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  Y'all know we gotta go crazy on uh spring game because we need to overreact
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  and underreact here on the sooner or later sports show. Happy Sunday, everybody,
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  give us five anyway and gifted. We've got the full cavalry and the collective
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  end today and we're gonna dive into the most brutally honest takes when it comes
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  from the screen game, like who was good? Also who was bad?
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  And what the heck do we need to do in order to move forward.
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  We're also gonna talk about the latest commitment and it sounds like we got upwards
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  of five of those. We'll break that down also as well, So collective
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  gentlemen, Happy Sunday, thank you for pulling up Cool. What's up Chris
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  PG? Go around the horn with the how's it going today? PG?
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  Knock it off? Okay, I guess we're going around the horn. Startle
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  find me at the PG show. A little sunburn wins the softball game today,
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  so ignore my pak lips. Hey you guys some find us horns Down
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  podcast a little bit, uh, you know turned after last night? It
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  was a really good, nice night free games. Spring game weekends for me
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  always pretty crazy. So yeah, glad to be here, hecks you,
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  Glad to have you cool. Yo. Hey, all I gotta say is
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  if you if you watch that weekend and you are grumpy, elf, take
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  a long walk outside, get some to go, go, you know,
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  eat some fiber. There's there's a lot of reasons just not there's a lot
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  to be happy about today. I'll tell you. I'll tell you something that
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  would really cure any grumpy people out there. Just go and look what's going
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  down there down south. You know all the propaganda being put out by our
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  arrivals down there. Yeah, we got to talk about that. But what's
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  good everybody. Thank y'all for pulling up per the norm. We've got a
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  lot of fun stuff to talk about. Let me go ahead and open it
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  up with this though. I want to go ahead lead us off with the
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  opening ramp. I don't know how this happened. I'm actually kind of a
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  little upset. How in the hell did we lose to Oklahoma? I could
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  have sworn we looked at our schedule and saw that we were gonna win this
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  game. All need answers to how we lost to Oklahoma. Right, it
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  didn't make any sense. Oklahoma should not have won, and we should not
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  have lost to Oklahoma. It's kind of wild to me that that would actually
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  happen to us at a spring game. So yeah, I'm pretty upset that
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  Oklahoma won that game since we had that notated that we were gonna win this
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  one. Right, this is this is something that should have happened. But
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  besides that, we'll take care of some housekeeping real quick. I mentioned that
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  we have sounds like upwards of five commits potentially, Kevin Sperry tweeted out at
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  least four times, three of them for his current you know, class of
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  twenty five, and one of them that's not. And then we got ourselves
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  an offensive lineman in which everybody was, you know, wanting about that we
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  needed. We got ourselves a center in Branson Hickman. So we're gonna talk
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  about them on the back end of the show because I want to dedicate majority
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  of the time on all of these takes that I know everybody has hot.
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  We're gonna start with some offense, will break down some of that. We'll
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  go through some of the position groups there. Then we'll go through defense,
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  maybe interchange a little bit, but we'll try to keep it lined up offense,
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  defense and give you guys some feelings. And so I'll tee us off
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  here on my initial impression offensively, keeping it simple. I'm actually satisfied with
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  what we got going on. The offensive line didn't piss me off like I
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  thought they would. The running game gave me maybe a couple of questions here,
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  but we should all be thanking Purdue right now. If you live in
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  Indiana, please drive up to the campus holding a sign saying thank you from
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  us. If you don't live in the area, please send them a postcard
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  say thank you. We appreciate you all. You all are fantastic for giving
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  us the opportunity to snatch up teon Burg. So we'll go around the horn
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  per the norm PG give me your first one minute or less impression on it,
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  and it we'll go position to position. Yeah, as you said,
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  the offensive line I played a lot better than I thought they would based off
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  what you were hearing from scrimmages and practices. I think we expected it to
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  look rough around the edges, but in reality, they played a lot better
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  than I think a lot of people expected. And the defensive line, I
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  was actually impressed with a lot of the depth guys that they have in that
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  room and how they were able to perform what they looked like. So we're
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  all going into the SEC. I think this program is going to be just
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  fine. Chris, what's your state your initial impressions of how things went down?
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  Said it once and I'll say it again. I'll say it three times
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  if I have to shout out to my guy Jason on the Hall of Fame
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  Football podcast, but definitely will say this. This team has the has all
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  it takes to be a ten plus win team this year. But PG,
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  I'm sorry. Offensive line is gonna have to be better. They're gonna have
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  to figure some things out going into the SEC. There are obviously there's some
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  missing guys there, some guys that are not healthy. You just got Hickman
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  today. You got some things that you're gonna have to work on. We
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  all trust beating both. But I think going into the SEC is the turn
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  of the next to the next page in the next chapter. We gotta be
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  able to field our best unit right off the bat. We can't wait until
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  Texas anymore, because we're gonna have a lot of heavy hitters. I think
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  that if our old line. And obviously I'm sorry to sound like a deably
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  downer, but like I said, I sayd I said it once, I'll
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  say it twice, our offensive line is gonna have to figure it out.
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  And I think that's the that's the unit I trust more than the special teams.
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  Punting and kicking are steel terrible. Like, I don't know what to
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  tell you. You're gonna lose games on special teams this year simply because I
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  think you'll be a threat in a punt game when you're returning and kickoff returns.
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  But when it comes to punting and kicking field goals, I think they
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  are major liabilities. They have not fixed that yet. So that being said,
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  I mean that's just kind of my initial thoughts right now. Outside of
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  that, I think I think everything else is fine. You have the true
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  allah competitive death right. You have all of the talent and in there and
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  everything that you need to be a successful uh you know, have a successful
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  entry year to the to the SEC. But those two things have to be
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  shared up for me to really believe that we can, you know, go
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  and do accomplish the things that were setting out to accomplish. Cool, give
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  me your womanute or less. What's your initial reaction, and then we're going
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  to start right into the offensive line. Yeah, this was a job interview.
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  This was working out for pro Day. This was scripted. You know,
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  there wasn't going There was no blitzes. You know, they didn't run
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  any crazy, they didn't do any three three man fronts. I mean,
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  they ran a pretty base. There was such a mix up of people.
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  I mean, you know, Danny Stutsman almost kills a walk on receiver and
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  and you know first down conversion and I was like, shit, who was
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  that? And then we realized who it was and I was like, oh,
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  that's okay, we can we can kill a walk on receiver. Danny's
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  gonna have to back off. But here's what it is is we are bigger,
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  we are stronger, we are faster, and we still have stuff to
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  work on. Yeah, hundred percent. But I asked mister Bates to show
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  up and be a man and take this seriously and show me what you got
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  and I and I'm happy because he knew Hickman was on campus. And so
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  I love the fact that there was joy in this team and there was so
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  much you know, the parents. We talked to so many parents this week,
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  and there's there's just an like there there's a confidence in this team that
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  they're gonna go and they're going to take it to people. And so yeah,
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  I mean you if you if you're not getting jacked about that kind of
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  stuff. I mean there's a there's a lot to talk about still, but
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  I'm very happy right now. Good, that's good. And in that same
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  boat or whatnot, I'm satisfied with the offense. I know that we have
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  a lot of questions that honestly got answered to tell us, Yes, we
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  need help on as we're gonna begin this offensive line. We know what we
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  need help there, We got help. We got a Hickman comany in Venables
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  mentioned that Gary and Hatchett will be ready to go here I think right at
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  the end of the school year. So that's two big additions to the line.
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  Junie, Yeah, yeah, JUNI is so two big additions to the
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  offensive line that we really needed. To get going and again again health wise,
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  we expect that Troy Everett will be ready potentially fall camp. I've heard
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  rumors around it being past the out of the out of conference schedule, but
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  there's so many things there that could work so offensive line wise, interior wise,
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  I don't. I didn't. I didn't really feel a problem there.
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  I felt like the tackles was where we had the most questions, and mainly
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  on that right side, Fabichi looked like fabii wu. He was doing a
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  lot of moving on people. I don't. I don't. I'm not as
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  stressed out as everybody else is on the offensive line because it's Bill Beatenbone.
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  Now, granted I could be wrong easily and I will not refute that,
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  but it's beaten It seems like he finds some magical way to put together a
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  nice set of things out of the kitchen and give you a four course gourmet
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  meal that you didn't even know all those ingredients were even in there. Right,
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  he just makes something out of nothing, and we got to accept that.
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  So offensive line wise, as we move across it, I'm guessing both
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  Jake's aren't their sex and looks like they're playing him. Interior on the level
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  guard to help Baits, but now we got Hickman. I'm kind of curious
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  to how that's gonna go if they decide to move Baits over into like the
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  guard next replace Oseda, so that you know, he can help Hickman learn
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  everything. I'm kind of curious to what that mix could be like. But
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  overall, that's where we need the most work, and we've got one of
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  the best guys doing it, so I'm not too mad. We'll go reverse
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  coop offensive line who jumped out to you? Like I said, I will
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  say, spin down looks pretty bad. And and this is guys, this
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  isn't this isn't blasting any any kids, but this, uh, he looked
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  bad and and that's frustrating. Uh. You know, I've talked to a
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  couple of Michigan State people and they were like, let me get ready because
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  he's not he's he's a little bit of a headache. And so but you
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  know, I like Jake Taylor. You know, I got to see,
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  you know, a lot out of the offensive line. I came back and
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  watched an abbreviated version of the game late last night, and you know,
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  he was forty minutes and I took about two hours to watch it, So
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  you know that looks good. I mean, Bates didn't seem like there was
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  anything there. That second line is is what bothers me. So Chris,
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  where I don't entirely agree that the offensive line of concern the depth is a
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  concern because you know, I'm not going to sit here and dog textas to
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  say, like, hey listen, one offensive line injury and you guys are
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  gonna be hurting, like we're in that same boat. But Akin Kumi comes
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  back, you know again towards uh, towards fall camp, you get the
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  other injury guys and then hopefully, you know, maybe somebody else. But
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  you know, the offensive line that that first unit looked pretty good. Like
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  I said, with mixing in ones, twos, and threes throughout the whole
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  time, you know that that that's it's they did pretty good for that.
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  Now, there were times that the guys were just we're just one and that's
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  gonna happened. But when you're playing each other, anytime you see something good
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  on the defense, you know, everybody's like, what's about the offense.
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  But every time see some you know, Dean Burks go down the field.
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  I was like, well, what's up with the defense? We play ourselves,
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  We're going to beat ourselves too, kind of the the tongue in cheek
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  Jay on the opening. So, like I said, I mean, the
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  offensive line still has a lot to work. You know, if we started
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  the season today, I would not be as smiley. But Jay, you
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  and I talked to a couple of people and the offensive line took took a
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  lot of this criticism and they have it's put a chip on their shoulder and
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  they're going out and spending time together. They are learning each other, they're
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  learning more about each other, and so you know, let's see, you
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  got a lot of smiles, you know from a lot of the parents,
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  a lot of a lot of the the younger guys are going to get more
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  play, more play, more play throughout the summer. So yeah, I
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  mean, if there's a coach that you want to be in charge of that
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  we got. We got the right line. That' to that too. The
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  one thing I like to try to point out on a regular basis, Yeah,
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  I'll hear we say this a lot. We're young, like right,
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  like, we're very young, and the offensive line is the second lowest amount
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  of snaps we returned from last year, whereas the defensive line, especially h
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  the actually defensive line is the least that we've returned. Actually vice versa.
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  Offensive line is the least we returned, or defensive line is second right behind
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  it, so least amount of snaps. So it looks like it, right,
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  it looks like these guys don't have the snaps and hens. Why you
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  saw the rotations of the players we got because literally we're just getting them snaps
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  now at this point at a quote unquote pace that feels like a game,
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  right, Chris, offensive Line. I know that you've got super concerns,
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  but who jumped out to you that you feel like it's fine? And then
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  where do you think we need to really fix? I mean, obviously,
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  the interior looked pretty damn good, and I mean they had those spurts or
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  whatnot, and then you saw a lot of action from the from Hicks,
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  from Sawchuk. You saw them be able to get loose, You saw Franklin
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  be able to bother and weave and be able to move through the trash as
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  well. So you saw some really good interior play. But that's kind of
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  my concern, Coop. I would go back to kind of your point is
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  simply this right here, For the last two or three seasons, we've came
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  in with an offensive line that was strong at either tackle or in here.
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  You're was supposed to be good, but it was just that unit, right
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  it was. It was never like the complete offensive line all the way across
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  the board. And I'm not saying that's what needs to happen, but for
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  the last couple of years, it's just been frustrating seeing Andrew Rayne be your
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  center and see the obvious obvious strength and and and just or lack of that,
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  you know, lack of that aggression of this physicality stuff like that.
