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CHRIS LANDRY Talks Alabama changes and college football changes coming into 2024 · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Chris Landry on your radio though right now four to four thirty Landry football dot
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  Com at Landry Football ONEX. Chris, welcome in, sir. How are
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  you kick doing good? How about you good? I appreciate you moving around.
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  I know Monday we had some playoff football. Yesterday we were for excuse
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  me, frozen solid here in the state of Mississippi. So back at it
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  today. Let's start college and of course we'll talk National Football League. I
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  wanted to get your thoughts. We hadn't had a chance to really talk about
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  it. Kaylyn de Boor, Washington head football coach. He is now taking
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  over for Nick Saban, and I've got several thoughts on this as far as
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  the roster is concerned. But your your initial thoughts when you saw the Boor
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  and then now what he's doing putting together his staff, pulling in a young
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  coach from a sunbout out of South Alabama and a young coach from Buffalo out
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  of the MAC Well, I know he's you know, he's a very good
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  coach and he's someone that is that Greg Byrne was familiar with Nick Saban last
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  year, had done a lot of research on particularly what Washington was doing on
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  offense. Is he was trying to hire Ryan Grubb, their offensive coordinator,
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  before he ended up hiring Tommy Reeves. Uh, Ryan decided to stay at
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  Washington and ironically he's going to be there now and is part of the staff
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  to replace him. But good young coach. Obviously, Kaitlin's been around a
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  while. Write type of personality. I think time hotel. You know,
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  I've always said everyone who's always asked, well, who's gonna replace him?
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  And how's it gonna be? Uh, look, it's a challenge. It's
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  a challenge right now. I'm trying to keep that roster together. Is it's
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  not going well. Everybody's coming after the players, and it'll be interesting to
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  see. But uh, you know, he's a good coach. We'll see
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  how well he does and how well it works out. I just don't know
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  until until the time comes. Chris Landry on your radio Wednesday edition of the
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  program Landry Football dot Com and Landry Football on X and Chrissy Yesterday, I
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  was kind of calming through some transfer portal numbers and you know, we've we're
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  all transfer portal but we talk at it. Oh well, you know,
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  Kayleb Williams scus from Oklahoma to USC or you know at Florida State and Mike
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  Norvell. They've done a great job in the transfer portal. But when you
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  really look at what you're talking about, some deficiencies in the portal. This
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  started last year. And this is unofficial numbers. I don't have it right
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  in front of me, but Alabama last year like eight guys coming in twenty
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  three going out. This year, four guys coming in twenty one going out,
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  Chris. Those numbers are big, big numbers, even though Alabama finishes
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  one to two every year. And recruiting, I think we started to see
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  some of that take effect this year. You look at the National semifinal game
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  against Michigan. I don't know that they had anybody else to replace the center
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  that was batching the snaps or they would have played them. You look at
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  Auburn really been able to be competitive in some other games, and you could
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  say the same about Georgia. We don't know yet, but it looks like
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  I mean, these transfer portal numbers, when you're upside down like that,
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  it's going to make a difference. Well it will, and I think the
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  big thing that has had an impact on on places like the Alabama recent years.
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  We kind of touched on it last time. Was the depth. It's
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  the fact that you know, it's it's maybe not you know, the frontline
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  guys that are playing weren't leaving, it's the guys that maybe weren't getting as
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  much playing time. Well, those guys get poached and they go somewhere else.
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  Now those are guys in some cases you've maybe put one two years into
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  developing and then they're gone. And then you've got a gap behind those guys.
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  So when you've got younger guys that are not quite ready to play,
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  and and then you always they're going to be certain guys that just don't pan
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  out for whatever reason in your recruiting class. And yeah, I think it
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  has effective depth. I think the biggest thing though, is what's different this
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  year is the quality of guys. I mean, they're not losing backups now,
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  they're losing starters. In fact, if you look at the starting you
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  know, take the twenty two type GPS, just one of those guys off
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  of last year's roster are gone either through the portal or you know, going
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  to the drafts, graduating or or fight with the draft. So they're losing
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  not just depths, they're losing the quality starters. This is the other thing
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  that happens when you have a coaching hire. That happens at this point where
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  you've got a thirty day window for those guys that can transfer those you know,
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  everybody's portals picking are been picked clean. Now you know, like Alabama
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  can go get guys, but you know, the guys that are there are
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  not of the quality to replace the guys that they're losing because they're not open
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  for you know, they're not enough of those guys the only guys that are
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  available with the guys on their roster, and if they're not keeping them,
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  it's having an effect. And you know, programs like Texas, Georgia,
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  Florida State have really cleaned up on a number of quality players off Alabama prost
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  excuse. And yet you know, you bring up Florida State and you know,
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  you look at what happened to Florida State obviously, and we've gone back
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  and forth and this will but I guess always kind of be a debate.
