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Let's welcome in our squad panel this week with that Chris Marler from Lockdown Gamecocks.

We got Corey Burton, Lockdown, Vandy, Eric Kane, Lockdown, Valls, Stephen Willis,

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I'm Chris Gordy, host of Lockdown SEC and Gents.

Just about everybody is into spring practice now.

Mizzou, kind of the weirdos.

They got everything started early and they've already finished Spring Ball.

They get it out of the way before Spring Break.

But we did have the last trailers.

We got A&M underway.

We got Ole Miss underway on Monday.

We got LSU underway on Friday.

Ole Miss is underway on Friday.

Whatever, everybody's underway this week.

So, nonetheless, on a Friday.

Listen, Ole Miss got its old quarterback coming back.

All right, so they don't need to practice.

Yeah, they're just going to have a spring ball.

Let's ask the question, guys.

What is the biggest question facing your team right now during Spring Ball?

Corey, let's start with you.

Okay.

Well, is there actually a quarterback competition?

I don't think there actually is, but they're towing the company line.

But the wide receiver room and offensive line rooms in all seriousness are probably

the biggest question marks because they have a lot of talent, but not a ton of experience

and they got to try to figure out what those two positions look like.

Yeah, of course, Jared Curtis, I mean, you know, it's all the high expectations on him

and can he come in and immediately be a freshman starting quarterback.

But yeah, I mean, there's a lot of other different spots at Vandy's got to make sure

that we're ready to go for SEC play.

Yeah.

Yeah, I just, I'm describing as like Diego Pavia was like little Mario, Jared Curtis is

Mario after he had the mushroom.

And Marla, the fire flower thing, where he's been fireballed enough because a dude can,

yeah.

Gotcha.

Marla, a little, by the way, Marla lost his accent, I don't know where that happened.

Marla, South Carolina, offensive line has been an issue, some of the new additions you

guys have brought in.

But what's their biggest question right now?

Well, you were going to ask the question, I was going to say it and then you had to give

the answer during the question.

So super professional of you, Gordie, I appreciate that, offensive line, biggest question mark

for sure.

And I think health and the offensive line for sure today, we're recording this on, I don't

remember what day it is, but even today, Chamber of Fame mentioned their halfway through

the 15 practices and Dylan Stewart is going to be probably unlimited action for the rest

of spring ball, and he's not 100% they revealed that he also was 100% last year.

But I think between guys like him and the opposite, Jakarta is peak being out until the

fall.

Josiah Thompson being out and having to shuffle all these guys enough to find that.

I think it's going to be the biggest questions can they say healthy enough to be ready for

the fall and then also figure out the offensive line.

The other thing too is just the, some of the incoming, like, younger talent, not even from

the portal, but they brought in at skill positions like the Widers here position.

How much further along are they this year than they were a year ago?

Yeah, I was going to say the interesting part with Dylan Stewart, I mean, he was so good

as a freshman, it's happened so much, so much with guys, they blow us away as a freshman.

And so we raise the expectation, we go clearly they're going to outdo that again.

And he was good last year, he just wasn't the huge dominant force, like you mentioned,

they kind of came out and said, okay, maybe he wasn't 100% and he didn't have the Kyle

Konard opposite him as well, that was a big sackyard.

Not only the SEC defensive player of the year on the other side, I think it was a pretty

big issue, but I think also you look at what he could project to be this year and talent-wise.

Now he can be that Kyle Konard, and who's going to be on the opposite side of him?

Is it Julian Walker, the freshman or is it the kid they got from Tennessee, Caleb Herring?

We'll see. Now, there's some questions for South Carolina, but if you take the defensive

performance that they had a year ago, just that, we're not asking for anything crazy,

add to Kindle Browls and Lenore Sells together, if that clicks, South Carolina is a problem for

everybody in the SEC next year. There's a lot of potential there, Chris. That was one of my favorite

moves that South Carolina made was higher in Kindle Browls, because I mean, it is perfect.

It's a perfect match there with him and Lenore Sellers, with what he wants to do and how he wants

to attack with Lenore Sellers' skill set. I think it's, you know, thankful that Vandy doesn't have

to play South Carolina this year. Maybe wait till Lenore Sellers leaves and then get you

back on the schedule. That'd be good. Yeah, for sure. And if you heard what Shane Bamer said this

week, he said, the offense is totally different. He said, everything's different. It's a whole new

system, a whole new offense. Everybody's having to learn. And so, yeah, I mean, I think we're super

optimistic about what we'll see in Colombia this year. Eric Kane, I think I know where you're going

to go, but biggest question for the Tennessee balls. Yeah, Marlor, we're recording this on Wednesday,

not opening day in the bay. And the Yankees put up five over the Giants in the second. So biggest

worry here in Knoxville is Tony Voxello going to Fayetteville here pretty soon. But no,

it's quarterback. No doubt. Again, Steven got his veteran quarterback back in Tennessee,

didn't so, um, it's Tennessee going to start a true freshman like Vanderbilt and Jared Curtis,

but with phase on Brandon, or it's Tennessee going to go to the right share of freshman Iowa,

George McIntyre Ryan Stobb is here. He started a game or two over the last couple of years

of Colorado. He's not really in this competition. It's, it's, you know, Georgia phase on.