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  You're thinking that, okay, saving you on Bird, this guy, that
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  guy is gonna be able to step up and be Those guys just never materialize.
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  And so now to go out and get some of the guys that you
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  did in the portal, guys with experience, because I've said it, I
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  feel like, not only do you have a lot of talent, because uh
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  Edd perre Lewis Louis how you say it. Then you got Autrey, you
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  got Eugene Brooks, you got guys on that line that you're really excited about
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  as far as their future here with this program, but to go and get
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  Tarquin, to get the hatchet, now get Hickman guys like that. I
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  expect this offensive line to be a complete product by the time that we get
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  to Temple, simply because I know who the coach is and I know what
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  he's going to give, and I know the talent, and so I just
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  feel like, this isn't the first year. This isn't twenty twenty two when
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  we're trying to just be cool and we got you know, some holdovers and
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  different things like that. This isn't twenty three where we're going on a redemption
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  tour. It's twenty four. We got to set a tone going into the
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  SEC and it's got to be physical in the trenches. And I think you're
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  going to This is not me being dooing with gloom saying that we're gonna be
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  bad. I think we're ten game win season, ten game win team anyway,
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  simply because thanks from Jackson Arnold. That helps me feel comfortable at night.
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  Meaning whenever I watch a quarterback, especially in his second year or his
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  first year, right when I watch a quarterback, I'm looking for pocket presence.
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  Is he running out of pocket too? Early doing the Spencer route with
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  things or is he trying to bob and we get moving through the traffic himself,
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  moving up in the pocket and try to find guys and doing different things
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  like that. That's the stuff that I'm looking for. And I see the
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  progressions that he's making in his development, so that helps me feel better.
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  Then. Also, I would be a fool not to think that Seth Latreill
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  is not going to be running a lot of stuff with Boer sharp and running
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  heavy sets when Jake Roberts or Caden Helms or any of those guys get healthy
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  as well. Where you're seeing, hopefully it'd be nice to see, oh
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  you finally use twin sets that they ever could again. But at the same
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  time, I think you're going to see heavy personnel out there, so there
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  are things to look for. But I just feel like as the offense as
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  a whole offensive line, with what you have on campus right now, there
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  ain't no excuse that I can make for you what it's spring, So I'll
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  say that that's fair PG. Who jumped out to you and what what concerns
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  come to you as well for this offensive line? Yeah, I mean way
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  wu I think is the guy that stands out the most, and he's the
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  guy that you've heard a lot about. He's the guy that you expect to
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  be the All American. And I want to break it down for people by
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  the numbers. And here's why I don't believe this offensive line, if you
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  don't get anybody else outside of Hickman, is going to be that bad because
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  I texted a oh you mom yesterday and I said, your offensive line is
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  probably gonna look like Hickman, Heathoseta, Way Wu, Tarquin and Section.
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  That's probably what you're rolling out in the fall. Jacob Sexton last year not
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  his best year, he had a fifty two point six pass block, but
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  the year before that, which was his really good year, he was eighty
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  four point two. So he's probably gonna be somewhere in the middle. And
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  somewhere in the middle is pretty good. Way Wu last year sixty point five
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  on the grade for pass block and seventy five point five in the run block.
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  I gave him a seventy point four overall. And Tarquin. When this
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  guy was at Florida, he was phenomenal. But even last year at USC
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  he was graded out totally at sixty two point eight. So you get him
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  back playing at a position that he's used to playing, Tarquin probably performs a
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  little bit better for you. So I think this offensive line for Oklahoma,
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  by just inserting Hickman as a replacement for your center, with those guys,
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  that's a good serviceable starting five for you up on the front. And it's
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  likely going to be an offensive line that's going to give Jackson Arnold lots of
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  coverage because they all have pretty decent passplot grades. That's fair. That's fair,
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  and it's very fair at when you look at the numbers itself and how
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  and how actual solid they came out, And so I like that. Let's
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  go on to the quarterback, Jackson Arnold, Michael Hawkins general Booty. Guys,
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  Booty, maybe he's the second street quarterback. Hey man, look,
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  I mean, that's a great hot take, but I'm gonna keep it a
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  buck though. Jackson Arnold, I Christ you made mention of this, and
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  I appreciate you pointing this out. He looked comfortable in the pocket for the
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  most part. Right, He had his moments where that defensive line was really
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  getting their pressure in, but for the most part he didn't freak out like
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  I didn't see him trying to get rid of the ball instantly or panicking.
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  It looked comfortable, and so he finished the game ten for twenty two thirty
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  three, two touchdowns. And of course the relationship with his wide receiver seems
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  to be amazing, because this literally reminds me of last season with Gabriel and
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  Andre Anthony. He's just out of nowhere, you know, the transfer guy
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  comes in and dominates. We'll talk about them next, but I'm gonna say
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  this. I got a quick hot take on it. Hawkins didn't look all
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  that great numbers wise, five for twelve, but he looked good in the
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  pocket. Right, you gotta remember who he had. He had the second
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  string piece milk line that he had to work with. He moved well,
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  he looked down the field and was throwing it. I think we're safe with
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  the second string this year. I think we don't have any reasons to be
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  overly concerned like we're used to, right, we typically are. We were
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  nervous last year, right for the most part, you know, because Jackson
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  was a freshman before that, we were terrified, and which we showed that
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  against Texas. We looked so much better with our quarterback depth, and of
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  course Booty got some runs and he ran in for a touchdown, was wiggling
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  everywhere, which I'm pretty impressed with. We'll go with you, Chris.
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  We'll start off, man, how'd you feel about Jackson Arnold? Elaborate more
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  on your statement about how you liked to weaar his pocket presence. Man,
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  his poise was there at ten for twenty. I'm just gonna be honest with
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  you that that's you know, a lot of people not even mentioning the fact
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  that he had he had a couple of drops. There was a bunch of
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  drops out there there there I say, I say bunch. There were a
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  few key drops out there. Awesome place. But as far as being able
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  to see the field, see his guys, see his guys open, I
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  thought the timing and everything was fine. Only only only downside of ice was
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  that he took a couple of covered sacks. Guys just weren't open. But
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  I think that just comes with time, just figuring things out. But as
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  far as timing on the passes with his receivers beaning a good connection, it
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  looks like he has. Now. I know that Burke's had what was a
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  focal point, but it looks like he has a really good relationship with with
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  Gibson as well, which I mean, I can't say enough about Gibson.
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  I mean, night and day. I mean, he doesn't he looks way
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  different than what he did last year. Just I mean, and that's that's
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  that's what the college game is really about, man. And take that from
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  somebody who played it, went through all the mental hurdles and all the rest
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  of that stuff. If you have your confidence, it doesn't matter about the
• 22:44
  Alamo Bowl again. So you know, with with Jackson Arnold, if you
• 22:48
  have your confidence, there ain't nothing you could do. You already done it.
• 22:51
  You've done the hard part, getting the scholarship, You've done the hard
• 22:53
  part. Now you're on the field. Now go ball out. But with
• 22:56
  Jackson Rnol, I feel like the throws everything. I mean, it's it's
• 23:00
  all that I could ask for. Thank you, DG for everything that you
• 23:06
  did. But it's time to go with something now for sure, and I'm
• 23:08
  talking about more than just a big twelve where SEC championship. I think that
• 23:11
  he Jackson Donald Jackson wal showed me everything that I need to see yesterday and
• 23:18
  I think that he's going to be to refer this year, and I definitely
• 23:22
  think that those lists where he's, you know, top twenty quarterbacks and he's
• 23:27
  number seventeen, I think that's crazy. Now, I'll just leave it at
• 23:30
  that. Losing their minds on that one PG talk Tommy Jackson, Donald Michael
• 23:36
  Hawkins, general booty, even a little bit of Brendan Zurbrug. He got
• 23:40
  a little bit of action. How are you feeling about that? Yeah,
• 23:42
  and Zurbrug had a pretty impressive pass on that last drive. But no,
• 23:48
  I mean second string quarterback. I think it's I think it's a real,
• 23:51
  actual quarterback battle, and it's gonna be interesting to see when Casey Thompson gets
• 23:56
  back, you know, does he actually cemit himself as the second string or
• 24:00
  is this guy gonna be more of like a quarterbacks coach that's kind of on
• 24:03
  the team, helping guys out. Does Hawkins take that role? That's kind
• 24:07
  of what I'm curious to see is when Casey Thompson comes back, what is
• 24:11
  the storyline changed too, Because honestly, I would like to see Hawkins get
• 24:15
  red shirted. I would like to not have to play him outside of maybe
• 24:18
  just a few games this season. Even if Jackson Arnold is out for at
• 24:22
  least one game, right, I would I would rather see Booty or Casey
• 24:27
  Thompson out there rather than having to burn a red shirt for Michael Hawkins.
• 24:32
  So, but I think the quarterbacks position is gonna be really well. I
• 24:34
  mean, Jackson ARL's gonna have a lot of weapons and we saw that in
• 24:37
  this game. So he just didn't put up arch Manning type numbers. Yeah,
• 24:41
  he wasn't just super perfect, And I don't feel like we've scripted it
• 24:45
  for him to do that. Coop. Yeah, I'm glad somebody else feels
• 24:48
  that way that maybe that was a little scripted. Hey hey if a couple
• 24:51
  people have pointed out that some things looked like they were done on purpose.
• 24:55
  But you know, I digressop quarterback. Why the first down pass of the
• 24:59
  game and that that look like that dB gave up really early? Right?
• 25:03
  Cool? QB, who are you feeling about these guys? I mean,
• 25:07
  you know, Casey Thompson is what we didn't have year one with DG and
• 25:12
  so that is somebody who knows what they need to do. And uh yeah,
• 25:18
  So I mean I just I just say Jackson throws the ball different.
• 25:25
  You know, if you have not listened to a breakdown yet. Uh.
• 25:29
  I hate, I hate, I hate, hate, hate, hate hate
• 25:32
  Gabe for stealing my thunder on this one. But I I think I looked
• 25:36
  at Jay when he overthrew Burks, and I thought that might be the first
• 25:41
  time that Burke has ever been overthrown, because there's no more moonshots on deep
• 25:45
  balls, you know, to where you're like, geez, I'm glad we're
• 25:48
  not at Cowboy Stadium because that would have hit the you know, hit the
• 25:52
  jumbo tron. But Jackson just throws a dart, and you know, with
• 25:56
  that, he has the opportunity to, uh to really you know, wait
• 26:00
  a little bit longer to make sure that he's got it. He's got a
• 26:03
  good look. But Dede Westbrook, I mean, Dion Burks looks like an
• 26:10
  absolute star, and I mean, I can't even I can't even begin to
• 26:14
  think how that's going to help Jackson, especially with you know, when everybody
• 26:18
  else comes back. But yeah, so ten for twenty and so Jackson did
• 26:23
  notice a couple of times to where he went through his reads, and I
• 26:27
  know two of the times where he threw the ball in the ground, you
• 26:30
  know, kind of like when a you know, a penalty gets called,
• 26:33
  the quarterback just tosses it at the ground. He did three of those,
• 26:37
  and and I like that because he looked around. Instead of forcing something,
• 26:41
  he just lived to fight another day. And you know it, it was
• 26:45
  tough. He looked, He looked very He looked a lot bigger like as
• 26:49
  far as it's just physical stature, and he also he also looks pretty quick.
• 26:55
  I mean when he was running around, it was terrific. Hawkins.
• 26:59
  You know, I would say this is yeah, you you want him to
• 27:00
  go, You take a seat, get his full games in. You know,
• 27:04
  the family understands how things are going. Michael, you know, grew
• 27:08
  up in an NFL locker room, so he knows all those things. So
• 27:14
  we are in that spot is is Yeah, Jackson needs to continue to go
• 27:18
  up. He's going to have to make quicker decisions on you know when they
• 27:21
  do have an r P O piece. But I don't know when I felt
• 27:26
  better going into a season than than I do now at quarterback. And you
• 27:33
  know, we've got lots of talent behind him too, So I mean,
• 27:36
  if anything does happen, hopefully you know, we get the opportunity to see
• 27:41
  Casey Thomas, Tom Thompson. How how's Casey Thompson going to look with with
• 27:47
  this receiving corps and the tight end and the running back like is you know,
• 27:49
  I don't hope not. I hope our offensive line could hold up if
• 27:52
  he ever came in. But you know it looks good across the board.
• 27:56
  Yeah, go ahead. I was just gonna say two things real quick,
• 28:02
  just to piggyback off of what Coop was saying. I was sitting there next
• 28:07
  to my uncle and when he was, you know, throwing those touchdowns to
• 28:10
  Berks, I kept screaming, in stride, in stride, oh my god,
• 28:14
  you have But second point is the second thing I want to say is,
• 28:21
  first off, shout out to Casey Thompson because coming back from an acl
• 28:26
  especially playing you know, quarterback, even going through a lot of these nun
• 28:30
  contact drills because I mean, we know the Bridgewaters of the world and stuff
• 28:33
  like that. Shout out to him even being out there on the field.
