Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio George Kittle the forty nine ers tight End
Speaker 1: on the program. And but does it seem like it
Speaker 1: was a year ago you were in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I think it was about a year ago. Yeah, what
Speaker 1: were you doing a year ago on this day, like
Speaker 1: Wednesday of Super Bowl a week? Do you remember? I
Speaker 1: was probably talking to you because we had a new
Speaker 1: media every single day. Is that bothersome or how bothersome
Speaker 1: in retrospective? Well, like you know, in a normal game week,
Speaker 1: you only have to like talk to you know, your
Speaker 1: local media like once a week, or they're in the
Speaker 1: locker room two days a week, three days a week.
Speaker 1: We want to talk to them every single day. But
Speaker 1: like going on a podium like four days a week.
Speaker 1: And I mean, you can only get asked so many
Speaker 1: questions during super Bowl week? Right, Yeah? What was the
Speaker 1: strangest question you got? I got asked to swear in
Speaker 1: German probably the same guy like four times, and you
Speaker 1: kept like giving me a piece of paper with swear
Speaker 1: words on it in German, and I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't know what you want going to do with this
Speaker 1: I got. I'm just trying to be nice and polite here, man,
Speaker 1: Can you stop asking me to square on TV? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But see that's where your personality comes back to haunt you,
Speaker 1: because everybody thinks, oh, George Kittle, he'll have fun, he'll
Speaker 1: say something silly. So I potentially would, but not in German.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know how to speak that language.
Speaker 1: What do you remember most about the game against the Chiefs? Um?
Speaker 1: I mean, I remember all of it. Is there one
Speaker 1: thing that just stands out that you go damn oh?
Speaker 1: I mean after they score to get it like within
Speaker 1: three points, we had a three and out the next drive,
Speaker 1: which them can't really do that when their momentum shifting.
Speaker 1: That was kind of the that was kind of the
Speaker 1: downhill after that. I saw a special where Peyton Manning
Speaker 1: is breaking down Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady. And if
Speaker 1: you look at the Kansas City Chiefs offense, there's so
Speaker 1: many things going on in that offense. Now you're on
Speaker 1: the sidelines watching it. But how different is that from
Speaker 1: any other team in the NFL with what they do
Speaker 1: on offense? I mean I think it's both of what
Speaker 1: they do, but also who they have. I mean, you
Speaker 1: got weapons all over the field, and they have a
Speaker 1: great office coordinator that's you know, getting them in the
Speaker 1: rights positions. And then you got a great quarterback, you know,
Speaker 1: leading the way. So it's their weapons and then also
Speaker 1: their scheme. They's Scott guys moving around, Guys are always open.
Speaker 1: And then at the end of the day, they have
Speaker 1: guys that just make the tough play and that's what
Speaker 1: good football is. When did you realize that you were
Speaker 1: going to lose the Super Bowl? When the clock hit zero?
Speaker 1: That was it? I mean, when we let's see, like
Speaker 1: we had an interception at the very end of the game,
Speaker 1: so we're down two scores, like thirty seconds left. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's not a very fun feeling. This is
Speaker 1: National Signing Day. You take us back to what National
Speaker 1: Signing Day was for George Kittle going to Iowa. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I actually I didn't know I was going to Iowa yet.
Speaker 1: I was probably gonna gray shirt there or my only
Speaker 1: other offers were we were State and Air Force and Navy,
Speaker 1: and so I wasn't there entirely sure what I was doing.
Speaker 1: And then Kirk Ferns called me at like eleven or
Speaker 1: you know, eleven AM or twelve, and he's like Hey,
Speaker 1: we have an extra scholarship that has opened up. Do
Speaker 1: you want to come play at IVE? And I was like,
Speaker 1: damn straight, I do. So you couldn't even do three
Speaker 1: hats in the gymnasium and say I'm going to didn't you?