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  Should Florida State have been in over Alabama. I think the committee probably got
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  it right, But you look at Mike Norvel gets signed to an extension regardless
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  of what happens with the NCAA, a ten year deal. They have put
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  in more work. We saw what the transfer portal did for them last year
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  this past season with some of the big play, explosive receivers. Now you
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  look with a quarterback in dju Aguila lay from Oregon State formerly of Clemson,
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  and what they're doing in the portal. You look at what Texas is doing
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  in the portal, Oregon's doing in the portal, ole Miss is doing in
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  the portal where you know, that's the other side of it. You've got
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  programs with coaches that are extremely aggressive with it. There's no question I think
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  it is in the portal. We can't talk about the portal one. Why
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  are they doing well? Well? It all still corresponds with the collectives and
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  what you're willing to do. And EMA is putting a lot of money into
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  collection of Texas and you mentioned someone Miami you know has done so. Yeah,
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  it's teams like that are being very aggressive because you know, if you
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  have the resources to do it, if you can't get the elite players in
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  recruiting, uh, and you get guys that have been developed pretty well.
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  Uh, bringing them in is another way to go ahead and not just field
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  gaps but maybe help you. Look, if you lose guys or you make
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  mistakes in recruiting, then you have gaps in your class, and so you
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  got to fill in that. You know that twenty five each year, you
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  know, you lose eight or nine guys out of that year, out of
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  the twenty five, Well you got to replace that or else you're gonna go
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  You're gonna have a year where you are just really bad. So you've got
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  to fill in you know, six, seven, eight guys maybe in each
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  class if you lose that many. So I still don't think that's the way
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  to build a program, but it is a way to supplement. Georgia doesn't
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  do a whole lot of it, but they get some guys, they don't
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  lose many guys. So if you don't lose a lot of guys, and
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  you recruit well and you develop well and you don't lose them, then you
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  can then you only have to add a few guys here there. But the
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  ones that are trying to build a program and maybe have lost certain guys or
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  for whatever reason, are not able to get elite recruiting classes, they are
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  doing it. You mentioned Old Missus doing that. Florida State's doing that.
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  Just to to mention, Texas is gonna tremendous JOBB and recruiting, So they're
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  just supplementing A and M. Got a new coach coming in. Look at
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  LSU. We talked about Brian Kelly at LSU for the first two years,
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  heavy in the portal. Doesn't want to really do that because she's trying to
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  build through recruiting. But the roster left picked clean by h when when ed
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  Orgeron left, it necessitates that. So I think this is going to be
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  kind of a regular cycle, particularly if you lose a coach. You lose
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  a coach. In this case, as we're talking about with Alabama, it's
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  more about man, let's go in. The focus are literally circling now because
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  they know they're a lot of good players and they know there's uncertainty, and
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  they're getting a lot of those guys to say, you know, come here,
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  because let's call it what it is. Those guys, in large part
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  most kids, they go to a school because of the head coach, and
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  now they're going for what the head coach and with the staff and with the
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  nil and collectives can do for them, and if they can get better opportunities,
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  they're gone. And in this case, they're looking at opportunities where they've
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  got maybe more opportunity and more money, and that's why they're they're losing a
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  lot of guys. So it is an interesting time, no question about it,
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  Chris. Where we take our first time, I don't want to ask
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  you about Caleb Williams. From the NFL scouting side of things. We see
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  and we saw this with somewhat with Eli Manning and some other guys as well,
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  but Kayleb Williams last year, his father came out and said, hey,
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  you know, Carl Williams said, hey, look we're not going to
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  go play for Arizona. Then we're not going to go play for Chicago here
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  recently, and we want a percentage of an ownership. Blah blah blah.
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  You know, down the road, a lot of demands. And you look
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  at it, as you know, Joe public says, wow, that's that's
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  pretty brazen. But now obviously he commits. He says, hey, I'm
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  going to the NFL, I'm gonna go play for whoever. How does that
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  those types of messaging resonate with front office people in the National Football League not
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  very good. And I think it's just a matter of not just that,
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  but if you look at the history with Caleb Williams, it's a lot of
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  me, it's a lot of eye and I just I think it's the buyer.
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  Beware. As talented as he is, you know, he may very
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  well vote number one. I've seen a lot of guys that are of that
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  ill that never quite achieve up to their physical capabilities because of the fact that
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  there's a lot of you know, me, me, me, Now.
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  Look, I mean I know the Manning family very well, and I wasn't
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  all that impressed how they handled it. But you know, that wasn't really
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  who Eli was meaning. Once he got to campus, he was gonna work
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  hard, he was going to do the things the right way. You know,
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  when when when when he got into the NFL of uh, you know,
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  for that is what I meant to say. So, you know,
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  even though he look, you know, Archie knew that the Fano family wasn't
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  wasn't the best place for him, or at least in his minding, he
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  had the chops to be able to maybe work things, and he went to
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  in his eyes, a better place. But it wasn't you know, you
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  didn't have any problems with Ei. In fact, it's just the opposite.
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  Once he went went with the Giants, he was the ultimate team guy.
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  I worry about this guy. I worry about a number of these guys that
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  are just me, me, me, I I. I've seen a lot
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  of them over the years, Johnny Manziel, Kyler, Murray, JaMarcus Russell,
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  Matt Lionerd. I mean, you can go on and on and on
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  the guys that were taken very very high, that were are not really good
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  team guys or you know, hard workers, and I wonder, I just
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  wonder if this guy might be another one we'll see. I don't want to
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  jump to that yet, but it just sent up a red flag for me.