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In a moment, Clint mentioned it, we might start a little tradition here on the Lockdown

Bulldogs Podcast.

By the way, happy to have you joining us midweek episode, SEC Tournament, get started for

losers today.

So like Kentucky is playing today, led by Mark Pope, the guy that Georgia could never

get.

I mean, the incredible coach that George of Bulldogs has Pope wasted.

The most expensive roster in college basketball history is what Kentucky has this year.

And Georgia outplayed them and one at-rupp and Georgia fans are still calling for Mike

White to be fired.

So I don't have time.

We don't have time.

But we'll be talking about SEC Tournament, Georgia's outlook in the third segment, make

sure you hang around for that, but we're going to start, I'm going to say we're going

to start this, Clint.

We're going to start a little, our guys draft.

Every week through the all season, Clint, we're going to come back here and we're going

to draft our guys.

We're going to keep track of this.

We're going to keep a running list, Clint, I'm putting you in charge of that.

We're going to track this progress and then here's the rule, here's the rule about your

guys, Clint.

What's the rule about our guys?

There's no quantifiable stats because you can't measure how well the defensive tackle

does versus a running back like you can't, there's not really a way.

The rule about our guys is you get first dibs to brag on that guy when that guy performs

well because he's your guy.

You understand?

Like he's your guy.

You have first rights of refusal to give him his flowers because you were the one that

backed his play.

I like it.

That's right.

You had been there all along.

So we're each going to take a guy, first pick, by the way, of the draft and you can take

under stocked in if you're a simpleton, Clint.

But I'm going to give you the first overall me, the first, I'm going to get, I see the

floor to, by the way, people, he's not actually seating the floor.

No, I got my guy locked in.

I got my guy locked in.

But I know you're not going to take it.

I'm saying, because you're going to, you know the guy that I want to take.

You know I can't help myself.

And so you basically haven't already drawn it.

Now, are there any other rules to our guy?

Like, does it have to be a name that is not as known?

Do we have to have that?

Is it kind of a whatever guy you want?

Yeah.

We're not doing under the radar guys.

We're draft into.

I want you to draft your guy.

I think he's going to be the best defensive back we have ever had at Georgia.

I think he's going to have a year this year that will be unparalleled by anybody else.

I think he will be DeAndre Baker plus in the last decade of UGA.

And if you don't, if you think DeAndre Baker wasn't one of the best defensive backs we've

ever had, come through Georgia in his plan.

He was, look, they didn't, the statistics that he did not throw to his side.

When he was on the field, they did not throw to his side.

They threw to every other place besides Ellis freaking Robinson, the third is my, that's

your guy.

That's your guy.

Six interceptions in coming this year, six, one for running back for a ton, absolutely.

Do you remember a nice little Tennessee Sack Strait Fumble recovery by none other than

another great corner for UGA?

Get ready for Ellis Robinson, the third to have a monumental statement like year.

That's just like that.

He's, I think he has the biggest ceiling of anybody on this defense.

His talent extension is unmatched.

One of the highest rated recruits that Kirby Smart has ever gotten at UGA.

The others didn't pan out because they don't like being developed and they don't like hard

work.

I give you Ellis Robinson who buried on the depth chart before the season began, like

just non-existent, made a fool quit before the play.

Absolutely tap out in the middle of the season, just said, I'm out.

I'm preparing myself for my new venture at another school, likely Purdue because that's

where all washouts from UGA go.

Ellis Robinson, the third, makes people tap out.

He's my dude and he's the guy that on this defense, I have many other guys, but he is my

bright shining North Star on this defense, Daniel.

Yeah, I think he's, I think he's due for a big season.

I think he's, I think he's, you know, sort of established himself.

He's going to be the number one corner on this team.

And I like the fact, you know, I talked about corner the other day, I'm concerned about

corner.

I have a lot of concerns about corner two guys.

I do not have concerns about our Ellis Robinson and Demelo Jones.

I think both those guys are absolute dudes.

I like the fact that he's got a guy opposite him that opposing offenses are not going to

be able to just absolutely obliterate like target.

And so they're going to have to throw at Ellis.

I think it's going to give him more opportunities.

I think it's going to give him more chances to make place.

