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SEC Preseason Polls and All-Conference Reactions with Evan Vieth · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Perfect segue to the reporter who asked that question, Our
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  Speaker 1: good friend Evan Vieth, who was busy all week at
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  Speaker 1: SEC media Days in Tampa. Are you are you back
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  Speaker 1: here in the lone Star State?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 3: I am, you know, Jake, Yes, I'm back in Austin.
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  Speaker 2: It's unfortunate that's the one that came up before, because
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  Speaker 2: I was trying to get him to talk about you know,
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  Speaker 2: this is this Texas roster or the offense getting closer
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  Speaker 2: to that Alabama look.
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  Speaker 3: And then you know, I was at that press commersary
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  Speaker 3: brought up Bishop.
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  Speaker 2: I knew he wasn't saying he was gonna be lob
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  Speaker 2: Smith here one, but yeah, he thought I was trying
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  Speaker 2: to insinuate that kind of level of play. But no, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean I'm back home and yeah, no, not quite
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  Speaker 2: a Heisman season for Bishop, but I think he's.
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  Speaker 3: Gonna be pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Well, look, there's people, there's aggregators all over the media
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  Speaker 1: that takes Sark out of context almost weekly. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: give him one free pass, even if it came at
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  Speaker 1: your expense. They're taking you out of context a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: During that question, Evan Vith from inside Texas joins us,
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  Speaker 1: what was your favorite part of the media Days experience
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  Speaker 1: this time.
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  Speaker 2: Around, so I only got to go to that day.
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  Speaker 2: We just were mainly there for the Texas guys. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, the first thing I ended up doing was
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  Speaker 2: was that early morning LSU press or I think it
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  Speaker 2: started at nine, and my first experience immedia is my
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  Speaker 2: first time ever going was Lane Kiffin talking for eighteen
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  Speaker 2: minutes of his thirty allotted in a filibuster of his
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  Speaker 2: opening statement because he did not want to talk to
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  Speaker 2: the media, and the only ended up answering four questions.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, in that filibuster included a ton of
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  Speaker 2: random statements, and then one of his answers was about
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  Speaker 2: how Hulk Hogan showed him the importance of like mortality.
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  Speaker 3: Another one was just from an Auburn report.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this is exactly what Lanekiffin is and it
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  Speaker 2: was pretty funny just to see it in person like that.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of DC guys like us know a thing
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  Speaker 1: or two about the filibuster, and that's certainly exactly what
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  Speaker 1: Lane did. I saw someone comparing that word count to
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  Speaker 1: Mike Leech's five word opening statement from four years ago
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  Speaker 1: rested peace to coach Leech that is somebody that was
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  Speaker 1: certainly missed.
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  Speaker 4: This weekend in Tampa.
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  Speaker 1: We also got some breaking news during Stars press conference.
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  Speaker 1: Five star cornerback John Meredith third is reclamifying is joining
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  Speaker 1: the long Gorns roster this season.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think this news might mean, Evan for
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  Speaker 4: the Texas defense.
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  Speaker 2: I think it means a little bit more for twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven than it might for twenty twenty six, just
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  Speaker 2: because you know, I think part of what Meredith is
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  Speaker 2: going to be busy doing and to end the summer
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  Speaker 2: is finishing his classes. Because what he's doing is making
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  Speaker 2: sure that he's able to finish with his district to
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  Speaker 2: get his degree in high school, to that enroll a
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  Speaker 2: year early. And it wasn't like this was you know,
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  Speaker 2: some of these players, it's a big time, long term
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  Speaker 2: plan to do this. But Meredith, because of his eligibility
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  Speaker 2: problems it is at North Crowley like he kind of
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  Speaker 2: pivoted that way and it worked out well. The Texas staff,
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  Speaker 2: his district staff have done a great job of making
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  Speaker 2: sure that that's able to happen. But I think it
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  Speaker 2: more means that it's going to be a slow fall
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  Speaker 2: for him, because you know, how can you expect him
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  Speaker 2: to play in those first two to three games, as
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  Speaker 2: he's really just learning the playbook of this roster and
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  Speaker 2: they've got a lot of good cornerbacks on the team,
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  Speaker 2: even had the luxury of kind of moving Kobe Black
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  Speaker 2: to more of a safety role because.
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  Speaker 3: Of the talent there. So I don't think it means
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  Speaker 3: much this year.
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  Speaker 2: He might get a few snaps here there, but I
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  Speaker 2: think it does mean that this was already a guy
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  Speaker 2: we were.