• 28:36
  You know, Uh yeah, I mean, I think Casey Thompson is going
• 28:42
  to be great for us in whichever role. But Coop, I'm not gonna
• 28:47
  lie. When I was looking at Hawkins, I was thinking myself, I
• 28:49
  was like, man, we we may not red shirt him simply because he
• 28:56
  may give us an option in the in the red zone. That's true,
• 29:00
  pends if our office of live is it great, I guess, But because
• 29:07
  I'm thinking maybe you want to do like some speed option or something like that,
• 29:11
  you know, some design runs for him. I mean, I think
• 29:15
  he utilize his speed if you can't, but I think a jet sweep.
• 29:19
  Could we do a jet sweep with Michael Hawkins. I'm I'm gonna go ahead
• 29:23
  kick you off the panel for that. It was the second play on the
• 29:32
  second team Jay and I said it right before it was it was it's funny.
• 29:34
  I was like, wouldn't it just be funny just to throw shade at
• 29:38
  Levy to uh just run jets sweep first play of the game. And we
• 29:42
  didn't do it, And then the second team offense came out and they did,
• 29:45
  and I was like, I just just want you to know ou fans
• 29:49
  will be ready to call for latrelle In Finley's head if they do that in
• 29:55
  the season. If they do that this season, they will their heads will
• 29:59
  be called for because though you fans ain't having it, I really hope that
• 30:02
  we just go ahead and troll and do that the first play. I mean,
• 30:03
  why not man as well? Sound like fun to me? Right yep?
• 30:07
  Oh no, I mean, I mean I just say it. But
• 30:10
  anyway from there, love that talk on the quarterback stuff. Hey, y'all,
• 30:14
  hop in the comments. Let us know your thoughts. We appreciate y'all.
• 30:15
  We see the interactions going fantastic stuff. We'll pull y'all in as we
• 30:19
  see fit. I want to go ahead and just jump right to that wide
• 30:22
  receiver room because I've been playing this video just because I just love it so
• 30:26
  much, and as I watch it every single time, it just you know,
• 30:30
  puts this massive like smile on my face. As I watched this.
• 30:33
  Dude, Dion Burks is that dude. I'm just gonna have to say that
• 30:37
  Dion Burks is the dude right Like, nothing about him tells me that he
• 30:42
  ain't. As we going to wide receivers, y'all, it's funny that this
• 30:48
  is our second transferred dude to be able to walk in there and just be
• 30:51
  like, yeah, this is what I want. But we also didn't have
• 30:53
  Nick six. He didn't play. Jake Gibson was catching some tough passes.
• 31:00
  He was doing his part and then you saw ginormous I even carry on.
• 31:04
  I don't know if y'all noticed him down there at the bot dos huge.
• 31:08
  I didn't realize he was that big, Like he looks solid. So yeah,
• 31:15
  make sure y'all send postcards, send letters, thank perdue for their contribution
• 31:19
  to the future of a sooner a civilization with the Dion Burks peaks. Because
• 31:25
  get Coop even mentioned this, I'm gonna let him say his statement in a
• 31:27
  bit he was talking about at the game. But man, Burk's is gonna
• 31:32
  change the gay for us, so we'll go with you, Coop. How'd
• 31:36
  you feel about these wide receivers? I mean, Burk's him. And if
• 31:41
  anybody was wondering how stupid I was for saying I think BUR's is a first
• 31:45
  round draft pick wide receiver. Uh now, let's let'm gon back it back
• 31:51
  a little bit. Burke's he is that good, He is that fast.
• 31:56
  Now, Jade Hardy took an absolute god awful angle. I think they were
• 32:02
  in to cover three and he took a bad, bad angle, and the
• 32:07
  other one can it dropped the wrong way. So obviously, if you don't
• 32:10
  have a player where you're supposed to have a player during Cover three, Chris,
• 32:14
  it ain't gonna work too well and so but Burke's Burke's is most impressive.
• 32:19
  Were not the deep balls. There were there were some you know,
• 32:22
  there were some overs that uh uh that the two of his catches, you
• 32:27
  know, Jackson Arnold hit him, hit him, and Dad comes stride and
• 32:30
  it was beautiful. Listen, I'm not gonna he's good. Yeah, ive
• 32:37
  and carry on. If we invited him into the chat or into the screen,
• 32:40
  you know, Ivan's body would be like, hey, guys, thanks
• 32:44
  for inviting me to the podcast. I really appreciate it. I mean,
• 32:49
  and he looks like when you had the the college football Games of old and
• 32:53
  you try to create your own player and you made your wife. He looks
• 32:58
  like that, and especially in that twenty four jersey, I mean, it
• 33:00
  just looks like somebody recreated Marcus Major at six foot six. But he uh
• 33:07
  and you know, we saw him come up. He came up right in
• 33:09
  front of us when right before women down on the field, and and he's
• 33:15
  it's just he's just enormous. And so I would say that, I would
• 33:20
  say, you know, you got Kearney. We got to talk to his
• 33:22
  parents for a little bit too, and you know he had a he had
• 33:27
  a pretty bad drop, but you know he looks great out there. Jaden
• 33:31
  Gibson, Jayden Gibson and Dion Burks are going to get U are going to
• 33:37
  create some personal fouls because it is absolutely, absolutely, absolutely crazy just to
• 33:46
  think that, like those guys were jawing at everybody. Gibson was Gibson was
• 33:52
  bouncing. He was one of the captains for the offense, and he's bouncing
• 33:53
  and he's talking trash. For the coin flip it was, it was beautiful.
• 33:59
  Burks is talking trash, I think was it Burk's and can II Walker
• 34:04
  got in it several times and the official actually pushed them apart, and you
• 34:08
  know, I'm like, damn, Like it reminded me of Kobe Bryant just
• 34:10
  dunking on peal gasol. So this wide receiver room, I mean, Jay,
• 34:17
  have you ever considered maybe getting Emma Jones raise, because I mean,
• 34:23
  you know, I've been thinking about it. I felt like it's probably some
• 34:29
  good conversation that we should do that, you know, we should totally talk
• 34:34
  about him getting a raise, Chris. When you see the wide receiver room
• 34:36
  and what they were doing, man what's good man, I hate look.
• 34:38
  I first let me begin with this right here. The look, the caliber
• 34:47
  and the quality of the player, but especially the look. Man, you
• 34:51
  gotta give it to Smitty Man because he Smitty is doing his damn thing.
• 34:54
  Bron like, year three is crazy, but I want to touch on carry
• 35:00
  on first man. Coming into the season, I thought, I was like,
• 35:02
  oh, yeah, he's just gonna be a guy, project guy.
• 35:05
  Probably end up moving the tight end. No, no, no, no,
• 35:07
  no, no no no. He he runs fluid, he's he's smooth
• 35:12
  when he runs. To be honest with you, Uh, he may not
• 35:15
  be as fast as he is, but he runs better. His run style
• 35:17
  is better than Gibson. I was like, no, he's he's a wide
• 35:21
  receiver. He's a complete wide receiver. Uh, he's only going to get
• 35:23
  better. I was like, that's gonna be crazy. I'm over here screaming,
• 35:28
  and in my mind I'm screaming. I'm like, Seth Treil Joe John.
• 35:30
  Please when we get to the when we get down there in the red
• 35:34
  zone, please let's not do this whole thing of Burk's on the outside and
• 35:37
  andrel Anthony on the other outside and try to speed these guys. No,
• 35:40
  put Gibson, Put Gibson Anderson and carry on on the field. Put Bower
• 35:45
  sharp in over there in the spot. So let's get it, like,
• 35:50
  what are we doing? We don't have to do all of that. Do
• 35:52
  fades, you could throw him to those guys. But outside of that,
• 35:57
  man, I would just say I thought the wide receiver group as a whole,
• 36:00
  they look good even with what we saw yesterday, the younger, good
• 36:04
  mix of the younger guys or whatnot. I know what I would get for
• 36:07
  Faruk. I know. I feel like I know what I'm going to get
• 36:09
  from from Anthony when those guys are back, and I know what I'm gonna
• 36:14
  get from Nick Anderson as well. So my whole thing is is that I'm
• 36:17
  like, Okay, this is great because you you're gonna put a lot of
• 36:21
  dudes on islands. And I think what people are going to try to do
• 36:25
  to Jackson Oral this year. They're gonna try to run a lot of zone
• 36:29
  or try to disguise it and have his own concepts in there because they're gonna
• 36:31
  say, well, it worked in the Alamobo, I can't even work now.
• 36:36
  I don't think you do that simply because this is not a levy offense
• 36:40
  to wear your third downs and some of your second downs are slants. Those
• 36:45
  are not gonna be your go to routes. It's gonna be dudes running all
• 36:49
  open down the field, and he has the orange stretch to burn you.
• 36:52
  And he has the orange stretch to get situated very quick. And last thing
• 36:58
  not but he he's not gonna have those freshman mistakes or that Alamo Bowl game
• 37:04
  mistake. Excuse me, I don't know why I can't talk today, But
• 37:06
  still, wide receiver room look really good. They look athletic. That's that's
• 37:09
  the thing. They look really athletic. So I'm excited about it. Yeah,
• 37:15
  I think the best is yet to come. Yeah, And you know,
• 37:19
  I understand why you couldn't get the words going. Man, just dumb
• 37:22
  out of how elite this wide receiver room looks. Right. It's probably it
• 37:24
  is definitely our strongest room right now, and we just got to see what
• 37:29
  I think. I say it's our second strongest. Honestly, I think the
• 37:30
  secondary is the strongest at this point when I really look back on it.
• 37:34
  But we'll talk about them in just a minute. PG wide receivers, man,
• 37:39
  Man, I'm really excited to see what this wide receiver room is gonna
• 37:43
  look like when you get d On Bricks and Andre Anthony out there, can
• 37:47
  Nick or can we just do Andre Anthony, Dean Burks and Brendan Thompson all
• 37:54
  together, just let him streak down the field and see who's gonna stop them,
• 37:58
  because I guarantee you to help Mary's situation. You aren't. You aren'tnna
• 38:01
  be bild to cover all three of them. No, I think you're right,
• 38:05
  And I actually have three lines, three lineups that I'm really excited to
• 38:07
  see. Like one, we did have a JJ Hester sighting, So you
• 38:10
  got six y four Hester, puts six four Nick Anderson, sixty five Gibson,
• 38:15
  and then sixty six carry On all out there at the same time trying
• 38:17
  to figure out who's gonna stop a jump ball there right, Who's gonna have
• 38:22
  somebody who's gonna handle that portion? Plus we all know three of them are
• 38:27
  fast. We guys, just see what carry On can do as far as
• 38:29
  like a straight line. That's the interesting thing there. And then as you
• 38:32
  mentioned that lineup, you've got Burk's ped away put in Brenda Thompson and andreel
• 38:37
  Anthony. If he's back to you know, at least ninety five percent of
• 38:39
  himself, four more burners out there. That's just you know, outrun everybody.
• 38:44
  Hey, it's that's how has to sell playing time in this room,
• 38:47
  right, Like, Hey, some games you might not get as much,
• 38:51
  but other games you're gonna get a lot. It's gonna be all depending on
• 38:53
  matchups. Baby, and oh, it's gonna be a lot of fun this
• 38:55
  year. It's gonna be a lot of fun. I agree with that one
• 38:59
  and and and modern day Cavan makes his great point here the Seth the Trail
• 39:02
  threw him on a on a reverse last jet sweep and had everybody a little
• 39:07
  bit on the perturbed side. Totally agree. Thinks Seth Trail did do a
• 39:09
  little bit better thing on that. But let's move on running back room and
• 39:15
  tight ends. We'll put them together to wrap up the offense. Real talk,
• 39:19
  keeping it a buck, keeping it uh, keeping it h keeping it
• 39:22
  funky. Caleb Hicks might be something man like. Okay, I know that
• 39:28
  we didn't see Javonte Barnes. The there was a statement out there about Barnes
• 39:36
  was, uh, they didn't play him because of opportunities or something. I've
• 39:39
  seen some reports go around it seem weird, But I'll say this man,
• 39:45
  Caleb Hicks might be solidifying himself as the dude next to Saltchuk. The thing.
• 39:49
  Saltchuk is gonna be RB one just because of what he did last season.
• 39:53
  And you know he finished the seat, finished season five straight one hundred
• 39:58
  yard games. You know, he he got himself back to where we thought
• 40:00
  he was gonna be at the beginning of the year. We look healthier now.
