The Zone Wednesday 09/09 Hour 1

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3:59All right. Well, hell of a start. Let's go. Hey, everybody. How we doing? Justin Ackrey, Phil Wilson moose back in the studio. So it's great. Really great. Joe Klein's here too. We're so happy to be here. How's everybody doing today? That's good. The sun shining. It's going to be a hundred degrees. Yeah. Let's go make it rain in a couple of days. We've got football tonight. Yeah. Backman. I mean, Wednesday night football. Why wouldn't why not be fired up about it? You'd be so proud of me. I made it through that whole tennis match. You did not stay up till 3 30 like a freaking 80. Why would you do that to yourself? It was really good. I had a late fantasy football draft and I'm not usually into tennis at all, but I just kind of went and gotten bed thinking sports center would be on and it kind of suck me in man. Not even the fact that it was really an American. I mean, that's cool. Yeah. Can somebody explain to me why we play in the middle of the morning in this country for a special or did they schedule push back? Push back. Here's my thing. They have other courts at the US open.

5:00I don't know why they don't use them more. It's like, so the one that you paid for maybe is that part of it? Huh? Like if you paid for a certain match, knowing you're going to see certain people on that court is that why? I mean, I don't know why they can't. I mean, it's my thing. Would you rather watch them on court one instead of center court at like eight o'clock at night versus three in the morning? I mean, I think I would. Right. I just mean about moving like physically moving fans from one spot to another. Yeah. That's all. Yeah. But yes, it's crazy to think it should go that way. I mean, I'm assuming they want to play all the men's semi-finals on Arthur Ash Court or whatever, but yeah, it's crazy because yeah, the men's, the Tiafo match went long. Then the women's match went three sets and then they got put. But I mean, my thing is if you're starting at seven, I think was seven thirty central and you get pushed back until whatever time they started 10. I mean, that's not okay. I mean, that's not in close. Okay. You're not. You got to have a hard, you got to have a gap. You got to have like a afternoon session and then an hour and a half or two hours and then Alcras and Shelton start at seven o'clock.

6:02Right. Those other ones run long and you've got a buffer. Right. But you don't take a, I mean, I've said, I mean, I got an, I was like, man, there's nothing on it. Oh, Shelton and I mean eight o'clock, I'm, I sit down and Mike. Yeah. And the women's match hadn't even started. Yeah. I think, oh, hell, I missed it. I thought I missed it. That's what I thought. I was like, oh, this is a replay. The women's deal. Maybe there's some kind of weather issue or something else is like, no, yeah, that's crazy. I thought I missed it. Imagine if you got, I thought I was watching a replay at first. I was like, there's no way it's on this late. Well, I feel like they're effing with me too. It's been one of those weeks because the other day we all turn into watches floor to stay game. It's like, well, where the hell is the game? It's like, no, there's a delay. What weather? No. All right. So what if they would have transformers are coming in from the Avengers? What if they wouldn't have been able to turn the lights on at, at, at Dalkwalk or Stadium until 130 in the morning? They would have played it on the clock. Yeah. They could have played. I mean, four of us stays not playing this coming weekend. And I don't know about SMU. But and again, there was a guy on set or a thing was the ACC people with a jumbo fisher

7:06in them was the ACC. Yeah. I don't know what, what the guy's name was, but he was like, there's no way they can play this game. They need to cancel this game of play tomorrow morning. And that's what Jimbo was saying. And it was like 45 minutes into the thing and I was like, no, you shut up. It's like treating it like the SEC baseball tournament. I mean, that's like, that's the dumbest thing I said, the play in this game. Yeah. I mean, it's ESPN, it's Labor Day and, you know, unless the lights can't come on as, oh, as long as you can turn the lights on for the field. Yeah. I have a good friend who's one of the SMU radio broadcasters, Scott Garner. They called that game on their cell phone. They had no electricity in the radio booths. I'm not even sure ESPN got that game televised. They probably generated it. They have a generator. But I'm out of battery. I'm out of battery. Like, you know, like it was 45 minutes into the two it happening and it was like, okay, guys, I know you're looking for filler. Yeah. I know you're trying to they couldn't have played it. They SMU's got a game this weekend. There's no way they're going to move it to today. They were saying, well, SMU's playing Davis or Cal Davis or something. And I was like, they're playing the game.

