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OKLAHOMA SOONER Update: What To Expect Going Into The SEC | Sooner or Later Sports (S2 E5) · Sooner or Later Sports

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Hey, we're gonna talk dot come back to our Wednesday night episodes here on
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So Coop, it's gonna jump right into it. My man, how
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have you been today? Man? Doing good? Uh? Like I said,
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Man, I feel like uh, I feel like I haven't done a
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lot of staff. I feel like I just really took it easy. But
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maybe it's just because it was like normal busy instead of nutty busy like it's
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been for about two months. So but yeah, Man, excited to be
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back in here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm glad we're getting our
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Wednesday night stuff back going. Man, it's been a it's been a bit
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since we've been able to do a second episode during the week, but the
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same time, my biggest problem right now is that it's like literally dead season,
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uh literally that period, like so coaches aren't even really there's no real
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visits and stuff going off for February. But going into March, things about
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to turn itself back up. I was actually sitting here watching the OU women's
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basketball game. Just watched Lexa Keys hit that game winning three pointers, so
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the women can now got them back to back big twel championships. Congrats to
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the ladies kilt it the game. It was actually real good. I was
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kind of concerned at the beginning. I was going between that and the men,
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and I was concerned about the women in the beginning. Checked out the
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men in the beginning, it's like, okay, they're playing defense. Went
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to the women's going back and forth, and yeah, women closed it out
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and got that big Tweld championship. So these were winning some stuff around here,
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winning some taking some of the big Swells hardware before we walked out the
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door. But you know, today's been interesting for me as well. Work
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wise. It was wild, very busy, but then the Oklaoma breakdown dropped
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right and Brin Ventables was the interviewee, so it was the four hundredth episode
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for Gabe and Teddy. Make sure you'll show them some love. They definitely
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deserve it. They, you know, hitting four hundred episodes huge because as
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much as you know this is fun, this is still grind. It's not
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as easy as people really think. It is just getting on here and trying
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to talk and actually try to sound halfway interesting. I know I ain't interesting,
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but trying to sound half way interesting it ain't easy. And four hundred
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episodes is huge. So make sure y'all go show Gabe ed Teddy some love
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for them hitting that massive, massive milestone. But for me, man,
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I want to talk about some of the comments that Venables dropped and some nuggets
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he dropped, because the best part about his interviews, as we opened this
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bad way up, the best part about the Brent Videl's interviews is that you
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asked him a question. He's gonna go for like ten to fifteen minutes straight
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by himself. But it's all transparent, good nuggets, actual detail, like
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this player updates. We'll speak on a couple of them, but y'all still
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need to go watch the entire episode with BV. Like I said, show
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Gabe and Tady some support all the reports of course coming out with some of
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this stuff, but there was the player updates. But the one thing that
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really jumped out to me was I'm gonna start with this and then we'll talk
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player updates. Was he talked about last season and how how confident he spoke
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this year going into this coming season, because one of the things he made
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mention of was, and I'm paraphrasing here, that a lot of the players
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were not really playing in the position that they should be playing in. And
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it was more so because we were dealing with so many injuries, like we
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both our Cheetahs got hurt in justin as well as the sign at some point.
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So you started seeing Kendle down there, which kendles a little bit better
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out there as a boundary, but he also said that he also plays better
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at the ball going towards the ball, so playing him down low. At
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the end of the season, you started noticing, especially as Kendall told us
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here on the show, he likes getting sacks more than interceptions, and he
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got two sacks against Arizona. He had two picks on the season, So
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you started to see how really effective he was in blitzing getting tackles for loss.
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He's really good at that, and so he pointed that out, talked
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about the linebacker room and how some of the young players are stepping up at
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the same time, you had a lot of guys trying to figure out where
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to be. And the one nugget that jumped out the most out of that
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entire conversation was he talked about on defense how you have to rely and trust
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on your teammates to know where you're supposed to be. And one of the
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biggest problems was is that some of the players, of course going into the
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second year in the system or even some of their first they still were trying
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to figure out exactly what best and the best place to be at so that
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they're and the teammates can feel comfortable, like he knows I can I can
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go down here because I got a guy cover in the sideline right, so
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that that way you can really take advantage of what's going on. But the
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bigger problem was you saw guys after we started to kind of feel ourselves at
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that seven and oh, instead of really playing in the system, they tried
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to go out there and make plays, and that's when you start to notice
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like, okay, we got to start reeling this bad boy in. And
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it happens when you get a record that they got at you know, seven
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and oh and beating Texas Red River like we did so because of that,
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he said, good thing is we're starting to everybody's got that buy in,
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and you're starting to see that these we're starting to make transitions. So coop
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hearing that, how what did you catch out of that last rent? From
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a you know, as a person who can turn any simple one word answer
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into a filibuster, we would love it because you know that's people want to
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hear Brent Bevinnable's go off. Nobody wants to hear me talk for ten straight
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minutes. So I say this is yeah. I mean you look at just
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the kind of the in and out with Cannick, even because you know,
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I as I look back, Stut's been getting hit injured, you know,
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affected us in one second second more sorry, one of the two losses definitely
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affected, right, and then you've got you know, you had Dolby running
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out there. I mean there were times Peyton Bowen was asked, I mean,
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Peyton Bonen's going to be a freak. And then like if you don't
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understand how I can say that based off of this year listening is for any
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freshman secondary player comeback, I mean to come in and to play significant snaps
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as a freshman, that that's that's impressive. But Bowen was playing three or
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four different positions. I mean, he was lining up as a nickel.
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He was doing his special team stuff, which was great because I mean,
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obviously he's had a couple of blocks. Now he's the he's the number two
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guys on this team for blocks. One of the transfers he's going to have
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to catch up to. I think it's the kid from out West. But
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but yeah, when you've got, you know, a little bit of influx
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on a team that has been in the same system for three or four years,
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like it gets hurt, that's a little bit easier to handle. But
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like last year it was, you know, we came year one, Danny
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Stutsman, you know, making the comment about you know, Venables, you
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know, said I'm supposed to be two inches this way. You know,
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we we drilled him on that one. And then last year that wasn't an
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issue at all. Last year he was the leader and he was lining folks
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up and but still late in the season you have injuries starting to happen,
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that familiarity starts to happen, uh, I mean, it starts to kind
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of become a little bit less frequent and things can kind of go sideways.
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You have to reach and as a coach, that's that's that's hard. Like
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none of us were saying this during the oklahom I mean, after the Kansas
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loss, none of us were saying, hey, listen, it's it's you
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know, there's positions people in and out. We're praising the flexibility for guys
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like Kendall Dolby and for guys like Peyton Bowen. You know, we had
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a lot of safeties in and out. I mean, we're still trying to
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learn everybody kind of where they're at and that that's tough because I mean you
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also had a Desna Cola who is trying to learn like what he was and
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that was a big deal too. So it's like, now you've got this.
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We go into this year and we'll talk about this a lot. Is
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we're going to this year and you know, there are a lot of athletic
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freaks that Venables has and you know, we made the joke that, like,
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hell, everybody's gonna freaking play Cheetah, you know, during the twenty
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three class. I believe, and I kind of feel like that was joking,
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but like that's where he was going with these Taylor Wins, these Taylor
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Hymes, you know, all these guys who are just absolutely just freaks of
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nature and so, but you also have to be able to trust where someone's
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going to be. So in the Red River game when Cannick dropped back Gentry
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and there was the double double clutch by Quinn Yours and I'm sorry, he's
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supposed to be going number two quarterback overall based off of Doc Texas on my
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on my receipts checklist. But he's not going number two overall. He's not
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even going in the draft because he was scared. But I digress. Yeah,
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we were expecting to be gone. But on top of that, that
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kind of answers like a lot of the depth questions or whatnot, Like we
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have the players the problemization didn't know the system, and so it's kind of
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hard to throw people in the field that aren't truly ready, you know what
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I mean. So when he was talking about that, I was like,
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Okay, that makes sense. Of course, we don't know the behind the
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scenes stuff, who's truly injured, what injuries are, because a lot of
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that stuff ain't disclosed. You know, you know when people are out,
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but you don't really know why, or you don't know why they're limited,
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or you even know that they are limited sometimes, and so just that transparency
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is always awesome from Venables. That's kind of like I say, he's my
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favorite when it comes to those interviews because you could just ask him one question
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and as you said, he goes on a filibuster, he'll talk, He'll
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talk you for ten fifteen, almost twenty minutes straight. And I was watching
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it, I'm just like Gave and Teddy's just absorbing all of this info.