Speaker 1: You couldn't put two hats out there. You didn't even
Speaker 1: have enough offers for three heads. I had three. We
Speaker 1: were state man. That's a Damian Lillard went there. So
Speaker 1: yeah that was for basketball, not at all. But you know,
Speaker 1: you look back on that, weren't you destined to go
Speaker 1: to Iowa? Yeah? I mean my dad played there, He
Speaker 1: coached there. Kirk Ferens was my dad's officive line coach,
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean we had a couple of connections there.
Speaker 1: Uh and just kind of played out the way they
Speaker 1: I think they had three guys that declared to go
Speaker 1: to other places on signing day and so I got
Speaker 1: that last and final scholarship. But when did it click
Speaker 1: where you go? You know what, I'm pretty good? I
Speaker 1: can I can play in the NFL. Um I don't know.
Speaker 1: When I was like three years old, I mean that's
Speaker 1: what I know, That's what I always wanted to do.
Speaker 1: And um, you know I've always done well at football.
Speaker 1: I've always been able to make plays. But um, I
Speaker 1: early thing going into my what was that going into
Speaker 1: my junior year? I mean, mentally, it just everything clicked
Speaker 1: for him, and I realized that, you know, it's not
Speaker 1: high school. There's not like ten plays that you're running.
Speaker 1: There's just a lot more to it than just showing
Speaker 1: up and playing football, and kind of clicked for me there,
Speaker 1: and then I had a really good spring ball transition
Speaker 1: to a good uh you know, a fall camp, and
Speaker 1: then good season just kind of carried on from there.
Speaker 1: Do you think you're always gonna have that comparison with
Speaker 1: Kelsey since I think you're both the same, Ay, I
Speaker 1: mean it's not a good thing that, Hey, you know,
Speaker 1: you're looking at Kelsey's numbers, Kelsey looking at your numbers,
Speaker 1: or we're looking at both numbers here. I mean, I
Speaker 1: just show up when I played football, and our numbers
Speaker 1: seem to be sometimes consistent with each other. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's having a hell of a year, breaking records and
Speaker 1: stuff like that and averageing like a hundred and fifty game.
Speaker 1: It feels like it's pretty awesome. Uh, But uh, I mean,
Speaker 1: like I said, I just show up and play football,
Speaker 1: and people like to compare us. It is what it is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I think that you you block block like Gronk.
Speaker 1: Can you catch like Kelsey? I mean that's I just
Speaker 1: that's great. I mean, try to play the ten position
Speaker 1: the way it's supposed to be played. But even with
Speaker 1: you're supposed to say thank you for the compliment. That's
Speaker 1: the ultimate compliment. Come on, what's going on George here?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm I'm throwing out verbal bouquets here. Oh,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it, you know, I, like I said, Um,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't take on the most you know,
Speaker 1: I don't. I love compliments. I appreciate that, But like
Speaker 1: I said, I just like to work hard and as
Speaker 1: long as my teammates and then the rest of the
Speaker 1: league respects where I'm playing the game. I'm doing all right?
Speaker 1: What's the background there? You've spent no time on the
Speaker 1: background there? Don't mean the piece next to me? Oh? No,
Speaker 1: you got it? Like the shades are down? Is that
Speaker 1: a like something's hanging up over your your shoulder there?
Speaker 1: You're that's my first robow Jersey? Oh little little tilt
Speaker 1: tilted a camera that way? Let me see what that?
Speaker 1: That's it? Okay? Anything else here? I see that's not
Speaker 1: a virgal compliment. Dan, that wasn't great. I'm moving house
Speaker 1: and so I'll have about my jerseys frame. There's a
Speaker 1: wall right here full of like twelve jerseys from guys
Speaker 1: I like in the NFL, so all those are all
Speaker 1: be framed at some point. Did anybody say no to
Speaker 1: you when you asked for a jersey? I don't think so,
Speaker 1: not that I'm aware of. I've actually get a couple,
Speaker 1: so that's pretty fun too. Well, who who did you get? That?