8:08Yeah. Well, when does Shelton play next? Right. Yeah. Friday. You can get your finals. You can get yourself reacclimated to whenever it is that you supposed to start for Friday. It takes me a cup. When's the last time you had to pull an all nighter to have to play some kind of a legendary tennis match and then two days later do it again with all due respect, Phil. This is a elite athlete. I understand that. I understand that. I understand that. It's just I'm just wondering what it takes for a world class athlete to get his body prepared again to play for something. You're talking about a regular time of the day. You're talking about a five hour window. I don't think five hour window is going to make a difference. He's got all day to rest today. He's got all day tomorrow to get kind of I mean, they're going to play day the morning tomorrow. And honestly, it's even Friday. I mean, it would be more time, but then he would get if he won the semis. Well, the other thing is Friday to Sunday. That's even more time. That's time. Like then what he'd get still. Yeah. They have Wednesday. They have Thursday and then he won't play till Friday afternoon or evening. And then because there are two more semi-final matches today. So they have the longer stretch between their quarter and the semis.

9:12Right. He's got nothing to complain about. He's fine. I'd have fit in a nap during the day before before the match. He already played yesterday. Yeah. Kind of the same like if I paid like if I if I flew from Oklahoma City and I had tickets for that match and I went up there with my wife and stuff. And I'm like, it's not going to start till 11 30. I'd be like, are you kidding me? Right. Yeah. And they get a lot of people from all over the world. And I mean, I mean, I don't know, man, I just know it sucks. 11 o'clock. It's just too bad because it was dream. Well, and it was a five set. Yeah, it was a five set match to it. It was a really good match. And so it's unfortunate. Most of us didn't stay up to watch it. So maybe they'll replay it somewhere today. We got a busy day today. We need to get to a top 10 Tuesday. Didn't make it. So we're going to do top 10 Wednesday because we had a squeeze Monday and Tuesday together. Something's got pushed over. We got to what the hell Wednesday segment a little bit later. Red wireport. Thanks to UAMS health or now. Michael Felder's going to join us to 1130. We got a special guest coming in 1145 entertainment birthdays and what's on tap normal stuff.

10:16We got to talk some football to Arkansas getting ready to play this weekend. So I guess Moose has the sound because we're still having some technical issues. But in that fun. All right, Moose, let's talk about it. What do we got here? Phil? What we heard from the court of energy. I think everybody wants to know what the hell is going on with the offense. And I know that, you know, I like the fact that Coach Silverfield was didn't pull any punches afterwards. And Coach Cramsey apparently talked about yesterday that, you know, basically he even took some credit for blame, I guess, for the interception in the red zone. It's interesting how he discusses quarterback play. He says he and me or he and I. Yeah. Well, you got to get on the same page for sure. This is this is Coach Cramsey on KJ's interception, which is really the number one thing people complain about because I think if you throw a touch down there, the score is a little better and the gap is a little greater and people maybe feel a little better about KJ's decision-making. It's amazing how that throw can, it's not like it was the only thing that he struggled with, but I think that throw really jaded people's perspective on the outcome of the game.

11:19Time. So me and him made a bad read on that play. A good throw would have got us there. In that situation, he was 25 seconds on the clock. We had no timeouts. We had points in our pocket. So that is a bad mental play by me and him. We put the ball in. We put them in a situation where there are three and a half routes going towards the ends on there. If you have it, take it. If you don't have it, throw that dang ball out of bounds, take the field goal that's going half with three points in our pocket. A unbelievable learning experience, a unbelievable coaching experience. And as I told him and not as many kind words, that don't happen again. That's the last time to happen because there's things that showed up with me and him on Saturday that we worked on in fall camp that popped open and came up there and we didn't make the right decisions on it. Okay. So that stuff can't happen. No. Shouldn't happen for sure. Offensive line and play great either. And coach Cramsey addressed that afterwards also. That type of stuff can't happen.

12:20Effort is non-negotiable. And yes, you're right. You saw some things where there are times they out when I say I'll play to say out lasted us in the old line D line specifically. E. Okay. So now we're really back tonight. In 2025. So you got penalty issues just like last year. You got turnover issues just like last year. Now we're talking about effort issues just like last year. What what what what I mean, like I thought we're going to be a completely new program. What happened? How can that be the effort playing to the end of the play, playing to the whistle? You know, he was asked about he was separating the idea of, you know, a play that's down field and line men are going to be running all the way down, but the plays at the line of the scrimmage. That's that worries you. Yeah. I mean, maybe maybe feels a little bit like the line didn't take the assignment seriously. Well, we got sold this bill of goods again, right? That there's depth. And if there's depth, that means you put butts on benches, right? If you're not given max effort, like I'll get somebody in there who will.

