:07] Speaker A: This is my thing. I'm greedy. All right? When you put that pile of fried chicken in there, I'm going for three. I ain't going for the snack boxer. I'm going for the three piece. [00:24:21] Speaker B: Oh, my God. [00:24:22] Speaker A: I'm going for the three piece, right? If I'm getting nil money and you giving me 250 or whatever, I want the 400 or whatever. So I'm going to play as hard as I can to get the four, and. And I'm not gonna be satisfied with the 250. So for these people who are saying, well, they're getting nil money, so they're just happy to get that. I'm like, okay, I see. They're happy. I want more of it. [00:24:48] Speaker B: Every kid on that team is potentially putting themselves in a position where they can have an advantage that no other college student can possibly have out there. [00:24:57] Speaker A: Generational. [00:24:58] Speaker B: Generational. Generational wealth. The investments that parents are making in high school and in Junior high on AU and the travel ball and all the other things. You're getting your return on your investment a lot earlier. A lot of these kids are taking care of their families. You know, I'm just being honest with people. They think that these kids are not sure. Some of these kids even paying child support because they are taking care of their families. They're doing what they need to do. I'm not oblivious to the fact that these kids are somewhat trying. I just want. Because I only see what I can see. My eyes only tell me what my eyes see. My eyes. I see these kids where they are, not where I want them to be. And if I see a lack of effort, I can say it's a lack of effort, because that's what I see. And I don't need to be. Need to have cognitive dissonance and need comforting lies to make me get through the next week, to get ready for the next game. No, I need the hurtful truth. I need the honest truth. And I need these kids to be honest with themselves. Realize in the grand scheme of things, in the grand scheme of things, your livelihood and everything depends on this. You're getting guarantees, you're getting full scholarships. So play like that. Play and give yourself a chance to be successful after the fact. Not just now, because you're not just playing for now. Everything that you put in is putting on film. And it's being seen by all 32 teams. It's being seen by the CFL, it's been seen by arena football, it's been seen by everywhere else that you can ever possibly imagine. And then hopefully you get a degree to put yourself in a position to do that. But I guarantee you, any other job that you get besides being a doctor or an engineer or something else, you're not going to get out making six figures like the way you are. So take advantage of the opportunity you have right now, because it will never preach. It will never come to fruition. I mean, you're not. [00:26:54] Speaker A: I'm passing the hat. We preaching. We preaching. Here we go. We preaching. [00:26:58] Speaker B: Take advantage of your opportunities, kid. I mean, I promise you 1000%. Just take advantage of what you got. [00:27:03] Speaker A: So you and I talked last week about effort. We saw more effort. I got to see more effort. They're gonna say, well, how much is enough? You want to tell you it's never enough. I'm never gonna ask you to give me more effort. I got to have. [00:27:16] Speaker B: Can I tell you what slows down kids a lot when look like that? The difference I always tell People. Because a lot of people always ask me what's the difference between high school, college and, and the pros. And there's a significant difference size, size wise, because maturity of the bodies and the age of the person that's doing. But another thing that's more significant is your inability to think. You don't have to think. It comes sacred nature to you. The tendencies and the consistencies that you do all the time on your practice and your techniques and all the different things, it just happens because it just becomes second nature to you. [00:27:53] Speaker A: Preparation. [00:27:54] Speaker B: So preparation. So what I see these kids are doing, they're thinking, okay, and you can't, you can't play fast when you're playing. [00:28:01] Speaker A: Cloud clouds your. The clouds. [00:28:03] Speaker B: Everything clouds everything that's going. So it gives me the perception that they're still trying to learn the defense, they still trying to learn the schemes on offense, they still trying to understand exactly what they doing, but they're not playing fast enough. So from that perspective, yeah, we worked hard on them last week, but we were hard because of effort. [00:28:21] Speaker A: You know what colleges need? They need what the NFL does with the OTAs and things like that. They do that would be so beneficial. You know, when is that going to happen? That maybe you start seeing that where I mean they're already getting paid in nil money or whatever. Let's just go ahead and take it. The next call, spring football. Well, but more than that, I mean, because NFL teams are getting what, three or four those OTAs, right? They get it where they get the rookies come in and then they get full OTAs for the veterans and then they go into, they take a couple weeks off, then they go into training camp. Colleges need that OTA especially for new guys like Silverfield. Brings in 80 people. Brings in 80 guys. They're all new to the system so they're trying to learn it, you know, that kind of thing. [00:29:06] Speaker B: But the system has already