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But you had that, and then of course, as Mike mentioned it here,
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Jacob looks like Venables mentioned that Lacey is most likely gonna have to medical
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red shirt due to the blood clots, kind of something you dealt with last
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off season. He's medically retire, my bad, medically retire because of it,
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not red shirt, but retire because he did deal with that same thing
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last year, and that's not something that just goes away once they come and
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unfortunately it looks like it may have gotten them. So he came back for
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a sixth season. That was gonna be one of our major defensive tackles.
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And now the question is, is we're gonna go into talking about some of
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these position battles. Who's gonna replace them? Right? So we'll put a
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pin on that. That'll be something we'll come up with next. But the
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last thing I want to mention from the show and why y'all need to go
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watch it as we get ready to dive right into position battles, we want
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to talk about position stuff just early as we prepare for spring, is he
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said that some coaches cool, Some coaches got some sec job offers on our
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stat and they turned the jobs down, turn them down because they were body
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into what we were doing here. When I saw heard them say that,
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I'm like, oh, is that her rooms? About a couple of people,
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actually about three of them, So I was like, oh man,
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that's pretty big. And it wasn't Vanderbilt, so like, I mean,
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there were there were there was an Auburn, Uh, there were Alabamas.
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Aliburnt Auburn, Alabama, guys. I mean this coaching staff, the way
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this thing's put up. This is the success. Like we all saw,
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uh, the coaching rehabilitation program that Nick Saban was running at Alabama and and
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I don't know, maybe uh maybe we we we kind of saw them kind
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of go in and out and in and out. But I mean, like
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I got to say that, like just the stability of the coaching staff in
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general since nineteen ninety nine here at Oklahoma has been has been pretty pretty cool.
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I mean, there's been a lot of great coaches come through here.
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There's been a lot of good guys you know, go on and people are
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when when you succeed at a place like this place like Notre Dame or Ohio
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State, you're getting hired and you're gonna move on. And so yeah,
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I mean it's good because you're running in thinking like if we can walk into
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the SEC with a bunch of coaches that like a lot of the s SEC
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teams wanted, we're in a good spot exactly. And they know that they
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can recruit. That means that they are a threat to those other schools because
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of that. And then as tofer mentioned, one of coaches even got some
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NFL offers, which we I kind of expect, you know, with us
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having some you know, former NFL guys and guys with former NFL ties,
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I would expect us to definitely see our coaches get try to get poached up
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to NFL because the NFL right now recognizing that they want some new young blood
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in the NFL. College, of course, is the best place to go
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instead of just hiring from within, because a lot of coaches are trying to
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get out of the collegiate ranks. And the best statement of all before we
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jump right into the next topic, Vinable said that he loves the change of
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college football. He enjoys the chase of the adjustment. He may not like
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the direction college football is going right now, but paying the player's stuff he
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likes. He likes him had the opportunity to be able to transfer. He
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likes. He enjoys the chase that is involved with what's going on and now
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he's just waiting for it to stabilize to whether he can master it. And
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bruh, and that gets me pumped. Because everybody's terrified about what's gonna happen
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with their coaches right now. I ain't scared of where Venimble's gonna happen.
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And from just like a from a leadership standpoint. One of the best leaders
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in my life ever told me, as the lead, your job is to
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minimize what everybody else will try to maximize. And all you hear all day
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long is frustration from coaches everything. You know, it's the off season.
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Everybody needs to talk about that, listen Venables, No, I mean,
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you know, you got to kind of take him at his word. I
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think he is sick enough in the head to enjoy the chase and the newness
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of it and another thing that he can be really really good at doing.
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So there's a chance there. But he's done another complaints that's going to end
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up on pardon the interruption with him ranting about the recruiting everything. So you
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know, it's it's great he'll end up here and people will it's hard.
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It's hard, like it's hard to not like Brent Vinables no matter who you
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are. Yep, that's the best part about him, man, is that
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it's it's really impossible to just not like the dude, right he Players love
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him because because their goal here is to take care of the players, not
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only in preparation for the NFL, Because only three percent of players ever make
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is an NFL because of multiple reasons. It's not just talent, sometimes injuries
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and other circumstances. But you want to make sure they're good off the field
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once they leave. They know what they want to do and have an idea,
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and by doing that, parents probably love that. They're like, Okay,
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we're pushing for the NFL, but if you know, you know,
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knock on wood, an injury situation happens, and we can't. Our kids
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are set up to be successful. So they're trying to make sure they're set
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up for they're they're let me put it this way. The one thing that
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I've always said about NIL paying players, if they're employees or not employees,
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whatever it is, a lot of people feel like the one thing that's of
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concern is taxes. Right, all these kids are gonna learn and play,
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taxes, pay cover this and blah blah blah. Right. Well, coaches
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have always preached that they are leaders of men, right, that's who they
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are. If that's the case, that's one thing that a father mother will
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cheat their child. Taxes, how to pay your bills, how to cover
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this stuff. If they're leaders of men, they should be taking taking it
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up on themselves because those players are doing stuff to help them elevate their careers
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as well. And I love that Venables basically said exactly that that we're gonna
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make sure that they're good to go as contributing adults to society. God though,
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that sold your boy own Venables at that moment. So all right,
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thank you'all for pulling up. Please as Lemon, tell us you hit that
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that we got to steal that as well. So now let's stump into some
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fun topics here. Let's talk depth charts. Right, it ain't even spring
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yet, but it's always fun to just speculate as we prepared for the spring
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ball. We'll have opportunity to speculate for spring. After spring, we'll get
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a depth chart, we'll see him play, we'll get to speculate throughout the
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summers going into the first fall roster, and then we'll get to speculate as
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we get about three games into the season about what the lineups are gonna look
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like. Barring injury, what things look like, and so I'm excited.
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I want to talk about this. As we mentioned, Coop, we've got
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that good old competitive depth. Uh oh all because now we're dealing with situation
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with Jacob Lacy, which I hate, praying for him. Hopefully he gets
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better and he's good. Now we gotta look at who's gonna we're gonna be
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able to step up? Who's next man up? So kind of want to
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start the trenches. We'll go through D line, we'll go through O line,
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and then we'll both pick a position on offense and defense. You know,
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a Coop, I'll let you pick a defensive I'll pick an offensive position
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where we just kind of talk to the players. That's how we wrap up
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the show. So it's gonna be fun, chill. We're only twenty minutes
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in, so it's probably this shit last is a good forty. So let's
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start off with this defensive line, Jacob Lacey the situation. So that means
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that at that three technique, at that zero, basically your defensive tackles,
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got a lot of guys to consider. I'm looking at this and I saw
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the pictures that our boy, Ashton Champ Sanders put on Instagram recently, and
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he looks kind of ginormous, like legs gotten bigger, arms gotten bigger.
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Yeah, it's like he's been, you know, working out with Schmidty.
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If I'm looking at the defensive line like that, I'm looking at de Jon
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Terry, I'm looking at Grayson Halton good o, g baby, And to
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be honest, I'm also looking at a champ moving up there, especially because
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not only does he know the system, but it looks like condition wise,
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Schmid he's got him good. If I'm gonna go with a fourth, I
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think behind Grayson, you're probably gonna see Stony at the three. I'm gonna
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be honest, I think Stoney's gonna end up working his way into rotation there,
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just because we are young in that position anyway, and we were actually
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we were older at that position coming into the season. Now we're very young.
