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Speaker 1: All right, welcome man, lake Kick is Live. It is

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Speaker 1: Sunday Night, April eighteenth, Dear of Our Lord twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Easily as jam packed the show as we've had since

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Speaker 1: the National Championship Game, maybe Signing Day, maybe including National

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Speaker 1: Signing Day. I'm looking on my screen right now at

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Speaker 1: all the stuff we don't have time in the show

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Speaker 1: believe me, we are a jam packed as jam packed

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Speaker 1: can be. This basically, in a lot of ways, is

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Speaker 1: gonna resemble what a show in October on a Sunday

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Speaker 1: There were a lot of spring games yesterday. We were

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Speaker 1: leading up to it during the week. Obviously we've got

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Speaker 1: a lot of rapid reaction, as we'd like to call

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Speaker 1: it around here. Tonight Bama had a spring game LSU George.

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Speaker 1: It was loaded in the SEC Ohio State hit the

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Speaker 1: I wanted to put a lot of stuff about Oregon

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Speaker 1: They had scrimmages. So we're gonna have plenty of time

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Speaker 1: this week to talk about them. You cannot afford. Now.

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Speaker 1: I want to stress this before we even get into

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Speaker 1: the show tonight. I was thinking about this driving in.

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Speaker 1: I was talking to someone at another network about this

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Speaker 1: driving in. You cannot afford to tune out right now.

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Speaker 1: I know sometimes you guys like to take a little

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Speaker 1: step away, and that's fine. Live your lives. Some of

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Speaker 1: you have kids, you have lives, you have responsibilities. I'm

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Speaker 1: just saying, if you want to be informed, come fall,

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Speaker 1: If you want to be up on things, come fall.

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Speaker 1: This is not There is no off season. This is

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Speaker 1: not the off season to tune out because we have

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Speaker 1: number one, a second probably a second transfer portal wave

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Speaker 1: about to happen. We got spring games happening all over

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Speaker 1: entire what we expect to be a tsunami. And by we,

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Speaker 1: I mean we at twenty four seven Sports talking to

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Speaker 1: be a huge wave, a tsunami of recruiting activity in

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Speaker 1: the off season, evaluations, commitments, new offers, etc. So all

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Speaker 1: that's happening. Nil is on the move in multiple states.

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Speaker 1: We're two and a half months away from Media Days,

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Speaker 1: and so there's really that season. There's not going to

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Speaker 1: be one. There never is around here, but even by

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Speaker 1: normal standards, there's not one this year. So do not

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Speaker 1: tune out. And if you're tuned in right now, please

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Speaker 1: Owners Association meeting, we had a great time with it.

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Speaker 1: It's up in the podcast feed, it is now up

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Speaker 1: on the YouTube channel. It's evergreen, so you can watch

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Speaker 1: it at your leisure whenever you want to. I encourage

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Speaker 1: you to check that out. Follow me on Instagram at

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Speaker 1: late kick Josh. We're well on our way to another

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Speaker 1: thousand there, so I mean we'll be knocking those things

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Speaker 1: almost one thousand people enter the lottery to participate in

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Speaker 1: this last show, so I mean that's in the middle

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Speaker 1: of April. Imagine what that would be like again if

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Speaker 1: it were October. We got a lot of stuff we're

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Speaker 1: So let's nail it down and shave it down as

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Speaker 1: much as possible. Spring games all over the place yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Let's start at LSU. I'm going all over the place.

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Speaker 1: as many takes as I can and as many takeaways

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Speaker 1: phones with a lot of people, really good conversations. Though

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Speaker 1: they are trying to go at LSU as twenty nineteen

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Speaker 1: as possible as you have seen, if you're following LSU

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Speaker 1: as you have read, as you have heard, when you

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Speaker 1: look at everything from offensive coordinator Hire and Pete to

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Speaker 1: never get that word right, that have ties to obviously

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Speaker 1: But also Deronte Jones, he's got ties in his past

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Speaker 1: scientist to understand find out when you were at your best,

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Speaker 1: storyline around LSU. Miles Brennan and Max Johnson. We never

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Speaker 1: never was. So we saw yesterday those two have separated themselves.

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Speaker 1: If you follow LSU, that's not breaking news. If you've

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Speaker 1: There's no way that this is decided. It's decided to

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Speaker 1: me it's a two guy race, but it's not decided

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Speaker 1: no means is this decided now. I will say this,

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Speaker 1: But now you also have another saving grace that's not

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Speaker 1: So a lot to look forward to with LSU. I

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Speaker 1: prize in the industry. They still under Ryan Day that is,

430
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Speaker 1: they haven't won it. Wow, they're loaded. So I was

431
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Speaker 1: reading over on bucknuts dot Com today. Dave built a

432
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Speaker 1: lot of the guys over there. I mean, they had

433
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Speaker 1: blowout coverage as they normally do. There were really good

434
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Speaker 1: results yesterday, But that quarterback room, I was reading some

435
00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:54,480
Speaker 1: of the staff talking over there about Jack Miller. Jack

436
00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:57,040
Speaker 1: Miller is one of three quarterbacks for Ohio State that

437
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Speaker 1: would start at most places. C J. Stroud. I saw

438
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Speaker 1: Dave Biddle talking over there. I agree that c J.

439
00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:05,360
Speaker 1: Stroud has got to be the leader in the clubhouse there.

440
00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:08,760
Speaker 1: Talk to someone close to Ohio State this week who

441
00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,440
Speaker 1: was adamant that this is not decided, and I agree.

442
00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:13,560
Speaker 1: I don't think it's decided yet. But if you look

443
00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:16,160
Speaker 1: at CJ. Stroud and then you look at Kyle McCord

444
00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:18,639
Speaker 1: ripping some balls yesterday, and you look at Jack Miller,

445
00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:21,399
Speaker 1: I think Jack Miller is the guy's on Buttonnuts we're

446
00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:24,399
Speaker 1: talking about. It's a really it's a really peculiar case

447
00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:27,320
Speaker 1: because on one hand, you got an ultra talented quarterback there,

448
00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:30,000
Speaker 1: but then he's probably looking up at c. J. Stroud

449
00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:33,920
Speaker 1: and at the very least he's looking parallel at Kyle

450
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Speaker 1: McCord at the very least. And then if you happen

451
00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:38,720
Speaker 1: to look in the rearview mirror, they got the number

452
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Speaker 1: one quarterback in America committed for this upcoming cycle. And

453
00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:44,359
Speaker 1: so it's great to have a competitive spirit, and you

454
00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:47,080
Speaker 1: don't commit there if you don't have one in all likelihood.