And yeah, Georgia, you can just see it.

Georgia doesn't have a guy that can do what he can do down the field.

They don't have a guy that can backpedal turn, run with a guy and then turn and make

a play on the ball without interfering the way that Ellis Robinson can.

We've seen it.

We've seen it in glimpses.

And I think we're going to see it in mass this year.

The jump between game three and four and game nine and 10 for Ellis Robinson.

Monumental.

It's like a whole season.

It's like an whole offseason program.

Plus the season happened in five or six weeks for the kid.

Yeah, yeah, 100%.

And now, Clint, what's up?

It's not me if this is irrelevant, but a whole offseason program is happening

currently.

A whole now and then a spring is going to happen.

So, so what you're telling me is he's going to have more coaching with curvy,

smart and staff and a new, more new coaches coming in that are exceptional,

strength and conditioning, knowledge, understanding, going up against Gunner Stockton in this

offense, more, more, more, whole summer in the weight room, whole summer conditioning.

And then another fall camp, all of us on Ellis Robinson steps on the campus

or or step onto the field.

First weekend in September.

And he's a he's a full blown veteran this year, like a full blown veteran.

And that's exciting because the learning has happened.

And now it's almost like the plant.

That's the planting.

And now what you're going to do is you're going to eat, you're going to eat it.

That's what that's what curvy wants you to do.

And I think that's what Ellis Robinson is going to do.

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Let's just full stop.

Everybody's happier.

You're you're happier.

I'm happier.

People listening are happier.

I legitimately we see people who people who want overlays during the ad reads.

Those people are also happier.

There's there's no end to the number of people that are happy.

When we are or really before it.

Okay.

I'm happy that my guy is always Robinson.

Okay.

Daniel, I see the floor of the representative from the state of Tennessee to give him the opportunity to pick his guy.

I think I know where he's going, but but the fact that he told me I had no option to choose a guy.

Either means he knew exactly who's going to choose which I think he did or this one's going to shock me a little bit.

So Daniel, who is your guy for this coming year?

Let me ask you a clarifying question first.

This draft.

Are we drafting for is it is he our guy for this year only or this guy moving forward?

No, no, this is not a key point.

Okay.

Well, hey, I guys got to ask the questions.

So he knows who to select.

Do you notice listeners?

Do you notice how he comes up with these questions when it's his turn?

Not my turn, but I gave you the first pick.

You could have asked the question.

You didn't ask the question.

No, it's not a keeper league.

All right.

That does change my pick, but I knew that I was going to be the case.

So this is the pick I was already I was locked in on a new.

I was going to take I'm going to move to the offensive side of the ball, Clint.

Great.

And I'm going to take the guy that I can't be without on the offensive side of the ball.

And he is a true sophomore and he is an offensive lineman.

And he is Juan Gaston.

This is the correct pick.

Just so we're fully aware.

Juan Gaston is my guy.

Now, Donald Glover had a great season, great freshman year.

And I'm thrilled he's coming back.

Maybe I'll get him later in the draft.

Maybe you'll take him.

I don't know.

Donald Glover will be a great pick when he's when the pick is made.

But Juan Gaston battling through some injuries last year gave Donald Glover the

opportunity to rise, which Donald Glover grabbed by the horns and

absolutely took advantage of.

And now we got to true soft more offensive lineman who are going to be dominant in the

SEC this year.

But let us not forget who this Juan Gaston is.

There's a five star freshman on the defensive line.

That's also probably going to be a very high pick in this my guy draft.

But the five star freshman who plays, who's a lineman that I want with the

number one pick is Juan Gaston because he's more, he's the most versatile offensive

lineman that we have.

He can play four out of five positions.

And I believe we will see him playing multiple different positions this year,

depending on how things shake out at left tackle or right tackle.

If Ernest Green moves over to left tackle, depending on how things shake out at

tackle, I think we will see Juan Gaston play multiple positions.

I'll tell you what we will not see a healthy Juan Gaston not on the field.

Because I think he's the best offensive lineman on Georgia's roster this year.

And I think he's going to absolutely dominate positions.

Clint, and I think Georgia's offense is going to be predicated.

