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What is going on? Everybody? Welcome back to Unfair Sports and it's your
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voy coup here and I just wanted to say happy birthday to me. And
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this is one of the cool things that I get to do, is to
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actually come on here and get a chance to chop it up with you guys
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and have some fun tonight. So I've got a couple of guys coming in
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here with me here today, we got Jake Merrill and it's a guy that's
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I think it is a really really good cat and so really excited to introduce
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you guys to him. And we're gonna be bringing PG back in. So
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if you don't already go down there, wipe your feet because we love we
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love those thumbs up. Right, thumbs up are always better than thumbs down
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unless they're like this, and you can kind of know what that means.
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So let's bring our boys back on here. And guys, how's it going
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today on this fair Sunday. It's good, it's good. It's happy to
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be here. What's up everybody? You know, this is one of the
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first times I think on Unfair Sports for me, so really happy to be
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here. And special day because obviously it's Coop's birthday. Everybody keeps birthday.
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Happy birthday, man, happy birthday. Hey, hell yeah dude, every
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year now man. But I love being on here. Happy to be here
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with you guys, PG. Great to be on here with you again.
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I love jumping on with you and that's a pleasure. I'm excited to talk
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some football. So yeah, I don't know why you guys are putting me
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back on the show. Well, based off the YouTube comments, you are
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an absolute fool. So but you know it's it's always good. No,
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I mean, I love absolutely having you guys on here. And if you're
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asking for Jay's Jay, Jay and Jake Stoyer have the same Georgetoyer have the
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have the same vacationing process, you know where they get. It's like two
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weeks of work and then you go on a trip, and then two weeks
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of work and you go on another trip. So Jay's on vacation. He'll
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be back here in a couple of days. But let's go ahead and get
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started. So we had the Monday commitment of Cortest Mills and Cortes Mills,
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a six one one seventy wide receiver out of Homestead, Florida. A guy
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that's absolutely, just he's a playmaker and you know, from from an all
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around standpoint, you know, I really really love him. So, Jake,
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I know you looked at that. Did you get a chance to check
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out Cortest Mills. What's your thoughts on Quartets? Yeah, I think he's
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great. I think he's a perfect fit for what they want to run.
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I mean you can obviously see that in the type of receivers that they're going
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after. You can look in their wide receiver room right now and see that.
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But I think you're going to see an offense that is very, uh
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explosive, but also that's put together in a way where you're going to have
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balance at the same time between the run game and the past game. I
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think when you look at this room in general, just look at what they're
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doing on the on the receiving aspect of this, of the recruits they're bringing
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in, you got to be really excited. I mean, you got to
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do. I mean, Emma Jones is amazing and I know maybe we'll go
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into that in a little bit, but I'll tell you this, there's a
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lot to be said about Emma Jones and Cortel's Mills. Phenomenal wide receivers.
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It's kind of funny he sits right in that scene, like you look at
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these guys and what they're again going after from Oklahoma side, you just got
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to be really really impressed with not only are they getting great players, right,
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but they're getting guys who fit into the specific positions at what they want.
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And Cortez is one of those guys. I'm excited to see him get
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out there. So, PG, you've dropped the video, and so if
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you guys go on check it out. PG did a couple of videos on
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Fortez, but PG, give us your thoughts again here on mister Mills.
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Yeah, I mean he's going to be an absolute playmaker for Oklahoma. And
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I think you and I were talking about at one point in the Odell Beckham
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kind of comparison to being thrown out. Some people have been alluded to a
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little bit of CD Lamb in terms of that athleticism and what he was able
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to do with Oklahoma. So, I mean, if you can get a
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guy that's just a quarter of what one of those guys are, you're doing
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pretty well there. But Cortes Mills has potential to be a five star prospect
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in this class. If he has a really strong senior season and continues to
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camp fort well. So Cortez Mills has kind of been a late bloomer.
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And if you're Oklahoma, you just keep stacking that elite talent. That wide
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receiver room, EMIDT Jones is cooking. It's it's funny because I was looking
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back at an old class prediction, you know, just the I think over
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on Center Scoop. I don't know if you're a if you're a Sooner Scoop
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subscriber, looking way in the back. And at one point he was like
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a ten percent chance to you know, to land in this class. And
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then him and Marcus Harris got on campus together and they developed a good bond.
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And so I'm gonna be doing a Marcus is in so he's he's trying
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to wrangle up the quartez with me. But I think we're gonna do a
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little duo. And sometimes that can be fun because the wide receiver guys,
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you know, in the words of too they love me some me. These
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guys are are hard workers, and these guys are both going to be stuts.
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And so I think it's great because it's a cool connection. Because it's
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California and Florida and so pretty excited for Cortes. And I think a lot
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of people see the ceed lamp piece just because of his ability to run after
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the catch. He also has a really really uh you know, a longer
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wingspan than you know, the six to one and change that he stands at.
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So he he is an absolute stoe when it comes to getting his hands
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on the ball. And I said it in my video too, whether it's
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shoelaces, whether it's chest, or whether it's above uh. He he is
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so disciplined with the hands and you know it's it's those are the things that
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you're going to need to get a little bit better at. You know,
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in the SEC is not letting the body get in there because you can't make
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the multiple mistakes and you know you can't have a simple drop pass. I
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mean you've got to take advantage of open opportunities. And that's even more crucial
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in the SEC, Jake. I mean, obviously as a FAMA guy,
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you're you know, you could probably vouch for that because there's great guys who
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do good on a seven on sevens and then when you get in those windows
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get tighter and the game speeds up. I mean, you can't. You
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can't let those things go by one percent. I think it's funny because I
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say seven and sevens are great to see maybe a catch radius of a player,
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maybe to see like their their route running, like technique, and maybe
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their technical skill, like how in depth are they at the route running.
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But at the same time, I think seven and sevens are more so beneficial
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to evaluate like defensive backs, because then you really have to be technically sound
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and you really get to see the way they'll play in a game. And
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it's a little different for wide receivers in a game, just from the standpoint
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that you're expecting to go after that ball and you have a certain area,
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and then also the pressure on the quarterback a little different seven on sevens.
