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- 0:14Going on. Baby, we got a lot to talk about. It's been
- 0:16a couple of weeks, but we're gonna dive into everything here almost the later.
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- 0:42We got cooping, We've got PG, and we're gonna dive into so
- 0:47recruiting updates. We've got some announcements coming up and I'm pretty excited about those
- 0:52and uh practice notes. Everybody's been seeing everything coming out and I would love
- 0:56to deep dive into a little bit of that stuff and would have fun.
- 0:59So HiT's what's up on an unfair fan line four three zero nine zero one
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- 1:10uh yeah, coop PG. Happy Wednesday, man, we're back. We're
- 1:15dak. What's going on? How are you feeling what's going on, Coop.
- 1:23Has it been you know, it's been a while since we've been able
- 1:25to really get together at well, it's not really been a while. It's
- 1:26been what a week? Yeah, no, two, everything's been every Yeah,
- 1:32everything's it's been crazy. But yeah, it's it's it's good time.
- 1:34Uh but just you know, again, the the that the job keeping me
- 1:41keeping me pretty pretty intense. And then so but I feel the the itch
- 1:46and the fever's been coming back here for a couple of weeks, and so
- 1:49uh yeah, I'm excited to uh get get digging in. Yeah, it's
- 1:53all like me, man, That's how I was feeling. I was like,
- 1:56maybe get back on the lives. But I mean the biggest thing is
- 1:59is I mean we get here and just talk, you know, everything that's
- 2:00going on in the world, and you know, sports related. But you
- 2:05know, we're about to get some spring ball, so now we've got a
- 2:07lot of us to talk about. We're in commitment season. This is Oklahoma's
- 2:14commitment type season. Right between April and July. It is when we see
- 2:17the biggest bulk of commitments. We didn't you don't see a lot at the
- 2:22beginning of the year and luckily coming into this season, into this recruiting season,
- 2:27we actually had what six or seven commits already coming into twenty twenty four
- 2:35for the twenty free five class. So we lucked out that things kind of
- 2:38shaped out into our advantage because everybody was wondering what the heck was gonna happen
- 2:44with the rules and everything. There was a lot of uncertainty when out NCAA
- 2:47announced that you know last year that you know you're to still be able to
- 2:50recruit up to eighty five kids. I expect the twenty sixth class to be
- 2:54very very light until April or May of next year too. So this is
- 3:00the season we've got a lot of kids talk about, We've got lots of
- 3:02to go into and so hey, everybody in here. Mikey asked this question
- 3:08about the extensiveness of Everett's injury, and Stephen answered it, he's having surgery
- 3:15today. He had surgery today, and the anticipation is he's done until fall
- 3:20and we'll dive into him as well. But first PG coop on recruiting,
- 3:28it's feeling good man. Trent Wilson appears to have like eight million crystal balls
- 3:34gone in so at this point he said his date to April tenth. I
- 3:37mean, do we doubt that there's is there a chance for anybody at this
- 3:40point? I'm sure somebody will say Penn State or Texas A and M,
- 3:46which is funny anybody would even think that, because I mean, the Penn
- 3:50State guys are basically saying he's not even gonna make the Blue and White game,
- 3:53which is the thirteenth, because his commitment is said on April tenth.
- 3:57The minute he said at the April tenth, I was like, oh,
- 3:58he ain't making it. He ain't making it. Let a last visit on
- 4:00his list. Ain't no chance that's happening whatsoever. So Coop excited about picking
- 4:06up a player like Trent William, Trent Wilson, Tritton Wilson. I mean
- 4:14when you when we saw the writing on the wall, you know, with
- 4:17Rink, I think that we are all trying to convince ourself that that,
- 4:24you know, if he was going to not be a legacy, he's want
- 4:27to come here, right and so A and M. You know, I
- 4:30don't know. I mean, like I said it kind of with some choice
- 4:33words that I won't use and hear. But to all you guys when we
- 4:38were in a chat, you know the other day when we were talking about
- 4:40it, and it's just it's frustrating because it's you know, I don't understand
- 4:45how you can see the same thing in A and M for year after year
- 4:48after year, and somehow they still weaseled their way in. But I mean,
- 4:54I guess that there's a new chance for hope, you know, if
- 4:58you can get, if you can get you know, a great actual culture
- 5:01there with the money that's tossing around, I mean that that's a little scary.
- 5:05But you know, with with with with with the big man. You
- 5:10know, when you start having people who you know, we don't see crystal
- 5:13balls from very often start dropping, you know, stuff from Maryland that he's
- 5:18coming to Oklahoma. That I mean, that's pretty much the rioting on the
- 5:20wall Maryland. That's that's always the beauty of a PG. When you saw
- 5:25that, no, you got excited. Yeah, you know my immediately my
- 5:30immediate thought was, so we just need to lose a five star offensive lineman
- 5:35somewhere so we can dedicate their money to another one, right, like do
- 5:41the same thing. Like we just need to move, Like we just need
- 5:44to let one of those happen so that we we can go all in on
- 5:46another dude. Is that what we need to do at this point? So,
- 5:49No, Trent Wilson is gonna be great. Talk to him a couple
- 5:51of times. He's a great dude. So I'm excited for him to make
- 5:56his commitment and potentially be a part of this class. I think I did
- 5:58the class thankings earlier with two four seven sports. If you land him and
- 6:03Malie Hawkins, you're number five. Uh, there's obviously a pretty big gap
- 6:08between five and four. So but MALIEK. Hawkins, I would expect would
- 6:13be a four star by the end of the cycle. So I was actually
- 6:16looking through it earlier. Uh, there's a good chance Oklahoma doesn't have a
- 6:19single three star in this class by the end of the cycle. That's exciting
- 6:25that. It's kind of funny to Steven see that, Eggs. I mean,
- 6:28what he's what is Hawkins? Right, He's not even ranked at ranked
- 6:31with two four sevens, Right, he's ranked he's a three star with on
- 6:36three and he's a four star with rivals. Yeah, I saw that,
- 6:40And so their consensus has himblisted as a four star. And but and it
- 6:46kind of feels like with him, people just kind of like assume they know
- 6:49where he's going. After Michael decided to come to Oklahoma, in which he's
- 6:53been showing out, it's like they just everybody quit. So yeah, yeah,
- 6:59I mean if you're looking at I mean, if you're looking at the
- 7:02Eli Bowen, you know, it went dead silent for a while, and
- 7:06everyone, you know, there was like it was so quiet that there was
- 7:10the capability of a whisper that it might be somebody different. But I mean
- 7:14it was. I mean, we knew, right, and so but I
- 7:17tell you this is if Malie Hawkins, he looks like an absolute stud.
- 7:21And I got to say this is I mean, if if Michael has improved,
- 7:29I mean, because I'll talk about this at some point, but if
- 7:30Michael has improved as much as he has since Alan played Denton Geier, you
- 7:35know, two years ago. But yeah, it's I mean, if Maleek
- 7:42improves like that and he's got the pedigree and he's got the coaching and he's
- 7:45got the influence around him, then I mean the guy's going to be.
- 7:48Yeah, he's going to be a pretty decent four star oh No. One
- 7:53hundred and Michael has been showing out in practice. So yeah, I'm kind
- 8:01of curious to how that because I don't like that take. I talked about
- 8:05it last night and I don't like that. Fairpoint. Fairpoint. But as
- 8:07Steven asked the question, is it too soon to thank Rink? It is
- 8:11right now, Let's get that official commitment and then see him. Now.
- 8:20Once he goes official, then I could say we could do the thank you,
- 8:22but I mean Land, it would have been a nice haul. But
- 8:24I'm really liking I'm really liking Trenton at Trent Wilson. Then you can add
- 8:31Cole up there in New Jersey, which I really like the idea of him.
- 8:37He uh, you know, Cole with a kid, he's super tough
- 8:41and he's shown his toughness and a lot of capacities, So I think I
- 8:45would be interested in having him join the class. And then of course Mike.
- 8:50You know Malie Hawkins. Everything about him at his size feels like he
- 8:54should be ready to lot higher, right and watching him do some stuff at
- 8:56Frisco. Now, I've watched his film and it just he's he more so,
- 9:01just doesn't get much throw in his direction because people don't want to fool
- 9:03with him because they're not stupid, But at the same time, we just
- 9:07need him to we need him to start camping. Once he starts camping and
- 9:11really showing off his talent, people will have to rate him higher. But
- 9:15at the same time, honestly don't see him really camping much, like why
- 9:18like why would you go really do what mini camps? You really have no
- 9:20reason to at this point unless you don't one to high that's not ranked.
- 9:26I mean that's what. I don't think that means much. It does not
- 9:31want to be that one guy. I mean fair, But does that really
- 9:35matter though in the long run of his ability to play, Yeah, I
- 9:39mean Smitty might make it matter fairin it, I don't think Schmitty cares about
- 9:50rankings. He cares about them guys that can play. But Steven has asked
- 9:54a good question here. With Floyd Boucard, it looks like he he hasn't
- 9:58been in Oklahoma. But I just saw an article just literally went up on
- 10:01Rivals that hit my Twitter, and it appears he has a really, really,
- 10:07really good relationship with Bates and like he's trying to figure out how to
- 10:11get here in PG. I think you've talked to either him or people around
- 10:13him I'm assuming that that's that's that's something that's actually viable. Yeah. Uh,
- 10:20Floyd Bouchard is in a good spot with Oklahoma, So I think what's
- 10:24gonna happen is you're gonna get Trent Wilson. I don't think it's a secret.
