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OU Football Has Brent Venables EXCITED | SEC MEETINGS | (S2 E16) · Sooner or Later Sports

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We're back, baby. We got a lot to talk about SEC media days
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and all of that jazz here on the Sooner or Later Sports show. You
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got me your boy Coop here, I'm your boy Jay. Thank God for
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anyway and gifted. So it's been a bit, but we're back because we're
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in OV season. So we got a long list of topics that we gotta
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dive into and get some opinions on, like first off SEC meetings in Destin,
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Florida. Gotta see what Coop thinks about the Red River rivalry game,
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right, We've gotta dive into some comments that Venables mentioned about the offensive line.
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We'll talk to twenty twenty four players that have moved in two days,
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so y'all know you're gonna be excited about that. Then we'll wrap things up
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with a few other topics from the twenty five board and position stuff, so
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make sure you hit us up on the unfair fan line four three zero nine
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zero one one nine zero six. Let us know what y'all think of the
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show. If you want to give us some of your strongest opinions, we
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will always accept those. So you can call me, leave me a voicemail.
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We'll maybe even play you on the show. One day four three zero
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nine zero one one nine oh six. Coop happy? Uh? What is
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this Sunday man? How you feeling feeling great? Let's see here though you
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men, I'm got a little basis first and second with one out up,
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three to one, bottom of six, so they're they're cruising. But this
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is like June first equals like it's go time, like it is. It
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is all downhill from here and we'll have the season right away. But I
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missed your face. I miss your face, Jay I concur man, I
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mass sure us as well. It's been a bit, you know, a
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lot of travel, a lot of work. But the same time, to
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be honest, could have got over here and just kind of you know,
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shot the you know what together. But I figure we I rather prepare and
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actually give you all some content and stuff to truly talk about. Topics have
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been scarce because I mean, of course we just passed list season and I
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talk about the mednasium in the individual videos. But we're here now at the
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point where stuff's about to start going down, right, We are here for
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we've got OV season now coming up beginning this weekend. You're gonna see players
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have make many visits. Next weekend is when it really heats up all the
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way to the end of June. So you know, me, Coop's gonna
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keep you all informed and locked in the Sooner or Later channel. I'll have
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some some videos on offers that we've given in players. I think that makes
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sense to talk about, so we'll put some stuff up. Coop said he's
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gonna make some video content on some recruits as well to get everybody excited.
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To keep your eyes open on that. But I want to open up the
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show and talk through SEC media days, right, and so you know,
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for our faithfuls here on the channel, do anticipate seeing this probably as a
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as a clip, but you know, because this is something we've got to
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talk about. So first and foremost SEC meetings went down this past week down
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in Deston, Florida. Shout out to all of the beat writers and the
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guys out there doing their thing. George Stoyer was definitely dropping some bombs,
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some great information there, or you inside our team the believe they were putting
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some info out. Great great coming from the guys and so venables. Of
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course, had a couple of interviews we all saw first the joke of Stig
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Leon and the ad over at Texas. I always I think it's DaCosta,
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always get his first name wrong. But they both were laughing and joking about
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the rivalry. And I'm gonna ask you all some questions. I want to
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get y'all's comments, get y'all in the comments for me on this. They
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talked about how the Red riverl rivalry does not rival any other actual rivalry,
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right. They talked about the experience, They talked about how big of a
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deal it is, and man did the SCC folks push back hard. So
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much smack talk was made. Even Paul Finebone was like, may shots shots
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fired, and the cause is like, I'm not shooting any shots, just
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letting you know. It's a different type of thing. And you had a
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couple of talking heads of chimed in and I got to give a special shout
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out to Josh Paid. Everybody watches Peate the Lake kick with with him and
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he immediately said yeah, no, no, no, nothing rivals it because
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he went last season. He got to experience the environment and said, oh,
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this is what y'all are working with. My apologies, I didn't realize
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it. So Coop, they've moved the time right, We're not gonna be
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at the eleven o'clock kickoff. We'll talk about some of the other games in
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a minute, but it's gonna be moving to two thirty. I want to
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get your initial thoughts on it, because I've got a couple of nuggets to
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toss in there for everybody, But please give me your nuggets on what you
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felt about the time moved from eleven to two thirty. All we wanted to
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do was have oh U Texas not at eleven am, and all we wanted
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to do was play Nebraska at night? Is it? That was it?
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I mean yeah. I mean if you ever want to think, like,
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is the SEC are they it? They're it? I mean that the first
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thing they do is they drop a bunch of two thirty games for Oklahoma right
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now way, and then there's rumors of Death Valley, you know, the
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LSU game. They're trying to push that tonight, and so you know,
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it's where's the Big twelve? It seemed to not really just listen to Oklahoma,
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you know, and really just take care. I mean, you know,
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in a relationship, you're supposed to take care of your partner's heart,
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right, You're supposed to look out for them and do stuff. And that
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partnership wasn't happening. And you know, we can get into, you know,
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a lot of the whys and everything like that. But I'm excited for
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two thirty. I don't think that you play that game later than two thirty,
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because you play that game later two thirty and then you start dealing with
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dealing with some shenanigans late night and it's already borderline as it is, So
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you know, it's a good thing. I mean, it allows you to
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get out there. Fans are gonna be able to get a little looped up
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a little bit more. But I want to talk about because I said this
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on Hall of Fame and with Jason up Jason in the chat. I didn't
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see him yet, but I love you, Jason. So we were talking
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about that there, and like the talk about who is the greatest rival,
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I don't understand, like why there has to be a greatest rival Like it
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means different to different things. Right now, I will say that the old
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oaken buckets nowhere near the Red River rivalry or the cocktail party and the or
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the Iron Bowl. That's none of those things even compare, like you know,
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Washington, Washington state region locally, they probably do. But what makes
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Ou Texas crazy is, you know, there's I mean, the Texas State
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Fair probably can bank a lot of money just by having that. But it's
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the fair environment, it's the hatred. It's split down the middle. It
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is the the one and two in the Southwest Conference, in the Big Eight,
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it's Ou Texas. It's red River. You're split by miles, right,
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everybody's got four hours to drive, So like right there, it just
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is it's something completely different. I don't say that Texas has the same animosity
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of like an Auburn or an Alabama. It's a different type of animosity.
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But that's their own thing. So I like the two thirty the game is
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what it is. I mean, you know we were there last year and
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it was I mean it was just everything. You know, when Gabriel throws
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that pass and Anderson catches it, I mean, the whole damn place just
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erupts and it's just you go out there and players are rolling out. Those
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things are terrific. And so I mean two thirty is just going to make
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it so much better, because I promise you this, I hate waking up
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and getting Starbucks and then getting the car and driving to the fair and switching
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to beer like thirty seconds later. So yeah, yeah, I guess that
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mixture of caffeine to alcohol content is similarly going with a red Bull in vodka.
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But I mean, hey, that's whatever. Whatever floats your both,
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like you Canda, but no, you made a good point here and so
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little No, I'll give this nugget in just a minute around the game.
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But like you said, we wanted to play Nebraska at night. We just
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wanted some some nine eleven o'clock kickoff games on a regular basis. And and
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truth, he told a lot of people have pointed out for red River.
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They want they don't want to have to wake up super early to figure out
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how to get down to the fair because already that's the big thing. There's
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like one there's like two to three hundred thousand people floating around the fair at
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the exact same time as the game. And I mean if you've been there
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before. Sales signal sucks. You can't make phone calls in there and eithing,
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and it's nothing that can be done about it because it's so mean,
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it's such a concentrate of people there, and so actually it's funny. It's
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like I got better phone signal inside of the Cotton Bowl than I did when
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I was walking out inside of the affair, which is even funnier to even
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think about. But I digress. I like the time at two thirty.