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I'm thinking that for Coop, what you're talking about, prayers for Jacob
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Lacy. You know, I hate this situation because there's so many, uh,
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there's so many people who have dealt with these type of things. Uh.
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You know, redmand dealt with it when he was here, and you
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know, I just hate it just because it's you know, from a selfish
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standpoint from you know, watching the team, it's always at that defensive tackle
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spot and we need, you know, we need that leadership. So you
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know, I got to think that, uh, you know, as Steven's
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kind of saying down here is you know he'll he'll stick around the team and
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he'll have a spot and you know they'll use him to to to to be
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around. So but yeah, going with what you're saying is you've got I
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mean, Deaveshon Terry is going to have to take that room and and run
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with it. You need Holton to to really get the gains. This is
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a spot to where I don't think that this was going to be a weakness
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for us. We just need them to like hold serve. But that's that's
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essentially just what the defensive tackle. I mean, like last year our defensive
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lineman defensive tackles the inside guys, I mean led by you know, our
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boy Isaiah co. Isaiah is training right now and I've been chatting up with
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him. He wants to, you know, come right around pro day at
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the at ou So kind of hanging there and just just chatting a tad bit,
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but long story short, I think this year, the youth may not
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be a bad thing. I think twenty five is the year where you know
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a lot of people really have their eyes looking at So maybe this is a
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good playing opportunity. But yeah, you know, you think g Baby's going
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to be there, Dejon Terry is going to be hitting it. But I
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just I wonder if Jane Jackson might be a guy who gets a lot of
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early run too, because he he I mean, he's not going to be
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judged on his ability to rush the passer that's going to be icing on the
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top. His is going to be about you know, playing the run and
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holding his up you know, in pass rush. And so you know that
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being said that, it's not like we've got a bunch of no talent hacks
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back there. It's all just extremely young. And this is probably the most
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talented our defensive line has been since g Mac was here. I mean seriously,
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like like I don't know if if it's had that type of this type
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of talent, and it's going to get better and it's going to keep on
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getting better. So yeah, it's for Lacey. You know, if you
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guys, if you guys follow them on, you know, go out and
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tweet it out. Uh, you know, hey, we got you to
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pick you up. I would say that because a guy who he you know,
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he came back this year to probably you know, take advantage a little
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bit of n I L. But also because he believes what's going on.
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I mean, it's the same reason why John Terry came back, same reason
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why Bowman came back, same reason why Stutsman and Wood he came back.
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So I like, I like everything about about just how Brent has this team
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believing, uh, and they want to fight for each other, so it's
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hard to watch one of their own go down. Yeah, and kind of
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and let me point this out very well. We still are really young,
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but we've got guys that now actually have that experience they played in the system,
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some of the guys two years in. That means that they know what
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to recognize. And the best part about having young guys that have that much
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experience is that they can teach the guys behind them where to be when they're
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supposed to be there all of that, and so that's going to accelerate our
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next round of guys getting better. And BV mentioned at the earlier Rollees,
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they're making an impact inchily they walked in the dough causing problems as in not
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bad ones, good ones. They're like, oh, y'all here to work
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hard, y'all here to hustle. Nigel Smith, Daniel Koye is we now
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go into the edges, which is you know three to edge. You know
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you got multiple options here. If we go three down, if we go
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four a four men in front, you know there's multiple on it. Or
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if you go three with a jack or something like that, there's a lot
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of options there. And BV mentioned about our most recent transfer, Caden Woolard,
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how he walks in. He's wasn't really healthy, but he came in
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with size right, and they're ready to see him play. And so looking
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at that, you still got Ethan Downs, who's a maniac right now in
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the training. They said that he's training his butt off and he's setting the
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tone for everybody else. You've got trace Ford still technically back right, our
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Mason Thomas. You're still going with pg A. And when he said that,
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PJ over to Thity and they're trying to get him at two sixty five
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plus and he's an animal. Yeah, that's the PJ is going to be
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the dude. And we talked about this in the discord. Yes, Pj's
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the dude that that at five star. Yeah, it's gonna be terrifying.
25:56
Right. So I'm looking at honestly Downs with probably Caden Woollard behind him,
26:10
and I'm thinking, on the other side, you may you may be required
26:14
to play PJ. You ain't got a choice. He's gonna force hands.
26:18
You gotta play me. Mixing him are Mason Thomas as well as Trey's Ford,
26:27
and that's gonna be nasty. And you know, trace Ford found himself
26:30
on the field a lot last year. And if you if you take the
26:36
take yourself down memory lane, how many times did you see trace Ford covering
26:41
dudes downfield? Like I don't remember ever, I don't ever remember seeing him
26:45
do that Oklahoma State, I don't, I don't remember. But every single
26:51
time that he made the dad Gonna play, he is fifteen yards downfield on
26:53
the sideline and I'm like, what in the age is going on here?
26:56
So you know, hopefully, hopefully, you know he's back again, you
27:02
know, with like the situation with Lacy. But yeah, you Ethan Downs,
27:08
bro, I'm on your side now going into last year, I made
27:15
a comment. I mean, I was, I was. I said I
27:18
didn't think that. I thought it was hilarious that he was on the preseason
27:22
all Big twelve and I was like, dude, may not even play,
27:23
he may be a forgotten part of the whole Daghum defense. But give me
27:29
guys like Ethan Downs all day long, because you need that dude, that
27:33
Dan Cody, that Ethan Downs, that Dusty de Vorchecked, that guy who's
27:37
just going to go absolutely just crazy, and he's going to go him and
27:41
he's going to always be out there trying to prove another person wrong. Now
27:48
hopefully he is leading the don't standover players and taunt them on the ground trainings
27:53
here this summer. But let's it's PJ time. He did flash as much
28:00
as I thought he would this past year. And I and I promise you,
28:07
with Nigel, with Danny, with Gilmore, any of those guys,
28:12
any of those guys at all that absolutely see any opportunity, they're going to
28:17
run, they're going to run for it. Yeah, and we've made we
28:19
made this comment before our boy Danny he didn't even know what he is yet
28:25
he is, No, he does what he is. Yet I think Willard
28:29
is going to be you know, hopefully he's a little bit more of an
28:33
impact player than Bothroyd was. You know, I was. I was really
28:37
excited to to see what he would do. Did Bothroyd? Ever? Did
28:41
he get one sack this season? Like it is like maybe one or did
28:45
he think? I can't remember, but I mean he was. He was
28:48
amazing at setting the edge, which was something that we struggled MIGHTI leaf,
28:52
you know, two years ago? But I'm again, just like the defensive
28:57
line on the inside are ends. If the if the amount of like upside
29:04
four guys like pj h, four guys like Danny Akoye for Nigel, it's
29:11
like you can't really I mean knock on wood right say, just like you
29:15
can't really miss on all of them unless you're Lincoln Rally receiving receiving Core five
29:19
stars. But I gotta think that one of the at least one of those
29:23
guys, if not three of them, are going to turn out to be
29:26
just absolute freaks. And so would you love to be Miguel Chavs would you
29:33
love to be you know, uh, coach Bates right now and just looking
29:36
at the defensive line and just thinking like what happens when they realize what they're
29:41
doing, Because these guys are gonna slowly start realizing that who they are and
29:47
what they are. And uh, I think it's one of the Jurassic Part
29:49
movies, like as soon as he realizes he's at the top of the food
29:53
chain, he's gonna eat. And and that's where I see guys like PJ,
29:56
guys like Danny Akoya and Nigel Yeah, and Oklahoma led the nation and
30:03
interceptions the last two seasons, if you take two seasons combined, they did
30:07
and so for Bothroy no interceptions, but he had twenty three pressures out there.