been accommodating that. And when I say that is, that's why you have two different signing periods. If you sign a kid in November and they graduated in December, they're on your campus as a freshman. They should be at home getting ready to go to prom or running tracks. [00:29:22] Speaker A: Why are we still trying to learn the system? [00:29:23] Speaker B: Because that's what happens, okay? They are still 18 to 23 year old kids and we are giving these guys leeway to try to figure out exactly what's that. So you're going to need that growing time period between the first game and the third game or whenever to Try to just make it click. If you got enough veterans or you got enough people, that's there, and you got the Jimmies and the Joes, the X's and O's will take care of itself because nobody's really running anything elaborate unless you're playing some of these big games like ole Ms. And LSU. They knew each other very well, but you saw the discipline and you saw the situations that happens that just completely turned the game around. So I'm just waiting on these kids to literally just show us. Do you know your system? Because if you heard everybody's been saying the whole time, oh, well, they. They. They. They sit back a little bit off the playbook a little bit. Or they. They make the defense more simpler to get the. Because they're not getting it. Okay? They're not. [00:30:21] Speaker A: I don't want to use this term about dump. Dumb it down. [00:30:23] Speaker B: I mean, I hate to say that, but it's not. It's simplifying it to the point where you can get these guys to play faster. [00:30:30] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:30:30] Speaker B: So that's what they're doing. [00:30:31] Speaker A: I can say dumb it now because people have to dump everything down for me. So I can say that. You look that up in the dictionary, that's my. My picture going. [00:30:39] Speaker B: They just trying to simplify it because they want him to play faster. And if you know what you're doing, you can able to play faster. But some of the exotic things that I know Ron Roberts want to do, some of the safety blitzes and some of the other things, he can't do it because he don't believe in what he has right now. To be able to be in the [00:30:55] Speaker A: right place, be a bigger disaster. [00:30:57] Speaker B: Be a bigger disaster. And we need our linebackers. Okay, I'm just being honest with you. We need our linebackers to come downhill with force, the same way they did in North Alabama. Okay? Come downhill. Hit that guard in the mouth. Hit that tackle in the mouth. Go hit that fullback in the mouth. Okay. Play on their side of the line. [00:31:16] Speaker A: It's a violent game. [00:31:17] Speaker B: It's a violent game. [00:31:18] Speaker A: That's part of that bbr. Violence is one of them. [00:31:21] Speaker B: Hey, hey, hey. Violent, vicious, and relentless. There you go. That is it. [00:31:26] Speaker A: All right, so Arkansas loses game to Georgia 45, 17. But we did get some good run on ESPN. Chris Marshall, the catch he made. Oh, my God. That was amazing. Amazing catch. And so maybe one of the top 10 plays. So we're looking for positive things, right? That was a positive thing. That's a positive. There's a great Catch. Great catch. Much effort on that play. [00:31:50] Speaker B: Yes. [00:31:50] Speaker A: So right in front of the Georgia bench. So that was fantastic. Again, Arkansas gets positive spin on espn. The scoreboard might not have been positive, but we had one play in that game that was positive. So we got some good spin about that. So there you go. Got some positive news. [00:32:04] Speaker B: I think we got a. I think we saw a lot more positive news. And I'm just being honest with you. I saw the guys tackle a lot better. I mean, they had two guaranteed first round draft picks. And the running back. And the running backs that they have, those kids, man, they're different. That's Georgia. [00:32:18] Speaker A: Well, if you take out Gunner Stockton's hundred yards of rushing, pretty much it, you know, their running game stagnant. And I know that does count. But if you take that out and just look at what the two running backs did, they did a pretty good job. [00:32:32] Speaker B: They did a very good job of tackling, running to the ball and doing some things. But like I said, they have to be able to institute more by the. By the third game of the year, okay? By the fourth game of the year, they should have more into the game plan and to be more situational because they know tendencies right now. I mean, after three games now, I know what you're going to be doing most of the majority of time, percentage wise on third down. I know what you're going to do on first down, especially down in distance. But what we need and what we can do is we can play sound football and we can put it. Give ourselves a chance to put ourselves in a good position, not just give us a chance to win. Because I want to see that fight in the fourth quarter when that's a tight game or it's a blowout game and we literally just do everything we can. But we have to play better. We have to be able to expand. And also too, like I said, we are still playing a lot of bass. We're still doing a lot of simple things because they're not, they're not getting it yet. They're just, I mean, I'm just being. They're not getting that yet. And then when they do get it, hopefully it's not the fifth, sixth game of the year and we're 0, 5 or 6. Hopefully it's before, hopefully it's