So far, I mean, we just get to see barely anything. I mean, they look great in shorts and helmets.

And when they put the full pads on, we get to see them throw routes on air. And I mean,

they look, they look like all Americans there. I mean, everybody's saying the right things right

now, but like we just don't know. And we're not going to know until they, they scrimmage, I guess,

would be today they scrimmage. And, um, you know, we'll get to hear some, you know, how they

performed after that and everything. But quarterback, quarterback, quarterback. I mean,

the offense overall for Tennessee returns so much, you feel really good about the weapons and

offensive lines surrounding said quarterback, but quarterback's most important position in all

sports. So you can't be really bad there. So we'll see what happens. I think I'm a little worried

too. I mean, just staying healthy, right? I mean, we saw Dave, Dave and Hobbs, the D line men,

he's going to miss the rest of the spring with an injury. And I think I'm just jaded with Tennessee

on the, uh, the Jermod McCoy, uh, you know, the, all the DB injuries they had last year. It's

like, man, I just, uh, I just want to see him get out of spring healthy. Like, like Jermod got hurt

training at his home in Texas in January, like, first of January, like just the

crappiest thing. Um, in the average, he gives and got hurt there on the opener and Tennessee was

playing Tennessee went out and got Colton Hood is, uh, you know, just an insurance policy and turns

out. He's going to be a first round. I mean, that turned out pretty well. And, you know,

Ty Redman who was forced into action last year. Corners, a true freshman, they got picked on

a lot earlier in the year. I think he's going to be one of the best corners in the SEC that you're

one of the top perturbing corners in the SEC. But yeah, like I've got, I've got, I mean, everybody's

going to talk about the quarterbacks, no doubt. I mean, I've got some question, big time questions

about like the entire defense. Don't give me wrong, right? But the defensive line, you lost so much

from a group that underperformed last year and how about David Hobbs? I mean, Tennessee's having

to count on him and play a ton of snaps and he is never healthy. Nathan Robinson does never

healthy. And, um, so yeah, again, like spring's great. No, spring is not what it used to be.

We don't get to see anything. We don't, we don't know what's really happening. But, you know,

we'll, we'll see what Josh Hybel says and barely says in front of the microphone tomorrow.

You know, or just to get a heads up about it on the quarterback position. Do either one of them,

how far they can they throw an orange and are either one at rocket ship builder?

Neither one is a rocket ship builder. And that's really unfortunate because the last one was

really, really good. Um, yeah, who cares about throwing the orange? Because the quarterback that

did that was, was not very good. But I, I, this is why again, like I, I just don't worry about

Josh Hybel in quarterback. I'm sorry. Like you got Aguilar off the waiver wire and he led the

SEC in passing last year. Um, Joe Milton accounted for over 3,000, 3,000 yards to the air. Like

and he threw an orange 90 yards. Yeah, it's just I, Joe Milton is the prototypical. It has all

the tools, but just can't play. And he like Josh Hybel got to play. Like I just, I understand

their serious questions and I've gotten more than anybody. I'm still not really worried about it.

Maybe that's on me though. I don't know what traditionally speaking to in a high pool

offense, just the way schematically it breaks down and the exitos and how he, the splits he has

the offense. Um, the biggest thing is the, the easier it is to spell the last name or pronounce it

of his quarterback, the more success they have tended to have. So I, and these are stay longer too.

So I'm excited for George McIntyre, my favorite beetle and things on Brandon. So it should be great.

Yeah, he could use another hooker there. By the way, Aguilar,

let Chauvin, he's going to leave that out there, Cory. Sorry. He led the SEC at 99 yard picks

sixes too. So that's he did. Yeah. How about how about we just not put the football through the air

on the goal line playing Alabama? Probably a good idea. Yeah, that's fair. Steven,

Ole Miss, whatever the hell they get started with camp. What's their biggest question?

Well, we assume the question. No, everybody's going to talk about the offensive tackle position

and we're going to go over that. I'm not as him for the next couple of weeks, but the one thing

that I'm interested in, especially in the routes versus air portion of spring practice,

is John Tay Cook. He has to find consistency. He was one of, he was one of the most

electric players I've ever seen coming out of high school at Under Armour. It was amazing.