455
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Speaker 1: But I just wonder about a guy like Jack Miller,

456
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Speaker 1: just kind of pulling a name. You can pull any

457
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Speaker 1: of those names out of the hat. How in the

458
00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:55,800
Speaker 1: world does he process what's going on up there? No

459
00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:58,960
Speaker 1: matter how he process it, this ends good for Ohio State.

460
00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:01,040
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about the same element and play

461
00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:04,199
Speaker 1: at the receiver position. Right now. Their quarterback room at

462
00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:07,800
Speaker 1: Ohio State is so good that it's very likely someone's

463
00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:12,960
Speaker 1: future national championship hopes reside in that room inside those

464
00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,480
Speaker 1: four walls. You know history as well as I do.

465
00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:17,800
Speaker 1: It's very unlikely all these guys stay on campus over

466
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Speaker 1: the next two or three years. I don't enjoy talking

467
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Speaker 1: about that a whole lot. It's not a theme I

468
00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:23,960
Speaker 1: like to hit on regularly. But I am a realist

469
00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:25,760
Speaker 1: and I know not all three of those guys in

470
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Speaker 1: all likelihood to stand on campus one of them is

471
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Speaker 1: probably gonna transfer somewhere and turn some team into a

472
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Speaker 1: national championship contender. That's how good Ohio State is. It's

473
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Speaker 1: like Joe Burrow a few years ago. We didn't know it,

474
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Speaker 1: but LSU's best hope at winning a championship in this

475
00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:41,320
Speaker 1: era was not even in Baton Rouge. He was in

476
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Speaker 1: Columbus Ohio. Well, who's to say Jack Miller doesn't transfer

477
00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:46,280
Speaker 1: to fill in the blank you and ends up being

478
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Speaker 1: their biggest hope in a generation for a championship. They're loaded, man,

479
00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:54,080
Speaker 1: Ohio State's loaded. I'm not concerned with how they're going

480
00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:56,640
Speaker 1: to keep guys in any position. Room. If you watched

481
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Speaker 1: him at receiver, and we can take a break from

482
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Speaker 1: talking about how low they art quarterback, let's talk about

483
00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:04,520
Speaker 1: how low they art receiver. They got so many guys

484
00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:06,960
Speaker 1: all over the place. It's so popular. I think people

485
00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:09,160
Speaker 1: kind of find it in vogue now. They don't want

486
00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:10,840
Speaker 1: to talk about how good you are. They want to

487
00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:12,960
Speaker 1: skip past that, and they want to say, but you

488
00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:16,080
Speaker 1: know that old transfer portal. They're not gonna be able

489
00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:18,439
Speaker 1: to keep all these guys cool. No, they're probably not.

490
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Speaker 1: You know what, They'll still be They'll still be a winner.

491
00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:24,160
Speaker 1: They will win no matter what because, by default, by

492
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Speaker 1: the very nature of the transfer portal, the guys leaving

493
00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:29,919
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of the time are the guys that

494
00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:32,760
Speaker 1: are probably really good. They can be really high character kids.

495
00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,640
Speaker 1: They tried, they were fully dedicated, and they just were

496
00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,080
Speaker 1: not good enough. They didn't have enough God given ability,

497
00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:40,040
Speaker 1: even with those four and five stars next to their name,

498
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Speaker 1: to get on the field for you. Because I'm looking

499
00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:44,359
Speaker 1: at the list, they got so many of them, I

500
00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:47,080
Speaker 1: have to write them down. You look at Chris Olave

501
00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:50,359
Speaker 1: and Garrett Wilson coming back. Those are names, you know.

502
00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:53,480
Speaker 1: Did you see Marvin Harrison Junior? You've seen a Mecca.

503
00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:56,159
Speaker 1: Egbuka kind of kicked it off for him yesterday. Jaden

504
00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,400
Speaker 1: Ballard's the guy I talked about a lot last week,

505
00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:01,199
Speaker 1: like they love him. He's really a burner that probably

506
00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:04,959
Speaker 1: gets overshadowed a lot because of Agbuca. They got Jamis

507
00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:08,440
Speaker 1: and Williams Julian Fleming. Have we already forgot about that name? No, man,

508
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:10,919
Speaker 1: not all those guys are gonna stick around, But it

509
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:13,320
Speaker 1: doesn't matter because a critical mass of them are going

510
00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:15,439
Speaker 1: to stick around, and the ones who do are the

511
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:19,399
Speaker 1: ones again by default, who are the best among that crop.

512
00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:22,960
Speaker 1: So and they're just there are top twenty receivers in

513
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Speaker 1: America on their roster right now that are not going

514
00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:28,359
Speaker 1: to be good enough to get on the field. To

515
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,520
Speaker 1: put a finer point on how loaded the Ohio State

516
00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:33,919
Speaker 1: wide receiver room is. As for their defense, because we

517
00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:37,160
Speaker 1: can talk about offense all day, their defense, I don't know,

518
00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:40,280
Speaker 1: because I don't really look at their spring game and

519
00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:42,280
Speaker 1: their format for a spring game because they don't tackle

520
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,200
Speaker 1: in the spring game as being conducive to drawing conclusions

521
00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:48,879
Speaker 1: like I've got concerns about them at defensive back. It

522
00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,600
Speaker 1: varies based on who you're talking to in and around

523
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,240
Speaker 1: the Ohio State program as to how many people echo

524
00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:57,359
Speaker 1: that sentiment. Some people would indicate to you there have

525
00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 1: been gains made there. We are talked about in chronicle,

526
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Speaker 1: the coaching changes they made in the secondary. I say

527
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:06,760
Speaker 1: that to say this, I'll have to see it. I

528
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,800
Speaker 1: saw some good things, saw some not so good things yesterday.

529
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Speaker 1: Now the question is gonna be as you look up

530
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:15,639
Speaker 1: and down their schedule come fall, when are we gonna know.