this weekend that they get it and see some of the tendencies that Tulsa is doing and actually play relentless, actually be vicious, I mean actually go in there and just violent, I mean, hit people, get up, talk, talk crap, I mean, do whatever. I don't mind penalties when you're. When you're hustling, when you got hard. [00:34:03] Speaker A: Tulsa, seven o' clock game. Their quarterback, Baylor Hayes, is listed as doubtful for the game. He may not play. I'm not crying about that. I'm not mad. He might not play. So he didn't play against East Texas A and M. Have you ever been to East Texas A and M? There's been three different names of that school, by the way. My hometown's not far from there. [00:34:21] Speaker B: I've never heard of it before. [00:34:23] Speaker A: It's in Commerce, Texas. [00:34:24] Speaker B: Commerce. [00:34:25] Speaker A: About as big as, you know, Prairie Grove over there. A lot. A lot of people from my hometown commuted to that school. Got their teaching certification. [00:34:35] Speaker B: Gotcha. [00:34:35] Speaker A: Wasn't too bad. It's about 60 miles or so. Real small. Andrew Armstrong was East Texas A and M. Gotcha. [00:34:41] Speaker B: I remember that. I remember that. [00:34:43] Speaker A: So there you go. But anyway, a good opportunity this week for the Hawks to get a win. They need it. They need some confidence here. Even if he play. You know what? I don't care. Here's what I'm saying. I don't care if he did play or don't play. Hog's going to win this game. [00:34:58] Speaker B: Yeah, I do. [00:34:59] Speaker A: I don't care if he plays or don't play. [00:35:00] Speaker B: Like I said, there comes a time when you get hit in the mouth so many times to the point where you're going to say, I am tired of it and let's see it. I want you to see. I want you to show me that you do care. And I do believe these kids care. But like I said, I just need all of them to come together. Let leaders be the leaders. Step up and do your job. But I need all 11 understanding what the game plan is and actually executing. [00:35:25] Speaker A: I'm on that limb. I'm saying win. It's gonna be a win no matter what. Man, I hope nobody got a chainsaw behind me. [00:35:32] Speaker B: Amen. Tulsa has a chip on their shoulder, and they do, but also too well. [00:35:37] Speaker A: We should have one. [00:35:38] Speaker B: Yes, we should. But also too. But you know, you know how the Oklahoma boys, they got a chip on their shoulder, but they think their stuff don't stink. But we are aggressive. Iron sharpens iron. They ain't play to Utah and they sure the hell ain't play to Georgia. Okay. [00:35:53] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:35:53] Speaker B: So we know what's up. As long as we know. [00:35:55] Speaker A: So you're saying Georgia's better than East Texas A and M, I think, yeah. [00:35:59] Speaker B: I didn't know. You caught me off guard like, that's like, oh, Georgia's better than anybody. [00:36:05] Speaker A: Be Texas boy, man, they will strike you. [00:36:07] Speaker B: You know, Utah is better than anybody that ever played. Iron sharpens iron. So they should know exactly what to do right now. Know a little bit better because they're you. Tulsa does not have Utah athletes. Tulsa does not have Georgia athletes. [00:36:20] Speaker A: I don't know how they beat Oklahoma State. [00:36:21] Speaker B: Hey, hey, man. [00:36:22] Speaker A: Props to you. [00:36:23] Speaker B: Hey, hey. That's another emotional game that's right up the road that lasts an hour, hour and a half hour half away from each other. That was a very emotional game. So good for you. But you come to Fayetteville now, we. We kick your ass. [00:36:37] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what. That's what it should be. That's what it should be. Want to remind everybody, the whole Hog Sports Daily podcast. We bring this to you every day. On Wednesday, Matt Jones is back here with with Brandon Marcelo. They'll talk all kinds of things. I'm sure. They may talk about the Protect College Sports Act. That's, you know, been in the House and Senate and whatever. They may talk about that. So you want to be sure and catch that. [00:36:58] Speaker B: We'll get into that later on. [00:36:59] Speaker A: There you go. 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And I think you said you got up at 1am or all by 3am [00:38:51] Speaker B: but you got to understand, though, I'll [00:38:52] Speaker A: catch you a nap this afternoon. [00:38:53] Speaker B: Oh, man, I'm a country boy, man, and that's about the time. I mean, it's dove season. It's ge. I mean, we're getting ready for duck season and deer season, man. That's. That's just natural for me, brother. Watching the woods. Wake up, man. I want people to get out, get outside, get outdoors a little bit and go. Go see nature. [00:39:09] Speaker A: Got some good weather, man. Like I said, we had some. Got some eights going on this week. Got a little rain yesterday. [00:39:14] Speaker B: Yeah, we're gonna get some more either tonight or tomorrow and potentially buy some more from Friday, Friday or Saturday. So just get outside. Got people. Go have fun and take a deep breath and soak it all in. Soak it all in and get ready for. Get ready for Saturday night. [00:39:28] Speaker A: And let's go get that dub. [00:39:29] Speaker B: Let's go get that W. That's what I. Let's go get it. [00:39:31] Speaker A: All right, man. We'll catch you all next week on the Whole Hog Sports. [00:39:33] Speaker B: See y' all later.