30:12
So between hits and hurries he's stating in quarterbacks faces and made them work.
30:18
Like against Arizona he had three hits and two hurries, and so Texas
30:25
he had three hurries. And so those are those aren't a lot more important
30:29
than people think, because what that leads to is either somebody else is getting
30:33
the sack, or they're gonna they're gonna throw a bad pass, turnover,
30:36
things of that nature, right, unless you've got just an elite, elite
30:38
guy throwing the ball. And so Barthoroy the would contribute. But man,
30:44
I I say, next season, you'll I don't think we'll see as many
30:48
Max protect next season as we did this past year. Right, I don't
30:52
see think teams. I think teams are gonna think in their mind we can
30:56
we can slow them down without max Protect. We don't need to look up
31:00
their numbers from last season. They did nothing, We don't have to worry
31:03
about them. And then once they started, let us have some one on
31:04
one battles. We're gonna go out there and start owning folks that we people
31:07
didn't think we could own. So so that's what the devisive line looks like
31:11
to me. I like that. All right, make sure y'all hit that
31:15
light button. And yes, this is Down's last season. He should be
31:22
done. If I'm crazy, he's a senior, so technically I think he
31:26
has a COVID year. I don't. I don't. I don't know if
31:30
he does. I think he does. Let me let me pull up the
31:34
rocks for real quick. I thought we were done with the COVID lineups as
31:37
of going into this next year, but I think there's one more year of
31:41
it. This is the last year of it, because this is the fourth
31:44
year from twenty to twenty twenty four. This is the this is the last
31:47
year that you'll see kids with cod extra COVID season. So next season is
31:51
the last year that you'll have a super senior set in which, honestly,
31:55
if we get lucky enough, I mean, I'm I'm not gonna complain about
32:00
that. So yes, thank you for pointing that out, Boomstick. He
32:05
does have his COVID year left. Ethan was what number forty? Yep,
32:10
he was a junior last year zero, So yeah, he's got two years
32:15
left and he never he's a true he's a true junior, a true senior.
32:17
He's a true senior, doesn't have a red shirt, so yeah,
32:21
he'll actually have the COVID season, even decides to play. So decides to
32:27
play one more year and depending on how it goes, you never know.
32:30
So that's dope. I am stoked on that. Catch you later, Kim,
32:35
thank you for pulling up. We're gonna talk. Let's dive into the
32:39
offensive line. Let's go to the offensive side of the ball, because that
32:44
is the spot that has the most questions, right and BV kind of touched
32:50
a little bit on it, very lightly if I'm correct, trying to remember
32:53
who he mentioned but I was really focus on all the defensive guys. He's
32:57
excited about. That just had me just excited myself. But I know that's
33:01
what everybody's concern is, and rightfully. So we've got a lot of players
33:07
that we don't know right now. And so when I looked at the roster,
33:09
we're dealing with a lot of red shirt either freshmen or juniors really right
33:17
besides our transfers in and so we're dealing with a lot of players that didn't
33:22
have to play last season or got very minimal snaps. We lost about ten
33:29
thousand snaps total if I'm correct, with the five guys that are no longer
33:32
here on the offensive line, as well as the transfers, you know,
33:36
starting five in the transfers, But we still got guys that have experience playing
33:40
enough, and there was that had been groomed to go forward. Now we're
33:45
going to run into the same problem. I believe in like maybe three years
33:52
once this class, it's potential that we'll have like refresh because I think that
33:59
the guys from this class is gonna end up being your starter this past class,
34:02
uh twenty four, They're gonna be your ones. It's gonna probably play
34:06
a lot together, and then you're gonna be bringing in backups, Like I
34:13
don't think anybody's gonna be seated from being a starter just because I think this
34:15
class is just special, right. The class come in for team one point
34:20
thirty is very special. This is what I'm thinking, though. I think
34:23
both the Jakes are gonna take those bookends. You got Jacob and Jake.
34:29
It just feels like that's who we've got. I've been looking at Troy in
34:34
the middle. Shout out to Popo. He kind of pointed that out to
34:37
me. He's very high on Troy Everett. I think he does run.
34:40
That middle two end is gonna be the interesting ones, right. I think
34:46
Zida starts to see some run. I think Fabeci Way will gets the other
34:51
spot. Now, I could totally see a freshman getting some run in Eugene
34:58
Brooks in the two. He appears to be ready for that. But I
35:05
think that Joshua I think Bates is gonna be there waiting right behind Troy Everett
35:10
to take that spot in a year or so. But to my thoughts is
35:16
the Jake's on both ends. I think that it'll be Uzeta as well as
35:22
Fabichi Wei Wu, and I think that Troy Everett takes the middle and with
35:25
the other transfers in like Tarkan will probably be with Spitzer Brown. Tarkan's will
35:30
probably be a guard. Brown's gonna be at that right tackle battle with Jake
35:36
Taylor. But I think Jake Taylor wins it, which gives us just experiences.
35:39
That's the only thing I care about to be able to prep for that.
35:43
So what you're thinking, I didn't young players. Of course, I'm
35:45
not gonna forget about EPL. EPL won't be here until in the fall,
35:47
and I forgot the school he goes to. He can't graduate early, so
35:52
that's the reason why he won't be here until the summer. So my anticipation
36:00
is that e p L will see some run. I think e p L
36:05
and Eugene Brooks get the most run out of our freshman guys. Cool,
36:07
what do you think about the defensive line? There's a there's a lot of
36:15
people high on Eugene Brooks And funny is that the leaps that he has made
36:23
in probably the last seven to eight months as have just been nuts. We
36:30
want to see Aka Kumi get here and get around this team and see what
36:35
happens. I mean, we've all seen the videos. The dude. The
36:38
dude loves the social media piece. So hopefully, you know, once he
36:45
gets acclimated a little bit at the athletes, you know, he's got the
36:49
frame for it. Uh. E p l is going to be a guy
36:52
who walks in and he is going to blow folks away. So we're gonna
36:55
it's gonna be schemed. But guys, this is still be Bill beating ball.
37:00
He is going to be stubborn in the center position and then outside of
37:07
the center. I mean, he wants his best five guys that work together.
37:10
So what does the communication look like? What how does that work with
37:15
each other? You know, I would like to see Bates take over because
37:20
I mean I think that he was, you know, the next Creed.
37:23
He is a guy who he needs to gain a little bit more. He's
37:29
got the right attitude. That dog's got the bark, he just ain't got
37:32
the bite yet, and so I think that he needs to continue to work
37:36
on that. They they'll lean on Everett. Uh. You know, I
37:38
love Jake Taylor and I love Jake Sexton. I think Jake Sexton is a
37:44
type of guy who turns into you know, a guy like h Cody Ford,
37:51
you know, somebody who was out there and just an I mean it's
37:53
a different position, but Cody Ford was in and out. I think that
37:57
Taylor is a guy who could be in or out. He could be a
38:00
guard, he could play a tackle. So I mean, if if I
38:04
say, you know, I'm gonna go with two, I like, I
38:07
like, uh, go with Sexton and Taylor and then let let's let's just
38:14
have at it in the middle. So but kind of like the defensive tackles,
38:20
this this offensive line is going to have every opportunity to get three to
38:25
four games underneath their belt before we really get some crazy stuff. And uh
38:31
and yeah we might have to talk about mos because I'm getting hit up about
38:36
that too. But but the the offensive line is is is good. This
38:40
is a great opportunity for guys to prove somebody wrong. And maybe this is
38:46
a situation like what we thought about the h the defensive backs or the wide
38:51
receivers last year. Uh, coming in our hatchet too, is is a
38:55
Hatchet's a guy that's going to have the opportunity. He has got a lot
39:00
of game time, and so you're going to see people going in and out.