- 10:28You're getting Cole Briyler. He's never been to Stanford, so I don't
- 10:31know why they were in the top three. It's been to Ohio State once.
- 10:35Like you're pretty much lady. So you get those three defensive linemen between
- 10:39Kemory Moore, Trent Wilson, Cole Briiler. At this point, it's like,
- 10:43all right, we're not gonna push hard, but you know, well,
- 10:48if they come, they'll come. And I think that's gonna be Floyd
- 10:50Bouchard and guys. Landing Rink sweepstakes aren't over. He shows back up to
- 10:56campus, it ain't over. And I'm telling you he said that there's a
- 11:01chance. I don't believe his tweet of I'm only going to do my visits
- 11:05with A and M. I just don't believe it. So, I mean,
- 11:07there's a chance you could end up with four guys in this four defensive
- 11:09women in this class. But I think once they get cold, I think
- 11:13they're not going to just they're not going hard. No, I'll get you
- 11:16there. I totally understand that. Beside, so as we look towards end,
- 11:24there was another person, go ahead, cool, I was going to
- 11:30say, And also, don't sleep on Kumari making a little bit of a
- 11:33rise this year too, because I mean, the guy was a defensive MVP
- 11:37in the ranks last year. And you know, as we were doing our
- 11:41interview, I think dude was sixteen years old, like and that's something that
- 11:45like we just forgot about, like his is I mean obviously, like this
- 11:48class, a lot of these kids are still like sixteen, seventeen, eighteen
- 11:52years old, and so I mean he is going to continue to grow.
- 11:56And if you're worried about his his old friend, you know who went across
- 12:01the street. I don't think that's the I don't think it's an issue.
- 12:03I really don't because I don't think that the Missouri has made him a priority
- 12:07like that. But you know, Kamori is gonna rise too. Has Missouri
- 12:13even offered Kimory. I think I don't think they offered him. I can
- 12:18tell you I will say this though we can't take too many defensive linemen because
- 12:26you have to leave a spot for a certain five star defensive lineman and a
- 12:31different cycle in case he hits the portal it get that, fatty, Are
- 12:39you two doing that again? We're not gonna do that. We're not gonna
- 12:41do that today. Hey, I'm just saying. It could be this off
- 12:45season that things go right. It could be this offseason, this come done
- 12:50the year I'm done. I'm done with you. I'm just gonna say I'm
- 12:54done with you on this. No, we're not that. Thank you for
- 12:58not even saying a name, because that will not No, I didn't even
- 13:05say what cycle. I just said from a previous cycle. I could be
- 13:07talking about two or it don't matter. Just yet, we were good.
- 13:11We're done. We're done with that one that doesn't exist. So, uh,
- 13:15thank god for pulling up hit that like, but if you need to
- 13:16the channel, subscribe. I see we got a lot of people in here
- 13:20joining from the uh uh not you know is that if I'm correct, Oh
- 13:24you inside was going on at the same time under the divisor's happening, which
- 13:28is kind of funny that we're doing this at the exact same time and but
- 13:35no appreciate you pulling up, Coop, keep coming in and out. You
- 13:37know, everything on his side is acting fun. I'm good. But oh
- 13:43god, who's who says about Ali Guard again? Somebody, dude, this
- 13:46is the third This isn't the same person. This is the third person within
- 13:48an hour that has said something about it. Yeah. I've even heard about
- 13:52him to Oklahoma on a couple of occasions. I'm just like, look,
- 13:54until I physically see him on this campus, there's nothing about him that I
- 14:00would ever ever actually believe. We don't need it real we don't need him,
- 14:05No, we really don't. I mean we're good. Actually, top
- 14:09three running backs are probably better than Olli Gordon. Anyways, I mean,
- 14:15is that a hot take? I mean debatable, but I mean the dude
- 14:22was probably one of the names stopped running backs. So but but Coop agrees,
- 14:28I say debatable, but I digress on that hit the light buddy,
- 14:31due to the channel subscribe share Also why because sharing is carrying. We are
- 14:35like six steel away from fourteen K. We'd love to hit that number.
- 14:41So make sure you all tell your friends, your people and everything. So
- 14:45just keep laughing about this thing. It's the funniest thing in the world.
- 14:46But I want to talk practice. By to talk I practice, y'all,
- 14:50we're gonna talk practice. Why do I want to talk practice? Because practice,
- 14:58baby, it has It's been good. We've been hearing nothing but good
- 15:03reports. I've been hearing from some folks on both sides of the ball.
- 15:07I know, apparent on the offense or apparent on the defense. Shoot me
- 15:11some info about how people are performing. And bent Vinables had a presser on
- 15:16last night, seventh practice for the spring, and first off, shout out
- 15:22to him, the staff, everybody there. They given some unprecedented access.
- 15:28Man, This is like the coolest stuff in the world. Man. You're
- 15:30getting all kinds of interviews from the beat, So you're actually getting to hear
- 15:33from the players and how they're feeling and how they're doing. We ain't get
- 15:37that before, right, This is like the most access and the opportunities that
- 15:43we've ever seen. And so now us as fans are truly in tune to
- 15:48what's going down. That's pretty flip and exciting. Right. You don't get
- 15:54this very often, and so we need to thank Brin Vnables for that.
- 15:56But what I want to jump into here is Troy Everett, you know,
- 16:07hurt, he's done until fall. He's like the only real injury outside of
- 16:15Justin Harrington still recovering from his knee and Andre Anthony recovering from his For the
- 16:23most part, we sound like we're kind of healthy, right. Javonte Barnes
- 16:26is healthy and he's moving around well. I mean, Kateen Hilm sounds like
- 16:30he's got just a little handy thing, but he's expected to be out there
- 16:33next week. Guys, give me a player on both sides of the ball
- 16:40that you're excited to hear more about over the next set of spring practices.
- 16:42Next week, Coop, I'll start with you and MPG you follow up and
- 16:47I'll wrap us up on that. I think I'm becoming a hardy boy.
- 16:52Oh it's what have I continuedly said about our defensive backfield nowadays. You got
- 17:00to be a dude to come in and to play. Yeah, and yeah,
- 17:04I could go with the reports that a Koye is a freak and he
- 17:10may show up as a specialist, you know, Jackson Stone, all that
- 17:14stuff. Hardy's one that I try to continually tell myself to stay say locked
- 17:19in, like, don't give up. On him, you know, but
- 17:22I got so enamored with that class. There's so many good people over the
- 17:26past two years. But yeah, you know, I will say Hardy and
- 17:32then our crimson missile brother, our crimson missile is gaining some steam and people
- 17:36are starting to take take notice. And so I'm gonna have to pull that
- 17:38tweet back from before he even signed and you know when I called it out
- 17:42and you know, I put it out there. So but yeah, I
- 17:45mean Hardy and I mean that's that's got to be it. But here and
- 17:49lou get out there and get out and you know, rock in some people.
- 17:53I believe that Gabe and Teddy said he's one of those people who is
- 18:00not afraid of contact or he you know, he is an appetite for contact.
- 18:04But it's it's like every time someone gets up after they get hit by
- 18:07Carter, it is a you know, it's not like arms a little limp.
- 18:11Yeah yeah, the arms just hanging limp and you're like, ooh,
- 18:15that wasn't fun. So yeah, those that's that's gotta be it. Yeah,
- 18:22yeah, yeah, I can't wait to see this Lewis Carter, this
- 18:30arc of him PG. What you're thinking, it's just any player, right,
- 18:34not not new players. Because I'm really liking Devant Sears from what you're
- 18:41hearing about Devon Sears, and I did a little bit of research. Did
- 18:45you guys know he was our highest rated pass rusher last year and he only
- 18:48played eleven snaps in fairness, but in the eleven snaps that he was on
- 18:52the field, he got to the quarterback and five times in terms of the
- 18:57rush. So so if what Predivinable is saying is true about Devon Sears and
- 19:04the step up and the globe that he's had in one year, this defensive
- 19:08line, as I was telling you earlier, you go out and get yourself
- 19:11a bleeding. This defensive line next year is gonna be absolutely solid. So
- 19:17liking Devon Sears. And then on the defensive side of the ball, I
- 19:19agree, I'm liking Lewis Carter. I mean, he's didn't they say he
- 19:26was the strongest person on the team last year? Easily? Yeah? Yeah,
- 19:30somebody said that. He like, you know, I think it was
- 19:33Achanic that said that. He definitely asked for waits for his birthday when he
- 19:37was like five, and so like, oh he does is eat weights NonStop?
- 19:40Yet a dude, it's a beast. I would accuse him. Wallis
- 19:44Carter is gonna be able to bench more than all that Texas player right,
- 19:47Oh oh yeah, he's probably tossing two and a quarter of fifteen to twenty
- 19:51times at his size today. Actually, I believe there's a video of Lewis
- 19:56Carter doing that right now. I'm gonna search the Twitter and see if there
- 20:00is, and then Steven mentions it in the chat. This is somebody that
- 20:03we haven't really talked about a whole lot on defense. Taylor him. He's
- 20:10been getting a lot a lot of hype over the last over the last couple
- 20:15over the last couple of practices, it's been bv Is mentioned and I think
- 20:19he's gotten up in he No, he hasn't gotten up in size yet.