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Speaker 1: I kind of talked about this last year with Ohio

532
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:19,919
Speaker 1: State secondary. To be honest with you, when are we

533
00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:21,879
Speaker 1: gonna know? They got Oregon coming in there week, so

534
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 1: I think they opened with Minnesota. They've got some teams

535
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Speaker 1: that can throw the ball, that at the very least

536
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:30,080
Speaker 1: will be committed to throwing the ball. I don't exactly

537
00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:34,159
Speaker 1: know how many high level, potent passing attacks they'll face

538
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:37,159
Speaker 1: in their regular season schedule outside of Indiana, of course,

539
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 1: that are built to give us a nice data point

540
00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 1: and a nice expectation level for how they match up

541
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Speaker 1: against a Clemson, or against an Alabama or against whoever

542
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,800
Speaker 1: in the world else makes the playoff. Oklahoma, I will state.

543
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:53,760
Speaker 1: And so I don't know, is my point. They could

544
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,000
Speaker 1: be hanging fifty plus on everyone this year. I think

545
00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,920
Speaker 1: they'll have an historic offensive year, and yet we'll still

546
00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:02,960
Speaker 1: be asking I wonder how much this translates to the playoff.

547
00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:05,640
Speaker 1: Feel pretty good about penciling them in that far. Though.

548
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 1: One more thing, even amongst a sea of really good players,

549
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,800
Speaker 1: Trayvon Henderson's going to be so good Traveon. Henderson's a

550
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,400
Speaker 1: guy who did not jump off the stat sheet yesterday.

551
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:18,920
Speaker 1: But if you've ever watched if you've watched football for

552
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:20,640
Speaker 1: a long time, you know exactly what I'm about to say.

553
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 1: And you know the kind of guys, they're few and

554
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 1: far between that fit this description. Sometimes you have a

555
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:30,480
Speaker 1: running back that every time they touch the ball, you

556
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,200
Speaker 1: just kind of tense up. You kind of you look

557
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,160
Speaker 1: and you just feel like something's going to happen. And

558
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 1: he's one of those guys. Traveon Henderson is as much

559
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,280
Speaker 1: a can't miss guy at their running back position as

560
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,879
Speaker 1: you'll see in college football. So shockingly, I know, it

561
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 1: was a really good day and a really promising future

562
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:52,199
Speaker 1: there in Columbus, Ohio for the Buckeyes. I told you

563
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:53,840
Speaker 1: we had a lot to go, because we're not close

564
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 1: to done yet. The Georgia Bulldogs had their spring game yesterday.

565
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Speaker 1: The first headline I see, I'm settling in here at

566
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:01,760
Speaker 1: the office, I got like nineteen TVs on, I'm all

567
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 1: ready to go. And then I see a headline from

568
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:08,480
Speaker 1: our Rusty Manziel six scholarship receivers are going to miss

569
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:11,400
Speaker 1: the g Day game. Well that's wonderful. And so there

570
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 1: weren't exactly the opportunities we hoped, including with Arian Smith,

571
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:16,919
Speaker 1: the guy that we circled on the show Thursday. We

572
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,400
Speaker 1: didn't get the opportunities we hoped. We thought it maybe

573
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 1: rain that held the passing game in check. As it

574
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 1: turns out, it was well a combination of other things.

575
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:28,160
Speaker 1: They had pretty good weather there yesterday. Kiris Jackson looked good.

576
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 1: Kairis Jackson's the name that you know as the wide

577
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,680
Speaker 1: receiver room there in Athens kind of kind of filters

578
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 1: in and out. Kiris Jackson's approven commodity for them. But

579
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,160
Speaker 1: how about a Donnie Mitchell. Donny Mitchell is a perfect example.

580
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:41,359
Speaker 1: Just like we talked about with LSU. You got some

581
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:43,400
Speaker 1: guys missing time, you got some guys that are gonna

582
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 1: be out for the spring game. And so what Donnie

583
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,880
Speaker 1: Mitchell says, I'll step up, And he stepped up yesterday

584
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 1: he caught a laser from JT. Daniels. But he's also

585
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,720
Speaker 1: a guy in the aftermath or as you might know

586
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,479
Speaker 1: it a press conference that Kirby Smart talked about as

587
00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:58,879
Speaker 1: having come on in the last week. He was not

588
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,560
Speaker 1: a guy who was very highly touted in recruiting, but

589
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 1: he was a guy that in the evaluation process he

590
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 1: made a point to say, as you're looking at the

591
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,160
Speaker 1: catch right there, Kirby Smart made a point to say,

592
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:11,359
Speaker 1: we didn't really care how many stars he had next

593
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 1: to his name. We trust our evaluation, and our evaluation

594
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:16,240
Speaker 1: on him was that he was a take for us,

595
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,360
Speaker 1: and so they took him, and he's been really good

596
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,159
Speaker 1: for him obviously an early enroll. LYE. Kirby made it

597
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,359
Speaker 1: a point to say the last three practices he had

598
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,919
Speaker 1: up to this spring game were his best. Got some

599
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,240
Speaker 1: conditioning work to do. He did not talk about him

600
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 1: at all, like he's a finished product. And that's always

601
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 1: what I want to hear when these guys pop in

602
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 1: the spring game. I want to hear the coaches talk

603
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:40,679
Speaker 1: about him afterwards, because sometimes you'll have a guy that

604
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,639
Speaker 1: it just all aligned for in the spring game, but

605
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,639
Speaker 1: you did not get an accurate portrayal in that spring

606
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:48,920
Speaker 1: game of the kind of player they are. And if

607
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,239
Speaker 1: that's the case, coaches will not hype them up. They

608
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 1: will not allow them to be hyped up. In a

609
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,200
Speaker 1: post game, they'll start talking about the things they still

610
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:57,400
Speaker 1: need to work on. Well, Kirby didn't do a whole

611
00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,399
Speaker 1: lot of that yesterday. He was effusive and his praise,

612
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 1: talked about conditioning, like, talked about some things that he

613
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 1: needed to clean up. But that's going to be a

614
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: guy that they think they can count on. Now, the

615
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,119
Speaker 1: question is once they get all those half dozen scholarship

616
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:12,199
Speaker 1: receivers they were missing yesterday back for fall, well, then

617
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you wonder, like, where does a

618
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,479
Speaker 1: guy like Mitchell fit into that rotation? Wherever it is.

619
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 1: I think he'll have he'll have a place they want

620
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 1: to go. I mean, they want to have six or

621
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 1: seven guys that they can rotate in there. JT. Daniels

622
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 1: looks ready. J T. Daniels leads me to believe that

623
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:29,879
Speaker 1: for the first time in quite a while. And I

624
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:31,399
Speaker 1: want you to think about what I'm saying here, and

625
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 1: I want to restart it because I want to use

626
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 1: this as a clip. JT. Daniels makes me think that

627
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 1: we're in a position at Georgia right now, for first

628
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 1: time in a while, you don't have to enter the

629
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 1: season with quarterback as a question mark. Maybe defensive back.