13:21And I think they've got a couple of tackles that I don't know if they're ready to throw them in or not because they didn't win these jobs. They're talking about, well, we got a couple of guys that are, you know, ready if we have to. I know who talking about this the second week. I don't know who does the grading or how that works, but I've seen some blurbs like for performances from different guys like on how they grade it out. And the two defensive ends from North Alabama graded out as high as anybody in the FCS this week defensively. Well, what does that say about your tackles at Arkansas? You know, whipped. It's exactly right. There was a lot. I mean, that's where that's where the sack fumble came from. That's where I think KG was feeling other pressure from to. That's something to be worried about, especially against coming up against a, I mean, not just this defense, but Georgia after that and A&M two weeks after it's, that's a problem. Yeah. Tough. Tough deal. Uh, how was the, uh, Togage? Oh, great. Okay. Good. I like the day. Really good. Oh, what was the, what was the attitude around?

14:22I mean, it's like, well, the people you're around, how are they feeling about the team and the game or, you know, we were talking about just like being excited last week for football. Right. And then there's, well, now you got a team to watch where people, where you're, people excited. Well, I got tired of hearing about how hot it is because I really, really got tired of that because it's always hot. Okay. It was 101 last year. It was 97. Okay. Wootie do. It was still hot last year. It was just, all right. So I was, that, that narrative was like, I mean, I wanted to complain. I wanted to, you know, if I had a gun, who knows what I would have done because I got, I got so it's so hot. It was hot last year. You know, it's four degrees difference. I mean, you know, so it was hot. Wootie do. It's always hot first game. Little Rock, Fayetteville, it doesn't matter. And so I got really tired of that. But I mean, just, you know, to me, I mean, I just think it was kind of, it was a little disappointing. You know, you just, I don't know if it's disappointing. I think you're just kind of worried like here we go again.

15:24You know, I don't know if it's disappointing. It's just like, you know, please, please don't let this happen again. Yeah. I mean, please don't let this happen again. You know, from a personal standpoint, I was just kind of like, you know, I have no expectations this year. I'm hopeful. I'm supportive. But I was not going to tell myself because I, more than the other way, I thought that, you know, I was not going to let this first game make me think, make me think one way or the other. And obviously you thought it was going to be 49 to nothing or 56 to three. And I wasn't going to go, hey, man, we're, we look good. I was like, my whole thing all along is like, when we get to Utah, we're, we're going to have a, that's when you're going to kind of get the litmus test of what you got. And I think, I think is that what we call ask kickers now, call litmus test. I mean, if it's an ask kick and then it's like, here we go again, I mean, get, you know, buckle up because here we go again. And so, you know, I, you know, I just, I'm hopeful.

16:26And I hope they can get it. I hope they can get it going. I mean, I, you know, and I think the first game, you can say whatever you want, it's, you know, it's Labor Day weekend. You had nobody in the stands, the fans were not in a jadec because of the heat or whatever. And I get all that. You're playing North Alabama. So you're not, I don't, you can coach them all you want. They're not going to be on point. Okay, they're not going to be like they are when they wrote, when they're, when they're standing in that tunnel and you tall and they look out there and then, you know, it's going to be like, I better have my ass together or I'm going to get whipped. We're going to get beat by 50. There was no fear for them leading up to this game. That's fair. There was no what might happen. They were going to win that game. Yeah. And so there was no, they weren't on edge. And so again, that's, that's, that shouldn't be an excuse, but it's reality. And we played the bulls, you know, on the road, we were on edge because we were worried. When we played the Clippers on the road, we rolled in there and it was like what time's

17:26to, you know, and so however you want it, you can say it's human nature. So, you know, I'm, I'm looking at this game and if they compete and are in this game and show some fight and it gets into the second half and into the fourth quarter, I'm going to be encouraged. And so, yeah, that's kind of where I was all you long. I was looking at this game and North, North Alabama was kind of an exhibition game to me. So if they're in the game after three quarters, I'll be happy. Yeah. I mean, I'm sorry to say that that way. That's so that's a terrible one. You don't want to feel that they're getting physically dominated. They're getting smoked after three quarters and it's completely out of reach going into the fourth quarter. Yeah, buckle up. Yeah. But I'd also like to think because of how many times, I'm not trying to compare last year to this year, but how many times people point to the close losses last year or anything. Or that close to being a good team. Like, no, the DNA of the team was the turnovers and that's a problem in close games. I want to feel that they can win a close game. Like get into the, I want to see a tight game in the fourth quarter. Absolutely.