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I think it's fine. It's gonna be hot regardless, right. You know,
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if you if you go at eleven by the time the game's getting past
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halftime, you're cooking. Now, you're gonna be cooking at up until about
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halftime, and it's gonna cool down. People have concerns about safety in the
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evening, but at the same time, Texas does a really good job of
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securing things around that even though you're in a quote unquote sketchy area. I
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think it'll be fine. I do like the fact that it is. I
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think the two thirty time is better. We're gonna talk about the rest of
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the schedule because there's a few more games that came out that looks like we're
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not gonna be having the eleven o'clock kickoff. Guys, be excited. Eleven
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o'clock kickoffs might be might be a thing of a past. We may see
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like two per season or based upon you know who we actually play. But
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and I want to go to hop In right on top of that, it's
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going to be a time to where we're gonna get eleven o'clock kickoff. And
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I think that already at this point, like we're like that's fine, like
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it like the mentality has been changed that fast. We haven't even played a
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game in the SEC and it's already changed that fast. It's Stink. You
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got a good point here, the same thing with your coop, like Stink
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points out here, which I love SEC. The Rare River Shootout will be
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SEC's game of the year. And then those fans can't apologize are those other
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rivalries bet bet in the stands? I don't thing, so you one hundred
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percent correct because the only one that's close to that would be Georgia and Florida
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the Cocktail Party, which is out in Jacksonville. Yeah, and that's the
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only other neutral site rivalry game that's on a regular basis, and granted,
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I'm gonna say that game I know is huge, but when like when Pet
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got there, it's funny because when Peate got there and then when some of
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the players were talking about it for the first time, like everybody tells you
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what to expect, that there's the tunnel, you've got the you know oeu
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right there on the and the end zone. When you come in, depending
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on which team you in, you hear all these cheers. If you owe,
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you walk it in and as soon as you get past half feel by
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the fifty you get all the booze rained on top of you. And then
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of course vice versus the Texas they come out is yes, boom boo boos.
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They're like, oh my god, they hate us. They get to
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fifty and they're like, wait, they love us. It's it's it's one
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of those that's mind blowing until you actually experience it. And a lot of
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players pointed that out. Pet's as the same thing. He was walking around.
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He's like, I was in shock just to hear the reins of both
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sides. And the crazy thing is if you got the capabilities, especially being
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having a media pass, you could walk out, go in the fir at
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halftime, get your corn doll, play a couple games, and then you
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go right back get to that bad boy. But we won't talk about all
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those privileges that people like him get. But I think the other thing to
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point out here, I love that this was pointed out, like stink Key
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pointed out, and thanks for the twenty dollars, my boy. You always
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should love and here that fifty to fifty stands pieces is crucial. It's what
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changes a lot of it, right, It's what makes the environment different.
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And it was one thing that was pointing out here that I needed to jump
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on really quick. And Kyle, Kyle, Hey, I was in the
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same boat as you, Hony Kuno, my boy Sean said the same thing
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on social Media's EA responded and said, that's fixed in the actual game,
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right, You're gonna get the actual Cotton Bowl logo on there, You're gonna
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get the field set up properly. All that's been fixed. The trailer was
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what was bad, and I'm glad we all called them and put their feet
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to the fire. Looks like they did pay attention to that detail. Plus
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they're gonna have fifty fifty split that supposedly it's gonna actually look like a fifty
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fifty split. So thank goodness, thank y'all for going in there talking noise,
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getting on EA Sports to do their jobs right. But here's another for
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you all, Oklahoma. Since two thousand, Oklahoma and Texas have played,
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I think it's seven total games outside the eleven o'clock windows, six of them
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at the two thirty times, right, And in that time Oklahoma's five and
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one. The only loss was six to Texas. I think it was twenty
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eight to ten. Texas won that game, but a lot of other blowouts
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and the shutouts all happened at two thirty for Oklahoma. So five and one
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against Texas at the two thirty slot. Do with that as you will.
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But also, yes, the white version of Jackson Arnold supposed to be in
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the game. They may have him a nicely tanned version because it is two
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thirty in Texas. I totally get one they want to make him a lot
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darker than what he really is. But yeah, they you know, after
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they kind of rushed that that that trailer to get it out there, and
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of course we got to watch ourselves get abused. But I'm not mad.
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My feelings ain't hurt. I ain't upset, you know why, because Venables
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talked about that. So let's move on to the next thing. Coop BEV
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had a conversation a lot of conversations while he was down there at the SEC
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meetings. He talked about the offensive line, and he talked about because that's
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the thing that everybody's pushing back on. I actually saw a post not too
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long ago that, let me see, I'm gonna find it real quick as
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SEC unfiltered. It was an anonymous coach that was talking about oh you and
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talking about them coming to the SEC right, and the quote basically was that,
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oh use a big program, oh you, you know, a big
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time program, you know, but you know, if there's still a lot
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of questions around their offensive line that everybody's having, they're gonna have a tough
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time coming into the SEC. Now. This is an anonymous SEC coach that
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said this. They diny't want to put their name on it, of course,
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which I kind of appreciate that they just kind of, you know,
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give us some really unfiltered stuff to talk about. So Coop offensive line wise,
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BV talked about them and said he's actually a lot more excited about the
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offensive line than people recognize. He thinks that we've got the dudes up there
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that are gonna be ready for it. And I'm gonna be honest, I
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one hundred percent agree. I'm gonna pull up this deal for you to talk
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through the coop tell me offensive line. As we're going into this summertime workout,
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how are you feeling about it? What was your thoughts around that?
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Yeah, I don't think that the offensive line is gonna win that Jill Moore
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this year. But this is not going to be It's not gonna be a
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sieth. It's not going to be, you know, just a bunch of
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folks running through. And the good thing, you know, it is like,
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if you know that it's going to be a challenge at this point in
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the year, you can be preparing and you know, working to get those
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guys better, but then also working on workarounds. It would be different if
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you if we were sitting here going the offensive line is going to be fine,
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let's just move on, and then nobody was worried about it at all,
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and then it shows up and you're like, oh god, it's it's
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an issue. So I don't have any I don't have any concern about the
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offensive line. Is it going to be dominant? Now, it's not going
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to be dominant, but does it have pieces that gives it the opportunity to
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be a quality offensive line? It absolutely does, And I think that I
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think that when you bring in Hickman, Hickman's going to be He's going to
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be an upgrader role. We saw, you know this year and I and
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I mean as much as I love Everett and as much as I want Bates
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to succeed, like you're you're rolling into the SEC this year and this has
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to absolutely happen. I think that the offensive line they just need to be
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good, like just good, that's what they need to be. And you've
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got the pieces around with Sexton, like you know, we we've said,
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Ubchi we Wu has just absolutely been just destroying folks and he looks great.
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And so you you roll in a couple of other a couple of these other
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guys, and not to mention, you know, e p. L is
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now going to be on campus and so he gets to hop in there.
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You know, Spencer Brown has not shown us a lot yet, but he
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still has experience. And so that I think the concern for sooner fans is
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the the starting offensive line is going to be good. What we cannot absorb
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at this point is multiple injuries. I think we can we can work through,
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hopefully not the center, but I think that we can work through one.
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With Everett coming back you know, mid season or I guess he's going
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to be fully ready to go mid season. That gives you some depth right
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there. Yeah, it gives you some depth right there. But we don't
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We're not completely just wanting across the offensive line. Would we like to have
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a bookend right tackle or left tackle, Yes, but guess what every other
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team in the country would like the same thing to just be able to say,
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like, hey, listen, our two tackles are really nice. So
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I'm not worried about the offensive line. They need to be good with a
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quality defense, a quarterback who can throw on the run and move around,
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and the offensive weapons that you have. Jackson Arnold goes out there. All
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he has to do is recognize what to do and make the quick decisions.