Speaker 1: Mike surprised me? Who did I that might surprise you.
Speaker 1: I traded jerseys with Mike Evans at the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: That was pretty fun. Let's see who else? Adrian Clayborne,
Speaker 1: he's an Iowa guy. And then the wrestaurant were basically
Speaker 1: tight ends. I just got a wall of tight ends.
Speaker 1: I got Bobby Wagner, Chrish McCaffrey up top. But uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I have like, yeah, ten tight ends. I
Speaker 1: like to trade with every single tight end that I
Speaker 1: like because I love the position. I love everybody that
Speaker 1: plays it. Where are you going to watch the game?
Speaker 1: I think my house, wherever my wife tells me too.
Speaker 1: Is she watching with you? Uh? Yeah, I mean my
Speaker 1: whole family lives in Nashville, so we'll probably watched together.
Speaker 1: Does she get nervous? What's she like when you're playing? Um,
Speaker 1: let's see, she's usually very happy and she I mean
Speaker 1: she loves football, she loves watching it, she loves being
Speaker 1: in stands. Um, I think I get if I get tackled,
Speaker 1: she yells at me. I can then hear that occasionally
Speaker 1: from the stands. She's yelling at you. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: what are you doing. I'll try not to get tackled,
Speaker 1: my bad. I know you're making a pitch with Bolt
Speaker 1: twenty four by Gatorade. So uh, phillis in who finally
Speaker 1: Boult twenty four Gatorade? That got it right here with me.
Speaker 1: You can see it all around. Oh wow, product placement,
Speaker 1: it's natural, right. Yeah. I'm really excited to work with
Speaker 1: Gatorade because it's a product that I've used my entire
Speaker 1: life since being a little kid. You know, I remember
Speaker 1: drinking Gatorade after like my little peevie football games and
Speaker 1: so being and a chance to work with them is
Speaker 1: it's kind of like a dream come true. Like I
Speaker 1: never didn't think that this was a possibility. But the
Speaker 1: Bolt twenty four, it's delicious, it's new, it's amazing. But really,
Speaker 1: I think my favorite part of it it's it's healthier
Speaker 1: and it's made with watermelon water and no artificial flavors
Speaker 1: or sweeteners, and so I really like that and it
Speaker 1: allows me to be I could drink it whenever I
Speaker 1: want because it is healthier and have to worry about anything,
Speaker 1: and just allows me to be the best athlete I
Speaker 1: can be every single day. And I'll give you another compliment.
Speaker 1: I don't think Gronk could have delivered it that way.
Speaker 1: I think you did a great job delivering that better
Speaker 1: than Gronk could have. I appreciate that you can take
Speaker 1: that up with him. I don't know if he'll agree
Speaker 1: with you, but okay, but since you love all tight ends,
Speaker 1: you got to pick one tight end to win the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl? Which tight end do you want to win
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl? Which do I want to win? And
Speaker 1: I want them both, and when I want them both
Speaker 1: have one hundred fift yards and two touchdowns, including unlikely George,
Speaker 1: it's very unlikely they both will win. I've seen that
Speaker 1: is unlikely here, right It is No, that'd be tough.
Speaker 1: But um say, this is my thanking Dan, and you
Speaker 1: can tell me if I'm wrong. She's really good. They're
Speaker 1: clicking right now. Offense, Chiefs are good. Hold on, PAULI,
Speaker 1: would you write this down, George is give me some
Speaker 1: real deep insights. The Chiefs are really good, and they're clicking,
Speaker 1: really good. They're clicking, clicking, And but the Buccaneers that
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, and I just don't know how to ever
Speaker 1: go against Tom Brady in the playoffs and or Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Have you had a conversation with Tom No, I never
Speaker 1: had the opportunity to play him. Oh well, see I
Speaker 1: talked to on Instagram one time. I was I dropped
Speaker 1: my phone that a he d in me and I dropped,
Speaker 1: oh brag. I was like, oh god, you had your moment.