• 40:05
  The question is with Barnes and how bad things were with his foot.
• 40:07
  Kind of curious on it. But at the same time, the rumors are
• 40:09
  flowing around that he's probably gonna hit the portal. I don't know if he
• 40:14
  does. Totally understood, because I think Hicks man might be somebody that's gonna
• 40:19
  be a problem. Chris will start with you this running back room and also
• 40:22
  tight ends Bower. Sharp's a big dude. And I saw that one play
• 40:28
  where I think Ethan Downs got him on the edge. Totally saw that.
• 40:30
  I also saw him beat Ethan Downs on a block on the edge like a
• 40:35
  play in or whatnot. Shout out to Barry Wise over there at Barry and
• 40:37
  Mac. He posted a video of that and I was like, oh,
• 40:39
  it was a good battle between the Edges and bower Sharp the entire game,
• 40:44
  So I can't be mad. I kind of wish we would have thrown into
• 40:46
  them. But I do think one thing, and I'm gonna pass this to
• 40:50
  you, Chris. I think we didn't use the tight ends for a reason
• 40:55
  for the most part, because why show your hand if he ain't got to
• 40:59
  right. We got all these wide receivers. Show people what they are going
• 41:01
  to be excited about. Run a ball with Caleb Hicks, Sam Franklin as
• 41:07
  well as all the wide receivers. You to let you know, battle shopping
• 41:10
  them show out later. How'd you feel about the running backs as well as
• 41:14
  those tight ends. Okay, so first off, running backs, I thought
• 41:17
  they hey, look, I thought it looked really good. I thought,
• 41:22
  Sawchuck, I know what Sawchuck is going to give me. I'm kind of
• 41:24
  obviously. I think we're all let me start with this, Let me start
• 41:28
  with this. I think all four of us are waiting for Taylor, Taylor
• 41:30
  Taytan to get on the Let's let's just be real. We're waiting. We're
• 41:36
  waiting for him to see if the hype is real and see if he can
• 41:37
  really insert himself into the lineup, into this rotation. But with what we
• 41:43
  saw yesterday, I would say this, I think saw Chuck is solid.
• 41:45
  I think saw Chuck is gonna be saw Chuck. I think Caleb Hicks Jay.
• 41:51
  You know, I've been a big Caleb Hicks fan since he got to
• 41:53
  campus. I thought everybody was screaming for Hollywood last year. I thought it
• 42:00
  was him. I said, hey, man, he came in here working
• 42:02
  like mentality, head down, was ready to work. And you saw some
• 42:06
  of the moves last year early on. I know it was Arkansas State,
• 42:08
  but that was still a hell of a move for a freshman. One of
• 42:12
  his first reps in the game, right got a touchdown. But seeing him
• 42:15
  this year, no, he yeah, he's he has a chance to really
• 42:20
  burst on the scene. He would be my early pick for breakout player of
• 42:23
  the year. I mean breakout player for this team simply because just I mean,
• 42:28
  I just think I think the world of the kid, and I think
• 42:30
  that he's going to be really really big for us, and I think he's
• 42:34
  going to be kind of that tweiner as far as being a kind of a
• 42:37
  power back as well when you need it. Sam Franklin solid, extremely solid.
• 42:42
  I think he's a guy that will still still snaps be out there.
• 42:46
  I think you're gonna see a lot of him as well. I feel really
• 42:50
  comfortable with the three running backs that we that we have that we saw really
• 42:53
  play the majority of the first half. I think Meg Way he looks he
• 42:58
  looks great, and I think that the talent is still there. Hopefully the
• 43:02
  knee and everything is healed up. So I mean, it gives you another
• 43:06
  solid edition. Once you get Taylor Tatum on the on on campus. That
• 43:10
  gives you what about four or five running backs that you feel like you can
• 43:15
  really depend on. Bourns, I don't know what that situation is about heading
• 43:20
  over to the tight ends. I would say this right here watching a breakdown.
• 43:22
  I'm sure that Cooper's gonna talk about it as well. Look, I
• 43:28
  definitely don't think that you had to show your hand yesterday because the tight ends
• 43:32
  are going to be a huge part of this offense. Okay, those little
• 43:37
  split buff zones and those split zones, different things like that, those looks
• 43:40
  that that he's wanted to give you, Latreill, He's gonna put two tight
• 43:45
  ends on uh out there, and you don't know what they're gonna be doing.
• 43:50
  Hell, it's gonna be it's gonna feel like playing against uh, somebody
• 43:52
  who really knows what they're doing at Madden. Right, You're gonna have those
• 43:55
  why those uh those tight ends running those seam routes, a little skinny post,
• 44:00
  different things like that. You're gonna see a lot of the tight end
• 44:05
  be featured in this offense this year in a variety of ways. I can't
• 44:07
  wait for people to see that splip buff zone when Jackson Normal, Michael Hawkins,
• 44:14
  somebody is running down the sideline for a forty yard touchdown, simple because
• 44:19
  everybody picked up their blocking and executed their assignment. So yeah, no,
• 44:23
  I mean, I think that the tight end room is gonna be really good.
• 44:25
  I can't wait for He still looks raw out there, simply because it
• 44:30
  feels like he's still getting acclimated to this offense learning and everybody's pace is different.
• 44:36
  But gosh, devon Mitchell man, he is going to be a beast
• 44:40
  man the kid. The kid is is, And the thing about it is
• 44:47
  is that it's kind of inconsistent how he runs because he looks so light on
• 44:53
  his feet, but he's so heavy Man, I'm like, man, I
• 44:57
  don't I don't know. I was like, he he's kind of I'm gonna
• 45:00
  be in that category of like a like an Ethan Downs trying to really find
• 45:04
  his playing way as far as what he wants to play at. But once
• 45:07
  he gets hold of that situated, man, that kid is going to be
• 45:10
  special. Dude, I can see that. I'm with you on that one,
• 45:14
  and Chuck totally, I get you underneath the gameplay, that's not an
• 45:17
  argument. I think you're right on that portion of it. I one hundred
• 45:21
  percent agree. But some of the videos and stuff we've seen of what those
• 45:24
  tight Ends have done in practice kind of makes me say, I feel like
• 45:29
  they were holding back. It just feels like it now. At the same
• 45:32
  time, you're right. The good thing is we have three out of conference
• 45:36
  games at the beginning of the year, and it looks like Houston's gut it
• 45:37
  again. And I don't think tu Lane's gonna be a problem yet because they're
• 45:42
  quote unquote rebuilding for the most part. In Temple, we should be able
• 45:44
  to walk who should be able to sleepwalk through that game. So we'll get
• 45:47
  that at that point, especially in fall camp. You know, it's gotta
• 45:51
  make you stay healthy. PG over to you, running backs and tight ends?
• 45:54
  What just made you be like pow or or rebuttal to somebody else?
• 46:01
  What you got? Yeah? I mean I didn't expect to see a ton
• 46:05
  of the tight ends because I mean, we've heard so much about our sharp
• 46:07
  but I didn't really feel like the staff would want to put anything on film
• 46:10
  for your opposing teams to see in the fall. So I don't know if
• 46:15
  I really expected to see a ton of tight ends. Now. I thought
• 46:17
  maybe we would see Cayden Helmes dressed up, but he was just in his
• 46:22
  jersey, so I guess he's still not able to play full contact. So
• 46:27
  I guess maybe I was just off on that one. But running backs,
• 46:30
  what have I been trying to tell you all about? Kala vicks Man?
• 46:31
  I love this kid, and the one thing I love about his game is
• 46:36
  he's patient, like he will wait for the hole to develop and then he's
• 46:39
  gonna burst through. He almost gives me kind of like that Kennedy Brooks vibe.
• 46:43
  If you guys remember, like Kennedy Brooks would almost wait too long for
• 46:45
  the hole to develop and then he would run right through it. And that's
• 46:49
  what I think you're gonna get with Caleb Hicks, but Caleb Picks has got
• 46:52
  I'm not gonna say track speed, but it's pretty close to it. And
• 46:55
  then yeah, you got Gavin Sawchuk. We saw what he was able to
• 46:59
  do last year. And then I'm on board with George Stoya. Uh BB's
• 47:04
  answer with Barnes was absolute bs, like, something's going on. You don't
• 47:08
  know what you have in Sawchuk too, and yeah, so yeah, you
• 47:13
  would want to see more out of Barnes because you didn't get a chance to
• 47:15
  see Barnes healthy last year, right, So I mean like you'd want to
• 47:19
  see Barnes, not Sawchuck. And so I don't know something's going on there.
• 47:23
  And you know, I think Eddie said it. He goes, maybe
• 47:27
  Barnes doesn't transferred and this is like the greatest thing we've ever seen at running
• 47:30
  back and they're just gonna throw them out there in the fall. I just
• 47:34
  don't think that's gonna happen. I think Barnes is probably out at this point,
• 47:37
  which I mean they got to get down in scholarship, so it I
• 47:42
  mean, you're gonna lose somebody somewhere, and running back is one of those
• 47:45
  rooms where we have a lot of guys like you have a lot of depth
• 47:47
  and like you guys said Taylor Tatum's coming in. I'm not sold on Taylor
• 47:52
  Tatum being a guy that's gonna get a ton of snaps this year. I
• 47:55
  think they'll let him kind of focus on baseball and kind of just be there
• 48:00
  what he's needed, because, I mean, you've got so much talent there
• 48:02
  this year. You don't absolutely have to throw him into the fire for you
• 48:07
  know, ten snaps a game. I mean, if Tatum is as good
• 48:09
  as advertised, you do. And then we did see Xavier Robinson and it
• 48:13
  looked like it was really hard for people to tackle him as well. Right,
• 48:15
  that's one player that I felt like was a little underrated in and a
• 48:19
  couple of snaps I saw him get. I'm just like, oh, yeah,
• 48:22
  you're not gonna fall are you? Like you literally do not want to
• 48:23
  hit the ground. And he had eight carries for twenty seven yard. It's
• 48:27
  only averaging three point eight, but it was really hard for them to tackle
• 48:30
  him. And I think that that gets better as the line gets better,
• 48:32
  and so coop on the backs tight ends how you feel in any rebuttals what
• 48:37
  you're thinking, Caleb Hicks is that guy. And if you go back and
• 48:44
  watch you you go back to that game. There was one point where they
• 48:51
  did an RPO and it was a little bit of a fumble and he had
• 48:55
  a blitzer screaming right at him and he stepped up up and he's stonewalled and
• 49:01
  I didn't see who it was, but it was it was, I mean,
• 49:06
  a hell of a pass coverage. I'm pass block like. That's what
• 49:09
  I was kind of worried about. Was you know, typically when you see
• 49:13
  a younger kid who can't make it on the field, you hear these great
• 49:15
  running the ball, it's the pass protection. But it looked terrific and he
• 49:19
  did a such a great job. And so there's that I think that.
• 49:25
  I mean, again, Brent Vinible is not going to come out and be
• 49:28
  like, hey, Javonte Barnes is transferring out right, because there's no need
• 49:31
  for that. So he did. I mean, I think he did cover
• 49:35
  and you know you're gonna find out. So it's we didn't need to Brent
• 49:38
  Vinables to tell us like Javonte didn't want to play, and you know he's
• 49:43
  he's making his way out because maybe it's not Oh it wasn't mackenzie. So
• 49:46
  I mean, I if he's if he stepped up and he's stonewalled, Mackenzie,
• 49:52
  that's Mackenzie's freaking humongous angus. He's he is the second most surprised.
• 49:59
  I was on that second most surprise that, you know, to see what
• 50:05
  they physically looked like. You know, Xavier got out there. Xavier didn't
• 50:09
  look terrific, but he was with a mixed match second and third string offensive
• 50:15
  line, and guys, he was getting hit immediately. McKenzie should I mean
• 50:22
  not McKenzie, but he should be at his high school still. So let's
• 50:27
  let's just you know, let's just calm down. You know, Xavier Robinson
• 50:30
  is a freshman. He is going to He's going to get bigger. I
• 50:37
  saw some people maybe dropping some crap about Devon Mitchell maybe looking slow again.
