The Flagship: Texas has a lot to work on during the bye week
Horns247 Podcasts: The Flagship Podcast
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🗓️ 18 October 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The Longhorns have made their way to the first and only bye week of the season and it couldn't have come at a better time with Texas entering the bye coming off back-to-back losses to Top 25 ranked teams.
The Flagship Podcast gets the week started off with a loaded show as Horns247 columnist Chip Brown and managing editor Taylor Estes discuss what Steve Sarkisian had to say about his team as they make their way through the bye week on the schedule. The Flagship weighs in on some of the key areas of focus for Texas this week, including getting the Longhorns back on track from a mental standpoint after dropping third quarter leads in back-to-back games, which ended in losses. Sarkisian addressed the team's mental focus and how the coaching staff intends to correct the psyche of the team to get them ready for the final five games of the regular season starting next Saturday at Baylor.
The Flagship also weighs in on some of the personnel questions Texas is facing after seven games of the season and if a schematic change, particularly on defense, could be the solution to help the Longhorns down the stretch of Big 12 play.
After a short break, The Flagship returns with our 'Love it or leave it' segment, with this week's topics focused on if the psyche of the team is correctable by Sarkisian and his staff, adjustments that need to be made during the bye week and the biggest surprises so far in Big 12 Conference play at the mid-point of the 2021 season.
Catch all of that and much more on The Flagship Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Pepsi Max. |
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| 0:35.5 | Welcome in everybody to the flagship podcast. |
| 0:38.8 | I am Chip Brown of Horns 24-7, joined as always by our fearless leader, the managing editor of Horns 24-7, the one-and-only Taylor Estes. |
| 0:49.0 | Taylor, it is Monday of Texas's off week, two days removed from another double-digit lead, squandered in a loss to Oklahoma State, who ran all over Texas in the fourth quarter. |
| 1:08.2 | That was not pretty, and the offense didn't do anything to help going on four straight, |
| 1:16.2 | three and outs, a four and out and an interception. And today we talked to Steve Sarkesian, |
| 1:22.4 | who said we can, you know, focus on everything negative. And, you know, that's not going to be productive. |
| 1:30.0 | So we need to look at what we're doing well and figure out how to expand on those things. |
| 1:37.9 | And then look at the areas that are not working and make some decisions in terms of whether it's play calling, |
| 1:50.7 | coaching, personnel or scheme. So a lot on the Longhorns plate this week. Yes, there definitely is. |
| 2:01.6 | And even though they're off, they still will be practicing. |
| 2:03.6 | Steve Sarkesian said that the team will be practicing Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and then the coaching staff will be out recruiting Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. |
| 2:12.6 | But there's no shortage of issues I think that Texas has on this plate to try to, you know, |
| 2:18.9 | try to correct. And some of them, Chip, I, you know, you have to wonder if some of it is correctable |
| 2:24.5 | because one of the biggest issues I think that is showing up is a lack of mental toughness later |
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