Speaker 1: Well there's always yeah, Well, sorry about that. Hey, thanks
Speaker 1: for joining us as always, hope the ankle is healing
Speaker 1: well and thanks for joining us. Thanks D. I appreciate
Speaker 1: coming on. That's George Kittle nine nine ers tight end
Speaker 1: and uh I got shut down and week eight with
Speaker 1: an injury at Siah. Thanks for listening to The Dan
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Speaker 1: the Peacock Act. We make way for Chase Young, great
Speaker 1: player for the Washington football team. You just reacted to
Speaker 1: that there, Chase. You surprised that Mahomes's dad is fifty
Speaker 1: and you know Brady's forty three. Yes, uh, I just
Speaker 1: repeated it when you said it. That's crazy. But Tom's
Speaker 1: what twice as old as you. Yeah, but how strange
Speaker 1: is that that you're you know, when you faced him,
Speaker 1: you're looking at over the line of scrimmage. You're like,
Speaker 1: that dude is forty three. That's crazy. I have us
Speaker 1: since you know, I was able to play Madden. Um
Speaker 1: he was on the game. So it's definitely it's crazy
Speaker 1: to play against it. You know, somebody that's just been
Speaker 1: watching a whole life. I love the confidence you said
Speaker 1: you wanted Tom. Of course you want time. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're you're you're a competitor. I don't know why everybody thought,
Speaker 1: oh be careful what you ask for. I'm like, don't
Speaker 1: bring it. Like if you didn't want Tom, I would
Speaker 1: have questions about you Chase. Right. Yeah, it's a you know,
Speaker 1: you know sometimes the media like to you know, get
Speaker 1: what they can grab. Man. You know, just try to
Speaker 1: make a big story around the day that to a
Speaker 1: big game. So I even being a young player, you know,
Speaker 1: I know how to uh how that is. Um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: like you said, I'm a competitor and uh, you know
Speaker 1: every quarterback I chase, UM, I chased down out every
Speaker 1: quarterback I played. I want to get um. So, uh,
Speaker 1: today's National recruiting Day? Can you take us back or
Speaker 1: signing day? H can you take us back to your
Speaker 1: national signing day? Uh? Yeah, it was, it was It
Speaker 1: was at h It was at my high school actually,
Speaker 1: um and and uh that's just we kind of do
Speaker 1: it after school. UM. And our coach he he went
Speaker 1: from person to person, uh and just tell and tell
Speaker 1: everybody where we were going and uh, um, you know,
Speaker 1: full rising and just and just talking about the season
Speaker 1: and and just uh you know what we did in
Speaker 1: high school. But h, it was definitely a crazy time.
Speaker 1: You didn't go to Ohio State where were you going
Speaker 1: probably Obama. Yo? Did you have to tell Nick Saban
Speaker 1: you weren't going to Alabama? M Nah? It was a
Speaker 1: it was a it was a it was a family thing.
Speaker 1: I chose. I chose, uh the squad I was going too.
Speaker 1: I chose with my mom my dad. So, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: just what was the best for me, and obviously I
Speaker 1: made made the right choice. Yeah, but you don't have
Speaker 1: to tell coach Saban that, Like, does he call and go, hey, Chase,
Speaker 1: come on, what are you doing? You coming with us?
Speaker 1: You're rolling with us? Nah? Nah? No, that's not even
Speaker 1: how really set up over there? Okay, yeah, because Nick
Speaker 1: might have been tough to say no to if he's
Speaker 1: calling you on the phone. I'm guess right, yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: definitely definitely. Now was it Urban Meyer who recruited you?
Speaker 1: Coach Meyer? Uh? And coach Johnson? Uh? Larry Johnson. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: how do you think Urban's gonna do in the NFL?