39:06
Hopefully the offensive lines look a little bit better than they did last spring,
39:08
because good lord, that was pretty bad. Yeah, and as is
39:15
mentioned in here, we have Jamar Mosey has taken a job at Central Florida.
39:20
That's kind of an interesting one. I mean, it's good for him.
39:23
He gets some stuff in the college rank starts to get that experience.
39:25
I mean, we didn't want to hire him, which kind of surprising,
39:28
but at the same time pretty good. That's definitely a no. I think
39:34
Kamarroi Moore sold on Oklahoma like Pj's was, which is why Pj's here.
39:37
I think Kamarin Moore really likes Oklahoma. So I don't see him going anywhere
39:43
I think at all. I think at this point he would have balanced if
39:45
that was gonna be the situation. I mean, if you heard our interview
39:51
with him, I mean, this is something that is special. Yeah,
39:53
they've seen I mean he's seen Missouri quite often. You know these kids when
40:00
you know when Kamari committed, I mean he was sixteen, sixteen years old,
40:07
and I mean it's uh, he's going to continue to continue to grow.
40:10
He is going to be a stud We will have to hold on to
40:14
him by the end of the year. Agree. I agree, And Stephen,
40:17
good point with Hatchet. That's a good question if I'm correct, Him
40:23
and his brother were hurt right going into the end of last season, and
40:30
I could totally see I can see Jerry and going to the right tackles right
40:37
guard spot and Fabichi move into the left. I could totally see that happening.
40:45
So I'm not ruling out Jerry and Hatchet getting that spot. But yeah,
40:52
that's actually a good one to point out. It'd be him and useda
40:59
fighting probably for one of the for the next guard spot. I definitely see
41:02
uh, Fabeci Waybill taking it. Hearing it. He is as strong as
41:08
an ox and he's out there. It's just yeah moving Dud's around and the
41:12
defensive line is still dominant, and he's just he's out there. He's one
41:15
of just the naturally strong dudes. So yeah, and and listen, Holland
41:21
and Oseeta are guys that are I mean, they may be an opportunity away.
41:27
There's It's good. Once again, it's not that we have a bunch
41:30
of no talent, you know, clowns out there. These are all this
41:35
is just young, just absolutely young. Yep. We're gonna have a bunch
41:39
of young players again, which of course is always a plus for us.
41:43
The more young people the better. At this point, we can we can
41:46
build it up. So I'm wondering if we can steal the other hatchet brother
41:50
at the spring. I think Spring at the spring. I think that timelines
41:57
with the school systems are probably the only reason why he's not already here.
42:01
Yeah, I think so too. I think he had the conversations side to
42:05
withdraw and he's gonna just you know, finish the semester out there and then
42:08
make another decision. But I think spring wise, he may actually hit the
42:12
portal and bounce out. May. I can totally see him pulling up and
42:15
we have both of them, which will be good. That's what we need.
42:19
We need another we can use another offensive line, and hey can I
42:21
think we're in contention for another one or one of the tackles that's just recently
42:27
hit the portal. I think we're possibly kicking the tires on a few so
42:30
I don't know, but with that, that's that line. That's what I
42:34
think the offensive line is gonna look like. I'm excited to just see what
42:37
the rotations are gonna be once we actually get towards spring. I'm ready to
42:39
see what that spring depth chart looks like before the spring game. You know,
42:44
we're gonna analyze the hell out of that inside out, in between every
42:49
capacity, We're gonna find something to nit pick at. But the same time,
42:52
it's gonna tell us a lot about what this team's gonna look like going
42:57
forward. So make sure y'all like subscribe, wipe your feet hop in the
43:02
comments, tell us what you think about that line. Love to hear it.
43:06
Uh favorite food? Forgot? That's a good question, Yeah, forgot,
43:13
I have to I have to go rewatch the video. We'll go back
43:15
and rewatch it. But all right, just pick a position, Coop.
43:20
I'll let you pick either side offense, defense, which one you want to
43:22
go with, and then I'll pick the last one that we'll tackle as a
43:25
family. All right, So we're going with position battles that are exciting to
43:36
look forward to for you know, I'm still Gave and Teddy here. I
43:45
was going to go with the Cheetah because I think that with Dolby coming in
43:50
and proving everything he was with Harrington potentially coming back, and then the athletic
43:55
freaks and Peyton Bowen. I think that that position is still wide open.
44:02
I think that we're going to need it to be a little bit bigger.
44:06
If I were a defense this next year, I would know that establishing a
44:10
strong upfront is going to be something that we're going to want to establish right
44:15
right from the get go. So I would be running play action like nobody's
44:20
business and forcing decisions and getting us off. So I want to see what
44:25
can happen out on that cheetah. How can we how can that quote unquote
44:30
third lineback or really fit in, you know, with a heavy front throwing
44:35
to the tied end. And because I mean, I do worry a little
44:38
bit about Dolby playing in that spot because I think in the SEC that's gonna
44:43
be one of the major differences. We're going to need a mccaulla type of
44:45
a body back there or Harrington somebody that's you know, pressing the two twenty
44:50
five. That's why the Taylor Heim and Taylor Wine thing is really interesting.
44:53
So but my my most excitement is probably going to be our linebackers. You
45:02
know, Stutsman is penciled in, but Chaudie will be coming off injury.
45:07
You've got Lewis Carter, who has all of the all the potential in the
45:13
world. But you've got Kip Lewis and Kobe McKenzie right there with Kannick,
45:19
and so that's four solid linebackers and there's two spots. So how does that
45:23
work that can Kip Lewis gain a few lbs and displace Cannick? You know,
45:30
who lands on the who lands on which side of the formation. So
45:37
that's that's really interesting to me because, uh, again, to be super
45:42
super strong at to be super strong at safety and linebacker is something that I'm
45:50
still not one hundred percent sure I know how to manage mentally. Uh,
45:52
just because I don't think that we've been strong at linebacker, like really strong
45:58
at linebacker. Uh sense Rufus. Maybe that that that crew, that crew
46:07
was pretty good at linebacker. Maybe when Knine was here, he was really
46:12
good. I know we weren't really good overall, but but you know,
46:19
in the first round. That's the one thing I can give to Brian.
46:22
Uh, Brian odum at a linebacker coaches, he's he got Canaan as a
46:28
first round pick. Yeah, yeah, I can't call that. I think
46:37
the conversation around linebacker is interesting because we're gonna get some people back that were
46:40
injured, like Phil Pachattia be back, right, so you'll have him got
46:45
the Lewis Carter conversation. He still got Cannic, Stutsman, still got Kip
46:50
and Kobe like that linebacker room is really really deep with guys that were like,
46:57
man, yeah, and I've I feel if anybody that I'm concerned about
47:01
on that line, I be honest. Kobe Kenzie, he had some lost
47:07
moments when he was when he got his run, and he may end up
47:14
being a mean out because Kip has already established himself as a dude that we've
47:16
got to play him more. You got Stutsman back, so you got the
47:21
veteran leadership, then Kanick. I think Kanic's gonna have his Stutsman jump,
47:28
which is what you want. Yes, right, he's two years in now.
47:31
I think he's gonna figure it out and he'll make the decision they need
47:34
to and he'll use his speed and actually go to the right spots and recognize
47:38
who's supposed to be somewhere else to cover him and make sure' hitting his holes.