He went to Texas and kind of just fell flat, got kicked out of Washington, went to Syracuse,

and there was the electricity again. Is he going to bring that to Oxford and Mississippi? Because

one of the most consistent players on the football team was Caden Lee. He's no longer there.

You have to replace that. It can't just be Ducal Exander and the other players that are going to go

on. John Tay Cook has a big role to play on this football team. I like that.

I would say it's the wide receiver room. It's a whole, I mean, we know Ducal Exander was good,

but you know, Darrell Gill ratio feels, I mean, it's just a lot of new guys and we've become

accustomed to this for Ole Miss because it feels like it's a whole new wide receiver room every

year, but every single year. Yeah, but it's just all about who's going to emerge and who's going to

be that guy, you know? You know, the one weird question in this receiver room that Ole Miss

over the last 15 years, there's always been that big wide receiver. They've always had that.

This year, they're going to be relying on a freshman. Now, he was a five-star freshman,

but he's going to be a red shirt freshman on the outside, potentially Caleb Cunningham

starting at the exit. He's that big player. Is he the tray Harris? That is something I'm

interested in. But like I said, John Tay Cook and Caleb Cunningham and them on the side of the field,

if they are just really good, this offense with Kiwan Lacey and Trinidad Chambers going to be

very hard to stop. Well, we know Lane Kiffin and Charlie Weiss will put them in great positions. So

joking. Or the people, or the person that ran the offense from 21 to 23. John David.

From our fight, Matt Lee, Matt Lee, former head coach, Ole Miss football.

Richard. Oh. When we returned, fellas, we are going to hit on some of the teams we didn't talk

about. So be thinking of one of the other teams in the SEC, what you think the biggest question

is for some of those other ones. We'll discuss that when the squad returns coming up next.

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Every day. All right, gentlemen, let's sit on some of the other teams. We hit on all the teams

that you guys cover. Marlow is in a unique spot. He was actually at LSU practice the other day.

So Marlow, give us a thought on what do you think the biggest question is for LSU going into

the season? It's his team. What's that? But where is LSU on the pecking order? I'm just curious.

Shut up. Okay. Lane Kiff. My biggest question for LSU is how much Tanner can Lane Kiff and get

before the season starts? Because that man is based it. It looks fantastic. I think the biggest

question for me is how quickly can he get into jail? I saw the first five periods of that

practice. I think Sam Levin is obviously going to be your quarterback. I think the big thing for

me is who's going to be the backup? Because we see this time and time again. And I'm looking through

here. I think outside of, outside of Corey, it feels like every quarterback, they're every, well,

maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's only South Carolina that's that's had to have a backup quarterback

play significant in like time over the past two years. But for the most part, you see like around

the SEC, very good point to see them. You see these backups that have to step in at some point

during the season, arch two years ago with Quinn, you know, and like obviously the stuff with

Alabama over the past couple of years, like there's every single place has had some issues with

like the health through the 12 game season. I think it's only going to get worse with a nine game

conference season. Sam Levin is already coming off an injury. Who's going to be the backup quarterback?

It's going to be putting that offense in good hands. And is it going to be the kid from Elon who I

think has the best arm out of anybody on the team? Or is it going to be Hussein Longstreet?

Who I accidentally type out human Longstreet on my first post from screen practice? So I think

that is like all the other side, the biggest question for them is they're going to get a lot more

valuable reps in in the spring because of the fact that Levin's going to be out and getting

in so limited what they're doing. But who is going to be number two in that depth chart and see

it be good enough to do something similar like we saw last year Ole Miss? Well, it's going to say

like love it. And you said it right there. I mean, my understanding was love. It wasn't

wasn't going to do anything in spring. And so what an opportunity there to see what you got

behind it, right? Because again, it could be your one play away. I mean, here at Tennessee,

man, knock on wood like Tennessee's not had, I mean, Niko was out for a half one time. I mean,

Niko was questionable going into the Georgia game, but he missed two quarters. I mean, Tennessee's

quarterbacks, ending got hurt at the end of 22 with one game left. But Tennessee's quarterbacks

have him this whole lot of time, but I mean, you're just one play away. And it's all three quarterbacks

are new, correct, new to LSU. It's a new system, obviously. There's a lot going on. So you know

Sam Levin's going to be the guy regardless. Can Sam Levin can step into any offense and probably

thrive? So just kind of figuring out what you got behind him. And remember, as somebody that's been

through the Lane Kiffin experience before, Jackson Dark got knocked out of the Georgia game in 2024.