Speaker 1: Knowing his temperament, how he coached in college, I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna he's so Coach Meyer, he's a winner one thing.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a winner and he hates losing. Um
Speaker 1: And you know, I look back now, um, and I
Speaker 1: used to. Well I look back now and just realize
Speaker 1: just how great of a coach he was and how
Speaker 1: he pushed me and not it really didn't even know. Um,
Speaker 1: but I feel like, you know, going to the league, Um,
Speaker 1: he does not want to lose. He wants to win.
Speaker 1: So I know he's gonna do everything he can to win.
Speaker 1: So whatever that has to, whatever that's doing, UM, I
Speaker 1: know he's gonna take care of it. But I'm I'm
Speaker 1: definitely excited uh to uh you know, watch him on
Speaker 1: on on the next level, and I believe we might
Speaker 1: play them, uh just coming up season? Does he know
Speaker 1: how to stop you? Does he know the game plan
Speaker 1: here to Uh I've been, I've been, I've been punishing
Speaker 1: his office. I love it. I love it. He's Chase
Speaker 1: Young of the Washington football team. Uh. This story about
Speaker 1: you working on with Arnold Schwarzenegger before the NFL Draft, Like, okay,
Speaker 1: gim me, how does this come up that your work
Speaker 1: all of a sudden the terminator walks in or you
Speaker 1: walk in and the terminators there. Uh it was kind
Speaker 1: of Um I walk in and you know he was there,
Speaker 1: and uh we we we had worked out and uh
Speaker 1: it was really a lot of talking, just me picking
Speaker 1: his brain. Just asked the question about about everything, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know now we're uh we're we're real good friends.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, while I'm out here at I
Speaker 1: definitely planning to sing. Who could lift more? Oh? No,
Speaker 1: that ass I mean back then, I don't know. He
Speaker 1: was young. He got me for sure. I'm just curious.
Speaker 1: You know it used to be, you know whatever, mister
Speaker 1: Olympia there a few times, so I'm guessing he could
Speaker 1: throw some iron around here. Chase. Oh yeah, Uh were
Speaker 1: you you were in the school choir? Yes, Like did
Speaker 1: you take it seriously? So you're pretty serious? I was?
Speaker 1: Or did you go there just to meet girls? Both? Okay,
Speaker 1: what should you do better? The girls? You're actually performing?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know with females. I never really had
Speaker 1: a super big problem say that. But uh um, now
Speaker 1: I definitely want to. I was. Uh. I would leave
Speaker 1: sing um sometimes uh and do little solos um and
Speaker 1: in front of my whole um school. No King, We'll
Speaker 1: go to church. Yeah. Uh my court teacher was miss Lynn.
Speaker 1: It was my uh my my fifth grade teacher. Um
Speaker 1: and yeah, so I will go and I will sing
Speaker 1: up this sometimes by myseld at school. So do you
Speaker 1: want to sing the national anthem? I probably could? Well, No,
Speaker 1: do you want to? Because I can make some calls.
Speaker 1: I know many people. I'm gonna catch you on the
Speaker 1: rebound room. Okay, all right, I'm just saying, if you
Speaker 1: want to sing the anthem, and you know what, maybe
Speaker 1: you could do it for a Washington Nationals game. Doesn't
Speaker 1: even have to be for the football game. You could
Speaker 1: off season. Yeah yeah, I think it'd be pretty good. Uh.
Speaker 1: You face Tampa this year. Uh if you were going
Speaker 1: to give some advice to Honey Badger or Chris Jones,
Speaker 1: what would you say? I mean, I'm done two guys.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't even think I have to give
Speaker 1: too much advice to him. I mean, I know, I know,
Speaker 1: I know the Honeyman. I know Tarran watching him. Um,
Speaker 1: I know, I know big big Chrisy. He's gonna do
Speaker 1: what he'd do. I'm in the trench ship. Um, he's
Speaker 1: been doing what he's doing since he stepped in the league. Um.
Speaker 1: So you know, I don't all I say is, uh,
Speaker 1: you know he um Tim he get the ball out quick.
