RJ Maryland previews SMU vs. TCU | Battle for the Iron Skillet | SMU Football Press Conferences

[Music] well that's from UTC week what does this one mean to you it's a personal week it's a rivalry only been here two years but I don't know what it means to the whole community and Paula SMU is a big game how do you balance the Rivalry with knowing you're just going in there to try and get a win uh just it's kind of the same thing in terms of just getting the win but then you gotta have that edge to you just for the city really it's just the whole city because it's a battle between the cities and DFW so yeah when you've got a bunch of new guys how have you kind of seen them respond to this rivalry that for a lot of them it'll be their first time playing in it and for a lot of guys maybe aren't from the area um yeah we've got a let's teach them to just have it have something against purple just so just make something up if you have to but we have our own reasons why uh we don't want to we don't like TCU how do you channel that in the right direction and not let it become this over emotion that gets you know Spilled Out and allows it kind of makes you lose focus here and there oh I'm just gotta play passionate but not too emotional so we're playing with passion just have the edge of the edge that's fine for your brothers and it's about us it's not it's not about them but it's about us as a team this is the kind of the first time in a minute that that Nolan's been completely healthy at the beginning of the Season you've got um stone in there as an h-back what's the whole tight end room an HVAC room kind of been like this season as you guys have balanced it all oh yeah so it's a lot of help having a bunch of guys that can just go in and out and then Stone coming in there being a big body and blocking stuff it's a lot of help can you talk a little bit about um the depth that all the receivers tight ends have been showing out so far I know that coaches talk about that being a big part of the team Dynamic this year but what has it been like being a part of that oh it's great especially at the receiver room because we got the ones and then we got the second ones really and we can just get them in and out in and out and uh the depth makes makes it a lot easier in games because one guy runs a deep ball you can just come right back in and the the level's not dropping at all it's still all the way up there so it's a good help is this a week can you draw on the Oklahoma game at all whether it's the environment whether it's the level of Talent across the field from you or do you kind of have to look at it as a as a new new opponent do everything well personally I like the away games I like the bad environment uh this that's my favorite part about football is just going into a bad environment and then just kicking butt so I love that I mean look at a team like TCU that hasn't given up a defensive touchdown in two weeks how do you guys kind of go about evaluating their film and trying to figure out what you want to do to change your uh change your luck as opposed to oh yeah they've been playing good on defense so far and uh the way they scheme is it's a little different than what we've seen through the other teams but yeah we we got we got ours games right in um we're gonna put a lot of points thank you

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