630
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 1: How ironic would that be? Perhaps offensive line. When's the

631
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 1: last time we entered a season and you're a Georgia

632
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,440
Speaker 1: fan and you're looking there in July and August and

633
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 1: you're saying, what are the biggest questions here? Well, we

634
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 1: got quarterback figured out we got a stud there, and

635
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 1: I don't know about these defensive backs now, as offensive

636
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 1: line may hold us back. Normally it's the inverse. So

637
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 1: it's funny how things change. The ranking next to your

638
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 1: team may look roughly the same, but the style of

639
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 1: team changes every year. It's really fun He's got everything. JT.

640
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: Daniels possesses everything from a skill set standpoint, they're going

641
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 1: to need to be a contender this year. He's smart,

642
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 1: he's intuitive. I think they touched on that in great

643
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: detail on broadcast yesterday. Showed a lot of touch. I mean,

644
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: he's got a plus arm when he needs it. He's

645
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 1: got the touch when he needs it. Poise, when you

646
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 1: talk to quarterbacks coaches, is the most important and tangible

647
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 1: that you can have. He's got that really good pocket awareness.

648
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 1: He's mobile enough, got enough pocket mobility. So I'm stretched

649
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 1: plays a couple of times yesterday and end up making

650
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 1: plays and pushing the ball downfield because of that. He's

651
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 1: got everything they need if he stays healthy. It's not

652
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 1: going to be quarterback that holds Georgia back this year.

653
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 1: Interesting change. So then we talked about, well, what could

654
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 1: what could hold him back? Not necessarily that yesterday was

655
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 1: a definitive answer on this question. But I didn't leave

656
00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 1: yesterday having all of my concerns ease about their offensive line.

657
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 1: Early on, what stood out to me the most was

658
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 1: offensive line sprung some leaks. It wasn't just from one position,

659
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 1: It wasn't really just from one area. Edge pressure was effective,

660
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: interior pressure was effective. Now that cleaned up a little

661
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: bit as the afternoon went on. There are different reasons

662
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 1: when you talk to people around the program, there are

663
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 1: different reasons that that can be explained away, kind of

664
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 1: like we talked about with Lsu to be honest with

665
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:28,240
Speaker 1: you yesterday and most times under Kirby Smart during spring,

666
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 1: Georgia has lean heavy on the pass. Defensive guys know

667
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 1: that they can pin their ears back. It's a little

668
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 1: bit different than the dynamic that that have in a

669
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: normal game. And so I don't know. My point is,

670
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 1: I don't know how to interpret all that. I'll just

671
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,840
Speaker 1: say I don't know that we're entering the twenty twenty

672
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 1: one season looking at that offensive line as this impenetrable

673
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 1: force that sometimes Preview Magazine has us believing Georgie's offensive

674
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 1: line is they still have a very high ceiling. Having

675
00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:00,840
Speaker 1: said that, Jamari Sallyer is a guy who probably holds

676
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 1: a lot of that in his hands, George is gonna

677
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 1: be a problem for a lot of RPO based offenses

678
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: out there. And I'll tell you exactly why. Anytime that

679
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 1: we're looking at a prolific passing attack out there, a

680
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 1: prolific RPO based passing attack, what's normally happening is they're

681
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 1: normally not getting disrupted up the middle. There just aren't

682
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: a lot of bodies like Wyatt for Georgia, like Jordan

683
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 1: Davis for There just aren't a lot of those guys

684
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: out there. But because Georgia recruits so well, they can

685
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 1: have so many sub packages, they can be so multiple

686
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 1: defensively that they can have terrors off the edge like

687
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 1: Adam Anderson, but they can also have guys that can

688
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 1: really collapse you on the interior. And when you put

689
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 1: all that stuff together, my point is, disruption to an

690
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 1: RPO based offense, to a timing and rhythm offense, is

691
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 1: no different than throwing the stick in the bicycle spokes.

692
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 1: And they have the ability to do that. And so

693
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that, well, they have the secret formula

694
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 1: and ingredients for being the magic of li to the

695
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 1: beats in Alabama or on Ohio State if they run

696
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: up against them. I'm just saying that's the kind of

697
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 1: defensive personnel that you would need to have in order

698
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 1: to pull something like that off. If you turned on

699
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 1: a game and let's say they were playing in Alabama

700
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, Bama's averaging fifty points a game,

701
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 1: and you go into the fourth quarter and they got

702
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 1: twenty three on the board or something like that, Well

703
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: that would be how that happens, if it were to happen.

704
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 1: But it's time for Kirby and his staff to go

705
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 1: to work here because they've got the question that long

706
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: away to answer to that quarterback question, Well they have

707
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 1: it now. And so sure this is an imperfect roster.

708
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,400
Speaker 1: I got good news for him. Even as loaded as

709
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 1: some of these other teams are, there is no perfect

710
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: team out there. So they got plenty enough kids that

711
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: can play high enough ball on this team to contend

712
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 1: for a national championship. And they got the piece of

713
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 1: quarterback that they haven't had. And so now, if your

714
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 1: biggest question is defensive back, and your head coach is Kirby,

715
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 1: smart and you got Dan Landing over there, and you

716
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: just brought Will must Champion off the scrap heap. For

717
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 1: good measure, you better get defensive back figured out. There's

718
00:32:56,440 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 1: no reason not to. Youth and inexperience when you've got

719
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 1: as much talent as they have on the roster there,

720
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 1: they are not viable excuses. They just won't be. And

721
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,479
Speaker 1: so you also play in a conference where you can

722
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 1: afford a hiccup and still achieve everything that you want

723
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 1: to achieve. But I think defensive back. We probably exit

724
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 1: spring at Georgia with defensive back to me as being

725
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 1: the biggest question there. But I'm really interested to see

726
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 1: how they handle this summer and then leading up to

727
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 1: fall and that opener against Clemson, cause that staff. This

728
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 1: is again, this is why you go out and you

729
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: get as many quality coaches as you can and you

730
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 1: stack them partly so no one else can have them.

731
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 1: But the other side is this is going to be

732
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: a situation you face in some shape, form or fashion

733
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 1: every year when you roll over the percentage of your

734
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: roster you do at the college level, You're gonna have

735
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 1: green aspects of your roster no matter where it is.