- 20:22His biggest problem is he hasn't gotten bigger. Right. And so for me
- 20:26and Lemon's right here spot on Bower Sharp, man, we're gonna have a
- 20:30tight end room that's gonna be stupid good. Because it's not only that Bower
- 20:33Sharp is good. We've also got Hampton Faye. I heard it's actually stepping
- 20:37up. He's the other former quarterback he played at Michigan State transitioned to tight
- 20:42end and he's also he's uh what three what is he two hundred and fifty
- 20:52something pounds at his height, So he's not he's not a slouch. Like,
- 20:56he's just as sizey as as the others. And so, man,
- 21:07if you get if you get a you get Bowers sharp En Hampton, you
- 21:11got Devon Mitchell, who basically BV said that he's just got to refine his
- 21:18game and he's good. Yeah, and remember Devin Mitchell is supposed to be
- 21:25like a senior right now, like he's actually technically in his junior year of
- 21:29high school. He's already bigger than most of your He's already he's six y
- 21:34three to two fitty as well two VD five. Actually, I think this
- 21:37is what they had him listed. Tight end room is gonna be dumb.
- 21:41I'm excited to see what they turn out to be. And then we ain't
- 21:44talking about Jake Roberts. Can't even talk about him because you know he's been
- 21:45hurt, but he's coming back. K MacIntyre looks pretty good in some of
- 21:48the one on ones him when he gets healthy, he's gonna be tight end
- 21:53room. Josh Fanuel We've actually got a tight end room that I feel like
- 21:57has got some some that's gonna be able to contribute very well this year.
- 22:00It's offensively defensively though about offensive guys, Yeah, who got offensively? No,
- 22:12I said, if we're done on offensive guys, I mean I have
- 22:17been blown away with what we've been hearing about heathos Eida. Yeah, yeah,
- 22:23Yeah, Heath has been on it on the offensive line. I don't.
- 22:26I don't think like he's got to be one of the most improved players
- 22:29this year on this team. Him and Sears probably are your offense and defensive
- 22:33guys. Yeah. I would say him and Series will probably be your two
- 22:41because he's the one that's talked about the most. So that's a. That's
- 22:48a that's a good one. I wouldn't. I mean, it's it's it's
- 22:52I'm gonna buy into it, but it's, uh, it's you know,
- 22:56I want to see what Caleb Hicks is. You know, every single report
- 23:00is the guy looks like a freaking terminator. He looks like if you're going
- 23:03to create a a running back in a lab, it would look like Caleb
- 23:07Hicks. I think he's big, he's strong. I think that he probably
- 23:14can run the ball. You know, he's got top I mean, he's
- 23:17got everything that you potentially do. It is the mental side of it,
- 23:21right, because to Marco's not going to put you in there if you've got
- 23:23ball security issues or you get a situation to where you're tossing out. You
- 23:29know, a kid who's you know, going to have to be an extra.
- 23:33You know, I guess a thing for Jackson Arnold to worry about.
- 23:37You know, maybe that doesn't happen, but I'd like to see what happens,
- 23:40because let's be honest, we've got and before Tatum shows up, we've
- 23:45got more running backs than we got carries already that we all want to see.
- 23:48So Hicks Hicks is posed to be that spring just absolute star unless Megwa
- 23:56can get out there and do something in the spring, which I mean Caleb
- 24:00Picks. We've all seen the pictures. But this is like the fifth or
- 24:03sixth person now that's talked about Alli Gordon Oklahoma. Guys, I mean,
- 24:07I get it. Brian Clinton over at Heartland Sports wrote an article about it.
- 24:12But I want you, we I want you to use your brains here
- 24:14for a second. We're all really hyped about Caleb Hicks, You've got Javonte
- 24:18Barnes, Gavin saw Chuck, Taylor Tatum, Xavier Robinson, he Mega Megua,
- 24:23which is a guy that we saw later in the season for like a
- 24:26couple or was it one game or two games that he actually got a chance
- 24:30to play in. Did he play? He played? He played last year.
- 24:34I texted Ja because I was exciting because Jay always talks about this guy.
- 24:37My point is, the running back room is way too deep. It
- 24:41doesn't make sense for Ali to come here. So I think we need to
- 24:45put that to rest. I mean, if you're just if you're trolling o
- 24:51State fans, like, let's let's move on. You know, she was
- 24:56good to us while she uh we well, well well that was what we
- 24:59were. But we've moved on to bigger and better things. So don't troll
- 25:04Oklahoma State fans anymore. Go find go find a nice LSU fan to to
- 25:10troll. At least they know how to fight back. I can't believe Brian
- 25:15Clinton actually would do that to everybody like that. That's just I read the
- 25:19article. I'm just looking at it now, just by ekuping it, it
- 25:22looks like he was kind of alluding to Josh Pate's comments about the portal being
- 25:29wild and maybe alluding to hey, like Alli Gordon, Oklahoma would be I
- 25:33just from looking at it, that's what it looks like. I haven't actually
- 25:34read it though. Yeah, that's just dumb. That's just dumb. But
- 25:40AnyWho, I do want to talk about this, and Steven, thank you
- 25:42for bringing this up, because this is actually the next thing I was about
- 25:45to pull up is these one on ones that we were seeing with the the
- 25:53wire receivers, linebackers, tidi ends and everything like right here, here's your
- 25:57JJ Hester one handed care edge in the back of the end zone. Like
- 26:03they were out there battling and there's like a good a minute and some change,
- 26:07there's you got, you got Gibson out there getting his in. They
- 26:11everybody was looking good. And was funny is that Kip Lewis looked solid.
- 26:15If there's some stot to pick up on the defensive side, he's just kip
- 26:17Lewis stock. There's your bower, big bower, and he's battling hardy,
- 26:22which is of course they're there. They were duking it like this was not
- 26:26even a game. We got a for root going forward and of course,
- 26:32remember this drill is really beneficial. Who now that's Fanuel Yeah, that was
- 26:41Josh Fanuel opened away, Yeah, Mitchell's eighty four. Yeah, but you
- 26:48got ah. This is this, this, this entire drill is very favorable
- 26:52to the wide receiver because wires even know what they're gonna do. Their job
- 26:55is just to get open and then the defend is supposed figure out. Look
- 26:56that Kip Lewis knocked down. Good lord him in space and he's already shut
- 27:03me up, Kip Lewis. You can already see that he's already put you
- 27:07know, a few LB's on because uh, you know I shouldn't have bigger
- 27:12yeah Bowers, listen if the guy can block at all? Uh what's up?
- 27:18Reggie du Yeah so or Reggie too, Reggie two back in? But
- 27:25uh yeah you've got I mean listen, Texas is back, Winter is coming.
- 27:33Cayden Helmes is back up, you know, or he's healthy or coming
- 27:34back, like I'm i gotta see it. I'm going to have to see
- 27:38it before. But you know, Fanuela has not disappointed much. It sounds
- 27:45like Bower Sharp is probably going to be lining up number one, And it
- 27:48sounds like Jackson Arnold has some decent rapport with him. And if you need
- 27:52a super athletics six' five target, that's a pretty good friend to have,
- 27:56if if I do say so myself, PG Oh, I'm ready to
- 28:07see me some Zion Kearney. I'm ready. I mean, I loved y'all
- 28:12saying that on these one on onees though, I'm trying to see some carry
- 28:17on. Give me some, give me some giants. Realize we could have
- 28:21a wide receiver lineup of our tallest wide receivers and Jaden Gibson, j J
- 28:26Hester, Ivan carry on. Who's stopping that? Like, please give me
- 28:30a team that is stopping that. Because you might have one or two tall
- 28:36dbs, but do you got four or five? Because you can even run
- 28:40carry on at the tight end position as a flex tight end, and do
- 28:44Zick Anderson JJ Hester Like I told you, I told you they were given
- 28:48carry on the same speech they were giving Mark Andrews. Yeah, yeah,
- 28:52yeah, you're a wide receiver. Every once in a while, we're gonna
- 28:56have you a lineup on the inside of the slot, like a little bit
- 28:59closer to the off offensive line. And then maybe once in a while put
- 29:02your hand down on the ground. But yeah, you're a wide receiver.
- 29:04Just yes, that's what we're doing. So yeah, Mark Andrews film and
- 29:08be like, let's he's a tight end and a wide receiver. He's the
- 29:11same. Yeah, but you also have like and don't forget you've got a
- 29:17h Quest Petaway or or a Teon Burks who I mean, Like again,
- 29:22I can't remember who exactly it was, but somebody made a comment from the
- 29:26area and it said Dion Burks at Oklahoma will become a first round draft pick.
- 29:30I didn't see that. People are are people are already starting to go.