Obviously, Trinidad Chambles took over last year, Matt Corral missed a sugar ball. The backup

quarterback usually plays a game in the Lane Kiffin system. I think that the other big thing too,

I think is that offensive line, like we listen, every team that I cover professionally,

apparently is just destined to have the worst offensive line imaginable. And South Carolina

has been bad. Obviously, she was really bad last year. Like, how are they going to be able to

protect up front? And I think the bigger thing for me is they brought in the staff with a lot of

really high quality staff members, play callers, like recruiters, developers, all that kind of stuff.

Eric Wolford, in my opinion, the track record that he has had is the worst of the bunch. And

then maybe I'm completely wrong. And maybe you got Jordan Seaton will make him look a lot better.

But remember, just a couple of years ago, when he was in Alabama, that was an offense that gave

up 49 sacks in one season, which was more than like, I think the four teams, the four top

ring teams in the country, Washington, Oregon, Georgia, and Michigan, the time they gave up like

less than that combined. Georgia had given up, I think, 16 or 13 less sacks combined in the three

years combined than the Alabama did that one season. I don't think he is going to be some

incredible developer of talent on the offensive lines of that. That could still be a big issue

for him, especially with an injury quarterback. And one thing that's interesting for Ella,

she's sorry about that Chris, but every stop that Lane Kiffin has made before this one,

there has been somebody on that art browse tree. Now there's things that you can say about art

browse, but there's been somebody there to put in the system. This is the first time where he is

putting in the system himself. That's all right. I don't know what that means. What that means,

but it might mean something. I think it's a good idea. Let's jump around because we've got

nine other teams. I do want to touch on Corey, give you Georgia. What do you think is the biggest

question for Georgia this spring? I think just kind of maintaining that consistency. You just

kind of seeing how some of the new guys and new faces fit within Mike Bobo's scheme. I think

when you look at the development of Gunner Stockton, how much more electric is he going to be

in year two as a starter or year two and some change as a starter and what is this team going to

actually look like? Can they get over the hump in the playoff? First of all, they get in the

playoff when they're one and done. Can they find a pass rush? Can they find a pass rush? I mean,

they returned a lot of experience on defense. That's something that I think they're excited about,

but I think there's some questions with Glenn Schumann and just kind of how they organize this

defense. I don't know if last year some of their problems were inexperience and some of the gaps

that they had in their defensive coverage, especially the pass rush, was just an experience or

not the right calls or, but they've got some things to figure out from a pass rush perspective

if they're going to three-peat as SEC champs. That's the biggest one for me is pass rush.

Georgia, we were not used to seeing them have a lack of a pass rush. They've been a football factory

for elite delinement and it's like, where's Jordan Davis? Where's Devon Walker? I mean, they were

missing that slide. I just don't know where it was going to come from and I don't think that they

had guys that were big-time playmakers or at least had that mentality last season. Maybe they've

maybe they've developed that a little bit and maybe they'll develop that a little bit in the spring,

but they've got to have somebody who you're just deathly afraid of coming after the passer.

Steven, you want me to give you the other side of the egg bowl? You want to do Mississippi State?

I can take it. They have been dreadfully bad over the last two years and you have a quarterback

that struggles throwing the football, but he is absolutely electric running the football.

So Jeff Levy, what he has this year is basically what Oklahoma and Nebraska had in the 70s and 80s.

If they get behind, it's done, but if Mississippi State gets up on you to where he can run that quarterback,

they're going to be a real problem. But if you jump on them, they're not going to be able to catch up.

Camario Taylor is, he's an interesting quarterback. I like him talent-wise. It's just them trying to figure

out just how he operates and what he does well and try to take advantage of that and try to protect

him from what he doesn't do well as he tries to develop that part of his game. That's just going

to be that, they got to figure that out. The problem is that they brought his name in.

Go ahead Stephen, my bad. The problem is they put out a video of like the three best

passes that he made during a practice and one of them was an arrow screen. And that's a problem.

Look, they were better last year, Mississippi State. You lost a lot of what Brennan Thompson was

awesome. He's gone. He's off to the NFL. So there's a lot of pieces they have to replace from that

team that was improved. Eric, before we grab a break, you want to pick one of your old East

teams. I'll give you a choice of Florida, Kentucky, Mizzou.

Oh, I guess I can talk about the Gators. No, no, Kentucky. Go.

I mean, when new coach stands money, new coaching staff, new quarterback. I mean, Kentucky

always gets a nice quarterback from the transfer portal. You know, Kentucky is to run the football

as well as anybody in the SEC. Haven't done that a couple of years. I don't know anything about

Kentucky. I mean, they got CJ backs to the former Texas running back. Okay. Yeah, yeah. He's there.