18:27Because I don't make me think that physically, maybe they're up to the challenge against most of the SEC teams, but then make some plays in the fourth quarter. They've got a lot to do when you got to lots of clean up in a short, you know, short amount of time. So, and I don't think they put a playbook out there that was, I thought they played a very vanilla game and, but you should be able to block up the run game. I'm not making excuse. I know you're right. I mean, I'm not, you know, yeah. You should be able to be relatively vanilla and be able to get a good push up front. You know, sometimes you'll go through an entire off season and a head coach or whatever coordinators are telling you that, you know, we're, it's like, it's like the whole off season is the preparation for the first game of the year. It's that first game, that first opponent and they'll sort of tell you that throughout the off season. I didn't think about that. I, in the players minds, I almost feel like they're like, like North Alabama was an exhibition game. Like they've been preparing all sees all off season for Utah. That's what I'm hoping for because it didn't necessarily feel like everything, they, at least offensively, because I thought they look good defensively.

19:29They did. They were better defensively. You're not good enough, but just playing with effort was better. Yeah, they're, you're not good enough to overlook anybody or take anybody lightly. And my thing is if you're not excited to make your first start as a razor back, which a lot of guys were or, or first started in a school. Like what are we doing? You, what about like the love of the game? You know, you hear that all times. I go, my guys play hard because there's a game they love playing the game. It's like cool. You were supposed to be instilling that, right? Like that was one of them. That's one of the things that was controllable for Ryan. So for like, we play hard because that's what you do when you play football. And you've gone through this hellish camp that apparently is just so hard. He's just so hard in camp. A game supposed to be a treat. You got there and don't give it. You got to get you guys on edge. Yeah, and I mean, like, you know, and not, I mean, you could say this for 10 guys out there. The third penalty on Old Borough and the offensive line. Obviously, I had to see. Yeah, obviously. Sure. Cause to your point, you're not going to lose the game. This your chance to make a mistake. It's like it's like, you know, this, if you're going to play this way, you ain't playing.

20:30Right. And because the next guy coming in, it's not going to be any worse. I mean, LSU, and again, I'm not trying to, not saying I want, although he is a very good coach. I'm not saying I want, you know, Lane Kiffin, but you heard the audio that got leaked. I mean, he is chewing his guys up one side and down the other. It's 31, three or whatever at the half. That's what we were told. Like we were going to get that kind of edge and that kind of toughness. And you can, you can get that, right? Like you can expect that or you can, you can basically mandate that. Like we're going to be tough at nothing else. We may not be great. We may not be the most talented, but we're going to be tough dudes. And there are no distractions at Arkansas, like there are at LSU. I mean, everything else is going on. There you could have the biggest excuse in the world and they come out with 51 straight points. Did you talk about a team that looked ready to go and maybe a system that are physically being that much better than Clemson? Arkansas should be physically that much better than North Alabama. You're right. If the gap is, should be for sure. You're right. Anyway, it was a bad exhibition win.

21:32I wasn't been out of shape about it. But the more like when I hear of coach Cramsey talking about guys weren't giving effort on the offensive line, my dear Lord. And you think of reasons why silver field at halftime says that's the worst half of football I've ever been involved in offensively. Well, why is the guy that is hard as I think is an offensive line guy? And the line was terrible that we're talking about the tackles getting beat. There's penalties right there. And of course, you're trying to drill home. Don't turn it over. One of the first passes your QB throws was dropped by a defensive back. And there's lots of reasons why he could have felt that way. I can't imagine going through a whole camp and that's what happens in the first game. You know what I mean? Like if that's if you have this whole mentality, the whole camp and that's what you're telling me like that's going to be the mentality, that's the expectation. This is what we're going to expect. And then you get that in the first game. I'm like, man, well, what you said about it being a treat is totally true. Like they've been busing it in the heat this whole time. What's it for if not to go run up someone's butt in the first game that you know you're supposed to win? Yeah. If not up for this, then what are you going to be up for? Joe, you know all too well. Like games are supposed to be easy compared to practice. Right?