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But the one thing about seven and sevens is you do get to see some
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technical aspects you don't necessarily get to see in an actual actual game. So
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I love that, man. I think it's uh, I mean, it's
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exciting, and I think with the guy like Cortes again this truthfully, the
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whole the whole group of guys they got are really really impressed, very sound,
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very I love Marcus Harris, like Marcus Harris to me man, and
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he's a West Coast guy. I'm a West Coast guy. So it's cool
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to see that. It's cool to see somebody like Marcus Harrison. Man,
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that guy, he's a work or two. So it's going to be just
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in general. Man, you look at Hydes, it's exciting to see for
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Oklahoma definitely. So PG, I know that you. I know that you
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love Marcus Harris. When we've talked about alive Thomas also, uh, you
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know this group when you've got five guys, there's an absolute, you know,
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great opportunity. So uh, anything else on Cortes from you, mister
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Preston, Not on Cortes, but that Hey, that matchup of Elijah Thomas
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and Cortez Mills is going to be a lot of fun. Yeah, it's
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gonna be. It's good that room again, we we always talk about them
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ended up depth and so Jake, you know that game on our show Competitive
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Debt, he either has to fake a drink or take a drink and anytime
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somebody says it, so bo doing that. But they they've got, you
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know, several different cats in the wide receiver room, and you know we're
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going to see some of these guys eventually take their talent somewhere else. But
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you got to keep stacking the talent because you don't want to run into the
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situations where you've got a couple of injuries and now we're pulling guys from the
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walk on status, you know, the scout team. So before we finish
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up with the last commitment, we'll do the elephant in the room. And
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I'm not talking about anything from Bama. You know, we saw them at
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Rogers foresaw our offensive tackle make the pick for Missouri, and so pg the
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thoughts on this one, because you know this one is there's a lot more
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that went into this and a lot more that happened in this decision, and
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you know, out of respect for you know, the kid, the family,
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everything like that, you know, we try to not put that out
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there when it's not given and you know we're not giving permission. But give
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me your thoughts about Lamont Rodgers kind of what you saw as far as your
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opinion on how that went down, and you know, just obviously what the
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plan is from here on. Yeah, I mean, you heard a lot
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of the rumors about how Oklahoma was getting negatively recruited against and you know,
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maybe Missouri was gonna overpay Oklahoma regardless of what it was. From what I've
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heard, I think the kid made the right decision. I could tell people
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all the time, if there's a school that's willing to give you a lot
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of money, it sometimes becomes a bad business decision not to take that money.
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So for whatever reason, Lamont Rodgers actually chose to go there. From
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what I've heard, I think it's the right decision. Obviously, it's tough
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loss for Oklahoma because you were really hoping you were gonna get Sean Hutton,
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Michaelsussi and Lamont Rodgers. But Oklahoma fans, I think, forget you're still
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in the running for Andrew Babolola, which sounds like it's three schools, Stanford,
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Michigan, and Oklahoma and Oklahoma's med program. It's not Stanford, but
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it's up there. So there was a lot of high returns that came out
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of Andrew Babolola's visit. So uh, And there's always the chance that you
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could flip Lamont Rodgers if Missouri has a bad season, which you know,
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if Missouri loses their starting quarterback, you know, or they lose Luther Burden,
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that could happen. So I'm not writing anything off the table just yet.
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I know Lamont Rodgers teammates will be on campus with Oklahoma multiple times,
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especially Mark kel Ford as somebody the Oklahoma really wants. So I'm just gonna
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keep an eye on it. But you know what, I'm not gonna fault
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the kid for going to Missouri because you know, sometimes you just got to
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do it. Well. Didn't Missouri too, didn't they enact like a state
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law basically that you could you would get money as soon as you sign,
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so you're your nil kicks in as soon as you put ink to paper.
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I think have to. I think it's if you're in this. I think
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it's the live in the state of Missouri to do that. Though, yeah,
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I think I think, yeah, you I don't know about that one,
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so I would I'll go ahead and leave that one there. I think
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that based off some of the you know, some of the things that came
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down. You saw just with a massive jump up and then you saw Missouri
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pop up, and then an A and M piece and then and then again
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then Oklahoma and then you know, so some of the decisions and you know,
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if you watch the video, you can I mean, Mama, I'm
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not taking Mama Rogers to the to the to the POFE table because it didn't
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looked too good from from her perspective. But I just say that that there
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is an absolute there's there's more to this, and I think that that's a
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big thing that you got to keep in mind is these kids are never guaranteed
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to play past you know, they're never guaranteed to make it to college,
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much less make it to the NFL. So n I L gives them an
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opportunity to you know, make some money for their families. And I think
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that there there's a lot of these situations where, you know, some of
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these players might have children already, some of these players might have you know,
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family members that they need to be taken care of. And so,
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just as a Sooner fan, if you guys just just please trust me on
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this one. Like, this is not a beat and ball, This is
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not a this is not a an nil piece beanball. Didn't drop the ball
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and we didn't we didn't, you know, withdraw the back or anything like
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that. Oklahoma is absolutely willing to do what it takes at this point in
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time from an NL perspective, based on reality, so if something gets kind
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of out, you know, crazy, just there we go. So I'll
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just leave that one there because we uh we tapped into that Arkansas pipeline one
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more time for our second safety and the recruiting cycle with Omari and Robinson.
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And that was yesterday. I asked so to maybe do it today so that
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I could get little birthday commitment. But I'm glad to have it from yesterday.
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I kind of signed off for two days. But six dude shows up
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to campus and Roy Williams, the real Roy Williams Superman gets to you know,
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have have a chat with him, and so that is an all American.
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That is a guy who's iconic at the Sooner program. And you know
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he was a phenomenal player when he was with the Dallas Cowboys in that you
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know, that era of football. So PG start off with you, what
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are your thoughts on us pulling in Omaron Robinson. Yeah. So this was
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I think one of the bigger gets in this class. And I know a
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lot of people are gonna look at his ranking in the caposite being two ninety
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nine and be like, well, how was this a big get for Oklahoma?
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Uh? And I tell people all the time, you got to look
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at the offer list for a player, and that's gonna tell you everything you
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need to know about a player, because there's guys that are four hundred five
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hundred in terms of rankings but only have offers from like some of the most
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elite schools in the country. I mean, Marian Robinson has schools from offers
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from like Oregon, which was Oklahoma's I think biggest competitor outside of Arkansas LSU,
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who claims to be DBU. Same thing for Texas. But you've got
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Georgia, You've got Florida, You've got Auburet, You've got all of these
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great defensive teams, and they're trying to go after a safety like they've got
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to be one of the best safeties in the country at that point. Per
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an evaluator standpoint, and I say it, these sites do a great job
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by evaluating players, but these coaches probably do a little bit better of a
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job. They see something maybe the other guys don't see. Hence why sometimes
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you see guys that are lower on the total pole that end up booming and
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being first round picks later on and had a bunch of offers from really big
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time power for schools. So Amaron Robinson. He's a guy that I think
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does really well in zone coverage. He's a guy that you know he's gonna
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go up, He's gonna try to fight for the ball every single time.
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A. Marion Robinson's a really good get for Oklahoma. Like, you landed
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the top two players the state of Arkansas, and Oklahoma has not recruited that
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state well, and it's your neighboring state going into the SEC outside of Texas.
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You really need to be able to try to go into these neighboring states
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and land that top tier talent every single year. I mean, obviously Texas
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is important, but my gosh, how much top tier talent do they have?
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Like you're not going to be able to go in there and just run
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the table in this in that state. Yeah, Marion Robinson is a huge
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win, huge win. Expect his ranking to jump through the year. Number
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one. That is going to go way up. If you looked at him
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at the I think it was I want to say its Rivals or who did
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it? Who is the five star showcase? That just was Jackson's the Rivals.
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So Marion Robinson won the defensive MVP and he was locking people down.
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So if he wants to, and you know what, let's be honest with
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you, He's the perfect safety for what they want in this defensive system.
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Right, This three three five will rotate between a three three five four two
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five hybrid system right that they run between BV and Ali. They run a
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pattern match. Okay, different quarters pattern match, And I'll tell you right
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now, like Maaron Robinson is the dude you want in a pattern match zone
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type defense. Right. He's smart, he plays the field really well,
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he has a good feel for the field. He's able to work through his
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progression as a safety. That's really important being able to see those things from
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your one you're two to three right and understand like where your assignment is.