Yeah, solid. I mean, it stands how Will Stein can handle being a head coach for the first

year. Yeah, I mean, that's the biggest question. That's the biggest question for a lot of these guys.

I mean, I thought for some reason, I thought you were going to give me Arkansas. I know that's

not an East team. But, you know, I think Arkansas, I'm so intrigued about them just because I don't

think that what's going to be ahead of me. They hired, I don't know why they hired him. That's

he was not good at Memphis. They just want, and like, when Arkansas fans didn't want that

hired to be made, I mean, that's an issue. And unlike gosh, unlike Mississippi State, where they

just weren't very good, but man, they were competitive and they won a couple of games. Like, Arkansas

just didn't give you anything to cheer about. And I mean, again, Kentucky unless you're playing

all this, you know, you're pretty much don't do anything. So I don't know. I'm running around

stalking an ex-girlfriend that the game you're talking about. Yeah. I don't know much about

Kentucky this this year. I'm going to be honest with you. Florida. I think Florida's going to be

okay. Florida's always going to have amazing talent. I think Florida's got a great coaching staff.

I believe in some are all. If they can figure out the quarterback situation down there, which is

kind of what Tennessee is trying to figure out, I think, I think Florida can. I mean, that first

over under was like what? Four and a half, five and a half and they moved out. I don't know where

they are now, but they were, they're seven and a half. Oh god. Okay. Okay. Yeah. They didn't move that

much. I don't think. Okay. Okay. So that that that's more like it. I think Florida, if you can

figure out the quarterback, you're not going to be that bad and you're one in my opinion.

And Corey, you like what? You like the RoC, right? Yeah. I tend to like him. I've spent a few

family reunions with the old Buster Faulkner. Part two, maybe. Yeah. Part two grad for

for Old Marler there. Yeah. It's going to be interesting there with with that and him picking

in quarterback. He's not even though Philo transferred to follow him. He's not partial to

Baron Philo. I mean, he's not it's going to be a fair race, but you know, I think Philo is going

to end up winning it because I think he's a little bit more consistent and a little bit more

accurate with with with with password. Trimell Jones is looking good though. And he's a four star

occurred. This isn't like some slappy that was just no, no, no, no. I think this is going to be

like the slimest of margins whoever wins this job. And it's probably going to it's probably going

to go back and forth to Philo to Trimell Jones to Philo to Trimell Jones and how they you know,

how they report it and how you hear about them. So it's going to be I mean, this one's going to

might be down to like week one. Yeah, and they better be careful because they could put film up

there and see what Buster Faulkner did to Haynes King last year running the football just

is like everybody's going to like South Park try to lose. And by the way, Eric, you mentioned it

will stands walking into a great situation in Kentucky when Mark Pope just set 20 million

dollars on fire. Um, they're probably going to support that program moving forward a little bit.

But will they will they will they know that you got to put into the football this year was still

surprising. You look at their their their uh the numbers just and and Gordy correct me if I'm

wrong, but I think off the top of my head, I'm pretty sure they had 29 guys they brought in.

20 of those guys are from Power 4 teams and or another name. And then I think 14 to nearly

half of it also came from SEC teams. So they I mean, they put together a strong class. Um, it just

it'll like you said earlier, it depends on like one, the schedule is not easy by any means. And then

also it's will sign in year one as a as a head coach. I get in trouble a lot of my own podcasts for

South Carolina saying this. So I don't mind saying it for someone else and jinxing them maybe,

but it feels like it can't get worse. So that has been a very wrong on my show several times. But

I will also say I don't think you get worse for Kentucky with what they have with Mark. And like

it's just so Gordy, I know you got to go to break up. I just want to get this. But we don't

get a shot in here. Like how Mark stupes just fumbled so much these last five years. I mean, he

was respectable. They had an MO man played great defense. Really good in the trenches ran the football

well. You know, and then they started going on get quarterbacks to the portal and you had so many

weapons last couple of years. And then they just all leave you and like again, you you had some

signature wins, but then you'd fall back down the earth. Like I'm not saying that they would

have contended for a college football playoffs about anything. But like Kentucky more soups just

fumbled more soups had a lot of talent there to win, not win big, but to win more.

And he just two years ago offensively with Barry on Brown and yeah, my point is I didn't

keep Barry on Brown Robinson. I think that that thing was incredible. You know, they're left

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All right, fellas. As we dive back into it, just a few more, four more teams we didn't touch on.