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  Speaker 3: Discussing of twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 2: Could he just pulled grace in Littleton and be starting
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  Speaker 2: right away as a true freshman? Now?
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  Speaker 3: I mean that is that has catalyzed way more.
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  Speaker 2: Now he's gonna be on campus for a full year,
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  Speaker 2: actually getting to know Mark orfe At the cornerback coach,
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  Speaker 2: getting to know the Will mus Champs scheme. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this might be a guy who is starting Week one
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  Speaker 2: next year just because well he's got a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a leg up on some of the competition that
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  Speaker 2: we didn't expect him to have. He's a really talented
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  Speaker 2: pressman cornerback. You know, Wil must Champ loves those kind
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  Speaker 2: of players, So I keep more of an eye out
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  Speaker 2: for how that looks the next offseason. What he can
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  Speaker 2: do in twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was telling some friends who were asking, is
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  Speaker 1: he going to step in right away? Is he going
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  Speaker 1: to get some snaps? And my answer was I almost
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  Speaker 1: hope not. But is that a silly way to think?
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  Speaker 1: Knowing just how talented this kid is and what the
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  Speaker 1: ceiling is that comes with it.
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  Speaker 2: It would probably mean that injuries have happened, and that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't mean that he couldn't go to it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he is eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like they're bringing in a player who is
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  Speaker 2: a true you know, about to be senior in high
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  Speaker 2: school and not really ready for that kind of level
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  Speaker 2: of physicality.
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  Speaker 3: And he was the number two cornerback, number five player.
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  Speaker 2: I believe twenty twenty six class or twenty twenty seven
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  Speaker 2: class now reclassified for a reason.
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  Speaker 3: But it probably means that you've gotten pretty deep into
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  Speaker 3: your well.
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  Speaker 2: If you've got your three starting cornerbacks, there's a multitude
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  Speaker 2: guys who can play at the nickel. There's Warren Rovers
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  Speaker 2: and Sammarti Matthews in this class, so it probably means
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  Speaker 2: you've got about three injuries in the cornerback room. If
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  Speaker 2: he's got to be playing, so I'd be wary of
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  Speaker 2: him really needing actual snaps this year.
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  Speaker 1: Evan V from Inside Texas is with us about this
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  Speaker 1: time yesterday, Arch Manning was speaking with the media and
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  Speaker 1: we aired a one on one conversation he had with
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  Speaker 1: Craig way here during the time slot yesterday, and he
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  Speaker 1: told Craig that he had a lot more fun this
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  Speaker 1: year at media Days. He maybe came in dreading it
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  Speaker 1: a little bit and left with a better mindset. Some
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  Speaker 1: of that came from, you know, coaches, parents, teammates, things
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  Speaker 1: like that. Did you pick up on that version of
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  Speaker 1: Arch being a little different this time around?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I did feel.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there are two different levels of confidence that
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  Speaker 2: have shown from Arch Manning in these two offseason. I
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  Speaker 2: think last year was kind of a youthful, cocky confidence
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  Speaker 2: in a way that like, you know, I'm Arch Manning,
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  Speaker 2: I'm starting now, I'm ready to go, which is nothing
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  Speaker 2: wrong with that, but I think now it feels like
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  Speaker 2: more of a man. I just went through a tough
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  Speaker 2: year and I'm past that, and we've really built a
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  Speaker 2: roster that's going to allow me to succeed in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty six. And now we interest saying like, yeah, I've
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  Speaker 2: earned my stripes a little bit. I've gone through the
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  Speaker 2: tough parts of football, and now it's just about kind
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  Speaker 2: of having fun and letting a team that's really good
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  Speaker 2: around me play to my strengths. And of course it
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  Speaker 2: helps when you're coming with It's Colin Simmons and Trevor Gooseby.
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  Speaker 2: Gooseby from his class, who's his buying CYB protector Cam
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  Speaker 2: Coleman's getting voted All SEC first Team right there during
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  Speaker 2: the day. So I did feel like in a way
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  Speaker 2: that that artch just seemed a little happier, Like not
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  Speaker 2: to psychoanalyze the guy, but he just seemed to have
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  Speaker 2: a smile on his face a lot, seemed to be
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  Speaker 2: embracing the chaos of what happens when he comes to
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  Speaker 2: the stand. I don't know if people see my tweet
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  Speaker 2: about it, but you know, he's the most popular guy
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  Speaker 2: in college football, and you can see it with the
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  Speaker 2: media scrum just huddling around him about six rows deep
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  Speaker 2: were the bodies of reporters. But he didn't seem phased
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  Speaker 2: by it the way he might have done earlier last
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  Speaker 2: year when he was really struggling, and we even had
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  Speaker 2: him kind of answer our questions saying, you know, hey,
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  Speaker 2: when did you start having fun last year Goes and
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  Speaker 2: we started winning, which that was about six weeks into
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  Speaker 2: the season, Jake. So that's where you can see the
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  Speaker 2: difference and how how his mental is coming.