Speaker 1: Uh so definitely for tyranne um. You know whatever, you
Speaker 1: do keep doing it. You're joining us on behalf of
Speaker 1: Old Spice. Uh give us an idea of let let
Speaker 1: me hear your sales pitch here. So but so so
Speaker 1: you know obviously, uh, it's been a tough year um
Speaker 1: for for everybody, um and and dealing with Ah, I'm
Speaker 1: just cold and you know, just everybody's schedules are just everywhere.
Speaker 1: But ah, you know, so I teamed up with an
Speaker 1: Old Spice and they're coming out with a new line.
Speaker 1: It's called a Dynasty um um line and uh, basically
Speaker 1: I just put them on the smells good um so
Speaker 1: now it's it's this is a real good sent um
Speaker 1: and it's it's that said that that will give you
Speaker 1: a you know, just a burst of confidence um and
Speaker 1: just have you ready to smell uh smell rap any day.
Speaker 1: So but I love it. How often do you face alignment?
Speaker 1: Who needs Old Spice fly every game? After that last play?
Speaker 1: They they never did myself included. Yeah, uh, hey, congrats
Speaker 1: on the season and uh and good luck in the
Speaker 1: off season there and we appreciate your time, Chase, thank you,
Speaker 1: thanks for having that's thanks for listening to The Dan
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Speaker 1: the Peacock app. National Signing Day. And Brandon Huffman, he
Speaker 1: is the twenty four seven Sports National Recruiting editor here
Speaker 1: to talk about just how good this Alabama recruiting class
Speaker 1: was and is it truly generational? And Brandon joins us. Now, Brandon,
Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. Where does this Alabama recruiting class rank? Well,
Speaker 1: it just clinched the top overall spot in the history
Speaker 1: of twenty four seven Sports recruiting rankings. And they still
Speaker 1: may not be done. They're still in contention for the
Speaker 1: number one player in the country, but as of this morning,
Speaker 1: they have already inked with the pen putting paper the
Speaker 1: number one class in the history of recruiting with some
Speaker 1: of the most elite talent that you've seen. It's on
Speaker 1: part of their twenty seventeen class that they signed with
Speaker 1: Davonte Smith and Naji Harris. But this class might be
Speaker 1: Nick Saban's best class that he's ever signed, which is
Speaker 1: saying something considering the success he's had in Tussaloosa. The
Speaker 1: best recruiting class prior to Alabama this year was turned
Speaker 1: in by Florida yeah Port in twenty ten, and you
Speaker 1: could say that might have been the clas sept broke
Speaker 1: urban Meyer at Florida and caused him to eventually walk
Speaker 1: away from that job. This class looks a little bit
Speaker 1: less risky than that Florida two thousand and ten class did,
Speaker 1: and a lot of guys that I expect to play
Speaker 1: right away. But it wasn't just guys on the offensive
Speaker 1: line defensive line. As Nick Saban always does, he gets
Speaker 1: players at every key position. And that's why this class
Speaker 1: ranked so high. Where did you guys have Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: when he was coming out of high school? So he
Speaker 1: was running to the high three star coming out in
Speaker 1: that two fourteen class, behind guys like Kyle Allen Keller,
Speaker 1: Chris So at the time was committed to Stanford was
Speaker 1: being tauted as the next Andrew Luck. Mahomes was kind
Speaker 1: of forgotten A little bit. Part of that reason was
Speaker 1: there was still a thinking that he might go to
Speaker 1: baseball route. There wasn't even certainty he was going to
Speaker 1: be a football player. Baseball was still looming there as
Speaker 1: a potential threat for him, but he was a high
Speaker 1: three star and ultimately made a lot of people look
Speaker 1: really foolish with that decision. And Trevor Lawrence was number one,
Speaker 1: and here he is going to go number one in
Speaker 1: the draft. Justin Fields was two in that recruiting class
Speaker 1: and he'll be a first round draft pick. So you know,
Speaker 1: we hit and miss at that position, but you're no
Speaker 1: different than the general managers in the NFL. Sure, And
Speaker 1: I think with when we look at that Lawrence Fields class,
Speaker 1: I mean there was debate for part of that year
Speaker 1: who was better. Trevor Lawrence started out as the number
Speaker 1: one player, Justin Fields moved ahead. Ultimately with Trevor Lawrence,
Speaker 1: it looks like he's going to be the number one
Speaker 1: pick in the twenty twenty one draft. But those two
Speaker 1: were as good of a one two punch as you've
Speaker 1: ever seen, And now three years later we look good
Speaker 1: on that. But there have been plenty of classes where
Speaker 1: you had guys the twenty thirteen class of Max Brown
Speaker 1: and Christian Hackenberg. Those look at the safest one two punch.