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And so that's the things that you want to see from Arnold and that's going
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to help the offensive line. Now. Also, I think you see Latrell
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spread the ball around a lot and you make it hard for defensive line to
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really key in on one area or the other. And that's what you want,
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right. I think that the adjustments to be there Bill beat and Bow
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of course is you know historic. He's doing fantastic job and everybody's pointing us
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out in the chat. So we appreciate y'all doing that. And Kyle,
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you're right. I think this is the one thing that Pet's doing. Pet's
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optimistic about the offensive line, especially I miss I'll come in the first year,
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but of course not trying to put too many hot takes out there.
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And this is the reason why. So look at this, how is grad
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returning SEC interior offensive lineman. Look who's number two on this list? Guy
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that we picked up out of the portal, Branson Hickman. Now he played
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at SMU last year, but he's a three year starter. He has a
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track record to play. His grades are seventy nine point seven. I looked
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up for Beachi way Wu he's a seventy. So he's not too far off
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from a Tyler Booker or whatnot, roughly two points off and so offensive line
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wise will be a lot better. Right, grading wise, it ain't easy
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on the interior offensive line to get them high grades until you know you work
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with the right person. And I think beating Bow is gonna have them that.
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So, like you said, Coop to me, Fabechi way Wu is
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probably gonna be the most impactful one out there. He's gonna be able to
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play guard. I think he can play tackle a little bit, but he's
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gonna be at that. I think he'll be that right guard. I already
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giving y'all my depth. I think it's gonna be sex and on the left
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left tackle, left guard, it's gonna be Oseeta with Hickman in the middle,
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will have Waiwu as right guard, and I think right tackles most likely
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going to be Jake Taylor, and then you'll have Tarkan as well as Spencer
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Brown rotating around and Tarkan I'm hearing he looks a lot better coming in.
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So for me, as long as the offensive lines vine, as long as
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the offensive line does, they think, guess what, this entire season outlook
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completely changes. And I think we'll see that against Temple, which is the
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first game of the season, and I forgot to make mention of that.
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So let's go ahead and talk about that real quick. As we you know,
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y'all see this grade, so y'all should be excited about said grade.
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That the games for next season. Of course, we know Temples this Friday
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night game, which I'm pretty excited about that six pm Central, we'll be
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able to you know, get a preview into the SEC and be the primetime
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game. Can't beat that. Well. On top of that, the Houston
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game, I believe, is the one. It's gonna be at night,
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six forty five on a Saturday night, so we gotta worry about playing them
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at eleven o'clock. And the same thing with Tulane that's like a two thirty
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game, so we don't have many eleven o'clock games to go. I'm thinking
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Tuesday the eleventh is when we will see the rest of the SEC schedule,
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and I think that we won't have very many games in the SEC Conference B
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at eleven. The best part, too, is later in the season they're
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gonna have flex. They're gonna make it more of a flex schedule to where
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you can flex teams into the primetime spots either two thirty or at night.
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And based upon the way this season potentially can go, I'm sensing from Missouri
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on there's a good chance we could be placed in some of those primetime slots.
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So yeah, I'm happy about that. But as long as Jackson Arnold
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is that dude in which Preventables has said he said at the SEC meetings,
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he said it in one of the videos I saw on the interviews. He's
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like he has no concerns about him whatsoever being prepared for the SEC. And
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I say that because and I have a video coming out. I believe it'll
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be Tuesday when I finish editing and getting all the graphics together. But the
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just a preview for you all. The EA ESPNS. Bill Conley dropped his
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SP plus ratings, and guess where we're rated at in returning production on the
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defensive side of the ball, Now, Coop, we started at eight bro
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like we eighty eighty eighty four, seventy nine percent of our defense production was
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coming back. We're like eighty. I think it was like we was eighth
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in the country, number one SEC. We moved up to third with eighty
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six percent of our production coming back. That's what Jackson Arnold is seeing in
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practice. I think he's probably seen the best defense is gonna see this entire
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season, right goes back to the Sam Bradford conversations between with Wilson and Venables,
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how they used to duke it out mentally in practice all the time,
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braffor couldn't move the ball. I think we're gonna be fine, guys.
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It's and and I want to say something also with the flexes, you know,
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we are now gonna be operating between ESPN and ABC going forward, so
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it's not you know, a fight between ABC and Fox and then them trying
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to do like they you can plan out because I mean, just from someone
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who was selling those TV commercials for the past several years, like you know,
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these are ten fifteen twenty five thousand dollars thirty second commercial spots here in
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Tulsa. That's Tulsa, Oklahoma City, bigger, Dallas bigger, you know
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other markets bigger. So with those pieces, I mean, it's going to
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be so much easier because they're gonna be able to plan out a little bit
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more. They're gonna be able to do something more than the six day flex.
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And so I think that's gonna be a great deal because I mean,
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ESPN, ABC, that whole network they need, they need the sec to
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make them money for them that because I mean, if you've seen, you
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know, after over the past couple of years, you know, every single
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analyst is getting getting canned because they just can't pay for everybody. And so
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the more and more and more that Texas and Oklahoma and the SEC get in
24:15
front of people in the prime time and the best games. And this is
24:18
this is terrific too, because you know I bring this up all the time.
24:22
Is you know, with the first playoff ever ever, I mean,
24:26
how many more teams are going to have be more? I love Jackson Johnson,
24:30
love that, but like how many more teams get to stay engaged for
24:36
longer because of the playoffs. So that is going to also be to where
24:40
they are gonna want the big games, the games that mean something. And
24:44
when the games need to mean something, you know, it's hard to say,
24:48
oh, well, Oklahoma's playing k State this week, because nobody outside
24:52
of the Midwest gives two craps about that. So what about mister Woollard.
24:57
It's a fair point. That is a fair point. And and so I
25:02
know, going to Tennessee, I expect Tennessee to be a prime time slot
25:06
because I mean that week when I looked at the schedule, I didn't really
25:08
see anything that just it's probably is when I probably need to go back and
25:12
re review it. But it feels like that one's gonna be a bigger one,
25:15
mainly because of the Hypel return, the high flying Tennessee offense, and
25:18
what he's been doing over the last few years from UCF over to Tennessee had
25:23
getting double digit wins there and winning an Orange Bowl, something they haven't done
25:26
in a while. It's gonna be a very Yeah. I think that one's
25:33
gonna probably be one. It's gonna be huge. So hey, I ask
25:37
you a question on that game, and I want to hear your opinion.
25:40
What do you think Oklahoma does for josh Ipel on that game? Something or
25:44
nothing? Oh, they do something? And I say that because we're talking
25:49
Brent Vinables going up against josh Iipel again. Right, we're talking Brent Vinnables,
25:55
who was the defensive coordinator a and Hype trying to throw the ball against
26:00
him on a regular basis. Right, that's what we're getting. And I
26:04
think that he'd be prepared for that offense. I mean it's I mean,
26:07
it's a smortgash board of the of the air ray mixed with you know Lane
26:14
Kiffin's offense and a mixture of who's at Frosts Frosty's offense. We've seen that
26:22
with Lebby a little bit. So Levy's offense was really close to what Hypel's
26:26
was, with a mixture of lane with sprinkles of lane in there. I
26:30
think we'll be just fine. It's gonna be a fun game. Hopefully he
26:33
runs lots of jet sweeps, tons of them, tons of tons, and
26:37
remember the Trail's offense is similar as well. Hypel probably will, but I
26:41
would be excited. That's gonna be a fun game. I'll be definitely rooting
26:45
for my sooners to kill him. You know, y'all know that. You
26:48
know my SEC team originally was Tennessee, and so they'll they unfortunately get the
26:52
wrath of my current squad, which is my senior steel. So all right,
26:56
Coop, thank god for pulling up up, hit the light. But
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if you need to chance subscribe, if you're listening rate review and all of
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that jazz, let's talk about twenty twenty four. Y'all know what's happening,
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right. I know a few people should know that our twenty twenty four players
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are now pulling up let's add you to the conversation. Let trade you Out's
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not gonna zoom you. It ain't, so we'll do that. There we
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go, all right, moving day, Oh you their their their expert account
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dropped a video of players moving in and you saw these guys pulling up,
27:45
and so we got to talk about the players coming in and the excitement we
27:49
should have first and foremost. You have the number one running back in the
27:52
country from the twenty twenty four class in Taylor Tatum pulling up. You know,
27:56
five ten is two hundred pounds baseball player as well. I believe he's
28:02
kicking it at the baseball game too, So it's gonna be a fun time
28:04
to see that. You've got Eddie Pierre Lewis Louis one of the two,
28:10
but he was the number one interior offensive lineman on rivals, So I mean,
28:15
that's kind of huge if one recruiting site had him right that high in
28:18
comparison to the rest in discrepancy, So somebody's right will find out. You
28:23
got Jeremiah Nucomb coming out of Arizona five to eleven corner. He's the guy
28:29
that's gonna be chasing the slot dudes and the best part. I'd say he's
28:32
probably your He's gonna be your Josiah Wagner replacement. Right. Wagner was one.