22:32Absolutely. I mean, especially coming out of out of camp. I mean, you're so sick of being in camp. I mean, we used exhibition games where you looked forward to exhibition games because it was somebody knew something different. You just got tired of the same old same old and so hitting each other is good to hit somebody else and not being able to hit a quarterback. I mean, you know, they're not fired up and not on edge and not, you know, into it, then move on to the next guy. That's what I'm saying. And again, just to reiterate your point, it's like you're not losing this game anyway. So send a message if nothing else. You got other guys that could play the position. Anyway, we have NFL tonight. So you get least a little distraction tonight and tomorrow. It's not starting at 11. Who knows? No, I don't know. Maybe so. That's not the plan. 720 NBC. How's the weather out in Seattle today?

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28:46Arkansas's largest orthopedic team in the state's most fellowship trained surgeons offering expert care for sports injuries and problems affecting the hip, knee, shoulder spine, hand foot, ankle more. There is easy to access at the orthopedic and spine hospital in the new location on Rodney Param. Little rock next to the UAMS health urology center. Walking carry again, you get a ortho now over at the orthopedic and spine hospital 50168 six, five, oh, one six eight six eight six, seven, four. If you want to get more information. All right. So yesterday we had Gus Malz and I was just watching a clip from his time with the touchdown club. But he mentioned it to us too. The first time we've had a touchdown with us is he was impressed with the effort on the defensive side of the ball, least, which is apparently something the offensive side of the ball needs to work on. So I know coach Robert spoke yesterday too and he's mostly focused on Utah. So we're going to hear from him talking about that coming up in a second about some of the challenges that they are going to face this weekend out in Salt Lake. Let me get Rick from East Arkansas on here.

29:46If you want to join us again, five, oh, one six six, one, one, oh three. So what's up Rick? Hey, first thing I've got to say anytime Joe's though, he knows me because I didn't talk to his best big man and history of the race. But I got to quit on that because Joe knows me. Okay. The one thing I mean, we know we've rehashed this and said in our office. But in this off thing, you have the quarterback got a run that missed five or 80 yards of game and they didn't let him do that because we was going to just finish this doing regress. He's got to do that. Hello? Yep. We're listening. Yeah, he has got to do that.

30:47That's a third of this type of office. I'm a former coach and of course I love the halls. But he is. They have got to let him break loose. And then it opens up. The defense is five to ten times more better than they were. They're going to be able to play. The defense will be able to play. Now we can unleash and get the office of line just a tad bit better. Hey, you're going to see a different team. Um, Saturday at 915. Be on. All right, Rick. Thanks for the call. I have a little bit of a problem wondering what is this going to be an offence? That is past to run or run to pass. They keep talking about the vertical passing game opening up the deep passing game, utilizing

31:50Watkins speed or Chris Marshall's body and speed and leaping ability. We didn't see any of that against North Hell and maybe that's fine. Yeah. But against Utah, I just don't know what you are going to establish first. Also, I don't know that the defense has proven since they faced the North Alabama offense. Absolutely. I think that's what it is. You're going to know. You're going to know Saturday. I think more than Alabama's defense is pretty good. They've had two really good efforts. I don't think their offense is very good at all. And I'll leave their quarterbacks worth the dollar. And I think they had a game plan where it was like you're not running the ball. Yeah. And so when that happens, you got to open up your offense a little bit and do some things. Maybe Arkansas didn't want to do that. That's fair. Maybe KJ didn't make right the right reads and things and he sees that better on film. Whatever, you know, game one, game two, you know, all that. But you hold Utah to a reasonable number. Yeah. 27, 31. That's what I was going to ask. I mean, I'll be convinced or more convinced.

32:50But yeah, shutting down North Alabama doesn't impress me. Yeah. A good defensive performance against Utah is going to allow more points than North Alabama scored against Arkansas. Yeah. Utah's got a lot of options. Yeah. And you don't know where, like, who's going to be taking the ball? They got a couple of quarterbacks maybe on the field at the same time. Yeah. They got to tight end that may run the ball every once in a while. But also the three turnovers. I mean, yep, got to clean that up. Sure. That is the one at one and one A. I mean, if you're going to have any shot at all this year to do anything against anybody, three turnovers. I mean, you better, you better not turn that ball over. Heathrow out of those text line from Nick. I wish I had the blood pressure of Rick and East Arkansas me too, bro. He's chill. Rick said he was a former coach. Was that on Madden? Does this person have the 479? Johnny sausage. Would someone please tell the razor back coaching staff the quarterback is going to have to do good at the regular stuff in addition to breaking off 70 to 80 yard runs signed former

