Updates from Steve Sarkisian’s Monday press conference

As part of his preparation for a typical game week, Steve Sarkisian went from the practice field to the press room to mimic what his Mondays will look like going forward. Here are a few notes and quotes from Sark after Texas’ Monday practice.

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Steve Sarkisian: “I thought the intensity, the speed, and the physicality definitely increased from the first scrimmage to the second scrimmage.”

Best tacklers? Sark mentioned Jelani McDonald, Anthony Hill, Derek Williams, and Ty’Anthony Smith. On Smith: “He’s playing really good. I’m really proud of Ty’Anthony.”

Sarkisian mentions that Arch Manning and the rest of the offense have done well in operations pre-snap, improving from scrimmage to scrimmage. He mentions they will incorporate more and more crowd noise over the next set of practices.

“Medicine and science have come a long way for this guy to be moving with the explosiveness he is a year removed from that injury is very impressive,” Sark on Clark. Mentioned Clark basically has to operate as a freshman now back from an Achilles Tear.

Sarkisian on Michael Taaffe: “He’s looking for every angle at this point. He’s looking at every stone he can look over for every niche, every advantage. At the same time, he’s taken a lot of guys under his wing.”

How is Sarkisian preparing for Ohio State DC Matt Patricia? What’s he studying? “Patriots, Lions, Eagles, their own stuff from a year ago.”

Sarkisian on the backup QB spot: “I think all the guys are doing good things.”

First three names that Sark mentioned for the backup WR spots: Daylan McCutcheon, Kaliq Lockett, Ryan Niblett because of his versatility. Also really liked the isolation play of Michael Terry and Jaime Ffrench.

Steve Sarkisian says Jelani McDonald and Tre Wisner were practicing today. Sarkisian says Trevor Goosby will be limited for a couple more days after he was held out of most of Texas’ Saturday scrimmage.

Steve Sarkisian on Neto Umeozulu, says he’s great at playing with a real sense of physicality: “When you’ve got a good fastball, you’ve got to throw a good fastball. His calling card is the physicality and the intensity with which he plays the game.”

Steve Sarkisian doted on Julian Sayin, saying that he had Sayin camp at Texas and recruited him hard. Called Sayin an elite passer.

Sarkisian on DT: “A lot of guys are doing a great job.” — “We’ve got a plethora of guys in there that are earning playing time.”

Sarkisian said Santana Wilson picked off Trey Owens on Saturday. Also said the two minute scoring drive was led by Matthew Caldwell as opposed to KJ Lacey.