As such, that Juan Gaston is going to be on your screen,

making a highlight level plays game in and game out.

I'm talking about 15 yards, driving men down the field while Nate

Frazier and Chauncey Bowens and Bow Walker cut it up for an extra five,

10, 15 yards, or maybe take one all the way to the house.

I think Juan Gaston may be overlooked as an offensive lineman,

but cannot be overstated.

The value that he has for this team because it's very rare that you're

most functionally diverse offensive lineman.

You're your most versatile offensive lineman is also your

categorically best offensive lineman.

He's a specialist and a Swiss army knife.

You understand like he's he's all of the things how just how because he's

better because he's better than other people.

He's better than most other people.

He will be one of the five best offensive lineman in college football

this year and he will not be draft eligible.

When he is drafted, he will be the first offensive lineman taken

in that draft and he might be number one overall,

depending on the quarterback class and who has the first pick.

Correct.

In the NFL, it's very hard for a non quarterback to go number one overall

because NFL GMs are stupid.

Like stupid, but we don't have time for that.

We don't know.

Okay, so let's, yeah, Juan Gaston, what do you think of the pick?

This is I had two names and they happen to coincide with my favorite.

And that's not the best.

And that's not my necessarily the guy that I count on the most.

I just happen to find these two guys part of my favorite tribe of a little

group of UGA players, Juan Gaston playing offensive line.

I still remember back to this day, you and I were in pre-production.

And when we signed him, you and I went to the tape together.

And we watched it simultaneously.

And so we got to see the reaction on each other's face.

And the reaction was utter silence shot.

Not dropping.

Just made just like we, we got this kid that this kid's coming to Georgia.

And everybody, there was at one point he was a three star.

He got bumped up to a four star.

He got it was early on the recruiting cycle.

And people talked about it in all the, all the internet's interneting.

The gurus, the gurus, the insiders and the gurus, you know, everything.

Lacking mobility.

Lacking bend at the hip.

Doesn't know how to compete against quick players.

And then they said, but he's good at mulling and road grading guys in front of him.

He can and then you turn on the film against SEC defensive lineman.

What happened then?

I'm more and on today.

Yeah, that I was at that point.

He's an absolute beast.

The talent's always been there.

You do not start as a freshman.

Yeah, in the SEC on the offensive line trusted with the tongue and be one of the most out offensive lineman in the entire SEC.

There are two names that were on the tip of my tongue and he was number two.

Yeah, so we're going to keep this rolling.

Clint, of course, as the locked on Bulldog Secretary is taking copious notes.

Ellis Robinson, his guy and one Gaston, my guy.

So as the season unfolds, bragging will ensue.

Next week, we'll come back.

We'll draft some more guys, but there's no need to bury the lead here, Clint.

No, there's no need to hide anything in the third segment.

We're going to talk about the Georgia basketball team because they're quite good.

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Let's talk SCC tournament basketball.

Georgia, as you know, I know you haven't been here, but that doesn't mean you've been under a rock.

Georgia is the there's a seven seed in this field.

There are 16 teams in the SEC in case you had forgotten, which means Georgia finishes in the top half of the bracket as the seven seed speaking of seven seeds.

If Georgia wins two games in this tournament, Clint.

That means they're going to beat Texas probably at the time of this recording.

The Texas Ole Miss game has not happened yet.

So that's going to happen on Wednesday night.

But assuming Texas wins that game, which they're about a five point favorite.

Assuming Texas wins that game, that would be another quad one win in the first round beating Texas, which by no, by no means is a four gone conclusion.

And then we play Alabama again in the second round.

A team that we just beat another very good team by no means a four gone conclusion that we would win.

If we win both of those games, Clint.

I think Georgia climbs its way off of the eight line in the NCAA tournament.

Remember three weeks ago, we were talking about will Georgia make the NCAA tournament?

Can they go 500 in their last six games is what we said and answer definitively is no, they cannot go 500.

They went five and one in their last six games, including wins over Alabama over Texas.

And got all the way up to ten and eight in the conference, the seven seed in the SEC tournament.

And firmly, I think on that eight line, even then I won't even say eight nine.

I think firmly on the eight line in the in the NCAA tournament, regardless of outcome in national.