• 50:44
  That kid should be a senior in high school right now. Uh, you
• 50:46
  know, he reclassified. He has a good body movement. And I will
• 50:52
  say this last thing about the tide ends. Yeah, guys, if there
• 50:57
  was any pumped the brakes on the tight end stuff and whatnot, all it
• 51:02
  took was for the hit on sharp from bogo to them. You know,
• 51:07
  maybe we should open it up a little bit. Then then sharp gets drilled
• 51:12
  and there maybe we shouldn't open it up a little bit. And so we
• 51:16
  saw also Jay Kate McIntyre. He's another guy that just is a is a
• 51:22
  freaking nature too. And I think here we go. We have the opportunity
• 51:28
  with tight ends. We've got a lot of different guys with a lot of
• 51:30
  different skill sets. And you, I mean out how long until we have
• 51:34
  to count carry on in there too? So running if you're freaking out,
• 51:40
  Yeah, I just he's humongous and you know, again we just if he
• 51:45
  beefs up anymore, it might might have to happen. Then that'd be really
• 51:50
  weird looking at So what he'll be a flex tight end, Like if you
• 51:53
  want to run an extra receiver, he could run him as a flex tight
• 51:57
  end. Possibly. The question is wes his ability to walk on the inside
• 52:02
  right. I think it's where you have those questions around putting carry on at
• 52:06
  that. I don't I haven't seen him blocking as a tight end and tight
• 52:09
  end type schemes. That's where I would have a concern. Now I can
• 52:13
  see him going as a wide receiver going in motion and then rubbing or blocking
• 52:16
  somebody that way, you know, with a little bit of speed for you
• 52:19
  know, fool speed ahead on as he goes. But at the same time,
• 52:22
  I don't It doesn't sound smart to me at this point, but you
• 52:25
  never know, it could be, could be something. Man, we spent
• 52:30
  like fifty minutes talking offense. Now it's time to get to the fun part,
• 52:32
  but one that everybody wants to lose their minds on. Outside offensive line,
• 52:36
  it's gonna be defense, right, So make sure y'all hit that like
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  you're listening to the audio version of this, and thank y'all for pulling up
• 52:45
  as usual, stalk defense. Coop him a pass to you first, I'm
• 52:50
  gonna let you choose what position we're gonna start off with. You give us
• 52:53
  your your quote unquote safety, all right, go for it, lead the
• 52:58
  way well, talk the line. We talked about safety being a strength of
• 53:05
  this team, and I mean it, it almost makes my eyes water.
• 53:09
  It almost makes my eyes water. So funny story. So Jay and I
• 53:15
  are under the tunnel and we're talking to Isaiah tr Dan's dad and uh powers
• 53:21
  and then Bogo's dad comes down and and Jay and Bogo's dad are talking and
• 53:27
  I'm watching the TV screen and and I was like, oh, oh,
• 53:30
  oh, your boy just crushed somebody. And then he looks me straight in
• 53:35
  the eye and goes, yeah, but did you see the mistackle he made?
• 53:37
  He had? And I was like, oh, and he was the
• 53:40
  one where they Jackson got touched and then he kind of just flicked it out.
• 53:45
  And Bogo just you know, crushes somebody and then he has them.
• 53:47
  So Bogo is like, he is just another one of these freaks of nature
• 53:55
  that makes Brandon Hall, I mean, without Emmett Jones, I think we
• 54:00
  would be talking a lot more about Brandon Hall, because I mean, Brandon
• 54:05
  Halls, Brandon Hall and these rays. You didn't even have your All American
• 54:09
  safety out there. Peyton Bowen is just out there roaming around doing Peyton Bowen
• 54:15
  things. But you know that the younger guys like Hardy and and Boganowski,
• 54:22
  even Eli Bowen running back out there that safety room is just absolutely exciting to
• 54:27
  watch. And and you know, and I'm here for it, and we
• 54:31
  are now recruiting guys who want to hit folks. And so it is when
• 54:36
  you see Bogo when you're like, bro, you remember that these are your
• 54:40
  teammates, right like it just it fires me up. I love him,
• 54:45
  I love him. I love him. I love him. And meeting his
• 54:49
  dad, we see where he gets it from, right. He wants,
• 54:52
  he wants to he wants to arrive with violence. And we were talking to
• 54:57
  a couple I think it was his father when we were talking about it,
• 55:00
  and he said, you know what we've got. You know, this whole
• 55:04
  group wants to hit you. And Jay brought up and said, yeah,
• 55:07
  I mean exactly. You You know, you were making business decisions quite often
• 55:13
  when you catch the football over the middle. So if you're were wondering what's
• 55:16
  this going to look like when Billy Bowman leaves, I'm pretty sure that we
• 55:22
  can sit back on the safety room. Yeah, that's the room that of
• 55:25
  course excites me because of the return of the production. Robert Spiars Jennings was
• 55:30
  out there. He was getting his hits in, which excited me as well.
• 55:32
  So you get Spirits Jennings back and as that experience and that ability to
• 55:37
  hit there, you see Boganowski, little Boga out there just leveling folks,
• 55:42
  and it's funny because you said that when I was when we was on the
• 55:45
  field, I saw him. I was like, hey man, you know,
• 55:47
  talking to him and his dad, and I'm like, hey man,
• 55:49
  can you like stop like kind of killing your teammates. I mean, I
• 55:52
  want you to hit, but you don't kind of kill your teammates. He
• 55:54
  smiled, He's like, I got you, man, I got you.
• 55:57
  I got you because we all know, we all know what was gonna happen,
• 56:00
  because that was great. We think it was Baits that ran up on
• 56:01
  him. When I think he hit hit Caleb Hicks a little lad play and
• 56:06
  Baits ran up on him and got this grill, which one I love that
• 56:09
  they're holding each other accountable for that. He also hit Bowers sharp? Was
• 56:14
  that him hit Bower sharp? It seems like Bogo was everywhere everywhere you look.
• 56:20
  If there was somebody getting leveled, it was him. I did not
• 56:22
  realize he hit like that, because of course I knew Reggie Powers was gonna
• 56:25
  do that. RP three was definitely gonna be that did to level people,
• 56:30
  because he has a whole mixtape of him just leveling people, which is you
• 56:36
  know, we all love that. I did not realize that Boga was also
• 56:42
  a big time hitter. So now that we have both, I'm just all
• 56:45
  right. And then Robert Spears Jennings is known for hitting, which is why
• 56:47
  he kind of had some injury issues back in the day. Love the fact
• 56:51
  that now he's really good on that. And like you said, Bowman is
• 56:58
  what I will say, he's got he We probably want see him too a
• 57:01
  fall camp, which is fine. We don't need him at this point.
• 57:07
  There's always a question is what it's like, what it's gonna look like.
• 57:09
  If they want to try to preserve Bowman for or more so the SEC games.
• 57:14
  Of course they'll get him out there, get him in the game shape
• 57:15
  he needs to be and whatnot. But if they're gonna try to preserve him,
• 57:19
  which that I'll even lead me to the linebackers in a minute. But
• 57:22
  yeah, Man, safety room. But Hardy actually looked pretty solid to again,
• 57:27
  Yes, I feel like we've got the experience we need. Chris,
• 57:30
  talk to me, man, safety room, and if you want to go
• 57:35
  into it, talk to me. I mean, you know, you know
• 57:37
  how I feel about the DVS. Man. I think the DB's look really
• 57:39
  good out there. I think they look solid. Eli Bowing. I'm really
• 57:44
  impressed with Eli bowing Man, like Eli Bone is gonna it's gonna be really
• 57:47
  really good. Kind of like my unk said when we were all talking out
• 57:51
  there, I think I'll probably push him back towards, uh the safety role,
• 57:55
  more of the safety role. Just the kind of his ballhawk skills and
• 57:59
  everything. I think that dangerous having the Bowen brothers potentially be your safeties back
• 58:05
  there eventually. Just those instincts alone could be crazy. And that's simply because
• 58:09
  I kind of like my taller uh more athlet you know, I wouldn't say
• 58:14
  more athletic with my taller like DB's to be out there, you know,
• 58:17
  as far as my corners, I really like Vickers man. I think Vickers
• 58:21
  is solid. I think Vickers is really I think Vickers is learning what it
• 58:24
  takes to play like that. You know, you guys are giving a b
• 58:28
  Hall a lot of credit and deservedly so. But that whole mentality of DB's
• 58:32
  hitting people, that's the lie all day and so has when out there and
• 58:37
  recruited those type of guys. Dans Malone. We got to see a couple
• 58:40
  of looks from him. We got to be kind of both looked like vets
• 58:49
  out there. I'm not gonna lie can is another guy. Like I said,
• 58:52
  you know, yesterday when we were talking about this, Jason and I
• 58:54
  said this about Canni Walker. I said, Hey, only only problem that
• 58:59
  I have CANi last year was that down the stretch, especially when we needed
• 59:02
  him and he was out there in the Kansas game, is that towards at
• 59:07
  some point his technique gets a little bit sloppy and he tries to just really
• 59:13
  go out there and out talent you, and that's not gonna work all the
• 59:15
  time. So I want to know if those things have been fixed, because
• 59:19
  the kid is a hell of a talent. Dolby all those guys, I
• 59:22
  feel like you have a really really good DV room, and I think that
• 59:27
  it's only gonna make things better. Where I would kind of tend to what
• 59:32
  I want to put some focus on is the D line and just say,
• 59:35
  hey, the D line is better than what it has been advertised to be,
• 59:39
  okay, because I think what a lot of people need to understand is
• 59:43
  that, yeah, we may not have the six six six' five guys
• 59:46
  right there in the middle, but we have guys that everybody on this panel
• 59:51
  and everybody in this chat was excited about getting At some point, I think
• 59:55
  that yes, a double Williams and we'll get to D line against a minute,
• 1:00:00
  we're gonna smoking, seriously, I said, safeties and corners. We're
• 1:00:02
  gonna close with D line because that's the one everybody wants to talk about.
• 1:00:07
  But yes, all right, yeah say that one real quick, stick ass
• 1:00:10
  cat. Hey man, appreciate the twenty dollars and yeah, please hit that
• 1:00:15
  like button if you need the chance subscribe, show us some love to the
• 1:00:17
  legends, shout out to you. Yeah, yep, both his name alone,
• 1:00:22
  it sounds like greatness. Man, Thanks for the five. That's exactly
• 1:00:24
  what it feels like, right PG Safety's corners. One thing I wanted to
• 1:00:29
  add to that saw Jayden Roll on the field. We had a Jadon Rose
• 1:00:31
  siting. Yes, he's huge. I didn't realize he was that big of
• 1:00:35
  a human being. I walked up to him like dog man, like how
• 1:00:38
  you so big? And he started laughing and I realized one of his fam
• 1:00:44
  in the stands of somebody who from high school, and I'm just like,
• 1:00:45
  oh wait, y'all were The crazy part is Jayden Rose ginormous human but he's
• 1:00:51
  big, like he's wide he's taught. Like you said, Chris, I
• 1:00:57
  like to have my big corners out there on the outside with I need that.
• 1:01:00
  He said, his shoulders good, he's healthy, his knee is good,
• 1:01:04
  he said, he's he's he's as healthy as he's being. I just
• 1:01:07
  want to see him going to feel with that. He looks like a giant
• 1:01:13
  triangle. That really is I mean, is humongous up top. I mean
• 1:01:19
  he's not small. I mean he's got a good lower body too. So
• 1:01:23
  yeah, Roe is just dirty, Yeah, ginormous PG. Let's just move
• 1:01:30
  to the linebackers and defensive lineman. I don't have anything else to say on
• 1:01:32
  the dbs, like they just look good and there's a lot of depth there,
• 1:01:36
  So lead us on the linebackers. Then let's go. I'm really I'm
• 1:01:40
  really excited about the depth here at linebackers. I think Kobe McKenzie looks really
• 1:01:44
  good. I'm excited to see him this season. I think he, I
• 1:01:47
  mean, what probably gonna be the backup to Danny Stutsman, and then you've
• 1:01:52
  got uh Desam mccolaugh and I would assume Kip Lewis will probably fight for a
• 1:01:57
  spot there, and then you're gonna have Jaron Canna, Samuel Mesigo, Lewis
• 1:02:01
  Carter all there in the mix, which I would assume Sam, he's probably
• 1:02:05
  more of a cheetah than playing the mic in the will. But I don't
• 1:02:09
  know. This linebacker room, this is what OU fans have dreamed of.
• 1:02:14
  I'm sorry, Yeah, it's what we've dreamed of for the past ten years.
• 1:02:19
  You're right, and seeing Stutsman, he got a few snaps. It
• 1:02:22
  feels like I wonder if they're gonna try to preserve him too right, preserve
• 1:02:24
  him for right, right for the for the SEC matchup, and then really
• 1:02:30
  unleash him and like Bowman or whatnot. But yeah, linebacker wise, I
• 1:02:34
  think we're good. We've got The good thing about the spring game is it
• 1:02:37
  gives you that visibility of the players and things you need to hone in on
• 1:02:43
  before you move into the fall camp, right, things to work on,
• 1:02:45
  technique, all of that stuff summertime going right into fall camp and hopefully by
• 1:02:50
  fall camp most of that's fixed. We see that with I side of Omaseigo.