- 29:36He's like, we gotta we have to curate the offense around him a
- 29:38little bit, around his skill set and uh, you know he's running at
- 29:42the slot and so you know, you may not see you know, I
- 29:45think a lot of people were wanting for Roup to the slot. But I
- 29:48mean, if you toss out there, you know, at a maximum time
- 29:52with Andrel Anthony healthy, You've got Andrel Anthony, You've got Jaden Gibson,
- 29:57You've got h You've got Nick six, you've got bow or Sharp. I
- 30:03mean that right there, is there is there anybody that you're not super comfortable
- 30:08with at that point. So yeah, it's a point the offensive firepower is,
- 30:15but there's just one thing you need to do to be able to throw
- 30:18the ball. And here's why I'm talking about that soon. So I have
- 30:19a question about ped Away because we talked about this last night on Jason Stream
- 30:25and I said, at what point do we see a guy like Peedaway hit
- 30:27the portal? And I'm not saying it's gonna be peed Away, but like
- 30:30you have Britton Thompson, who I would assume is probably the leader in the
- 30:33role of like, hey, we just need you to run deep once or
- 30:37twice a game and we're gonna getch you the ball. And I feel like
- 30:40that's kind of Pedaway's game as well. And then you're like in the slot
- 30:44and it's like, okay, so you got Farruke and Berts who can also
- 30:47do that. So like, where does Pedaway fit in the rotation this year?
- 30:49Like what kind of wide receiver is he on this team right now?
- 30:52Because I feel like he's really good, but there's probably at least two guys
- 30:57above him in the slot, Brennan Thompson ahead of him in terms of just
- 31:02hey, just run And then when Andre Anthony comes back, that's gonna be
- 31:06two guys ahead of him. I mean technical to me, I see Peedaway
- 31:10is more of an outside guy than a slot guy. Yeah, I'm seeing
- 31:12your slot dudes are probably gonna be Burks Brennan, and then for Root most
- 31:18likely right your outside it's gonna be Nick Anderson and Gibson for the most part.
- 31:23Andrew Anthony, depending on his back, should be back if be what
- 31:26eleven months from his surgery. Once the season starts, there's potential he'll be
- 31:32ready to play. This potential that he may not be all depends on how
- 31:36he heals. But right now I'm not seeing him in the knee bras when
- 31:37he's walking around practice, So that's a good's that's a good indication. But
- 31:44I'd say Peedaway is probably gonna see some action because I think we're gonna run
- 31:48a lot of four wide setups, right, And if you run a lot
- 31:52of four wide setups, you're gonna have opportunity to play a lot of different
- 31:55people. Now, Honestly, if there's anybody out there that I believe is
- 31:59gonna force their way on the field, is gonna be carry On Because if
- 32:01you imagine having carry on, uh, Nick Anderson and Gibson out there.
- 32:07I mean that's six four six five six six with Bowers sharp at tight end.
- 32:14That's stupid, but that's much right. I feel like you're gonna want
- 32:17your tall guys outside and you're gonna want your small guys inside. Yeah,
- 32:22you want the ones that can maneuver well have be agile, but I think
- 32:24Pedaway could be on the outside just outrun the defense. Now. The good
- 32:29thing even mention him and Rank is another guy that is in Pedaway's class,
- 32:34and like ped Away, I'm just like, man, this feels like it's
- 32:37the good thing. Yeah. The good thing for Pedaway is is that he's
- 32:40still young and he's probably going to be used more next season because at that
- 32:47point for Rooke's gone, Bert should be gone, so to be him and
- 32:53him and Brendan Thompson just to know how he develops. And I think Anthony
- 32:58be back depending on how he plays this year. I think he has one
- 33:02more year left after this year. I think he came here with three years
- 33:05of eligibility. But you'll have Nick six, Gibson, ped Away and ped
- 33:14Away, Brennan and then Andrew Anthony, and then you start going with the
- 33:17younger players. I don't expect to see a lot of the young dudes actually
- 33:21play though, That's the thing. And a lot of them are willing to
- 33:23earn their stripes and get better in their route running. As long if they're
- 33:28they're the best, We're gonna play the best receiver at the time. That's
- 33:30the one thing I can tell you that Emmitt Jones is shown, it's gonna
- 33:34play the best guy. Well, I'm wondering if you see Away a lot
- 33:37on special teams in terms of like, oh, I think so too.
- 33:38I think make him a return man, call it a day. Oh yeah,
- 33:42and and so I mean if you remember seeing pictures that Cayden Durham was
- 33:45posting out last year like they were they were all running, you know,
- 33:50track against each other and Peedaway was up there. So Pedaway has He's not
- 33:54Brennan Thompson and Dion Burgs, but I mean he is. He is half
- 33:58a sliver back behind them. And if you remember at the end of the
- 34:00last year, Neo said it dead on is you know you run motion.
- 34:05They ran a lot of plays for Petaway to where they had him running away
- 34:07from the quarterback and catching something on the move. So I mean, yeah,
- 34:12you're going to put him in motion and have him running, you know,
- 34:15try to get him, you know, the ball in space. He's
- 34:17he's already starting to lead some of the team workouts, so I think that
- 34:22developing a little bit more of a voice for leadership. That's that's a pretty
- 34:25you know, it's pretty cool thing to hear. But then, guys,
- 34:28we're also not going to be running hurry up like we've done the past couple
- 34:31of years, so you've got more opportunities to swap in receivers. So I
- 34:36think we'll see more of that this year than we did because we're not going
- 34:40to do a three and out and eleven point five seconds or you know,
- 34:45try to go score in thirty seven, So you know, we'll see more
- 34:47players play. That's a good point. That's a very good point. And
- 34:52so the bomb asked his question earlier. I had to make shake you back
- 34:53to it. Kicker Kickers BV talked about that we're good in his eyes right
- 35:01now. Now, granted, I'm going to say this, I'm going to
- 35:05place this disclaimer on there, and this is no shade to anybody there,
- 35:07but until we see it in game, don't mean it as a lot of
- 35:12these kickers do very well in the controlled environment climate and kick deep passes against
- 35:19themselves. Mentally, it's gonna we're gonna have to see what they look like
- 35:22when the in the game and we actually need then to make a kick.
- 35:25So BV said yes, But at the same time, I'm just gonna wait
- 35:30until. But I heard Liam is actually booting some fifty six yards and stuff.
- 35:34I think I saw video on that on Twitter. I was trying to
- 35:36find it a minute ago and I couldn't, but I know there was one
- 35:38in there. So what do we do when DV rolls out Zack schmit,
- 35:45do we riot? I mean, Smith's making them Hey, listen, you
- 35:52come out and put you got one job. One job and it is find
- 35:57the two yellow sticks, kick it right between the two. Is it like
- 36:00that? That is your job? And so its just I want to see
- 36:05in year three, like are we still throwing out the same situations and are
- 36:10we not correcting stuff? And I just don't think you should bring in,
- 36:14you know, a couple of different kickers than Gavin Marshall's transferring out. I
- 36:16just don't think you do that with the with the you know, the full
- 36:21on like let's just keep the incumbent and see if he almost wants to take
- 36:23the job from him. I do believe it's wide open, and I do
- 36:25believe that we're seeing guys hit hit field goals. And I mean, you've
- 36:30got the non conference to you know, to get it worked out. So
- 36:32I don't know, maybe we see BV you know, running some you know,
- 36:37three straight dives inside the thirty five, just to see what our field
- 36:40goalkicker looks like. It's true. Now there's one thing I also consider too,
- 36:45is let's let's let me just transition at actually, uh, they got
- 36:50pulling up hit the like budded to the channel. Subscribe, help us get
- 36:54over to fourteen k here, help us get to a thousand on the recruitings
- 36:58on the recruiting channel. Apreciate our love and support you always bring in.
- 37:01Let's talk about that d line though. Let's talk about it so BV talked
- 37:07about in the press or in one of the videos I just dropped. If
- 37:10you have watched it, go ahead and watched that. More details there,
- 37:14But at the same time, let's talk about it here. We got two
- 37:16dudes pushing close to that three hundred mark sears as well as g Baby Grayson
- 37:22Halton sounds like BV is over here, is trying to up the stock on
- 37:25Grayson has a high expectation of the kid to have a breakout year. Gotta
- 37:30ask a question, do you think this propaganda is properly placed? Do you
- 37:35feel like g baby still need some work PGA to start with you. I
- 37:38think it's properly placed. You look at Grayson Halton. He played ninety one
- 37:44snaps last year. Again, pretty small sample size compared to a couple of
- 37:47your starters, where co and Dejon Terry played over three hundred and then Kelly
- 37:52and La Lulu were over two seventy five and Lacy also played three. He
- 37:57played three hundred and eighty five snaps last year. He played ninety one and
- 38:01he was graded out at seventy six point two, which was number four on
- 38:07our squad. So in terms of guys that are returning, he is number
- 38:10three. Technically number two if you take Sears out of that, because Sears
- 38:15only played eleven snaps last year. I believe it it's just a matter of
- 38:19Grace and Halton actually being able to stay healthy, right, I believe it.