With a chance to climb up to seven, which I don't have to tell you, would be significant, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.

How do you feel about this Georgia team entering the SEC tournament?

Obviously, we can't talk specific matchups because we don't necessarily know the matchups.

How do you feel about this Georgia team overall entering the SEC tournament based on recent play?

Let me just say this, I don't mean to be hyperbolic again.

Because I believe in when he says that.

Friends, how many times I'm feeling the most confident I have all season long.

Daniel, just at any point in the season after LSU game, after the Alabama game, I think coming down the stretch and exceeding my expectations.

Now dog fans, I just please listen to this and please ask yourself this question.

The last four or five games of the season, did you or did you not see Georgia exceed your expectations?

Because the answer is yes, they did.

And that's what you've been waiting for.

And that's what I've been waiting for, fan.

We have been waiting because the dogs had sky high expectations and they would not perform up to our insane expectations.

The last stretch of the season, they did.

They not only climbed above and out.

And if any one of us says, well, there, there were games another should have won.

I mean, come on, you, you got to beat those teams out.

You had a, you had 500 written all over that with me with Daniel.

So the fact that they exceeded that, I'm sky high and outside of Florida, Daniel, bring anybody on.

I'm feeling good.

This field is tough.

The SEC is a very difficult conference.

There's some top echelon teams Florida being one of them that will likely get the one seed.

But bring anybody and everybody.

And, and if we continue like we have to in the season, which that's when you want to play your best basketball,

I'm not scared of anybody in this conference.

Now am I setting myself up for a failure?

Yep.

Just making sure.

No, you're setting yourself up for failure.

But in the last seven games, Georgia's major turnaround has been.

There's the open three pointers are just starting to fall.

And that it's as simple as that really.

I mean, the rebounding they've been able to hold their own.

I think can it catching crashing the glass has been huge.

I think the emergence of cream Stagg has really helped the rebounding numbers.

Now Georgia's still a bad rebounding team.

They're still, they're still a poor rebounding team.

That is the weakness of this team.

But, but the more cream Stagg can play, the better the rebounding numbers will get because he's big.

He's physical and he's going to play with maximum effort.

Cream Stag crashing, not not cream Stagg can and catching crashing the last has been huge early in the season.

You don't know that he wasn't necessarily that committed to rebounding had more of a scores mentality.

And so the rebounding is falling into place.

But the open shooting, Clint, I mean, we talked about it.

They're shooting 43% from three over their last seven.

Like they're and I they're not a 43% three point shooting team.

But they were shooting under 30% for the season before that.

So bad like real bad.

The regression has happened.

People are like, oh, well, it's Georgia shooting going to come down.

And maybe in Nashville, it will come down.

But I think the correction has happened the other way as in Georgia wasn't merely as bad as they looked early in the season.

Now, maybe we're not a 43% shooting three point team.

But maybe we're a 37% three point team.

And Georgia at 37% with the hustle they play with the depth that they have with the style of basketball that they play with.

With a rim protector and Santos surreal with multiple options.

If a guy gets in foul trouble, if a guy's having an off shooting night, I mean, Jeremiah Wilkins is having an off shooting night.

You we don't need him.

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Yep, yep.

Georgia's got options.

They've got weapons.

And if they just continue to shoot it.

Only slightly worse than they have been shooting it.

Yes.

I think multiple wins in this tournament is not unthinkable at all.

And and all that being said, March into the season tournaments.

It's all about confidence and catching fire.

Rees are going down.

You have confidence shooters shoot.

They're going to keep shooting.

But also at the same time, the dunks and the fast breaks can go ahead.

That's going to be the baseline.

Our floor is pretty dang high at Florida.

And I was standing Florida.

That's a whole separate thing.

But our floor is there against any team that we come up against.

It'll have to be overcoming a mountain over there.

Shoot well from the outside.

Continue rebounding that we have.

You're right.

Just if the demarcation comes a little bit down from where it was.

That's going to be more than adequate basketball to win a couple games.

Make it deeper and get that seven seed and see what happens there.

Daniel are going to come back all week long talking about SEC tournament.

Talk about March madness.

Talk about who our guys are.

We have so much.

The odd season is always so much for come back and get with us on that.

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