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HOUSTON -- Tom Herman began his media conference on the Monday after the Cougars 33-23 defeat of Oklahoma with a reference to the physical mismatches that his team might confront when it takes the field. Asked later to elaborate, Herman said the Cougars are smaller than half the teams in the Power 5.Did you see those running backs? he asked, referring to the Sooners Samaje Perine?(5-10, 235) and Joe Mixon (6-1, 226). Oh my! Are they not gorgeous human beings?And yet the Cougars beat Oklahoma the same way they have won 14 of 15 games under Herman. They are physical, a polite way of saying they hit their opponents in the mouth. Then they line up and do it again. It doesnt matter how many five-star recruits the Cougars see on the other side of the line.Turn on the Florida State film, Herman said, referring to Houstons 38-24 victory in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl last season.We train, hopefully harder than anybody in the country, Herman said. I dont have any metrics that say we do. Our goal is, train harder and more physical than any program in the country. ...?We like to think that we practice so hard that the games are easy.Herman, one of the sports youngest head coaches, has planted himself in its oldest verities. If you listen closely enough to his words, you might hear the mumble of Bear Bryant. But America doesnt celebrate smashmouth football quite the way it did when Woody Hayes stalked the sideline.The specter of CTE looms over the sport. Youth participation is declining because parents are scared. NFL players in the primes of their careers are walking away from the game. The league has curtailed contact in the offseason. Thud practices, where players hit but dont take anyone to the ground, are as common in college football as water breaks.Herman has little use for thud.I dont think you can ask anybody in any walk of life to do anything at a championship level without doing it over and over and over and over and over again in preparation, he said.Herman said he is frustrated by the beating that football has taken in the public discourse.When the President of the United States comes out and says, If I had boys, I wouldnt let them play tackle football, thats a big punch to the gut for our sport, Herman said.Herman is convinced that fewer kids in Pop Warner guarantees a diminished quality of play in college and pro football down the road.Yet, he is savvy enough to understand the political volatility of advocating for the benefits of contact at a time when football is fighting for its reputation as a safe sport.I hope youre not going to make me out to be this meatgrinder that doesnt care about kids safety, Herman said. We do. You go to Iowa and Alabama and Stanford, Im sure youre going to find the same amount of physicality at those places [as] Ohio State. Im not a butcher. I dont want you to make me out to be some heathen butcher.Equipment has made the game safer. So have rules changes. Herman is all for them. If research shows that the kickoff should be eliminated, you wont hear a squawk out of him. Herman is teaching the rugby-style tackle advocated by Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll.Yet the players who made it through August -- and, middle linebacker Matt Adams said, not all of them do -- receive a certificate congratulating them for enduring the hardest fall camp in college football. The Cougars suffered six concussions during preseason practice, which Herman said is within the range of what happens elsewhere.Asked to describe the physical nature of Cougar practices, Adams said, Its like beating your head against a wall for two and a half hours. The Cougars Tuesday practice is referred to inside the football building as Bloody Tuesday.That means theyll get after it, said strength coach Yancy McKnight, whose job it is to prepare the Cougars for what Herman demands of them. I know this: The first day we go full pads and we go to inside drill ....it is like game reps. It is nasty. It is physical. Its intense. Its as intense as any place Ive ever been at.That is how a team overcomes a physical mismatch.Measurable-wise, we wont be an Alabama or a Clemson, so theyll try to take advantage of that, safety Khalil Williams said. Thats when our physicality and training comes into play, and you take over.On the Sooners first snap of the second quarter Saturday, Perine caught a swing pass and turned upfield. Sophomore safety Garrett Davis, all 6-1, 200 pounds of him, gives up 35 pounds to Perine. Davis raced forward and launched himself into Perines body. Perines left shoulder, already banged up, took the brunt of the hit, and he didnt play much after that.Here a guy is, right at 200 pounds, a safety coming up and he aint going at the ankles, McKnight said. Hes going for the torso. That was a big momentum swing for our guys. At least from our sideline, you could feel a little different.Asked if football has to be coached the way he coaches, Herman said, I dont know that it has to, but its the one proven way so far.He is convinced that the work his players have done more than levels the playing field against the Oklahomas and Florida States and their five-star recruits.Said Herman: Its our edge.Marco Reus Jersey . Kuznetsov, who was selected by the Capitals in the first round of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, has been playing for his hometown team Chelyabinsk Traktor of the KHL. Jeremy Toljan Dortmund Jersey . 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Supported by three-run homers from Jayson Werth and Wilson Ramos, the young right-hander went seven strong innings in the Washington Nationals 8-4 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night.PITTSBURGH -- The Steelers are turning to a former top-10 pick approaching bust status for their cornerback help, acquiring?Justin Gilbert?in a trade with the Cleveland Browns.The Steelers send a sixth-round pick in the 2018 draft to the Browns for the rights to Gilbert, the eighth overall pick in 2014 who has managed just 39 tackles in two seasons.Gilbert has had problems adjusting to NFL life. He failed to show up on time for several team meetings as a rookie, prompting then-Browns safety Donte Whitner to say publicly that Gilbert needed to grow up. Gilbert eventually told reporters he had a tendency to oversleep.A 6-footer with long arms, Gilbert can use his athleticism to help the Steelers zone-defense coverage, assuming he responds well to the new environment.The Steelers get much-needed corner depth behind William Gay, Ross Cockrell and Artie Burns?as?injuries to second-round pick Senquez Golson in back-to-back years have forced the team to get help.Before the 2015 season, the Steelers dealt a fifth-round pick to the?Philadelphia Eagles?in exchange for veteran corner Brandon Boykinn, who didnt play a significant role for much of the year and is no longer with the team.dddddddddddd.The trade of Gilbert, who likely would have not made the team during final roster cuts, means the Browns have parted ways with both of their first-round picks from the 2014 draft, and they have none of their first-round picks on the roster from 2012 through 2014.Gone are QB Brandon Weeden (2012), RB Trent Richardson (12), LB Barkevious Mingo (13), QB Johnny Manziel (14) and now Gilbert.Gilbert was the first pick under coach Mike Pettine and general manager Ray Farmer, as the Browns traded down and out of taking receiver Sammy Watkins to take the player they thought was the best cornerback available.In Cleveland, Gilberts quirky personality never seemed to fit, and though he was effective as an occasional kickoff returner, he never came close to being the player he was touted to be when he was drafted.ESPN Staff Writer Pat McManamon contributed to this report. 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