33:52coach Rick. They're not you're not getting 70 to 80 yards game from KJ Jackson. I see this is what happens. It's only been one game and you guys are turning on each other. We're going to have to do it together. Raise back fans. Don't do it. Guys are going after poor Rick. I don't mean to go after Rick. Like I think no three people in a row did on text. The previous offense was sort of predicated on the quarterback giving you 70 to 80 yards rushing. Sometimes we all know that guy in on the roster. That's right. From the 501. Could the fact it was a vanilla offense and you and I had three defensive starters from Memphis to on the D line play a factor. I mean, they had to know the place. Oh, maybe, maybe that's what it was. That's fine, but I'm not sure if that had much to do with blocking on the edge. You should be able to, I mean, honestly, I don't want to say like you should be able to tell them what the play is, but they figure out pretty quickly if it's a pass or run. And if it's a pass and you can't keep them out of the backfield, that's concerning. Their defensive ends might be really good, but still not SEC caliber. Probably not. And they would and they wouldn't start for you.

34:55Some of them weren't American conference caliber. Right. But that's what I think was the last year. Do you think the hogs QB was in the size of about offensive places, J K? He wasn't sharp. So you in the size of whatever you want. He wasn't sharp. So I don't know where you go down there. He's just got to be a lot sharper. I feel like he feels some pressure of being the guy. To me, they just looked like it in that game. Gary, and sure what I love you. I don't want to talk bad about you, but this is this is a, I don't know what you're basing this on. Because the hogs are going to be you tell 31, 28, but we'll be losing at the half. But they'll come back to secure us. That'd be great. I hope you're right. I'll have a, that happens. I'll not feel very good Sunday morning. I can tell you that. Be a little smile. Yes, I will. J W is weighing in. First game of the year means absolutely nothing. Look at Arkansas blown out A&M, Alabama A&M. And we totally suck the rest of your blown out some of the first game of the year means nothing. Now J W doesn't mean everything, but it sure would be nice if they would blow somebody

35:56out as opposed to look like they're fumbling their way to a victory. A QB run, a QB running for their life, ain't the same play. That is true. Bucking here boy. Now that is a deep cut. I like that. This person says great analogy, big Joe. Buck is a Pinto says it was hot. Whoopsy do. It's always hot. That's what makes you who we play first next year. Gardener Web is going to be hot. Well, maybe they don't have to kick the game at 331 of these years. They blame the O'Neill and the network. It would be nice if they would play at 11 a.m. or play it's eight o'clock at night. I'll be fine with eight o'clock. You can't expect people to turn out in large numbers when it's 100 degrees and you're sitting in the. So you know better than anybody. It's programming. We need a game there and that slot SEC network. I get it. Well, Arkansas is not going to get the prime slot. That's fair. You're right. When is basketball start? I've headed to Corkeys right now getting some ribs. Let Joe go. You don't need Joe there to get ribs. I went there this weekend. And guess what? I got ribs for you all right here. You do? I went to I went into North, Iraq this weekend and I got.

37:01Brisket and I got Turkey and I got potato salad. You have to ask for the other potato salad. I like the other one better anyway. And you know what else I got? The most important thing. Cool beer. No. Onion rings. Oh, that's right. You're big on the rings. They have the best onion rings in the city. Yeah, it's not close. I don't think it's close either. I don't want to be ugly about it. No offense. They're bailes on your rings. But they're great. You might rank restaurants on onion rings sometimes. I like onion rings a lot. If you like onion rings, you like Corkeys. You need to get moving. You like onion rings real bad. We got real bad onion rings. I don't mean you're a place Joe. They are they're next level. Not that your fries are bad, but I won't even look at one. I can't get past the end rings. Let me get Peyton in here from Cersei. It's 1043 Peyton. What's up? What's up guys? Good morning. I was going to leave a little tidbit with y'all. I don't know if y'all recognize that or not, but during the press conference, I still don't feel like he just seemed kind of like his tone was off. Like we usually see the confident, you know,

38:01the hey, we're going to go get them. We got tough guys. And then after the game, it just seemed like there's total tone just flipped around. Like he realized what he he he is. He's seen on that field and he said, oh boy. So I'm going to get off here and just listen to him. I'll notice that. Yeah. I think it's probably like some women out there who waited. And then that first night that they had to see their husband naked, they were like, oh boy. It's going to be a long life. Yeah. I mean, I just think he was like, sorry, Dana. I know how I feel for you. I think that's what's wrong. I think I don't think he was, I think he was disappointed in what he saw. He looked very down because I think he expected a lot better. Yeah, I think I think all of a sudden he has a headache. Well, he knows what exactly he knows what it looks like. And he watched it all camp. He was not expecting what he got. Yeah. And that has, I think that was just more disappointment. Yeah, I think it was disappointed. It's got to be a feeling like maybe the message didn't land. You thought it landed. Maybe it didn't land. The first time that they actually go out against another team. And then when you're thinking that way, you're also disappointed, but you're also very concerned.

