July 30, 2024

first one when you look at situational football how hard is it when you got the lead to pump the brakes and stop the uptempo um it's not hard we call it four minute offense and we've certainly done it at times um we practice it it's part of part of our checklist through fall Camp part of our checklist through spring um I I I get the question is man like these guys are so programmed to play Fast how hard is it I think it's just like anything else you it's got to be part of your game it's got to be part of what you do you got to practice it and they got to understand the plan um but there were several games a year ago um the very last one was a good example where you got to slow down I think there's a there's a fine line there too a little bit uh bowl game being a really good example where the guys that are twos and threes practice just like everybody else and so you want to go see those guys play in what you do uh so I think there's a fine line of we're in a four-minute drill where we got to go finish the game Temple was that way a year ago where you're not truly subbing guys if that's the situation the guys just got to understand the plan and you rep it you practice it um I don't think it's crazy hard but it's certainly different coach looking at your schedule the 12 games nine Saturdays no Thursday night and the two Fridays are following a bye how important is that to have that continuity of playing Saturday Saturday Saturday and then when you don't have to you got to break yeah I I think it sets up really really well there's the opportunity for the very last one to be a Friday we'll find out a couple weeks out um but I would imagine they strategically did that from a conference standpoint that the Friday games you have a bye before um if they didn't then I guess we lucked out on that but I think absolutely huge that you're not playing any short week games until uh potentially the very end um I think it sets up really good the two by weeks help I think where their positioned is really helpful um but we've got a we' got a stretch in the beginning of the Season where where we'll find out how good we are and then it'll be a challenge to reset and go finish after that U after that first bye but certainly I'd rather take 13 days than than six you know what I mean how much