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But on top of that, being able to partner in general with those dbs
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and do a really good job of the pass offs. I think that's where
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a Marion like, I mean, he shows it just in the Rivals showcase,
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but he shows it in his game all the time. Not to mention,
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the dude has a mindset of a hunter, right. I want a
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hunter at safety. Okay, I want a dude who's going to come in
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and come and take you out. The mindset being built at Oklahoma right now
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is ferocious, ferocious with grit. I mean, they're a bunch of bad
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I'm gonna be honest with you, and I'm sure we'll talk about it,
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but I'm excited. Marion Robinson's one of my favorite players in his class from
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that safety position. I watched those just because that's what I played. So
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for me, safety is a big deal. I really pay attention to who's
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going after who. I love that they picked up Amaron Robinson and I think
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his mindset f that's perfect for what they're what they're doing. And if you
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guys are just joining us once again, just thanks for hopping in today.
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And yeah, you know it's we I asked the family, hey, let's
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let's let's do a little something early. I said, Jay's gonna be out
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of town. I gotta I gotta run the pod because you know there there's
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stuff to talk about, so you know, pull it up here. And
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Jake merrill is is is a Bama guy, and but Jake also is a
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coach. He understands the position he did play football, so when you hear
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him break down, That's why I wanted Jake to come on, because you
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know, the rising tide for just for you know, Alabama fans, you
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know, the mutual respect because he's gonna come on here and he's going to
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talk actually ball instead of just main opinion piece. And as as we continue
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to just want to you know, give you guys great content, we want
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to you know, hear what an actual intelligent Bama insider thinks about this uh
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this, uh, this class and about you know, Oklahoma in general.
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So uh but yeah, with O'maron Robinson, he is just an absolute He's
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just another one of these guys in this class, in this position. Brandon
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Hall. Again, there's I know that we have two coaches right now that
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we're not going to say this guy deserves a raise at the moment, but
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Brandon Hall is another one him And what you know, what Vali's doing that
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cornerback and then what Emma Jones is doing it wide receiver is just it blows
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my absolute mind. So just an absolute you know, just a lineage being
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developed. And I think if you rewind a few years ago, I wanted
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to just really point out that a lot of people thought that when Billy Bowman
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committed to Oklahoma he might be a guy that changed changed the the aspect of
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how Oklahoma is seen in the defensive backfield, because we've seen some years to
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where you have such great, you know, athletes like Zach Sanchez, Jordan
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Thomas, uh, you know, Pranell Motley, a lot of these guys
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who really showed up and they looked, you know, DJ Graham looked really
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really really good. And then this was not the increase year to year.
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And so now we go into this year with Robert Squars Jennings and I saw
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it in the comments earlier. The safeties are are putting some work in in
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the off season. Robert R. S J looks massive. Uh, Billy
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Bowman is now back in and doing you know, after his surgery. He's
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doing everything and he's up and working. And then you also have Peyton Bowen.
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Now you've got the freshman. You've got Reggie Powers the third And I
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do not you know, I don't pimp Reggie Powers because his pops is is
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a friend. I do because this guy is an absolute stud. And Michael
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Boganowski coming into and there's there's many others and so this lineage of safety playing
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is something that we kind of lost, you know, in the mid two
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thousands, and and so a Marion. I heard a brody pool a comp
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with a Marian. I heard somebody say like Sean Taylor liked I always back
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off on any of Sean Taylor and Ed Reid because those guys were just those
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guys are just they were aliens and their their bodies are like completely different,
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right, I mean, like you have to think of like a body pro
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I don't like giving player comparisons. I'm gonna be straight with you, guys.
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Yeah, I'd never like doing it because I don't want to put that
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out there that players should play like this guy. I want to see technically
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from a breakdown of how this dude does. Does he fit the system?
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And does he have room for growth? Right? Does he have room for
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growth? Because if I give player comparisons, then I feel like I'm trapping
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him into a into a box, you know what I'm saying. I mean,
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hey, it's all good though, but I gotta say, Marcus Wimberley
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too is Arkansas guy, and yeah it's it's it's two of the top four
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players in the state of Arkansas. And I've made a PG. You know
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for a fact that I think Marcus Wimberley when I grow up, I want
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to be like Marcus Wimberley because just talking to that kid is he is a
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phenomenal human being. And that's in more of these people that are getting brought
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into this team are just absolute, you know, amazing character people. And
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so PG two of the top fours you know players in Arkansas. Both of
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these guys from from a safety perspective. What do you see from these guys
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as far as coming in and competing early? You know, again, this
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is their class of twenty five, they're about to start their senior year.
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But do you think that these are guys who are actually going to be,
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you know, big time players at Oklahoma. I think they're gonna be big
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time players at Oklahoma. I think we're getting towards the end of the road
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though of seeing like freshmen playing their first year at Oklahoma. I think Brenton
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Vinnables has enough guys in the program now and has depth to where, you
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know, he's got enough second, third and fourth year guys where he can
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let his freshman sit like he likes to do, let them develop up,
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let them get in the weight and training room, and then play them their
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second year. You know, obviously they might see some late game snaps,
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some really late rotational snaps or you know in those games against like Maine,
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right, you know, like they might see some game time there, but
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a lot of them will end up red shirting. But no, I think
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both a Marion Robinson and Marcus Wimberley will see playing time. I mean,
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you gotta think about it. You're losing Billy Bowman this year. Next year
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you have Robert Spears Jennings. I believe is Jayden Row gonna be draft eligible
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or is he? I mean I think he needs to eligible. Oh yeah,
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I mean he's I mean, you've got guys that are draft eligible at
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this point that are gonna be leaving that room regardless, so he there's going
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to be room for them to step in and have to play. So yeah,
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Marcus Wimberley and the Marion Robinson they're gonna be big time contributors. I
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will say, though I might be and I love Marcus Wimberley, I'm right
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there with you. I might like Marion Robinson a little bit better though.
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I think I think out of the two, he's probably the more dynamic athlete.
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But Marcus Wimberley at six pounds like he's just as good though, Yeah,
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definitely, and so still yet on the table actual players that Oklahoma has
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the opportunity to to to really in. Let's start with Kate Petshack because Petsjack
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is still one that we you know, he is a little bit of a
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tweener guy because he's a guy who could put a few LB's in and play
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a hybrid you know, inside technique. And so I think that right now
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he's floating in the two sixty two sixty five range, So he is still
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in PG do you know, date wise, what does he have a commitment
23:41
date? Yet he does, and I've heard a couple of things and I've
23:44
been saying probably about mid July is what I would expect. So probably here
23:47
in the next by the end of next week maybe. Okay, So,
23:51
so you've got pet Jack still on the on the on the fence, Kristin
23:55
Jones, who ou has went went hard at and then it seemed like that
24:00
kind of went away, and it seems like now these are this is another
24:03
guy that now crystal balls are starting to come in from all over the country.