- 38:23That's a good point. That's a good point. Coop you know,
- 38:28we talked to recruits and then other guys on the team, like co everybody
- 38:34always brings up g Baby, So you know, I don't believe that it's
- 38:38coaching propaganda necessarily. I don't think it's that. I don't think it's that
- 38:43to push people. I think weight was a big deal with him. Health
- 38:45is a big deal too. You know, best ability is availability. But
- 38:51we made a big deal over the defensive lineman being up over three hundred last
- 38:54year. So you know, we got some cats that we really need to
- 38:58get closer to that. You know, I think with John Terry being up
- 39:02and over he is, you know, he's going to he is who he
- 39:05is. He's going to continue to push that. Halton has to. I
- 39:08mean, he's gotta, he's gotta. It's time to put up a shut
- 39:12up because he's got two freshmen who's who don't mind taking every snap away from
- 39:15him that they can. But I think he has that I had. He
- 39:20has the locker room, he has the charisma, and I think a lot
- 39:22of people really do like Grayson Halton. And you know, but it's not
- 39:28about his ability to pass rush. It was about his ability to to be
- 39:32big enough to take an sec offensive lineman week after week after week, because
- 39:38we can't be trotting out there two hundred and eighty pound defensive tackles because they're
- 39:43gonna end up, you know, flying through the uprights more often than our
- 39:45field goal you know, kickers football. So I want to see some weight
- 39:51added. Still, you start hearing about guys like Champ Sanders too. I
- 39:57think that he is going to have a role. I think that he is,
- 40:00you know, getting in the eyes of a lot of people, and
- 40:05it was because I think coming out of last year, I don't think anybody
- 40:07really expected him to stick around. He was a portal watch guy. But
- 40:12you know, he's got some good weight and he's starting to you know,
- 40:15kind of you know, put some smiles on folks faces. So I'll go
- 40:17out on a limb and say, hey, d tackle either either side.
- 40:22I don't think that that is an issue for this team this year at all.
- 40:25Yeah, and and even I'm glad you mentioned Champ as well as with
- 40:30Grace, and the biggest things with them is because of their size, you
- 40:34got to make sure that you can handle that week in and week out bruising,
- 40:37which is where that competitive depth is key and critical. You got to
- 40:44be able to have guys and be able to handle that attrition. It's naturally
- 40:46gonna happen. You're going up against a conference where just about everybody's running with
- 40:51three hundred, three hundred pounders on the offensive line and the defensive line.
- 40:53I mean, heck, I went through some of the other schools. Man,
- 40:55George's got like six, Bama's got like five, Tech has like four.
- 41:01I mean, hell, Vanderbilt has like four or five. It's just
- 41:05you get big dudes. They're in the SEC. So you've got to keep
- 41:07your eyes. You gotta have guys that can handle, keep your eyes open
- 41:12for guys that you can go pick up. And you gotta have guys that
- 41:14can handle you know, the battle you're gonna have underneath. So but I'll
- 41:17tell you this, man, when it comes to edge, whoops and all
- 41:21of that. Why did my screen just go black? That was weird.
- 41:23That was the weirdest thing in the world. Did I lose everybody and they
- 41:30lose? Y'all? I'm just bringing that back CEEPG all right, we see
- 41:32PG. That was my bad. I don't know what happened. My my
- 41:36deal decided to act really really weird, but anyway, point taking is you
- 41:40gotta be able to you gotta have enough players to be able to swap guys
- 41:45in and out. So anyway, I think defensive line wise, we're gonna
- 41:49be good. I don't have any concerns there. What did you say?
- 41:53What did you say defensive linewise? I don't have any concerns that. It
- 42:00just came out of your mouth. Oh well that I don't have any concern
- 42:02It was the last time we've heard somebody say that. But it's it's how
- 42:07we felt about the defensive backfield two years ago. It's you know, that's
- 42:10the first time we could say, like, good lord, like we have
- 42:15a defensive backfield. I mean, we said that the same thing about the
- 42:17wide receivers last year. Right, we walked in pats with nerves of steel
- 42:22coming in this past season, say man, and I'm worried about the way
- 42:24that this this this wide rec room is gonna be. Man, we ain't
- 42:29got nobody to step up. And then Nick six goes out there and gets
- 42:30ten touchdowns and Angela Anthony shows you that he could be an All American if
- 42:35you would stay healthy, that due would have had almost had one hundred catches
- 42:38now to the videos that you were just showing. I don't know if it
- 42:42was included in there, but Grace and Halton and Stoya posted it on Twitter.
- 42:46Went up against Eugene Brooks and Flatten man handled him, which yep,
- 42:52if you guys remember Eugene Brooks did not lose a rep in camp. No
- 42:55he didn't. He was he was destroying five stars. I can't so I
- 43:01when I saw that, I was like, oh, so, Grayson Holton
- 43:05might be the real deal because like Eugene Brooks a true freshman, but like
- 43:08he don't play like a true freshman. And the most important thing is is
- 43:13just is having the strength and the way to be able to do it.
- 43:17Yeah, and you know, also, Eugene Brooks was one of the first
- 43:22people as soon as ever it went down, he was the first person to
- 43:24put his hand on a football and start practicing that center. So I mean,
- 43:28they've already seen enough out of him to say this is this is pretty
- 43:32decent. So I promise you this stars ranking wise, that offensive this offensive
- 43:40line wasn't super sexy even though it was. I mean, it's really not
- 43:45a bad offensive linehole, but I think that missing out on some people.
- 43:49But you watched with Ak and koone, you know, with with Eugene Brooks,
- 43:53with epl coming in. I mean, guys, there is this could
- 43:59turn out to be a very very very fruitful you know, offensive line haul
- 44:04this past this pastor class, and that class is gonna be one that's critical
- 44:08when it comes to what we what we do going forward. The only thing
- 44:15that sucks is is that the good line is young. Right, it's a
- 44:17lot of young players, not that many snaps. We didn't return very many
- 44:21snaps, so I mean sex and had the most if they jail and figure
- 44:28it out. And BB mentioned this in his presser as well. He said
- 44:31the bigger the big thing for them is really just getting cohesion. And I
- 44:36actually had a parent hit me up and tell me, hey, what I'm
- 44:39hearing about the line with you know, having a kid on there and what
- 44:43they're doing. They're taking it upon themselves to meet on a regular basis to
- 44:46try to get that jail down faster. Right. They're not doing that.
- 44:50They're following, of course, the standard instructions from the coaching staff, but
- 44:52they're taking upon themselves to do some extra work. That's freaking huge, Right,
- 44:58that's what you want then, we'd be like, all right, I
- 45:00know we don't want to be the weakest link in on this team. We
- 45:04want to make sure that we're showing up as showing out for this team.
- 45:07And so what they're doing, they're working out together. Offensive line is one
- 45:12of the stronger rooms on that team. Come mid season next year, I
- 45:16could see that. I can see them being like a tight knit group and
- 45:20everything. I agree I would. You're gonna have your starting the offensive line
- 45:25probably consists of Everett Uh, Sexton Brown, Fabeci. I really want to
- 45:36say, I really want to say so. I think, honestly, my
- 45:44my setup has always been Sexton is your left tackle, Oseeta is your left
- 45:49guard. Center is gonna be either ever debates right now, it's baits right
- 45:53as way wou fora beet you way Wou. And then your right tackle is
- 45:57gonna be Jake Taylor. And I think that you're gonna see a commodation of
- 46:00Tarkin and Spencer Brown rotating in a lot on the tackles just to keep just
- 46:06and and by keeping cohesion there, if they all get enough snaps, you'll
- 46:10be able to rotate guys in an out and still feel comfortable and in your
- 46:15guards will be a lot of your freshmen to get some run. You'll see
- 46:19some Brooks, you'll see a little bit of Isosa. You may see Sak
- 46:22and Kumi. And I think Autrey jumps in at your third right behind Spencer
- 46:28Brown. They're at like probably the right or left tackle. So yeah,
- 46:30definitely definitely, So Bishop, what's up, sir? So here is and
- 46:37I'm not going to tell you who this is from, but I promise you
- 46:39as I read it, you'll probably you'll probably gig a little bit. But
- 46:44this is from one of our offensive linemen, a newer guy, he says.
- 46:47He says, I enjoy going up against g Baby and Stone. I'm
- 46:52not sure who are the toughest is yet. I'm still learning right now,
- 46:53just making dumb mistakes and overthinking, which is stopping me from being part of
- 46:58the ones. Like if you just hear that and listen to the sentiment behind
- 47:02that, like they know, they know, Like this is where I listen
- 47:07to technique, This is where I listen to coaching. This is where I
- 47:09make the mistakes and try not to make the same mistake twice. Yeah,
- 47:14and so I mean I love it, and uh yeah. Garon Hatchett also
- 47:17he has the chance to be he can play center, and he's still in
- 47:22the boot from his foot or ankle surgery. Yeah, so he should be.
- 47:27He should be soon. And uh, you know, as long as
- 47:30things that I'm here and continue to happen. You know, if he's homesick,
- 47:34he might have a friend come hang out with him here in the summer.
- 47:37So yeah, that's what I heard too. That's what I heard too.
- 47:40Assuming there's no setbacks, I think Everett's going to be your starting center
- 47:45because he will be He's still gonna be able to lift upper body, so
- 47:47he'll be able to keep his body maintained there and I think just a little
- 47:52he'll be able to do in fall camp. He's probably unless Baits just makes
- 47:57some great ascension during the spring and the summer, it's gonna be and he's
- 48:01got it, and he's got it. I mean, this is the opportunity.