And let's start out. Because I think the quarterback spot is the biggest question. Year three for

Kalen DeBoer. I think he can't mess this one up. Keel and Russell, the guy who was the five-star

freshman from a year ago, or Austin Mac, the guy that was the recruit that they were

picked up the Washington when he and Ryan grew up right there. But to me, guys, that's the biggest

question for Alabama. In addition to where's that run game? We weren't used to seeing Alabama not

be able to run the football. I mean, Alabama could not run the football at all last year. I understand

there was some injuries, but there was some inconsistency play on the offensive line. You got really good

quarterback play from Ty Simpson for most of the year. There were some stretches where it wasn't

very good. Again, defensively, too. It just looked different. And I understand Nick Sabin is

not coaching over there. And I think Kalen DeBoer is a fine coach. But not being able to run

the football and not being able to get out the past here and play some solid defense. I mean,

it was a CFP team. I understand that. But this is a massive year. And it all starts with quarterback.

You're right. I think two guys that are pretty talented, but you can't pick the wrong one. Because

if you go mediocre and kind of, you know, miss out on the CFP this year, they'll run it out of town.

Marlar, I disagree with that. I think that is a perception because Bama fans have done enough

stuff like, I don't know, burning down trees at your rivals campus to willingly and also

very validly make them seem like crazy idiots that would run it out of town. The decision-makers,

I don't think, are as pressed to get him out of there if he doesn't make the playup. It's very

hard to make the playup. It's also, I think that the way everyone looks at this, it's kind of him

being judged against Sabin, which is kind of wild to me, because it's like, Sabin had 16 losses in

however many years. And he's S8. And it's like, right. But like, that's changed for the entire

sport of cultural. I think the biggest thing for him, and you're going to have to put him if you're

being objective about this as the decision maker, you have got to figure out a way to make sure

that you're looking at this from a two-year window. If it goes horribly and they get blown out by

a lot of teams, they end up getting, you know, thrashed by Auburn on top of bad season, they go

seven and five with losses to everybody worth of crap and or six and six, then yes, absolutely

in a hot seat. If he goes nine and three or eight and four and misses the playoff with a roster

that only has seven seniors on it and a lot of young talent that you would think will come back,

because he's the only coach that was able to go through last spring and not lose a single player

in that spring window. I think that you have to look at this from a two-year standpoint. Now,

I don't expect them to make a playoff. I think they think it's a step back. Is he going to get the

quarterback situation right? I don't know the answer to that because the Austin Mac is a very talented

quarterback. You guys don't forget, let him to three pretty big points in the Rose Bowl. That was

awesome. And he's the guy that came with him from Washington that's like, he obviously believes in

him enough to where he was like, what's your name? Julian, Julian, say, say on, you're good. You can

leave. You're good. Go to Ohio State and see how you do there. We'll keep Austin Mac. But

he'll in Russell. I'll keep saying this. He's the highest ranked recruit in program history.

Like, there's no, there's no world I look at and say they're going to hold that king off the field

for the entire season because you can't afford to. Otherwise, he's leaving. And then if you start

getting off the field optics that start impacting his actual decision to keep him or let him go,

then you're in trouble. There's no deny I was going to say you also need a certain water

seaver to, you know, actually be good again. Yeah, because that hurt him bad last year. Ryan Coleman

Williams. Yeah, I think adding the name that'll, I think that brings the hands with him.

Yeah, you can't deny the branding. Your company's in bankruptcy. Let's rebrand.

Yeah, that's a lot. Yeah, that's perfect. No, you can't deny the town of Keel and Russell. I mean,

it's he's somebody that just, I think it's going to be hard to keep him off the field. It's

going to be difficult for Austin Mac to beat him out because like the things, the things that he

does that Austin Mac can't do as well. I think that's going to be hard to bypass. I mean,

and I think you're going to be willing to accept a few mistakes because you only have seven seniors

on the roster. Yeah. That you're going to go with the more talent. You're going to go with the

higher ceiling. I think, you know, with Vanderbilt, they're looking at something similar like it,

you know, Blaysboro, which is not as good as Austin Mac, but the situation of the two,

the the the talent discrepancy is like, okay, you got this veteran guy that knows the system and,

you know, he came with Jerry Killin and Tim Beck, but you have this undeniable talent sitting

there with Jared Curtis, like you don't leave that on the bench. That's kind of where I stand

with Killin Russell. You just can't just hard to leave that talent sitting on the bench there.

One and one of the last two meetings. One and one. That's sure they're fine. I mean, it's

thinking about that. That's real. That's a real thing. I think the other thing too is you've

looked at it. The said Morgan can't, I think, is going to be really, really good. The freshman five

star they brought in. I would expect Williams, Coleman Williams will go back to a more similar thing

and performance that he had in year one. I think he had a lot of off the field just kind of

mental stuff that he was going through last year from from what I was told. I think the other

thing too is you people forget this because they have fans already. It's like playing and simple.