24:07
So we saw a few more of those. So you know, it's
24:10
kind of easy to say, like let's pull the trigger. But now in
24:12
the Nile era and when we are going to be and you know, at
24:17
this spot, you never i mean until Jay says it best, you know,
24:19
until the pin is on the paper, like you never want to go
24:23
ahead and say, like, you know, I'm pretty sure that he's going
24:26
to be here. But Christian Jones trending towards Oklahoma, Jak, have you
24:30
taken any time to look at Christian Yeah? I really like Christian Jones.
24:33
I for a minute there, It's funny. I brought it up a few
24:37
maybe even a month ago, but with Christian Jones because I mean, there's
24:40
that back and forth basically it's in Nebraska Oklahoma battle, right, and it's
24:45
like, Okay, is he gonna go? Because Nebraska has been making strong
24:48
pushes all over with everybody in the craziest ways. You got to give,
24:52
you got to give rule of you know, a lot of props for what
24:56
was doing at Nebraska one hundred percent. So but I really felt like with
25:00
Christian Jones, his playing style fit what BV wants in a linebacker, right,
25:04
And that's like line you want to talk about linebacker, that's the baby,
25:08
right, That's that like we if we want you a linebacker, like
25:12
there's a reason for it, because that's that's like what I cherish and I
25:15
love from BV, from zach Alli who coaches him. Right, So I
25:21
mean they're going to focus in exactly on the key news they want and I
25:23
think it. You got to feel really good if you're a linebacker being offered
25:26
by Oklahoma and because that means the head coach definitely approved that one, definitely,
25:32
and we saw some we saw some pivots too, you know because from
25:37
another Christian Christian Thatcher was a guy that's looked like was going to be in
25:41
the class and he pulled the trigger and went to Utah uh here just a
25:44
couple of weeks ago. And I still have conversations with Christian, but it
25:48
was when they came in and zach Alli took over, his family enjoyed Ruth
25:53
and so Christian Christian Thatcher went away. You know, there's been a couple
25:59
of pivots, I know with Ian h or going to SMU. You know,
26:04
I do know that the the staff made a slight pivot away from him
26:08
kind of last second. Uh PG. You've had the you know, you've
26:12
been kind of chasing Christian Jones for a while. What are your thoughts on
26:15
this? And Yeah, so it was interesting. I was right there with
26:21
you, right. I thought we'd kind of moved on from Christian Jones for
26:23
a while, and a lot of that was just you know, reaching out,
26:26
kid wasn't really being super responsive. Usually when that happens, the kids
26:32
probably turnding away from your school a little bit. Uh. Then we got
26:37
to kind of chat up a little bit, and after zach Ally came here
26:40
to Oklahoma and things kind of settled down, Christian Jones and Oklahoma were right
26:45
back on the table because there was kind of just this lapse in communication.
26:48
And I think it was zach Alli being integrated into the program and basically being
26:55
given this list of offers that Oklahoma's already thrown out of linebacker and saying,
26:59
start with this, figure out if there's anybody in here you want, we'll
27:03
figure out where we're at with that kid, and then if you want to
27:06
make additional offers after that, make additional offers that I'm just I mean,
27:08
I'm assuming that's what happened, because you saw additional offers come out a little
27:12
bit later. So Christian Jones that had come back to the table. But
27:15
when I talked to him back in January, We've had many conversations since then,
27:18
but he said he wasn't looking to commit till the end of his senior
27:22
season, which I thought was a really long timeline for a guy like that.
27:26
And I'm kind of getting the sense that the timeline is going to be
27:29
sped up a little bit, probably before his senior season starts, So I
27:33
would say sometime maybe late July to early August, we would see something from
27:37
Christian Jones. But you know, he really likes the sole mission here.
27:41
He says it gives them an edge over any program, which we've heard that
27:45
many times with recruits in Oklahoma. So yeah, I know Christian Jones would
27:48
be a really good athlete for Oklahoma and one hundred percent when you go watch
27:52
his film, you look at his profile like he is a typical Brent Vinnables
27:56
linebacker. Yeah, and you bastards are the ones who took the guy that.
28:03
I agree Luke Mettz is he uh, you know, outside Peyton Pierce,
28:10
he was. I mean, that was a guy that I really really
28:11
wanted. So I think we were gonna get I think we were going to
28:15
get him to I think we're gonna get him Coop see it. JA want
28:19
to tell you this. So I was talking to Luke. We had him
28:22
on the podcast and everything guy's offers, and he was like, I was
28:25
like, almost certain this kid has come to Oklahoma. Yeah. And then
28:27
not even forty eight hours later, Georgia Bama all these offers and it's like,
28:32
okay, so this top six and I just put out it doesn't mean
28:36
I mean that ends up being the case, especially when you know Lucas Luke
28:40
is such a great dude from a standpoint of his energy. You know,
28:44
he would fit good in any program he went to. I think it was
28:48
you know, it's interesting when you're going through the recruiting process and for him
28:52
having uh that that that feel for you know, a lot of kids they
28:55
grew up seeing Dan will win. Especially in this era, right these twenty
28:59
five, twenty four or twenty six guys, they're gonna be like all I
29:03
know is like Bama being the greatest. And as we continue through the future,
29:07
it's gonna be interesting to see if that's continuing to maintained. Right.
29:11
But I'll tell you it's interesting to see when these guys go through the process
29:15
though, of because Bama got loaded with linebackers, and I'm going to tell
29:21
you right now, I do not think they're done. I think there's probably
29:23
one, possibly one, maybe two more, but for sure probably one.
29:30
It's going to be interesting to see kind of as they go through, like
29:33
who sticks with the class, no matter which class it is, what school
29:37
it is. The recruiting season is not done now, it's just about to
29:41
fall on the shoulders of another part of the staff. I don't think people
29:45
realize that is that as soon as this end of the month hits their recruits,
29:52
you better have a really baller recruiting team and a really baller player personnel
29:56
team, because that's where the weight of the maintaining your clas as falls on
30:00
you. What the coaches are doing, they have to win. They're focused
30:03
on winning with their current roster. So yes, they're they're shouting out.
30:07
They're saying, hey, we love you, hope everything's going good, but
30:10
we can't give you the same attention that you just got prior to this.
30:14
So it's interesting to see how classes stay together. Right with Luke, it
30:18
will be interesting to see from his standpoint. Just I guess how I know
30:22
he's in with BAMA, but he would have been a great He would have
30:26
been great for BV in the system that they have. That's why I'm hiring
30:30
like Christian Jones. I mean, Dawson Marrett would have been another really good
30:33
one because they love the smart mine. I think he's the best linebacker y'all
30:37
got right now in your class. Dawson is just overall very sound. I
30:42
mean his technically his skill set level, like how smart he is. Dude,
30:47
he is sound. But I mean, you guys got so many linebackers
30:49
that we were going after Dawson, Merritt, Luke Metz. We were in
30:52
a really good spot with Jaden Harmon. I remember we offered him like we
30:56
were at a good spot there and that Alabama's like. And then Ty Jackson,
31:00
I think I think you guys will probably get him too. He's he's
31:03
really I feel good about that. Definitely, so, definitely so. And
31:07
then the last one, you know, we kind of talked Andrew Babolola.