736
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 1: This year, it happens to be defensive back, that happens

737
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 1: to be your coaching wheelhouse. Got to get it done

738
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 1: this year. Let's go south a little way, shall we.

739
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 1: The Miami spring game happened yesterday. Watched this one late

740
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 1: last night. This could be one of the more underrated

741
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 1: quarterback rooms in the nation because I think a lot

742
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: of people, rightly so, are focused on if and when

743
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:10,240
Speaker 1: Deeric King can get back. They opened against Bama in Atlanta.

744
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 1: They're adamant, they being Miami, that Derek King's gonna be

745
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 1: able to get back. They claim he's well ahead on

746
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 1: his rehab schedule. I don't doubt him for the record,

747
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 1: but since he didn't play in their spring game yesterday,

748
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:24,799
Speaker 1: you got to see Tyler Van Dyke and you got

749
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,800
Speaker 1: to see Jake Garcia, and they had pretty good showings.

750
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, I would probably lean Garcia

751
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 1: a little bit there fresh out of high school. But

752
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 1: I really kind of liked what I saw from yesterday.

753
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 1: And again, you start to build that quarterback depth in

754
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:40,319
Speaker 1: a room, and all of a sudden, maybe you're in

755
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: a position a year from now where one of those

756
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 1: guys is viably contending for the starting position. If something

757
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:50,400
Speaker 1: crazy didn't happen this year, and you're looking at it

758
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:52,279
Speaker 1: like we look at with Bryce Young at Bama, and

759
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: we say, man, this guy probably talented enough to start

760
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 1: at some places. Last year. He didn't because they had

761
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 1: King who ended up being healthy. Let's hope, and now

762
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 1: look at how well positioned he is for this year

763
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. So I thought Garcia what stood out

764
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:07,840
Speaker 1: to me more is he ran tempo. He ran the

765
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,319
Speaker 1: hurry up offense for them, I think a lot better

766
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:13,239
Speaker 1: than Vandyke did. They both had flashes, they both had

767
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: Young mistakes yesterday. But to be clear, because I saw

768
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 1: some saw some chatter on Twitter, that's dear at King's job.

769
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:23,759
Speaker 1: He is solidly the best quarterback option for them. I

770
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:27,399
Speaker 1: had a disagreement with one of Miami buddies yesterday. Gonna

771
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,479
Speaker 1: have to agree to disagree if you're trying to tout

772
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 1: one of these guys after yesterday, I can assure you

773
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 1: their coaching staff internally, I don't think it's doing that defense.

774
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be iffy. Okay, so the defense

775
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:44,360
Speaker 1: from Miami is iffy right now, I thought, take my

776
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,560
Speaker 1: biggest takeaway from watching all these spring games, yesterday was

777
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: there were two position groups that stood out to me

778
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:53,400
Speaker 1: as needing the most immediate transfer portal help. One of

779
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 1: them was Auburn's wide receivers. We're going to talk about

780
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 1: them later. And the other one's Miami's a lineback and corps.

781
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: Because this can be a good team. They can be good.

782
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 1: They are such a hinge factor to Miami. Every year

783
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 1: I identify like three or four hinge teams. And by

784
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:08,799
Speaker 1: hinge teams, I mean you look at the roster and

785
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 1: on the surface, you could see him going eleven and one,

786
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 1: you could see him going eight and four. And they

787
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,239
Speaker 1: are gonna be so many close games, one possession type

788
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 1: games where a few mental errors here there, bounces the ball,

789
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 1: bob plays as we call them, they're going to decide things.

790
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 1: Not filling the proper gaps, the difference on a stop

791
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 1: and forcing fourth and two versus a thirty eight yard

792
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: gain to the house. You got to get better, and

793
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:30,840
Speaker 1: I think they got to get a little bit bigger,

794
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,320
Speaker 1: have a little more thumpet linebacker. I think they're aware

795
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 1: of that. Okay, And what you've seen in the transfer

796
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: game from Miami, and if you hadn't already seen it,

797
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:41,760
Speaker 1: go back and watch their screen game. Tyreek Stevenson instant

798
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:45,360
Speaker 1: impact player for them. Charleston Rambo another transfer from Georgia

799
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 1: and Oklahoma respectively, instant impact player for them also. I think, probably,

800
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:54,360
Speaker 1: even though he may not garner as many headlines, one of,

801
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 1: if not the most important transfers out of this trio

802
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 1: maybe DeAndre Johnson. He's a defensive end, and Miami fans

803
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 1: understand if you're a more national type, and you don't

804
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:08,360
Speaker 1: understand why that's so key. Quincy Roche and Jalen Phillips

805
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:10,360
Speaker 1: are two defensive ends that are headed off to the

806
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: next level. Now, not only do you have to fill

807
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 1: their spot, but they were both transfers in their own

808
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:18,919
Speaker 1: right from I believe Temple and UCLA. And so here's

809
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:20,839
Speaker 1: what that does. Well, Number one, you got to fill

810
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 1: the spot. But number two, as I've talked about before,

811
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 1: with Miami, I don't think there are very many programs

812
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: in America better position to capitalize on the transfer portal

813
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 1: and nil, but right now transfer portal than Miami. So

814
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 1: many guys want to go to South Florida. So many

815
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:36,839
Speaker 1: guys want to go back home to South Florida every year.

816
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:40,280
Speaker 1: From Rosters all across America. You're just a natural landing spot.

817
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 1: Geography is doing you the biggest favor in the world

818
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 1: right there. And so now you look at this trio

819
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 1: of transfers, and if they follow in the footsteps let's say,

820
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:53,280
Speaker 1: of a guy like Rochet and a guy like Phillips,

821
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:56,799
Speaker 1: and it starts to become this brand in and of

822
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:58,840
Speaker 1: the bigger brand of the U there that this is

823
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 1: the place to come. This is kind of our transfer

824
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 1: rebirth zone of sorts, even if you're not from South Florida,

825
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 1: but especially if you are from here and we let

826
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 1: you get away, come back home, repair your image, or

827
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:11,759
Speaker 1: get the chance maybe here that you couldn't get on

828
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: another roster. And we are a pipeline not just for

829
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:18,319
Speaker 1: high school recruits, but for transfers to the NFL. It's

830
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:20,360
Speaker 1: something I can guarantee you they're looking to sell behind

831
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 1: the scenes. It's early. There aren't enough trends that have

832
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: formed yet, but that's something to watch. Just watch Jordan

833
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 1: this year and if he starts to follow in those footsteps,

834
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 1: if Rambo, if Tyrek Stevenson, He's in a bona fide

835
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 1: contract year this year, if they start to following those footsteps.