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  Speaker 3: Into the year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we played that SoundBite a little earlier in the
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  Speaker 1: show and last segment we heard Sark's comments about Parker
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  Speaker 1: Livingston say they want to kick his tail in the
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  Speaker 1: Red River game, and he also kind of expanded later
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  Speaker 1: on in that availability about some of the guys that
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  Speaker 1: departed the program in the off season, that they had
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  Speaker 1: to let guys leave to.
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  Speaker 4: Quote create cap space.
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  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on the way Sark kind of
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  Speaker 1: handled this issue when it was brought up, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: the reactions that it's getting on X and in other
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  Speaker 1: media outlets today, Well, I was.
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  Speaker 2: Just gonna say, I think the reactions are so funny
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  Speaker 2: to me because this is not the first time you
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  Speaker 2: said this, right, Like this was these were headlines that were.
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  Speaker 3: Coming around in January and February and into the spring.
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  Speaker 2: When we were talking to him about the transportal class,
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  Speaker 2: he said, like, I had to make some tough decisions
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  Speaker 2: about DeAndre Moore. You know, he ended up kind of
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  Speaker 2: posting some emoji reactions on Twitter and CJ and Trey
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  Speaker 2: Wiser like this isn't the first time he said we
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  Speaker 2: had to get rid of these players, and get rid
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  Speaker 2: of might be a harsh cut. It sounds harsh as well,
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  Speaker 2: but it's frankly, what it is is, we're not.
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  Speaker 3: Going to give you a raise.
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  Speaker 2: I know you think you need a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: money here, but we're not going to adhere to that.
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  Speaker 3: If you want to stay and compete, then that's fine.
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  Speaker 2: But if there's a place of offering you more money
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  Speaker 2: for a better opportunity, go get it. We're not going
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  Speaker 2: to stop you from doing that. And that's just the
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  Speaker 2: modern date reality of college football. Players want this to
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  Speaker 2: be a business where they're making seven figures and overall
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  Speaker 2: getting into that two to six million dollars paychecks here,
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  Speaker 2: they have to realize that some other guys are going
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  Speaker 2: to get paid and if a team doesn't feel like
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  Speaker 2: you are the right investment at your spot, they will
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  Speaker 2: pick over you. So, you know, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: outrage about a cash space comment, and every coach is
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  Speaker 2: doing this.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's a different level with certain things.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it's at the G six level where you know
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  Speaker 2: if your quarterback's one of the best in the country.
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  Speaker 2: When he was playing at Texas State, which is a
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  Speaker 2: bad example because Brad Jackson did stay. But a guy
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  Speaker 2: like Jackson could have gone for a higher paycheck somewhere else.
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  Speaker 2: And what's GJ. Kennedy can you going to do? He
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have the salary cap to match that most of
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  Speaker 2: the time. So it happens everywhere. It's just it starts
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  Speaker 2: very vocal about it. He's very vocal about how he
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  Speaker 2: operated the transfer portal. And then the day, Jake, are
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  Speaker 2: you upset that they turn the money that DeAndre Moore
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  Speaker 2: and Parker Livingston were making into cam coleman Or you've
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  Speaker 2: set that the two running backs have been traded out
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  Speaker 2: for two more explosive running backs. You've set that they
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  Speaker 2: added Rachim Biles and Bow Mascow. It felt like good
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  Speaker 2: moves at the time, and it still feels like even
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  Speaker 2: better moves as it's aged longer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think providing potential bulletin board material has to
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  Speaker 1: be low on the list in the C suite over
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  Speaker 1: there on campus as to how these decisions are being
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  Speaker 1: made and how they operate. Obviously, a national championship and
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  Speaker 1: an SEC Championship are at the top of the list.
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  Speaker 1: I want to get your thoughts now on the predicted
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  Speaker 1: order of finish that you and your media colleagues use
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  Speaker 1: that term pretty loosely voted on in the SEC media
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  Speaker 1: days in Tampa. Surprised to see Georgia at number one,
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  Speaker 1: in Texas just behind them a number or too.