31:12
Babelola just shake the magic a ball. That's gonna be an absolute piece where
31:18
we just don't have, you know, a good read on it. The
31:22
business aspect and the education aspect is absolutely just that that is a huge piece
31:26
for him. You know, there's still there's still the you know, the
31:30
lean for Stanford PG quickly on Babelola. Do you think that this is still
31:37
a legitimate option. Oh. I think it's a very legitimate option. But
31:41
my head hurts trying to cover this because I'll talk to two or three people
31:45
for like a week that say, oh, yeah, like I think he's
31:48
in, And then you'll talk to people that were with and around Andrew Babolola
31:52
on his visit to go Yeah, he had a really good visit. I
31:56
don't know if this kid's in though, Like he didn't commit, and I'm
31:57
like, so where does this kid sit? Because you know, I'm hearing
32:01
from other really good sources he's committed, and then other people he's not.
32:05
Like I think with Andrew Babbelola, it's coming down to Stanford, Michigan and
32:08
Oklahoma. And again, like it's the med school thing, and Oklahoma's med
32:13
school offering is not that bad. I think. You know, you just
32:15
got to have some of these other kids at Oklahoma that are going into very
32:21
specific fields be able to sell Andrew Babolola and his family on the idea of
32:25
yeah, like you can come. You can progress your career your education here,
32:30
but also you can be developed into a really good potential NFL football player
32:36
and make just as much money over there, and then post a NFL career
32:39
if you still want to go do whatever you were getting an education on,
32:43
right, you can come back and finish that education and go pursue that as
32:46
well. Yeah, but Smoothie Michael Sussie again, his boy his running mate
32:53
Sean Hutton is in the fold. That is a major piece. And I
32:59
do say this is we did not land Rogers this weekend, but the amount
33:05
of els that Texas is taking it has been absolutely just mind blowing. And
33:13
I mean it's I don't even want to get into that. So I mean,
33:15
any Texas guys that are out here watching, you know, you know
33:19
it's at this point like it's it's like watching one of those videos to where
33:23
people are, you know, beating up somebody in the street and then it
33:27
just continues. You're like, all right, guys, you know he's entertaining
33:29
for half a second. Now let's stop, Like why is this ness?
33:31
So it's kind of getting to that area and so I just absolutely just go
33:37
all right. So, but Susie is going. I mean, this is
33:40
potentially a plug and plug and play at any school in the nation. And
33:45
Jake want to get your thoughts on for Susie because uh, PG and I
33:47
have been very very very clear that you know, the the the Michael Passussie
33:53
is he's going to demand and commands a lot of money. The relationship has
33:59
been there for an absolute for a long time with the SUSI. I don't
34:02
think Fasusi is going to be one hundred percent made a decision on anything that
34:08
is you know, family related or anything like that. I think that he
34:12
has the great relationship. When he talks PG, I'm still in your lying
34:15
here. But when he talks Oklahoma, he talks about the entire staff,
34:19
He talks about Bill Beatenbow. When he talks about other schools, he doesn't
34:22
really get into the you know, their offensive line coaches, and it seems
34:27
more macro conversational. So, but what are you getting in for Susie from
34:31
an offensive lineman and you know, as a technician, because that's what I
34:37
see as somebody who is just absolutely technically sound and has a phenomenal athletic pedigree.
34:43
It's it's oh, I mean, it's interesting. I think you look.
34:45
You look at just overall, like the top guy's offensive tackle in this
34:49
class, right, whether it's Fasousi, whether it's Babylola, whether it's Ty
34:52
Haywood, whether it's Sanders Junior. I think you look at all of them.
34:59
They kind of all fit similar molds for the most part. But granted
35:01
some are a little more developed than others. Some will take a little more
35:06
time to develop. You know, at six five and a half three hundred
35:08
pounds, this dude is a big dude, I mean, and he can
35:12
move. He runs out what five flat forty roughly? Like in general,
35:15
I think a guy like this when you put him on the line and he
35:19
can come in, especially under a guy like Gabinbo, if he could get
35:22
in there, he's an immediate player. Right. You can really look at
35:27
him and say, Okay, this guy has the tangibles everything we need with
35:30
the right coach who can develop him quickly, Let's put him in Let's let's
35:34
stick him in there. Let's let's mix him into this line and start getting
35:37
him that playing time. This guy's like a long term dude with a high,
35:40
high, high overall ceiling where you're probably gonna see it. If he
35:45
goes to the right schools. He's a top NFL draft pick, in a
35:50
top ten, top fifteen NFL draft pick. So again it's all about development
35:54
and going to the right place for him. With his size, his athleticism,
35:59
he's gonna fit really well on the system that they're gonna try that they're
36:00
gonna run or Seth Patrol, which is again you're gonna see. It's funny
36:06
because everyone wants to associate Seth Latrel just an air raid offense. That is
36:08
not the case. The guy was a running backs coach. Everybody, Yeah,
36:12
he's gonna have a really good balance, but you are going to see
36:15
a powerful passing attack, but he's gonna have really good balance. A guy
36:20
just like this. With Pa Susi, that is somebody you want. You
36:22
already have a fo Ja I believe it's last name. And again with af
36:29
Lava. Okay, I mean they've already done a really good job with some
36:31
of these key pieces in the class. Adding somebody like Fasussi or even like
36:36
a Babeloa that would just be like that would make it perfect. You would
36:40
have exactly what you need for this class. Maybe one more interior guy maybe,
36:45
but you're already at twenty one scholarship, so I don't know how many
36:49
they're gonna take this year. You guys might have a better idea than me.
36:52
Roughly, it's typically between twenty five. Yeah, twenty five is the
36:57
number you're looking at, saying maybe like it's I mean, if you get
37:00
interest later in the season from somebody, you know, I'm not going to
37:05
say any any names because I think that with Amrian Robinson and Wimberley in the
37:09
fold already, I don't think that you mess around with that and pull Jonah
37:13
Williams if that becomes a that becomes, you know, a situation, I
37:16
still think that, uh, you know, similar to the Kyler Murray situation.