- 48:06I believe that Gabe said it in the podcast today. It's like this,
- 48:09it's all in front of you. If if you literally can't take this
- 48:14job right now, then the only person that you need to have a conversation
- 48:17with is the man staring back at you, because I mean it's absolutely this
- 48:22is him, and he is I mean, he is a maler out of
- 48:24Colorado. And but again it's it's uh, you know this the quarterback center
- 48:30relationship is not as intimate as it used to be because of the shotgun staffs
- 48:35all the time. But you still, I mean, you still got to
- 48:37do these things. But yeah, he is going to uh you know,
- 48:40with with ever it is. It was a knee that you know, we
- 48:43heard from some of the players, uh, fans and stuff like that they
- 48:46are awesome, miss leg Day, done deal. And and with that,
- 48:52I mean, the big confident thing about him is is BB's expecting post fall.
- 49:00He said, fall camp is when they're expecting m to come back,
- 49:01because if it's Colleasure today, yeah, it'll be probably close to the conference.
- 49:06But now the good thing is is that Stephen point out here, we
- 49:07still got hatchet and as you mentioned, Kool, we just waiting on him
- 49:12to get healthy. And once he's healthy, and I think he'll be healthy
- 49:16post spring, probably closer the summer, he'll be ready to play in the
- 49:21fall camps. And if he goes in a fall camps and does well,
- 49:22be him and Bates and period. I promise you this, you know again,
- 49:30I think this happened today too. Gabe said, playing centers a lot
- 49:34easier than playing guard. I promise you we see what EPL is. If
- 49:40we see Eugene Brooks and I Asosa looking like this, I could Coomi looking
- 49:45like this. EPL could come in here and really put some smiles on folks
- 49:52face. I still say, oh, you're at least two offensive linemen in
- 49:55the portal. You absolutely have to do that. That's that's one hundred percent
- 49:59because you can't on that. But just as how much of a freak athlete
- 50:02he is, the footwork's going to be there, the mental side of it's
- 50:07going to be there, and if the strength of it, which is the
- 50:09one that I worry about the least, if that comes along and he's ready,
- 50:13I mean, it's you expect to see it. Is that what I
- 50:17think it was? Yeah, little emergency thing. Yeah, popped up on
- 50:21my phone, which is weird. But what I'm gonna definitely do, who's
- 50:23the trash offensive lineman this year that plays the Caden Green role, bitches out
- 50:30and leaves for another team. I'm going with Brooks. I think it's gonna
- 50:36be Brooks. It's gonna be the one that's gonna actually play. Yea,
- 50:38even I'm talking about somebody that comes in mid season and just like takes a
- 50:43job. I think Brooks. I think it's Brooks. I think Brooks has
- 50:45the best chance to actually play early because he's just that talented. I mean,
- 50:55Unfortunately for that situation to happen, either we ran through a nice string
- 51:00of injuries or somebody on the outside is playing horrendous. So I almost got
- 51:07to say, like I I you know, I think I see. I
- 51:12mean, I got agree with Steven there. It's gotta be Brooks for re
- 51:15Epl. I just I just believe VPL is so freaking talented. Shit,
- 51:19Yeah, I mean you see him running some h back like that's Robbie.
- 51:22You got it? Hey, you know what I think about Robbie When you
- 51:25say that, I think about if y'all, if y'all haven't go watch vite
- 51:30Veya's high school tape. Yeah, he actually had three pounds. He played
- 51:34running back in high school. And it's stupid, Like it's not even fair.
- 51:37It should be against the law that other highest schoolers have to try to
- 51:42tackle this dude because not only is he that big dude, he's strong,
- 51:45but the dude's very agile, very light footed, and he's actually got some
- 51:50speed. It was not fair, though. I mean I would love to
- 51:52see that too. We could do a package with the Murphy or sweat Murphy
- 52:00goal line and you well, I mean you know they tried that to try
- 52:04to muscle us, and you know that's kind of why we worked out.
- 52:07Well, Ep, he'll go play in line tight end. You know what
- 52:13I say this, Stephen, If you run him out as an extra tight
- 52:16end on the goal line against Maine or something like that, like that'd be
- 52:21fun freaking flat. Throw something in the flat to him. If it looks
- 52:24awful and gets run back for two points, I don't care. I want
- 52:28to see it. I would love to actually see that run at them.
- 52:32I don't think a single linebacker in the country would want that to want to
- 52:36see that themselves, because that is one of those where you're just like,
- 52:37oh, that's not that I meant. Is that a business Is that a
- 52:42business decision? Yeah? Absolutely. You just look at the coach and be
- 52:45like, I mean, we're freaking Maine. What are we gonna do here?
- 52:49Like? What are we going to do here? Now? And I've
- 52:52said this a lot and I and I really, I really think venables should
- 52:58do this. But do you guys think the main game, we get through
- 53:00a quarter and a half and you see a bunch of true freshmen playing in
- 53:04that game, Yes, you're pretty much seeing the future of like they're trying
- 53:07to see what they have in their future and just letting those guys play because
- 53:09it's I mean, it's pretty much bye week. Just let your starters stay
- 53:14healthy and play all the really really young guys and see what you got.
- 53:17You'll probably play the most of the you're playing playing in the first quarter.
- 53:21After the first quarter, you'll probably start rolling in just the young guys and
- 53:24making sure because I say, by first quarter is twenty eight zero, it
- 53:28should be right. The defense should have at least one touchdown, and it
- 53:32should be at least twenty one points by the offense, and we should be
- 53:35out there just cooking now. Yeah, yeah, we should be able to
- 53:37go demolish him. It's like you said, it's about a week. So
- 53:39at that point, you're bringing your second stringers, you're bringing your freshmen,
- 53:44and we ain't even got over there to the secondary yet. Does BV pointed
- 53:47out two freshmen that I was like, Okay actually brought point out three.
- 53:52He prought it all three of his freshmen safeties. He talked about Powers.
- 53:57He talked about how with Reggie Powers playing at Centerville there, Ohio and him
- 54:00playing for a school that in which this is good insight for those paying attention
- 54:07to the recruiting world. They go after certain players. There's certain schools for
- 54:10this particular reason baseball on how they're actually coached, and so BV talked about
- 54:15how well coached the kids are at Centerville, That's why they he wanted Reggie
- 54:21Tampa Catholics another school that you'll see Oklahoma heavily involved in because he likes the
- 54:27way the kids are coached. Right, So there's certain schools to pay attention
- 54:30to that he pays attention to because of their coaching and all of that that
- 54:35being said, talked about Boglanowski looking solid. They can't wait to get some
- 54:38weight on them and get him going. Stop both of them be stupid good
- 54:43him Powers Hardy was out there knocking down passes. TV gave him some love.
- 54:51The fact that and this is the last thing I mentioned on it.
- 54:53BV made mention of this, and I want to get y'all's thoughts. He
- 54:58talked about how I guess you could say the quote unquote problem I'm paraphrasing them
- 55:02that we kind of saw last year secondary wise, is just we didn't have
- 55:07enough snaps. A lot of young guys actually played, a lot of guys
- 55:09played that had never played at college football level before. So, I mean
- 55:13you saw Gentry out there, right, Josiah when he was healthy, he
- 55:17got some run. Besides Woody and Kani kend Adobe was playing Juco. He
- 55:22didn't play at the D one level yet. So you had a lot of
- 55:25secondary dudes that never played D one ball, and so that's where they were
- 55:30figuring things out. Now that we've got that extra year experience, there's no
- 55:36excuse for the secondary and not be the best one in the SEC at least,
- 55:38right. Yeah, I think what especially at the adding des Malone,
- 55:44I'm just curious to see how they're gonna work Woody Washington into the secondary like
- 55:50so, because I don't think you take a like he's gonna I feel like
- 55:52he's got to play a lot of corner like hm, hm, He's gonna
- 55:55be everywhere and for him he even mentioned this in one of the interviews.
- 56:00They're playing them at safety. They're playing them at a little bit of cheetah.
- 56:02They're moving them around because that's the one thing he wanted to do to
- 56:06up his his draft stock. But at the same time, because of the
- 56:09depth that gives the ability to test out in new areas. If I'm correct,
- 56:14Ali runs a three safety high sometimes. Yeah, we've talked about that
- 56:17a little bit. So yeah, so I'm anticipating he's gonna run with the
- 56:22safeties occasionally as the as they rotate the younger guys into Like if it's a
- 56:25passing down, you're probably gonna see a lot more wooding. If you're running
- 56:30three high safeties, I would imagine the look would be you're running three interior
- 56:35guys. You've probably got two traditional linebackers and Dasam McCullough in your linebacker corps.
- 56:43Then you've got Peyton bow and Billy Bowman, and let's say Woody Washington,
- 56:47and one of those guys is playing the safety that kind of plays in
- 56:52the backfield. And so I would assume that's how it looks. But then
- 56:54at some time you can make it to where one of those guys can come
- 56:59up to the line and McCulla could go up to I mean step back a
- 57:04little bit. Yeah, that I would feel like that's what you would do
- 57:07at that point because McCulla can play on the line with the guys, he
- 57:10can play at the line backer position. And then you've got a Peyton Bowen
- 57:15or I guess the Woody Washington who can play in the backfield but also come
- 57:20up to be the linebacker. I think your biggest question there, your biggest
- 57:25question. Yeah, you potentially to choose your biggest question. There's going to
- 57:29be around because this is going to be an obvious passing down. So you're
- 57:35probably not going to have McCulla in the game. You know, you probably
- 57:39would wouldn't have him out there. You probably they're playing probably though they are
- 57:45playing him at will you probably have You probably still have Cannick and Stutsman and
- 57:52then three safeties. That's your five three on the line. I love Knnick,
- 58:04but is he good enough to play over Lewis Carter or Sam Yo Mesigo
- 58:07or Kip Lewis as of right now? Yes, because he knows the book
- 58:10and supposedly he's the book now is a good question. I think Kip will
- 58:15probably be better in coverage. Actually, you may see Kennick and Kip out
- 58:22there on a passing down, on a guarantee passing down, because both of
- 58:25them have the speed and probably a little bit better in coverage. So let
- 58:30me let me rewind a little bit. Here's a hot take for you.