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  Speaker 3: No surprise at the very top.
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of people that I've talked to
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  Speaker 2: have shared this sentiment that George is probably the best
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  Speaker 2: equipped to go out and win the SEC Championship, but
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  Speaker 2: we're talking.
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  Speaker 3: About national title.
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  Speaker 2: That's where I'd probably give Texas to the edge, and
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  Speaker 2: that's just the result of how these rosters are built,
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  Speaker 2: the schedules that they play. I think Texas has a
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  Speaker 2: harder schedule in Georgia pretty clearly, so the Bulldogs keep
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  Speaker 2: doing it they they've won the past. However, many that
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  Speaker 2: have come around and really only feels like Alabama is
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  Speaker 2: a team that gives them problems. So I would not
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  Speaker 2: be surprised if George is the team that wins the SEC,
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  Speaker 2: but Texas goes farther than the.
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  Speaker 1: CFP Alabama's down at number six. You brought them up
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  Speaker 1: first time since the pre Sabin era they've picked to
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  Speaker 1: finish that low in the conference. Is that position maybe
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  Speaker 1: justified for you?
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  Speaker 2: I felt that four through seven were very interchangeable, and
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  Speaker 2: me personally, I would have had to Ole Miss in
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  Speaker 2: that tier as well. What I think gave will Miss
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  Speaker 2: the edge and I will finally about this on Twitter,
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  Speaker 2: is it feels like the top three teams, you can
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  Speaker 2: pick a superlative that that really fits why they are
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  Speaker 2: in that top spot. Georgia, It's it's not hard to
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  Speaker 2: explain why Kirby Smart's teams are going to be number
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  Speaker 2: one Texas the investment, the talent, the star players, and
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  Speaker 2: ole Miss. At the end of the day, they have
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  Speaker 2: a defensive coach and also the best quarterback and running
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  Speaker 2: back in the SEC and maybe.
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  Speaker 3: Even in college football.
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  Speaker 2: Off of a long CFP rub, they were going to
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  Speaker 2: be top three, but that fourth through seventier it could
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  Speaker 2: have gone anyway because it's all teams that play tough schedules,
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  Speaker 2: all teams that have good but questions about them, especially
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  Speaker 2: like Jake.
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  Speaker 3: The quarterback spot really lights up here for me.
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  Speaker 2: I think all these coaches are good at a baseline level,
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  Speaker 2: and probably you know Kiffin and Elco Debora especially not
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  Speaker 2: to throw venables under the bus here, but really really
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  Speaker 2: high level maximizers.
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  Speaker 3: But every single quarterback position here has some question marks.
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  Speaker 2: Right Alabama red shirt freshman starting quarterback and Kielan Russell,
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  Speaker 2: how good can he be? Sam Levitt was not representing
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  Speaker 2: LSU at media days, and he's going to be the starter,
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  Speaker 2: but injury concerns. He hasn't really pieced together a full
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  Speaker 2: season of really good, amazing, accurate college football as a quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Arizona State that that year they played Texas was the closest,
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  Speaker 2: and then A M and Oklahoma. They've had these starters
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  Speaker 2: now for two two and a half years, if you're
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  Speaker 2: talking about A and M, but haven't truly been These
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  Speaker 2: force multiplier bring the team ahead of where the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the roster is kind of players. So I would
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  Speaker 2: bet that whoever has the best quarterback of this tier
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  Speaker 2: probably breaks into that three four spot.
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  Speaker 1: That's a tier you're discussing with Texas, A and M
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  Speaker 1: for LSU five, Alabama six, and Oklahoma seven for those
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  Speaker 1: of us on thirteen hundred the zone. Of course, you
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  Speaker 1: can also join us on x and Facebook and YouTube
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  Speaker 1: every day for the show where we've got these rankings
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  Speaker 1: projected up for you. I'm with you on a tier
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  Speaker 1: break though between seven and eight Oklahoma down to Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not as high on the balls this season in general.
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  Speaker 1: Is there any team eight through sixteen that you feel
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  Speaker 1: as though is ranked too low and might have the
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  Speaker 1: best chance to catapult up into that tier we just discussed.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's not too far below, but I would
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  Speaker 2: have put Florida above Tennessee, and that might be a
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  Speaker 2: hot take given that Tennessee's got a little bit more establishment,
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  Speaker 2: But you know.