Speaker 1: Max Brown never really got to go in at USC
Speaker 1: or at pick Christian Hackenburg had an up and down career,
Speaker 1: So you have your misses, you want to follow those
Speaker 1: misses up with hits rather than go the other direction.
Speaker 1: Give me the couple of names at that position that
Speaker 1: we'll be talking about in two years. Well, the two
Speaker 1: top quarterbacks in the country are Caleb Williams, who's the
Speaker 1: number one dual threat uback out of the Washington DC.
Speaker 1: He's already at Oklahoma going in with the understanding that
Speaker 1: Spencer Rally is going to be the starter at least
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, and then Williams will have a
Speaker 1: chance to compete for that job, and then the number
Speaker 1: one pro style quarterback is a familiar name to fans
Speaker 1: out west in the name of sam Hewart, quarterback out
Speaker 1: of Kennedy Catholic High School in Durien, Washington. His father
Speaker 1: game In, former NFL quarterback, his uncle Brock, former NFL quarterback.
Speaker 1: Both of his dad and his uncle played quarterback at
Speaker 1: the University of Washington. He actually committed to the Huskies
Speaker 1: two years ago when Chris Peterson was still the head coach.
Speaker 1: Stayed with that commitment to Washington despite some late overtures
Speaker 1: from USC and some other schools. So he's a guy
Speaker 1: that even when Dylan Moore is starting this year as
Speaker 1: a freshman, I wouldn't be surprised if he competes for
Speaker 1: the starting job, Whereas Caleb Williams, like a couple of
Speaker 1: the Oklahoma quarterbacks before him, probably has to wait at
Speaker 1: least the year before we start to become with the
Speaker 1: next Lincoln Rally sensation. Where is the number one recruit
Speaker 1: on twenty four to seven going roll. That's a very
Speaker 1: good question. We're still trying to figure that out and
Speaker 1: it's going to be two months. That player is j T.
Speaker 1: Tweemolo out out of East Side Catholic in Samamas, Washington.
Speaker 1: He on the early signing period named his final five
Speaker 1: at the Alabama, Ohio State, Washington, Oregon, and USC. So
Speaker 1: he had three pack twelve schools relatively close to home,
Speaker 1: one being the hometown Huskies, another being Oregon which is
Speaker 1: just down the road USC where his family is largely
Speaker 1: from southern California. Then you have the two teams playing
Speaker 1: for the national championship, and it's really been those two
Speaker 1: teams out in front for him, Alabama and Ohio State.
Speaker 1: Part of the reason he's waiting is with the NCA
Speaker 1: dead period, he has never had a chance to visit Columbus.
Speaker 1: He still has not been out to Ohouse State. He
Speaker 1: did camp at Alabama when he was a sophomore. So
Speaker 1: he wants to get back down to Tuscaloosa and get
Speaker 1: out to Columbus with his family to see both those schools.
Speaker 1: He's more familiar with the Pac twelve schools, But we're
Speaker 1: at least two months away from him making a decision.
Speaker 1: Ohio State Alabama play for the national championship. Now they're
Speaker 1: playing to see who gets the number one overall player.