- 58:37I don't think Woody Washington belongs on the fields anymore at Oklahoma. Really,
- 58:44I think the talent has surpassed him, and I don't think that him trying
- 58:46to slide all over the place has anything to do with his knowledge of the
- 58:51system and versatility. I personally do not believe that this is one, you
- 58:55know, not something I've got insider, but I just I've seen Woody Washington
- 59:01fail in famous fashion too often, and I just I believe that if we
- 59:08get into some more cornerback health issues, yeah, that's never anything wrong to
- 59:14out there. But you know, with Robert Furs, Jennings, Peyton Bowen,
- 59:17and Billy Bowman, those three guys are your number one, two and
- 59:21three safety and he's not taking snaps from one of those cats. I think
- 59:25that, you know, with guys like you know, Des Malone, you
- 59:30know, uh can I Walker, seat Belt Vickers, you know, Gentry,
- 59:37if that all those people are healthy I bet you see less and less
- 59:39of Woody throughout the year unless we get into like a scary pinch, And
- 59:45maybe that's better for him because I feel like whenever he had targets in Bulk
- 59:50is when he struggled the most, and once he gave up one, it
- 59:52was kind of a everything broke out and so uh, I mean, you
- 59:57can disagree with me all you want, but I think the talent as just
- 1:00:00surpassed him well, and that's kind of what I guess. That's kind of
- 1:00:04the point I was trying to make because I just I understand what they might
- 1:00:07try to do a Cheetah, but I don't see him playing over a Harrington
- 1:00:12or a Who's who's the other kid? Kendall Dolby at Cheetah, Like,
- 1:00:19do we really see him playing over those guys? And then that corner,
- 1:00:21especially to me, it won an award after award last year, you know,
- 1:00:25on the defensive side, and he only is smarter and probably stronger at
- 1:00:30this point, so I don't feel like he's going to slide back. Yeah,
- 1:00:31to me, I feel like wood he's back too. Mostly be a
- 1:00:37safety net at corner for if Gentry gets hurting or if Jaden Rowe doesn't look
- 1:00:43as good. I just I I agree with you. Like he's five to
- 1:00:47eleven. He gets beat all the time, like I don't. I don't
- 1:00:53know where he fits. He doesn't get beat all the time. He's gotten
- 1:00:57beat on some epic moments, but he ain't getting beat all the time.
- 1:01:00Like like at one point, people didn't want to throw to his side of
- 1:01:01the field out of fear. Then they realized that Gentry was even more of
- 1:01:07a threat of the interception, and then he started to get attacked again.
- 1:01:09But he still wasn't giving up a lot. That's a good thing. Now,
- 1:01:13there were some epic fails. We had fails by a lot of people.
- 1:01:15But I totally get what you're saying there. Coop to me though,
- 1:01:20I appreciate the veteran presence and understanding. Hell, those players praised him.
- 1:01:24I just yeah, I don't think you see a lot of him though,
- 1:01:28I think you see a lot of him in mixed areas, which is probably
- 1:01:30a better thing for him. He doesn't have to sell on an island anymore,
- 1:01:35no more island. Gentry is your island guy. He's your he's your
- 1:01:37uh, he's your boundary guy. See the island boy. Yeah, Gentry
- 1:01:44is the one you gonna put on an island specifically, here's here's here's why
- 1:01:47people are cringing and going, how the hell are you going to say something
- 1:01:51out atlandascripts is because it's too we're too too close to bad defensive back play.
- 1:01:58And at one point he was a freaking savior. I always do that
- 1:02:04to PG, like where's my fingers as coming? He is, I mean,
- 1:02:12he is the last remnant of pre good defense on you know, on
- 1:02:16this team, and so I appreciate everything. And you know what, I
- 1:02:21don't think he gets drafted. I don't. I mean I don't. I
- 1:02:25don't know if he's you know, I don't know if he's a stellar prospect
- 1:02:30because I don't know if he has a really like an elite trait. So
- 1:02:34what what is good? You ask him to come back, You slide him
- 1:02:37some nil money to not go anywhere else, and you say, hey,
- 1:02:42what are your thoughts about coaching? And you like Billy Bowman right now?
- 1:02:45Now Billy Bowman's going in the league. But but you like Billy Bowman right
- 1:02:50now? Have Stutsman coaching the linebackers. You got Billy Bowman coaching the safeties
- 1:02:54and you got Woody Washington and worked with the defensive backs. Like, I'm
- 1:03:00not against it. I just think like, let's not force Woody on the
- 1:03:04field when somebody younger of similar talent is is shown out too. Because no,
- 1:03:13sorry, yeah, go ahead. No, I was just trying to
- 1:03:16say, like I just I don't understand. I mean, I mean again,
- 1:03:20I'm not complaining that wood he came back, but I don't understand how
- 1:03:23him coming back increased his draft stock this much if he's going to play all
- 1:03:28these different positions, because well, the league versatility, versatility, versatility in
- 1:03:34the league, they like guys that can be that can be moved from safety
- 1:03:36to corner. And if he can prove that he can do both, that
- 1:03:38versatility helps him a lot in his draft evaluation. So that's kind of key.
- 1:03:43And now that's a good question here. Roe. Dude looks like he's
- 1:03:46back and healthy. He's actually out there moving around Jaydon Rowe. Oh,
- 1:03:52he's like he's six two and he's a track kid. So you he's fast
- 1:03:57and he's six two at two hundred and something pounds. Yeah, he's the
- 1:04:02dude. I've dreamed about it. Corner. I just need him to get
- 1:04:05it all together and get healthy. Well that's the thing is it's always been
- 1:04:11shoulder, it hasn't been legs. You want to know the great Yes,
- 1:04:15there you go. Roe being healthy. Is another Tulsa kid this year that
- 1:04:21looks like they're going to show out JJ Hester, Jayden Rowe, Ginger Williams.
- 1:04:28We need to start, we need to start showing these Tulsa kids that
- 1:04:32hey, not only do we want you, but we can develop you too.
- 1:04:39I and and and there's another one, Jacoby Johnson, like Jacoby is
- 1:04:43is going to be pressing for starting cornerback. Also, I think it's gentry.
- 1:04:47And then I think you've got You've got CANi Walker who has looked phenomenal.
- 1:04:54You've got Eli Bowen who's already turning folks heads. So he's going to
- 1:04:57be another one. Yeah, you know, uh Josiah Wagner who if he
- 1:05:04can get his weight up and just watch the nagging injuries. And then you
- 1:05:08know McCary Vickers and then that's in des Malone. So I mean, you
- 1:05:12got all these guys. You know, funny, you know somebody that we
- 1:05:15haven't even talked about. Did you haven't even mentioned? Oh? Is it
- 1:05:18Jeremiah Nukelem Oh, oh yeah, we talk about Jeremy Nuclem ei though,
- 1:05:26but he ain't even here yet, you know, And no he's not.
- 1:05:30But listen, Jacoba Johnson at the All Under Under All American Game, he
- 1:05:35was the best looking prospect I think that we had at that game, you
- 1:05:40know, to last year, two years ago, whatever, and he is
- 1:05:44he is going to be an absolute stud uh and Reggie Reggie Reggie three,
- 1:05:48you know, he he is going to be an absolute So like, like
- 1:05:54I said this several several times, guys, we're gonna start seeing names leave
- 1:05:59this team that are gonna go and start on Power five teams, competitive power
- 1:06:03five teams because we are hauling in actual players. Yeah, we're gonna see
- 1:06:11We're gonna see a Jade and Row leave or we might see it. You're
- 1:06:16gonna see You're gonna see things like this. People we want nothing to do
- 1:06:19with leave because of it. Because when you bring in a guy like Reggie
- 1:06:24Powers Junior, he comes in and he's ready to work from the get and
- 1:06:28I promise you he is trying to take your job every second of the day.
- 1:06:32And then Ali Gordon's obviously coming to play safety too. It's fucking every
- 1:06:36two seconds. And you know what else we just talk about. You talk
- 1:06:41about Arber Spears Jennings, who's out there starting at safety and battling it with
- 1:06:45Bowen. It's yeah, it's there's It helps that two of your cornerbacks didn't
- 1:06:53come in until this till the summer this year. Now, this is a
- 1:06:56fascinating one right here. Pachatti Hill Row Hester ones that Keaton things could hit
- 1:07:02the portal. Helms isn't going and Hester are not going. Those two I
- 1:07:05know for Atis not going. Yeah, I heard Pachatti's just recover from his
- 1:07:11knee surgery, which he'll be back. I think fall is the expectation for
- 1:07:16him because he had he got was I think he tore something, didn't he
- 1:07:19Yeah, he toy. I think it's his acl and I think it happened
- 1:07:23either before the Tulsa game or after the Tulsa game. So yes, competitive
- 1:07:29depth everybody, Yeah, head of depth, Alli Gordon. He's the number
- 1:07:31three on every position, and uh Venables wants Hester to play more. So
- 1:07:36I don't think he's gonna leave. Hester's actually getting some good talk in spring.