28:37
I was kind of sad seeing him go because he was talented, but
28:38
he just couldn't stay healthy. I think Nukeomb comes in at nukelemb has a
28:42
bigger frame in comparison, so I think he stays healthy. You're good,
28:48
right, And then you got your speechters and Zion Raging as well as kJ
28:52
Daniels wide receivers more slot dudes fast. Both of them runs UB four four
28:56
forties. I've sinked dudes. So with Raging being five to seven dude,
29:03
he's just quick, quick guy. kJ Daniels as well out of Louisiana,
29:07
so we got one out of George went out of Louisiana, which is crazy.
29:10
And then you got your local kids in the secondary with Michael Pattison McDonald
29:14
close friends of David Stone, nice safety who likes to hit roughly just under
29:18
five to ten. And then you've got Devon Jordan, another coroner who's gonna
29:22
be chasing a lot of the slot dudes five ten, one seventy, but
29:26
he's also very scrappy and he's a tract dude. So he's fast, right,
29:30
He's like Jade, He's a smaller version of jayde and Rowe. So
29:34
we got them coming in. Cool. Talk to me, how are you
29:37
feeling about these players come in? And who should everybody really keep their eyes
29:40
on? Speed and depth? Baby, speed and depth. I mean when
29:45
you look at this list, I mean the top two are the guys that
29:48
you really, you know, need to come in and you know, start
29:52
getting some working and become something. I don't think we need Taylor Tatum this
29:57
year, in my opinion, I think that if he's good enough to get
30:00
out there and be somebody, then it is welcome added depth. E p.
30:06
L. I've already made the comment on him, you know him with
30:10
just the athicism that he is. I want to see. I want to
30:11
see some creativity, and my dog's dying underneath the underneath the table. I
30:15
apologize that, but but like you know, I'm still super super excited to
30:22
potentially see EPL run out there as like a third tight end and catch a
30:26
pass on the goal line. Like I just I just think that he is
30:29
that dude or jet sweep with EPL. Right, I don't think anybody would
30:33
hate to see that maybe be at my thirty or forty at that point.
30:34
But I like the guys that I really really enjoy on this list are newcom
30:40
and Devon Jordan because I think that they are both really really good ball skill
30:45
guys. They're scrappers. They're guys that remind me of Zach Sanchez a lot
30:49
or Partnell Motley. Both of those guys were just dudes who would just scrap
30:55
with you and they would get in there and they would make it hell on
30:56
you. And it reminds me of you know, Lou dor on defense.
31:00
You just keep putting your hands on people and keep doing stuff, and you're
31:03
starting to see that attitude out of guys, like with Reggie Powers. You
31:07
know, we saw him come in and do some do some crazy and then
31:15
this defensive back room. I continue to say, you can't just be a
31:18
person with a face and show up and have a place on this team,
31:21
like you actually have to be a baller. So those are guys that I'm
31:23
excited to see. I'm with you on that. I think the one that
31:26
jumped out to me the most on this one, I mean outside of EPL,
31:30
I think just the big, you know, big offensive lineman like him
31:33
and his ability to move. I mean, we watched him run track right,
31:37
and everybody's seen him watch the I played a video so many times just
31:41
because it's just amazing to watch him just be scoping at six three three,
31:45
one hundred and thirty five pounds. But honestly, I think Zion Raging is
31:48
one has really got me intrigued. Like you said, Tatum, we don't
31:52
meet him this season, we're probably gonna want to, you know, keep
31:56
him in good condition as well as prepping for baseball that way, when he's
32:00
ready next season. I think next season you'll probably see a big jump from
32:04
him. X Rob should be probably the if there's a freshman that's gonna run,
32:08
I think x Rob is the one that's gonna be the one that's gonna
32:12
get some carries right right behind Hicks. But but Raging over here on the
32:16
slot, Hey, man, if he catches the ball and he's gone,
32:21
yeah, yeah, yeah, he has the capabilities of blowing the top off
32:25
of defenses and just yeah him. I could see him being in many burks
32:31
or even somebody faster right, Like I can't even see him in like the
32:35
Brennan Thompson area, the question always is as health. As long as he
32:38
stays healthy, we're good. That was the big thing with Brennan is ken
32:40
Brennan stay healthy and you know, we get him healthy and he can just
32:45
outrun everybody. Yeah, I think Raging's gonna be the one that makes me
32:50
say, gets your boy in every way, shape or form excited. So
33:00
y'all let me know in the comments who's getting y'all's attention. Let me let
33:04
me scroll through here and see who we got up in here? What up?
33:08
Mars? What up? Hank? Hank's always here and he's pulling us
33:14
Tatum and picked ou. Yes he did, which is always exciting. And
33:15
he's here. That's the best part is that he's here. Midlands sooner has
33:22
got a question for thanks for the fortninety nine peer character lying on the side
33:27
raises arm y, he saying how's going? But Seth gave us two bucks
33:30
and had a question. You can only win by thirty five plus versus one
33:34
team? Who is it gonna be Texas, LSU or Bama? Damn,
33:39
that's a really good question. You can only win by thirty five against one
33:45
of these two, one of them three? It's always Texas. No it's
33:50
always no, no, no, no, no, no no, because
33:52
because anybody who's played with LSU fans before knows that a thirty five spot on
33:59
them would be terrific. I mean just just thumping LSU by thirty five.
34:06
Those fans are psychos, and I just feel like you walk in because I
34:10
feel like we beat Texas by a touchdown. I'm happy. I think we
34:15
beat Abama by a touchdown. I'm happy if we go out there and stomp
34:19
LSU at their crib at night time our first go round, that that will
34:23
get some folks attention. If we beat Texas by thirty five, everyone will
34:28
look at us and go They always do that. No, I mean,
34:32
so, I guess that's why I disagree. So like I've been I went
34:37
to l s U Tennessee through two years ago when when ls when Tennessee had
34:43
Hinton Hookers last season, there and one. LSU fans were fantastic, right,
34:47
They're very nice. I actually went and saw when I went to we
34:52
went to ou LSU at the Peach Bowl, Yeah, the Chick fil A
34:58
Peach Bowl, and we got you know, throttle by Joe Burrow on that
35:00
one. They were great. They're lunatics. And they can drink. They
35:04
will drink your city dry. But they were cool, right, They're cool
35:08
smack talker. So I don't have a problem with LSU. I always want
35:13
to destroy Texas, like anytime that I can hold it over the head of
35:16
all of my friends that are Texas fans and say we blew them out,
35:20
because I mean, they they're they're gonna hold the one on us, you
35:23
know, for as long as they can, because that's it's been a while.
35:25
But it's gotta beat Texas. Now. If I was to have to,
35:29
if I couldn't pick Texas, if it had to be a Tennessee,
35:31
LSU Bama, you got me there, I think I'd rather blow out LSU.