37:21
Jonah Williams is not going to command that money in the NFL as a
37:24
high high draft pick. So that baseball, if he goes, you know,
37:28
top ten, top fifteen in the MLB draft, he's going to that's
37:31
going to be a harder turndown than what Kyler saw because Kyler and new as
37:35
an NFL quarterback, that's where all the money is, you know, that's
37:38
where we're you know, you're seeing these forty fifty million dollars a year contracts
37:40
at this point, so but so. But the point is is I think
37:45
that you're going to be right around that twenty five range. Yeah, okay,
37:50
so so yeah, what roughly for left if you depending on because I
37:55
will tell everybody this, Some scholarships are like, okay, we have one
38:00
hundred percent giving you this scholarship for some kids. For other kids, it's
38:04
like we've given you a scholarship, but if something happens along this way,
38:08
then we have to withdraw that scholarship. That does happen. Sadly, it's
38:13
just the name of the game, you know. If you're finding somebody who
38:15
fits your system better, it's just the way it plays. You're not trying
38:19
to dismiss kids, but at the same time, you're trying to say,
38:22
hey, we want you to be successful. If we bring this kid in,
38:24
just put you in this position. So maybe you're better off going this
38:28
way. It looks like David Sanders is about to announce his commitment on August
38:31
seventeenth, So that's kind of interesting too, because he's the number one offensive
38:35
lineman in the nation. Considered so and so, but I think again,
38:39
a guy like the SUSI perfect for this system, absolutely perfect. I mean
38:44
literally God, they're doing a really good job of identifying the guy's talent wise,
38:50
but also who fit what they want to do. Definitely, Chicken,
38:53
thank you man for the twenty bucks. And again, everybody, if you're
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39:09
twenty bucks, I appreciate that. PG anything else on our buddy, mister
39:15
FASUSI not a lot, just waiting on an official announcement data. I know
39:21
we've heard some rumors on different dates right now, I tell everybody to wait
39:23
till August potentially. Never know, he could drop it sooner if he wants
39:28
to shut it down. I know sus getting a little tired of the recruiting
39:30
process. I do know that, so it wears on him. I mean,
39:35
that was one of the conversations that I had with you know, Darius
39:37
Afalava was it's it's it's just a lot, and you know, when the
39:43
phone is absolutely buzzing, like you know today, I'm in church, I
39:45
have to put down my phone on because Twitter just by itself during Church is
39:52
tough and so on on number birthday with you know, the Facebook. I
39:54
don't really do Facebook very often, but you know, getting hit up there,
39:58
it was just it was just nuts and that's that's that's this guy.
40:01
And I'm not not I'm not anything. So I'm not a you know,
40:06
an absolute stud offensive tackle who everybody wants. So but let's uh, let's
40:10
get into some opinions and insanity here because uh, you know, we are
40:15
still in list season, and the list season is uh is is always full
40:22
of fun opinions because people just want to I don't I don't know what it
40:28
is. I don't even know. I don't want to do lists. But
40:31
here is SEC Mike's twenty twenty four SEC quarter quarterback rankings. There's there's a
40:39
lot I want to say about this, So if you guys are in the
40:42
chat, you know, give us your opinion on this, because I mean,
40:45
there's a lot of pieces in here that kind of blow me away.
40:49
But Brady Cook at number one, Jake, I don't you don't have to
40:53
dig through it here, but you know, being a band of a guy,
40:57
being an SEC guy, do you see anything on here that absolutely stands
41:00
out as massively underrated or hey listen, I respectfully disagree that that person should
41:08
be, you know, in the single digits area. As I look through
41:13
this, Brady Cook's interesting one. I don't know if I would put Brady
41:16
Cook's number one Jalen Milroe just based on what everyone says and and everything that
41:22
I understand why he's ranked where he's at. I think he's going to be
41:27
way better. But that's that's like projection base. You're talking like from last
41:30
year. Looking at I do think Graham Mertz, like Nico email the Lava,
41:36
all right, what I can't have a hard time what we're saying his
41:38
last name, but yeah, Nico, but he I don't feel like he
41:44
should be ranked that high. The guy hasn't done a whole lot. Like
41:46
hold on time out. Don't put these guys up in these top rankings,
41:51
even in like the top ten. Like I think it's fair where Jackson's at
41:53
just because he only played one game, right, Like, I mean,
41:57
you can't take these dudes and put them You got to see what they've done,
42:00
right, So like I would put like Graham Mertz had a phenomenal season
42:04
last season, I would actually put him higher he did very very good over
42:08
three thousand yards, twenty touchdowns, like what three turnovers. He's very good.
42:13
He's a very good quarterback. He did He's doing a good job.
42:15
I think Carson Beck in the end of the day, like, based on
42:19
what he did last year, I could, I would put him at at
42:22
number one. I mean, let's just be honest. I don't know if
42:24
i'd put Jackson Dart at too Quinn yours. I mean, he's probably fair
42:30
enough. He's in the spot that he deserves. I guess, Yeah,
42:37
it's just I don't know. I mean, you're close to some of these,
42:38
but some of these other ones you got to be like whoa, whoa
42:42
definitely PG. Yeah. So I actually went through earlier while we were talking,
42:49
well before this started looking at the list, I kind of went through
42:52
and kind of made my own. So I've got Carson Beck in number one.
42:54
He is probably a top three pick in the NFL draft this year.
42:59
He threw for thirty nine one hundred yards last year, seventy two percent completion
43:01
percentage, and out of my top five quarterbacks, he threw the most passes
43:06
and had a seventy two percent completion percentage. Carson Beck with all the weapons
43:10
he's got around him at Georgia, he's the best quarterback now, Jackson Dart,
43:14
I have him at number two. I think with the system that Lane
43:16
Giffen has him in, I just think it equals success. And he doesn't
43:21
turn the ball over a whole lot like he takes care of the ball.
43:23
You want to see his touchdowns go up a little bit. But I mean
43:27
him and Quin Yours. I think Jackson Dart is a little bit more athletic,
43:32
but very similar when you luck at him in terms of stats, but
43:36
just in athleticism. I'm gonna put Jackson Dart at number two. Connor Weigman
43:39
actually have at number three. I think people really forget about this kid before
43:45
he got hurt last year. Yeah, he threw sixty eight percent of his
43:47
passes on one hundred and nineteen attempts. Connor Weigman was one of the best
43:52
quarterback prospects in his class. And Connor Weigman is a projected top ten pick,
43:57
So it shocked me a little bit to see him have him at number
44:00
nine again. With the weapons Texas A and M is going to have around
44:04
him, Connor Weigman's going to have a very good season, is going to
44:07
be probably one of the sneaky candidates in the Heisman. So I've got him
44:12
at three. But I really went back and forth with putting Graham Mertz at
44:15
three. I have him at four. But as you said, Graham Mertz
44:17
very underrated quarterback, came from Wisconsin. He only threw for twenty one hundred
44:22
yards last year, but again, seventy two percent completion percentage on three hundred
44:27
and fifty eight attempts. It's not like he threw a small amount of passes
44:30
and had a high percent. No, he like he takes care of the
44:34
ball. You know, he's able to get it to where it needs to
44:37
go. I really like Graham Mertz as one of the best in the SEC.
44:42
Jaylen Milroe I have at number five. Now, I do want to
44:45
say when I look at QB rankings right now, I look at him as
44:49
going into the season, this is what they are. But by the end
44:52
of the season, Jayalen Milroe could be one of the top three quarterbacks in
44:54
the SEC. And I say that because I think, oh, what's his
45:00
name? Can that the head coach on de Bor's system is going to benefit
45:07
Milroe a lot more than what he was in last year. So I would
45:12
say milro is one of those guys where I think we could turn around at
45:15
the end of the season. He's got thirty two hundred yards, thirty touchdowns,
45:19
like I kind of have like a Jalen Hurts type of season that he
45:22
had in Oklahoma. I've got Quinn Ewars at six. I'm not high on
45:25
him at all. I know he threw for thirty almost thirty five hundred yards
45:29
last year, but at times, that dude is just not a good quarterback.