• 1:02:53
  He missed on a couple plays, but he looks like he's ready to
• 1:02:59
  go in which I think that's kind of one reason why we unfortunately lost our
• 1:03:01
  boy Harrington. It feels like the depth chart is getting big. Kobe mckinzie's
• 1:03:07
  huge, and he showed his hugeness and with Coop pointing out how Caleb Hicks
• 1:03:13
  was able to stuff him on a block to I was wautch to Kobe go
• 1:03:16
  through folks, I jumped out to me, I'm like, all right,
• 1:03:20
  this dude might be ready for that rotation. Kip of course being Kip,
• 1:03:23
  you know what I'm saying, being everywhere you need him to be. It's
• 1:03:27
  gonna be The rotations of linebacks is gonna be interesting to me because even adding
• 1:03:30
  to sign mccullor from quote unquote Cheetah slash playing like the wheel area, It's
• 1:03:36
  funny. They weren't even disguising blitzes. He just literally walked up to the
• 1:03:38
  line and said I'm coming. I want you to stop me, right And
• 1:03:42
  it was funny because Coup points this out to me. McCullough went in for
• 1:03:45
  a sack. It's very I'm sorry. Jackson Old throws it past and as
• 1:03:52
  McCullough's walking away, BV yells at him to come to him, and he
• 1:03:55
  points out him like get your arms out, looked at him and said,
• 1:04:00
  okay, play or so later he goes out there and he immediately throws his
• 1:04:04
  arms up to Flekes a pass and Bbe looks at him and goes, I'm
• 1:04:09
  like, all right, well, I guess they're fixing the problems on the
• 1:04:13
  fly, something you didn't get much of, and shout out to Jerian cainnick
• 1:04:16
  man, I feel bad for it. Man, he he, he has
• 1:04:18
  every bit of town. He did that wrong. Yeah, I ain't wanna
• 1:04:23
  talk about Dusty. We gonna need that where that is. I don't even
• 1:04:26
  want to get into that because that hot mike situation is always offul It never
• 1:04:30
  works out good for the person with the hot mic or the person that's receiving
• 1:04:32
  it. Can't yell it out loud. Bro, isn't it funny? Isn't
• 1:04:36
  it funny? Like Thunder about to head into the playoffs and it reminded me
• 1:04:41
  of can't play Cancer like I can't blame him and yo, uh you know
• 1:04:46
  obviously people were sending us that stuff and they were lighting it up. So
• 1:04:51
  I do want to say, and to your point about Stutsman, I think
• 1:04:56
  we're gonna get that with Woody Bowman Stutsman and maybe even Terry where like the
• 1:05:00
  first four games of the season, they will probably play the first quarter and
• 1:05:04
  that's it. Like you're probably gonna see a lot of young guys and them
• 1:05:09
  really trying to figure out who's going to take second string and will be your
• 1:05:14
  you know, favorite into the next season because those four games, you don't
• 1:05:17
  need those guys. You shouldn't need those dudes in the first four games.
• 1:05:20
  And then you bring them in and they all and you know, all four
• 1:05:25
  are at different positions, should be healthy, fully ready to go, not
• 1:05:30
  gassed, and at that point Oklahoma should be rolling. So again, I
• 1:05:34
  really like the depth at the linebacker position, and I think it's gonna be
• 1:05:38
  even better when we get to the defensive line. Here in a minute,
• 1:05:41
  I agree. I agree with you there, and Creage'm gonna pass it to
• 1:05:43
  you. But uh A frightening asked his question. The homie he's a Texas
• 1:05:46
  fan, but he you know, he pulls up and he's reasonable. Love
• 1:05:49
  him to death, but no, he mentioned asked us about is Canic's issues
• 1:05:54
  kind of like four was for them, where like Gabe mentioned how he hoped
• 1:05:57
  for was on the field, but when he looked because he looked low,
• 1:06:00
  but then Ford did well for that game and the rest of the season.
• 1:06:02
  When she's talking about red River. To be honest, truth, I do
• 1:06:05
  feel like that's that's a possibility. But the issue you got with it is
• 1:06:09
  that he's been in the system for two years, right, this is going
• 1:06:13
  on year three. If it clicks, dude's gonna be beastly, which I'm
• 1:06:16
  gonna be honest. Stutsman had a similar problem. Remember, Stutsman kind of
• 1:06:20
  was looking kind of lost the first year in the BB's system, but then
• 1:06:24
  it was like the Iowa State game happened and he clicked and realized, oh,
• 1:06:28
  they're baiting me, and then he got that pick six and ever since
• 1:06:32
  then, it's like a whole new human being. It's like this, it's
• 1:06:34
  like he figured it out. So for you, to be honest, honestly,
• 1:06:40
  I'll say this the way that Brent Vinibles mentioned how zach ally calls the
• 1:06:45
  defense different than him and he kind of simplifies it to help guys figure it
• 1:06:48
  out. I think that that's gonna help Canic long term. But at the
• 1:06:54
  same time, it feels like Canick works best with Stutsman, and if he's
• 1:06:58
  not with Stutsman, the kind of go a little different. I hope,
• 1:07:02
  hopefully it's not the crust. I think Kanni's gonna get that thing about.
• 1:07:05
  He's a freakishly athletic dude. He when he does great stuff, it's great,
• 1:07:10
  and then he just gets goes to his mistakes really fast on the next
• 1:07:14
  time. So you're but Chris, he's thinking too much. I mean,
• 1:07:17
  the whole thing is that I'm saying, we we Jay. You know I've
• 1:07:21
  said this plenty of times. Got to give another shout out to my uncle.
• 1:07:26
  Definitely said the point. He made the point. He's like, hey,
• 1:07:29
  Kennick is a speed d guy that he Kennick would have been perfect in
• 1:07:31
  speed era because you're just telling him go hit somebody. You're not true to
• 1:07:35
  think, not telling him to think on the five, keep your head on
• 1:07:39
  the squivel, all the rest of these things. You're not telling him to
• 1:07:42
  do ten things before he has to go do the one thing that he's good
• 1:07:45
  at. Right. So the whole thing is that you've seen flashes out there
• 1:07:48
  allah the Cincinnati game. You saw some freakish plays from him to be able
• 1:07:54
  to stop the quarterback coming from this angle, that angle where you're like,
• 1:07:58
  yo, like you can't really teach that. That's just really all instinct,
• 1:08:02
  right, But the problem is just it's just been inconsistent. But as far
• 1:08:09
  as the linebacker room or whatnot, I mean, hey, look, I
• 1:08:11
  thought you saw really good tackling from them out there. I think still we
• 1:08:15
  have some issues with some zone concepts, the zone concepts that you did see.
• 1:08:20
  But how about that four to three look that you got to see yesterday,
• 1:08:25
  A little bit of a couple of snaps that you saw and you were
• 1:08:28
  like, wait a minute, WHOA And you saw Lewis Carter McCullough and then
• 1:08:32
  you also saw Danny Stutsman out there together. I think you have a good
• 1:08:36
  rotation of guys, and I think that you feel like there's not going to
• 1:08:40
  be a letdown or a drop off. I think that if we're in a
• 1:08:45
  OSU position again. And as far as Stutsman's out, so now who's starting,
• 1:08:51
  I think Kobe McKenzie and then Kip Lewis, and then obviously you're putting
• 1:08:59
  McCullough back there as well. I think that's gonna help. And I think
• 1:09:02
  they're gonna be ready for the challenge this year. And I've always said I
• 1:09:05
  think Kobe McKenzie is the understudy for Danny Stussman. If not, then it
• 1:09:12
  would be Kip Lewis. But at the same time, I think those guys
• 1:09:14
  are gonna be dynamic. Samyo is going to be fine. He's still it
• 1:09:18
  takes time to learn that cheeking position, but it takes time learning two positions
• 1:09:23
  as well, because they're gonna have him all over the field. So I
• 1:09:27
  mean, I think one of the biggest things is it's just for them just
• 1:09:30
  to get those reps or whatnot. And I don't know, I don't know.
• 1:09:34
  I really don't want to come in too much on Kenny got a whole
• 1:09:38
  ass video about that. But I think the big thing for me was was
• 1:09:41
  that I felt good about my linebackers yesterday and what I saw. I don't
• 1:09:45
  really need to see Stutsman. I didn't think we were gonna see Sussment out
• 1:09:47
  there anyways. I want him to heal up. He's had some nagging injuries
• 1:09:51
  anyways from these past two seasons, so I mean, I just want him
• 1:09:56
  to be held up and ready for the season. I don't want him to
• 1:09:59
  necessary set out three quarters or this or that, only play a half or
• 1:10:03
  whatever. I want him to go out there and nail people and hit people.
• 1:10:05
  Again, his rep said, because once we play Tennessee and once we
• 1:10:09
  play Auburn, we at SCC like it's it's you know, no days off
• 1:10:14
  Flo. That's hilarious. But no, and Tyler, you're right, I
• 1:10:18
  did see Lewis Carter. That touchdown was on him, right, And it's
• 1:10:24
  funny because the play that everybody was yelling at, if I'm correct, it
• 1:10:27
  was either I think it was Taylor Heim and maybe Lewis Carter are the ones
• 1:10:30
  that that gave that up shout out to a guy stats by Popo. He
• 1:10:34
  had pointed that out as like, that's not that wasn't on Cannon, the
• 1:10:38
  one that everybody's freaking out on him. That was. I don't think that
• 1:10:41
  was his assignment. And so, yeah, Can is getting a bad rap.
• 1:10:44
  I mean, Louis Carter, he was out there making some moves and
• 1:10:46
  stuff. But at the same time, linebacker, I think by the end
• 1:10:51
  of the season they will become our strongest part of our defense. And that
• 1:10:57
  is not saying that those secondary will be bad. I'm just saying I think
• 1:11:00
  that all linebackers are gonna be stupid good as they progress with it. With
• 1:11:05
  zach Alli teaching them how to be a linebacker in a Brent Vinable's defense,
• 1:11:11
  where your linebackers is your most important position. Right well, and saw McCulla
• 1:11:15
  moving over to the whill is gonna exponentially make that linebacker room so much better.
• 1:11:19
  Like, I think people are going to probably undersell the value of that
• 1:11:23
  move. I can totally see that. Chris, you over here shaking your
• 1:11:26
  head like you're not thinking the linebacker room is gonna step up and become the
• 1:11:29
  best. No, no, no, they're they're gonna be the I think
• 1:11:33
  that they have the chance to. You could argue and say that they're most
• 1:11:38
  consistent. I think the best. You're you're looking at either the D line
• 1:11:43
  or you're looking at the dB room simply because the guys that we have back
• 1:11:46
  there, man, I mean, when you think about uh, Bowman,
• 1:11:51
  Bowen and R. S J. Come on, man, the most aathetic,
• 1:11:57
  strongest secondary that we've had in quite a while. There's not I don't
• 1:12:02
  think there's gonna be too many bumps going over those guys head. How do
• 1:12:06
  we define that this room is not the best, because I would like to
• 1:12:10
  place a bet on this. How do you find that you guys are looking
• 1:12:13
  at talent opposed to what the production is really going to be, because yeah,
• 1:12:18
  production is the one guy. I mean, if we really think talking
• 1:12:23
  about it, I mean like obviously, yeah, Kip lewis, but most
• 1:12:26
  of the production was coming from Stutsman last year. I think that when you
• 1:12:30
  look at the D line this year, with the parts they have and the
• 1:12:33
  pressure that you're going to be able to get and especially with teams wanting to
• 1:12:36
  play you straight up in the SCC opposed to seeing what you saw last year
• 1:12:41
  with guys trying to play the quick game, I think that you have a
• 1:12:44
  chance for some of your D for your edge guys to really get loose this
• 1:12:47
  year. That's for a point. Cool car linebackers are good. That's my
• 1:12:54
  analysis. You know Stutsman is you see Kip continue. I mean, Kip
• 1:13:01
  is just a playmaker. He's one of those guys that you can't keep off
• 1:13:04
  the field. But yeah, Dysaun mccollaugh doing the will and when you have
• 1:13:15
  so we're watching the game one time the song comes in and I was like,
• 1:13:17
  the song's coming in the will and I was like, the son's not
• 1:13:20
  disguising that he's coming. He's he's talking to the quarterback in the offense like
• 1:13:26
  he's like, I'm coming, and he wasn't trying to hide it at all.
• 1:13:30
  And that's the one where Jay brought up where he he blitzed in and
• 1:13:33
  if he puts an arm out, he you know, he bats that ball
• 1:13:36
  down. It's it's it's beautiful. I mean, it is just absolutely beautiful.