35:38
If it's LSU, Alabama and Tennessee and which is the real ut,
35:45
I think I will go that direction. I have to go LSU. What
35:47
are you about? What about this Missouri and Texas swaps out? I mean
35:53
everybody wants, well, I'm gonna say this, and this is gonna be
35:57
very controversial. I still pick LSU because Missouri doesn't matter to me, Like
36:00
I've seen them for years, Like I still I get that everybody, like
36:05
everybody has beef with them and everybody's been fighting with them. Man, I
36:09
they're They're irrelevant to me still, Like I don't I don't feel like it's
36:15
even a rivalry, right, But I know a lot of people is gonna
36:17
be in the comments say that they would love to just throttle Missouri. They
36:21
would throw off Missouri. That's who they will want to personally. I would
36:25
like to say that, but I just don't. Nothing about them appeal appeals
36:30
to me. Yeah, is that is that wrong? To say? No?
36:36
No? Because again, it's it's Missouri. And by the way,
36:39
I got into a scrap. I don't know if you saw I got into
36:42
a scrap or I commented on somebody and and some guy took a shot at
36:45
me for having eighty six followers on my Twitter account because uh, you know
36:50
whatever. So anyway, long story short, that guy like DM to me
36:53
and more craziness, and it's just it's just yeah, wait, why he
36:58
jumped in your DMS too? He did? He dammed me and was like
37:00
you because I said, hey, I work in sports too, and and
37:04
he was like whatever, you got eighty six people? You have a studio.
37:06
And I was like, oh, that's right, you got to have
37:07
a studio. If you work in sports. I forgot about that. I
37:10
said so to say and so. But anyway, you know, it's it's
37:15
more the fans. I want to there. Oh there's okie, he's very
37:21
fans think that people, and yeah, they think that they're people. I
37:24
agree with you. I just want to see I mean, I just want
37:30
to see a nice little double digit win. And I just want to see
37:32
somebody put Kate and Green on his backside and then just know where his pops
37:38
is and just look in the stadium and that that would be That would be
37:42
good for me. I get it. Everybody wants that, so my me
37:50
and Sean thanks for pulling up. Uh yeah, Bishop, thanks for that.
37:54
It is s SEC time. You are right. We are prepped for
37:58
that. But if it's anything, I I yeah. As much as I
38:01
would like to say that I am hardcore on the on the Missouri training,
38:12
No, I'd rather blow out LSU or Bama someone that's gonna be a meaningful
38:15
game. I'm ready to see some other teams fall from grace though, get
38:17
back to their standard stuff, right, I'm ready to see them go back
38:22
to their standardness. But uh, let's let's let's talk about this Coop.
38:25
One last thing. PFF dropped this, I dropped the video on it,
38:30
and this is one that of course shot the life out of your boy.
38:35
Still shot. Still still shots me. And I'm gonna put this up here
38:38
on the screen for y'all to enjoy, because I don't think y'all believe me
38:43
when I say this shocked me. But we got two tight ends that are
38:49
among the highest receiving grades returning into the SEC bower shot Jake Roberts, y'all
38:55
saw. I'll put that video out this morning. Lot of comments, a
39:00
lot of views. Thank y'all for pulling up on that, Coop. I
39:01
had to get your thoughts on this. We actually have like two tight ends
39:09
that look like they can actually catch the ball. How do you feel about
39:13
that? I mean, I can't look at this list without seeing that damn
39:17
first name. I'm just wondering if we you know, and well you know,
39:22
I'm gonna say this. It's not for lack of trying. We try
39:27
really hard. It just you know it'd be what it be. And honestly,
39:30
to even add to that, I really feel like it was the last
39:34
offense that's scared some of these dudes away. Gotta have it. Now we've
39:37
got two dudes on this list, two not one, but two if they
39:40
showed them numbers. But anyway, cool, how are you feeling about this?
39:45
It's getting you in the fields? I mean we knew this. I
39:47
mean, you don't see all those highlights of our sharp going crazy and then
39:52
just go, well, there's uh, there's nothing, you know, nothing
39:57
to see here, Like you saw him and you immediately were just super excited.
40:00
When you watch the tight ends in the NFL, when you see Mark
40:04
Andrews and Travis Kelcey and you know George Kittle, guys like that. Those
40:08
guys are just absolute just studs, and they change your offense and they can
40:13
and you know, you saw it with Brock Bowers down in Georgia, Like
40:15
you can run your offense around that type of you know, that type of
40:20
person, and that just adds another tool for uh, for Jackson Arnold in
40:24
the middle. But yeah, Bower Sharp, we see that, and we
40:28
always forget and I just we we forget about Jake Roberts. Jake Roberts actually
40:31
is a good tight end. And yes, Jake Roberts uh is a great
40:36
blocker. Bower Sharp, I promise you that's what he is working on,
40:39
and he needs to be an effective blocker. You know, we saw even
40:44
Stagner last year. He was up and down quite often when it came time
40:47
to his blocking. He had a lot of moments where he put dudes on
40:52
their backsides and really showed up and he got betters the season went on.
40:54
So this is great. Yeah, this is the returning receiving raids for wide
41:00
receiver. We know what our wide receivers are. You add a tight end,
41:05
especially you know Bauer sharp looks like a receiver out there. So this
41:09
is Uh, this is just another reason why I think it's silly that you
41:14
look at one position on the team and you haven't done a lot of in
41:19
depth you know research. You just gotta look the rest of the team and
41:22
go like, where where's a weakness outside of that offensive line? Right?
41:27
And it's and it's more so if we say weakness, we say question marks,
41:30
right, because we've got highly graded guys on there. We just don't
41:32
know what they look like as a unit now, right, and and health
41:37
wise with losing Everett, it's kind of a big deal. It's gonna give
41:39
Joshua Bates an opportunity to you know, figure things out closely with Hickman,
41:45
with Hickson. But like you said, Jake Roberts is one I think when
41:47
he when I saw it on list, I was like, okay, that
41:51
makes sense, right. He was solid at Baylor. But also remember he
41:53
was recruited by staff Latreil down in North Texas. He played in North Texas
41:58
you know, for two for three years, and then transferred to Baylor when
42:04
when Latrell you know, got fired, and now he's here. And also
42:07
he's the older brother Nate Roberts, the one that's headed to Ohio State as
42:10
of right now. He's committed to Ohio State and that we would like to
42:13
get our hands on. But Jake at his side, six four two fifty,
42:15
you still got you got him. Kateen Helmes was mentioned in the comments,
42:19
which I appreciate y'all pointing him out. He is one that's going to
42:22
be He's looking healthy, just put it that way, right, And Venables
42:25
even mentioned that the knee issue he was dealing with is not the problem right
42:30
now. It's you know, I think he had like a hamstring thing,
42:32
but he's more so just getting himself into the right shape to play. I
42:36
think Kate and Hills is gonna potentially have a chance to have a really big
42:38
season. So you got him, still got McIntyre right, and even from
42:45
even the mac entire piece, you got Von Mitchell right. Yeah, he's
42:51
a freshman, right, even though he's technically supposed to be a junior in
42:53
high school going into a senior year. He's he's there, so he's getting
42:58
his body. He's big, he's the sixth fol six five two fifty two,
43:00
and he's legitimate. So yeah, it's going to be fun seeing that
43:07
we actually have a very very very solid looking, uh tight end room.
43:17
All right, hop in the comments, heah, any other questions. Let
43:22
us know. I think we should jump into twenty fives. What you think,
43:28
Coop, Hey, let's do it because there's a lot there's twenty five
43:34
at the end of twenty five is going to be a ride. I believe
43:37
we're gonna have with this one. Yep, shout out to PG. I
43:42
know he's in the comments, and he's also at the baseball game. I'm
43:45
correct. So, but mad Dog has a question, which I think is
43:47
good. Do you think Devon Mitchell gets any playing time? I do.