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  Speaker 3: These quarterbacks are going to be good no matter who.
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  Speaker 2: Gets taken as Josh Aipel's guy like that, he's not
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  Speaker 2: gonna have a bad offense, but just not really bought
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  Speaker 2: into the team that they built this year. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think that they're going to completely maximize what this player
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  Speaker 2: in year one of starting is going to be, and
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  Speaker 2: they play some really tough games. I have them there,
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  Speaker 2: and it's hard once you get to that ten, eleven,
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  Speaker 2: twelve through sixteen, because it does feel like they're in
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  Speaker 2: the right spots right Like I wouldn't say yes Vanderbilt
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  Speaker 2: with whoever they pick us for sure above Auburn, or
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  Speaker 2: that Auburn should be breaking ahead of Missouri. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sure there's one where I'm going, Yes, they will
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  Speaker 2: definitely be there. I will say that of all those teams,
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  Speaker 2: I think South Carolina has the clearest chance of everything
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  Speaker 2: goes right, they will be in that top six where
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if if everything goes right.
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  Speaker 3: With Kentucky or Vanderbilt, they will be in that spot.
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  Speaker 2: Lenora's Sellers is back to the kind of theoretical Lenora
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  Speaker 2: Sellers we've heard about. If the wide receivers are really
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  Speaker 2: really good, kind of they ended the year well. But
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  Speaker 2: if Harbor and Sellers can really take up a tier,
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  Speaker 2: I think they could be a very good team.
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  Speaker 3: And that see, it's hot for Shane Beamer.
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  Speaker 2: So if he plays well, you know it's too It's
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  Speaker 2: to save his job more than anything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's kind of gone up and down and
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  Speaker 1: up and down for Beamer at South Carolina. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: SEC media Days, polls, preseason all SEC rankings and teams
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  Speaker 1: with Evan Veith from Inside Texas. We're looking now at
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  Speaker 1: the All SEC first team a few Longhorns represented Cam
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  Speaker 1: Coleman at the wide receiver spot, Trevor Goosby on the
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  Speaker 1: O line, Colin Simmons on the defensive line, and Rashim
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  Speaker 1: Biles at one of those linebacker spots. We ran through
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  Speaker 1: the whole teams and told you about all the Longhorns
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  Speaker 1: who were represented earlier on in the program. What was
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: your kind of reaction to this? Did you break from
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: the consensus on anything that we can see here?
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: You know, one of my big quips with how these
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: things work, and I tried my best to avoid it
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: as I could, but they don't really ask me to
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: rank it in a football sense. Like the tiering for
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: the D line is just rank your twelve best defensive lineman,
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: not who's your first team, who's your second team? Is
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: your third team, So you don't really get to calculate
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: out a team. You just get to name players. So
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: you see, like this is three edge rushers. This D
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: line would not actually look all that great because Will
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: Eccles was kind of only tackled anchor. You're not seeing
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: any guards on the O line tier, right, It's all
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: these tackles in the center.
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: So that's where I tried my best you know, I.
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: Had Patrick Coutis, who's the ole miss guard higher there,
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: and on my d line, I had David Stone on
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: my first team, I believe, you know, at linebacker, I
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: thought Kip Lewis should have been ahead of Whip Meeks.
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: That's a guy I noticed myself as I was looking back,
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: I'm like, wow, I am way higher on Oklahoma than
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: a lot of people in Oklahoma.
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: They're in my three to four tier team. I think
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: they are the best of those teams.
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: We were talking about that four through seven tier, Like,
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: I think that you could have had Isaiah Satanna there
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: over Ryan Coleman Williams, who, like, let's be honest about
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: what Ryan Coleman Williams was last year.
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: He was getting benched on his team like that.
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: They had low Zerra Brooks playing more at the end
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: of the season and getting more targets.
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: And I do think Coleman Williams will be good this year.
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: But that's the thing to keep an eye out.
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: So some things about guard and d tackle, those individuals
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: spots dB. I believe I had Kelly Jones as a
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: cornerback over Ellis Robinson, the six or four player at
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: Misissippi State. Absolutely lotched down players outside of Cam Coleman,
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: and then I had Jade and boh at running back
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: over Ama Hardy, just because I felt like that top
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: three running back spot in SEC was all three really
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: good players. It's just about like who's in the better situation,
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: who's gonna end up getting the yards this year?