- 1:07:41Yeah, he's making some good catches because he was healthy. I would
- 1:07:45bet Rose sticks it out one more year before he portals. I'll be honest,
- 1:07:50I would be surprised if anybody, actually anybody of a non p w
- 1:07:58O. I'll be surprised if any of them hit the this time. Now.
- 1:08:00I heard though, that they fixed their scholarship issues, right, Oh,
- 1:08:04yeah, we have to worry about that because so so so what's fascinating
- 1:08:10about the scholarship piece is that we're gonna be doing similar to what you know
- 1:08:14the big boys at Calabama and them have done. Right. It's it's it's
- 1:08:16a numbers game, right, So what you do is all the guys that
- 1:08:20are running at the the the that are in grad school, you take them
- 1:08:25off scholarship. You put them on an NI L deal that pays for their
- 1:08:30graduate school because it's a lot cheaper than undergrad and you just preserved yourself a
- 1:08:33scholarship. So we've got enough older players on this list that will probably be
- 1:08:40n I l's without them being actually on scholarship. You just don't know it
- 1:08:45like that. I'm thinking of Ethan Downs, I'm thinking the DJ Terry,
- 1:08:49I'm thinking de Vne Sears because in my opinion, and I don't know if
- 1:08:55you guys agree with this, and I don't know if they're doing this,
- 1:08:58because this would be the smart anybody in state should automatically be a PWO plus
- 1:09:04because their tuition is going to be cheaper than anybody from out of state anyways.
- 1:09:10I mean it's fair, that's a fair point. I totally can see
- 1:09:13that. But the thing is going to pay them plus what they'd beginning if
- 1:09:15they were on scholarship anyways. Then being on a PWO plus versus a scholarship
- 1:09:19I wouldn't feel like would matter too much outside of the problem you run into
- 1:09:24with your in state guys. Unless they're like upper classmen, they have to
- 1:09:28stay on campus as a freshman. It's like one of those OU rules,
- 1:09:30and so because of that, you may as well just have them on scholarship.
- 1:09:33It's a lot easier to manipulate that portion of it. But because your
- 1:09:36upperclassmen are all living off campus, Yes, I totally understand that idea,
- 1:09:43that's not a bad premise at all, but a lot of your seniors and
- 1:09:45stuff. Hell, Bowman's probably on NIOL plus because they're grad grad school's much
- 1:09:48cheaper than what the undergrads are having to pay. You take advantage of that
- 1:09:53opportunity and you throw them on that. So we scholarship numbers. I'm not
- 1:09:59concern about out. I'm not worried about scholarship numbers at all because I think
- 1:10:04that they've got that manipulated enough to where we're gonna have a lot of people
- 1:10:09that Yeah, we're good. Hard time seeing anybody else leave at this point,
- 1:10:14Like, well, obviously we've heard rumbull and I mean, like I
- 1:10:16say, I think you're probably your two areas. You look at of loss
- 1:10:20right now as wide receiver and linebacker, and it feels like those rooms are
- 1:10:25pretty happy. So yeah, I just I don't think that we see anybody
- 1:10:32else gone at this point. I think that we're gonna, you know,
- 1:10:35if anybody leaves, it's going to be somebody who we forgot is on the
- 1:10:41team, you know, is out there. You know, maybe like a
- 1:10:45like a Marcus Strong, just because the numbers seem to keep on coming out
- 1:10:48in front of him and he's pushing him down. Yeah, if if he's
- 1:10:53I've heard some stuff about him, like is he not? I heard he's
- 1:10:57making progress, but he's still pushed down the depth chart. That's kind of
- 1:11:00the problem with some of the players. Yeah, Yeah, that's that's what
- 1:11:03I'm looking at too. Yeah, it's it's the question is how much space
- 1:11:09is he gonna be able to make pushing up because you've got Champ Sanders fighting
- 1:11:12with him and g Baby fighting of course Jackson and Stone, which they're gonna
- 1:11:15have to play. Like I forgot who wrote it. Somebody said it basically
- 1:11:19said they think Jackson is the best defensive tackle we have on the team right
- 1:11:23now. In the chat. If you look in the chat, I have
- 1:11:26him and Terry's as the starting defensive tackles. Yeah, you're thinking Grayson Holton,
- 1:11:32de Jon Terry and Jaydon Jackson. I'm thinking Jay and Jackson. I
- 1:11:36think DJ and Jayson Jackson and and DJ and and de Jon Terry. What's
- 1:11:43what I mean, Jeohn, Terry Halton and Jay Jackson. That'll probably be
- 1:11:46Are and then Stone. There'll be your rotation. Well, if you're wanting
- 1:11:50to run a three T though, that's what I'm thinking. If you want,
- 1:11:53oh three T, no, three T, You've got your nose is
- 1:11:56gonna be Terry, and then you're probably gonna have have Brian Jackson at a
- 1:12:01three technique and then you'll have an edge which will probably be Ethan Downs or
- 1:12:09even Cayden Willard because Cayden Willard supposedly men he's two sixty and supposedly he's out
- 1:12:14their wrecking shop too. I forgot about that kid the other day when we
- 1:12:16were talking. I'm gonna say this. I'm gonna say this. The key
- 1:12:18thing to keep remember this too, is that right now the defense is so
- 1:12:24dominant in practice, this really looks like what Oklahoma was in the early two
- 1:12:27thousands, one hundred percent straight up. PJ as well. Uh that wait
- 1:12:32yet, Uh he's still pushing him. I know that a little bit.
- 1:12:36They're trying to get him a two sixty five. He's in the two fifty
- 1:12:40range. I think he'll be I'll think he'll be closed. I think he'll
- 1:12:43be too sixty by season. Start. Problem for him is metabolous. Yeah,
- 1:12:47that's that's that's gonna be it. So we That's the issue that in
- 1:12:51that we were talking about in our text the other day is you got guys
- 1:12:56like Tasaw mccola, uh, PJ Adabuire, you know, Jonah Williams.
- 1:13:00If that comes to fruition, you're starting to get these physical freaks that could
- 1:13:03play safety rush end or cheetah or linebacker, and it's like where do we
- 1:13:11want to put that person? Because the Isaiah Simmons of these worlds like that
- 1:13:15is a difficult thing. Is it is extremely difficult on if you like,
- 1:13:19where are you going to be dominant? Because it's a system based deal.
- 1:13:23So I personally think that PJ he's daminar there and I think that it's a
- 1:13:29light bulb and I think that it's a situation to where he needs to go
- 1:13:33up and he needs to win early this year. It's where he starts going,
- 1:13:38wait a second, I can do this all the time, like in
- 1:13:42Happy Gilmour when he's like, you know, maybe I should just try to
- 1:13:45get into one shot all the time and he's like, yeah, maybe you
- 1:13:46should try that punk, you know, because like we can't do those simple
- 1:13:50things like PJ can. And so I think that's it is he is going
- 1:13:55to he's going to unleash. Now. I think that it's a technice situation
- 1:14:00still with him. The dude's still learning football. Yeah no, that's one
- 1:14:05hundred percent fair. That's the funny part. And you can even but you
- 1:14:10can add to that list to Taylor Wine out there. He's running around.
- 1:14:12It what Taylor Wine he said, he's running around at two fifty. He's
- 1:14:15like a two fifty something. You know, him is out there. Heines
- 1:14:17got to put on weight, but he's like at two twenty, but he's
- 1:14:20still I'm hearing good reports on him. You still got a Koyer who comes
- 1:14:26in at two fifty five, like I think that's what's terrifying about him.
- 1:14:29You got these freshmen him and Nigel Smith at two fifty five often in his
- 1:14:31freshman like and they're fast and they're man. Just it's we're gonna wrap it
- 1:14:41up there and keep y' all excited around the defensive line. I told them
- 1:14:44I was gonna try to do thirty because I was gonna get some other stuff
- 1:14:46done. And we're now an hour and fifteen minutes in. There's zero chance
- 1:14:50I won't be able to get anything else done tonight. So we're gonna wrap
- 1:14:54it up. Put a vote on it. But put it this way.
- 1:14:57The defense is looking like a two thousands defense venables first guy here, kind
- 1:15:00of like Clemson's type defenses that he started building there. We're looking like that
- 1:15:05only thing we really need. We just need a couple of more three hundred
- 1:15:09pounders probably three point fifteen to three twenty, just guys that could eat up
- 1:15:13doubles. Yeah, and make it to where everybody else can get their jobs
- 1:15:17done. I think we're getting to that point now. But at the same
- 1:15:21time, Balsa hurt. It's hard to double Jane Jackson, so that's probably
- 1:15:27why you're gonna see him play. So all right, PG, lets people
- 1:15:30know where to find you. They should know, but just go ahead and
- 1:15:32tell them. Yeah, I mean, if you all don't know where to
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- 1:16:06up with all of you I don't know, probably on Sunday. I think
- 1:16:10I'm gonna be able to do it remote, working on it and making magic
- 1:16:13happen. We'll talk soon, Pace,