And I feel very confident saying that because I grew up in a family full of them. They're idiots,

but they're not the ones that are paying the buyout and they're not the ones hiring the next coach.

So the idea that Bama fans are going to grow restless with this really doesn't matter as much.

I think to guys like Greg Bird and whoever's making those decisions as it does the people on twitter.

I think he's going to be fine unless it is a cataclysmic failure. If they

run for negative three yards against George again, we're going to have to have some different

conversations. Or causes him to jump ship. You're eight, four, nine, three.

He's like, man, I don't want to be here anymore. I want to go somewhere else.

Maybe he goes in Brando. That's his blank brain.

Chris, there's a senior offence of consultant. That's what the gophers that I think would be

perfect. Let's hear the pace. We've got three team, more teams to jump on.

Mazoo, Steven, help me out with them. We know I'm on hearty. One of the best running backs in

the country. But Austin Simmons going there to now be the guy. To me, that's the biggest

like, what is Austin Simmons at? Mazoo? All the talent in the world. He has one, one level talent

if he can put it all together. And him getting a security blanket is boy,

Kaden Lee to go up there with him. And a mod hearty is a really good back.

So you going into a situation to where you have a set RB one, you have a set wide receiver

run, you have what you need. If they can block form, I think you'll put up good numbers.

Because Missouri, unlike at Ole Miss is going to run a little bit more pro style stuff.

You just couldn't tell that because Bo Pribuid, they were running it with him.

But they do have that in their playbook from time to time. And if I'm not mistaken,

they're analysts, the former offensive coordinator at Cumpson on that side of the ball as well.

So pay attention to that. Yeah, they've got, they've got Chip Lindsay as their offensive

coordinator from, from Mazoo. And then they got Garrett Riley, who is considered a good offensive

minor. And Eli Drakewoods is himself considered a good offensive one. I like that combination of a

bunch of a bunch of big names there. And they got what Chop Harbin as well, right?

Eric coming for coming over from Tennessee, so. Yep. Yeah, Ed's coach. And a sublime recruiter,

a very good recruiter. All right, we got Auburn and Ann M. Who wants to take who?

I'll take Auburn. Oh, see, I can take over, I can take over.

Yeah, Eric, it looks like Golisch. Me? Eric. Oh, yeah, Eric, you take you ahead. You go ahead.

You've been to Russia before. Excuse me. Um, this thing on Alex Golisch is a, uh, he's a,

he's a, he's a, he's a feisty little guy. Um, he is, uh, he's really, he's really smart.

And I mean, his players love playing for him. But he's like the bad guy on the room, man. Like,

when he was at Tennessee, and I'm sure he was like this, you know, his, when he was a head coach

before coming back to the SEC, man, he was like, he was like the hard ass on staff, right? Like

hypo wasn't L or B. Now, none of the other offensive coaches was the bad cop. And that was,

that was Golisch, man. And he will get after you. And he came in there. And obviously,

there's a lot of turnover and all that. He brings his quarterback with him. What's that

transition like to the SEC? I think it's going to be okay, right? Um, Auburn always has so much

talent. Still has so much talent. But it's, you know, what, what hypo had when he came to this

league was, it's before they put the clamps on tempo, right? Year one, they went warp speed.

Yeah. And they scored on Georgia on the first possession. I understand. Check the final score,

but like Tennessee could jump on teams early that first year in 2021, right? And they went from

having three and seven and one of the worst offenses in the country to having to talk to an

offense in year one. I don't know what that transition is going to be that quick for Golisch,

because there is some restrictions on, you know, going tempo and all that. Plus, they've added

some iPads and all that, you know, helping out with the young quarterbacks. The defense can

happen as well. But yeah, it's, it's an offense that is built on the tight end. I don't know

they're tied in situation, but they got to have to first utility in the tight ends. They're going

to run the crap out of it. Again, this is, you know, Marlowe and I've talked about it before,

but everybody just thinks it's the, you know, it's the West Coast throw it all around everything.

Tennessee runs the football as good as anybody in the SEC. And Auburn's going to try to do that as

well. So I don't know. Personnel wise, I don't know what their defense is and all that. I just,

I worry about goalish in year one, because again, Tennessee really got to after it,

tempo wise, and they're not going to be able to go as fast in year one like Tennessee did.