43:52
I think he sees his sees I think he rotates in. Don't see him
43:58
starting as a freshman. No, do I see him at some point leading
44:01
it to the starter sorry position. I can see it if he shows you
44:05
can block. They totally see him late season getting that type of burn.
44:09
But he would have to jump over both Jake as well as Bower, as
44:14
well as Caden, Hilmes and MacIntyre. He's got some work to do,
44:17
but I think he will see some play now. Scores are up. Coop
44:22
popped in the score for US four to three after two run homer by Duke,
44:25
So it looks like we are still fighting in that game. It's top
44:31
of the eighth. Thank you Kyle for that. So sooner baseball is doing
44:35
this. Sooner a softball The softball ladies were cooking, and I anticipate them
44:42
making it back to the World Series. So I'm not concerned about them.
44:44
But anyway, shout out to PG. Know he's like to say he's in
44:47
the comments. I think he's at the baseball game. Man has been working
44:52
on the OV list, right, and so this is three players some players.
44:58
I know that we're supposed to be pulling up next weekend, which is
45:00
when things start, and then the champion Barbecue weekend, which is the twenty
45:04
first to twenty third, it's gonna be huge, as well as the fourteenth
45:07
through sixteenth the Party at the Palace and then Champion Barbecue. Those two are
45:09
the biggest weekends for us. And cool man on the board, who who
45:15
on that board really got you got your eyes laser focused on it. We
45:21
got to get our hand we out a land. I mean, you got
45:23
to go to the offensive line. You've got the big guys in the out
45:28
of the DFW area with Fassousi, Lamont Rodgers and Ty Haywood. At this
45:34
point, you know, I'm gonna give Beg a little shout out. He's
45:37
he's he's kept pretty good tabs on Fasousi for the past year or so,
45:43
and so PG if you want to hump in here and give us your your
45:46
thought the comment. But you know, right now, I see some momentum
45:51
with Ty Haywood and you know, pushing at him. And I think Darius
45:55
Alfa Lava is the the other offensive lineman that's that we're making a push for.
46:00
And I think he's gonna be a guy like Foja who just continues to
46:04
go up the ratings. But it's this is a this is a recruiting class
46:07
we talked to last year and we said, hey, listen in the region,
46:12
the offensive it's it's not it's not looking great. But at the same
46:15
time, like I think we got opportunity uh in twenty five and so now
46:21
you look into this and the guys that we are fighting for right now,
46:27
we're fighting with a SEC. So it is going to be a situation where
46:30
I think that this season's play has a lot to do with how some of
46:35
these guys shake their recruitment out. I don't you know, I don't see
46:38
one of these guys sticking with in Oklahoma or A Texas or an Alabama or
46:43
A and m if they just absolutely struggled this year and really and really don't
46:49
look like they fit. And so that's that's that's a that's a that's a
46:53
tough go. But I also say that, like I think the Afalava guy
46:57
is I think that's a that's that's one that we are going to end up
47:00
with and you mixed him with FOJ and he can end up being a five
47:04
star. So all that to say is those guys look great, and then
47:09
how does ou round out? How does EJ? Round out the the the
47:14
wide receiver room. You know there is there a name still on the board
47:17
outside of maybe Andrew marsh that is somebody that you're going to take take a
47:22
crack at. And so yeah, I mean the offensive line is is just
47:28
it for me because I feel like anybody else still on the board, you
47:32
know, whether it's a safety, defensive back, like, those are ones
47:36
that if we miss, I don't think it hurts as much. But I
47:37
mean, I think we need one more of those solid dudes on the offensive
47:40
line, and I think we need two or three more total just in the
47:45
class. I think we're gonna push and get at least one more interior guy,
47:51
and I think we get two. We get two, if not three,
47:55
offensive tackles, right, I think one on the interior and the rest
48:00
of the outside. And I mean I think we pushed head very hard on
48:04
Fasusi as well as Heywood. I think those are the two that have kept
48:07
my eye going. I think Darius Afalava is one that I think we have
48:12
a good chance, good shot. He actually even took the screenshot on my
48:15
video and posted on the social So I'm just like, all right, Aarris.
48:19
That means that you're coming Oklhoma, Right, go ahead and say you
48:21
come to Oklahoma. Go ahead. I'm working. I'm working on getting them
48:24
on too. So yeah, trying to get him on. But Lamont Rodgers
48:29
is another one, right. I know Pg's even talked about him a little
48:31
bit that he's wanted to really keep your eyes on from me, I'm kind
48:35
of curious to what the tight end and linebacker rooms look like going forward.
48:38
Right. The trenches, of course, are always critical, so those are
48:40
always the most important ones. And I think that we've got a lot of
48:44
we got a lot of irons in the fire around the lights of a like
48:49
the Max Granville's on the Edge Isaiah Gibson, which were supposedly actually pretty heavy
48:53
in on smith a Rogbo down there in Texas. But lineback where I'm curious
49:00
to what we end up getting our hands on. Right. I know that
49:02
Kamar Archie was supposed to come to the kid from New Jersey, from Hunt.
49:07
He'd going to school with Cole Breeler, the defensive lineman that we're going
49:10
after. Kamar is not coming now. I think his visit has been canceled.
49:14
He's not pulling up, So there's a there's a few linebackers that I'm
49:19
curious to see who we're gonna get our hands on to go with a Marcus
49:22
James, Like, I mean, to be honest, could we get us
49:27
another linebackers? Sure do we have to? Probably not, I mean,
49:30
honestly, Kate mcintar as a linebacker too. Right if they decide that,
49:32
look, you may not crack the line the tight end spot, we could
49:37
throw you at linebacker because that's what he came here as an athlete, either
49:38
linebacker tight end. And I heard he can hit, So if he can
49:43
hit, I wouldn't mind opting to have him run some linebacker with everybody else
49:47
but stilling some young ones. Marcus James is probably gonna be your main guy.
49:51
I'm curious to who the next one is. And then tight end wise,
49:55
I'm a I mean, I know, I know that everybody is very
49:59
low on and our guy J JF And I pointed this out to you,
50:02
right, pointed out you got two guys that are the highest graded receiving tight
50:07
ends in the SEC. Right now we got portal wise, maybe he needs
50:12
to live in the portal and I have absolutely no problem with that. You
50:15
get guys that produce out of the portal Juco portal guys we have, We've
50:19
had those in the past. We've done that for years. If we can
50:21
keep doing that, I don't even worry about the these young players. I
50:24
ain't gonna concern about that. Keep just get guys that can ball. If
50:28
you find ones that it's proven they can play, I'm in for it.
50:30
So that's kind of my sue behind it. And I think that there's a
50:36
lot of names that can because mister Stokes here said, what do you think
50:38
about the Koda Tarrell and he is is a Pacola. I think he's down
50:44
there. He's an Oklahoma guy. I mean there's a couple of project tight
50:49
ends that that OU also is kind of take a look at or you know,
50:52
some more in state guys and those so we tight end. I think
50:58
we're gonna end up in a really really cool opportunity, a cool, cool
51:00
position for so we you know, it's there's some names that are gonna start
51:06
popping up. And but again I really think that it's it's let's let's see
51:12
what the season looks like. For a lot of people. It's almost two
51:15
years ago with Brent Mannible's going into season one. Is you know, everybody
51:20
knew who he was as a defensive coordinator and who he is as a man,
51:23
but who is he as a head coach? And then now same thing,
51:28
it's who is he is? We see kind of what he is.
51:30
He's got this program going, he's building. Now what is he going to
51:34
do against the stiff competition in the SEC? So that's what's the point.
51:40
That's a good point. Yeah, we will see. That's a good point.