836
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:37,279
Speaker 1: Just something to keep an eye on. With Miami. This

837
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:38,880
Speaker 1: is going to be a big year for Rhet Lashley

838
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 1: coming up. There was a lot of time dedicated on

839
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 1: that broadcast yesterday, and there's been a lot of time

840
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: this spring, to be honest with you, dedicated to emphasizing, Hey,

841
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 1: this is Rhet Lashley's offense. Okay, no one ever suggested

842
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 1: it wasn't. But he is a guy in control now,

843
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:54,840
Speaker 1: and he's also a guy they've been able to feel

844
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 1: out down there. You know, they did not immediately land

845
00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:59,479
Speaker 1: on him when Daz took over, but he's the guy

846
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 1: now and I think a lot of people in the

847
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 1: industry and the coaching industry, maybe in the recruiting world,

848
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:09,879
Speaker 1: they want to see Rhet Lashley have that one breakout year.

849
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 1: They want to see Miami make not just kind of

850
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 1: maybe a jump, but a huge splash in terms of

851
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: offensive production. There have been times, there have been moments,

852
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:21,880
Speaker 1: but they want to see it and be able to

853
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 1: look at twenty twenty one and say, no, that's the

854
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 1: year we took off, like that's the year everything changed.

855
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,800
Speaker 1: And that wasn't something you were going to see yesterday, obviously,

856
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 1: but it's something that you need to see this year.

857
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:33,839
Speaker 1: If you got to go to the portal for wide

858
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 1: receiver whatever, that's something they should see. They got to

859
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 1: find a feature back, like they got to find a guy.

860
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 1: They've talked about it all spring. They got to find

861
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:43,399
Speaker 1: a guy that they can ride. I've got my preference there,

862
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:46,239
Speaker 1: Cameron Harris is there, but they got to find a

863
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 1: guy they can ride. Night and I think played a

864
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 1: lot yesterday. But Reht Lashley's got to have a big

865
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,399
Speaker 1: year because as his offense goes this year, so too

866
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:55,720
Speaker 1: will go Miami. It can be a really good team.

867
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 1: Like I said, they are the quintessential Hinge team for

868
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 1: me in college foot ball. This year. They got a

869
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 1: critical summer coming up. They got a critical fall camp

870
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:06,359
Speaker 1: coming up. If you get quarterback figured out, and by

871
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 1: that I mean if King is indeed healthy and ready

872
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:11,400
Speaker 1: for fall camp and they fortify especially the middle of

873
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 1: that defense and cut down on mistakes. Drop balls still

874
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 1: an issue for him yesterday. They can't have that stuff happen.

875
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 1: If they get that stuff taken care of, at least

876
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 1: to a high enough degree, that's going to be the difference.

877
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:27,040
Speaker 1: It's going to be the difference between ten and two

878
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:30,920
Speaker 1: bordering on better versus eight and four and asking what

879
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: might have been and what could have been at the

880
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:36,400
Speaker 1: end of the year. Moving on, how about the Auburn

881
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 1: spring game. How many of you saw this yesterday? Bo

882
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:42,799
Speaker 1: Nicks named that, Oh, it's on everyone's radar for some

883
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 1: reason or another. Most of the time it's critical. They

884
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:49,360
Speaker 1: didn't do a lot offensively yesterday. It's only their fourteenth practice.

885
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 1: They structure their spring game to where they have the game,

886
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:53,960
Speaker 1: then they have one more practice I think on Monday,

887
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 1: which is the way I would do it, to be

888
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:57,719
Speaker 1: honest with you. But Brian Harson and his staff are

889
00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:00,720
Speaker 1: brand new there. As we've talked about throughout the duration

890
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:03,719
Speaker 1: of spring. The first order of business for them was

891
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:07,240
Speaker 1: doing a healthy inventory of the entire team. Start at quarterback,

892
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 1: figure out what we have from the neck down skill set,

893
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: from the neck up mentally, how much do we have

894
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 1: to deprogram? How far do we have to back it

895
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:16,399
Speaker 1: up in reverse before we can put it in drive

896
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:18,919
Speaker 1: and start to go. I don't know if you picked

897
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:21,400
Speaker 1: up on this, and Harson started talking about it a

898
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:24,359
Speaker 1: little bit in his post game yesterday, there was a

899
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:26,719
Speaker 1: lot of that on display. See I think maybe some

900
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 1: of you looked and you just wanted to see completion percentage,

901
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,720
Speaker 1: how many throws does he make? Well, if you notice

902
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 1: something else happening procedurally. Yesterday they were throwing some stuff

903
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:38,759
Speaker 1: at bo Nick's. But what it was is they were

904
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 1: testing him operationally. And I had someone text me afterwards

905
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 1: and they said, did you pick up on this? And

906
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 1: I said, I had it on a screen and I

907
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:49,000
Speaker 1: did notice one thing. What I noticed was they were

908
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 1: putting him in a lot of situations where he handled

909
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:54,280
Speaker 1: the checks at the line of scrimmage. Now to many

910
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: of you who have a more modernized but typical offense

911
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 1: that your team runs, you say, what's the big deal there? Well,

912
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:04,920
Speaker 1: if you watch Auburn football, Gus Malsan's entire modus operandi

913
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 1: is to take as much of the decision making off

914
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 1: the player as possible. He wants to make the changes.

915
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 1: He wants his offensive staff to essentially think for the

916
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:16,840
Speaker 1: quarterback on the sidelines. And whether you buy into that

917
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 1: or not, it's not the way they're going to do

918
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:20,320
Speaker 1: it anymore. It's not the way Brian Harson wants to

919
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: do it. It's not the way I would prefer to

920
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 1: do it. If I had my way for the way

921
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:26,840
Speaker 1: my team was going to operate, but there were a

922
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 1: lot of adjustments, There were a lot of checks, and

923
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: there were a lot of things that bo Nix was

924
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:32,239
Speaker 1: being asked to do in a lot of ways for

925
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 1: the first time at the line of scrimmage yesterday that

926
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 1: didn't have a whole lot to do with his throwing

927
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 1: motion or mechanics like that stuff. It was a mixed bag.