Also, the roster, I don't know that he's built the roster the way he wants it completely. So I

think that factor also with him being his first year as a head coach in the SEC. I, I don't

think it's going to be a horrible year, but like, I think if you get him early, it's even more

advantageous. Because when they, when they figured out they'll, they'll be good because goalish is

good. But it's all, it's all US stuff guys. When you say, I don't know if that's absolutely

challenged for the American. By the way, they're tied in. They're tied in as Jonathan Eccles from USF.

So it's like, you know, and one time Tennessee commit who decommitted it was committed to the

scene for a year and a half decommitted and went down there with goalish because goalish is one

of the best. So the Auburn goals are they, are they, are they, are they. That's right.

I mean, that they, yes, they had, they had, they've brought in 13 players from USF. Now,

let me give you a fun little fact. Guess how many players Kertzik Netty brought in from JMU

when he got to Indiana over 20, right? 13 from JMU alone. So what I'll tell you is that's a great

number. And that's something you can hang your hat on if you're all going to get really excited

about, but the biggest difference is that Indiana team didn't have to play a ranked opponent

until week 11 or week 12. That's not going to be the case for Auburn. I think the most

fascinating part about this is how important is the quarterback situation for them because Byron Brown

is a really good quarterback at times. But he also, they would be two and owe against Bama

in his starts against it. If he could just complete a deepball, like just like one. And so,

but I think also the other part is that's a $30 million roster. And in this day and age,

that's not crazy, I guess. And like, there's like, there's several $30 million

rosters around the power for teams and programs. But like, you guys have seen the roster.

Maybe I'm totally off base because a lot of it is, is talent that came with him. But like, is

that $30 million roster that he brought? I don't know. I will say this. Auburn fans are going to

get to see competent offense for the first time in a couple of years. Yeah. Yeah. By the way,

watch intensity to like, they're going to have a different attitude there. And that's something

they need after after the Hugh Freeze experience was cool. I was in the gospel music at practice.

That was one of the players. Yeah. We did that. It was like, watch Cody Stegler

from the Hillsong, the Tony Polish and DJ Durkin. Oh, my God. Cody Stegler on the D line. That's

told this has been eating this spring. So that's a name to keep it on.

Cody Burns, former former Auburn Water Seeber quarterback. And he was here at Tennessee with

Golisch. The water seevers goes there too. There you go. I made a mistake, guys. I was looking

at my old 14 team graphic. Well, I've tough Oklahoma, Texas. So we got a minute each for Texas,

Texas. I'd have an Oklahoma. I'll take Texas. My defense is going to be great at Texas. I

just, you know, really a great DB play, especially. And, you know, Steve has been really good at,

you know, organizing practices has really given me runway to implement my system there

at for the long horse. So I think people are awesome. They're going to be really excited

with what we have coming on the story. Oh, really wide. Give me like a crazy look. Yeah,

so much to do your job. Do your job. Do your job. Do your, I need a white board behind me that I

can break. Arch is doing well. He's covered for all season surgery. But he's came Coleman.

Came Coleman's going to be a stud. And it's going to be a strong, strong group for Texas,

much to the chuprin of a lot of people around the SSB. Who wants A&M or Oklahoma?

I'll take Oklahoma. You're two and geometry or healthy geometry with that defense because it's

going to be good. If they spent any money at all and did any work and evaluation, Oklahoma is

going to be very good. And also Owen Heineke played 15 minutes of a cross and the NCAA is trying

to take a year of eligibility away from him for that in football. Chris Winky came back at like

30 years old and played quarterback. Owen Heineke is a specific judge. Whoever, whoever the

Oklahoma judge is hearing this needs to realize that because that's egregious. That's worse than

what they did. There's no reason why that should have counted against his football eligibility.

I also cannot wait for the Red River rivalry game and see what Parker Livingston does

wearing the Oklahoma uniform down. He's going to get shut down.

We got to do that. Last one, A&M. To me, you guys, the biggest concern is new coordinators,

new OC and new DC. Marcel Reed, I think, is going to be fine. By the way, I think I saw a million

highlights of Isaiah Horton over there. I mean, they are acting like he is the next coming.

What did Alabama let walk out the door till it's this guy go over to college station because

they're acting like he's going to be all SEC wide receiver. That could mean two things.

That could mean they don't have anything or that could mean he's being unbelievably awesome.

You get $700,000 to be the third best receiver on that team a year ago and then go get a

million to go do it out there at A&M with all them. Bow is swaying back and forth.

Probably just worth it, I guess. They got Mario Craver back. They lose Casey

Concepcion, but Isaiah Horton will slide in and maybe be their workhorse guys, so we'll see.

But new OC and new DC always tough to lose both guys in an offseason. Generally, one of them

takes a step back that next year. But just that's going to do it. We hit on all 16 teams with

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