47:42
Because he started looking like that late in the season. Why when he
47:44
was basically when he was a backup. He's playing more reserve role. You
47:47
could see him actually cleaning things up, which I was like, Okay,
47:51
that's what we need from Cannick. It looks like it hit that click moment
47:52
like he did for Stutsman against Iowa State when he recognized they kept they kept
47:58
baiting them, and he finally cut across. I always think got that interception
48:01
they took home for a touchdown, by the way, So I anticipate that
48:08
that's what we're gonna see out of Cannick. And then you start to go
48:15
back through that line. Samuel Mouseigo BV mentioned him on Oklahoma Breakdown as a
48:20
player to keep your eyes out for. Yes, Oh my goodness, if
48:25
he's got that street already ready to speed. Oh that's another line. So
48:30
as Lemon knows, I'm not being coy about it. Competitive depth is definitely
48:36
right there at the linebacker spot, and that's the most concerning And like I've
48:43
been saying here recently, get ready because we're getting really really close to guys
48:47
that we don't want to see transfer out, transfer out. The Yeah,
48:52
we're at that point next next, next spring. I feel like we're going
48:57
because I already think Kobe McKenzie's on the trans for list watch. I think
49:00
there's a couple of other names that are going to be there also, and
49:07
so you know that that's going to happen is you know, we're not losing
49:10
guys who are going to go transfer to Texas State no offense. But you
49:15
know, Kobe McKenzie's a guy who can say, you know, he he
49:19
can go and say, hey, listen, I'll go transfer to Cincinnati or
49:22
I'll go transfer to Assume like that. Yeah. Yeah, so they can
49:31
always transfer back to the you know, you go to the SEC. That's
49:36
cool and all, but I mean, the bless your heart, knew Big
49:38
twelve is going to be kind of like, uh, you know, it's
49:43
it's I mean, let's be honest. That's that's that's a that's a step
49:45
down from the SEC. It's a step down from the Big ten. And
49:50
so maybe maybe that's where you see a lot of people transfer back out to.
49:57
Yeah, that's what I'm wondering about, is where what we're gonna who's
50:01
gonna be on that watch? I think Kobe feels like he would be on
50:04
that watch, but of course don't know much of anything. Just the fact
50:07
that that's just he feels like he's gonna be the hot man out. They
50:09
said, bringing almost Sego, you got loose Carter, it's gonna start playing.
50:12
We've got to start playing Louis Carter, especially if he knows the game,
50:15
like said Crimson missile needs to be out there leveling folks. He's and
50:20
it looks like and once again, this isn't this is not because we have
50:28
anything against Kobe Mackenzie. I would if I was building a team on on
50:35
the you know, from the coach, and he walked into my office,
50:37
I'd be like, yes, that is what I want right there. And
50:42
that's I mean, that's where we're getting with this roster. Now. Is
50:45
this is year three? Uh you know we're we're close to full turnover.
50:53
Yeah, No, that's alid point. Okay, not the line. Yeah,
51:05
so let's go into offense. Right, We've already done offensive line.
51:07
Honestly the funnest conversation that we have on the offensive side. And we'll jump
51:12
into that real quick. But but first I want to answer a couple of
51:14
questions. Boomer dropped this one two nine. Thank you for always dropping great
51:17
jokes into the comment section. You are my favorites. Of course, does
51:22
Vegas have it correct with the seven win prediction for our first year? My
51:24
bias won't let me believe it, but it is Vegas. Dwayne follows up
51:29
the same question, what do you think of our win total being with the
51:31
SEC? So, Boomer, are you making it point? And I take
51:36
this one? Can I take this one first? J because I want to
51:38
kind of point something out and I think that you'll like this. I think
51:40
that you'll like this. I'll be super give it to me. It opened
51:44
up at six and a half and it went to seven and a half like
51:46
almost a day later. So if Vegas was right, how in the hell
51:52
they get it right and then reshuffle and then now it's right, So why
51:58
wouldn't they reshuffle again? So no, I just I just feel like going
52:04
into this year like it's it's going to be disappointing. But I mean,
52:07
I think this is a nine I think that this is a nine to ten
52:10
win team the Alabama game. Listen, if we were going to the Big
52:16
twelve this year, we would be going talking can we make the playoff?
52:21
The only reason why we're talking about multiple losses is because it's the first year
52:24
in the sec but I don't care, like it does not matter because if
52:29
you go and we're pressing that that area, I don't buy in on the
52:35
ole miss They're going to be tougher than they were. But I'm just I'm
52:37
never a big buy in on the full on mercenary approach to doing these things,
52:43
just because when you get that much ego from these guys, we've yet
52:47
to see it really work outside of the Miami Heat, and it really wasn't
52:52
as pretty because they were talking about six, seven, eight, twelve championships
52:57
and it didn't work that well, you know. So you get those egos
53:01
and it's going to deal and yeah, right there, damn it, you
53:06
bastard. I was gonna say, we don't have the Big twelve. We
53:12
don't have the Big twelve bias situation going on anymore. No, we don't.
53:17
That is that is it? You see reps hate everybody, they really
53:22
do, and it's like every team says that the refs screw them, and
53:24
it's like, how did you both get screwed in the same game? But
53:29
I mean the same time, you can. It's just the refs just don't
53:30
care. They just do their job and they go and refing is not as
53:34
good anymore because of the eight million camera angles that you can see every little
53:38
thing that they can't see. And unfortunately, unless we want them to stop
53:42
the game and review every single play, yeah it's gonna miss something. It's
53:45
gonna happen, so he's gotta hope that it's not something. That's just the
53:49
only ones I complain about are the ones that are like, bro, this
53:52
is a big play. You knew this was gonna go down. Pay attention
53:53
to everything around, right, But humans are humans and it's cool. But
53:58
for me, eight to seven is ridiculous. I saw it moved up to
54:01
eight on one book. I think it was Findue. At one point it
54:05
was eight, and the move back probably seven and a half. It's actually
54:07
six six and a half. First jumped to seven and a half and even
54:08
saw at eight one point. Yeah, we'll definitely go over that. Right
54:14
Like last year they hit us at nine and a half, which I loved
54:15
because that was a big trap. That was a trap for everybody that was
54:21
doubting Oklahoma. And guess what happened. Oklahoma did exactly what we expected.
54:27
They won ten games. I want some good money on it. Can't wait
54:30
to get back to Louisiana so I can take that money and reinvest it so
54:36
that I can win more money off of it, because I'm gonna be be
54:37
betting heavy on next seasons. But the seven and a half to me is
54:45
low. I recognize it did in the video before. If you didn't get
54:50
to check it out, you can check it out. But I actually get
54:52
why they put it at seven and a half because it's weighed heavily on offense
55:00
and the fact that we got a true sophomore quarterback with what to start to
55:07
one start too, four games of experience and one start, so five total
55:13
games and we've got to basically a new offensive line. But at the same
55:17
time, for us, for US fans, we should understand and recognize we
55:22
know Bill beaten Bow. He figures it out. He always has put together
55:24
these lines or where you're like, oh, didn't realize he was any good.
55:28
Yeah, still talk about Tyler guyton mock draft came out for mel Kiper.
55:31
He has him going at number twenty three to Houston, so to be
55:36
him and Larry me Tunsel right, he may not last that long one,
55:39
but right now in the mock he's at no. He's at twenty three.
55:44
Everybody that's creating mocks has Tyler gotten as the first rounder and now nine one
55:47
of y'all side your boy here saay coming because y'all, I was typed.