928
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 1: But we'll see how that comes along when they have

929
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 1: the benefit of hundreds of reps in the summer with

930
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 1: seven on seven and then they have an entire fall camp.

931
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 1: Wide receiver at Auburn is as weak a unit as

932
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 1: I've seen in quite a while there. This is not

933
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 1: a top twelve wide receiver room in the SEC. I

934
00:42:57,600 --> 00:42:59,839
Speaker 1: know they had a couple of guys out. I know

935
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 1: that I had a lot of you text me that

936
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 1: this morning. I think they got a long way to go.

937
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 1: As I said, with Miami's linebacker room, it is imperative

938
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 1: that Auburn addressed their wide receiver room via the transfer portal.

939
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:13,000
Speaker 1: They just have to. I'm telling you, you can talk

940
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 1: about bo Nicks all you want to. If they don't

941
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:17,840
Speaker 1: have better options and they don't have more options in

942
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:21,000
Speaker 1: that receiver room, it won't matter. There will not be

943
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 1: a vertical element to speak of. No one will fear

944
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 1: you when they step on the field. Defensively, they don't

945
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 1: care what kind of tools your quarterback has because he

946
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 1: has no one to throw it to. I know there's

947
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 1: a lot of focus on the tight end position at

948
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:35,239
Speaker 1: Auburn right now, and that's great. A lot of it's

949
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:37,799
Speaker 1: by necessity. They got to take what they get. I

950
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 1: know Brian Harrison probably walked in and he wished more

951
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 1: than anything that he could overhaul eighty percent of that

952
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:45,279
Speaker 1: roster and just change it out. It's not that they're

953
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:48,319
Speaker 1: bad players, they're just not players that are perfectly fit

954
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 1: for his scheme. Well, you can't do that, and so

955
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 1: you got to settle for what you have. And right

956
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:54,160
Speaker 1: now what they have is a very inside out offense,

957
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 1: which is not the worst thing in the world if

958
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 1: you're playing thirty years ago, but these days not so much.

959
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: You want to be elite on the parer. They got

960
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 1: a really good back, Tank Bigsby. Let's talk about him absolutely.

961
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,759
Speaker 1: Tank Bigsby shows you everything yesterday that you want to

962
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:08,840
Speaker 1: see from him. Tank Bigsby is going to be a

963
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 1: guy that you can depend on and you can lean on.

964
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:13,879
Speaker 1: I think Sean Shivers, though, speaking of that running back room,

965
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:17,360
Speaker 1: is probably a guy that, in terms of new staffs

966
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 1: coming in, benefits as much from his new staff as

967
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 1: anyone does. Because Sean Shivers is a guy I don't

968
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 1: know why it is. It just seems to me his

969
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:28,359
Speaker 1: skill set matches this staff and this system a lot

970
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:30,719
Speaker 1: more than the system Malzan was running. So that's good,

971
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:34,040
Speaker 1: that's good. You got too there. I am not overly

972
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:36,760
Speaker 1: thrilled with where they are on the offensive line. See,

973
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 1: this is a situation where they got a lot of experience,

974
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 1: They've got a lot of returning this and that. I

975
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:44,239
Speaker 1: just don't think they're that good. I think that's one

976
00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: unit that Harson would love to overturn right now if

977
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:49,839
Speaker 1: he could. Again. Good kids. I've been around a lot

978
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: of those guys. I've covered Auburn. They put the work in,

979
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:55,320
Speaker 1: good work, ethic. They just the ceiling on those guys

980
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:57,799
Speaker 1: is not to the level that you would need to

981
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 1: have a potent enough offense to win games consistently in

982
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:06,840
Speaker 1: the SEC unless you got a star studded defense which

983
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 1: brings me over to the other side. Now, this is

984
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 1: not something that was settled yesterday, and this is not

985
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 1: something that's going to be settled for a while. Derek

986
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:16,120
Speaker 1: Mason is the most under the radar, higher than any

987
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:18,839
Speaker 1: staff I think may be made because I think there

988
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 1: were a lot of headlines for someone like Bill O'Brien

989
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 1: at Alabama, there weren't a ton of headlines really outside

990
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 1: of Auburn for Derek Mason. Derek Mason. Part A of

991
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:29,239
Speaker 1: what excites me about him is he's a really good

992
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:33,520
Speaker 1: defensive coach. He's probably done the most with any single

993
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 1: unit on that team so far, granted through fourteen practices,

994
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 1: as anyone on that staff. So all's well so far

995
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 1: on that front. But the thing about Derek Mason is

996
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 1: I think they could get huge bang for their buck

997
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:48,399
Speaker 1: in the recruiting game with him because he's not known

998
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 1: as an elite recruiter. But yet, how in the world

999
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:53,759
Speaker 1: would he have been What were his previous stops? What

1000
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,320
Speaker 1: was it Stanford and Vanderbilt. Well, it doesn't matter. I

1001
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:57,920
Speaker 1: could put some of the most elite recruiters in the

1002
00:45:57,920 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 1: world at those stops. They're not going to stand out

1003
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 1: to you. They're not landing top ten fifteen classes. So

1004
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 1: here's what could be in that package. What could be

1005
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:07,880
Speaker 1: in that package is one of the better defensive coaches

1006
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 1: in the conference and something you didn't know, maybe one

1007
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,839
Speaker 1: of the better recruiters. We'll see time will tell on that.

1008
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 1: For their sake, he better be and he better not

1009
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 1: be the only one on that staff, because this is

1010
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:22,040
Speaker 1: this is an overhaul job. The personnel here, it's an

1011
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:25,080
Speaker 1: overhaul job. Now. I know I'm selling them a little short,

1012
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:27,200
Speaker 1: and it sounds like four and eight is in the cards.

1013
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 1: They're better than that. They're a whole lot better than that.

1014
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:32,120
Speaker 1: They're better than five hundred. But that's not where they

1015
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 1: want to float because, as we talked about many times before,

1016
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:37,480
Speaker 1: I think the nine to three, ten and two expectation

1017
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:39,959
Speaker 1: will be a little high down there right now, that's

1018
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 1: where they need to be to justify moving on from

1019
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 1: the previous staff. That's where they need to be. And

1020
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 1: so after the fourteenth practice at Auburn, you know, with

1021
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 1: a new staff in drawing conclusions, is tannam out to

1022
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 1: me asking you do the clothes fit? Do the clothes

1023
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 1: I bought you? Do they fit? And you're still trying

1024
00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:58,799
Speaker 1: to take them out of the box and do they

1025
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:00,120
Speaker 1: fit or not. That's what I want to know. Well,

1026
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 1: they're not out of the box yet. Is Auburn going

1027
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 1: to be good in twenty twenty one? I don't know.