45:34
He is not consistent. So I'm not going to put Quinn Ears at
45:37
high. I've got Brady Cook at number seven, and the only reason why
45:42
I've got him this low is is I haven't seen him do it without Luther
45:45
Burton, and so you kind of wonder, well, how much of his
45:49
success is in relation to Luther Burton. A lot of quarterbacks could have similar
45:52
success with Luther Burdon, like he's just that. I mean, Luther Burton's
45:55
gonna be a top ten pick this year. I've got Garrison mines Meyer right
46:00
behind him, again, a guy that I think has a lot of upside,
46:04
a really high ceiling, but we just haven't seen it yet out of
46:07
him. And then I've got Jackson, Arnold and Nico right there in those
46:10
final two spots with Jackson, Arnold Nico again, they're just unproven. You
46:15
don't know what you're gonna see. Black guarantee you they're gonna better at anybody
46:17
else at the bottom of that list. But I don't know how Peyton forn
46:22
Thorn is number fourteen. He should be sixteen. Yeah, that's an interesting
46:25
one. This this list is full of guys that there's so many ifs,
46:34
right, you know, with Missouri's schedule. I think Brady you know,
46:38
Brady Cook is a good quarterback. He is, he is a great quarterback.
46:42
He's got it, He's got an NFL pedigree, and he is.
46:44
I mean, there have been a lot worse hashtag Jake Locker, no offense,
46:50
Jake Jake on Jake Crime. I'm just trying not to on Jake Frime,
46:54
but Jake Locker. You know, there's guys that have been absolutely project
47:00
did and it's been a lot worse. So I'm with, you know,
47:02
in the chat and people talking about you know, him being you know,
47:06
potentially a first round draft pick. Jackson Dark What does it look like with
47:10
the mercenary incoming of of everybody you know. Quinn John Judkins is an He
47:15
is a humongous loss for ole Miss and him leaving. But let's see how
47:21
that plays out. How does you know, how does the the ole Miss
47:24
expectations, you know, play out? Carson Beck I mean, Brock Bauers
47:30
is one of the most amazing tight ends passing catch tight tight ends that we've
47:34
seen in college football in quite a long time. Quen you yours. He
47:37
has lost his top five receivers from this past year. Jalen Milroe, new
47:42
system, Nico and Jackson, same situation where it's a first year starter.
47:46
Now this is your job. It's not you coming in for a bowl game.
47:50
That really hasn't you know. But I really do think that those are
47:54
questions. Graham Mertz, I think is you know you're throwing. Graham Mertz
48:00
is a guy who I think he has the quiet opportunity to do something really
48:05
really special down on Floord this year, and guess what, he better do
48:07
it because they have the same situation that Texas has with somebody that they want
48:13
with DJ Lagway in the back, who is who everybody wants to see him
48:16
out there, So what does Grant is Gant Graham Mertz going to be able
48:21
to go from a slightly better you know, game manager to a playmaker?
48:27
And does the the elevation and responsibility on him. Does that make him press?
48:31
Does that make him you know? How does he handle any failure?
48:35
If you see you know, if you see Lagway going over there and you
48:37
know, stretching his arm out, how does that you know, what does
48:39
that do mentally with him? I think Connor Weigman he's the one that I
48:45
really am really interested in seeing what what he does. You know that with
48:50
a defensive minded staff coming in, he now knows that he's got complimentary football
48:57
potentially happening behind him. They e turn over a lot of their skill position
49:00
too, but they've got a lot of skill positions. So Blake Shapen,
49:06
is this a guy that can make it through a whole season? Is this
49:07
a guy that is going to be able to show up? Because we we
49:12
all thought Blake at Baylor and you know Jeff Levy, you know, we
49:17
we know Jeff Leby very very intimately here at Oklahoma. And so these lists
49:22
continue to come out and I saw somebody made a comment about, you know
49:23
why even make a preseason list. Why because it's freaking July and we're fifty
49:29
some odd days away from football still, and you've got to keep the content
49:31
going. That's why, that's why these things happen. Now, if you
49:37
go and you see these things from anybody who is like love Maroon Forever and
49:40
he's got you know, somebody who is a legit quarterback down at the very
49:45
bottom, now you can just go, you know, forget about this.
49:47
I think Mike is a pretty pretty pretty good guy, pretty credible guy.
49:52
There's a lot of proof of concept that needs to happen just across this whole
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list, just this year. And you know what does Arkansas look like?
49:59
Because I mean, hey, let's let's let's be honest. How long do
50:02
you play for a coach that you know is dead man walking? You know?
50:07
Do they want to do that? Because I think they gave and Teddy
50:10
talked about it about the NFL a few years a few shows back. But
50:14
they go into the fact of like, when you have a quarterback that you
50:16
know that can take you to the Promised Land, that the locker room is
50:22
different, and when you've got a quarterback that you know is going to be
50:25
legit and a coach that you know is here for the long haul. You're
50:30
going to play. So if they start experiencing some failure, what is that
50:32
looking like? Because that that can get scary real fast, because then guys
50:37
start thinking about the transfer portal, Guys start thinking about bouncing out because it's
50:40
just not a it's just not a great thing. So again you'll see these
50:45
lists, most of them are clickbait, and so, uh, you know,
50:50
we try, we try as much on the show is you know,
50:52
listen, the best way to boost your your ratings and your the algorithm on
50:58
Twitter is to make fun of Oklahoma. And and that is because this is
51:02
a passionate, fat fan base and people are gonna hop on there, they're
51:06
gonna click on it, and they're gonna go by God, Jackson, Arnold
51:08
Jesus, you know, blessed him with his you know, with his right
51:12
arm, you know, something like that. Let's just calm down, because
51:15
the proof concept is a big deal. Rock vandergriff was another five star quarterback
51:17
committed to Georgia. You know, was an Oklahoma guy for half a minute
51:22
and then committed to Georgia. That one in Caleb Williams, the rest is
51:27
history right there. But that is still a five star quarterback and so and
51:30
then you know what, I like the SEC shorts. Sorry, Diego Babilla.
51:34
I don't know enough about you to, you know, come back with
51:36
anything witty for you. You play at Vanderbilt. They had a pretty good
51:38
offense, you know, early in the season last year. So we'll see,
51:43
we'll see what happens here, because it's it's it's going to be uh,
51:45
it's going to be something. But yeah, and real quick on because
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I want to go back to Graham Mercy real quick with Florida again, he
51:52
has the potinshall be one of the best quarterbacks in the SEC. He's got
51:57
Elijah Badger coming in in the train for Portal, and he's also got one
52:01
of the top receivers for Florida coming back in Eugene Wilson the third So,
52:06
and not to mention that offensive line got a huge boost with Jason Zandemela transferring
52:12
from usc to Florida, and Florida was a which and this is important.
52:16
I want everybody remember this in recruiting. It is important to sometimes be the
52:21
second team if you are not the first. Because Florida got Jason Zandemela from
52:27
USC to put on their starting offensive line this year and Cormoni McLain for both
52:31
commitments. They came in second fourth and they landed them both this cycle.
52:37
Yeah, you you just gotta be careful. You know, the the job
52:42
is never done in this era because you know that there's quality in some of
52:46
these bigger teams and guys are going to you know obvious say this is guys
52:52
like Luther Burton and I'll just point out him specifically. Luther Burton could have
52:57
probably transferred before the year last year and gone to somewhere different, And so
53:01
I got to get problems out to him to stick there and trust in what
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they were trying to do at Missouri. And he knows who he is.