• 1:13:44
  I got nothing. I mean, Cannick, listen, Cannick. The
• 1:13:47
  problem with Caanic is the fact that you can't have somebody out there where that
• 1:13:53
  you know is just going to be good for two busts a game, and
• 1:13:57
  like you just can't do it, especially with know the potential you know,
• 1:14:01
  yeah, the potential the season that you have in front. I mean,
• 1:14:06
  you just can't. You've got too much talent. So if he can't get
• 1:14:10
  it mentally, he's that's it's just the mental piece, because you know,
• 1:14:15
  if you had him rushing all the time, you're worried about him just running
• 1:14:18
  right past who he's supposed to tackle. I don't think that Kanick is a
• 1:14:23
  bad linebacker. Kanick is the guy who's probably our best linebacker, you know,
• 1:14:27
  three or four years ago, Like like you said, with speed D
• 1:14:30
  and I hate it, So I hate it for him. That's a fair
• 1:14:34
  point too, that he probably would have been great in that speed d It's
• 1:14:38
  so I guess, I guess the big thing with him is Canick, you
• 1:14:41
  got this. We all have faith that you're going to figure this out and
• 1:14:43
  make it, make it happen and be one of the elites out there.
• 1:14:45
  So I'm not that concerned. I'm just gonna just gonna say, you figure
• 1:14:47
  it out. We have an announcement real quick, we got and we're just
• 1:14:53
  breaking news, breaking news too. Then hopefully that doesn't get me trademark copyright
• 1:15:02
  fringe. But twenty twenty seven, defensive lineman Zane Rowe has picked committed to
• 1:15:09
  Oklahoma. He picks the Sooners over Texas and Jauja, which Jauja, which
• 1:15:18
  tells me everything I need to know about you know what. What's going on
• 1:15:23
  with this commitment is that you know, this young man decided to pick us
• 1:15:27
  over Georgia and he loved what happened in the spring game. He said that
• 1:15:30
  he's ready to do that. Shout out to him. I'm pretty excited the
• 1:15:33
  fact that we've got ourselves at twenty twenty seven, that committed right here,
• 1:15:38
  during the show, hopefully we get something on somebody else that everybody is of
• 1:15:42
  course talking about in the comments now and excited about. So we're gonna go
• 1:15:45
  right into defensive line. Now, I'm gonna wrap this bad boy up to
• 1:15:48
  the bowl and it with the defensive line, and then we'll talk special teams
• 1:15:50
  and kick y'all out of here. As you know, kicking is one of
• 1:15:54
  the problems that we actually kind of have, it seems like, so first
• 1:16:00
  if it's a line. Look, I'm gonna say this, this has kind
• 1:16:03
  of been my thought about the entire time, Edges. We've got a great
• 1:16:10
  rotation. I'm just ready to see who pops off and becomes a dude.
• 1:16:14
  I think one that may. I don't think he's gonna be a surprise for
• 1:16:16
  anybody, because it seems like he's just been He made all kinds of plays
• 1:16:19
  in there. It's gonna be a Woollekdan Woollard. I gosh, like I
• 1:16:27
  saw him. I saw him everywhere when he got his chance on the field.
• 1:16:32
  I am very happy that we got him out of Miami, Ohio.
• 1:16:35
  And when we were chopping up with his dad, his dad was telling us
• 1:16:38
  how he was using his natural ability at Miami, and then when he got
• 1:16:42
  here, it's like you can see that there's more of a technique piece that
• 1:16:44
  was going in. You're like, dang, that's good. Gotta love that,
• 1:16:48
  right, that's a big plus. Oll Koye is gonna be scary.
• 1:16:53
  He's already like two fifty five Ish said, he's gonna play between that and
• 1:16:58
  two sixty is his goal, and that's gonna be his manageable weight. I
• 1:17:01
  stood next to this dude, and I'm just like, that is not fair
• 1:17:04
  for you to be that huge of a human being. I sense there's gonna
• 1:17:09
  be a find. They gotta find a way to get him on the field.
• 1:17:10
  Sometimes PJ was doing his things, so was R. Mason Thomas.
• 1:17:14
  It's it's crazy. I'm curious to see what the rotations either Ethan Downs.
• 1:17:16
  I want to see what the rotation is gonna look like on the edges.
• 1:17:18
  That's what I'm curious about. How they do it, because just about all
• 1:17:23
  of them is gonna find a way to make some stuff happen when you go
• 1:17:26
  in the middle. So BV said this after the game and his presser.
• 1:17:30
  David Stone and Jay and Jackson are both over three hundred pounds. They weighed
• 1:17:33
  in before the game over three hundred. Yes, if you look at the
• 1:17:36
  roster that was put out, it doesn't say that because that's the weight from
• 1:17:40
  March fifth. They are both over three hundred pounds. So you got three
• 1:17:45
  dudes over three hundred pounds minimum. I think Sears may be right there.
• 1:17:49
  He's two ninety minimum and he's considered the MVP or the most improved player for
• 1:17:56
  them throughout camp. G Baby was out up there looking like he's ready to
• 1:18:00
  make the next step. All we need now is another day, Jon Terry.
• 1:18:05
  We need another three fifteen to three twenty five dude to really eat up
• 1:18:11
  space and cause problems. Coop mentioned this, he was talking. We were
• 1:18:15
  talking to one of the parents how Jay and Jackson, and it's just something
• 1:18:18
  with all the defensive players, right, they all have done a really good
• 1:18:23
  job of fixing their problems immediately. And I'll let Coop tell the story about
• 1:18:27
  the play that Jane Jackson did and how he went one way, got caught
• 1:18:30
  up, and then he fixed it on the next play. They're learning fast
• 1:18:33
  and that's the good thing, right, G Babies got it. I'm curious
• 1:18:39
  to see where Champ Sanders as well as Marcus Strong ends up. They were
• 1:18:44
  starting to I saw some force push out of them too. But it's all
• 1:18:48
  about the competition across the field from him, Let's put it that way.
• 1:18:54
  I think that though, I think that defensive line we add another big body,
• 1:19:00
  maybe to another day John Terry. Basically, we'll be just fine there,
• 1:19:04
  just fine. Cool pass to you, b l our D. Line
• 1:19:11
  is gonna be good. That's all I have. No, it's yeah,
• 1:19:16
  Cayden Willard is going to be going to be a guy. Ethan Downs continues
• 1:19:21
  to get better and better and better. And James I, I can't remember
• 1:19:26
  what I said about Downs last year, but no, I didn't believe in
• 1:19:29
  Downs. I thought he was a joke that he was. I thought it
• 1:19:30
  was it was just yeah, the Guebu thing the year before. I thought
• 1:19:34
  it was gonna be the exact same. And but Ethan Downs, he doesn't
• 1:19:40
  make stat sheet plays, but he makes plays a lot. He's learning stuff.
• 1:19:46
  So uh yeah, Jayden, Jayden has Jaden likes running him a stunt.
• 1:19:51
  And if you see Jayden Jackson during the game, go watch, go
• 1:19:56
  watch watch what he's doing. So there's a one one point where he tries
• 1:19:59
  to swim move and he and he just he goes right into a double team
• 1:20:02
  and he just gets held up right. And so a couple of plays later,
• 1:20:06
  he sees that double team coming again and he spins out and he's just
• 1:20:11
  right there in front of the quarterback and he just taps him and he's down.
• 1:20:15
  So adjustments, if the players can make adjustments, Yeah, if the
• 1:20:24
  players can make adjustments on the fly, it's it's something that you don't I
• 1:20:29
  mean, we don't. We haven't seen in a long time. You know,
• 1:20:32
  we got to see okoye uh. Nigel Smith was out there running around.
• 1:20:35
  G baby looks like he's finally ready to take that step. Mar Mason
• 1:20:40
  looks extremely healthy. So you know, Chris, you said that you think
• 1:20:49
  this is a ten win team. I mean outside of stuff that you can't
• 1:20:54
  predict happening. I see it. I see it. I mean it looks
• 1:20:58
  good because I say, going into last year, you know, we're going
• 1:21:01
  to be facing a lot of you know, first year quarterbacks this year and
• 1:21:05
  we will and I promise you if if that, I don't give a damn.
• 1:21:11
  If it's our defense, who on our defense is our best unit?
• 1:21:14
  Like, let's just hit let's work. You know, the first thing.
• 1:21:17
  First things first is every game by game. But this team wants to show
• 1:21:23
  up to the SEC and take over with defense, to just absolutely take over
• 1:21:28
  with defense. Uh. PJ looks like you know we've said in the chat
• 1:21:31
  here, PJ has an absolute Uh. He's taking steps little by little by
• 1:21:38
  little, And if I was him, I would be in yoga all summer
• 1:21:42
  long to work on his flexibility. He needs to learn how to He just
• 1:21:46
  needs to learn how to use every weapon available to him. So, guys,
• 1:21:53
  it's I mean, I think right now, we run it. We
• 1:21:56
  run. We don't want Stone and Jackson really playing four hundred staffs this year,
• 1:22:01
  like you want them playing one hundred and fifty to two hundred and rotating
• 1:22:04
  in Because in the SEC, you have to have I mean, you're gonna
• 1:22:09
  have to have six defensive linemen that you can fully I mean defensive like tackles
• 1:22:16
  you need several, You need several. You need guys who can come in
• 1:22:20
  and just take a block every once in a while. So if we can
• 1:22:24
  have six dudes on the inside that are ready to contribute and four or five
• 1:22:29
  guys on the outside, six guys on the outside, like that's what you
• 1:22:32
  want to see, and you want to see guys dominate and this year get
• 1:22:35
  to the quarterback. Yeah, Chris d Line, looking at that, how
• 1:22:41
  are you feeling about them? And the continuity. That's why pointed out here
• 1:22:45
  very well, we didn't really play everybody together, right, there's a lot
• 1:22:48
  of youth on that line, and we do, like you mentioned this a
• 1:22:53
  few times, we do need an additional three hundred. If we got three
• 1:22:57
  three hundred pounders, which is solid, I think Georgia has like six,
• 1:23:00
  so does Bama. We need to get closer the five big guys. So
• 1:23:03
  if we can land these transfers that we're trying to woo right now, that's
• 1:23:08
  a big deal. But talk to me about that. Look, first off,
• 1:23:11
  I'm want to say this right here, Grayson Alton, after that first
• 1:23:14
  drive coming towards kind of like the middle of the middle of the game,
• 1:23:17
  I do it was night and day like that. That that dude has to
• 1:23:21
  be on the field this year. He is. He is and I want
• 1:23:28
  to say this respectfully, but he's an upgraded version of Jacob Lacy. I
• 1:23:31
  mean, I'm just just gonna be honest with you. He's he can make
• 1:23:34
  some noise. This year. We already know what we're gonna get from Terry,
• 1:23:40
  but you got to go out there and just add depth to that room.
• 1:23:43
  I think that one of the things I'm looking for with with with Stony.
• 1:23:48
  I need Stony to really kind of one continue to improve his body,
• 1:23:54
  which obviously he's gained a way, but now it's timing really kind of like,
• 1:23:57
  let's let's fill this out. Let's figure out how we want to chills
• 1:24:00
  of this out. But two, I need Stony just to keep working on
• 1:24:03
  the technique and all the rest of that stuff. He has the talent,
• 1:24:06
  he has all the rest of those things that he should be able to field
• 1:24:09
  this year. Him and Jay and Jackson loved seeing the stunt game different things
• 1:24:12
  like that. What I will say is is that I like Champ senders out
• 1:24:17
  there too. I thought, d Line, did you look pretty good?
• 1:24:20
  Those guys are Those guys are fighting. Those guys are fighting in an interior.
• 1:24:25
  Is where the battles were really at during the game yesterday. If we're
• 1:24:30
  gonna stretch it out outside, this is one thing I will say, people,
• 1:24:33
  please do not sleep on the fact that you have a healthy trace for
• 1:24:36
  this year, not a trace. Ford is taking mental reps, not really
• 1:24:41
  fitting into to the whole script, not knowing the plays, all the rest
• 1:24:45
  of that stuff. Now you have a trace Ford this year. I think
• 1:24:47
  trace Ford is trace Ford is going to be exactly what they wanted Stripling to
• 1:24:51
  be last year. But Stripling was obviously injured, different things that came up.
• 1:24:57
  Trace Ford is going to be that guy that's kind of like the odd
• 1:24:59
  Men and in the rotation that comes out there and you're like, wait,
• 1:25:01
  man, who's Oh that's forward and he's gonna make noise. You saw a
• 1:25:06
  glimpse of it early on in that UCF game when he just I mean he
• 1:25:10
  could they could not stop him. I saw it again this week. I
• 1:25:15
  mean, the good dude is really good with his hands, he's savvy,
• 1:25:17
  he's a vet. I think this is a year where you can see some
• 1:25:20
  really good production from him. And I'm not talking about starting production. I'm
• 1:25:25
  just talking about guys to where getting us to the point to where it's not
• 1:25:30
  a huge fall off when an R. Mason Thomas or those guys are not
• 1:25:34
  out there. Right. I saw R. Mason Thomas, he made some
• 1:25:39
  plays, A lot of people really pleased with him. Stay healthy, please,
• 1:25:44
  p J yeah out there, man, it's just getting the ben.