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: And with Hardy's situation, I just thought Bob was a
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: safer pick.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: So a lot of it was pretty I think a
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: lot of chalk and consensus at the top. You know,
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: Chambliss is going to be their Lacy, Colin Simmons, Dylan Stuart.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: But I tried my best to keep it within the
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: lines of what was allowed. Jake, I will ask you
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: one question because I want to know how many people
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: noticed this. Did you see who the third team kickoff
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: specialist was?
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at it now, I know that Ryan Nibblett
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: was what a first team return specialist and then a
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: second team all purpose guy? Third team kickoff specialist?
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: Wait, why don't you? Why don't you what's going on
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: behind this?
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: So the kickoff specialist spot not to take over the show?
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: Here is no so most people the guys who kick
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: off the ball, like you know, I don't know Will
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: Stone last.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: Year for Texas.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: The one who got third team is Terry Boosey in return.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: He's a returner. He has never kicked a football in
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: his college career. They messed it up and people just
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: decided to vote for him. So Terry Boosey is a
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: third teamer at a position he doesn't play, and Ryan
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: Nibblett got second team AP votes at a position he
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: also doesn't really play like nibble will play on offense
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: for Texas. He is not the same type of player
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: that Mario Kraber is who got the first team.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: It just goes to show the SEC is such a
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: messed up voting system for.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Well, look, at the risk of reforming everything, why don't
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: we just think about it this way? There were eleven
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: total Longhorns who saw their name on an All SEC
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: team of some kind. There's limitations to how much you
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: can take from this, clearly based on the flaws and
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: the voting process that you're revealing for us here.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: We've become a courtroom drama here this afternoon.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: But by Filibustrie, Yeah yeah, but I'm just wondering of
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: the long Worns whose names.
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: We didn't see.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Are there a couple who you feel as though should
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: feel shorted here or feel slighted here? And are there
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: a couple who you feel as though could play their
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: way into these conversations this season in particular, because I know,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: you know, you never really know until you see it.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, your timming is impeccable because I released this article
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: right before I came out of the show as my
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Internet was having some difficulties where I could come on.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: But I feel like there's only one true snub, a
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: guy who should have been there who didn't get taken.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: It's because of the problems I've already addressed.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: Is that here Kanu, Like, that's one of the sixth
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: best interior defensive linemen in the SEC coming into this year.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: I would have had him at third or fourth, right,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: I think Eckles and then Elijah Griffin and Will Stone
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: who or David Stone? Excuse me, I said Will Stone
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: earlier who made it on second team, are there, But
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: when we're talking about him or DJ Hicks, he's more
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: proven than Hicks is and just a lot of edge
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: rushers got in on the D line instead of Kanye,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: so I thought he should have gotten there. And then
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: there are some players who I think, as the season progresses,
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: will maybe get some buzz there. I look at all
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: three cornerbacks for Texas, I think one of Mascow, Phillips, Littleton.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: You could see them, especially with the way they're gonna
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: play some more pressman coverage like a five interception season.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: That's the kind of thing that gets you on an
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: All SEC team, and I think any of those three
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: can do that. And especially if Lyttleton is playing in
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: base formations as an outside cornerback and getting some of
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: those tackle and PVU breakups in the slot, he could
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: be there. And then I'll throw out Melvin Sionni Melvinson.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: I we haven't actually got one hundred percent comment information
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: on which one it is, but he's a guy who
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: is I think fourth in the in the transfer portal
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: offensive line on on three's rankings. He's going to start
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: at right tackle for Texas, and if he is really good,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: then it's gonna show up a lot for Texas. There's
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: gonna be a lot of people that go, Wow, this
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: line is so much more improved. What's the reason you
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: look at the right tackle spot? So I can see
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: that being someone who as the year progresses on, he
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: ends up getting onto one of these teams because Texas's
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: O line looks better and he's a good reason for that.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's somebody Sark has mentioned quite a bit. I
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: also love the focus that you had both in your
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: piece over at Inside Texas and on the show here
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: today about the long corn defensive back room. I think
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: it's fascinating the track coming into the year, and if
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: we had more time, we'd be able to dive into it,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: but we do need to break. Evan, thanks so much
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: for stopping by. You're not only taking over this show,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: you're taking over Bucky and BK coming up after this too,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: so I know we're keeping you busy today.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: Thanks so much, as.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Always, Thank you guys, appreciate having me.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: All Right, that's Evan Vief from Inside Texas. You can
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: follow him on x at Evan Vief.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: More to come.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from Colin Simmons some sound bites from
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: his Media day presser coming up right after this.