53:07
And you know, I say it all the time, if it's Middle Tennessee
53:10
State or if it's Jacksonville State, wherever you're at, if you aren't,
53:14
if you are a player, you're going to be able to go to the
53:16
NFL. These teams. I mean, with now the amount of film out
53:20
there and the social media piece, it is hard to be a good guy
53:23
and be a good athlete and projectors the NFL and just not get noticed.
53:29
And if you're you know, maybe your draft stock does increase just a little
53:32
bit. But I'm just saying there's still a lot of There's still the Patriots
53:36
of the world. There's still the Oakland Raiders of the world who will go
53:39
out and find somebody that nobody else really finds as you know, as high
53:44
on their board. Now, the Patriots have done it better than Oakland has.
53:46
And uh, because if you run us up for three at Oakland,
53:50
you're pretty much I mean your Oakland has used the number one or number two
53:52
person on the board. So uh. And I'm a Broncos fan, so
53:55
no, you know that's the the we suck. So there is that I
54:00
don't know. I don't know, Jake. With the five weeks out going
54:07
into SEC, I want to kind of wrap it up with this piece.
54:09
But we're five weeks out, six weeks out. What are you expecting out
54:16
of Oklahoma this year? Because you know, a lot of people want to
54:21
hear what you're thinking. Yeah, it's interesting, right because I think,
54:25
like we look at these teams this year, there's a lot of talk of
54:29
Tennessee. There's a lot Obviously, Georgia is going to get a ton of
54:32
a ton of you know, hey, Georgia, that's the team to beat,
54:37
which I do believe like they're going to be that good. You get
54:40
to talk of Texas, of course, which will be interesting to see Alabama
54:45
with this new team. So I think with Oklahoma it's an interesting one.
54:50
They do have a difficult schedule. But at the same time, one thing
54:53
I've seen is what be the if you go and you really look at what
54:58
Brent Ventables is doing. Right, he brings in Seth Latrell. Okay,
55:02
Seth Latrell. Well, I mean he was already here last year right as
55:06
offensive analyst, but he promotes an offensive coordinator, which which I absolutely love.
55:10
I think it was almost I think it's been waiting. Everyone's kind of
55:14
like waiting for him to get there. And the reason I say that is
55:16
because you have Emmett Jones as your past game coordinator. Okay, Emmett Jones
55:22
and Seth Latrell come from the same system. They both have these Texas tech
55:29
backgrounds, but also they understand, like this more from the passing game,
55:35
how to be dynamic with that passing game. Emmat Jones has been an offensive
55:37
coordinator in these different situations. Right with going from UH Texas Tech back to
55:45
Oklahoma. But at the same time with him, and you look at his
55:47
background in general, the dude produces everywhere he goes. He's under and shoot,
55:53
I cannot remember his name right now, but he went over to Arizona
55:57
Cardinals as a head coach. Cliff he's over ok at Washington now yeah and
56:04
uh, and so he's Cliff, Like Cliff is is impressive when he's at
56:08
Texas Tech. Well, that's where Emma Jones is at learning this this system
56:13
style. Not to mention, Emma Jones is a lot of success when he's
56:15
coaching high school ball in Texas. Hence why he can have these connections and
56:20
do such a good job in the recruiting background. So BV recognizes these right
56:23
with Seth Patrol promotion, you see what Seth comes from. And like obviously
56:29
Seth too. What's cool about him is he's an Oklahoma guy, right,
56:31
he like comes back to Oklahoma, he won national championship. His dad won
56:36
two national championships at Oklahoma. Okay, So not only is there a massive
56:40
amount of pride, not only is there a massive amount of like I want
56:45
to win for the brotherhood, but there's also this understanding of when he did
56:50
leave Oklahoma what he was able to do in North Texas as a head coach,
56:52
which is even different the offensive coordinator. But when you look at him
56:55
as offensive coordinator, shoot, North Carolina goes eleven and one when he's oc
57:00
right, like impressive, he could Brent Ventabilels is connecting all those dots from
57:06
the offensive side of things together so that it has a smooth system to run.
57:10
Now you put Jackson Arnold in a system like that under a quarterback coach
57:15
who's proven to be a solid quarterback coach with Seth Platrew, and he's gonna
57:19
set this offense up correctly. Man, you got to be excited. Right.
57:22
Then you look at the defensive side, and that's where I think for
57:25
me at least, I'm a defensive guy. I freaking love defense. And
57:30
when you do look at defensive side, right with Zach Alley, Okay,
57:34
Todd Bates, which we all know is phenomenal, Okay, you have Jay
57:37
valayah Okay, I think that's how you say his last name, Miguel Chavez,
57:42
right. And then Brandon Hall Okay. Interesting enough, like with Ali
57:46
and with Bates, they both come from Clemson. Okay, they both come
57:51
from these this championship Clemson defense and Clemson was known for their defense. That's
57:55
what made him win. It's all because oft Venables, right, and he
58:00
has positioned himself with all these dudes in position, right, not to mention,
58:05
I like Brandon Hall, but the other guy is Javalaiah because you know
58:07
where he comes from. Okay, he has a background at Alabama under Saban,
58:12
like coaching quarterbacks with Nick Saban. Under you want to talk about understanding.
58:16
Somebody puts you in a situation when you're running pattern match, why not
58:20
coach under the best and you have all these dudes in place. If you
58:24
do not think Oklahoma is ready, If anybody sits out there and says Oklahoma's
58:29
not ready for this schedule, man, get the hell out of here.
58:31
Go look at these coaches. Go look at what they have and the depth
58:35
they've been sitting back there waiting. They knew this was this move was coming.
58:39
That's why they hired Brent Venables. It was a team, Yeah,
58:43
it was definitely. It was definitely And we're going to wrap this up here
58:46
in half a second here, but my big piece is that they pulled everything
58:52
out of the closet and they had to get it all out instead of moving
58:57
one piece out. And then you know, if you're going to do a
59:00
remodeled, you've got to cut the thing. And so now here we go.
59:02
It's it's moving day coming up here five weeks from now. So a
59:07
lot of good stuff is going on. So guys, we're gonna wrap it
59:08
up here. I appreciate you, Jake coming in and just a full,
59:13
full disclosure. For some reason, when when we set up the record,
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uh sixty minutes, it's gonna cut off. So so we are, we
59:22
are forty seconds away. So Jake, let him know now you're good.
59:24
You're good. I love hearing you. And we're gonna have Jake back on
59:27
to talk more ball uh PG. Let him know where they find you,
59:30
and then Jake you two. Yeah, y'all know where you can find me.
59:34
I'm a regular here. I got a toothbrush in the back room,
59:37
but you guys find me the PG show here on YouTube. A man want
59:40
to shut the tone Alabama College Football Talk, come check me out. Appreciate
59:45
you guys, guys. Appreciate you again again if you have not already hit
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that like by the subscribe and then you know what, if you've got sec
59:52
folks, you know, you know, banging on your door saying that you
59:55
know, Oklahoma's not ready, share this bad boy with them and let them
59:59
know. So guys, more content coming this week. Until then, Peace,
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peace, MHM