51:43
I like that. All right, Uh well, let's rapid fire some
51:45
of these questions that have come down the line, Coop, and then we'll
51:47
will everybody have themselves a Mary uh a Mary Sunday June second, So,
51:52
hank as how many carries will X get? If I was to be a
51:57
betting man, I'd say he gets between fifteen one hundred this season? Yeah,
52:06
I think so. I think that's it. I think they actually use
52:07
him. I think he actually gets used. So if you're fifteen one hundred,
52:10
cool what you think? Yeah? I agree, that's that's I'm dead
52:15
on with you right there. You're gonna see him in mop up duty.
52:17
You may see him, you know in a lower game, you know,
52:23
come in and just be a different change of pace. With a little bit
52:27
of a thumper coming in, So you know, we I think fifty two
52:30
hundred is good. I think, yeah, I think we actually see a
52:32
lot more than we anticipate. Now. I mean, I could be completely
52:35
wrong. He'd probably get like twenty, but heck, I wouldn't be I
52:37
wouldn't be surprised, all right. Modern day Caban asked a question, can
52:40
owe you secondary shut Dan Luthor Burton? I have zero concerns about our secondary
52:46
against Luthor Burton, and I think Luther Burton is a monster out there.
52:51
I think Brent Vinnables, Brandon Hall, and Java l I have something prepared.
52:54
I mean, we saw what we did against the Texas wide receiver room
52:59
and they had two dudes get drafted in the first round. Yeah. Yeah,
53:05
I think gentry can can manage, right, I think that secondary can
53:09
manage. I think we'll be fine against them. Uh, Sean popped in,
53:13
was good, Gee, you asked about uh the e A Sports.
53:16
Yeah, we were talking about that earlier, which is funny. Yeah,
53:19
we we we saw that they took you know, they took shots at us,
53:22
and it feels like EA Sports has also got questions about our offensive line,
53:25
which I think is, of course a level of disrespect that I won't
53:28
accept. But the good thing is is that once August comes, they'll send
53:30
an update to everybody's console and double probably whatever our offensive line rating is.
53:35
So I'm really gucci on that one. Jonah, Jonah is uh. He
53:43
said in himself he's taking his visit in season, and I think he mentioned
53:49
that at the beginning of the year because he had been in Oklahoma so much
53:54
as well as Texas. If I'm correct, I think that he wasn't taking
53:57
Oklahoma Texas here in June, maybe not even in July, which could happen
54:00
in July, could stay happen in July. But he's supposed to be taking
54:05
his visit in season because he's been here so much. Now he's gonna go
54:07
see what everybody else has got to talk about. Now. A lot of
54:09
people are out on Oklahoma giddy having even a chance for Jonah. I'm not
54:15
Baseball is doing some stuff right now, and then you bring in Tatum,
54:20
who's another good baseball player, and if baseball keeps doing with those baseball things,
54:23
Jonah's not gonna turn away. Right Tennessee is of course a threat,
54:27
even though they're not even on his list yet, But because Tennessee's the number
54:30
one overall Seaton Baseball on LSU has a really good baseball team as well,
54:34
which is why they were such a much of a threat. But supposedly A
54:36
and M is the team as them to watch and they just knocked off Texas.
54:40
So yeah, we're battling more baseball than we are football right now or
54:47
whatnot. And Jake, good question here, why do people think Oklahoma will
54:52
show against the SEC? They went five and six in bowl season? You
54:55
know, it's a good question. You got one and uh you got thirty
55:00
seconds a less answer for that, Yeah, yeah, I do. I
55:05
do. And here it is is a lot of people think it's because you
55:08
don't get an off week, and you don't. You don't, you don't.
55:13
It's different bodies. It's different bodies every single week. So I don't
55:15
think the bold season really has a lot to show for what's it like to
55:19
play in the SEC. But it's the fact that you have a different breed
55:24
of athlete, you know, up and down every single roster, and it
55:29
does not matter like Iowa State is very very well coached, but they don't
55:35
have guys year in and year out like an Auburn would have. You're going
55:40
to see an Oklahoma State does great with what they do, but you're not
55:45
going to You're going to see a better athlete at Mississippi State. So that's
55:51
that's just my thought process is, is you got that now? I also
55:54
say that this is a different SEC than even last year. I mean,
56:00
you just cannot you can't really just the fact that Nick Saban is not there
56:05
anymore. Alabama is still going to be good and Kalen bor Is is a
56:08
great coach, but it is absolutely you cannot sit there and say like you
56:15
can't go, well, Brent Vinable stepped in at Oklahoma and they're going to
56:19
take a step back because what's he ever done or what's he going to do?
56:22
Well? You can't take a guy from Washington, where nobody's eyes are
56:25
on you, to the program everybody's eyes are on you. So I think
56:30
that that's what the bowl games don't really matter as much because again, I
56:34
personally, as much as I love to beating Alabama in that bowl game,
56:37
if you think that Alabama was as geared up as Oklahoma was in that bowl
56:40
game, you're fooling yourself. You've seen it We do the same thing against
56:45
Boise State, and we were you know, we made all the excuses and
56:47
all the injuries, and you know, we didn't really even care. We
56:51
wanted to be playing for national championship. You can't go both ways. So
56:53
I think that's what it is. It's just the body style that you're going
56:57
to play day in and day out. You're not gonna see defensive tackles at
57:00
two fifty because they don't have any depth. You're going to see a guy
57:04
who's probably three fifteen. I mean, may not be very good, but
57:07
that's still a lot of physical interaction that you're having snap in and snap out.
57:13
Yep, good point. Greg asked the question who's going to undefeated the
57:15
SEC? My answer is nobody. What do you guys think undefeated in the
57:21
SEC this season? If I was to have to pick one team, it'd
57:27
be Georgia. I think Georgia's only one is going to go undefeated. I
57:29
think the only one that has opportunity to go undefeated. I do believe they're
57:32
gonna go down there to Texas and win in DKR. I think they.
57:37
I think they do it. It is more so because they're just put today.
57:42
They they're returning too many pieces in my personal opinion. Now we got
57:45
to see what Carson Beck looks like with the new set of receivers and the
57:50
Titi ends. You know, they use so many tight ends, but they
57:52
seem to make them out of a factory. It's like the weirdest thing in
57:55
the world. So seth ask Can Oklahoma go for it against Texas teams from
58:01
twenty twenty four through twenty twenty seven. That's a good question because we'll play
58:07
Texas Hughton, Yeah, the next two years. Then I think we'll have
58:17
A and M six. Yeah in twenty seven. Yeah, A and M
58:22
in twenty six and twenty seven. So SEC based Texas teams, can we
58:28
go four and oh? I think it's a possibility. I think that.
58:30
I think it's there. I have questions about quarterback play once we get past
58:36
twenty five, Like I don't question Arnold. I still want to see what
58:39
Hawkins does, and I don't think the Hawkins I don't. I don't question
58:43
Hawkins because I think he's bad. I questioned Hawkins because I haven't seen him
58:45
yet. Right, I've seen what Jackson Arnold can do whenever he settles in,
58:52
and so I sense that they'll make its way set up. But the
58:53
good thing is seth The trail Bills offense is based upon his quarterbacks, and
59:00
that's gonna be helpful. But the only thing is, so far, it
59:05
feels like Latrell won't ever go anywhere. But I'm giving him three seasons.
59:08
I think somebody's gonna try to poach him to be a head coach somewhere at
59:10
a big program. I don't think he takes a small program. I think
59:14
he takes a bigger program, and I can totally see him getting a Big
59:16
ten job within so many years. Now. Will he take it? Very
59:21
slight chance, but I could totally see him doing that because he's spent time
59:24
to Big ten and he understands that physical football. Coop think you go for
59:28
him? Sure? Why not? I like it? That's all I got.
59:34
So you're asking, you're asking me past this year with the transfer portal
59:38
and the rules changing every eleven minutes. It just like, let's I think
59:44
we can do. I think we can go in defeed it this year.