1028
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 1: They're not even out of the box yet. What I

1029
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:08,839
Speaker 1: do know is I think they need to make moves

1030
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:11,280
Speaker 1: at receiver, like I wish they could make something happen

1031
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:13,840
Speaker 1: on the offensive line. Again. I know that there is

1032
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 1: a lot of stock being put in the salvation aspect

1033
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:19,440
Speaker 1: of the transfer portal, and in a lot of cases,

1034
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:21,239
Speaker 1: I just think there's going to be a lot more

1035
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:24,359
Speaker 1: heartbreak there than there is celebration. But who knows, Maybe

1036
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 1: the exception to the rule will be at Auburn. I

1037
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:29,239
Speaker 1: don't have any more paper in front of me, which

1038
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:31,600
Speaker 1: means it looks like we're done. We had so much

1039
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:34,439
Speaker 1: more happening yesterday. I'll tell you this is not a segment, Jesse,

1040
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:37,360
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. I think Anthony Brown is the

1041
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 1: guy at quarterback for Oregon. I was talking to some

1042
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:44,960
Speaker 1: folks from Oregon yesterday even as their scrimmage was going on,

1043
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:49,760
Speaker 1: and it wasn't It wasn't a Ty Thompson bash fest.

1044
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:53,400
Speaker 1: Ty Thompson's the true freshman quarterback from is it Mesquite?

1045
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:56,600
Speaker 1: It's Arizona, somewhere in Arizona, underrated state to recruit him,

1046
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:59,000
Speaker 1: by the way, and visit what to Scottsdale one time.

1047
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:02,240
Speaker 1: Unlike jan on the office, I actually went there. Great place,

1048
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:04,880
Speaker 1: probably out of my price range, but great place. But

1049
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 1: it looks like Anthony Brown's the guy. And here's the

1050
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 1: way I'm looking at this right now. I remember in

1051
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,320
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. One of the biggest storylines in college football

1052
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:16,080
Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen was there's this kid at Florida State

1053
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 1: named Jake Coker. And Jake Coker is a guy who

1054
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:23,840
Speaker 1: Jimbo Fisher said almost beat out Jameis Winston, but Winston

1055
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: ended up starting. He goes undefeated, he wins us A

1056
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:29,359
Speaker 1: title at Florida State, and Jake Coker ends up he's

1057
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:32,680
Speaker 1: going to go transfer and he's going to go to Alabama. Well,

1058
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:35,239
Speaker 1: let's just put two and two together here. If this

1059
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:38,760
Speaker 1: guy was almost good enough to beat out a Heisman,

1060
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 1: first round draft caliber kind of quarterback, well certainly he's

1061
00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:46,840
Speaker 1: going to be good enough to beat out who Blake Simms.

1062
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:49,600
Speaker 1: The way, hasn't he moved around to like four different positions,

1063
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:52,279
Speaker 1: and so the assumption before Jake Coker ever stepped foot

1064
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 1: in tuscal Loose, Alabama was it's only a matter of

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Speaker 1: time He's going to be the starter. I believe this too,

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Speaker 1: So I was as guilty as anyone else. And then

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Speaker 1: one week goes by and Blake Sims is still the quarterback,

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Speaker 1: and then two weeks goes by, and then fall Camp's happening,

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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, first week rolls around,

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Speaker 1: West Virginia to open the season in the Georgia Don't

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Speaker 1: Rest in Peace, one of the most underrated venues in

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Speaker 1: the country is still miss it to this day, and

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Speaker 1: it was Blake Simms team, and he never let go

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Speaker 1: that year and going to the playoffs. They ultimately got

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Speaker 1: bounced by Ohio State. But I think I feel a

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Speaker 1: lot of that with Oregon. Ty Thompson walks him and

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Speaker 1: you know what the accolades are, and you know what

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Speaker 1: the marquee says, and Anthony Brown's this guy we got

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Speaker 1: from Boston College. But he's like twenty six years old. Actually,

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's far away from twenty six. He's

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Speaker 1: old by college standards, grant you, he's old. They just

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Speaker 1: a lot of people at Oregon they've viewed it as

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Speaker 1: a foregone conclusion, and nationally too, maybe even more so

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Speaker 1: than at Oregon. Maybe you guys have been a little

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Speaker 1: more in the loop there, but nationally it's been a

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Speaker 1: foregone conclusion. Ty Thompson's gonna come in here. Could be

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Speaker 1: one week, could be two weeks, but he'll take that

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Speaker 1: job over. I know we're not through spring. I know

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Speaker 1: they haven't gotten to the spring game yet. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: put out something right now. I'm gonna update my map,

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Speaker 1: so to speak. I would be mildly surprised at this

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Speaker 1: point if Anthony Brown, barring injury, of course, is not

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Speaker 1: the starter for Oregon. At least in week one. They

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Speaker 1: go to Columbus to play Ohio State. By the way,

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Speaker 1: in week two, so that stood. Yesterday, we got a

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Speaker 1: whole bunch from Texas. I couldn't get to Tennessee, still

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Speaker 1: be a loaded week. I strongly encourage you to like

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Speaker 1: the video. If you're watching on YouTube, make sure you're

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Speaker 1: locked onto the channel. Also make sure you are subscribed

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Speaker 1: to the podcast because there's going to be a lot

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Speaker 1: on there this week. We do two of those per

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of spillover sometimes on those podcasts that

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Speaker 1: I can't get to. And having said all that, there

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Speaker 1: is even more over on my Instagram channel that I

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Speaker 1: can't put in the podcast at late Kick Josh on

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Speaker 1: Instagram follow me over. There a lot of fun, a

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Speaker 1: lot of fun with some non college football stuff too,

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Speaker 1: So it's been a fun night. Again. Don't tune out,

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Speaker 1: don't tune out anymore with us all the way through

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Speaker 1: the season because we are not wasting time on this show.

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Speaker 1: And as you can see, even having not wasted any time,

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Speaker 1: we almost went an hour tonight and it's mid April,

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Speaker 1: so again, the offseason is not really for director Emeritith Colin,

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Speaker 1: for Jesse and the entire crew in Connecticut. I'm Josh Bate,

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for watching. Have a great start to

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Speaker 1: your week in Gobless