39:04Yeah. Yeah. I got to change some things. I got to do some things different because this isn't out what I expected. Well, I think every coach, I've always thought that way. It's like every coach thinks, okay, this is what I got. But until you roll it out there against another team, you don't really know for sure. I never know. And then you go out there and like, oh God, that's us. You're playing like, well, and then there's a great team that you're playing. I remember there's a season Arkansas's open up against Auburn. If you struggle first week against Auburn, I think you know, you would understand it against. I have no problem with the kind of football they play in FCS, but it is a different level of athlete for it to happen against North Alabama has just you can look at me. Like who you've got coming up on the schedule for crying out loud. That's the easiest game of the year by a margin of 150. If you played Montana State or North Dakota State when they were in FCS, be different. But this is a team that's also ran in the FCS or at least has been forever. Maybe they have magically rebuilt their roster so well overnight that they're all the

40:08sun getting to be a container at that level. I don't know, but regardless, you're right. I mean, you should just be physically dominant. Um, I think what you heard was concerned. Yeah. I think so. And again, you don't have to be physically dominant to execute and make good decisions. But coaches are, if they were to one 49 to nothing, there would have been some things that coaches are coaches are always concerned. They're, they're always concerned. You're always, it's never good enough. You could win 100 games and lose one and you dwell on the one. So I mean, that's just part of coaching. Sure. Let me get a couple calls in here. J.W. Coming in on the phone. What's up, man? I'm going to come in on the guy that just called about his so called fatigue or whatever. He looked to see it from a guy that's worked outside from retired. You bust your ass in the summer heat and they're not out there for four hours as it is on TV. They're out there for probably about six hours and a hundred degree weather. And I want you to go stand out there while they're open for no shade.

41:10And then when you get done and come into the air and you sit down, your body naturally is going to look defeated. You're going to look like you're tired because that's what the sun does. That's what the heat does. Everybody's looking for any little tiny thing in bitching about it. Give the first game a chance. Here's the thing. Ain't nobody said we were 10 for 13 on first down. I mean, y'all cannot find anything positive, but it's the same old show last year. You know, just when you told me before I was sent him, it sounds redundant. Sounds redundant. Y'all found redundant. Try to find something positive. That's what you're for. That's the next game. You tell us. You think we get we up by you tall. Let's complain. I'm not going to complain to get beat by you. Talks I'm expecting that. No, it was redundant. J.W. We were concerned about we were concerned about turnover. So what did we have? We had three. Okay. We were concerned about the offensive line. And we had we struggled on the offensive line.

42:12Now we've talked about the defense being better, the defense is better, but you know, I don't think it's bitching. I mean, there's some people bitching because the thing you're hearing is concerned. Like I'm not, you know, like I said, my monitor is on Saturday. Yeah. You know, because it's the first all the things I talked about earlier, you don't need to reiterate it. But the bottom line is, you know, it is the same. You know, you had to you had turnover problems. You had offensive line problems offensively. And they they showed their head to a degree against a bad team. And so we never three people people. I don't I think a lot of the I don't think the kitchen is as much as, you know, you're concerned. I think the coach is concerned. It's not good. It's observations. I mean, we're not it doesn't take a genius or a football high football like you to realize like Arkansas couldn't run the ball effectively against an FCS opponent who's not particularly good. Three yards of carry.

43:13Even. Yeah. I mean, just concerned because I mean, and so are filled. You can't give him a pass. He's Mr. confident. Mr. I got this. Well, maybe he felt afterwards like I don't got this. Maybe we don't have it. I just think he's concerned. I just think he was disappointed and concerned. And that is, you know, if I would have been the coach and of a basketball team and I had all this and I went out and, you know, didn't win a very good game against a lesser opponent early in the year. I wouldn't come in there and go, man, I feel good about it. Right. Can't wait to get to Utah. We did a lot of positive things out there. I'm very refreshed. The thing I like more than anything is I like I loved what he said at halftime. I loved what he said after the game. I loved how he looked after the game because you know what? He's he ain't okay with it. No, he's. He takes that and he's. Ramin it up there. You know what? On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to those players and saying the same the way it's going to be.