Speaker 1: But those three Pack twelve schools trying to get relevance
Speaker 1: back into the conference are hoping he decides to stay
Speaker 1: closer to home. Didn't We talk about this on the
Speaker 1: show occasionally Old Miss Tennessee where sometimes you don't expect
Speaker 1: a school to have a really, really good recruiting class,
Speaker 1: and when you do that, all of a sudden, that's
Speaker 1: when people start to notice, did anybody have an out
Speaker 1: of the ordinary recruiting class this year? You know Tennessee
Speaker 1: had it last spring, they paid the price this year.
Speaker 1: Anybody that you look at and you go, wow, I
Speaker 1: didn't expect them to be up in the top ten
Speaker 1: or top fifteen. Yeah, I would say, you know, Maryland
Speaker 1: is just outside the top fifteen. Considering the struggles that
Speaker 1: they've had on the field the last few years, it
Speaker 1: is kind of a surprise to see Maryland ranks so high,
Speaker 1: especially when that state's been really bleeding the top players
Speaker 1: in the state. Maryland has become a frequent stock for
Speaker 1: Big ten schools, for ACC schools, for SEC schools, and
Speaker 1: they've had a hard time keeping them. But Mike Blocksley,
Speaker 1: ever since he was at Florida, when he was at
Speaker 1: New Mexico, Alabama, he's always been known as a recruiter,
Speaker 1: always been known as one of the best recruiters. In fact,
Speaker 1: he was one of the first coaches in all ofllege
Speaker 1: football to start getting bonuses based on where his recruiting
Speaker 1: class reign, which kind of dispelled the long time myth
Speaker 1: that coaches said rankings don't matter when there were fifty
Speaker 1: sixty thousand reasons for a too matter. Mike Locksley has
Speaker 1: been able to overcome kind of an up and down
Speaker 1: start to his career at Maryland as the head coach
Speaker 1: by following up with a very good recruiting effort in
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. Culminating with the top twenty class.
Speaker 1: So when you see Maryland in there and kind of
Speaker 1: sandwich between schools that you expect to be there, it
Speaker 1: is one of those schools that does have you scratched
Speaker 1: in your head a little bit. But if you look
Speaker 1: at Loxley's history as a recruiter, it's not a surprising
Speaker 1: essays when Q Freeze had all missed in the top
Speaker 1: ten or Tennessee with their struggles ended up with the
Speaker 1: top ten class, how did Sark do in Texas? Sark
Speaker 1: inherited a large number of these guys had already signed
Speaker 1: with Tom Herman. It was a top twenty class already
Speaker 1: when he got there. Now, one of the big things
Speaker 1: for them is that they've already gotten a commitment from
Speaker 1: one of the top twenty backs in the country for
Speaker 1: next year. He committed yesterday, So they were hoping to
Speaker 1: get L. J. Johnson, who was the top uncommitted back
Speaker 1: in the state of Texas. It's looking like he's going
Speaker 1: to choose Texas A and M. But Sark really the
Speaker 1: big thing for him was getting that top running back
Speaker 1: to commit four twenty twenty two, and really what it's
Speaker 1: going to come down to for sark Is How does
Speaker 1: he do with the efforts of quinn Ewers who was
Speaker 1: once committed to Texas decommitted, committed to Ohouse State. He's
Speaker 1: the number one player in the country for twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: Can Stark get Texas back in it? Or its queen
Speaker 1: ere the laws? It's cause. But I think considering the
Speaker 1: timing of when sark was hired, being in January, he's
Speaker 1: walking into a pretty i'll put together. Class twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two is going to be that first class. We're really
Speaker 1: going to be able to judge just how well a
Speaker 1: job Sarkisian's doing as a recruit at the University of Texas.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Brandon. We had a lot of fun looking
Speaker 1: at the website today and we appreciate your time. Thanks
Speaker 1: they I appreciate it. That's Brandon Huffman, National recruiting editor
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