59:45
Okay, well all right, Coop talking hot, take it out there,
59:50
baby. We want undefeated this year against against cold put on a so you
1:00:00
clip that one. No, no, no, no, give them,
1:00:02
get them all right. Set for the two bucks. Thanks again, my
1:00:06
man. Rank your top five, Oh you regular season games since two thousand.
1:00:09
Wow, I got far back, but I can give you mine.
1:00:15
I'll get the the the two blowout wins against Texas at the beginning of the
1:00:20
century. I was a sixty five and six. We scored sixty five and
1:00:23
sixty three in both back in those back in those games, I'll take those
1:00:29
two. I'll take the Red River one where Caleb with the comeback that was
1:00:32
just just too epic and it was amazing. I'll take the Ohio state win
1:00:37
it at the Horseshoe. And then I'll take the overtime win against Tennessee.
1:00:46
Oh hey, yeah, that Boomer Boomer, Shoot you you are the man.
1:00:52
Competitive depth. I don't even have a drink. I guess in bio
1:00:54
freeze. I'll just scored it on my back. But I would say this
1:00:59
says, we got bottom of the night or top of the ninth, two
1:01:00
down, two down, and nobody on base. We went out away from
1:01:06
game. So I'll go with this Texas tech jump around game that that was
1:01:10
a game to where I was physically sick by the end of the game because
1:01:16
of just the screaming and yelling, the heat and the temperature changes and all
1:01:20
those things. So was that that one the u c l A game where
1:01:25
Perkins had three three punt return touchdowns. I was at that one too.
1:01:30
That one was that one was just it was just dope. If anybody was
1:01:32
there. I mean, after after the second punt return, people were holding
1:01:37
three up in the air every single time that we were punting, and I
1:01:39
think he s got it on the second, he got it on the second,
1:01:42
and then we were throwing four up in the air, and I don't
1:01:44
think that. I think we had a sizeable lead at that point, so
1:01:46
I think we kind of bailed out. And that's game. Oh you wins
1:01:52
Nebraska two thousand, mainly because I think I told the story. But I
1:01:58
went on a base small trip in ninety seven and we went up and got
1:02:01
to watch got what got to watch ou at Nebraska, and it was like
1:02:07
the seventy one to like eleven game that we just got absolutely just donkey kicked.
1:02:12
And so to my next Nebraska game to be that two thousand and one,
1:02:15
that was just it was just nuts. And I drove in from Kansas
1:02:21
and you know the night before and everybody was jacked. It was so cool.
1:02:24
The Miami game, Sam Bradford, Miami came to the crib and they
1:02:30
showed up and Sam Bradford just started going deep on everybody and we just we
1:02:36
wiped wiped it with them. And I don't care if Miami is a two
1:02:39
win Miami or a ten win Miami. They show up in your house and
1:02:43
you put that stomp on them, and that's that's that's that's some pretty nice
1:02:46
stuff. And then I will I'm going to go completely off the books on
1:02:52
this last one and try to be fun the Tulsa game last year, because
1:02:55
you saw, you saw with the potential of this team was for last year
1:03:00
and even this year. Jackson comes in, he throws a dart to Anderson
1:03:05
that you know was I was at thirty five forty yards on the line,
1:03:08
never got higher than maybe ten feet off the ground. It was just a
1:03:12
dart, you know, bomb to him. You see Danny Stutsman with the
1:03:15
pick six, which is never a bad thing. So you know, that
1:03:20
was just a fun, fun game to watch. And I went back and
1:03:22
watched that several times. So probably not on anybody else's list, but still
1:03:27
a fun game. I agree, and John Boomer shoot ninety nine. Thank
1:03:32
you again. You always show love, especially on social media. He does
1:03:35
like the follow stuff on the ex birt all the time, so he always
1:03:39
connects Sooner fans with each other. Thank you again, appreciate that that that
1:03:44
love there, Ell Stokes. With this one, we're going twelve to zero,
1:03:49
reminiscent of the two thousand Sooners with the team that will play top ranked
1:03:52
teams every week. Yeah, that two thousand team went through a gauntlet of
1:03:57
teams, right, And the best part about that one was that team's defense
1:04:01
was so good, Like that was the main focus of what Stoops and Venables
1:04:08
was putting together. Man, if we got if we've got Stoops, you
1:04:11
know, consulting with Venables just to just to help him as far as a
1:04:14
head coach go. But you know he's probably stood around. Heck, I
1:04:16
bet your Bob still has an office hitting somewhere in the back corner. We
1:04:18
can come kicking any time he wants to. But uh, I'm excited about
1:04:25
first off baseball. Congratulations is still live. They play what tomorrow probably might
1:04:32
be today actually maybe today, I think actually play today. Let me see
1:04:36
yeah, no, yeah. Boys. Next up Yukon here shortly in the
1:04:41
regional final, so we'll play Yukon again. We gotta be Yukon. They'll
1:04:45
start at eight or six Central time, so make sure y'all get yourself tuned
1:04:48
in. In exactly one hour, we'll have one more thing of baseball.
1:04:51
I will be probably turning on the telly so that I don't miss it.
1:04:55
But if you're gonna wrap this bad boy up, we're over in hour.
1:05:00
We appreciate y'all joining us per the norm coop. What else do you got
1:05:04
before we wrap up? What we're gonna do next? We'll probably do some
1:05:08
Wednesday, which would be perfect. We're gonna talk this season a little bit
1:05:12
more about the board and about who's visiting over the weekend because I think the
1:05:15
big final list shuld probably come down. Everybody should have tweeted out whether I'm
1:05:17
gonna go visit. I'll get with PG on that. We'll probably PG on
1:05:21
for that one to to kind of talk through we got the list and where
1:05:25
we're placed as far as some of these lists go. Because I saw a
1:05:28
wide receiver a depth chart prediction that was awesome and hilarious. I don't think
1:05:38
that it's gonna make sense. Stink. It is the Sooner or Later sports
1:05:44
show. Just search for that one. It's the one that's all recruiting.
1:05:46
Coop's gonna be doing some some recruiting stuff and talking about players because you know,
1:05:50
so he likes to do, especially since he be working in the sports
1:05:54
world. But yeah, we'll get that. But I do have one line
1:06:00
thing, and I'm gonna I'm gonna turn the emotions here and uh you guys,
1:06:03
guys, we all, we all, we love everybody being in here,
1:06:05
and we do this so that you know, we can all come together
1:06:08
and talk sports. And we appreciate you going, oh cool. I want
1:06:11
to hear what Jay thinks about things, or I want to hear what Coop
1:06:14
says about something. I appreciate that. And I just I'm working on a
1:06:17
sponsor right now for us, but some some things happen to me around friends
1:06:23
and family here recently, and I just say that, uh man, mental
1:06:26
health is a humongous, humongous deal. And if there's anybody who watches this,
1:06:30
if you're if you're logged in right now, and you you ever need
1:06:34
somebody just to vent to men, find somebody and tell somebody, don't dig,
1:06:39
don't bury stuff down. We as men, you know it's it's suck
1:06:43
it up, rub some dirt on it, and move on. I'm just
1:06:46
asking people just, you know, take take the risk to share with somebody.
1:06:50
And man, I don't know who. I don't know a lot of
1:06:54
you guys personally in the chat. But if you ever need, uh,
1:06:58
you know, to complain about something, ask why is this happening to me?
1:07:00
If you just want just to be frustrated, man, just reach out
1:07:04
to friends, reach out to us, reach out to somebody. Don't don't
1:07:09
suffer silently. Because I had a friend who who took his own life a
1:07:13
couple of weeks ago, and it was pure chemical and he couldn't see it
1:07:16
coming. And I don't think that there was something that he struggled with for
1:07:19
a massive long time. But man, I just want to say, man,
1:07:25
we appreciate you guys, and let's let's stay strong. I don't want
1:07:28
to ever lose lose a fellow sooner. I don't want to lose a fellow
1:07:31
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1:07:41
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1:07:45
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1:07:50
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