55:53
Listen, I steal it from Gabe when Gabe talks about offensive lineman all listen
56:00
and they were they were Gabe, Gabe was big. Mc cushion was pretty
56:05
big on him too, and uh and so yeah, I mean listen that
56:09
he is going to be. I don't know what he's going to be in
56:13
the NFL, but he when he shows up this weekend, because this week
56:17
this weekend is the combine, right, Yep, he shows up, and
56:22
dude's gonna watch your there's watch Twitter is you're going to see NFL. NFL's
56:29
you know, active account posting about him running something stupid some you know four
56:35
to seven to one or some stupid you know forty like that. Yep,
56:39
and he And that's the big thing is he's gonna walk into six seven two,
56:43
three hundred and like twenty seven, three hundred and thirty pounds and he's
56:46
gonna be lean and they're gonna be like, oh no, you're the physical
56:50
specimen of what we're looking for and that's why Yes, Lol, mel Kiper,
56:53
Yes, that's why Kuiper has him. There's because of his physical traits
56:57
and that's that's what they look for. That's gonna get that drafted in the
57:00
first round. I've saw CVS's, I've seen Tommy Shay's, I've seen all
57:04
these dudes out there with their MOCKX and they're all saying, he's literally six
57:07
foot seven, three hundred and thirty pounds a man, and that is what
57:13
they look for. And Offen's lock. He he's like a Trip Williams,
57:17
a little bit smaller slightly is he smaller? He is? He is Lane
57:22
Johnson. I see that he's Lane Johnson, but he's taller because I think
57:29
Lane's six' five. But I mean both of those guys started a tight
57:32
end, so exactly. That's the crazy part, both playing freaking quarterback their
57:37
junior and senior years in high school. Is that he's he's got the soft
57:43
touch and move at his size for someone. And yeah, Trent is last
57:52
six five, three twenty, so he's bigger than Trent Big Trent big silver
57:58
back. Yeah, that's crazy to think that this dude's bigger and he's just
58:04
as athletic because like you said, he played tight end, so he's got
58:06
very like light feet. He's very light on his feet. He caught a
58:08
touchdown at TCU, right, so you gotta do this light on his feet
58:15
and is that big? Oh yeah, we got that. So anyway back
58:21
to the point of that, I think that the seven game is ridiculous.
58:24
We'll go high to that. All right, let's wrap it up. Last
58:28
position wide receiver. We gotta talk wide receiver coop before seeing y'all all the
58:31
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58:53
So last position wide Receiver, Emmit Jones nigs raise another thanks you off.
59:05
First off, he deserves another rais why because that man has made that
59:12
room so dang elite as Mark, I'm thinking nine and three is the floor.
59:20
I'm thinking eleven and one is the ceiling, and it'll be one of
59:22
those fluke losses to a SEC team that's not a rightful of bars, which
59:27
put that way most likely on the road. I digress Ima Jones's race because
59:31
we got we got this. Listen, listen, listen to this room.
59:36
I've been trying to digest this to understand it because I gotta drop a video
59:39
just going through each of these players and figure out what what are we gonna
59:43
do? Right? You bring back the veteran Julil Farouk. Now you can
59:47
have your opinions about him what you want. He did not end the season
59:51
right. But at the same time, when Jelil gets out there in open
59:53
space, dude's nasty. He be getting people right. I just needed him
59:58
to this past season that needs you to act like it never existed and needs
1:00:00
to have a clean slate moving forward after him. You got Nick six right,
1:00:08
I'm gonna start with Healthyes, Jane Gibson, who looks like a complete
1:00:14
see with those touchdowns he was cause he had with four on like eleven catches
1:00:16
this season and that deep one it gets TCU where he basically drug a dude,
1:00:20
and then he fought a dude. He ran a dude over at Iowa
1:00:23
State. He drug a dude against TCU Arkansas State. He just burnt guys
1:00:30
like he's got everything you need. And he's six foot five, he's fast,
1:00:34
and he's got it right. Got Andrew answered, who's coming off the
1:00:39
injury, in which now we can just tell him to take his time get
1:00:43
healthy, because if you don't play next season, honestly, that wouldn't be
1:00:46
a bad thing. You can bring him in the year after and have him
1:00:50
with all the young pups, fetch him presents, right. Tassin there,
1:00:57
Dion Burks who just came in, who's gonna be terrible fine right, one
1:01:00
of the best route runners I've seen. Like he's gonna be a masterful Roburn.
1:01:05
Take Drake Stoops that's taller and faster. It's basically we're gonna get out
1:01:08
of Burks, and I think he can play better on the outside that he
1:01:12
does on the inside. Then you got Brendan Thompson, who's just gonna burn
1:01:17
folks. We saw it against Arizona. We saw it when when when Dylan
1:01:23
hit him deep. I can't think of which game it was, but he
1:01:25
hit him in the stride. He caught the touchdown and went that was what
1:01:28
with that? TCU? I think that was TCU or maybe before that,
1:01:31
I dig there was never a there was never an in stride. So he
1:01:36
got once, he got a once in stride. He did get a once
1:01:38
in stride, but he but he threw it early. That was why,
1:01:42
sou But you got that, and then you go down the list of all
1:01:49
the young players, you still got your quest ped away who we ain't got
1:01:51
to see a whole bunch of yet, and we will. But just going
1:01:53
down this line of receivers cool, I'm struggling and trying to figure out what
1:01:58
we're gonna do. Like I don't want I put like this. I want
1:02:01
everybody to play, but I also don't want to hinder somebody from getting a
1:02:05
thousand yard season, because just having a thousand yard season sounds good. But
1:02:08
I would still have no problem with us spreading the wealth to ten receivers having
1:02:12
five hundred yards each, which that would be five thousand yards passing. And
1:02:15
hopefully Jackson outal can pull that out of his behind rules out of his keyst
1:02:19
man. That's hew, He's been right there. But I mean not real.
1:02:22
Let's but I digress. If we can get like eight dudes five hundred
1:02:25
yards receiving, i'd be excited. That includes tight end so special year I'm
1:02:32
saying. I'm thinking Nick six, of course, is one of your starters.
1:02:37
I think they're gonna throw Burks out there on the outside with them.
1:02:40
I think you put Jalil, you put for Rooke as your slot, you
1:02:46
throw behind Nick six, Jay and Gibson behind Burkes. You're probably gonna put
1:02:52
Andre Anthony let if he's healthy, as he's getting healthy er if he's not
1:02:59
healthy, you shift him out. And I think you put Brendon Thompson over
1:03:05
there. You get him out of the slot, put him on the outside,
1:03:12
and he just let jacksonral throw the ball. Yeah, that's gonna be
1:03:15
think good lord, I'm dizzy thinking about it. Man, What you got?
1:03:21
So I think that you run. I think that you've got to run
1:03:24
Farruke out there in the slot just to see. Now. I know it
1:03:30
is a little scary because he looked like he was not him and the ball
1:03:36
weren't getting along, and he was putting the ball on the ground a lot.
1:03:39
I mean, Drake stoops is worth at least a win and a half
1:03:44
for this team this past year. So, like you know, in baseball,
1:03:47
you got to win above replacement. I mean, ye, Drake,
1:03:51
trust me, that's going to be big. Now that being said, I
1:03:57
do believe that you're going to see a little bit more. There's gonna be
1:04:00
a little a little less deep shots, a little bit more focused on the
1:04:03
intermediate passing game with this new offense. So I mean I do like it.
1:04:10
I mean, if you think, if you think that, uh,
1:04:15
I mean Nick six is going to be the leader coming in, right,
1:04:17
you're going to still say it's for Rooke. We all really know who's the
1:04:21
leader coming in though, And so you've got Gibson, who we heard justin
1:04:28
Harrington say like, you know, he is going to be a beast and
1:04:32
says that he you know, there's there's a lot of great talk around there.
1:04:36
We are not talking about any of the physical freshman freaks like Zion Kearney
1:04:41
coming in or Ivan carry On, which I I you know, I saw
1:04:45
people talking about potentially Mike Evans carry on comparisons. Let's let's pump it on
1:04:51
that one just a tad bit. Both of them are massive. I think
1:04:56
Elijah Thomas is going to be a down the line. But I want to
1:05:02
talk about Burks, like there's a lot of people who are talking about Burks
1:05:06
is a guy who could potentially in an offense like Oklahoma runs. He's a
1:05:12
guy that could push himself into like a you know, day one day two
1:05:15
wide receiver in the draft. I mean, I mean like a top receiver.
1:05:20
And so you know, I don't know, you run a four wide
1:05:26
or a five wide set and let Jackson Arnald do what he wants to do.