• 1:25:47
  I think Taylor Taylor Wye is another guy that I liked yesterday. Only thing
• 1:25:54
  I would say about him is that, hey, you just have to continue
• 1:25:58
  learning how to play with that on you now, because when you were in
• 1:26:01
  high school it was easy to ben and do different things like that because you're
• 1:26:04
  six six, you know, kind of slender, kind of you know,
• 1:26:09
  a little bit smaller build. But now that you have that weight on you,
• 1:26:13
  just continue to learn how to apply that technique and you're gonna be fine.
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  I think the line is gonna be fine. Man. I literally I
• 1:26:20
  left there saying, man, it was a lot of doomer and gloomers.
• 1:26:25
  It wasn't no boomer showers out there. It was like, it felt really
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  good yesterday. It felt really good because I was like, hey, man,
• 1:26:31
  our defensive line for what it. We don't have a you know,
• 1:26:38
  Gerald McCoy out there, but we got a bunch of lunch pill guys,
• 1:26:41
  and I'm good. Damn. I'm definitely okay with that. I'm definitely okay
• 1:26:45
  with that. PG. Yeah, Edge guys not really worried about that.
• 1:26:51
  Going into the spring game. I really looked at the Edge room, and
• 1:26:55
  I said, you know, Oklahoma's gonna get what they get, Like we
• 1:26:58
  got five star outa by Warrior there. I think we were gonna see him
• 1:27:00
  a little bit more. And actually he impressed me a little bit in the
• 1:27:03
  spring game because we didn't get to see a whole lot of him last year.
• 1:27:06
  But I was really looking and I was focused on some of these interior
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  guys, specifically guys that we did not see last year, like a Devon
• 1:27:15
  Sears. This was a guy that came in from Texas State, and I
• 1:27:17
  think some of us had hopes that, hey, like if this guy gets
• 1:27:20
  up to the right way, maybe I think our expectations are at least my
• 1:27:24
  expectations last year for Sears were a little bit preemptive, and I think this
• 1:27:30
  year he's going to be a really solid rotational piece. And you saw it
• 1:27:34
  yesterday like he was getting into the backfield. He was I think he had
• 1:27:40
  one or two QB hurries, but he had a couple tackles in there as
• 1:27:43
  well, and I believe shared or even got his own sacks. So I
• 1:27:46
  believe Devon Sears is going to be a good, key rotational piece on that
• 1:27:50
  defensive line. And then just seeing David Stone and Jade Jackson out there,
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  right, We've heard so much in the scrimmages and the practices like they look
• 1:28:00
  really good. But to actually be able to see it with my own eyes
• 1:28:04
  and to be able to see those two and how physically ready that those two
• 1:28:08
  dudes look like, I think that was probably one of the bigger takeaways was
• 1:28:12
  seeing those two true freshmen on the defensive line look ready to go out and
• 1:28:17
  play with some of the big boys in the SEC. So yeah, I
• 1:28:20
  think the defensive line is a crucial piece not only to just the defense being
• 1:28:26
  successful this year, but also on the recruiting trail because we know there's still
• 1:28:30
  some depth issues there and you would hope you're gonna get that fixed to the
• 1:28:33
  transfer portal. But if David Stone and Jaydon Jackson go out there and show
• 1:28:36
  out, I mean obviously they look the part, I think that helps.
• 1:28:41
  But if they go out there and show out this season, that's going to
• 1:28:45
  it's gonna expedite your recruiting efforts. So I was really impressed with the interior
• 1:28:51
  defensive line. I think it looked a lot better than I expected it to.
• 1:28:56
  And yeah, I mean I was telling you at the softball game.
• 1:29:00
  I said, if Oklahoma lands Williams and low Lay, you probably lose one
• 1:29:05
  dude in that room, and it's probably going to be a Strong or a
• 1:29:10
  Sanders. But even if you lose one of those two and you get both
• 1:29:14
  of those guys, this defensive line will be elite. Guysicians are key,
• 1:29:18
  go ahead. I we saw a ton of Marcus Strong early and that surprised
• 1:29:26
  me. And what did it was? When it was it? Heim is
• 1:29:30
  number forty four. I mean, he looks. Jay said who's the number
• 1:29:35
  forty four? And I said Clint Ingram and he was like, You're so
• 1:29:39
  stupid, and I was like, no, that's time, and it just
• 1:29:42
  he looked good. But I think we've we've covered this. I just want
• 1:29:46
  to give a shout out for our boy Worzy for hitting the same amount of
• 1:29:51
  field goals as dou football kickers. So, guys, I apologize if you
• 1:29:58
  have listen these barely athletic heathens. As I posted in the chat, I
• 1:30:04
  cannot control these guys. You know they say that, they say that it
• 1:30:10
  you know, it was one of the biggest biggest frustrations besides Hawkins not having
• 1:30:15
  a great day Statistically, the kickers have had a great year. I mean,
• 1:30:19
  both Keltner and the other guy. I'm just gonna leave leave it there,
• 1:30:24
  and Liam, they've all been doing good. So you know it's it's
• 1:30:28
  I think that our punning is going to be fine. You know, they
• 1:30:30
  were rotating the logan in there with with Elzinga. El Zinga, you know,
• 1:30:35
  when he really dove in, he keecked the crap out of the ball.
• 1:30:38
  So we'll see. I mean, maybe if we just score touchdowns every
• 1:30:43
  time, we don't need a kicker. Yeah, So Zach Schmidt hit one
• 1:30:46
  of his field goal, his one for one twenty nine yards, but Tyler
• 1:30:49
  missed his. He was oh for one. Liam made his two point after
• 1:30:56
  his Pats actually were six for six on the Pats, by the way,
• 1:31:00
  but Liam didn't actually kick any field goals, so it's kind of only that
• 1:31:02
  that bothered me a little bit. I want to see him kick a field
• 1:31:04
  goals so we can see what we got, because that's the one that everybody's
• 1:31:08
  been hyping up. Right, more kid, the one that's got a boot.
• 1:31:11
  As we go in here and we start slandering the kicking game, there's
• 1:31:15
  the problem with everything, right, We've sinked them. Make these fifties and
• 1:31:20
  fifty five yarders in practice. Until you get to an actual game situation,
• 1:31:26
  we have no clue what it's gonna look like. And it sucks. They're
• 1:31:30
  actually making them in practice. It's not like they're missing them in practice.
• 1:31:32
  That's the problem. If they were missing in practice, I would totally be
• 1:31:36
  on the doom with everybody else. But they're making them and then they're not
• 1:31:40
  making them now. So what it appears is we just gotta get them out
• 1:31:43
  there kicking some field goals. Hopefully we don't kick any field goals against Temple
• 1:31:47
  or Houston or Tulane. They may not get an opportunity problem. Yeah,
• 1:31:55
  when that first kiss kick was missed, did anybody notice anything? Did y'all
• 1:32:00
  notice that the crowd sounded like an eighty sitcom? Whenever they was like,
• 1:32:03
  oh, you're like, hey, look it's I put my hand in my
• 1:32:13
  I put my head in my hands. Aside, I don't know, I
• 1:32:15
  don't know. Maybe we should my and my uncle he reached over to me,
• 1:32:18
  grabbed me. He said, we need to get into portal now,
• 1:32:21
  except we need to kick us. I don't know, I don't know.
• 1:32:25
  I mean we've got like six somebody, we've got something's gotta be figured out
• 1:32:30
  here, right, and we just have to see what. I don't think
• 1:32:32
  it's fair to slander all of it because we don't know yet. It's still
• 1:32:40
  in we we yeah, we're still waiting, right, We're still waiting for
• 1:32:46
  We gotta wait until, yeah, we gotta wait until I gotta say this
• 1:32:50
  right here. All I say is this, I need a kicker, okay,
• 1:32:54
  because the first thing that pops into my mind is twenty eight and then
• 1:32:57
  I'm gonna leave it there. If you know, I know, I know,
• 1:33:00
  I know, I know, I know, I yeah, yeah,
• 1:33:03
  yeah, well well yeah, listen, listen anyway, listen. We missed
• 1:33:10
  a goddamn field goal. One field goal in an exhibition game. I'm sorry
• 1:33:15
  for the language, but if you are losing your ship and saying our special
• 1:33:18
  teams are gonna be doll crap because we missed one field goal and expectation on
• 1:33:23
  a in a stadium that it was like fifty degrees and the wind was blowing
• 1:33:28
  like like, oh my gosh, that is typical, Like I mean,
• 1:33:32
  that's the definition of a I don't want to hear that. I don't want
• 1:33:35
  to hear that what's coming there? Last year with your stomach feeling uneasy,
• 1:33:43
  your uncle Cally you saying, man, it's well, keep out the miss.
• 1:33:45
  Oh my god, it's no. I need to feel confident. I
• 1:33:49
  need to break away from the screen every time a kicker comes out there on
• 1:33:54
  the field for oh you, it's bad. Listen, No, no,
• 1:33:57
  no, listen, this is a good thing. Our kicking is so bad
• 1:34:00
  then all of a sudden we go for it on fourth down every time.
• 1:34:04
  Listen. I'm just sad because I actually wasn't paying attention during the missfield goal
• 1:34:10
  kick, so I didn't get to post my chicken little meme where he's up
• 1:34:13
  in the tower ringing the bell, yelling the sky is falling, because that's
• 1:34:16
  literally what happened to ou Twitter when the field goal was missed. The sky
• 1:34:20
  is falling. It's over, guys, we're done. We're gonna shut down
• 1:34:24
  the program now because we missed the field goal. But I'll say this though,
• 1:34:28
  keep it and you know, being all seriousness, I do think we
• 1:34:30
  still have work there. The good thing is is that we've got like six
• 1:34:35
  We still got what the high schooler coming in also, so if they're making
• 1:34:43
  them in practice. That's with pressure. That is kind of the thing they're
• 1:34:46
  making and we've got we've we just got to see it in the game.
• 1:34:49
  I think we will. I think we will. I just but we got
• 1:34:55
  a lot of duses to rotate through. That's the thing. We got a
• 1:34:57
  lot of dues to rotates through. And if we go into portal and bring
• 1:35:00
  another one in, then that tells you right there that we are working on
• 1:35:04
  it. But we still got a high schooler coming that is I don't think
• 1:35:08
  he early. He wasn't early and Roly so yeah, hey, we had
• 1:35:13
  a five star kicker on campus for the big recruit. So just so everybody's
• 1:35:16
  aware, we're still recruiting kickers, even though we got a five star kicker,
• 1:35:19
  We're still recruiting them because I just I just think I think this.
• 1:35:28
  I think that every time a kicker misses, they got to run Oklahoma drill
• 1:35:31
  with uh with Kobe, McKenzie, Jade and Jackson and Boganowski or they or
• 1:35:40
  Boganowski just happy Gilmore's every single time that kicked that, he just runs off
• 1:35:44
  the sideline. We just need to bring back old Schmidty and they just need
• 1:35:48
  to run the stairs. You know what, I get it. We don't
• 1:35:51
  want the zone anymore, but they can run all the other stairs. Just
• 1:35:56
  just start making the run the stairs again. They'll learn really quickly because I've
• 1:35:59
  heard those are terrible. That is, we don't we don't have to.
• 1:36:03
  We don't have to panic about the kicker, guys, I I we just
• 1:36:06
  don't have to pay. Like if we're three games in and the like,
• 1:36:12
  then we can do that. But we missed one field goal. I mean,
• 1:36:15
  it's it's it's yeah, we love if they would hit it. Would
• 1:36:17
  you rather than miss it and worry about it? And then we turn out
• 1:36:19
  to be good or we'd rather him make that, and then we feel good
• 1:36:23
  about it and they suck again. You know what's really gonna make Sooner Nation
• 1:36:27
  panic because when we roll out Zach Schmidt for the first field goal this season,
• 1:36:30
  everybody's gonna lose their mind. And on that note, we run this
• 1:36:34
  bad boy up. Hey, we're done. We've got an hour and a
• 1:36:38
  half. I knew it's gonna be a long because everybody had great opinions and
• 1:36:41
  great thoughts on this one. No reason for the sky to fall. The
• 1:36:44
  good thing is is that a couple of tweaks here and there. Fall Camp's
• 1:36:48
  gonna be fun. Just know that fall camp is when everything's gonna go down.
• 1:36:53
  The thunderplay tonight, Gonna go watch the game with PG. Chris coming
• 1:36:57
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• 1:36:59
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• 1:37:03
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• 1:37:17
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• 1:37:20
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