44:14And if you can't do it, we'll find somebody else. Don't care what you're getting paid. Don't care any of that. You know, and again, the concern from that standpoint is what has always been our concern with football, the major problem that we have that other schools don't have. Depth. Yeah. He got to have depth in the SEC. You got to have depth to compete. Hopefully we have depth. And if we do, it's time to start using it. If the same things happen on Saturday. From a couple of different people, Aguapo says they say KJ texted Silverfield and said he knew it was wrong. He'll fix it. Silverfield replied, who does from Eric Silverfield had the look on his face that your dad has when he says, I'm not mad at you. I'm disappointed. And he's right. Absolutely. Well, and to the point of it being an early game and, you know, a blowout wouldn't matter, that's kind of on the flip side. It does matter that you don't do that though, right? Like we wouldn't be looking into this as much if they blew it out.

45:14I think you're not taking it at face value on the positive, but you got to take it at face value on the negative because it's a lesser opponent. You have to be concerned about that. I find what he's saying. I like it. I like every bit of it. I mean, he calls it out and I like it. I think it's, I like to hear the savage. Justin, you know, you said it. The coach's not getting the pass. He puts it up a play. He puts it in the program. All the playbook, but then we're not, you know, we're not griping. We're not complaining. Everybody watched his game, Joe. Everybody saw what the turnovers, all the stuff he's been talking about. The whole line's better. There's no, the turnovers that would, all this crap we've been told and you go out and lay an egg like that. And then you come out on a hat time, you say, that's the worst, that's the worst half I've ever seen in my coaching career. Well, still feel that's all you're, give the coach. They okay, Jay. And these kids are, they're not up to part, Joe.

46:15Well, I'm not going to go down that road yet because like I said, if they would have won, they would have won 56 to three. I wasn't going to sit here and go, we're back. We're coming on. I mean, my whole thing is, man, I want to see you tall. I want to see competitiveness on the road against a very good opponent. And then, you know, if they come out and fight and get after it, look, we hit praise on the defense. They deserved it. We were concerned about the offense. They deserve it. They deserve concern at the very least. David. Yeah. I do agree with you guys, but ever since Saturday, also all I heard was negative. They've been, don't pause this. I mean, the quarterback staff for Jay Jay wasn't that half bad before that staff, compared to the other SEC quarterback playing Saturday. I mean, if you look at it, he was right in the middle of the pack on his back. I mean, there's a lot of interstession throughout his day.

47:19You know, and we had tied in, tied in touchdown. You know, I mean, they haven't had that in a couple of years. You've lives in the tie-in. I mean, they utilize them for blocking. They wasn't throwing it. Then we had two touchdowns, but tied in. That's a positive, you know, and on a good note to make everybody safe, feel better. LSU turtel and give in to the SEC. It's also the sign to pro-core back. Yeah, it wasn't a quarterback anyway. Yeah, what LSU is doing is the least of my concern right now. Arkansas School Plant Management Association's annual conference is coming up September 14th through 16th, in hot springs at the Embassy Suites Hotel and Convention Center. This is a great program with keynote speakers, numerous breakout sessions, certification classes, and the largest trade show. Arkansas School Plant Management Association coming Monday through Wednesday, September 14th through 16th at hot springs Embassy Suites Hotel and Convention Center, connecting people, transforming facilities.

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51:50And I realize that's the middle of packing the SEC. My question is, I mean, guys, there's a lot of good teams that are top 25 teams that are right about where we're at in NIL. And my question is, I mean, are we really getting our money's worth out of the what's going on here? I mean, I'm just not seeing it. Well, it's been one week. So we do need to get more than one game probably to determine that. And I agree, I agree with that. But I will and time will tell that. But I'll be anxious to see if you could look up at the top 25 teams now. How many of those teams are spending about what we're spending on NIL? Yeah, Jamie, I appreciate that. I don't know how you find accurate information on any of that from any team. Again, you know, I don't know who's reporting what where and how much you can, you can actually hold them to the number you get anyway. So, but I see your point. And again, I think let's talk after five games or so again, we all have expectations about how George is going to go. I think, you know, most people are on the same page about how they expect the Utah game to go. But we can see growth and improvement without necessarily winning a whole bunch of games.

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