1:05:30
That sounds pretty freaking fun, you know, because I mean you run
1:05:34
five out there, and it's it's it's it's it's dirty. Because yeah,
1:05:39
you got Juquestpeedaway, who I think is going into last season. I expect
1:05:45
him to get a little bit more run than he did. Gavin Freeman is
1:05:49
still on this team, and though this year, I'm probably not going to
1:05:55
buy absolutely any of the g freaky business, but it's because I want to
1:06:00
see it on the field and I want to see, uh, you know,
1:06:02
I want to see some of those things that play out. So it's
1:06:08
a great, great problem to have because yeah, not talking about Brendan Thompson,
1:06:12
not talking you know, is this right here? Though, imagine Gibson
1:06:19
mixed six carry On, Yeah, all on goal line that you've got bower
1:06:29
sharp, who's the opportunity to throw out there? Yeah, who's who's a
1:06:35
ted on the tie side? And then you bring in, uh, you
1:06:39
know, guys like Za Raggans, who is a guy that you're like,
1:06:42
hey, go route on the outside, Brennan, you go on the other
1:06:45
side, have fun safety, you know. Jake Roberts is also six five
1:06:49
good lower. Yeah, Roberts is being so oh man, the list is
1:06:56
just long, just ginormous human beings. Competitive, my friend. Yeah,
1:07:03
that's a fair point. Didn't think we have that much competitive debt. Yeah,
1:07:10
especially tall tall ones. And then and then Von Mitchell is on top
1:07:14
of that, sixty four, Like we just got a bunch of I would
1:07:17
have never thought Oklahoma would go with guys this big out there. Yeah,
1:07:23
and I am excited because they're not only extremely tall, they're also fast fast.
1:07:30
It's not people that we could be concerned about at all, right,
1:07:35
it's it's it's massive. So throwing throwing those two books Nick six, Gibson
1:07:43
throw carry On in at your slot, the bringing to bringing a tight end
1:07:47
the bower or even Fanuel, Josh Fanuel's still six' four tall and fast
1:07:55
and athletic. Because Fanuel is very athletic, and I'm hearing it, he's
1:07:58
at his athleticism is showing former basketball player. He looks like it. So
1:08:01
yeah, no, it's imagine that because Nick as well as Gibson can get
1:08:08
your four four four, five forties and speed god and pedaway and Peedaway is
1:08:14
a guy who is going to be faster. Obviously, Brennan, Dion Burks
1:08:19
faster. I got you throw throw peed Away out there with Brennan and then
1:08:28
just throw it, just go like four verts. It's put Daniels in,
1:08:33
put raging and just go go four vert. It's the old it's the old
1:08:38
Madden. And then just what you have is yeah, I mean, like
1:08:42
I said, if you run anything down there, you go to Lemon.
1:08:46
If you run anything downfield, you've got so let's go. You run a
1:08:53
five wide, you've got a running back. Also, it probably in the
1:08:58
in the mix out there, so it's either four running back or five wide
1:09:00
receivers. So you got those guys out there. Jackson Arnold's left on.
1:09:05
I mean, I don't know if you can really have somebody spy Jackson Arnold
1:09:10
with the speed that's on the field, because you can't ask everybody to run
1:09:13
man against the speed like that. Now, do I think that we're going
1:09:15
to be running five and five wides and four verts? No, not,
1:09:18
not in the least not inventables team. But I do think that when you
1:09:25
run a double post and then you have a clear outcoming back the other way,
1:09:30
if the offensive line can hold up, you can't cover. You can't
1:09:33
cover that for a long time. So if our offensive line gives him four
1:09:39
seconds, we got some opportunity. And the key thing is is that we
1:09:44
have the option something that no one can't mad about, right that That's what
1:09:48
gets me. And then Rue you throw in a Caleb Hicks. You have
1:09:57
a big x who is who is now out there practicing? Yeah, I
1:10:01
mean it's once again I made the comment, how would you like to be
1:10:09
Maine or I mean, hell, even Houston is. You're getting your butt
1:10:14
kicked all up and down the field. It's early fourth quarter. We start
1:10:17
doing shift changes and on defense here comes Lewis Carter and Sam samye Omicigo,
1:10:25
you know, running in and just trying to headhunt your butt. And then
1:10:29
Xavier Robinson runs out for your line, for your you know, on offense,
1:10:32
like what are you going to do? Like nobody wants that. That's
1:10:36
not fun for anybody. So I mean, if I'm if I'm one of
1:10:41
these cats, I'm getting a hamstring pull right around the time I start seeing
1:10:45
a backup quarterback start loosening it up. I know, right, lemon,
1:10:50
know, there wasn't a mention about any running backs at all. Really,
1:10:54
I can think about in that interview. I'm gonna go listen to it again.
1:10:58
I don't think you really talked much about them. At the same time,
1:11:00
I mean, our running back room is pretty darn good. The bigger
1:11:02
thing if we want to know about the running back room, as was Javonte
1:11:04
Barnes looking like how healthy is he? Because you'll have Barns, you'll have
1:11:10
Sawtchuck basically is your two backs a mechamegua which will probably get five carries you
1:11:15
know, a game, you know, and be leveraged because he's still a
1:11:17
big dude. As long as he gets healthy, as long as he gets
1:11:20
healthy er it's gonna be stupid. And then you got X, who I'm
1:11:28
hearing looks a lot like uh p Ryan out there but fast. Yeah he
1:11:34
did mention X because X is a big boy. Yeah he didn't mention sud
1:11:38
Chuck. I'll remember hearing sautchuck either. But and I heard and I'm here
1:11:42
frankly looks good too. So yeah, no news is good news, you
1:11:47
know, good news right now. There's not going to be a lot coming
1:11:51
out because most of these things are player ran, you know, staff assisted,
1:11:59
just lifting more so anything and doing drills and testing. Yeah, and
1:12:03
so you know we got spring game is I mean tomorrow's March, kids,
1:12:10
So spring game is tomorrow six weeks. Oh, Tomorrow's not March. We
1:12:15
got leap here? Sorry, is leap her baby? Don't we hating on
1:12:17
it? For some reason? I thought it was Thursday. I know,
1:12:21
right, it feels like if this week is gone forever. So yeah,
1:12:28
we're gonna we're gonna put a lot of work on them. Wait till y'all
1:12:30
see what what what what with Jackson and Stone as they train under Schmidty and
1:12:35
how their bodies transformed through the summer and they're ready in the It's gonna be
1:12:40
dumb. It's gonna be dumb. So I'm excited, all right, Coop.
1:12:45
Final thoughts strap this bad boy up the bowl and let everybody gets themselves
1:12:47
some rest, because I definitely could use some myself. Uh yeah, here's
1:12:53
my here's my rant for the night. Is you know, with the with
1:12:58
the n I L the endorsement and it's everything happening guys. This week we
1:13:02
saw the first part of this was one complete way to where no, we're
1:13:08
not going to let them have anything. Now it is crazy town. On
1:13:11
the other side, you know, I would say this is it's going to
1:13:16
continue to change. Get with the crimson and cream and collective, whether it's
1:13:21
ten, fifteen bucks, whatever you can do every single month. I mean
1:13:26
obviously, if you fill the stadium with ninety thousand people and every single one
1:13:30
of those people did ten bucks a month, that's that's bringing us some folks.
1:13:34
Now, that's not our lead with a lot of the conversations. We're
1:13:39
still doing what we're still doing. We still have you know, the culture,
1:13:43
the program, you know this this creating men, and so I say
1:13:48
this is it is going to be that that's going to be our opportunity.
1:13:55
But we are not a broke We're not a broke college. That is not
1:13:59
the case at all. We're not gonna play the mercenary game. We're gonna
1:14:03
continue to do what brand Avinimals is put in place, and U you know
1:14:08
we've got it. It's BV we trust and Shaves we trust and Todd Bates
1:14:11
we trust and Shaves. This is a great coaching staff and I'm excited to
1:14:15
hit to just to see what happens. Same and Stephen pakes a good point
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