Sam Ehlinger

And you have to create run-pass conflict by running Meteer as many times as you have to to establish some kind of run game threat.

So like, think like, uh, 2017 Texas when Sam Ehlinger willed Texas into that game, uh, before he got, like, pulled on the, for that controversial, uh, injury on the sideline.

And then, uh, they had to put Shane Michelle in for a couple snaps and kinda lost the momentum.

Sh- uh, Sam Ehlinger ran the ball, like, 20 times for 70 yards in that game and a couple touchdowns or something like that, a lot of it on scrambles.

That's what it has to look like for Oklahoma in this game.

And even extreme kind of in personnel too, right? Not just formationally.

2016, kind of a shootout.

Texas covered, but Oklahoma won.

Um, the Steelers...

Ehlinger had that false start that...

Remember, 'cause you said they started at the 38.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I didn't even think about that, CJ, but you're right.

That was kind of right after the, the Sam Ehlinger, eyes of Texas COVID year, all that weird stuff.

And then you get that.

Yeah, that was a weird, surreal time.

I'ma call this play, but I know what I'm doing." Like, he literally was like, "Yeah, that's the play, but I'm just gonna run.

They don't know it, but I know it." So like, I, I, I mean, I need Arch to have that mastery.

I remember Sam, I remember, um, Tom Herman told me that Sam Ehlinger would, would tell him, like, suggest to him what plays and what modifications they need to make to certain plays throughout the week 'cause he said he r- he knew the offense so well.

Arch has to know his offense that well at this point, right?

It'd be different if it was just a Texas quarterback.

We talk about Sam Ehlinger, "Oh, Sam should've did this.

Sam should've been more efficient.

Sam..." But nobody nationally was talking about Sam, really.

We was talking about Colt Vy, the clutch gene.

That is one of the, Rod, as you would put it, that is maybe the Shakespearean tragedy about Sam Ehlinger's Texas career.

Sam had that.

Yeah.

And how many, how many great Sam Ehlinger games did we get to, on Sunday and be like, "You just, you just wasted a great-"

And y-

"... performance by Sam 'cause you couldn't get a stop."

I mean, he's, he's, he's lo- he's as passionate as...

I mean, Texas players talking about him like Sam Ehling, like in terms of just they've never seen a quarterback with this passion leading the program since, since Ehlinger.

And so that's really cool to see.

I think it helps him in terms of the evaluation.

'22.

Sam Ehlinger first game.

Mm.

He burns, was it Pat P.?

Denver, Stidham, four starts.

Three starts for Sam Ehlinger.

Two teams.

That's seven starts.